Forbidden city.

The huge palace was unusually quiet, except for the patrolling guards who walked around as usual, the palace maids and eunuchs fell asleep.

The vast Forbidden City was dark, like a giant beast dormant.

Inside the Wenhua Palace, the lights are bright.

Emperor Long Qian said angrily: "Rice bucket! It's all rice buckets! ”

On the dragon chair of the Wenhua Palace, the Son of Heaven of the Great Zhou Dynasty wore a golden silk winged dragon crown and a yellow robe with a round neck and narrow sleeves.

The emperor, who had reigned for fourteen years, was only thirty years old, and his sideburns were dyed white, and he looked like he was in his forties.

"It's said that within three days, you can defeat the Liukou, but it's the seventh day, why is there still no movement at all? Does the imperial court keep these soldiers and generals to eat dry food? ”

As he spoke, Emperor Long Qian slapped the table hard, his eyes full of bloodshots.

"The emperor is angry, the emperor is angry."

In the Wenhua Palace, a group of ministers hurriedly comforted, but no one was willing to come out to take on this responsibility.

The group of people who broke into the sky conquered several Zhuangzi one after another, and the number of displaced people has increased from more than 10,000 to more than 50,000.

Judging from the battle report, it is really impossible to distinguish which side is the rogue and which side is the official army.

This gang of rogues even captured Fangshan County, Fangshan County ordered Shi Nianshu to open the city gate and surrender, but after surrendering, he was tortured and killed by a group of people who broke into the sky, and it is said that the head is still hanging on the city gate tower of Fangshan County.

Emperor Longqian's high-hopeful Shenji battalion could not even defeat a group of newly rising rogues, and Emperor Longqian's heart was exhausted, and a strong sense of powerlessness appeared in his heart.

Emperor Longqian looked at Wang Ziteng, who was holding his ass high, and said: "Wang Ziteng, when you were waiting for the main battle, the thief was vulnerable to one blow, and he was defeated with one blow, why did you get to this point now, how did you become the envoy of the Jingying Festival?" ”

Wang Ziteng, as the envoy of the Jingying Festival, was in charge of the military of Gyeonggi, and he lost this battle, and he was the first to run.

Hearing Emperor Longqian's words, he buried his head even lower, and said: "Weichen should die, this Chuangtian has been fighting in Liaodong for a long time, and he fought the elite of Jiannu, because of the oppression of his boss, he fled back to his hometown in Shandong, which shows that this person is brave and resourceful." ”

As soon as the prince opened his mouth, he raised the other party first, otherwise the level of the thieves was too low, wouldn't the Shenji Battalion defeated by him be a piece of shit?

Emperor Long Qian said angrily: "No matter how powerful he is, he is just a person, his subordinates are just some wanderers, and he has no armor or weapons, how can he be a well-trained opponent of the Shenji Battalion?" ”

"This ......" Wang Ziteng was a little aggrieved.

He was in charge of the three battalions in the capital for the first time, and to be honest, the three battalions in the capital were already rotten, because the institutional decay had not changed, and the problems of empty salaries and military service were becoming more and more serious.

The three battalions have long become the private army and domestic slaves of the nobles and ministers of the capital.

Last year, he checked the number of soldiers, and there were only 180,000 registered soldiers, but only less than 30,000 people could really go to the battlefield.

When Emperor Longqian had just succeeded to the throne, he ordered Li Banghua to rectify the Beijing camp and solve some of the problems of empty pay and military service.

The Beijing camp has revived, and the soldiers in the Beijing camp have long become the domestic slaves of the magnates and ministers.

Because of the soldiers' salaries, these soldiers not only received an empty salary, but also received an additional salary.

Wang Chengen, who was standing beside Emperor Longqian, his eyelids jumped.

He has two mansions in the capital, both in Xicheng, and the servants in the family are directly occupied from the Jingying and Jinyiwei, that is to say, the people around the emperor are also taking up military service and eating empty salaries.

Great eunuchs like Cao Huachun accounted for more military service, and the servants in the family were hundreds.

Just this kind of eunuch in power, there are dozens of people in Shenjing City.

In addition, the situation of ministers, princes and nobles above the third rank in the court occupying military service is also very serious, and even the Rongguo Mansion and Hua'an are also within the establishment of the Beijing camp, which is equivalent to using the money of the court to support their own servants.

There are not 10,000 but 8,000 officials in Shenjing City, and the more than 100,000 people in the Beijing camp are not enough for these ministers to divide up.

The rest of the guys are also a group of young master soldiers, who have never seen blood in their lives, this kind of people eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and want them to carry guns to the battlefield, it is really a fool's dream.

Wang Zi Teng obviously has a stomach, but he doesn't dare to say it, because if he says it, there are too many people who have offended, and once it is broken, Emperor Longqian will definitely be furious and order an investigation, I am afraid that tomorrow, the impeachment of Wang Ziteng will fly over like snowflakes.

can climb to the position of the envoy of the Jingying Festival, and he himself is a piece of shit.

Those officials of the Imperial History of Science and Technology would not let him go.

There were not a few people in the court who were staring at the position of the envoy of the Jingying Festival, and there were countless people who thought about him falling.

Zhou Yanru saw that his henchmen were divided, coughed dryly, and said: "Your Majesty, you can't blame Wang Ziteng for this matter, the Shenji Battalion mainly relies on firearms, as we all know, the firearms of our Great Zhou Dynasty have always been sharp, but sometimes, the people in the Ministry of Industry will cut corners and create substandard firearms."

The minister heard that this time against the war thieves, there were many firearms that exploded, which injured many soldiers and damaged the morale of our heavenly soldiers. ”

Hearing Zhou Yanru's explanation, Wang Ziteng hurriedly echoed: "Yes, Your Majesty, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and your majesty allocates money to the Ministry of Industry every year, which is not a few, but the musket sharp weapons widely used by our army when they became ancestors are now in danger for everyone, and many soldiers in the Shenji Battalion would rather use swords, guns, bows and arrows than dare to touch the firecrackers."

In addition, the fire was defeated, the Beijing camp had been sparse for a long time, the cooperation was not very skilled, and the thieves were menacing, and the number ......of people increased to more than 50,000 in a few days, and the enemy was outnumbered."

The prince opened his mouth and drew the attention of Emperor Longqian to the problem of weapons.

At the same time, he also secretly scolded Niu Jizong in his heart, this battle is nine out of ten, and it has become the way it is now, and he must be asked when he turns back.

Emperor Longqian's battle report also has a fire gun to blow up the chamber, now listen to Wang Ziteng's explanation, the anger in his heart is slightly reduced, if it is only because of the weapon, the failure is understandable, after all, the fire gun is blown up, it is better to burn the fire stick, there is no sharp weapon, how can you exterminate the thief?

Emperor Longqian did not intend to let go of Wang Ziteng, and said: "No matter what, defeat is the original sin, no matter how good you say, the Shenji Battalion is actually invincible to Caokou, how do you let the people of the entire capital think?"

Jiannu can't be beaten, Wara Wara can't be beaten, and now even a group of rogues can wreak havoc in Gyeonggi, what's the matter, is the next step to let them in and change the emperor? ”

"Death to the minister!"

Wang Ziteng and the others hurriedly knelt down.

Emperor Long Qian waved his hand and said: "All day is ten thousand deaths, I have seen enough of this trick of resignation, what I need is victory, it is the good news of exterminating the rogues, the court supports you, not for you to defeat the battle!" ”

"Where is the day now?"

Wang Ziteng hurriedly replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the thieves captured Fangshan County yesterday, and now the county is stationed, and Weichen has ordered Niu Jizong to collect the rout, and at the same time mobilize the Shenshu Battalion and the Five Army Battalions, ready to fight the thieves in one go." ”

Emperor Longqian nodded and said: "Gyeonggi is a major land, there must be no mistakes, this matter is related to the royal face and the majesty of the imperial court, if you can't ...... it again."

He paused, waiting for the prince to show his loyalty.

According to common sense, Wang Ziteng should come to the sentence "The minister will guarantee the head of the item, and if he does not break the thief, please judge himself." ”

However, after waiting for a long time, Wang Ziteng didn't answer, he glared at Wang Ziteng dissatisfied, Wang Ziteng still pouted his buttocks, buried his head in the ground, and didn't even dare to look at Emperor Longqian.

At this time, Fan Fucui, who had never spoken, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the Beijing camp has been sparse for a long time, and I am afraid that we will not be able to break the thieves in one fell swoop, so it is better to dispatch the soldiers and horses of Baoding, Xuanfu, and Datong to surround them on all sides, and completely wipe out the people who broke into the sky. ”

Li Zicheng is besieging Kaifeng in Henan, it is said that he led hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege Kaifeng Mansion, and a few days ago Li Zicheng conquered Ruzhou, and the momentum was like a bamboo.

Now the Great Zhou Dynasty is full of displaced people, and the Liukou have changed the tactics of running away in the past, grabbing and running, and changing to attacking the city and pulling out the village, recruiting righteous soldiers, and now Li Zicheng in Henan and Zhang Xianzhong in Hubei are the most powerful.

Yang Sichang, a scholar of the military department and a scholar of Dongge University, was encircling and suppressing Zhang Xianzhong in the Huguang area at this time, otherwise Yang Sichang would never be absent from today's meeting.

Fan Fucui's family also has a lot of soldiers in service, so Wang Ziteng was criticized, Fan Fucui did not fall into the ground, everyone was united on this issue to fight against Emperor Longqian.