Emperor Chongzhen definitely didn't want to die.

Whether from his personal instinct or from the perspective of the survival of the Ming Dynasty, he was unwilling to die.

Therefore, in later generations, his king died in the country, and he was cheated by his ministers, and he was also hurt by his own hesitation.

Now Emperor Chongzhen’s mind is "moving south".

Zhangkou asked Li Mingrui a series of questions, mostly focusing on safety issues in the middle, namely where the troops were mobilized, because he could not go south alone.

At that time, the main force of the Ming army was only the Guanning army outside the relevant department, and they were still fighting against the Qing army on the eastern front. The court had no army at all, so Li Mingrui proposed to secretly send some officials from the court to recruit new soldiers from the Gyeonggi area.

"Money and food!"

The two invisible big words made Emperor Chongzhen breathless.

Recruiting new recruits requires a large amount of money and food, and where does this money and food come from?

The court moved south, which was a huge waste of money. How easy was it to squeeze out money and food?

Emperor Chongzhen really had no silver in his hand. The treasury only had more than 100,000 taels of silver. If this silver belongs to an individual, it would naturally be rich, but if it belongs to the emperor, then the emperor would be a beggar.

Therefore, the money and grain of the Ministry of Revenue naturally need to be presented by the Ministry of Revenue. However, the Ministry of Revenue has not had much money and grain, and it is not the summer harvest season, so it still needs to support the expenses of the local army, so it is already too late to do so.

Emperor Chongzhen could only go to the court to discuss this matter, but once the matter of moving south was made public, would it be a solution to what was waiting for him? Instead of endless arguments and disputes between officials of the north and south sects?

When Zheng Zhilong arrived on a boat to Zhifu Island, the wave of "southern migration" brewed by Emperor Chongzhen had disappeared. What followed in the capital was the debate about whether to transfer the Wu Sangui army from Ningyuan to retreat to Shanhaiguan to resist Li Zicheng's debate.

Zheng Zhilong was stunned when he read the letter sent by Zheng Zhiguan. He really didn't know that such a good show had happened in Yanjing City at the end of Chongzhen.

"Chen Yan, Wei Zaode..." There is also the carpenter Emperor Yi'an, "The ancestors' ancestral temple is here, where will they move?"

What a cruel sentence.

I was very sad when I was thinking about these three people who performed outstandingly in the migration incident and added a lot of loess to the Ming Dynasty.

"The Zhang family is not worthy of planning major events. Chen Yan and Wei Zaode are both ministers in the cabinet, so how could they not know that Beidu is dead?"

Zheng Sen has obviously accumulated a lot of anger in the past few days. He cannot say something to others, but he has no scruples in front of Zheng Zhilong.

"Although the main force of the bandit army intends to capture Taiyuan Prefecture, the 100,000 troops led by the bandit general Liu Fangliang, as a partial army, after crossing the Yellow River, they will advance to southern Shanxi with the main force. While chasing Gao Jie, they will occupy various prefectures, prefectures, and counties in southern Shanxi. According to the momentum, they will continue to go east, cross the Taihang Mountains, and enter the Huaiqing area of ​​the Central Plains, and then go north from Anyang to threaten Jifu..."

"Central Plains General Chen Fuyong has surrendered Li Zicheng. With the thousands of remaining soldiers of Hong Jingluo who were surviving in Kaifeng and Guide, he could still save the huge Central Plains? Can he still hold Liu Fangliang's army?

If the latter goes north, the entire northern Zhili will only be connected to Qi and Lu. The northern capital is an isolated city, which is a dead place. If you continue to stick to it, there is only a dead end." Zheng Sen can see this truth clearly, can't the nobles in the court see it?

"The most urgent task is to be self-decisive, how can the emperor still be so gentle?"

Zheng Sen was very dissatisfied with the "ancestoral temple" mentioned by Empress Yi'an. It was just like if the capital was not moved, the ancestral temple could be preserved?

The Ming Dynasty is really over. Not only will the imperial tombs in the capital fall into the opponent, but even the Taizu Tombs in Zhongdu Fengyang and Jinling cannot be kept.

Look at Li Zicheng, who had left his family and his business early, has the ancestral tomb of the old Li family been removed? Now it has been rebuilt. As long as Li Zicheng can really settle down in the country and the country, there are more things waiting for their glory.

Zheng Sen felt that the current situation was a bit like "losing the land and losing people, and losing people; losing people and losing land, and getting both people and land." It was not the time for indecisiveness that the emperor should show his own style of saying nothing.

Unfortunately, he didn't see any of it from Emperor Chongzhen.

"Many people understand what you said, but no matter how clear you understand, no one is willing to do it."

"For my father, I have heard people say that in the adult world, there is no right or wrong, only the pros and cons. Only children can distinguish right or wrong."

"Although this is biased, it also reveals some truth." Zheng Zhilong said comfortingly to Zheng Sen. Although the latter was no longer the same as before in the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Chongzhen, he still felt angry when he looked at the capital.

"I left Empress Yi'an without saying anything, only Chen Yan and Wei Zaode, both of them were cabinet ministers, so their knowledge was naturally not weak. But they all expressed their opposition to the south, which was because they were unwilling to take responsibility. There are two points of responsibility, one was the emperor's accountability, and the other was the accountability of history."

"If they proposed to move south, if something happened during the migration south, it would be unfavorable. Even if it was successful, Emperor Chongzhen might kill them to thank the people of the world and let them bear the responsibility of abandoning the ancestors and ancestral temples. Chen Xinjia was ordered to negotiate peace but was abandoned in the market. There are examples of Duke Yu Zhongsu (Yu Qian) and must be observed. What's more, there is still the long history." Zheng Zhilong said while thinking. The six important ministers and the cabinet ministers were both old foxes. I am afraid that they would not dare to stand up and take the initiative to take the responsibility because they knew Emperor Chongzhen's character.

These words include his previous experiences and experiences, and his growth after traveling through time.

"The second is that I am afraid that the emperor will be left in Beidu and become a scapegoat. Even if the court moves south, Beidu can't just abandon it, right? Where is the border troops in the north like this?" When Emperor Huizong of Song left a new emperor when he ran away, Emperor Shun of Yuan left Huai, Timuer Buhua and the left prime minister of the Secretariat Qingtong. If Emperor Chongzhen escaped, he would leave a cabinet grandson without leaving the prince, right?

None of them wants to be a scapegoat.

"The third is that they are unwilling to give up their own interests. This is the priority of people like Wei Zaode. Chen Yan is a Sichuan and Shu person. Most of the officials who supported the migration of the south were southern officials, and Jiang Dejing was criticized for this. Most of the interests of southern officials were not in the north, so they would support the migration of the south; and the opponents were mostly northern officials, northern officials. They were unwilling to move south one by one, and they did not want to easily abandon the large amount of fertile land and beautiful houses they occupied. What's more, even if Li Zicheng seized the world, someone would have to govern the world, right? Even if the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, they could still get a job in the new dynasty, just like the Kong family. This made them think in their hearts whether it was worth it to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, who was about to settle down."

"In the end, some lower-class censors were criticized by their thoughts of making fame, such as Guang Shiheng." A person who jumped happily during the incident of the south migration was angry. His words were infuriating - without killing Mingrui, he could not correct people's hearts, but could not put forward any constructive opinions, which were purely for the name of making a fussy advice.

Zheng Zhilong looked down on a hundred censors in the Ming Dynasty. It is very necessary for the censors to exist. However, "reports and reports" do not have to bear the backlash of false impeachment, and the degree of freedom is really rampant.

And without restrictions, "freedom" can only backfire. Guang Shiheng is one of the representatives!

But these people occupy a very important part of the Ming Dynasty's political system. As long as Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts have not changed suddenly, it is impossible not to ignore the weight of these censors.

"Of course, there is also our emperor. He dare not act arbitrarily. The biggest reason is that he is afraid of taking the blame for abandoning the ancestral temple and country, right?" After the Ming Yingzong was captured during the Tumen and Wood Incident, Yu Qian and others established King Hui, refused to move the capital, but eventually turned the crisis into safety. Chongzhen was worried that he would be criticized by later generations after he gave up the capital easily, so he was hesitant.

"That man is suspicious, stubborn, and is well-known for his extremely harsh treatment of ministers. He often shows great determination at the beginning, and once he encounters setbacks, he will be discouraged and move from one extreme to another. But he is still lucky to be faced..."

In a word, Emperor Chongzhen just wanted to leave but was embarrassed to leave. He wanted all the ministers to write a letter to give him a step. However, people's hearts were dispersed, and some people were reluctant to give him this step. Emperor Chongzhen could only suffer if he wanted to live.

In the end, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but dissipate Emperor Chongzhen. But what he said was also very reasonable, right?

Or he scolded the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty and the emperor, which made Zheng Sen's heart feel angry that had been holding back for many days.

"If you don't talk about this, the current delay is to rectify the chariots, horses, food and wages, and enter the capital of the guard!"

Zheng Zhilong did not need to lead the entire army to Beijing by land. The army would be divided into two parts and some would continue to stay in Denglai. When the sea ice melted in late February and early March, they would naturally be able to go directly to Tianjin by boat.
Chapter completed!