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Chapter 333 Let Wu Sangui, the middleman, make the difference
Four days after the first negotiation, Zheng Chenggong took Zhu Shuren's negotiating strategy of remote control and micro-manipulation, found Wu Sangui again, and taught Wu Sangui how to make new conditions to Dorgon.

However, during these four days, Wu Sangui was not idle, nor were other forces idle.

Although large-scale direct battles did not break out in an all-round way, small-scale trials and forced landing attempts never stopped.

So when Zheng Chenggong found Wu Sangui again, the situation changed a lot.Wu Sangui also just gained more bargaining chips, which strengthened his confidence to stay in Shanhaiguan and was reluctant to withdraw all of them.

This key bargaining chip was a former friendly army sent by Li Zicheng to deter Wu Sangui from making an emergency landing, the Tang Tong Department of the Ming Army originally stationed in Miyun.

The last time Zheng Chenggong persuaded Wu Sangui to go south was on the 22th day of the first lunar month, and this time he came to persuade him again on the [-]nd day of the first lunar month.Tang Tong's troops arrived at Shanhaiguan on the [-]th of the first lunar month, and they happened to be stuck between these two time points.

Readers who know a little bit about the history of the late Ming Dynasty will actually notice a fact-in history, when Wu Sangui fought Li Zicheng in a stone war, Wu Sangui's side used about 5 troops, mainly composed of three parts.

The most important main force is of course the Guan Ning Army of Wu Sangui's direct line, with about 2 people.

Secondly, the second part is the troops of Miyun General Soldier Tang Tong, with about 8000 people.

Finally, there are about [-] local recruits in western Liaoning who are strong and brave.This part of the combat power is much weaker, and it cannot be compared with the previous two parts of the nine-sided elite.

The reason why Tang Tong's troops took advantage of Wu Sangui before the decisive battle was also related to Li Zicheng's arrogance and overestimation of his own deterrent power.

Tang Tong was also one of Hong Chengchou's eight generals at the beginning. He was Li Zicheng who surrendered at the Miyun garrison when Beijing was besieged. It was less than a month before he surrendered.

When Li Zicheng persuaded Wu Sangui to surrender, he sent Tang Tong as the vanguard, hoping to use Tang Tong's good personal relationship with Wu Sangui to resolve Wu Sangui peacefully.

Even if the persuasion fails, Li Zicheng intends to let Tang Tong's old army take the lead in attacking Wu Sangui, and let the two original Ming armies fight each other, so as to avoid the death of the direct descendants of the Dashun army.

However, people are not as good as heaven.Li Zicheng's confidence was too overwhelming. He felt that even if Wu Sangui didn't want to surrender immediately, the most he could do was good wine and good food to stabilize Tang Tong and delay time, so he wouldn't dare to tear his face directly.

However, Wu Sangui was determined not to surrender Li Zicheng. When Tang Tong approached him, he dared to detain Tang Tong directly. The former Ming Army Department of Eight Thousand Miyun Headquarters recruited Wu Sangui himself.

(Note: It is said in "History of Ming Dynasty" that Wu Sangui used his righteous name to influence the old department of Tang Tong. But in fact, the author of Ming History also knew the result of this matter itself, and the process and motivation are obviously guesswork.

In fact, I guess the rhetoric of righteousness and loyalty to the first emperor should be useless to veterans. In fact, they still have to rely on paying money and food first, then promising everyone prosperity and wealth, and telling them that there is no future for them to follow Li Zicheng. The flank attack is gone...Anyway, everyone who understands understands it, so there is no money to talk about. )
Li Zicheng gave Wu Sangui [-] elite soldiers for nothing, and the balance of strength between the two sides was further skewed, making Wu Sangui look more capable of fighting.

If things only develop to this point, then it is still controllable.After all, Wu Sangui was able to do so well in history without any cheating.

But now, obviously because of the butterfly effect of the Ming army in Shanhaiguan with sea backup, sea retreat and food roads, Li Zicheng's situation may deteriorate further——

Historically, Tang Tong was not the only one of the Ming troops sent by Li Zicheng to confront Wu Sangui!In the northern area of ​​Beizhili, Tang Tong was not the only Ming army that had to temporarily surrender to the intruders!
In addition to Tang Tong, the commander-in-chief of Miyun, there is also Ma Ke, the commander-in-chief of Jimen. When he surrendered, he was stationed relatively close to Shanhaiguan. Surrender later" and the like.

Moreover, in history, Li Zicheng also sent Ma Ke to participate in the Piece of Stone War in the end, but Ma Ke himself was not sent to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender, so Wu Sangui had no chance to capture the king first and then surrender his tribe.

In addition to Ma Ke, among the original Ming army who had just surrendered to Li Zicheng, there was also Bai Wenxuan who was stationed in Zhangjiakou and Xuanfu. Now, because of the butterfly effect of the sea retreat route provided by Zhu Shuren, there has been a change:

Bai Wenxuan himself was already disheartened and surrendered to the thief, but Gao Jie, one of Bai Wenxuan's subordinates, had a grudge against Li Zicheng for taking his wife. Ming army.

So everyone in the world dared to vote for Li Zicheng, but Gao Jie absolutely did not dare, he knew that as long as he voted for Li Zicheng, he would surely die without a place of burial because of the hatred of taking his wife.

Historically, Gao Jie finally took advantage of the period before and after the collapse of Beijing to break through the encirclement and go southward alone, and arrived in Huaibei. Along the way, he used "When you encounter a city that supports the Ming army, you will use the flag of the Ming army. When you encounter a city that supports the Chuang army, Just play the banner of breaking into the army" This kind of indiscriminate tricks can be considered as fooling around

(Because Gao Jie surrendered to the Ming army under Li Zicheng, he had been in the Chuang army for many years, he knew how to behave in the Chuang army, and he also knew how to disguise himself as a Chuang army with armored flags. Flaws, successfully break through)
Today, Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong have been making troubles in Dagukou, Tianjinwei, Xianghe County and other places before.The troops in the northern area of ​​Beizhili basically knew of their existence, and through various information channels, they learned the news that "Guo Xingye sent reinforcements by sea to meet the northern official army".

Therefore, Gao Jie, or any other potential Ming army along the Hebei Great Wall who had to surrender because the road to the south was cut off, would more or less have a different heart.However, Li Zicheng couldn't figure out who had a different heart, which further exacerbated the internal instability of the intruder.

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It was under such an external environment that Zheng Chenggong conducted a new round of negotiations with Wu Sangui.

Both sides have more bargaining chips, but so far there is no conflict of interest, and the goals of the two sides can also be regarded as the same, but there are differences in the means to achieve the common goal.

Zheng Chenggong got straight to the point, and first showed off Zhu Shuren's proposal with Wu Sangui:

"General Wu, if you don't want to give up Shanhaiguan, I have no right to force you. However, Governor Wang has the final say in this land of Liaoji. If Governor Wang wants to leave, you have to take part of the troops and withdraw southward. You have no right to do so. Obstruction, I hope you can think clearly.

After all, we are still friendly forces, Guo Xingye, Zhang Junmen, and I don't want to go to that unpleasant step. "

Wu Sangui also knew that Zheng Chenggong and the others were assisting Wang Yongji in digging the wall these days, but Wang Yongji was a superior officer, so he might not be able to dig out the Guanning Army, but he must be able to dig out the surrounding Ming Army. So he went along with the flow and made a personal favor:

"What Zheng Xiandi said is not unreasonable. Governor Wang wants to withdraw to the south, and of course this town will not stop him."

After the two sides reached a tacit understanding, Zheng Chenggong struck while the iron was hot and continued: "Although you, General Wu, do not intend to give up Shanhaiguan, Guo Xingye thinks that you should not give up this option as a bargaining chip in negotiating with Dorgon. There are multiple retreats. With more confidence, Dorgon will not have the confidence to lower prices wantonly.

The so-called seek the upper and get the middle, and seek the middle and get the lower.If General Wu wants to win, how can he win from the very beginning?Since General Wu kept saying that he was using expediency and had no choice but to be loyal to Daming in his heart, he should try his best to betray Daming's interests as much as possible! "

Wu Sangui thought for a while: "When negotiating with Dorgon, the empty words demand a high price. This kind of thing is not costly. Of course, this town will do it. But Dorgon is not stupid. Whether the negotiation can be successful depends on our army. Whether the backup support is firm.

If Dorgon can see that my Guanning Army has no shortage of rations, sufficient military pay, and high morale.After seeing His Majesty's martyrdom, the southern provinces are still willing to support our army, so he really believes that I can go south with your army at any time, and persist until the last moment when the army approaches the city.That way, he will really worry that Shanhaiguan will fall into the hands of intruders! "

Speaking of this, Zheng Chenggong also basically understood that Wu Sangui was negotiating conditions in terms of food rewards, as long as the local finance in the south still supports him, then he can cooperate in acting, and at the same time, he will not sell too much profit to Dorgon , I can still turn a blind eye and watch Zheng Chenggong and the others use Wang Yongji's name to pull away some troops.

And the reason why Wu Sangui suddenly became so greedy for money and food at this juncture, and even greedy for money to the point that "as long as you give enough money, you can tolerate part of the trilogy being poached", Zheng Chenggong didn't understand it at first, but soon he also thought about it. Understood:

It was precisely because he made an emergency landing on Tang Tong's part the day before yesterday that Wu Sangui realized how short of money he was right now!
Because Wu Sangui was going to make an emergency landing on the other Nine Frontier Ming armies and resume the fight, the most direct bargaining chip was to immediately throw a large amount of money, pay the full amount, and give extra rewards to win people's hearts quickly!
In the three sides of Hebei on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, there are still tens of thousands of frontier troops of the Ming army.

At this time, whoever can win people's hearts can quickly expand their power.Even if Zheng Chenggong takes away some second-line troops near Shanhaiguan, as long as Wu Sangui is given enough money, Wu Sangui can quickly find more money from other directions!

To put it bluntly, Wu Sangui took the Tang Tong trilogy that had just been persuaded to surrender, and stuffed it with Wang Yongji to take him south, and dismissed the nominal governor above his head. Legally speaking, it did not violate the court's laws!

Even if he gave Wang Yongji [-] soldiers, as long as the money Zhu Shuren gave him allowed him to win [-] soldiers from the shaky Ma Ke, Bai Wenxuan, and Gao Jie, then Wu Sangui could still make a difference of [-]!If you lose money in the east and earn money in the west, you earn more than you lose!

As long as Wu Sangui holds Shanhaiguan, the last sea port in the Liaoji region that retreats south, there will be a steady stream of Hebei Ming troops who want to flee south to contact him!
With such a situation, Wu Sangui was even more reluctant to give up Shanhaiguan and flee south for his own self-interest and the expansion of his personal power!As long as he keeps this nail, he can not only keep the territory run by several generations of his family, but also continue to suck blood, turning himself into the real No. [-] warlord of Liaoji.

Wealth is in danger!
After understanding these ideals, Zheng Chenggong also fully knew that at this juncture, Wu Sangui himself was destined not to leave.

If the conditions he set were to be carried out by another person, it would indeed be harsh—for this matter, Wu Sangui asked for too much money to bribe the friendly army.

But fortunately, Lord Guoxing seems to have been prepared for a long time. He just mentioned in Shen Lian's letter to Zheng Chenggong that if Wu Sangui's request can be settled with money, he will agree to it.

For the Shen family, a problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.

In fact, even if the Shen family doesn't take out the money immediately, Zheng Chenggong, as the manager, can provide this financing turnover, as long as the Shen family agrees to settle the matter afterwards.Zheng Chenggong is also not inferior to Zhu Shuren, who is rich and invincible.

Wu Sangui's deeds colluded with the two richest people on earth today, and it can only be said that they hit it off.

Zheng Chenggong is also very responsible, and he helped the big brother Guo surnamed to complete the negotiation of the specific price.If it's another person, I really don't have the confidence——

After all, if an ordinary wage earner gets orders from the boss, and in an environment where there is no good communication and consultation conditions, he has the full power to negotiate the price, and in the end the negotiation is tens of millions of taels, and he will not worry about being sacked by the boss when he goes back?

During the Chanyuan Alliance, Cao used to cut the Song Dynasty coins from 100 million taels to 30 taels ("If you have to, a million taels are fine"), he escaped Kou Zhun's severe punishment. How can anyone afford the diplomatic responsibility of overpaying or underpaying 70 taels a year?

That is to say, Zheng Chenggong himself is not short of money, he can let go, and he can talk a lot and talk a little, but it is really impossible for someone else to do this.

After some games, Wu Sangui did not stop Zheng Chenggong from poaching people, but set a price on everyone who poached,

Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen dug out a part of Zhang Guozhu, a member of Wu Sangui's direct line army, and thousands of other non-Wu Sangui direct line troops from the Guanning Army went south.Then they gave Wu Sangui enough money and military rations, and promised to make emergency arrangements from the south within half a month if the payment was not enough for the time being.

Anyway, the Shen family has monopolized the Yellow Sea Maritime Trade for three generations, and Shen Tingyang also has bank deposits in Denglai and other places, which can be transferred quickly.And Wu Sangui also knew that the other party's business of "trafficking in military personnel" was not a one-off deal, so he was naturally not afraid of the other party's refusal, at most it was just a payment on credit.

When the next delivery is made, if the other party does not make up the previous payment, Wu Sangui will withhold the next batch of goods and not deliver them, so he will lose a sum of money at most.

Considering the Shen family's good reputation in transporting food in the past four years, Wu Sangui is of course willing to take this risk.

(End of this chapter)