Daming wolf ride

In the city of Beijing, it also fell the first snow of the year.

Under this snowfall, I don't know how many victims outside the city will freeze to death. Poor, maybe Shuntian Mansion, which collects the corpses the next day, can know the exact number, who knows.

In the East Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace, charcoal fires were burning, and no chill could be felt, but Chongzhen's face was as gloomy as the sky outside. He looked at Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren, He Ruchong, Wu Zongda, Zheng Yiwei, Xu Guangqi, the cabinet ministers and the soldiers of the Ministry of War. Hall official Xiong Mingyu looked extremely displeased.

Zhou Yanru's face was covered with sweat, and his face was pale. His eyes were fixed on the document on the case table. It was half an hour ago, and the six hundred li urgent document sent by the Ministry of War was lost in Dengzhou.

At the Tianchao meeting the day before yesterday, the cabinet and the Ministry of War still patted their chests and said that Dengzhou was as solid as gold, with sufficient food and grass in the city, and the rebels would not be able to take it down even if they attacked for a year.It's good now, only half a month later, Dengzhou fell. [

The more Chongzhen thought about it, the more angry he was, looking at the cabinet ministers with angry eyes, he scolded: "It's good, the more I think about it, the more troublesome things will happen. The bandits in the Central Plains have not been wiped out, but the rebels in Dengzhou have occupied an important town. , It’s become a climate! Tell me, who should I blame!”

"The minister neglected to observe for a while and promoted Sun Yuanhua. The minister deserves death..." Zhou Yanru was terrified, and Xu Guangqi behind him turned pale. He was the one who strongly advocated to Zhou Yanru that his student Sun Yuanhua should be the governor of Denglai.Now that something happened to Sun Yuanhua, there is no reason for his teacher to add someone so that he would not be implicated.

Chongzhen interrupted Zhou Yanru impatiently, and said in a muffled voice: "This matter is not yet the time to investigate the crime, let's think of a safe way! Dengzhou has been lost, if Laizhou is lost again, Kong thief will be even worse Cleaned up."

Speaking of this, he said bitterly again: "That Sun Yuanhua was too lenient and failed to supervise. He didn't know that tens of thousands of taels of silver had been used as gambling capital? Such a big mess happened, and he concealed it and didn't report it. He wanted to cover up his mistakes. And Dispatch is perverted, coping with miscalculations, only thinking of being a good gentleman, appeasing and forgiving, so that the rebels in Shandong and Zhili are invincible, and they even fall into Ling County, Linyi, Shanghe, Qingzhou, and Xincheng. Wow! Now I am a prisoner of others , No matter how clever the strategy is, he will lose all the face of the imperial court!"

Sun Yuanhua is a member of Zhou Yanru, now that the emperor is angry with Sun Yuanhua, Wen Tiren is naturally happy in his heart, but he opened his mouth to relieve Sun Yuanhua: "Your Majesty, I think Sun Yuanhua is also kind, thinking that first put down the mutiny, make atonement, and then report to the court. Things have come to this point, I am afraid that he has also expected it."

After hearing this, Chongzhen couldn't help "humming", "Thinking well! Then why did the rebels break the city! And that Yu Dacheng, who heard about the mutiny, was so frightened that he couldn't get sick. Strict orders were issued, so Shen Tingyu and Tao Tingyu were forced to send the Chinese army to lead the conquest. How could I have betrayed him, and he has betrayed me so much!"

The more Chongzhen spoke, the angrier he became, and he shouted out abruptly: "Come here!"

Hearing the emperor's call, the eunuch on duty hurriedly trotted in, and Chongzhen ordered him angrily: "Ask Dongchang to bring Yu Dacheng to Beijing and put him in prison!"

Chongzhen seems to be very angry. Yu Dacheng should be interrogated by the Ministry of War together with the Three Law Departments if he is guilty.But all the cabinet ministers knew that the emperor was angry, and no one dared to persuade him. Seeing that the eunuch led the order and left.

Xiong Mingyu's eyelids jumped even more, but a lot of bad things happened when he took over as a military official. He was afraid that one day, like Yu Dacheng, he would be thrown into prison by the enraged emperor.

Chongzhen continued to be angry, and ordered: "Draft the decree, cut off Sun Yuanhua's post as governor of Denglai, escort him to Beijing and put him in imperial prison immediately, and the post of governor of Denglai will be taken over by Chief Envoy Xie Lian."

After hearing this decree, everyone thumped, and no one dared to speak.Xu Guangqi just wanted to play a few words for the students, but he is Sun Yuanhua's teacher, so it's never his turn to speak. This kind of suspicion should be avoided anyway, otherwise he will be involved in a clique, which is an offense against the emperor. It's taboo.He could only let out a long sigh in his heart, thinking that he would ask someone to rescue the students after the emperor's anger dissipated.

Chongzhen was furious, seeing the hoarse sparrow voices of the cabinet ministers, he couldn't help being even more angry, and waved his hand to tell them all to retreat, so as not to cause trouble here.

But He Ruchong suddenly stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, according to my minister's opinion, the key problem of the bandits in Shaanxi and the Central Plains is that the officers and soldiers are under different leadership and orders are not in order. I heard that at the beginning of the year, my heavenly soldiers were really planning to drive the bandits into Sichuan. Soldiers Cao Wenzhao, Ai Wannian, Deng Qi, Wang Chengen, Yang Jiamo and others all fought on their own, and refused to accept the unified deployment. So that the bandits and soldiers ran around in disorder, and the law of war will determine the universe."

Hearing this list of names made Chongzhen dizzy for a while, he waved his hand and said, "Pick up the key points."

He Ruchong hurriedly said: "I think that Cao Wenzhao, the general of Yansui, has meritorious service in suppressing the bandits, and is known for his prestige, so he can restrain the generals from Shanshan and Shaanxi to fight in a unified way, so that the bandits can be wiped out smoothly. For the fight."

Chongzhen tilted his head and thought for a while, it seemed to make sense, so he said: "Quite." Hong Chengchou went to Shaanxi to be the governor of the three sides, and now Cao Wenzhao is asked to control the soldiers and horses in Shanxi and Shaanxi. Chaos can calm down for a while.The generals from all walks of life in Henan have been transferred, and they are all big cities, and they will not be lost in a moment. Chongzhen was relieved a little, and then he had a headache about Denglai. He looked at the cabinet ministers and asked: " Kong Youde is a scumbag, so is there no one who can cure him?"

Zhou Yanru came out and said: "Although Kong Youde rebelled, he is still a good general, and his soldiers are strong and strong. The minister thought that Kong Youde should be appeased rather than suppressed, so he should send an angel to Dengzhou to persuade him to return to the court with kind words. , you can also use his hand to fight against the Eastern captives."

As soon as he said this, Wen Tiren immediately retorted: "The first assistant's words are wrong! You must never appease the Kong thief!" Before Zhou Yanru could react, he couldn't wait to say to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I think it is absolutely impossible. Let's take a strategy of recruiting. I think that at the beginning of the Kong thief's rebellion, the major general of the soldiers should have been calmed down long ago, but now Dengzhou is also occupied. The matter has evolved so far. I think it is not because of the officials and the army, but because of it. For the sake of appeasement!" [

After finishing speaking, he took out a memorial from his sleeve and handed it to the imperial court, saying: "I have a joint letter from Xu Congzhi and Xie Lian, the guards of Laizhou, saying, 'As soon as the emissary is sent out, the attack on the city will be more urgent. It means that I should not attack the city. Attack with anger. Guoer, will make arbitrary attack, I hand over to teach him, like Sun Yuanhua to Laizhou and then become his caress?

The rebels wished the ministers and others You Yuanhua, but Yuanhua had made a mistake, and the ministers let him go.Yingting gathered for discussion, thinking that a piece of paper stood at [-], and the reinforcements disappeared, so this is the reason.The minister should die as a ghost and kill a thief, and he will not dare to use the word "fu" to spread the supremacy, defeat the frontier and humiliate the people's life'. "

The general idea of ​​this is that once he went to appease Kong Youde, he would become even more rebellious.Kong Youde has already attacked Dengzhou and arrested the governor Sun Yuanhua, do you want me to follow in his footsteps?Some people in the court thought that a letter of appeal could be worth [-] troops, so they did not send reinforcements. In this case, the minister should die, so as not to humiliate the people's life and fail the king's kindness.

Xu Congzhi and Xie Lian's resentment towards Zhaofu was on paper, and their attitudes were very obvious. They just refused to agree to the imperial court sending someone to recruit Kong Youde again!

Chongzhen took it and looked at it, nodded heavily, slapped the imperial case heavily, and said angrily: "What kind of consolation is all a scholar's opinion, as long as a thief soldier has a heart of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, he will definitely not make such a king." Father's beastly behavior! How can you appease this kind of father's beast, don't you think that I have not lost my face enough!"

In the end, these words were suspected to be aimed at Zhou Yanru, and Zhou Yanru immediately lowered his head in shock, and the roots of his ears were red.