The wind howled in the Forbidden City in winter, and the Han general standing outside the imperial study involuntarily shrunk his neck, compared to the cold wind outside, the roar of Emperor Chongzhen in the imperial study was even more chilling.

"Is Liu Yan going to raise troops to force the palace?"

Emperor Chongzhen angrily threw the fine celadon tea cup on the ground, and a crisp cracking sound exploded, so frightened that Wang Chengen hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.

"What else do I want, all his main generals have been named the chief soldier and deputy general, and there are so many earls, who else can get this heavenly grace, why does Liu Yan still force me!"

"Your Majesty!"

Wang Chengen kowtowed and begged: "Your Majesty is angry, for now, it's better to find a way to alleviate the situation first, Hong Ge Lao is still waiting for reinforcements to relieve the siege, the court has not received news from Hong Ge Lao for more than ten days, and it can't be delayed any longer!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen gasped violently and said angrily: "What should I do? Do I still want to invite Liu Yan's army into the city to rest! ”

"Your Majesty, it's better to only let the wounded soldiers in Liu Yan's army enter the city, so that Liu Yan will have no excuse......"

Emperor Chongzhen gritted his teeth and said, "How can I change the order every day? Not a single soldier can enter the city! ”

Wang Chengen kowtowed again: "Your Majesty, don't be rash at this time, Liu Yan is still loyal to the court, don't come with it." ”

"Is that faithful?"

Emperor Chongzhen laughed angrily and said: "Immediately convene the cabinet, the six ministries, and the thirteen yamen of the Imperial History Observatory to discuss the Qianqing Palace, and I will convene the ministers to discuss countermeasures!" ”

Wang Chengen suddenly wailed in his heart, and said: "At this time, Your Majesty must not expand this matter, those clear streams in the court will be bad!" ”

"Can't I even send you?

？ ”

"Don't dare!"

An hour later, the Qianqing Palace.

Hundreds of civil and military officials gathered, and Emperor Chongzhen immediately informed the ministers of Liu Yan's refusal to accept the holy decree and asked to lead a large army into the city to rest, which immediately attracted the condemnation of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

At this time, the affairs of the cabinet were managed by Chen Yan, a scholar of the Ministry of Household and Wuyingdian University, and he was regarded as the acting head of the cabinet.

Chen Yan's reputation in history is very bad, Chen Yan is a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, first served as the editor of the Hanlin Academy, Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne and rose to the head of the Hanlin Academy, and Emperor Chongzhen was promoted to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites in the thirteenth year, and the assistant Zhan Shifu.

Chen Yan is good at colluding with the ministers, Emperor Chongzhen in April of the thirteenth year of the thirteenth year from the mouth of the inner servant secretly learned the question that Emperor Chongzhen wanted to ask the next day, the next day the answer was like a stream, Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed, and immediately promoted to the Ministry of Rites Zuo Shilang and Dongge University Scholar, into the cabinet, since then Huang Tengda, Emperor Chongzhen fifteen years Shandong counterinsurgency meritorious service as the Ministry of Shangshu, Wuyingdian University scholar.

Chen Yancai is mediocre and mean, during the official period, he wantonly excluded dissidents, announced personal vendettas, and deceived Emperor Chongzhen, as Zhou Yanru's death, except for Hong Chengchou, Emperor Chongzhen's number one favorite minister, Chen Yan had no plan and made mistakes repeatedly.

In history, when Li Zicheng invaded Shanxi, Emperor Chongzhen and his ministers wanted to transfer Ningyuan Wu Sangui to withdraw to Shanhaiguan to resist Li Zicheng. Only Chen Yanli rejected public opinion, resulting in Wu Sangui failing to make the trip, and then Emperor Chongzhen repented and urgently transferred Wu Sangui into the customs, at this time Datong and Xuancheng had fallen, and the opportunity for battle had been lost.

Chen Yan also resigned in February of the seventeenth year because of this matter, and the ministers wanted to give Chen Yan a crime, Chen Yan said to Emperor Chongzhen, I misjudged and deserved to die, Emperor Chongzhen said angrily: You are innocent of death! Blasting out of the main hall.

The first assistant was succeeded by Wei Zaode.

The following month, Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, the Ming Dynasty fell, Chen Yan was imprisoned by Liu Zongmin, and Chen Yan was released by Liu Zongmin because he took the initiative to hand over 40,000 taels of silver \"Help\". Four days later, Li Zicheng went out of Beijing to attack Wu Sangui, because he was afraid that the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty would take the opportunity to make trouble in Beijing, he decided to kill a group of old ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, although Chen Yan was not driven away by Emperor Chongzhen, he did nothing in the court, but led a group of Donglin Party members in the main hall to begin to denounce Liu Yan, among which Wei Zaode, a scholar of the Ministry of Industry and Wenyuan Pavilion University, was the most hardworking.

Wei Zaode is the autumn of the eighteenth year of Wanli, and then began to enter the court, although there are also achievements, but he is pedantic, greedy for money, in the major right and wrong often wise to protect themselves.

In history, when Li Zicheng approached Beijing step by step, Chongzhen was anxious to raise military salaries and ordered officials to donate money to "help salaries".

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when the diplomatic difficulties in Beijing City, Wei Zaode was ordered to become the first assistant of the cabinet, when Li Zicheng was in the city, Chongzhen asked him what countermeasures he had, he had always been like a river, he chose to keep silent, Chongzhen asked again, as long as you speak, I will immediately give an order to do it, Wei Zaode hung his head and did not answer.

Three days later, Beijing fell, Chongzhen hanged himself, and the Ming Dynasty fell. And Wei Zaode is hiding at home and quietly waiting for the days to come, this young Shousuke who has not yet reached the age of confusion believes that he still has a long way to go, with his talent, his mouth is hanging

River, Li Zicheng's Dashun Dynasty will definitely cherish his unborn talents, make a comeback, and enter the phase.

It's a pity that Li Zicheng didn't give him a chance to speak at all. After the Dashun army entered the city, the general Liu Zongmin immediately arrested Wei Zaode and other important ministers and imprisoned them, with only one request, the same as Chongzhen's request at that time, donations.

Wei Zaode handed over tens of thousands of taels of silver under the threat of being clamped off by a stick, but Liu Zongmin never believed that a cabinet chief assistant only had a hundred thousand taels of silver, so he continued to torture, Wei Zaode once shouted in prison, he did not serve the Lord loyally before, there is today, it is too late to regret!

After five days and five nights of torture, Wei Zaode died of a split brain in prison, and his son was immediately executed.

At this time in the main hall, Wei Zaode said impassionedly and loudly: "Although Liu Yan has military merits, but he is a minister, the king calls the minister to die, the minister has to die, how can Liu Yan coerce the monarch's father, this is a great crime of disrespect, you should immediately send Beizhen Fusi Jinyiwei out of the city, arrest Liu Yan, and hand over the three law divisions to discuss the crime!" ”

Later, several imperial historians also echoed it, and even in their mouths, Liu Yan seemed to have become a more terrible threat than Li Zicheng and the Qing army, as if Liu Yan was not suppressed this time, and the Ming Dynasty would be a general.

Chen Xinjia stood aside and couldn't listen, and retorted: "I see that when you enter the palace, you all ride in a thick tweed sedan chair with a stove, and you are all wearing gorgeous winter clothes. But which of you has worn the cold iron armor in the cold of winter? Who has fought in the snow and ice? Thousands of wounded soldiers in Liu Yan's army are waiting for treatment and recuperation in the cold winter at the moment, and Liu Yan proposed to let the soldiers of the army enter the city, although

The attitude is wrong, but it's not unreasonable, how can you speak so badly to each other! ”

Chen Yan said with a smile: "We are all important ministers in the DPRK and the backbone of the country, is it a little inappropriate for this soldier to compare us with the vulgar martial artists in Liu Yanjun?" ”

Chen Xinjia said angrily: "Elder Chen Ge, don't forget, it was those vulgar martial artists who defeated hundreds of thousands of Qing troops that allowed you to talk here!" ”

"Humph! Being a soldier and eating food is what they should do, and it is not a merit. Besides, His Majesty already has a grace, but Liu Yan refuses to obey the order, who is to blame? ”

Chen Xinjia looked at Chen Yan and Wei Zaode and the others, his face turned red with anger, and even Li Rixuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Liu Zongzhou, the imperial history of Zuodu, who listened to their words, frowned slightly at this time, obviously feeling that Chen Yan and Wei Zaode's words were a bit extreme.

However, the two of them are also members of the Donglin Party, and even if they have some ideas in their hearts at this time, they must not lose the battle, so they also joined in and began to attack Chen Xinjia.

Chen Xinjia is the secretary of the military department, even if the relationship with Liu Yan is not good, in the cognition of those Donglin party members, he and Liu Yan are also the same party. So at this time, Chen Xinjia can only help Liu Yan speak, and helping Liu Yan is helping himself.

At this moment, Chen Xinjia has a very tongue-fighting demeanor, arguing loudly with Chen Yan, Wei Zaode, Li Rixuan, Liu Zongzhou and others, and the hall is in chaos.

Wei Zaode shouted loudly: "A leading soldier and martial artist actually threatened the Holy Lord, is it really that I have no one in the court?" If His Majesty agrees to Liu Yan's request, and everyone will follow suit in the future, is this still the court of the Ming Dynasty? It's worth it! ”

Chen Xinjia asked angrily: "

Now what Your Majesty wants is a strategy, a strategy for how to solve the current predicament, not for you to vent your dissatisfaction here, arrest and scold whom! Where is the way, can any of you come up with a way to let Liu Yan lead the order and withdraw the army? If you can't think of a practical way, you just know how to spew out of breath, so don't talk! ”

Immediately, Li Rixuan and Chen Yan took several imperial historians and began to besiege Chen Xinjia, denouncing him for "vulgar language, filthy and holy hearing", "shielding martial arts, and insulting Sven", anyway, everyone stood on the moral high ground and made all kinds of accusations against Chen Xinjia, but no one stood up to solve the problem.

Even Wei Zaode said loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the supply of money and grain to Liu Yan's department should be cut off immediately, and ordered the generals from the imperial court to take over the battalions of Liu Yan's new army, and then take Liu Yan into custody on the spot!" ”

Chen Xinjia was "besieged" by everyone, and he was already busy dealing with it at this time, and he didn't care about Wei Zaode's nonsense, and Emperor Chongzhen was also silent.

Wang Chengen was so anxious at this time that his heart seemed to be eaten by thousands of ants, looking at Wei Zaode's righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, he couldn't wait to rush up and strangle Wei Zaode to death with the dust in his hand.

"Oh, my Lord Wei, when is it, don't talk angry, let's talk something realistic!"

Wang Chengen didn't care about the taboo of the internal officials, and directly "warned" Wei Zaode loudly.

However, Wei Zaode seemed to be possessed by a sage at this time, and ignored Wang Chengen's words at all, and continued to say loudly: "Even if Your Majesty is benevolent and unwilling to take Liu Yan down, the post of governor of Shandong can no longer be held by Liu Yan, and another capable minister should be sent from the court to take over the military administration of Shandong and transfer Liu Yan to another place."

, let it be separated from its subordinates, and reduce its power! ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately received the support of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and those Donglin Party members seconded the proposal as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Chen Yan even smiled and asked Chen Xinjia, "What does this soldier think?" Wouldn't this also come up with a viable good word? In this way, it can not only eliminate the hidden dangers of a country, but also allow Liu Yan to continue to serve the country, killing two birds with one stone, haha. ”

Chen Xinjia was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and the top priority now was to mobilize troops, money and food, and rescue Hong Chengchou's department as soon as possible, which was the last mobile force loyal to the imperial court, and there must be no mistakes.

As for Liu Yan's side, he should try his best to appease, and then let Liu Yan lead his troops to fight with Li Zicheng's army, which is the best choice for the imperial court.

But what did these Donglin Party members do? I don't do anything, but I always want to deal with Liu Yan, for fear that Liu Yan will enter the court as an official with his military exploits and move the authority of the Donglin Party!

Chen Xinjia knew that he couldn't make sense with these people, so he looked at Emperor Chongzhen and wanted to start from Emperor Chongzhen's side and persuade Emperor Chongzhen to appease Liu Yan as soon as possible.

But when Chen Xinjia saw Emperor Chongzhen's expression, he only felt that the sky had fallen: at this time, Emperor Chongzhen had a happy smile on his face, and he was "exchanging eyebrows" with Wei Zaode.

Immediately afterwards, Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "Temporarily retreat from the court, Wei Aiqing and Chen Aiqing will go to the imperial study to wait for the summons." ”