There is no snow in the capital, the cold night is strong, and a few carriages rarely stop outside the Chengtian Gate, and a few people whisper something next to the car, shrinking their necks and stomping their feet from time to time.

At this time, a carriage came from the east, the car stopped on the east side of Chengtianmen, and an old man trembled and got off the car with the help of the coachman, and several people who were waiting hurriedly rushed forward to salute "The old man is here"

This old man is none other than Li Banghua, the seventy-year-old head of the cabinet, and several people around him at this time are not small, Li Mingrui of the East Palace, Wang Jiayan, the governor of Beijing, Ni Yuanlu, the head of the household department, Shi Bangzhao, and Gong Yonggu.

Chongzhen is diligent in government, and it is no accident that he summons important ministers into the palace at night to discuss major and urgent matters, but it is rare to summon so many people at once.

When he came up from the palace, he had already inquired about the news from the little eunuch, saying that after the emperor received a secret letter from the north, he immediately fidgeted and called him into the palace.

In the north, it is definitely a matter of the Qing army entering the customs, and Li Banghua's psychology is also unreliable when it comes to this, at this time the thieves in the south are the main culprits, and the Qing army took the opportunity to try to enter the customs, which is undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire.

The Ming court was already weak enough to deal with the thieves, and now the gathering of the Qing army caught the ministers off guard, and there was nothing to be done, no soldiers, no food, no money, and no way to stop it.

However, you can't just let the Qing army eat Ningyuan City so swaggeringly, break through the Shanhai Pass and enter the Central Plains.

So at this juncture, the courtiers who had been scolding the little eunuch in Dongchang collectively shut up and recommended him to supervise Ning Yuan.

Li Banghua didn't know much about Chang Yu and had no actual contact, but because the prince and Gong Yonggu and his protégé Li Mingrui had always praised him, and this little eunuch did not have any evil deeds with real evidence, but he became famous in Taiyuan to defeat the thieves and make him look at him differently, and he was one of the few ministers among the courtiers who had an objective attitude towards Chang Yu.

Brave and strategic, empty gloves white wolf, gathered a large army in Taiyuan, gathered food and salary, this ability, no one in the entire court dared to pat his chest and say that he could do it.

At this time, the border is tight, the situation is similar to the situation in Taiyuan, the money and food are insufficient, the best candidate is the little eunuch, and there is no one to send anyway!

The little eunuch has this ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, so it may be a big surprise, so when Chongzhen proposed to let him supervise the army, the cabinet rarely unanimously agreed, and no one even in the court objected!

The reason is simple! Some people agree with Chang Yu's ability and think that only he can try, and some people know that it is a place of death, and it is best to die

But now there is a secret letter from there, the emperor is restless, it is obviously the little eunuch who messed up, after all, he is not a god, but it has only been a few days, the Qing army has arrived at Ningyuan City at this time, or has it captured Ningyuan? Or did Wu Sangui surrender?

Li Banghua and the others were panicked in their hearts, and they went straight to the Qianqing Gate in a cranky way.

Chongzhen was still pacing back and forth, rubbing his hands back and forth, and the expression on his face was also changing repeatedly, one would be solemn, one would smile bitterly, one would be dazed, one would raise his eyebrows and sigh, Wang Chengen said several times next to him, "Don't worry, don't worry, rest first, a few adults will be here in a while" He turned a deaf ear.

As soon as Li Banghua and a few people entered the hall, Chongzhen hurriedly greeted him, and said without waiting for a few people to salute: "Pavilion Elder, something is wrong."

"Your Majesty, but it's a clear dog" Li Banghua's heart sank, halfway through the words, the secret letter in Chongzhen's hand had been handed to him, and he was slightly stunned and stretched out his hand to take it and open it, and then his face changed greatly, and he beckoned several people around him to look at it together, if not, everyone's faces were shocked

"It's a pity that I am so confused with you, when I heard that the Qing army was assembled, I thought it was Benning Yuancheng, but I didn't know that it wanted to take advantage of the weakness and go straight to the Beijing Division, if it was very Yu timely to find out its intentions, and wait for the Qing army to come to the city, the capital was empty, what did I do to resist, and wait for the future Qin King outside the capital to undoubtedly sit and wait for death" Chongzhen was angry.

Li Banghua and the others were all frowning and speechless, and secretly said in panic that it was a fluke, if it weren't for the clever eunuch, the Qing army would have been unblocked all the way and entered the capital, it would really be called heaven and earth not spiritual.

In addition to luck, Chongzhen was more shocked, when the thieves marched from Xi'an, the imperial court misjudged its offensive route, so that it retreated one after another, and eventually caused an irreparable situation, this prince's dream has confirmed, fortunately Chang Yu reversed it for a while, but I didn't think that this time I misjudged the offensive line of the Qing army, it was really unforgivable, unforgivable carelessness.

Of course, this kind of carelessness has a premise, the thieves are making trouble in the Central Plains, and their momentum is unstoppable, and there is a great opportunity to go north to attack the capital, and the attention of the imperial court is on this, and at this time, when he heard that the Qing army was gathering a large army, he hastily judged that it was to encroach on Ningyuan, and then enter the customs from Shanhaiguan, but he didn't know that he had made a mistake again, and it was the kind of mistake that was very likely to be fatal, but it happened that the little eunuch found out, and was setting up a bureau because he was in the trap.

If the Qing army entered the pass from the west from due north Miyun, the only troops that could be mobilized now were Wu Sangui's Ningyuan soldiers and horses, and Ningyuan City had to be discarded at that time, and the army ran back thousands of miles to meet the enemy, without any preparation in a hurry, and the logistics baggage was not in place at all, which was equivalent to sending people to the head.

Rather than this, it is better to let the Qing army go away, and the little eunuch is now asking the court to cooperate in a play, creating false news and releasing smoke bombs to lure Dolgon into the game.

Sorting out the cause and effect, Li Banghua smiled bitterly, sighing that he was not as good as the little eunuch, and almost made an irreparable mistake, but fortunately he found it early.

Seeing Chang Yu's secret strategy again, I couldn't help but sigh, what a big game!

"So the imperial court is now going to cooperate with Gonggong Chang to let Gao Di rebel in Shanhaiguan?"

"Do you have any other good plans besides?" Chongzhen asked rhetorically.

Everyone smiled bitterly and shook their heads.

That made Gao Di reversed, the thieves approached the capital, Wu Sangui was short of breath, just led the Qing army to Ningyuan, which could temporarily relieve the danger of the capital, but the little eunuch arrived in Ningyuan to live in the iron cavalry of the Qing army, when Hong Chengchou led the eight general soldiers and 130,000 horses to rescue Zu Dashou in vain and the whole army was wiped out, and now what can Ningyuan do with the small city and tens of thousands of horses?

Chongzhen, Li Banghua and others were all worried in their hearts, but fortunately, if Ning Yuan was not protected, they could return to Shanhaiguan, and according to Xiongguan, the Qing army wanted to come in, but it was not as easy as coming in from the north of the capital.

For now, let's solve the urgent need first, and as for the future, let's take a step at a time.

The lights at the Qianqing Gate were not extinguished all night.

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