Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 516
As soon as Hong Chengchou entered the Chongzheng Hall, he saw Turge there, and he couldn't help being very surprised.

In the past, when Turge came to Shengjing, he came directly to the palace, and only a few people knew that he was back.

However, the news that Turg disappeared in the Battle of Ningyuan is known to everyone.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou was naturally very surprised to see that Turge was in Chongzheng Hall suddenly.

But at this time, he remembered his identity, and greeted Dorgon first: "The servant has seen His Royal Highness the Regent, a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old!"

"Mr. Hong, get up and talk!" Dorgon immediately stretched out his hand to signal when he saw it, "This king said, you don't need to be so polite when you see this king!"

He did say this.However, Hong Chengchou would not take it seriously, but kept the etiquette very carefully.

After Dorgon saw Hong Chengchou standing up, he pointed at Turge and said, "Sir, you should know him, right? Turge with the white flag..."

After hearing this, Hong Chengchou took advantage of the situation and turned to look at Turge with curiosity in his eyes.

"... In the battle of Ningyuan, he pretended to surrender to the Ming army, entered the pass, and returned to Shengjing from the pass today!" Dorgon continued to introduce Hong Chengchou, "I finally know the news he brought back. , why did the Ming army suddenly change so much!"

After hearing this, Hong Chengchou became even more curious.

To be honest, he really couldn't understand, the court was obviously in a mess, how could it change?In two consecutive battles, the Qing army was defeated!
In fact, Hong Chengchou thought that he also had the ability to defeat the Qing army.But there is a premise, that is, the court princes and the emperor will not drag him back.It can even be said that if he follows his strategy in the Battle of Songjin and fights steadily, he always believes that it is possible to fight and win!

After all, the Qing army came from afar and consumed more food and supplies!
However, even the court princes and the emperor were urging and urging, so that he had to turn a steady fight into a quick decision, and thus suffered a crushing defeat.

However, why did Sun Chuanting, who was imprisoned in the prison, win the Qing army after the Battle of Songjin?

Hong Chengchou also knew Sun Chuanting's abilities.To be honest, he thinks that Sun Chuanting is less flexible than he is and doesn't understand the world, so he will definitely be more constrained by the court princes and emperors than him. How can he win?
He has always had this doubt.

At this time, this doubt might have to be solved, Hong Chengchou immediately widened his eyes and listened with pricked ears.

I only heard Dorgon explain to him: "After the Battle of Songjin, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom probably knew that the Ming Kingdom had come to an end. At the same time, he also knew that money was needed to do everything. Therefore, he sent the rich ministers They all ransacked the house."

Having said that, he continued to speak to Erg.

So, Turge looked at Hong Chengchou and said: "The emperor of the Ming Dynasty accused Zhou Yanru, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Chen Xinjia, who were the Minister of the Ministry of War, and searched their homes. The house was ransacked. In addition, there were Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou, salt merchants in Yangzhou, etc., all of which were ransacked. All the money was used for the army..."

Hong Chengchou couldn't help being stunned when he heard these words of the two of them.

Although it is said that Emperor Chongzhen did kill a lot, even the first assistant could not escape.However, it is generally just murder, and there is no such thing as ransacking the house.

As a senior official of the Ming Dynasty, Hong Chengchou knew that on the surface, it was Emperor Chongzhen who was killing this and that, but in fact, killing anyone was the result of party disputes in the court.The officials who were killed were nothing more than unlucky losers in the party struggle!

But according to what Turg said, the emperor kept stealing money from his house, which doesn't look like the result of party disputes!
Needless to say, if all the property that was confiscated was really used for the army, then the Ming army would indeed be much stronger!
Hong Chengchou has led the army to fight for so many years, so he naturally knows the root cause of the poor combat power of the imperial army. In fact, the imperial court has no money, and the soldiers can't even eat enough. How can they fight?

Once there is money, if the army is paid, and the rewards and punishments are clearly defined, there will be millions of frontier troops in the Ming Dynasty, and even if you can make up casually, there will be an army that can be used!
No wonder, in this case, it can explain why the imperial court army was able to defeat the Qing army!
However, Hong Chengchou's doubts immediately came out again.

Should not be!

Will those officials in the court let Emperor Chongzhen copy this or that?

Whether it's for others or for themselves, they should give up party struggles, unite to suppress the emperor, and prevent him from copying this or that, right?

After all, if even a nobleman like Cheng Guogong wants to ransack his home, wouldn't that put everyone in danger?With the temperament of the princes in the court, they will definitely deal with the emperor first and then seize power, right?

How is this going?

He was thinking, and Turg continued to say: "The emperor of the Ming Dynasty spent the money from the house raids on the army, and got the sweetness, so he has been doing it all the time. Now the officials in the pass are good, and the people are good. He is the emperor who copied the family!"

"..." Hong Chengchou was so stunned that he even forgot to hide his expression.

"The army spent a lot of money. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty continued to ransack their homes. Not only did they start targeting the local gentry, but even the Confucius family in Qufu, the descendants of Confucius, was also ransacked by him!"

"..." Hong Chengchou was dumbfounded when he heard it. No matter how much he thought, he never thought that the emperor would not let the Confucius family in Qufu go. Is this crazy?

"The crowd of scholars in the Ming Dynasty objected and wanted to reason with the emperor. As a result, more than a thousand scholars who persuaded them together were all famous and famous, and they were all killed by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty!"

"..." Hong Chengchou was a little numb, and his intuition told him that the emperor has gone crazy!
Dorgon had been watching Hong Chengchou carefully, and when he saw his expression, he said, "Do you know why the Ming Emperor did so recklessly?"

When he said this, Hong Chengchou came back to his senses, shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "This is really unheard of, the servant really doesn't know why he did this, why he did it!"

"It's very simple!" Dorgon said to him immediately after hearing this, "He said that Emperor Taizu showed his spirit and asked him to do this, so he has nothing to fear!"

"..." Hong Chengchou was speechless when he heard this, can this work?
But if you really think about it, it's really possible.The will of Emperor Taizu can be lower than any ancestral excuse to suppress the emperor.

However, Hong Chengchou quickly thought of this, and asked suspiciously: "Will those ministers of the Ming Dynasty believe it?"

"That's the key!" Dorgon immediately replied when he heard it, "The emperor of the Ming Dynasty promoted a group of low-level officials to many levels, and promoted them to high positions at once. The ancestor emperor has really manifested himself!"

"..." When Hong Chengchou heard this, he was speechless for a moment.

As far as he feels, if Emperor Chongzhen really did this, it would be a rogue act, not following the rules, regardless of the consequences, messing around!

"The current governor of Jiliao, Du Yinxi, was just the magistrate of Changsha before!" Turge echoed Dorgon's words, and quickly gave an example, "There is also Yan Yingyuan, the commander-in-chief of Ningyuan, who was just a classic history before; There are many levels of promotion, only the emperor's order is obeyed!"

"..." Hong Chengchou was really numb. The news, one after another, was so unbelievable, too much at once, so that he couldn't react.

He really didn't expect that after Song Jin's defeat, so many unimaginable things happened in the pass!

Hong Chengchou had actually heard rumors about what Turge said before, but he didn't believe it, but he didn't expect it to be true!

Of course, the children of Confucianism actually keep a respectful distance from the theory of gods and ghosts.For Hong Chengchou, who is used to leading troops on the battlefield, such things as emperor Taizu's apparition are actually unbelievable.

However, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't stand to use Taizu's name to act, and he was still the emperor himself. If he really messed up, what could other people do?
I really didn't expect that the battle of Songjin would stimulate Emperor Chongzhen so much!

But if you think about it, in the Battle of Songjin, the [-] Ming elites led by him were wiped out; Even the situation in the pass is estimated to be precarious.

Under such circumstances, Emperor Chongzhen might really be driven crazy!
But Hong Chengchou believed that even if Emperor Chongzhen was crazy, there must be an instigator behind it.Otherwise, with Emperor Chongzhen's personality, it would be impossible to do such a thing.

While he was pondering this idea, suddenly, he heard Turg raise his voice a little and said: "The emperor of the Ming Dynasty has won several victories in a row, and he is arrogant. He has passed down a decree, saying that the leader of the bandit in the pass will never You will be recruited; and outside the customs, you, Fan Wencheng and others will also be named, saying that the Qing Dynasty will be wiped out in the future, and all of you traitors will be cut to death!"

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou couldn't help feeling a little sad.

Of course he was not willing to bear the infamy of being a traitor.However, if you don't surrender, you will die!

I have been lonely since I was a child, relying on going to a private school to attend classes outside the window, and putting in ten times more effort than others, I slowly rose to the top. If I really want to die at a young age, why would I be willing!

Thinking about this, Hong Chengchou actually knew very well in his heart that he did not die in the battle of Songjin. After the news of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty was sent back to the pass, Emperor Chongzhen would be very angry. He ordered to cut himself into pieces , is also conceivable!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

At this moment, Dorgon said to him: "Now the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is aggressive and aggressive, and I have lost two battles in a row in the Qing Dynasty. Now it is a bit difficult for the Ming Dynasty to send troops in the future. I don't know if Mr. What strategy can help the Qing Dynasty prepare for the rainy day?"

(End of this chapter)