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Chapter 688 Liaodong was defeated, Chongzhen wanted to move the capital
The Ming army was defeated in the battle of Songjin, the coach Hong Chengchou was captured alive, and the rest of the general soldiers fled to death and were injured. It can be described as miserable. Because Hong Chengchou played this trick so hard, he almost sent the emperor of the Qing Dynasty Huang Taiji to see his father Nurhachi Therefore, the Manchu counterattack was extremely fierce. After a day and night of fierce fighting, the Ming army suffered more than half of the casualties and had no fighting spirit.

The eight generals learned that Hong Chengchou led the army to attack the Jiannu camp, and there was no news from then on. They believed that Hong Chengchou should have died in battle, and internal disputes arose. Some wanted to avenge Hong Chengchou, and some discussed giving up Songjin and going south. Those who withdrew, if the disputes persisted for a while, they would go their separate ways. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people collapsed and fled in all directions.

In January of the 15th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army drove the Ming army to Songshan City. The soldiers spread out and directly surrounded Songshan City. Cao Bianjiao, the commander of Yutian, and Tang Tong, the commander of Miyun, were all trapped in Songshan City.

The soldiers besieged the city for more than two months, and the food in the city was exhausted. Seeing that the soldiers and horses in the city were about to die in the city, there was no other way. Deputy General Xia Chengde of Songshan secretly sent a letter to the Qing army, willing to surrender his son Xia Shu as a hostage, and promised the Qing army Open the gates to them.

In March, the Qing army was invited to attack at night, Songshan City was destroyed, the general Cao Bianjiao, and Tang Tong and his two vowed not to surrender, they were all beheaded by the Qing army.
Songshan was defeated, and the Qing army attacked Jinzhou in a vigorous manner. Jinzhou defender Zu Dashou, seeing that the situation was not good, directly led his troops to surrender, and then Jinzhou, Tashan, and Xingshan were all occupied by the Qing army for a generation. The Ming army is proud of it. Guan Ningjin's line of defense was completely disintegrated, and the Qing army once again had an absolute advantage over Daming.

After Hong Chengchou was captured, people who fled from Jinzhou came to Shanhaiguan and told Wu Sangui that the Qing army took Hong Chengchou to the camp of King Wuji in the north of Jinzhou City and executed him directly. Loyal to the country!

Wu Sangui was sad when he heard the words, but he still recognized Hong Chengchou, so he sent eight hundred miles to send the army report to Chongzhen urgently.

Chongzhen waited anxiously these days.

He wanted to hear the news of Hong Chengchou's victory to stabilize the morale of the army, but he waited and waited. After waiting for two or three months, there was no news of Hong Chengchou's victory. He was anxious to issue another imperial edict to urge him. Slave decisive battle!

Just when he was hesitating, Liaodong Babaili arrived in a hurry.

Chongzhen was overjoyed when he saw this, and invited Wenwu to come to listen to the report.

The messengers entered the palace and saw Chongzhen immediately knelt down and kowtowed. Chongzhen was very moved when he saw that the messengers were dusty and covered with blood, so he ordered a reward of wine and meat. : "Your Majesty, Liaodong was defeated, Governor Hong died in battle, the Songjin defense line collapsed, Jiannu drove straight in, our army suffered countless casualties, and tens of thousands of troops turned into piles of bones, Your Majesty please decide!"

"what!"

After hearing the messenger's report, Chongzhen's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. At this moment, he stared at the messenger and said, "Say it again."

"Liaodong was defeated!"

"what!"

Chongzhen couldn't bear the stimulation, and directly overturned all the memorials on the table, and sat on the dragon chair, his face was ashen, and he collapsed.

And this news also caused an uproar among the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty. The Songjin defense line collapsed and Hong Chengchou died in battle. Looking at Chongzhen from time to time, his eyes were a little dull, Zhou Yanru came out and said: "Your Majesty, please take care of the dragon body. Although the defeat in Liaodong was tragic, it did not hurt the country. The pine brocade is gone. We still have Shanhaiguan. As long as Shanhaiguan If we don't lose, we don't count as a loss!
After hearing this, Chongzhen stared blankly at Zhou Yanru: "Have we not lost yet?"

Zhou Yanru said: "The Shanhai Pass is still there, the commander-in-chief Wu Sangui is still there, and Guan Ning's cavalry is still there. It doesn't matter, but Your Majesty, there is still some bad news for you."

"Say, I can bear it!"

"Just yesterday, eight hundred li in Shandong was in a hurry. The intruders broke through the Jinan Mansion, and most of Shandong fell. I am afraid that the intruders will send their troops northward in a few days!"

"What! Poof!"

After hearing this, Chongzhen couldn't bear it any longer, and immediately spurted out a mouthful of old blood, and with a puff, he directly sprayed the dragon book case in front of him into a blood book case!

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, send the imperial physician quickly, send the imperial physician quickly!"

Seeing that Chongzhen vomited blood and lay down on the Longshu table, Wang Chengen yelled, and Chao Zhongwenwu also panicked. The emperor must be fine at this time. At this time, an emperor is needed to encourage people, and he can't let the emperor take the blame Something is wrong!
So the imperial doctor hurriedly came to see, the imperial doctor looked at it and said: "If you are in a hurry, just prescribe a few medicines to keep it going, it will be fine."

So Chongzhen fell ill, and became an honorable patient. Of course, he was lucky. He couldn't do without the emperor at this time, so he, the Ming emperor, survived even if he vomited blood.

As for the other emperors, don't make a fuss, one of them fell into the water and caught a cold, and some of them died from the wind and cold infection, such as Chongzhen's brother Emperor Tianqi.

It is common sense that the Ming emperor is easily soluble in water, but Chongzhen survived miraculously, and soon devoted himself to the work of revitalizing the Ming Dynasty. Although Chongzhen was very weak, he had a belief in his heart, that is, I must Persevere, Daming still needs me, the foundation of the ancestors cannot be destroyed by my hands! !
So another seven days later, Chongzhen issued an order to commend Hong Chengchou for being buried for the country, calling him Jie Lie Mi Du, and held a meeting to bury him with national rites.

At the meeting, the communication soldiers sent by Wu Sangui told the adults one by one the scene of Hong Chengchou's heroic sacrifice, saying that Hong Chengchou led the army to raid the Jiannu camp. Unexpectedly, Jiannu was cunning. Hong Chengchou rushed to nothing, and was captured by the enemy immediately after.

But after Hong Dushi was captured, he yelled and cursed endlessly, kowtowed in the direction of the capital, saying that the emperor is holy, and the minister tried his best, and the country died today, and finally shouted that he wanted to kill the thief, but he was powerless!
The enemy chieftain admired Governor Hong as a man, promised to be a high-ranking official and rich, and even willing to replace him with a king with a different surname, but Governor Hong dismissed it and wanted to die. The enemy chieftain persuaded him for more than a month, and finally lost his mind. in the army.

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen burst into tears and ordered the altar to be moved in front of Chaotian Palace, and then prepared to go to worship in person. Three days later, Chongzhen decreed that Hong Chengchou would be granted nine altars, set up an ancestral hall, agreed on a posthumous title, and stood on the throne. Weeping in front of the ancestral hall, he said, "I can't save Hong Chengchou!"

Seeing the emperor's behavior, Wang Xigun, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, raised a question. This Hong Dushi died, and he never saw the bones.

Chongzhen was furious when he heard the words, and scolded him for knowing a hammer, ahem...

Chongzhen was furious and reprimanded Wang Xigun for being rude.

For a while, the whole army of the Ming court mourned, and Shandong urgently reported that in the past few days, Li Zicheng formed an army to attack Shandong. It looks like it will enter Hebei or Shanxi soon.

At that time, the capital could be threatened. Chongzhen was so frightened that he quickly recruited the general army of the North to station troops in Hebei to prevent Li Zicheng from stealing his home.

However, all the capable soldiers of the Northern Land Commander had almost been exhausted in the Songjin War, and the rest were incompetent people.

Seeing this situation, some wise people saw that the Great Ming Dynasty might not last long, so the insightful people privately suggested that Chongzhen move to the south. The sandwich is ready, I must finish the calf, the next thing is to see whether Li Zicheng is fast, whoever is fast has a greater chance of success!
Chongzhen was very entangled with this opinion. After all, the 200-year-old capital was no longer there, and the lessons of the Southern Song Dynasty were in front of him. If he retreated to the south, the possibility of reunifying Bixiang from the south was almost zero.

This world can be unified from south to north. For thousands of years, apart from Taizu, Chongzhen could not think of a second one. It can be said that as long as he is in a corner, he can only shrink back and wait for death. Daming has been lingering for decades, hundreds of years, and when he goes underground, how will he meet his ancestors?

Chongzhen's idea can be said to be very correct. When he arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, he really could only live in a corner, but when he returned to the harem, the empress didn't think so. Your Majesty can retreat to the south of the Yangtze River, and then send a confidant general to guard the capital, and your majesty will command the south of the Yangtze River, and it will not be regarded as losing the foundation of the ancestors."

Chongzhen thought for a long time and couldn't make up his mind, but he felt that what the queen said was right, but he didn't want to bear the infamy of losing his ancestor's foundation!
So he spread the news in the middle of the court, and the whole court was blown up in an instant. A group of high-ranking officials from the Donglin Party who were born in the south of the Yangtze River all strongly opposed it. Everyone should not lose their ancestral foundation. At this time, the capital was moved to the old Zhu's family. Nizi, you have to bear the eternal infamy, and it is said that now that the victory is not decided, once the emperor leaves, the army and people in the north have no intention of resisting Li Zicheng. Doesn't this mean that the great country is handed over to Li Zicheng?
Anyway, there are a thousand, ten thousand are not happy, all kinds of high-sounding things have been said, but the only thing they didn't say is that they don't want Chongzhen to enter the south of the Yangtze River to destroy their already divided interests.

Is Jiangnan the emperor's Jiangnan?No, that is the Donglin Party, the Jiangnan of the civil society.

There their interests have been very fixed, but an emperor parachuted there, and he was a powerful emperor like Chongzhen, what do you let the interest groups in Jiangnan do, the interests cannot be distributed.

So it is absolutely impossible to let Chongzhen come, and they still have small calculations in their hearts. Isn't Daming going to perish?
It doesn't matter, the country is subjugated, Chongzhen, you will die in BJ, can we support a little emperor in the south of the Yangtze River that meets the demands of our interest groups, so that our interests can be unprecedentedly satisfied, and it would be better if Chongzhen didn't point fingers at his head .

But if Chongzhen was really determined to move the capital to Jiangnan, these civil and military ministers actually had no good solution. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, even at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor still had the right to decide whether the ministers should be killed or killed.

I, Chongzhen, am shameless, and I want to flee south, what can you do to me, no matter how unwilling you are, you have to bear with me if you hold your nose, but Chongzhen is not a shameless person!

On the contrary, Chongzhen was too shameless and cared too much about his reputation, and he could even give up his life for the sake of fame, so the ministers caught this dead spot, and kept preaching in the court that moving the capital was unfilial, and he was sorry for the ancestors, just The king of subjugation, anyway, how disgusting are these words, what you are playing is a moral kidnapping!
Chongzhen, don't you want to rejuvenate Daming?How to revive when I ran to a corner of Pian'an in the south of the Yangtze River?

Chongzhen, aren't you afraid of being sorry to your ancestors?If you dare to move the capital, are you not afraid of being hanged and beaten by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di after death?
There are also ministers pouring ecstasy soup on Chongzhen. Your Majesty, the situation is not as bad as you think. Li Zicheng is a mob, Jiannu barbarians, we have Shanhaiguan in the north to resist Jiannu, and Hebei as a buffer in the south. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, you can win if you hold on!
Chongzhen was almost limped by the ministers, and his heart was still vacillating between moving the capital and not moving the capital. After thinking about it, Chongzhen felt that he should try to move the capital, but he must not bear this crime by himself. , strongly demanded, and then he had to obey, so that he would be less infamous in the future.

There is also an explanation for the ancestors, and there is also an explanation for the people of the world, and the subjects of the Northland.

So Chongzhen wrote a letter to Chen Xinjia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War. Why did he choose Chen Xinjia?Because he is not from Jiangnan, he is from Chongqing, Sichuan, and has little to do with Jiangnan gentry.

Chongzhen is not stupid. Although he didn't understand why the gentry in Jiangnan didn't want him to go, he realized from the clues that it was the officials in Jiangnan who were messing up here, and they were the ones who spread rumors to prevent him from moving south, so he expected them to write a letter It is impossible to ask yourself to move south, so it is good to find a minister who has no or few interests in the south of the Yangtze River as the mouthpiece.

For this reason, Chongzhen wrote a secret letter to Chen Xinjia, asking him to take the lead in proposing to move the capital in the early court, and he would agree at that time. After the success, Chongzhen will reserve the position of Chief Assistant of the Cabinet for him!

The secret letter was sent to Chen Xinjia. Chen Xinjia is not an idiot if he can become Minister of the Ministry of War.Jiangnan officials accounted for more than half of the court. As long as I mention moving the capital, these officials can tear myself alive. Isn't this courting death?

Returning the chief minister of the cabinet, first of all, if you want to be the chief minister of the cabinet, you have to live, and secondly, the Ming Dynasty is such a bear, the chief minister of the cabinet has a fart attraction, just such a petty profit, you still want me to carry it for you Lei, offending the entire Jiangnan Group, you are not playing tricks, your emperor is amazing!

So the funniest thing in history happened. Chen Xinjia unfolded the secret letter written to him by the emperor and put it on the table, and then called ten fast-talking servants, and even the spies planted in his mansion to shout to his side. : "Clean up my study, remember! Don't read the secret letter on my desk, don't read it!"

Then go for a drink.

The next day, word spread throughout the capital that Chongzhen wrote a secret letter to Chen Xinjia, wanting to move the capital to Jiangnan!

(End of this chapter)