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Chapter 685
The development of Lantian is rapid, and the development of Li Zicheng in Henan is also rapid. First of all, since Mianchi County and Li Chaosheng parted ways.

When Li Zicheng returned to Luoyang, he immediately moved his troops to the south and began to target the He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu tribes who were entrenched in the north of Henan. For a while, these two soldiers who had been watching from the sidelines were suddenly dumbfounded. Without Sun Chuanting, they would stand up The pressure is too great.

Li Zicheng rested for seven days and then left Luoyang with all the food, gold, silver and jewelry in Luoyang, and notified Li Chaolong’s army to come to accept Luoyang and several surrounding cities. In exchange for thousands of flintlock guns from Li Chaolong, Li Shichao was asked to form a personal guard musket camp equipped with new muskets.

Then Li Zicheng, with a desperate determination, went directly south to attack He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu's tribe. The leader of He Renlong's tribe bore the brunt. It can be said that people are strong and horses are strong.

But these soldiers did not support He Renlong because He Renlong had any charisma. On the contrary, they supported He Renlong in order not to fight, to fight against Sun Chuanting, and let Sun Chuanting carry Li Zicheng's thunder.

As a result, Sun Chuanting couldn't resist, and the thunder exploded, which dealt a huge blow to this group of people. Now that Li Zicheng started to target He Renlong, He Renlong took over Sun Chuanting's job and became Li Zicheng's number one enemy.

Li Zicheng is not a talkative person, he made a ruthless move as soon as he came up, directly asked Liu Zongmin to lead the cavalry of the battalion and Li Guo's infantry to form a siege, surrounded He Renlong and kicked him in a circle. Of course, He Renlong also had two As a brush, he fought with General Liu and Li Er, lost the base camp Xuchang, and then retreated to Zhoukou to form a second line of defense in Zhoukou.

As a result, Li Zicheng sent Li Shichao's musketeers to help out the second time, possibly to test whether his musketeers are good. In that fight, He Renlong was directly stunned, and it only took two days , He Renlong led the officers and soldiers to surrender.

This battle took less than a month for Li Zicheng to recruit He Renlong, and He Renlong also brought [-] surrendered soldiers. Li Zicheng was very happy and directly appointed He Renlong as the commander of the road to help them attack Zuo Liangyu who had not yet surrendered. .

As soon as Zuo Liangyu saw that He Renlong had surrendered, he was even more resolute, and without much delay, he immediately took the 3 horses he had recruited in Henan, abandoned Xinyang, and went straight to AH, and he did not stop when he entered AH. Instead, they plunged into Zhejiang, entered the border of Jiangnan, and quickly reached a strategic partnership with the Jiangnan gentry. The Jiangnan gentry supplied Zuo Liangyu with food and grass, and Zuo Liangyu, as the guard of the Jiangnan gentry, complimented their property safety.

Zuo Liangyu fled so quickly, Li Zicheng directly occupied the land in the south of Henan, and began to attack the local tyrants, robbing food, land, money, and satisfying his army. At this time, Luoyang and Kaifeng in the north of Henan had entered the control of Lantian. In terms of scope, Li Chaolong occupied the two lands, and began to transfer the seeds from Lantian to prepare for spring sowing in the coming year.

Li Zicheng was stationed in southern Henan for three months, and he integrated a total of 60 troops, so he took this army and directly attacked Shandong.

The chief envoy of Shandong was almost terrified, and immediately wrote a letter to the court. The court was also in a mess at this time. Since receiving the news of Sun Chuanting's defeat and martyrdom, the entire court fell into inexplicable panic. Chongzhen fell into hysteria, and Chongzhen began to go crazy He wanted to take back Henan, so he planned to mobilize the whole country to besiege Li Zicheng in Henan.

But he was directly blocked by the Ministry of Households. The reason was that he had no money. After hearing this, Chongzhen stomped his feet angrily and scolded the Ministry of Households for being incompetent. Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Jiangnan provinces, plus a Lantian, but Li Chaosheng’s Lantian only pays the tax of Shaanxi, as for the expanded and occupied Gansu, Qinghai, Hubei, half of Jiangxi, and half of Lantian. All of Hunan does not pay taxes. In addition, Henan has been completely occupied by intruders, Sichuan has been choleraed by Zhang Xianzhong, and in the land of Bamin, Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhibao are in a decisive battle. Wealthy taxes go directly to half.

As for the remaining taxes, in addition to maintaining the basic operations of the imperial court, there is no more money for the military salaries needed by Hong Chengchou and the Guanning Army in Liaodong. The clan's money, the entire Ming clan surnamed Zhu was annoyed, and Chongzhen was blocked by the clan for several days, unable to enter or leave the palace.

The clan wanted money and food, but the household department had no money and asked the emperor to pay for it from internal funds. The emperor also said that he had no money, you had no money, he had no money, he had no money, and the clan’s food and salary could not be paid. Chongzhen also clamored to exterminate Li Zicheng, He kept forcing the household department to pay.

The Ministry of Households is in a hurry, and the very bachelor directly dumped the account book to Chongzhen. Your Majesty, you can figure it out. Now let alone the transfer of money, even the basic salary of your old Zhu family’s children will not be paid. You Let's fix this first.

You don't seem to have many children of the old Zhu family, but according to estimates by Ming history experts, Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants had reached more than 20 in the late Ming Dynasty. There are no longer a small number of clan children who receive food. At this time, they sit at the gate of the palace and beg the emperor to receive them, and pay off the Lumi owed to them.

Chongzhen ordered the great eunuch Wang Chengen to come forward to appease him. He appeased him several times. The last time the excited clan almost beat Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen jumped and ran away in fright.

When Chongzhen heard the words, he immediately sent people to arrest several clans, and entered the clan mansion for self-reflection. Unexpectedly, more people came to make trouble the next day, and some even clamored to beat Wang Chengen, and they wanted to enter the clan mansion.

This time, Wang Chengen was so scared that he didn't even dare to go out of the palace gate, so he could only follow Chongzhen every day, trembling.

In fact, it's no wonder that this group of people are so excited. It's because Chongzhen gave too much. Entering the clan's mansion is equivalent to having an iron rice bowl. The food in the clan's mansion is good, compared to these clan children themselves outside It's much better. You must know that according to Zhu Yuanzhang's regulations, the children of the clan are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, are not allowed to do farming, and are not allowed to do business. no more.

If you don't post here, won't the clan's children here stop?Some are starving to death.

At this time, if Wang Chengen was blocked at the gate and beaten, he could be imprisoned in the clan mansion. Is there such a good thing in this world?Then block the door and beat Wang Chengen, which frightened Wang Chengen.

Eunuchs are not afraid of civil and military officials. If civil and military officials want to kill eunuchs, they can only rely on impeachment. If this is a peaceful and prosperous age, the first few emperors of the Ming Dynasty would be regarded as a big punishment. After all, being locked up in the clan mansion would destroy the future of this dear man, but in Ming Dynasty In the end, this is a fart.

People are starving to death, it's so worth it to be able to enter the clan mansion for a meal!

Therefore, the clan who was about to starve to death slowly blocked the Meridian Gate, and beat the little eunuch when they saw it. If they couldn't beat Wang Chengen, they vented their anger on the little eunuch, and when they saw the little eunuch, they beat them violently. Come catch people.

The Zongren Mansion arrested a few times, and then the Clan Mansion arrested too many people, so they stopped doing it. There is no one who bullies people like this, and our Clan Mansion has no surplus food. You Chongzhen can't do it if you treat our Clan Mansion as a relief center. , So the clan mansion went on strike, and it was ruined. These clan children were allowed to make trouble at the gate of the imperial city, and some people even wanted to release the clan children who were imprisoned. There is a lot of food, and the monthly allocation of their clan's mansion is limited. In the past, they were only supported, and they ate good food, delicious food, and spicy food.

But now that there are more people, the transfer of money has not changed. This is tantamount to lowering their treatment in disguise! Who can do it?
This incident was too big, and it made people panic. The little eunuchs didn't dare to leave the palace, but the eunuchs didn't come out, and the clan masters didn't stop. Without eunuchs, they beat the maids. Anyway, these guys are quite beasts. As long as they come out of the palace, they dare to fight, the purpose is to be imprisoned in the clan mansion.

In the end, Chongzhen was really frightened by the toss, gritted his teeth and took out 2 taels of silver from his internal funds, exchanged them for food for the disciples of the master, and distributed them, which comforted them.

However, Chongzhen asked the Ministry of Households to return the money as soon as possible.

The emperor’s internal money has always existed, and it is also the only source of income that the emperor has the final say on. Even though Chongzhen eats chaff and swallows vegetables, and his clothes are all patched, Chongzhen’s internal money is very rich. A conservative estimate is one or two million taels. Yes, but Chongzhen has always used this money as bank money, which is used in the most difficult times. Usually, the court ministers cry about being poor and have no money, so he doesn't take it out.

This is actually not to blame Chongzhen. After all, the money was taken out of 10 taels. It went directly into the wallets of these corrupt officials, and there was no sense of security at all, so Chongzhen took money very seriously. If he wanted to use his internal money, he had to issue an IOU, and finally asked the Ministry of Households to pay it back.

There is not enough money, but Shandong is in a hurry again. What can I do? There is really no other way. A minister suggested, can you urge the Liaodong side to let Hong Chengchou fight against Jiannu as soon as possible, and stabilize the situation in Liaodong first? The matter can be handed over to Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang, and they don't expect them to be meritorious, as long as they can delay Jiannu with the least price and the least money.

Then let Hong Chengchou rush to Shandong, take the money from Liaodong Province, and go to Shandong to suppress the bandits!
In this way, Shandong can be guaranteed, and even Li Zicheng can be defeated. After all, Hong Chengchou's military ability is also very good. Wasn't he and Sun Chuanting defeated the Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang back then?
Therefore, Hong Chengchou must be easy to deal with rogues, so this strategy was quickly adopted by the court, and Chongzhen was also very happy, so he issued an imperial decree to urge Hong Chengchou to fight Jiannu immediately without delay.

The news was quickly sent to the governor of Jiliao, Hong Chengchou. When Hong Chengchou read the letter, his face turned dark. A decisive battle?
Is it possible to win the decisive battle now?
The current situation in Liaodong is very delicate. Last winter, Jiannu stationed troops on the border of Jinzhou and Ningyuan, and started a tentative attack at the beginning of the year. However, Hong Chengchou knew that the fighting power of the Ming army under him was far from that of Jiannu, so he followed Shanhaiguan. Ma Ke and Wu Sangui joined forces and stationed in Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan, and the three cities of Jinzhou respectively, forming a corner with each other. It can be said that as long as the imperial court pays enough, Hong Chengchou can guarantee that Jinzhou will not be lost!
But now Chongzhen insists on letting Hong Chengchou send troops to fight Jiannu, isn't this a joke?

After Hong Chengchou read the letter, he immediately wrote to Chongzhen, talking about the hardships of Liaodong and the danger of the military situation. How could Chongzhen listen to this at this time, because Shandong came to report, and Li Zicheng's forward Liu Zongmin arrived at the city of Jinan with his troops. , If the imperial court does not send reinforcements, Shandong will be gone!
When the fire is burning, who has time to watch Hong Chengchou's nonsense, even Chongzhen thinks that Hong Chengchou is afraid of war, otherwise why would he not dare to fight Jiannu?

So Chongzhen ordered a reprimand. After Hong Chengchou was reprimanded, he wrote to Chongzhen again and explained the situation in detail again. As a result, Chongzhen still couldn't listen and continued to reprimand.

Five imperial decrees were issued in a row, and the last imperial decree was even more ruthless. Two imperial decrees were issued directly, one to Hong Chengchou and the other to Wu Sangui. Position, a decisive battle with Jiannu!

To be honest, Chongzhen was really impatient. When he saw the imperial decree, Hong Chengchou looked up to the sky and sighed, the sky is going to destroy my Ming Dynasty!
Wu Sangui said from the side: "Governor, please don't disturb me. I know the current situation. If there is a decisive battle, I will die. Even if I don't want the head, I will not replace the governor Ji Liao. Please don't worry."

Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly and said: "Uncle, this is the emperor's order. How can you violate it? Even if you don't want to replace me, the emperor will let others replace me. Instead of handing over the soldiers and horses of Jiliao to incompetent people, it is better for me to lead them. In the next battle, there is a narrow chance of death, but if the adventure succeeds, maybe it can really turn the tide of the battle, this old man can only gamble!"

Wu Sangui clasped his fists and said, "My lord, please give me instructions."

So Hong Chengchou ordered that Wu Sangui send troops from Tashan to raid Jiannu's flank to attract firepower. Ma Ke led the troops to fight the Qing army on the front of Xingshan, and he and the rear raided the Qing army's base camp. As long as the base camp is attacked, the Qing army will be defeated.

This strategy can be said to be very risky, but Hong Chengchou has no choice, he is almost in a desperate situation, but he is not without a chance of winning, he still has a hole card.

Hong Chengchou waited in the barracks for a long time, and the soldiers outside said: "Lantian Tongjin caravan, Li Deqian has arrived."

"Please!"

When Hong Chengchou heard the words, he immediately shouted loudly, that's right, his hole card is Lantian!
(End of this chapter)