Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 131 Qingsi Mingzhi
Wu Sangui laughed: "It's pretty good now, Zhu Youxiao doesn't have such a big appetite to eat us, and we don't need to make trouble with him. It doesn't matter whether we are the king of the country, or he, Zhu Youxiao, can be crowned king. If you can be a vassal, let's go out, there is no need to follow the Tartars here, lose your own strength, and get a reputation for disloyalty."

Wu Xiang thought about it, so she turned around and told her lieutenant general, "According to your son's order, the whole army should turn around and leave the customs to return to Jinzhou."

Wu Sangui was in a bad mood. He didn't expect the court to learn the news of his father's collusion with the Tartars so quickly, and he didn't expect Zhu Youxiao to be so open-minded, able to tolerate his father's rebellion and even be named a prince. Such a king It is definitely not the faint king that I thought in the past.

Moreover, the king who can tolerate this often has a stronger desire for revenge. Wu Sangui can imagine that when Zhu Youxiao's army is strong enough in the future, his own Wu family will definitely end up worse than Zu Dashou!
"Father, although Zhu Youxiao granted us the title of king, he will never let it go. We have to make plans frequently."

Wu Sangui said with a cold face.

"What my son said is very true. After I conquer Liaodong, I will farm the fields to raise soldiers and accumulate strength." Although Wu Xiang is not as strategic as his son, he is used to being a miser and knows the importance of farming.

But Wu Sangui poured a basin of cold water on him, only to hear Wu Sangui sighed and said: "I'm afraid it will be difficult, Zhu Youxiao canonize your father as King of Liao, it's not just that you can't turn your face now, it's also because he already has back chess. , even this chess piece was placed by him a long time ago, no, there is more than one chess piece, there should be three chess pieces now, with these three chess pieces, we are the same as the Tartars back then, and there will be no peace for a day."

"Three chess pieces, which three?" Wu Xiang hurriedly asked.

"Mao Wenlong from Dongjiang Town to Lushun and Denglai, and Yuan Chonghuan, who was sent to North Korea by Zhu Youxiao not long ago and has controlled thousands of North Korean soldiers and built his own vassal town, and the Liaodong elite Mangui who has not suffered any losses. , These three chess pieces have become horns, and they are all loyal to the Ming court, and the future victory or defeat will depend on whether these three chess pieces can be pulled out."

Hearing what Wu Sangui said, Wu Xiang couldn't help but nodded, and then sighed: "In your opinion, what should we plan now?"

"First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to the imperial court. The reason is naturally that I failed to do my best for His Majesty. I feel very guilty about being crowned king. In the future, I can only work hard to protect Liaodong for Daming, and I will never betray Daming again. Let’s embrace the Celestial Dynasty together, and then ask the imperial court for support. Since entering the customs, in order to avoid falling into Zhu Youxiao’s tongue, our Guan Ning family has never done anything wrong to the people in the customs. Why not scrape the ground three feet now, Accumulate wealth to prepare for recruiting troops in the future."

After Wu Sangui said, Wu Xiang couldn't help asking: "Isn't this no doubt about the bandits, and Zhu Youxiao will hate us even more when the time comes."

"I already hate it so much, what's the difference if it goes deeper? I don't believe that Zhu Youxiao will send Jinyiwei to Liaodong to arrest us and return to Beijing for questioning. Moreover, if we leave a mess for him to deal with, we will be able to develop more stably. A few days."

What Wu Sangui said, Wu Xiang also thought it was true, and after the two of them passed Yongping City, they began to plunder and massacre wantonly, and the people in the land of Yanzhao suffered another death.

……

Huang Taiji led the main forces of the Eight Banners to Hejiabao. What surprised him was that as soon as he arrived, countless Ming troops appeared on the walls of Hejiabao, and the size of them was not only 5000. According to the news back, there are less than four thousand riders in the Mangui tribe.

Huang Taiji looked at Fan Wencheng in surprise: "What's going on?"

Fan Wencheng was also deeply puzzled, and he hesitated and didn't know what to say.

"Wu Xiang's Guan Ning Army, why hasn't it appeared for so long?" Huang Taiji glared at Fan Wencheng viciously. Fan Wencheng was so frightened that sweat rolled down his forehead, and he knelt on the ground in a hurry: "Khan, please let me go!" The slave has finished speaking, it seems that something has changed in this matter, I am afraid that the secret has been leaked."

"Go, go back immediately!" Huang Taiji also secretly felt that something was wrong, so he turned his horse around and was not in the mood to deal with Fan Wencheng. A large group of Ming troops appeared hundreds of miles away, what should we do now?"

Huang Taiji looked at the Baylors on the left and right, as well as the majestic Eight Banners soldiers riding horses in the distance. He really wanted to directly order his Eight Banners main force to rush out of the encirclement and out of the pass.

But such a result will inevitably lead to a great loss of Houjin's strength. Not only will he lose his position in the future, but I am afraid that Houjin will return to the existence that could only be a vassal of the Ming Dynasty decades ago, living on the charity of the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and endured it. He did not choose to draw his sword and shout, but called Duoduo over: "Your arrow skills are superb, shoot a letter to the Ming army in the city, and let them pass it to Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty. We ask for peace."

"Begging for peace?"

Mang Gurtai and the Eight Banners Baylor were stunned, and Fan Wencheng also looked at Huang Taiji in puzzlement.

Dai Shan even spoke first: "Khan, why do we have to seek peace with Minggou? We are not seriously injured in the Eight Banners now. At worst, we can rush out if we fight them again!"

"Yes, Great Khan, since Khan announced the Seven Great Hatreds, we have never been submissive to the Ming court. Why should we submit to the Ming court now? Please let me be the vanguard now, and give Zhu Youxiao's head to you." Come!" Some younger Eight Banners military aristocratic generals such as Duoduo didn't understand even more.

Dorgon was as silent as Huang Taiji, and bowed his hands to Huang Taiji, and then shouted: "Everyone wants to make peace with that little Zhu family when you are a big sweat, but we have lost a lot of Eight Banners warriors now." , if there is another war, what will be left behind by our Jurchen Tripartite will only be a large number of orphans and widows. The big man can bend and stretch, but now he can only ask the Ming court for peace. It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years. "

Dorgon's words made Huang Taiji very pleased, but he was also a little uneasy. His younger brother was so capable, and no ruler in a high position would be happy.

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Here, Zhu Youxiao also learned about the looting and massacre of the people of Yanzhao when Wu Xiang's troops left again.

"Within three days, more than 16 civilians were killed, including more than [-] gentry and above. The whole family of Liu Zhenghe, the former minister of Taipusi, was killed, and the whole family of Zuo Shilang, the former Nanjing Ministry of Rites, was killed. Countless villages became extinct. , the number of refugees increased to tens of thousands.”

After listening to Jin Yiwei's report, Zhu Youxiao's lip was already bleeding, and at the same time, the commanders of the Imperial Guard battalions who were present also asked for orders to fight to punish Wu Xiang's troops.

But Zhu Youxiao did not agree to them, but resolutely pulled out his sword and cut off a strand of his own black hair.

"Your Majesty!" Cutting off one's hair and head, in the eyes of the ancients, cutting off one's own hair is not a trivial matter, let alone His Majesty today, the battalion commanders all knelt down, feeling like a knife was twisting their hearts.

"One day, if we can't kill all of Wu Xiang's troops, I will thank the people of Yanzhao with my death!"

Zhu Youxiao said that Bijian slapped the black hair heavily on the table, and the commanders of each battalion were stunned for a long time. Everyone didn't know what to say, but their hatred for Wu Shi undoubtedly deepened several layers.

When Zhu Youxiao came back, the room was already full of blue hair.

　Thank you book friends who are obsessed with chemistry for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)