The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 79 The key lies in Shanhaiguan

"Your Majesty, in this case, Qi naturally refers to Shanhaiguan. If you can send an elite long-distance raid to retake Shanhaiguan and cut off the road to build slaves, Dorgon will not be able to wait for work like this. , is as stable as Mount Tai, alas! It's a pity..."

The red lady also smiled bitterly.

Said the last helpless sigh.

In the past two months, she racked her brains and tried every means, but finally found helplessly that the raiders could not escape the eyes and ears of the Tartars and reach Shanhaiguan.

"Yes!"

"Why didn't I expect that the key lies in Shanhaiguan!"

"If you're really blind, if you're smart all the time, if you're confused for a while, as long as you capture Shanhaiguan, the Tartars will definitely not dare to stand still. They will either come to attack the capital, or go to Tongzhou, or they will have to retreat!"

"Ha ha!"

"My concubine, you are really my lucky star and general!"

Zhu Cihong slapped his thigh and stood up, suddenly enlightened as if seeing the sun behind the clouds, and said that the last thing he was excited about was laughing.

Subconsciously, he hugged the red lady and kissed her fiercely on the face.

"you you…"

The red lady didn't react at all, she was stunned immediately, and then she took a few steps back, embarrassed and annoyed, clenched her fists, as if she wanted to hit but didn't dare to hit, her eyes were reddened.

"My dear concubine, I'm sorry, I was too happy just now, so I lost my composure, haha!" Zhu Cihong also came to his senses, so he could only smile awkwardly.

Only then did I realize that this imperial concubine was only in name, and I might not want to be one at all.

The red lady thought that he was really too excited just now, and she didn't want to say anything about it, not to mention that he is the emperor and she is a noble concubine in name, so could it be possible to really give him two punches?
After calming down, I didn't want to hit him, but I had to say: "Your Majesty, Shanhaiguan is nearly a thousand miles away, and the Tatars will definitely take precautions. If there are fewer people sent, it is impossible to succeed in a surprise attack. If there are too many people, it is impossible to avoid it." If you open the Tartar sentries, you will only end up with annihilation of the entire army."

After finishing speaking, the red lady couldn't bear to see his reaction from seeing hope to despair.

Who would have thought that Zhu Cihong waved his hands and chuckled: "Hehe, don't worry about this concubine, it's true that it won't work by land, but you can go by sea!"

"Sea route?"

"That's right! Why didn't I think that I could still go by sea... Sigh!"

This time it was Hong Niangzi's turn to scream excitedly, and then slapped herself hard on the forehead in regret.

"My concubine, come with me..." Zhu Cihong grabbed her hand and walked towards the map hanging on the wall next to her.

The two are completely different in their way of thinking. As an ancient person, Hong Niangzi's thinking is completely solidified on land. She only thinks about how to avoid the tartar sentry, and never thought that she could go by sea.

Also see the key at a glance.

As a modern military rookie, Zhu Cihong couldn't even understand some ancient military common sense, and he was only thinking about how to deal with the Tartars in the camp.

I even thought about building a hot air balloon, and then flying in a hot air balloon to throw gunpowder packs over the enemy camp, to make an air strike, or to set fire to it with poison and so on.

But he never thought that he could sneak attack Shanhaiguan and cut off the other party's food supply.

"My concubine, look, this is Shanhaiguan, this is Tianjin Wei, this is Dengzhou, this is Tongzhou, you can first send someone to Dengzhou to order the Dengzhou navy to come to the vicinity of Tianjin Wei.

Then take a boat from Tongzhou to the south along the canal at night, and then go out at night, touch the vicinity of Tianjinwei to board the boat, and choose a place east of Shanhaiguan to land. The Tartars never expected that the enemy would come from the east. "

Zhu Cihong pointed at the map and began to explain it in a continuous manner.

The red lady's eyes brightened the more she listened, and she would add a few sentences from time to time.

In this way, one of the two has a broad mind, the other has rich practical experience, and the two complement each other. After some deduction, they found that the possibility of success is very high.

"Sigh, it's a pity that two months were wasted, otherwise the Tartars would have been defeated by now."

With hands behind his back, Zhu Cihong looked at the map with a look of remorse.

"Your Majesty, fortunately, it's not too late now, so I'll go back to Tongzhou immediately to make arrangements."

The red lady cupped her hands, wishing she could fly back to Tongzhou immediately.

"Well, it's hard work for my concubine. After the Tartars are defeated, I will reward you well." Zhu Cihong nodded.

"Your Majesty has already attached great importance to this subject, and I don't need to reward you any more. I just ask Your Majesty to let you lead the troops to fight against the intruders, and then resign from the position of imperial concubine..."

"That's good to say!"

Zhu Cihong waved his hand, as if it was time to discuss it.

But I thought in my heart, can the imperial concubine also resign?Why has he never heard of it?
"Thank you, Your Majesty, I will leave!"

The red lady was overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt down to thank her, and then hurried out of the imperial study.

Seriously, she didn't want to stay longer, the little emperor said "I love my concubine" and "I love my concubine" so much that she was really upset, but she couldn't let him stop calling, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.

Not long after Hong Niangzi left, Li Ruolian came again.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I have made a thorough investigation, and the matter of spreading rumors was first brought up by Chief Assistant Chen Yan."

Snapped!
"I knew it was this old dog who led the way."

Zhu Cihong slapped the table.

"Who else is involved?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, all civil servants above the third rank are involved."

"Li Banghua and Ni Yuanlu also participated?"

"Although the two were not directly involved, they also know the truth, and Ding Guogong and other dignitaries are also secretly contributing to the flames. Your Majesty, here is the detailed list!"

After Li Ruolian finished speaking, he took out a booklet from his pocket, it was obvious that Jin Yiwei had been severely punished this time.

Zhu Cilang took the booklet and flipped through it, then fell silent, and finally said after a quarter of an hour:
"Except for Chen Yan, let everyone else go!"

"That old thing, give me two bowls of rice bran a day to take good care of him, don't let him die!"

If he hadn't thought that before the surprise attack on Shanhaiguan, Zhu Cihong would definitely kill them all, and then move the capital to the south.

Except for the soldiers and confidantes, all the dignitaries and chief ministers should die, he will not take any of them away, he will only take away their women and money.

But now that he had hope, he had to think twice about repelling the Tartars. It was easy to kill all the civil servants, but in the end he had to get another batch.
Instead of getting a new batch, it's better to use the current batch.

After all, after several times of concocting by him, at least these civil servants dare not perfunctory him anymore, and they are still honest now, adapting to his new emperor's behavior style.

Anyway, civil servants in the late Ming Dynasty, no matter loyal or treacherous ministers, were all the same as long as their core interests were involved.

So he planned to destroy Chen Yan's nine clans alone, and then make Zhang Jinyan stink, plus more than 100 officials who died at the top of the city that day, the deterrent effect should be enough.

As for whether civil servants are loyal or traitorous, he really doesn't care, as long as they are obedient and able to do things.

If you are disobedient, you can't do things. No matter how good your loyalty is, it's useless, and it will only cause trouble.

When a group of civil servants and scholars were released, everyone sighed endlessly, feeling as if they had passed away.

The scholars were fine, but they were frightened and were not punished.

The civil servants are miserable, especially the third-rank and above. When they think of those endless torture methods, they all shudder.

Although there appeared to be no wounds on the surface, they were no different from normal people, but only they knew how painful they were when they were tortured.

Second assistant Wei Zaode received the same punishment as Chen Yan, and now he has no intention of fighting against the emperor.

Most of the other civil servants did the same, and they wrote letters expressing their loyalty to impeach Chen Yan.

They have figured it out, going against today's day, ranging from killing people to the ground, and at worst, ransacking his family and exterminating his family. Unless he can be killed directly, any means are useless in front of him.

In all dynasties, there has never been an emperor who dared to arrest all civil servants and torture them to extract confessions.

Even the ruthless Taizu didn't dare to do this.

Now that His Majesty has given him the opportunity, where would he miss it?

As for the collective interests of the civil servants, it's none of their business, let's wait until they protect their own interests first.

If you want to blame it, blame the dog emperor for being too careless.

Apart from obedience and death, there is absolutely no third way for others.

(End of this chapter)