Wang Chengen walked over from the jade steps in a hurry, held the urgent report, and then hurried to Emperor Chongzhen and submitted the urgent report.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw it, he felt dizzy in his mind. Guangzhou was lost, and after the thief Li Zicheng occupied Guangzhou City, he burned, killed and plundered, and the city had become a purgatory.

Li Zicheng's army was frustrated when attacking Xinyang City, and had no choice but to switch to Guangzhou. However, the governor of Guangzhou was like Pi Hongxuan. When Li Zicheng's army arrived, he easily broke through the city without any effort.

Compared with Xinyang City, the people of Guangzhou were in trouble. Li Zicheng's army entered the city and immediately started the burning, killing, looting mode. The dignitaries, royal relatives and remaining officers and soldiers in the city were all killed by the thieves.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang established his country, he began to grow branches and leaves. More than 270 years later, the Zhu family's descendants were spread all over the country, reaching more than 100,000, one saying is nearly one million.

These Zhu royal relatives do not need to serve or pay taxes. On the contrary, the court has to support them. These royal relatives spend a huge amount of astronomical expenses every year.

Some people also say that the fall of the Ming Dynasty was because the people of the whole country raised these royal relatives. No matter what, the Zhu family did have many descendants. Most of these people were playboys who were living a life of life and waiting to die, and they were borers of this era.

These royal relatives are naturally the objects that the bandits hate the most. There are countless royal relatives that Li Zicheng has killed. After encountering bandits, the descendants of the Zhu family will be killed.

There is another important reason. These descendants of the Zhu family have money. If they kill them, they can take their belongings for themselves.

There are also those high-ranking officials and prominent landlords, as well as wealthy people, and their property is confiscated. Li Zicheng is not polite, and he will kill all the rich people.

To a certain extent, he also received support from the bandits, which was one of the reasons why Li Zicheng's team grew rapidly.

The fall of Guangzhou is in danger for Henan. Li Zicheng could use this as a rocker and rage wildly in the country.

This urgent report means that the land of Henan can no longer be peaceful. If it is not curbed, Li Zicheng will likely eventually occupy the entire territory of Henan, then Shaanxi, Shanxi, and finally half of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen was very sad. He never expected that he finally waited for the good news of the victory of Xinyang City, but the result was that Guangzhou was lost again.

The civil and military officials below were also whispering. However, it seemed that these things were a bit far away for them. Compared with their ministers, Zhu Cilang was greatly shocked.

After reading the urgent report, Emperor Chongzhen threw it on the table. However, Zhu Cilang ignored the etiquette and sat down on himself, went to the imperial table to pick up the urgent report, and couldn't help but take a breath.

Judging from the contents of the urgent report, Li Zicheng came in full force this time. This time his main force did not suffer any losses. After occupying Guangzhou, Li Zicheng quickly received supplies, which made his team no longer have any opponents in the entire Henan.

Seeing the prince holding an urgent report in his hand, the ministers came forward one after another, and they all wanted to see the contents of the urgent report.

After reading it, the ministers even whispered, and some people began to sigh: "What should we do, how can we do this? How can the thief be so powerful?"

"That's right, the thief acted so quickly that he captured Guangzhou in the blink of an eye. Alas, the people of Henan are suffering."

Zhu Cilang sneered: "Now you know that the people in Henan are suffering. Didn't you shouted so fiercely before?"

The ministers turned red, and of course no one dared to say anything. The prince did not give any face at all and frequently slapped everyone in the face.

Faced with the situation of Henan bandits, everyone was helpless. Now that Li Zicheng's power has grown, the court has nowhere to be able to compete with him.

Even Emperor Chongzhen placed his last hope on Zhu Cilang. Emperor Chongzhen's eyes were muddy. He looked at Zhu Cilang: "Son, when will you send troops to suppress the bandits?"

The ministers also looked at each other and asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, you should think of a solution."

"Yes, your Highness, think of a solution."

Zhu Cilang felt aroused in his heart: Opportunity, isn’t there a great opportunity in front of him?

All the civil and military officials of the court placed their last hope on this prince. Before, no one was optimistic about Zhu Cilang when he was dispatching troops and food. Some people even regarded Zhu Cilang as a joke.

First of all, although Emperor Chongzhen finally allocated 100,000 people from the three major camps to him, Zhu Cixuan reorganized it into the 12th Regiment Battalion, but there was no food or salary.

In other words, the treasury does not give a penny, and there is no food or grass. In other words, Zhu Cilang has to find a way for everything himself.

Zhu Cilang really overcomes many difficulties and raises military pay with his own ability. Of course, although the source of this military pay is somewhat incorrect, Zhu Cilang seized 10 million taels of silver from the eight major imperial merchants.

However, without Zhu Cilang's investigation of these borers, these eight imperial merchants were still transfusions of blood to the Qing Dynasty. With the money, there was food and grass.

The court still did not provide food and grass because there was no food and grass. What should I do if I didn’t have food and grass? Zhu Cilang had to raise it on the spot. But Zhu Cilang still did not let the court do its best, but passed the imperial village and really slowly got it all together.

At this moment, the ministers remembered that they had come. Emperor Chongzhen also remembered that he had come. Zhu Cilang was not a fool, so he must not agree at once.

Isn’t this the best time to negotiate with the court? Zhu Cilang thought for a while and said, “This is because we are short of money and food, and we are all short of weapons and equipment.”

When the ministers heard this, the ministers were a little unhappy. Emperor Chongzhen knew some of the inside story. He said angrily: "Hmph, are you short of military pay? The court is now in a difficult situation, so don't talk nonsense here!"

Since he couldn't hide it from his father, Zhu Cilang simply said the truth: "Okay, although there seems to be no shortage of military pay in this war, I can also find a way to do this food. But this military supply is definitely not enough. Not to mention anything else, the light cavalry officer has less than 5,000 people. How can this little cavalry fight? Also, archers are scarce. If there are no archers, what defense should I use."

When Chongzhen heard this, he was even more angry: "Arrowers are scarce? You transferred all the archers from the three camps, and told me that they lacked archers. You might as well transfer all the archers from the capital garrison, let the four gates of the capital open, and wait for the enemy to come over!"

Zhu Cilang scratched his head: "What the son-in-law is talking about is not archers, but archers. Good bows and feather arrows. Especially the arrow branches, as much as they need. There are also military supplies' tents, mules and horses, iron pots for burying pots and making rice, kettles for soldiers, bedding for soldiers, and yes, military doctors, military doctors are the top priority..."
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