Chapter 704. save oneself
The bad news simply passed into Nanjing City one by one, the news of Li Zicheng's death was not received, and the news of the fall of Wuchang had already smashed on the door of a group of Donglin leaders, and then, for only eleven days, it could be called the absolute main force of the empire, and Chu Town, which had an army of 400,000, collapsed, and even Liu Liu Zongmin also incorporated some of Zuo Liangyu's defeated troops, plus the army that Huguang swept the ground for the soldiers, and the army swelled to 500,000.
"Bastard Warrior !!"
This time, it was finally the turn of Emperor Hongguang to come up with some emperor majesty, and the huge court hall was silent, and only the roar of Zhu Yousong's pig roared echoed.
"An army of more than 400,000 people, millions of silver every year, can't even withstand half a month, and raising a pig is stronger than his Zuo Liangyu! This bastard is a waste, raising a son is so unfaithful and unfilial, he actually took refuge in ......, took refuge in ......, and the family was a straw bale!"
Immediately followed by Zuo Liangyu lost Wuchang, Jiujiang Governor Yuan Jixian sent an eight-hundred-mile expedited, Zuo Liangyu died of illness in Xiaogan, and the young marshal Zuo Mengeng, who inherited his position, directly crossed the river with 30,000 remnants and surrendered to Beiming, the last line of defense in Huguang was abandoned, and now the army is in the distribution of Zuo Liangyu's army, and there will be more than ten days, and it is expected that it will go straight to Nanjing with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai.
It's no wonder that Emperor Hongguang was angry, in order to raise Chu Town, he squeezed out a lot of money in the palace house, and the selection of show girls was also cut in half, just now Qian Qianyi also gave his hottest and most beautiful twenty show girls as gifts to Mao Jue, and when Chu Zhen turned around, it was easy for people to even serve the pot, and it was strange that he was not angry.
However, if the anger can solve the problem, Chongzhen will not lose the country, after a burst of anger, Zhu Yousong slapped his thigh sadly, and gave his hand to the gentlemen of Donglin who were silent on weekdays.
"Gentlemen, you have something to say! How to deal with the current situation! ”
"Mr. Qian, come on!"
Qian Qianyi couldn't wait to shrink his neck, but in front of everyone, he still stood up and bowed heavily to the dragon chair.
"The old minister thinks that when he ......, he should ask the Jingshi for help!"
"Nonsense!"
It's just a light in my eyes, just waiting for this party fight! Huang Zongxi, the capital of the Restoration Society, drifted out of the court class with a beautiful head facing the ground and a butt facing the sky, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, while pointing at Qian Qianyi's nose and scolding.
"Lord Qian, you are still the elder of the country and the minister of the four dynasties, can you say such ruinous words? That Mao Rebellious, Dong Zhuo's Wang Mang's generation, the wolf's ambitious person! Only in the north to murder the enlightened emperor, I was the Ming Dynasty, disobedient to the emperor, at this time to lead the soldiers across the river, is tantamount to leading thieves into the house, and the tiger skin! Lord Qian, do you want me to bury your hands? ”
"Why did Lord Huang say this? The enlightened emperor abused the people and was brutal and was expelled by the people's riots, even so, the Northern Emperor was still merciful, gave the marquis of Derang, and also divided the land of a county in the Wa country, and continued to sacrifice! Enemies of the world of thieves! The South Ming and the North Ming are in the same breath, just to deal with it together, Lord Huang is completely the heart of a villain and the belly of a gentleman! Prevent me from continuing the aid of the incense, did Lord Huang accept the benefits of the thief and want to be the thief's courtier? ”
The township party is the party, the master and apprentice are the party, this Qian Qianyi didn't wait for rebuttal, his student, Zheng Qiusu, who is also the imperial history, had already pounced out like a vicious dog, pointing at his nose and scolding.
Where can I see the same party suffering? This Fang Yizhi, Chen Zilong, Gu Zunxian and a series of people in the Fu Society rushed to roar and jumped out, and they were about to beat Zheng Qiusu with their tongues, seeing that the court meeting was about to evolve into a vegetable market, this time, a heavy cough sounded violently, interrupting everyone's words.
In disbelief, the two factions looked at Qian Qianyi and walked to the front with a solemn face, and shook his head.
"Ladies and gentlemen, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, it was because of the disturbances of the ministers that the first emperor was indecisive, missed the opportunity to transfer troops and move the capital, and the army of thieves was going to come to Jiangnan anytime and anywhere! You want to scold, and you will scold! Go to my money house and scold! Pointing at my money and scolding someone's nose! Now, it's important to come up with a way to deal with it!"
Qian Qianyi's words brought a fierce party struggle to an abrupt end, it seems that he has experienced a loss of the country, and he does have a heavy touch on these traditional scholars, but he finally knows the truth of empty talk and misleading the country, seeing many courtiers squirming and retreating, Qian Qianyi is a heavy fist at Huang Zongxi, who came out to scold him.
"Huang Sheng, since you don't agree with the old man's method of inviting the northern soldiers to suppress the thieves, what idea do you have, don't hide it when the national disaster is at hand!"
In the end, he is still an old slippery head, first stood on the commanding heights of morality, and backhanded another car, Huang Zongxi, who asked this, was dumbfounded, indeed, he is a genius, one of the four sons in the late Ming Dynasty, or the founder of the Eastern Zhejiang School, but after all, he is also a scholar, Zuo Liangyu's 400,000 army has collapsed, what can he do without the power of a chicken?
After stumbling for a long time, he hugged his fist with difficulty: "Dang, fight to the death according to the city!"
"Huh! That's what Chen Yan, a university scholar, said to the emperor back then!"
Zheng Qiusu sneered quietly, and Huang Zongxi's face was flushed, but at this time, Qian Qianyi obviously had no mood to pursue the victory, so he only sighed in disappointment and turned his head.
The entire court once again fell into silence, but everyone knew in their hearts that if they couldn't stop the fierce offensive of the intruding army, then it was inevitable to ask for help from the north and be annexed by the Beijing Division and the Northern Ming Dynasty, after all, everyone saw it in the eyes of Li Zicheng when he entered Beijing, it was really tortured to death, and the work of losing his head, Mao Jue, although he may not be able to become an official, may lose a lot of land, but he can still save his life and continue to enjoy wealth and prosperity. Even because Mao Jue left a way for Emperor Kaiming to live, even Zhu Yousong couldn't help but waver.
But at this moment, a soft voice finally broke the dead silence, as if he didn't want to embarrass his friends, and it seemed that he had some plans, Fang Yizhi was in the court, knelt heavily on the ground, and kowtowed.
"Your Majesty! How can the major military affairs be without the first assistant scholar, and the first assistant once presided over the two Huai defense lines, after all, he has the experience of supervising the army, and the minister asks His Majesty to announce the first assistant to the palace!"
This proposal was really unexpected by a group of bigwigs of the Donglin Party, and after a few seconds, Qian Qianyi looked at the top of Donglin, Gao Hongtu, Gao Hongtu, the second assistant Gao Hongtu, Wang Qia, the scholar of Wuyingdian University, Jiang Yueguang, the part-time secretary of the Ministry of Wuyingdian, and several other Donglin bigwigs also considered for more than a minute, and then nodded with difficulty.
"The minister seconded the proposal!"
Anyway, it has come to this juncture, and the party's struggle for power and fame has lost its meaning, no matter how bad it is, how bad can it be?
All the bigwigs nodded, and Zhu Yousong was also "as good as a stream", and immediately shouted loudly: "Come here, pass on the first auxiliary university scholar Shi Kefa to the palace!"
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Since the Donglin coup, Shi Kefa has completely faded out of politics for a long time, and it is said that power is the elixir of people, and it is really so, Shi Kefa, who is in his fifties, has gray hair, and the old one says that he is seventy years old, and some people believe it, and he is quite trembling and ascends the hall.
Seeing him kneeling in the hall, even if Zhu Yousong looked a little emotional, he forgot a lot of things in his support, and sighed, Zhu Yousong asked heavily.
"The army of thieves is pressing, what is Mr. Shi's best strategy for retreating from the enemy?"
To tell the truth, from the eunuch's mouth, he learned that Zuo Liangyu's soldiers were defeated and died, and Chu Zhen's entire army was annihilated, even Shi Kefa was shocked for a long time, full of disbelief, in his opinion, Li Zicheng's death happened to be a big opportunity to recover Huguang, how did it become a catastrophe for the imperial court?
Fortunately, after all, he is a person who has experienced great storms and waves, and has experienced a real military test, on the carriage that entered the palace, he had already relieved his breath, thinking about how to deal with it, listening to Zhu Yousong's inquiry, he was confident.
"Warlord!"
"The main battle? What to fight? ”
Without waiting for Zhu Yousong to speak, this time it was Wang Cha's turn to jump out like a madman, pointing at Shi Kefa's nose and scolding: "There are 500,000 thieves, and even Zuo Liangyu was defeated and died, do you want Your Majesty to repeat the mistakes of the previous emperor?" ”
"I heard that your lordships have formed a New Beifu Army?"
Shi Kefa raised his head and said softly, and the choked Wang Cha was dumbfounded.
After the destruction of the three towns in Jiangbei, Gao Hongtu, Qian Qianyi and others formed a new Beifu army of 1780,000 people to replace it, and it once became the political achievement of the Donglin Party, but they knew their own affairs, this group of Xinbeifu and the historical Beifu army were not at all a thing, and they were not as good as Zuo Liangyu's new annexed army, don't look at the military salary that costs more than 1.3 million taels a year, but it is useful to scare and scare the people, Qian Qianyi and others didn't think about them at all.
At this time, it was brought up by Shi Kefa as a matter, and it really tasted like a naked slap in the face.
There is no regular choking on the side of Wang Qia who is silent, Shi Kefa continued to kowtow and said: "Although the thieves are menacing, but after all, the territory is small and the country is lacking, and I heard that the battle of Zuozhen is a desperate gamble of the thief army, and suddenly attacked, Zuozhen was divided and surrounded, not necessarily good at water warfare, and Yuan Jixian, the governor of Jiujiang, is an upright official, diligent in training, and the Poyang Lake water division can still fight, the old minister believes that when the thieves swept Chu and collected food, quickly send reinforcements to block the road to the east of Poyang Lake. ”
"Back then, Taizu used this place to fight Chen Youliang's 600,000 army, and under the first battle, Chen Youliang was wiped out! Based on this, I have not been without the strength to fight!"
After impassionedly finishing his entire paragraph, Shi Kefa raised his head excitedly, but looking at whether it was Emperor Hongguang or the leaders of Donglin, they were all full of doubts, and smiled bitterly in his heart, Shi Kefa kowtowed again.
"Even if the envoy goes north to ask for troops, it will take more than a month for the envoy to arrive in Beijing immediately, even if the Sea Emperor is merciful and immediately sends troops south, it will take a month for the envoy to arrive in Xuzhou, and it will take at least two and a half months for the Xuzhou army to mobilize troops and horses to cross the river."
"During this time, we have to rely on ourselves to survive! Ladies and gentlemen!"
This is much more reliable than the Taizu battle against Chen Youliang just now, even if he wants to surrender, he has to hold on, this time Wang Cha didn't even fight, and took the lead in kowtowing: "The old minister seconded the proposal!"
Immediately after, several Donglin bigwigs also nodded!
The weakened Southern Ming Dynasty finally had some positive reactions.
However, the Nanjing monarchs and ministers who were struggling on the verge of life and death didn't know that no matter how they tossed, Mao Jue, who was firmly seated in Beijing, was already a winner, and from the moment Li Zicheng died, he won! Please Baidu "Throw Book Network" Thank you for your support!