Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 53 Li Yan is enlightened, justifiably

Hearing what the red lady said, Li Yan was taken aback for a moment, and then a look of shame appeared on his face.

But then he gritted his teeth, bowed to Aimee Zhu with a blushing face, "Forgive me, Your Highness, I have been with the Chuangjun soldiers for several years, and I really can't bear them to make such a major mistake.

I implore Your Highness to allow me to dissuade you from this matter—I guarantee with my life that I will never reveal any of Your Highness's secrets! "

"Li Xin!" The red lady stood up first upon hearing the words, glared at Li Yan, and called him by his real name.

Obviously, Hong Niangzi was annoyed by her husband's choice.

On the other side, seeing this scene, Hao Guangming knew why Li Zicheng wanted to kill Li Yan.

To tell the truth, most of Li Yan's personality would offend people everywhere, if he is not a very tolerant monarch, he might not be able to tolerate him.

In history, wasn’t he killed because he persuaded Li Zicheng not to proclaim himself emperor again in the capital after Dashun’s great defeat at Yipianshi, proclaimed himself a minister to the Nanming Hongguang court, and joined forces with Nanming to fight against the Qing Dynasty?

Think about it, Li Zicheng broke through the capital and knocked Chongzhen down from the throne, how could he go to profess his minister to the successor Nanming Emperor?
However, Li Yan is indeed a good person and quite capable.

So Hao Guangming continued to give advice to Aimee Zhu.

When the couple Li Yan and Hong Niangzi were "at war", Auntie Zhu smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Li, do you think that in history you have never warned me after you learned about this?"

Just one sentence stunned Li Yan.

That's right, the matter of extorting salaries from the officials and nobles in the capital of the Ming Dynasty is not something that can be done just by doing it, and he will definitely have the opportunity to persuade Li Zicheng when he learns about it.

But since this incident still happened in history, it means that Li Zicheng failed to listen to his persuasion.

Just like before, he persuaded Li Zicheng to agree to manage the grain in the capital, and then tried to get food from outside to come over, but Li Zicheng didn't accept it.

Li Yan remembered that in the past Li Zicheng was still able to listen to his opinions.

For example, he proposed "respecting the virtuous and courteous, eliminating violence and caring for the people", "doing benevolence and righteousness under the pretense (borrowing) and banning soldiers and looting, so as to attract people's hearts and minds for great things."

He even made up folk songs such as "Open the gate to welcome King Chuang, but when King Chuang comes, he doesn't pay for food", "Open the door early to greet King Chuang, and discipline everyone to be happy", etc., were all made up by him for people to spread.

It was Li Zicheng's acceptance of these suggestions that he was able to grow rapidly in Henan, and thus transformed from a bandit to a rebel army, and embarked on the road of establishing Dashun.

So when did Li Zicheng refuse to listen to his opinions?
It seems that there have been signs of this since he proclaimed himself emperor in Jianyuan, Xi'an.

After the siege of the capital, it was already very obvious.

When the Dashun army broke through the capital, Li Zicheng sat on the dragon chair in the Forbidden City, and even showed disgust when he raised his opinion.

Thinking of this, Li Yan suddenly realized something.

Perhaps Dashun's failure has become inevitable and cannot be changed at all.

So he closed his eyes, let out a long breath, bowed to Aimee Zhu again, and said earnestly: "Thank you for your advice, Your Highness. From today onwards, only His Highness and Daming are in confidence, and there will be no more Li Zicheng and Dashun."

Auntie Zhu couldn't help smiling happily when she heard this.

The red lady clapped her palms and said, "That's right, Xianggong, then Li Zicheng doesn't look like an emperor—I've never heard of a founding emperor who was blind in one eye.

Besides, it's not uncommon for Chuangjun to be like a gentleman before he met him. "

Hao Guangming heard Hong Niangzi's words, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, Hong Niangzi is indeed a rare female hero. Although she is not as knowledgeable and insightful as Li Yan, she can see people and things as if she has a mirror in her heart.

Since Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising in Shenzhou, when they shouted "the princes and generals are better than each other", there are more than one potential dragons who have risen from the bottom, but only Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang can become real dragons in the end.

Most of them are people like Huang Chao, Li Zicheng, Hong Xiuquan, etc. who have achieved certain achievements and become inflated, drifting away, and forget about it.

Why is Tang Taizong Li Shimin praised?

It is because he became the emperor, he is still more able to listen to opinions, and has the allusion of "using people as a mirror can show gains and losses".

The three sat down again, and Li Yan's mentality was completely different from before.

He has already figured it out - he has not been able to dissuade things in history, and now he may not be able to persuade him in advance.

It is even possible that Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin listened to his words and raised their salaries in advance by copying salaries from all the officials and nobles in the capital.

Since Dashun is doomed to fail, he might as well concentrate on planning for the future resistance to the Qing Dynasty and the revival of Daming.

"What plans does Your Highness have in the future?" Li Yan asked after calming down.

He had to know Aimi Zhu's plan before he could make a suggestion.

Of course, if Auntie Zhu hasn't made a clear plan yet, he can also help make plans.

Li Yan didn't know that Hao Guangming had already made plans for Auntie Zhu.

Therefore, Auntie Zhu heard the words with confidence and said: "I want to invite the two of you to lead the troops to follow me to Sichuan."

"Go to Sichuan?" Li Yan looked thoughtful after hearing this, "Your Highness is planning to use Sichuan as the foundation for resisting the Qing Dynasty and revitalizing the Ming Dynasty?"

"That's right." Aunt Zhu nodded, "The land of Sichuan can not only guard against the invasion of Jiannu with numerous passes, but also connect the southeast with the Yangtze River.

In addition, if there is no major change in the affairs in the south, my Uncle Fu Wang will ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor in Nanjing soon, Jianyuan Hongguang.

And Zhang Xianzhong will take the opportunity to invade Sichuan, and break through the Chongqing government in June, and invade Chengdu in August, where he proclaims himself emperor and establishes Daxi.

Now Zhang Xianzhong should stop at Wan County in eastern Sichuan. If we can get ahead of him, enter Sichuan, and integrate the forces of our Ming Dynasty, we will be able to block Zhang Xianzhong in eastern Sichuan, and even drive him out of Sichuan.

Going further, we can unite the Huguang official army and the Shun army that will be routed southward in the future, defeat Zhang Xianzhong, and absorb the available generals and soldiers of his troops. "

After hearing this, Li Yan nodded slightly, obviously approving of Hao Guangming's plan for Auntie Zhu.

But then he frowned slightly, showing a look of hesitation.

Aimee Zhu asked: "Young Master Li, do you think there is something inappropriate about my plan?"

Seeing this, the red lady couldn't help urging, "Sir, why did you become a mother-in-law? Just speak up when you have something to say?"

Li Yan sighed: "Princess's plan can be said to be far-sighted, taking into account the general trend of the world, but neglecting a very important thing."

"what's up?"

"Princess's identity?" Li Yan looked at Aimee Zhu with regret, "If the princess is a man, if she is a prince, even if she is not a prince, there will be no problem with this plan, and she will be able to command the world in a legitimate way in the future.

Even if King Nafu establishes a new court in Nanjing first, he may not be able to compete with us for the name of orthodoxy.

It's a pity that you are only a princess. Even if you have great supernatural powers and are favored by destiny, if you don't see this with your own eyes, others will definitely not believe it.

So, even if you go to Sichuan, how can you order all parties?It should be noted that if the name is not right, the words are not right. "

Auntie Zhu laughed when she heard this.

"It turns out that Mr. Li is worried about this matter. Don't worry, my father has already considered this matter."

Now Li Yan was surprised again.

Chongzhen has already considered it?

What could that fatuous and incompetent emperor have considered earlier?
If he had this ability, how could Da Ming be corrupted so quickly?

Just when Li Yan questioned Chongzhen's ability, he heard Zhu Wei continue: "Father left an imperial edict ordering me to supervise the country as the eldest princess, and even handed over the 24 seals used by the Ming emperor to me.

With this imperial edict, the status of supervisor of the country, and the 24 seals of the Ming emperor, Mr. Li thinks that my actions in the future can be regarded as justified? "

(End of this chapter)