Chapter 183 The Emperor Begged

After the end of the battle, Xiao Tianjian did not take the opportunity to build momentum, and immediately announced the results of the battle to the world. Therefore, the court did not need to send people to inquire, and quickly learned the news that Sun Chuanting was defeated and captured and Wu Sangui died in the chaotic army.

As soon as the news came out, the capital was shocked. Both Chongzhen and the courtiers panicked. This can be said that it was stealing chickens and rice. In order to mobilize the Liaodong Army to go south to suppress the Xing Tianjun this time, pinching its nose and building slaves to make peace, which has already attracted the resentment of the Ming Dynasty, but the result of this is Not only did he not eliminate the Xing Tianjun, but even another governor Sun Chuanting was captured by the Xing Tian army. People from all walks of life suffered heavy losses. Wu Sangui, a heavy general in Liaodong, was also killed in Yanggu County, and the elite officers and soldiers under his command were basically destroyed. Even those Baoding officers and soldiers who had finally pulled up Sun Chuanting in the past year, The book is exhausted.

In addition, the people and horses under Bai Guangen's command also suffered huge losses. The people and horses under his command also lost more than 50%. Even the remaining officers and soldiers were full of panic, which was basically a complete loss of combat effectiveness.

At this time, there were only Yang Guozhu and Marco left with the strength of several officers and soldiers going south this time, so there was another big uproar in the court. Some officials first thought not what to do in the next chaos, but the first thing they considered was the question of who to hold accountable, so they wrote books one after another. Impeachment, some people impeached Sun Chuanting, as a governor, but inspected the thief, so that the army that the court finally came up was defeated. Some people impeached Marco, Bai Guangen and others. In short, they had to find someone to take the blame. Some people directly impeached Chen Xinjia, saying that he had no way to mobilize troops and misjudge the thief's situation, which made Sun Chuanting be defeated and captured. .

In a word, an official will not say that he is responsible. Whoever does the work is whose fault. He has to pull a few people out to take the blame, and Chongzhen is also helpless about such a situation. In the end, he can only pick up soft persimmons and pinch it. Wang Pu's defeat and his strength is greatly damaged, so he demoted it first. Then Sun Chuanting was defeated and captured. Ming, this scapegoat happened to be carried by Sun Chuanting, so he ordered to seize Sun Chuanting's official position and demoted him to a commoner in the end.

And Bai Guangen's current generals were basically consumed, and after the people who went to Shunde Prefecture to inquire about the situation of the war received bribes from Marco, they accused Bai Guangen of defeat, which was caused by his lonely army's aggressiveness. Therefore, in anger, Chongzhen issued an order to take away Bai Guangen's position as the general soldier, but temporarily ordered him to lead. The soldier is guilty and meritorious.

As for Chen Xinjia, the object of impeachment by the courtiers, Chongzhen did not bother to protect him this time, because this time he ordered Sun Chuanting to help Jining. Originally, Sun Chuanding had concerns and thought that it was likely to be the plot of the criminal thief, but Chen Xinjia thought that it was true for the criminal to attack Jining, and the result made him a "Ming King". In the end, he was confused and ordered Sun Chuanting to help Jining. In the end, Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui were ambush in Yanggu County, and the whole army was destroyed.

Therefore, Chen Xinjia is indeed responsible for this matter, and for this matter, the government and the opposition are linked to the matter of building slaves and scolding Chen Xinjia as a national thief. The two things are combined. If Chongzhen doesn't make any more action, he can't explain to the government and the opposition, so Chongzhen has to make a decree. Chen Xinjia was the secretary of the Military Department. At the same time, he was arrested and investigated for his responsibility, but he was not immediately beheaded.

But whoever is arrested and demoted is not the key to the problem now. The key is that after Sun Chuanting's defeat, the army that the imperial court finally transferred into the customs no longer has the ability to continue to enter and suppress the Xing Tianjun. What worries Chongzhen is that there are not many officers and soldiers in Jingfu at present. Once the Xingtian thief takes this opportunity to seize the power of victory and take advantage of the situation to attack the capital, what should he do? Will he continue to transfer the officers and soldiers outside the customs to the imperial guard?

Obviously, this can't be done. The criminal thief does have the heart to die, but it is not necessarily that Jiannu doesn't have such thoughts. Although Chongzhen has no choice but to make peace with Jiannu, he knows that Jiannu is not a good thing. At present, the reason for peace with Daming is their intention. If he continues to withdraw from the customs. By the way, he blocked the Xingtian thief, so once Jiannu took this opportunity to tear his face and go south, he would still finish it.

Therefore, it is definitely not feasible to continue to transfer troops into the customs. Therefore, after repeated consideration, Chongzhen can only order Marco and Yang Guozhu to be stationed in Guangping Mansion and Xuanda to defend the enemy, change the offensive to a defensive position, and no longer send them south to suppress the Xing Tianjun. At present, it is useless to say anything. It is better to hold as many territory as they can first. It's good to have less territory. As for the matter of suppressing thieves, Chongzhen has a strong sense of powerlessness. It doesn't matter when the Ming Dynasty can last!

At this time, Chongzhen was still facing a big problem. Yang Sichang was dead, and Chen Xinjia was arrested again. There were few auxiliary ministers in his center who could give him advice. So after thinking about it, Chongzhen decided to use Fu Zonglong as the secretary of the Ministry of War to replace Chen Xinjia.

So Fu Zonglong immediately took office and began to take over Chen Xinjia and continue to work. However, Fu Zonglong can only be said to be at a loss about the current situation. At present, the court can be said to have no soldiers or generals. Finance is because of the emptyness just after the defeat, it can be said that the treasury of the household department can Run away from the mouse. It always costs money to recruit soldiers and buy horses! But how can you recruit a horse if you don't have money?

Chongzhen also supports Fu Zonglong's idea of training the new army. After all, he has to defend his Ming Dynasty, no soldiers, no horses! But if you want to recruit soldiers and horses, you have to spend money. Now Chongzhen has just allocated 300,000 taels of internal silver, and the internal silver is about to bottom out. Where does the money come from?

Continue to count on Ding Qirui's transfer from Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places! Ding Qirui made it clear that in order to resist the Xingtian thief attacking Nanzhili, he had already scraped the ground three feet. He collected all the money he could get, and some of it was transferred to the capital, while the other part was used in Nanzhili to buy soldiers and horses to build armor and weapons and warships. Now he can't afford money at all.

Poor Chongzhen, as the emperor, is now worried about the problem of money. He has lost a lot of hair overnight. Finally, Fu Zonglong, who has just taken office, proposed to let the nobles and ministers in the court donate their money to help the army. In fact, everyone knows that the ministers of the Ming Dynasty dare not say that everyone is as rich as the country, but the family Households are not poor, and the really poor officials are almost extinct, especially those relatives of the emperor. Who is not rich? As long as everyone takes out a part of the money, there is still no problem to draw out millions of taels of silver in the capital.

Fu Zonglong made it clear that there are eggs under the nest. At this time, if these people still don't take out the money, how can they take advantage of these noble ministers of the Ming Dynasty once they wait for the capital to be captured by the criminal thief or the slave?

So after hearing this, Chongzhen was deeply convinced and didn't care about what he was. He put down his face and immediately gathered the relatives and ministers to discuss this matter. He personally persuaded them to take out some money to pay the court, recruit new soldiers and horses, and suppress the Xingtian thieves, not only for these people. Chongzhen wanted them to take the money. Even the ministers and eunuchs, Chongzhen also knew that these guys had received a lot of bribes, and each of them was very rich, and he also wanted them to take out the money.

When a country comes to this time, it is really sad. The national finances are no longer able to cope with the current situation. If it depends on the ministers to donate money to maintain the operation of a country, the country is basically in the crisis of survival.

But when Chongzhen proposed to let these people donate their money, he found that things were far from as simple as he thought. These people had never thought that they would take money to recruit soldiers for Daming. Now, the court not only did not give them money, but also asked them to take out money out of their pockets for Daming, so they all became shrinking. The head turtle said that he would not take out the money.

The eunuchs wanted to eat with Chongzhen. At this time, the emperor opened his mouth. They had to take out a little money to express it. Therefore, the eunuchs Wang Yongzuo, Wang Dehua and Cao Huachun each paid 50,000 taels of silver, and among the eunuchs, Wang's heart was the richest, but he was unwilling to take it out. He only donated 10,000 taels. Silver.

Chongzhen wanted his father-in-law, Empress Zhou Kui's father, to set an example. He took out one hundred and eighty thousand taels of silver, pretended for others, and called on more people to donate money. However, Zhou Kui regarded money as his life and refused to pay. He refused Chongzhen's proposal in one bite, saying that he had no money to take at all. In the end, it was his daughter Zhou Huang. Later, in the palace, he put together 20,000 taels of silver and secretly gave it to her father and asked his father to take it out to charge. However, Zhou Kui was good. After getting 20,000 taels of silver, he was reluctant to hand it over. Finally, he gritted his teeth and took 10,000 taels of silver. In this way, Chongzhen, the father-in-law, not only didn't pay a penny, but also made money. Ten thousand taels of silver entered the account.

Even the emperor's father-in-law refused to take out the money, so there is no need to expect others to give generously. Therefore, those officials in the government and the opposition are collectively crying, and they all seem to be unable to open the pot. They put on a posture of asking for money and not asking for life. In short, the emperor can't beg for food. If you have no money, you have no money. In short, if you have money, you won't take it out! After half a month of tossing like this, Chongzhen only collected hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the capital, and the 50,000 taels of silver he allocated from his internal money was still not enough at all.

Just as Chongzhen was busy looking for money to continue to recruit troops and horses, another bad news came from Taiyuan. Taiyuan Mansion finally lost on the seventh day of April.