The Forbidden City is built.

Emperor Chongzhen was having a banquet for the father-in-law Zhou Kui, uncle Tian Hongyu, Duke Cheng Guochunchen, Duke Bao Guo Zhu Guobi and other royal relatives. Jiannu's army was in an uproar. Beijing was in danger. It was just when the soldiers in the Jingying camp were in urgent need of their lives. If they wanted the soldiers in the Jingying camp to work hard, they had to have enough rewards. However, Emperor Chongzhen turned the key warehouse of the inner palace and only found 30,000 taels of silver.

As for the national treasury, it was empty half a year ago, and even the Lumi, the officials of the capital, had not been released for three months.

As a last resort, Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to summon these royal relatives and beg them to donate generously to support the national crisis with the honor of the Nine Five. The richest of all royal relatives was Cheng Guogong Zhu Chunchen, the father-in-law Zhou Kui and the uncle Tian Hongyu. Among them, Cheng Guogong Zhu Chunchen's family funds were millions, but this prince only symbolically donated 5,000 taels of silver.

The father-in-law Zhou Kui and the uncle Tian Hongyu donated 3,000 taels each. The other royal relatives donated 2,000 taels, some donated 1,000 taels, and some even only donated 500 taels. In the end, Wang Chengen really couldn't stand it and donated 10,000 taels. With the 30,000 taels in the inner treasury, he barely collected a total of 100,000.

Looking at the 100,000 taels of silver that had finally collected in front of him, Emperor Chongzhen looked gloomy.

I think he is the noble of the Nine Kings, rich in all over the world, but he actually wants to beg for someone for a mere 100,000 taels of silver. What's even more a pity is that even if he begs with shame, he still can't get the money. The country is so arduous! Looking back on the peaceful times, how much money does the imperial court have to spend every year to support these royal relatives?

But when the national crisis comes, these royal relatives are all so stingy!

Emperor Chongzhen looked gloomy, but Zhu Chunchen and others seemed at ease.

These royal relatives who were well-fed by their salary believed that defending the capital was the court's business and the Ming Dynasty, and had nothing to do with them personally. They were willing to donate several thousand taels of silver to be considered as a general idea and taking into account the overall situation.

Emperor Chongzhen said with slight silence: "Wang Cheng'en."

Wang Chengen stepped forward and replied, "I am here."

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Take this 100,000 taels of silver to the soldiers of the Beijing camp and tell the soldiers. As long as I defeat Jiannu, I will still have a heavy reward!"

"I obey the order." Wang Chengen responded and quickly said to the little eunuch behind him, "Go and ask someone to get a cart, take the 100,000 taels of silver to the camp and hand it over to Eunuch Gao."

"yes."

The little eunuch responded and hurried away.

At this moment, Gao Qiqian, the Beijing Camp Supervisor, stumbled in, knelt down and said in panic: "Long live Master. No, something happened, something big happened."

Emperor Chongzhen frowned and said, "What happened?"

"Master Hong..." Gao Qiqian took a breath and gasped, "Master Hong Chengchou led his troops to Tianshou Mountain to protect the tomb, but was ambushed by Jiannu in Yuhe and wiped out the entire army. Lord Hong was also captured alive by Jiannu."

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he felt that his eyes turned black. He almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Wang Chengen was quick-eyed and rushed forward to support him.

Emperor Chongzhen shook his dizzy head and said anxiously: "Hurry up, summon Master Zhou and Chen Xinjia to the palace!"

Soon, Zhou Yanru and Chen Xinjia were summoned to the East Nuan Pavilion of the Ganqing Palace.

Emperor Chongzhen had already recovered after drinking the bowl of ginseng soup. He was sitting behind the imperial desk with a gloomy face, looking at Zhou Yanru and Chen Xinjia inexplicably. Emperor Chongzhen was filled with resentment. If Zhou Yanru or Chen Xinjia were willing to stand up and say something, he would never have let Hong Chengchou lead his troops to Tianshou Mountain to protect the tomb.

If Hong Chengchou does not lead his troops to Tianshou Mountain to protect the tomb, he will not have any trouble.

Now that Hong Chengchou has been captured alive by Jiannu, who will command the nine thousand elite cavalry in Wanping? Who will command the 80,000 elite border troops that are about to arrive at the capital? Who will rely on to deal with the 300,000 Jiannu army outside Beijing?

Looking at the civil and military affairs of the court, Emperor Chongzhen could not find any other material available.

Zhou Yanru and Chen Xinjia lowered their heads, and their hearts were also full of resentment, which was hard to be a subject!

If they stand up and oppose, Hong Chengchou will certainly not have to go to Tianshou Mountain to protect the tomb. But what if Jiannu really dug up the imperial tomb and destroyed the dragon vein? Who should bear this charge? Will the Emperor Longsui bear it? Of course it is impossible. Emperor Longsui will never be wrong. In the end, the charge can only fall on Zhou Yanru and Chen Xinjia who stood up to oppose it.

The treacherous Zhou Yanru and Chen Xinjia are unwilling to take the blame for Emperor Chongzhen.

There are also many examples in official history: 1. The Ming Dynasty fought on both sides, and the troops were too short. Emperor Chongzhen once wanted to propose peace with Jiannu. He hoped that Chen Xinjia could raise it during the court discussion. In this way, even if the peace failed, the responsibility could be put on Chen Xinjia. But Chen Xinjia was unwilling to be Qin Hui and did not want to take the blame. The peace talks failed; 2. Emperor Chongzhen once wanted to move the capital to Nanjing, but was opposed by all the censors in the court. No one of the civil and military officials in the court was willing to stand up and insist on this proposal. Emperor Chongzhen could not find a scapegoat and was afraid that he would bear historical responsibility, so the matter of moving the capital to Nanjing had to be left unresolved. Emperor Chongzhen was indeed a rare diligent emperor, but he was too superstitious about power and lacked the courage to take responsibility. This is the fundamental reason for his repeated mistakes in employing people.

"Old Master Zhou, Chen Aiqing, and Hong Chengchou were defeated and captured."

Emperor Chongzhen breathed a long sigh and put away the resentment in his heart. Jiannu's troops were at the city. Now it was the time to use people, and it was not the time to settle accounts with Zhou Yanru and Chen Xinjia.

Zhou Yanru and Taoism: "I have heard of it."

Emperor Chongzhen said: "What happened to Hong Chengchou? Cao Bianjiao, Bai Guangen, and Liu Zeqing's elite troops in the three towns, and the nine thousand cavalrymen stationed in Wanping are not subordinate to each other. They have no leader. They are likely to be defeated by Jiannu. Once these four elite troops are defeated, the capital will be in danger. I wonder if the two dear ministers have good solutions to deal with it?"

Chen Xinjia lowered his head and winked at Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru understood and replied: "Long live, besides Hong Chengchou there is one person who can retire from Jiannu."

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Who?"

Zhou Yanru and Taoism: "Sun Chuanting."

Datong, the general's headquarters.

Wang Pu asked Zhen Youcai: "Youcai, how is the matter of laying off the garrison troops?"

Zhen Youcai said: "General, except for Datong Zuowei, Andong Zhongtun Wei, Yanghewei, Gaoshan Wei and Tiancheng Wei, the other guards and forts are actually empty. In addition, the guards and forts are all in Datong City, and things are still going well. But..."

Wang Pu said: "But what?"

Zhen Youcai said: "But according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, General, you have no power to abolish the troops of the Datong Town Guards, and the garrisons in each Guards have a lot of opinions. This time, the humble post used force to force their opposition, but it is difficult to guarantee that you will not cause any trouble in the future."

"No power?" Wang Pu said coldly, "Whoever has the power if he has the hard fists!"

Zhen Youcai said: "But those guards..."

"Of course they have opinions." Wang Pu said, "This general has cut off the military troops of the garrison and will also convert the military households to local people. Of course, the garrisons of these garrisons are not happy, because they not only have to spit out the embezzled garrison land, but from then on they can no longer treat the military households as slaves. This general has cut off their financial resources."

Zhen Youcai said: "Then these people..."

"Let them make trouble." A trace of ferocious murderous intent suddenly flashed through Wang Pu's eyes, and he said sinisterly, "When you use heavy rules in troubled times, you must kill the place you should kill, and you must not be rude. This general has dug a grave for them, and is waiting for them to drill in, hum."

Datong, Deputy General Zhao Liujin's mansion.

Two days ago, Zhang Zi'an had already approved the memorial to the Sili Supervisor. Zhao Liujin had been officially appointed as the deputy general of Datong Town. Now, in Datong, except for the general Wang Pu, Zhao Liujin has the highest military position. As a result, Zhao Liujin's status immediately became important.

Tonight, Zhao Liujin was drinking a little wine, and several guards who had some friendship with him came to the door at the same time.

These guards are Chen Wei, the guard of Gaoshan Guard, Li Fu, the guard of Yang and guard of Tiancheng Guard, and Zhao Yang, the guard of Andong Zhongtun Guard.

"Hey, brothers and others are here?" Zhao Liujin quickly gave up his seat, "Come on, come on, sit down."

Zhao Liujin gave up his seat while quickly asked the generals to re-place the wine, and asked the kitchen to prepare side dishes for the wine. Today, Zhao Liujin was not happy yet, so of course he wanted to have fun with these old brothers.

Chen Wei, the guard of Gaoshan Guard, sat down and said with a somewhat discouraged look: "It's so annoying for people to compare with others. I think we brothers and sisters all joined the ranks at the same time. Now Brother Zhao has become the deputy general, and is only one step away from Yifang's general town. What about brothers and sisters? Hey. They are about to go out to beg."

"Yes, Brother Zhao." Yang and the guards of the guard Li Fu also said. "Brother Zhao, go and ask General Wang for pleading with him. What kind of military troops in the guards are all removed? We must also turn all the military households in each guards into people. If General Wang really does this, brothers and others will really have no way out."

"Please, please, just bet!" Yang Lin, the guard of Tiancheng Guard, spat and cursed, "He Wang Pu is just a general, not a member of the cabinet. Why should he withdraw? Does he have that power? If you want me, Brother Zhao, you should take your brothers and a few to make trouble. Let's see how Wang Pu ends up."

Zhao Liujin frowned and said nothing. Wang Pu knew that he ordered the abolition of the military troops and the transfer of his subordinate military households to local people. Although he felt disapproving of Wang Pu's actions, he was just a deputy general after all, and he had only been in office for two days. He could not openly sing a rebellion with Wang Pu now, right?

"Make a fuss?" Chen Wei, the guard of the Gaoshan Guard, said sinisterly, "That's asking for death! Who is Wang Pu? He is a master who dares to resist the imperial edict and dares to rob the law field. If you make trouble with him, he will kill you all with his order! Don't think that we, Old Chen, are scaring you, there is no thing Wang Pu dares to do in this world."

Andongwei guard Zhao Yang said, "That's what Brother Chen means..."

Chen Wei, the guard of Gaoshan Guard, said: "Wang Puzhen wants to do things to the point of doing things and force the brothers to lose their way out. Then we can only resist one way. However, we have to make a long-term plan and must be killed with one blow. We must not make any mistakes, otherwise we will all die without a place to bury!"

"Shut up." Zhao Liujin slapped the table and said eroticly, "Are you tired of living? Just because of the three or two thousand old, weak and disabled people under your command, you dare to challenge Wang Pu? You do this just like an egg hitting a stone!"

"That's not necessarily." Chen Wei, the guard of Gaoshan Guard, said coldly, "Wang Pu's firearms camp is indeed unstoppable. If we fight hard, we will not have a chance of winning, but we will not fight hard with Wang Pu. We set a trap to lure him to kill him! As long as Wang Pu dies, the few reckless men under his command are brave but unscrupulous men, and they are not afraid at all."

"Assassination?" Zhao Liujin said coldly, "Forget it, just by your dozens of cowards, you can kill Wang Pu?"

Chen Wei, the guard of Gaoshan Guard, said: "The dozens of servants under Brother Ping can't kill Wang Pu, but someone can kill Wang Pu, and it's in Datong City."

Zhao Liujin's expression changed and he said in a cold voice: "Chen Wei, what do you mean?"

Chen Wei said: "Deputy General Zhao, my brother and his dozens of servants cannot kill Wang Pu, but what about the 300 dead soldiers who are raising land on the royal palace? Can they kill Wang Pu?"

"King Dai?" Zhao Liujin shook his head and said disbelief, "Will he attack Wang Pu?"

Chen Wei smiled sinisterly and suddenly said, "Deputy General Zhao and brothers, there is no need to hide the matter anymore. Let me tell you the truth. Wang Zhan from the Daiwang Mansion asked me in advance, but Daiwang just wanted to catch Wang Pu and secretly send him to the capital."

Zhao Liujin hesitated and said, "Isn't it good to do this? Wang Pu is the general of a town after all, and if he fails..."

"Deputy General Zhao." Chen Wei said in a narrow voice. "Others can hesitate, but you can't, because you are the biggest beneficiary of this operation! As long as Wang Pu dies, you will only be the seat of General Datong. And the extremely brave firearm camp under Wang Pu will follow you from now on."

Zhao Liujin was silent, and seemed to be moved.

Indeed, the general of a town is a great temptation. The strong soldier under Wang Pu is even more fatal to Zhao Liujin. If he can really get allegiance to this strong soldier, Zhao Liujin even dares to ask Emperor Chongzhen for a general seal! Isn’t this how the general seal of He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu is coming?

Beijing, Tianzhu.

Wang Chengen entered the cell No. 1 with the imperial edict in his hand and sang screamed: "Under the imperial edict... the criminal Sun Chuanting received the imperial edict."

The old prisoner with a disheveled and unshaven face quickly turned over and fell to his knees on the ground.

This old prisoner who once worked as a neighbor with Wang Pu for several days was Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting was also one of the only two Ming officials who truly compassionate with the people in Li Yan's mouth. Li Yan actually did not meet Sun Chuanting. When Li Yan joined Li Zicheng's command, Sun Chuanting had already been put into prison by Emperor Chongzhen. The reason why Li Yan believed this was because when Sun Chuanting was the governor of the three borders of Shaanxi, he did several major tasks to protect the country and protect the people.

The most impressive thing about Li Yan was the incident of Sun Chuanting forcibly allocating wages, because Guanzhong was barren and the people were overwhelmed. In order to raise military wages, Sun Chuanting forced himself to the powerful people in Guanzhong and distributed military wages according to land. Sun Chuanting killed many local tyrants and evil gentry who refused to pay the money, but did not violate the ordinary people. Li Yan thus determined that Sun Chuanting was a good official who truly compassionate with the people.

In fact, Sun Chuanting was indeed a good official who loved the people as much as his son, and it was even more rare to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty!

However, Sun Chuanting was not a pedantic and ignorant minister, he was even more capable minister. His daring to kill the powerful Guanzhong to pay military salaries was enough to show his courage and skills. What is particularly rare is that he had great military talent. It can be said that he was a sharp sword given to Emperor Chongzhen and the Ming Dynasty by God.

Unfortunately, it was such a peerless magic weapon that was tied up by Emperor Chongzhen for a full three years!

If Sun Chuanting had not been sent to prison, he and Hong Chengchou would be able to control the outside and the inside. Even if the Ming Dynasty fought on two fronts, it might not be impossible to cope with it!

Wang Chengen slowly unveiled the imperial edict and chanted: "The criminal Sun Chuanting threatened the emperor and was very contrary to the etiquette of the ministers. It is a great rebellion. He should be imprisoned for life and never used it. Now Jiannu's army is in a dilemma. I am considering the arduous and dangerous country situation, and I am trying to supervise the army to fight against the slaves with a guilty body... I admire this!"
Chapter completed!