Chapter 663

Zhou yanru joined the cabinet for the second time and worshipped the prime minister again. He was satisfied and high spirited, and was ready to do some business.

Although he was in the opposition, he always cherished the government. He saw that the government was in his own time, but it was good. After letting Wen Tiren, the head and auxiliary of FA Wen, work for so many years, he made the government a mess. The people complained. He was very sad. He was thinking that one day, let me regain power, Will do better than him.

However, there is a saying that it is easy to watch others sing, but he can't dance when he wears a long shirt. Wen Tiren returned to the cabinet after seven years. He found that today's cabinet is very different from the original one.

When he was in power, Daming at least had the whole south to support them. Whatever materials they lacked could be obtained through tax increase and apportionment, but now it is not difficult for them to obtain them through tax increase and apportionment. What's more, they may lose all their territory south of the Yangtze River. Daming is ascended by a Chinese dynasty, It became the situation of the northern and Southern Dynasties.

Even in the northern and Southern Dynasties, as the Northern Dynasty, it is estimated that it is a little difficult for them to gain a foothold. That is, in recent years, it is like God does not reward rice. It is like God against them. Basically, the wind and rain are not smooth every year, either drought or flood. The North has lost its harvest year after year, and the people have no harvest. Civil unrest broke out in many places. At that time, the people have no food, Hungry, forced.

Daming fell into such a dilemma. It was already very difficult. Unexpectedly, at such a difficult time, there were chaotic officials and thieves like the Liu family, and they rebelled. They even made it succeed. They occupied Shandong, went south to Jianghuai and directly besieged Nanjing.

Before Zhou yanru was sent to Beijing by a secret edict of a pedestrian official, the Liu family was still in Shandong and was still fighting with the imperial court. Who knows, during his secret visit to Beijing, the situation changed like a sky collapse. Liu Jiajun suddenly took the important town Yangzhou and immediately took down Zhenjiang. The situation of Daming in the South quickly fell into collapse.

As the chief assistant of the Ming Empire, the first thing he has to do now is to mobilize all kinds of troops and horses to quickly support Nanjing.

Fortunately, Xu Guogong, who guarded Nanjing, is still reliable. With his own prestige and experience, he convened a large army to hold on to Nanjing and is resisting the constant attacks of hundreds of thousands of rebels day and night.

Therefore, what they need to do now is to mobilize a large army to support Nanjing as soon as possible.

However, the military equipment in Jiangnan has been abandoned for a long time, even if it has been abandoned for a long time. What's more, they have mobilized a lot of troops here to calm the extravagance and security chaos in the southwest, which has made the military resources here more empty. Most places and important towns have no soldiers to defend.

Even if there are some guards, they are all garbage soldiers. It's OK for him to farm and fight. It's just waste.

The Weisuo soldiers established by Emperor Taizu were very capable of fighting. They could fight against the invincible Mongolian cavalry if they were pulled out. However, after more than 200 years of peace, the military equipment was abandoned and corruption became common in the army, which made the combat effectiveness of the Weisuo army decline sharply and become garbage soldiers that no one looked down on, They are not so much a group of soldiers as a farmer with the name of a soldier. They can't fight at all.

Therefore, in the past few decades, all the troops that could fight, such as the Qi family army that was famous all over the world and the Liaodong iron cavalry of Li Chengliang, were home soldiers and private recruits. The imperial court also knew that the situation was critical, so on the first day of Nanjing's siege, they immediately ordered Zhu Xieyuan to return to the north.

From the first year of the Apocalypse to the tenth year of Chongzhen, the chaos of shean lasted 17 years. It affected the four provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi, killing and injuring more than one million people. The large-scale war lasted nine years. During the war, Governor Xu keqiu of Sichuan died, governor Wang Sanshan of Guizhou died, Prime Minister Lu qinbing, the top general of Southwest China, killed himself, and Guizhou general was killed under the city of Guiyang, which caused the greatest blow to the Ming Dynasty, His situation in the southwest was eroded and turned into a quagmire.

Zhu Xieyuan, formerly known as maoshang, with the word Maohe and the number Hengyue, was born in Shanyin County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. Zhu Xieyuan was a scholar of Shenzong Wanli for 20 years. He served as an official Dali evaluator, a prefect of Suzhou, and a deputy envoy of Guangdong University. During his term of office, he rehabilitated the unjust prison, eliminated the disadvantages of the people, and comforted the weaving fortifications. Later, he abandoned his official home for ten years to support his parents. Later, he was reinstated as Shaanxi press envoy and Sichuan Zuo Bu envoy. In the first year of the apocalypse, he was ordered to denounce the chaos of extravagance and safety. By the end of the tenth year of Chongzhen, he had managed to calm the chaos of extravagance and safety.

Zhu Xieyuan has always been responsible for calming the chaos of extravagance and security, and he has done very well. The leader of the rebellion, she Chongming and an Bangyan, have been killed in the battle. Now they are cleaning up his remaining party. The imperial court thinks that sending so many more than 100000 troops here is a waste of talents, so it calls Zhu Xieyuan, a capable man, to lead his army back quickly, Support Nanjing.

Zhu Xieyuan was famous for calming the chaos of extravagance and safety. His officials accumulated to the Minister of the Ministry of War (hanging the title) and concurrently supervised the military affairs of Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi. He was given a Shangfang sword and then entered the Shaoshi and zuozhu countries.

Zhu Xieyuan acted wisely and did not need the help of his staff for military letters. In order to be mature and prudent, we should always plan before fighting. We are especially good at using the method of separation.

It is said that Zhu Xieyuan is eight feet long and ten girths wide. He can eat as much as 20 people. He has the style of Xue Rengui, a famous general in the early hall.

Zhu Xieyuan is also quite incorruptible as an official. Zhu Xieyuan is the governor of Suzhou. This is a fat and deficient place in the world. Mrs. mango lives in Suzhou with him. When he leaves office, Mrs. mango has six big boxes in the backyard, which are tightly bound. Zhu Xieyuan ordered to unpack the box on the spot in the lobby. As a result, it was all cotton yarn spun by his wife. He guarded the southwest for many years. He received no less than hundreds of thousands of military expenses and ransom every year. He didn't leave any money and handed it all to the government. The chaotic generals of the Ming Dynasty only seized Zhu Xieyuan, who suppressed bandits in the poorest Guizhou Province. Other ministries either didn't have it or filled their own pockets.

Zhu Xieyuan makes good use of talents and can give full play to their strengths. He enforces the law impartially. Even if his cronies break the law, they will be punished. If he makes a contribution, even if he is a slave, he will not forget to reward them.

At the most critical time of the Ming Dynasty, in the time of life and death, it is reasonable to think of good generals and use good officials and famous generals who are 72 years old.

However, Zhu Xieyuan's army is far away in the mountains and forests of Guizhou to hang Shuixi soldiers. It is not a moment and a half to come back. If it comes back alone, it is useless. It takes time for the army to gather back, so it is not the best way to send this general back for support.

So at this time, many people are eyeing Xiong Wencan, who was appointed as the new supervisor of Jiangnan. This master has been hiding here in Guangzhou and refused to move.

The imperial court also has high hopes for Xiong Wencan. It hopes that he can lead his troops to destroy Liu Jun. who knows, this master is a good procrastinator. Seeing the situation is bad, he is unwilling to give up the peaceful life in front of him and go to Nanjing to jump into a fire pit.

The more tragic news came that the Zheng family also rebelled, and the rebels captured Quanzhou in one day.

As long as the people with a little insight in the imperial court understand that what it means if the Zheng family rebelled, what does it mean if they captured Quanzhou, which means the erosion of Fujian? Erosion of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The Zheng family was originally a backhand for the imperial court to deal with the Liu family and the powerful navy of the Liu family. They had no tricks and methods at all. They could only use the fierce tiger of the Zheng family to deal with him. Who knows that the fierce tiger has turned against him after all.

The whole court understood and knew that the Zheng family was rebellious, not because of their relatives with the Liu family, but because of their interests. The court had already given the Zheng family a good treatment. Who knows that Zheng Zhilong still refused to accept it.

The rebellion of the Zheng family almost became the last straw to crush the imperial court. All the officials felt desperate. Many people wrote a letter suggesting that if the capital was not moved decisively at the moment, Daming would die.

But emperor Chongzhen was very angry. He said, "since Emperor Taizong came here, our Dynasty has been based here for more than 200 years. There are countless strong enemies, and we have never retreated. This is the gate of the Ming Dynasty and the lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty. If we step back, the country will be destroyed."

Emperor Chongzhen is also a face loving emperor. He loves face and is very happy. If he moves the capital during his term of office and lets him leave in a pack, he will have no face. Therefore, he will not agree to move the capital.

Although it is these officials who proposed to move the capital, it is actually good that they can put forward such suggestions regardless of their reputation and life and death.

You know, this is an easy suggestion to bear the black pot. After liquidation, people will only say that it was you who killed the officials and lost the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Who knows that these officials dared to mention it, but it was his emperor who made the decision. If the emperor agreed, he can move the capital.

It's just that emperor Chongzhen is suffering a lot. Once he moves the capital and leaves here, the capital is estimated to be unable to defend. With such a huge military force in front of him, he hasn't defended this place. If he retreats, a large number of troops shrink, and Liu Jun or JianNu take the opportunity to sweep them in, they can be crushed.

Although the relocation of the capital can greatly improve their unfavorable situation, the crime of losing the capital left by his ancestors and giving up the Taimiao and ancestral temple to others is not something that emperor Chongzhen could afford, so he flatly refused and refused to agree to the relocation of the capital.