The 14th year of Chongzhen was another unfavorable year for the Ming Dynasty.

Just after the New Year, bad news came one after another. First, Henan reported that Luoyang was invaded and King Fu was killed by the thieves. Immediately outside the pass, news came that Wu Bashi, the commander of the Eastern Pass of Jinzhou, led the Mongols in the city to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. The outer city of Jinzhou was invaded, and Zu Dashou had to surrender the inner city.

This made the already difficult Ming Dynasty fall into a huge dilemma inside and outside the pass, exhausting Emperor Chongzhen.

At this time, in the imperial study, Emperor Chongzhen was reviewing the memorials, several of which were written by the memorials that impeached Ding Qirui, Gao Mingheng colluded with bandits and harmed the gentry and the people.

Chongzhen was impatient, suspicious and impatient. Seeing that Governor Ding Qirui had not only not been extinguished for more than a year, the thieves were not exterminated, but became more and more powerful. He captured Luoyang and approached Kaifeng, and the situation worsened, and gradually lost patience.

"This Ding Qirui was defeated before, so I gave him a chance to continue to be the governor. But what have he done now? Use the enemy to control the enemy, but the result is that he will respect himself, and he really thinks that I dare not kill him!" The situation worsened further, and Chongzhen had lost his patience.

Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War, lowered his head and knew that the emperor wanted to kill someone again.

But now, in the Ming Dynasty, there is really no one who can do things.

As the Minister of War, Chen Xinjia understood the current situation and it was not the time to kill Ding Qirui.

At present, Hong Chengchou led 130,000 elite troops to gather outside the pass, and the food and salary were consumed huge 10,000 yuan. The Ministry of War had no money and food, and the Ministry of Revenue was quarreling and refused to pay military expenses. If the commander was changed at the last minute and the situation in Henan collapsed, the court would be destroyed at the same time inside and outside the pass.

At this time, Hou Xun said indignantly: "Your Majesty, Ding Qirui was defeated before, and Your Majesty wanted to replace him. I agreed. However, I was worried that there was no suitable person to recommend him, so I agreed to let Your Majesty open his mind and make meritorious. Who knew that he did not think about the grace of the Holy Majesty and did not share his worries for Your Majesty, but instead confuse Your Majesty. I really misread Ding Qirui!"

Chen Xinjia couldn't help but glance at Hou Xun next to him with some regret. This time, the censors were defeated, and Hou Xun and others controlled it again.

Ding Qirui was the governor, but did not protect the interests of the Southeastern gentry, and the Hou family in Henan. Therefore, the people in the southeast wanted to restore their father's death and return home to mourn their filial piety, Wang Qiaonian, a member of the Donglin Party of Zhejiang, who wanted to regain his father's death and return home to mourn, and replaced Ding Qirui's governor Henan, and attacked the thieves with Shaanxi Governor Fu Zonglong, the governor of Shaanxi.

Now the place where the imperial court taxes and the Ministry of Revenue are all in the hands of the Donglin Party members. Chen Xinjia still needs to ask Hou Xun for money, so he doesn't have to say much.

After all, there are more than 100,000 soldiers outside the pass, and hundreds of thousands of bandit suppression troops within the relevant department, and the Ministry of Revenue still expects to allocate funds.

Emperor Chongzhen asked, "Is there anyone who recommends Hou Qing?"

Since Chongzhen ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty was trapped in internal and external troubles, and its talents were consumed very quickly, especially the ministers who were aware of the military were almost dead.

Half of them were killed by the Qing army, and half were killed directly or indirectly by Chongzhen. Looking at the Ming Dynasty, there are only a handful of ministers who can still supervise the army and fight, and there is no more than a slap.

At this time, in addition to Hong Chengchou, who led the troops outside the pass, there was also Sun Chuanting who was locked in a cell. Looking at the court, there were all a group of short men.

Hou Xun smiled and said, "I do recommend it to you, Wang Qiaonian, a former doctor of the Ministry of Works and the Shaanxi Censor. He was once the preparatory force for the Denglai Army and was very knowledgeable about military affairs and was competent and able to eliminate the thieves!"

Kaifeng and Shangqiu are related to the interests of the Hou family and are also a barrier to the southeast, so they cannot be lost.

Although the situation in Henan is now bad and it is very dangerous to be the governor, in order to protect the interests of the Southeast, one must send one of his own people to protect their interests.

Wang Qiaonian was originally just a censor, and he jumped to several levels to serve as the governor. In case something happened, there was still an organization to take charge. After Hou Xun wrote, he was willing to give it a try, and both of them hit it off.

When Chongzhen heard the words, he didn't think about it for too long, so he planned to replace Ding Qirui and check Gao Huan.

At this time, he was about to give an order, but Wang Chengen hurriedly ran in, knelt down and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, you have a great victory!"

"Great victory?" Chongzhen was slightly stunned. It was obvious that he hadn't heard this word for a long time.

All the ministers were also surprised that they could still win this year.

Several ministers looked at Chen Xinjia, hoping that the Minister of War could give him a reminder, but Chen Xinjia was also confused. Based on his understanding, the Ming Dynasty seemed to have no chance of a great victory at the moment, but it was very likely that others would win a great victory.

Wang Chengen hurriedly raised a memorial, and was so excited that he almost burst into tears. "Your Majesty, Henan Governor Ding Qirui reported that the official army defeated the trespasses in eastern Henan, defeated the trespasses' invasion of Kaifeng, and killed 500,000 prisoners and trespasses."

"What?" Chongzhen stood up from his seat and couldn't wait to say, "Give it a look for me!"

Wang Chengen quickly stood up and presented the memorial to Chongzhen. Chongzhen scanned it and his face suddenly turned red.

"Hou Qing seems that you misunderstood Ding Qing! He is still capable!" Chongzhen did not mention that he started to talk, but instead relied on Hou Xun.

Chongzhen read this again, and then handed it to the ministers to share his joy, "Let's take a look!"

The ministers took the memorial and watched it together. They quickly learned about the content of the memorial. They learned that the war in eastern Henan was Ding Qirui, Gao Mingheng, Gao Huan, Chen Yongfu and others were planning to implement it. In the end, the soldiers used their lives to defeat the invasion of the thieves against Kaifeng, and turned the rebels into southern Henan to harvest grain, saying that they fled south.

After reading it, Hou Xun hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it will be investigated whether this matter is true!"

Chongzhen frowned and was a little annoyed. Hou Xun almost made him lose face, "Okay! Shangshu Hou, please stop talking!"

Chongzhen was too eager to win the battle, so he looked at everyone and said, "Now the court is in trouble, and he is short of loyal ministers and good generals. Now Jiannu is pressing step by step outside the pass, and the Central Plains is unstable. What should the Ming Dynasty do? I am preparing to commend the meritorious ministers this time, Ding Qirui, Gao Mingheng's merits and demerits, Gao Huan and Chen Yongfu were promoted to general, what do you think?"

Chen Xinjia breathed a sigh of relief. The Ministry of War now has to take care of both the inside and outside the pass. Now the situation inside the pass is slightly slowing down, and the pressure on the Ministry of War is immediately reduced.

"Your Majesty is wise!" Chen Xinjia hurriedly saluted.

Chongzhen was particularly happy and said, "The Ministry of Revenue is allocating 100,000 taels to Ding Qirui to reward the meritorious soldiers! Without further ado, you should go and do it quickly, don't hesitate!"

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The emperor issued an order and paid close attention. The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel immediately took action. The appointment and reward of Gao Huan and others was completed in less than three days.

In the Ministry of Revenue, Hou Fangyu came to the official document with a cabinet in front of him, and was very unhappy.

He originally wanted to recommend Wang Qiaonian to be the governor of Henan, but was ruined by a big victory in Henan.

At this time, Hou Xun looked at the approval documents issued by the emperor to allocate military salaries to Gao Huan, Chen Yongfu and others. He sneered and threw the approval documents into the drawer, and said to himself: "I want to get money from my official, wait."

As he said that, he used a trick and wrote an approval document. The Ministry of Households did not have the 100,000 taels of household registration, and asked the Henan Provincial Administration Office to use taxes from Luoyang and other places to dismiss Ding Qirui.

After the emperor asked, the Ministry of Revenue could say that it had given it to the Henan Provincial Administration Commission to allocate nearby, but Luoyang and other places had fallen, so the Henan Provincial Administration Commission Commission could not afford the money, so it could only become a bad debt.

This kind of thing is just a small trick of the Ministry of Revenue.

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