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Chapter 381 Ming Ting before the building collapsed

Zhou Yanru never expected that Chongzhen would do this in the end, and even asked him hypocritically what he thought.

He wanted to say "no".

But he didn't dare.

So he said with a face full of embarrassment: "Your Majesty, I really don't have any experience in leading troops, and the Beijing camp cannot fight. Even if I lead 30,000 soldiers from the Beijing camp to support Hejian Mansion, I'm afraid it won't be helpful."

Chongzhen was immediately dissatisfied when he heard this, but he still calmed down and said: "Yuanfu Su was very clear when talking about military strategy, but he had no experience in leading troops, but he must be able to supervise divisions. The specific command of soldiers in combat can be left to us. Give it to the generals below.

As for the lack of training of the soldiers in the Beijing camp, I allowed Yuan Fu to select 30,000 elite soldiers from the Beijing camp, and with a salary of 50,000 taels, Yuan Fu could train these elite soldiers on the way to Hejian Prefecture.

I heard that most of the Chuang soldiers were peasants who had just become thieves. They were also poorly trained and armed. The elites of the Beijing camp should be enough to fight against them. "

Zhou Yanru thought to himself, apart from the only remaining Yongwei camp of Zhou Yuji's tribe, where are the elites in the capital camp? The rest are all weak soldiers.

Even if he were to choose, he would only be the taller one among the short ones.

In addition, it is true that there are many peasants in Shun Army, but there are many families. Each route is said to have hundreds of thousands, but in fact there are hundreds of thousands. What can he do if he takes 30,000 "tall men" from the Beijing camp? Make a difference?

But Zhou Yanru raised his head and glanced at Chongzhen, feeling keenly that Chongzhen's patience with him had reached its limit.

If he continues to shirk and refuse to do his job, I am afraid that it will not only be as simple as losing Chongzhen's favor, but also his property and life may be in danger.

Thinking of the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver he had made since he came to Beijing last year as Chief Assistant, Zhou Yanru gritted his teeth and cupped his hands and said: "Although I am not good at leading troops in battle, I will do my best this time to stop the Shandong intruders from going north for Your Majesty." pace!"

What he was thinking in his mind was: when he led his troops out this time, he would find various reasons and never return to the capital until the shun army conquered the capital.

At the same time, he can take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune by leading troops locally.

As long as he has enough money, he believes that no matter whether he surrenders to Shun, Wei, or Jiannu in the future, he can use money to open up relationships and find a place in the new dynasty.

As for how to fool Chongzhen after going out, he already had an idea, which was to falsely report his military exploits.

Considering Chongzhen's patience with those past supervisors, it would be useless to explain to them how difficult the military situation on the front line was. It would only accelerate the consumption of his patience.

Now that the situation has reached this point, falsely reporting military exploits is the best option.

Of course, if you want to falsely report your military exploits, you must try to hide it from Chongzhen's ears and eyes, that is, Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

He had made friends with the chamberlain before, and he happened to have a good relationship with Wang Zhixin, the admiral of the East Factory. It would be no problem to ask him to help falsely report military achievements, so he only needed to feed Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei.

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Down towards the back.

Zhou Yanru sent his confidants to contact Wang Zhixin through secret channels and asked him to help him falsely report his military exploits.

Wang Zhixin subconsciously thought that Zhou Yanru's false reports of military exploits were similar to previous false reports of military exploits, including excessive reports of beheadings and seizures. He never thought that Zhou Yanru was referring to fabricated military exploits out of thin air.

He is greedy by nature, and now has a fortune of millions, almost all of which he obtained through corruption and bribery.

When such a big "business" came to him, he had no reason not to agree, so he replied: As long as the money is enough, false claims of military exploits are trivial.

Zhou Yanru personally went to the Beijing camp to select the soldiers - he would not deal with the lower-level soldiers in the Beijing camp. He mainly ate and drank with the generals in the Beijing camp to see who could join in and cooperate with him in falsely reporting military exploits.

As for selecting lower-level soldiers?

He was not preparing to actually go to the front line to fight against the Shun army, so what importance did the soldiers have?

Because there were so many generals in the Beijing camp and it involved the circle of nobles and nobles of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, the water was very deep.

Zhou Yanru socialized every day, eating, drinking, listening to music and dancing, and was very busy. Therefore, he handed over the matter of contacting Luo Yangxing to his confidant Dong Tingxian.

His bottom line for buying Luo Yangxing from Dong Tingxian was thirty thousand taels of silver.

Little did he know that with him as the proprietor setting an example, Dong Tingxian was also very greedy. Zhou Yanru fiddled with the 30,000 taels of silver notes that he took out, but in his hand he was short of 10,000 taels.

He spent five thousand taels on the "little devils" around Luo Yangxing, and finally made an appointment with Luo Yangxing.

Today, it is no different than more than ten years ago. After Chongzhen took the throne, he simply listened to the Donglin Party members and almost abolished the two major intelligence agencies, Jinyiwei and Dongchang. As a result, he suffered the pain of losing his eyes and ears.

Therefore, Chongzhen now attaches great importance to Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and also favors Luo Yangxing and Wang Zhixin.

Wang Zhizhi was a slave of Zhu Ming's family, and letting him supervise Dongchang was a kind of favor in itself.

The commander of the Jinyiwei was actually half a slave of the Zhu Ming royal family, but in name he was a foreign minister, so Chongzhen had given Luo Yangxing many official titles.

Especially after Luo Yangxing exposed Wu Changshi (who was actually Zhou Yanru's younger brother) for corruption, bribery, and selling out his official position, he was even named the Governor of the Left and the Crown Prince.

Historically, Luo Yangxing would later play an important role in overthrowing Zhou Yanru, and as a result, he would be bestowed with the title "Jianyu", a favor that was unparalleled for a time. Today in the Ming Dynasty, there are very few powerful ministers who are not corrupt. As the commander of the Jinyi Guards, Luo Yangxing naturally cannot escape from the filth without being corrupted.

When he heard Dong Tingxian talk about Zhou Yanru's "deal", he, like Wang Zhixin, thought it was just a normal false report of military exploits, and he just asked him not to reveal the truth to Chongzhen.

Although fifteen thousand taels of silver was not too much for him, it was enough for this matter.

Just by making your subordinates blind, deaf and mute, you can earn more than ten thousand taels of silver. Why not?

So Luo Yangxing accepted the fifteen thousand taels given by Dong Tingxian and promised to help falsely report military exploits...

On the other side, after Chongzhen held a small meeting of cabinet ministers in Wuying Hall, he summoned Wu Zong alone to confront him.

Wu Di was not a fool. He could see that the capital was now difficult to defend. If Chongzhen was a willing and responsible person, he might have persuaded Chongzhen to take the risk and lead his ministers to the south by sea.

But judging from Chongzhen's previous performance, if he dared to speak out this suggestion, it might make Chongzhen furious and put him in jail.

As for refusing to serve as the governor of Xuanda, the same reason applies.

Therefore, when playing the duel, Wu Di could only complain as much as possible.

"Your Majesty, all the armies are now short of food and pay. Since the water transportation was cut off, the price of food has skyrocketed ten times in all parts of Northern Zhili. Many soldiers and their families are starving, and even worse, they can only watch their wives and children starve to death. .

If your majesty sends a minister to the Xuanfu to supervise the army, please also allocate at least one hundred thousand taels of silver in order to make the Xuanfu armies obey the imperial court's orders. "

When Chongzhen heard this, he frowned and said: "One hundred thousand taels? I only gave 50,000 taels when Yuan Fu went south to supervise the army. You actually asked me for one hundred thousand taels?"

Do you know that now, in order to save money, I, the Queen and other concubines, princes, and princesses eat no more than four dishes at each meal, and most of them are vegetarian dishes, and sometimes there is no meat or fish in them for several days.

Also, I was reluctant to spend money to replace my clothes when they were torn, so I just asked the queen to mend them before using them again. I was so scrimping on food and clothing, and I only managed to squeeze out a total of one hundred thousand taels of salary. You actually want to take all of it? ! "

While speaking, Chongzhen lifted up his outer robe angrily, revealing the patches on the inner robe for Wu Zong to see.

Wu Di was silent.

Of course he knew that Chongzhen was poor and that the treasury had long since stopped paying attention to him, but in his opinion, if he wanted to defend the Xuan Mansion, he wouldn't even have to think about it if he didn't have a hundred thousand taels of silver.

As for how Zhou Yanru used 50,000 taels of silver to control 30,000 hungry soldiers from the Beijing camp to go south to fight against the intruders, he had no idea.

He couldn't help Chongzhen solve the problem of lack of money, so he could only remain silent.

At this time, Chongzhen said again: "I can only give you 50,000 taels of silver. As for how to use the 50,000 taels of silver, you can decide. I only want you to guard Xuanfu!"

Hearing this, Wu Di could only say with a bitter look on his face: "I accept the decree."

In his opinion, with only 50,000 taels of silver to take up the post of Governor-General of Xuanda, he could not even recruit supervisors, let alone appease the soldiers in Xuanfu who were in debt.

If the arrears of pay are not paid, and even the soldiers' stomachs are filled, how can the soldiers be willing to fight against the traitors? I'm afraid it won't be a surrender as soon as the thieves come.

Wu Zong was not interested in accompanying Chongzhen and the Ming Dynasty to die together, so after the Wuying Palace performance, he received the 40,000 taels of silver promised by Chongzhen (don't ask why it was less than 10,000 taels, it is the characteristic of the Ming Dynasty), and he On the grounds of recruiting staff and bodyguards, Lai stayed in the capital and refused to leave.

Zhou Yanru also had a similar idea. On the grounds of selecting soldiers for the capital camp, he would wait a day in the capital.

A few days later, Chongzhen was so angry when he saw that the two people still did not go to their posts, he sent his ministers to reprimand and urge them.

Zhou Yanru had a plan early on, so he didn't delay any longer and led the "30,000" soldiers he selected for the Beijing camp (actually less than 20,000) to leave the capital and go south.

But Wu Di had no back-up plan, so he could only respond to his ministers with various reasons, delaying it again and again.

Two days later, when Wu Gang felt that he could no longer delay and was about to go north to the Xuanfu with the recruited staff, guards, and a batch of purchased military rations, bad news came that was like a bolt from the blue to the Ming Dynasty monarchs and ministers in the capital.

Wang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu, surrendered!

Now Li Zicheng has led hundreds of thousands of troops, passing through Xuanfu and going south, heading straight to Juyongguan!

When Chongzhen heard the news, he was angry and a little panicked. He quickly summoned his cabinet ministers and six ministers to Wuying Hall to discuss how to deal with it.

After Chen Yan came to Wuying Palace, he saw Chongzhen's panicked and angry expression, so he felt that he had to find someone to let Chongzhen vent his anger, that is, to take the blame for the fall of Xuanfu. Otherwise, Chongzhen's anger would most likely be unleashed on them.

He then raised his hands and said loudly: "I impeached Wu Di, the governor of Xuanda, because he was afraid of the enemy and refused to take office. He deliberately neglected the military situation, so that Xuanfu fell!"

　Second update.

　　Good night~

　　

　

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