In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, August 13.

The platform behind the Yuntai Gate was raised again, and the throne of His Royal Highness the Emperor was placed in the middle of the doorway, with the crown prince sitting at the bottom, and the rest of the ministers sitting on both sides with drum stools.

Zhang Fengxiang and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came together, which inevitably made people look sideways. He knew that some of his colleagues had misunderstood, but even if this kind of thing was misunderstood, it could not be explained, otherwise he would be dissatisfied with the prince. He is just young and strong, judging from the history of the generally low life span of the Heavenly Family, it is very likely that he will become an important minister of the two dynasties, and it is impossible to isolate himself from the future emperor.

Zhu Cihong never thought of communicating with the minister. He knew very well that the future of the Ming Dynasty was not in these old ministers. If he can turn the tide, it is enough to have the Metropolitan Procuratorate controlled by Li Banghua. If he can't change the wheel of history, then these people will either commit suicide as thieves or commit suicide, or abscond to Nanjing, which is meaningless to him.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay attention to this little thing, he was ecstatic at the moment, and from time to time he raised his hand and patted the armrest of the throne, his voice beating briskly, which was a good mood that he had not had for several years.

"The governor is really a capable minister." Chongzhen praised Sun Chuanting for the third time, but he didn't think of a word from himself to put this person in prison, deprive him of his official status, and demote him to a commoner.

With such a severe punishment and such a huge grievance, Sun Chuanting did not have the slightest resentment, and was still born and died for this court. Zhu Cihong felt that attributing it to foolishness and loyalty was too arbitrary, and more importantly, it was a subconscious inertia. If someone is no longer loyal to a spiritual sustenance, it is more terrible than killing them.

"The newly sent Tang newspaper," Chongzhen turned to Zhu Cihong and said with a smile, "Sun Chuanting contacted Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Henan, and brought 100,000 Qin soldiers with him, and he has recovered Luoyang on the tenth day of the first month!" ”

Luoyang is a place of great interest in the ancient capital and a place where Chinese culture and atmosphere gather. Relying on the dangers of the mountain and the pond. It can be choked by Qinchuan and Longshan, which is a barrier to Hebei, and can be said to be a place where all sides must fight. If China is safe and sound, Luoyang will inevitably prosper, and once chaos occurs, Luoyang will inevitably suffer from military disasters first. Therefore, Li Gefei, a Song man, said: "The rise and fall of Luoyang." The world is also in turmoil. "The recovery of Luoyang now is not for King Fu to recover his family property, but to indicate that peace in the world is imminent, and there is hope for stability in China.

What's more, a thoroughfare like Wuchang and Luoyang fell into the hands of thieves, which is really a shame for the imperial court. Now that Sun Chuanting has recovered Luoyang, it can be regarded as washing away half of the shame of the imperial court.

Zhu Cihong didn't feel happy when he heard this. He knew that if Sun Chuanting gained a firm foothold in Luoyang, he would even be able to go south to conquer Xiangyang, Hanyang, and Wuchang...... In the original time and space, there is only Chongzhen Zhongxing, and it will not be Jiashentian who has changed.

"The thieves heard that the names of the ministers were all ruined. The minister swears clearly, not to worry about a thief leaving his father! ”

Chongzhen took Sun Chuanting's recital. Read it aloud, and especially like this one. His hands trembled slightly, and he shouted in an almost dreamlike tone: "The thief is doomed!" ”

Although the emperor was so pleased, the ministers below had little sympathy. They just sat with their heads bowed and did not participate in the celebratory scene, making the emperor Bixia feel like he was performing a one-man show.

Zhu Cihong couldn't bear to face his biological father, so he asked with a smile: "I don't know what kind of martial arts Governor Qin has." It made the thieves fearful like tigers? ”

Chongzhen was on the rise, and he didn't care that the prince had no honorifics in this sentence. but to inquire of the people, not of him. He replied first: "This Sun Chuanting is also capable. He was the one who caught the thief Gao Yingxiang back then. At that time, Li Thief was just a pawn under the high thief, and he thought it was because of the residual power he had accumulated. ”

When Gao Yingxiang was captured and killed by Sun Chuanting, Li Zicheng was indeed under the command of King Gao Chuang. However, at that time, Li Zicheng had already led a battalion by himself, and he was a well-known "general". No petty pawns. It's not that Chongzhen deliberately derogated Li Zicheng, but he really only knew that Li Zicheng was from Gao Yingxiang's camp, but he didn't know what Li Zicheng's status was at that time.

Zhu Cihong couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: After so many years of fighting, his father was fooled by a half-hung civil official, and he didn't even know the details of his opponent.

"Who fought with whom did the Battle of Kakibara?" Zhu Cihong asked knowingly.

Chongzhen didn't hear the sound of these words. Quite dissatisfied: "The prince should still patiently study the war report of the war, and forget about last year's events?" ”

Zhu Cihong didn't expect that his status in his father's heart was not high enough, and he couldn't help choking, and the arrogant bones found outside the palace these days had a seizure, and said in a deep voice: "Father Bixia, the defeat of the Qin Governor's mound that day, thousands of teachers were lost, seventy-eight generals died, and then beheaded the chief soldier Xiao Shending. The general Zuo Xun was the general Zuo Guangxian, and fortunately was spared. Erchen remembers this battle, can't Li Zicheng remember it alone? ”

This time, it was Chongzhen's turn to choke, and his pale face became more and more pale.

The defeat of the mound was really a rare defeat in Sun Chuanting's life. At that time, he had just recovered from prison and became the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, with only new soldiers in his hands and a lack of training. However, Kaifeng was besieged, and Emperor Chongzhen was anxious to send a patrol to supervise the army of Sujing, urging Sun Chuanting to leave the customs.

In September of the fifteenth year, Sun Chuanting couldn't withstand the emperor's stern decree, and he had just made a big mistake before, so he had to send troops in a hurry. Speaking of which, if that mistake is the first time he makes it, it is nothing, but there is a Yuan Chonghuan in front of him who has already made it, and the nature is extremely bad when it is his turn.

At that time, Sun Chuanting had just come out of prison, and he didn't know that the trend of officials and thieves had been reversed, and when the emperor summoned him, he was full of confidence that only 5,000 elite soldiers could be used to quell the thieves. When he arrived in Shaanxi and knew the truth, it was impossible to complete the task without 20,000 elite soldiers, so he could only ask the emperor for a salary with a cheeky face.

Emperor Chongzhen was hit very hard by Yuan Chonghuan's "Five Years of Pingliao" before, and everyone looked like a liar, and he issued a holy decree at the moment, to the effect that you are taunting me, I am magnanimous and don't care about you, but your baby will have to fight when he gets paid, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless.

In this case, Sun Chuanting had no choice but to swallow Coptis by himself, and with the general soldier Gao Jie as the Chinese army, he went out of the pass to relieve the siege of Kaifeng.

The army was halfway through the march and got the news of the fall of Kaifeng, so it could only be diverted to Nanyang.

At that time, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai joined forces to the west to meet Sun Chuanting.

On the first day of October, the two armies fought in Jiaxian.

Sun Chuanting ordered the general soldiers Zheng Jiadong, Gao Jie, and Zuo Xian to set up an ambush, and the general soldiers Niu Chenghu went out to lure the enemy. Li Zicheng was ambushed and defeated by the official army, so he had to retreat eastward.

Sun Chuanting was already in his hands on the victory, but the officers and troops saw that they had left a lot of armor materials in the camp on the way to chase and suppress, and they were scrambling one after another, and the array was chaotic without a fight, and Luo Rucai seized the opportunity to defeat the two divisions of the general soldier Xiao Shending and Zuo Xun in a battle, and the other general soldiers also collapsed, and the victory turned into a big defeat.

Because it rained heavily on the day Sun Chuanting sent out his troops, the grain trucks could not keep up, and the soldiers could only pick green persimmons that were not ripe to eat, so the Yu people called it "the battle of persimmon garden". Perhaps people at the time thought that the Battle of Persimmon Garden was better than the defeat of Tsukatou, so the Battle of Persimmon Garden was more widely known.

If Sun Chuanting made Li Zicheng have a psychological shadow because of the capture and killing of Gao Yingxiang, is it not enough to give Li Zicheng confidence if he loses the mound? Considering it more deeply, wasn't the reason why Li Zicheng was able to lure the enemy into a feint at that time because he despised the Qin soldiers and Sun Chuanting, and thought that it was normal for the official army to collapse at the slightest touch? In this way, where is the possibility of "thieves and ministers are all ruined"?

"Bixia," Feng Yuanbiao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said first, "The thief is jealous of the art of war when he sees the temptation of my division." Ministers can't be carefree. ”

Lao Shangshu was already worried, and when he saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had pulled out the battle of Persimmon Garden, he naturally no longer held his words in his heart. Anyway, at his age, he is already satisfied with being the center, and even if he can't enter the cabinet in the future, he has nothing to regret.

Most of the cabinet assistants of the Chongzhen Dynasty were appointed by the central decree, and they were not as appealing as the cabinet assistants pushed out by Jiajing and Wanli Shiting. At that time, if someone entered the cabinet without the recommendation of the court, he would be ridiculed by his colleagues.

People are self-exalted without seeking quality, Feng Yuanbiao doesn't ask for the title of "Pavilion Elder", so he naturally dares to speak. When the others saw the emperor's originally beaming face, they couldn't help but beat a drum in their hearts, considering their career prospects, they all kept silent.

Emperor Chongzhen was even more frosty, pursed his lips and was silent.

The happy atmosphere on the platform has been blown away by the cold wind, and the scene is as cold as an ice cellar. (To be continued......)

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