Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace

Emperor Chongzhen frowned tightly, and buried his head in dealing with the twists and turns on the copywriting. The Manchu invasion is plundering Shandong, Henan is occupied by thieves, and the south has lost contact with the imperial court, which also greatly reduces Chongzhen's workload, but only this stall in Beijing is enough for him to be big.

Not long after the New Year, probably because there was no way to have a good New Year, those imperial historians jumped up and down, and they sprayed wildly when they caught something, and the court was still messy and quarreled every day.

Shandong's report came like raindrops, the Manchu Tartars had already captured Yanzhou, the king of Lu Zhu Yipai was captured and committed suicide, the Manchu Tartar soldiers divided into two routes, all the way to the east to attack Qingzhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou, all the way across the Yellow River to the south to attack Xuzhou. Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, fled in the first battle and fled to the direction of Huai'an, Xuzhou.

Zhao Guangbian, the governor of Jiliao, led tens of thousands of troops to garrison Tongzhou, and there were two generals Tang Tong and Bai Guangen, but even if Chongzhen ordered and urged, he did not dare to lead his troops to the south.

So the imperial court discussed that an important minister should be sent as a supervisor, and the governor of Gyeonggi should be surrounded by soldiers and horses, and the Manchu Tartars should not be allowed to calmly return to Guanwai with countless wealth and hundreds of thousands of Ming people. But the discussion came and went, but no one dared to take the initiative. Guy didn't end well if he dared to come forward, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, and Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department.

In the end, the responsibility fell on the first assistant Zhou Yanru, who had no choice but to take the initiative to ask Ying to be willing to go out of the city to lead the troops, but he was reluctant to leave on the grounds that there was no food.

Chongzhen looked at the twists and turns in front of him, only to feel that each one was like a knife, and the knife pierced his incomparably fragile heart, and his heart had become extremely numb through a thousand holes.....

Wu Mengming walked in softly and put a bunch of papers on the table.

"What is this?" Chongzhen glanced at it and asked coldly. When reviewing the recitals, he hates being disturbed by others, even if it is a confidant old man like Wu Mengming.

"Back to the emperor, this is the Xishan soldier Chen Yue sent someone to send it to Weichen, begging Weichen to transfer it to the emperor." Wu Mengming said softly.

"It's Chen Yue," Chongzhen's tone softened, "He is also a minister of the imperial court, how to do things so unorganized, why don't you write a chapter if there is something, and the general administration department will play it normally?" ”

"It may be that the matter is urgent, and he feels that it is too much time to be transferred to the cabinet by the General Secretary. After all, he now has another identity as a Jinyi Wei Baihu. Although Chongzhen's tone was very light, he felt a cool air rise from his back, he was the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard, but he was in contact with the foreign ministers who were leading the troops outside, if Chongzhen cared? Thinking of this, Wu Mengming broke out in a cold sweat.

"Okay, Chen Yue has the Shang Fang Sword given by me, and if there is something to tell me directly, it will cause a lot of trouble through the cabinet." Gently tapping Wu Mengming's two sentences, Chongzhen opened the chapter and looked at it carefully.

Wu Mengming carefully looked at Chongzhen's face, and saw that his brows were sometimes wrinkled, sometimes soothing, sometimes gritting his teeth and raising his brows, and in the end, his face was completely soothed, and his face showed a slight smile.

"What a Chen Yue, what a rude military household, he is so reckless!" Chongzhen said, but the tone of his voice did not have a trace of reproach, but with a hint of joy.

Seeing Wu Mengming and the waiting eunuch Wang Chengen looking confused, Chongzhen smiled and said, "You two should also take a look and see what this reckless man has done." ”

"Don't dare!" Wu Mengming hurriedly said, Wang Chengen is the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, it doesn't hurt to look at the chapter, he is a deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard, but he is not qualified to watch.

"Let's see, sooner or later, you will go out of the palace to do things for me, so Tong Yangxing has really not been able to do things well in the past few years." Chongzhen said lightly, but Wu Mengming's spirit was lifted, and he hurriedly came to Wang Chengen, who picked up the fold, and watched it together. Tong Yangxing is the current commander of the Jinyi Guard, and it seems that Chongzhen is already extremely dissatisfied with him.

"500,000 taels of silver, I can't imagine that these coal blacks are so rich. This Chen Yue is really a lucky general, this can solve a big problem for me, and the salary and silver for sending troops to fight are all together. Chongzhen rubbed his hands excitedly and paced in the hall.

Wu Mengming watched the twists and turns, but the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, others didn't know the details of those coal mine owners, but he knew it well, the profits of coal mines were very large, and even the eunuchs in the palace were involved, Chen Yue actually wiped out all the coal mines in Xishan, which was really bold.

For the first time, Wu Mengming regretted his relationship with Chen Yue a little, if such a person can't rise to the top, he will definitely fall into the abyss, and there are many benefits to interacting with him, and the relationship is also very great.

"Emperor, this Chen Yue is a little bold, how can he deal with these coal mine owners without interrogation, where is the law and discipline of the court put in this way?" Wang Chengen said softly to Chongzhen.

"Huh?" Chongzhen glanced at Wang Chengen in surprise, "Didn't you read Chen Yue's report, thousands of miners gathered, almost into a riot, Xishan is so close to Beijing, there are tens of thousands of miners, if the miners really riot, the consequences are unimaginable, fortunately, Chen Yue dealt with it decisively, led the troops to raid the homes of the mine owners, and found evidence of their fornication with the mountain bandits, which made the miners relieve their hatred and disperse." ”

"But, he shouldn't be too involved." Wang Chengen said softly, it is impossible for all mine owners to collude with the mountain bandits, but how could Chen Yue catch them all, this is obviously greedy for the property of the mine owners!

"Extraordinary things are done in extraordinary times, and there is no need to talk about this matter!" Chongzhen waved his hand and motioned to end the topic.

Wang Chengen sighed, pinched the silver ticket in his sleeve, and said secretly, the heart of the king, the heart of the king, the emperor has been fascinated by the silver, but there is no way for our family!

In the early court of the next day, when the ministers were still arguing about the salary of the troops, Chongzhen suddenly said that he would take out 400,000 taels of silver as the salary of the troops, and then take out 100,000 taels to make up the arrears of the officials.

When Ni Yuanlu, the head of the household, asked where the silver came from in surprise, Chongzhen only said one sentence, and then announced his retirement from the court, leaving behind the shocked ministers.

"Congratulations to Yuanfu, this time the Inspector and the Manchu Tartars are fighting, we must be victorious, defeat the Manchus, and raise the prestige of my Ming Dynasty!" The second assistant Chen Yan stood in front of Zhou Yanru and said with a smile. 400,000 taels of silver, barely enough to send troops, Zhou Yanru can no longer excuse himself.

Looking at the political enemy with a mocking face, Zhou Yanru snorted and walked away. Chen Yan smiled and walked out of the court.