The Qing court actually delivered official documents to its enemies. After this amazing news reached the Ming Dynasty, it caused huge controversy in the Ming Dynasty. The court officials with a little politically wise can see the upcoming crisis of the Ming Dynasty from this news. In the eyes of these court officials, Ponuhou, a pseudo-foreign vassal, is not a good thing. If anyone touches his interests, he will join forces with his enemies to defend his rights and interests at any time. In the early years, the Canal Cao Gang received silver from Yangzhou salt merchants, which raised the freight rate of Ponuhou's embarrassing transactions. He took advantage of the opportunity to wipe out the rebellion in Shaanxi and sent thousands of cavalry to leap forward thousands of miles with his mortal enemy Wei Zhongxian.

Not only did he wipe out the entire upper class of the Cao Gang, but he also destroyed three fat salt merchants. The entire robbery process, Zhang Ping'an, made a fortune. The Liaodong pseudo-Qing court obviously saw the opportunity and used the mutual market as bait to make a deal with the Ponu Hou. Last year, the Jinyiwei received news from the Liaodong ministry, and Jiannu was ready to invade the Ming Dynasty again. Sun Chengzong, the Minister of War, used the mutual market as bargaining chips to force the Ponu Hou to send a large army to the Mongolian Duoyan Ministry, shocking Jiannu to not approach the Daling River defense line under construction. Zu Dashou, the general who built the Daling River defense line castle, had no good deal with the Ponu Hou since the Tianqinian.

However, the Ming Dynasty had the bargaining chip to trade with each other, and Ponu Hou actually sent a war barracks to suppress the ten armies of Jiannu in the Shisanshan Post and could not go further. From this point of view, the Ming Dynasty set up a tentative yard on the border with the Xuanwei Envoy of the Ponu City on the border, which could effectively prevent Jiannu from entering the pass again. As a result, a snow-like memorial poured into the inner court, and the four eunuchs with pens in the inner court could not be processed day and night. Although most of the court officials asked Emperor Chongzhen to open the Zhangjiakou tent and appease the wild and wild heart of Ponu Hou. As the initiator of the tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative tentative

The Empty Prison in the North Fufu Department of Jinyiwei is a place where people are afraid of ghosts and people are reluctant to come. The Empty Prison is not small, with three courtyards. In front is the Empty Guard's public office, and the middle courtyard is a place for torture and detention of important prisoners. This place is much cleaner than the backyard. The prisoners here are all important officials of the court who may recover, and the Empty Guard will not easily provoke these officials who may return to the court. The backyard is stink. This place is usually the retaliated criminals who have issued an edict to arrest him. After entering here, they have almost no chance to see Tian Ri again. But it is such a terrifying place, but a small three-foot door is opened in the southwest of it.

There was a hundred households standing by the Jinyiwei School Captain who guarded this small gate during the day. The Jinyiwei, who was on the verge of the Jinyiwei, was almost three hours away. The guards were either the commander Luo Yangxing's confidant general flag, or the test households promoted by Luo Yangxing himself. This mysterious small gate was usually too busy to open, and the food was delivered by a foot-square wooden window from the wall beside the door. Even Luo Yangxing's confidant did not know who was detained here. Today, the Jinyiwei Yamen was a little special. The commander Luo Yangxing sent all the officials in the yamen to patrol. The thousand households and hundreds of households and the general flags left in the yamen were the officers who commander Luo Yangxing trusted the most.

At the afternoon of the same day, the four-person gray-topped sedan chair in Erding, accompanied by the entourage dressed by eight domestic slaves, walked into the west gate of the Jinyiwei yamen from the back street of the Xijinyiwei in Dashi Yongfang. The commander who had been waiting anxiously hurriedly greeted him. Luo Yangxing bowed deeply to the second sedan curtain, and then led the two sedans to the backyard without saying a word. Luo Yangxing, who was walking in front, ordered that all the Jinyiwei faces outward and does not turn back. He ran a few steps and rushed towards the mysterious small door and opened the closed single door with his portable key. Because the door was too much for the sedan chair to enter, a man with a black veil came down from the front sedan chair. The middle-aged man with black veil then walked to the back sedan chair and respectfully led a person with the same black veil to slowly enter the small door.

"Clang!" The sound of the closed door sounded, and the commander of the Jinyiwei, Luo Yangxing, personally closed the small door. At this time, two people with black veils opened the veil on their faces. They were Zhu Youjian, the current Emperor Chongzhen, and Cao Huachun, the hot eunuch of the inner court. Then, Luo Yangxing waved his hand and asked the two mute eunuchs in the courtyard to get up to serve the tea. He respectfully led Emperor Chongzhen into a large room on the south side. At the door of this room, a thin old man without black robe knelt on his way to welcome the emperor. The old man was wearing wingless official veils, and was seven feet tall, with a wrinkled face and white hair. His bright eyes under his long-lived eyebrows contained wisdom light.

"Please get up Yuanchen, you are an old man in the palace. You don't have to be too disgusted when you see me!"

In Emperor Chongzhen's kind words, he also signaled Cao Huachun to support the old man kneeling on the ground. This person was Xiao Changshun, the think tank that Emperor Chongzhen had hidden.

"Your Majesty, I am sorry for being so sorry for the elders. I am guilty of death!" Xiao Changshun apologized, but stood up with the help of Cao Huachun. Then, two mute eunuchs who served Xiao Changshun brought tea. Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian sat in the main seat and then gave three people a seat. Since the four people in the house were not pretentious, they were only three ministers. When the slaves sat on the stool, they dared to sit half of the round stool to show their respect for the emperor's favor. The house was not big, and the four of them sat together was not afraid of ears in the partition walls. The little eunuchs who served Xiao Changshun were all pierced by the Jinyiwei and were hoarse with medicine, so they were not afraid of the secret words being spread.

"Mr. Yuanchen, the Jinyiwei has been informed recently. The Liaodong pseudo-Qing court issued a document to the Marquis of Po Nu, saying that it wanted to open a market with him. Now, the ministers in the court have submitted memorials to accuse the emperor of closing the market and pledging the city of Po Nucheng Xuanwei. This matter is not very good to end!" Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei, did not say too much nonsense, and directly pointed out the purpose of the emperor's visit to the Jinyiwei today.

After hearing this, Xiao Changshun fell into a brief contemplation. He entered the palace in the 35th year of Wanli, and started from a sweeping eunuch to climb to the high position of eunuch Bingbi. He struggled all year round as eunuch Bingbi. Xiao Changshun's biggest advantage lies in his experience in the officialdom. He knew the trends in the court, and he often could see many insidious things that ordinary people could not see from very ordinary events. After Wei Zhongxian of the Tianqi Dynasty gained power, Xiao Changshun was still in a low-key position as eunuch Bingbi, but his vision of people was very accurate. When Emperor Chongzhen was still the king of Xin, Xiao Changshun took good care of him.

Zhu Youjian never left the capital to become a vassal. First, Emperor Tianqi was reluctant to let his younger brother go out to suffer, and second, Xiao Changshun mediated. During Emperor Tianqi's serious illness, Zhu Youjian took care of his brother day and night. Someone in Wei Zhongxian's party saw that Zhu Youjian was a potential threat to the eunuch party and wanted to poison Zhu Youjian's meals. Xiao Changshun was always standing in front of the front to prevent disasters. As the voices of the Donglin Party members became louder and louder in the court, the voices of the remnants of the liquidated eunuch party immediately became louder and louder. As long as the officials who did not step down during the eunuch party rule were all among the Donglin Party members, Xiao Changshun was inevitably impeached by the censors.

Even with Emperor Chongzhen's favoritism, the Donglin Party members always felt that Xiao Changshun controlled the high position of eunuch Bingbi for many years. If Xiao Changshun was not liquidated, once the remnants of the eunuch party such as Xiao Changshun controlled the inner court again, the victory of the struggle that the Donglin Party members finally achieved was likely to be gone. The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty challenged the emperor with a long glorious tradition, and the entire government would be paralyzed when they made trouble. In order to smooth the government orders, Emperor Chongzhen had to compromise with the court officials. Xiao Changshun was temporarily imprisoned by the emperor, waiting for the opportunity to let him out. Unexpectedly, the Donglin Party members had no bottom line when liquidating their opponents. Xiao Changshun, the remnants of the eunuch party, made them feel uncomfortable and would not be at ease if they didn't kill Xiao Changshun to death.

In the second year of Chongzhen, Xiao Changshun gave the commander Luo Yangxing in the Jinyiwei, quietly letting out the nails of Xu Xianchun, the eunuch party in the Jinyiwei. Along with Xu Xianchun, were released, there were also famous martial arts masters in the Jinyiwei. They had already entered the area controlled by the Ponu Army in the third year of Chongzhen. Then, Xiao Changshun spent nearly a year to make a secret arrangement for the Ponu City Xuanwei envoy, and transferred the stone chief Qin Liangyu white-rod soldiers to snatch the family of Zheng Zhilong's clan, and cut off the path of Ponu City Xuanwei envoy to make money. If Xiao Changshun's plan was just to help Emperor Chongzhen attack the potential rebels' ability to obtain money, then the question raised by Luo Yangxing just now shows that Emperor Chongzhen wanted to kill Zhang Ping'an, the Marquis of Ponu.

"Your Majesty, I'll ask more questions. Can the government troops on the walls of Xuanfu resist the residency of the Hannu Tartars? Can the Ministry of War Sun Shangshu have a memorial to open the border recently?" Xiao Changshun, who had been pondering for a while, asked Cao Huachun beside him.

Hearing Xiao Changshun's face and asked Cao Huachun, he was stunned. He didn't react for a moment. Xiao Changshun should ask what he meant. After the second year of Chongzhen, the Jizhen official army in the Ming Dynasty was basically afraid of Jiannu and asked the army that Daming dared to fight against the enemy. In addition to the Liaodong border army, there were tens of thousands of new deputy general Chang Liang in the Dushi Division. As for Shi Quanxuanfu, although the Baigan soldiers dared to fight, the number was too small and lacked food and salary. If they really fought against the Jiannu cavalry, they would not have any confidence. Besides, Sun Chengzong, the Minister of War, recently devoted his thoughts to the Daling River defense line and did not submit memorials specifically for closing the field.

After thinking for a while, Cao Huachun slowly replied: "The Jizhen official army in Daming is invincible. If Jiannu attacks Daming and the Daling River defense line in Liaodong is lost, Jizhen official army may not be able to stop Jiannu from knocking on the pass. Mr. Sun did not submit a special memorial, but suggested that Shandong troops be transferred to Beijing to perform military exercises." (To be continued)
Chapter completed!