I want to be emperor

Chapter 303 Upheaval in the Ming Court
Emperor Chongzhen was furious because of the failure of the battle in southern Chu, and Yang Sichang was furious because he gave up Hengyang and retreated to Guangdong because of his lack of strength.

The furious Chongzhen directly ordered the arrest, and then appointed a new governor of the southern front.

Yang Sichang was about to be arrested and imprisoned, so it was natural to find a replacement, and the jurisdiction of this new replacement was different from that of Yang Sichang's time.

After Chunan is lost, the war in the southwest will spread from Chunan and Eastern Sichuan to Guizhou and Guangdong and Guangxi.

Therefore, in addition to governors of Huguang and Sichuan, the new governor will also governors of military affairs in Guangxi, Guangdong, and Guizhou.

Discussions and discussions with the courtiers did not reach a conclusion. Chongzhen looked upset. In the end, he considered that the situation in the southwest was tense, and it would be more troublesome to transfer new people, so he simply let the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Xiong Wencan, forget about the wars in the southwest.

After all, Xiong Wencan also did a good job when he served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi to deal with pirates and quell local turmoil.

For this reason, Chongzhen once again showed his dedication to his courtiers.

He directly gave Xiong Wencan the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War, concurrently the right deputy imperial envoy, and the governor of the military affairs of the five provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Huguang.

This official hat is much stronger than Yang Sichang's previous official hat.

When Yang Sichang was the prime minister of the military affairs of the five provinces before, his official hat was still the right servant of the Ministry of war and the right deputy capital envoy.

But as for Xiong Wencan, Chongzhen directly gave him the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

After killing Yang Sichang, Chongzhen still didn't feel relieved!
In just a few days, Chongzhen dismissed more than a dozen ministers one after another, and even Zhang Fengyi, Minister of the Ministry of War, was greatly implicated.

In addition, Hong Chengchou, who lives in Guanzhong, Shaanxi, Chen Biqian, who lives in Ruzhou, Henan, and Shi Kefa, who lives in Anqing, were all reprimanded or even dismissed by Chongzhen. Why?

When the Chu thieves mobilized their troops southward and swept across the state capitals in southern Chu, the heavy troops of the Ming army in several other directions remained indifferent... Sit back and watch the situation in southern Chu completely deteriorate.

In this regard, Chongzhen really wronged the above three people.

In Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou not only had to fight against the westward advance of the Chu thieves on the front line of Guanzhong Prefecture, but also continued to encircle and suppress Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others internally.

According to the strategy supported by Hong Chengchou and some important officials of the imperial court, the officers and soldiers on the front line of Shaanxi guarded the Guanzhong Mansion while continuing to mobilize troops to encircle and suppress Gao Yingxiang and other thieves.

What about Chen Biqian from Henan? He doesn't even know how many troops he has under his command, and he can't command an arrogant soldier like Zuo Liangyu. No bird Chen Biqian...

What about Shi Kefa, even though he has received almost all of Jiangbei and Jiangxi, and even part of the Jiangnan region's military and food support.

But even so, it is already very good for him to be able to stabilize Jiujiang and Susong Taihu, the east line on the north and south sides of the Yangtze River. As for the counterattack, it is impossible.

On the Eastern Front, there are several main divisions in Chu Bandits alone, and one of them is the absolute ace main division in Chu Bandits.

The First Division of the Chu Bandit deployed defenses in Xingguo Prefecture in the southeast of Hantianfu and Ruichang County in Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province. It was only one step away from the governance of Jiujiang Prefecture, which is often called Jiujiang City. Except for the First Division, And the Fourth Mortar Regiment.

The fourth division of the Chu bandits was stationed on the front line of Huangzhou Prefecture, and stationed heavy troops in Huangmei, Guangji and other places on the front line.

In addition to these two main divisions on the front line, there is also the Sixth Division of the Chu Rebels stationed in Wuchang and Daye.

At the same time, the east line is in the north direction, that is to say, De'an Mansion still has a brigade of the third division of the Chu bandits.

In the end, the Chu thieves continued to train the seventh division in the camp in the southern suburbs of Wuchang, the capital, and the eighth division in the Hanyang barracks in Jiangbei.

Although the Seventh Division and the Eighth Division, the two main divisions of the Chu thieves, have not yet formed an army, they have a combined strength of tens of thousands of troops for the time being.

The above is only the main force, in addition to the fifth garrison division on the front line of Huangzhou Mansion and the seventh garrison division on the southeast line of Hantian Mansion.

And these troops can eventually be used for fighting on the Eastern Front.

Shi Kefa is now worried about the Chu army's eastward advance, so there is spare power to launch a westward counterattack on its own initiative.

But Hong Chengchou and Shi Kefa were still reprimanded by Chongzhen, and Chen Biqian was even worse!
He was directly dismissed from office by Chongzhen...

But, Chen Biqian seems to be the governor of the war on the Eastern Front, but in fact he can directly mobilize only 3 to [-] troops, most of which are still defending Luyang County, Xinyang and other places, and cannot be easily mobilized.

So after Chen Biqian learned that the Chu thieves were making big moves in southern Chu, he once tried to launch a counterattack on the northern front, but Wu Sangui didn't come for a long time, and he was still wandering outside and looting everywhere until May, Zuo Liangyu He also repeatedly refused to send troops on the grounds of lack of troops, food, guns and ammunition, so the northern offensive he planned was delayed.

However, Chongzhen may not know the hardships of the frontline civilian officials, or he may know but pretend not to know.

Anyway, he has no other good way, and he can't change hundreds of millions of taels of silver, let alone tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of soldiers who fought to the death for the Ming Dynasty.

So he could only use his status as the emperor to forcefully suppress these ministers to find ways to do things.

It doesn't matter whether things are difficult or not, but you have to do it for me. Do you want support?No... In short, if you can't do it well, it will cost you your head. If you can do it well, I will be a good leader!
Speaking of it, the ministers of the Chongzhen Dynasty were very difficult, and they were dismissed from office if they were not careful.

The frequency of Chongzhen's change of ministers in the central government is absolutely rare in history. No second emperor likes to make troubles like him.

In the past ten years or so, a total of more than [-] bachelors, that is, cabinet ministers, have been replaced, and [-] of them have been replaced by the capital and assistant.

Before him, there were a total of about a hundred chief assistants in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years. He has changed more than a dozen in the past ten years since he became emperor. This person's brain circuit is not comparable to that of ordinary emperors.

Moreover, Chongzhen has a characteristic of employing courtiers. When he first started employing you, he used his heart and soul, but once something happened, he would directly push you to blame, dismiss him from office and kill someone...

This person is not suitable to be an emperor.

As long as he makes the center a little more stable, don't change people every few days, and you won't end up in a self-sustaining coal mountain.

The center is in turmoil all year round, and the courtiers are either frightened or intriguing, and they beat the ass of the thief, and kill the ass of the Dongbao!

In this context, Yang Sichang was arrested and imprisoned by Chongzhen himself. The Jinyiwei who arrested him had already left Beijing overnight, but now Yang Sichang is in Guangdong. for several months...

At the same time, Hong Chengchou, Shi Kefa, Sun Chuanting and other important governors were all reprimanded by Chongzhen.

And Chen Biqian was also unlucky, and was dismissed directly!
The reason is that Chen Biqian has been in Henan for a long time, but he has not made an inch of merit, and sits and watches the Chu bandits grow...

Several opponents of Chen Biqian caught fire at the same time... Chongzhen followed the words of his courtiers, and directly dismissed Chen Biqian as well.

Anyway, to save face for Chen Biqian, he was not arrested and imprisoned, but let him voluntarily beg for bones...

Still in Ruzhou, Chen Biqian, who worked so hard to coordinate Zuo Liangyu, Wu Sangui and other arrogant soldiers who wanted to launch an offensive in Nanyang, didn't know that he had already been dismissed.

He was inexplicably promoted and inexplicably dismissed...

Immediately afterwards, the courtiers elected a new Governor of the Eastern Front, Wang Jiazhen, after some open and secret battles!

Ever since, because of the clamor of the Liaodong soldiers, Chongzhen was offended, and Wang Jiazhen, who directly dismissed him, was reinstated by Chongzhen again. .

Because it is directly in charge of the military affairs of Southern Zhili, its important task is to guard the eastern front and prevent Chu thieves from advancing eastward. If there is no accident, its station should be Nanjing, Jinling City, Yingtianfu.

Therefore, Wang Jiazhen is also known as the Governor of Nanjing.

On the other hand, Xiong Wencan was also known as the governor of the Southwest because he presided over the Southwest War.

Hong Chengchou is still the governor of the three sides, but he has the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and he is also the prince and Taibao.

As a result, the Ming court formed a situation where the three governors jointly encircled and suppressed the Chu thieves.

And these changes were formed within half a month after the news of Chu Nan's defeat reached the capital.

By June, in just half a month, the Ming court had replaced as many as seven of the senior civil officials targeting the Chu thieves, that is, officials at the level of governors and governors.

Of course, these exchanges are only on documents for the time being, because it takes time for the imperial decree to be issued and notified. Many people seem to have been dismissed, but they are still in their positions.

For example, at the beginning of June, even though the Ming court had formally issued an order to arrest Yang Sichang, Yang Sichang was still with him in Shaoguan, focusing on restoring the new standard army establishment, asking Xiong Wencan for money, food, and guns.

Its new standard army, the Right Army, quickly recovered to the size of more than 7000 people in less than half a month, and it is still expanding rapidly.

Because of the impact of Chu Nan's defeat, it not only caused the ups and downs of Yang Sichang, Chen Biqian and other senior civil officials who were leading troops to fight outside, but also set off a drastic change at the cabinet level.

After last year, due to turmoil, only Wen Tiren, Qian Shisheng, and Zhang Zhifa remained in the cabinet. He was implicated and finally forced to 'report his illness and become an official'.

As a result, there are only two people left in the cabinet!

For this reason, the Ming court set off a fierce struggle for the throne of the cabinet ministers!

In the end, Kong Zhenyun, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, He Fengsheng, and Huang Shijun, Minister of Rites and Bachelor of Dongge University, became the new cabinet ministers.

And this cabinet change, of course, cannot do without the huge impact of the Chu-South War.

The rise of the Great Chu Empire has directly affected the high-level political struggles within the Ming court, and even more affected the high-level strategic choices of the Ming court, and even affected the strategic choices of the Eastern Captives in Liaodong.

Huang Taiji, the leader of the captives in the East, proclaimed the emperor and founded the country in Shengjing in April this year. He changed the name of the country to Daqing and the name of the year to Chongde. The influence of the dating name Chengshun.

Seeing that Luo Zhixue became the emperor in Wuchang, the captive Huang Taiji was naturally not willing to be left behind, so he asked a group of bandits and traitors to persuade him not to be a big sweat, but to be the emperor!
And to a certain extent, it also led to Dongyao's decision to bypass Mongolia to enter the customs!

They wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Ming court was restrained by the Chu army, and ran to Beizhili to grab a wave.

(End of this chapter)