Huang Taiji, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was furious at the defeat of Abatai and Yue Tuo, and the 20,000 Manchu and Han armies were wiped out, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen, was also overwhelmed by the collapse of the situation.

Originally, this Dongyu invasion, although the losses of the Ming Dynasty were heavy, but after all, the town of Leiden was two Tatar chieftains, and nearly 20,000 enemies were annihilated, such a result, Chongzhen was still somewhat satisfied, after all, the Dongyu was only in the land of Liaodong, and there were only more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and so many soldiers were killed, which can be regarded as a heavy loss.

But the emperor's good mood only lasted for half a month, and the nightmares everywhere were piled up like snowflakes on the imperial case of Wuying Palace.

First of all, Yan Shenggong was captured and plundered by the Eastern Captives, and his current whereabouts are unknown, although the new head Xue Guoguan has transferred the Yangtze River Naval Division and the Tianjin Naval Division to Dengzhou to help Penglaibo Li Xing's voyage to Liao.

Wang Chengen, the old goods, even asked for a Fujian governor in exchange for part of the Zheng family's sailor warships to escort the Leiden soldiers into Liaodong.

To tell the truth, Chongzhen was extremely reluctant to crown Zheng Zhilong, after all, Zheng Zhilong's house was nominally the Fujian deputy general of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact it was a feudal town rampant in the South China Sea, and the imperial court could not interfere in Zheng Jun's affairs at all.

It's just that the ministers are violent, saying that Yan Shenggong is the hope of a scholar in the world, and if he is used by the Eastern Prisoners, I am afraid that it will shake the country.

Chongzhen is very disgusted by this, since you Yan Shenggong is an example of the world's scholars, then why don't you kill yourself and become benevolent, with the loyalty and filial piety of the world's scholars, but the Manchu officials, and even Xue Guoguan and Yang Sichang, who have always been at odds, all asked to borrow a ship to sail Liao.

Xue Guoguan, that old man, even said something, Zheng Zhilong's gang has actually controlled the armed forces in Fujian, and the imperial court might as well exchange a false name for fifty warships and more than a hundred transport ships, so that Lydon Town Hangliao will not be afraid of the sailors of Dongyu.

Under the pressure of the outer court, Chongzhen had to reluctantly agree to Wang Chengen's recital.

However, the imperial court had just issued a holy decree conferring the title of Zheng Zhilong, but it received an urgent report from Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai one after another.

"According to Xiong Wencan, the governor of the five provinces, after the main force of our thieves withdrew from the Central Plains, Zhang Xianzhong of Gucheng and Luo Rucai of Yunyang rose up one after another, and in addition, the remnants of the original Liukou Geli Yan He Yilong, Ma Huihui Ma Jinzhong, Zuojin Wang He Jin, Liu Xiyao, the king of the world, Wang Yi in the troubled times, and the Shimen Mountain bandits and bandits turned the sky and other groups of people responded, and successively broke through more than 30 counties such as Guanghua, Fangxian, Yunxi, Gucheng, Yunyang, etc., and the general army Zuo Liangyu was defeated in Fang County due to the lack of soldiers and horses."

"It is reported that more than 70 officials, including Luo Dai, the deputy commander-in-chief, Ruan Zhitian, the commander of Gucheng County, and Lin Mingqiu, the commander of Yunyang, were martyred one after another, and in addition, 41 generals such as Zhang Dajing, the garrison Xu Qizuo, and Ma Tingbao of Yunyang were martyred, and now Zhang Wei and Luo Wei have gathered 300,000 people to besiege Xiangyang, and Huguang is about to erode, so please also ask the imperial court to quickly send troops to recruit and suppress."

After Chen Xinjia, the left attendant of the military department, finished reading Xiong Wencan's urgent report, he raised his eyes to look and found that the emperor's face was already blue.

"Zhang Rebellion and Luo rebelled, what is the strategy for Zhu Qing?"

After fighting back and forth with the Liukou for so many years, although Chongzhen was furious, he also knew that although the Liukou claimed to be 300,000, there were only 40,000 or 50,000 people who could fight, so in addition to being angry, his tone was quite calm.

"Your Majesty, Zhang Reverse and Luo Rebellion, thieves and sheep, the minister has already said that he should eliminate the evil, but the governor Xiong Wencan insisted on going his own way, and carried out the strategy of suppressing and appeasing, so that the rogue had a chance to breathe, and now Zhang Reverse has been repeated, all of them are inappropriate in using soldiers!"

Yang Sichang, the second assistant of the cabinet, talked eloquently, but the meaning of the words was obvious, that is, his strategy of first reassuring the outside must be the correct one, and the reason for Zhang Wei's repeated repetition was that the evil could not be eliminated.

Fan Fucui, a scholar, said angrily: "Yang Ge Lao means that Xiong Wencan's entrustment is ineffective, the original strategy of appeasing Zhang Wei and Luo Wei has been approved by the cabinet, Xiong Wencan is guilty, so is the cabinet responsible?" Is the celebrant responsible? ”

"Your Majesty, the thieves are repeated, and hundreds of thousands of people are gathered in the middle of the month, why not? The people have no food and clothing to support, if the court has enough food, how can the people be willing to obey the thief? Therefore, the ministers please stop the salary, so that the people will naturally be grateful for the kindness of the court and no longer follow the thieves! Otherwise, even if Zhang Xianzhong is suppressed, there will still be Li Xianzhong. ”

Fan Fucui has always been upright, and this time he directly pointed out that the peasant army uprising was caused by the huge taxes of the imperial court, and even explicitly stated that it was the cabinet's approval of Xiong Wencan's strategy to suppress and appease him, and it was also directly pointed out that Yang Sichang and other cabinet ministers shirked their responsibilities.

Chongzhen's role is becoming more and more ugly, Fan Fucui, the old man, is pointing at the monk and scolding the bald donkey, obviously targeting Yang Sichang and other cabinet ministers, but secretly saying that I am harsh on taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the measures are inappropriate.

"Your Majesty! Zhang Reversible, Huguang erosion, the ministers do not think of being a thief for the country, but attack each other, contrary to the way of the ministers, the old minister thinks that he should be punished, in addition, although Zhang Rey is a soldier of ant gathering, but Huguang and Jiangnan are the granary of the world, in order to prevent Zhang Reversible from poisoning the place, for the sake of today's plan, when the army should be sent to recruit and suppress, Xiong Wencan lost the military plane, causing Zhang Rei to sit big, in front of the criminal department to investigate his crime. ”

Xue Guoguan figured out the holy will and knew that Fan Fucui's words were slandering the emperor, so he diverted the topic, and clearly said that Fan Fucui violated the way of the ministers, and it was really to save face for Chongzhen.

"You...... The old minister is guilty! ”

Fan Fucui was speechless by Xue Guoguan, although the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were proud of the emperor, but if they really wanted to go online, the fate of the emperor would be ugly, and Xue Guoguan's hat was also very disgusting, and he actually said that he was disloyal and unfilial.

Chongzhen glanced at Xue Guoguan approvingly, which made him feel that this first assistant was really right, and it was not much better than Wen Tiren.

"Well, according to the meaning of the first word, let's march and suppress the strategy, the military department, what specific strategy do you have?"

"Your Majesty, the land of Yunyang is in the middle of the world, the south can enter the two Guangzhou, the north can enter the Central Plains, the west can enter Sichuan and Shaanxi, the east can go down to the south of the Yangtze River, the mountain roads are vertical and horizontal, the water network is dense, the old minister thinks that he can spread the net on all sides, step by step, and constantly compress the living space of the Liukou, in order to complete his work in one battle, completely exterminate Zhang Yi."

"As for how to encircle and annihilate, the old minister thought that he could order the governors of Jiangnan, Henan, Liangguang, and Sichuan to immediately prepare for war, hold the key points, and then help and suppress the general army Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, Li Guoqi and Shandong Town, each led the army to attack together, so it is not a problem to eliminate Zhang Yidang."

Yang Sichang is famous for suppressing thieves, and this time against Zhang Xianzhong, he sacrificed Chongzhen's ten-year tactics of exterminating the main force of the Liukou.

Chongzhen asked hesitantly: "Yang Aiqing is reasonable, but now that the imperial treasury is empty, and more than 100,000 troops and horses are mobilized, how should this military expenditure be disposed of?" ”

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, there is no money and food, not to mention that the army is going to fight the thieves, and it is good if the officials and soldiers do not make the court.

"Raise your salary!"

Yang Sichang's face turned pale, and he bowed heavily under the imperial steps.