Spring is blooming in the north, the snow is melting, and Kyoshi is slowly waking up from hibernation. The canal has been opened up a lot, but the Kyoshi has not returned to the hustle and bustle of the past.

On both sides of the canal, where every inch of land was once expensive, more than half of the shops were not open. People come and go, and the busy streets and alleys are now rarely popular.

Because of Jiannu's entry into the Koukou, continuous burning, killing and looting for several months, the entire North Zhili is already dilapidated.

In order to escape the war, the refugees and hungry people have gathered in the four fields of Jingshi, and the number has now reached nearly 200,000.

"Great victory, great victory, great victory at Qingshan Pass, beheading the thief !! thousand-level"

"Great victory, great victory, Qingshan Pass victory, slash Manchuria Zhenghuangqi Gushan Ezhen Tan Tai, and behead thirty-seven of the following generals!"

"Great victory, great victory at Qingshan Pass!!" The sound of good news spread from the outside to the inside, from the outskirts of the city all the way to the city, shattering the tranquility of the streets of Beijing.

The sound of horses' hooves was as loud as the tide, disturbing the people who were resting under their houses.

"Great victory, great victory......" Everyone froze in place, stunned as they watched the knight speeding through the street.

"Qingshan Pass victory!" The sound of the victory was accompanied by the cold wind into the ears of everyone in the streets and alleys, inside and outside the city.

Above and below the city, all the generals stationed at the city gate turned their heads to look at the knights who had reported the victory, and looked at the pond horses that galloped in.

On the outskirts of the city, among the ruined shantytowns, countless hungry people sat in the shantytowns, their eyes blank, staring straight into the distance, as if nothing had anything to do with them.

In the streets and alleys, all the people looked confused, and they were confused by the good news. The sound of the victory was obviously sounding at hand, but it was far away as if it was echoing in the sky, which made people always have an unreal sense of shaking.

The street, which was a little noisy, became deserted in an instant. All human voices, horses, and all kinds of voices seemed to disappear at this moment.

Someone stood up in a daze, trying to hear more clearly. Someone subconsciously stumbled and ran after the knight who reported the victory.

Others pulled the people around them to make sure they had heard the wrong words. The knight waving the command flag galloped all the way, passed through the gate of the Jingshi, walked through the streets and alleys of the Jingshi, waded through the avenue of the Jingshi, and finally converged on the center of the Jingshi, in front of the tallest, largest and widest building - the Forbidden City!

Behind those knights, without exception, they were followed by a large number of pedestrians, and all of them were stopped outside the Forbidden City.

The guards guarding Miyagi stopped everyone who wanted to come forward. The people who were stopped outside the boundary included high-ranking officials and nobles wearing silk and satin, flat-headed people wearing cloth clothes and short beats, and even poor people in ragged clothes.

All of them followed the paper of victory, all the way to the depths of Miyagi - eager to see through it...... The good news finally passed through the gate of the Daodao Palace, and the layers of palace prohibitions went all the way to Wenyuan Pavilion.

The moment the good news came into the Wenyuan Pavilion, the entire Wenyuan Pavilion was silent. Yang Sichang and Xue Guoguan, who were in the pavilion, turned over the good news and read it nine times, and confirmed it nine times.

I read it word by word, read it word by word, and even confirmed the authenticity of the seal on the good news. In the end, Yang Sichang slowly closed the good news, and the good news left Wenyuan Pavilion and went all the way to the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace.

In the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen wore a Yishan crown and a red plate-collared narrow-sleeved robe embroidered with a golden dragon pattern.

This twenty-eight-year-old son of heaven, who has been on the throne for 12 years, is carefully reviewing the folds in the warm pavilion at this time.

Build a slave into the Kou and poison the land of thousands of miles. The whole of Beizhili and most of Shandong were affected by the military disaster.

The people were displaced, so that the people were everywhere, the day was precarious, and the hunger was unbearable, and most of the songs on the table were asking the court to send food for disaster relief and silver to rebuild.

Chongzhen, who was sitting at the desk to review the music, was pale, his body was thin, not heavy, and he couldn't even support the dragon robe he was wearing, and the depths of his eyes were a tiredness emanating from the bottom of his heart.

Chongzhen slowly put down the brush in his hand, and he had no way to deal with all the requests on the table.

It is said that the Son of Heaven is rich all over the world, but he, the Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty, is burdened by this yellow and white thing, and trapped by this yellow and white thing.

There is very little money in the inner money, and the household department is empty all the year round, and it has already eaten grain. Soon after taking office, he signed the most he signed one after another edicts to raise taxes and raise taxes.

It's not that he doesn't know that this is tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, and it's not that he doesn't know that this is drinking to quench his thirst.

But even if you know, what...... Chongzhen looked around at the empty warm pavilion and sighed silently.

Now that he has been on the throne for the twelfth year, he is no longer the young man who is ignorant of everything.

He understood a lot of things. But now I understand that many things are already too late. In addition to the accession to the throne, when he eliminated Wei Zhongxian, the power of the factory guard was also weakened by him to a point where it was almost unusable.

So much so that now, Chongzhen wants to use the factory guard, but the factory guard is difficult to regain the momentum of the past. Chongzhen looked tired, he raised his hand and slowly rubbed his slightly swollen temples.

Since Jiannu entered the customs, the border reports have been urgent, and the reports from all over the country have swarmed like snowflakes, and he has not been able to sleep peacefully for a day.

The country is tired, but the performance of those officials below makes him more and more disappointed. The so-called Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty and the so-called virtuous and loyal ministers are nothing more than a group of selfish and despicable villains.

Over the years, Chongzhen has also understood a lot of things. The clear stream in the middle of the court is mostly for those who sell their fame and reputation.

Those ministers in the court seem to be better at party struggle than at governing the country. Chongzhen leaned back and leaned back in his chair, he was too tired.

The big and small affairs in the country, the party disputes and discussions between the DPRK and China, and the urgent documents constantly coming from the border gates were all backlogged together, and he couldn't breathe at all.

The reason why Chongzhen trusts Yang Sichang and is willing to appoint Yang Sichang is not only because Yang Sichang has learned people, but he feels that Yang Sichang can solve the problem.

It is also because Yang Sichang is impartial and non-party, has the courage to do things, and answers all questions. It's not like other ministers who say empty words and clichés, and do things that don't seek merit, but seek no fault.

Yang Sichang has always been doing practical things, and since Yang Sichang took office, the situation of the country has indeed improved greatly.

The boiling and spreading rebellion of the rogues in many provinces was quelled because of Yang Sichang's strategy. The border troubles in the north have also been alleviated because of Yang Sichang's side strategy.

It's just that...... Chongzhen clenched his fists, and a trace of anger flashed in his eyes. Those rotten Confucians in the court who can only talk with nothing can come up with the slightest strategy against the enemy, but when it comes to reasoning, they are oppressive everywhere.

In the current situation, negotiations are undoubtedly the best option, but there are many opponents. Among the people who opposed it, Zodiac Zhou was the most fierce and upright.

After the end of the court meeting, Chongzhen demoted Huang Daozhou by six levels in a row and transferred him to Jiangxi according to the judge. Huang Daozhou is a loyal minister and a direct minister, these Chongzhen know in his heart that every word and sentence that Huang Daozhou said are all engraved in Chongzhen's heart.

Before the court meeting, Chongzhen had actually made up his mind to negotiate peace no matter what the result was, and first completely solve the scourge of the domestic rogues.

Eloquent and talented, such as Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, also temporarily negotiated peace with the Xiongnu, and towering and majestic such as Tang Taizong Li Shimin also had a tentative alliance with the Turks in Weishui.

But after the court meeting ended, Huang Daozhou's words finally made him hesitate.

He hesitated...... Hesitated...... Then Heaven made him pay the price for his hesitation and hesitation at once.

In September of the eleventh year, Jiannu entered again, all the way ...... Overwhelming...... Those former upright ministers are now all silent.

It's ridiculous...... Chongzhen closed the music on the table. The court had no money, the treasury had no food, and he couldn't solve all the requests, so all these things could only be left to the household department for self-determination.

The Qinwang army from all over the country gathered in Beizhili, not counting the troops of the garrison Beijing Division, just counting the Qinwang army led by Sun Chuanting in the area of the Great Wall, the scale has exceeded 100,000.

More than 100,000 people eat horses every day, which is an astronomical number, and the grain ships south of the canal almost unload a boat and send a boat to the Great Wall.

It is not only Beizhili and Shandong that lack food, but also the Jingshi who lack food, even the imperial palace is also short of food.

During this time, the porridge and rice given to the hungry people outside the city were only able to hang a mouthful of human life, and even a full meal of hunger.

Hundreds of thousands of elites gathered around the Great Wall, and Yang Sichang told him that if he was defeated and lost, the country would even be in danger of overturning.

When the two armies are facing each other in a big war, there must be no shortage of military salaries, food and grass. Because everything is prioritized to the front.

On Sun Chuanting's side, Chongzhen originally didn't want to urge. But now the government is in difficulty, and it is already difficult to receive grain and grass.

Jiannu can afford to drag it, but they can't afford it, Jiannu will not go out of the customs, the suburbs of Jingshi and the entire Beizhi will be under Shandong, I don't know how many people will starve to death.

Chongzhen looked up at the outside of the warm pavilion, and he heard a rush of footsteps.

"Open the door and see who's running outside." Chongzhen waved his hand, and the eunuch guarding the palace gate slowly opened the door of the warm pavilion.

The cold wind swept into the warm pavilion with the open pavilion door and blew across Chongzhen's cheeks. The cold breath made Chongzhen's originally somewhat groggy mind much clearer.

Chongzhen sat on a chair and looked out of the palace through the open attic door. In the field of vision, the eunuch Wang Dehua, the palm print of the celebrant eunuch, seemed to be holding something in his hand, and he was running briskly towards the warm pavilion along the palace road.

Wang Dehua sprinted all the way, and accidentally stumbled and fell to the ground. But soon Wang Dehua hurriedly got up again, without even waiting for the few little eunuchs who followed him to help.

After Wang Dehua got up, he continued to run all the way, completely ignoring his own situation. Chongzhen's heart sank downward, Wang Dehua was so flustered, his first reaction was that something bad had happened again, Wang Dehua has always been old-fashioned, and the affairs in the court, local problems, these are not enough to make Wang Dehua so flustered.

The only possibility is that the border has changed! Chongzhen's heart suddenly lifted, and Huo Ran stood up, this is indeed the most likely thing to happen.

Because of sitting for a long time, he suddenly stood up in a hurry, and Chongzhen felt a little dizzy for a moment. Chongzhen held on to the desk and tried his best to stand firm.

He looked at Wang Dehua who was running quickly, and the fear in his heart continued to expand. There has been a change in the border pass, and it should not be possible for Jiannu to break through the pass again.

The main forces of Jiannu are all preparing to leave Qingshan Pass, and those Jiannu who are near Liaodong and Yong'an are just partial divisions as a response, and it is impossible to be at this juncture.

Moreover, there are heavy troops left in several levels, and Jiannuping is fashionable and unbreakable, and now it is even more impossible to break.

The only possibility is that something has happened in the direction of Qingshan Pass. Chongzhen remembered. He remembered the note that Sun Chuanting had handed over some time ago.

On the sixth day of the first month of March, Sun Chuanting, Gao Qiqian and Chen Xinjia met together in Taipingzhai in Qingshan Pass.

Jiannu occupied Qingshan Pass as a reliance and defended it according to the danger. Sun Chuanting led his troops to attack the mountain, broke through two camps on its periphery, beheaded more than 300 levels, and reported a great victory, and he was also a lot excited.

Even the matter of Sun Chuanting using Shang Fang's sword to kill Chen Guowei was temporarily put behind him. Could it be ...... Chongzhen couldn't control his thoughts, he couldn't help but think about all kinds of situations.

Could it be that Jiannu suddenly attacked, Sun Chuanting was defeated at Qingshan Pass, and his division was trapped...... If so, then ...... Just when Chongzhen's mind was turning a thousand times, Wang Dehua finally ran into the warm pavilion.

"Great victory, great victory!" Wang Dehua's excited voice echoed in the warm pavilion, and also pulled Chongzhen's thoughts back to the present world.

"Great victory, great victory, great victory...... Emperor!!! With the last few words, Wang Dehua's voice was already choked, and he knelt on the ground and could hardly speak.

"You...... You...... Say...... What...... What a big victory...... Chongzhen's face turned pale, he couldn't believe his ears, his hands trembled, and he subconsciously walked in the direction where Wang Dehua was.

"Your Majesty ......" Wang Dehua raised his head, already in tears.

"Qingshan Pass is a big victory, a big victory!!"

"Governor Sun Fu broke the Jiannu, beheaded a thousand levels, and beheaded Manchuria, Huangqi, Gushan, Ezhen Tan Tai!!"

"We ...... Victory......" Wang Dehua raised the good news in his hand and presented it to Chongzhen.

"Qingshan Pass Victory...... We...... Victory......" Chongzhen looked at the good news in Wang Dehua's hand in a daze, but after reading only a few words, he was already frozen in place.

"Won...... Won ......"...... Outside the Bauhinia City, on the periphery of the palace gate, countless people were eager to see through it, and they desperately wanted an answer.

Everything before was like a dream, which made people unbelievable. Soon, they finally got the answer they wanted.

A crimson horse galloped out of the palace, and a general in armor was straddled on the horse.

The general, holding a tall dragon flag, galloped all the way. Behind it are more knights, more banners!

All the knights shouted the news of the victory. They rode war horses and wanted to spread the good news to the world!

Countless people wept silently at this moment.