Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 372 Ginger is still old and spicy

Song Xiance gave Hong Chengchou a few terms that Lin Yi instructed him to do, and then sat there with a dark face, without saying a word, just watching the traitor's expression.

He saw Hong Chengchou's clear face became very rich, frowning, smacking his lips, taking a deep breath, and slowly exhaling, his eyes widened and narrowed again. , the old skin on the face tightened for a while, relaxed for a while, shook his head sometimes, and sighed sometimes.

"You big traitor, just study it slowly!" Song Xiance laughed in his heart, sat there, took a couple of sips of tea for a while, put it down for a while, looked at the weather outside, looked at the decoration here, and finally put the tea bowl Take it up and appreciate the pattern printed on it carefully.

It was only after Hong Chengchou finished reading all the details that Hong Chengchou's old face regained his composure that Song Xiance's eyes turned to him again.

"Master Song...this..." Hong Chengchou wiped the sweat off his face first, before speaking halfway.

"Oh, Lord Hong." Song Xiance stared at him with a smile, which means that there is no objection. If there is no objection, sign it quickly, and then bring these terms back for Dorgon to send back with a seal. This time the peace talks are over. So Song can also report to Master Lin.

"These rules are a bit too harsh, for example, the first one..." Hong Chengchou began to bargain.

But Song Xiance turned the little black face into a tiger, and said in a strong tone: "Master Hong, you can't change a single word of the first clause. This was drawn up by Mr. Jian Guo himself. If you change it, this peace talk will be lost!"

Facing Song Xiance's aggressiveness, Hong Chengchou could only swallow his anger. Of course he knew the meaning of Song Xiance's last sentence. Without this peace talk, he would be told to leave immediately, and the two countries would have to continue fighting.

But this is the result that Qing is most afraid of. Who will let Qing be unable to defeat Ming?Hong Chengchou has to continue pretending to be a grandson. The more important thing is that no matter whether the peace talks are successful or not, they can't end so soon. It's only a day, and they have to delay them for three or five days. Otherwise, how will Su Moer start?

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou wiped the sweat off his face again, and pretended not to smile, but the laughter was worse than the squawking of a duck.

"Since that's the case, my lord, it's fine for me to be a vassal every year, but how much do I need to pay tribute every year?"

Song Xiance smiled, this can be discussed, "Ha, this depends on the sincerity of the Qing Dynasty, but it should not be lower than the content and amount of North Korea's tribute to your country."

When Hong Chengchou heard it, Lin was really greedy. North Korea used to be a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, but now it was conquered by Qing Dynasty. North Korea no longer paid tribute to Ming Dynasty, but instead paid tribute to Qing Dynasty. Tribute, and the tribute must exceed the content and amount of North Korea's tribute. Isn't that what North Korea pays homage to the Qing Dynasty every year, and the Qing Dynasty sends it to Ming Dynasty with interest?It's really unreasonable!

But Hong Chengchou still didn't dare to lose his temper. The two sides bargained and talked about this for a whole morning, and finally came up with a suitable amount and content. This was discussed and reached an agreement.

After lunch, the two sat down to talk.But after this morning, Hong Chengchou didn't feel like he was negotiating. How could he have decided the terms in advance and asked him to sign directly, so why talk about that?This is power politics, this is the overlord clause!
But Hong Chengchou thought of his mission this time, so he sat down patiently, and started the second point. Daming asked the Qing Dynasty for these 71 cities, including Shengjing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty. Isn’t this a joke?Although these sites were indeed owned by Ming Dynasty before, and were plundered by Qing Dynasty from Da Ming, but after so many years, can Qing Dynasty give it to them?Can Dorgon and Xiaozhuang agree?

Therefore, Hong Chengchou began to play tricks again.

"Master Song, these cities will be a matter of history, Hong Mou suggests that we should be more realistic..."

Before Hong Chengchou could finish speaking, Song Xiance widened his eyes and slapped the table, "Master Hong, what is a historical issue? Looking at history 50 years later, the Battle of Sarhu is not even 25 years old now." , How did it become a historical issue? The territory seized by the Manchu and Qing Tartars must be returned. After so many years, shouldn’t these cities be returned to Zhao? If they are regarded as historical issues and put on the shelf, Lord Lin can agree, and can the hundreds of millions of people in Ming Dynasty agree? The blood of the Han people is also on the body of the Lord. Have you forgotten your ancestors? "

Song Xiance's words were righteous and strict, and Hong Chengchou was speechless, especially the last sentence, which was tantamount to calling Hong Chengchou a big traitor who betrayed his ancestors.

Hong Chengchou's old face was ashamed, like mourning his concubine, "Master Song, other cities are easy to talk about, but the capital of the Qing Dynasty... Hong really dare not make decisions."

"Don't dare to be the master, what are you doing here?...Since this is the case, Song doesn't force others to make things difficult, please go back, let someone who can be the master, Dorgon or the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang is fine, the peace talks are suspended, Song Here I am waiting for the King Regent or Empress Dowager of your country." After speaking, Song Xiance put his face down and continued to drink his tea.

This made Hong Chengchou so embarrassed that he wanted to find a dry well to plunge in. In the end, Hong Chengchou really went out, and the peace talks were temporarily suspended.

Of course Song Xiance is not afraid of him leaving, and even Hong Chengchou will not leave easily.If he brought people back to the Qing Dynasty, it would mean that the peace talks failed, and then their Master Lin ordered hundreds of red cannons to fire at once, and 10,000+ Ming troops killed the Sancha River.In a few days, the Ming army was able to hit the capital of the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, when the soldiers came to the city, the Qing Dynasty would become a doomsday flower.

After half an hour, Hong Chengchou came back as expected.The peace talks continued until it was almost dark, but no agreement was reached on this one.

The first day passed like this, and the next day continued this topic. Song Xiance and Hong Chengchou had a conversation, and I had a conversation, and another day of nonsense, Hong Chengchou finally dared not nod, and the peace talks continued to the third day. , they only came into contact with the third argument.

This one is about war compensation. This one Song Xiance has more confidence in his mind. Hong Chengchou is dizzy when he sees this number, but in order to kill time, he still pretends to check historical materials, find evidence, and quote classics. Song Xiance pouted beside him, thinking 14 billion taels of silver, let this big traitor bargain casually, let's see where his price can go?
At the end of the day, Hong Chengchou raised an objection. Since the Battle of Sarhu, there have been 98 small battles between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, of which the Qing Dynasty won 72 times, and the Ming Dynasty won 26 times. 14 times, regardless of whether the defeated party bears the war expenses or the victor bears the war expenses, the Qing Dynasty should not pay the [-] billion taels.

Song Xiance said that Hong Chengchou was completely nonsense. Wars are not gambling. The Qing Dynasty launched wars for no reason. Regardless of victory or defeat in these wars, of course the final loser has to bear the courage. How can these wars be calculated separately? This is not a market to buy something.

Hong Chengchou grinned, the reason is so, but 14 billion taels of silver is too much, even if the Qing Dynasty was full of silver, 14 billion taels would have to be hollowed out, and now the entire annual income of the Qing Dynasty is only more than 1000 million taels Silver, that is to say, if the Qing Dynasty does not eat or drink for the next year, it will not be enough for one percent of this debt. If it can be repaid?

Song Xiance laughed when he heard this, "As long as your attitude is correct, it will be easy to pay back if you can't afford it. Our Lin Jianguo is not an unreasonable person, and we will never force others to make things difficult. Your country can definitely pay in installments, and pay back 5000 million every year. Two, pay it off in 25 cents, no interest, Daming is generous enough!"

Hong Chengchou gritted his teeth, 5000 million is not a lot, it is silver, if it is okay to say that the Qing Dynasty a few years ago, the current Qing Dynasty is different from the past after all, with internal and external troubles, riddled with holes, and the national strength has declined badly. If the Qing Dynasty really had to spend so much money every year, it would be impossible to do anything. It is estimated that one-third of the officials would starve, let alone the common people.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou played meat again. In the end, the two sides bargained several times, and the Qing Dynasty returned 3000 million taels of silver to the Ming Dynasty every year, and the 50 billion taels were paid off in 14 years.

Song Xiance said in his heart, not to mention 3000 taels, 2000 taels a year is fine, within Master Lin's bottom line, as long as he agrees to pay it back.

Hong Chengchou said in his heart, you should be smug first, we will not agree to any of these terms, let's make you happy first.

In this way, work was over again on this day. Three items were discussed in three days, and there was another issue that was put aside for the time being. In essence, the two of them settled two issues in three days.

After dinner, Hong Chengchou soaked his feet and felt tired and sleepy. This peace talk was even more uncomfortable than being in prison.Then he had someone beat his back and press his shoulders, and then he felt more comfortable.

When it was time to set watch, Hong Chengchou sent someone to call Su Moer to the front, and sentry patrols were added outside, then Hong Chengchou lowered his voice and said, "Miss, do you have any clues?"

"Back to your lord, Su Mo'er is about to report to your lord. The past three days have yielded a lot. Su Mo'er has already found out Ji Yi's routine, the distribution of troops in his battalion and the patrol situation, and he can do it tomorrow."

"Oh, that's wonderful! I'd love to hear more about it."

Hong Chengchou showed a smile for the first time these days. He felt that Su Moer was really good. It seemed like he had spent three years in the three-day peace talks. He was forced to look at Song Xiance's black face every day. He even felt aggrieved sitting at the same table with a thief, but he still had to talk to him about important matters in a low voice, and now he finally hoped for the dawn!
Su Moer saluted and said: "My lord, Su Mo'er has already found out that Lin Yi must smell the chicken and dance every morning. From the fourth watch to dawn, there are few soldiers and guards around him. This is the best time to attack. Su Moer tonight Mo Er intends to go to bed early, to lay an ambush at the third watch, and attack at the fourth watch, your lord must also make preparations as soon as possible."

"Okay, it's God helping me!" Hong Chengchou was half happy, thinking of Lin Yi's skills, he couldn't help but reminded him, "Girl, the surname Lin possesses peerless martial arts, you must do it carefully, and don't be careless, otherwise you will die." Fall short!"

"Don't worry about it, Su Mo'er has already planned it, and it is guaranteed to be safe." Su Mo'er said with confidence.

"However, girl, everything is forewarned, and if not forewarned, it will be abandoned. Only by taking precautions can we prevent problems before they happen. In wars, victory is not predicted, and defeat is predicted in advance. Tomorrow, there is one person in thousands of miles. What should the girl do?" Hong Chengchou acted. He has always been cautious and quick-witted, and he has thought of all possible situations.

Su Moer thinks there is something wrong with this old man, why are there so many ink stains?Oh, maybe this Master Hong doesn’t know me, Su Moer, but yes, he only came to Qing Dynasty for two or three years, how much does he know about the deeds in the palace?He doesn't care about my Su Moer at all, so those who don't know it are not to blame.

So Su Moer patiently listened to Hong Chengchou's words. She really didn't think about such a result, because she thought it was impossible for such a situation to happen. But since Hong Chengchou asked, she thought about it as a matter, and soon Then there is attention.

"Returning to my lord, if Su Mo'er's action fails tomorrow, Su Mo'er will disappear on his own, and it will definitely not affect the peace talks between Ming and Qing. Lord Jieshi can make other plans without showing any signs."

Hong Chengchou shook his head, "The girl's words are wrong. If such a situation really happens, suicide is the most stupid. Although there is no evidence from the dead, but with Lin Yi's shrewdness and the ability of the Ming army, the girl's identity must be It was fully exposed. At that time, the official and the more than 100 people will be wiped out, and the door to peace talks will be closed. Lin Yi must be furious. 20 Ming troops rushed through the Sanchakou and went straight to the capital. The Qing Dynasty was in danger. Yes. It is not a pity for me to die, but we are the sinners of the Qing Dynasty."

After Su Moer heard Hong Chengchou's words, she shivered wittily. She felt that Mr. Hong was right. It seems that Jiang is still old and hot. If the operation tomorrow morning really fails, she really can't kill herself. The only way is to run away. , you can't stare and be a prisoner!
"That's right, girl." Hong Chengchou nodded with satisfaction, "As long as they don't fall into the hands of the Ming army, I will have a way to deal with them, because catching rape requires double, catching thieves requires dirty, when they have no evidence, we will You can refuse to admit it, the peace talks may continue, and I will find a way to deal with them."

"My lord is thoughtful, Su Mo'er knows what to do." Through this incident, Su Mo'er admired Hong Chengchou.

Su Moer left Hong Chengchou's big tent and returned to his own tent to rest.

In the big tent, Hong Chengchou's eyes sparkled with excitement. Thinking about the action he was about to start, he had the feeling that his daughter-in-law had become a mother-in-law for many years. He really had enough these days, enough of Song Xiance's Arrogant and rude, enough of Ji Dong's viciousness and arrogance.

This time, Su Moer took Lin Yi's life by surprise, and then they rushed out of the Ming camp before dawn. Lin Yi's death must be without a leader. At that time, they easily boarded the boat and returned to the Qing army camp on the other side. It seems that the emperor and the regent are still blessed and blessed. Lin Yi should be in such a catastrophe. Su Moer is so careful and accurate, so he will surely succeed immediately. .

The person surnamed Lin might never have imagined that this time, someone would plot against him when he heard the chicken dancing!

The more Hong Chengchou thought about it, the more complacent he was. He was able to complete this important mission on the fourth day of the negotiation. Once Lin Yi died, the Ming Dynasty would really be over. Doesn’t the current Ming Dynasty rely on this person?Chongzhen is gone, the crown prince is a worthless wretch, and when Lin Yi is finished, the Ming Dynasty will be a mess, ready to be slaughtered.

Given that Hong Chengchou had been an official in the Ming Dynasty for many years, and because he knew the problems of the Ming Dynasty like the palm of his hand, he could affirm that without Lin Yi's efforts to turn the tide, the Ming Dynasty would have been divided by warlords and fell into chaos.

It is true that the sky has eyes, the Ming Dynasty should perish, and the Qing Dynasty should prosper. From now on, he and Su Moer will undoubtedly be the founding heroes of the Qing Dynasty!
Hong Chengchou sent Su Moer away enthusiastically, and then immediately held an emergency meeting. The more than 100 people he brought came, except for the guards and patrols outside. Hong Chengchou made a secret arrangement and sent a team of ten The 50-person sailor is responsible for sailing the boat, and the remaining 100 people are responsible for protecting Hong Chengchou. This can be regarded as a four-way division of troops.

Hong Chengchou can be regarded as a master among masters when it comes to dividing troops, dispatching generals, and planning military operations. Including Su Moer, he dispatched the more than 100 people in an orderly manner, and then left only a few patrol personnel to let the rest of the soldiers be dispatched early. After some rest, everyone, including the sailors on board, got up at the third watch and moved at the fourth watch. They had to leave the camp before dawn, board the ship and leave the shore.

After everything was distributed, it was two o'clock in the morning. Hong Chengchou turned off the lights and lay down in his clothes. Thinking about the fact that Lin Yi's head would be moved in two hours, his peace talks were an unprecedented success. Those unreliable terms were used to delay time and make excuses, so he was so excited that he couldn't sleep at all.

Hong Chengchou tossed and turned on the bed and couldn't fall asleep, his mind was full of things, and he didn't know how long it took before his mind became hazy and confused, and then he fell asleep when his mind sank, and he didn't know how long he slept. Was pushed awake.

He got up from the bed in a blink of an eye, not daring to hold the lamp, but his subordinates told him that only then did he realize that the third watch had passed and the fourth watch was about to come.

His people got up early, and several groups of people started to act according to his arrangement last night, but the soldiers under his hands saw how old he was, and in order to let him rest more to maintain energy, they fought for the third watch After another half stick of incense, they woke up Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou hurriedly washed his face, and suddenly lost all sleepiness.In fact, he slept very late just now, because he had something on his mind, he couldn't sleep at all, that is to say, he was blinded for more than an hour, more than two hours.

The subordinates helped him put on the armor, and it might be a bloody battle in a while. Your lord is a civil servant, so you must dress neatly. After the helmet and armor are packed, the sword for self-defense is also ready, and everything is ready for the horse.

"How's the situation?" Hong Chengchou asked his subordinates while sitting in the dark tent.

"Return to your lord." Someone answered in a low voice, "Brothers are already in place, including the boats, everything is ready according to your lord's instructions, and now we are waiting for news from the girl."

Hong Chengchou closed his eyes and meditated, silently muttering in his heart: I hope the girl's trip goes smoothly, God bless...

When Hong Chengchou said it for the fifth time, someone suddenly came to report, "My lord, something is wrong..." In a word, Hong Chengchou fell to the ground in fright.

(End of this chapter)