The Ming army was defeated in the battle of Songjin, the commander Hong Chengchou was captured alive, and the rest of the general soldiers died and fled and were wounded, which can be described as miserable, because Hong Chengchou played this trick too ruthlessly, he almost sent the emperor Huang Taiji of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to see his father Nurhachi, so the Manchu counterattack was particularly tragic, after a day and night of fierce fighting, the Ming army suffered more than half of the casualties, and there was no fighting spirit.

The eight general soldiers learned that Hong Chengchou led the army to attack the Jiannu camp, and since then there has been no news, so they decided that Hong Chengchou should have died in battle, and there were internal disputes, some wanted to avenge Hong Chengchou, and some discussed giving up Songjin and retreating south.

In January of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army drove the Ming army to Songshan City, and the soldiers directly surrounded Songshan City.

The soldiers besieged the city for more than two months, the food in the city was exhausted, and seeing that a city of soldiers and horses was about to die in the city, there was really no way, Xia Chengde, the deputy general of Songshan, secretly sent a letter to the Qing army, willing to take his son Xia Shu as a hostage to surrender, and promised the Qing army to open the city gate for them.

In March, the Qing army was invited to attack at night, Songshan City was broken, the general soldier Cao Bianjiao, Tang Tong and Tang Tong swore not to surrender, they were all killed by the Qing army, and the head of the city hung the head of Songshan City for seven days before it was collected into the coffin!

Songshan was defeated, the Qing army attacked Jinzhou with a lot of energy, Jinzhou guard general Zu Dashou, seeing that the situation was not good, directly led the troops to surrender, and then Jinzhou, Tashan, Xingshan generation were occupied by the Qing army, the Ming army was proud of the Guanning Jin defense line was completely collapsed, and the Qing army once again occupied an absolute advantage over the Ming Dynasty.

After Hong Chengchou was captured, the people who fled from Jinzhou came to Shanhaiguan to tell Wu Sangui that the Qing army took Hong Chengchou to the camp of King Wuji in the north of Jinzhou City, and was directly executed, and said that when Inspector Hong went to die, he scolded endlessly, and only wanted to die quickly and be loyal to the country!

It was not easy for Wu Sangui to be sad when he heard this, but he still recognized Hong Chengchou, so he sent 800 li to send a military report to Chongzhen urgently.

Chongzhen is anxious these days.

I wanted to hear the news of Hong Chengchou's victory, which was used to stabilize the morale of the army, but I waited left and right, and after waiting for two or three months, I didn't see the news of Hong Chengchou's victory, and I was anxious to urge the holy decree again, did this Hong Chengchou not fight a decisive battle with Jiannu!

Just when he was hesitating, the eight hundred miles of Liaodong arrived in a hurry.

Chongzhen was overjoyed when he saw this, and Zhao Wenwu came to listen to the report.

The herald entered the hall, saw Chongzhen immediately knelt down and kowtowed, Chongzhen saw that the herald was dusty, and there were blood stains on his body, he was very moved, so he ordered to reward wine and meat, but the herald did not eat, but took out eight hundred miles and hurried: "Your Majesty, Liaodong was defeated, Inspector Hong was killed, the Songjin defense line collapsed, Jiannu Chang drove straight in, our army suffered countless casualties, and more than 100,000 troops became white bones, please make a decision!" ”

"What!"

After listening to the herald's report, Chongzhen's eyes were about to pop out, and then he stared at the herald and said, "You say it again." ”

"Liaodong is defeated!"

"Ahh

Chongzhen couldn't stand the stimulation, and directly knocked down all the folds on the table at once, and the whole person sat on the dragon chair, his face was full of dead gray, and he collapsed.

And this news also made the Manchu Dynasty civil and military uproar, the Songjin defense line collapsed, Hong Chengchou died in battle, which was too exciting for the princes of the court, so exciting that they didn't know how to answer, at this time looking at Chongzhen, his eyes were slightly sluggish, Zhou Yanru came out and said: "Your Majesty, please take care of the dragon body, although the defeat of Liaodong was tragic, but it did not hurt the country, Songjin is gone, we still have Shanhaiguan, as long as Shanhaiguan is not lost, we will not lose!"

Chongzhen heard this and looked at Zhou Yanru blankly: "Haven't we lost yet?" ”

Zhou Yanru said: "Shanhaiguan is still there, the chief soldier Wu Sangui is still there, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry is still there, it's okay, but Your Majesty, there is still bad news for you." ”

"Say, I can bear it!"

"Just yesterday, Shandong 800 miles urgently, the thieves broke through Jinan Mansion, most of Shandong fell, I am afraid that the army will go north in a few days!"

"What! Burst! ”

Chongzhen couldn't hold back anymore when he heard this, and directly spurted out a mouthful of old blood, and with a poof, he directly sprayed the dragon book case in front of him into a blood book case!

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, quickly pass on the Imperial Doctor, quickly pass on the Imperial Doctor!"

Wang Chengen saw Chongzhen directly vomiting blood and lying on the dragon book case, and hurriedly shouted, Chao Chinese Wu also panicked, at this time the emperor can not have something ah, at this time it is necessary for an emperor to encourage people's hearts, back the pot, can not let the emperor have something!

So the imperial physician hurriedly came to see it, and the imperial physician looked at it and said, "If you are in a hurry, just prescribe a few pills and raise it, it won't hinder it." ”

So Chongzhen fell ill, and he was honorably sick, of course he was lucky, he couldn't do without the emperor at this time, so he, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, survived even if he vomited blood.

As for other emperors, don't make trouble, one fell into the water and caught a cold, and in the end, it was not for nothing that he died of wind and cold infection, such as Chongzhen's brother Emperor Tianqi.

It is common sense that the Ming Emperor is easily soluble in water, but Chongzhen miraculously survived, and soon devoted himself to the revival of the Ming Dynasty, although Chongzhen is very weak, but there is a belief in his heart, that is, I must persevere, the Ming still needs me, and the foundation of my ancestors cannot be destroyed in my hands!!

So after another seven days, Chongzhen issued an order to commend Hong Chengchou for the national funeral, calling it a martyr, and held a conference to bury him with a national ceremony.

At the conference, the communication soldiers sent by Wu Sangui told the adults one by one the scenes of Hong Chengchou's heroic righteousness, saying that Hong Chengchou led the army to raid the camp of Jiannu, but he did not expect Jiannu to be cunning, and the enemy chief took the lead in hiding, so that Hong Chengchou pounced into the air, and was captured by the enemy.

But after Inspector Hong was captured, he scolded endlessly, kowtowed in the direction of the capital, said that the Son of Heaven was Shengming, and the ministers also tried their best, and they would die today, and finally shouted that they had the intention to kill the thief, and they had no power to return to heaven!

The enemy chief admired Inspector Hong as a person, promised to be a high-ranking official, and was even willing to replace him with a king with a different surname, but Inspector Hong disdained it, and was bent on death, and the enemy chief persuaded Yue Yu, and finally had no idea, and directly beheaded the public, and passed the head to the army.

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen cried more than once, ordered to move the altar to the front of Chaotian Palace, and then prepared to go to worship in person, three days later, Chongzhen issued an order, to Hong Chengchou to give nine altars, set up an ancestral hall, agreed on the name, and stood in front of the ancestral hall and cried more than said: "I can't save Hong Chengchou!" ”

Seeing that the emperor was like this, Wang Xigon, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, asked, this Inspector Hong is dead, and he has never seen the bones, if there is a mistake in the middle, or if the Inspector defects, how should he deal with himself?

Chongzhen was furious when he heard this, and scolded him for knowing a hammer, cough cough......

Chongzhen was furious and rebuked Wang Xigon for being rude.

For a time, the whole army of the Ming court mourned, and Shandong reported urgently, in the past few days, Li Zicheng organized troops to attack Shandong, and the capitals of Shandong looked down on the wind and did not dare to compete with it.

When the time comes, it will be able to threaten the capital, Chongzhen was so frightened that he hurriedly recruited the general soldiers of the northern land to garrison Hebei to prevent Li Zicheng from stealing his home.

However, the capable people of the Northland General Army were almost consumed in the Songjin War, and the rest were some incompetent people.

Seeing this situation, some smart people saw that the Ming Dynasty was estimated to not last long, so people of insight privately suggested that Chongzhen move south, BJ couldn't hold the north is Jiannu, the south is Li Zicheng, two sides of the attack, BJ City will become a sandwich, it must be finished, the next thing is to see Manqing fast, or Li Zicheng is fast, whoever is fast, who is more likely to succeed!

Chongzhen is very entangled in this opinion, after all, the capital of these two hundred years is not wanted, and the lesson of the Southern Song Dynasty is in front of him, if he retreats to the south, the possibility of reunifying from the south is almost zero.

This world can be unified from south to north, for thousands of years, in addition to Taizu, Chongzhen can't think of a second one, it can be said that as long as there is a corner of peace, then you can only shrink and wait for death, and the top of the sky is to let the Ming Dynasty linger for decades, hundreds of years, when the time comes to go underground, how to see the ancestors and ancestors?

Chongzhen's idea can be said to be very correct, when he arrives in Jiangnan, he can really only be in a corner of peace, but back in the harem, the queen doesn't think so, the queen said: "Your Majesty, a corner of peace is stronger than the country, and your majesty can retreat to Jiangnan, and then send a henchman general to guard the capital, Your Majesty commanded in Jiangnan, and it is not considered to have lost the ancestral foundation." ”

Chongzhen thought about it for a long time and couldn't make up his mind, but he felt that what the queen said was good, but he didn't want to bear the infamy of losing the ancestral inheritance!

So he spread the news in the court, and in an instant the entire court was fried, a group of high-ranking officials of the Donglin Party from Jiangnan were all strongly opposed, and one by one they could not lose their ancestral foundation, and at this time the capital was moved to the rebel son of the old Zhu family, who had to bear the infamy of the ages, and said that now the victory and defeat are not divided, as soon as the emperor leaves, the soldiers and civilians in the north have no intention of resisting Li Zicheng, which is not equivalent to giving up the good country to Li Zicheng?

Anyway, there are a thousand, ten thousand are unhappy, and all kinds of high-sounding things have been said, but the only thing they haven't said is that they don't want Chongzhen to enter Jiangnan to destroy the interests they have divided.

Jiangnan: Is that the emperor's Jiangnan? No, that's the Donglin Party, the Jiangnan of the civilian clique.

Their interests there are already very fixed, but an emperor is parachuted in the past, and it is a strong emperor like Chongzhen, what do you let these interest groups in Jiangnan do, the interests cannot be distributed.

So they resolutely can't let Chongzhen come, and they still have a small abacus in their hearts, isn't Daming going to die?

It doesn't matter, if the country dies, Chongzhen, you will die in BJ, is it good that we support a little emperor in Jiangnan who meets the demands of our interest groups, so that our interests can be unprecedentedly satisfied, and it is not much better to not have Chongzhen pointing fingers at the head.

But if Chongzhen is really determined to move the capital to Jiangnan, in fact, these civil and military ministers do not have a very good way, after all, in the Ming Dynasty, even if it is now the end of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor still has the right to decide the life and death of the ministers.

I'm just shameless, I just want to flee south, what can you do with me, no matter how unwilling you are, you have to put up with me if you pinch your nose, but Chongzhen is not a shameless person!

On the contrary, Chongzhen is too face-saving, cares too much about reputation, and he can even give up his life for the sake of fame, so the ministers grasped this dead hole, and vigorously preached in the court that moving the capital is unfilial, and he is sorry for the ancestors and ancestors, that is, the king of the dead country, anyway, how disgusting to say this, it is a moral kidnapping!

Chongzhen, don't you want to be in the middle of the Ming Dynasty? How to revive in a corner of the Yangtze River?

Chongzhen, aren't you afraid to be sorry for your ancestors? If you dare to move the capital, are you not afraid that you will be hung up and beaten by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di after death?

There are also ministers who poured ecstasy soup into Chongzhen, Your Majesty, the situation is not as bad as you think, Li Zicheng is a rabble, Jiannu is a barbarian, we have Shanhaiguan in the north to resist Jiannu, and Hebei in the south as a buffer, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, you can win if you hold it steady!

Chongzhen was fooled by the ministers and was almost lame, and his heart was also swaying between moving the capital and not moving the capital, thinking about it, Chongzhen felt that he should still try to move the capital, but this crime must not be carried by himself, he should be strongly requested by a heavy minister, and then he had to comply, so that the infamy in the future can be less.

There is also an explanation for the ancestors, for the people of the world, and for the subjects of the North.

So Chongzhen wrote a letter to Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, why did he choose Chen Xinjia? Because he is not from Jiangnan, he is from Chongqing, Sichuan, and has little to do with the Jiangnan gentry.

Chongzhen is not stupid, although he doesn't understand why the Jiangnan gentry are reluctant to let him go, but he knows from the clues that it is these officials in Jiangnan who are making trouble in this, and they are the ones who spread rumors to prevent him from moving south, so it is impossible to expect them to write to ask him to move south, so it is good to find a minister who has no interests in Jiangnan, or has few interests, as this mouthpiece.

For this reason, Chongzhen wrote a secret letter to Chen Xinjia, so that when he was in the early dynasty, he took the lead in proposing to move the capital, and then he agreed, the raw rice was cooked and matured, and the heaven-sent opportunity was given to move south, and Chongzhen promised him that after the matter was completed, Chongzhen kept the position of the first assistant of the cabinet!

The secret letter was given to Chen Xinjia, Chen Xinjia can be the secretary of the military department, he is not a fool, after reading the secret letter, he scratched his head at that time, isn't this letting himself carry the thunder? Jiangnan officials occupy more than half of the court, and as long as they mention moving the capital, these officials can tear themselves alive, isn't this looking for death?

Also the first assistant of the cabinet, first of all, I want to be the first assistant of the cabinet to live, and secondly, the Ming Dynasty is like a bear, this cabinet first assistant has a fart attraction, just this little bit of small profit, you still want me to carry the thunder for you, offend the entire Jiangnan Group, don't you play tricks, your emperor is amazing!

So the funniest thing in history appeared, Chen Xinjia took the secret letter written by the emperor to him, unfolded it and put it on the table, and then called ten fast-talking family members, and even other spies placed in his mansion to shout to his side: "You clean up the study for me, remember!" Don't look at the secret letter on my desk, don't look at it! ”

Then I went for a little drink.

The next day, the whole capital was spread all over the city, and Chongzhen wrote a secret letter to Chen Xinjia, wanting to move the capital to Jiangnan!

(End of chapter)