Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

After Sun Chengzong led the main force of the Ming army to Luanzhou City, he immediately called all the generals to discuss how to recover the remaining three cities.Of course, as a humble official, Wu Shigong is not qualified to participate in this military meeting.

Unexpectedly, in this military meeting, a fierce quarrel occurred.The content of the quarrel is nothing more than two points: one is that the capture of Luanzhou City belongs to Qin Liangyu, and the other generals want Qin Liangyu to spit out some for them; the other is to arrange which army to attack the next Yongping City.

Regarding the quarrel on the first point, Qin Liangyu showed off her power in the military discussion, and she was really relentless.Because in the battles of the Ming army, there is a convention that whoever captures it will return it, and Sun Chengzong's partiality of compensation for Qin Liangyu's du li recovery of Luanzhou City, in the end, the other troops will not get anything.

As for the attack on Yongping City, Sun Chengzong refused to let Qin Liangyu's powerful army go.And Qin Liangyu had no way to evade it.However, in view of the fact that Qin Liangyu's army suffered heavy casualties when they attacked Luanzhou City, Sun Chengzong also agreed to Qin Liangyu and left a part of the army stationed in Luanzhou City.

Of course, Sun Chengzong understood Qin Liangyu's thoughts. Qin Liangyu wanted to keep his army to guard the seized property.So Sun Chengzong decided that it was a good man who did it to the end and took all the other Ming troops away from Luanzhou City.

But such a quarrel delayed two days of work.At this time, leading the main force of the Houjin army, Amin had returned to Yongping City.On the one hand, all the looted property was collected; on the other hand, only young men and women were left among the looted population, and the others were slaughtered immediately by Amin's order.

And this massacre completely exposed the wolf nature of the Tartars, they didn't even spare those Han officials who had surrendered to Houjin.At this time, the Ming army didn't know the tragedy of Yongping City, they still hugged into a group and marched at a leisurely pace.

However, when the vanguard of the Ming army led by the brave general Cao Wenzhao rescued a few surviving civilians under Yongping City, the Ming army knew that the Jin army had slaughtered the city in Yongping City and had already retreated.

The main force of the Ming army immediately accelerated and marched into Yongping City without using any blood.And Amin gathered Shuotuo, who was stationed in the two cities behind, escorting the property and people to withdraw outside the pass.

After learning the news of the Jin army's retreat, the Ming army immediately became active.Especially Zu Dashou's Liaodong iron cavalry and cavalry of other armies, relying on their own cavalry horses, they chased and killed the Hou Jin army in the direction of retreat.

With such an opportunity to beat the dog in the water and get property, how could the cavalry of Liaodong cavalry and other troops let it go.At the beginning, those cavalrymen did gain something, but after seeing the unscrupulous appearance of the Ming army cavalry, Amin gathered some of the main force of the Hou Jin army, turned around and fought with the Ming army cavalry.

In this battle, the cavalry of the Ming army suffered a small defeat.Then the Ming army became cautious, but followed the Hou Jin army from a distance, and gave the Hou Jin army a gift.

In this way, the Ming army recovered the remaining two cities quite smoothly.Moreover, some property was seized to some extent.Moreover, those people who were massacred in Yongping City all had their hair shaved.The Ming army cut off the heads of these common people, and they could also pretend to be the heads of Tartars to earn military merits.This is not too satisfying!The only pitiful people are those who were massacred. They all died, and they still have to suffer this second wave of crimes.

The main force of the Ming army was satisfied, and Wu Shigong who stayed in Luanzhou City was even more satisfied.After receiving Wu Shigong's letter, Gongshunhou's Mansion and Yangwuhou's Mansion immediately connected in series in the dignitaries' mansions in the capital.Then, a rare high efficiency appeared among those dignitaries, and they immediately dispatched stewards and hurried to Luanzhou City.

Anyway, there is no need to elaborate on Wu Shigong's bargaining with them.However, Wu Shigong still encountered a problem.At that time, when Qin Liangyu and Wu Shigong were discussing, they felt that although they wanted to sell the land, they still couldn't do it with too much fanfare.So it was decided to sell about [-] mu of land.

However, as many as [-] rich and powerful families came to Luanzhou City, and they all felt that the land allocated to them was too little.But at this time, Qin Liangyu and other main generals of the white-armed soldiers had already left for the other three cities, and only Qin Qianhu remained in the camp of Luanzhou City.He can't make any decisions, everything has to be decided by Wu Shigong.

In the end, Wu Shigong gritted his teeth and sold the land without doing anything.In the end, a total of more than 16 mu of land was sold.

However, Wu Shigong had an unexpected harvest.Because the capital is still under martial law, although people can enter and leave limitedly, there is really no way to organize so many carts to transport Qin Liangyu and Wu Shigong's belongings.

And because Wu Shigong wanted to put all his dead soldiers in coffins and take them back to the deceased's hometown for burial, the number of carts was definitely not enough.

But now those dignitaries who buy land, they all have to go to Luanzhou to build their own Zhuangzi.It is not difficult to recruit Zhuang Ding, anyway, there are a lot of refugees fleeing in the capital now.However, those Zhuang Ding's food, some living materials, tools, etc. still have to spend a lot of effort to transport them from the capital.

But now Wu Shigong has ready-made food and supplies here, so a large part of the problem can be solved.After these dignitaries spent money to buy these things from Wu Shigong, once they settled their accounts, they could save a lot of money.And Wu Shigong also happened to save the trouble of transporting these belongings.

So these days, on the one hand, Wu Shigong asked the soldiers to cut down trees to make coffins, and on the other hand, he asked the craftsmen in the camp to turn the captured weapons and scrap copper and rotten iron from Luanzhou City into agricultural tools, and prepared to deliver them to the dignitaries. Zhuangzi.

Seeing that Wu Shigong's business experience is sound, that Qin Qianhu also admired him.

Of course, it is impossible for these stewards who came to buy land to bring so much cash with them.However, with the guarantee of Gongshunhou Mansion and Yangwuhou Mansion, they will pay the money in the capital, and they are not afraid of their repudiation.

Next, Wu Shigong had nothing to do.The stewards also arranged for people to visit the boundaries, return to the capital to recruit refugees, etc., and they were extremely busy.As for how they will deal with the government in the future, Wu Shigong is not interested in caring about these anymore.

Amin basically brought the main force of the Xianglan Banner back outside the pass, and also kept most of the property and population.But as soon as he returned to Shengjing, he was convicted and imprisoned by Huang Taiji.The owner of the Xianglan Banner was also transferred to Amin's younger brother, Jierhalang, who listened to Huang Taiji.

It is also because the other two big Baylors prevented the Hou Jin army from entering the customs at that time, and after Huang Taiji insisted on entering the customs, the harvest was particularly huge.Therefore, after one declines and another rises, Huang Taiji's authority in Houjin is completely established.

But this time the change of Jisi gave Emperor Chongzhen a huge psychological shock.Among them, the biggest impact on Emperor Chongzhen was that he found that the civil officials he relied on, mainly from the Donglin Party, could not be reused.

Not to mention Yuan Chonghuan, even the Chief Assistant of the Donglin Party and Minister of the Ministry of War performed extremely poorly in this Jisi change.What made Emperor Chongzhen even more hateful was that he discovered that Shoufu and Shangshu of the Ministry of War were actually the general backstage of Yuan Chonghuan, whom Emperor Chongzhen hated most.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen decided to alienate those Donglin Party officials as well.But in this way, there are not many civil officials left who can assist Emperor Chongzhen.Emperor Chongzhen could only handle a large number of state affairs by himself, and became the second model worker among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the two model worker emperors of the Ming Dynasty, one is Zhu Yuanzhang who founded the country, and the other is Chongzhen who died of the country, they really echoed each other from beginning to end!

However, in this operation to liquidate Donglin Party officials, two people without party affiliation became Emperor Chongzhen's right-hand men.They are Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren.They will also become the chief assistants of the Chongzhen Dynasty in the near future.

With the support of these two ministers, after six months of arresting Yuan Chonghuan, Emperor Chongzhen finally decided to take Yuan Chonghuan to Caishikou and execute him Ling Chi.The crimes used are mainly: Yuan Chonghuan colluded with the Houjin, and the Houjin army entered the pass to rob the Jingfu area.

On the day of the execution, the people in the capital who hated Yuan Chonghuan to the bone cheered and scrambled to eat his flesh, and Yuan Chonghuan also made a fuss without a whole body.

In all fairness, if you look at Yuan Chonghuan's charges, Yuan Chonghuan was wronged.After all, Yuan Chonghuan has been fighting Houjin all his life.There was no act of surrender.This is also in stark contrast to the large number of Han officials who surrendered after Jin.

However, Yuan Chonghuan, as the supervisor in charge of the Liaodong battle in the Ming Dynasty, controlled the largest army in the Ming Dynasty, took up most of the military pay of the Ming Dynasty, and received the most sufficient supply of money and food from Emperor Chongzhen.

But after Yuan Chonghuan boasted that he went to Haikou and said five years to Ping Liao, only one year later, the Jin army hit the capital area of ​​the Ming Dynasty.This is an unforgivable crime in any dynasty.

In a word: Yuan Chonghuan died because of his incompetence.

The consequences of Yuan Chonghuan's actions made the situation of the Ming Dynasty, which was relatively peaceful in Chongzhen's early years, quickly become worse.Therefore, it can also be said that Yuan Chonghuan was one of the chief culprits that caused the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

After receiving the news that the Ming army had recovered the four cities of Yongping, Emperor Chongzhen was ecstatic.Because this is the only bright spot displayed in the battle of the Ming army in this Jisi change.

Although in the memorial to the meritorious service, because Sun Chengzong wanted to balance and appease the Liaodong iron cavalry, Qin Liangyu's credit did not rank first.However, up to the Emperor Chongzhen and down to the ministers who know the situation of the battle, they all know that Qin Liangyu made the first contribution to the recovery of the four cities of Yongping.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen immediately sent a eunuch to reward the Ming army, and asked the eunuch to pass an edict to Qin Liangyu: tell Qin Liangyu to go to the capital immediately, and Emperor Chongzhen will summon her in person.And the eunuch who delivered the edict was none other than Wu Shigong's old acquaintance—Eunuch Qin.