The most disgusting thing about Lao Zhu's family is that the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes are only issued, not recycled.
That is, the emperor can use the treasure money to exchange for the grain, cloth, and silk produced by the common people. But when the people wanted to use the treasure banknotes to pay taxes, the emperor told the people: I'm sorry, I don't accept the treasure banknotes.
So here’s the question, the emperor himself doesn’t accept treasure banknotes, so why do you issue them?
This is the real feeling of being sold by Zaitian. Taizu and Taizong exchanged the waste paper for real things, which was quite satisfying. As a result, Baochao's credit collapsed later, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, Tianqi and Chongzhen were even more unlucky to end up at their grandma's house.
I didn't want to know, but after thinking about it deeply, Zhu Qiyu discovered that these emperors in the early Ming Dynasty dug pits for future generations one by one.
Not to mention the pile of bad debts left behind by the great saint-grandson in front of him, Zhu Qizhen, who was hunting in Datong, was also a master of death-seeking.
Not to mention the big hole dug by the earthen fort, after Zhu Qizhen was restored, after tossing the Oara of Mongolia, he went to toss the Tatars of Eastern Mongolia.
In the end, the Tatar tribe was allowed to reroute from Shaanxi to pay tribute, and then this group of people stayed in Shaanxi and occupied the Hetao of the Ming Dynasty, forming the most important border trouble in the middle of the Ming Dynasty: the trouble of the Hetao.
Zhu Qizhen dug the second biggest hole in his life with just a little effort. Chenghua struggled to clean it up for more than 20 years and wasted countless national resources, but Zhu Qizhen didn't clean it up.
Zhu Qizhen is a typical example of great ambition but little talent, but no vision. He also cares about food but not about fighting, which is a little worse than Emperor Chongzhen. Even Chongzhen knew that he would gain wisdom by taking every step, and he wanted to quickly kill the most loyal minister under Huang Taiji.
Therefore, even if he acted completely out of public concern, it would be impossible for Zhu Qiyu to return the throne to this scourge.
As for building a temple for Wang Zhen first, that's a minor matter. It may or may not be pursued.
Fortunately, Chen Xun, Wang Wen and others didn't care about this. As long as the emperor promised not to waste everyone's money, there would be no problem.
Zhu Qiyu sent the ministers away and went back to his room to play early.
The next two days were uneventful. Zhu Qiyu just ordered the inner court to immediately allocate one million taels of internal funds to the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The Ministry of Revenue also acted very quickly and quickly distributed the emperor's reward.
Both the civil and military ministers and the ordinary soldiers below all praised the emperor endlessly. At least verbally.
Zhu Qiyu now led the capital defense team to win a great victory and turned the tide. He also had Lian Gang and other cronies to promote it. Now his prestige was so great that no one dared to oppose the emperor on the surface.
But now the emperor, who has become the backbone of the people in the capital, is neither arrogant nor impetuous, unassuming, and hides in a small building to unite.
The emperor rarely showed his face and rarely interfered in specific government affairs. On the contrary, the ministers became more proactive and worked harder and harder, working from dawn to dusk every day.
In fact, these ministers who have studied hard in the cold window are not afraid of hardship or tiredness. They are only afraid of the emperor's blind instructions. Now that there is an emperor who rules by doing nothing, everyone is very happy.
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Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and on the eighth day of November, Ye Xian's army, which had already plundered three days of rations, began to split up, attacking Daoma Pass and Zijing Pass.
But he also led the army to Zijing Pass first, just wandered around and observed, and then gave up the attack.
Just because Zijin was closed, 20,000 Ming army soldiers suddenly appeared. I can’t figure out where this all comes from, but I’ll learn from it first and won’t attack the city head-on.
It makes no sense to defend the city with 20,000 people and attack the city with 15,000 people.
It is impossible to defeat within three days. Three days later, the food supply will be exhausted and the pursuing troops will arrive. At that time, the sky will not respond and the earth will not work.
So I was very realistic first, just took a few glances at the city wall of Zijingguan, and then withdrew.
This left Zhao Xuan, Gu Cong and others who were guarding the city very helpless. The emperor had given a death order and they were absolutely not allowed to leave the city. Now no one dares to disobey the emperor's order, let alone the emperor's direct bodyguards, so Zhao Xuan and others just watched and withdrew their troops first.
He also marched urgently day and night, and after a day and a half, he arrived at the pass of Down Horse Pass.
They had already been rushing to attack Daomaguan for two days and nights, and the partial division in Wala was in front of them. After the main force arrived first, their morale was greatly boosted and the offensive became more fierce.
A large part of the 10,000 defenders led by Sun Xiang and Han Qing were originally loyal to the Supreme Emperor. In addition, the defense system of Daomaguan was not complete. In the end, after holding on for three days and nights, the Ming army was defeated and the city pass was breached. .
Sun Xiang and Han Qing died in battle, and the Ming army fled in all directions.
Wala also lost troops and generals, paying the price of more than 2,000 casualties.
Ye Xian's army was reduced to 25,000 men.
Therefore, he did not dare to stop at the Shanxi Pass for a long time. After sweeping away the food and supplies in the pass, he marched westward and returned to his home base of Shanxi.
On November 12, just one day after Ye Xian's army left, Shi Heng led his army to Daoma Pass.
So Shi Heng, Sun Boring, Liu Yongcheng, Jin Ying, Xing'an, Cheng Jing, and Yang Shan began to get together to discuss the next plan.
First, Shi Heng said regretfully: "Guo Jiayou said: Soldiers are valuable and quick. Unfortunately, we made a mistake. The emperor stationed 20,000 troops at Zijingguan to block the main force of Yexian for us.
If we could have arrived in time, we could have attacked from both front and back and eliminated them all in one fell swoop. However, our army of 100,000 was dragging its feet and moving slowly.
This time, not only did they miss the God-given opportunity, but they also left Daimaguan isolated and helpless, and eventually fell. Fang also successfully returned to Shanxi first.
His Majesty's previous strategic plan has completely failed, and we are just waiting to be reprimanded by the decree. "
After hearing what Shi Heng said, the person with the ugliest expression was Jin Ying. As the top eunuch in the inner court, he was sent by the emperor to supervise the army, but he got off to a bad start. Now wait to be dealt with by the emperor.
But Xing'an on the side didn't think so, but urged everyone: "The main task His Majesty has given us is to rescue the Supreme Emperor.
The Wala army is short of food and cannot last long. Now that the weather is cold, they must rush back to Datong to rest.
Therefore, we speed up our march and lead an army of 100,000 to the gates of Datong City. We can fight first before making peace. "
Sun Boring replied: "If this is really possible, why should we be upset? After passing Daoma Pass, there are large areas of mountainous areas ahead. Once the army is ambushed, it will immediately be another battle at Yanghekou."
Xing'an replied unconvincedly: "The soldiers of Wala are exhausted, their horses are short, and they are short of food and grass. How can they think of fighting an ambush? As long as they are not stupid, they will definitely rush to Datong to rest first."
Shi Heng and Sun Boring wanted to act conservatively, but Jin Ying and Xing'an were afraid that they would quickly retreat to the grassland and rush to Datong.
The two sides are in a stalemate, and no one can convince the other.
Liu Yongcheng and Cheng Jing, on the other hand, remained silent and did not want to participate in the quarrel.
(End of chapter)
