The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 58
In November of that year, Wei Zhongxian was forced to hang himself in a posthouse on the road to Fengyang.

Next, Chongzhen ordered Wei Zhongxian to rebel against the eunuch party, arrest the eunuch party officials and send them to prison for interrogation.

In the spring of the second year of Chongzhen, the young emperor was dissatisfied with the results of the liquidation of the eunuchs by the cabinet ministers Han Yu, Li Biao, Qian Longxi, etc., and re-established the "Wei Zhongxian Rebellion Case".

The eunuchs Cui Chengxiu, Tian Ji, Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun and other "five tigers" and "five tigers" were all executed. When Wei Zhongxian was in power, the courtiers and eunuchs he attached to were "five tigers, five tigers, ten dogs, ten children, Forty grandchildren."

As for whether this is the case, no one can say.

Because when the eunuch party was in power, there was also a booklet called "Donglin Dianjianglu". This booklet was written by Wang Shaohui, who had served as the censor of the Zuoqian capital and the official secretary.

Wang Shaohui rejected the Donglin Party members in the Wanli Dynasty, so Wei Zhongxian made him a high-level position to repel dissidents.He imitated the folk Water Margin, compiled [-] Donglin party members, and recorded them as general records, dedicated to nine thousand years old and deposed by name.

The world is impermanent and the law of heaven is reincarnated. The Donglin party members who are good at internal fighting will not be polite to the eunuch party if they turn over.

Of course, there are indeed many bad guys in the eunuch party. Under the relentless pursuit and beating by the emperor and all civil and military officials, more than 200 Beijing officials were beheaded, exiled, and dismissed. Many important positions are vacant.

At this time, Chongzhen didn't know that people's hearts were sinister, and the factory guards were abolished, and the eunuchs were withdrawn from all over the country, resulting in the imperial power being emptied and unable to fight against the civil official group.

The young emperor didn't understand economics at all, and was deceived by the so-called moral gentleman.The Donglin Party members, who believe that "all the people are in charge of the dynasty", will not compete with the people for profit, and the reduction or suspension of industrial and commercial taxes and mining taxes will make the already stretched national finances even more difficult.

The Ming Dynasty began with Emperor Wuzong Zhengde. Over the past 100 years, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have all embarked on the tragic fate of competing with the system, that is, the game between imperial power and ministerial power. In fact, the struggle between the eunuch party and the Donglin party is the struggle between the emperor and the landlord bureaucracy. game.

The endless strife among the courtiers has developed into a white-hot one. Coupled with the harsh climate of the Little Ice Age, this Ming Dynasty, whose Wenzhi and martial arts were far ahead of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, has already been ill to the marrow.

Zhu Youjian, who had not been trained by the emperor's mental technique system and was an accidental superintendent, was only the age of a junior high school student. In the second year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian was only eighteen years old.

The young man was overjoyed. He took down Wei Zhongxian, the eagle and dog of the emperor's family in one fell swoop, and the eunuch party was wiped out. Chongzhen immediately tasted the pleasure of imperial power in his hands, so he promoted talents in an eclectic manner.

When the platform called for the right match, Chongzhen was overjoyed to find Yuan Chonghuan who could "Ping Liao in five years". The young emperor almost gave Yuan Chonghuan his heart.

He gave Yuan Chonghuan Shangfang the sword, and appointed him as the Minister of the Ministry of War and the right deputy capital censor, supervising Ji and Liao, and also supervising the military affairs of Deng, Lai, and Tianjin.

Yuan Chonghuanyue is tantamount to being the Generalissimo of the army and horses tomorrow. After he took office, he flirted with Hong Evil in an attempt to make peace privately. He never fought a battle with the Hou Jin Army, let alone killed a general of the Hou Jin Army. However, he used Shang Fang's sword to kill him repeatedly Mao Wenlong, the commander-in-chief of the Ping and Liao Dynasties, was the left governor of the Ming Dynasty in the rear of Jiannu.

The later gold master, Zihong, was overjoyed to learn that Mao Wenlong was dead. Mao Wenlong had been in Dongjiang for more than eight years, and he had repeatedly raided the Jiannu city, and once attacked Hetuala, the so-called Longxing place of wild boar skin.

The unyielding Dongjiang Town attacked from time to time, which made Hong Zhe feel like a thorn in his back, and Mao Wenlong was the confidant of the Houjin regime.

Now that Mao Wenlong has returned to the west, without this powerful general to check and balance his arrogant soldiers, Dongjiang town is falling apart and infighting, and can no longer pose a threat to Houjin.

As early as the seventh year of the apocalypse, Hongjie dispatched one of the four major Baylors, Erbaile Amin, and Xiaobaile Yuetuo, Jierhalang, Dudu, etc., to lead the Houjin Iron Cavalry to beat the army of the Korean Kingdom to the ground.

Amin sent his troops to conquer Anzhou and Pyongyang, and crossed the Datong River to Pingshan City.The Korean army was so vulnerable that King Li Zong fled to Ganghwa Island to send envoys to seek peace.

Later Jin asked North Korea to sever ties with the Ming Dynasty and to pay a large amount of property and food to Dajin every year.

There was a great disparity in power, and the suzerain country, Ming Dynasty, was too busy to take care of itself. The Korean Renzu Li Zhen had nothing to do, so he signed a city alliance with Houjin, opened the market and paid the old coins to Houjin, and now belongs to the country of brothers of Houjin.

The "cage strategy" deployment of the four-sided siege of Liaodong Economic Strategy has been broken by Hou Jin, and then he was surprised by Mao Wenlong's death. The complacent Hong believes that it is time to cross the Great Wall and burn the flames of war into Daming Pass .

In October of the second year of Chongzhen, the Red Evil was the imperial conquest. He led the Tartars and Jiannu allied forces, together with the bannermen and the slaves, there were tens of thousands of troops, claiming 10 horses, entered the pass, burned, killed and looted.

Hearing that the master actually led everyone to hunt grass valleys in the affluent Daming Pass, the robbers were a little nervous and their morale was high. They acted quickly and appeared outside the border wall of Jizhou Town by detouring through the Mongolian prairie.

Jizhou Town has long since lost Qi Jiguang's impenetrable defenses, and Yuan Dudu, who was able to "peace the Liao Dynasty in five years", was negligent in guarding against it. The result can be imagined.

Now that Jiannu has been attacking the city in the hinterland of the capital of Ming Dynasty for three months, the memorials for calling for emergency, asking for reinforcements, and asking for food and payment are like a snowflake, but there is no real news of success.

The young emperor had too much anger in his heart. He hated the generals in the Liao town for not obeying orders, hated Yuan Chonghuan's deceit, hated those scholar-bureaucrats who could only talk boastfully, and hated those generals who feared the enemy like a tiger.

Chongzhen was too eager to get a good news, and when the civil servants and military generals of the Ming Dynasty were shrunk one by one, Liu Zhilun, who was promoted by Chongzhen against all opinions, won the great achievement of capturing Zunhua with a motley army that no one was optimistic about.

The Son of Heaven is naturally in a difficult mood at this time, he is a young man after all, he is almost suffocated these days, and today he can finally feel proud.

The eunuchs had already lit a few stoves on the platform with incense, and the inside was full of spring, and the young emperor was like a spring breeze blowing on his face, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

For many days in a row, the face of the emperor was as heavy as water. Today, he heard that Liu Zhilun's tribe not only captured Zunhua, but also rescued [-] to [-] ordinary people who were kidnapped by the Houjin army. He couldn't help but smile.

At this time, Chongzhen was happy, because Liu Zhilun was the right servant of the military department of the third rank, who jumped seven or eight ranks in a row from a concubine against all opinions.

Just a while ago, there was the imperial censor of Kedao, who impeached Liu Zhilun by dozens of people in the incident to deceive the emperor and grandstanding. He led the army and ran away more than half of it just after he left the capital, and now he is at a loss.

What is the result at this moment?Liu Zhilun lived up to the expectations of the emperor, and unexpectedly achieved the most important achievement since the Liao Dynasty at a critical moment when many civil servants and military generals lost their teachers and land.

(End of this chapter)