Chapter 299: If you are cheap, you are invincible
By the time Dorgon had a headache, Zukofa was almost home. He originally belonged to the Zhenghuangqi Han Army, so he had a house in the inner city of Beijing, not far from the Forbidden City, and the location was very good. In addition, Zu Dashou and Zu Dale's mansions are also in the same alley as Zu Kefa's house, but they are much bigger.
When Zu Kefa arrived home, the alley where Zu's house was located was crowded with people inside and outside, all of whom came to watch, most of them were the old and weak women and children of the Eight Banners Han Army of the Manchu and Han families.
It's new! Zu Kefa, who was buried in a beautiful state not long ago, is now alive again, and he is still alive with taste and color.
When he left home, he wore a flower feather, looking like a heavy minister of the Qing Dynasty. When I went home, I wore a python robe and black yarn, and I was like a high-ranking official...... After coming and going, the second minister changed to the fourth minister, but it has made great progress. How can you not come and watch it?
Zu Kefa has thick skin, can he be a fourth minister, can he be thin-skinned? Of course, it is as thick as the city wall, and the tall horse rides, hugging forward and back, triumphant, and seeing the people he knows is still greeting people on horseback.
"Hey, we're alive again!"
Someone asked: "Why did you wear the clothes of the Ming Dynasty again?" ”
Zu Kefa laughed: "Surrendered again...... We're the four ministers now! ”
Some people don't understand: "How is it the four ministers?" It should be the three ministers. ”
Zu Kefa smiled bitterly: "Alas, don't mention it, Li Zicheng surrendered again in the middle!" ”
Someone else asked: "Then do you still surrender back to the Qing Dynasty?" ”
Zu Kefa smiled: "I don't know about this, if the regent wants us to surrender, we will surrender, and there is no difference between the four ministers and the five ministers......"
If you are cheap, you are invincible! If Zhu Cihong sent a civil official like Zuo Maodi (a historical envoy to the Qing Dynasty) as an envoy, most of them would have circled Dolgon, who was pretending to be a corporal, to force him to surrender - the forced surrender was forced to be shown to the scholars in the north, which shows how much the Qing Dynasty valued Han doctors and doctors. It just forced Zuo Maodi to death, and the hearts of the readers in the north are still warm.
But Zhu Cihong didn't play his cards according to common sense, and sent an envoy from Zu Kefa, do you want it?
If you want to go, you will be the five ministers...... Who are you going to show it to? As for killing the head, hehe, you kill a good slave like Hong Chengchou who is brave and loyal, and you also kill a dog slave like Zu Kefa who is greedy for life and afraid of death, do you still let people be good slaves? If this development continues, who will still take refuge in the Qing Dynasty?
And don't kill it, this Zu Kefa has become a good example of a traitor again - it turns out that the four ministers can also do it! The big guy is now just a second minister, and he can surrender twice...... So you can rest assured, in case the Great Qing Kingdom fails, you will surrender and go back!
Oh, there is actually another four ministers in Beijing, that is, Zu Kefa's father-in-law, Zu Dashou. He was besieged during the Battle of Daling River, and in desperation, he surrendered to Huang Taiji. But then he found an opportunity to run back to Daming. Later, it was besieged in Jinzhou, and Songjin surrendered back to the Qing Dynasty after the war. So he is also a fourth minister!
Now Zu Kefa Zu Wuzhuang is also a fourth minister, there is really a father and a son!
Zu Dashou stood at the door of his house, crying and laughing to greet his godson. Of course, this etiquette is heavy, but Zu Kefa's identity is different now.
He was an envoy sent by the prince of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty...... The envoys sent by others are all iron-clad, but Zhu Cihong is good, send four ministers over! What is this? Can you afford to look up to your ancestral home?
"Father-in-law, the child is back, the child is sorry for the father! Woohoo......"
When Zu Kefa saw his godfather, he immediately turned over and dismounted, kowtowed to the old man, and the expression on his face became like turning a book.
Zu Dashou watched his godson cry like a tearful man, his eyes were moist, and he hurriedly bent down to help Zu Kefa up. Then the father and son, crying, entered the door of the ancestral mansion. As soon as the door of the house was closed, Zu Dashou snorted coldly and pushed Zu Kefa out.
Zu Dashou shouted angrily: "What are you doing when you come back? ”
Zu Kefa pouted and knelt again, "My lord, the child misses you every day in the south......"
"Alright, alright, stop talking meaty!" Zu Dashou waved his hand, "What are you doing here?" Are you going to be angry with me or do you want to be angry with the Regent? ”
Zu Kefa saw that the old man didn't eat this, so he had to smile bitterly and said: "My lord, it's not that the child wants to come back, it's that the prince of Fujun has to let the child come to Beijing...... Isn't he just trying to get the regent in trouble? ”
"Then you won't stay in Nanjing?"
"Lai in Nanjing?" Zu Kefa shook his head and said, "My lord, you don't know how powerful Jinyi Weinan Zhenfu Si is......"
"What? You were beaten? ”
"It's a terrible beating!"
"Isn't the prince your cousin-in-law? She didn't help you? ”
"Help," Zu Kefa nodded, "or he will be killed, where will he be the fourth minister?" ”
"You ...... like this" Zu Dashou thought to himself: You might as well be beaten to death like this! If you are killed, you will be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty. But now? It's all four! The ancestor has you, and his face is lost.
Zu Kefa suddenly lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "My lord, this is not the place to speak......
Still have a secret to say?
Zu Dashou looked left and right, and coughed: "Zepu stays, and everyone else is scattered." ”
After sending away the idle people, Zu Dashou went into the study with his godson and his own son.
After entering the house, Zu Dashou made it on Taishi Zhang's chair, and then asked, "Say, what does the prince want to call our family to do?" ”
"My lord, the prince asked the child to give you a message, if the sea trade in Tianjin Dagukou is done, it must be made. The ancestral family has people on both the north and south, what kind of military general? It's embarrassing to go to the battlefield, so let's just switch to trading. ”
What the? The ancestor changed his career to become a trader?
Will Dorgon say yes? You won't suspect that the ancestral family used business as a cover to collude with the Ming Dynasty and plot against the Qing Dynasty, right?
Zu Kefa said: "Now the regent still needs Wu Changbo, this is also an opportunity for our family, if we don't grasp it firmly, I don't know when the disaster will come!" ”
"Just change your career to business?" Zu Dashou looked at Zu Kefa.
"It doesn't matter if the prince says that our family is four ministers or five ministers, it's not a sin to be a grass on the wall in troubled times...... But it's not much of a safe thing to be a useless wall grass! "Zu Kefa Dao," the prince also said, the Manchu people rose during the Wanli period, and now they are the third generation, and it is time to pay attention to eating, drinking and having fun. But there are few things to eat, drink and have fun in the north, how can it be compared with the south? In addition, there are still Western and Oriental goodies. Your Excellency, think about it. ”
"This ......" Zu Dashou immediately understood. This is to take the children of the Eight Banners to learn badly!
This prince is so cunning that he will use any tricks...... But even if the children of the Eight Banners can learn badly, they are not so fast, right? It will take twenty or thirty years, right? Can the Ming Dynasty in the southeast survive for so long?