Win the Ding 1617

On June 14th, [-]th year of Chongzhen, Beijing. `top` point `novel`

When he was young, Zhou Yanru, who had successively created Huiyuan and No. [-] scholar, and only almost equaled Shang Ke's record of the highest level of literati in Lianzhong Sanyuan, walked quickly on the road from Meridian Gate to Qianqing Palace.Although he is nearly half a hundred years old, he still has the demeanor and temperament of a Jiangnan talent.On the basis of the poetic spirit in his stomach, he added a little bit of maturity that has gone through the ups and downs of the officialdom, making him look more dignified and personable.

In June of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Zhou Yanru was forced to resign due to illness. At this time, he re-entered the cabinet and took the high position of chief assistant. To be honest, he was surprised that the power of heaven was unpredictable, but the position of chief assistant fell into his hands. It is also expected.

The country is in dire straits, and several chief assistants have done nothing. Although Chen Xinjia, who is in charge of the Ministry of War, has won the emperor's trust and favor, his qualifications and reputation are insufficient.

Zhou Yanru's re-administration was the result of a compromise after a game between various forces, with the trust of the emperor above and the support of various political forces such as Donglin and the Eunuch party.In particular, Donglin Stamina, represented by Zhang Pu, pinned his hopes on Zhou Yanru, and advised him: "If you are a prime minister again, you will change the way you were before, and you will regain the voice of a virtuous person."

Because of the support of the lords, Zhou Yanru also paid attention to meeting the needs of all parties. He was already in operation and recalled Donglin party members Zheng Sanjun, Liu Zongzhou, Fan Jingwen, Ni Yuanlu, Li Banghua, etc. to the court. Appeared once.

At the same time, because the members of the eunuch party never raised their heads when Wen Tiren was in power, they pinned their hopes on Zhou Yanru, when he came back.With a lot of strength, Zhou Yanru lived up to the expectations of the public, and at the same time he operated with Ma Shiying as the governor of Fengyang, and he was praised at home and abroad for a while.

The courtesan Zhou Yanru rejuvenated quickly, and quickly eased the internal strife among the various factions of the Ming Dynasty, making Emperor Chongzhen very happy. The emperor placed great hopes on him, and even belittled the emperor's respect and bowed to Zhou Yanru, saying: I listen to Mr. Tianxia.Thinking of this, I use Zhou Yanru's city mansion.I also feel a little flustered.

It wasn't long before Zhou Yanru served as the chief assistant.He has been praised all over the world, he is proud of the spring breeze, and with the continuous good news, the treasury can barely support the past.The emperor has proposed several times in a row to sacrifice to the Taimiao in the 14th year of Chongzhen.

At this time, he walked forward in a regular manner under the leadership of the little eunuch.But it was running fast in my mind.The emperor urgently summoned his cabinet ministers, why?

Like Wen Tiren, Zhou Yanru also has the necessary qualities to be a qualified chief minister of the cabinet.That is to be good at figuring out and catering to the emperor's intentions.In the blink of an eye, he roughly guessed the purpose of the emperor's summoning.

The things discussed are nothing more than the war in Jinzhou and the suppression of bandits in Henan and Sichuan!

Today's Henan thieves are more vicious than in previous years.

Not only are the soldiers fine and sharp, but the soldiers are strong, and the most terrifying thing is.They also have a large public base. This year, Henan is in the red and thousands of miles away, but the imperial court is going to send more troops to various provinces in Henan.The whole of Henan is like a volcano before it erupts. Although magma has not erupted from the ground for the time being, thick smoke and fire are already everywhere. When it erupts, it is bound to destroy everything.

But now Li Zicheng's rogues in Henan "not only have strict false orders, but also can use hypocrisy and hypocrisy to help the victims and fool the people, break through the city and distribute the money and food to the victims, and then coerce good people to expand the army. It will become a serious disaster, and it needs to be suppressed urgently!"

But after breaking through Xiangyang, killing King Xiang, and forcing Yang Sichang, who was known as Admiral Yanmei and even his own soldiers, to commit suicide, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai gradually changed from close cooperation to parting ways. "Chuang and Cao seem to be converging!"

This is the description of the thieves in the letter written to him by Henan Governor Li Xianfeng. If you are not afraid of the thieves, you are afraid that the thieves will not be burned. This is the unanimous opinion of the ruling and opposition parties.Now that the bandits are about to attack Kaifeng again, the purpose of this letter written by Li Xianfeng is nothing more than asking for help.

Tell Zhou Yanru rationally that if the emperor wants to discuss the matter of thieves today, things in Henan will be very bad!I should give up Li Xianfeng immediately and get rid of him.Anyway, when I first became the first assistant, I wanted to investigate the crime of the loss of the domain, and at most it was a reprimand, which was extremely slight.

It's just... Li Xianfeng flattered Ren Shoufu when he came, especially since he was still a member of the Donglin Party.

The new Chief Assistant here will attract the world's attention. If Li Xianfeng is abandoned at this point, a large number of officials attached to him by the party will inevitably feel sad, and it will be greatly detrimental to his reputation and reputation.

One will succeed and all will die.ignore him!As long as his position as chief assistant is secure, even if Li Xianfeng is demoted, he will have a chance to get him back in the future.

However, within a few steps, he had already drawn up several sets of plans in his mind on how to deal with different situations, and it was up to the emperor how to handle it.

Under the guidance of the little eunuch, Zhou Yanru came to the gate of Qianqing Palace, he subconsciously stopped, cleaned up his clothes carefully, and entered proudly.

In the Warm Pavilion, all the cabinet ministers have bowed their heads in front of Chongzhen, Chen Xinjia, Minister of War, Li Rixuan, Minister of Officials, Li Daiwen, Minister of Household, and others, as well as Wei Zaode, Chen Yan, etc.

Just now Chen Xinjia should have had a quarrel with Li Daiwen, the anger between the two of them was still there, and Chongzhen looked at everyone with a gloomy expression.

Sure enough, today we are discussing the matter of Jinzhou.

Just before Mr. Zhou came in, Li Daiwen, Minister of the Ministry of Households, had already quarreled with Chen Xinjia, Minister of the Ministry of War.

The reason is that the daily consumption of food and salaries in front is huge. Although most of the food and military salaries at this time are allocated from the emperor's internal treasury, they are also money from the imperial court!How come the Ministry of Households is not even qualified to ask the inner court for an account? (Actually, I just want to discuss it with the eunuchs. We have no objection to you guys who eat meat. Give us some oily soup? It’s not easy for everyone these days!)

Seeing Zhou Yanru coming, Chongzhen ordered the eunuch to give him a seat. After everyone was seated, talking about the Jinzhou War gave everyone a headache. When the strength of the two sides is similar, there is no other way except to fight head-to-head.What everyone talks about is also some clichés.

Li Daiwen, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, began to complain again: "There are too many soldiers to pay, and food and grass are difficult to support. The emperor and my ministers still say that the matter of Jinzhou should be resolved quickly. I ask the emperor to order Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, etc. , fight the slave thief as soon as possible!"

Chen Xinjia immediately objected: "Absolutely not!"

He said eagerly: "Your Majesty, the soldiers are fierce and the battle is in danger. One carelessness is the result of the loss of elites. Just now, the official has made it clear that it is even more difficult for us to support bandits and slaves. We just need to stick to it, and we will surely die." Fight and win. Why take the risk?"

Li Daiwen yelled at Chen Xinjia angrily: "This soldier said it lightly. You only need to hold each other. Dare I ask, where will the food come from?"

Chen Xinjia yelled at him even louder: "Master Li, if the army is damaged, who will bear the responsibility? You?"

"Nowadays, the army of the former enemy is gathered, and the daily consumption of money and food is huge. Such a consumption of national power, what is the world?"

"If you don't wipe out the rebels in Liaodong, how will you stabilize the world?"

"Now the Ministry of Households is already so poor that Si Nong has to rely on his house to dig and dig, and can no longer raise such a huge amount of money and food! Now, in addition to sending more money and food to pre-requisition land taxes, the emperor temporarily allocates money to the internal treasury for emergencies! After you calm down the slaves, you can go back to the mat!"

Hearing the dispute among the cabinet ministers, Emperor Chongzhen stroked his forehead with a sneer in his heart.I see!It's because of my little money!

Over the past few years, Chongzhen and Li Shouhan kept exchanging letters and records, and gradually realized the importance of money and food to a leader, and became less and less willing to hand over the money and food in their hands to these civil servants.This is why Chongzhen would rather go back on his word and send eunuchs to the front to supervise the distribution of military rations, rather than hand over the money and rations to those officials of the household department.

Now his internal treasury still stores the customs duty of 60 yuan from Guangzhou Port sent by Li Huamei this time. Shouhan explained to him in the secret memorial that a total of 80 yuan in customs duties was collected, after deducting various expenses. The tax of 60 yuan will be paid in full.Along with the silver, in addition to the account details of customs revenue in Guangzhou, there is also a proposal and revenue analysis for opening customs in various places in South Zhili to collect tariffs.

"The emperor's treasury and silver are all in the hands of our family. I spent some money on the Dragon Boat Festival a few days ago, and bought some utensils and clothes for the dowagers and Empress Yi'an in various palaces to repair the palace houses. There is about If the deposit is less than 50 yuan, in addition to leaving some necessary expenses, the amount that can be used in Liaodong is also a drop in the bucket."

Wang Dehua, who was standing by the side, was a little bit distressed about Yinzi, and he was reluctant to lose the money he got from going south several times to be taken away by these guys.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! You must not miss important military and state affairs for a little money and other extraneous things! The matter of King Fu is not far away!"

Li Daiwen's words clearly carried a naked threat.Chongzhen was a little annoyed!

Because the two princes were killed by bandits in less than a month, he has gone to the Taimiao and Fengxian Hall many times to beg his ancestors for forgiveness. The sinner ordered the class to tell the world.Now this group of birdmen are actually threatening me with the matter of King Fu!

He was restless, and was about to ask Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant of the cabinet, for his opinion. At this time, Wang Chengen, who was standing opposite Wang Dehua, suddenly said: "The emperor forgives the boldness of your servants, old gentlemen, in my humble opinion, my master Wang is fighting against slaves. The money and food needed are actually very easy to raise, and the emperor doesn't have to worry about it, it just needs to collect some taxes!"

This was a bit of a surprise to the cabinet ministers, but immediately there was a burst of joy in my heart, as long as you open your mouth to suggest an increase in distribution to the emperor, or even levy some new salary, we will definitely agree with it.

"My lord, didn't Uncle Li say in the attached sheet of the title book when he sent the princess to send money and food a few days ago, if customs duties can be levied at various ports in Nanzhili, the annual income can be tens of dollars?" It is twice as big as Guangzhou. If the emperor and the old gentlemen agree to levy customs duties in Nanzhili, the servants are willing to go to Uncle Li’s mansion again, and ask him to borrow millions of yuan with these tariffs. That's the military pay!"

No!Absolutely not!Li Daiwen was about to cry.

This eunuch's tricks are really vicious!Tariffs have been levied everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River for military pay. If the news is made public through the imperial decree, a solid black pot will be on his head. He has already imagined how Jiangnan Shilin will deal with him. No less than dozens of kinds.

The atmosphere in the Snapper became quite awkward for a while, and the topic could not be continued.

It was originally intended to run on the emperor.He got some money out of his internal treasury and sent it to the Liaodong frontline through the household department, but the eunuch turned the ball into a 32-pound shell and threw it at Li Daiwen's feet, making his head full sweat, I don't know how to deal with it.

At this moment, a little eunuch stumbled and shouted loudly: "Great victory, great victory, great victory on the front line of Jinzhou, Master Wang beheaded more than [-] slaves, beheaded [-] slaves, and beheaded the false prince Hauge... ..."

"What's the noise?!"

The eunuch on duty outside the door was taken aback.Shouting and cursing.

"Elder-in-law! Master Hong, the governor of Jiliao, sent a good news from the front line of Jinzhou. Hurry up six hundred miles!"

The good news on the Liaodong front is the wonderful pen of Hong Chengchou, the governor of Hong Chengchou.

The biggest effect is to ease the embarrassing position of the cabinet.

The arrival of the good news made Chongzhen a little ecstatic, and Longyan was very happy.Everyone in the cabinet could not help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

Chongzhen made an order immediately.Reward the armed forces.Let the Ministry of Rites get ready.He is going to win the Taimiao immediately.The well-informed official immediately presented a congratulatory form.

Since Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant of the cabinet, he has been a member of the cabinet and a Beijing official.Everywhere in Gyeonggi, as well as local government offices, presented their watches one after another, and flew towards the capital like raindrops.

The good news from the Jinzhou front line also made the capital lively. For a few days, the business of many teahouses and restaurants was booming.Various storytellers conceived urgently overnight, and evolved more than a hundred storytelling versions, such as the version of the Three Kingdoms, the version of the Water Margin, the version of the founding heroes of this dynasty, and even the mythical fantasy series of the Journey to the West series and the Fengshenbang series. In some small teahouses, there are also erotic novels about Jin Ping Mei being staged, and the audience gathers every day.

In a short while, he killed tens of thousands of slaves, and he won more with less. Only two generals of Wu came out and defeated the four banners of slaves!The main force of the army has not yet been dispatched. In this way, breaking the siege of Jinzhou is an extremely easy task. Not to mention solving the siege of Jinzhou, it is just around the corner to recover Liaodong in one fell swoop!

The situation is getting better, and everyone has regained their confidence in the battle situation in Liaodong. People in the Hanlin Academy, Guozijian and other places where the public are gathered have already shouted to regain Liaodong and go straight to Huanglong.

After the excitement, Chongzhen and many bigwigs in the cabinet fell into the original predicament again.

Should we continue to fight steadily and steadily, or should we go straight to Jinzhou immediately and fight the slaves under the city of Jinzhou?

The same quarrel about the choice of strategy and tactics is not only in the cabinet, but also among the bureaucrats everywhere. People in the Imperial Academy and Guozijian are divided into different factions, arguing among themselves It goes on and on, each citing scriptures and making a big fuss accusing the other's strategy of nonsense, which is purely a scholar's misleading opinion.

In the teahouses and restaurants, the diners often argued endlessly over whether Governor Hong should destroy the thief in Jinzhou or sweep the caves in Liting in Shenyang, and finally fought.

Then, almost everyone's eyes turned to Songshan Fort thousands of miles away.

As everyone knows, Governor Hong is also suffering from a headache here, and the generals are arguing endlessly every day about how to enter the army and how to destroy the thieves.

In the past few days, there were many battles with Kong Youde, Zu Runze, Buyandai and other Eight Banners Mongolian and Eight Banners Han armies. However, at least a hundred of them were beheaded in every battle.

More importantly, several key points on the road leading to Jinzhou City were also captured by the Ming army after not particularly fierce and brutal battles.This is the best situation since several reinforcements to Jinzhou!

The Ming army and reinforcements in the city were no longer at a distance where they could use artillery fire to attack the slave troops in the south of the city, and the two sides could even see each other's flag clearly.

Seeing the achievement in front of their eyes, the generals of the towns also began to think carefully.

There are two schools of thought on how to march and how to fight.

One faction seems to be single and lonely, but what they say is quite powerful in the army. This is the slow-advancing and urgent-war faction headed by Wu Sangui and Wu Biao. Get a strategy and work steadily at every step.At the same time, we are waiting for Uncle Ning Yuan’s reinforcements to arrive. At that time, with Uncle Ning Yuan’s navy as the lead, surprise troops will be sent straight to Jiannu’s lair. Governor Hong will wave his army to attack fiercely, and attack Jiannu from both sides in one fell swoop in the Liaoxi Corridor. The merit of the world!

Because of a great victory, the two generals of Wu gained a lot of money, made great contributions, and even reached the heavens. The lieutenants do not account for the majority, but this opinion has to be taken seriously.

However, these words immediately aroused strong opposition from the remaining general soldiers.

At this time, there are no factions of the Guanning Army and the Miyun Army. For the time being, everyone will join forces to deal with these two Wu family boys who have recently made a big splash. The world of the two of them is over!

Ever since, the chief soldiers and deputy generals of the towns didn't care that these two were people who had just made great achievements, and all kinds of cold, hot, sour and sweet words came one after another.

"I think you don't want to go against each other, but want to take the credit for yourself. Let us restrain the main force of the slaves, and you enjoy the glory of conquering Liaoshen!"

"Back then, Marshal Li was made an earl because he broke the thieves twice and regained Jinan. Could it be that the two generals Wu also wanted to be earls?"

"What is an earl? He wants to be crowned king!"

These are the words that some people attack Wu Sangui and Wu Biao without distinguishing between them.Some people also adopted a divide and conquer strategy, intending to drive a wedge between the two Wu generals.

"General Wu was such a young hero. He became famous all over the world at the age of 13! But he never defeated Jiannu head-on. Unexpectedly, General Wu Biao defeated Jiannu today with a bunch of pawns who were not stable on horseback. , Qianlang died on the beach!"

People who ran against Wu Sangui and said that he was serious about his fame and single-mindedly intending to confer titles and kings would never have imagined that this sentence would be a prophecy. In just three or four years, Wu Sangui earned himself a crown, and never It's only a few months from uncle to prince!

Wu Sangui didn't take it seriously for these people's attack and wooing, division and disintegration. In this year, everyone has to rely on their strength to speak!In the past few days, he spent almost every day on the training ground. Apart from practicing thousands of new recruits, he just invited Wu Biao to drink and eat meat, and he wanted to know how his cavalry divisions were trained.

Unexpectedly, to put it bluntly, it is worthless, but it is just a word of discipline!But with these two words, Wu Sangui was in trouble.

He originally planned to train all his wolf cavalry to become such powerful cavalry, but he had to change his mind and let the new servants practice such tactics.

He decided that no matter what others said, he would at least hold back Wu Biao during the Songjin battle.

Facing the quarrel among the generals, the supervisor Hong Chengchou was also emotional.

In all fairness, he also knows that it is extremely vicious to send a surprise soldier to attack Shenyang, Liaoyang and other places in the space-time city.

However, this trick is not feasible! (To be continued..)

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