Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 883 Party Struggles Still (Two in One)

A reply letter rushed through the cabinet.

Then quickly passed to the battlefield ahead.

After Chongzhen wrote back to Lu Xiangsheng, he ordered to inform the whole army that it would be a great victory anyway.

Totally worth the pep talk.

After Zhang Fengyi received the news, lying on the sickbed and seeing Lu Xiangsheng's victory, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

The more powerful Lu Xiangsheng became, the more useless he seemed.

Zhang Fengyi couldn't help but eat a little more rhubarb today, so he would die sooner and worry less.

As for the other Ming soldiers, they thought, since Lu Xiangsheng is so powerful, call him quickly!
What's more, he still holds the trump card in his hand, the team of Wu Guojun, the chief soldier of Ji Town.

Uncle Jingliao is famous, and now he has captured Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, and he is even more famous.

Chongzhen issued another order to Lu Xiangsheng, saying that the thieves' power has been defeated and the remnants of evil are still there, so they must take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill the remnants, so that all previous efforts will be wasted by mistake.

The most important thing is to ask Lu Xiangsheng to act accordingly, and he doesn't have to ask for instructions on everything.

Thanks to the record of capturing Gao Yingxiang, Chongzhen has completely delegated power to Lu Xiangsheng.

The chief assistant Wen Tiren on the side reminded the excited emperor that the last edict was sent to ask Lu Xiangsheng to come to King Qin.

At this time, he was being asked to exterminate the bandits, and it was probably a conflict.

Only then did Chongzhen recall this incident, and couldn't help but scream in his heart.

But as the emperor, the will of the front and back does not match, how can this be done?

"It's me, Meng Lang."

Chongzhen stood on the spot and said, "Let's recover that decree first."

"Tell Hong Chengchou to go south to encircle and suppress the remaining thieves together with Lu Xiangsheng."

"Yes."

Chongzhen stood in the hall and walked a few more times:

"Escort Gao Yingxiang, the Chuang Wang, to Beijing, and dispatch soldiers and horses along the way to guard against death, so as not to let him escape.

This time, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou will be given one level each. "

"Yes."

Shaanxi is still plagued by endless drought and locust plagues, and floods have also occurred in other places.

In the face of widespread famine, Chongzhen had no choice but to reduce money and food in several areas where the disaster was particularly severe.

But it was only on the surface. For the starving people who were about to die, reducing taxes a little did not have much practical significance.

Chongzhen felt that He Jinzhao was going to find food in Shaanxi, so let him go.

Disasters are everywhere in Shaanxi, and He Jinzhao's move is tantamount to seeking fish from a tree.

Even if he occupies Shaanxi and wants to win the hearts of the people, not only will he not be able to get much food, but he will also add a lot of food to it.

Chongzhen seemed to disdain such a loss-making business.

Chongzhen can only imagine that he will use all his strength to eliminate the serious trouble of the peasant uprising first, and then find a way to slowly clean up the mess later.

Now that Lu Xiangsheng has given him hope, he must go all out.

Chongzhen really wanted to concentrate all his energy on the big event of encircling and suppressing the peasant army.

However, the courtiers were still clamoring and strife, which constantly disturbed his train of thought and made him very irritable.

In particular, Lu Xiangsheng is required to come here with a victorious army to come here for Qianli Qinwang and destroy the Qing army entrenched in the capital.

What if they occupied the four cities and did not leave when the Qing army marched to Chongzhen for another three years?

Chongzhen was anxious about the disasters everywhere and the war report outside the capital, and he was not happy for a while after receiving Lu Xiangsheng's victory report.

The censor's impeachment of the first assistant Wen Tiren made him very angry.

There is no actual content in the words and officials' impeachment, but it is just that Wen Tiren has a dangerous heart, and there is no strategy in governing the country.

After serving as the first assistant for several years, he failed to establish a good strategy, which led to the arrogance of bandits and frequent reports of border police. He asked Wen Tiren to take the blame and resign.

It can be said to be in a sentence!
Because Wen Tiren really didn't offer a plan.

When Chongzhen asked him, it was up to His Majesty to decide on his own, with His Majesty's wisdom and martial arts, he would definitely be able to make a correct judgment and so on.

Many censors think that I can do this job too!

Why has he been the chief assistant for so many years?
Since Wen Tiren became a cabinet scholar, there have been dozens of incidents of attacking him, ranging from ministers to ordinary people.

The content of the attack is also varied.

Wen Tiren was promoted to the cabinet only by fighting face-to-face and fiercely with the Donglin party members.

Therefore, Donglin has always regarded him as an enemy, but he has been viciously attacked and even widely criticized by the government and the opposition, but the emperor favors him!
Or sometimes, it was Wen Tiren who signaled his subordinates to impeach him, just to prove to Chongzhen, please rest assured that His Majesty uses me, I will never form a party for personal gain!

Facts have proved that during the Chongzhen Dynasty, although he was diligent in changing cabinets and ministers, Wen Tiren was the one with the longest and most stable time.

Most of the cronies under Wen Tiren's command are gathered together because of interests, and next time the interests are inconsistent, then let's say goodbye.

So there are almost no courtiers who are closely related to him.

This made Chongzhen trust him very much.

Because a lonely minister can only rely on the emperor to support him, so that he can serve him wholeheartedly, and he is the most reliable loyal minister.

Coupled with the fact that Wen Tiren is not greedy for money, it is true that in the environment of the late Ming Dynasty, he was a white lotus.

These two external points made Chongzhen feel that Wen Tiren was trustworthy.

Apart from these two points, if you don't ask for money and don't form a party, the rest is that Wen Tiren pays great attention to his own name!
In addition to the creed of using allusions in Chongzhen's troubled times, he used strict laws to drive his subjects to do things for him.

They have some similarities in temperament and temperament.

Both of them are clean, self-willed, mean, cruel, and smart.

Perhaps it is this kind of fit in character that is the real basis for their meeting between monarchs and ministers.

But the matching of personality makes people blind in stages, so they can't see the fatal weakness of the other party.

Wen Tiren also appeared mean and ungrateful in his actions, and was secretly cited as a confidant by Chongzhen.

Another unexpected benefit of Chongzhen's appointment of Wen Tiren is that Wen Tiren has become a scapegoat and shield for him invisibly.

Therefore, Chongzhen directly asked the censor to go home for the elderly.

When is it all?

Foreign enemies have invaded, and the civil strife has just won a phased victory.

You don't think about the strategy of how to retreat from the enemy.

On the contrary, to impeach my chief assistant, is there something wrong with my brain?

I am so disappointed in you people!

A speech officer was taken off his black hat, which did not scare many censors.

They wrote letters of impeachment one after another, including Zhang Fengyi, the minister of the Ministry of War who supervised the division outside, and Qiu Weizhen, the minister of the Ministry of War in Tongzhou.

The content of saying that they reported victory was more than [-] people, which concealed the fact that our Ming army injured more than [-] people.

In Xugong's first push to monitor the ministers, there are ulterior motives, and the censors also justly request that all the governor's ministers (eunuchs) be dismissed.

Changed Zhang Fengyi and Qiu Weizhen.

As for whom?

They don't care, the emperor decides for himself, just replace him.

Chongzhen was really angered.

His hatred for the cowardice of civil servants, fatuous generals, his disgust for speech officials, and his hatred of not being understood for his painstaking efforts all burst out.

The sound of his roar was heard throughout the hall.

I was in a good mood just now, so you guys came to make things difficult for me!

All of them claim to be loyal ministers, but how do loyal ministers do things like this?
The news of Gao Yingxiang's capture was not overwhelmed, and this group of people started to have problems again.

It's really not enough to succeed, but more to fail!
To be honest, Chongzhen really wanted to act like a sage king who was open-minded and accepting advice.

The Confucian moral consciousness he has always accepted also requires him to accept advice with an open mind.

But on the other hand, his suspicion and dislike of officials and other advisers, as well as his vanity that strongly rejects all criticism.

Are you worthy of criticizing me?
I am the Lord of Ming's ZTE!
At this time, Chongzhen wished to kill them all one by one, or dragged them outside the Meridian Gate and beat them all to death.

But he took a long breath and tried to suppress his thoughts.

This bunch of dog talkers just want me to do this, to fulfill their good name and damage my reputation.

You want to be beautiful, but I will not fulfill your wishes.

Chongzhen ordered that the censor be imprisoned in imperial prison, waiting for an opportunity to dispatch him to the border.

Who wants to continue impeachment and defend the border together.

It has to be said that Chongzhen's move did stop most of the speech officials. They wanted to clear their names, but they didn't want to go to the border.

There are a large number of Qing troops outside the capital, and they have repeatedly broken through the barriers, and if they are not sure, they will die.

Chongzhen originally wanted to tell Lu Xiangsheng that he had captured Gao Yingxiang and won a great victory, but he was harassed around and nothing was done.

Internally and externally, there is no effective solution.

It seemed that as long as the enemies outside did not break through the gates of the capital, everyone in the court could still engage in party struggles without changing their faces.

What the hell solve the problem?

This officer will deal with my opponents in the imperial court first!
As for the rest, who cares?

There was chaos in the court.

Hong Chengchou was so close that he was the first to receive the emperor's order to stop attacking Shanxi, which was useless.

He didn't use the capital to serve as the king, and ordered Hong Chengchou to directly meet with Lu Xiangsheng, preparing to make a big one.

In one fell swoop, wipe out the thieves entrenched in Huguang and other places.

After Hong Chengchou received the news, his face was full of disbelief.

He never thought he could catch Gao Yingxiang.

Even if he caught Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and the like, he still thought about it!

Because every leader of the rebels will not fall into the hands of the officers and soldiers.

They either died in battle, or were killed by their own people, or died of illness.

Has never been captured.

"Is this true?"

"Going back to the governor, I dare not lie."

Hong Chengchou couldn't help snorting twice, he really couldn't explain the feeling that he didn't understand.

There is a little sadness in the relief.

It's really a conflict between fearing the suffering of the brother and fearing that the brother will drive the Luhu!
Gao Yingxiang beat him to the detriment of his soldiers, but after the division of labor was clarified, he fell directly into Lu Xiangsheng's hands, and King Chuang took over as he was.

This kind of result really made Hong Chengchou speechless.

Wang Chengyin, the chief soldier of Yansui on the side, looked as shocked as Hong Chengchou.

Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang was captured!
This order is to be sent to the capital to be hacked into pieces to scare others.

"Master Governor, are we going to walk back to Huguang?"

Wang Chengyin asked, after all, traveling in such hot weather is really uncomfortable.

Even when they reached Huguang, those bandits continued to flee, and they had to flee with them.

"Otherwise!" Hong Chengchou sent someone to give some money to the eunuch who delivered the decree, and stood up: "I really haven't thought about it."

"me too."

Wang Chengyin decided to send a letter to He Jinzhao, telling him that something important had happened.

"Go down and prepare, let me think about it."

"Yes."

Wang Chengyin stopped talking and went straight out of the hall of the county government.

He went to Tang Tong and told him to do something.

Don't think that he often fights and paddles with hammer bandits, so he can't see it.

Others don't know how Tang Tong got promoted, how could Wang Chengyin not know.

At this time, He Jinzhao, who was far outside Xi'an, had no idea that the Ming court was full of quarrels.

And on the main battlefield of the Central Plains, Gao Yingxiang had been captured by Lu Xiangsheng.

He Jinzhao had just received the news that the Qing army had just feigned a shot and went directly to wreak havoc on the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

The rumors released earlier really made some Ming soldiers believe that officials believed it to be true.

The result was a big loss.

He Jinzhao dropped the paperwork in his hand, stood up and moved around a few times.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the artillery will occasionally sound.

There are not many soldiers stationed on the city wall.

Under He Jinchao's repeated teasing, the city guards were in a panic.

After the artillery bombarded them to go down to the city to escape, they pushed the cart to dump the soil and fill the moat.

After the sentinel called everyone to go to the city to defend, they were bombarded by artillery fire.

And then left in a hurry.

Just like that, several sections of the moat have been filled.

It's just that it still needs to be paved with wooden boards, so that it can be solid.

The Ming army in Xi'an had nothing to do about it.

Just start to store more dung, and when the hammer bandits attack the city, burn gold juice for them to drink.

Yang Lin had nothing to do with the Hammer Bandit's artillery.

One's own artillery was not enough, and none of the ten rounds could hit, but was knocked out by the hammer bandits.

So much so that the artillery was less and less afraid to fight back.

"Damn it." Yang Lin couldn't help yelling: "When the hammer bandit army attacks, how can we defend?"

Yang Jiamo leaned against the city wall: "Besides resisting, do you think there are other ways?"

"This battle is really useless." Yang Lin cursed angrily.

The defenders on the walls were having a hard time.

He Jinzhao took a look through the binoculars, and found that the officers and soldiers' will to resist hadn't disappeared, and the siege would have to last for a while.

"Master." Niu Youcai came over with a lot of documents:

"Dasan Pass was captured by us, but the city of Baoji County, Wu Dading has not yet conquered."

"Not urgent."

He Jinzhao just wanted him to win the Dasan Pass first and block the way into Shaanxi. As for Baoji County, he could grind it down slowly.

He Jinzhao put down the things in his hand, picked up the summarized news and looked at it.

Ever since the hammer bandits besieged Xi'an and released the news of controlling Tongguan by the way.

Rebellions broke out in many places in Qin, especially the mutiny of frontier soldiers.

Instead, many landlords and gentry began to recruit strong soldiers, actively stored food, built bunkers, and prepared to resist for a few years until the government and army restored Shaanxi.

They knew the fate of those landlords and gentry in Shanxi, so they naturally wanted to resist to the end.

Especially the scholars learned that the hammer bandit He Jinzhao did not "respect" them with courtesy.

The idea of ​​letting them continue to be masters, and they don't intend to surrender, entangle the villagers to prepare to resist to the end.

Regarding these matters, He Jinzhao's heart is clear.

There are always some vested interests who will not compromise.

Once compromised, they have nothing.

This kind of conflict cannot be adjusted, what He Jinzhao can do is to kill them one by one.

"Marshal, Ningxia has also mutinied."

"Oh? He Huchen wants to surrender."

"It's Ningxia, not President Ningxia."

He Jinzhao felt that the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and he was hallucinating.

Niu Youcai immediately remembered another thing:

"Marshal, just now there was a man named Chen Chong who said he was an old acquaintance of Marshal and wanted to see him. I asked him to stay cool for now."

(End of this chapter)