Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

"Li Zicheng was actually captured? He's still in Hancheng!?"

Under the watchful eyes of Wang Chengen and Han Zanzhou, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the memorabilia in his hand, frowned, and said in a little surprise: "How could he be captured? He was still held under the command of the Yongwei Camp..."

Seeing their prince like this, Wang Chengen and Han Zanzhou looked at each other suspiciously, who is this Li Zicheng?
Emperor Chongzhen raised his head and said to Han Zanzhou: "Han Zanzhou, has Zhou Yuji submitted the secret memorial?"

Li Zicheng's capture in Hancheng was indeed beyond Emperor Chongzhen's expectations. In a sense, Daming was broken by this person.

"Report to the emperor, and delivered."

Under the watchful eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, Han Zanzhou hurriedly took out the secret note from his sleeve, bowed and bowed and said: "There are many people who have seen you before, slaves..."

Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to listen to Han Zanzhou's nonsense. Seeing this, Wang Chengen quickly walked towards Han Zanzhou, took the secret memorial, and presented it to the imperial court.

"My minister, Zhou Yuji, kowtow in Hancheng..."

With many thoughts in his mind, Emperor Chongzhen opened this secret memorial and read it carefully.

Most of the contents of Zhou Yuji's secret memorial are consistent with Hong Chengchou's, but there are big discrepancies in some battle situations.

After all, Hong Chengchou was born as a civil servant, and his Spring and Autumn brushwork is really amazing. '

Emperor Chongzhen sighed in his heart, "A few changes changed the nature of the Hancheng battle. No wonder Wang Zuogua and Miao Mei were killed in Hancheng."

After all, he is the Tiger General that I recognize!
However, in the victory report presented to the court, the first meritorious service of the Yongwei Battalion was changed accordingly.

Hong Chengchou is a man with a strategy, a big picture, and a more strategic vision. When the situation in Shanshan and Shanxi is stable, he must try to get promoted to the military aircraft department, and he can no longer be asked to stay in the place.

If this person can use it well, it will have an excellent miraculous effect on the follow-up suppression of the rebellion. '

Through the secret report submitted by Zhou Yuji, Emperor Chongzhen had a clearer understanding of the Battle of Hancheng that took place, and he also understood that Li Zicheng's capture was true.

Even in this secret memorial, there are things that make Emperor Chongzhen feel happy.

In the past few days, Zhou Yuji dispatched sharp men under his command to find Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Liu Zongmin, and Li Laiheng.

During the period, he also planned several Tianzhu operations, under the guise of thieves, to get rid of a group of evil gentry and landlords who trampled on the Ming law and discipline and had a bad reputation!

"Zhou Qing, I really didn't misread you."

Closing the secret note, Emperor Chongzhen laughed and said, "In Shaanxi, Yang He was doing big things vigorously, but you were doing big things silently.

Ok.

Yu Hancheng destroyed Wang Zuogua, Miao Mei and other ministries, captured Li Zicheng's uncle and nephew, and gathered a batch of seedlings for me. In the future, you will be one of the kings of the Ming Dynasty! "

"!!"

Wang Chengen and Han Zanzhou's complexions changed slightly, and they looked at their prince with a little bit of surprise. With these words, Zhou Yuji will be considered a great success in the future.

What an honor it is to be named Duke.

What exactly did Zhou Yuji do to be so appreciated by his own emperor.

"Han Zanzhou, you leave the palace immediately, pick a team from Xichang, and rush to Shaanxi."

Emperor Chongzhen looked solemnly, looked at Han Zanzhou and said: "Go to Hancheng to find Zhou Yuji's subordinates, and bring back Li Zicheng's uncle and nephew, together with all the talents recruited by Zhou Qing, to the capital, so that Zhou Qing can send an elite soldier to guard with the team. .

Remember, there must be no one less person entrusted to you by Zhou Qing, and all of them will be brought to see me. If there is one less person, you will not have to go back to the inner court. "

"Slave... Slave, obey the order!"

Han Zanzhou endured his fear, and under the watchful eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, he bowed in response.

His royal lord's attitude was too clear.

If the errand is messed up, then he will not escape death.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, ten Han Zanzhous or a hundred Han Zanzhous were not worth one Li Zicheng.

This person was captured in the Battle of Hancheng, and Emperor Chongzhen had a good idea in his heart.

Speaking of courier brother Li Zicheng, the history from re-employment to entrepreneurship was full of drama.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the post station was abolished, and Li Zicheng lost his job. This year can be said to be his most frustrated year.

Debts were paraded through the streets.

Wife cuckolds him.

Angrily killed adulterers and adulterers, led his nephew Li Guo into exile, and fled to Gansu to join the army in the second year of Chongzhen.

Li Zicheng, who had killed someone before, also had a change of mind.

It was also in this year that although Li Zicheng was in the army and took up an official position, but because of arrears of payment, he killed people again and launched a mutiny, which directly caused Ming's rebellion.

It was also in this year that Huang Taiji led the Jianlu Eight Banners, detoured before Liao, entered the pass through Mongolia, and dealt a heavy blow to Ming Dynasty.

But Li Zicheng finally defected to Gao Yingxiang, and before he was known as the "breakthrough general", he defected to Wang Zuogua and Buzhanni (Zhang Cunmeng) successively.

When talking about Li Zicheng's transition from unemployment, to re-employment, to starting a business, he does not mention Emperor Chongzhen everywhere, but he is always influenced by Emperor Chongzhen's decision.

This Daming, what a great chess game!

'Since under my own influence, there have been considerable changes in the rebellion in Shanshan and the peaceful rebellion, so I simply opened my eyes. '

Looking at the back of Han Zanzhou leaving in a hurry, Emperor Chongzhen secretly said in his heart: "If it is possible, put Li Zicheng, a breakthrough general, into the vast world of southern Liaoning."

Taking advantage of the reality of Jianlu's brutal rule, inciting the oppressed and exploited Liao people to stir up a situation of fleeing and rebelling within the territory of Jianlu's Eight Banners, what kind of situation will it be?
Daming can be dragged to death by thieves, how will Jianlu deal with this?
Not to mention too much, just three years!
Even if Li Zicheng was finally killed by Jianlu Eight Banners, or surrendered by Huang Taiji, it only took three years to buy precious breathing time for Daming. '

In the vast territory of Shenzhou, the most indispensable thing is ambitious people.

How many ambitious people are there among the Jianlu and rogue bandits in the following grams?
How many ambitious people are there among the nobles, civil servants, etc. above the court?
How many ambitious people were there among the suzerains, local officials, gentry, and landlords under the Ming Dynasty?
Emperor Chongzhen also had his own ambitions.

But he also lacks time.

If the situation revealed by Daming is not as critical as before, and Emperor Chongzhen can deal with it calmly and reduce some external pressure, then it is possible to implement what he planned one by one.

If Li Zicheng hadn't been captured, Emperor Chongzhen would not have had the idea.

But now that Li Zicheng has been captured, Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts are clear.

Wanting to take Li Zicheng back and tell him to work hard for himself honestly, Emperor Chongzhen thought it was a thunderbolt, and he had to be careful at all times, it might explode at any time.

But it would be a pity to kill it directly.

If Li Ziren can be asked to make the best use of him and let him go to Liaodong to toss hard, Emperor Chongzhen would like to know what kind of situation the territory stolen by Jianlu will fall into.

Perhaps relying on Li Zicheng, Huang Taiji can slow down the integration of the Eight Banners and build the Eight Banners, initially realize the centralization of the Eight Banners, and weaken the power of Daishan and the others.

Then the strategic depth of Jianlu Eight Banners, including war mobilization, was greatly improved by attacking Horqin Grassland, North Korea and other places.

Don't look at the fact that the Eight Banners of Jianlu are in front of the Liao area, showing a strong deterrent to the Ming army, but in the territory they have stolen, there are also many internal conflicts and class conflicts, especially the oppressed Liao people. Someone really dares to rise up , Once there is momentum, there will definitely be followers like clouds.

At that time, when Li Zicheng fled to various places in Liaodong, planned to temper the new army, took advantage of the chaos to occupy some cities, and actively opened up the situation in southern Liaoning, then the whole situation might be reversed.

And within the Jianlu Eight Banners, there are also contradictions, especially when Huang Taiji inherited the position of Khan, there was a disturbance of changing the flag.

This is called the current two yellow flags (formerly two white flags), and the current two white flags (formerly two yellow flags), both harbor a lot of hostility and dissatisfaction.

'This matter needs to be well planned. '

The more Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, the more he felt that he could give it a try, "Even if Li Zicheng rises up in Liaodong, under the three-party game, the longer the time drags on, the more Ming will have the advantage."

If Li Zicheng, unfortunately, died in battle, or was surrendered by Jianlu, he would last at least three years, and the whole battle pattern would also change a lot.

Think about it carefully, how to supplement Li Zicheng's strength in Liao Dynasty, ask him to take away a batch of excellent firearms, there will be a day when they will be exhausted, but the artisans cannot give them to him.

You can try to reach an arms deal and ask Li Zicheng to exchange the plundered gold and silver, but this matter must be kept secret and cannot be announced...'

Because of Li Zicheng's incident, Emperor Chongzhen fell into contemplation and perfected his planning and deployment. If this matter can be facilitated, then the passive situation of Ming Dynasty can be greatly improved.