Chapter Ninety-Six: Emperor Chongzhen (II)

Although it bypassed the cabinet and directly decided on military affairs by the emperor, which aroused the vigilance of the courtiers, it only involved civil uprisings and border military affairs at the beginning, and did improve the efficiency, so it did not attract enough attention from the courtiers.

However, with the end of the battle of Emperor Taiji Kouguan in the third year of Chongzhen, the courtiers found out that the emperor had merged Jinyiwei into the Military Aircraft Department, as an intelligence agency of the Military Aircraft Department, which greatly increased the power of the Military Aircraft Department, unconsciously completed the strengthening of the monarchy, and the role of the cabinet has been infinitely weakened.

Thanks to Sun Chengzong's steady and steady fight in the past two years, the construction of the Ningjin defense line, coupled with He Xie's prophetic foresight and a large number of firearms, Chongzhen's three-year battle, and was not avoided by Huang Taiji Ningyuan, Jinzhou broke into the pass, Liaodong generals rejected the enemy outside the pass, a battle that lasted for three months, so that the Qing army suffered heavy casualties, and finally gained nothing and retreated to Shenyang.

Huang Taiji was deeply ashamed and vowed to take revenge.

In this battle, the Ming army also suffered heavy losses, and the number of casualties was even comparable to that of the Qing army.

But in the end, the Ming Dynasty won the battle, and the benefits were obvious.

First of all, Shaanxi's bomb suppression of the people is in full swing, famine for many years, the imperial court lacks silver and grain, even if the emperor has repeatedly exempted Shaanxi, Shandong and other disaster areas from taxes, and allocated grain for disaster relief, and sweet potatoes have also solved a small part of the urgent need, but natural and man-made disasters are still unavoidable.

Under such a two-front battle, it was not easy and extremely rare for the Liaodong Battle to achieve such results.

Secondly, after this war, the strength of the Qing army was greatly damaged, and it was unable to start another war in the short term.

And during this global Xiaoice River catastrophe, the only way for the Qing army to survive is to fight in Korea and Mongolia to obtain survival materials.

The Ming Dynasty did not have time to recuperate, nor did it have that condition, but it could take advantage of this precious period of peace to quell the civil strife and completely stabilize the domestic situation.

In the end, after this war, the position of the military aircraft department was completely highlighted, and the monarch's power was further strengthened and concentrated. Moreover, the emperor took advantage of this battle to promote some talents and entered the military aircraft department, such as Shi Kefa, Liu Zhaoji and others.

In January of the third year of Chongzhen, the emperor canonized the prince Zhu Cixuan as the crown prince, and was exempted from martial law to ascend to the palace.

In April, the emperor was dissatisfied with the scorching war situation in Shaanxi, increased his troops in Shaanxi, surrounded the thieves in northern Shaanxi, and completely pacified Shaanxi in a battle, Zhang Xianzhong's army was defeated and killed, and Li Zicheng disappeared.

After the pacification of Shaanxi, the emperor built water transportation, transferred money and grain from the south, and determined natural disasters in the north.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty has entered a long period of reform of the "Chongzhen New Deal".

The emperor reformed the tax system, restarted the commercial tax, changed the Dongchang to the Daming Taxation Bureau, and Wei Zhongxian was the first tax governor.

The effect of this measure is obvious, Dongchang Fanzi, Jinyiwei and local officials, formed a situation of mutual supervision and mutual restraint, although Dongchang moved to raid the family ruthless means was impeached by hundreds of officials, but only Chongzhen's four years of tax revenue, is enough to top the sum of the past three years.

As a result, both the cabinet and the officials of the six ministries shut up.

The process of reform was not smooth sailing, and during this period, the emperor also failed, such as the ban on the opening of the sea, which had to be abandoned due to the obstruction of wealthy merchants and officials along the coast; Another example is the oppression of the people during the tax collection period of Dongchang, and the people in the fish and meat township were provoked, which once made the tax collection work stagnate, and even the emperor had to temporarily depose Wei Zhongxian, and it was only restored the following year.

The good news is that the Ming Dynasty has money, the collection of commercial taxes is a foregone conclusion, and the famine in the eastern part of Gansu and Shaanxi has been effectively alleviated due to the large popularity of sweet potatoes.

In addition, the emperor trained 50,000 new troops, with Shi Kefa as the commander and Xu Guangqi as the instructor of the new army, stationed in Beijing.

The Ming Dynasty stumbled through five years, and in these five years, disasters are still frequent in various places, and there are hungry riots from time to time, but compared with the original history, it has been much better.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, the sisters of the Zhou family were concubines, and in the same year, Queen Ding gave birth to a princess and was given the name Changping. The following year, the Zhou sisters gave birth to a son and a daughter.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Wei Zhongxian died of illness, and the emperor posthumously named him the Duke of Zhongguo, nicknamed "Zhongyi". Wang Chongen succeeded him as the governor of taxation of the Ming Dynasty.

In the same year, Pei Lun was promoted to the commander of Jinyiwei, and the Nanzhen Fusi reorganized the Supervision Institute to supervise the law and discipline of the factory and health, and Shen Lian was the first commander of the procuratorate.

In October, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming killed Mao Wenlong and rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the emperor was furious and summoned the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu court to discuss the matter of attacking the Jinren, and the hundred officials objected, and the emperor had no choice but to give up.

In November, the rebel generals Kong and Geng invaded Guannei by sea from Korea, and took Shang Kexi as the internal response, captured Dengzhou, and looked at Laizhou; And Huang Taiji personally commanded the Eight Banners Army of 100,000, avoided Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and divided the troops into the pass from Longjing Pass, Hongshankou, and Da'ankou in three ways, and captured Zunhua.

The emperor was furious and made up his mind to keep Huang Taiji in the pass.

The emperor used the capital as bait, erected walls to clear the wilderness, lured the enemy to go deeper, made Liaodong, Xuanfu, and Jizhou three places show a trend of encirclement, cut off the back road of the Eight Banners Army, and led the protection of the capital with a new army.

On the Leiden side, the emperor ordered Sun Chuanting to enter Shandong, and sent Han Kuang and Lu Jianxing to Korea to carry out the matter of connivance, so that Lu Xiang was promoted out of Shaanxi and into Shandong, and Sun Chuanting's troops were united.

This is the largest battle of the Chongzhen Dynasty, this battle, the first battle laid the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, but also laid the immortal name of the Chongzhen Emperor!

Huang Taiji suffered the brutal destruction of artillery, explosives and other new weapons and firearms under the capital, leaving 30,000 corpses behind, and fled in a hurry.

In March of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji was killed by the hungry and desperate Mongolian soldiers, and the Jin people opened the city and surrendered, but the emperor did not allow it, and 40,000 people were pitted.

Jubilation!

At the same time, Kong Youde was defeated and retreated to Korea, defeated the Korean officers and soldiers, and cut the city.

Emperor Chongzhen's prestige has reached an unprecedented peak!

On March 27, Haoge, the son of Huang Taiji, succeeded to the throne, and Dolgon became the regent, commanding the Jin people's soldiers and horses.

On the first day of the fourth month, the emperor took Sun Chengzong as the commander and Shi Kefa as the deputy general, and went out of Shanhaiguan to counterattack the Jinren. On May 13, Shi Kefa used explosives and artillery to defeat Liaoyang, and the Jin people were killed or wounded!

On May 20, the division of troops in Fushun, with the Mongolian ministries as the internal response, conquered Fushun, Yuan Chonghuan slaughtered the city for three days, was impeached by the imperial history, and the emperor ordered him to make meritorious contributions.

On May 27, the Ming Dynasty surrounded Shenyang.

The desperate golden man has exploded with amazing combat power!

In this battle, although the Ming Dynasty had the advantage of firearms, there were still more than 20,000 dead and wounded, and the 50,000 horses and horses of the Jin people were annihilated.

The Jin Dynasty has since officially ended!

Kong Youde, who seized Korea, and others quickly begged the emperor to beg for surrender, and the emperor ordered Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting to kill him. Then the two divisions and the Li Korean army encircled and completely annihilated Kong Youde's department, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were captured by their subordinates, and Shang Kexi died in the army.

On June 16 of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Kong Youde, Fan Wencheng and other traitors were escorted to the capital and executed at the entrance of the vegetable market.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty opened the Maritime Safety Bureau, with Shi Kefa, Zheng Zhilong, and Li Dingguo as generals, divided into three fleets and expeditioned to the sea.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong was killed in the Portuguese naval battle, and the emperor gave his son Zheng Sen the title and posthumously awarded Zheng Zhilong the title of loyal and brave uncle. In the same year, Shi Kefa and Li Dingguo returned with a full load.

The Ming Dynasty is really developed, and the prosperity of sea trade has completely consolidated the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and the endless wealth comes from the sea, so that the losses caused by domestic disasters have been greatly compensated and alleviated.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the emperor moved the capital to Nanjing, and in the same year, all countries came to the dynasty!

After the reign of Emperor Chongzhen for thirty-two years, the Ming Dynasty has completely turned into an empire where capitalism began to flourish, since the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the crown prince Zhu Ciheng began to travel around the Ming Dynasty, and even went to sea.

In the thirty-third year of Chongzhen, the Son of Heaven reformed the rule of officials, and ordered the establishment of military schools, engineering schools, and agricultural schools outside the Guozi prison.

But halfway through the implementation of the reform, Empress Ding fell seriously ill and died after ten months.

The emperor was grieved and mourned, and he had no intention of ruling for three consecutive months.

On July 27, the 33rd year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen abdicated, and the crown prince Zhu Ciheng succeeded to the throne, with the year name Qianheng, and Chongzhen was respected as the emperor.

The crown prince continued his father's ruling ideas, and still made drastic reforms, and after the efforts of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty produced many talents, and the emergence of these talents made the Ming Dynasty reappear, which is a foregone conclusion.

With the death of the two Zhou Guifei one after another, the Emperor Taishang often stayed alone in the empty palace, in a daze.

In August of the 34th year of Chongzhen, the Emperor summoned the prince to talk secretly, and the next day he set up a banquet in the Emperor's Palace. ”

Then he disappeared on the spot, and the ministers were in an uproar! The world is in an uproar!

After Chongzhen's death, Emperor Qianheng and his ministers posthumously named his temple as Hengzong.

The Chongzhen and Qianheng dynasties, known as the Chongqian Prosperous Era by later generations, are also considered to be the beginning of the transformation of China from a feudal dynasty to a capitalist imperial system.

Emperor Chongzhen's return to the mandate of heaven and his ascension to the heavenly realm have also become a mystery that will never be solved by future generations.