Dorgon asked this, and the ministers below actually knew what answer he wanted.

Prince Dai Shan took the lead in speaking in class: "The Queen Mother, the Emperor, the Regent, in the eyes of the old ministers, now Li Xiao's momentum is so big, it has shown a trend of not falling, I should really abandon the previous suspicions, join forces with the Hongguang regime of the Ming Dynasty, and destroy Li Xiao together, it is a big deal." ”

Prince Yu Duoduo also hurriedly left the class and shouted: "What Prince Li said is very true! With the Ming Dynasty, and even with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the four countries joined forces to destroy Li Xiao, which is the most important event for our country now. If you connive at Li Xiao to continue to sit big, it will be my real confidant in the Qing Dynasty! ”

Next, after the two princes took the lead in speaking, other ministers came out to express their opinions, and they all spoke in favor of the Qing Dynasty to quickly form an alliance with the Hongguang regime of the Ming Dynasty and jointly fight against Li Xiao, the sworn enemy of the Qing Dynasty.

Dorgon listened to the crowd's statements, but did not immediately take a stand. He subconsciously glanced at the slightly moving bead curtain, and the expression on his face was very complicated.

The current Dolgon, although he has made up his mind now, it is difficult to know what his secret lover, the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty, has in his heart.

So, after thinking about it for a long time, Dolgon finally decided to retreat first. He told his ministers that the matter of forming an alliance with the Ming Hongguang regime was of great importance and needed to be carefully considered before making a decision.

After retreating from the dynasty, Dolgon came to the Yanqing Palace where Bumu Butai was located.

Bumu Butai had expected that Dolgon would come, and she only put on light makeup, so she had already asked the little eunuch to take the little emperor of Shunzhi to play in the imperial garden, just so that at this time, she could have a good chat with Dolgon alone.

As soon as he saw Dolgon entering, Bumu Butai looked directly at his lover's face, and said softly but straight to the point: "Dolgon, have you already thought about it?" ”

Dolgon walked over, grabbed her fragrant shoulder, and gently rubbed her delicate cheek with his chin beard: "Well, I have thought clearly, I must ally with the Hongguang regime of the Ming Dynasty to fight against Li Xiao." At the same time, it is necessary to form an alliance with the Great Shun Kingdom of Li Zicheng and the Great Western Kingdom of Zhang Xianzhong, and the four countries will join forces to jointly fight against the common enemy Li Xiao. ”

Bumu Butai's eyes flashed, and his face showed a thoughtful look, obviously listening very carefully.

Dolgon continued: "Actually, even if the Hongguang regime of the Ming Dynasty has been attacked by Li Xiao, no matter how embarrassed it is, this king is reluctant to dislike them. You know, no matter how small a mosquito is, it's meat. What Fang just said in the palace was just a test of his current strength. Even if this Hongguang regime has only a glimmer of life, and even if the general is dying, this king is willing to join forces with them to fight the enemy. After all, one more assistant means more strength, even if this assistant is unbearable, this king will pinch his nose and admit it. ”

Bumu Butai twisted her waist and broke free from his arms, she smiled on her face, her eyes were on the vibrant early summer garden outside the window, and she said lightly: "Very good, this palace also thinks so." Moreover, this matter should be done as soon as possible and without delay. Now that Li Xiao's development momentum is so rapid, if he does not interrupt the process of his growth, I am afraid that for the Qing Dynasty, there will be endless troubles in the future. ”

Speaking of this, a cold color suddenly flashed in her eyes. Bu Mu Butai turned around and said in a cold voice: "If you really form an alliance with the other four countries, from the perspective of this palace, then my Great Qing Dynasty should be able to attack Li Xiao's old nest Shandong together with Li Zicheng's Great Shun Kingdom." Taking advantage of the fact that the main force of their whole army was heading south and had not yet returned, they took Li Xiao by surprise! If we can successfully take down Li Xiao's Shandong nest, Li Xiao's current arrogance can be at least half defeated by my Qing Dynasty. At that time, even if Li Xiao can still hold Jiangnan and other places, his nest is lost, and if he wants to recover in a short time, he is afraid that it will not be so easy. ”

Bumu Butai's remarks made Dolgon nod frequently: "What Da Yu'er said is very true. Although Li Xiao's gang is rampant, with only one of its strengths, it is not easy to resist the joint attack of the four countries! If it can really deal a major blow to Li Xiao and hurt his vitality and fundamentals, it would be really good for me in the Qing Dynasty. Let this king do this, and he will definitely do his best to reach an alliance agreement with the other three countries as soon as possible. ”

Dolgon and Bumu Butai had agreed and immediately summoned Xiang Yu.

Dolgon personally told Xiang Yu that the Qing Dynasty had made a decision to form an alliance with the Hongguang regime of the Ming Dynasty to abandon their previous suspicions and work together to deal with Li Xiao.

Xiang Yu was overjoyed to receive this reply.

He thanked the regent Dolgon again and again, and assured that the money, food, and military funds spent by the Qing Dynasty in the use of troops would be paid in advance by the Hongguang regime of the Ming Dynasty, so as to ensure that the interests of the cooperative friends would not suffer a little loss.

Subsequently, Xiang Yu, as a representative of the Ming Dynasty, formally signed an alliance agreement with the Qing court.

The two sides agreed that after the signing of the four-nation alliance, troops must be dispatched as soon as possible to attack from all directions and form a siege on Li Xiao.

After Xiang Yu reached an agreement with the Qing court, another representative of the Hongguang regime, Song Xuexian, a general political senator, was also summoned by the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng in the Jianji Hall in Beijing.

Song Xuexian came to the palace and quickly found that in this Jianji Palace, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, in addition to the relatives and nobles who followed Li Zicheng to raise troops, were mostly demoted officials who stayed in the capital in the Ming Dynasty last year. When he saw his former colleagues who were already wearing Dashun's official uniforms, with his evasive eyes and complicated expressions, Song Xuexian also sighed in his heart.

At this moment, from the dragon chair on the Dan steps, a loud thunderous roar came, "Ah Qi!" ”。

It turned out that it was Li Zicheng, the emperor of Dashun on the dragon chair, who didn't wake up because of a hangover, and was blown by the cool breeze outside the window, and couldn't help but sneeze.

Li Zicheng, who had sneezed in public, felt out of shape, and awkwardly took a silk scarf from the eunuch's hand, wiped his nose and snorted.

It's just a sick woodcutter, and it's hard to hear the roar of tigers and leopards. Song Xuexian, the envoy of Hongguang, stood on top of this court, trembling and uneasy. He was so frightened by this sudden sneeze that he screamed, plopped, and fell to the ground.

Seeing this Ming Dynasty envoy Song Xuexian, he was so frightened by Li Zicheng's sneeze that he knelt on the ground in fear, and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military people laughed unconsciously. The huge Jianji Hall was filled with happy air for a while.

Li Zicheng, who was the emperor of Dashun, saw that Song Xuexian, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, was frightened by a sneeze of his own, and was stunned for a moment, and then stroked his palms and laughed.

"Grandma's big breasts,! I scared you with a sneeze, you fucking useless! Li Zicheng clapped a pair of big hands and laughed loudly: "I drank a little more with Niu Dayan last night, and I caught the cold, and I couldn't help sneezing today, but I didn't expect to scare you like this." Okay, okay, get up and speak, the provincial historian, say that I bullied a new envoy. ”

Li Zicheng's words provoked laughter in the hall again, making Song Xuexian, who was kneeling underground, more and more ashamed. It's just that he was very scared in his heart, although he heard Li Zicheng's order to get up, he still trembled and fell to the ground, and he didn't dare to get up at all.

At this time, Niu Jinxing, the prime minister on the side, flashed his eyes vigorously, signaling Li Zicheng to shut up quickly, not to lose the imperial system.

Reminded by Niu Jinxing's eyes, Li Zicheng felt out of shape, and he was a little embarrassed, so he put his hand into the yellow gauze dragon hat, grabbed his scalp, and then squeezed out a smile and said: "Cough, cough, this envoy, you didn't hear it, I ordered you to get up, get up and talk quickly." ”

When Song Xuexian heard this, he replied tremblingly: "Thank you for Emperor Longen." He got up and spoke again.

"Envoy Song, you made a special trip to my Dashun, but what do you have to say to me?" Li Zicheng squinted at him.

"Your Majesty, I am here to seek reconciliation between the two countries and the alliance of the Republic. I hope that the two countries will stop fighting and join forces to fight against the traitor Li Xiao. Song Xuexian had a fake smile on his face, but his expression was inexplicably resentful.

"Oh? Is this for the sake of this? Li Zicheng listened to Song Xuexian's words, and for a while, he couldn't react.

Originally, Song Xuexian, as an envoy of the Ming Dynasty, was very likely to come here to fight with himself for the sake of the territory contested between the two countries, or the disposal of the corpse of Chongzhen's queen concubine, but he didn't expect that Song Xuexian would open his mouth and propose to join forces with himself to deal with the prince of the Ming Dynasty, Li Xiao, the king of Tang.

Could it be that the Ming Dynasty, the number one thief who occupied a large territory in the north of the Ming Dynasty, killed Chongzhen, and stole the Jingshi, the Ming Dynasty no longer regards itself as an enemy of life and death, but turns around and wants to recognize the legitimacy of itself and the Dashun Empire, and even to wash away the old grudges and join forces to form an alliance to jointly deal with Li Xiao, the Tang King within the Ming Dynasty?

This, such a result, is too magical and surreal......

Because this turn was too big, Li Zicheng couldn't react at all for a while, he stared at him, his mouth was half open, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

At this time, the entire court was even more noisy, and a group of civil and military ministers, just like the Qing court that day, privately exchanged heads and talked about each other.

However, it was Li Zicheng's number one strategist, Niu Jinxing, the prime minister of the dynasty, who heard this suggestion, and his eyes suddenly lit up and his face was happy.

He turned his head again, gave Li Zicheng an anxious look, and motioned for Li Zicheng to immediately agree to Song Xuexian's request.

Seeing Niu Jinxing so eager, Li Zicheng was suspicious, he blinked his eyes and thought about it, and then shouted at Song Xuexian: "! What the hell did you Ming Dynasty do! Isn't Li Xiao the Tang King of your Ming Dynasty? Didn't this guy fight to snatch Chongzhen's body back from Jingshi? Why are you joining forces with us to deal with him now? Say, do you have some fucking conspiracy?! ”

Li Zicheng's rhetorical questions made Song Xuexian not feel cold sweat, he raised his head, secretly glanced at Li Zicheng's thick eyebrows and angry appearance, and replied with some weakness: "This, this, Your Majesty, you don't know, now the so-called Tang King Li Xiao is persecuted by my Ming Hongguang regime, and what he does is no different from that of chaotic ministers and thieves." ”

"Oh? Is that so? Then you fucking go into detail. Li Zicheng's eyes widened.

Seeing Li Zicheng forced him to ask, Song Xuexian anxiously explained how Li Xiao supported the Emperor of Chongxing, how to expand his troops and horses privately, how to coerce the Son of Heaven, how to force the ministers of the world, and how to make the heavens resentful, and finally proclaimed himself the Qingliu and orthodox Hongguang regime, and with the assistance of loyal ministers and righteous soldiers, it was formally established in Nanjing......

Song Xuexian chattered, but he always looked at his face, and saw that Li Zicheng's face showed impatience, and said hurriedly: "That anti-thief Li Xiao, relying on the strength of his soldiers and horses and full wings, issued a holy decree to lead his tiger and wolf army south. It's a pity that the anti-thieves are very powerful, chasing the north all the way, sweeping the southeast, and our Korean soldiers are really difficult to resist their front. Poor Hongguang Jianguo and all the ministers, they could not gain a foothold in Nanjing, so they had to resign from the temple in a hurry, move the capital to Fuzhou, and hope that the loyal and brave soldiers of Zheng Zhilong, the Marquis of Zhennan, would temporarily contend with the traitor Li Xiao......"

Song Xuexian talked eloquently, but Li Zicheng above became more and more unpleasant the more he listened.

Damn, this guy won't use Li Xiao's behavior to satirize my old Li, right? You must know that what Lao Li did was even more excessive and rebellious than that of Li Xiao, the king of Tang.

Think about how many Ming troops I have killed and how many people I have slaughtered since I started the army, and finally established a country in Xi'an, and swept all the way to the north of the Ming Dynasty, took its capital, and killed the monarch to stand on his own.

If Li Xiao's gang is to be eliminated, then isn't his current self going to be devoured alive to relieve his hatred?

Could it be that this guy deliberately said Li Xiao so unbearable just to satirize me?

Hmph, this guy is really hateful!

"Bang!"

Li Zicheng slapped the armrest of the dragon chair fiercely and shouted angrily: "Enough! ”

Song Xuexian, who was talking about it, was intimidated by Li Zicheng's angry shouting, and suddenly he was like a duck with his neck choked, and he didn't dare to spit out half a word more.

"Song Xuexian, you fuck down, so many of the thieves Li Xiao, but is it to satirize my old Li?!" Li Zicheng yelled at Song Xuexian.

Song Xuexian's face turned pale, he couldn't support it anymore, and fell to his knees with a thud.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, you have a lot of heart, you really don't mean anything like this! Song Xuexian shouted with a pleading face: "I am here to ask your country to form an alliance with this dynasty to jointly deal with the traitor Li Xiao, who is not in the same sky as you and me, and An Ke has selfish intentions to satirize the emperor." Even if you give Weichen a hundred lives, you don't dare to do this! ”

"you! Xiang Yu, I don't care if you are selfish or not. But according to what you said, now that you have lost the most elite and important Jiangnan region, what capital does he have to talk about cooperation and alliance with us? Li Zicheng replied with a sneer.

Xiang Yu smiled miserably, he wiped a handful of sweat oozing from his forehead, and replied: "Your Majesty, although my Hongguang Prison Country has been defeated, the thief Li Xiao has not yet grown to the point of being unshakable. Up to now, this person has only occupied Shandong, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and northern Jiangxi. The rest of the southwestern and southern Chinese provinces are still under the control of our Hongguang Supervision State, and the Ming Dynasty still has considerable strength to compete with Li Xiao's gang. The reason why I am willing to join forces with your country is because of the current strength of our dynasty, and it is okay to defend it, but it is extremely difficult to recover the lost territory and eliminate Li Xiao. Therefore, Hongguang Jian sent a country to your country, hoping to join hands with your country and work together to eliminate and eradicate Li Xiao. “