After the courtiers debated for a long time and could not reach a unified opinion, Li Kuilong, the imperial envoy of the left vice-capital, proposed that this candidate should be handed over to the Holy Judge.

Zhu Youzhen also felt a headache when he looked at these courtiers who did not give in to each other, it was not that he didn't want to make a decision, but none of the candidates proposed by these people were to his liking. And these people may not dare to drastically reduce the intertwined Beijing camp, and in the end it is just another trick to change the soup but not the medicine.

He coughed a few times and cleared his throat before he said vaguely: "Before deciding on the candidate, I felt that whether it was the governor of Jingying Rongzheng or the assistant Jingying Rongzheng, it was enough to set up one. Having a governor and an assistant at the same time will only make it impossible for the army below to do so.

Second, before deciding on the candidate for the presiding over the Jingying Rongzheng administration, we should first decide what conditions the candidate for the presiding officer of the Jingying Rongzheng government needs to have. ”

Before Zhu Youzhen's voice fell, Li Kuilong immediately followed up and praised: "Your Majesty's sacred heart is like a torch, and the ministers and others are suddenly opened, this is to determine the conditions first and then decide on the candidates, it is really a wonderful strategy..."

Although they despised Li Kuilong's despicable performance, most of the courtiers also thought that what Chongzhen said was reasonable.

Shoufu Huang Li couldn't help but ask cautiously: "What is Your Majesty's so-called condition?" Zhu Youzhen glanced at Shoufu before speaking.

"First of all, this candidate's relationship with the generals of the Beijing camp must not be too deep, otherwise he will not be able to carry out the matter of dismantling the Beijing camp. What do you think? ”

The first condition that Chongzhen said was to directly reject all the nobles, and the civil officials were naturally excited about this, and they echoed Chongzhen's suggestion one after another.

Faced with this situation, the nobles could only acquiesce, but some military ministers stood silently, looking at the performance of the civil officials on the opposite side of the royal road, and they didn't know what they were thinking.

After seeing that the courtiers accepted the first suggestion he made, Zhu Youzhen looked at Yuan Chonghuan, who was standing below, with shining eyes, racking his brains to think about how to exclude him from the candidates.

After being silent for a while, Zhu Youzhen continued: "The second one, the person in charge of the government of the Beijing camp, who has been in office for a long time, will inevitably be very powerful in the Beijing camp. In order to avoid suspicion among the monarchs and ministers, the capital is uneasy, so I think two restrictions should be set.

1. The person in charge of the government of Beijing shall not be re-elected for more than two consecutive terms, each of which shall be five years. 2. Those who have held this position shall not be allowed to join the cabinet in the future, nor shall they be able to serve as the chief officials of the six ministries and science and technology. ”

As soon as Chongzhen said this, several civil officials who were hoping to compete for this position immediately retreated.

Yuan Chonghuan also lowered his head and no longer paid attention to the eyes of his mentor Han Yi. Although he was only the 40th Jinshi in the 3rd class in the 47th year of Wanli, he did not pass the Shu Jishi examination.

But Yuan Chonghuan has always believed that he will become a figure who will turn the tide and leave a name in history. Maybe for others, it is an insurmountable threshold for non-Hanlin to enter the cabinet, but Yuan Chonghuan feels that he should be the exception.

At the beginning, Guangning was lost, Wang Huazhen and Xiong Tingbi fled and returned, and painted Shanhaiguan as a guard. The officials of the Beijing Division, when it comes to Liao affairs, are all shrunken and dare not take office.

Only Yuan Chonghuan thought that this was his opportunity, and he didn't even make a report, so he rode out of the Yueguan and outside the customs alone.

At that time, Yuan Chonghuan was the head of the Ministry of War, and he disappeared for no reason, and his colleagues in the Ministry of War did not know his whereabouts, and they were surprised for a while.

The military department sent people to inquire about his family, and the family members also felt inexplicable. A few days later, Yuan Chonghuan returned to the court, and everyone knew that he had gone to check the situation outside the border.

After coming back, Yuan Chonghuan went to Bengu to close the situation. He said: "Give my army Maqian Valley, and I will guard this alone!" The courtiers called him talented, so he over-promoted, supervised the foreign army, and issued a salary of 200,000 yuan for recruitment.

It's just that they disappeared for a few days, and then they said a big word, and then the courtiers who were frightened by Houjin Bingfeng were promoted and paid again.

From this incident, Yuan Chonghuan suddenly understood that it is not difficult to break the rules in this world, as long as you say the right thing at the right time.

For the war that threatens the security of the capital, those in power in the court want to hear not the news of the defeat, nor the detailed plan of how to solve the problem, but to give them a reassurance.

Then Yuan Chonghuan's luck was also very good, when he drove out of the customs, the Houjin army had already returned to Shenyang after looting supplies.

Of course, he took all the money given to Yuan Chonghuan by the imperial court to settle down, of course, his own family and the homes of his courtiers. With such a large amount of 200,000 gold, he had to carry it with him, and it was impossible for him to rush to the front line overnight.

took a risk and obtained tens of thousands of gold and was promoted to vice official, how could Yuan Chonghuan, who had tasted the sweetness, not repeat the old trick.

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, after replacing Sun Chengzong as the commander of Liaodong, he wanted to withdraw Ningjin's troops at Shanhaiguan.

Du Tuntong, who made a fortune by reselling military rations, sentenced Jin Qiliang and immediately wrote to Yuan Chonghuan asking him to refuse. Yuan Chonghuan, who also had a leg in the reselling of military rations, had to write to the court at this time, saying the absurd words "the art of war advances and does not retreat".

Of course, this general judge who dared to threaten Yuan Chonghuan soon died heroically in the later war.

Then Yuan Chonghuan also spent money to incite public opinion in Beijing, saying that after Gao Di took office, he withdrew all the soldiers and horses from Jinzhou, Youtun, Songshan, Xingshan, Da, Xiaolinghe and other places, and abandoned more than 100,000 stones of grain. Yuan Chonghuan seemed to have forgotten at this time that the initiative to retreat was different from the retreat with the enemy army chasing after him.

Gao Di ordered the retreat at the end of October of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and on the 14th day of the first month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Jin soldiers crossed the Liao River.

That is to say, these hungry Liaodong soldiers sealed the military rations and left them for the Houjin army, and then withdrew to the front line of Guangning hungry.

Yuan Chonghuan said in the book: "I am Ning Qiandao, and the official deserves to die here." Don't go! Such bold words once again gave him the title of probationary envoy.

And in the battle of Ningyuan's defense of the city, Yuan Chonghuan first said, "It is a service, and there are more than 17,000 slaves and thieves who have lost their lives." ”

Then he wrote to his friend Qu Shiyun and said: "If the cannon crosses, it is not counted to kill the northern cavalry; and the Yellow Dragon Curtain, injuring a king. The northern cavalry said that it was unfavorable to send troops, wrapped the body in leather, and ran away crying. ”

At the end of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, it was rumored that it was Nurhachi himself who was injured by artillery in this battle, and because he was wounded by artillery, the old slave died in Shenyang on September 30 in the sixth year of the Apocalypse.

As these rumors became more and more outrageous, this battle of Ningyuan became a politically correct victory.

In the Battle of Ningyuan, the 6 or 700,000 bean grains looted and burned by the Later Jin Army, as well as the 7,000 sailors and 7,000 merchants including Jin Guan, a staff general who was slaughtered by the Later Jin Army on Juehua Island, became an insignificant flaw in the victory of Yuan Chonghuan.

After the Battle of Ningyuan, the Ministry of War received a report from Yuan Chonghuan that there were only 269 people, which was almost 60 times different from the number of more than 17,000 slave soldiers he boasted.

This gap in the number of enemies destroyed suddenly made Wei Zhongxian and the Emperor of the Apocalypse overwhelmed, and at this time, it was not clear to the two monarchs and ministers that the battle of Ningyuan was actually a naked defeat.

However, because the imperial court rarely won a victory over the Later Jin army, as soon as Yuan Chonghuan's report document arrived in the capital, it was almost sent to the world by Wei Zhongxian to boost the morale of the army in Liaodong, which was depressed due to successive defeats.

And at that time, Wei Zhongxian thought that although these civil and military officials who fought on the front line would always mix water in the good news, the most outrageous thing was to exaggerate two or three times. The capture of 17,000 people, after removing the water, basically has the appearance of 5 or 6 thousand slave soldiers.

However, Wei Zhongxian had seen the lower limit of some imaginative warriors in the past, and he did not understand where the lower limit of an imaginative literati was.

What made Wei Zhongxian and Emperor Tianqi most angry was that none of the 269 heads sent were real slave soldiers, and they all looked like Ming soldiers after surrendering.

But at this time, the imperial court had already released the news of Ningyuan's victory, and the rewards of the Liaodong armies had already been distributed. Yuan Chonghuan even became the governor of Liaodong in one fell swoop, and the right attendant of the military department was added, and he was in the shadow of thousands of households.

At this time, it was also the most intense time when Wei Zhongxian and the Donglin Party struggled in the DPRK and China. In August of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, after gaining a comprehensive advantage over the Donglin Party in the court, Wei Zhongxian began to demolish all the academies across the country starting from the Donglin Academy, trying to attack the influence of the Donglin Party among the people.

The news of Ningyuan's great victory in the sixth year of the Apocalypse came to the eunuch party, which had just fully dominated the imperial court, it was a good news like timely rain.

This victory is undoubtedly proving that the continuous defeat of Liaodong before is the reason for the Donglin Party. Now that Gonggong Wei has driven the Donglin Party out of the court, Liaodong has ushered in victory, doesn't it mean that the Donglin Party is treacherous?

Moreover, the news of Ningyuan's victory also showed that the center of the Ming Dynasty still had a powerful force, which made the gentry everywhere suddenly lose the courage to support the Donglin party.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Cui Chengxiu arrested the seven leaders of the Donglin Party who had rushed home again in February of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and wanted to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian realized that this unprecedented victory was actually a defeat, and disposing of Yuan Chonghuan at this time was undoubtedly the best excuse for the Donglin Party to attack the Eunuch Party.

Once the world was in turmoil because of this, Wei Zhongxian knew that even His Majesty the Apocalypse could only push him out to prevent the disaster.

What's more, if Ning Yuan's victory is to be held accountable, then the Liaodong armies, who were rewarded for their merits before, have undoubtedly become sinners who deceived the imperial court, and the blow is too wide.

Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian had to pinch their noses to recognize the existence of Ning Yuan's great victory, and acquiesced in Yuan Chonghuan's falsification of military exploits.

It should be said that Yuan Chonghuan's behavior was very bad, and Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian's response was even more inadequate. Since Ningyuan's great victory, the victory of the Liaodong army has been far from the truth, and the reverence of these border troops for the central authority of the imperial court has gradually weakened.

Before Ningyuan's victory, Mao Wenlong of Phi Island reported his merits to Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, and beheaded only 1,900 in five battles and five victories. But after the Battle of Ningyuan, Mao Wenlong reported another victory, that is, he beheaded more than 20,000 people and captured more than 5,000 horses in the first battle, which was not learning from Yuan Chonghuan's actions.