Li Guodong disagreed with Su Guansheng's proposal to go south on the sea road: "It is not safe to walk on the sea road. What if you encounter any wind and waves? The southeast wind has already started, the wind is wrong, and the fleet is sailing slowly, which makes Your Majesty suffer more bumps on the sea? In addition, when you arrive in Dengzhou, you have to walk a long land route to reach the canal. Isn't this let Your Majesty struggle on the road? The most important point is that the thief may soon arrive in Tianjin, and it is too late to leave now. According to Ben Bo's suggestion, let Your Majesty stay in Tianjin for a while and wait for the arrival of reinforcements."

In fact, Li Guodong disagreed with Chongzhen's journey, and another important reason was that he deliberately delayed the time and asked Nanjing to support King Fu to throne and then took Chongzhen to Nanjing. In this way, he could use King Fu's rebellion to eradicate a large number of civil servants and nobles and make the court cleaner.

"How can a small town in Tianjin Wei District, where tens of thousands of thieves can defend it?" Cao Youyi asked.

"With me here, I'm afraid I can't hold on?" Li Guodong said with a confident smile.

Currently, Li Guodong has more than 6,000 cavalrymen, Zhang Shuheng's Jinyiwei, 2,000 armed eunuchs, Wang Chengen's 200 armed eunuchs, Wu Xiang's 200 family members, and Su Guansheng's Tianjin Navy. In addition to deducting 1,000 people staying on the Haihe River to drive ships, there are still 2,000 naval troops. In this way, there are more than 10,000 defenders in the city, and in addition to recruiting a group of strong people, it is no problem to say that the strength of the defenders in the city reaches 15,000.

Ten thousand people defended the city. As long as there was enough food, grass and ammunition, Li Guodong would be allowed to defend it for a year or two.

Tianjin City itself is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Haihe is a natural moat. This city was originally acropolis, divided into Tianjin Guards, Tianjin Left Guards and Tianjin Right Guards. The city is solid. Even if one million rebels come, they cannot capture the Tianjin Guards with more than 10,000 people stationed.

"Report to Your Majesty, Zhang (Shuheng) Commander Wu (Xiang) and Eunuch Wang are all back." Someone outside came to report.

Chongzhen said: "Let them come in quickly."

"Report to Your Majesty, Eunuch Cao is here too." Someone came in to report.

"Is Cao Daban here?" Chongzhen stood up excitedly. The Cao Daban in his mouth was Cao Huachun.

Cao Huachun was twenty-two years older than Chongzhen. He entered the palace since he was a child and became Wang An's confidant. Later, he accompanied King Xin Zhu Youjian, and Wang Chengen was brought in by Cao Huachun. If Wang Chengen and King Xin grew up together, then Cao Huachun would have watched King Xin grow up.

What is said in history books that Cao Huachun opened the city gate and let the trespass into the city is simply nonsense. How could Cao Huachun betray Chongzhen when he grew up? What's more, when the trespass entered the capital, Cao Huachun was not in Beijing at all. He had already retired and returned to his hometown in Wangqingtuo, Tianjin for six years. Therefore, Cao Huachun opened the city gate and let the trespass into the city, which was completely a civil servant who criticized him, which further proved the shamelessness of scholars.

Cao Huachun, who was in Wangqingtuo Military Fort in Tianjin, heard the news that the capital was captured by the thief army, and heard that Chongzhen committed suicide. He quickly prepared to leave his hometown and rushed to the capital, wanting to arrange for Chongzhen's future generations. But before he set off, he heard that a convoy was heading towards the Tianjin Guard. Later, the thief army chased him closely. When the thief army chased him, he shouted, "Don't leave." Cao Huachun guessed that Chongzhen might have been rescued, so he quickly organized two thousand young and strong people in his hometown to rush to Tianjin without stopping.

On the way, Cao Huachun met Zhang Shuheng and his group, so he followed behind. When he saw Wang Chengen, he was happy: "The emperor has indeed left the tiger's mouth!"

The group entered Tianjin City and arrived outside the Tianjin Governor's Office. They saw that the emperor's ceremonial guard had already been hung in the Governor's Office. Cao Huachun couldn't help but feel excited and strode in.

"Cao Daban!" Chongzhen ignored everyone's obstruction and let go of his pride and walked out to greet Cao Huachun himself.

"Emperor!" Cao Huachun saw that Chongzhen was indeed alive, and knelt on the ground, hugged Chongzhen's feet and cried loudly, "Emperor, I thought you were in the hands of a thief, but I didn't expect that I would see the emperor again in my life."

"Zhang Aiqing, come and see Cao Dalian!" Chongzhen pulled Zhang Shuheng and introduced to Cao Huachun, "This is Zhang Qing, who is loyal to rescue the emperor, and Zhang Shuheng, the commander of the Jinyiwei. If it weren't for this person, I would have left my ancestors long ago."

Cao Huachun stood up, looked at Zhang Shuheng, and suddenly knelt down in emotion, and cried with emotion: "Zhang Duzhi! Thank you for your loyalty to save you! Please accept a greeting from our family!"

He was really grateful to Zhang Shuheng. After all, Emperor Chongzhen was raised when he was young. His feelings for Chongzhen were not only for slaves to the little master, but also for his own children.

"Eunuch Cao, I can't bear it until I finally can't stand it. Get up quickly." Zhang Shuheng helped Cao Huachun up.

Seeing Cao Huachun with white hair and wrinkles on his face, Chongzhen remembered a sentence that Li Guodong once said to himself: In fact, the eunuchs around the emperor were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were closest to the emperor, not those civil servants and nobles. He sighed: "Cao Dalian, if you come, leave, and follow me to hunt south. When you arrive in Nanjing, you and Wanglian will be the factory guards."

Cao Huachun asked in surprise: "Why does Your Majesty want to reopen the East Factory?"

"Cao Dajia, you don't know, what is the thief who is the capital now? It's not because of the officials and nobles who open the door to welcome the thieves? I want to send Wu Sangui back to the capital to serve the king, saying that I have to pay a million silver Wu, and I must first pay to join the thief to serve the king. I ordered the officials to raise funds, but no one would agree to the thief. But the thieves arrived and they all surrendered to the thieves! When the thieves were chaotic, they could only open the factory guard!" Chongzhen said furiously.

Cao Huachun burst into tears: "If Your Majesty had opened a factory guard early and ordered his servants to supervise this matter with the princes and princes, how could there be a disaster today!"

Wang Chengen said: "Eunuch Cao doesn't have to be discouraged. The sky is limited. The emperor left the tiger's mouth and was lucky to have not been harmed by the traitor. It's still time to revive the factory guards!"

Cao Huachun sighed: "Since Your Majesty reopens the factory guards, I should supervise them with all my heart! Because all the rioters and traitors are in the Zhao Prison!"

Li Guodong stood aside and listened to their master-servant conversation, and said in his heart: As long as the factory guard is reopened, things will be easier in the future. The commander of the Jinyiwei is my man. He will catch all the corrupt officials who harmed the court and the people, and then build up industry and commerce and accelerate the pace of entering capitalism.

"Your Majesty, there are tens of thousands of refugees gathered outside the city. How do we resettle them?" Feng Yuanyang came back from the city to report.

"It's all because I believe in the slander of treacherous ministers, which has caused the people to be displaced. It's all because of my Ming people, and I'm still putting them in the city to be good." Chongzhen said. To be honest, although Chongzhen was not good at employed people, he was a kind and good person. He wanted to treat the people kindly, but was fooled by officials. To put it bluntly, he was a kind fool who was played like a fool by civil servants all day long.

In fact, Chongzhen did not have low IQ, but because he was trained as a vassal king since he was a child. He originally wanted to be sent to captive like King Fu and others, and raised it like pigs. He had never learned the book of the emperor, but he became the emperor for no reason. Naturally, he couldn't be regarded as a good emperor. He simply learned to be his brother and didn't care about anything, but he just had to care about everything, which was a bad thing.

After hearing Chongzhen say he wanted to put the refugees into the city, Cao Youyi quickly stopped him: "Your Majesty, no! The army of thieves is coming! I am worried that the refugees will be involved in the refugees! If the city is opened, I am afraid that the thieves will act as the inner gate to open the city gate, and Tianjin will be in danger!"

"Your Majesty, Cao's army is right, and you must not be rude at critical moments." Other officials also advised each other.

Chongzhen sighed helplessly: "Since that's the case, can you all give some relief food to the people? I can't bear to see them starve to death."

"No!" Feng Yuanyang knelt down and said, "If you want to deliver food, you must first get a large pot of porridge. The thief is coming. How should the porridge be sent out of the city?"

"Father!" Princess Kunxing's voice came from behind, "We cannot ignore the people. It's so cold outside. If the people are not allowed to enter the city, they will freeze and starve to death."
Chapter completed!