Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 636
Three months have passed in a blink of an eye since Hongguang took the throne.

This period of time was not a good time for Jiangnan. First, the capital fell, and the whole Jiangnan felt the freezing north wind sweeping through. Then, the first pain came from the emperor they had just established. After succeeding to the throne, Zhu Yousong, in the name of a big marriage, photographed the female officials in the private sea to enrich the harem, first in Nanjing, then Suzhou, Hangzhou, and even most of Nanzhili.

These eunuchs are already familiar with their hands up and down. Jin Yiwei followed the Jin Yi envoys like ants looking for food. In the capital, all women's families, regardless of their age, sealed their doors and released them after receiving gold. The room, the neighbors howling, mercenary!In this short period of two months, Nanzhili has also experienced a torture like Li Zicheng's, no less than a few million taels of silver was extorted into the pockets of the eunuchs.

Song Qingshu had seriously underestimated the dangers of the faint emperor. At a speed visible to the naked eye, the small imperial court of the Nanming Dynasty was losing the hearts of the people.

But the only good thing is that the gentlemen of the Donglin Party can be regarded as restrained. The emperor has a weird habit, and he is willing to play mother and daughter on the same stage. Putting on a green hat on the head forced Qian Qianyi, Gao Hongtu and others to go to the palace to argue with the eunuch like doormats every day.

It's a pity that in Jiangnan they lack military power, but eunuchs have forbidden troops anyway, and a group of scholar-bureaucrats have not achieved much except protesting. This has caused the prestige of these Donglin party leaders among the landlords to decline sharply.

"Extraordinary and extraordinarily! The true face of a gentleman! A high-ranking scholar is arrogant and respectful!"

"Sell the newspaper, the top secret from the cabinet, Qian Shangshu even wrote a letter for the eunuchs!"

There are a lot of children selling newspapers on the street these days, and it has become a unique new sight in Yingtian. These little guys are wearing this canvas blue hat and carrying a bag similar to an electrician's bag. They run around throughout Yingtian City, Selling the printed newspapers one by one, just catching up with the panic in the draft alley, these top secrets from the cabinet have become the most popular pastime in Yingtian City, no matter the small townsfolk on the street or those gentry wealthy families who have been tossed about , are willing to buy a piece, while looking at Qian Qianyi's old lady scolding.

The cabinet news leaked. This was the most serious crime since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Chen Xinjia, the former minister of the Ministry of War, was murdered because he accidentally leaked the news of the peace talks with the slaves. The newspapers all over the street naturally aroused Gao Hongtu and Qian Qianyi's fury. , clamoring that they must be strictly investigated, but unfortunately, at this time, it is no better than the capital. The Ming army that maintained the law and order in Yingtian's outer city belonged to Song Qingshu, and the imperial army that maintained the inner city was attached to the eunuchs. A group of bachelors could only grit their teeth and watch the newsboys wandering around in the street.

"Sir, buy a newspaper! A memorabilia of Yangzhou citizens resisting the eunuch's tyranny written by the famous reporter Miss Ajiu! The latest news!"

These children are quite courageous. The cavalry team with horses and guns is supporting the carriage and crossing the street. Unexpectedly, a dark newspaper boy jumped to the window of the car, holding a newspaper and yelling. Xiaobao was so angry that The back waist escaped from the whip and was about to be driven away, but who knew that the window of the car suddenly lifted and a penny was thrown out.

"Let's get one!"

"Thank you, sir!"

Picking up the big money, the newsboy Le turned around and ran away. A newspaper was thrown on the ground, and Xiaobao gritted his teeth, feeling helpless. Depressed, he dismounted and picked it up, and handed it to Song Qingshu.

The carriage moved forward again, looking at the words Zhu Ajiu under the headline of the big news while shaking, Song Qingshu couldn't help revealing a helpless smile. It is estimated that no one in the world would have imagined that the majestic Princess Changping has become a reporter. He hurriedly wrote all kinds of gossip.

The most dangerous place is the safest place. The West India Company also has a semicolon in Yangzhou. Even if the relationship is extremely tense, some luxuries that salt merchants need are still available only to the West India Company. Since Changping wants to cede Yangzhou to In the country of Wa, Song Qingshu simply let her experience what is called folk life, and threw her to Yangzhou to do odd jobs. This is considered the most dangerous place and the safest place.

God knows when this girl became obsessed with the tabloids published by the company itself, so that the agents of the Selected Front Army who were in charge of watching her had to follow her around the streets every day.

However, she really has the talent of paparazzi, and she can always dig out some secret news, such as this one, which tells that the thirteenth concubine of Baolu, one of the general salt merchants, was targeted by eunuchs, forcing this big The salt merchant spent more than 2 taels of silver to pay tribute to the eunuch Tian Cheng, the supervisor of ceremonies, and then took off the fluffy yellow paper. Looking at the newspaper, Song Qingshu seemed to see the mournful face of the fat man.

"These salt guys have almost been repaired these days, it's time to send someone to contact them!"

After closing the newspaper, Song Qingshu said to himself.

These days, Song Qingshu is having a better life. Qian Qianyi has been overwhelmed by the draft, and he can't start a political struggle in a short time. He simply doesn't even go to the morning court. Anyway, he gets up at five o'clock in the morning and enters the palace. There is no substance in busying himself for a long time. It is better to sleep for a while, but today he had to climb out, and the carriage drove all the way to the north gate. By then, a large group of officials in red robes and green robes had gathered at the gate, and the leader was an old face. The green-haired Minister of Rites Qian Qianyi.

"The Marquis of Jingnan is safe and sound!"

Anyone with a discerning eye knew that Song Qingshu must be the one who caused the cabinet to leak secrets, but there was nothing he could do about it. Watching Song Qingshu leisurely get out of the carriage, the muscles on his face obviously twitched a few times. Qian Qianyi clasped his fists at Song Qingshu in a blunt voice.

"My commander is well. Thank you for caring about Mr. Qian, but Mr. Qian's complexion is not good! Do you want me to send a medical officer to treat Mr. Qian?"

"Recently working on state affairs is not as leisurely as the Marquis of Jingnan, so stop working."

With a gloomy face, Qian Qianyi cupped his fist angrily, and immediately turned his face away. On the other side, Song Qingshu didn't care. Anyway, he had nothing to say to this old guy. He also stood leisurely at the front of the queue, hands tied And stand.

The one who can make these two rivals stand together is naturally not an ordinary person. In this time and space, because Song Qingshu was there, the missions from the south to the North to beg for peace with Jiannu were not sent out after all, but the north sent envoys on their own initiative, and First, there were still two missions, Dorgon who occupied the capital, and Li Zicheng, the Chuang Wang who was defeated like water.

This involved the first political dispute between the Donglin Party and Song Qingshu's new party, so people from both parties had to be present to prevent the other party from playing tricks.

The first to come was the Enslavement Envoy.

It’s really a group of people who are arrogant, riding Liaodong’s tall horses, rushing straight towards the gate of the city, and reining in the horses only a few meters in front of the gate. I didn’t expect this group of people to be so arrogant. Qian Qianyi, who had moved forward, was caught in the cloud of smoke and dust, blinded by the dust, and a group of officials from the Ministry of Rituals also choked and coughed.

There are Mongolians and Manchus in this group, and the leader is a Jiannu noble in his 20s who wears a melon cap and an octopus robe. , may have been pampered all year round, but he has raised a bit of a literati's little boy, but the arrogance on this man's face is obviously disgusting.

A yellow belt tied around his waist is very eye-catching.

The white flag carried high by Zhang Banners of the mission, and a dragon in the middle bared its teeth and claws ferociously, as if it was about to jump out and bite at any time, so ferocious that Song Qingshu couldn't help but take another look.

It's the white flag!
The coughing and embarrassment of Qian Qianyi and others obviously attracted ridicule and laughter from a group of Jiannu envoys. After making a noise for a while, the Jiannu envoy who was making the yellow belt asked arrogantly: "Where is King Fu? Why don't you come to greet him in person?"

These words obviously caused a burst of commotion among these Ming officials. Now that King Fu has ascended the throne and announced it to the world, the envoy who established slaves is still King Fu. He obviously does not recognize Emperor Hongguang, and indirectly does not recognize the entire Hongguang Dynasty. Legality suddenly made Qian Qianyi's old face twitch.

However, this group of guys seemed to have lost their aggressiveness in the ease, and after only a moment of unnaturalness, the old guy put on an ugly smile and bowed to the slave nobles.

"Envoy, my Majesty has prepared a banquet in the palace, please enter the palace to have a talk."

"Hmph, Your Majesty!"

Disdainfully flicking their horsewhip, these barbarians pushed their horses away from the welcoming team as if there was no one else around, and walked towards Yingtian City on their own, as if they regarded this place as their own home. The senior officer Zhou Yuji, who had to follow Song Qingshu, was obviously angry, as if rushing out to teach them a lesson. However, Sun Chuanting, who was next to him, yanked him and looked at Zhou Yuji's angry eyes. He shook his head lightly.

Song Qingshu didn't show up at all during the whole process, watching Qian Qianyi just hanging there like a monkey being tricked.

In embarrassment, he sent someone to lead the way, and was humiliated. Qian Qianyi's old face was also ugly, and he turned his head to look at the expressionless Song Qingshu, and waited there again with his hands tied.

I don't know if it was a coincidence, but the two missions arrived in Yingtian in one day, and about ten minutes later, the mission of Chuangjun also appeared at the north gate of Yingtian. A big flag with the Chinese character Chuang was even burned out a few holes by the gunfire, and this group of people was much more polite than Jiannu. When they reached the city gate tens of meters away, they had already dismounted and led the horses over.

"Chuang Wang's envoys pay homage to the heavenly officials and General Song!"

Zheng Shi, headed by Chuang Jun, looks a little funny, less than 1.4 meters tall, and has a big head and a small body, a bit like a big carrot, full of smiles, and he is really divided into Qian Qianyi and Song Qingshu. Attitude, Qian Qianyi, who was still groveling just now, turned his head high in a blink of an eye, and finally snorted, while Song Qingshu, who was beside him, didn't seem to hear that at all, staring straight at Song Xiance's back .

Even if he was turned into ashes, he would recognize the elegant and handsome scholar's assistant envoy in a Confucian robe and scarf.

"Li Yan!"

(End of this chapter)