I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 320 Daming Never Gets Offended by His Words
Chapter 319

If there is half a choice, Huang Taiji is willing to make peace with Ning Haijun, but the problem is that he doesn't play cards according to common sense when facing Ning Haijun, and he has nothing to do.

If you fight, you have to be able to fight well.Now they are blocked in Shenyang City by Ning Haijun, and they have nowhere to run. The tall and strong city wall, instead of protecting them, has become a shackle restricting their movements.There are eight city gates in Shenyang City, and Ning Haijun only needs to deploy 2000 people in front of each city gate, and they don't even think about rushing out.

As early as in the Battle of Baliwan, Huang Taiji had a deep memory of Ning Haijun's artillery and thunderbolts. Of course, what he didn't know was that the current Ning Haijun is more powerful than the original Ning Haijun in the Battle of Baliwan. More than several times.

Regardless of the more than 100 rear-loaded rifled guns, if the more than 200 fire dragons come out of the water, thousands of rocket shells can be fired in one salvo. Each rocket shell is loaded with twelve catties of nitrocellulose gunpowder. Yu fired more than three tons of TNT. With this firepower density, let alone the Jiannu of the Ming Dynasty, even the German army during World War I would have to kneel down.

Huang Taiji's decision was too timely, just a few breaths before the Ning Navy artillery fired. If it was ten breaths later, Shenyang City would be turned into a sea of ​​flames, allowing them to enjoy the thrill of ice and fire.

Looking at the envoys who came out with the white flag in Shenyang City, Zhang Yu, who was in charge of commanding the military operations, also heaved a sigh of relief. He looked at Zhou Ning and said, "It's a good thing that Huang Taiji didn't die hard!"

"The commander-in-chief is right, those who wear shoes are afraid of those who are barefoot!"

In fact, Zhou Ning also analyzed Cheng Shijie's decision. If Huang Taiji was unwilling to cooperate and instead resorted to death, then there might be no winners this time.

With the strength of the Ning Navy, it is true that most of the Jiannu can be wiped out, but they are powerless in the face of more than 40 Mongolian troops going south. It will take at least more than a month for them to be deployed. I am afraid that Shaanxi and Beizhili will be in a mess.

I don't know how many people will die because of this blizzard. Fortunately, luckily, Huang Taiji was scared.

The person in charge of negotiating on behalf of Huang Taiji was Da Bei Le Dai Shan. Ning Haijun asked Zhou Ning to be in charge of the reception, and the two sides started negotiations under the city of Shenyang.

Huang Taiji was very angry at this time. What caught him off guard was that when Fan Wencheng arrived in Shenyang, Ning Haijun arrived behind.He picked up the whip and wanted to whip Fan Wencheng. However, the moment he raised the whip, he figured out one thing, that is, he had arranged a lot of sentry horses on the north bank of the Hun River.

Even if Fan Wencheng arrived in Shenyang with Ning Haijun, these sentry cavalry would report to him, but the problem was that these sentry cavalry seemed to have disappeared.

"Fan Qing, what do you think is going on here?"

"This...slaves dare not say it!"

"Forgive your innocence!"

"The slave thinks that the weather is so cold that those sentinel cavalry are not able to support it!"

"Ben Khan has arranged six or seven thousand sentry cavalry, more than 20 bull records, impossible!"

"That is... someone betrayed King Khan!"

In fact, Fan Wencheng's guess was not correct, but two in one. Some Jiannu sentries froze to death while others surrendered to Ning Haijun's steamed buns and hot milk tea.When Ning Haijun decided to act, these sentry cavalry reorganized and surrendered to Ning Haijun. There were more than 4000 people before and after, so Huang Taiji didn't have time to arrange it, and he didn't even have a chance to run.

In the Ning Haijun camp outside Shenyang City, a group of cavalry galloped out. The knights on horseback held a strong bow in their hands, carried a bag of white feather arrows on their backs, and matched with a slender saber. They wore steel helmets and iron armor. They were very well equipped. , and their skills are extremely vigorous, obviously they are all riders who are skilled in bowing and horse riding.Their iconic black cloaks flew up like a banner, and the terrifying aura like a desert wind was overwhelming, and the Jiannu warriors were horrified.

As envoys representing Huang Taiji to negotiate with Ning Haijun, Yue Tuo and Dorgon followed closely behind them, followed by more than [-] cavalry, including Dai Shan, all Jiannu cavalry raised their chests and straightened their waists .Everyone has self-esteem. In the face of natural disasters, the Jiannu ministries are now in extreme distress, almost like dogs in the water, but in front of the Ning Navy cavalry, they still subconsciously want to support the dignity that has long since disappeared, so as not to be caught People look down upon it.

All the Ning Navy cavalry did not say a word, and quickly lined up in two rows, moving quickly, and the formation was as neat as a straight line.There was no glaring, no murderous look, and the aura of a strong army was naturally released with every gesture, which made people dare not despise it a little bit.

The orderly queue separated on both sides, Zhang Yu, Zhao Wencai and Zhou Ning came on horseback, and the cavalry shouted in unison: "General Zhou, General Zhang, and General Zhao are here!"

Dai Shan, Yue Tuo, and Dorgon got off their horses in a hurry, and made an aristocratic courtesy to Zhou Ning, Zhang Yu, and Zhao Wencai: "Dai Shan, Yue Tuo, and Dorgon have seen General Zhou, General Zhang, General Zhao!"

Zhou Ning said with a smile: "Everyone, you don't need to be too polite, it's hard work!"

Zhou Ning took out three bags of wine and handed them to the three of them.He said with a smile: "The frontier is poor, and there is a shortage of expenses. I can't bring out any good things to greet you. I can only offer a bag of wine to express my heart. Come, do it first as a respect!"

Daishan, Yuetuo, and Dorgon were also not polite, and drank booze after receiving the wine.

In fact, Shenyang City is also short of food. As early as winter, Huang Taiji issued a ban on alcohol. No one is allowed to brew alcohol without permission. They have long been addicted to alcohol.

"The aroma is strong, the wine is good, the wine is good!"

"Everyone is proud, please come inside!"

Dai Shan, Yue Tuo, and Dorgon led [-] personal guards into the Ning Navy camp, and when they arrived in a big tent of the Chinese Army, they immediately felt as warm as spring.

This large tent is different from the cowhide tents they used to build slaves. It is actually made of RVs. It is about one foot and eight feet high. The furnace, although the cold wind howls outside, is warm as spring inside, but there is no smoke from the charcoal fire.

What surprised Daishan the most was that there were food and wine in the big tent. The food and wine were not so rich, eight hot dishes and eight cold dishes, eight meat and eight vegetables, but they were all delicious in color, fragrance, and mouth watering just looking at them.

The wine was mixed with potato wine. It was mellow and strong. It was very appetizing to Yuetuo. This guy didn't even have the time to look at Zhou Ning's face. .

Looking at this former opponent, Zhang Yu was speechless: "Have you never eaten?"

"It's been four months!"

Daishan explained: "It's been four months, and I haven't had such a rich meal!"

Although Daishan has not been crowned king now, the problem is that he is now a powerful man second only to Huang Taiji, and even he has such a miserable life, let alone ordinary people.

While eating, a personal guard hurried over and reported to Yue Tuohui: "Master, master, no...it's not good, Ye Chen is dead!"

Yue Tuo was taken aback and said, "Dead? How did he die!"

"He ate so much rice and meat that he was stuffed to death!"

Even the blue veins on Yue Tuo's forehead were bulging one by one, and he wanted to scold him, but he didn't know how to scold him.It's really evil, a samurai who was as strong as a bull died at the dinner table, hell!Ye Chen is Niu Lu Ezhen of his sixth Niu Lu. He is six feet three inches tall and as strong as a bull.

However, the strong man who weighed more than 200 catties had lost weight to less than 160 catties because he had no food to eat. Even his armor looked like a robe.

Zhou Ning said slightly apologetically: "Baile, I'm really sorry, it's my fault, I didn't tell the subordinates to control the supply of food!"

Yue Tuo smiled wryly: "General Zhou, this has nothing to do with you, it's because that idiot is too greedy... In fact, we can't blame him, we haven't had enough food in recent years, suddenly seeing so many delicious foods, he Where can I keep my mouth shut?"

Yue Tuo waved his hand and asked someone to find a place to bury Ye Chen, don't bother him with these crap things.

Zhou Ning found that the predicament encountered by Jiannu was more serious than he had imagined. In fact, there was still food in Shenyang City, and it was not a small amount. There were 10,000+ stones, but there was only so much food left in the whole Kingdom of Jin, which was seriously affected. There are hundreds of tribes affected by the snowstorm, and once the food is divided, there is nothing left.

In this way, the matter of negotiation is much simpler.

After Daishan was full, he patted his stomach and said, "I'm so full, thank you General Zhou for the hospitality! Let's talk about business now?"

"Good talk, good talk!"

Zhou Ning looked at Daishan and said, "Are you really in such a difficult situation now?"

"After the autumn harvest, we don't have much food at all, and we don't even need to eat the skinny livestock. Many herdsmen have reached the point where they have to change their children for food. You can't imagine this kind of embarrassment."

Daishan said with a wry smile: "We are willing to talk and make peace, but how to make peace needs to be made clear. We are not lambs to be slaughtered. If we are not satisfied, we still have more than 100 million people, and more than 100 million people are hungry. A lunatic who is about to die, instead of starving to death here, it is better to fight, even if he dies, he must be a hungry ghost!"

When they heard the words "changing children and eating", both Zhou Ning and Zhang Yu couldn't help but feel slightly moved.I don’t know how many words these four words have appeared in the history books, "Eat when you change your son, and cook when you break a bone". The tragedy of these eight words has exceeded the limit of everyone's psychological endurance, making people uncomfortable. Have the heart to read and think about it.

No matter which side this kind of thing happens on, it is worthy of sympathy, because you are a person first, and a person from any country second. As long as you are a person, there is no way to completely annihilate your conscience!

What's more, in the current Daming, it is not uncommon for people to change their sons to eat. Whether it is Zhou Ning or Changyu, including Zhao Wencai, they have all experienced it.

"Your department is in such a difficult situation, I also express my deep sympathy, and I am willing to help you, but..."

Daishan was startled: "But what?"

"However, Southern Liaoning has been ravaged by the flames of war after all, and it is dilapidated. It has just recovered a little bit of energy, and I am afraid it will not be able to provide much food. Besides, Southern Liaoning has also suffered greatly from this snowstorm!"

Dai Shanxin said anxiously: "We Jurchen men also know good and bad. If you help us, we will do our best to repay you, and we won't let you suffer!"

Daishan knelt down again: "Please, please save us!"

Zhou Ning was a little helpless and said to Dai Shan again: "Speak well if you have something to say, don't kneel at every turn... It is definitely not enough to give you food for free. After working hard for more than half a year, we just have enough food. How can we give it away for nothing? ? But we can open a border market, and you can exchange things!"

Dorgon was overjoyed: "Really!?"

Then he was very frustrated: "Even if you are willing to reopen the border market, I'm afraid we won't be able to exchange anything. Now we have nothing!"

Zhou Ning smiled: "Yes, you have something we need urgently!"

"Is there really? What is that?"

"Horses, your horses!"

Dorgon felt a pain in his heart: "We... we only have less than [-] horses left!"

"You have less than [-] war horses left, so what about the harness horses? Where are the camels?"

"Do you want to draw horses and camels?" In Daishan's impression, the only purpose of Daming opening the border market was to obtain war horses. As for the draw horses, there were many in the pass, and there was no need for them at all.

"Cultivation is inseparable from plows and harrows, and plows and harrows are inseparable from large livestock. It is too far to sell cattle from the pass, the price is expensive, and cattle are also needed in the pass, so I hope you can bring a batch of draft horses and The camels come to exchange food, we each get what we need, you get life-saving food, and we get enough animal power."

After bargaining, the two sides reached a deal at the price of two grains per horse, and at the same time, there were any frozen horses and cattle that could be traded at prices ranging from one grain or eight buckets.It also includes frozen sheep.

Finally back to the topic, Zhou Ning said: "Since I said that, I will say it straight. Our requirements are three points. The first one is to unconditionally release the captured soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty. Your Fan Wencheng said that you have more than 20 people in your hands. This is the first article, allowing you to leave the property and food of more than 20 people, and you can deliver it now, in order to compensate them, everyone, we can give you potatoes or sweet potatoes of the same weight!"

Just as Yue Tuo was about to speak, Daishan waved his hand.

Yue Tuo had no choice but to shut up, because this time Huang Taiji had Dai Shan as the leader, and Dorgon was just cooperating with him.

"The second point is that you Jurchen warriors launched an attack on the Mongols who attacked the Great Wall defense line, and exchanged the heads of the Mongols with us for food. The tentative standard is that each Mongolian head is exchanged for 40 catties of food. It is speculated that There are more than 4000 Mobei Mongols who went south this time, that is to say, as long as you kill these Mongols, you can get no less than [-] million catties of food."

"The third point is to hand over the traitors of the Han army flag. This is the list..."

Human nature is actually like a prostitute. Even if she is reluctant the first time, after taking off her clothes, the second time will be much easier. It is nothing more than asking for a price.

Daishan has no time to delay, because every moment, there are people starving to death in Shenyang City, and what they want to bargain is nothing more than how much food can be exchanged for the soldiers and civilians captured by Daming. The strong, the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled, as well as children, women and children, can these people also be exchanged for food?

Zhou Ning was not fooled. Jiannu collected sixteen tribes and 49 tribes in Monan Mongolia. There were 60 or 10,000 Mongolians. Now, 10,000+ people have died because of the snowstorm.If it can be exchanged for food, they can even cut off [-]+ heads to Ning Haijun immediately.

Zhou Ning discussed repeatedly with Dai Shan and others, and finally decided that children under three feet are not counted, women and children are not counted as old and weak, they are only young and strong. In exchange for grain, once it is discovered, [-] catties of grain will be deducted.

Of course, even if the food cannot be exchanged, the old and weak in Mobei Mongolia will not be able to survive, and Jiannu has no food to feed them.

……

Henan, Ruzhou, Tianxiong army camp.

In May of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng succeeded Tang Hui as the right deputy capital censor and governor of Huguang. He stationed troops in Xiangfan to intercept the peasant army.With the growing momentum of the Peasant Army, the imperial court set up the post of "Prime Minister of the Five Provinces" in August. For the peasant army in the northwest, Lu Xiangsheng was in charge of encircling and suppressing the peasant army in the southeast.

In November, Lu Xiangsheng took advantage of Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang's peasant army to invade Xianling from Nanyang, and hurried to help. Lu Xiangsheng led [-] troops and chased to Ruzhou where the peasant army was located. He ordered Li Chongzhen, Lei Shisheng, Zhou Yuanru and others The joint campaign fought from morning to midnight, and the outcome was still undecided. Lu Xiangsheng then sent the capital commanders Zhu Wenjin, Chen Qimei, etc. to reward the soldiers with glutinous rice, and the soldiers regained their strength. At noon the next day, they defeated the peasant army and beheaded thousands of people. , captured Zilaihu, Yonghu, Gongshanhu, Zhang Xin'er, etc., seized twelve cannons and countless other equipment, and the peasant army fled to the southeast of Lushan Mountain.

Just when Lu Xiangsheng was about to chase after Li Zicheng's remnants, the cabinet minister Wu Zongda suddenly arrived in Ruzhou. Lu Xiangsheng didn't know what medicine Wu Zongda was selling in his gourd, but he entertained Wu Zongda with good wine and food.

After drinking for three rounds and cooking for five tastes, Wu Zongda took out a copy of "Liaodong Times" and put it in front of Lu Xiangsheng, and Lu Xiangsheng read it all at once.It's just a pity that Lu Xiangsheng's performance was not as Wu Zongda imagined, but he watched it over and over again with great interest.

In front of Lu Xiangsheng, he had read that rebellious article several times, and his reaction was intriguing.

Any scholar who reads this article will jump into a rage, bark his teeth and claws, and curse endlessly. The worst thing is to shoot at the case and curse with a halberd. However, Lu Xiangsheng did not respond. After reading it several times, he calmly put down the newspaper. Pick up the teacup and drink tea.

This made Wu Zongda 120 upset.His mood is like some women who come out for a date in the later generations. After finally meeting a man with excellent manners and pleasing speech and behavior, but the conversation was very happy, but after the meal, the other party was lukewarm and cold. up.

This made the girl very upset. My old lady came all the way to Ruzhou, and she was short of your meal?Missing your cup of tea?

Wu Zongda's current expression was somewhat resentful, knowing that whoever speaks first must be passive, he still couldn't help it, and asked with a trace of anger: "Jiandou, you can still sit still?"

Lu Xiangsheng looked indifferent: "Jiandou doesn't understand what Master Wu means."

Wu Zongda snorted angrily: "The overwhelming snowstorm in the north has caused countless people to cry in despair and complain. This is because His Majesty favors and trusts his courtiers, and the gods are furious, sending down such natural disasters to wake up Daming!"

The more Wu Zongda spoke, the louder he said: "All people with insight can't bear to see the loss of life, and they have written to implore your majesty to punish their own sins and punish the courtiers, in order to ask for forgiveness from God. This is a matter of course! And that courtier wants to save his life... "

Even if Wu Zongda said that the courtier was Cheng Shijie, he was still afraid that Lu Xiangsheng would not understand what he was referring to, so he pointed to Cheng Shijie's name on the newspaper and said, "That courtier... is so mad that he threw out such a demonic book, confusing black and white, and making demonic words." Confusing the crowd, trying to subvert the laws of heaven, and now the whole country is outraged, and the people all over the world are asking His Majesty to take down this insane person and cut him into pieces to appease the public anger!"

Lu Xiangsheng looked at his nose with his eyes, and his heart with his nose, and remained unmoved.

Wu Zongda pointed to Lu Xiangsheng and said, "You, you, Lu Jiandou, as the Marquis of Ming Dynasty, a great official in the frontiers, has been deeply favored by the emperor. He should stand up and plead for the people. Why are you so indifferent? Jiandou, you really disappointed me." !"

Lu Xiangsheng sighed, put down his teacup, bowed his hands to Wu Zongda, and said, "Lord Wu, calm down. Although there are some inappropriate things in Hai Guogong's article, there are some things that cannot be ignored."

"Oh!"

Wu Zongda sneered all over his face: "That courtier is justified?"

"Master Wu, look, for example, from the 28th year of Wanli to the present, more than [-] years have passed, and disasters have occurred frequently in the Great Tomorrow. Shenzong, Xizong, and the current emperor have all issued edicts of guilt many times, and the courtiers have also been punished. There are few, but natural disasters are getting worse and worse every year. Why? Looking back at history, every time there is a natural disaster, which emperor did not sin against himself in fear and sincerity, and sincerely repent? But the natural disaster is still relentless ..."

Lu Xiangsheng noticed that Wu Zongda's face was getting darker and darker, so he stopped talking and sighed: "I'm afraid there is something wrong with the theory that we have been convinced for thousands of years. It doesn't make sense..."

boom!
Before Xiang Sheng could finish speaking, Wu Zongda was so angry that his beard and hair were full of hair. He slapped the table with his palm so hard that the teacup jumped.His eyes burst into flames, he stood up and pointed at Lu Xiangsheng, roaring angrily: "Lu Jiandou, you...you actually believe his nonsense!? Do you know what you are talking about!?"

Lu Xiangsheng said calmly, "Jiandou naturally knows."

Wu Zongda let out a loud roar: "That thief deceived the public with his evil words, subverted the laws of heaven, and committed a heinous crime. Everyone should be punished! You agree with his fallacies and heresies, do you also want to be like him and become a sinner through the ages!?"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Master Wu, Daming has never been punished for his words. Everyone has the right to speak. It is really inappropriate to put a big hat on the other party when encountering different opinions!"

PS: Thank God, the call finally came. Beijing flooded, Zhuozhou was flooded, water was everywhere, and there was a wail. God bless Hebei. The next chapter may be delayed. Lao Cheng doesn’t know when the power will be cut off, and he doesn’t know when he needs to evacuate.

(End of this chapter)