74_74043 Chapter 87, Emperor Chongzhen's Despair (II)

ps: Explain the basis for the annihilation of the Ming army in the Battle of Dalinghe on this plane - first of all, due to the changes in this time and space, Zu Dashou's food in Dalinghe City is very sufficient, so the battle lasted longer, more than half a year, and the imperial court can organize more waves of reinforcements to fill the pit in the past, and the casualties will naturally be more heavy. Second, there are two algorithms for the loss of troops, one is to count only the soldiers, and the other is to count the coolies, servants, and miscellaneous soldiers, and the number of empty salaries is added, and the figures displayed in the account books of the military department are very large. And the figures reported to Emperor Chongzhen are obviously exaggerated.

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Finally, there is a small trouble that needs to be dealt with urgently, that is, the internal strife that broke out between the Xuanfu and Datong border armies in order to compete for the silver mines in Baozhou - just by the conflicting content described on the fold, Emperor Chongzhen really couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong, who was right and who was wrong, who was true and who was false, and the current situation could not allow for slow verification and trial...... So Emperor Chongzhen decided to cut through the mess quickly, and each of the martial artists suspected of this matter was beaten fifty boards, each of them reprimanded, and at the same time the silver mines in Baoan Prefecture were returned to the internal prison - now there is a shortage of silver in the palace!

In addition, an edict was issued, urging the Xuanda border army to mobilize a group of elite soldiers and horses to go south, responsible for assisting the local government of Beizhili to clean up the Shaanxi Liukou and suppress the local riots, so as to make meritorious contributions to the previous internal strife.

Seeing that all the troubles were dealt with, Emperor Chongzhen's mood became a little lighter. At this time, Cao Huachun had already assigned a few little eunuchs to clean the hall, so he leaned over and whispered to Chongzhen: "...... Your Majesty, do you want the slave to send some food......

Because he was in a good mood, Emperor Chongzhen also felt that he had an appetite, so he nodded slightly, "...... Well, let's pass the meal! ”

In the following month, the situation in Jingshi remained the same, except that the price of grain skyrocketed day by day, and had risen to 15 taels of silver per stone of brown rice, which caused the poor people in the city who had no food to starve to death or commit suicide.

As for the war around Gyeonggi, it is also not angry, and the good and bad news are mixed in half. First of all, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army won many battles in the Daimyo Mansion, and broke more than ten Liukou units within 20 days, but they forced them to flee north into the Shuntian Mansion where the Beijing division was located, and even ran to the city of Beijing for a time, causing the city to be like a great enemy. Subsequently, the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou led 50,000 Qin troops to King Qin, and finally temporarily cleared the thieves in Jinggi, so that the court could celebrate with a crown, but the household department said that it was really unable to supply so many Qin army rations and horse materials, and Emperor Chongzhen had to reward a number of Shaanxi and Shanxi generals, and reluctantly let them go south to find Lu Xiangsheng to eat with him, or go to Shandong to eat, and by the way, help Zhu Dadian to clean up the demons of Wenxiang Sect.

Next, the situation of the Xuanfu and Datong border armies made Emperor Chongzhen feel a little unhappy - after learning that all the ministries involved in the competition for silver mines were beaten by the imperial court fifty boards, and everyone was unlucky, and the Baozhou silver mine as a color was taken back into the palace, the Xuanfu army that had been bloodied and fought in vain suddenly made a big uproar, and someone immediately beat the eunuch out violently, and even the general soldiers of Xuanfu couldn't suppress the following. As for the matter of letting Xuanfu Town send troops to Gyeonggi to clear the Liukou, naturally there was no follow-up, but it was the official documents of the Xuanfu army asking the household department for the arrears of food and salary over the years flew like snowflakes...... If it was in a peaceful situation, the imperial court would definitely severely punish and rectify this kind of lawless chaos, but at this time when the world is eventful, Emperor Chongzhen has to start from a realistic point of view, pinch his nose and endure it first, and wait until the future to calculate the general account!

Then on the battlefield of Shandong, after Xu Guangqi, an old minister of the Three Dynasties, went to appease the Dengzhou army with illness, the situation of the Shandong official army also improved slightly - although the Xu Ge Department could not say for the time being that Chen Xinran, the chief soldier of Dengzhou, had woken up and surrendered, nor could it lift the blockade of the Dengzhou Navy Division on the coast of Tianjin, but the land offensive on the Dengzhou side had finally eased: the main force of the rebels stopped in Pingdu Prefecture and did not continue to invade the west.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, was able to adjust his deployment, concentrate his troops, and after receiving reinforcements from Beijing, he went south to exert his strength, broke the thieves in one fell swoop, and recovered Jining, the hub of Caoyun. It's a pity that Yutai County and Xuzhou further south are still in the hands of demon thieves, and the canal is still impassable.

As for the news further south, due to the fact that a large number of outcasts and rebels were ravaging the Central Plains, plundering the prefectures and counties, and the road was blocked, it had not been sent to Beijing for several days...... Just when Emperor Chongzhen was anxious, a team of cavalry finally risked death from the south to cross the Central Plains Theater and sent the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu into Beijing, giving Emperor Chongzhen, who was full of expectations, a bolt from the blue: Fengyang, the central capital, was captured by Liukou!!

Well, also, the ancestral grave of the old Zhu family in Fengyang was also dug up by Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the rogue who killed a thousand knives.

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In this turbulent, strange and war-torn era, there is not only competition between traversers and traversers, but also competition between countries and countries, and even between rogues and rogues, there is also competition, and more attention is paid to popularity.

After all, it is a bit like a rogue to a gangster, it is very important to have a resounding reputation, and sometimes even a name alone can make a fortune. Otherwise, why did Li Zicheng go to Shangluo Mountain, there were only thirteen cavalry soldiers left around him, and there was no money and grain reserves, but after he came out of the mountain, there were thousands of younger brothers who brought their own dry food to defect, and in the blink of an eye, they were the overlords of the Central Plains? Without him, the popularity is loud enough.

(At this time, Li Zicheng was only a general, and the king was Gao Yingxiang.) ）

is also the leader of Shaanxi Liukou, and Zhang Xianzhong, the "Eight Kings", naturally has a heart that wants to be famous. When the two roads were divided before, he did not attack Taiyuan, but followed the alliance leader "Zijin Liang" Wang Ziyong to Henan, and then developed separately.

In the past two months, Zhang Xianzhong has fought the landlord Lazhuang Ding in the densely populated Central Plains, and his development has been quite smooth, and he has a relationship with the Wenxiang Sect...... However, at this time, he suddenly heard that King Gao Yingxiang had actually succeeded in defeating Taiyuan City, the capital of Shanxi Province! Let this little achievement be overshadowed by this.

So, Zhang Xianzhong resolutely decided that in order to overshadow Gao Yingxiang's name, he wanted to do a sensational event in the world - attacking the capital of the Ming Dynasty!

Of course, the Ming capital city as the target is not Beijing. In fact, there were three capitals in the Ming Dynasty: Beijing, Nanjing, and a central capital, Fengyang.

——With the little power at hand of Zhang Xianzhong, it is a joke to want to fight Beijing and Nanjing, but you can still give it a try if you want to fight Fengyang.

Fengyang, located in Nanzhili (now Anhui), has been a poor place famous for its abundance of flowers since ancient times. The reason why such a poor place is called the capital is only because it is Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown. But even in the Ming Dynasty, the only thing related to the Ming royal family here in Fengyang was the clan prison dedicated to the emperor's relatives and relatives, and the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors (not Zhu Yuanzhang's tomb, the Ming Tomb of filial piety is in Nanjing).

What is even more advantageous for Liukou is that at this time, the garrison of Fengyang, the capital of China, has been mobilized to the Huai'an area to resist the southern invasion of the Wenxiang Sect army, so the garrison of Fengyang should be very empty. Even if you can't beat Fengyang City, it is estimated that you can dig up the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family located outside the city, which will cause a sensation in the world in one fell swoop! So, Zhang Xianzhong waved his army south, and when he arrived at Fengyang, he was immediately overjoyed: Fengyang has no city walls!

——It turned out that when the Zhongdu was built, firstly, the imperial court was in financial difficulties, the appropriation was insufficient, and there was nowhere to raise it locally (again, Fengyang is very poor), and secondly, there were Taoist masters who were invited by the imperial court to see feng shui and claimed that if the city wall was built, the feng shui of the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum would be destroyed.

Therefore, the central capital of Fengyang, like Kyoto in Japan, has no city walls, and now even the garrison and chief officers have been transferred.

In this way, Zhang Xianzhong took a vote of the exile army, and without even climbing the wall, he entered Fengyang smoothly and occupied the Longxing land of the old Zhu family.

What happened after that was even more logical, Zhang Xianzhong and his minions easily annihilated more than 1,000 old and weak soldiers in the city, and tens of thousands of houses in the city and various yamen were burned down by him. In addition, as the most important task, Zhang Xianzhong also dug up Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral grave, demolished the Huangjue Temple where he once became a monk, humiliated the Zhu Ming royal family in various ways, and finally escaped before the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili rushed to fight back.

Now it's a terrible thing - from ancient times to the present, digging people's ancestral graves is the most vicious and immoral trick, and being dug up ancestral graves is the most unforgettable shame. In China, in the past? In the dynasty, except for Dong Zhuo in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, who seemed to have done a "Faqiu Zhonglang General" and dug up the Luoyang Emperor's Mausoleum, there was basically no ugly thing that the dynasty was still alive and the ancestral grave was dug up (there were many graves dug up after the death of the country, for example, the tombs of the Southern Song Dynasty emperors were all dug up by the Mongols). The "Eight Kings" Zhang Xianzhong really shook the world in one fell swoop and overshadowed the name of King Gao Yingxiang.

What's even worse is that after learning that such a big basket was stabbed in the rear, the governor of Fengyang and the eunuchs guarding the town who were supervising the battle on the front line in Huai'an were immediately frightened and one fled and the other committed suicide, and the Fengyang soldiers and horses immediately bombed the camp and dispersed in an uproar. Wang Ke, the leader of the Wenxiang Sect, took the opportunity to attack with his army, quickly crossed the Huai River, and then successfully defeated the Nanjing soldiers and horses who were in chaos due to the collapse of friendly forces. So the whole front collapsed, 50,000 officers and troops were beaten to only a few thousand, Lu Weiqi, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, fled to Yangzhou in one breath, and even wrote a suicide note, waiting to be dismissed by the imperial court for questioning, and the rest of the generals at all levels were also terrified, and had no intention of fighting, and sat back and watched the Shaanxi Liukou and Wenxiang Sect demons go south in batches, and the Jianghuai war situation was very bad......

Therefore, after Emperor Chongzhen heard the news, he was so angry that he almost fainted, and his mouth was even louder to kill someone.

But when he came to his senses, he didn't punish anyone, but sighed, and ordered someone to send the four treasures of the scholar's room, ready to write an edict for his own crimes, that is, he took this responsibility - Emperor Chongzhen is so generous at this time, it does not mean that he has a good temper, but any person, as long as he digs his ancestral grave, can play with you, not to mention that he is the most face-saving emperor in the world.

But there was no way, the graves of the royal ancestors were dug up, and the impact of this matter was too great for any official to bear such a crime. If the emperor insists on dealing with it strictly, I am afraid that the entire court team of Nanzhili will have to be washed in blood, and it will definitely not be enough to cut off without a few hundred heads. And now the situation in Nanzhili is precarious, if there is another bloody purge in the battle, and several local officials who have the ability to integrate troops and horses from all walks of life to meet the anti-thieves are killed, so that Nanjing's military and political organs are paralyzed, and they are unable to deal with the attack of rogues and bandits, then I am afraid that the next thing to lose is not the central capital Fengyang, but the capital Nanjing! The value of these two is clear at a glance, and it is not easy to know.

As an emperor who already has a certain amount of reason, Emperor Chongzhen will make the only correct choice no matter how angry he is in his heart.

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Therefore, in the face of the embarrassing situation that the law does not blame the public, Emperor Chongzhen could only reluctantly write an edict of guilt, and took the responsibility for the fall of Fengyang, the central capital, and the excavation of the imperial tomb of the Zhu family, so as to appease the military morale of Nanzhili and prevent the outbreak of chaos that is more unfavorable to the imperial court.

The edict had not yet been prepared, and there was a sound of footsteps outside, and a eunuch rushed to report, saying that Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, wanted to see him, and there was an urgent report from Liaodong.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, his heart trembled again when he ascended the throne - since he ascended the throne, almost all the urgent reports from Liaodong were bad news, making him almost unwilling to watch their recitals. But he is the emperor, the most noble ruler in the world, and there is no room for shirking a bad thing.

Therefore, after hesitating for a moment, Emperor Chongzhen had to sigh and say, "...... Let him in. ”

Then, Zhang Fengyi hurriedly ran in, his face was extremely dark, and he knelt directly on the ground and said, "...... Your Majesty, Qiu Jiahe, the governor of Liaodong, reported urgently......"

Emperor Chongzhen frowned when he saw this, hiding the nervousness and frustration in his heart, and said in a flat tone as much as possible: "...... Ahem, you pick what matters. ”

But Zhang Fengyi hesitated for a moment before he said astringently, "...... Qi played His Majesty, Jinzhou mutinied, and the Guan Ning army mutinied and surrendered! ”

“…… Really? Liaoxi Jiangmen really surrendered to the enemy? Alas, what a bunch of unfamiliar wolf cubs! ”

After being silent for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen closed his eyes and let out a long sigh, he felt that he no longer had the strength to be angry, and the annual salary of five million taels of silver was thrown over, just in exchange for the repeated defeats and unruliness of the Guanning army, and now he simply defected collectively.

I and the first emperor have been searching for the world's fat and ointment, and the world's first-class luxury elite soldiers have been tried to supply for the whole world, were originally raised for Jiannu?

But even though reality betrayed him again and again, he still had to barely open his eyes and continue to face this cold world.

“…… Now that Jinzhou has been owned by the enemy, what can Qiu Jiahe, the governor of Liaodong, do? Emperor Chongzhen asked with a strong spirit.

“…… Your Majesty, the Guan Ning army has a very deep plan to surrender to the enemy this time, the governor of Liaodong has misplanned, and there are not many available soldiers at hand, so they designed to seize Shanhaiguan! Qiu Jiahe just escaped on his own. Zhang Fengyi replied hatefully, "...... Now that the vanguard of the Jiannu army has entered Yongping Mansion, it will only take three or five days to arrive in Gyeonggi again, and the criminal minister Qiu Jiahe feels that he has lost his holy grace, and after fleeing to Changli County to issue this testament, he has already committed suicide by taking medicine......"

Zhang Fengyi said something next, and Emperor Chongzhen didn't hear it - under all his thoughts, he only felt a pain in his heart, his eyes were dark, and he immediately spurted out a mouthful ......of dirty blood, and the whole person fell down on his back to the sky, and then rolled down from the Danqi in the exclamation of a group of inner prison maids.