Beiyang new warlord

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The world is not a game, and the general trend will not be stagnated because of the hesitation of the capital. Just when the officials are still playing with their little ones, the army of Chuangjun who has just entered the customs for a few months is coming out of Yulin magnificently. The soldiers were divided into two groups. The south was led by Liu Fangliang, who went out of Henan, harassed Hebei and Shandong, and contained the imperial reinforcements. The north was led by Li Zicheng's relatives, and it was different from history. Li Zicheng's farmland did let Li Zicheng eat a lot of food and grass. Li Zicheng did not leave the main force in the Guanzhong and Henan divisions. The first to bear the brunt of the capital's attack was Taiyuan Town, Shanxi.

It seems that there is only one word to describe Chuangjun!There was no siege at all, Taiyuan City was besieged on all sides, and the firepower of the Chuangjun for the first time exceeded that of the guarding army. Wu Sheng's surrender also handed over the firearms that Yuan Chonghuan painstakingly prepared to the Chuangjun. 350 cannons roared overwhelmingly, and the city head was crackled by broken shells and shrapnel shells. The defenders couldn't even lift their heads. go.

Guarding the Chinese army in person, looking through the binoculars at the city where the battle was taking place, Li Chuang couldn't help raising his head and laughing loudly, pointing at the top of the city and speaking boldly to his civil and military officials.

"Oh, Daming, the numbers are exhausted!"

Chapter 552. Survive?wait to die!

On February 26, Taiyuan fell, and on March [-], the exhausted messenger pumped the same panting Pegasus to convey the bad news to the capital.

Although this is not the first city in the Ming Empire to fall, it still shocked the entire court. Taiyuan is the core of Shanxi Town. The loss here marks that Ming lost another province, and the Nine Sides were broken again. For a long time, there was not much court territory standing in front of Chuangjun.

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the atmosphere was so stagnant that it was suffocating. Emperor Chongzhen had no intention of holding a grand court meeting. He only gathered more than thirty important officials in the palace. He also realized that he must not be hindered by people talking The work efficiency has improved, Daming can't afford it now!

However, this core circle of power did not make Emperor Chongzhen feel the slightest difference. His face was ashen, and he was like a lion with a cup in his head, roaring uncontrollably in the crowd.

"Taiyuan fell! Shanxi was lost! The King of Jin was imprisoned! Ladies and gentlemen, don't you have anything to teach me?"

Just like a group of students who have not done their homework and were taken to the teaching office, the pillars of the imperial court looked down at the toes of their shoes, as if they had discovered gravity, and no one dared to look at their eyes. Even the slightest contact with the emperor.

No matter how Chongzhen roared!

He was also tired of yelling, his eyes were red, and while Chen Yan was trembling, he paced up to him, but it was extraordinary, this time Chongzhen still couldn't get angry, and asked in a hoarse voice.

"Master Shoufu, the current situation, how to deal with it, please teach me!"

Beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down from his forehead, and he lowered his head and held his fists, but Chen Yan remained silent.

He understood that what Chongzhen wanted him to say the most was to transfer Guan Ning soldiers into the guard! But he just didn't dare to say it!

What if the emperor shirks responsibility?

"As long as the gentleman speaks, I will obey! Is the gentleman so silent?"

Finally, unable to hold back his anger any longer, he grabbed his crane bastard violently. Chongzhen was roaring with fury, and for a moment, he was also stunned by fright. Under the short-circuit of his brain, Chen Yan simply kicked his legs. As soon as he softened, Puteng knelt on the ground all of a sudden, kowtowing his head unceasingly.

"Your Majesty, forgive me! The old minister is old and deaf, and I beg your majesty to let the old minister go to work!"

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help being stunned. He never expected that Chen Yan would have such a reaction. Is this the chief assistant of Daming?This is Daming's cabinet?

The life-saving money and food and grass are finally available, but the one who is stuck in the Ming Dynasty to save his life is the cabinet of the civil society that restricts Huang Quan! In any case, Chen Yan and Zhang Jinyan just refuse to go to the cabinet to issue this order to deploy troops. It’s really sad Da Mo was heartbroken and staggered two steps. Emperor Chongzhen didn't say anything, and walked back staggeringly. While walking, he waved his hands back dully, gesturing to a group of ministers.

You can go now!Go home and die!

But at this moment, a powerful voice finally sounded from among the officials who had been silent all this time.

"Your Majesty, please move the capital!"

Turning around in astonishment, Chongzhen saw Zhongyun Li Mingrui, who had been sent to Dongjiang as an envoy, suddenly walked to the middle of the queue. Under the same astonished eyes of the ministers, he knocked his head wearing a black hat on the ground heavily. .

"Your Majesty, the north has fallen, and thieves are everywhere! God is not blessed, famines are everywhere, and the court is in danger of being overthrown! However, the Taizu of my dynasty raised his troops in Jiangnan, south of the Huaihe River, and the people's hearts are stable, and the people support them! There are sufficient taxes. In order to settle down and live! In order to protect the foundation of our Ming Dynasty, I beg Your Majesty to come to Nanjing!"

The voice was sad, indignant and generous, but it was like a ray of light sweeping away the haze in Emperor Chongzhen's heart, but history took such a sudden turn, and before Chongzhen could speak, Chen Yan, who was kneeling on the ground and pretending to be dumb, kowtowed hard.

"Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible!"

"An inch of the land of the ancestors must not be abandoned, let alone the capital! If your Majesty goes, you will be infamous forever!"

"His Majesty!"

Chen Yan's disciple, Guang Shiheng jumped out like a hungry wolf during the incident, pointing at Li Mingrui's nose and yelling at him.

"Li Mingrui's words are heresy! I beg you to kill him immediately!"

Move the capital?It sounds good! Your Majesty, you old man patted your ass and slipped away. It is impossible for the capital to be free!Isn't it because of the bad luck of our cabinet ministers who stayed in the capital to face Li Chuang's million-dollar army?

If you want to run, there is no way! If you want to die, everyone will die together! With a bang, there were more than 30 cabinet ministers in total, nineteen of them knelt down, and kowtowed heavily along with Guang Shiheng.

"Your Majesty! The capital must not be abandoned!"

"Don't lose your ancestral land!"

"Moving to the south is against the precepts of our ancestors!"

Li Mingrui is really a loyal minister, under the astonishing pressure of so many important ministers, he raised his head and roared angrily.

"The Song Dynasty moved south, and had to protect the foundation for 150 years! Go east and south, and keep my Chinese fire for more than a hundred years! You wait for the king's salary, and you can't share your worries for the king, and you still want to block my way of living in Ming Dynasty?"

Li Mingrui's words also touched Chongzhen's heart, and his face was also gloomy. He also cast his eyes coldly on Chen Yan and the others, and spoke angrily.

"What time has it come! You are still cliques, and the court can have what it is today, it is all your fault!"

"Guang Shiheng! Stopping my southward migration, I should have been executed, but now I am employing people, so I temporarily send you the dog's head! You step down!"

"Li Mingrui, go back and get a detailed brochure, I want to read it!"

Emperor Chongzhen made a firm decision, and Li Mingrui kowtowed his head in incomparable excitement.

"The minister obeys the order!"

Haze emanated from the pupils of Chen Yan, Wei Zaode, and Li Jiantai, and they looked at each other for a few times, their uncontrollable sinisterness revealed to each other.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, this is an unprecedented high efficiency. After the discussion in the afternoon, Li Mingrui took out the charter in the evening. It is also like Jiangnan officials issued a reception order.

After another night of sleepless nights, Emperor Chongzhen was also full of excitement. He followed the route of his staff to move south and made preparations. There are stars in his eyes.

Early in the morning, the roaring noise rang out, and he couldn't stand it. Chen Yan played a very shameless trick, calling people!

The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty who became more and more party-fighting did not live up to his hopes, regardless of whether it was a life-saving strategy! When they heard that they were moving to the south and wanted to abandon the capital, these scholars and rotten scholars were all blown up. Suddenly, tens of thousands of people kneeled in a pile at the gate of the palace, shouting slogans and protesting.

"Protect me! Fight to the death!"

"Li Mingrui is bewitching the crowd with his demonic words, I beg you to kill him!"

"Kill this traitor!"

This person is full of righteous indignation, pulling his arms and sleeves. If it weren't for Li Zicheng's entry into the capital in history, a group of guys surrendered, and then turned their heads and knelt down to lick the Qing army who entered the pass from the north. I really thought how many loyal ministers Daming had!

Most of the management, honorable, rooted in the capital, their industries, wealth, and land are all gathered in the north of the capital, and the court can run away, but these things cannot be moved, who is willing?In history, it is not uncommon to see disputes between overseas Chinese and local residents. They went to the south of the Yangtze River to look at people under the fence?No way! The excited Ming Court officials were so excited that they almost broke into the palace gate.

On the eve of the fall of the empire, there was a commotion again, wasting precious self-rescue time in internal strife, and the officials who forced the palace knelt until the next afternoon before being dispersed by Jin Yiwei. The important minister was once again brought to the Nuanxin Palace by Emperor Chongzhen.

Li Mingrui paid the price for his loyalty. For more than a day, he was surrounded and beaten by those dissatisfied officials. Now his face is bruised and he almost lost his life. Chen Yan and Wei Zaode could obviously feel a burst of complacency.

Now that the matter has become so troublesome, it is impossible to move south!Even if Chongzhen is the emperor, he must be respected by all officials. No one supports him to go south. How did Emperor Chongzhen go south when the furthest trip since childhood was to go out of the palace to worship ancestors in Changping?