After Wang Chengen boldly finished the previous words, he raised his eyes and saw that Emperor Chongzhen was looking at him and nodded slightly, and the anxiety in his heart suddenly dissipated, and then continued:

"The military affairs of the Northwest Frontier, the minister actually didn't know, but he had been with His Majesty for a long time, and he went in and out of the military aircraft office, Yutu Pavilion and other important military places every day, listened to the holy teachings, and was so familiar with 300 Tang poems, and he couldn't compose poems and chanted. Today, when His Majesty asked, the minister had the audacity to say, if there is anything inappropriate, please ask Your Majesty to learn from it! ”

Wang Chengen is not tall, even if he stands straight, compared to Emperor Chongzhen, he still has to keep his head down.

At this time, Wang Chengen was over forty years old, and his body was gradually getting blessed, looking short and thick, chubby.

It's just that at this time, his temples are slightly gray, mixed with a few strands of silver hair, adding a sense of old age that has been baptized by the years.

The whole person looks like he does not have the gloomy and elegant scholarly style of the eunuch Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, nor the tall and powerful and powerful eunuch Fang Zhenghua, the commander of the East Factory.

If you didn't have the red python robe you were wearing at this time, standing there would be more like a greasy and rich middle-aged businessman.

However, Emperor Chongzhen's heart was very clear that the eunuch in front of him, who did not look good-looking and looked very ordinary, was a true man who was loyal and righteous through the ages, and there was a heart of loyalty and martyrdom in the mainland that many civil and military generals could not compare with at all.

Of course, Wang Chengen himself didn't know that his own image in Emperor Chongzhen's mind would be so tall and majestic, and he had no way of knowing Emperor Chongzhen's evaluation of him.

Emperor Chongzhen himself certainly couldn't have told him this.

Therefore, Wang Chengen, who knows that he accompanies the king like a tiger, although he knows that the emperor has great trust in him, but in front of Emperor Chongzhen, he has always been cautious and walking on thin ice.

I am afraid that if I say something wrong or do something wrong, I will cause some kind of death to myself.

Because the Emperor Chongzhen in front of him is no longer the impatient and impulsive and reckless young man he Wang Chengen grew up watching, and there is no city government anymore.

The Chongzhen Emperor in front of him often made Wang Chengen feel both familiar and unfamiliar, and he couldn't tell what was going on with such a feeling.

But he was very sure that the young man who was once extremely familiar with the Xinwang Mansion had been very different since he ascended the throne.

In any case, the emperor in front of him is the emperor, he is no matter how favored he is, and he is also a courtier, and the heart of the emperor must not be speculated by family affection or common sense.

It's just this time, seeing that the palace door is locked and the night is dark, the emperor still regrets the matter of Xining, forgetting to sleep and eat, and there is no minister of the court and the central government to advise the emperor for a while.

And what Wang Chengen said, of course, Emperor Chongzhen himself already knew in his heart.

It is beneficial to keep Xining City, but there is no big harm in losing it, but it is just a matter of bothering to get it back one day.

It's just that I always feel that I lack some persuasiveness when I use such words to persuade myself, but it has some power to say it from the lips of the ministers I trust in the DPRK or the ministers around me.

At this time, after listening to Wang Chengen's words, Emperor Chongzhen carefully looked at this eunuch who was loyal and dutiful to the end, and hanged himself with Emperor Chongzhen in history, and after a long time, he nodded and said to him:

"Wang Chengen, what you said is not wrong! On the contrary, I am a little paranoid! Now that the northwest strategy of the imperial court is established, it is easy to shake it!

"No matter what kind of sacrifices have been made by the government and the opposition in the middle, the general strategy of driving thieves west and purging the northwest cannot be changed!

"In any case, this is a major event that will benefit the world and the future!"

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen took a deep breath, slowly spit it out, and then patted the brocade clothes on the small square table next to him with his hand, looked at Wang Chengen, and said to him again:

"This fold on the Jinyi Guard, early tomorrow morning, you go and pass it on to the Military Aircraft Department and the cabinet ministers to see, just like what you just said, go to the Military Aircraft Department and the cabinet to spread my message, and the cabinet will commend the loyal deeds of the soldiers and civilians defending Xining City.

"Xining City is certainly lost, but the soldiers and civilians defending the city are also benevolent and righteous to the imperial court! It's not that the soldiers and civilians defending the city can't live with the court, and they can't live with me, but I, the son of heaven, the court of the Ming Dynasty, can't live with the soldiers and civilians of Xining City!

"Especially the Xining Li family, can be described as full of loyalty, enough to be a model for the civil and military generals of the dynasty, in the future the imperial army to return to Xining, must be in the Xining city to set up a shrine to worship, so that its incense is endless!

"As for Li Hongsi and Li Zhensheng, you also go to pass on my oracle together, and instruct the Ministry of Rites to enshrine the spiritual positions of the two into the Protector of the Country and the Loyal Temple, and worship the Emperor Zhenwu! The rest of the unfinished posthumous and praise matters are ordered to be submitted by the Military Aircraft Department and the Cabinet of Ministers! ”

Emperor Chongzhen finished these words in a heavy tone, as if he had finally finished a matter on his mind, leaned back on the back of the circle chair, looked at Wang Chengen, waved his hand tiredly, and motioned for Wang Chengen and the others to leave.

Since ancient times, there has been no more heart-wrenching person than the death of a loyal general.

And in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, there were especially many such things.

The death of Li Hongsi and Li Zhensheng, two little-known people in history, aroused Emperor Chongzhen's attention and introspection because he had doubts about many of the ruthless strategies he had adopted before.

I doubt the correctness of this strategy, and I doubt that it is not worth paying such a generational value.

Although in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen now, whether it is these military and civilian people of the Ming Dynasty, or these civil and military ministers, his previous life has long been a pile of white bones, and he has long been the dust of history, no matter how he is at his mercy, he has no psychological burden.

And without his words now, in this life, these people will also die sooner or later.

It's just that after coming to this world and coming to the Ming Dynasty of this era for so many years, he is changing this era at the same time, he is also being changed by this era.

Today's Emperor Chongzhen has gradually integrated into this era and into the life of this era, it is difficult to say whether he is a modern person with the identity of the Ming Dynasty, or a Ming Dynasty person with a modern soul.

In short, he is inseparable from this era, and he is destined to live in this era.

In this regard, he has long since lost any resistance or discomfort.

For the same reason, his mentality has also changed when it comes to the issue of right and wrong of the characters of this era.

The people who died in the war or famine are no longer insignificant numbers, they are living flesh and blood people, and they are the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's survival.

And for those civil and military generals who were loyal to the king and died in the war, Emperor Chongzhen also had a real sense of regret, and he could no longer be indifferent, and comforted himself with the reason that they died here and now.

Someone who died in history in the here and now or in a war does not mean that he deserves to die in the here and now or in a war.

Because of the Ming Dynasty in this life, with the arrival of the current Emperor Chongzhen, major changes have taken place.

All the major events that have occurred under this major change, the current Emperor Chongzhen cannot get rid of it, and he should also be responsible.

These things, except for himself, looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, no one knows, let alone dares to care about his responsibility as an emperor.

But he himself has to pass the level in his heart.

Just like Lanzhou at the beginning, if you go all out, of course you can save it.

However, if Lanzhou City is saved, it will be equivalent to cutting off the road to Hexi by Mu Suman of Longyou and the northwest thieves who gathered in Longyou.

In this way, the officials and troops in the northwest will have to fight the thieves and Musuman to the end in the Longyou area, and they will also have to take the huge risk of the thieves turning back and breaking through into the interior.

This is a serious contradiction to the original strategy and cannot be done in any way.

And the consequence of not being able to do it is to stand by and watch the thieves capture Lanzhou.

Xining at the beginning of the fourth year of Chongzhen was almost exactly the same as the situation faced by Lanzhou City at that time.

It is not impossible for the army of the imperial court to save it, but the price of saving it does not match the gains, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Emperor Chongzhen felt guilty in his heart, and it was precisely because of this.

However, after sacrificing Xining, from then on, Emperor Chongzhen and the imperial court's strategy on the northwest was fully rolled out, and there was a basis for implementation to the end.

Next, as long as the officials and troops of the imperial court cleared and consolidated the land of several state capitals in Longyou and Gannan, such as Taozhou, Minzhou, Hezhou, Lintao, Qinzhou and other places, then the overall situation in the northwest would be basically stable.

Because after the loss of these strategic places, whether it is Gao Yingxiang, the generalissimo of Fengtian Changyi and civil and military forces who is now in the precarious situation of the Lanzhou Dynasty, or Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi who is complacent after seizing Xining City, their so-called great cause is just a rootless duckweed after all.

Zhang Xianzhong was reluctant to follow Gao Yingxiang north to Lanzhou, so he was afraid that one day he would have to cross the river to the west, and there would be no chance to come back from then on.

At present, he chose to occupy Xining, according to the land of Hehuang, to observe the changes in the world, and now it seems that he is a little smarter than when Gao Yingxiang went north to Lanzhou.

But the biggest problem in the land of Hehuang is that, as Wang Chengen said, the place is a good place with a unique geographical location, but unfortunately it is sparsely populated and barren.

In addition, there is a restless Lin Dan Khan behind him, and if he wants to rise through this place, it will be even more difficult.

Especially for the thieves who have been living by looting in the past, there are only a few people they can rob in this place.