Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 447 Thriller
These days, Neo-Confucianism still occupies a dominant position, starving to death is not only a matter of minor injustice, but also of literati and bureaucrats. Therefore, in history, after the destruction of Xingshan City, although there was no specific news, even the emperor It is believed that Hong Chengchou died, and even the emperor personally presided over the sacrifice for Hong Chengchou to the ninth altar, only to learn the news of Hong Chengchou's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and this big oolong was caused.

But now, Song Qingshu said that Lu Xiangsheng was not dead, but was captured by the Qing army. Whether he surrendered to the Qing army or not, he has already lost his virtue. The consequences of coming, I am afraid that there will be an uproar in the court.

Annoyed, he pushed Yang Tinglin away, and Song Qingshu still clasped his fists with certainty: "That's right, not only the last general, but many subordinates also saw it with their own eyes. Lu Xiangsheng was not dead, but was taken away by Jiannu!"

"Are you really sure?"

This matter is too important, even Gao Qiqian, the old eunuch, couldn't help asking the second time, but Song Qingshu nodded solemnly again.

"real!"

Now, the Liaodong cavalry group is in trouble, and the generals are talking to each other in disbelief as if they have seen a ghost. Gao Qiqian stared at Song Qingshu with his goldfish eyes like looking at red worms. Really guilty.

Splashing dirty water on Lu Xiangsheng was a last resort. In history, when Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, his body could not be collected for 86 days. The poor man with few people, I dragged him back with great difficulty. If he is allowed to return to court now, maybe he will be like Yue Fei, and he will die in Fengboting.

But if you put shit on him as much as you want, it will be different. Lu Xiangsheng's threat is reduced to the limit, such as Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian, Cao Huachun and other powerful officials will not stare at Lu Xiangsheng so hard. Then this tragic famous general in history And his family can at least save their lives.

As for the future, there will be such a tragic star like Lu Xiangsheng stepping on the stage again, if he is slumped because of this blow, at least he can save the life of this tragic star, suddenly feel that he is still very kind, slightly lowered his head, Song Qingshu But he still smiled complacently.

Staring at Song Qingshu for a long time, Gao Qiqian suddenly showed a satisfied smile, his loose face was completely stretched, and he actually looked like a kind old lady. He patted Song Qingshu's shoulder, raised his head and looked kindly.

"Very good, Song Zongbing, Lu Bingbu was indeed taken away by Jiannu! Very good!"

"Our family has accepted the horse. Thank you General Soldier Song. I will present the head of the slave as soon as possible. Our family will continue the merits of General Song Song immediately. Our family is busy with military affairs, so we will not keep General Soldier Song any longer!"

This guy watched Song Qingshu and Gao Qiqian make a political deal, Yang Tinglin was obviously going crazy with anger, he wanted to grab Song Qingshu's collar and yell desperately, but his soldiers had already looked at Gao Qiqian Xia Xia dragged Yang Tinglin's shoulders from both sides and dragged him down.

To say that this eunuch is really neurotic, he said a few words with a smile, then turned around and drove himself away again, but the news that Lu Xiangsheng was taken away by Jiannu is probably extremely important to the few powerful officials in the court. The eunuch probably had to write a letter to the capital quickly, planning the next step of the party struggle, how to make peace with the slaves, etc., Song Qingshu didn't delay.

But before leaving, Song Qingshu suddenly smiled strangely, and then clenched his fists heavily at Gao Qiqian who turned his head to order to set up camp.

"By the way, father-in-law, the general also heard that there was a joke in the officialdom recently. Mr. Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the five provinces, had done a good job in the position of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, but he said a few more impassioned words after getting drunk with the eunuch bought by the Long Live Lord. If so, he was promoted to be the prime minister of the five provinces, but Mr. Xiong has been very regretful recently, looking for connections and spending money everywhere, actually wanting to depreciate, even if he goes back to Guangdong and Guangxi to become a magistrate, he is willing to go!"

"The general thinks that Mr. Xiong is really interesting, what does Eunuch Gao think?"

Gao Qiqian couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this. Politicians have never been in the mood to talk nonsense. Song Qingshu just mentioned that Lu Xiangsheng was captured, and he has actually thrown a political bargaining chip. Now this remark is probably a conditional , but he mentioned Xiong Wencan out of the blue, and he didn't understand his intentions for a while. Seeing Song Qingshu's weird smile, he could only nod vaguely.

"Recently, Mr. Xiong is really funny!"

"Eunuch also thinks it's funny, so the last general can feel relieved, if you don't delay the grandpa's important business, the last general will leave!"

Laughing, Song Qingshu jumped on the horse again, leading his own soldiers to catch up with the large team that was rolling forward, watching Song Qingshu's leaving back, Gao Qiqian couldn't help but shook his head weirdly, and immediately shouted After setting up the tent, he immediately got in by himself.

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The secret memorial to the emperor, the urgent letter to Yang Sichang, and the internal letterhead to Cao Huachun, carefully wrote the words for several hours, and then carefully dried the ink, sandwiched it in the yellow cover or In the red envelope, he ordered his confidant Yu Majian's personal soldiers to send them back to the capital urgently for eight hundred miles. Gao Qiqian was relieved.

At this time, the army of the begging army has completed the retreat. Although there is no order from the Ministry of War, it seems that Jierhalang, who is marching towards Shandong, has already robbed enough and began to retreat northward, regardless of Song Qingshu and Dole. What happened to the army of Dagon, the spies came to report, and the army of Jiannu had indeed retreated to the north, and it seemed that this war was about to come to an end.

No matter how much was lost in this war, if the peace talks go well, the Ming Dynasty will be able to recuperate for a few years, and now Lu Xiangsheng has also "treasoned the country", and now the opposition forces in the government and the opposition seem to be suppressed to a certain limit. I felt a sense of relief.

"I guess Long Live Lord can relax a bit!"

It is said that eunuchs are cunning, but the eunuchs who are dependent on the imperial power do have a special feeling for the emperor. First of all, recalling the Emperor Chongzhen who couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, Gao Qiqian couldn't help but sighed and shook his head. A burst of noise disturbed this great eunuch whose power could reach the top few in the Ming Empire.

"Little bastards, if you don't lead your troops well, why are you boring here?"

In a good mood, Gao Qiqian didn't get angry, but walked over with a smile on his face, but still frightened a few generals, they jumped up and clasped their fists together: "See you, father-in-law!"

"If you go back to uncle, I'm waiting to talk about Song Qingshu, the commander of Lianghuai!" One of the guerrilla generals and Gao Qiqian are still distant uncles and nephews. Diao come.

"Uncle, don't you know that this afternoon, the Huai soldiers' carts carrying wealth drove away with more than a hundred and tens of thousands of men and women, including more than a thousand beauties. If it is so easy and profitable to fight Jiannu, Jiannu would have been wiped out long ago!"

"That's right! With our Song Zongbing's ability to scrape the ground, Jiannu will also be scraped three feet high!" Another general also muttered with jealousy.

To be honest, Gao Qiqian didn't believe the official document from Song Qing's book and newspaper about repelling Jiannu. He listened to the sarcasm of his generals, but he didn't think he was disobedient. Don’t think that Zongbing Song may be average in war, but he knows how to be a man and use his brains to be an official, you little bastards, you have to learn from him!”

"By the way, uncle, the "Head of Jiannu" sent by Song Zongbing has also arrived, please check and accept it?" Obviously still jealous, the elder nephew Guerrilla once again muttered dissatisfied, and now he needs to use Song Qingshu to Completely defeating Lu Xiangsheng's power, avenging him is also a way to win over, Gao Qiqian simply nodded in agreement.

After a while, more than a dozen dishes wrapped in red cloth came up.

"I really don't know if it's the people in that village or that township that suffered the disaster again. The general may have heard that there is such a slang saying everywhere that Song Zongbing's army passed by, fellow villager, use your brain!"

Laughing and joking, the elder nephew unbuttoned the red silk and muttered endlessly: "There won't be a woman's head! Tsk tsk, this smell... how is it possible?"

It was as if he had hit a ghost, that guerrilla's entire face froze there, and the other generals who saw him were confused, and they followed him up, and immediately sucked in air-conditioning, which really aroused Gao Qiqian's curiosity, Daquan Eunuch Quickly paced forward, parted from the crowd, glanced around, and then widened his eyes.

The head had obviously been dead for a few days, and although it was cold, it had turned black. He had supervised the Liaodong Army for a long time, and he knew what Jiannu looked like. Shocking, it can be seen that people who are used to deceiving military achievements with the heads of ordinary people, it is really shocking that these heads are actually the heads of the real Jianzhou Jurchen!
Seeing that a large group of officers and eunuchs were shocked, the junior officer who begged the army to repay his merits was also a little stupid, but immediately said something that shocked everyone even more.

"Elder, father-in-law, can't these heads be used? The small ones, the small ones can be cut again!"

"What else?" Gao Qiqian couldn't help showing an unbelievable expression on his face. Could it be true what Song Qingshu said about repelling Jiannu?

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The big pit was dug open, and more than a dozen generals of the Liaodong Army, who were brave and good at fighting, were all silent, but Gao Qiqian was stunned when he smelled the faint smell of corpses. There are all kinds of frozen Jiannu corpses, stacked on top of each other, and I don't know how many there are!
The reason why the head of Jiannu is difficult to get is not only because the Eastern Captives are brave and good at fighting, they are hard to kill!And most of the time, the Ming army was the defeated side, and they couldn't clean up the battlefield at all. Naturally, there is no need to cut off the head. Such a large-scale corpse, at least defeated the entire army of slaves on the frontal battlefield, making it impossible to collect the corpses. Judging by the scale, at least [-] enemies were killed in this battle!

What kind of tough army should be able to beat the mighty Jiannu like this?Looking at the thick mass graves, every general of the Liaodong Army was overshadowed by horror towards the Huai Army, but the little officer seemed to be afraid that the shock would not be enough, so he interjected again.

"If the ones buried in the soil here are not good, there are still in the river over there. My family's commander drowned at least thousands of Jiannu..."

"no need!"

Afraid that his eyes would pop out, he stopped the little officer, Gao Qiqian thumped his chest heavily, and immediately waved his hand tremblingly: "Bury it!"

"Uncle, how much military merit do these heads have?" Obviously, he had never seen such a large-scale slavery corpse, the elder nephew couldn't help shouting, but the audible high rise was a furious stare: " Our family said, bury it! What you see today will also rot in your stomach!"

Seeing the pit being paved again with shovel after shovel, Gao Qiqian still couldn't restrain his heart beating wildly. Now he sort of understood Song Qingshu's intention of telling that joke.

If the imperial court wants to negotiate a peace, this battle must not be revealed!And he, Song, didn't want to be this early bird. He was comfortable as the local emperor in Jianghuai, and he didn't want to be like Xiong Wencan.Bring a military horse to lead a Lao Shizi to declare the governor or the governor of the three sides, and then be mobilized to go to fight the slaves, or suppress the peasant army!

But the results of the battle are not so easy to hide. If Gao Qiqian still wants to form a political alliance with him, he must suppress this matter!Even the emperor can't know!

"Hey, what a killing god!"

After another ten minutes of burial, the mass grave was re-buried. Standing on the bastion of the earthen hill that the beggar army had not demolished, looking at the floating corpses of Jiannu still looming in the river, this well-informed man jumped up and dived. The chief eunuch couldn't help shouting in amazement.

(End of this chapter)