As the governor of Liaodong, Yuan Chonghuan naturally knew that he didn't really want a truce, just an expedient measure to ease his breath, but because the Ming sergeant also needed to stop and rest, he agreed to the peace agreement.

Privately, however, preparations for the next battle between the two armies were intensified.

Sure enough, the short-lived peace lasted only nine months, and in May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse of the following year, the emperor Taiji took the initiative to tear up the contract, and the troops marched south in three ways, and marched to Jinzhou near Ningyuan on May 11, and set up camp on all sides to surround Jinzhou City at a distance of one mile from the city.

Yuan Chonghuan expected that his target was not Jinzhou, but Ningyuan, so he did not personally go to relieve Jinzhou's predicament, but sent his generals to lead 4,000 cavalry to the rescue, while he stayed in Ningyuan.

Sure enough, the reinforcements had just left the city and had not yet set off, and Huang Taiji had already divided his forces to attack Ningyuan.

In order to boost morale, Yuan Chonghuan personally went to the city tower to supervise the defense of the city, and used red-coated cannons to attack the enemy army, plus the help of 4,000 cavalry outside the city who were ready to go to Jinzhou to rescue, and soon defeated the Jurchen army and fled.

Huang Taiji was unwilling to be defeated, and withdrew the remaining men and horses to Jinzhou, wanting to attack Jinzhou City.

However, because the city of Jinzhou was strictly guarded by the Ming soldiers, it was impregnable, and there was no way to start, and it was the height of summer, the weather was hot, and the morale of the soldiers under his command was low, and there was no chance of victory, so he had to retreat.

As a result, the battle of Ningjin, which lasted for nearly a month, ended in a great victory.

Ning Jin was victorious, Yuan Chonghuan should have been more valued, but who expected, Wei Zhongxian credited the credit to his own name, but said that Yuan Chonghuan was guilty of dereliction of duty by not personally rescuing Jinzhou.

Yuan Chonghuan knew that he was deliberately embarrassed by himself, and he also saw the ruthlessness of his methods when persecuting the Donglin gentlemen, so he had to resign from the post of governor of Liaodong in order to avoid being killed.

Less than two months after his resignation, a major event occurred in the court, and Zhu Youxiao, the 22-year-old Emperor of the Apocalypse, died suddenly due to falling into the water and suffering from cold, taking pills.

Since Zhu Youxiao had no children under his knees, the ministers had no choice but to welcome Zhu Youzhen, the seventeen-year-old king of letters, to the throne.

In late September, when Zhu Youzhen had only been on the throne for a month, Zhu Changhao, who was the Prince of Rui, and Zhu Changying, who was the Prince of Gui, felt that it was not suitable for them to continue to stay in the capital after several emperors, so they asked him to make a holy decree together, and went to their respective fiefdoms of Hanzhong Mansion in Shaanxi Province and Huguang Hengzhou Prefecture to take up the domain.

Zhu Youzhen is not a person like Zhu Youxiao who does not distinguish between loyalty and treachery, he has long known that Wei Zhongxian has done many evils, and not long after the two imperial uncles left Beijing, they announced Wei Zhongxian's ten major crimes in public and sent him to Fengyang Mansion to fill the army.

As for the Fengsheng lady who was in cahoots with him, he was demoted to the Huanyi Bureau as a maid.

During the seven years that Wei Zhongxian was the governor of Dongchang, he did all the evil things, and knew that he would have no way to live after he arrived in Fengyang, so he committed suicide halfway.

After his death, Keyinyue was flogged to death by the palace steward who had been bullied by her, and was moved to the Jingle Hall outside Xizhi Gate to be burned and ashes.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian's remnants of the party were cleared out, and Pei Wenzhong, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Wang Zhi, and others, the gentlemen of Donglin who had been persecuted to death by him two years ago, were rehabilitated, and Zhu Youzhen, who wanted to cheer up and be the lord of Zhongxing, listened to the opinions of the ministers of the court, recalled Yuan Chonghuan, who had resigned from the post of governor of Liaodong a few months ago, to the court, promoted him to the secretary of the military department, and put him in charge of the military affairs of the entire Hebei and Liaodong.