Emperor Chongzhen was considered a miserable person.

If he had said this before, no one would have believed it. Many people think that he is a lucky person. If he was unlucky, he would have been tortured to death by Concubine Zheng when his father was the crown prince in Ciqing Palace.

As a result, Zhu Youjian and his brother Zhu Youxiao survived tenaciously, grew up, got married and had children.

It made him even more legendary. This was his brother who died at the age of 23. Emperor Tianqi had no son and passed the throne to him. Originally, he was just a vassal king. After the palace was built, he had to go to the place to go to the vassal state. Without the emperor's edict, he would not be allowed to return to the capital for life. He was considered a branch of the royal family.

But I never expected that his brother died so early that the throne was passed on to him and fell into his hands.

Zhu Youjian became the emperor at the age of 17, and his reign was named Chongzhen. As soon as he came to power, he eliminated the nine thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian and Keshi who were called for the wind and rain during the Tianqi period and caused trouble to the court. This won him the title of Emperor Ming. The Ming Dynasty also washed away the decline of the previous dynasty. The court was united, the king and the ministers were united, and they were ready to do something big.

Emperor Chongzhen was also a diligent person. Emperor Tianqi of the Celestial Dynasty was very lazy. He stayed in the carpenter for a longer time than in the imperial study. He was unwilling to do government affairs and spent a lot of time playing and having fun, so that the government affairs were abandoned, allowing people like Wei Zhongxian to take advantage of the situation and control the government affairs, which made the court in chaos.

Emperor Chongzhen was different. He did not trust eunuchs and seized all the criticism of Zhu Quan, which had been in charge of the Sili Supervisor for more than two hundred years. Then he took over all the things and did it himself. All the memorials and military reports from all over the country must be handed over to him and approved by him in person to be effective. He was very diligent and took charge of everything himself. He went to court early every morning. Sometimes he himself said that he was the life of a cow, which was a hard life.

People who said he had a good life before all said that he had a bad life, at least he had a hard life.

But everyone believes that his efforts and diligence will bring peace to him and make him the holy lord of revival. All his behaviors are the style of a wise lord and lord, without any tyrant lord.

But ten years have passed, and after ten years of becoming emperor, he did not revitalize the Ming Dynasty, but instead made the Ming Dynasty lose half of its territory.

Today's Ming Dynasty is actually just one step away from destruction, and the only difference is a big defeat. A big defeat is probably confirmed in the battle in Shandong.

There is a saying that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. However, Emperor Chongzhen was extremely afraid of the upcoming Battle of Shandong. On the one hand, he wanted to use this war to annihilate the enemy and unify the world.

But he was also worried that his army would be defeated by the other party and would be defeated by the other party, and then he would become the king of the country and have no face to see his ancestors.

In this situation of worrying about gains and losses, he stopped going to court and practiced martial arts instead. He hoped that he could train and control troops himself and understand some things.

As a result, he was really busy. Why do you say that? This is because he didn't go to the morning court, but he still got up early. He just went to the Imperial Garden to train his soldiers, instead of like the Liu father and son who were far away in Nanjing, he did not go to the morning court, but only went to the office to pay after getting up in the morning.

So, when the Liu family father and son were officially on duty and handled official duties, Emperor Chongzhen had been busy for most of the day. This is the saying that he was busy and had a bad life.

It was also at this time that he received news from the south.

They did not have accurate information to prove that Liu Bu was dead, no one saw Liu Bu's body, and the Chinese military officials did not publicly announce Liu Bu's evil and held a state funeral.

With Liu Bu's status in the Chinese army and in the Chinese Empire, if he dies, he will be called death, and then a state funeral must be held, and a grand funeral must be held.

However, the Chinese Empire did not reveal any news, but Emperor Chongzhen and his cabinet members combined all the situation and came to a conclusion that Liu Bu should have died in the assassination outside Jiming Temple.

This conclusion is not allowed to be proposed by Jianqiang, but by Zhou Yanru, the chief minister of the cabinet. Zhou Yanru combined more than a dozen intelligences and all aspects of information to come to a conclusion that if Liu Bu of the Chinese Army was still there, the Chinese Army would not have to be so embarrassed or in such a mess.

Only when something happened to Liu Bu or Liu Yuanqiao would they be in chaos and become angry. Liu Bu and Liu Yuanqiao are equivalent to the two legs of the Chinese army, and neither is missing. Since Liu Yuanqiao can still jump out and make a statement publicly, it means that Liu Bu should have the one who was in trouble.

The one who happened was Liu Bu, which made the officials of the Ming Dynasty so happy that they ran around to tell each other.

Liu Bu was the god of war in the Chinese Empire, their prince. The Chinese army under his command maintained a record of complete victory. Since his rise, no Ming army has been able to defeat them on the front battlefield.

The imperial court basically didn't even have to think about it, and they could come to a conclusion that the Battle of Shandong was definitely under the command of Liu Bu.

Such a great man commanded a hundred thousand Chinese army to fight against the 700,000 Ming army, and they were not sure of winning.

Now their commanders Hong Chengchou and Yang Sichang are both bragging that they must win and defeat the enemy.

But even the officials, they believed that Hong Chengchou and Yang Sichang were bragging and had never fought on the battlefield. Why dare to say such things? Their words were mainly to boost morale and forced to make a choice.

You should know that if it is the commander of the army, they all say that this battle cannot be fought, so how can they fight? Everyone goes home to plow the fields and raise pigs, so they can only brag, hoping to boost morale. This is good intention. If a skinny donkey is tying a hard shit and not fighting, it is not considered a crime of deceiving the emperor.

But at this moment, just when everyone was scared, the strongest minions of the Chinese Army, their most powerful enemy, were dead, which really made them very happy and excited.

Zhou Yanru was a good at analyzing. He quickly analyzed the entire situation and came to a conclusion that if the Chinese army lost Liu Bu, they would suffer irreparable losses.

Liu Yuanqiao's status in the army and his experience in leading troops in wars was far inferior to Liu Bu, and even his prestige in the army was not as good as Liu Bu.

I don’t know if he can subdue the gang of generals and soldiers under his command. Even if he can tame this group of arrogant soldiers and soldiers, whether he can fight the war well is a question.

At the same time, there is more optimistic and exciting news.

Liu Bu is the crown prince of the Chinese Empire and his future heir. Everyone is optimistic about the Chinese Empire because Liu Yuanqiao and Liu Bu are the best partners. The father and son partner can maintain decades of peace and eternal stability.

Now that Liu Yuanqiao has no successor and no successor, everyone will not be optimistic about him.

It's like everyone is not optimistic about Emperor Zhengde back then. Emperor Zhengde had no prince, and the ministers looked down on him and tried to deceive him in different ways. After he died, he was even more because there was no prince talking to him. He was trying hard to blacken Emperor Zhengde into a useless monarch.

This is the convention of this era. People without children are called "a family". Liu Yuanqiao is over fifty years old. Even if he can give birth to a child, it is probably difficult to train him to become a qualified successor. These are great benefits to the Ming Dynasty, and everyone is very excited about this.

After Zhou Yanru made these analyses one by one, he came to a conclusion that the current situation was very good and very beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.

Faced with this situation, the emperor began to move.

Seeing that the decisive battle in Shandong was about to begin, this kind of favorable information was spread out one after another, but it made him very happy that this was a great auspicious thing to happen.

When the emperor was happy, he ordered a heavy reward to these dead soldiers, and Zhang Jianxiu, who was in charge of the assassination in Nanjing.

Xu Jianqiang said: "Our intelligence network in Nanjing has been hit hard. Basically, all the spies and stakes were lifted up, so that the information we received was greatly lagging behind. I don't know how many people survived."

The emperor sighed a little, and he said, "Where is Zhang Jianxiu? Did he survive?"

Xu Jianqiang said: "If there is no accident, Zhang Jianxiu should be alive, but he has been lurking. He will only return north until his vigilance is relaxed and the time is ripe. Therefore, Your Majesty can give a generous reward now, but whether he can receive it depends on his life."

Emperor Chongzhen was in a good mood and said, "What's your fate? I am the emperor and the destiny of heaven. He will definitely be able to come back alive."

Xu Jianqiang was not so optimistic. He knew that the Liu family's National Security Bureau was powerful and whether he could come back alive was dependent on his ability, and on the other hand, it really depends on his luck. So he said: "Thank you for the emperor's auspicious words."

These things happened to the Liu family army, but the people from all over the Ming Dynasty were happy and happy. The two sides were originally in a state of equal strength.
Chapter completed!