Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 967 Pot Sharing Conference (seeking monthly ticket)

But what is the use of Chongzhen appointing them?

Even Hong Chengchou was on the safe side, and did not send troops to kill and plunder the full-bodied Qing army.

Dorgon led his army to pass through the Qingshan Pass in Qian'an County and returned to Shenyang victoriously.

On the contrary, Wu Guojun, the Marquis of Jingliao, led his troops into Zunhua and watched intently, wanting to snatch away the bloated baggage of the Qing army, while the rest did not dare to move forward.

When the first assistant Liu Yuliang heard the news of Lu Xiangsheng's death, he fled quickly, fearing that he would follow in the footsteps.

Just when the Qing army withdrew, Wu Guojun suggested to Liu Yuliang that the Qing army had already fled to the northeast, and our army should loot or intercept to avoid being humiliated by the opponent again: "Officers and soldiers will not be sent away".

But Liu Yuliang did not dare to invite Hong Chengchou, Fu Zonglong and others to attack even if he met with Hong Chengchou, Fu Zonglong and others. Instead, he replied that there is no need for such extravagance.

But Fu Zonglong is a person who wants to do practical things. He and Wu Guojun will attack the Qing army at Wuqing, Jizhou, and Lengkouguan and win a small victory. The military operations will not be stopped until the Qing army is completely out of the fortress.

With such a large-scale military operation by the Qing army, and for such a long time, Ming Dynasty had never fought a battle of annihilation, and the generals did not dare to face it head-on.

Blindly stalking, like an idiot.

Coupled with the ineffective mobilization of the imperial court center, the front line flew to report the military situation, and the military department did not dare to make decisions without authorization. It had to ask the emperor for instructions on everything, which missed the opportunity of the war.

After the Qing army left, the Bingke gave Zhang Jinyan the first letter to the emperor, Your Majesty, we have to hold all the ministers accountable for the defeat.

He counted from the beginning to the end, the first is from the entrance of Qiangziling, the guilty Wu Aheng, Wu Guojun, Deng Xizhao;

The second is the Qing army who re-entered Qingshan Pass, the guilty governor Chen Zubao, the commander-in-chief Chen Guowei, and the supervisor Sun Maolin.

The third is the loss of the city. The guilty are Lu Xiangsheng, director Gao Qiqian, general soldiers Wang Pu, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, Hou Gongji, Zanhua Yang Yanlin, governor Zhang Qiping, general soldier Liu Guangzuo, and director Fang Zhenghua.

The fourth is the fall of feudal feudal vassals. The guilty are Inspector Liu Yuliang, Governor Fu Zonglong, Director Gao Qiqian, and dispatched generals Li Ji, Zu Kuan, Guo Jinshan, Governor Yan Jizu, and General Ni Chong.

The fifth is to sit back and watch the Qing army leave the customs. The guilty are Liu Yuliang, Fu Zonglong, Chen Xinjia, Gao Qiqian, Liu Guangzuo, Wang Pu, Yang Guozhu, Hou Gongji, Zu Dashou.

The most important thing is that Yang Sichang, Minister of the Ministry of War, is responsible for the heavy responsibility of national defense, and the crimes of all the ministers are all on him.

The pigs in the cabinet are also to blame, especially the chief assistant Liu Yuliang is the most serious, and he has no merit in fighting against the outside world, causing reckless jokes.

Regardless of whether you are alive or dead, you cannot avoid being divided.

This memorial is not only a meeting to share the pot, he also criticized many ministers and workers for gossiping, refusing to do things honestly, and don't think that peace can be enjoyed when the enemy troops retreat.

After Chongzhen's review, he accepted his opinion and asked Yang Sichang to preside over the inspection of the officials involved in the accident.

When Yang Sichang gave the same opinion, Chongzhen thought for a long time, and changed to four aspects of border defense, city defense, aid, and dispatch, which were checked separately and dealt with according to the law.

After Yang Sichang got the reply, he wrote again.

Chongzhen looked at the dense list of people and began to excuse the officials below.

The governor, Fu Zonglong, was burdened with the endgame, so it was naturally impossible for him to make any achievements, so he was beheaded, and it was indeed too much of a crime.

Governor Chen Xinjia, all the elite soldiers under his command belonged to Lu Xiangsheng, and the latter belonged to Fu Zonglong. The new recruits were all scattered and defeated soldiers, so don't be too demanding.

Inspector Liu Yuliang, if you are not a teacher, you will leave, and you will not be able to decide the end, so don't be too demanding.

Praise the painting Yang Yanlin, the scholar enters the curtain, how can he be good at military affairs, don't be demanding.

Governor Lu Xiangsheng, in the body of Ding You, suddenly did the work of King Juanjiaqin, sacrificed his life to serve the country, don't be too demanding, compared with Wu Aheng, one is a person who caught fire, and the other is a firefighter.

All these people were mitigated by Chongzhen. He believed that the deputy general Zu Kuan who had seriously neglected his duties, failed to meet the deadline, whitewashed his words, and could not escape Dafa.

Among them, Zu Kuan, the chief general of the Guanning Army, failed to rescue Jinan and stagnated.

When Lu Xiangsheng led the army to suppress the rebel army, he once boasted that only Zu Dale, Zu Kuan and others were the most fierce and killed the most enemies in the army.

Zu Kuan was a servant of Zu Dashou, who was later adopted as an adopted son. He was arrogant, burned houses wherever soldiers and horses passed, and raped women and men, even worse than the Qing army.

Chongzhen was the first to deal with Zu Kuan, and he was also beating Zu Dashou.

General Li Chongzhen, who abandoned governor Lu Xiangsheng and fled, should be severely punished. (At that time, under Gao Qiqian's command)

Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief, withdrew first, and then raised more than [-] troops. He sat idly by and dismissed his post.

In the end, after the approval of Chongzhen, the fifth-class evidence was established, guarding the border and losing the opportunity, ruining the city, losing the vassal, losing the commander, letting the enemy go out of the fortress, and issuing a list of punishments.

The eunuchs include Deng Xizhao, the director of Jiliao, and Sun Maolin, the sub-supervisor. The governors include Chen Zubao, the governor of Shuntian, Zhang Qiping, the governor of Baoding, and Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong.

There are 37 soldiers in total including Wu Guojun and Chen Guowei, general soldiers of Jiliao, Ni Chong, general soldiers of Shandong, Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen, general soldiers of aid and suppression, and deputy generals down to prefecture and county officials.

Because Wu Guojun was invited by Deng Xizhao, Wu Aheng and others, and later took the initiative to harass the Qing army.

So a total of 36 people were arrested, and Chongzhen ordered them to be executed on the same day in Xishi.

This is the most severe punishment Chongzhen has ever punished for an accident in Fengjiang since he came to the throne.

I hope that Lu Xiangsheng would rather die in battle than run away. If he is unlucky, he will end up being beheaded together at Xishikou.

From 36 people to 37.

The only lucky one, Wu Guojun, stood among the crowd, watching waves of loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty being executed by the emperor, not knowing what was going on in his mind.

Anyway, if the emperor really dared to kill him, with his achievements, he would be digging his own grave.

Wu Guojun was Chongzhen's hope to wipe out the hammer bandits and kill Huang Taiji.

So Chongzhen also handled it with care.

The unparalleled general of the empire, the Marquis of Jingliao whom the emperor really trusted, was thinking about when Marshal He would be able to rule the Central Plains?
He felt that according to the nature of the Qing army, within two years, they would have to continue to invade and plunder.

It is not in a hurry to enter the capital directly. After all, the Qing army is very familiar with the road of looting, and it is not easy for the army to intercept it.

Chongzhen was really angry. After beheading these people, they didn't allow their family servants to collect their bodies for a few days, and even drove them out.

The cabinet members suggested that Chongzhen be punished lightly, after all, the queen is about to give birth.

Chongzhen retorted that the ancestors could not keep their borders sealed off, so what's the use of having children and grandchildren?

Zhu Youjian wanted to make the rest of the civil servants and generals of the Ming Dynasty die for him with heavy codes.

But according to the current situation, it probably has the opposite effect.

After all, whoever does something will die, either by the hands of the Qing army or by the emperor.

If you don't do anything, you may not die.

It is true that it is caught in a closed-loop logic.

Huang Taiji launched the fourth entry to conquer the Ming Dynasty, targeting the Central Plains, entered the pass for five months, traveled [-] miles, and no matter what the flags pointed out, he was satisfied.

The two Qing armies defeated 57 formations of the Ming army, broke through more than 47 cities, and captured nearly [-] people and livestock.

Gold is less than 5000 taels, and silver is less than one million taels.

These are all on the surface, but who can count what the soldiers of the Qing army carried in their pockets?
Except for the killing of various officials of the Ming army, the king of Germany Zhu Youshu, the king of the county Zhu Ci x and y (who can't read), and the eunuch Feng Yunsheng who supervised the army were captured alive.

Excluding the civil and military officials killed by the Qing army, the Ming emperor also helped them kill many.

The Qing army killed a wave, and the Ming emperor killed a wave.

Daming's losses can be described as enormous from the inside out.

The majority of the people in the Central Plains area have been greatly traumatized. There are 13 corpses in Jinan City alone.

The whole city was plundered, so that for a long time, no one lived in the city, and it was easy to get sick.

During the incident, Li Yongmao presented the results of his investigation to Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty.

From Qingdu in the suburbs of Beijing to Shunde, thousands of miles away, you can see Jingzhen and the rubble in the surrounding suburbs.

Nine out of ten people died in the entire Jinan County, and all kinds of tragedies were unbearable.

People and livestock were killed and plundered, and the labor force dropped sharply.

Before the advent of machinery, large animals were an important labor force.

Such actions have seriously damaged the productivity of the Central Plains, and even if Chongzhen wanted to recover, it was impossible.

Many people who escaped from the dead wanted to escape from these places.

Will the next wave of Qing troops come back, can they still save their lives?
Even though Huang Taiji warned many soldiers before dispatching troops, burning, killing and looting are strictly prohibited.

But the Qing army was merciless when it came to killing people.

But in fact, in order to destroy the rule of the Ming Dynasty and supplement the labor force needed by the Qing Dynasty, he, Huang Taiji, was the biggest mastermind of the real organized collective plunder.

So it doesn't matter what a person says, what matters is what he does.

Compared with the success of the Qing court's strategy, the Ming court faced with Huang Taiji's fourth conquest campaign, and there were many internal contradictions.

Partisan disputes intensified.

Yang Sichang, the minister of the Ministry of War who holds great power and is deeply trusted by Chongzhen, has always believed that the current financial or military strength of the Ming Dynasty is not enough to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, he insisted on taking a defensive position against the Qing Dynasty, and tried every means to negotiate a peace and compromise with the Qing court.

Xuanda Governor Lu Xiangsheng expressed strong opposition, resolutely rejected the peace talks with the Qing, publicly stimulated the emperor, and swayed their peace negotiations.

In the subsequent military operations, Yang Sichang retaliated by reducing his troops against Lu Xiangsheng, resulting in the death of all the soldiers led by Lu Xiangsheng.

There is no doubt that Chongzhen was the biggest wrongdoer in dealing with the plundering war launched by the Qing army!
He was originally inclined to the idea of ​​Yang Sichang's peace faction, but he didn't want to make it clear. Until the Qing army came to the city, he dared not take the responsibility of making peace with Qing, for fear of delaying his reputation as "Little Yao and Shun".

As a result, Yang Sichang put on the hat of a master and wronged the country, and was attacked by the officials.

On the surface, Chongzhen has always pretended to be the main battle stance, denying in front of Lu Xiangsheng that the imperial court had talked about peace talks, which made Lu Xiangsheng determined to fight the Qing army to the end.

But he was not given the corresponding military strength and power, and turned a blind eye to Yang Sichang's constraints.

Chongzhen was indecisive in the battle against peace, and the civil servants and military generals were all at a loss. On the battlefield, they lost again and again and lost miserably!

Even Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian and others have important responsibilities, but in the final analysis, the root of the problem lies with Chongzhen.

But no one dared to say that the emperor's problems were all blamed on Yang Sichang.

Some officials insinuated accusations, and some officials directly wrote to the Minister of the Ministry of War to mislead the country's four big mouths, hoping to execute Yang Sichang like Yuan Chonghuan, so as to make an example.

Chongzhen was furious, and once again demoted the officials who impeached Yang Sichang to Wu Guojun's border guards. When the Qing army came, why didn't they die?
Anyone who dares to impeach my Xiao Yang will be fucked.

But Chongzhen's partiality to Yang Sichang not only did not move him, but made Yang Sichang feel deeply disturbed, and repeatedly wrote to want to take the blame and resign.

Because before that, every time the Qing army went south, the minister of the Ministry of War was "brought to justice" by the Ming emperor!
Neither one can escape the fate of being sanctioned.

But it disappointed everyone, and also made Yang Sichang's worries in vain.

This time, more than [-] cities were lost, Chongzhen still trusted Yang Sichang, and he did not intend to add any crimes, which is surprising.

Now that the imperial court is all looking at the pot-sharing meeting, it has no energy to deter the bandits in the Central Plains and the hammer bandits who are developing steadily in Sichuan.

After all, the officers and soldiers there are really empty of troops, and new rebellions are prone to appear.

Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen, who had always led the elites of Guanning, were executed. Hong Chengchou was ordered to lead the elites of Shaanxi to stay on the border of Jiliao.

After all, this person has not obeyed the emperor's edict since he saw Yuan Chonghuan was arrested, so he would inevitably feel dissatisfied and surrender to Huang Taiji.

Moreover, Chongzhen had no other tricks to guard against Zu Dashou.

In the territory of Liaodong, the power of the ancestral family is not something that Chongzhen can interfere casually.

But Fu Zonglong is a person who really wants to do practical things. He thinks this is inappropriate. He wrote to Yang Sichang to argue, saying that Qin soldiers should not stay here for a long time.

Moreover, the savings of the wives and daughters of the soldiers are all in Qin. If they are forced to stay on the border, they will either mutiny or flee.

The Qin soldiers in Hong Chengchou's hands were all told by Governor Hong, don't worry that the hammer bandits will kill your family members, we will kill them back one day.

Only then did this wave of Qin soldiers be stabilized. It would be bad if they were left in the frontier army.

Yang Sichang did not adopt this suggestion, nor did he report it to the emperor.

After all, no matter what we do, the emperor favors us, there is no way!
Not only that, but Yang Sichang had doubts in his heart, suspecting that Fu Zonglong really wanted to take his place.

Because Fu Zonglong wanted to meet the emperor many times to discuss military and state affairs, but he not only had a quarrel with Gao Qiqian, but was also targeted by Yang Sichang, who repeatedly obstructed him.

As a result, Fu Zonglong, who was worried about getting angry, found that he could not hear in one ear because of a cold, so he wrote a letter and wanted to go home to recuperate.

But Chongzhen thought that he was deliberately prevaricating, and specially issued an imperial decree, telling Fu Zonglong to train soldiers as soon as possible, and he must not excuse his illness or delay, otherwise he will be sentenced.

Fu Zonglong saw that the emperor did not want to see him, so he sent someone to ask Yang Sichang to forward his request to meet the emperor, hoping that the Minister of the Ministry of War could say something nice to him.

After all, he was the emperor's favorite.

But Yang Sichang suspected that he was going to impeach himself in front of the emperor, so he returned the memorial directly.

Turning around, Yang Sichang saw the emperor and said that Fu Zonglong's illness was not true, and Chongzhen was extremely furious!
(End of this chapter)