Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 865 The reason
The cold wind from Siberia swept across the entire Northeast, blowing snow powder into the air, similar to a sandstorm, the difference is that the sandstorm is yellow, it is white, and when the wind blows, the surrounding area is a vast expanse of whiteness, making it difficult to see.This is a fireworks, a very scary thing. The strong cold wind brings extreme cold, and the trees and stones are cracked. If the cold protection and heating work is not done well, it will be frozen to death in a few hours.

The Ming army endured the biting cold wind and the snow powder that hit their faces like sand grains, holding their muskets and spears tightly, and staggered forward, following the battle flag that was riddled with arrows. All the way south.There were people who were taken away by the cold wind with the last trace of heat, and fell down weakly. After falling down, they could not stand up again. Behind them, tens of thousands of corpses paved a road of blood, almost across the Liaodong Peninsula.

Later Jin... No, it should be called the Qing army now. The Qing army cavalry wandered around the Ming army, like wolves hunting reindeer, constantly harassing and launching small-scale attacks. They never directly attacked the main force of the Ming army. Hanging like this, when they see any troops lose their combat effectiveness due to frostbite, they will immediately rush to wipe them out, and then continue to catch up.Many soldiers of the Ming army didn't have the strength to go any further, so they stayed where they were, holding firecrackers and crossbows and shooting at the cavalry who were roaring towards them. After a short confrontation, another pile of corpses appeared on the snow.

As the king of a country, Chongzhen naturally didn't need to walk on snow with the soldiers, but he also threw away his golden and silver-encrusted Luanjia, and curled up in a carriage that couldn't be more ordinary , Watching the disaster spreading around him in horror through the car window, watching those loyal soldiers of the Ming Dynasty fall in droves in despair, his heart was gnawed by fear and despair.He clenched his fists, wanting to cry without tears, wanting to scold silently, so he could only beat his head again and again.

It’s over.

Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng spent several years to compile and train elite soldiers, almost all of them were ruined by him. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were bloody on the battlefield, and some remaining defeated soldiers continued to bleed for his incompetent emperor!Although he knows nothing about military affairs, he also knows what it means for this large army to be wiped out in Liaodong!
It means that the morale of the people, which Daming had worked so hard to cheer up, will plummet.

It means that the myth that "Jurchens are less than [-], and they cannot fight when they are full" will be even more terrifying.

It means that there will be a huge loophole in the Nine Frontier Defense Line that Lu Xiangsheng has been operating for three years, and Da Ming will not be able to deploy troops to fill this loophole in a short time.

It means that Daming will lose Lu Xiangsheng, a peerless star, and one of the two Optimus Primes of the Ming Dynasty will fall like this, leaving only Yang Menglong alone!

The country, which was originally thriving, was ruined because of his reckless imperial conquest. The whole north will be exposed to the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, and most of Ming Dynasty will soon become a sea of ​​blood. And he, Zhu Youjian, will Become the king of subjugation!

how so?
It was Lu Xiangsheng who pulled Chongzhen out of his regret and self-blame with the sound of horseshoes.He was holding a long lance, and his white robe was covered with snowflakes, even the peak of his eyebrows was covered with snow flakes, and he lost a lot of weight.But those eyes became sharper and sharper, and his lips were tightly pursed, not angry and arrogant, looking at his figure, Chongzhen finally had a little reliance in his heart.He came to the carriage, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the army is only a hundred miles away from Fuzhou!"

Chongzhen forced out a smile and said: "That's... very good. As long as we reach Fuzhou, the army will be saved! Suyihou, please work harder and don't let Jian Nu catch up!"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "This is the duty of a minister! I implore Your Majesty to cheer up and persevere. When we arrive in Fuzhou, everything will be fine!"

Chongzhen said: "I know."

Lu Xiangsheng gave another salute, and roared away with a group of cavalry.He had the hardest work of the whole army. When the Qing army was catching up, he had to command the rear, and when there was a pass ahead, he had to go to the front line to command the army to attack. Firewood, quilts, planning tomorrow's marching route... In short, there is no time to be idle.Chongzhen couldn't imagine what would happen after the fall of this white-robed general. He was afraid that the army that was still struggling would collapse in an instant? After all, the soul of the entire army was Lu Xiangsheng, not him, the army Bring in the Emperor of the Jedi!
Why didn't he listen to his words at the beginning? If he had listened to his persuasion back then, how could he have fallen into such a situation, and how could Da Ming's life hang by a thread!
Why didn't you listen to him in the first place?
Chongzhen wrapped himself in a thick quilt, his body trembling unceasingly, the events of a few months ago emerged in his mind one by one, so clearly.Regret crawled up like a vicious snake, gnawing at his heart...

Frozen three feet did not happen overnight, and the current crisis did not happen overnight. It has been brewing and fermenting for several years, and Chongzhen knew nothing about it!
Specifically, when Yang Menglong became a Marquis and Lu Xiangsheng expanded the Tuhetao Plain, the crisis began to ferment. As Yang Menglong's power grew and the Ming army won successively in the Hetao Plain, the fermentation of the crisis also intensified. In the end, when Chongzhen decided to let the crown prince worship Yang Menglong as his teacher, a conspiracy swept across the old dynasty and wanted to put the Ming Dynasty in a state of eternal doom!
Because he poked Wenchen Group's lung tube!
The Chinese have been fierce and martial since ancient times, and it has been like this since the Xia Dynasty.The Xia Dynasty repeatedly launched fierce attacks on Sanmiao and seized large tracts of fertile land; the Six Divisions of the Shang Dynasty repeatedly sent out to attack various countries and destroyed countless countries; Not lightly, but there was no delay in opening up territories. Hundreds of princes were enfeoffed in Haojing, and then they brought their own troops and people to the fief in a mighty manner, expulsing or even destroying the entrenched forces there. The barbarians, and then built their own country on the bones of the barbarians; during the Warring States Period, the once powerful Dongyi, Xuyi, and Huaiyi were all destroyed by Yan Qi. Fan and Donghu, the barbarians in the entire north were almost wiped out; the Qin Dynasty laid down the prototype of China's territory in its short but glorious course, expanded the soil and Hetao, conquered Baiyue, and laid down a vast land that was unmanned in the pre-Qin era. Dare to imagine the territory; the Han and Tang Dynasties extended the territory to Central Asia... From Xia Shang to Han and Tang Dynasties, the Chinese ancestors gave people the impression of being fierce and warlike. It is every man's biggest dream to open up territories and make great achievements. .And civil officials are not vegetarians, they can kill the enemy with a sword when they mount a horse, and govern the country when they dismount, and there are countless famous generals who were born as civil servants but killed the barbarians. If you are less than [-], you cannot fight if you are full of [-]", [-]% will be beaten out of shit.Those who can push head-on will push head-on, and those who can't push head-on will use national strength to overwhelm the opponent... Simply put, my generation didn't win, the son continued to fight, the son didn't win, the grandson continued to fight, fight Until they take it!
The blood is boiling, the blood is swollen, and it is strong. The tiger sees the great Han nation in Liuhe!

During this period of history in which soldiers and horses conquered thousands of miles, civilian officials have always played supporting roles. The 28 generals of Yuntai and the 24 heroes of Lingyan are mostly military generals. Unless civilian officials have talents like Xiao He, they will not have the military merit to enter the center of the empire. In fact, It is too difficult.But in the Song Dynasty, Song Taizu overturned this pattern with a glass of wine. His original intention was to prevent the military group from over-expanding its power and avoiding the separatism of vassal towns. However, it became difficult to control the situation once it started. The civil servant group took advantage of the situation to rise and crazily suppressed the military general group. At the end of the Song Dynasty, the war lasted for more than 300 years, but there were not many famous generals. This was all thanks to the civil servant group - a fifth-grade civil servant dared to contradict a second-grade military general, and a military commander in charge of food and grass dared to point his finger. The general who led an army of tens of thousands was shouting curses. In this context, it would be damning to think of any other famous general.The Ming Dynasty did what the Song Dynasty did again, and did it more ruthlessly and more decisively. Song Taizu only took away the military power of the famous founding generals. Zhu Yuanzhang wanted military power as well as his life. Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Lan Yu... ...One after another, the entire clan was executed, leaving no chickens or dogs behind.The Tumu Fort Incident dealt the most fatal blow to the military commanders group. All 20 elite soldiers were killed or injured. The civil servants group took the opportunity to rise and took control of the entire empire. From then on, the military commanders could no longer be heard in the court. The military commanders were just domestic slaves of civil servants. As a result, the Ming Dynasty became the dynasty with the weakest military strength in history. You must know that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was very powerful when the country was founded!Since the Song Dynasty, the Han people have become weak and ignorant, and the combat effectiveness of the army has become worse and worse.The Wenchen Group didn't care, as long as they could maintain the dominance of the Wenchen family, so what if they destroyed the entire empire's national defense? What they did was similar to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which maintained the Manchus at the expense of destroying the entire country's national defense. dominance, and they maintain their position at the expense of destroying the fighting capacity of the army.

However, the situation has changed now.Due to the rise of Yang Menglong, Chongzhen no longer relied on them. Yang Menglong was a hundred times better at governing the local area and developing the economy than civil servants, and he was even more powerful in fighting wars. Later Jin made him lose his temper completely, which surprised Chongzhen and decided to let his son worship Yang Menglong As a teacher, as long as the prince can learn Yang Menglong's two things, being an emperor doesn't have to be so hard!However, Wenchen Group doesn't think so. Yang Menglong was born as a general, and his rise means the rise of the general group... Didn't you see that the voice of generals in court has become louder and louder since he became a marquis? This is absolutely Not allowed!It's fine if it's just like this, it's not that Wenchen can't cooperate with the generals group, but the rumor that Yang Menglong is the heir of the Mohist family makes the Wenchen group feel uneasy, they know the power of the Mohism too well!In the end, the bad news was confirmed. The Juzi of the Mo family appeared and became the prince's teacher. His profound knowledge immediately conquered this little kid. This kind of problem, I have to chat late into the night every day before going back to sleep reluctantly, this is something that has never happened before———The prince is afraid when he sees those tutors in the palace!
The Wenchen Group quickly made a judgment: all this is a conspiracy of the Mohists, and the Mohists have been accumulating strength and trying to overthrow them!
Then another piece of bad news came: an old man with a celestial spirit appeared in Wuhan and presented to the governor's office a code he compiled based on the actual conditions in Heluo and Wuhan.This code has hundreds of thousands of words and is meticulous in detail, taking all practical situations into consideration. After Fang Yizhi, Fang Kongzheng and others read it, they all praised it and ordered the printing of [-] copies for distribution. Everyone should read it and then decide whether to re-enact the law based on this code - in their eyes, there is no longer a court. They just need to pay the food and salary on time and in full. As for how to govern the place, the court will leave it alone. Make us mess up!
The identity of this old man couldn't be more obvious.

After the release of this code, it became popular in Heluo and Huguang. After reading it, the vast majority of people agreed that it was well-organized and the sentencing was reasonable. The law is clearer and easier to understand, much better than the previous mess!Ninety percent of the citizen representatives said that this code should be followed, and let the previous mess go to hell!So the Huguang governor's yamen hired this expert with a lot of money to revise the code and prepare to implement it.

This was undoubtedly the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the Wenchen Group collectively panicked.Heluo and Huguang areas are rapidly forming their own unique development models. Now even laws have been issued. What is this? The prince is in the Heluo area, among the people. By comparison, we can know which model is the best. If he spreads this model to the whole country after he ascends the throne, these traditional scholar-bureaucrats will fall from the altar and be smashed to pieces!
To save themselves from falling to pieces, they had to smash the whole country to pieces!The desperate scholar-bureaucrats turned their eyes to the outside of the pass. There, a man proclaimed himself emperor, which may be their hope...

(End of this chapter)