Before hanging himself, Chongzhen lifted the table

Chapter 11 Factory Guard
The Forbidden City is divided into four gates: the Meridian Gate, the Donghua Gate, the Xihua Gate and the Xuanwu Gate. According to Emperor Chongzhen's arrangement, when the palace gate opens tomorrow, the successors will be divided into groups of two, making it more strict. .

Although most of these nobles have little ability, from this arrangement, they can also sense that there will be very big changes in the palace tomorrow.To rectify the inner palace, such a big battle has probably never happened before, right?
As they were thinking this, they heard Emperor Chongzhen say to them seriously: "Your whole family is loyal to the country. Now that the country needs to be saved, your family also needs to be preserved. Whether we can do this depends on what happens next." It’s been a long time.”

Having said this, he raised his voice and emphasized sincerely: "My lords, please follow me and work hard to revive the Ming Dynasty!"

When Liu Wenbing and others heard these words, although some people still did not believe that what the emperor said was true, but the emperor made such a sincere request, they naturally responded seriously and did not dare to relax.

Afterwards, Emperor Chongzhen immediately issued an imperial edict and went directly to take over the defense of the Forbidden City and check the guards without letting them return to the palace.

No matter what, it will definitely take a lot of time for these people to take over the city defense.

Watching them leave, Emperor Chongzhen started thinking about his plan again.

Li Zicheng's army has captured Taiyuan. In the original history, Zhou Yuji would resolutely resist next.After Zhou Yuji is defeated and killed in battle, Datong, Xuanfu and Juyongguan will all surrender without a fight, and the capital will also fall.

Therefore, in order to defend the capital, Zhou Yuji must be rescued. This is theoretically possible.

Although Li Zicheng had hundreds of thousands of troops, Shanxi had Taihang Mountains, Luliang Mountains, etc., and there were many dangerous passes, and Ningwuguan was one of them.By making use of the terrain, with reinforcements and supplies, it is possible to block Li Zicheng's army.

As long as the stalemate persists, the more troops Li Zicheng has, the greater the logistical pressure will be.This is the key to victory.

To create such a situation, the support of the Datong Military Town and the Xuanfu Strong Town to the front line, whether in terms of troops or food and grass, is very important.

However, Emperor Chongzhen knew that the powerful generals in Datong and Xuanfu had already made up their mind to surrender.Therefore, it was necessary to seize power and return these two places to the imperial court.

Although he planned to lead the troops in person, if he did not have many troops, he would instead deliver food, which would be a great gift for Li Zicheng.

Therefore, if Emperor Chongzhen wants to lead troops to seize power, he must have the number of troops to control the situation and complete the reorganization of these two military towns.

In other words, the troops he brought were not necessarily for charging into battle, but for controlling the situation.It doesn't matter if you scrape things together here and there, as long as the quantity is sufficient.

But now, the number of cavalry in the capital is obviously far from enough, and we still have to rely on the strength of Baoding and Jizhen.Among them, Baoding is about three hundred miles away from the capital, and Jizhen is two hundred miles away from the capital. By this evening, it is estimated that the urgent order of eight hundred miles will be delivered. They will lead troops to rush to the capital, probably the day after tomorrow.

Fortunately, according to the original historical development, Li Zicheng would rest in Taiyuan for seven days, and Zhou Yuji's last place to resist Li Zicheng's army was Ningwuguan. Because of the detour, Ningwuguan was about 1000 and two hundred miles away from the capital. If it was a cavalry army Rushing to the rescue would take about ten days on the road.Even if you add in the time spent on controlling the situation on the road, time is still very tight.

Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about these things. Although there was a high probability that what happened in the capital would not reach Shanxi in time and would not affect Li Zicheng's plan, he still felt that he had to race against time to avoid any accidents.

First, rectify the inner palace, then raid the outer court, settle the capital, and lead the troops to go on an expedition. Everything takes a lot of time, and there must be no mistakes!
Think about it, think about it carefully!

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As for Wang Zhixin, after he came out of the cabinet, he did not return to the Supervisor of Ceremonies, but transferred to the East Factory. He handed over 1 taels of silver just like that, and his heart was bleeding. No, it was 23 taels of silver. How much filial piety was required for this!
The emperor had such a big change, but he was kept in the dark. Even if it was because of a dream this time, he thought about it day by day and dreamed about it at night. If the emperor hadn't been influenced by someone on weekdays, he wouldn't have had such a nightmare. !
Check, be sure to check carefully!

With this thought in mind, he left Donghua Gate and headed north to Dongchang.

As soon as the gatekeepers saw the factory man's face, they all cheered up and greeted the factory man with a loud voice and standard movements without any problems.

Wang Zhixin ignored them, entered the East Factory, bypassed the "Eternal Fragrance" archway in front of the hall, and entered the lobby. He didn't even look at the statue of "Yue Fei" hanging in the hall, and didn't care about the stalls that came over to please him. He just looked at himself. As soon as he sat down, he shouted in a cold voice: "Our family wants to report all the big and small things that happened to Long Live Master in the past half month, especially any abnormal situations!"

When several stalls heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other.If there was anything unusual, they would have reported it to the factory owner early in the morning.If you don’t report it, it’s gone!

However, the factory owner's expression was there. Something must have happened, otherwise he wouldn't have this expression.If you don't say something, the factory owner will definitely have nothing to explain.

So, the stall owner hesitated for a moment and reported to Wang Zhixin: "Mr. Factory, not to mention the matter of Li Jiantai, has it been reported to His Majesty?"

The emperor saw off his assistant Li Jiantai with such fanfare, but instead of suppressing the bandits, Li Jiantai captured his own county seat and whipped the county magistrate.If the emperor knew, he would definitely be very angry.

However, the crux of the matter is that Li Jiantai was filial to Dongchang, so Dongchang pretended not to know about it and did not report it.

After hearing this, Wang Zhixin asked in a cold voice: "What is it? We want accurate information, trash!"

Upon hearing this, several stalls were frightened and immediately knelt down to apologize.

Wang Zhixin thought about it and felt that this was not the case.If this was really what happened to Li Jiantai, then the emperor must have been so angry and humiliated that he was teased like this by a minister.

So, he shouted again with a cold face: "If there is anything specific, please report it quickly!"

All certain things that should be reported have been reported. Uncertain things, with the lessons learned just now, they dare not report indiscriminately and can only bow their heads and accept the punishment.

Wang Zhixin narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw it. He had raised a bunch of trash, but when he used them, they turned out to be useless!
Just when he was about to get angry, a man from the door hurriedly came in, knelt down on one knee and reported to him: "Report to the factory, the commander of the Jin Yiwei asked to see you at the door."

Logically speaking, Jinyiwei and Dongchang are on the same level.But obviously, in this Chongzhen Dynasty, Dongchang had a higher status, so when the commander of Jinyiwei came over, he had to use the word "seeking".

After Wang Zhixin heard this, his heart moved. Is there any news from Jin Yiwei?
So, he made sure to ask for a meeting.

Luo Yangxing hurried to the lobby and found several stalls in Dongchang kneeling there, and he roughly knew the reason.

He went to look for Wang Zhixin before but did not find it, but heard the news instead. Therefore, as soon as he arrived in the lobby, he clasped his fists and saluted Wang Zhixin, and then said respectfully: "The general heard something, saying that the Emperor Taizu mentioned something in a dream. The country of the Ming Dynasty is in danger, and the emperor wants to do something extraordinary. I wonder what the factory owner thinks of this?"

(End of this chapter)