When Zhao Han expanded the military system, Huang Taiji was also doing the same thing.

July.

After Wu Sangui surrendered at Songshan Fort, Huang Taiji personally led a large army to bypass Jinzhou. In the face of heavy encirclement, the adjutant general of Xingshan Fort secretly surrendered to the enemy, and the inside and outside should cooperate to help the Manchus occupy the castle.

At the same time, Hauge and Duoduo led 5,000 cavalry to cut off the passage between Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan.

Although there are more than 10,000 defenders in Ningyuan, most of them belong to the township brave regimental training. There were troops recruited by Liaodong officers, and there were also troops recruited by landlords and wealthy merchants.

Jin Guofeng and Wu Xiang are both the chief soldiers of the Ningyuan regiment.

Wu Sangui rushed to persuade him to surrender with his family, and Wu Xiang was immediately ready to move.

Jin Guofeng is a native of Shanxi and is quite excluded in Liaodong. Although Ning Yuan took him as the main general, he could only command dozens of Jiading cavalry.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Jin Guofeng fled with his family and was surrounded by cavalry led by Duoduo.

Jin Guofengning did not surrender to death, and only rushed towards more than 2,000 Manchu cavalry with dozens of Ding. The whole family was annihilated, and Jin Guofeng's father and son died heroically.

As soon as Jin Guofeng died, Wu Xiang surrendered the city, and Ning Yuan was taken by the Manchus.

Tashan Fort, sandwiched between Jinzhou and Ningyuan, also chose to surrender.

When the news came out, from Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan, the forts along the way either looked at the wind and surrendered, or fled to the direction of Shanhaiguan en masse.

Jinzhou.

Zu Dashou has been holding on for almost a year, the outer city is lost, and the inner city is exhausted.

Many buildings in the city were chopped into firewood and burned, and the people of the city starved to death.

The guards rushed over with a letter, and Zu Dashou opened it and looked at it carefully, and then let out a sigh of relief.

In the entire east of Shanhaiguan, only his ancestor Dashou is still defending the city, including his relatives and nephews have surrendered.

"Come down, come out of the city with me." Zu Dashou had no other choice.

The whole of Liaodong has fallen!

In the middle of the surrender of the Liaodong soldiers was numerous, the combat effectiveness was uneven, and the command structure was also extremely chaotic, Huang Taiji began to reorganize.

10,000 Liaodong soldiers were selected, plus the Han army that had surrendered before, and all of them were organized into Han army flags.

The rest of the Liaodong soldiers were thrown to farm.

In this reorganization, the Eight Banners system has been perfected, and under the Eight Banners there are Manchurian Flags, Mongolian Flags, and Han Army Flags.

In the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners Army was about 100,000 people, and the number was not very large. And they also have to farm in peacetime, unlike Zhao Han's regular army, which is completely out of production.

Each flag is structured as follows –

XX Banner - Manchurian Flag (Mongolian Flag, Han Army Flag) - Jiala - Niulu.

Those pure Manchurian flags, like Zhao Han's troops, each banner had about 7,500 troops, and the total strength of the Manchurian Eight Banners was only about 60,000.

The flags were not directly divided by ethnicity, the Mongolian nobles entered the Manchurian flag, and the Mongolians and Manchurians with Han surnames were organized into the Han military flag.

It is estimated that within half a year, Huang Taiji will not fight again, he must digest the new territory, and at the same time tighten the control of the reorganized Han army.

The Ming court has become numb to this.

Now there are three governors, Hong Chengchou is responsible for guarding against Liaodong, Sun Chuanting is responsible for guarding against Shanxi, and Chen Xinjia is responsible for guarding against Henan.

Chongzhen's real actual control territory is only Beizhili and Shandong.

Although the provinces of Yunnan, Guichuan and Sichuan were still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, they had long been cut off, and the money and grain taxes could no longer be transported to the capital.

The eunuchs in the armies were all recalled by Chongzhen, and the eunuchs were not allowed to meddle in the military again.

However, the prison army still had to be dispatched, so civilian officials were selected as the prison guards.

In history, Zhang Ruoqi, the key figure who caused the fall of Liaodong, did not have the opportunity to harm Liaodong and Hong Chengchou this time.

Well, he went to scourge Sun Chuanting.

Zhang Ruoqi's official position is that of Fang Langzhong, an official of the Ministry of War.

looks like a small official, but he is a powerful figure!

The evaluation of rewards and punishments for military exploits, the distribution of military rations, the rectification of the army, the training of non-commissioned soldiers, and the requisition and suppression of soldiers...... It's all under the direct jurisdiction of this guy!

Now, he was also sent to Sun Chuanting as a prisoner.

It only took half a month for Zhang Ruoqi to put Sun Chuanting in the air, and generals such as Yang Guozhu and Wang Pu had to listen to him.

This guy started by fighting for the party, and he relied on Yang Sichang to get to power, and he didn't know anything about military affairs at all.

As soon as he arrived at the front line, he set up the commander, and then made meritorious contributions and ordered all departments to take the initiative to attack.

Yang Guozhu's grain route was cut off and he directly surrendered to Li Zicheng.

Li Fuming's lone army was deeply surrounded, and he died in battle, and the whole army was annihilated.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Pu led his troops to run fast, but he finally stuck the Jingcheng passage, and did not let Li Zichang drive straight to Beijing.

Zhang Ruoqi, who made this bunch of bad things, originally stayed in Wang Pu's army, but Wang Pu threw him down when he fled.

Seeing Li Zicheng's army coming, Zhang Ruoqi led the remnants of the army to surrender.

……

Qianqing Palace.

Chongzhen held the battle report in his hand and trembled with anger.

Among the staff of his military department, the henchmen he sent out to supervise the army, after burying the army, actually surrendered to the rogue!

"Raid the house, Zhang Ruoqi will raid the house!"

Chongzhen's face was hideous, like crazy, and he tore the battle report to pieces.

The next day, the morning meeting.

"What else can you do?" Chongzhen asked.

No one answered.

The party strife is gone, and with Zhao Han's occupation of Jiangnan, a large number of southern officials have fled the capital, and the remaining Donglin Party has completely lost its right to speak.

Now Xue Guoguan's family is dominant, and he is firmly in the position of first assistant.

In the main hall, there was a dead silence.

Chongzhen waited impatiently and asked, "What is Xue Qing's method?" ”

Xue Guoguan's scalp was numb, and he replied: "You should train the new army, otherwise it will be difficult to resist the thieves." ”

"Where's the money?" Chongzhen asked.

Xue Guoguan said: "Li Shangshu still needs to think of something. ”

Hubu Shangshu Li Zhiwen was a native of Guangdong, and his entire family was killed, and he was jointly killed by the merchants of Guangzhou. His family was wiped out, and he did not dare to return to his hometown, so he could only stay in Beijing as an official.

Li Beiwen came out and said: "Your Majesty, there are no silver taels in the household department, and even if there are silver taels, there is not enough food to buy." After the summer harvest this year, the price of rice in the capital barely dropped to two taels per stone, and countless people in the city have starved to death. If the new army is trained and food is forcibly purchased, I am afraid that half of the people in Beijing will starve to death. Moreover, the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs will have no money next month. ”

"Where's the long reed salt class?" Chongzhen asked.

Li Beiwen replied: "It has been deported to Beijing and sent out as military salaries." ”

At this time, it was summer, and Chongzhen was sitting in the hall, only feeling a chill all over his body.

The emperor was silent, and the minister was silent.

After a long time, Chongzhen said in an almost pleading tone: "The current situation is indeed dangerous. All the ministers are ministers of the society, and my internal funds are no longer enough, can you donate money to serve the country? I don't want too much, I don't want to donate 30,000 taels as the best. ”

"Your Majesty!"

"Woo woo woo ......"

The ministers fell on their knees and wept bitterly.

seems to be crying for the Ming Dynasty, but no one mentioned donating silver to save the country.

Chongzhen was upset by crying, retreated to the Qianqing Palace, and asked the factory guards to speed up the raid. Zhang Ruoqi, who surrendered to the Liukou, although his hometown was far away in Shandong, he bought a mansion in the capital.

That night, the factory guard came back to report that Zhang Ruoqi was indeed a big corrupt official, and more than 3,000 taels of silver were found in his home.

The officials with real power who are in charge of the distribution and transportation of military rations and the rewards and punishments for military merits have only more than 3,000 taels at home.

Chongzhen can only choose to believe, is he still going to raid his house in person?

More than 3,000 taels, which is also an income, Chongzhen sent factory guards to urge officials to donate money from door to door.

A few days later, many stalls suddenly popped up on the streets and alleys of Beijing.

Noble relatives, civil and military ministers, set up stalls on the street one by one, and sold pots and pans in exchange for silver donations to serve the country.

This situation and this scene moved the heavens and the earth.

Those who hear are sad, and those who see are weeping.

You are dozens of taels, I am hundreds of taels, the honorable relatives and civil and military people enthusiastically donated, and the heart of serving the country is known to the world.

The eunuch came to Zhou Kui's house, said with a smile on his face: "My Majesty, Your Majesty is going to give you a marquis." Take a shower and fast, and in three days the decree will come! ”

Zhou Kui was overjoyed, pulled the eunuch to speak, and asked people to seal the silver as a thank you gift.

The eunuch suddenly said: "My lord, the donation of silver from hundreds of officials is too small, Your Majesty wants to ask you to set an example." How about a hundred thousand taels of silver? ”

Zhou Kui instantly cried bitterly: "Rotten old minister, where can I get more silver?" Nowadays, the price of rice is so high that the family can't even afford to eat, so they can only buy moldy rice and cook it......"

The eunuch hurriedly interrupted: "Master Guo, give me the truth." Our family is also acting on orders, you say a quasi, and I will go back to report to Your Majesty. ”

Zhou Kui stopped crying again, and raised a finger: "You can take out a maximum of 10,000 taels." ”

The eunuch went back to report, and Chongzhen was aggrieved.

After all, it was his father-in-law, and Chongzhen was not easy to persecute too much, so he said: "You go and tell the national ruler that 10,000 taels is too little, why should you donate 20,000 taels." ”

The eunuch went to pass the word again, and Zhou Kui saw that he couldn't get over, so he hurriedly entered the palace to find his daughter.

Empress Zhou persuaded bitterly: "Father, the Ming Dynasty is in danger, how can you train soldiers and suppress thieves without money?" As the ruler of the country, his father should be well aware of the righteousness and set an example for the magnates of the city. The daughter still has some money, and the father takes it all, so he has to scrape together 20,000 taels of silver. ”

Empress Zhou gave her father 5,000 taels, and Zhou Kui made up another 5,000 taels.

Back home, Zhou Kui thought about it, but he was still reluctant to donate 20,000 yuan. Of the 5,000 taels given by his daughter, he directly picked out 2,000 taels and took 13,000 taels of silver to donate.

Inside and out, he only gave out 8,000 taels, no matter how he thought about it, it was a good deal.

After the father-in-law set an example, the noble ministers should follow suit, so they took out silver donations one after another, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of taels per person.

After donating, I felt that I had donated too much, and I felt like a corrupt official, so I posted a note at the door of my house: This house is for sale.

After a farce, Chongzhen had hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Then, he didn't know what to do.

Shanxi, Henan, and Liaodong are all thieves on three sides.

Zuo Liangyu's bastard was entrenched in Shandong, saying that he was fighting thieves all day long, and he didn't listen to the transfer of the imperial court at all.

Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, just a little to survive.

Chongzhen summoned Wang Tiaoding and asked in a flat tone: "Is Zhao Han still willing to take in the descendants of the royal family?" ”

Wang Tiaoding didn't bother to pretend, and directly changed his title: "Zhao Dudu said that the royal family fell into the hands of thieves, and it was not only the face of the Zhu family that was lost, but he also felt shameless. ”

Chongzhen retreated left and right, and said in a low voice: "You take the prince and princess out of Beijing and go out of the city at night, don't make a noise." I will give you another holy decree to canonize Zhao Han as king, and after you leave Beijing, this holy decree will also be known to the cabinet and the six ministries. ”

Chongzhen thought about it carefully, and said: "Take a few officials from the Zongren Mansion to the south, and I will marry my daughter to Zhao Han and let him be the concubine of the Ming Dynasty." Beijing's Xun Qi Wenwu is not trustworthy, I hope he Zhao Han can keep his promise and treat my sons and daughters well! ”

(Two shifts today.) ）