Ming Zuo

Chapter 854 Deceiving Zhang Sima

The Qing army was approaching the city, and the danger of national subjugation was imminent.

At such a critical moment, the officials of Ming Dynasty did not think of solidarity and solidarity to save the country, but felt that this was an opportunity to kill their political opponents.

Just when Chongzhen urgently summoned civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures, Zhou Yanru's people finally took action.

"Your Majesty, the Eastern Captives broke into Changping, disturbed the mausoleum, damaged our Ming Dynasty's prestige, and caused Your Majesty to be unfilial. Zhang Sima didn't think about the priority of rescue, but sat quietly in the center, which is not the courtesy of a human minister."

During the incident, Wang Jiayan jumped out and impeached Zhang Fengyi, Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

His words are very vicious.

You must know that just last year, the Fengyang ancestral mausoleum of the Zhu family was just excavated by the northwest rebels, forcing Chongzhen to issue an edict of guilt.

Fortunately, the ancestral mausoleum said that although the ancestors of the Zhu family were buried, it was a long time ago.

However, in the imperial mausoleum on the outskirts of Beijing, lay Chongzhen's grandfather, father and elder brother.

If these imperial tombs were destroyed by the Qing army, would Chongzhen go crazy?
Zhang Fengyi was on duty, and when he heard these words, he immediately fell to his knees in fright, trembling.

Last year when the ancestral mausoleum was destroyed, Chongzhen beheaded more than a dozen people and dismissed thirty-six officials.

Now that the more important imperial tombs in the suburbs of Beijing are in danger of being destroyed, Chongzhen will definitely ask someone to question him.

He, Minister of the Ministry of War, is afraid that there will be more bad luck than good luck.

At the beginning of the Jisi change, Wen Tiren joined forces with the eunuchs to attack Wang Qia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War wantonly, causing Wang Qia to be abandoned in the market. The tragic fate is unbearable to hear.

Time changed, this time Wen Tiren also encountered the same attack.

Zhang Fengyi is his subordinate, and Wang Jiayan's impeachment is obviously Xiang Zhuang's sword-wielding, aiming at Pei Gong.

Zhang Fengyi was terrified to the extreme, and couldn't help but look at Wen Tiren, hoping that the camp boss could save him.

But at this time, Wen Tiren was also very frightened, trying to bury his head, and very much didn't want Chongzhen to see him.

Seeing that Wen Tiren was indifferent, Zhang Fengyi's heart was completely chilled.

He looked at Chongzhen again, but saw the emperor's face was gloomy, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Maybe the next moment, the order to dismiss him from office and question him will be issued.

At the critical moment of life and death, Zhang Fengyi burst out with unprecedented wit.

He kowtowed again and again, weeping blood.

"Your Majesty, I respectfully serve as the Ministry of War, accepting soldiers and horses from all over the world. I hope that the Ming Dynasty will be peaceful and the people will be safe. Now that the Eastern captives are going south and threatening the capital, my ancestors and ancestors of the Ming Dynasty will never rest in peace. This sincerity is my fault! I have no wish, but please allow Your Majesty to order my ministers to go out of the city to supervise the division and fight to the death with the Eastern captives."

This impassioned action finally made Chongzhen calm down.

What the emperor likes most are courtiers who are brave enough to ask for help and take the initiative to do things.

If something happens, you come, and if something happens, you have to take the blame.

This is the heart of the emperor.

"Zhang Aiqing's loyalty is commendable, sure!"

Zhang Fengyi was dripping with cold sweat and was in a trance.Although he escaped the gate of hell, there was no joy.

Because he knew that even if he escaped today's catastrophe, what would he use to fight the Qing army outside the city?

Chongzhen sat upright and gave orders again and again.

"Governor Xuanda Liang Tingdong neglected his duty and sat back and watched the Dong captives come and go at will. The death penalty is inevitable. Now he is ordered to lead the army to help and make meritorious deeds with crimes."

The two most dangerous people in the whole incident of the Qing army entering the bandits were Zhang Fengyi and Liang Tingdong.

It seems that those who have been ministers of the Ministry of War in Daming have no good end.

Chongzhen decided to give Liang Tingdong another chance.

If he can unite with Zhang Fengyi to defeat the Qing army, his life will be spared.

In addition, Chongzhen made a third-hand arrangement.

"Lu Weining, Commander-in-Chief and Ritual Supervisor, supervises the military affairs of Tong, Tianjin, and Germany, and protects the two wings."

At the critical moment, Chongzhen sent his confidant eunuch again.

He could no longer trust the officials in the DPRK.

And in this crisis, he fully revealed the emperor's heart.

In addition to Lu Weining, he dispatched thirteen eunuchs in one go, and firmly controlled the military power in his hands.

With the enemy at hand, he can neither trust civil servants nor military generals, and only trusts the eunuchs around him.

It doesn't matter whether these people are capable or not, whether they can fight, anyway, this is his life-saving straw.

He asked Li Guofu to guard the Zijing Pass, Xu Ji to guard the Daoma Pass, Zhang Yuanheng to guard the Longmen Pass, Cui Liangyong to guard the Gu Pass, and Sun Weiwu and Liu Yuanbin, the eunuchs of the Yongwei Battalion, to defend Mashuiyanhe with [-] men.

At the same time, Gao Qiqian was ordered to be the director, and he led Zu Dashou, the vanguard general of Liaodong, and Zhang Shijie, the general of Shanhaiguan, to rescue Bazhou.

Zhang Yunhan and Han Zanzhou, the eunuchs of the Rites Supervisor, were also appointed as deputy admirals to patrol the capital.

Wei Guozheng guarded Tianshou Mountain, and then the governor Xuanfu, and Deng Liangfu, the eunuch of the imperial horse in Changping Jingying, served as guards.

The eunuch Deng Xizhao is the supervisor of the middle and right two associations, and the eunuch Du Xun is in charge.

It can be said that through the eunuchs, Chongzhen completed the control of all the troops.

He was only afraid that officials in the DPRK and China would deceive him, regardless of whether doing so would affect the combat effectiveness of the army.

Regarding how to fight against the Qing army, Zhang Fengyi's head was empty, and he had no countermeasures at all.

After the court was over, he went to Wen Tiren to discuss it.

Unexpectedly, Wen Tiren didn't see him at all, and obviously regarded him as an abandoned son.

Zhang Fengyi was completely desperate.

He left the city in fear, with only one disciple and subordinate beside him, Zhang Diyuan in the military department.

Military information from all directions is constantly being sent, and more than a dozen cities near Gyeonggi have fallen.

Zhang Fengyi looked around in a daze, and there was no soldier around him.Even if he wanted to order troops to be dispatched, he didn't know who to turn to.

At this moment, Lu Weining and Liang Tingdong sent messages respectively.

They planned to form horns with Zhang Fengyi and jointly defend the capital.

Uh... To put it bluntly, I just can't shrink back, and I will leave on my own when the Qing army has grabbed enough.

For this method, Zhang Fengyi wholeheartedly agrees.

He didn't want to fight against the Qing army.

But Chongzhen was looking forward to it, waiting for him to make contributions and save the situation.

Zhang Fengyi racked his brains, thought over and over again, and came up with a solution.

He asked Zhang Diyuan to write a memorial, which described him as a heroic and loyal minister with the most beautiful words.

Zhang Diyuan was dumbfounded.

But there is no way, since he chose to curry favor with Zhang Fengyi, there is only one way to go to the dark.

Locking himself in the hut, Zhang Diyuan thought hard, combined with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms he had read, and finally wrote a colorful memorial.

In his memorabilia, Zhang Fengyi is like Zhuge Liang possessing himself, commanding the Ming army and the Qing army to fight evenly, and they are inseparable.

In order to avoid revealing his secrets, Zhang Diyuan also included Gao Qiqian, Lu Weining, Liang Tingdong and others in the memorial.

However, paper cannot contain fire after all.

The Qing army's offensive did not stop.

As the number of fallen cities increased day by day, the urgent military situation frantically poured into the capital, and the memorials to impeach Zhang Fengyi for "fearing the enemy and plundering the enemy" were also piled up on Chongzhen's desk.

This Master Sima, who was deceiving his superiors and subordinates, finally had no choice.

(End of this chapter)