Chapter 34: The Change of Self

When the Han State beat the Dongjiang army and the Ming army's naval division, Hong Tai led the Houjin army to help his own Mongol allies beat Hudun Rabbit away. After Hudun Rabbit couldn't win, Jin Bing turned his head and went to fight the Ming army, but he actually grabbed a lot of things.

Originally, the Houjin army was far stronger than the Ming army, which was accepted by everyone, but the Ming army was still there, and it still had a psychological advantage against the Mongols. But the current elite soldiers of Datong can't even beat the Mongols? This incident was like a blow to the head, beating Emperor Chongzhen dizzy.

Jiannu, Haikou, Mongolians, and then came to smoke the face of the Ming army from three places, and Zhu Youzhen's face was about to be swollen. Whether it is Liaoxi, Datong, or Tianjin, it is possible that it will not be able to hold it. Faced with such a dangerous situation, Emperor Chongzhen finally spoke, first rewarded Hudun Rabbit with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and then sent people to negotiate peace with the Han State.

Now that Yuan Dudu's "Five-Year Ping Liao Policy" has just been launched, he will appease the other two first. The conditions given by Emperor Chongzhen were very generous, "as long as you go to the emperor's name, you will no longer use Hongwu as the year name", then the court pinched its nose and admitted the fact that Lin Mengchu was the king of the Han State.

At this time, it was already the second year of Chongzhen, and the rule of the Han Kingdom gradually stabilized. The original Joseon Kingdom was suspicious of each other, and there was a great division between the upper and lower classes. After the agrarian revolution, the old ruling class was swept away and land and property were nationalized.

Money could be used to pay soldiers, and land could be distributed to soldiers' families. This time, the tax set by Chen Cheng was not as loose as "one of the ten taxes", but "three of the ten taxes", that is, the people had to pay three-quarters of the harvested grain as taxes.

Only soldiers who served in the forbidden army could have their taxes reduced by 10%. Combined with one month of conscription per year, such a burden is considered very heavy. But it is such a policy that has won the support of the vast number of poor people. It can only be said that the previous squeezing was too powerful. Even if it's a little better, it can make those ordinary people shout long live.

However, the rule of the Han State cannot be said to be completely stable, and after purging the upper ruling class and reorganizing the army, no one can challenge the Chen Cheng-Lin Mengchu pair. However, in the official palaces of various places, there are still many officials of the old era who have been retained, and they are no different from the old days, and they are full of hatred for the nascent Han State.

Most of these people were also born in two classes of nobles, but their families had long since declined, so they only mixed with a small fighting official, but this did not prevent them from claiming to be from famous families, nor did it prevent them from hating and hostile to the nascent Han regime.

After the arrival of the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, many people secretly contacted the envoys of the kingdom and wanted them to help restore the country. Decades ago, Korea was captured by Japan, and it was the Ming Dynasty that sent troops to help the Koreans restore the country. This time they encountered the same thing again, and they naturally hoped that the Celestial Empire would lend a helping hand again.

But where is it that simple? After the end of the naval division, the Ming army simply did not have the ability to throw troops over. The soldiers and horses of Liaozhen were about to collapse thirty miles east of the city, how could they pass through Liaodong to attack the Han Kingdom? There are still some ships in Dongjiang Town, but those small boats are useless in front of the cannons of the giant ships.

Faced with the olive branch thrown by Emperor Chongzhen, Lin Mengchu originally wanted to refuse, but she had nothing to do with these things, so she asked Chen Cheng what he planned first.

"Classmate Chen, we've been here for more than two years, we've been fighting wars, and we've been emperors, and you're still out ........every time."

"Ahem!" Chen Cheng choked on the water, "Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?" ”

"You said you didn't want to have children in this world!" Lin Mengchu pursed his lips and said, "It's annoying to kill people, why don't we go back?" ”

Chen Cheng thought for a while and said, "Wait another year, and we'll go back next year." Let's first agree to the request of the Ming Dynasty, go to the emperor's name, and don't use the shameful name of Hongwu. Although Zhu Yuanzhang has his historical limitations, the expulsion of the Tatars and the restoration of China are indelible achievements. ”

So after Lin Mengchu became the emperor for a year, he became the king of Han again. However, she did not pay tribute to Emperor Chongzhen, according to her statement, "As far as Zhu Youzhen's waste material, he also deserves me to bow to him?" ”

After pacifying the Mongols and Han states, the Ming Dynasty focused its main efforts on dealing with the Jianzhou Jurchens. The other two places are minor troubles, and the Jurchens are the enemies of life and death. From top to bottom, everyone knew about it, but Yuan Chonghuan didn't know.

After Hongtai inherited the position of Khan, Governor Yuan sent people to congratulate him without the permission of the imperial court, which stunned everyone. The Mongols on the side were originally still the first rats, and they had always looked down on the Jurchen barbarians, but now when they saw that the imperial court had sent people to congratulate Hongtai, what else was there to say? Just follow Hongtai to rob.

In the second year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan was ready to make a big news. Before he became the governor of Jiliao, he said to Qian Longxi: "Mao Wenlong can use it, and if he can't use it, kill him." ”

It can be said that he has wanted to kill Mao Wenlong for a long time, and he had sent someone to pull the Lushun guards of Dongjiang Town to Liaozhen, so that such an important place as Lushun was lost. This time, he wanted to play a bigger one, and was no longer satisfied with a few thousand soldiers.

In May, Yuan Chonghuan wrote a letter to Mao Wenlong, saying that he wanted to meet with him to discuss the matter of dealing with Jiannu. Mao Wenlong did not doubt him and readily agreed. As a result, Yuan Chonghuan took advantage of the meeting to cut Mao Wenlong. This kind of mysterious operation made Hong Tai ecstatic.

The Jianzhou Jurchens fought with Dongjiang Town several times, and although they killed tens of thousands of people, they also lost several thousand, and they can be said to be the most tenacious and difficult enemies they have encountered in recent years. Well, being fattened by the Black Dragon King's army in Korea doesn't count. In order to break the strategic dilemma, Hongtai attacked Mao Wenlong's department several times in a row, but they all returned with a feather.

Such a difficult Mao Wenlong was cut by Yuan Chonghuan like this?

This kind of thing where relatives are painful and enemies are happy is actually a proud work of Yuan Chonghuan's life, thinking that this will deter everyone. It is true that the soldiers of Dongjiang Town do not dare to commit rebellion, but the Han Kingdom is not necessarily. Lin Mengchu didn't know much about the history of the late Ming Dynasty, but he had just heard Chen Cheng say something.

She didn't believe that there could be such a stupid person in the world, but it happened so plainly. Although he knew that there would be such a thing, Lin Mengchu still couldn't help but sigh, "Yuan Chonghuan deserves to be cut by a thousand knives, and Zhu Youzhen deserves to be hanged on a tree with a crooked neck." ”

After Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, in order to appease the anger of the soldiers in Dongjiang Town, he raised the military salary of Dongjiang Town to 180,000 taels per year, and there was more food, and then assigned some elite soldiers to his own subordinates. And such an operation, Emperor Chongzhen actually recognized it afterwards.

However, it was useless for Zhu Youzhen to admit it, Chen Cheng did not admit this kind of thing, and he immediately smashed the broken ships in Liaozhen in the name of "avenging Mao Wenlong's marshal" and annexed the Dongjiang Army. Many members of the Dongjiang Army were in Tuntian, the northern region of the former Korean State, and it was logical that they fell into the hands of the Han State.

Most of the generals were angry that the imperial court had killed Mao Wenlong, and soon fell to the side of Korea. There were also some people with loyalty, such as Huang Long and other generals, who refused to surrender to the Han state. Chen Cheng didn't embarrass them, gave them some small boats, and let them go back to Denglai.

There are more than 200,000 people in Dongjiang Town, including no less than 50,000 soldiers. These people were all physically stronger, and they had a blood feud with Jiannu, except for 20,000 or 30,000 people who fled back to Shandong, and the others were annexed by the Han State.

In the autumn of this year, when he heard that Mao Wenlong had been killed, Hong Tai, who had no worries, led his troops to break through the border wall and directly killed him under the city of Beijing. Yuan Chonghuan's words of "five years of Pingliao" were still echoing in his ears, and Jiannu was killed under the city of Beijing. This kind of thing, no one can bear it, let alone Emperor Chongzhen, who is ambitious and talented?

However, because the enemy has already approached the city, he has to endure even if he can't bear it. Even if Yuan Chonghuan wanted to bring Liaozhen soldiers and horses into Beijing City, the emperor just didn't allow it. From the emperor to the minister, he was neither willing nor daring to let Yuan Chonghuan lead troops into the city. This guy can kill Mao Wenlong, who holds Shang Fang's sword, just say kill, it can be seen that his mind has been distorted, who knows what he will do after he leads his troops into the city?

After the Houjin army had enough of grabbing, they retreated along the road they came from with large and small packages and hundreds of thousands of Ming people they caught. Emperor Chongzhen immediately turned his face and arrested Yuan Chonghuan in prison. This kind of operation is also extraordinarily magical, even if you want to settle accounts after the autumn, it is not so fast, right?

This kind of thing immediately frightened the soldiers and horses of Liaozhen, and they ran back to Liaoxi without looking back, leaving their old superior, Yuan Chonghuan, in the capital. Emperor Chongzhen saw that you Yuan Chonghuan couldn't control the soldiers below, so what were you still doing? Inspector Yuan's behavior before had already been enough to die ten times, and this time, if one piece is counted, Yuan Chonghuan will be cut by a thousand cuts.

To be honest, Yuan Chonghuan should indeed be killed, but it is not such a way to kill. When he sent someone to seduce the Lushun guards in Dongjiang Town, and disobeyed the order, no one would say anything if he killed him. When he killed Mao Wenlong, it was justified to cut him down. Or when he sold grain to the Mongols and indirectly relieved Houjin, he could also be killed.

You can kill it whenever you want, but Emperor Chongzhen turned his face directly after using up others, this attitude is too bad. It is no wonder that Hong Chengchou surrendered directly to Hong Tai after the defeat of Songshan later, and when he met such an emperor, no matter what everyone did, they had to weigh it first.

This "change of self-righteousness" exposed the weakness of the Ming Dynasty in front of everyone. Jingshi let Jiannu come and go, and even made people hit Shandong for a time, this kind of thing can make Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di roll in the coffin angrily.

However, Jiannu will soon find that behind their praying mantis, the figure of the yellow finch has appeared.