A day later, the Tang infantry led by Liu Guoneng, the deputy general of Xingzhong Town, finally rushed to Zhuozhou to join Li Xiao. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the whole army rested for another day, Li Xiao ordered Lu Xiangsheng to raise the remnants of his troops and horses, and together with his own Tang army troops, return to the coast in the east, take the ships of the naval division, and return to Shandong.

As for the nearly 10,000 people in Zhuozhou City, they were all taken back to Shandong by the Tang Army on the same ship, and the entire Zhuozhou became an abandoned and empty city.

As for Liu Wenxiu's Dingbei battalion to reinforce the cavalry, it was arranged by the imperial court military department to return to the Lutai area and station. It's just that for them, Li Xiao arranged a special task for Liu Wenxiu.

That is, taking advantage of the huge panic caused by the Qing army's large-scale crossing, Liu Wenxiu was asked to take in the fleeing people and displaced people in various places in Beizhili, and transport them to Lutai in a unified manner, and then transported them to Dengzhou, Shandong by the sailors.

Li Xiao believes that after the completion of this work, at least three or four hundred thousand people and displaced people can be collected from Beizhili!

After arriving in Dengju, these ordinary people and displaced people from Beizhili were transported to Jeju according to the fixed route, and then a small part was transported to Ezo Island and Sakhalin Island to settle down, and most of them were transferred to Taiwan to settle down.

As a matter of fact, Taiwan's population has now reached more than 3 million thanks to Li Xiao's continuous transportation, which is really an astonishing achievement.

In Li Xiao's plan, Taiwan's population will not be slightly saturated until it is more than 4 million. If more immigrants come, Li Xiao plans to transport them all to the Philippines for resettlement.

Of course, before transporting the displaced people to the Philippines, Li Xiao must first conquer the island of Luzon occupied by the Spaniards and sweep away the power of the Spaniards before he can resettle the migrants.

What Li Xiao didn't expect was that when the Tang army was about to leave, Yang Tinglin, the squire of the military department, proposed to him, saying that he did not want to return to the capital, but hoped to serve Li Xiao from now on.

Li Xiao still has a certain understanding of Yang Tinglin, a famous minister in the late Ming Dynasty and a famous anti-Qing dynasty scholar in history.

Yang Tinglin, the word Boxiang, the word machine department, in his later years, called himself and the mountain, intended to imitate Wen Tianxiang (Wenshan) and Xie Fangde (Stacked Mountain) These two mountain temperaments. During the Chongzhen period, Jinshi, during the Southern Ming Dynasty, first served for Hongguang, and after the capture of the Southern Capital, he was an official in the Longwu Dynasty, and was added by Emperor Longwu as the secretary of the military department. As a civilian official, he led the army and conquered the county seat of Ji'an. Later, Ji'an was lost, and had to surrender to Ganzhou, in the second year of Longwu, the Qing soldiers captured Ganzhou City, and threw themselves into the water to martyr.

"Yang Shilang has an official position, why don't you return to the capital, but you want to come to serve under my account?"

Regarding Yang Tinglin, the squire of the military department, who was willing to come to serve him, although Li Xiao was very happy, he was also very puzzled.

After Li Xiao asked, Yang Tinglin laughed miserably.

After laughing miserably for a while, he said hatefully: "The reason why Yang is willing to give up his official position, not return to the capital, and come to vote for Lord Li is not the result of Yang's sudden rise, but the result of Yang's careful consideration." Now, Daming is already so critical, but it is a pity that the Chinese military officials of the DPRK are still like crabs in the fishing basket, fighting for this fishing basket, fighting to the death, not knowing that the tragic fate of being boiled into the pot is not painful! “

Therefore, Yang Mou figured it out, this Ming Dynasty is already incorrigible, and this increasingly erosive land of China will eventually sink hopelessly! If Yang returns to the capital, he will be squeezed out by the villains in the DPRK, and second, he can only live a mediocre life and do nothing. If that's the case, it doesn't matter whether the court has me as a military squire or not. Therefore, it is better to abandon the official body and go to serve under Lord Li. In order to show my talents and serve the country, Yang will die without regrets. ”

Li Xiao listened to Yang Tinglin's bitter words, and he didn't feel a long sigh.

In real history, Yang Tinglin and Yang Sichang, an important minister in the court, did not agree, so they were sent to serve in Lu Xiangsheng's army. After Lu Xiangsheng was defeated and died in the Battle of Jiazhuang, Yang Sichang thought that Yang Tinglin, the soldier who served in Lu Xiangsheng's army, was also killed, and he was very happy.

But he never thought that when Lu Xiangsheng's whole army was destroyed, Yang Tinglin happened to be outside the envoy and was not on the battlefield to save his life. Hearing this result, Yang Sichang hated for a long time, and finally found him a no, and then demoted Yang Tinglin to Jiangxi as an idle official, until the end of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and never recovered.

Seeing Yang Tinglin's determined eyes, Li Xiao smiled, patted Yang Tinglin's shoulder heavily, and said loudly: "Okay!" Since Yang Shilang is willing to serve my father, my father welcomes it, so I will temporarily appoint you to praise the painting in front of our army. “

Yang Tinglin looked happy, and said loudly: "Thank you Tang Guogong for taking me in, I will definitely do my best to saddle up the horse and drive for the adult!" ”

After accepting Yang Tinglin, all the Tang army, the iron flow, took the people of Zhuozhou all the way east.

When the Tang army was rolling eastward, the messenger who went to the capital to report the news also reported Lu Xiangsheng's death to Emperor Chongzhen and Yang Sichang, who was also in charge of the military department.

After receiving the news of Lu Xiangsheng's death, Emperor Chongzhen, who was relaxing in the imperial garden, was stunned.

The morning breeze is coming, the sun is clear, the birds are chirping, the willows are clinging, the lake is slight, and the blue lotus is shining, in this scenery full of vitality, the emperor is like a log, standing by the Taiye Pool in a daze, holding Li Xiao's autographed note, his right hand is trembling slightly.

Quickly, the emperor's eyes began to redden, and two clear tears silently smashed on the concerto.

He suddenly thought of the scene when Lu Xiang was ascending to the throne and generously resigned to himself that day, and now he thought about it, as if it were yesterday.

"Jiandou, what, why did you become loyal to the country so quickly? Didn't you tell me that you would retreat from the Qing Dynasty and return to Beijing in triumph? You went like this, but I didn't have any preparation at all! Chongzhen muttered to himself with a crying tone.

Chongzhen stood for a long time, and his face swelled with anger, and he shouted angrily at the little eunuch on the side: "What are you still doing in a daze, quickly drive back to the palace!" Summoning the Yang Pavilion Department into the palace again! ”

"Yes, slave and maid!"

At this time, in Yang Sichang's mansion, Yang Sichang, who heard the news of Lu Xiangsheng's death, couldn't help but smile.

"Alas, Lu Jiandou is a person who is stubborn and self-serving, and thinks very highly of himself, so that he is high and widowed, isolated and helpless, and finally suffered this defeat and died in Zhuozhou, which is also sighing."

Yang Sichang stroked his beard and tried to make some regrets, but in his heart, he was very proud.

Hmph, Lu Xiangsheng, you insisted on going your own way, ignoring the advice of the cabinet, instigating the emperor to confront the Qing people to the end, and now you are to blame for such a tragic end!

Yang Sichang was sighing, and suddenly a little eunuch came to report, announcing that he was in a hurry to enter the palace to meet him.

Yang Si frowned, and immediately thought that it must be the emperor who came to inquire about Lu Xiangsheng's death in battle. Therefore, after a little thought, he hurriedly changed his court clothes and went to the Forbidden City with the little eunuch.

Fang entered the Qing Palace, and Yang Sichang caught a glimpse of the emperor sitting on the dragon chair with a sad face and frowns, and he chuckled unconsciously in his heart.

"Minister, Yang Sichang, meet the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!"

"Aiqing is flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Yang Sichang stood up, and Chongzhen asked coldly: "Yang Gebu, you also know about Lu Jiandou's death in Zhuozhou." ”

"Back to the emperor, the minister knows."

Chongzhen stared at Yang Sichang's pretended heavy face, and said with a long sigh: "Lu Jiandou, as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, has died fighting for the country, which really demoralizes our army!" Wen is weak, in your opinion, how should I deal with the Qing army that entered the customs next? ”

Yang Sichang was waiting for the emperor's words, he knelt on the ground, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, forgive the minister, the momentum of entering the Qing army is really too big, and my Ming officers and troops are not their opponents in terms of morale or combat strength, please send someone to contact the Qing army as soon as possible to discuss the matter of peace between the two countries, it is important!" ”

"Peace, peace, peace! Could it be that in addition to negotiating peace, I, the Ming official army, will not be able to fight with the Qing army?! If such an alliance under the city is signed, the Qing captives will despise and despise our Ming Empire even more! If this is the case, where will the face of the Ming Empire exist, and where will the face of the emperor remain! ”

Emperor Chongzhen angrily stood up from the dragon chair and paced back and forth in front of the steps like a trapped beast.

"Your Majesty, if you don't negotiate peace with the Qing court for the sake of face, then the Qing army is in the hinterland of our Ming Dynasty, attacking cities and plundering land, slaughtering people, and robbing money and food, how can it be stopped! If this continues, wouldn't the loss of my Ming be greater? I'm afraid that after the elite soldiers of my Ming Dynasty are wiped out in the hands of the Qing army who entered the customs, the thieves lurking in the country will surely rise again, and there will be no more containment! ”

Yang Sichang hurriedly finished speaking, and the expression on his face was very complicated.

"You 。。。。。。"

Chongzhen Tie blushed, his teeth gritted loudly, but he couldn't say anything to refute for a while.

"Your Majesty, although the Qing captives are powerful, they are enemies outside the border after all, and it is difficult to shake the foundation of my Ming Dynasty for a while. If the thieves regain their strength, poison the Quartet, and stir up the lives of the entire Zhongzhou, it will really destroy the heart and soul of my Daming society! Your Majesty, such an emergency is related to the lifeblood of the country, and I ask the emperor to make a quick decision! ”

After Yang Sichang finished saying this in a low voice, he knelt on the ground and never looked up again.

After listening to Yang Sichang's words, Chongzhen's heart was like a knife.

But he can't help but admit that Yang Sichang's words are reasonable.

Because these Qing troops, although they are arrogant now, will eventually withdraw from the pass, at least for a short time, and will not invade the Ming Dynasty again. And once their own elite bandit Ming army is lost in the hands of the Qing captives, the thieves in that country really can't be contained, and they will only continue to grow.

Two roads, two directions, and whether the front is bright or dark, whether it is ZTE or degenerate, who can really predict, perhaps, only history can know the final result.

And for Emperor Chongzhen, such an extremely heavy choice related to the fortunes of the country, and it is really difficult for him to make such an urgent decision now.

In the final analysis, although Chongzhen is a diligent and ambitious emperor, his own talents are too mediocre, and he is suspicious, indecisive, moody, good at killing ministers, and he has not received systematic imperial training since he was a child.

And in this late Ming Dynasty era when only the Ming monarch and strong lord could make a difference, a mediocre emperor like Chongzhen was really powerless and incompetent to take charge of the Ming Empire, which was already in decline and was in decline.

Chongzhen, who was in a fog in his mind, suddenly thought that Li Xiao had proposed to him in the recital how to make a decision next.

Chongzhen's eyes lit up, and he said to Yang Sichang: "Yang Gebu, Tang Guogong said this to me in the recital. He said that if he wanted to get the Qing army out of the pass as soon as possible, he had no objection to negotiating peace with the Qing army, but there was a precondition. ”

Yang Sichang's heart sank, and he said: "What are the conditions that Tang Guogong said? ”

"That is, we must fight a big victory, and under such a prerequisite, we can make the Qing army retreat in the face of difficulties, and thus be forced to negotiate peace with our Ming Dynasty. He also said that if our army is defeated again and again without a victory, and we bow our heads to the Qing people and ask for peace, then the Qing people can use the peace talks as bait on the one hand, and on the other hand, they will step up their plundering of our country, in order to obtain the greatest benefits. It may even be that in the end, my Daming will compensate both his wife and his soldiers, so that he will catch the air with both hands and gain nothing. ”

Listening to the emperor's words, Yang Sichang suddenly felt a heat on his face, and a feeling of impatience swelled in his heart.

This Li Xiao is right, if he goes to sue for peace with the Qing army who have entered the customs on the premise of successive defeats, they will definitely put forward extremely harsh terms to force themselves to sign this humiliating alliance under the city. If this is the case, even if the Qing army can be withdrawn, its own losses will be too great.

What's more, such grievances and peacemaking are very likely to lead to a greater evil result.

That is, the Qing army knows the taste of the marrow, and the ambition will be even more difficult to suppress, even if it retreats now, maybe it will re-enter the customs in the next year and plunder again. In that case, what kind of humiliating conditions should he use in exchange for the armistice of the Qing army?

"Yang Gebu, Li Xiao said a sentence in the recital, which made me very impressed." Seeing that Yang Sichang was silent, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "Li Xiao said that if you seek unity in the struggle, you will survive unity, and if you seek unity in compromise, you will die in unity. Li Xiao's point of view, I appreciate it very much. ”

Hearing the emperor praise Li Xiao like this, Yang Sichang took a deep breath. I also admire Li Xiao for being able to put forward such an incisive point of view.

Of course, he and Chongzhen would never have thought that this was Li Xiao from later generations, copying the thoughts of a great man.

"Then Li Xiao, did you ever propose in the recital, how to deal a major blow to the Qing army?" Yang Sichang thought for a while and asked.

"Oh, Li Xiao said, now that the Qing army is heading to the southeast, it is estimated that the next step will be to focus on attacking Shandong. Therefore, he hoped in the chapter that I would let the Ming official army focus on guarding the cloth in Shandong, not seeking to eliminate the Qing army entering the pass, as long as I could drag them down and make it difficult for them to advance and retreat in Shandong, and then let the Tang army under his command come to deal with the Qing army head-on and break the Qing army. Regarding Li Xiao's suggestion, what does Yang Gebu think? ”

After Chongzhen finished speaking, his eyes were full of inquiry, and he threw himself directly at Yang Sichang.

To the emperor's surprise, after listening to the emperor's words, Yang Sichang had a solemn expression.

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, although Tang Guogong's suggestion has merit, Weichen feels that if he has to act according to Li Xiaozhi's suggestion, then the already domineering Tang Army will only ignore the court more and more!"

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