Han ride

Chapter 362
"That's right. Emperor Chongzhen wants to save face and suffer. What he likes most is to cooperate with us. If it is an ordinary courtier, after hearing the imperial edict of Emperor Chongzhen, he will definitely act in accordance with the imperial edict. But what is Li Xin? He is a prince along the way, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. I can't control Li Xin at all. The reason why Li Xin accepted the title of Marquis of Zhengbei is more to appease Chongzhen. If Chongzhen really ordered to reprimand, I am afraid that Li Xin will be angered. This is of great benefit to us .” Huang Taiji also nodded.

"Your Majesty, I don't know if I have any instructions for my younger brother to go here?" Dorgon asked after thinking about it.

"Exchanging the common people for passing the customs is the first step. If Li Xin does not allow it, it is considered to exchange grain and people for passing the customs. If not, then come back and discuss it." Huang Taiji took a breath, and it is impossible to pass the customs easily. Well, you have to pay a price, no, if Li Xin still doesn't agree to hand over all the income from the Central Plains this time, then you can only use another method.

"Your brother obeys." Dorgon was taken aback when he heard the words, although he was unwilling in his heart, he still nodded.

"I'm afraid we're going to be hurt this time." Huang Taiji said looking at Dorgon's back. Li Xin will not let people pass easily. In fact, Huang Taiji understands that even if Huang Taiji really kills There are so many people, and Li Xin's reputation is not much lost. After all, these people died at his own hands, and Li Xin was also fighting for the country. Just make a sound.But I am different. I paid such a high price and killed people. It will be even more difficult to enter the Central Plains in the future. After handing over the money and food, the soldiers who followed him to the south still hated him to death. Those Manchurian nobles Isn't going south to plunder wealth and slaves from the Central Plains?

"Your majesty is really interesting. You have pushed this issue to me again. This imperial edict is issued, tsk tsk." Li Xin looked at the imperial edict in his hand and shook his head involuntarily, but there was no trace of annoyance on his face.

Shi Yuanzhi below also laughed, without any surprise, just heard him say: "The emperor is not a fool, the same is true for the civil and military men of the Manchu Dynasty, especially that Wen Tiren, this guy drove away Qian Qianyi, Zhou Yanru and Zhou Yanru are simple people who entered the main center, they are very clear about the lord's calculations. It is normal for the emperor to issue such an imperial decree, what I want is for the lord to take this matter."

"Let me disregard the lives of tens of thousands of people just to keep Jiannu out of the customs, and then spread the matter to the Central Plains, and those scholars who spit and star will drown me, Li Xin." Li Xin said disdainfully: " Afterwards, Chongzhen hid far away, and he might take the opportunity to trouble me, how can there be such a good thing?"

"It's not a good idea to release Jiannu like this!" Fan Wencheng frowned and said.

"Yes, this is also a problem. After all, for the sake of hundreds of thousands of people, let go of the enemy of the Central Plains like this. Not to mention the people of the world, even I, Li Xinxin, feel uneasy! I feel unwilling! "Li Xin also shook his head, don't look at him forcing Huang Taiji and others to a dead end, in fact he himself was also pushed to a dead end. Things he can't do.

"My lord, there is someone outside who claims to be Dorgon, who came to visit my lord by the order of Jiannu Huang Taiji." A fierce voice came from outside the door.

"Dorgon, hmph, isn't he afraid that we will kill him?" Li Xin's complexion changed when he heard the words, and he snorted coldly.

"The relationship between the two countries should not be envoys." Shi Yuan shook his head and said: "It used to be Fan Wencheng, he was surrendered by the Han people, so the lord can humiliate him, but now there are more second aunts, he himself is a Manchu, How should the lord respond? Kill him and spread the word, I am afraid that everyone in the world will laugh at the lord, and no one will dare to have a relationship with the lord in the future."

"I know that." Li Xin waved his hand and said, "I'm just very annoyed at this Huang Taiji, who obviously used hundreds of thousands of people as bait, forcing me to let them go. This shows my scruples. !"

"My lord, it depends on what you need?" Shi Yuanzhi finally said: "If you destroy Jiannu here, you can move your army northward and wipe out the remaining strength of Jiannu, but, in the same way, you will lose the hearts of the people of the world. , you are the second Baiqi; if you let these people go, Jiannu will still exist, but Emperor Chongzhen will definitely be annoyed. Similarly, you have won the hearts of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. In the future, you will also rule the Central Plains It's much more convenient."

"Since Mr. said so, do I still have a choice?" Li Xin smiled wryly.One is beneficial in the present, while the other is beneficial in the future.One is immediate interests, the other is long-term goals, forcing Li Xin to make a choice.

"Since the lord has made a choice, what the lord has to do now is to get more from Jiannu. If it can hurt them, that's the best." Shi Yuanzhi nodded, stroking his beard Smiled proudly.

"Dorgon has met General Li." A moment later, under the leadership of Gao Meng, Dorgon entered the government office at Xifeng Pass, and saw Li Xin again.

"Fourteen Baylor, I haven't seen you for a long time, how have you been?" Li Xin pointed to the brocade stool beside him, and asked Dorgon to sit down.

"Thank you, Lord Hou, for your concern." After Dorgon heard this, a trace of shame and anger appeared on Dorgon's face. Jiannu swept the world. When did he encounter such a situation? It was all given by Li Xin.

"I don't know what the Lord Baylor is here for today? Could it be that he surrendered to my Lord Hou?" Before Li Xin could speak, Shi Yuanzhi said while stroking his beard.

"Haha, on the contrary, Dorgon came here today to save the general." After hearing this, Dorgon burst out laughing.But he wanted to get Li Xin's attention, but unfortunately, Li Xin on the opposite side only showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, but he didn't answer the words, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

"The general's words are a bit interesting. My lord has tens of thousands of troops, and there are countless strong generals under his command. The elite soldiers are like clouds. How can anyone take my lord's life in such a big world?" Shi Yuanzhi took the words asked.

"How about the Emperor Chongzhen in the Central Plains?" Dorgon chuckled: "Although Zheng Beihou is valued by Chongzhen's children, in fact, Emperor Chongzhen has been jealous of Lord Hou for a long time, just because of my big gold." The country is watching covetously, and Chongzhen's children need Zhengbei Army to block Dajin's invasion for him, but even if my Dajin is destroyed by Zhengbeihou, does Zhengbeihou have other functions? What is the next goal of Emperor Chongzhen? We have dealt with Marquis Zheng Bei, what do you think, Lord Marquis?"

"Haha, Lord Belle was joking. Don't say that I, Li Xin, are loyal to the court. Even if His Majesty doesn't trust me, so what?" Li Xin said disdainfully: "The court has to be careful even when dealing with you. , not only did not eliminate you, but the strength is getting stronger and stronger, if you can't even deal with me, how can you deal with me, Li Xin?" At the moment, it is a big muddle to dismiss the imperial army.Of course, by the way, Jiannu was also belittled.

After Dorgon heard this, he dared not speak out, but sneered, "What about the remaining strength of our Dajin Kingdom? What about the Horqin tribe? Marquis, although your power is very powerful, but the so-called double fist No matter how powerful you are, you probably won't be able to stop the attacks of so many people!"

"This?" Li Xin's complexion changed, pretending to be hesitant, and finally sneered: "How could the imperial court unite with you, Dorgon, you are joking!"

"There's nothing wrong with it. My Khan is planning to go to the Emperor and submit to Daming. I don't know if His Majesty the Emperor will be wary of you or us?" Dorgon snorted coldly.

"That will be discussed later." Li Xin said disdainfully: "Dorgon, I think the purpose of your coming is probably not just to save me, maybe all of you want me Li Xin to be killed? Don't talk about it, just say it! What do you want to do here?"

"General Li, you are a smart man. As long as we are here, Emperor Chongzhen will not dare to do anything to you, and he will not do anything to you. If we are gone, Zu Dashou has occupied Liaodong. The one to deal with is you, so, don’t we, Manchu, not exist?” Dorgon’s face suddenly showed a smug look, and he could see that Li Xin was stern, but in fact, I’m afraid his heart had already been suppressed. I convinced myself.

"You want me to make way for you?" Li Xin sneered.

"That's right." Seeing that Li Xin had solved the mystery himself, Dorgon was overjoyed, cupped his hands and said, "As long as Lord Hou can open a way, the gold and silver treasures we got in the Central Plains this time, and the captured people, All of them are owned by Lord Hou, what does Lord Hou think?"

"Hahaha! Dorgon, Dorgon, have you ever seen someone take things from someone else's house in time, and then use these things as a condition for buying his life?" Li Xin laughed loudly, his face was cold, and he said disdainfully : "It's a shame that you are also a rare figure among the Manchus. You are so shameless. Those people are the people of the Han family. You have killed countless people, and you want to capture them to Liaodong and serve as your slaves. Let you kill and plunder. Fa Luo, these Han people themselves are the people of my Ming Dynasty, how can these become the capital for you to buy roads, and those gold and silver treasures are also the people's anointing of my Han people, or they will serve the Han people for a lifetime The savings should have been returned to us Han people, so what qualifications do you Manchus use to buy your life?"

"You?" Dorgon's face was flushed with anger. Although what Li Xin said made sense, don't forget that since these gold and silver treasures, these Han people fell into the hands of Jiannu, they were Jiannu's. It is also said that it is used to buy lives.

"Why?" Li Xin snorted coldly: "If you don't admit it, then you can pull him out and we'll talk about it after a fight. The people of my Han family can't wait to eat your flesh and drink your blood raw, as long as I, Li Xin, can If you are wiped out, even if they die cleanly, they will not blame me, Li Xin, and will be grateful to me, to Li Xin for avenging them. Hehe, even though they have paid a price of tens of thousands of people, But it’s better than every year in the future, there will be bandits in Mobei who come to attack you. You can exchange a moment of pain for a lifetime of peace, I believe that as long as a person will make such a choice.”

"I didn't expect that the famous Marquis of Zhengbei, Li Xin, who always claimed to be Wei Qinghuo Qubing, would leave his own people behind. Li Xin, you are nothing more than that." Dorgon obviously didn't expect Li Xin to actually Being so tough, he was so angry that he laughed out loud.

"Dorgon, do you think this Marquis dare not kill you?" Li Xin slapped the cases in front of him fiercely, and the unexpected force knocked them down.The loud noise attracted Gao Meng to rush in with several guards, each drew out their swords, and surrounded Dorgon in the middle, full of murderous aura, as if he wanted to kill Dorgon.Rao Dorgon was ready to be beheaded by Li Xin, but at this moment he couldn't help the cold sweat on his forehead.

"Wait." At this moment, Shi Yuanzhi quickly stood up, drove Gao Meng and the others out, and then cupped his hands to Li Xin and said, "My lord, the two countries have mutual relations, so don't cut them off. And, my subordinates It is not unreasonable to think what Dorgon said."

"Yes, yes, Mr. Shi is extremely intelligent, Lord Hou, Dorgon is not malicious!" Dorgon stood up and said as if he had grasped the straw to save his life.

"Oh, sir, you are going to speak for Dorgon!" Li Xin's expression was not good, he glanced at Dorgon, and said coldly: "Forget it! For the sake of following me for many years, you just say Tell the truth."

"Thank you, my lord." Shi Yuanzhi also touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and said: "My lord, there is a great chaos in the Central Plains right now, with rebel armies rising everywhere, and it is likely to intensify. In fact, no matter how many these people are, but a few days ago, they still How can a farmer with a hoe deal with the elite imperial army? This is not a problem of the court, nor is it a problem of the soldiers, but a problem of the generals. Otherwise, once there are no rebels in the Central Plains, these generals will be fine, and naturally they will not be able to benefit. If they fail, they will be found out by the court. In the end, it will be me who is unlucky, and the same is true for the current lord. The lord is very powerful, with tens of thousands of people under his armour. He sits in the grassland and no one dares to provoke him. Although he is a general of the imperial court, the imperial decree of the imperial court cannot control the lord. The imperial court needs the lord to deal with Liaodong, so it will tolerate it, but once the lord destroys Jiannu, as Dorgon said, the next one to pay more is the lord."

"Is that so?" A gleam flashed in Li Xin's eyes, but Dorgon breathed a sigh of relief. Li Xin's words showed that he had accepted this point of view.

"Mr. Shi's words are very true. My Khan believes that he and Lord Hou have a close relationship. Once my Manchuria is destroyed, Lord Hou will not benefit much." Dorgon said quickly.

"Hmph, even so, if you want to dismiss me Li Xin with such a little thing, you'll underestimate me, Li Xin." Li Xin looked persuaded, shook his head disdainfully and said, "I, Li Xin, am not a beggar. , These common people cannot eat or use them, and they will have to return them to the imperial court later, as well as your gold and silver treasures, which originally belonged to the people of the Central Plains. All right, all right, because you offended the imperial court, I dispatched my own army and ran for thousands of miles, but in the end, I got nothing, Dorgon, do you think this is reasonable?"

"This, this is naturally inappropriate. Fourteen Baylor, what do you think?" Shi Yuanzhi looked at Dorgon in embarrassment and said.

"This is natural, this is natural." Dorgon cursed secretly in his heart.This Li Xin is really greedy.Dorgon didn't believe these hundreds of thousands of people and countless gold and silver treasures. Li Xin would return these things to the imperial court. Didn't they end up in Li Xin's hands?Li Xin's move is just to get more things.It's a pity that even if Dorgon understood in his heart, he had no choice but to lower his head and say.

"Let's do this! Dorgon, I don't want too many, how many soldiers and horses do you have now?" Li Xin showed a smile on his face when he saw this.

"Nearly 10 people." Dorgon didn't know what Li Xin meant, but he said it honestly.

"A soldier's silver is 100 taels, and then go to the Niulu'ezhen on the top, a Niulu's forehead is 500 taels of silver, and then on the top is Jiala'erzhen, a Jiala's forehead is 1000 taels of silver, and a Gushan forehead is really 500 taels of silver. Two, as for Lord Baylor like you and the descendants of Nurhachi, 1 taels of gold, as for Huang Taiji, not much, 10 taels of gold. As long as Huang Taiji gives so much, I will let you go 10 people Go home." Li Xin waved his hand and said.

"Li Xin, you are robbing money again!" After hearing this, Dorgon stood up from the brocade stool, pointed at Li Xin and cursed.It's no wonder he was so angry. If the calculation goes on like this, it may not be enough money to give the entire Dajin Kingdom to Li Xin.

"Stealing money? So what if I, Li Xin, just robbed money? As long as you robbed me, Li Xin couldn't steal it?" Li Xin roared angrily: "Huang Taiji invaded the Central Plains twice, how much money did he get? Invading North Korea, you still got a lot of money. Did you Manren own the money? Didn’t you rob it yourself? If you can rob it, I, Li Xin, can also rob it. It’s your life money. Huh, no matter how much money you have, if you spend it without your life, it’s nothing.”

Dorgon was silent for a while. Li Xin was right. The reason why Jiannu was so powerful was because Huang Taiji and other high-ranking Manchus ruled the world on the one hand, but on the other hand it was also because of the robbery.It is precisely because they plundered countless gold and silver treasures that they finally have the powerful strength they have today.

(End of this chapter)