In the original history, this Zhang Ruoqi persuaded Chen Xinjia and Emperor Chongzhen with his unshakable tongue to mobilize the remaining elite troops from the nine sides with the intention of fighting the Manchu and Qing armies at the gates of Jinzhou City. He wanted to complete his achievements in one battle.

As for the pacification of Liaodong, it really involves neither knowing the enemy nor oneself, and talking about war on paper is extremely ridiculous.

But his rhetoric and eloquence can be seen from this.

In this life, his only strength was finally used in the right place.

Even though Emperor Chongzhen had read the memorial written by Zhang Ruoqi several times last night, listening to his impassioned speech again, he still couldn't hold back his excited heart.

"That's right! What Zhang Aiqing said is right! The bandits from the east and the west have caused so much harm, why can't they be wiped out for a long time?! I think the root cause is that the world's officials, Wen Tian and Wuzhi, don't know what etiquette, justice, integrity, loyalty, courage and diligence are!"

After listening to Zhang Ruoqi's words, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly couldn't hold himself back and stood up from the throne in the Wenhua Palace. While speaking angrily and gritting his teeth, he walked down the steps under the throne.

"Whenever the generals face the enemy, they dare not fight for fear of death, but they only open their mouths to ask me for food, wages, and military supplies! Who else can be like Yang Zhen, who firstly does not want food, secondly does not want wages, and thirdly does not show off, but only counts.

How can an army of hundreds of elite troops quietly penetrate deep into the enemy's territory, win consecutive battles, capture the heads of thousands of slaves, and return in triumph?!"

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen's originally pale and haggard face was flushed with a sickly color, and he finished these words in one breath, somewhat hysterically.

Then, he took a deep breath, calmed down, came to Zhang Ruoqi, the director of the Ministry of War, who was kneeling to give the correct answer, lifted him up with his own hands, and said to him:

"Very good! Zhang Aiqing, what you said is very good! Yang Zhen is indeed commendable for his loyalty and bravery! I want to destroy the pirates and the pirates, and I need such a good general!"

"The strong wind knows the strength of the grass, and the rough waves know the loyal and good! If all the generals in the world are as loyal, brave and diligent as Yang Zhen, how difficult will it be for the Eastern captives to be defeated, and how can it be difficult to destroy the bandits?!"

After Emperor Chongzhen helped Zhang Ruoqi up, he said to several other people who were also kneeling on the ground and answered correctly: Chen Xinjia, Wang Dehua, and Yang Chaojin:

"My dear friends, please be safe! You all did a great job on this errand, and I am very satisfied!"

At this point, I don't know because he remembered something. Emperor Chongzhen, who was very excited just now, suddenly became depressed again. He looked up at the empty, tall and somewhat eerie imperial palace in the Wenhua Palace, sighing and resenting.

said:

"Chen Aiqing! Display all the heads of the Manchu slaves outside the Chaoyang Gate of the capital, so that the people of the capital and even the world can take a look. I, the Ming Dynasty, can kill the Manchu slaves from the East and avenge those who died last year.

Avenge your shame!”

Chen Xinjia, Minister of the Ministry of War, who was standing aside with his head bowed and hands folded, had always been reserved and calm. After hearing the emperor's words, he quickly bowed and responded.

At this time, Chen Xinjia was about fifty years old. He was born with a good skin, tall and handsome, with a rich Chinese character face, a mustache and a goatee that were carefully taken care of, and he was the Minister of the Ministry of War.

The gorgeous clothes and robes also showed the appearance of a gentleman and a very polished scholar-bureaucrat.

Of course, this is an illusion.

In fact, this Chen Xinjia is just a piece of shit who looks good on the outside. Just because he briefly served on the Liaodong front line and was the governor of Xuanfu in the border town, he is well-known among the civil servants in the capital.

Because of his reputation as a soldier, Emperor Chongzhen, who was urgently ill and sought medical treatment, was promoted to the position of Minister of War.

In fact, he had no backbone of his own for the war and defense plan outside Shanhaiguan. Either he would do whatever the emperor said, or he would use the words of his confidant Zhang Ruoqi to cater to Emperor Chongzhen's intentions.

Regarding Yang Zhen's unauthorized attack, when Chen Xinjia first heard the news, he was furious. He was secretly annoyed that Yang Zhen was too busy and was only thinking about how to blame and cut off.

If Fang Yizao, a close friend who was on the same line as him, was not involved, then he would have thrown away the chess piece Yang Zhen long ago.

But after Zhang Ruoqi, Fang Yizao and the others secretly sent the news of Yang Zhen's return to him in advance, his attitude immediately changed. It was completely the opposite.

Fang Yizao's excuse that Yang Zhen's attack on Mannu's enemy rear was a plan planned by Fang Yizao to disrupt the enemy quickly changed into an achievement of Chen Xinjia's strategizing to win a decisive victory thousands of miles away.

After that, when he was with Emperor Chongzhen, he really said a lot of good things for Yang Zhen and his expedition battalion to the east. Today these good words will come into play.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally didn't know that Chen Xinjia, who always seemed calm and confident in front of him, would be such a character. He was still talking about his own thoughts at the moment:

"In addition, the head of that Mannu clan member, Gushan Beizi Boluo, was singled out, matched with his gold belt and jade plaque, and sent to the Ancestral Temple to comfort the ancestors, and then the head was hung in front of the gate.

Show off to the public!”

After hearing this, Chen Xinjia quickly bowed and said yes, which was regarded as receiving the oral instruction.

After Emperor Chongzhen said these words, he let out a deep breath, but still stood there, looking motionless in the distance. After a while, he continued:

"I've got all the things listed in your report! After this battle behind enemy lines, Yang Zhenzheng's pay for the advance battalion in the east can be increased by two thousand, and he will still raise it himself! As for the source of the new food and pay, it comes from Liao's pay.

Let’s adjust the support inside!

"The imperial court spends millions of dollars in salary every year. Instead of raising useless soldiers, it is better to draw some from them to expand the army of loyal and brave warriors!

"Yang Zhen was able to use hundreds of men to plunder Mannu's enemy rear and capture thousands of heads of Eastern captives. I think that with the 5,000 elite soldiers of the Eastern Camp under his command, the Liao Dynasty will usher in a great turn! I send you my best wishes.

Hope is very deep!"

When Chen Xinjia, Zhang Ruoqi, Wang Dehua and Yang Chaojin heard what Emperor Chongzhen said, they looked at each other, stepped forward together, bowed to Emperor Chongzhen and said:

"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"

"Holy Might? Haha, what's the use of being a Mighty One?! I need all the civil and military officials to be of the same mind as me, and all the soldiers in the world to serve me!"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard the four words "Your Majesty's Holy Ming" spoken by everyone, a sarcastic smile appeared on his haggard face. He said these words with a sneer, then turned around, looked at Wang Dehua and said:

"Let's see, Wang Dehua, do you still have any useful and capable ministers around you?! If you have one here, I will select one of your ministers to go to Liaodong!"

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen said these words, everyone in the Wenhua Palace was shocked. After having said so much, His Majesty the Emperor in front of him still didn't trust the generals on the front line. Is he going to send supervisory troops to Songshan?!

Wang Dehua, the eunuch, didn't matter, and Emperor Chongzhen asked him to recommend candidates, which obviously showed his trust in him, which made him very happy, and a smile flashed across his face at that moment.

Wang Dehua was about to bow to answer when he saw Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War on one side, suddenly took a step forward, lifted his robe and knelt on the ground, kowtowed, raised his head and said to the emperor:

"Your Majesty! I ask your Majesty to be careful! In military affairs, the most important thing is to unify the authority! Now the newly established Zhengdong Camp in Songshan is directly managed by the Ministry of War and the Governor of Liaodong, and it can also be used like an arm and a finger!

"If Your Majesty sets up another internal minister to supervise the army in the camp, it will not only appear redundant, but also easily arouse suspicion. It will make the frontline soldiers mistakenly think of Your Majesty, no, mistakenly think of the imperial court, and distrust their loyalty and bravery. This will be useless.

!”

As a civil servant with a background in Kejia, Chen Xinjia had no good impression of the eunuchs and ministers. He had long believed that these people had no vision and that most of them were pig teammates who failed to achieve anything but failed.

Now that he is the Minister of the Ministry of War, he does not want the advance camp for the Eastern Expedition to be controlled by the eunuchs and ministers.

Because, as the Minister of War, he finally managed to have a Zhengdong Camp that is capable of fighting and is very obedient. If you get a eunuch and a minister to supervise the army, let’s not talk about whether he can fight in the future. First of all, this Zhengdong Camp will probably

In the blink of an eye, he no longer returned to the military headquarters to mobilize and command.

In other words, nominally it was still under his command as the Minister of the Ministry of War, but in fact, like other soldiers and horses in the world, he was interfered by the internal ministers and supervisors, causing the Ministry of War to lose effective command.

At that time, when they petitioned for the establishment of this advance camp for the Eastern Expedition, Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, and he, the Minister of War, contacted privately to discuss the issue of who would command the Eastern Expedition Camp.

And Chen Xinjia also had an extra thought, and did not place the advance battalion for the Eastern Expedition under the command of Zu Dashou's Liaodong Army, and did not let Zu Dashou directly control the command.

Instead, the Zhengdong Camp was left to Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, to control it, and at the same time, he was left to the Ministry of War to control it.

But now, if the emperor sends a minister to supervise the army, will this minister still listen to Fang Yizao? If he doesn't listen to Fang Yizao, then how can he listen to him, the Minister of War?!

At that time, the advance camp for the Eastern Expedition will probably be under the control of the great eunuch Wang Dehua.

At this moment, Chen Xinjia went out to express his opinions to Emperor Chongzhen. He saw that the emperor's face turned ugly in an instant, but he couldn't help but continue:

"Your Majesty! Let me listen to you! All the soldiers and horses in Jiliao area now have an internal minister to supervise the army, that is, Gao Qiqian, Gao Gonggong and Director Gao! Director Gao is loyal to Your Majesty, and this one person is enough! Yang Zhenji
Chapter completed!