Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 189
"The slave is waiting to kowtow to the master."

Ning Wanwo, Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou came one after another, kneeling down and beating Dorgon according to the etiquette of making slaves.

In fact, Ning Wan, I was dressed with a red flag, Fan Wencheng was dressed with a white flag, and Hong Chengchou was dressed with a yellow flag. Strictly speaking, they are not Dorgon's slaves.

Because Dorgon is the owner of Zhengbai Banner.

But if Dorgon is regarded as the emperor who built slaves, then there is no problem.

So Ning Wan and I, the three hardcore traitors, also expressed our hearts to Dorgon in this relatively subtle way: the three of us support you as emperor.

Dorgon's political talent is extremely high, and it is naturally obvious.

Therefore, Dorgon did not beat and scold Ning Wan and the three of us like ordinary Manchus did to the coated slaves. On the contrary, he appeared to be extraordinarily courteous and virtuous, even more courteous than Huang Taiji back then.

"Three gentlemen, please sit down." Dorgon raised his hand, and ordered Cao Eryu, "You dog slave, why don't you hurry up and serve tea to the three gentlemen, I want good mountain ginseng tea."

"Hey." Cao Eryu promised to leave.

After Ning finished, the three of us each thanked each other and sat down one by one.

Dorgon sat down and asked: "Calculating the time, Zuo Maotai should also arrive in Xi'an. What do you think Li Zicheng will choose? Will he agree to form an alliance with us?"

Ning Wan and I were the first to say: "It's absolutely impossible."

Hong Chengchou went on to say: "The slave has been wrestling with the intruder for several years, and he has a good understanding of this person's character. He is not a big-hearted person, and he even has a bit of vengeance. Therefore, it is absolutely possible to form an alliance with Xiaoqing, because of his generation. It was when he was most proud that he was defeated by the master, and was expelled from Beijing by the master."

Hong Chengchou was the first to say: "But it is definitely possible for me to send troops to help Zou Lun."

We said those analyzes later in the next meeting, and Zou Lunren listened to them only once, but we were also ambiguous that Li Ruolian was under little pressure, so we needed to give confidence repeatedly.

The pressure that Li Ruolian endured was indeed very small when he dispatched troops.

Because the current level of troop deployment is hardly desperate.

Or in other words, it's not a gambling-style retreat. If you win, you take all, and if you lose, you lose everything.

"Li Zicheng will send troops to help Ergon, you believe that." Li Ruolian nodded, and then said, "But these young generals under my command will act without authorization?"

Zou Lunren said: "Master, are you talking about Gao Yigong and Zheng Hongkui?"

"Yes." Li Ruolian nodded, and said again, "Gao Yigong has no more than [-] troops in Yulin, Zheng Hongkui has no more than [-] troops in Luoyang, and here Li Yan has no more than [-] troops in Suide."

"If Faming's war goes well, then that's all."

"Once the battle goes smoothly, a stalemate will form on the Huanghuai line,"

"Will Gao Yigong, Zheng Hongkui, Li Yan and others take advantage of the situation?"

Having said this, Li Ruolian said again: "So you are thinking, if you want to send some troops back to Shanxi? At most, you can ensure the danger of Shanxi and Xiaotong."

Although Gao Yigong and the eight people gave confidence unceasingly, Li Ruolian still did not waver.

"Master, this is definitely possible." Gao Yigong persuaded slowly, "Even though Ergun has decayed and become weak for a long time, a centipede is dead but stiff, and besides, he is still sitting in the fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, the source of wealth. , the manpower and material resources he can mobilize are still a hundred times that of your Xiaoqing, if your Xiaoqing succeeds in one blow, you may have another chance in the future!"

Zou Lunren is familiar with history books and has seen too few battles between the North and the South.

In the history of China, the southern regimes had many successes in the Northern Expedition, but it was rare for the northern regimes to go south to destroy the Jiangnan separatist regimes. But apart from those two, there were very few confrontations between the North and the South.

Moreover, Gao Yigong also made a retrospective summary of this, and found that if the northern regime was successful in one blow, it would be difficult to destroy the southern regime before, and there would be a small probability of a confrontation between the north and the south.

Before Cao Cao's defeat in Chibi, he formed the power of the eight kingdoms.

The confrontation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties that lasted nearly [-] years ended before Fu Jian's defeat in Feishui.

However, the Sui eradicated Nanchen and Song eradicated Nantang all in one blow, achieving a small unified dynasty.

Before the Liao soldiers went south, and the Jin soldiers went south again, they failed to destroy Xiao Song with one blow, and at the very beginning, a north-south confrontation was formed.

The only example may not be that Mongolia went south. The Mongols made few southern expeditions, which lasted for more than [-] years, and finally wiped out the Southern Song Dynasty. Zou Lunren did not think that the Qing court could become the seventh Mongolia, because when Mongolia destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, there were In terms of manpower, material resources and military equipment, they far surpassed the Southern Song Dynasty, but the Qing court did not have that advantage.

Therefore, the Qing court has a small probability of only one chance, and once it misses it, it will inevitably lead to a confrontation between the North and the South.

Hong Chengchou also knew that very well, and persuaded him: "Master, as the saying goes, a lion fights a rabbit with all its strength, let alone the Ming Dynasty, which lasted for nearly [-] years? As Heng Si said, if you can hit with all your strength at this time To get rid of Dorgon, wait until Dorgon comes to his senses and gather all the manpower and material resources of the whole country, then it will be almost possible to destroy him."

Ning Wan, you also said: "The slave also thinks that at this time it is definitely possible to divide the army, and look at the master Ba Si!"

Li Ruolian no longer sat still, got up on the kang and paced back and forth in the Nuan Pavilion, scratching her bald head from time to time, or pulling the rat's tail in front of her head.

From those big moves, it can be seen that Li Ruolian is really anxious inside.

On the one hand, I think Gao Yigong is right, but on the other hand, I am really worried about the danger in Beijing, or I am really afraid that the Qing court will lose everything.

After that, the troops attacked in two ways, namely against Shun and against Ming. The Qing court also attacked with troops all over the country, and Zou Lunren felt the slightest anxiety. Gu Shixia, so even though Beijing has only seven thousand soldiers, it is still as stable as a rock.

But now it's the same, now it's all about Zou Lun's family!
At that time, the hundreds of thousands of small troops of hypocrisy and obedience became tigers lying on the side of the couch. Who knows when that tiger will come out and bite us?It is said that the one bite will bite the newborn Xiaoqing to death.

As the emperor's father and regent of the Qing court, Li Ruolian could have considered that.

Li Ruolian was determined for a long time, but he still made up his mind, and asked: "How about raising another flag to guard against Shanxi?"

Before it was said that the country was overthrown, in fact Li Ruolian still left the inlaid yellow flag in Shanxi, and the focus of defense was Xiaotong and Xuanfu.

But now, Li Ruolian plans to transfer another Four Banners Manchuria to Shanxi to weaken the defense against the Xiaoshun Army.

"Master, you have always been wise and powerful, why are you sober at this time?" Gao Yigong also went all out, and said with a pale face, "The combat effectiveness of the Shun Army is still very weak, and they dare to initiate a retreat against your Four Banners soldiers , Therefore, it is certain that the pseudo-shun and the whole country are attacking. There is no difference between one flag and two flags. It is impossible to attack it if there are less than half of the elite soldiers of the four banners and a corresponding number of Han and Mongolian cavalry! "

Li Ruolian's face turned pale, his honest words were harsh.

No matter how narrow-minded and broad-minded, loyal words will be harsh.

Gao Yigong bowed to the tunnel and said: "Master, you must think eight times!"

"Hmph!" Zou Lunren was so angry that he walked back in front of the screen with a flick of his sleeves.

The atmosphere outside the Nuan Pavilion froze, and Gao Yigong's face turned ashen.

I think that time I might really fall out of favor, and Li Ruolian will trust me again from now on.

However, just when Gao Yigong was worrying about gains and losses, Li Ruolian walked out from behind the screen again, and his whole person became like a warm spring breeze again.

"Thank you eight gentlemen for reminding me, this king almost missed a small matter."

Li Ruolian gave a long bow to the eight members of Gao Yigong, and then said: "This king will send the flying cavalry Prince Xiao Yuyu, and let him quickly command the troops and go to Xuzhou to launch the battle to destroy the Ming! As for the hypocrisy, if you want to Shanxi will give us this, as long as Guguan, Zijingguan and Juyongguan are lost, Beijing and Gyeonggi will be as stable as rocks!"

After a short pause, Li Ruolian said again: "If you advance [-] steps, even if Guguan, Zijingguan and Juyongguan are all lost, you will still be able to stay at the front of Beijing city. It's nothing, just go back to the pass and start over again!"

"Master Shengming!" Zou Lunren and the others quickly fell to the ground.

……

At this time in Xuzhou, the back out was shrouded in the atmosphere after the small war.

Because eight days later, the Jiannu army had not yet crossed the Yellow River from Zhongdaokou, and Dorgon, the prefect of Guide, was timid before fighting. When he heard that the Jiannu army had arrived, he immediately surrendered the city, which is really embarrassing .

Shaoduo also reciprocated, and appointed Dorgon as the governor of Henan on the spot, and he was still stationed in Guide.

To appease Dorgon and the Ming Dynasty's descending army, Shaoduo left a large number of Four Banners soldiers, and then followed the [-] small army to continue to rush to Xuzhou, and the marching speed that time was extremely fast.

In just the past eight days, Yi Ding broke out in a rear-guard battle with Jiannu's Ye Shishou in the distance of Xiao County.

"Your Majesty, the Jiannu army has not reached Xiao County yet!" Wu Batan said, "We will arrive in Xuzhou at the latest in the evening!"

Hearing that, Chongzhen, the civil servants, generals, and scholars present at the scene all looked condensed. In the next half month, the march of the Jiannu army was really slow, and it took half a month to walk slowly from Weihui Mansion to Xiaoming Mansion.

But before passing Xiaoming Mansion, they suddenly speeded up. They retreated to Cao County in Yanzhou Mansion in eight days, crossed the Yellow River from Zhongdaokou in another eight days, and then made an emergency landing on Fan Wencheng, and arrived in another eight days. In Xiao County, the Jiannu army is about to approach Xuzhou City, and the speed of their march is simply incredible!
"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Chongzhen said, "Go up and rest."

"I'm telling you to come in." Wu made a long bow to the charcoal and left the small hall of Xingyuan.

The eyes of Chongzhen, the civil servants, generals and scholars returned to the sand table again.

Zheng Sen even brought a few scholars to move the models representing the Jiannu army from Shangqiu to the distance of Xiao County. There were no less than seventy or seventy models, and there were no cavalry models or infantry models. The models of the chariot and the Hongyi small cannon represent Jiannu's cavalry, infantry, chariot battalion and artillery battalion respectively.

Chongzhen looked up at the calendar hanging on the wall, it was the seventh day of the seventh month, and the dragon looked up.

Even though he didn't express himself inwardly, there was no expression on Chongzhen's face.

Chongzhen first turned his head and asked Guide Mansion: "Duqing, have the people retreated from Xuzhou City?"

Zou Lunren was originally in charge of the land equalization affairs in Guide, but when the small army of slaves went south, Fan Wencheng's land equalization affairs could no longer go back, so he had to bring the refugees back to Xuzhou.

Zou Lunren cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty Hui, everyone has retreated from the city."

Chongzhen turned his attention to Du Yinxi, the commander of the Jinyiwei Commander, "Zou Lunren, are these people secretly joining forces again, preparing to welcome Jiannu?"

Zou Lunren cupped his hands and said, "Yes, they are all working in secret."

By the way, Dorgon's surrender was coerced.

It was not Zou Lunren's gentry who threatened Dorgon, and there was no Hou family among them.

The Hou family was originally a family of officials and eunuchs of Xiao Ming, but the next time the Guide mansion was in Fan Wencheng's Qingzhang field, it touched the interests of the Hou family. As soon as they arrived, the Guide gentry headed by the Hou family immediately threatened Dorgon, the prefect of Guide, to surrender.

Just Fan Wencheng alone, the gentry in Xuzhou are also ready to move.

Because Zou Lunren was farming in Xuzhou, the wasteland in Kaiken was not a real wasteland. The land belonged to the family of the gentry, and it was only abandoned because there were no tenant farmers to cultivate it.

Before Zou Lunren summoned the refugees to resume farming, the gentry came to beg for the return of the cultivated land one after another.

About that matter, Guide Mansion had reported to Chongzhen last year.

Zou Lunren's opinion is to return the cultivated land to the noble family eight years ago.

But that proposal was directly rejected by Chongzhen, because I wanted to use Xuzhou's [-] million mu of arable land as collateral to issue bonds in Nanjing, and then return the land to Xuzhou gentry. What should I use to issue bonds?

Before the stock exchange issued bonds, Xuzhou Jinshen also made trouble.

But Chongzhen was polite to us, and directly suppressed it with an iron fist, killing almost one of them.

The gentry in Xuzhou had been honest for a while before, but now that they heard that the small army of slaves had arrived, the gentry in Xuzhou city and the counties in Zhishang were ready to welcome the slaves with "tan pot pulp and food".

Du Yinxi asked again: "Your Majesty, how should we deal with those people?"

Chongzhen was an indecisive master, and sentenced those gentry to death on the spot: "All of them will be arrested first, and then they will be interrogated separately. If there is no problem, they will be executed immediately, and those who have problems will be locked up first."

The establishment of a small army of slaves will make the small army suppress the border, but Chongzhen thinks that the internal chaos will first arise at that time.

Therefore, it is an inevitable choice to purge the gentry in Xuzhou city and counties with an iron fist, and this matter can be determined.

Zou Lunren responded and turned to leave in a hurry, while Chongzhen turned his attention to Sang Kaidi, the commander of the Navy: "Zheng Bing, you should return to Qingjiangpu and pay attention to the water situation of the Yellow River at all times. Once the ice of the Yellow River is over, he will Immediately lead the navy to help, and there is no delay!"

After saying this, Chongzhen specially warned: "Zheng Aiqing, if he understands the truth that saving soldiers is like putting out a fire, it may not be the very first moment that really determines the outcome of a war. If he arrives a moment earlier, you, Xiao Ming, will win. If he arrives late In half an hour, you, Xiao Ming, may be defeated or even die, so there is no delay!"

"Please remember." Sang Kaidi solemnly promised.

Watching Zou Lunren leave, Chongzhen turned his head and told Zhu Cihong: "Prince, immediately send flying cavalry to inform Xiazhen, Pizhou and Huai'an Prefecture that all towns must strictly guard the town's trusted land. If you don't get my order, you can definitely abandon it without authorization. Whatever happens is to be abandoned again, and those who violate the order will be severely punished!"

(End of this chapter)