Chapter 931: The ministers are at their hands, and the ministers are helpless
The heavy land of money and grain in Jiangnan fell into the hands of Sun Wujin, and the four towns repeatedly asked for money. The call for the chief of the court was getting more and more intense. Hongguang, who was willing to win half of the opportunity for him to think about it, could only send the eunuch Ge Hongquan next to him to go to Suzhou with a secret edict.
The secret edict was to ask for money and food.
Of course, Hongguang would not say in the secret edict that the money and grain were to be used for the Northern Expedition, but that the court still owed a certain amount of money and grain in the four towns. If it cannot be allocated in time, it may cause danger.
His words are extremely sincere. Now only King Kang can trust me. If King Kang cannot relieve my worries, no one in the world can distinguish them for his ministers.
Unexpectedly, King Kang Sun Wujin was unable to pour oil into it and did not accept the imperial edict at all. He also claimed in front of Su Song Governor Qi Biaojia, Suzhou Governor Wang Han, Daru Guizhuang, Gu Yanwu and others that Jiangnan had finally been pacified, and now the people are in trouble, so how can they get money and grain to supply the four greedy towns?
"The so-called loyal kings are the captives of Tartars! The so-called Liao kings are traitors of the three surnames! The so-called Qin kings are named after the weapon! The so-called Xing'an ones are bandits and follow the enemy! How can these four thieves be important to the country and protect the Ming Dynasty!"
While denying the court's mistakes in employing people and pointing out that the four kings were unreliable, Sun Wujin pointed at Shi Kefa, the cabinet minister who was personally in charge of the Ajige army. First, he said that Shi Kefa made peace with the Manchus and watched the fall of the north, and was unforgivable. Later, despite the thirty years of Liao incident, he wrote to the court to surrender the Ajige tribe. He ignored the death of the soldiers and civilians in the dead, and was short-sighted and inhuman. Now he put the hope of the Northern Expedition on the rest of the Manchus, which was simply a reversal of the cart and stupidity.
"If the court meets what Shi Kefa asks and lets all the money and food in Jiangnan give to the captives, then Ajige really regains the Central Plains and restores Yanjing, and our court can move the capital and revive it? I am really willing to have that dream! I am afraid that Ajige is another Nurhacier!"
Whether it is the real Northern Expedition or the fake Northern Expedition, Sun Wujin ignored it. Anyway, he wanted to guard the Jiangnan bag for the governor.
The next day, Su Song Governor Qi Biaojia submitted a report to the court at the instruction of Sun Wujin, pointing out that the Ming Dynasty is now reborn and the Jiangnan has undergone slave transformation. Neither national strength nor military strength can support the Northern Expedition. Therefore, it is necessary to make peace with the north at present to find a chance for one or two years for this dynasty.
This peace talks fell into the Tan with the stone, which aroused thousands of feet of waves.
Coincidentally, Chen Hongfan, the governor and governor of Shandong, who was ordered to deal with the attack on the north with the command of Shandong Governor Wang Yongji, also volunteered to request the envoy of the north on the day Qi Biaojia submitted a memorial to Beijing, hoping that the court could negotiate with Yanjing.
These two memorials were truly amazing and made the ruling factions in the court very angry. The students of the Imperial College even besieged Chen Hongfan's family, which scared the governor and the magistrate who fled from the backyard.
The cabinet minister and Minister of Rites Huang Daozhou also cursed Qi Biaojia, and Chen Hongfan was a shameless person and asked the emperor to issue an order to dismiss the two of them.
Hongguang was somewhat interested in the so-called peace talks, because his throne had been born from the north. Now that the other party has become emperor, if he can exchange gold and silver for the two families to rule the river, he will not have to make a big move, it will be a good thing for both worlds to be in good condition.
However, Hongguang had just revealed the words that he could send the "Northern Envoy" and the court was in an uproar. The cabinet ministers Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, Zhang Shenyan and others all opposed the "submissive thieves". Shi Kefa, who was far away in Jingxiang, heard that there was a plan to discuss peace in the court. He was shocked and angry and wrote a letter to oppose peace, and even said that those who dared to discuss peace were the same as Xu Youzhen, who proposed to move the capital after Tumen, were all treacherous officials who were unforgivable.
The local governors and governors were also 78 out of ten who opposed the peace talks between the two sides. The governor of Huguang He Tengjiao burst into tears. Yang said that the court was unwilling to go north, so he led his own soldiers to the north alone.
However, it was a loud thunder and a small raindrop. After many days, no soldiers and soldiers from Huguang advanced north. Wu Sangui, the king of Liao, who had a close relationship with He Tengjiao, also had troops stationed in the area, as if he was waiting and watching.
Hongguang didn't know what to do for a moment. At this time, Sichuan Governor Ma Gan reported urgently that Liu Wenxiu, the former Western thief general who surrendered to the Shun thief, led tens of thousands of troops to Hanzhong to attack Sichuan. Yu Baoning defeated Deputy General Wang Xiang and has now attacked Chongqing.
Ma Gan said that the Shun army was coming in a fierce manner, and Shun generals Liu Wenxiu, Li Laiheng and others were all brave and hard to match. Chongqing's lonely city was in short supply, so the court asked the court to send a large army to support Sichuan. Otherwise, Sichuan Province would be captured by Shunjiang. At that time, Shunjiang was in danger, Huguang was in danger, and the southern capital was in danger.
The Ming army group closest to Sichuan is undoubtedly the Ajige tribe of King Zhong of Jingxiang, and the Qin king Zuo Menggen tribe of King Wuchang, even further away.
Hongguang first sent an envoy to Ajige's army and ordered the Manchu Zhongwang to send troops to help Sichuan. Shi Kefa was also worried about the situation in Sichuan and asked Ajige to send 10,000 elite troops to help Sichuan urgently. Ajige was willing to help Sichuan, but most of his generals refused to enter Sichuan because these Manchu and Mongolian soldiers believed that if they went to Sichuan, they would be getting further and further away from their hometown, and they would probably be difficult to go home in the future.
The Ajige tribe refused to send troops, and the Hongguang Dynasty placed hope of helping the Qin King Zuo Menggeng. Zuo Menggeng was very happy and ordered his general Li Guoying to lead 8,000 troops into Sichuan, but Li Guoying's troops had a conflict with the local chieftain as soon as they arrived at Shizhouwei. As a result, Li Guoying sent troops to slaughter the two cities of the chieftain, causing chaos in the chieftains of Shizhouwei. The matter of aiding Sichuan was naturally unavailable.
When the news reached Nandu, the ministers were really helpless.
Seeing that there was no loyal and brave man in charge of the troops to help Sichuan, the cabinet minister Huang Daozhou was indignant and volunteered to supervise the troops to help Sichuan, contact Yunnan and Guizhou, so as not to let the important land in Sichuan fall into the hands of the thieves.
However, the court had no soldiers, so Huang Daozhou dispersed all his wealth and barely pieced together more than 3,000 people to follow him on the journey. Emperor Hongguang felt that Huang Daozhou was loyal and specially gave him a banner, and ordered him to governor Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou Military Affairs. He also sent Zhao Shichao, the head of the Ministry of War, to serve as the military supervisor for the military.
When Huang Daozhou led his troops to set off, the Ministry of War actually allocated a month of money and food. Soon after the master paid, the military pay could not be provided. The local governors and governors treated this temporary "carrying pole army" as laughing funds and did not provide any supply.
Huang Daozhou had no choice but to use his reputation and calligraphy to write a large number of commissions, and planned to appoint 19 generals and 34 deputy generals, and hundreds of guerrillas under the guerrillas. As a result, a large number of people really attracted to vote.
Unfortunately, Huang Daozhou, as a civil servant, never commanded the army. The soldiers recruited were either passionate or officials, and lacked experience in marching.
The only person with experience in the army was a side Shilang, a subordinate of Huang Daozhou. This man claimed to be a "seven-year-old thief". Based on his past experience, it was impossible for the soldiers recruited by Huang Daozhou to take on the heavy responsibility of aiding Sichuan. Therefore, he suggested to Huang Daozhou to dismiss the troops and only brought a few carefully selected people to Sichuan quickly, and then controlled the Sichuan army in the name of the governor of the cabinet, and issued an order to garrison in Yunnan and Guizhou. Such a thing is still possible.
Huang Daozhou was a stubborn man and did not achieve the right change. He thought that he had such a loose army than nothing. He also estimated his reputation too high, and believed that he would respond everywhere he went. Moreover, in his mind, Shi Lang was just a humble last general, so how could he have any wonderful plans?
Seeing that Huang Daozhou did not accept his opinion, Shi Lang was unwilling to accompany him to die. He also saw that most of the Ming troops saw along the way were unbearable, so he simply went out of the camp and went straight north to surrender to Dashun.
In the end, as Shi Lang expected, the army led by Huang Daozhou and the large number of "sending officials" dispersed before they arrived in Sichuan because they had no food and drink.
Chapter completed!