Han ride

Chapter 380 The Boiling Capital ([-])

"Rectify the soldiers and horses and attack the city of Beijing. I want to let the people of the Central Plains see how powerful I am in conquering the Northern Army." Li Xin gritted his teeth and said, "Hong Chengchou, this time I want to let you see what will happen to you if you offend me, Li Xin. , I can't kill you, can't the Emperor Chongzhen kill you? Reorganize the troops and attack the city of Beijing. Immediately, immediately." Li Xin clenched his fists fiercely and said.

"My lord, you can first write a memorial and go to the capital, and give it to Wen Tiren. I think he will speak for us; second, write to the Ministry of Accounts and ask the Ministry of Accounts to send us some food and grass, so that we can leave the customs." Shi Yuan Zhi suddenly stroked his beard and said.

"Okay, okay, the teacher is famous! We really can't fall out with the court for the time being." Li Xin rolled his eyes, and immediately understood what Shi Yuanzhi meant.

Two hours later, Li Xin's army broke out and set off to kill Beijing City. Hong Chengchou in Zunhua City soon learned of the news of Li Xin's army sending troops.

"What? Li Xin broke camp and set off, is he going south?" Hong Chengchou's complexion changed, he became extremely pale, and the fine jade folding fan he held in his hand fell to the ground, and he didn't even know it.

"That's right, that's exactly what the spies said. Within two hours, the Beijun Army set off." Gao Qiqian sneered, "It seems that Li Xin can't take it anymore, he is looking for a place to escape what!"

"Stupid." Hong Chengchou snorted coldly: "He doesn't want to escape, he clearly wants to attack, he wants to attack Beijing City. This guy is crazy. Completely crazy."

"Li Xin wants to rebel?" Lu Xiangsheng also realized that this Li Xin was really forced to rebel by himself and others.Leading the army to the south to attack the city of Beijing, no matter what, it would be better if the army could kill Li Xin here, if not, I am afraid that Emperor Chongzhen will find trouble for himself and others afterwards.

"The general ordered that 13 troops and [-] troops guard Zunhua. Lord Lu, you lead the army to sit in Zunhua and command the people to repair Xifengkou." Hong Chengchou said nervously: "Li Xin's army will never reach Beijing. Once we arrive in Beijing, we will die. Li Xin is a wolf with ambition, and he should be the enemy of the imperial court."

"How about we just get out of the way and let Li Xin go back to the grassland?" Qin Liangyu said suddenly.

"He has already set off, and even if we get out of the way, it depends on whether the Jiannu outside the city is willing or not. This Jiannu is still counting on Li Xin to walk through Xifengkou!" Hong Chengchou still shook his head.He found out that this kind of thing was done wrong. If he knew this, he would simply let Li Xin leave Zunhua City.Now it's all right, not only can't Li Xin be eliminated, but it can't be done by myself.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in the capital, did not expect things to develop to this point. After he received Hong Chengchou's memorial, he immediately ordered people to prepare ceremonies, sacrifice to the Taimiao, and comfort the ancestors.He also asked people from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Officials to discuss how to reward Hong Chengchou and others.

It's just that two or three days later, the sound of war drums came from the frontier, and a black cavalry broke through the defense lines and charged towards the capital.The northern army came, and the court quickly received the news.

"How did the Northern Zheng army come? Did Li Xin rebel?" Inside the Xinuang Pavilion, Emperor Chongzhen looked coldly at the few senior scholars around him, and couldn't help cursing angrily: "I heard that Li Xin attacked Xifengkou occupied Xifengkou, besieged Jiannu between Xifengkou and Zunhua, and then Hong Chengchou sent a victory report, saying that as many as 3 Jiannu were eliminated, which was an unprecedented victory. Now I know that there is one thing missing, that is Li Xin, there is no news of Li Xin. Can Hong Chengchou destroy [-] troops? Then why did he go?" In the entire Xinuang Pavilion, only Emperor Chongzhen lived alone. sound.

Wen Tiren and the others dared not speak after hearing this, because things changed so fast, Hong Chengchou didn't tell everyone the details. Even if the memorial was published later, how could so many things be written in a memorial?So until now, everyone is still in the fog, and they don't know at all. ,

"Your Majesty, Weiche thinks that Li Xin is a wolf with ambition, and he is not surprised to send troops to the south." The speaker was Hou Xun, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and he said: "I heard that Li Xin once brazenly attacked the Zunhua camp of the imperial court. , the guerrilla general Zuo Liangyu resisted bravely, but he was not the opponent of the opponent. The camp was broken by the opponent. Your Majesty, this shows Li Xin's ambition. He has already conspired against him. Now it is exposed at this time, but it is the imperial court's uniform. Let this thief be exposed as soon as possible, so that the court can make preparations as soon as possible."

"Wolf ambition? If Li Xin has wolf ambition, I'm afraid the city of Beijing will be conquered by Jiannu, so why attack Xifengkou thousands of miles away?" Wang Yingxiong retorted disdainfully.He cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I think there must be a reason for this. Even if Li Xin is rebellious, he definitely has no intention of raising troops to rebel. Otherwise, he would not need to attack Xifengkou at all to break the return of Jiannu." The road, just pretend you don’t know, and just continue to march west, why waste food and grass and attack Xifengkou?”

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen thought for a while and nodded.Said: "What Mr. Wang said is very true. Although this Li Xin is a bit rebellious, if it is not necessary, he will rebel at all? You must know that Hong Chengchou has 20 horses in his hands, how many people are Li Xin, but only tens of thousands. He also didn't have the courage to attack Hong Chengchou." In Emperor Chongzhen's impression, the contest between the army and the army still stayed in the number, which has to be lamented about the education of Emperor Chongzhen.

"If Li Xin attacked the capital and raised troops to rebel, I'm afraid he would not bring only 10,000 elite soldiers. He has 10,000+ elite soldiers, so why should he only bring [-] soldiers? Your Majesty, the ministers also thought that Li Xin was not an army Rebellion, but there are compelling difficulties." Wen Tiren was the one who spoke, and he glanced at Hou Xun and said, "Your Majesty, we can see how Li Xin is from his recent actions. He is rebellious and disobedient, this point, I agree with him, saying that he rebelled, I think it is unlikely. If he really rebelled, Hong Chengchou's [-]+ army will definitely not be able to resist it. Let alone a great victory. And, Your Majesty, have you noticed that Hong Chengchou's Qin Wang army did not fight Jiannu along the way from the capital to Zunhua. In Zunhua, [-] Jiannu troops were wiped out in one go. What was Li Xin doing, and what were Li Xin's cavalry doing? Hong Chengchou didn't explain it, and I thought there might be something else going on here. Please ask the emperor to check it out. .”

"Then what do you mean?" Chongzhen nodded and asked again.

"Food, if there are no accidents, Li Xin is short of food." Wen Tiren said without thinking: "Jiannu burned Xifengkou and Li Xin's food, so he can only ask Hong Chengchou for it." Hong Chengchou refused to give food, so he asked the emperor to ask for it."

"Master Wen, why do you know the things here so clearly? The officer is very curious!" Hou Xun narrowed his eyes and said lightly.Although he said he was very curious, the goal was to point out that Wen Tiren and Li Xin colluded with each other to deliver news for Li Xin.

Sure enough, after hearing about it, the suspicious Emperor Chongzhen also looked at Wen Tiren. The news here is not something ordinary people can know. How would Wen Tiren know?Is it true that Wen Tiren and Li Xin colluded together as Hou Xun said.The Emperor Chongzhen immediately woke up. The civil servants and military generals performed their duties, and they were not allowed to collude with each other. This is the rule set by Zhu Yuanzhang, or since there was an emperor, such things have been expressly prohibited.Emperor Chongzhen also didn't believe that Wen Tiren would do such a thing.

"It's Li Xin who told me to go back to the emperor." Wen Tiren straightened his face, took out a memorial from his bosom, and said very honestly: "Before I came, I received Li Xin's Pegasus Kuaishu , because the person who sent the letter had no chance to send it to the palace, so he could only find the humble minister and let the humble minister pass it on to the emperor. , please allocate some food and grass for him to leave the customs, and continue the westward expedition, I wonder if Master Hou has received such a document?"

Hou Xun's complexion changed, he suddenly remembered this matter, he had indeed received such a document.Just kidding, what is Li Xin? He is Cao Cao of the imperial court. Sooner or later, he will definitely rebel. At this time, give him some food and grass. I really don’t know what will happen?So he threw these documents into the trash without hesitation.In his opinion, this is the most correct approach.Right now, he never expected that Wen Tiren would pick him up and use it as an excuse to attack him.

"Your Majesty, the imperial court has never allocated a grain of rice to Li Xin. Li Xin's soldiers and horses are near Zunhua. If you give him more food and grass, you may not know what he will do. According to the rules, they are the first to write to the Ministry of War. After the verification by the Ministry of War, the Ministry of War will write a document to the Ministry of Households, and then the Ministry of Households will allocate food and grass. Therefore, I believe that Li Xin's actions are not in line with the court rules." Hou Xun rolled his eyes and said suddenly: "More importantly, The household department has no food to allocate. Even Hong Chengchou’s food can’t last long. Even the imperial court’s King Qin’s army has not been allocated food, so how can they pay Li Xin’s soldiers?”

"So, did Li Xin really write the paper to the household department?" Emperor Chongzhen's face was gloomy, and he had already roughly thought about the situation inside.That is, Li Xin ran out of food, Jiannu blocked the way outside Xifengkou, and Hong Chengchou refused to provide supplies in Zunhua City, so he had to go south to the capital.

"Bastard." Emperor Chongzhen finally couldn't help but cursed out.

For grain and grass, Wen Tiren gave the correct answer, that is, grain and grass. A little grain and grass forced Li Xinxing's troops to go south and kill them all the way to Beijing.Emperor Chongzhen stared at Hou Xun intently, waiting for Hou Xun's answer.

"Li Xin is a wolf with ambition, how can we give him food and grass?" Hou Xun straightened his neck and said loudly with his face flushed.At this time, he can't show weakness. Once he shows weakness, it means that he did it on purpose.According to his understanding of Chongzhen, as long as he shows his character, Chongzhen will not hold on to this matter.

"Li Xin is also acting in accordance with the imperial edict. When the troops are mobilized, the court itself has to pay for food and grass. Now Li Xin's army is fighting hard with Jiannu, but in the end they don't even have food and grass. Could it be that the soldiers are fighting hungry?" Wen Tiren was cold Hummingly looking at Hou Xun, Hou Xun is an extremely weird person, that is, he can't understand anything that is corrupt and perverted, even if he has a not-so-good son.

In history, Hou Xun did two things in total. The first thing was to promote Zuo Liangyu.During the reign of Chongzhen, Hou Xun accepted Zuo Liangyu as a handyman in front of the tent, and Zuo Liangyu also started to rise to the top. One year during the winter solstice, all civil and military officials paid homage to the imperial mausoleum.After the banquet, Zuo Liangyu got very drunk and lost four gold wine glasses.Zuo Liangyu asked Hou Xun to punish him for his crime, but Hou Xun not only failed to punish him for his crime, but also promoted him as a general in an exceptional way.In September of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Hou Xun promoted Zuo Liangyu to be the deputy general. Later, Zuo Liangyu made many military exploits and became the leading general.In order to repay Hou Xun's old kindness, Zuo Liangyu went to Shangqiu three times without any offense in autumn, and went to the Hou's mansion to kowtow to Hou Xun's father in person.Later, Zuo Liangyu was rebellious and became a prince. He didn't care about the imperial edict, but he was respectful to Hou Xun.

The second thing Hou Xun did was to constantly fight against corrupt officials.During the Tianqi period, Hou Xun went up to discuss the "Yigong case" and "Hongwan case".This is also a common characteristic of his three generations. His father was a member of the Donglin Party, and he himself was also a member of the Donglin Party. Both of them were deposed because they opposed the eunuch's monopoly.Now Wen Tiren is a traitor, and Hou Xun often confronts Wen Tiren.Of course, in his eyes, Li Xin is also a traitor.Even if he knew that Li Xin was fighting Jiannu, but the traitor was a traitor, how could the food and grass be allocated to the traitor?He didn't think he was wrong.

"Master Hou, you don't have selfish intentions because Li Xin defeated Zuo Liangyu!" Wang Yingxiong said flatly.Others don't know about the relationship between Hou Xun and Zuo Liangyu, but Wang Yingxiong does.

"You?" Wang Yingxiong's complexion changed, and he couldn't help turning red, with a hint of shame and anger in his eyes.In his heart, even he himself does have this selfishness.But on the whole, he still thinks that there is more publicity.Li Xin is an ambitious man, so he should be killed.

"Who is Zuo Liangyu?" Emperor Chongzhen looked at the arguments of the courtiers below, and his complexion became even more gloomy, even a little tired.Although the courtiers are not united, this is a good thing for the emperor, but when discussing major national affairs, they should work together, and should not be like this, quarreling with each other, how can they assist the king in governing the country?

Although Wen Tiren was called a traitor by the ruling and opposition parties, Bo Wen can still remember it by force. Now he talked about the relationship between Hou Xun and Zuo Liangyu, and then said: "Marquis Zhengbei couldn't ask Hong Chengchou for food and grass, so he just Turning to Zuo Liangyu to ask for it, Zuo Liangyu refused Li Xin on the grounds that there was no document from the Ministry of War and Hong Chengchou's order, which led to Li Xin forcibly attacking Zuo Liangyu's camp. Zuo Liangyu naturally couldn't resist Li Xin's attack .resulting in a big defeat and fleeing into Zunhua City."

"Well, Zuo Liangyu still has a bit of integrity." Chongzhen glanced at Hou Xun, then nodded.Although Zuo Liangyu was defeated in the battle, he was able to abide by the rules and regulations of the court, which Chongzhen still appreciated very much.Even Hou Xun was not punished.When Hou Xun saw this, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and retreated slowly.

"Your Majesty, no matter what the reason for this matter is, the most important thing is to allocate food and grass to Li Xin's army. This is the most important thing. Otherwise, if the army comes to the city of Beijing, won't it make people laugh at it?" Hou Xun said He retreated, but Wen Tiren couldn't just let him go, but cupped his hands and said, "Why hasn't the Ministry of Households allocated food and grass up to now? Could it be that Li Xin's Northern Conquest Army is not the imperial court's Northern Conquest Army? "

"Your Majesty, although Jiannu lost more than 3 horses this time, the overall loss is not large. The Xifengkou and other passes have been burned clean. In the future, Jiannu must be careful to attack the Central Plains from Xifengkou. Therefore, I think that it is better to appease the northern army." Wang Yingxiong pointed out the most critical part, that is, Li Xin needs to sit on the grassland to resist Jiannu.

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, this was also what made him extremely dissatisfied. If the army of founding slaves was wiped out after this battle, there would be no such thing.Thinking of this, he felt a little resentment towards Hong Chengchou.If it weren't for Hong Chengchou's incompetence and disadvantage in the battle, he would have trapped Jiannu to death at the mouth of Xifeng with Li Xin long ago. How could there be such things now.

Originally, he had planned it all. When the main force of building slaves was wiped out here, he would let Zu Dashou lead the army to Liaodong, wipe out the slave building in Liaodong, and then recall Li Xin back to the capital. It would be good if he came back, but if not, Let Zu Dashou lead the army to pacify Li Xin.But now, Jiannu's soldiers and horses are showing off their power, and Li Xin's soldiers and horses are about to approach the city.

"How much food and grass can we allocate?" Emperor Chongzhen finally made a decision.He wanted to send Li Xin away. Compared with Li Xin's attack on Zuo Liangyu's camp, although Emperor Chongzhen wished to put Li Xin in prison, for the sake of the overall situation, Chongzhen decided to give priority to tolerance.He needs Li Xin to contain the grassland for him.

"Back to the emperor, there is still some food and grass in Beijing, but these are paid for by the officials and the army of the Beijing camp, but there is not much food and grass to use." Hou Xun said honestly.

"I thought I could buy it from wealthy households in Beijing." Wen Tiren said hastily.Although it would cost some money, Wen Tiren didn't want Li Xin's army to appear in the capital, which was also a blow to his prestige as the chief minister.

"Rich households in central Beijing?" Emperor Chongzhen's face suddenly became gloomy. He didn't have a good impression of wealthy households in central Beijing, thinking that these guys were greedy people.

(End of this chapter)