Liang Shifa finished speaking, took a small bag from the attaché, and said respectfully: "It is not easy for adults to be in Beijing, and Zhu Shaodong also said that the situation in Beijing is complicated now, and it is not as usual than usual, and the expenses of adults have increased a lot. Here is a small respect, not a respect. ”

Lord Chen didn't care, if he wanted to make money with his status and status, he would have already made a lot of money, and he was also from a big family, so he wouldn't take ordinary property in his eyes at all.

It's just that the situation has been really special recently, and it is inconvenient to communicate with the family, and at the same time, a lot of income such as Bing Jing and Tan Jing are gone. I also have to take out a lot of family resources to find out the news, get acquainted with the upstarts in Beijing, and create my own reputation to build momentum...... The cost is indeed too big, and gradually there is a little bit of making ends meet, Liang Shifa handed over the small bag, the adult surnamed Chen glanced at it, and handed it over again, and felt a sinking in his hand when he started it, and when he opened it again, sure enough, the bag was all gold ingots, and this bag was at least worth a thousand taels of silver, compared to Zhu Wanchun's request for help, the respect of a thousand taels of silver was indeed worth a lot.

The Lord surnamed Chen, who is also Chen Mingxia, is indeed the most outstanding representative of the young Zhuang officials who are now from the south who are staying in Beijing, and there is no one.

Ming officials should not only look at their grades, but also look at their names, family backgrounds, knowledge, skills, and prestige among officials and jinshi in the same year.

It can be said that with the retirement of some bigwigs of this dynasty or going south, most of the young Zhuang faction in Donglin also stayed in Nandu or Jiangnan, Zhejiang, and Chen Mingxia, who stayed in Beijing, has become a leader in Shilin.

There was originally Gong Dingyu who could fight with Chen Mingxia, this person is also famous, and has a wide range of contacts, there are many celebrities in the south and Gong Dingyu are close friends, poetry and singing, purely in terms of literary names, Wu Weiye, Gong Dingyu, and Qian Qianyi have probably set the pattern of the three families.

The rest of the so-called four sons of the Restoration Society, as well as Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu and other later generations, are either depressed at this time, or have not experienced the pain of losing the country, and they cannot be compared with the former in terms of ideological realm. As for Zhang Dai and others are pure literati, after all, if they want to enter the officialdom as a prominent official, the first step is to enter the scholar and the first is a threshold, many so-called celebrities and great talents, some people have not been selected to show their talents, some people have not been lifted, some people cannot enter the scholars, no matter how great the talent is, it cannot reach the threshold of fame.

Only those who are inside the door are qualified, and those who are outside the door are still outside the door, Huang Zongxi is a layman, and later he has been teaching for many years, distorting the history of the Ming Dynasty, and he barely got a big qualification.

In terms of doing things, it is not as good as Qian Qianyi, although Qian Qianyi surrendered, he later woke up and took the risk to do a lot of great things that were beneficial to Nanming, his family became the military intelligence center of Nanming, secretly helped countless loyal ministers and righteous people, and also taught a good apprentice like Zheng Chenggong, Qian Qianyi just failed to die and martyrdom, when it comes to sincerity, don't talk about those so-called talents, even if it is a martyr like Zodiac Zhou Liu Zong, its real role is really not as good as Qian Qianyi who descended to the Qing Dynasty.

It's just a fake sentence that the water is too cold and has saddled the old money with hundreds of years of infamy......

As for Chen Mingxia, in the Chongzhen period, he was in the middle of the matter, commonly known as the section chief, which has been achieved to the extreme in the Qingliu Branch, as long as he turns around, he can be Jingqing or go to the local government as a big official, which can already be said to be a high authority.

It has not yet been officially cleared, but the right talent Tang Ruowang and others came to persuade him to surrender. These priests had already connected with the Qing nobles, could speak, and promised to bring Chen Mingxia to the Manchurian high-level for him.

Although it is a nobleman who is not involved in the princely level, but ministers such as Gushan Ezhen of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the priests are already able to talk.

Chen Mingxia did not leave Beijing, in fact, he was already waiting for the price to sell, and now the price offered by the priests is good, and he has been touched in his heart.

He is different from Gong Dingyu, who is a ridiculous prostitute, has a good reputation, has a tough wrist, and can protect people, so he really has some henchmen.

As long as Chen Ming Xia is willing to surrender, many middle-aged and young Ming Dynasty officials will also surrender, and they can rise to the top in the court system of the Qing court, and it is still very certain that they will enter the inner courtyard within ten years.

Chen Mingxia is hesitating now about two things, one is that although Li Zicheng was defeated and fled, there is still an army of millions on the surface, and it is still unknown whether he can make a comeback.

The second is what the strength of Nanming is, others don't know, but Chen Mingxia knows that the north has been extremely ruined, not only the Gyeonggi region is ruined, but also Shandong, Henan, not only have suffered disasters for many years, but also the battlefield of the rogue and the court officers and soldiers in the past ten years.

With these provinces, together with Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu, which have always been poorer, it is categorically impossible to raise troops.

Raising tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers is not a problem, after all, compared with the Ming Army, the Eight Banner Soldiers only have 60,000 Ding and more than 100,000 people, plus Liaodong's hometown wants to feed the soldiers of this Ming Town, even if it is a ruined north, it can be done.

But with more than 100 state capitals and more than 1,000 counties in several northern provinces, how can they defend it with tens of thousands of soldiers?

This is bound to accept a large number of surrendered troops and generals, including Wu Sangui and King Sanshun and the Eight Banners of Mongolia, plus the Ming Dynasty surrendered generals and officials, and it is absolutely difficult to maintain such a large territory without a stable financial income.

If only the northern provinces are relied on, the Eight Banners can be held for a while with the current deterrent power, but after a long time, the local area is ruined and unable to raise troops, and the generals will either run away and return to the Southern Ming Dynasty or surrender to Li Zicheng, or directly occupy the local situation of becoming a feudal town, and the Eight Banners will be exhausted, either retreat outside the pass, or be dragged to death in the end, and there is absolutely no other possibility.

In addition to the war in the north of Huguang, there is also Sichuan lost to Zhang Xianzhong and was not lightly tossed, and most of the rest of the territory is in good condition, as long as the wealth is straightened out, the potential is much greater than that of the ruined north.

In fact, if the Southern Ming Dynasty was in harmony with the Qing army, maintained a million-dollar army and confronted the Qing army, Nanjing held the Huai River line, Jingxiang in the middle was stabilized, and Yunnan-Guizhou held the Sichuan channel, then the Qing army would not be allowed to go south for at least a few years.

If it drags on for a long time, the north will still collapse.

Without the financial supply of grain in the south of the Yangtze River, the collapse of the north is inevitable, which is also something that Chen Mingxia sees quite clearly.

The officials who remained in Beijing were full of confidence in the Manchu Qing's armed forces, and what they hesitated was to see if Nanming could hold the Huai River line, or even the Yangtze River line.

As long as it is held and dragged on for more than three years, the Qing court in the north will be undefeated and will collapse under the constant wars, rogue thieves and feudal towns.

This is Chen Mingxia's hesitation, as a Confucian disciple, this era is at most barbarian, and there is no fundamental concept of a country and a nation, and there is not much reason to criticize it with the concepts of later generations. However, it is still not easy to cross the threshold of Han barbarianism, which is also the fundamental reason why a large number of officials choose to go south.

If the Eight Banners do not stand, then surrender will not be so cost-effective, or even a misstep......

"How's it going down south?"

Chen Mingxia put down the package and began to ask Liang Shifa about the situation in the south.

Of course, Chen Mingxia's news channels are not only Liang Shifa, but there are quite a lot of sources, which is why he is even more hesitant.

"The court is in chaos, and the Son of Heaven has no prestige." Liang Shifa had been instructed by Min Yuanqi beforehand, and he did not say some deceitful lies, but said quite directly: "The four towns are also in chaos, each doing its own thing, not listening to the orders of the imperial court, and causing trouble for the place." ”

"You're being sincere." A smile appeared on the corner of Chen Mingxia's mouth, and he said to Liang Shifa: "Then what else does the young proprietor of your family have to spy on, to see if the Qing people are preparing to go south?" I tell you the truth, the Qing people will definitely go south, and most of them will be a thunderbolt. As long as you can't hold the Huai River, the river defense will not be able to defend, from Yangzhou to the Zhenjiang River as long as you search for hundreds of small boats to do it, the Ming Dynasty has no naval warships in the south, the Zheng family has a lot of ships, but those sea ships are Zheng Zhilong's family, if he drives all the sailors from Fujian, he can hold the river defense, but Zheng Zhilong will definitely not do this. On the contrary, he would watch the excitement in Fujian, send some of his disciples to Nanjing to watch the situation, and resolutely evacuate if something was wrong, and then he would become a strong vassal in Fujian, and even support a new lord and control the overall situation himself. Jianghuai is one, guarding the river must guard Huai, do you know this truth? ”

Originally, it was impossible for Chen Mingxia to talk much about a servant and the like, but Liang Shifa brought the latest news from the south, and it was about the same as what he knew before. And the other party spoke clearly and answered clearly, Chen Mingxia knew that this person was not necessarily a servant of the Zhu family, it was very likely that he was an important person with status and status in the family, but he was just pretending to be a servant at this time.

In this case, Chen Mingxia became interested instead, and wanted to know why the other party had to carry it in this situation.

Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying and others were still delusional about peace talks, thinking that the Qing army did not have to go south, but in fact, everyone in Beijing knew and was quite convinced that now the Eight Banners were to move Jiaxiao and welcome Emperor Shunzhi to Beijing, and the next step must be to control all the areas of Gyeonggi and Henan and Shandong after resting for a period of time, and then attack the Shun army along Shanxi and Henan, and then there will be a large army to the south.

If the Southern Ming Dynasty is ready, there is still a glimmer of life, if it is as it is now, the DPRK and China are infighting, the civil officials do not know the general trend, and the military generals are arrogant and have no intention of fighting a decisive battle, then when the Qing army goes south, it will be the day when the Southern Ming Dynasty collapses.

"I also heard that the young proprietor of your family has been working in a small military town recently?" Chen Mingxia was even more puzzled in his heart, and couldn't help asking: "I heard that it was the people of the Dahe Wei Min family who trained successfully and defeated Liu Zeqing?" What is the strength of this military town, how many capable warriors are there, whether the town generals have a sense of loyalty, and what are the plans of the Manchurian soldiers if they go south, do you know these things? ”