Daming: I help my wife be the empress

After listening to Xu Can's words, the corps leader hesitated for a moment, and said, "I'm afraid it won't work. You people have surrendered to the Qing captives and worked for the Qing captives. Who knows if there are still people who collude with the captives? If I report this to you I can’t bear it, but it turned out that I was found out about cooperating with captives.”

Hearing this, Xu Can's blushing face turned even redder.

Annoyed.

She really wanted to tell the corporal leader that it was very easy for Qing prisoners to obtain newspapers and periodicals such as "Daming Pao" that were distributed everywhere, and there was no need to ask people who cooperated with them to do it.

But she, Xu Can, although she is the sinful wife of a man of Qing Dynasty, has always regarded herself as a member of the Ming Dynasty in her heart.

But in the end she didn't say a word, because she knew that it was useless to tell the corporal chief, it would only provoke more ridicule.

After all, who made her husband Chen Zhilin betray Ming Shiqing?
Gu Hengbo was afraid that Xu Can would try to refute something, so he gave her a hand and said, "Is Da Ming Daily something we can read? Don't think about it, let's go."

Xu Can sighed, and immediately followed Gu Hengbo and others to leave the value house facing the street.

As soon as he walked out, he saw a large group of people approaching.

There were at least [-] people who came, and most of them seemed to be soldiers of the border guards.

Surrounded by these border guards were several civil servants, among them a middle-aged man in a second-rank civil official robe was particularly eye-catching.

Xu Can, Gu Hengbo and others have all seen this person before, and he is Du Yinxi, the current governor of Shanxi and Northern Zhili.

At the request of the soldiers of the border guards, Xu Can and others stood by the side of the road, waiting for Du Yinxi to arrive.

The soldiers of the garrison in the duty room also came out to greet him, and no one dared to wait slowly.After all, Du Yinxi is now the biggest official in Beizhili.

"See the supervisor!"

"There's no need to be too polite," Du Yinxi waved his hand, "I'm just on a routine inspection—you don't have anything unusual here, right?"

In this mansion used as a value house, not only the five people that Xu Can and others saw in the penthouse just now were resting, but hundreds of soldiers of the garrison.

Among them, the highest general is a general.

Hearing this, President Qian replied: "Report to the supervisor, there is nothing unusual."

Du Yinxi's routine inspections in the city are not to inspect every valued house, but to spot-check a few places every day, whether it is the valued house, or other departments, strongholds, and so on.

After all, he has too many things to manage, and it is impossible to take care of every place.

He can squeeze out time every day to spot check a few places, which is considered very diligent.

Du Yinxi walked around in the duty room, then asked two soldiers of the garrison for a few words, and then left again.The whole process didn't take more than a quarter of an hour, but it made everyone nervous. Even after Du Yinxi left, the tense atmosphere didn't decrease much.

Among those who patrolled with Du Yinxi today was Zhang Kuang, governor of Beizhili.

At this time, the two were walking and talking on the cleaned street——

"Thanks to the honeycomb coal and coal stove technology given by His Majesty, the northern provinces can use coal for heating. Otherwise, I don't know how many people will freeze to death this winter."

"Indeed." Zhang Kuang nodded upon hearing the words, "I have heard that many people died of freezing and starvation in the northern winter during the peaceful years. Now the northern provinces have been recovered for only a month or two, and a lot of waste is waiting for prosperity. Although the common people There is not one out of ten, but it is still difficult for the remaining people to survive the cold winter.

However, now there are coal for heating, as well as money and food supported by the South.The lower officials in other places are not clear, but in this northern Zhili, the lower officials can guarantee that there will never be a situation where the people are frozen to death in large numbers. "

Du Yinxi said: "Not only must the lives of ordinary people be protected, but the lives of those criminals and captives must also be protected as much as possible.

I heard that dozens of Jurchen captives died at the Xishan Coal Mine recently. You should send someone to check later to see if the employment is in accordance with the rules and regulations.

Although those Jurchen captives deserve to die, according to His Majesty, if they can help us with work now, even if they are treated as livestock, they should not be used casually.

Only those people alive can create more value for Daming.If they were allowed to die just like that, who would make up for all the holes they caused to Daming? "

Zhang Kuang nodded, "Your official understands, and I will ask someone to investigate later. It's just that the conditions in the coal mine are not good, and dead people are a common occurrence. Now the weather is extremely cold, and those prisoners may have died normally."

Prior to this, the Qing captives retreated in a big rout, but many real girls, Mongols, and green battalion soldiers became captives.

Today, those Jurchens and Mongols are assigned to work in the most dangerous and hardest places, such as coal mines, or other mines, where the death rate has always been high.

Du Yinxi knew that from some generals to soldiers, there were many people who wanted to kill these Qing captives.

But as a big official in the frontier, Du Yinxi knew very well that killing all the people could be a good way to vent his anger, but it was not the best way.

Otherwise, Auntie Zhu would not order these captives to work.

Although those generals and soldiers who hated the Qing captives would not publicly oppose the imperial court's will or his orders, they could use various methods to make the Qing captives exhausted to death.

Faced with this situation, Du Yinxi has no good way to solve it, he can only make repeated orders and ask the people below to cherish some "manpower".

Back at the Governor's Yamen, Du Yinxi said to Zhang Kuang again: "Wu Sangui hasn't replied since he learned that His Majesty asked him to surrender unconditionally. What do you think he thinks now?"

Zhang Kuang sneered, "What else can I think? It must be because I don't want to bear the power in my hand, and I want to be like the former emperor's time. He is called a general of the court, but he is actually a military town and occupies western Liaoning."

Du Yinxi said: "It would be the best if we can go to the west of Liaoning without a fight. It's a pity that your Majesty seems to hate Wu Sangui very much, and the conditions he gave are indeed a bit harsh, even more incomparable with that of the Puppet Qing Dynasty.

Now, the puppet Qing Dynasty has sealed off the corridor from Shanhaiguan to Guangning in the west of Liaoning to Wu Sangui.It is not surprising that he is reluctant to let go. "

Zhang Kuang said: "Even if the Puppet Qing Dynasty didn't seal the Liaoxi Corridor to Wu Sangui, would they be able to control it? Those places are now occupied by Wu Sangui and other Han troops and green battalion soldiers.

Wu Sangui was actually confused by this, he didn't seem like a smart person.If he has been obsessed with obsession, when we have quelled the bandits in the northern provinces, his time of death will come. "

Du Yinxi said: "If Wu Sangui is not willing to surrender unconditionally, he will definitely fight. But now we are making false claims with him and giving him a little hope, lest he be forced to join forces with the northern captives to make trouble for us."

"That's how it should be."

As soon as the two of them finished talking about Wu Sangui, people from the telecommunications team came to report, "Report to the supervisor, Nanjing is calling, Your Majesty congratulates the officials, soldiers and common people of Beizhili and Shanxi provinces on a Happy New Year!"

After hearing this, Du Yinxi and Zhang Kuang couldn't help being astonished when they took the telegram over to read it.

Obviously, neither of them thought that the telegram could be used to congratulate the New Year.

After recovering, both of them laughed.

Du Yinxi said: "Call back your majesty, and say that the officials, soldiers and people in Beizhili and Shanxi also wish your majesty a happy new year... no, this is a bit perfunctory, I still ask someone to write a few simple congratulatory messages Bar."