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Tianjin.

The supervisor went to the camp.

Zhou Yanru feels extremely confused these days.

It's still a question of choice, surrender to Shun or descend to Wei.

To be honest, although he saw that the Ming Dynasty was about to die soon, he did not expect that the Shun army would break through the capital so quickly. After all, when he led his troops to leave the capital, the Shun army had only taken Xuanfu a few days ago, and there was still Juyongguan blocking the capital.

Unexpectedly, Tang Tong's fellow, like Wang Chengyin, surrendered directly to the Shun army.

What he didn't even expect was that the capital city, with tens of thousands of soldiers from the capital, hundreds of thousands of civilians, and more than a dozen Hongyi cannons, would actually be lost in a day or two!

From this point of view, Ming Dynasty is indeed exhausted and cannot be saved by gods.

But Zhou Yanru felt that it would not be a good thing for him if the capital was destroyed too quickly.

For one thing, he had just left Beijing not long ago and had not yet had time to make much money in the place. Secondly, some of the arrangements he had envisioned also did not have time to be carried out.

Fortunately, he was smart enough to lead the army south along the canal and stopped at Tianjin at the junction of Hejianfu and Shuntianfu.

Now that the Shun army has not reached Tianjin, he can still wait and see.

However, according to the latest news from Tanma, troops from the capital have already moved south and captured Wuqing and Dong'an, not far from Tianjin.

He had to make a choice whether to surrender to Shun or to surrender to Wei.

Therefore, today, he no longer had the intention to hold a banquet in the tent to invite the accompanying generals from the Beijing camp to eat and drink. He also did not send a message to invite the local gentry to the banquet and ask for money or food. Instead, he paced back and forth in the tent, thinking hard.

Before he could figure out the result, a general came to report.

"Supervisor, Mr. Feng Ge has arrived outside the camp and said he has something important to see you."

Feng Quan?

Could this guy secretly bring some prince out and want him to protect him?

No, he would never risk doing something that was not beneficial to himself.

So what is he here for?

Thinking of this, Zhou Yanru's heart moved and he said: "Invite him in quickly, remember, try to avoid the army... Forget it, just invite him to my big tent."

Zhou Yanru felt that few of the soldiers in the Beijing camp following him were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, so he simply didn't hide it.

Soon, Feng Quan came to the tent.

As soon as they met, Feng Quan said anxiously: "My dear, the Shun army has been in the capital for several days. Why are you still stationed here and motionless?"

Zhou Yanru probed: "Why, do you still want me to lead the troops back to the capital?"

"There are hundreds of thousands of troops in the capital. They can't even accommodate them in the city. They can only station some of them outside the city. What's the point of bringing these 30,000 soldiers back to the capital?"

I'm curious. The Shun army has already captured Wuqing and Dong'an, and is about to attack Tianjin. Why haven't my relatives surrendered on their own initiative?

Do your relatives know that surrendering before the Dashun War and surrendering after the war are completely different things.

Also, let me put it bluntly, if the in-laws don't surrender, I'm afraid they won't have a chance when the Shun Army arrives - now those Shun Army generals are red-eyed and want to make military exploits. "

After hearing this, Zhou Yanru breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself: Sure enough, they are here to persuade me to surrender. This will be easy.

But he said: "Bo Heng, don't scare me. I'm stationed in Tianjin. Even if I can't stop the Shun army, it's easy to escape. I just need to board a sea ship and go south."

"Go south by boat?" Feng Quan was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Does my family want to go south to Wei?" "My family is in Nanzhili, why not come to Wei?"

Feng Quan chuckled softly and said, "Is it right for my in-laws to take the test again? Although my in-laws are from South Zhili, their power and soldiers are in North Zhili.

If my parents-in-law want to take a sea boat to go south, I'm afraid not many of these soldiers from the Beijing camp will follow them, right? Even if they are willing to follow, how many in-laws can they bring?

Without soldiers, the official position of the Chief Assistant would no longer be valuable after the death of the Ming Dynasty. Even if the in-laws returned to Nanzhili, would they definitely be reused by the Yi Dynasty? "

Zhou Yanru was silent for a moment.

Because what Feng Quan said was exactly what he was worried about.

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't take away the soldiers, horses, and power, he would have sailed south by sea when he got the news that the capital was attacked by the Shun army.

However, as Feng Quan said, if he returns to Nanzhili alone, he will probably have to be assigned a idle position in the Wei Dynasty at most, and it will be difficult to be reused.

At this time, Feng Quan said again: "But it would be different if the in-laws surrendered with 30,000 Beijing troops or even the entire Hejian Prefecture at this time.

His Majesty, who is now in the capital, really hopes to be recognized by his in-laws, who are the legacy of the Ming Dynasty. Yesterday, the person who named Zhu Cihong the King of Song Dynasty didn't mean to express his benevolence and righteousness to us, hoping to gain our recognition?

Therefore, if the in-laws vote for him at this time, they might be able to take the position of prime minister and assistant in Dashun. "

Zhou Yanru was moved, but still hesitated and said: "But now that Damei occupies the sacred places like Huguang and Jiangnan, I'm afraid Dashun will not be able to compete with Damei in the future.

If Dashun is over in a few years, what's the point of investing in it? On the contrary, the opportunity to surrender was lost. "

On the one hand, he is optimistic about Damei, and on the other hand, his hometown is in southern Zhili. In short, Zhou Yanru is indeed more optimistic about Damei.

Feng Quan chuckled again, "My relatives are also people who know history. I have read the history books and found that except for the success of the Northern Expedition of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, which family in the previous dynasties could dominate the world from the south?

The reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to do it was because it had the great cause of expelling the Tartars.

Nowadays, Shun and Wei are both Han dynasties. Although Dashun is weak at this time, it has already occupied Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Beizhi. Who knows that it will not be able to defeat the Southern Dynasties and unify the world like the Zhou (Yuwen clan Zhou), Sui and Song Dynasties in the future? "

Zhou Yanru vaguely felt that something was wrong. After all, the Zhou, Sui, and Song dynasties were short-lived, and the other was extremely humiliating. They were not good dynasties, but he did not think deeply about it.

Out of his desire for power and wealth, he was finally moved by Feng Quan's words.

So he pretended to hesitate for a while, and then said awkwardly: "Bo Heng should be able to speak in Dashun now, right? I asked Bo Heng to help bridge the matter of my surrender."

"Hahaha, easy to say."

Feng Quan is really happy. Isn't the reason why he took the risk to come here just to get the credit for persuading surrender?

Now that Zhou Yanru was indeed said to surrender, he was naturally happy.

After pondering for a moment, Feng Quan said: "I will return to Beijing and inform Your Majesty of this matter. However, it is best for the in-laws to try to bring the entire Hejian Mansion to surrender, so that they can be more valued by Your Majesty."

"Both the governor of Baoding, Zhang Fuzhen, and the prefect of Hejian, Li Huaxi, are hard to fool. It's hard to say what their attitude is now - I can only say that I will do my best to persuade them to surrender."

"With the current situation, if they don't surrender, they will have no choice but to be surrounded and eliminated by the surrender army. I believe they will make the right choice."

Later, Zhou Yanru wrote a letter of surrender and gave it to Feng Quan to take back to the capital.

One day later, before Zhou Yanru could successfully persuade Zhang Fuzhen and Li Huaxi to surrender, several fast horses came from the north and delivered the imperial edict of Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng.

Zhou Yanru immediately summoned the generals accompanying him in the capital camp and set up an incense table in the camp to receive the order.

The person who announced the edict was the eunuch who used to deliver the edict in the Forbidden City. As usual, he smiled and accepted the dozens of taels of silver secretly handed over by Zhou Yanru's staff, and then opened the edict to read out. (End of chapter)