Beijing

Since receiving the information that the Liu family army went south and entered Yangzhou from the sea, the entire court has been in chaos, and it is like the end of the world is coming.

It's almost a mess, and many people can confirm that it is the decay of Jiangnan.

Because this is based on their experience in fighting the Liu family.

In a series of battles with the Liu family, they basically ended in failure.

The first thing was that the court sent Liu Zeqing's 100,000 troops to encircle and suppress the Liu family army. As a result, the 100,000 troops were easily defeated in a short time and then lost the Western Three Prefectures.

Then they sent two large armies to head south to take back control of the canal, but they were defeated again. All famous generals like Lu Xiangsheng were wiped out.

Then something happened in Jiangnan...

This is like Jiannu is causing chaos in Liao Town, and he is getting bigger and bigger. After the imperial court has been dispatched to encircle and suppress it once, they are not wiped out, but become stronger. Now basically, the entire outer space of the pass has become the territory of Jiannu. Since their rebellion, the imperial court has not been able to regain a piece of land from Jiannu.

Guanning Army and Liaoxi generals claimed to have made countless contributions and killed countless enemies. I don’t know whether this is true or false, but they are about to retreat to Shanhaiguan, and then retreat to the capital.

The same is true for the Liu family. As long as the other party appears, it can bring huge trouble and disaster to the court.

Afterwards, officials from all over the country kept reporting the reports and memorials, which proved that their conjecture was not wrong.

The governments of the Ming Dynasty were controlled by layers of control, and the highest power institutions in various provinces were naturally the government and envoys, and then the prefectures, prefectures, prefectures, counties, etc. The ones connecting these prefectures were the post stations in various places.

Once a problem occurs in a certain place, these stations will immediately report these messages to superior officials and leaders, and report them at all levels. They will soon reach the capital's Tongzheng Department and form a network.

The post stations played such a role, which was actually to connect all parts of the country. Unfortunately, in order to save expenses, Emperor Chongzhen believed that these post stations were just causing trouble to the court and had no effect. As a result, he listened to the words of the court officials and canceled many post stations, which resulted in a super thief like Li Zicheng.

After the imperial court canceled many post stations, it also made the imperial court very slow and slow in obtaining local information. However, in the end, they still had channels and networks, and the war reports that occurred in front were uploaded one by one, but they were many times slower.

Their post station is a whole. The north obtains information from the south, which is usually transmitted from the south. Now, the north-south connection has been interrupted and the place has fallen into war, which has caused their intelligence sources to begin to be interrupted.

For example, the court does not understand the specific situation south of the Yangtze River now, and the areas south of the Yangtze River cannot receive notifications and imperial edicts from the court in time. What is even more pitiful is that what happened in Fengyang Prefecture was transmitted from Nanyang Prefecture and Xinyang Prefecture, Henan. How did they know it? It was heard from.

This formed a huge chaotic period. In this chaotic period, the court was unable to organize effective forces to encircle and restrict the Liu family, which gave Liu Bu and others more opportunities. It was also what Liu Bu had been advocating to take his life while he was sick.

The court's existing post station system and local transmission methods still let them know that something happened in Jiangnan. The most important confidant area of ​​the Jianghuai area was probably already in its invasion. Liu Jun was besieging Nanjing. The important town was captured. Emperor Chongzhen knew that he had gray hair all night and his face was full of wrinkles.

This is Nanjing, but the place where their Zhu family started was still the Xiaoling Mausoleum of their ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang. If Nanjing falls and something happens to Xiaoling Mausoleum, he doesn't know what to do?

According to the style of this era, once Liu Jun conquered Nanjing, he would definitely send someone to destroy Xiaoling and destroy the Feng Shui of their Zhu family.

This kind of behavior is very common. For example, after the bandits captured Fengyang, they issued their imperial tombs, and the court was not vague at all. After the big thieves such as Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng appeared, the court also secretly sent local officials to dig the other party's ancestral graves, hoping to end the other party's luck and make the other party unlucky.

You can't say whether it is effective or not. At least after they dug Gao Yingxiang's ancestral grave, the guy was defeated and died, and the bandits were all suppressed by the imperial army to the point of desperate situation.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen was very scared and very scared. After Liu Jun took Nanjing, he began to excavate their Xiaoling Mausoleum. If something happened to Xiaoling Mausoleum, he would really not have the face to meet his ancestors, and he was afraid he would be punished again.

Moreover, even if Emperor Chongzhen was stupid, he understood one thing. As long as he stood on the map, he would know how bad the current situation of the Ming Dynasty was. Shandong was lost, Jianghuai was lost, and Jiangnan was lost. The richest areas in the Ming Dynasty were lost. How should he rule the entire world?

How do you get the military expenditure of the Jiubian? How can you use to rule Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places that have almost become enclaves? If you cannot effectively rule these places, it means that these places have been lost, and the Ming Dynasty has also changed from a national regime to a local regime. This is really a waste of money.

Emperor Chongzhen was furious and sighed, but no matter what he did, it could not change the current situation.

If the Liu family army was doing evil in Shandong in the past, he could still order Hong Chengchou's army and Yang Si's army to fight to the death without fear of the cold and to fight each other.

But now the other party is in chaos in the south, and they have no heavy army group in the south. How to wipe out this enemy heavy army?

Without a heavy army group, there is no way to deal with the other party. They have now reached a consensus that they cannot easily send a force to encircle and attack Liu Jun. Instead, they have to send a heavy army group to wipe out the other party, otherwise they will just deliver vegetables to the other party and die.

Just like the Guanning Army outside the Pass now, if there is no heavy army group, it will not dare to fight with Jiannu, otherwise it will be considered a death sentence. Although the imperial army did not say that Liu's army was dissatisfied with ten thousand and invincible, its fear of Liu's army was also universal.

What made Emperor Chongzhen even more afraid of is that Liu Jun is different from Jiannu. Jiannu has always been a barbarian of foreign races, and the official army has always despised and hostile to them. They are a barbarian of Tartars, not my race, and are like pigs and dogs. Not many people are willing to accept the rule of the foreign race.

In terms of fighting against Jiannu, many generals showed their integrity, which means they would never accept the rule of foreign races. However, the Liu army was different. The Liu family army was divided by the imperial army, and the Han army and forces, and they had the same ancestor and origin as them. To put it bluntly, they could be called their own people. If the price offered was appropriate, the two sides would cooperate quickly.

When Liu Jun was conquering Jiangnan, he sent troops quickly, as fast as the wind and as fierce as fire. This is because many people in the Ming army did not resist Liu Jun firmly, but chose to surrender and cooperate with them.

At least in the minds of many imperial generals and officials, surrendering to the Liu family is different from surrendering to Jiannu, and there is even less pressure. This put Emperor Chongzhen under a huge threat. This is a force that can compete with him for the world. He can't help but lament what should we do?

He can't force Hong Chengchou and Yang Sichang's army to fly over and fight against each other, right? Even after flying over, he is afraid he will not be his opponent.

The Liu family had a large fleet, which could quickly transport their northern troops to the south, saving manpower and material resources, and maintaining their strength.

Their imperial army did not have the convenience of this. They rushed to the south with their weapons and equipment. They were afraid they were tired and hungry, and they had become tired soldiers and had no way to fight with each other.

So this situation evolved, that is, they had to fight against Liu Jun. They had to first attack Cangzhou or Hejian Prefecture, attack Shandong, regain Jinan, and restore the canal. Then they attacked the south along the canal to seize their lost territory.

But the weather is in an extremely cold time, and the weather is cold and the army cannot be dispatched at all. Moreover, because there is not enough food in the army, these soldiers of the army are unwilling to take weapons to fight. In addition, the continuous bad news comes, the morale in the army is not high and is in a feeling of sorrow.

That's why Emperor Chongzhen was so troubled, so helpless, without food, money, and no soldiers in his hands. The situation was so bad. I really don't know what to do?

Emperor Chongzhen appointed Zhou Yanru as the chief minister of the cabinet in an extraordinary and decisive manner, believing in his ability and hoping that he could make a career. However, when this chief minister of the cabinet was against the emperor, he was very polite, but he demoted his ex to nothing, but when he asked himself to do it, he could not come up with any effective measures.

Although many policies on paper sound very beautiful, the final result is very disappointing, and it is even described as a strong and disappointing one.

Why did Emperor Chongzhen have wrinkles on his face? Even if the situation collapsed to such a point, it would not be like this. The main thing is when he asked the ministers for help.

These ministers were helpless. They were usually polite and gave advice, as if there was nothing in the world that could be rare. However, when they were really allowed to do it, no one could come up with effective methods to solve the current crisis.
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