I have a cornucopia

Chapter 199 Are you happy?

Sister Dayuer knelt there sadly, surrounded by her subjects.

But no one cared about her.

No one rescued her.

After all, her shouts were still ringing in the ears of these people. Although everyone knew what she had been through, they were willing to pretend that they didn't know, and it didn't even affect everyone shouting "Holy Mother, Empress Dowager, and Buddha" to her. But after hearing her shouts, it was still difficult to arouse interest in saving her. Her existence was only because everyone needed a coordinator who could be accepted by all, not because they were loyal to her.

No one is loyal to her.

It is impossible for anyone to be loyal to her.

Superficial respect cannot change inner contempt.

Her various pamphlets have already flooded all over the Ming Dynasty. Even in my Qing Dynasty, most literate families can find them. These pamphlets, with different male protagonists, different authors, and different publishing places, describe her various stories in the unlimited language of that era.

Who hasn’t seen or heard someone read it? There are even storytellers who make a fortune by telling stories about it!

all know.

How can I be loyal to her?

Of course, no one came to help her save face either.

No matter what, she is still the Holy Mother Empress Dowager. Anyone who dares to kill her, even if it is truly for the Qing Dynasty and for her dignity, will still have his property confiscated. Besides, she has no dignity that needs to be protected by others.

Not the first time.

Soon, she was left kneeling alone in the river valley that had been trampled into mottled colors by countless horses' hooves.

"I don't seem to see the Crown Prince of our Ming Dynasty. You won't leave him in the capital, right?"

In the morning sunlight, Yang Feng looked down at Sister Dayuer in the sky. Although the thing he was driving could not hover, it was very slow, so he just needed to hover at the lowest speed. However, because of the sunlight, he still looked a bit mysterious at this moment, especially when he was facing the rising sun behind him.

It was as if it came with golden rays of light.

Sister Dayuer suddenly raised her head and smiled brightly.

"Can't you guess?"

She said.

Then she screamed in pain and covered herself.

"Call me master. Do you know the rules of being a slave?"

Yang Feng said while holding the spent slingshot.

In this season, the body is very thick, and it is difficult to get hurt by something like an 8mm steel ball unless it hits the face.

"Master, can't you guess it?"

Sister Dayuer gritted her teeth but said with a smile that seemed a bit gloating.

"So, Gun Gun brought him south? This is indeed a bit surprising, but why are you gloating over his misfortune? I'm not the one who's anxious. The regent was appointed by the emperor's decree. No one can change him without the emperor's decree. Even if the princess wants to give him up to her brother, it's illegal. I know you want to coax the gentry in Jiangnan to accept him and force the princess to give him up, but no matter what, as long as the emperor doesn't agree, it's illegal and it's all treason, and the emperor certainly won't agree.

Whether Li Zicheng existed or not, he would not agree. He still wanted to rule the world again one day!

Let’s learn from the previous experience of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang!

Therefore, even if Dorgon succeeded, at most he would just attract a few more traitors to the Ming Dynasty. But for me, I actually quite like this. I have always wanted to confiscate the property of the gentry in Jiangnan, but they always refuse to cooperate with me.

They are all very cunning.

Never give me an excuse to lose my temper.

If Dorgon can succeed and give me an excuse to go crazy, then I have to thank him."

Yang Feng said indifferently.

He really doesn't care!

If the gentry in Jiangnan can resist the temptation, he will be disappointed. If the gentry in Jiangnan cannot resist the temptation, he will be happy, because the house confiscation he has been looking forward to can begin again. Although he has made a lot of money this year, with more and more refugees under his command, he needs a lot of silver!

This year, the number of his farmers has exceeded 500,000, and with more and more people fleeing from Northern Zhili, it is estimated that next year it will exceed one million, especially his Northern Expedition, which is a good advertisement. Now there are already tens of thousands of people following his cavalry, and they will definitely be taken away when they retreat. In short, he will need a windfall next year. If Dorgon can drag the gentry of Jiangnan into the water, even if only part of it, it will be enough for him to make a fortune and ensure next year's expenses.

So at this moment he even had some anticipation.

"Are you really that confident?"

Sister Da Yuer said.

"Well, your performance can't make me feel unconfident!"

Yang Feng said.

Sister Dayuer was speechless.

What he said makes a lot of sense. Indeed, our Qing Dynasty seems to have not won a single victory in front of this devil-like man. Since his sudden rise until now, he seems to have been suppressing our Qing Dynasty. Although every victory seems to be a trick, his victories are real. This was the case for our Qing Dynasty at its peak, let alone now when its strength has been greatly reduced.

In her silence, Yang Feng controlled the paramotor to descend. The thing was almost out of fuel, so he simply dismantled the parachute and tied it up, found an ownerless horse to carry it, and then set the rest on fire. He found a cow, but the horse couldn't carry him, so he rode the cow with a packhorse behind him, and then tied up Sister Dayu'er's hands with ropes and forced her to walk below. At this time, as the day dawned, nearby people began to appear. Yang Zhuguo rode the cow and held the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty in his hand. The latter was wearing her empress dowager clothes, but she was wrapped in a fur coat, which Yang Feng had forced her to take off.

Then they headed towards Zhuozhou amid the astonished gazes of the people.

Soon there will be people coming to visit specially.

Of course, soon someone recognized or guessed their identities.

After all, Yang Zhuguo's two iron hammers have become legendary artifacts, and the identity of Sister Dayu'er is not difficult to guess. As the people on both sides kept bowing and worshipping, Yang Feng rode on a cow and led Sister Dayu'er, who walked silently on the snow...

"It seems like it was the same last time. It's been less than a year, and it happened again!"

Yang Feng said with some emotion.

Sister Dayuer snorted.

"Don't have that attitude. I didn't make it difficult for you. At most, I made some money from you. As a slave, this is your duty. As for those men, you don't care about such things. I remember that you have a tradition of using women to entertain guests, right?
You see, I even respect your traditions. It is a blessing for servants to have a master who is as caring as me!

Are you happy?"

Yang Feng said.

Sister Dayuer... Yang Feng coughed majestically.

"My slave is happy!"

Sister Dayuer said through gritted teeth.

Yang Feng nodded with satisfaction, and continued to lead her forward as if no one was around.

It was not until the afternoon that they finally met up with Yang Feng's followers, who were actually in chaos, because this area was full of iron-clad farmers who had come south, and they were all old, weak, women and children, so the followers were happily hunting. When Yang Feng met up with them, these guys were holding young women like their pillars, and there were even more of them than him. The defenders in Zhuozhou, Yizhou and other places all closed their doors and defended themselves. The gentry who controlled these cities did not dare to surrender. After all, they did not know what Yang Feng would do to them, and they did not dare to come out to stop him. Besides, it would be good for them if more iron-clad farmers died...

The more deaths the better.

This way they will need to feed fewer people in the future.

In short, the situation north of Baoding was completely disrupted, and even on the next day, Li Zhifang and other troops joined the hunt.

Of course, the vast majority of the die-hard farmers still followed their plan and took various routes into the Taihang Mountains. Their large numbers ensured this, and only one-tenth of them were actually killed or captured.

But one tenth is still more than ten thousand.

Tongzhou.

Temple of Confucius.

"If the gentlemen in the south of the Yangtze River are truly loyal ministers, then the Jianlu will only bring disgrace upon themselves. The emperor is still alive, and the regent should be the emperor. Even the crown prince should not be presumptuous, not to mention that the crown prince was captured by the Jianlu, and it is legitimate to reject him. If we accept him, he will be a traitor. Since he is a traitor, what else can we say? How can the land of sages in Shandong follow the rebellion? No matter what your majesty is like, as long as your majesty is still alive, you are the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. As long as your majesty is alive, there is no other master. If your majesty orders us in Shandong to suppress the rebellion with an imperial decree, we will all follow Fengsheng south.

Where justice lies, even death is no excuse!"

Li Zhifang said in a rather grim tone regarding the news that Dorgon was taking the crown prince south.

It is indeed hideous.

Yang Feng could even see the greed in his eyes...

It seems like there are little stars.

have changed.

All learned badly.

For the young members of the Knights of Confucius and Mencius, their mentality has changed. After gaining control of military power, their greed has begun to sprout, or it can be said that it has begun to expand. Internally, they began to use force to control the local areas, suppress unruly people, and force those elders and local sages who had no military power to submit to them.

Begin to learn to plunder externally.

Before, Li Zhifang actually killed Wang Zhengzhi and his son, which made Yang Feng smell something wrong.

It can be said that these young scholars who have mastered the power of the army have already exposed their true nature...

They are greedy by nature.

It's plunder.

It’s just that in the past they plundered the tenants and serfs under their control, but as their power grew, their greed and courage also grew, and they began to target the same gentry.

Especially outward.

In the final analysis, strength will inevitably promote expansion. Anyone with sufficient strength will inevitably expand outward. This can even be said to be involuntary. Who doesn't love money? Who doesn't love good farmland? This is human nature. Those who can take but don't take are fools. As for Confucianism? Confucianism is not without the call for education. This education is not based on love and justice. When the strength is not enough, it is to win people over with virtue. When the strength is sufficient, even Confucius can swing a sword to kill people.

When we are strong enough, the scholars of our Ming Dynasty can also draw their guns and shoot people.

Therefore, Yang Feng's original worry that once the Jiangnan gentry turned to Dorgon, the Shandong gentry would not support him going south, that did not exist at all. They would support him sweeping Jiangnan just like the Hunan gentry supported Zeng Zitou. Friendship was nothing in front of interests, not to mention that there was a righteous cause in hand, so in front of interests, they did not even mind cooperating with Li Zicheng. In front of the wealth of the Jiangnan gentry, everything else was unimportant.

Li Zicheng is nothing!

We have even cooperated with other races more than once.

In the past, Yang Feng said he wanted to write about Zhang Hongfan, the destroyer of the Song Dynasty, just to scare people, but now the Knights of Confucius and Mencius can really be written about.

"Fengsheng, if that's the case, then can we show some leniency to those in the capital? After all, if the people in Jiangnan are really planning a rebellion, and we have to go south to suppress them, we will need some help. No matter what happened to them before, they are now at the end of their rope. If we give them a chance to survive, they will definitely be willing to lead the way for us."

Another Confucian Knight, Song Kefa from Jiaozhou, said.

He has fast-forwarded to the specific operations.

The Song family is also a Jiaozhou family. It is said that they are actually the Zhao family, but they changed their name from Zhao to Song when they fled to the Yuan Dynasty. His elder brother Song Kejiu was a Jinshi in the Tianqi Dynasty. He served as a Jieshi in the Chongzhen Dynasty. Later, he resigned and returned to his hometown. At this time, he had died of illness. Yang Feng's Northern Expedition this time was mainly based on the Confucius and Mencius knights from Denglai, Qingyi and other places, and then added Wuding and other places as the starting point. After all, the defense line from Dezhou to the south to Xuzhou, including the cities in the depth, was also based on the local Confucius and Mencius knights. They still had to ensure that they stayed behind.

"No!"

Before Yang Feng could say anything, Li Zhifang stopped him.

Originally in history, Song Kefa, the governor of Fujian Province of the Qing Dynasty, looked at the Minister of War of the Qing Dynasty with confusion.

"They are regicide and treason, they are traitors and surrendered to the enemy, their crimes are extremely heinous, why would we loyal officials and righteous men go along with them!"

Li Zhifang said with a stern and upright look on his face.

Well, he wanted to keep it all.

After all, if one more person participates, the share will be bigger. Why share when you can keep it all for yourself?

"Ye Yuan really hates evil. If that's the case, let's just wait and see. I just hope that the Jiangnan gentlemen won't make a big mistake this time. Also, quickly send someone to tell Li Zicheng not to let this bastard fight with Zhang Xianzhong again. He has fat meat to eat but instead he's biting a mouthful of dog hair. Is he blind now?"

Yang Feng said.

Yang Zhuguo still hates the rebels so much!

After all, the hatred of killing one's father is irreconcilable. For the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the safety of His Majesty, Yang Zhuguo had to endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens. He is indeed worthy of being a pillar of the country.

Everyone nodded. It was indeed necessary to bring Li Zicheng back at this time. The main reason was to keep Zhang Xianzhong so that he could contain Li Zicheng in the future.

Once Li Zicheng knew about this, he would definitely be unable to sit still. He was now holding the emperor hostage to control the princes. Once Dorgon sent the prince to the southern capital, the latter would definitely succeed to the throne with the support of the officials in Jiangnan, and then join forces with Dorgon to lead the Ming and Qing allied forces to the west. At that time, he would have no choice but to die. He had to destroy this possibility no matter what, and on this issue, Chongzhen would definitely form a real alliance with him...

"By the way, send someone to meet His Majesty. If Li Zicheng obstructs us, tell him that we only listen to His Majesty and not him, Li Zicheng. If we can't see His Majesty, we dare not confirm the authenticity of any imperial edict. Let him figure it out on his own!"

Yang Feng said.

This makes it more fun.

Chongzhen could bring Yang Zizhong with him to bargain with Li Zicheng. If in the future Chongzhen and Li Zicheng worked hand in hand, as one, to build the prosperous Ming Dynasty, that would undoubtedly be a beautiful picture.

(End of this chapter)