Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 774 Joint Trial of Hong Chengchou

Hong Chengchou uttered a lot of fallacies, but they were mixed with a lot of truth, which made all the veterans blush, but it was difficult to refute.

The demise of the Ming Dynasty was due to the accumulated disadvantages of several generations, but it is also true that Chongzhen had fifty ministers in one dynasty. In today's information-rich world, I am afraid that the country will also be in turmoil. In the Ming Dynasty, where information is inconvenient, perhaps officials from Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan and Guizhou received an administrative order from Zhang Xianggong one step earlier. The government's policy platform has been overthrown, and new decrees have begun to be formulated.

Moreover, Chongzhen really had a good face, and people with a good face were often unwilling to take responsibility, and they were merciless in killing people, basically there was no such thing as a crime or meritorious service.

For example, Zheng Chongjian's death was a bit wronged, and Chen Xinjia was even more wronged. It was clearly negotiated and agreed to follow the secret decree to negotiate peace with the Qing Dynasty, but the news leaked. Instead, he directly killed Chen Xinjia, which chilled many people's hearts.

With the example of Chen Xinjia, no one dared to talk about peace anymore. When moving south, Chongzhen had a good face, so he couldn’t take the initiative to propose it. Afterwards, if there were any changes, such as the fall of Beijing and the emperor was unwilling to take responsibility, the person who proposed to move to the south would definitely die, and no one would dare to mention it again.

Some ministers who still have a conscience, they retreated to the next best thing, and asked Chongzhen to send the prince to Nanjing, but~

Hong Chengchou uttered nonsense in the hall. Wang Yan was not angry at his belittlement of Chongzhen, because there were truths in it, but these truths could not be the reason for him to defect to the Qing court and harm the Han people.

Wang Yanduan sat, squinting at Hong Chengchou, he was irritated by Hong Chengchou's righteousness.

"Hong Chengchou, you were a Jinshi in the 44th year of Wanli, you were captured in the 15th year of Chongzhen, and you were an official of our Ming Dynasty for 26 years. Whose food did you eat, whose money did you use? Whose respect did you receive?" Wang Yan suddenly He picked up the teacup next to him and slammed it on the table, causing the tea to splash everywhere.

Hong Chengchou is a very talented person. He listened to Wang Yan's words and saw that he ignored Yizong, so he understood what Wang Yan meant, and directly grasped his vital points and loopholes.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Wang Yan stood up and reprimanded loudly: "You eat the food of the people of Ming Dynasty, spend the money of the people, and receive the respect of the people. How do the people of Ming Dynasty treat you? What enmity do you have with you? If you learn from your ancestor’s birthday, this feudal clan can still forgive you, and the people can understand you, but you are a Han, and the people have raised you for 26 years and respected you as an official of your parents, but you help Donglu wantonly kill the people of Ming Dynasty, Let the dog eat your conscience?"

Wang Yan yelled violently, and the hall was silent. After he finished speaking, he took a few heavy breaths before sitting down again.

When a person wants to do something, there is more or less a reason, and when he does a bad thing that hurts nature and reason, he will often find a reasonable reason.

It’s not about convincing others, but about convincing one’s own conscience, or simply selectively forgetting and not remembering, so as not to be condemned by conscience all the time, this is human nature.

The Qing soldiers slaughtered wantonly, and Hong Chengchou had been educated in Confucianism for so many years. He had to find a reason for himself, otherwise he would live in condemnation all the time, and he would go crazy if he couldn't last the time.

"I took refuge in the Qing Dynasty and worked for the Qing Dynasty for the sake of the people of the world." Facing Wang Yan's questioning, Hong Chengchou said calmly after being silent for a while.

"Hong Bandit, don't you want to lose face!" Wan Ji was really going crazy today. He pointed at Hong Chengchou and cursed, then suddenly turned around and gave Wang Yan a salute, and said in a hateful voice: "Your Highness, Hong Bandit is full of nonsense, I beg for orders immediately!" Cut it up!"

Hearing Hong Chengchou's words, Wang Yan felt annoyed, but he didn't agree, and said to Wang Wanji in a cold voice: "Mr. Wange, why not listen to his heresy? Killing him now, he thought he was really justified. "

Seeing this, Hong Chengchou knew with his intelligence that he would surely die, so he simply let go and dared to say anything.

He glanced at everyone in the hall, and there were not many people who could fall into his eyes. He didn't think he had many mistakes, so he didn't feel that he was inferior to others in terms of morality, so he was very righteous.

"The Ming Dynasty has gone through more than 270 years, and the accumulated evils are hard to change. The disease is deeply rooted, and the breath is exhausted. The northern rogues have caused disasters for more than ten years. They have repeatedly suppressed and rebelled. The people have long been in dire straits. The Ming Dynasty does not have the ability to stabilize the world, so if I help the Qing Dynasty win the tripod, I will end the troubled times ahead of time and give the common people a stable world, so what's wrong with that?"

Bypassing Yizong and not mentioning it, Wang Yan opened up a way of thinking for all the ministers. This time without Wang Yan's words, Gu Yuanjing immediately exploded into anger and smashed the teacup in spite of his demeanor, interrupting Hong Chengchou, " It’s nonsense and nonsense, why do you think that the Ming Dynasty can’t stabilize the world, and the entry of the Qing soldiers will bring nothing but blood and rain to the world.”

Even Chen Bangyan couldn't help it, and cursed: "A stable world? Where is the stability of the eastern captives? Hong thief, don't be afraid, Changping, Jiading, Jiangyin, Kunshan, Songjiang, Jinhua, Zhaozhou, Caozhou, etc. Did the people of Daming who died in the city turn into ghosts and come looking for you?"

Chen Bangyan's words made Hong Chengchou startled. He raised his hand that was chained, and wiped the tea on his face and the blood on his forehead with his arm.

The ministers in the hall, already furious by his words, stood up one by one, pointed at him and cursed, wishing to beat him to death immediately, "Kill everyone, this is the stability you brought."

"The backbone of my Han people is almost completely suppressed by the Manchus. What kind of stability do you bring? Is it the peace of being a cow and a horse?"

Hong Chengchou felt a buzzing in his ears, and faced with so many spittle, he suddenly roared louder: "Without me, more Han people would die!"

"Even without me, Hong Chengchou, the Qing soldiers would have to go south. The more fierce the resistance in the south of the Yangtze River, the more people the Qing soldiers would kill. How many of you pious people really care about the life and death of ordinary people? Jiangnan, but because I stabilized Jiangnan, how many small people were saved from the disaster of swords and soldiers?" Hong Chengchou said with his eyes wide open, and said that he did not repent at this time.

"What do you mean, when the Donglu come over, kill our people, rob our food, take our money, destroy our culture, destroy our clothes, we don't have to resist, just let them go, that's fine, no need Dead, isn't it?" Wang Yan stood up from his seat, walked towards Hong Chengchou step by step, and asked loudly, "You mean, you stabilized Jiangnan for the eastern captives, collected food and taxes, recruited and organized green camps, and made the Qing court have The strength continues to invade Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian, killing and massacring the Han people, and it is also for the people of the world to reduce the number of deaths, right?"

Hong Chengchou was at a loss for words for a while, the reasons he made for himself could not stand up to scrutiny after all, but he could comfort his own conscience if he didn't delve into it, and if others didn't bring it up, but now that it was put on the table, it was everywhere. It's a flaw.

But Wang Yan stared at him fiercely. After a while, he suddenly said: "Wang Shiheng, if the Qing Dynasty can quickly destroy the Ming Dynasty, I don't think I have any fault. The changes of dynasties in the past are all bloody rivers. I I thought that if the Ming Dynasty was exhausted, helping the Qing Dynasty to establish a new dynasty would end the suffering of the common people. But I was wrong. People in the world thought of Han, and you fought back. If I help the Qing Dynasty, it will be It just adds to the suffering of the little people."

Hong Chengchou seemed submissive, but in fact he was still arguing. He thought his fault was just bad luck, or that Da Ming was not wiped out by a wave.

"You also know people who think about Han? Do you know why people think about Han? Do you know what the Manchus are? You don't need to think about this question, but the scholar-bureaucrats are the backbone and spirit of the great Han. The Manchus want to kill them. Enslaving the entire Han nationality may be nothing to the ordinary people, but once the backbone of the nation is also enslaved, the nation has lost its spirit and thought, how can the nation move forward, even if there are people with signs and symptoms, what does it have to do with raising a group of pigs? Different? Is China still China? You want to lead me, the Han, into the endless abyss!"

(End of this chapter)