Chapter 687

Beijing

After receiving the information that Liu Jiajun went south on a large scale and entered Yangzhou from the sea, the whole imperial court blew up its nest, with chickens flying and dogs jumping in a mess, as if the end was coming.

It's almost a mess. Many people can confirm that Jiangnan is erosive.

Because this is based on their experience with the Liu family.

They basically ended in failure in a series of battles with the Liu family.

In the beginning, the imperial court sent Liu Zeqing's 100000 troops to encircle and suppress Liu Jiajun. As a result, the 100000 troops were easily defeated in a short time, and then lost the West Third House.

Then they sent two armies south to regain control of the canal. As a result, they were defeated miserably. Famous generals such as Lu Xiangsheng were destroyed.

Then there was an accident in Jiangnan.

It's like JianNu's insurrection in Liao town. It's getting bigger and bigger. Every time the imperial court goes out to encircle and suppress them, they are not destroyed, but become more powerful. Now basically, the whole outside the pass has become JianNu's territory. Since they rebelled, the imperial court can't take back a piece of land from JianNu.

Guan Ningjun and Liaoxi generals claim to have made countless contributions and killed countless enemies. I don't know whether it's true or false, but they quickly retreat to Shanhaiguan, and then the capital will be the capital.

The Liu family is the same. As long as the other party appears in the place, it can bring great trouble and disaster to the imperial court.

Since then, local officials have repeatedly reported Tang newspapers and memorials, which have also proved that their conjecture is not wrong.

The government offices of the Ming Dynasty are controlled at all levels. Naturally, the highest authority of all provinces is to announce the political envoys, and then the government, States, counties and other places, and the post stations connecting these governments and counties are all over the country.

Once something goes wrong in a certain place, these post stations will immediately report these messages to the superior government and leaders, and report them at all levels. Soon, they can reach the General Administration Department of the capital and form a network.

The post stations played such a role. In fact, they connected all parts of the country. Unfortunately, in order to save money, Emperor Chongzhen thought that these post stations only brought trouble to the imperial court and had no role. As a result, he listened to the words of the courtiers and cancelled many post stations. As a result, he created a super anti thief like Li Zicheng.

After the imperial court cancelled many post stations, the imperial court became very slow and slow in obtaining local intelligence, but after all, they still had channels and networks, and the war reports in front were uploaded one by one, but 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 is interrupted, and the place is in war, which makes their intelligence sources begin to be interrupted.

For example, the imperial court doesn't know the specific situation in the south of the Yangtze River, and the areas south of the Yangtze River can't receive the imperial court's notice and edict in time. What's more, what happened in Fengyang mansion was transmitted from Nanyang mansion and Xinyang mansion in Henan Province. How do they know? Hearsay.

Thus, a huge period of chaos was formed. In this period of chaos, the imperial court could not organize effective forces to encircle, suppress and restrict the Liu family, which gave Liu Bu more opportunities. Liu Bu has been advocating to take advantage of his illness to kill him.

The imperial court's existing post station system and local transmission methods still let them know that there was an accident in the south of the Yangtze River. It is estimated that the Jianghuai area, their most important confidant, has been occupied, and Liu Jun is besieging Nanjing. This important town has been attacked. Emperor Chongzhen knows that he has white hair and wrinkled face all night.

This is Nanjing, but the starting place of their old Zhu family, or the Xiaoling of their old ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang. If Nanjing falls and something happens to Xiaoling, he doesn't know what to do?

According to the style of this era, once Liu Jun captured Nanjing, he will send someone to destroy Xiaoling and destroy the feng shui of their old Zhu family.

This style is very common. For example, after the bandits captured Fengyang, the capital of China, they sent their imperial tombs, and the imperial court was also unambiguous. After the emergence of big thieves such as Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, the imperial court secretly sent local officials to dig each other's ancestral tombs, hoping to end each other's bad luck and make each other unlucky.

Don't mention whether it worked or not. At least after they dug Gao Yingxiang's ancestral grave, the goods were defeated and died, and the exiles were suppressed to a desperate point by the imperial army.

So emperor Chongzhen was very afraid, very afraid, after Liu Jun took Nanjing. He began to explore their Xiaoling. If something happened to Xiaoling, he really didn't have the face to see his ancestors. He was afraid that he would be punished again.

Moreover, Emperor Chongzhen, even if he was stupid and stupid, understood that as long as he stood on the map, he knew how bad the current situation of Daming was. Shandong was lost, Jianghuai was lost, and then Jiangnan was lost. The richest areas of Daming were lost. How should he rule the whole world?

How does the military expenditure of Jiubian come from? How can we rule Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places that have almost become enclaves? If we can't rule these places effectively, it means that these places have been lost, and the Ming Dynasty has changed from a national regime to a local regime. This is really the ultimate defeat.

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

If Liu Jiajun had done evil in Shandong before, he could still order Hong Chengchou's army and Yang Si's army to fight each other without fear of the cold.

But now the other side is making trouble in the south. They don't have any heavy army groups in the south. How can they destroy this heavy enemy army.

Without a heavy army group, there is no way to take the other party. Now they have reached a consensus that they can not easily send a force to encircle and attack Liu Jun, but have to send a heavy army group to destroy the other party, otherwise they will send food to the other party or die

Just like the guanning army outside the pass now, if there is no heavy army group, it will not dare to fight JianNu, otherwise it will be considered as an act of death. Although the officials and soldiers of the imperial court did not say that Liu Jun is dissatisfied with 10000 and is invincible, their fear of Liu Jun is also universal.

Emperor Chongzhen was more afraid of Liu Jun, who was different from JianNu. JianNu was always an alien barbarian, and the officials and army always despised and hostile to them. They were tartar barbarians, non-Chinese, like pigs and dogs, and few people were willing to accept the rule of an alien.

In terms of fighting JianNu, many generals have shown their integrity. This is that they absolutely do not accept the rule of other nationalities, but Liu Jun is different. Liu Jiajun, who was separated from the Imperial Army, is also the army and power of the Han people. He has the same ancestry and origin with them. Frankly, he can be called his own. If the price is appropriate, The two sides will cooperate quickly.

You see, when Liu Jun attacked the south of the Yangtze River, he simply sent troops quickly, as fast as the wind and as fierce as fire. This is because many people in the Ming army did not resolutely resist Liu Jun at all, but chose to surrender and cooperate with them.

At least in the eyes of many court generals and officials, capitulating to the Liu family is different from capitulating to build slaves, and there is no pressure. This makes emperor Chongzhen face a great threat. This is a force that can compete with him for the world. He can't help lamenting, how should it be?

He can't force Hong Chengchou and Yang Sichang's army to fly over to fight each other? Even after flying, I'm afraid it's not the opponent of the other party.

The Liu family has a large number of fleets, which can quickly transport their troops from the north to the south, saving manpower and material resources and keeping the army vigorous.

Without this convenience, their imperial army rushed all night with their weapons and equipment. When they rushed to the south, they were afraid that they were tired and hungry. They had become tired soldiers and could not fight each other at all.

Therefore, it has evolved into such a situation, that is, to fight with Liu Jun, they must first attack Cangzhou or Hejian Prefecture, invade Shandong, recapture Jinan, restore the canal, and then attack all the way south along the canal to recapture their lost land.

But now the weather is extremely cold. It's freezing, and the army can't go out at all. Moreover, because the army doesn't have enough food, these Army soldiers are unwilling to go to war with weapons. Coupled with the continuous bad news, the army Sergeants are not high spirited and feel sad everywhere.

That's why emperor Chongzhen was so worried and helpless. He had no food, money and soldiers. The situation was so bad. I really don't know what to do?

Emperor Chongzhen made an exception and decisively appointed Zhou yanru as the chief assistant of the cabinet. He believed in his ability and hoped that he could make a career. However, when he was right with the emperor, this chief assistant of the cabinet was right and belittled his predecessor, but when he let himself do it, he could not take any effective measures.

Although many policies on paper sound very beautiful, the final effect is very disappointing, even described as strong and unsatisfactory.

The main reason why emperor Chongzhen was wrinkled, even if the situation collapsed to such a point, was when he asked the ministers for help.

These ministers have nothing to do. Usually, they are eloquent and give directions, as if there is nothing rare for them in the world, but when they are really asked to do it, no one can come up with an effective way to solve the immediate crisis.

If we can't solve the current crisis, the Ming Dynasty will end up destroying the country. He Chongzhen emperor will become the king of the subjugated country.