In February of the 17th year of Chongzhen, the spring breeze had not had time to blow green buds. There were no tall trees planted in the palace, and it looked even more bleak at this time.

In the Dezheng Hall, Emperor Chongzhen summoned Zuo Zhongyun and Li Mingrui and asked about the urgent matters of the imperial gang. This kind of summoning was a high probability of being named. Now the emperor has no master, so he will ask "Imperial gang" whoever he arrested. If he doesn't answer seriously, he will be scolded. He answered seriously but did not believe it, which made people feel that this emperor was even more difficult to serve than the master of Shimiao.

Zuo Zhongyun and Li Mingrui have been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. He wanted to advise the emperor to move south in the morning, but the mainstream public opinion in the foreign court had a negative opinion on the migration south.

"So, please ask Your Majesty to retreat." Li Mingrui said carefully.

Emperor Chongzhen knew that Li Mingrui had heartfelt words and did not want to spread it. He understood that he ordered the eunuchs to go out, leaving only Wang Chengen as a pillar.

Li Mingrui approached the imperial case and whispered: "Your Majesty, I have been summoned to you. I heard that the thief atmosphere is quite evil and is approaching the capital. This is really a critical survival and death. Can you not worry about it? Only by moving south can you relieve the current urgent situation and make the contribution of Xu Tu to the expedition and suppression."

This was what Chongzhen said. As early as the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen had already had the idea of ​​moving south. However, after he "secretly traded" with Zhou Yanru, he not only leaked to the outer court, but even Empress Zhang, who was in the deep palace, knew about it. At that time, Empress Zhang found Empress Zhou and asked sternly: "Where will the ancestral temple beside the tombs of the ancestral temple beside him?" Although Empress Zhou supported the migration south, she and Chongzhen treated the imperial sister-in-law as her mother, so she had to give up.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the situation was not as corruption as it is now. The emperor had the will to move south, let alone the thieves were approaching the capital?

"This matter is serious and cannot be easily said, and I don't know what God will do?" Chongzhen learned the lesson from the previous time. He was very cautious.

Li Mingrui said: "Only the destiny is not normal. If you are good, you will get it. If you are not good, you will lose it. The destiny of heaven is all about human affairs. The emperor's move is in line with the will of heaven. If the slightest difference is wrong, you will know how much the gods are. Moreover, the situation is so extreme that you can ignore the consequences and make decisions quickly. If you don't make a decision, you will worry about devouring the navel in the future. Those in the authorities are confused, those bystanders are clear, and the emperor can cut off the holy heart, and the situation outside cannot be slow for a moment!"

Chongzhen looked around and no one was there before he revealed his heart to Li Mingrui: "I have had this ambition for a long time. No one has praised it, so it has been late. Your intention is to be in harmony with me, but the ministers outside do not follow me. What can you do? This matter is important, so you must not disclose it lightly!"

The entire palace and the court were to move to Nanjing, which was a long journey, not a joke. Chongzhen asked about specific matters such as the helping hand in the middle. Li Mingrui was confident and immediately presented five routes of the army, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Tongzhou Canal and Denglai Sea Boat, so he set up a suspicion formation. The emperor took a small road and drove south. He could reach Huaihang for up to 20 days.

"King Wen is gentle and Confucius is indifferent, which means this is!" Li Mingrui said firmly: "Your Majesty can jump and tigers just by stepping out, and you will not follow the palm of the world's fortune. If you sit in Beijing and stick to the dangerous city, it is really useless!"

Chongzhen was excited when he heard this, and felt quite like a soulmate. He ordered a banquet to entertain Li Mingrui in Wenzhao Pavilion. After lunch, Chongzhen rarely summoned Mingrui again in the inner hall, obviously thinking that moving south was urgent. He talked until the evening. Chongzhen still did not let Li Mingrui go, and sat with him, and had a long talk. By the time Li Mingrui left the palace, it was already the second update at night.

Li Mingrui's extraordinary summons soon spread in the Beijing officialdom, and everyone wanted to explore the news. Li Mingrui had to leave the door to thank the guests. He had also thought about whether to report the content of this summons to the crown prince, and he was also a person who defected to the East Palace. But after thinking about it, Li Mingrui finally could not overcome the hurdle of "the minister of the country". Since he had the trust of the emperor, how could he take two more boats?

But he didn't know that just half an hour after he left the palace, a little fire man was wearing casual clothes and sneaked out of the palace, copied the words of the king and his ministers cleanly, and sent them to Liu Ruoyu, the outer residence of the East Palace. Liu Ruoyu did not delay at all, and ordered people to send them out overnight and release them from Beijing with a hanging basket. Wang Chengen was the admiral of the East Factory, and the sender naturally had the East Factory waist tag in his hand. Who dared to stop him?

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"Li Mingrui is the opinion of scholars." Zhu Cixuan did not agree with the secret report. After Sun Chuanting and Wu Qi circulated, Zhu Cixuan said: "He could think of it. Five groups of doubtful soldiers, and his father's light chariots came from the small road to the Huai River. Haha, where did the soldiers come from? The officials of the two departments of the households and soldiers also had to lead the troops to prepare for the defense. How many soldiers can those people drive?"

Wu Yan shook his head after seeing it: "It's really a matter of course."

"Since you want to leave, you must have the determination to cut off your arm." Zhu Cixuan said: "I can't bear to leave this, so I have to take care of it. Can I still leave?"

Sun Chuanting said: "Li Mingrui is also not a common man, but he said: 'Those who do not establish border merits shall not be given to the merits, nor shall they be given to the examinations', but there is some truth."

"This principle is correct, but he still has limited talent after all." Zhu Cixuan sighed: "You see, Li Banghua is much more experienced. He wants to suggest that I go to Nanjing to supervise the country, so he came to Qiben to ask for my opinion in advance. In this way, no matter whether I agree or not, at least everyone can communicate with me! Li Mingrui acted rashly, and I can't even save him when I was attacked." Zhu Cixuan did not have any special control over the Eastern Palace Party, and there was no close contact between the officials of the Eastern Palace. What Li Mingrui was willing to say was his own business, but the summoning of the inconvenience of the front and back made Zhu Cixuan feel a little worried.

"This is all a trivial matter. No matter how fierce the capital is, it will be imprisoned at most and will not beheaded easily." Sun Chuanting looked at Wu Qi, laughed at himself, and said, "Your Highness, if we leave Taihang Mountain, we will be Hebei. Whether to go to Shenjing in the north or Shandong in the east, the army will also make a decision."

The Eastern Palace team had already passed Yangquan and was about to enter Taihang Mountains soon, crossing Guguan and leaving Shanxi.

After Li Zicheng occupied Pingyang, he did not immediately attack Taiyuan. Instead, he waited for Li Guo's troops in northern Shaanxi to lead troops from Jiazhou to cross the river, and invited Xiongtong troops to defend the crossing along the river to cut off Taiyuan's aid. At the same time, he sent Liu Fangliang to lead an army to advance east along the north bank of the Yellow River, occupying Huaiqing Prefecture (Qinyang), Shanxi Lu'an Prefecture (Changzhi), and then heading east to Weihui (Jixian), Zhangde (Anyang), and Daming Prefecture, north of Zhili, and then travel to Handan, Xingtai, and Hejian to capture Baoding until the capital.

Liu Fangliang's established march route was to bypass the Taihang Mountains from the south and form a strategic siege. If Beijing's southward migration proposal was not implemented immediately, he would not be able to leave even if he wanted to. Zhu Cixuan could get such confidential military intelligence, but unfortunately he had no troops to deploy. It was like watching the thief empty his home from the camera, but he had no choice.

With Liu Fangliang's roadmap, Li Zicheng's own marching route can be introduced. He must have led the army northward, heading to Taiyuan, Ningwu, Datong, Yanghe, Xuanhua, and crossing Juyongguan to the capital. This is coming from the north of the Taihang Mountains and forming a trend of attacking with the southern line.

Maybe there will be another large army divided the troops from Taiyuan, heading eastward to Guguan, and from Zhending to northeast to Baoding. This is also the way Zhu Cixuan advances eastward.

"I only lead the headquarters of the Central Army to Beijing," Zhu Cixuan said. "The remaining troops were handed over to Xiao Donglou to Shandong. The attendant's room also went directly to Shandong and recovered Yanzhou." Zhu Cixuan couldn't help laughing when he said Shandong.

Xu Dun and Luo Yukun actually led the "Dashun Army" with five thousand Sichuan soldiers to capture Yanggu County without bloodshed.

Yanggu County is in the jurisdiction of Yanzhou, but I don’t know how this powerful thief would react when Yanzhou faces this powerful thief. Zhu Cixuan decided to let Xu Dun send a sign in Yanzhou first and order him to surrender. If Yanzhou is determined to resist, then he would have to let the Eastern Palace Guard Camp be backed up and let the "thieves" attack the city.

Yanzhou is a fief of King Lu. Since its founding, I don’t know how much wealth has been accumulated, so I must not give it to others. First, there is a "bandit soldier" and then the prince recovers it. Who can say what else? The only thing that is more troublesome is land, but King Lu can also be "donated" it. I think that in order to survive, things outside of it can still be abandoned.

Zhu Cilang didn't know that Xu Dun and Luo Yukun's team in Yanggu County were expanding every hour. Many farmers who lost land and went bankrupt heard that the King of Chuang came, and came to join him with their families, asking for a meal. There were also many nearby prefectures and counties who sent people to surrender to Dashun. Looking at the surrender books that made Li Zicheng say that "Pei Gong is reborn and the prince of Taiyuan", Luo Yukun could only "difficult" all day long. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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