After a messenger landed at Shuiximen, he got a horse from nowhere, and as soon as he got on the horse, he tore open his voice and shouted along the road to the city at Shuiximen. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info "Great victory, great victory, Ping Xibo, Shanhaiguan general Wu Sangui and the thieves battled, and the regent of the Qing Kingdom helped the great victory!" Countless decapitations! The corpses in the Shihe River are pillowed, and the river does not flow! A stone is stained red with the blood of the thief!"

"Li Chuang was seriously injured and fled, Ping Xibo and the regent of the Qing Kingdom pursued at the tail of the tail, and the soldiers are already under the city, and the Beijing division will be recovered in the near future!"

He ran all the way, and the whole city was immediately sensational. The good news of Shanhaiguan soon spread from the outer city to the inner palace of Miyagi. When the city was full of jubilation, he turned his horse's head into the alley, and after a few circles in the alley, he was nowhere to be seen.

However, the situation in the north is already full of shouting and storming.

Since the Jingshi was conquered by Li Zicheng, Li Shouhan, Ma Shiying and Donglin have both consciously blocked the news from the north. Li Shouhan's side has a natural advantage, and the water and land transportation are under his control, which is more convenient for the blockade of news.

However, both sides are able to obtain information about the situation in the north through their own channels. It's just that these are all under the table, and they are all very calm on the surface.

However, as the weather gets hotter, it's time for the summer grain collection. If there is no major event before the collection of summer grain, which is enough to change the current work plan of the Nanjing imperial court, the Jiangnan gentry can only strangle their necks and wait for those local officials whose eyes are red to collect money and grain at home. As for the fire consumption, the difference in fineness between silver and silver dollars, and the tricks in the collection of money and grain, I am afraid that it will all fall on one's own family.

Therefore, the messenger who appeared at the water west gate appeared very appropriately.

The next day, in the Wuying Palace.

"Your Majesty, now there are rumors in the city that I, Ping Xibo of the Ming Dynasty, and Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, lead the loyal and righteous division, and with the help of the soldiers and horses of the regent of the Qing State who is committed to the Heavenly Empire, I have broken the department of the thief Li Chuang. The soldiers have already approached the city of Beijing, and when this news came, the soldiers and civilians in the city were all overjoyed. This is the time of recovery! ”

Jiang Yueguang held the wat board in his hand, stood in front of Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong, and made a generous speech there.

"The minister thought that Pingxibo Wu Sangui made a decision immediately, and with the help of the power of the king of Yi, he followed the cry of Shen Baoxu and Qin Ting, which can be said to be the merit of the society and the benefit of the future." Liu Zongzhou, the imperial history of the left capital, also showed a hint of joy in the past, "At this time, we should rush to the north, or pass on the father and elder of Yanzhong, or Jiamian to the king of Yi, imitate the righteousness of Baoxu, although the thief has no conscience." ”

Zhao Zhilong also knelt on the ground and said: "In the foolish opinion of Wei Chen, Wu Sangui should quickly receive help, there is Su to save in the sea, there is Jin Shenghuan to make, and because of Sangui to take money." Ma Shaoyu, the former magistrate of the county, Chen Xinjia once made a slave. In the past, the policy is also in the present, and the governor should be consulted and supplemented by preparation. ”

This was originally Ma Shiying's proposition in history, but now, Ma Shiying and Li Shouhan are one scholar and one martial artist, and a eunuch and a noble military minister are embarrassed to collude with each other, and such a good proposition is naturally put forward by the Donglin gentleman.

"Exactly! In that year, Tang Suzong took advantage of the rebellion of the Hui soldiers and horses to recover Chang'an and Luoyang, which made the Tang dynasty prosperous. Today, Wu Sangui's borrowing of Pingkou is to emulate the actions of his predecessors! Zhou Biao also couldn't wait to jump out, characterizing Wu Sangui's move to borrow troops, and trumpeting it. He forgot that after the Hui soldiers and horses entered Chang'an, they ransacked Chang'an according to the agreement when they borrowed the troops.

Gao Hongtu also praised on the side, applauding Wu Sangui's wisdom and bravery.

As for Shi Kefa, who got the news and sent someone to deliver the letter overnight, he also wrote happily in the middle of the sparseness: "Use the edict, write it quickly, use silver coins, and buy it quickly." and a certain number of accompanying officials, a certain amount of money should be given, and the food should be completed together. It is scheduled to start within the month, and the money is not nameless, and the exterminator is in one fell swoop. ”

Wang Duo, a scholar, even advocated that in view of Wu Sangui's quick decision, he should immediately be promoted to the title of Earl of Pingxi as the Duke of Jiguo as a sign of encouragement. At the same time, Li Yutian, the governor of Liaodong, was appointed as the secretary of the military department, and he gave coupons, Lu rice, and Wang scholars and volunteered to personally draft the edict of Wu Sangui and Li Yutian.

Not only that, Zhou Bi and Qian Qianyi also very considerately proposed that now there are continuous disasters and wars, and the north has been ravaged by thieves for many years, it is difficult to raise grain and grass, and military salaries are afraid of being insufficient. It is suggested that the grain and rice hoarded in Wusongkou to be transported to Denglai should be transported to Tianjin by sea and handed over to Wu Sangui for consumption, and at the same time, Wu Sangui's department should be rewarded with 100,000 yuan of silver as a reward and reward.

As a household official, although the treasury is empty, Zhou Bi is still very clear about where there is money and grain. The so-called grain in Wusongkou, as well as 100,000 silver dollars, are all generous to others.

They were there talking to me and chatting very happily, but they didn't care about the two powerful figures in the main hall, Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying's faces were like the sky before the heavy snow was about to fall in winter, overcast with overlapping clouds.

"Your Excellency said it well. Borrowing the thief, I don't think it may be a thief, but the disaster of the two Song Dynasty is not far away! Li Shouhan sneered, and began to debate with this group in the main hall in the eyes of Emperor Hongguang's expectations.

"The Northern Song Dynasty Lianjin annihilated Liao, and the Southern Song Dynasty Lianmeng destroyed Jin, what was the result? The evil neighbor around him was defeated, but a poor and crazy robber came. More than that evil neighbor wants, more ruthless! ”

Speaking of the ability to lose the book bag, Li Shouhan is not as good as these civil officials, but he still knows something about the Northern Alliance of the Three Dynasties and the Alliance of the Sea.

"Your Majesty has decreed that anyone who enters the palace and unites with Liao thieves to suppress Li Chuang will be imprisoned for the crime of rebelling against the country! This generation is bent on harming His Majesty, so that my Ming Dynasty will become the Song Dynasty of the year! It's a pity that there may not be Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu in this group of people, but there are a lot of Fan Wenhu! ”

"I'm ready!" Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong also slapped heavily on the dragon chair, and he had long been displeased with the group of people in front of him. Obviously, their own houses, yards, and gardens are building all day long, looking for strange flowers and stones, but Liang Guogong gave me all kinds of accusations to repair the palace, and they forced me to stop the work.

"The minister also seconded the proposal." Ma Shiying stood in front of everyone in a full robe and demeanor. "Instead of having money and food, it is better to use it to select generals and train soldiers. In order to go north to crusade against all kinds of rebels! ”

"Huh! The general's words are wrong! Now that the big tomorrow, a group of thieves are rampant, going north with a little money and grain to help Wu Sangui, even if he is already in the middle of the thieves at this time, he can't help but be in Cao Ying's heart in Han. It can be secretly appeased with money and food, and once the time is ripe, it is also used by Zhu Xu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Besides, the adults have also said that now the north has been in drought and war for many years, and it is difficult to find food. And it is the strength of the thief and the weak. If you don't secretly subsidize it with food, how can you reap the benefits of the fisherman and the effect of Bian Zhuang's stabbing tiger? ”

Liu Zongzhou, the imperial historian of the left capital, also advocated giving food and military salaries to help the Liao thieves in the north, so that they could make every effort to beat Li Zicheng after they were full of food and drink.

"Liu Zongxian, do you know what is the annual income of Jiangnan provinces? But more than seven million silver! These money and grain are used to supply the four uncles in Jiangbei, and Zuo Liangyu of Jiujiang is still overstretched, if it is not for the general to raise the soldiers with his own money and grain, I am afraid that at this time there are already hungry soldiers in Nanjing City mutiny! What else can you talk about here! Ma Shiying was not polite to Liu Zongzhou at all, and directly slapped his face with numbers.

"The reason why the general and the prime minister endured their grief and did not send troops to the Northern Expedition to avenge the first emperor is that the reason is two words, money and food! If the government treasury is short of money and food, what will it do to fight? What to raise soldiers? I don't know the difficulty of the harvest on weekdays, but I talk about Bian Zhuang stabbing the tiger here, which is really a Confucian opinion! ”

Liu Zongzhou is a person who pays attention to the articles of psychology, and what he pays attention to on weekdays is prudence, where is there any attainment in government affairs and military affairs? After a few words, Ma Shiying choked on his face, which turned red and white for a while, and changed for a while.

Jiang Yueguang on the side saw that Liu Zongzhou had lost the upper hand, and in the spirit of the party's unity and disagreement, he coughed lightly, "Although the current state treasury is empty, the so-called Si Nong Yangwu is poor. However, everyone in the country knows that the Duke of Liang is loyal to the country, and has provided money and grain for the country for many years. This has been the case since the first emperor was alive, so you might as well ask Liang Guogong to continue to serve him. ”

This set of cheap words can be described as the most vicious and shameless. Not only did he not pull out a dime, but he also gave Li Shouhan a hard eye drop: Aren't you rich? Isn't there food? All right! Then continue to worship the imperial court! Anyway, when Emperor Chongzhen was alive in the past, you relied on offering money and food to invite pets and buy well, could it be that when the Hongguang Emperor was in power, you changed your course and stopped worshipping?

"Lord Jiang, this is a fallacy!" Ma Shiying and Li Shouhan now cooperate very tacitly, and even have a feeling of "drinking mellow mash with Zhou Gongjin" in their hearts, and the two of them have very similar views, practices, and methods on many issues. How can you sit idly by and watch your allies be attacked by insinuations?

So, Ma Shiying, a eunuch traitor, came to help Li Shouhan, a martial artist.

"How do you know that the Great General has never broken his family? Go outside the temple and look at it. Several repaired palaces outside the palace city, the forts built outside the city, the wharves and water villages on the Yangtze River, are all the general's own money. If it weren't for the general's money and food support, you and I would not even have to eat old rice in Nanjing City! ”

"Since Liang Guogong has given out so much money and grain, why should he care about tens of thousands of silver coins and 100,000 stone grains and rice?" Although Ma Shiying was already running on the reason, Jiang Yueguang couldn't resist it.

"Although a certain family has few assets, and the land in the south and central earns tens of millions of silver every year, there is not a single copper plate that is rich, and it can be used to fund the enemy!" Li Shouhan's face was shrouded in a layer of frost.

If there is money and grain, it is necessary to increase the intensity of collection and expand the scope of collection. Not only should the summer grain be collected in advance, but the arrears of grain from the second year of Chongzhen should also be collected as soon as possible.

This is the solution proposed by Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying to Hongguang Tianzi in the main hall.

"No! This is a means to harm Jiangnan. The minister objected. ”

Zhou Bi was the first to jump out.

"A certain family and Lord Shoufu played against the Son of Heaven, where is your share in speaking here? What right do you have to speak out against it?! Li Shouhan coldly reprimanded this arrogant guy who didn't know the importance of his identity.

"Above the court, you can't ignore the etiquette rules of the monarch and the minister. Come on, drag this guy out who doesn't know the scale of advance and retreat! Ma Shiying had already seen that Zhou Biao was not pleasing to the eye, so he just took advantage of the topic to play, and ordered the Han general in front of the palace to drag Zhou Biao out on the charge of disgrace in front of the king, and made him kneel in front of the steps.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a good song." Zhao Zhilong knew that he could not confront Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying head-on at this time, so he could only find a breakthrough from Zhu Yousong, the newly enthroned emperor who did not know much about the government affairs system.

Qian Qianyi's face in the civil official queue still has a humble and gentlemanly expression, and he has a gentle demeanor like jade. However, his ears were erected high, lest he mishear a word or miss a word. His eyes stared at Ma Shiying's back viciously.

"Eunuch remnants! Warrior lackeys! Sven scum! ”

These are the titles that the gentlemen of Donglin call Ma Shiying in private. For hundreds of years, Ma Shiying has been smeared by Donglin and their disciples with basins of dirty water. There are endless names such as traitorous ministers and lucky ministers, but Ma Shiying's discipline is much stronger than Donglin's.

Not to mention anything else, when the gentlemen of Donglin braved the pouring rain to greet the Qing Dynasty at the gate of Nanjing, Ma Shiying went out of the city with Hongguang Tianzi, how similar is this to the actions of Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie and others? Moreover, Ma Shiying was scolded for not surrendering after being captured by the Qing army, and was tortured by peeling skin and filling grass, and it is also said that Ma Shiying's final whereabouts are unknown. According to the former, after Donglin learned about it, everyone applauded, and laughed inhumanely, saying that Ma Shiying's fate was matched with his "Yao Cao" number, the so-called "Life Huai Yao Death Huai Cao". It can be seen that Ma Shiying's character and morality are much higher than those members of the Fushe who boast of how noble they are and how noble they praise each other.

Looking at the stormy situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty at that time, when the Korean situation needed to be stable and concentrate on dealing with the war situation in the north, the Donglin party kept spreading rumors and setting off a political tide, and the "Great Compassion Monk Case", "Prince Case", and "Tong Concubine Case" were all good repertoire directed by them. Wen's hand is not addictive, but it is more martial. They seduced Zuo Liangyu to cooperate with the Qing army to attack Nanjing, such a bad act, and Ma Shiying, who was despicable in their mouths, showed extreme restraint when the enemy was present, and stopped Hongguang from counterattacking Donglin's provocation three times, and mainly worked together, but he was finally rewarded with a large-scale armed rebellion.

For the restraint and forbearance of Ma Shiying and Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong, Huang Zongxi, the leader of Donglin and a famous thinker, wiped it out: "Those who are kings in ancient times are dizzy to Hongguang and extreme; For the sake of the phase, the traitor to Ma Shiying is extreme, and the one who does not wait for the understanding to know it, what is the injustice? ”

Huang Zongxi, the widow of the Ming Dynasty who shaved his head early, and his disciple Vance often wrote to Huang Zongxi to discuss the content when he edited the history of the Ming Dynasty. In the official history, it is unique to talk about how the wild history is, and the description of this wild history is more detailed than the official record of Ma Shiying's death, and it is even more colorful. But even as Ye Shi said, doesn't it just show that Ma Shiying's surrender to the Qing Dynasty was forced to be a helpless move, and he was in Cao Ying's heart in Han like Second Brother Guan? If you say that the loyal and righteous Second Brother Guan has a problem with a traitor, then Ma Shiying naturally has a way to die.

In all fairness, Ma Shiying did nothing when he was in power in the Hongguang Dynasty, and after the fall of Hongguang, he defected to King Lu and Emperor Longwu, which attracted a crusade. Wang Siren's sentence "Wuyue is a country of revenge and shame, not a place to hide dirt and filth" is well-known, and it is directly aimed at Ma Shiying, and he was ordered to judge himself. Zhang Dai used the identity of the former minister of the Lu clan to clear the Lu prison state, "earnestly pray for the establishment of the first guilty minister to kill the king and betray the country" Ma Shiying, "sparse in, the prison country summoned Dai to the front of the royal bed, and ordered to kill first and then hear." Dai immediately led hundreds of soldiers to tiptoe on him, Shi Ying fled on the river, saw his private party Guoan, held King Lu hostage, and expelled Zhang Dai. Ling Shiying commanded the troops to flood the land and assisted in guarding Qiantang. ”。

Ma Shiying almost became a street rat in the Tang and Lu regimes, and he did not switch to the Qing army because of this, but tried his best to prove that his bad image in the past was purely a false accusation by others. The Qing army archives prove that Ma Shiying has participated in the battle of crossing the Qiantang River to attack Yuhang and Fuyang and Hangzhou many times. In June 1646, the eastern part of Zhejiang was defeated, and Ma Shiying fled to Siming Mountain to cut his hair and become a monk, and was captured for righteousness, which is really commendable.

A conversation between Duoduo and Huang Duanbo, the head of the Hongguang Dynasty Rite Department, who would rather die than surrender, reflects Ma Shiying's integrity. Huang Duanbo heard that Zhao Zhilong, Qian Qianyi and others surrendered to the door, and in the big book of the city gate, "Huang Duanbo, the director of the Ritual Department of the Ming Rite Department, did not surrender", was arrested. During the interrogation: Duoduo shouted: "What kind of character do you think Emperor Hongguang is, and you want to die for him?" ”

Huang Duanbo said: "Emperor Shengming! ”

Duoduo asked, "What about Ma Shiying?" ”

Huang Duanbo: "Ma Shiying, loyal ministers!" ”

Duoduo was angry and ridiculous, and asked: "Ma Shiying is a traitor, how can he be loyal?" ”

Huang Duanbo said: "Ma Shiying did not surrender, and he sent the Queen Mother into Zhejiang, of course, he was a loyal minister. He pointed to Zhao Zhilong and others, who had shaved their hair and changed clothes, and said: "These people are disloyal and unfilial people. ”

In contrast, when the Lu Wangjian regime was in a difficult situation, Huang Zongxi and Zhang Dai were transferred to the Qing army's ruling area to shave their heads, and regarded themselves as the "remnants" of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, the minister has something unclear, and I want to ask Your Majesty's permission to ask for advice in front of Lord Shoufu and the general."

Because of Zhou Bi's example in front, Zhao Zhilong also had to grieve himself, and first applied to Emperor Hongguang, lest he would be stripped of his robe and punished for kneeling at the foot of the steps, which would be disgraceful.

From fighting in the court to saying a word to each other, they had to go through the emperor's permission, and the arrogance of civil officials was invisibly suppressed by Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying. Zhu Yousong also experienced the feeling of being an emperor, "Today I know the joy of being a king!"

After getting Hongguang's permission, Zhao Zhilong slowly threw his cannonball to Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying: "Lord Shoufu holds the authority of the world, and the general holds all the soldiers and horses in the world. Could it be that we are delayed on the grounds that there is not enough money and food to send troops, so that we are waiting in a safe corner of the south of the Yangtze River? ”

That's it! The ministers also have this doubt! Jiang Yueguang and the others echoed, "The general and the first assistant said that they had money, food, money, and grain, and they only sent a raid in the south of the Yangtze River, but they did not send a single pawn to cross the river and go north. Could it be that the word money and food can be worth thousands of troops?! (To be continued.) )