After the end of this battle, Xiao Tianjian did not miss the opportunity to build momentum, and immediately announced the results of this battle to the world, so the imperial court did not need to send someone to investigate, and soon learned the news that Sun Chuanting was defeated and captured, and Wu Sangui died in the chaos.

As soon as the news came out, the Beijing division was shocked, whether it was Chongzhen and the courtiers, they all panicked, this can be described as stealing chickens and rice, the imperial court in order to mobilize the Liaodong Army to the south to suppress the Xingtian Army this time, pinching his nose and Jiannu to negotiate peace, has already caused the resentment of the Ming Dynasty, but the result of doing so, not only did not exterminate the Xingtian Army, but even another governor Sun Chuanting was captured by the Xingtian Army, and the people from all walks of life suffered heavy losses, and Wu Sangui, the heavy general of Liaodong, also died in Yanggu County, The elite officers and troops under his command were basically wiped out, and even the Baoding officers and troops that Sun Chuanting had managed to pull up in the past year were basically exhausted.

In addition, Bai Guangen's men and horses also suffered huge losses, and the losses of his men and horses exceeded fifty percent, and even the remaining officers and soldiers were full of panic, which could be regarded as a complete loss of combat effectiveness.

This time, the number of officials and troops who went south, at this time, only Yang Guozhu and Ma Ke were left, and the strength of the two roads was still there, so there was a big uproar in the court, and some officials first thought of what to do with the next kind of chaos, but the first thing to consider was the question of who to hold responsible, so they wrote to impeach, some people impeached Sun Chuanting as a governor but inspected the thief's situation, so that the army that the court finally made up was defeated, and some people impeached Ma Ke, Bai Guangen and others, in short, they had to find someone to carry this black pot. Some people even directly impeached Chen Xinjia, saying that he had no way to mobilize troops and horses, and misjudged the thief's feelings, which made Sun Chuanting defeated and captured.

In short, the official will not say that he is responsible, whoever does the work is whose fault, to pull a few people out to carry this black pot, and Chongzhen is helpless for such a situation, in the end can only pick up the soft persimmon pinch, Wang Pu's strength was greatly damaged, so he was demoted first, and then Sun Chuanting was defeated and captured, life and death are unknown, this black pot is just Sun Chuanting to back, so he ordered to seize Sun Chuanting's official position, and he was demoted to the common people in the end.

And Bai Guangen's current generals are basically consumed, and after the person who went to Shunde Mansion to inquire about the battle situation accepted Ma Ke's bribe, he accused Bai Guangen of the defeat of the army, which was caused by his lone advance, so Chongzhen was furious and ordered to take away Bai Guangen's post as the chief soldier, but for the time being, he also made his leader of the army guilty of meritorious service.

As for Chen Xinjia, the target of the courtiers' key impeachment, Chongzhen didn't bother to protect him this time, because this time he ordered Sun Chuanting to rush to aid Jining, originally Sun Chuanting was worried, and felt that it was likely to be a plan of the thief, but Chen Xinjia thought that the thief attacked Jining was true, and as a result, he, the "Ming Jun", was finally confused by it, and ordered Sun Chuanting to rush to Jining, which eventually led to Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui being ambushed in Yanggu County, and the whole army was annihilated.

So Chen Xinjia is indeed responsible in this matter, and for this matter, the government and the opposition linked it with the matter of making peace with Jiannu, and scolded Chen Xinjia as a national thief, the two things together, if Chongzhen does not make a little move, then he will not be able to explain to the government and the opposition, so Chongzhen had to issue an order to remove Chen Xinjia from the post of secretary of the military department, and at the same time issued an order to arrest him and hold him accountable, but he was not immediately beheaded.

But who to arrest and who to belittle, now is not the key to the problem, the key is that after the defeat of Sun Chuanting's army, the army that the imperial court finally transferred into the Guannai no longer has the ability to continue to enter and suppress the Xingtian Army, what worries Chongzhen even more is that there are not many officials and troops in Jingfu at the moment, once the Xingtian thief takes this opportunity to take advantage of the power of the great victory and take advantage of the situation to go north to attack the Jingshi, what should he do, do you continue to transfer the officers and troops outside the Guannai to the Imperial Guard?

This is obviously not possible, the Xingtian thief does have the heart of the Ming Dynasty, but it is not necessarily that Jiannu does not have such a mind, although Chongzhen is forced to negotiate peace with Jiannu, but he knows very well that Jiannu is not a good thing, the reason why he is negotiating peace with Daming at the moment is that they have their plans, if he continues to withdraw troops from outside the pass, blocking the Xingtian thief, then once Jiannu takes this opportunity to tear his face and break the pass and go south, he will still have to play.

Therefore, it will definitely not work to continue to transfer troops into the customs, so after Chongzhen thought about it again, he could only order Ma Ke and Yang Guozhu to be stationed in Guangping Mansion and Xuanda to resist the enemy, change the offensive to the defensive, and no longer send them south to suppress the Heavenly Army.

At this time, Chongzhen was still facing a big problem, Yang Sichang was dead, Chen Xinjia was arrested and questioned again, and his center had few auxiliary ministers who could give him advice, so Chongzhen thought about it again and again, and decided to use Fu Zonglong as the secretary of the military department to take over Chen Xinjia's position.

So Fu Zonglong immediately took office and began to replace Chen Xinjia to continue to do things, but Fu Zonglong can only be said to be at a loss for the current situation. But how can you recruit troops without money?

Chongzhen also supports Fu Zonglong's idea of organizing and training a new army, after all, he wants to defend his Daming country, and there are no soldiers and horses to guard a fart! But if you want to buy soldiers and horses, you have to spend money, and now Chongzhen has just allocated 300,000 taels of internal silver, and the internal silver is about to bottom out, where does this money come from?

Continue to count on Ding Qirui's side to transfer from Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places! Ding Qirui said clearly, in order to resist the attack of the Xingtian thieves on Nanzhili, he had already scraped the ground three feet on his side, and he collected all the money he could get, and some of it was transferred to the Beijing Division, and the other part was used to recruit soldiers and horses in Nanzhili to build weapons, armor, weapons and warships, and now he can't get the money at all.

Poor Chongzhen as the emperor, but at this time for the problem of money, he was so worried that he had a lot of gray hair overnight, and finally Fu Zonglong, who had just taken office, proposed to let the nobles and ministers in the court donate money to help the army, in fact, everyone understands that the noble courtiers of the Ming Dynasty dare not say that everyone is rich and rivals the country, but every household is not poor, and the really poor officials are almost extinct, especially those relatives of the emperor, who is not so rich that they are oily! As long as everyone takes out a part of the money, there is still no problem in drawing out a few million taels of silver among the Jingshi alone.

Fu Zonglong said clearly, there are eggs under the nest, if these people don't come up with money at this time, then once they wait for Jingshi to be captured by the Xingtian thief or Jiannu, how can they be cheaper than these Ming nobles and ministers?

So after hearing this, Chongzhen thought so, and didn't care what kind of respect he was, put down his face, and immediately convened the emperor's relatives and ministers to discuss this matter, and personally persuaded them to come up with some money to help the imperial court, buy new soldiers and horses, and suppress the Xingtian thieves, not only for these people Chongzhen wants them to take money, even the ministers and eunuchs, Chongzhen also knows that these guys have received a lot of bribes, and they are all very rich, and they also want them to take out the money.

At this time, a country is really very sad, the country's finances are no longer able to cope with the current situation, and it has to rely on the donations of courtiers to maintain the operation of a country, and the country is basically in danger of survival.

But when Chongzhen proposed to let these people donate, he found that things were far from being as simple as he thought, these people never thought of using money to recruit troops and horses for the Ming Dynasty, and now the imperial court not only did not give them money, but asked them to take out the money from their pockets and give it to the Ming Dynasty, so they all became turtles with shrunken heads, and they refused to take out the money for anything.

The eunuchs were because they wanted to eat with Chongzhen, and at this time the emperor spoke, and they couldn't help but take out a little money to show it, so the big eunuchs Wang Yongzuo, Wang Dehua, and Cao Huachun each gave 50,000 taels of silver, and among the eunuchs, Wang Xinxin was the richest, but he was unwilling to take it out, and only donated 10,000 taels of silver.

Chongzhen wanted his father-in-law, Queen Zhou's father, Zhou Kui, to set an example, take out 108,000 taels of silver, make an appearance for others, and call on more people to donate, but Zhou Kui, this guy, regards money as his life, and refuses to pay, so he rejected Chongzhen's proposal, saying that he had no money to take at all, and in the end, it was his daughter Queen Zhou who was in the palace, and put together 20,000 taels of silver to secretly give it to her father, so that his father could take it out to make up the number, but this Zhou Kui was good, after the 20,000 taels of silver were in hand, he was reluctant to hand it over, In the end, he gritted his teeth and took out 10,000 taels of silver, and with such a reversal, Chongzhen, the old man, not only did not pay a penny, but also earned 10,000 taels of silver into the account.

Even the emperor's father-in-law refused to take out the money, so there was no need to expect others to be generous, so those officials in the government and the opposition collectively cried poor, and everyone seemed to be unable to open the pot, putting on a posture of asking for money but not a life, in short, the emperor couldn't beg for food, saying that no money is no money, in short, he refused to take it out if he had money! After tossing like this for half a month, Chongzhen only raised hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the capital, plus the 50,000 taels of silver he allocated from the inner treasury, it was still not enough at all.

Just when Chongzhen was busy looking for money to continue recruiting troops and horses, there was another bad news from Taiyuan, and Taiyuan Mansion was finally lost on the seventh day of the fourth month.