For Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, the biggest problem in the Korean war was the transportation problem, fighting across the sea, even if the economy of the Ming Dynasty had begun to recover, it could not be supported, and if Guangdong, Fujian and Taiwan were stubborn, even if 100,000 people came, the cost would not be worth the 10,000 troops sent to North Korea, let alone 30,000 troops.

The war between the Ming army and the Jiannu army in Korea was like two men fighting in the mud, and every punch and kick was very painful. Therefore, Huang Taiji put his thoughts on finding foreign aid, and Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen ignored it after knowing this information.

"Huang Taiji looking for Japanese? Ten Japan, I don't care about it, if the Dutch dare to join forces with Japan, I will send troops to Europe! Zhu Youzhen said to Wang Chengen with a calm face.

Wang Chengen saw that the emperor did not realize the severity of the situation, and was quite worried, "The disasters in various parts of the Ming Dynasty are becoming more and more frequent, and the emperor must not overestimate the ability of the Ming Dynasty to bear it?" In March, Zhang Xianzhong led the army out of Qianshan and broke through Taihu Lake, Qizhou, Huangzhou and other places. On the 25th, Xianzhong led the army and the Ming army to fight in the Yanjiadian of Taihu Lake. Loyal to tens of thousands of soldiers to surround the Ming army. He also sent the general army to block Shi Kefa and other reinforcements. When it rained, the peasant army attacked from all sides, hand-to-hand combat, and beheaded more than 40 people including Pan Keda, the general of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming army was defeated, losing more than 6,000 soldiers. Xianzhong led the army to take advantage of the victory in the east to take Hezhou, Hanshan, Liuhe and other places. The war in the Central Plains has fallen into a stalemate, and at this time, if Huang Taiji recruits the Japanese again, if the emperor increases his troops in Korea, he may be in great trouble. ”

At the beginning of the drought, only a few areas in the Yellow River basin suffered crop damage and famine of people and animals. Later, the arid areas spread southward to Jiangsu, Anhui and other provinces, and there was cannibalism in some areas. By 1640 and 1641, the annual precipitation was less than 300 mm. Drought conditions worsen from May to September every year. The seedlings withered. The harvest is lost. Shanxi's Fenshui and Zhanghe rivers have dried up. The nine rivers of Hebei are dry, and the Baiyangdian Lake is dry. This phenomenon of lake exhaustion and river drying up has spread all over the country, and the phenomenon of cannibalism has occurred. In 1640, the drought in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan was accompanied by locust plagues and epidemics, which made the disaster even more severe. Henan's "great drought spreads throughout the province, the grass is withered, the depth of the water is not full, and the grass, trees, animal skins, insects and flies are all eaten. Many people are dying of hunger, starvation carries the road, and the land is desolate." Cannibalism in large arid areas of Gansu. Shaanxi "is a rice market, the wood bark stone pasta is exhausted, the father and son couple are dissected by each other, and eight or nine out of ten are dead".

In the original history, in the twelfth year of Chongzhen (1639), the price of each stone of rice was one tael of silver, and after the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the price of stone rice rose to 3 taels to 5 taels of silver. Coupled with heavy enslavement, the people are struggling to make a living. The peasants were forced to rise up, and the uprisings continued, leading to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. During the Chongzhen period (1628~1643), there were Qing soldiers outside, and there were droughts inside for many years. A large number of people in Hebei and Shandong abandoned their farming and fled, and many villages became uninhabited villages. Natural disasters led to a total collapse of the economy and intensified social unrest. During the Chongzhen period, a peasant uprising broke out in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province, where Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong broke out, and soon swept through most of China.

In 1644, the peasant rebel army invaded Beijing, and the Ming Dynasty fell. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the temperature began to rise rapidly after 1650, which led to the so-called "Kangqian Prosperous Era" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was actually just a weakening of the disaster after the temperature warmed.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen clenched his fists, he was indecisive in his last life because there was really no confrontation capital in his hands, and it was extremely difficult to make every decision, in this life, his realm has been sublimated, no matter what wind and rain he encounters in life, he can't be shameless, he is afraid of death, but if the dignity of a country does not exist, what is the horror of death? "Wang Chengen, what you mean, I know it very well, what you said, I also know very well, two sides of the war, the Ming Dynasty fights on two sides, the Ming Dynasty fights on three sides, and the Ming Dynasty fights on three sides! The soldiers and horses in his hands are short of money and food, so he will take as many as he wants to fight, remember one, Daming will never say never! Never give up, unless I'm dead. ”

Wang Chengen didn't dare to make a sound, and stood aside, waiting for the emperor to issue a holy decree.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen's mind is spinning rapidly, national affairs are not calculated, maybe many things in this world can not be calculated, the best strategists are often the people who are most perceptive to people's hearts, and not those who work in calculations, otherwise they can find mathematicians, modern people who can do business and be officials, and few people have deep scientific knowledge.

Looking at the bamboo in front of him, the thin bamboo pole seemed to be able to be blown by the wind, but it could support a large piece of bamboo leaves, Zhu Youzhen poured a little water for the bamboo, touched the green leaves, but his eyes were staring.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen calmly took a sip of tea, lit a cigarette, looked at the map and pondered for a while, "North Korea will not increase troops for the time being, for the Central Plains anti-people, Hong Chengchou's little number of men and horses is not enough, we must increase our troops, and kill Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong within the year!" Let Sun Chuanting send 5,000 troops to the Central Plains battlefield to support, and be sure to bite Gao Yingxiang! ”

Wang Chengen nodded, bowed down and left.

Zhu Youzhen did not know that after the Fujian sailors ate all the British in Guangdong and expelled the Portuguese, the news spread all over the Ming Dynasty, although it was able to make the Chinese people excited, but most people were really resistant to the emperor's war, Chinese after all, it was based on Confucianism, and Confucianism did not teach people to repay it. Rather, it advocates the way of loyalty and forgiveness.

The situation in the country is further deteriorating, mainly because even though the emperor can use his power to gather the common people together, but he cannot change the hearts of the people, the whole country is brewing a wave of dissatisfaction with the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and the people in the affected areas are even more complaining, thinking that there is money for the war, why not help the victims?

Abroad, with the sudden collapse of tulip prices, countless people in Europe were bankrupt in an instant, which in turn affected the national economy into a recession for several years. For the first time, the four colonized countries of the Netherlands, England and Portugal, have united for the sake of their own interests in the Far East.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen didn't know that his policy of fighting with the world would put himself on the edge of the world, he didn't know, even if he knew, he would still do it, he didn't want to be a person who was eating with a bowl and being and pee in the bowl at the same time.

The general environment for fighting on three fronts is gradually taking shape.

Although the resurgence of the anti-people in the Central Plains has been exterminated by an absolute elite, the total number of more than 200,000 anti-people troops is still formidable.

After Huang Taiji brought in the Japanese, Japan sent 200 ships and 50,000 troops to fight across the sea, although Tokugawa Iemitsu advocated a policy of closing the country to the outside world, but under the call of Huang Taiji's huge interests of dividing Korea equally, he still sent troops.

The four-nation alliance of Dutch, British and Portuguese was the main force with 300 Dutch warships, and Spain, Britain, and Portugal each sent 200 warships, with a total strength of 50,000 troops.

In the midst of the danger of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen received an even worse piece of information.

Wang Chengen knelt on the ground, "Qian Qianyi rebelled, fled to Guangxi and established a government to protect the law, and immediately announced that he was the prime minister, and put forward the slogan of abdicating the emperor and the crown prince ascending the throne, and there were many supporters. ”

When Wang Chengen talked about the faint monarch, his voice was very low, and he looked at the emperor nervously.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen's anger was really about to explode, and he instantly felt that the true qi of Ji Gangjiu in his body was running fast! It seems that the whole person is going to be burned, and instantly feels that the true qi in the dantian has reached a new realm, and every time the internal strength of a person who practices martial arts has been improved, it is a very painful moment, because the dantian has to have a process of adaptation.

Zhu Youzhen pinched the notebook in his hand, his body did not move, and he saw that the notebook turned into a pile of fragments in the emperor's palm.

Wang Chengen was taken aback, and he couldn't believe that the emperor's skill had reached such an incredible level. (To be continued......)