569 Chongzhen's sorrow

[This is the last time to add a change before eleven.,In the next few days, I'm going to save up.,Eleven goes home.,Can't code words.,Otherwise, it's going to be broken.] 】

At the end of July of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the palace of the Ming Dynasty was in the palace of the Ming Dynasty.

Bang bang bang!

"Li Zixiao, he is plotting rebellion, a big rebellion, I want to punish him for the nine clans."

"Don't you really know what he's thinking? Without my order, he sent troops to Dengzhou without authorization, this is a rebellion, I really think I dare not order him to be killed!

I really want to issue a holy decree to punish Li Zixiao's nine clans, and let Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, immediately go to Dengzhou to arrest Li Zixiao.

If he dares to resist, let Liu Zeqing kill him directly. ”

Chongzhen was roaring, and by now, Chongzhen had broken many blue and white porcelains in this day, but it was still difficult to calm his anger.

Li Zixiao's dispatch of troops to Dengzhou was still not hidden for long, and it was known to the imperial court.

Although Li Zixiao did his homework in advance, when some ministers in the court impeached him, sent troops to Dengzhou without authorization, ignored the imperial court decrees, and conspired against him.

He sent someone in advance and sent a piece of music to Chongzhen, claiming that he had received a request for help from Shi Qinghua, the prefect of Dengzhou, and then stationed in Dengzhou to suppress bandits.

This excuse is indeed a bit unreasonable, but in this way, Chongzhen will not be able to charge him with rebellion.

After Chongzhen learned the news, he was already furious because of the rampant bandits in the country and Hong Chengchou's defeat in the front line, and he was even more angry.

At this time, the news of Hong Chengchou's defeat on the Songjin front had reached the Jingshi, and Chongzhen was angry at the same time, but also panicked.

You must know that the Ming army commanded by Hong Chengchou this time can be said to be the last elite in the Ming Dynasty, and in order to support Hong Chengchou in this battle, Chongzhen can be said to have exhausted all his internal funds.

Chongzhen originally hoped that Hong Chengchou could win this battle, so that the Tartars would not have a chance to continue to go south and knock in the next few years.

In this way, Chongzhen can have enough time to free up his hands and concentrate on dealing with the bandits in the Central Plains.

Chongzhen didn't want Hong Chengchou to fight and destroy the Tartars, he knew that the Tartars were now too big to lose, and he had a long way to go to completely eliminate the Tartars.

First of all, he must first pacify the thieves in the country, and then recuperate for a few years, and then with the national strength restored by the Ming Dynasty, it will be enough to destroy the Tartars.

Moreover, Chongzhen is not blind, the first few times the Ming army had the opportunity to eliminate the thieves in the country.

However, whenever the Ming army was about to eliminate Li Zicheng and other thieves, the Tartars would enter the customs at this time, threaten the Beijing division, and force the Ming army to withdraw from King Qin.

As long as Chongzhen is not blind and does not kill fools, he will never believe that it is a coincidence, and it is a coincidence several times in a row.

This is also to make Chongzhen determined, first defeat the Tartars, then quell the domestic rebellion, and then raise the strength of the whole country to eliminate the Tartars.

I have to say that Chongzhen's strategy is completely correct.

But the only pity is that he woke up too late, and Lady Luck still didn't stand on his side this time.

Of course, at this time, because the ministers of the Ming Military Department, in order to escape responsibility, they tried their best to downplay the defeat of this battle in front of Chongzhen.

Even, at this time, some thick-skinned ministers were talking nonsense with their eyes open.

It is said that Hong Chengchou is only a temporary defeat on the Songjin front, and when Hong Chengchou recupes for a period of time, he can relaunch the counterattack.

Regarding this statement of the ministers of the Ministry of War, Chongzhen actually believed it.

There is no way, even Chongzhen himself does not believe that Hong Chengchou's entire 130,000 elite army will be defeated in half a month.

At this time, although Chongzhen was anxious, it was useless, and he could only hope that Hong Chengchou on the front line would be able to fight the war well.

Perhaps, Chongzhen can only wait until Li Zicheng's rogue army hits the city of Jingshi, as it did in history.

When he saw the enemy's cold blade with his own eyes, Chongzhen would understand that he had always been blinded by the ministers, and he was surrounded by a group of ministers who had died all day long!

And at this time, the news that Li Zixiao suddenly entered Dengzhou reached Chongzhen's ears, which of course made him angry.

At this time, Li Zixiao had already been regarded by Chongzhen as an 'unloyal minister', with wolf ambitions, and he couldn't wait to kill Li Zixiao immediately.

It's a pity that Li Zixiao is not the Yuan Chonghuan of the year, and he will be able to summon him to Beijing with a holy decree when he has a heavy army.

Since the beginning of last year, Chongzhen has issued no less than ten holy decrees to Li Zixiao, summoning him to Beijing to face the saint, all of which said that he would add an official to Li Zixiao.

However, Li Zixiao just didn't go on the grounds of 'serious illness'.

The matter dragged on to the end, and Chongzhen even found that he no longer dared to kill Li Zixiao, because once he killed Li Zixiao, he was very willing to force his old subordinates to rebel.

At that time, the Central Plains, which was already rotten, will no longer have a Ming army that can curb Li Zicheng's crazy expansion.

Chongzhen 14 years of the Ming Dynasty, the domestic Li Zicheng resurrection, vertical and horizontal in Henan, at the same time Zhang Xianzhong also out of Sichuan, and into the lake, rapid growth.

Even at the beginning of this year, even Yang Sichang, the governor of the five provinces who presided over the encirclement and suppression of Zhang Xianzhong, died

In this time and space, because Li Zixiao sent Qi Wei's 'Western Expeditionary Army', at this time to occupy Luoyang and Ruzhou.

Li Zicheng, who was in the south of Kaifeng and the north of Huguang, was far from expanding his power as rapidly during this period of time, as in history.

Although Qi Wei's subordinates did not obey the orders of the imperial court, they would rush to Henan at every critical moment, encircle and suppress Li Zicheng's Ming soldiers and horses, and deal with Li Zicheng together.

It can be said that at this time, if Chongzhen wants to maintain the situation in the Central Plains and not continue to deteriorate, he is inseparable from the 'Western Expeditionary Army' of the White Dragon Army commanded by Qi Wei.

Chongzhen once sent someone to secretly buy Qi Wei and offered the price of a hussar general, but unfortunately it still failed.

So much so that at this time, Chongzhen couldn't do anything with Li Zixiao.

Li Zixiao still worships Chongzhen as the emperor, and obediently pays a large amount of silver every year, which is completely a loyal face.

However, at this time, Li Zixiao disobeyed Chongzhen's order, and even Chongzhen couldn't mobilize Li Zixiao's men.

For such an elite army, but it is not under his control, it is unbearable compared to that emperor, let alone Chongzhen, who is suspicious and self-serving.

This is Chongzhen's sorrow at this time, knowing that Li Zixiao is a rebellious minister and thief with evil intentions, but he can't order a requisition.

So much so that this time Chongzhen got the news that Li Zixiao sent troops to Dengzhou, and he could only smash the cup and get angry in his imperial study.

But he couldn't give an order in the court at the first time, announcing Li Zixiao as a rebellious minister and thief, and letting Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, send troops to recruit.

In that way, except for forcing Li Zixiao to rebel, Chongzhen couldn't see any benefits.

Whew!

After a period of tossing, Chongzhen, who vented his anger in his heart, sat on the chair at this time, gasping for breath.

"Holy Lord, take a sip of tea, dissipate the anger, and get angry with your body, then it's not worth it."

Seeing Chongzhen finish getting angry, Wang Chengen, the eunuch holding the pen on the side, hurriedly came over with a cup of tea to moisten Chongzhen's throat.

Chongzhen threw things and yelled again at this moment, not only tired, but also thirsty.

"Don't drink it."

Wang Chengen looked helpless, continued to wait for Chongzhen with tea, and continued to persuade: "Holy Lord, it's good to drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat." ”

Chongzhen glanced up at Wang Chengen, and also felt that his throat was dry, so he took the teacup and took a sip of tea.

"Cheng'en, what I said just now, can you pass on the order?"

Chongzhen's face was tired at this time, and he had just exploded, which made him physically unbearable.

At this time, Chongzhen was not only gray, but his face was old, and his body was not as good as that, you must know that Chongzhen was only thirty-one years old at this time.

It is said that this should be Chongzhen's most energetic age, but Chongzhen at this time looks like a fifty-year-old man.

Daming's mess dragged him down alive, making him physically and mentally exhausted, but he was powerless to return to the sky.

"Don't worry, the order hasn't been issued." Wang Chengen replied respectfully.

As Chongzhen's confidant eunuch, Wang Chengen understands Chongzhen's difficulties at this time better than anyone else, and he also understands Chongzhen's mind better than anyone else.

He knew that Chongzhen's words just now were completely said in anger in order to vent his anger.

Although this is indeed the true thought of Chongzhen's heart, Chongzhen at this time does not have the power of the emperor in the past, 'the king let the minister die, and the minister has to die'.

At least on Li Zixiao's body, it won't work.

Therefore, it is impossible for Wang Chengen to issue the order given by Chongzhen on his head at will.

"It's good that it didn't send it. Hey, I think that my Ming Dynasty foundation for more than 200 years is going to be defeated in my hands, I am unwilling! ”

At this time, Chongzhen's face was sad and unwilling, but he couldn't change the status quo, and this deep sense of powerlessness made him desperate.

Wang Chengen on the side looked at Chongzhen's appearance, and he was also worried about his master, but he was just a eunuch, and there was nothing he could do.

"I'm tired and want to rest." After a while, Chongzhen, who had made a big fuss, looked tired and said to Wang Chengen.

"The old slave serves the saint and goes up to rest." Wang Chengen supported Chongzhen and went to the dormitory.

"Cheng'en, after I fall asleep, you go out of the palace to see Lu Xiangsheng, and smuggle him into the palace so that no one else can see it.

When I wake up, I really want to see him, so you can arrange it. ”

When Chongzhen arrived at his bedroom and was about to lie down and rest, he suddenly said to Wang Chengen, who was in costume.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng, since he lost in Luoyang last time and returned to Beijing, was shelved by Chongzhen, and has been shelved until now, only to be sounded by Chongzhen again.

Chongzhen is very suspicious, and Lu Xiangsheng has failed to suppress bandits one after another, which will inevitably make Chongzhen misunderstand and no longer trust Lu Xiangsheng as before.

This time, after the matter passed like this, Chongzhen encountered more and more unsolvable troubles, which made him miss Lu Xiangsheng.

"Yes, when the saint sleeps, the slave will go out of the city to find Lu Xiangsheng." Wang Chengen responded.