Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 171 The Dragon Slayer eventually becomes a dragon?

After hearing Hu Guozhu's report, Chongzhen really didn't know whether he should be happy or depressed?

After he came to this world through time travel, he worked hard to do many things, even issued an edict to seek captivity, and left Li Zicheng a capable general like Li Yan, but he still failed to change the course of history?
Duduo's army was actually attracted to Huaiqing mansion?

Then after the Huaiqing mansion is over, will Duoduo continue to go west to Tongguan?

Then Li Zicheng was forced to go south to Tongguan with the army that had already gone north.

Then he was defeated by Duoduo in Tongguan, and Li Zicheng's rogue nature broke out in desperation, and he gave up Xi'an and Guanzhong before Li Yan and Gao Yigong's troops went south to meet?

Then the thieves fled all the way to Hubei again?

Thinking of this, Chongzhen couldn't help putting his hands on his forehead.

Chongzhen suddenly wanted to know how Li Zicheng would react when he heard the news?
Is it to express appreciation for the heroic performance of the rest of the Dashun Army in southern Shanxi and western Henan?Or was he furious by Yuan Zongdi and Liu Yongfu's unauthorized actions?
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Li Zicheng does not know the news now.

Because the counterattack launched by Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu from western Henan and southern Shanxi to Huaiqing Mansion was just a spontaneous action, that is to say, without Li Zicheng's consent.

From this, we can see the hidden worries of the Dashun Army.

These senior generals of the Dashun Army are too casual.

Or to put it another way, these "military commanders" of the Dashun Army enjoy too much power, and they can actually launch wars without the approval of the central government.

Now let’s talk about Chen Yongfu and Yuan Zongdi.

When Li Zicheng passed through Shanxi, he left Chen Yongfu to guard Taiyuan.

Although Chen Yongfu was a surrendered general, he was very loyal to Li Zicheng. Jueluo Bahana besieged Taiyuan for several months and could not make any progress. He had no choice but to ask Dorgon for help.

Dorgon sent Ye Chen to lead the army to help.

Li Zicheng also asked Li Yan to send troops to rescue Taiyuan.

However, Li Yan did not directly reinforce Taiyuan, but adopted the tactics of encircling Wei and saving Zhao, bypassing Taiyuan and attacking Datong.

Upon hearing the news, Dorgon urgently ordered Bahana to go north for reinforcements.

Li Yan set up an ambush on the way and trapped Bahana in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that Shi Tingzhu led the Eight Banners Han army to arrive at the critical moment.

Because of Li Yan's shortage of food and grass, Tang Tong, who had been beaten and fled before, made a comeback. There was a risk of being cut off. Out of safety considerations, Li Yan finally withdrew his troops and returned to Suide Prefecture.

With Li Yan's withdrawal, Taiyuan would no longer be able to hold on.

Chen Yongfu also resolutely abandoned the city and led his remnants to retreat to the mountainous area of ​​southern Shanxi.

After talking about Chen Yongfu, let's talk about Yuan Zongdi, who is the head coach of the Dashun Army in Henan.

However, when Jiannu pursued them on a large scale before, in addition to sending the main force of the Dashun army to chase and kill Li Zicheng in the direction of Guguan, there was also a partial force that went south and entered Henan.

Facing Zu Kefa, Jinyu and Gao Di, etc., Yuan Zongdi's troops lost consecutive battles, and successively lost the lands of Zhangde Mansion, Weihui Mansion, Huaiqing Mansion, Runing Mansion, Nanyang Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion, and Guide Mansion. The thieves and the descendants of the Ming Dynasty also rebelled one after another. In this case, Yuan Zongdi's remnants could not stand it at all, so they had to retreat to the mountainous area in western Henan.

Chen Yongfu and Yuan Zongdi's remnants have been holding out in the mountainous area of ​​southern Shanxi and western Henan for three or four months.

The purpose of launching a counterattack against Huaiqing Mansion this time is actually very simple, it is to raise food.

Because the southern Shanxi and western Henan areas are mountainous areas, the places are narrow and the people are barren, and it is difficult to raise food.

In the past few years, the Guanzhong area suffered a series of catastrophes, and even Li Zicheng's main force was facing a shortage of rations, so Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu did not ask Guanzhong for help.

With no food and grass inside and no aid from outside, Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu could only raise food from outside, otherwise the tens of thousands of troops under their command would have a hard time surviving this cold winter.

Raising food from outside is nothing more than two directions.

One is Daming, and the other is the Qing court. Dashun has now formed an alliance with Daming, so naturally it cannot start the war lightly. Shanxi is barren and poor, and there is no food to levy, so they can only ask Huaiqing Mansion, The Weihui Mansion launched a counterattack in this direction, trying to get some food from the Qing court, and by the way, wash away the shame of the past.

Really, Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu just wanted to raise some food, and they really didn't expect to attract Duoduo's army, which would bring disaster to the Dashun court.

If they knew this in advance, they would rather starve to death than send troops.

It is a pity that in this era, there are no all-pervasive spies, let alone radios, so Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu have no idea that Duoduo's [-] troops just happened to go to Dezhou.

Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu teamed up to destroy Jin Yuhe, the Huaiqing general of the Qing court, and then ransacked Huaiqing Mansion, but did not get much food, so they went east and entered Weihui Mansion.

At this time, Yuan and Chen's [-] troops are storming Xinxiang County.

Zu Kefa's [-] surrendered troops defended Xinxiang County to the death.

However, at this time, Li Zicheng in Xi'an didn't know what happened in Weihui's mansion.

On the contrary, Li Yan, who was guarding northern Shaanxi, sent an urgent message to Xi'an, reporting to Li Zicheng that Azig led the main slave building force, and together with the Ming army's descendants, Jiang Yu and Wang Daye, turned south to attack Shaanxi through Tumed Mongolia. North's military situation.

Li Yan's intelligence work is still very powerful. Not only did he find out that Jiannu's coach is Azig, but he even found out that Jiannu's total strength is about [-].

This number of troops is still very reliable.

Because the Eight Banners Manchuria, Eight Banners Mongolian and Eight Banners Han armies led by Azig are about [-] people, in addition to that, there are about [-] slaves in coats, plus [-] to [-] Ming troops such as Jiang Yu Tangtong and Wang Daye. The imperial surrender army is almost [-] people, even if there are differences, there will not be too much difference.

Li Yan also deliberately reported a piece of news to Li Zicheng.

Even Wu Sangui sent troops with Azig.

After receiving Li Yan's urgent delivery, Li Zicheng immediately began to gather the main force of the Dashun Army.

To this day, Li Zicheng is deeply concerned about the defeat at Shanhaiguan. He always believes that the Dashun army was wronged in the Shanhaiguan battle. If it weren't for Wu Sangui, a traitorous traitor, the Dashun army would not have been defeated at all.

Therefore, Li Zicheng hated Jiannu, but he hated Wu Sangui even more, wishing he could peel Wu Sangui bark.

So when he heard that Azige led [-] slaves to conquer Shun, and Wu Sangui also came, Li Zicheng's first reaction was not fear, but excitement. God gave him a chance to avenge his shame.

Li Zicheng vowed that this time he must win a big battle in northern Shaanxi, severely stop Jiannu's prestige, and it would be best to capture Wu Sangui, a traitorous dog, and bring him back to Xi'an for skinning and cramping.

So after receiving Li Yan's urgent delivery, Li Zicheng immediately began to call up the main force.

Except for Chen Yongfu in southern Shanxi and Yuan Zongdi in western Henan, he did not move, and the troops sent to Qinghai and Gansu expeditions did not come back. Li Zicheng even transferred most of the Baiwang troops in Xiangyang, leaving only five troops. Thousands of people.

By the way, Zuo Maodi, the envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty to Dashun, was still in Xi'an at this time.

It's not that Zuo Maodi didn't want to go back, but that Li Zicheng didn't let him go. Li Zicheng didn't know which muscle was wrong, maybe because he was moved by Zuo Maodi's eloquence, he actually developed a love of talent and wanted to recruit Zuo Maodi. No.

The reason why Li Zicheng took away most of Baiwang's troops guarding Xiangyang was because he listened to Zuo Maodi's deceit. Zuo Maodi told him that since Dashun had formed an alliance with Ming Dynasty, the two countries should treat each other honestly. It should withdraw troops in both directions, and at the same time reduce the number of troops stationed in border areas to show sincerity to the other party.

Zuo Mao first persuaded Li Zicheng, and at the same time wrote a letter to Zuo Liangyu.

One more thing, Zuo Liangyu was already seriously ill in bed at this time, and his mind was not clear, so He Tengjiao was in fact in charge of Wuchang military affairs.

He Tengjiao's ability is still quite strong.

Taking advantage of Zuo Liangyu's illness in bed, and the Wang Ming flag and Shangfang sword bestowed by Chongzhen, he successfully deterred Zuo Liangyu's group of arrogant soldiers.

After He Tengjiao received the letter from Zuo Maodi, he immediately significantly reduced the number of troops stationed in Jingzhou Mansion, Chengtian Mansion and the southern area of ​​Huangzhou Mansion to show his sincerity to the Dashun Army.

After Li Zicheng received the military report, it happened that Li Yan sent an urgent delivery again, so he reciprocated and transferred Bai Wang's main force to Hanzhong to guard against Zhang Xianzhong who had already occupied Sichuan.

In short, this is the situation in Xi'an, and Li Zicheng is gathering troops to prepare to go north.

As for Zhang Xianzhong, who had just entered Sichuan, he was currently busy ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor, establishing the Daxi regime.

At the very beginning of the Daxi regime, Zhang Xianzhong compiled almanacs, raised furnaces to make money, opened courses to recruit scholars, and issued a three-year tax exemption to comfort the people of Sichuan. He did a lot of work. , So at this time, Zhang Xianzhong didn't care about things outside Sichuan at all, he just wanted to be his King of Sichuan.

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In Xuzhou, Chongzhen temporarily convened a military meeting before the imperial court.

Attending the meeting were Ma Huabao, Jin Shenghuan and other ten town commanders, Du Yinxi, the censor of Tuntian and the censor of Youqian capital, Zheng Hongkui, the commander of the navy, and Jin Xuan, the doctor of the Ministry of war and the temporary commander of the military affairs.

Zheng Hongkui was promoted, and the naval guerrilla became the chief of the navy.

Jin Xuan was also promoted, and Wai Lang, a member of the Ministry of War, was promoted to a doctor of the Ministry of War.

In addition, Zhu Cijiong, king of Ding, Wang Chengen, eunuch of the supervisor of ceremonies, Zheng Sen, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, Fang Yizhi and other [-] scholars attended the meeting.

Standing in the hall, Zheng Sen, Xia Yunyi and other scholars felt thunder in their chests.

Although they didn't have official robes like Du Yinxi and Jin Xuan, nor the majestic mountain armor worn by Ma Huabao and Jin Shenghuan, this didn't affect their sense of participation in the slightest.

It was also at this moment that the sixty-four scholar chiefs really realized that they had entered the center of power.

It is also from this moment that their one word and one suggestion may determine the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty, which also means that they finally have the opportunity to show their ambitions and do something that is beneficial to the people of the world.

This is also the biggest and most essential difference between the old civil official group and the Qin Wang Shizi.

The priority of the old civil servant group is always to weaken the imperial power, block people's wisdom, and protect the interests of the class.

However, the priority of Qin Wang Shizi has become to ensure the interests of the common people, then the emperor's authority, and finally the interests of the officials, gentry and gentry.

I don't know what will happen in the future.

But at least for now, all of Qin Wang's scholars are full of vigor and ideals.

At least for now, what Qin Wang scholars think is to kill their own class!
Because the scholars of King Qin discovered that the stubbornness and greed of officials, gentry, and gentry had made the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty extremely inefficient and greedy, and made it difficult for the common people of the Ming Dynasty to breathe.

If the official Jinshen Group of the Ming Dynasty cannot be killed, there will be no hope for the Ming Dynasty.

If the officials and gentry groups of the Ming Dynasty cannot be eliminated, the common people of Li and common people will not be able to live a good life.

King Qin's mind is full of thoughts, not how big an official should be, not making meritorious service, morality, and making a statement to become a saint, let alone getting promoted and getting rich, divining his wife and children, etc., but just to make the people of the world live a better life!

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And this is also the original intention that Chongzhen instilled in the son of King Qin during the two-month-long march of suffering.

Chongzhen wants to tell these scholars that your meritorious service is not for my Zhu family, but for all the people in the world. Your only mission as an official is to make the people live a better life.

Of course, it goes without saying that this is only the story told in the entrepreneurial stage.

When the venture is successful, Chongzhen will tell another story.

The dragon slayer will eventually become a dragon. This is the cycle rate of history, and no one can escape it.

Because human society needs a ruling class after all, and it will never be exempt.

When these Qin Wang Shizi grow up and kill the old officials and gentry groups, it won't be long before they will become what they once hated the most.

But in essence, Qin Wang Shizi and the old officials and gentry groups are still two different classes.

The old group of officials and gentry represented the interests of the landlord class, and the princes and scholars would represent capital.

In short, as a time traveler, Chongzhen knows better than anyone else that the rule of one family is unsustainable. Zhu Yuanzhang’s wish to protect the family of Zhu’s family forever through richly raising the clan has been proved to be wishful thinking. It is guaranteed that the family will be the world in the next three hundred years, but this is definitely not what Chongzhen wants.

Therefore, the general trend of history is mighty, if you follow it, you will prosper, and if you go against it, you will perish.

It is the general trend to open up people's wisdom and gradually learn new things, especially with the prosperity of Ming Dynasty's industry and commerce, and with the gradual growth of the power of capital, it is no longer possible for the gentry to monopolize knowledge.

Therefore, the rise of the common people and common people is the general trend.

Well, the rise of the so-called common people is actually the rise of industrial and commercial capital.

Therefore, the royal family must transform as soon as possible, from the largest landlord to the largest capitalist.

And these more than [-] princes and scholars and the countless common people they represent will also become the vested interest class in the new era, and will realize a solid bond of interests with the royal family.

Only in this way can the royal family continue to retain.

Otherwise, a great revolution will break out in Ming Dynasty sooner or later.

The sons and grandsons of the Zhu family will also be guillotined sooner or later.

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