Chapter 343: Advance and Retreat
When Emperor Chongzhen promised the British Duke to open a country in England overseas, he had already explained the conditions.
The prince is different from the vassal king, and can be hereditary among the three generations. If there is no great merit in opening up the territory and expanding the territory among the three generations, after the three generations, the lord will be reduced in turn, from the prince of the country to the prince, and the prince of the country to the county marquis.
When he is demoted to an earl, the fief will naturally be recovered, and his descendants will be hereditary earls.
Now Emperor Chongzhen suddenly said such words that have not been changed from generation to generation, which means that in the future, the land of Britain will be owned by the Zhang family for generations - as long as it is not the death of the British public, the descendants and even the future generations will be the masters of a country.
Does Zhang Weixian dare to respond?
In fact, Zhang Weixian really wanted to respond to this request. But after it should be done, it is equivalent to roasting the British public series on the fire completely.
Of course, it's easy to talk about just baking fire, after all, it's still a matter of going to the hell in England to start a country.
But the verbal and written criticism of the civil officials that followed was really fatal.
How to gain a foothold in Daming after the British public system? The image is to bewitch the king, flattery, this kind of verbal attack, as long as the title of the British duke of one's own family exists for one day, such rumors will also exist for one day.
Even if this is the case, it doesn't matter, it's a big deal to learn from His Majesty the Emperor shamelessly, either spit on himself, or find His Majesty the Emperor to call the shots, and this matter can be fooled.
But most importantly, what is the impression of this?
Emperor Chongzhen's order was changed overnight.
This is very unfavorable to the image of Emperor Chongzhen, so after Emperor Chongzhen said the four words that will not change from generation to generation, Zhang Weixian could no longer sit still, and after standing more and more, he bowed down and said: "Your Majesty can't!" β
Emperor Chongzhen hadn't figured out what Zhang Weixian was worried about, but said curiously: "Why not?" β
After Zhang Weixian organized the language, he bowed down and said: "Although Your Majesty promised many princes of the Ming Dynasty to establish overseas countries, it also explained that unlike the vassal king, if you don't have the great merit of opening up the territory and expanding the territory, you will have to descend on behalf of you.
Now that His Majesty wants to promise Weichen for generations, people in the world will inevitably think that His Majesty's order will change every day, and he is afraid that His Majesty's reputation will be hindered. β
was reminded by Zhang Weixian, and Emperor Chongzhen also thought that he had said such a thing.
Although Emperor Chongzhen doesn't care much about his image - since he reused the factory guard, his image has not been much left.
When he arrived at more than ten Jingguan on the grassland, he would have already sat in a row with Brother Sui Yang and shared the fruits.
Are you a tyrant? yes, yes, you're a tyrant too? Yes, yes, what a coincidence, I'm also a tyrant!
But Emperor Chongzhen was very concerned about his reputation, especially his reputation among the common people.
It has nothing to do with the nonsense of people who don't believe in anything, what Emperor Chongzhen cares about is that if I say that I want to kill your whole family, I will definitely kill your whole family, and I won't even leave a pant of breath.
I said that I would never increase the endowment, that is, I would never increase the endowment, and I would not add a penny to the pit to sell poisonous salt and Fushou paste to Liaodong.
Only in this way will he be able to achieve the same effect as Liu Yeboar's edict when he needs it one day, and will also let his words truly achieve the effect of using teeth as gold.
But what about the current situation, I just said that I want to give the British public generation unswerving benefits, and I will take it back in a blink of an eye?
Emperor Chongzhen laughed dryly twice before he continued: "That's it, I'm confused for a while."
In this case, let's give Zhang Aiqing a pair of jade ruyi first, and talk about my heart. In addition, the Imperial Village outside Beijing was assigned to the British Duke, and it will be returned to the British Duke. β
Zhang Weixian saw that he didn't have to roast on the fire, and secondly, he didn't have to worry about the image of His Majesty the Emperor being affected, and he also got the benefits - Jade Ruyi is a good thing, and the Huangzhuang in the suburbs of Beijing is even better.
After Zhang Weixian thanked him, Emperor Chongzhen secretly sighed and asked Zhang Weixian to sit down.
In fact, no matter how much he gave Zhang Weixian, he could only compare to the Zhang family's loyalty to the country for generations.
From Zhang Fu's loyalty to the civil fort to the last British duke leading the troops to be loyal to the capital, the British dukes of all dynasties are worthy of the glory and rewards given by the royal family.
It's just that Zhang Weixian is now older, and the dark wounds of his youth have begun to appear.
They are aging faster than normal.
Don't think that the blood of martial arts practitioners is stronger than ordinary people, so the old ones are slower, on the contrary, the martial artists in this kind of army are actually really injured.
This is also the reason why Emperor Chongzhen has more tolerance and preferential treatment for the army in addition to military discipline.
That's it, it's a fool, and Emperor Chongzhen then said: "Since that's the case, let's do it, let Duan Xiaorong and them sort out the things between the ancient immortals, and then publish them in the world."
At the same time, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is ready, no matter what you say, this time the extravagant Chongming must not stay.
In addition, those tens of thousands of Yi soldiers ......"
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen was a little entangled again.
Should these Yi soldiers be damned or not? Damn it for sure.
The Yi soldiers who rebelled with Hao Chongming were not the same as those who rebelled in Shaanxi.
Except for Wang Zuohang's group of people who ate people after the rebellion, as long as the rest surrendered honestly, as long as they were not the leaders of the rebels, there was no problem in surviving.
Emperor Chongzhen was also willing to believe that they would not rebel again - whether it was the blow of the imperial army, the cultivation after the spring of Chongzhen's second year, or the increase in the imperial court's relief efforts, in short, the so-called rebels who put down their hoes and picked up their knives and guns for a few days were not a big problem at all.
But the 50,000 rebels under Yu Chongming are different.
These people rebelled at all because they couldn't survive, but they were fooled by the bastard thing of Gao Chongming, thinking about reviving the country of the Yi people.
And what made Emperor Chongzhen even more angry was that these guys were doing more and more to slaughter villages and cities one by one.
Emperor Chongzhen also knew about the slaughter of an unknown village, especially the abuse and killing done by these rebels.
Coupled with the slaughter of the Taiping Division, can Emperor Chongzhen feel comfortable?
In short, whether this group of rebels is a Yi soldier or a Han soldier's own soldiers, in short, they are certain to die.
And Emperor Chongzhen didn't bother to do anything at this time to be a female cousin and set up a memorial arch, so he simply made his attitude naked - the rebels who killed Yingye were not enough to stay, and he was a coolie after castration, which seemed a little awkward in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen.
In short, Emperor Chongzhen, who regarded the Yi soldiers as Han soldiers, felt that it was always uncomfortable to castrate them like Jiannu and make them to be coolies until death.
Since this is the case, it is better to simply learn from Wu Anjun.
Killing all the pits can be regarded as giving them a good time.
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen simply gritted his teeth and said: "For Jiannu, the best way to atone for their sins is to let them mine and dig to death."
But these Yi soldiers, as I just said, the Yi and the Han are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and I can't bear to let them be like slaves.
The Governor's Office of the Five Armies sent an order to Zhu Xieyuan, and after he pacified the rebellion of Hao'an, he killed all the tens of thousands of rebels to prevent future troubles. β
Wen Tiren pondered and said: "If Your Majesty acts like this, won't people misunderstand that Your Majesty treats Jiannu better than the people of the Ming Dynasty?" β
Emperor Chongzhen simply sneered: "Whoever dares to be crooked, let him experience the feeling of mining, and see if it is more enjoyable to die or to die!" β
Wen Tiren has nothing to say now.
Normally, there is a great terror between life and death, and it is better to die than to live, etc., all show one thing, it is much better to live than to die.
But there is another problem in the middle, that is, in the case of normal life, or even in the case of a more difficult life.
Definitely does not include the method of survival of the captured Jiannu.
Just like the Jiannu captured in the Battle of Zunhua, as well as the prisoners captured by Mao Wenlong of Dongjiang, they were all castrated first.
Castration is to remove the root of right and wrong and become a eunuch like the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian.
After castration, after a few days of recovery, these people will be sent to the mines.
Although the mine is called a mountain, it is more accurate to call it a well.
The pits are obliquely descending from the wellhead, and they are not known how deep they are, and especially in the coal mines, there is some kind of poisonous gas.
In the Ming Dynasty, what this poisonous gas was called, Emperor Chongzhen said that he did not know.
But in later generations, it was called gas.
The gas thing seems to be colorless and odorless, and after a large amount of inhalation by the human body, death is certain, and it seems to be painless.
And there are many such things in coal mines, and no one knows which coal seam has a large amount of gas.
Even with the many means used in later generations, this thing will cause great casualties once it is prominent, even in the case of some simple oxygen breathing apparatus.
And what is there in Daming?
There's a fart!
Once this thing appears, the people who are mining underground are basically a dead scene.
And the other part of the people who were sent to open the mountain and pave the road was not a good job, basically the place where the mountain was opened was a risky area, and no one felt sorry for how many people diedβanyway, there would be no family members to claim compensation.
Emperor Chongzhen, who was reluctant to let his people do the work of mining and opening mountains, chose to let the captured Jiannu go to mining and opening mountains, and it was mining after castration.
In this case, it is really more enjoyable than dying.
It's just that Emperor Chongzhen still feels very regretful.
Now there is no way and no place to get some black uncles to come over, and there are very few who are brought over by those foreign devils on the sea, otherwise Emperor Chongzhen doesn't mind using a large number of black uncles to mine and open up the mountain.
Wen Tiren saw that Emperor Chongzhen had made up his mind, and he no longer persuaded him at the moment, and Zhang Weixian also knew whether it was a happy death or a happy life to go to the mining and open the mountain to live in the world, as long as Emperor Chongzhen chose to be shameless, in this case, it was much better to let the Yi soldiers be killed than to let them go to the mines.
After Wen Tiren and Zhang Weixian retired, Emperor Chongzhen opened the military form map again.
In fact, Emperor Chongzhen would look at the military form map of a fart, at best, he had only seen some red and blue military form maps in the dramas of later generations.
And he couldn't understand it at all!
The map in front of him was thinly outlined with lead stone on the white silk, and it was densely filled with some marks written by Emperor Chongzhen himself.
In short, Emperor Chongzhen is more concerned about the affairs of the two bastards, Xuan Chongming and An Bangyan.
At this time, Xuan Chongming and An Bangyan didn't know that Emperor Chongzhen had planned to completely kill the two.
Even if they knew, the two didn't really care about it.
Since ancient times, those who have chosen to rebel, except for those who succeeded, which loser had a good end?
Ling Chi? Zhu Jiu Clan?
The two felt that the transaction was actually not a loss.
succeeded, but he is the lord of a country, even if he fails, the son of Yu Chongming is already cold, who is left among the nine clans?
What about Ahn Bangyan? If you succeed, you are the great elder of the great country, and if you fail, you will just die.
Even if Ling Chi is too painful, as long as he commits suicide before being caught by the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, even if he is crushed and scattered, he doesn't know it, right?
As for the Nine Clans, An Bangyan and Luxury Chongming were originally somewhat related, and many of the Nine Clans overlapped - and most of these people had been killed by officers and soldiers when Luxury Chongming rebelled for the first time, and now they are still afraid of the Fart Nine Clan?
Now the headache for the two is that after slaughtering the Taiping Division, the speed of the march has slowed down again.
In Zhenxiong Mansion, he was dragged again.
Tuo Chongming slaughtered the blessing of the Taiping Division, and now all the states and counties around the Taiping Division that have received the news have basically chosen the same set of treatment plans - to be rigid to the end.
Anyway, the current situation is that surrender is death, but if you don't surrender, there may be a glimmer of life, so who will choose to surrender?
Therefore, as soon as the army of Luxury Chongming entered Zhenxiong Mansion, Weixin City, which bore the brunt of the battle, was ready to fight to the end.
After leaving enough supplies and three thousand households to hold on to the city of Zhenxiong Mansion for ten days, the Zhenxiong Mansion commanded Tongzhi Ji An with a large number of materials and two thousand households of troops went towards prestige in the starry night.
It's just that Xing Ji'an's luck is not very good, or because the distance is too far, when Xing Ji'an arrived at Prestige, Prestige has been surrounded by the army of Extravagant Chongming.
Now it's going to be hard.
There must be no hope for fighting, not to mention the large amount of materials he brought, just these tens of thousands of Yi soldiers can devour and strip alive the strength of his two thousand households.
If you don't fight, you will flee without a fight, and the crime will be the same as losing your land, and then you will basically not have a second way to go except to die to thank Your Majesty and the court.
It's really a valley of advance and retreat.
PS: This is an additional update on May 5th, and it will be updated normally at seven o'clock in the morning on May 6th, and it will also be updated normally at night. My character is very guaranteed.