The news that the Great Wall broke through the border and entered the Great Wall in the area of Xifengkou by the Houjin detour soon spread throughout the capital, Tianjin and other places. Although there were Jinyi guards and local government patrols to suppress the market and vigorously crack down on rumors and rumors in the market, the Houjin army was too sharp, and there was almost no obstacle wherever the soldiers went. This market rumor is also banned.

The 12th Road Pass of the Great Wall of Jizhou, which the capital relies on as a barrier in the northeast, was torn open 3 openings before it even lasted a day. Zunhua, Santunying, Jizhou and other places have become precarious for a while.

Not to mention that the people of Gyeonggi are panicked in this situation, even the officials of the court and Chongzhen themselves were also unexpected. Zhu Youzhen only realized at this time that the training of the new army and the reorganization of the Beijing camp in the capital were under his nose, and he often went to check the drills of these armies, so it could be regarded as a little improved.

But in places beyond his sight, relying on the old army to form a new army is not as immediate as here in the capital. Zhao Shujiao is also a general in Liaoxi, even if Man Gui has some opinions about him, he has to admit that this veteran still has some means in governing the army. However, even this veteran who still has some means has not been able to change the discouragement and low combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of Jizhou Town.

The only thing that made Chongzhen talk to the cabinet was that although the generals guarding the Great Wall Pass in Jizhou Town failed to fight any exciting battles, they still had some courage, Yi Ai, the deputy general of Hanerzhuang, and Wang Zunchen, the general of Hongshankou, selected men and horses to support after the attack on Longjing Pass, and finally lost to Wang Shi.

However, in addition to this only bright spot, the incident of Zhu Lai, the deputy commander-in-chief, who abandoned the army and absconded, really hit the morale of the officers and soldiers of Jizhou Town. Even the gentry in Jizhou City, Sanhe and other places heard the news, and they hurriedly packed up and fled to the capital.

These people who fled to the capital one after another are full of resentment at the incompetence of the officers and soldiers of Jizhou Town, which makes them want to leave their hometowns, and their own industries do not know how to be destroyed by Jiannu, and the depiction of the front-line war is undoubtedly exaggerated. The fugitives who were full of resentment couldn't even care about the ban of the government at this time, and only cared about venting the resentment in their hearts.

The Jinyi guards and the patrol officers didn't dare to push these fugitives too much, after all, what they said was also a bit of a fact, and they weren't just talking. But in this way, with the continuous spread of rumors, the incompetence of the Ming army and the image of the Houjin soldiers who are brave and good at fighting suddenly clearly erected in the hearts of the people of Gyeonggi.

In addition, there are many false rumors. What Zunhua City has been broken, and Zhao Shujiao has surrendered to the enemy; The Santun camp held out for less than a day and was captured by Houjin; The Jiannu cavalry has appeared outside the city of Jizhou and so on. The result of the widespread spread of these rumors is that the wind of the people in the market to store grain has become greater.

After rumors spread in the capital, and the news of soaring prices reached Chongzhen's ears, he naturally reprimanded the Jinyi guards and patrol officers who managed the security of the capital. After the training, he ordered the officials to set up ten relief camps in and around the city for the fugitives fleeing the war to live in.

In the future, the young and strong of these fugitives will have to follow the orders of the battalion commander every day, either to repair the roads, canals and other structures in the camp, or to build new barracks to accommodate the newcomers.

The elders in the camp were responsible for taking care of the young children, the women were doing some weaving to support the family, and the half-grown children were gathered together and a school was set up to control them. After these measures were implemented, the gossip in the capital began to slowly subside, and prices also showed a downward trend.

However, at this time, Huang Taiji had already written down what he said at Hongshankou, and then let people spread it around, and even asked a Ming official who surrendered to the Jin Dynasty to personally send a letter to Jizhou City with a letter of Xingshi's questioning, in an attempt to dispel the Ming people's willingness to resist the invasion of the Later Jin.

In Chongzhen's view, Huang Taiji's remarks of covering his ears and stealing the bell and beating a rake are just to become famous. As long as you have some knowledge, how can you not see Houjin's wolf ambitions, this is actually a copy of the old slave's army with seven hatreds.

However, the news collected by the Social Investigation Bureau from the people surprised him to find that the people of the Ming Dynasty really ate Huang Taiji. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Son of Heaven has cultivated virtue, Huairou Yuanyi, and the policy of consolidating the border and securing the state has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Of course, this is not a national policy unique to the Ming Dynasty, and this argument has begun to prevail in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

In the final analysis, the frontier is too poor, and the wealth comes from China. The poor ethnic minorities in the poor countryside have only one life left, and they want to invade China because they are only interested in China's wealth. If you win, you can enter the Central Plains and loot, and if you lose, you will just surrender to the Chinese emperor, and maybe you can get some rewards every year.

But for China, there is really nothing to fight in the poor and remote areas where those ethnic minorities are located, and even if they win the war, there is nothing to produce in these bitter cold places, and the annual tax collected is probably not enough for the military expenses of the garrison. If it was a good place, it would have been included in China a long time ago, and there would be no ethnic minorities doing anything.

And if it loses, in addition to the misery of the Chinese people, there may be a big change in the dynasty. Therefore, it is the most cost-effective thing to appease the ethnic minorities in the border areas, give them some money to reward them, and let these ethnic minorities obediently guard the border of the Quartet for China.

The Shunyi king Altan Khan unified southern Mongolia, and the troops in his hands were far greater than Nurhachi, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty only spent 3 or 400,000 taels a year to appease the Mongolian Great Khan and bring peace to the northwest of the Ming Dynasty for fifty or sixty years. However, after nearly ten years of fighting with Nurhachi, not only did they lose a large area of land and population in Liaodong, but the towns in eastern Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty were almost wiped out, and the additional military expenses spent every year were as high as nearly 10 million taels.

If it weren't for Nurhachi's occupation of a large area of land in Liaodong and the slaughter of a large number of Liaodong soldiers and civilians, which made the Ming court unable to bow its head, the voice of peace with Hou Jin would have filled the court. But even so, before Chongzhen ascended the throne, the people in the south were already tired of the war in Liaodong, and boycotting and evading Liao's salary was common in the south.

This is also Chongzhen's proposal to negotiate peace with Houjin after he ascended the throne, although there is a lot of criticism in Shilin, but there are really not many people who resist. Because everyone hopes that after Liaodong is peaceful, they can stop the Liaodong salaries in various places. In the face of such tangible economic interests, no one can take care of Daming's face.

What's more, now there is Chongzhen, a wronged boss who is willing to take the initiative to resist the crime of losing his teacher and losing his land, and the civil officials can still brush their prestige in front of the emperor, they want to defend the territory of the Ming Dynasty without losing half a point, but the new emperor insists on going his own way, and as courtiers, they can only obey after trying their best to advise.

But within two days of this kind of stable day, Houjin actually called again. At this time, these civil officials could not care about insisting on their integrity, but they felt that this was something the emperor had done inappropriately. Since he has already signed a peace treaty with Houjin, how can he go to disturb other people's people and let Houjin find an excuse to come to the door?

If Houjin is unreasonable and does not abide by the peace treaty, there is probably nothing these scholars can do. But since it was the Great Son of Heaven who sent people to attack Houjin's subjects first, that is, he had lost his integrity, how could the Son of Heaven lose his trust? Although they did not dare to publicly accuse the emperor, they privately blamed Chongzhen for the fault of this war.

As for the soldiers and civilians of Jizhou who were killed by Houjin Breaking Pass, they didn't care at all. Houjin is just a barbarian, and the barbarians violated the border of the Ming Dynasty and killed innocents indiscriminately, which is too normal in their eyes. What's more, after Houjin entered the customs this time, Huang Taiji issued a proclamation, ordering the army not to massacre and plunder the surrendered gentry and their property, which made these scholars have a better impression of Huang Taiji.

The views of these gentry and gentry on the Houjin also represented the views of the tenant farmers who were attached to these gentry and the gentry, and also influenced the local people's views on the Houjin.

The appearance of this kind of remarks naturally made the people of Gyeonggi, who were originally angry about the Houjin invasion, feel a little confused. Even the garrisons in various parts of Gyeonggi, which had no intention of fighting, began to expect the imperial court to make peace with the Later Jin and let the Later Jin army retreat to Shenyang by itself, so that everyone would have to go to the battlefield desperately.

For Su Changqing, the soul of later generations, the Houjin army has come to the door, and there are still people on his side standing in Houjin, arguing about the reasonableness of Houjin's reasons for sending troops, which is really a black comedy that is too ridiculous.

If this is in the future life, even if the Chinese people who were close to Houjin before, they will change their attitude at this moment, and they will first beat Houjin out and then talk about other things. Otherwise, the name of a traitor will not be able to be taken off.

Su Changqing had to admit at this time that he did not know as much about the hearts of the people of this era as Huang Taiji. An open letter made the attitude of the gentry in Beizhili waver, and it was like the electrification of the Republic of China.

However, Zhu Youzhen finally came to his senses, and Huang Taiji's open letter undoubtedly turned the war between the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty into a rebellion of the Aixin Jueluo clan against the oppression of Zhu Ming's royal family.

To put it simply, the cause of this war has nothing to do with the people of the Ming Kingdom, and it is all caused by Zhu Youzhen, the great genius, who acted improperly.

If Zhu Youzhen is willing to bow his head for the sake of the people of the Ming Dynasty, then Houjin will withdraw his troops. If Zhu Youzhen did not bow his head to Huang Taiji, then the pain and injury suffered by the people of the Ming Dynasty in this war would be the evil consequences caused by Zhu Youzhen.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen knew that he couldn't bow his head to Huang Taiji and admit his mistakes, which was different from the fact that he made peace with Houjin last year, when he still had an excuse to ease the burden of the people in the world.

But now, Huang Taiji wants to step on the title of Emperor Ming and erect his prestige in the Later Jin Kingdom. If he really bows his head, it is estimated that the people of the court and the northern and southern provinces will regard him as a real coward.

The party struggle that he has forcibly suppressed over the past year may soon re-emerge because of his absence.

What Huang Taiji needed was not his apology, but to make the gentry in various parts of Beizhili lose the will to resist, so as to reduce the losses of the Later Jin army in the siege.

In Liaodong, now the Liao people know what will happen to the people in the city after the Houjin breaks the city, so everyone bravely defends the city. But in Beizhili, this is the first time that the Houjin army has appeared, and if this powerful army shows a little friendliness, will those gentry still have the determination to resist to the death?