Chongzhen's words expressed the hearts of many civil and military officials: Regardless of whether the southern Tartars fought in the summer to sell their fame and reputation, they still had enough to support, anyway, they won the war, and Liaonan also recovered, this is an objective fact, and even if Qionghai Town is undisciplined, it is still a Ming officer and soldier after all, isn't it? There is a bravado in the summer south, and there is also ambition, but if it is said that fighting the Tartars is harboring evil intentions, it is impossible to say anything.

Yang Sichang didn't think so, he analyzed: "Your Majesty, Xia Nan has already put his hand into Shandong, and it is reported that the East Sanfu is already in his bag - Shandong is close to Beizhili, and the threat to the capital can be imagined - now he has brazenly sent troops to attack southern Liaoning, occupying Gaizhou, Jinzhou, and Lushun, and it is only a matter of time before Fuzhou is defeated. ”

In fact, Xia Nan sent people to take down these places, except for Lushunkou, did not send troops to station, the main purpose is to engage in sabotage, to achieve the purpose of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, the difference between this, Yang Sichang, who is thousands of miles away, naturally has no way of knowing, he just interprets this military operation according to the usual way of thinking. Although this analysis is far from the topic, and the siege of the capital is also taken for granted, it is crooked, and it vaguely touches on the strategic intention of Xia Nan to "contain the Tartars, first inside and then outside".

This rhetoric was very pertinent and successfully provoked Chongzhen's suspicion of Xia Nan. Chongzhen was shocked, and when he thought about it, it seemed that this was really the case. From Gaizhou to Lushun and Denglai, isn't this exactly an arc, the chain that includes the capital and Beizhili?

Since the admonition of the Chengtianmen soldiers, Chongzhen has had a kind of persecution paranoia, and always feels that "there are Diao people who want to harm me", and it is naturally self-evident who this "Diao Min" refers to. Yang Sichang's specious analysis caused him to panic, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was exactly the case. He patted the dragon chair angrily and said sharply: "Nan'an dares to do this in summer? ”

Although Yang Sichang did not have the persecution paranoia like Chongzhen, but Qiong Haijun first destroyed his plan to negotiate peace with the Tartars outside the Yongding Gate, and now he took it upon himself to attack Liaonan without fighting one, and even completely destroyed this plan, if he was Huang Taiji, it was impossible to calmly negotiate peace with the opponent after suffering such a big loss - although Qionghai Town was not controlled by the Ministry of War, but Huang Taiji would count what Qionghai Town did on the head of the imperial court. The peace negotiation has come to naught, and the plan of "going outside must first settle inside" is impossible to talk about, plus the previous festival in the capital, which made him even more hostile to Xia Nan, as long as there is a chance, he will definitely encourage Chongzhen to use all means to deal with this thorn.

Wen Tiren frowned and said, "Is Wen weak alarmist?" With the strength of Qionghai Town, if you have a bad heart, can you use such a lot of effort, and go to southern Liaoning to fight Gaizhou, Jinzhou, and Lushun? ”

Although this sentence was not directly broken, the implicit meaning could not be more obvious: the Qiong Navy could have pushed all the way to the capital, and the Beijing camp could not resist it at all, so did it still need to be tricked?

Chongzhen's face was a little unbearable, but it was not easy to refute Wen Tiren's words, after all, what people said was the truth! He didn't answer this, and instead asked Yang Sichang: "What does Wen Qiao propose?" ”

Yang Sichang said: "The heart of guarding against people is indispensable. No matter what Qionghai Town plans, it is always not wrong to plan ahead of the day. The minister proposed: mobilize the garrisons of Beizhili and Henan, move the defense to the Gyeonggi area, defend the Beijing division, and prevent trouble before it happens. ”

When Wen Tiren heard this, it was not easy to refute the reason of strengthening the defense of the Jingshi, so he gave up the argument, shook his head, and retreated into the queue.

If Shoufu does not refute this proposal, other officials will not object, and the emperor has expressed his fear of Qionghai Town, so deploying troops to strengthen the defense of the Beijing Division is a politically correct choice. Now that there is an option for insurance, then the civil and military officials know what to do, and for a while, the officials came out one after another to agree with Yang Sichang's proposal.

"What Yang Butang said is extremely true, the safety of the Beijing Division is related to the Ming Sheji, and it is natural to transfer surrounding troops to defend the Beijing Division, and the minister seconded it."

"The minister also seconded the proposal."

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Chongzhen saw that the courtiers all agreed, and his determination became more and more firm, so he made up his mind.

"Since all Aiqing agrees, then it is decided. The military department mobilized the battalions of Beizhili and Henan and moved them to Baoding Mansion, Tianjin Wei and Yongping Mansion, and the required money and food were raised by the military department in cooperation with the household department. ”

Baoding Mansion is in the south of the capital, forming a gateway with Tianjin Weiyi East and West, blocking the only way to go north to the capital; Yongping Mansion is located to the east of the capital, just opposite the Liaodong Peninsula, and strengthening the military power here can theoretically defend against threats from southern Liaoning. This arrangement is very thorough on paper.

All the officials shouted in unison: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

After the court meeting was dispersed, Yang Sichang returned to the military department and began to prepare for the transfer of troops and defense. Although this matter was decided by the emperor, as the main hall of the military department, he tried his best to promote it, and there was no resistance from the top, but the speed was still not too fast: the process of the official face must be gone, and it will take a lot of time for official documents to be exchanged, and in order to allocate the money and food expenses of these troops, it is necessary to have a relationship with the household department, and if you want the army to be pulled, it will be at least a few months later, and when the transfer is completed, it will be next year at the earliest.

Compared with the cumbersome officialdom process, some private channels are much more efficient. After the dispersal of the dynasty, Wen Tiren wrote a letter about everything that happened in the early dynasty and ordered someone to send it to Huanglong, who was stationed in the capital in the south of the summer.

Huang Long was originally a general under Gao Yingxiang, but now he is the person in charge of the Qiong Navy who is sent by the Qiong Navy to be stationed in the capital to investigate and deliver news, which is equivalent to the "director of the Beijing Office" in the old time and space. After receiving the letter from Lord Shoufu, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent someone to go to sea from Tianjin Wei and return to Lingao by sea to deliver the letter. In order to ensure the smooth flow of information, the summer Nanrang shipyard ordered a pocket-sized clipping ship, named "Penglai", which was specially used for communication.

The men of the Intelligence Department rushed to Lingao on the "Penglai" at a speed much faster than the post station that was 800 miles by land, and arrived at Bofu Port from Tianjin in less than 10 days.

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Xia Nan pinched Wen Tiren's letter and laughed: "God help me!" ”

What others saw was that the imperial court had strengthened its defense against the Qiong navy, but Xia Nan saw the impact of the troop transfer on the entire world pattern: Henan's troops were already stretched, and now they were transferred to Beijing, which just gave Li Zicheng the opportunity to show his strength, and pushed the army north in advance, and the plan to kill people with a knife could be implemented. The wings of the butterfly in Xia Nan finally overwhelmed the huge inertia of history and changed the direction of the original historical events.