In September of the second year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the 600,000 Qing Dynasty's army, which had been fully prepared, claimed to be one million, and suddenly attacked the periphery of Jinzhou. In just ten days, it broke through 30 forts outside Jinzhou. The reason why the Jurchen Tatars could break the periphery of Jinzhou in a very short time was due to the new tactics they learned from the Possess Army. They used the dead soldiers to protect large buckets in bunkers or weak places to blow up the city wall, and then used the dead soldiers to pounce into the blasted city wall gap, breaking through a little bit to shake the entire Ming Dynasty's official defense line.

This tactic makes the castle in Jinzhou be captured in a short time, and the fastest castle was less than half a day. However, for big cities like Jinzhou, this tactic is obviously not feasible. Huang Taiji Ben saw that this tactic is good, so he wanted to use this tactic to explode the Jinzhou city wall. However, Jinzhou not only has a thick city wall, but also a wide moat outside the city wall, and there are obstacles such as deer antler wooden signs outside the moat. It is impossible for dead soldiers to quickly approach the city wall.

Just when the Jurchen army besieged the castle in Jinzhou, the entire Liaodong defense line was in great chaos. The Mongolian Duoyan tribe was only 8,000 yuan in green and strong, and Yuan Chonghuan, the Ji Liao commander, actually sold 70,000 stones of grain to the Mongolian Duoyan tribe, with an average of nearly ten stones of grain per green and strong. Of course, the Mongolian Duoyan tribe only left more than 10,000 stones of grain, and the other grains were naturally sold to the Jurchen Qing Dynasty. The Mongolian Duoyan tribe was making a fortune when entering and leaving, but ordinary soldiers in Liaodong had to pay the price for Yuan Chonghuan's policies.

The food and money of the border troops in the Ming Dynasty were calculated separately, and grain and silver were distributed separately. Since last year, the northern Ming Dynasty was drought, and 90% of the food of the border troops in the Liaodong came from Nanzhili. Officials in the Southern Zhili started to purchase grains and used old rice as new rice to dig the first piece of meat in Liaodong. Through the grain transportation, the second piece of meat would be dug by the Caogang controlled by the Posou Army. After arriving in Tongzhou, the northern officials began to collect losses at a layer of time. When the grain was transported to Ningyuan, the price of grain was as high as nearly seven taels of silver.

The Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Personnel allocated a certain amount of grain and silver to Duoyan. Yuan Chonghuan sold the grain to Duoyan at half price. The difference between the price was not wanted to be released from the inner warehouse. Yuan Chonghuan, who was self-decided, had to deduct the grain from the soldiers. Liaodong has been the focus of the Ming Dynasty's food and salary guarantee in the late Wanli period. Liaodong's food and salary accounted for 70 to 80% of the Ming border troops. Therefore, a complete corruption system was formed at the top and down, and there were stereotypes in any link. Yuan Chonghuan appeased the grain sold by the Mongolian Duoyan tribe, and did not dare to destroy the regulations formed by Liaodong's food and salary for decades, otherwise he might not even get one tael of silver in the future.

Although Yuan Chonghuan used the five-year pacification of Liao and threatened Emperor Chongzhen, this method was useful at first when he used the five-year pacification of Liao and threatened officials from various departments. However, these powerful officials in the officialdom put on Yuan Chonghuan several times, either blocked the canal and could not transport food, or used moldy rice to pretend to be good rice. When Yuan Chonghuan submitted a memorial to the emperor, Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict to ask the Censorate to send the Censorate to Liaodong to investigate the case. However, after Emperor Chongzhen handed the errand to the Censorate, Liang Xiwen, the left censor, actually sent Mao Yujian, the right Censor of the Ponuhou faction, to thoroughly investigate the case.

The right censor Mao Yujian, the censor of the right, failed to pass Tongzhou, and all kinds of evidence of Yuan Chonghuan's false accusation of court officials was three feet thick. Yuan Chonghuan's attempt to break the rules of the officialdom was fought back by the six imperial ministries and officials of the capital. Shortly after Mao Yujian arrived in Shanhaiguan, a joint memorial was reported to Emperor Chongzhen along with the evidence of Yuan Chonghuan's false accusation. In the face of the overwhelming memorial impeachment of Ji Liao's commander Yuan Chonghuan, Emperor Chongzhen was no longer calm. He firmly believed that it was Yuan Chonghuan who did practical things that triggered the rebound of mediocre officials in the officialdom. In order to ensure his dream of pacifying Liao for five years, Emperor Chongzhen took out 100,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury to fill the scoops that Yuan Chonghuan had stabbed.

Although the emperor took out a 100,000 taels of silver in the inner treasury, before the money was left in the capital, the eunuchs in charge of the inner court and the civil servants of the Ministry of Revenue took down 20,000 taels of losses. The officials from the Ministry of Revenue, who had a very high purity, had to go to the Ponucheng Xuanwei Department to exchange it for silver coins and said that it was easy to transport. In fact, they colluded with Yin Guangju Yin Building inside and outside, corruption and waste profits. The money was finally reached Yuan Chonghuan, and only 100,000 Ponucheng silver coins were left. Yuan Chonghuan, who had lost half of the silver coins, felt as disgusting as if he had swallowed a fly when he looked at the half tael of silver coins in Ponucheng.

With just this little silver coin, Liaodong civil and military officials had to eat more than half of it, and it was actually sent to the soldiers for less than twenty cents. Now, the soldiers at the bottom of the army had been owed for more than half a year. Why did you officials eat so much that you could not even eat? We worked hard to even eat, and making money became the inevitable reaction of the soldiers. When Jinzhou came urgently, hundreds of thousands of Jurchen troops surrounded Jinzhou and began to clear out the outer castles of Jinzhou. Yuan Chonghuan, who received the urgent news, immediately ordered the rescue of Jinzhou.

As usual, the rescue army had to issue the deportation silver before the war, and the empty treasury in Liaodong could not afford a tael of silver to pay the salary. The soldiers who were already extremely dissatisfied with the owed salary took their lives to rescue Jinzhou hundreds of miles away. The officials did not even take out the deportation silver, and were forced to work hard. The soldiers' anger suppressed for many days finally broke out. Thousands of soldiers burned the battle flags, robbed and divided the food to conquer the Ningyuan Army's Command, and surrounded the Ningyuan Army's Command. Faced with this chaos, Yuan Chonghuan tried every means to raise money to appease the morale of the army, and ordered Zhao, who was stationed in Ji Town, to lead the 5,000 Guanning cavalry of the Jiaotong Department to return to Ningyuan to suppress the mutiny.

Unlike the chaos in Liaodong, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was still calm, with only the abnormalities in the Zhangjiazhuang Ponuhou Mansion and the Ponucheng Xuanwei envoy in Beijing outside Xizhimen. The Ponuhou Mansion in Zhangjiazhuang posted a notice to recruit people to strengthen the defense of Zhangjiazhuang. At the same time, Dong Heliang, a military officer of the Ponu, made some criticisms to set off from Korea and arrived in Dengzhou, Shandong to arrive in the capital one after another. After receiving the secret report from Jinyi Guard, Emperor Chongzhen also noticed the unusual appearance of the Ponuhou Mansion. He sent eunuch Cao Huachun, the eunuch who bridegroom, to investigate the Sixushi of the Ponucheng Xuanwei envoy.

After receiving the order from Emperor Chongzhen, Cao Huachun did not go to Zhangjiazhuang, but instead wore casual clothes to find a clean single room in the West Street Teahouse of Shihuer Hutong in Faxiangfang, and met with Zheng Tai, the shopkeeper of Wufu Warehouse. After receiving the note from Cao Huachun, the sensible Zheng Tai ordered people to book the entire teahouse and replaced all the staff of the teahouse with his own people. In order to show his respect for Cao Huachun, Zheng Tai went to the teahouse to arrange it in advance and prepared some seasonal fruit and snacks to wait for Cao Huachun to arrive.

On the afternoon of that day, Cao Huachun brought two young eunuchs to this quiet place. After Cao Huachun and Zheng Tai greeted each other, they humbly came to the private room upstairs. Zheng Tai asked his subordinates to entertain Cao Huachun's subordinates downstairs, and he personally poured tea and greeted Cao Huachun. Zheng Tai, who had been together in the capital for many years, had a very good mouth and talked about various gossips in the city for half an hour. In fact, both of them knew what the other party was concerned about, but the conversation between them was too sensitive, and no one could start talking about it.

"Oh, brother, let's talk about the main business. The Jinyiwei told the Lijian Wenshu that you, the Xuanwei envoy of the Ministry of Demolition and Resolution, are strengthening the defense outside the mansion. What are you doing?"

As soon as Cao Huachun's words fell, Zheng Tai, who was talking about sex, had a fat face solemnly. He sighed and took out a letter from his arms and slowly handed it to Cao Huachun. Cao Huachun, who was still drinking tea, put down the tea bowl and took the letter with his right hand with his good maintenance. He looked at Zheng Tai with a little puzzled look, pulled out the letter, and looked at him with a hint of surprise on his face. This dog-like font is the unique symbol of Ponuhou, but there are many places on these three pages of letter paper black.

Cao Huachun looked carefully at the letter from Ponuhou to Zheng Tai, and then analyzed the black words, many of which may be disrespectful to the emperor. Seeing at the end, Cao Huachun saw from the date of the letter that this was a letter sent twenty days ago. In the letter of Ponuhou, he pointed out that if Yuan Chonghuan transferred Zhao, who was stationed in Jizhou, led the sect to Liaodong, it was very likely that he wanted to leave room for the Jurchen Jiannu to attack the Ming Dynasty. Cao Huachun also saw his analysis of this matter from the letter from Ponuhou Zhang Ping'an. Zhang Ping'an learned through spies that the Jurchen Jiannu had a difficult life this year.

The rare drought caused the wealthy Liaodong to starve all over the ground. It is believed that about 100,000 people starved to death, of which 3,000 people died of hunger. Faced with the rare opportunity of the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan indirectly alleviated the famine in Liaodong by selling grain to Mongolian Duoyan, and also allowed the Jurchen tribe to see that if they want to survive, they had to rob food and population from the Ming Dynasty. Once the Jurchens failed to break the barrier due to the strict defense of the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchen tribe who did not rob food would be exterminated within two years. The Jurchen Qing Dynasty, which lost a large number of young and strong population, was no longer the main threat to the Ming court.

If such a good situation occurs, it may not be a good thing for the Liaodong border army. Millions of Liao pay will be reduced every year due to the threat of Jiannu. In order to raise the enemy, the Liaodong border army must find a way to release Jiannu and detain the Guannu. It is best to attack the Ming hinterland from the Jizhou line, so that millions of Liao pay can be retained. Now, the Liaodong officialdom has become a pit and there is still some combat effectiveness, and the only troops that can be formed by Sun Chengzong at that time are the Guanning Iron Cavalry formed by Sun Chengzong at that time. In the view of Ponu Hou, the most capable generals in the Guanning Iron Cavalry can basically be said to be a bag of wine except Man Gui and Zhao Shujiao.

But Man Gui has been excluded by Yuan Chonghuan to Datong, Shanxi, and only Zhao Rujiao is left in Jizhen. Zhao Rujiao was abandoned in Guangning by Yuan Chonghuan last time and almost died at the hands of the Tartars. Zhao Rujiao was dissatisfied with Yuan Chonghuan for the Liaodong officialdom. Ponu Hou also speculated in his letter that once the Tartars attacked the Jinning defense line, Yuan Chonghuan would definitely order Zhao Rujiao to go to Liaodong to assist in defense. When the Tartars broke through the border of Daming from Jizhen, Yuan Chonghuan must also order Zhao Rujiao to return to the army to rescue. How did the cavalry of Zhao Rujiao, who had been traveling back and forth for thousands of miles, wait for Lao Jiannu's opponent? In this way, Yuan Chonghuan can not only use the enemy's hands to eliminate dissidents, but also show his urgent mood to rescue the capital in front of the emperor. (To be continued)
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