However, it was said that Lu Xiangsheng was edicted to enter the guard, until the strictness had been lifted, and Liang Tingdong, the chief soldier of Shixuan and the general soldier, died of illness, so he ordered Xiangsheng to go west, and the governor Xuan, Da, and Shanxi military affairs, Xiangsheng was ordered to go. However, from the third year to the ninth year of Chongzhen, in these six years, there have been many changes in the cabinet ministers, such as Wu Zongda, Qian Xiangkun, Zheng Yiwei, Xu Guangqi, Qian Shisheng, Wang Yingxiong, He Wuyu, Wen Zhenmeng, Lin Zhen, etc., there are almost 10 or 20 people, except for Zheng, Xu, and Lin, who died of illness on the job, they all have not been in the cabinet for a long time, and they will be exempted. Listen, Watchman! What is the reason for this short term of office? It turned out that it was all the mediocre and narrow Wen Tiren, at the mercy of it. Tiren since Chongzhen three years into the cabinet, like copper cast iron, no change, he seems to be honest, in the event of a national event, will be Huaizong pro-judge, so the border is mixed, the Central Plains is disturbed, and he has not heard of him offering a Chen, set up a plan. Huaizong was self-assured and resolute, and also said that he was gentle and respectful, and he was appointed as the first assistant, who knew that he was exclusive to the different, good at rolling colleagues, and all the ministers who went together, whether he was wise and foolish or not, but if he violated him slightly, he would be rejected. Qian Xiangkun is a protégé of Tiren, first Tiren entered the cabinet, and then Tiren assisted the government, he carried out the disciple ceremony, and was humble in everything, but he refused to echo for no reason. is Zhou Yanru, who is secretly invoked, should be ninety-two times. also fell into his conspiracy, which caused him to lose his intentions and lead him to return. First of all, Tiren saw that Huaizong was reinstated as a lieutenant official, so he asked Wang Zhichen and others in the reverse case to curry favor with the eunuchs. Huaizong asked Yanru, and Yanru said: "If you use the minister, Cui Chengxiu can also sue the innocent." "Yanru auxiliary government, but these two words are the most clear. Huaizong was moved by it, and immediately refuted it. Tiren was coerced, and the official impeached Yanru. Yanru also hoped that Tiren would turn around, but Tiren secretly went down to the stone, and Yanru noticed that he was begging to leave. Who taught you to quote villains? In the matter, Wang Shaojie, Hua Yuncheng, and He Sansheng, the director, were all condemned for impeaching Tiren. Liu Zongzhou, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, tired and sparse pointed out Chen Shi's shortcomings, although his words were intense, he had not yet clearly reprimanded Tiren, and Tiren actually hated him for saying too much, intending to constitute Zong Zhou's crime, and Zong Zhou went out of the capital because of begging. Shijinggi was soldiered, the road was impassable, it was an overseas Chinese living in Tianjin, and then the political punishment was perverse, to hundreds of words, and at the end of the end there was "eight years before and after, who Bingguo Cheng, the minister can not be the first Wen Tiren to explain the next language" Yunyun. Tiren was furious, and even joined Huaizong, willing to resign. Huai Zongzheng trusted Tiren, so he naturally angered Zong Zhou, and immediately issued a decree to cut Zong Zhou's status. Zongzhou Shanyin people, the shangren were returned to the house, and went to lecture in seclusion. Later, Zong Zhou lectured on Qishan, known as Mr. Qishan, and the martyrdom is shown later. Tiren also proposed that the secret should not be in the court and should not be vented, so all the cabinet revelations were not issued, nor were they recorded, so the courtiers were slandered by him, and often no one knew. But if you don't know anything in the world, unless you don't do it, you can't frame others for yourself, so as not to frame others. There will always be a day when injustice will be retributed. The world listens to it! Zhang Hanru, a frequent acquaintance, wished for the benevolence of the body, and reprimanded Qian Qianyi for living in the countryside for illegality, and the benevolence of the body then planned to arrest Qianyi. Qian Yi was very afraid, bribed the joint, and asked Cao Huachun, the celebrant for help. Under the late Wang Anmen, Qianyi once made an inscription for An, which was related to each other, and he was quite interested in releasing him. Han Ru learned of the situation, secretly told Tiren, Tiren reverted to Bai Huaizong, please sit down and turn Chun into the crime. Huachun is a fortunate minister of Huaizong, and he actually cried and sued the emperor before asking for justice. In the end, it was found that Deren and Han Confucian, and Peng Bi was a traitor, so he invited Huaizong to realize that he had a party, and first shackled Han Ru to death, and then removed Tiren from office. Tiren also retired from the snake, claiming to be careless, but he knew that he was exempted from the edict of the official, and his face was so shocked that he even lost his dagger to the ground. Self-defeating, and have no regrets? Before the return of the year, he died of illness. What is immortality?

Huai Zongfu used another group of cabinet ministers, such as Zhang Zhifa, Kong Zhenyun, He Fengsheng, Huang Shijun, Liu Yuliang, Fu Guan, Xue Guoguan, etc., most of the brigades advanced and retreated, and there was nothing to benefit, and even the internal and external supervision of the army, all of them were eunuchs in charge. The supervisors outside Beijing are headed by the eunuch Gao Qiqian, and the supervisors in Beijing are headed by the eunuch Cao Huachun. Xuan Fu called Yang Sichang as the secretary of the military department, and also a scholar of Dongge University, to participate in the maintenance of the aircraft. Sichang once patrolled Yongping, Ding's father was worried about returning home, and the edict seized the affection and took care of the matter, and immediately entered the court to take office. He doesn't have much strategy in his chest, relying only on a sharp mouth, he can speak well, and when he meets him, he plays hundreds of words, and he discusses a big move to level the thief, and the officials and troops of each province are four and six corners, and the number is a ten-sided net, which is similar to Jing Yanguang's 100,000 horizontal grinding swords. The governor and prime minister should be levied from the thief and re-raise four strategies: one is for grain, and each mu will be added to lose six yuan, and the annual silver will be eight yuan; 2. For overflow land, the soil field must verify the loss; three donations, enriching the people and losing capital, and having to be prisoners; The four post stations, the original post stations, are all under the management of officers, cut off various expenses, and fill the military salary. None of the four strategies is advisable. The budget of the Communist Party of China can increase the salary by 2.8 million yuan and increase the army by 120,000 yuan. Si Changfu paid attention to the generals and introduced one person, that is, Chen Qiyu's second, called Xiong Wencan. Wen Can took office in Guangxi, and Huaizong was recommended by Sichang, so he sent the Chinese envoy to seek out the truth, stay for ten days, and get a bribe of hundreds of gold. The use of bribes is enough to know the quality. During the banquet, when talking about the chaos in the Central Plains, Wen Can was drunk and hot, and couldn't help but slap the case and say: "It's all mediocre ministers who have misled the country, and the disaster has come to this." If you let Wen Can go to suppress him, why not the rats?" The envoy stood up and said: "The Shangyi party wants to use the public, and the public fruit has the ability to deal with the chaos, and he has set up his life." Wen Canshang was still talking wildly, talking endlessly. The next day, he woke up, regretted his speech, and talked with the Chinese envoy again, there are five difficulties and four unconditional conditions. The envoy suspected him of being cautious and persuaded him to say goodbye again and again.

A few days later, the edict was issued, that is, Wen Can was awarded the secretary of the Ministry of War, and the prime ministers of Nangi, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan military affairs, Wen Can also refused to resign, knowing that the five difficulties and four must not, why not resign on the table? Recruit Cantonese people for self-defense. The bow and sword armor are very neat, but the road goes north, the east goes out of Lushan, and the monk is empty. Kongyin is always talented and learned, because of the sadness of the world, he abandoned his family as a monk, Wen Can and his old friends, the two saw each other, and Kongyin did not congratulate, but sighed to him: "Wrong, wrong!" Wen Canjue's words imply, that is, to go to the screen from the ride, and to inquire about the general outline. Kong Yin said: "The public was ordered to be a soldier this time, and he asked himself if he could control the thief's death?" A blow to the head is nothing less than Zen. Wen Can hesitated for a long time and replied that he couldn't. Kong Yin replied: "Suppressing the thieves and generals, is it a big deal, take charge alone, don't bother the prime minister's command, can you pacify the thieves?" Wen Can said: "This is also difficult. Kong Yin said: "The public has nothing to fear, how can he suddenly take on this position?" The Lord is very generous to justice, and if it fails, I am afraid that the sin will be mishap. When Wen Can heard this, he couldn't help but change his color, but he took a few steps, and then asked, "What is the discussion?" Kong Yin said: "I expect the public to come up with this plan, but the rogue is different from the sea coward, the public should be cautious, fortunately don't mistake yourself and mislead the country!" Wen Can still seems to believe it, so don't go. Empty and hidden sayings, no less than giving birth to a father, the stubborn stone does not know how to nod his head? When he arrived in Anqing, Zuo Liangyu led his troops to the meeting and talked about it, which was a deed. The two are both good at talking, so they are like-minded. When Wen Can worships Shu, please put the 6,000 people in Liangyu's department under his direct jurisdiction, and get Yu Yun. Lookout! Do you want Liangyu to be unruly and willing to be restrained by Wencan? After living with each other for a few days, Liangyu's subordinates were at odds with the Cantonese army and criticized each other, so Wen Can had no choice but to send back the southern soldiers and only entered Xiangyang with Liangyu.

It was Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, who was captured by Sun Chuanting of Shaanxi, Xie Jingyi died, and the thieves pushed themselves to become the king of Chuang. Zicheng wants to enter Sichuan from Shaanxi, just out of Tongguan, Governor Hong Chengchou, ordered all soldiers in Sichuan and Shaanxi, north and south, and cut thousands of thieves, will become all the elite, and kill them all. Even his own wife and child have been lost. Zicheng got rid of it, and wanted to rely on Xianzhong, but suddenly heard that Xianzhong had descended to Xiong Wencan, so he had no choice but to go to Zhejiang and Sichuan, and put the old man back to the camp, and was sick for half a year, but still led the people to the west. The official can remember that in the past, Xianzhong had surrendered to Hong Chengchou, and then rebelled. Why did Xiong Wencan fall again this time? It turned out that Wen Canchi arrived in Xiangyang, and published a fu along the way to recruit a group of thieves. Loyal and cunning and good at fighting, leading the crowd to intercept alone, refusing to use his life, he was attacked by the general army Zuo Liangyu and Chen Hongfan, two ways, a defeat, the forehead was hit by a stray arrow, the blood flowed all over the face, and he was almost chased by Liangyu. The thief's eyes collapsed, and there was a gap between him and his loyalty, and he actually begged to surrender at Wencan. Xianzhong heard that he was afraid that he would lead the officers and soldiers to take revenge, and he was too heavy to fight again, so he sent people to the Hongfan camp, offered heavy coins, and paid for his sincerity. When he was a thief at the beginning, he was obtained by Hong Fan, because of his strange appearance, he was released and returned to the army, he actually fled secretly, and then he was told by the people who came from here, saying that he had received great grace, and he was willing to lead the department to self-efficacy, and kill the thief to atone for his sins. Hong Fan was overjoyed, conveyed to Wen Can, and was offered loyalty. Wen Can's failure to learn from Cheng Chou is already a big mistake, Hong Fan does not know how to learn from himself, which is one more class higher than Wen Can's crime. Xianzhong then went to the Wencan camp and prostrate to ask for sin. Wen Can's life started, inquired about the situation of the remaining thieves in detail, and offered loyalty to say that he could control the thieves and the thieves, Wen Can believed that it was true, so he ordered him to still lead the old department and garrison the grain city. Dedication to loyalty and surrender Luo Rucai, Rucai nicknamed Cao Cao, cunning is no less than loyalty, at that time Hu, Guangzhou, Henan thieves fifteen, should push him two thieves as a burly. The two thieves have surrendered, and the remaining thieves are angry, Wen Can is very pleased, and asks for forgiveness, and the special purpose is allowed to play. How do you know that he is a thief and a fierce beast, and he is not really willing to surrender, because he has lost consecutive battles, there is no way to advance or retreat, so he takes this opportunity to surrender in the name of taking a break and running around. Secretly still colluding with the minions and cultivating enough strength, then it is not appropriate to rebel again, this is the so-called secret plan of wanting to take the concubine and wanting to work hard first. The foot of the discussion is the thief's profit, and the explanation is exhaustive.

The Central Plains had a little rest, and the Northeast was at war again. Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty conquered Korea, and set up a large number of soldiers, and ordered the prince Dol Yuan and Yue Tuo, both as generals, to lead the left and right wings, divide the way to attack the Ming, enter the Qingshan Pass of the Great Wall, and reach Jizhou Huiqi. Ji, Liao governor Wu Aheng was defeated and killed, the eunuch Deng Xizhao escaped, the Qing soldiers took advantage of the situation to attack, arrived at Niuqi Mountain, met the director Gao Qiqian, with the Ming soldiers to guard, Qiqian knew what to do, when he was safe, he was good at Weifu, and immediately fled in an emergency, and a Qing soldier entered, from the Lugou Bridge to Liangxiang, and even pulled out forty-eight cities, Gaoyang County was also among them. Sun Chengzong, a former university scholar, committed suicide by taking poison while living at home. More than ten children and grandchildren, with their bare hands, fought with the Qing soldiers, killed and injured dozens of people, and died one after another. Ming Ji generals, only Xiong Tingbi, Yuan Chonghuan, Sun Chengzong, so far there are no survivors. The Qing soldiers crossed the river from Dezhou again, went south to Shandong, broke six out of ten counties, and fell into Jinan. King De Youshu, the sixth grandson of Yingzong's son, was captured in Jinan. Zhang Bingwen, the political envoy, was hit in the street battle and tried his best to kill himself. His wife Fang and concubine Chen were thrown into Daming Lake and martyred together. According to the imperial history Song Xuezhu, and the deputy envoy Zhou Zhixun, etc., they were either killed, or committed suicide, and the loyal souls of all sizes were returned to the desert. Only the governor Yan Jizu has been transferred to Dezhou by Yang Sichang, and he disagreed with the Qing soldiers on the way, because he was spared. However, the Jinan defense army mostly went north with the step-ancestor, and the city was empty, so it was lost in a hurry, which cannot but be blamed on Sichang.

Sichang Fu Xuan, the governor Lu Xiangsheng, supervised the troops to help, Xiangsheng was mourned by his father, and the resignation was not obtained, so he followed Rong, forgot his home and went to difficulty, just entered the Beijing Division, heard Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, there was a discussion and news, and he was very wrong. Hui Huaizong summoned the platform to consult the strategy, and Xiang Sheng said angrily: "The emperor ordered the ministers to supervise the division, and the ministers will fight the main battle." "Blindly fighting the main battle, I also feel stupid. Huaizong couldn't help but change his color, and said for a while: "The court may say this, how can I follow it." "Xiangsheng revisited Chen Shou's imperial plan, and Huaizong also nodded to the head, only ordering him to meet with Sichang, dive, and meet on defense matters. Like the promotion and retreat of the dynasty, and the two of them talked, of course, they did not agree, and re-entered the internal re-order, and his majesty resigned on the same day. Not only went out of the capital, but also invited Yang and Gao to divide their military powers, and they were not restrained. The court agreed that the three divisions of Xuan, Da and Shanxi belonged to Xiangsheng, and the soldiers of Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan belonged to Qiqian. Like being promoted to a higher position, thanking the Lord's grace, he plans to march to Zhuozhou immediately. I didn't want to go to the army in person, negotiate peace with him, and refrain from fighting lightly. Xiang Sheng said: "The public insists on peace talks, and does not think about the begging alliance under the city, and the Spring and Autumn Period is ashamed." Chang'an's tongue is like a front, doesn't it prevent Yuan Chonghuan from making mistakes?" As soon as Si Chang was said by him, his cheeks immediately turned red, and he said in a slow dialect: "As the public said, I want to add me with Shang Fang's sword." Xiangsheng said indignantly: "Lu is neither mourning nor fighting, Shang Fangjian should add his own neck first, how can he add people?" The language is solid and correct, but it is too radical. Si Chang said: "It's a public holiday!" May not be trapped with Chang'an proverbs. Xiang Sheng said: "Zhou Yuanzhong went to the border to talk about peace, and he came and went for a few days, and the whole country knew about it, so why hide it?" Si Chang had no words to say and walked away. It turned out that Zhou Yuanzhong had been selling divination on the side and knew many people on the side, so Sichang sent him to negotiate peace, but he didn't get the essentials, but he was perfunctory. It is necessary not only to negotiate peace, but also to choose a talent, which is entrusted to the rivers and lakes to sell their arts, which is not special and unsuccessful, and will inevitably be laughed at by the enemy. Like a rising heart, he speaks straightforwardly and simply. The more the day, the more the elephant rises and dives, and the two talk about it, the more and more ugly. Xiangsheng was bent on carrying out, going out of Zhuozhou, entering Baoding, and hearing that the Qing army was attacking in three ways, and immediately sent the generals to prevent blockage. How can it be like rising under his command, less than 20,000 people, not enough to dispatch, and the Qing army is as fast as a torrential rain, and it is impossible to prevent it, and Leh is lost by the wind. Si Chang actually impeached Xiang Sheng's inappropriate scheduling, cut the title of Shangshu, and still used the squire to supervise the teacher, and Xiang Sheng didn't care. The most bitter is that the soldiers' salaries are thin, no one responds, every night, crying alone, and until dawn, and supervise the soldiers, there is no retreat, while the soldiers are transporting grain, but they are blocked by Sichang, and see that the food and salary have been exhausted, the soldiers are hungry, and they know that they are not far from death, so they go out of the tent in the early morning, bow down to the soldiers, and tearfully say: "I have received the grace of the country with all the kings, and I can only suffer from death, and I will not live if I do not suffer." "It's sad to say. When all the soldiers heard this, they all wept and asked them to fight to the death with the enemy. Xiangsheng set out for the giant deer, and checked the soldiers, and there were only 5,000 left. Counselor Yang Tinglin, because of the large camp, which is only 50 miles away, plans to go to beg for help. Xiang Sheng said, "He—will he come to my aid?" Tinglin insisted on inviting his party, Xiangsheng shook Tinglin's hand, and said goodbye to him: "Dead West City, how can it be like a dead territory?" I repay the king with a death, and I still feel sorry. ”

After Tinglin went, Xiangsheng stayed for a day, there was no news, so he led the troops to Songshui Bridge, and saw the Qing soldiers like a row of walls, killing the generals, and his subordinates Wang Pu, that is, led the troops to flee, leaving only the chief soldier Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu, who were still following. Xiangsheng divided the army into three, so that Dawei led the left, the national pillar led the right, and led the middle army, and the Qing soldiers fought to the death, with one as ten, and the Wuzi support can stand. The battle lasted for half a day, and the casualties were comparable. In the evening, they took a break from the battle, and in the middle of the night, Xiangsheng heard the sound of drums and shook loudly, and knew that the enemy soldiers were coming. As late as dawn, the Qing soldiers became more and more numerous, surrounded to three turns, Xiangsheng commanded the troops to fight, the artillery was exhausted, Dawei persuaded Xiangsheng to break through the siege and escape, Xiangsheng said: "Since I have been in the army, I have fought dozens of battles of all sizes, and I only know how to move forward, but I don't know how to retreat." Today, the traitorous ministers are stifled internally, the strong enemy is outside, and the time of death has come, what can I say? Gentlemen, please break out of the siege and stay here to serve the country, and I will die here! "As he said, he actually held a sword in his hand and killed into the enemy's formation, with four arrows and three blades in his body, Shang Ge killed dozens of Qing soldiers, and died of exhaustion. An army is gone, but the great power and the national pillar can be taken off. After hearing the defeat and retreating in a hurry, Yang Tinglin returned to the camp with his bare hands, and it had become a desolate and miserable wilderness, with violent bones piled up, and there were corpses with sackcloth exposed, which was expected to be the remains of Xiangsheng. Miserable blood, yes? It is invited to be buried with the prefect of Shunde, Yu Ying, and the joint play. Sichang has heard of the defeat, and he still can't hide it, and Tinglin is inconvenient, and it is inconvenient to hide it, but he said that Xiangsheng died in a light battle, and it is not a pity to die. Huaizong mistakenly believed slander and did not give mercy. and the official impeached Qi Qian, saying that he did not save the army, and fell into Xiangsheng, but put Qi Qian in prison, interrogated him truthfully, and was ordered to ambush him. Until the defeat of Sichang, it is a gift of mercy, which is slow.

And said that Xiangsheng was dead, the Qing soldiers did not retreat, and the Ming court was anxious to send Hong Chengchou to the governors Ji and Liao, and Sun Chuanting to the governors of Baoding, Shandong, and Hebei. The court summoned him, but Sichang was afraid that he would show his mistakes, so he planned to refute it, and only ordered him to take up his post immediately. The court was very upset, and he was sick and begging. Sichang got a gap again, so he impeached the court for stealing his life against the will. Huaizong also did not distinguish between indiscriminate and wrongdoing, and even arrested the court and sent him to prison, and cut his nationality to the people. Fortunately, the Qing soldiers only came to harass, and unintentionally, once they were plundered, that is, the class teacher returned, and Mingzuo still had to survive for five or six years. The boy sighed in a poem:

An ant is still broken by the embankment, and the situation makes the lonely rat hold the platform.

Zhongliang died tragically, and the country did not die quickly.

After the Qing soldiers retreated, the Central Plains thieves took advantage of the gap to run rampant again, and they will wait for the kid to show up again.

Reading this time, I saw that Huaizong was a country, not only unpopular, but also lawless. Kou can't be soothed and caressed, and the Qing can be reconciled but not harmonious, which is really one of the great disasters of the country. Pushing the intention of Huaizong, thinking that the people are also rogue, rebellion is suppressed, submission is soothed, and appeasement is appeased. The Qing country is also an enemy, only to fight, not to peace, and to make peace is cowardly to the enemy. Knowing that Kou has jumped off the beam, he has been poisoned for half the world, and everyone wants to get it and punish him, can he still be caressed? The Qing lord is not of the same race, and he is far away from the pass, and he is temporarily at peace with Yanyan, what is the injury? Set up an order to make peace with one side, and on the other hand, to sweep away the Liukou, recuperate for several years, and then take the gap between the Kanto, go out to discuss, although the Qing is strong, not enough to peace, but the inside is the main care, the outside is to make peace, the Liukou suddenly surrendered and rebelled, the Qing soldiers came from the beginning, Gu Xi lost the East, Gu Dong lost the West, the soldiers were tired of running for their lives, and the whole country has collapsed, do you want to die? Or it is said that the main caregiver is Xiong Wencan, and the one who is not the main and the one is Lu Xiangsheng, which is not the fault of Huaizong. With whom do the words of shame and harmony speak? Is it still to be said that Huaizong is not to blame? As for Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang, they are invited to be favored, and the abuse of the prison army by the lieutenant officials, the virtuous and traitorous are reversed, and the rights and wrongs are unknown, and I don't want to be responsible.