Chapter 640

Beijing City

Emperor Chongzhen took a picture of himself in the mirror and looked at his face in the bronze mirror. He was only 28 years old. He was actually full of wrinkles and white hair on his temples. He was only 28 years old. If he was in many noble families, he was still a childish child, such as Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu.

Although people in this era have a short life span, they are only 28 years old, which is definitely the heyday of youth.

He Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian ascended the throne at the age of 17 and has been an emperor for 11 years. If his imperial brother did not die early, he is now only afraid of being a fan king in a certain place. He only knows to eat, drink and play every day, live and dream of death. He doesn't care about anything and worry about anything.

Like his uncle Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune, when his uncle Zhu Changxun and his father Zhu Changluo competed for the throne, it was the most important political event in the Wanli Dynasty. When the party struggle was the most fierce, it basically involved all aspects of the late Wanli Dynasty.

It has also formed the political pattern of the Ming Dynasty in recent decades. The political events of the Ming Dynasty in these decades can find some shadow and involvement from the two princes competing for the throne.

Emperor Chongzhen sometimes thought that if his father failed to compete for the throne, it might be a good thing. His father worked hard to be a good prince and Emperor. For decades, he lived in fear every day, like walking on thin ice. He spread a father who didn't like him and wanted to clean up his father, so he wouldn't have a good day.

As a result, he was frightened day and night, accumulated over time, and became ill. He died only a month after becoming an emperor, and his imperial brother Zhu Youxiao was not much better. When the emperor was under great pressure, there were many things, and he was addicted to women's sex, he died at the age of 23.

On the contrary, his fifth emperor uncle Zhu Changxun is now living very well. He is drinking and having fun every day. It is said that he has gained more than 300 kilograms. Even his son Zhu Yousong is relaxed and fat, carefree and has grown more than 200 kilograms. His father and son don't care about anything. They just eat, drink and play with women. They are very happy. They are basically very hard like themselves, I had a very hard time. I was only 28 years old, but my weight was only more than 100 kilograms. I looked a little skinny, and I had white hair and fish tail wrinkles.

Power is indeed intoxicating and makes them get a lot of things, but they have lost more things, which is enough to offset. His father and brother lost their lives for power. The price they paid is heavy enough. Sometimes he thinks that if his father fails to compete for power at that time and is exiled to be a local vassal, maybe his father and emperor, His imperial brothers will live well, and he doesn't have to worry about the life and death of the Ming Empire.

Zhu Youjian was definitely the most hard pressed emperor of the Ming Dynasty. When he ascended the throne at the age of 17, when he was the emperor, he quietly eradicated the 9000 year old who was in power all over the world. Everyone praised it and thought that he was the face of a king of the Ming Dynasty, and the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty was imminent.

However, contrary to his wishes, the situation of Daming was rapidly collapsing. Just when he ascended the throne, the chaos of bandits sweeping the country began and became a prairie fire. It was out of control, and finally spread to the tragic situation that even big cities such as Fengyang, the capital of China, were captured.

In the Northeast outside the pass, although they have prepared enough Liao Xiang and enough food and grass to deal with JianNu, this Ningjin defense line is like a huge gold eater, swallowing too much property, money and food in Daming, which makes their poor financial situation difficult.

In the southwest, the shean rebellion, which broke out in the second year of the apocalypse, has been fighting for 15 years and is still fighting now. Even though the rebel leaders an Bangyan and shechongming are dead, the rest of his troops are still resisting and rebelling. The imperial court has spent 15 years in the poor place in the southwest, exhausted millions of liang of silver and dragged hundreds of thousands of troops in.

Chongqing, the land of abundance, has been occupied and destroyed. Even a big city like Chengdu has been surrounded by rebels for half a year. Half of Sichuan has been destroyed, Guiyang has become a white land, and countless soldiers and civilians have died.

Seeing that all this was about to turn for the better, a more tragic and violent Liu family rebellion broke out. The Liu family rebellion was more tragic and deadly. They cut off the canal at once, so that the food in the South could not be transported. At once, Daming was forced to the corner of the wall and to the point of life and death.

The imperial court also sent troops decisively and quickly to put down the rebellion of the rebel army. Who knows that they had premeditated and defeated the imperial court. They sent two armies and hundreds of thousands of people to attack, but they also defeated. No one expected that.

The Imperial Court went to encircle and suppress the Liu family's army and was defeated, which made the imperial court in a very embarrassing and passive situation. It can be said that the imperial court's prestige fell to the lowest point.

The court's wechat fell to the lowest point, which made the northeast, the roving bandits and the southwest, which had already achieved a good situation, resurgent and repeated. If they were careless, they were actually facing a situation of losing everything.

In the face of such a severe and dangerous situation, Emperor Chongzhen felt deeply powerless. Like a patient with no strength to bind chickens, he wanted to stir up a thousand kilograms of boulders. How to remove the thousand kilograms of boulders was the problem he had to consider.

However, the Ming Court has been incompetent to the extreme, and the officials have been corrupt to the extreme.

Emperor Chongzhen did not know that these officials were greedy for life and afraid of death, weak and incompetent, but these people had to be used, not used, and could only be exchanged from them.

Lu Xiangsheng, one of his most admired and valued generals, died in the war and ended up with no bones. The Tianxiong army was wiped out, but there was no pension.

Yang Sichang, the newly promoted and trusted Minister of the Ministry of military affairs, is not as capable as he boasted. At least they are only reluctantly guarding their territory, and they can defend it. This should also be related to the closure of roads by heavy snow and the withdrawal of Liu's army.

If the road is not closed by heavy snow and Liu Jiajun continues to go north, it's hard to say whether they can hold Baoding and Tianjin Wei.

Originally, such a harsh situation was chaotic enough and gave him a headache. At this time, the chaos in Yangzhou came again. What was more amazing was the news that Liu Jiajun's main force withdrew southward with all its strength and then attacked Nanjing violently, which shocked all the officials in the imperial court to the extreme.

The situation in the north of the Ming Dynasty is very serious, and the situation in Shandong and Liaodong has been completely eroded, but they are still confident that they can clean up these places calmly.

Daming is rich all over the world, with money, food and personnel. They can transfer more food and troops from the rich Jiangnan and the southwest to suppress these rebellions.

Even in the face that the Liu family had cut off their Canal line, they still came up with a way to transport grain by taking the route from Huguang and Henan to the capital from Shanxi

However, they are also confident of their military disadvantages. They are also rallying up. They are ready to wait until next spring when the flowers bloom, the weather warms up and the roads are unsealed. They will send troops to attack Shandong, completely take this rebellious villain and send Liu Yuanqiao and his son to the capital, cutting thousands of knives and pieces to correct the audio-visual situation.

Who knows that the weather is so cold and the road is closed by heavy snow. Liu Jiajun can still toss about so much. He even planned the rebellion in Yangzhou and took the opportunity to send troops to attack Jiangnan.

Although Daming has confidence and confidence, one thing is certain. If Daming lacks the support of food and utensils in the south, they will be finished. This is recognized by everyone.

So everyone knows and understands that Daming has actually reached the most critical juncture. If Jiangnan is lost, they really don't know how to take the next move.

Their encirclement and suppression of Liu Jiajun next year is based on the continuous supply of food, grass, military salaries and human resources in the south of the Yangtze River. If they lack the support of the south of the Yangtze River, where can they find so much food and so many soldiers.

So when Liu Jun heard of the Yangzhou rebellion, he sent troops and horses along the river to attack Zhenjiang and other places, the whole court was bombed.

Emperor Chongzhen summoned all the courtiers to discuss major plans. They have been discussing and talking since the early Dynasty. They talked about going to the early Dynasty tomorrow. They will not leave the dynasty for an unprecedented day. He hopes to gather a large number of people and discuss a clever plan.

However, all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and all the courtiers of the court said that they were able to put pen to paper to secure the world and determine the world immediately. However, when they really asked them to do things and ask them to do things, these people were blind. They didn't know what to do. They really adapted to a word, that is, when they boasted, they were invincible in the world, and when they really wanted to do things, they were powerless.

No, the severe situation facing the Ming court is that skillful women make bricks without rice.

They will fall into a situation of lack of food and food, but the war must continue, which is the key to their headache and fear.

In fact, the Central Plains is often divided into North and south, and many times the north is strong and the south is weak. However, their pattern of more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty has shaped them, that is, the north is dominated by military, the south is dominated by grain production and influence, and the lack of food in the South will make them unsustainable.

They can't help but sigh now that emperor Renzong insisted on returning the capital to Nanjing. If they were all in Nanjing, they wouldn't face the dilemma of building slaves to surround and attack the capital at any time, and they wouldn't worry about raising these grains. The grains of the 13 prefectures in nanzhili alone would be enough to support the needs of the world, Now they regret and fear, but there is no way to retreat from the enemy.