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"Your Majesty, please have a sip of tea and rest for a while!" Wang Chengen took the bowl from the maid's hand and brought it to Chongzhen.
Hearing this, Chongzhen stretched and said, "I am indeed a little tired. I can only deal with the remaining memorials later."
As he spoke, he took the tureen, opened it and blew on it, then put it to his mouth and took a sip.
At this moment, a young eunuch hurried in from outside with a memorial in his hand.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Zuo Tongzheng of the General Affairs Department has sent an urgent note from He Huchen, the commander-in-chief of Jizhen."
After hearing this, Chongzhen's expression suddenly changed and he said quickly: "Bring me the memorial quickly."
Wang Chengen walked over and took the memorial from the young eunuch, then handed it respectfully into Chongzhen's hands.
Chongzhen took the memorial and hurriedly looked through it.
Snap!
The memorial slipped from his hand and hit the tureen on top of the royal eucalyptus.
"How could this happen? What does Yuan Chonghuan do for a living? He actually allowed slave thieves to enter the Ming Dynasty under his nose." Chongzhen muttered to himself.
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Although Ji Town was not under the control of the governor Yuan Chonghuan, the slave thieves detoured from Liaodong through the grassland and entered the Ming Dynasty through Ji Town. In his opinion, Yuan Chonghuan did not guard the gate of Liaodong for him.
At this time, the news that Tiger Character Banner defeated Huang Taiji on the grassland had not yet spread.
After all, Tiger Character Banner did not publicize this kind of thing to the outside world, and Huang Taiji was even less likely to publicize it. It was only spread by businessmen traveling on the grassland, and the speed was naturally much slower.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty received the urgent memorandum from He Huchen, but they did not know that Huang Taiji had suffered a huge defeat on the grassland, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the two red flags had been lost.
Wang Chengen took the memorial away from the tureen and placed it on the royal table.
"Big companion." Chongzhen looked at Wang Chengen who was busy at the imperial table and said, "I have given you a verbal order to summon several senior ministers from the cabinet and Wang Qia, the Minister of War."
"My slave obeys the order." Wang Chengen bowed and accepted the order.
The cabinet and the Ministry of War received the summons and were quickly taken to the Qianqing Palace by the young eunuch.
Led by Han Xu, the chief minister of the cabinet, the cabinet elders and the Minister of War Wang Qia first saluted and greeted Chongzhen, and then stood aside and waited for Chongzhen to ask questions.
"My companion, give He Huchen's memorial to Han Aiqing." Chongzhen signaled Wang Chengen to hand Han Xu the memorial from Jizhen on the table.
Wang Chengen picked up the memorial on the table, walked to Han Xu, and handed it over with both hands.
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Such a big thing happened in Jizhen. Officials from the General Affairs Department had secretly told the cabinet about Jizhen.
So even if Han Xu hadn't read the memorial yet, he already knew what it contained.
However, he still looked through the memorial in front of Chongzhen and read the contents again.
After reading it, he closed the memorial with both hands and wanted to hand it back to Wang Chengen.
At this time, I heard Chongzhen say: "Don't be in a hurry to return it, let the other ladies take a look at it."
Han Xu had no choice but to hand the memorial to Li Biao, the second assistant beside him.
The memorial from Jizhen was circulated among the ministers, and finally it was in the hands of Wang Qia, the Minister of War.
Unlike the situation in the cabinet, Wang Qia did not receive news about Jizhen in advance, so when he saw the contents of the memorial, his face immediately changed color.
"Han Aiqing, please tell me first, what do you think of the slave thieves invading Jizhen?" Chongzhen asked Han Xu.
He has been waiting for the day when Han Xu will bring justice to the Ming Dynasty, and as Han Xu is the chief assistant, in his opinion, Han Xu, as the chief assistant, should solve his problems, and the slave thieves invaded Jizhen. It should be resolved by the chief assistant.
To put it bluntly, in his eyes, the chief assistant should be omnipotent. As long as he, the emperor, encounters something, the chief assistant should step in to solve the problem.
Seeing that he was being asked, Han Xu stood up and said, "I am not worried about the slaves and thieves causing trouble in Ji Town. What I am more worried about is that after the slaves and thieves caused trouble in Ji Town, they will march westward and pass through Zunhua." , Jizhou, Xingzhou, Shunyi, and finally invaded the capital."
"I believe that the slave bandit's invasion this time is just to grab a handful. We can mobilize the three guards of Xingzhou, the three guards of Yingzhou and the guards along the road to reinforce He Huchen in Ji Town, and cooperate with them to strangle the invading slave bandit." Second Assistant Li Biao stood up and said.
Chongzhen agreed with Li Biao's suggestion.
I think Li Biao's proposal is very good. With so many guard command posts along the road, we can use superior forces to deal with the army of slaves and thieves coming from afar.
Even after taking the throne for so long, Chongzhen still believed in the number of Ming soldiers and horses on paper.
Of course, he didn't completely believe it, thinking that even if the number of soldiers and horses on paper differed from the actual number of soldiers and horses, it wouldn't be too big.
After all, the money and food given out by the court were distributed according to the figures on paper.
Han Xu said: "Your Majesty, you should be careful of slave thieves coming to invade the capital. You should not issue an edict to summon troops from all over the country to serve the king."
He is not the kind of person who knows nothing about anything. He knows that the Ming Dynasty does not have many soldiers and horses that can fight. Apart from the border troops, there are still some soldiers and horses that can fight. Only Liaodong has the largest number of elite soldiers and horses in the Ming Dynasty.
As for the various defense stations mentioned by Li Biao, they are not even considered strong externally and internally capable. It is better to rely on the soldiers and horses of the guard stations to resist the invading slaves and thieves than to have He Huchen recruit troops temporarily.
"King Qin!" Chongzhen frowned slightly.
Once troops from various places are sent to serve the king, regardless of whether the soldiers from various places are used in the end, the court will need to spend a lot of money and food on these soldiers.
Chongzhen was reluctant to give so much money and food to Qin Wangbing, and he even doubted whether the Ministry of Revenue could still come up with this money and food.
Without the taxes in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan, the court could collect less taxes, but the expenses would be higher. The Minister of Household Affairs would cry out in front of him, the emperor, about poverty every now and then, and wanted to use internal funds. idea.
Seeing Chongzhen's hesitation, Han Xu said: "The slave chief is very ambitious. This time he comes to attack our Ming Dynasty. He will definitely not retreat easily. He will probably come to the capital to test it out. Your Majesty should have made plans in advance."
"What Aiqing said makes sense." Chongzhen was reluctant to part with money and food, but he also valued his own life.
He also wants to revive the Ming Dynasty, and naturally he doesn't want to perish in the middle before his great cause is achieved.
"Your Majesty, as long as the slaves and thieves are blocked in Ji Town, there is no need for King Qin. If Your Majesty does not trust the soldiers and horses at the guard posts along the way, you can leave Ji Town to Yuan Chonghuan to solve it." Li Biao suggested.
Originally, Jizhen should also be under the jurisdiction of Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, but because some ministers in the imperial court wanted to restrain Yuan Chonghuan, they separated Jizhen from Yuan Chonghuan.
Without Jizhen, in the words of some people in the Ming court, Yuan Chonghuan only needs to focus on Liao affairs, and he does not need to worry about other things.
