Seeing that Zhu Ci had not spoken, Mandala was urgent.

"Emperor Ming, do you agree!" Mandaduo had a hideous face, and the dagger in his hand had already cut through the skin on Chen Xin's neck, in order to force Zhu Ci to compromise.

How could Zhu Ci agree, he was still silent.

"Your Majesty, please save my grandfather!" Chen Xiuxiu was startled, and pleaded with tears in her eyes.

Zhu Ci stumbled a little unbearably, and his lips moved a few times.

Over there, Zhu Ci had not yet expressed his position, and Chen Xin, who was held hostage by Mandado, suddenly sighed, and his eyes gradually showed firmness.

"Your Majesty!" Chen Xin shouted.

In an instant, everyone's eyes were focused on Chen Xin, including Mandala who was holding him hostage.

Mandado hoped that Chen Xin would say something begging for mercy, so he did not stop him from shouting to Zhu Cijiao and others.

"Your Majesty, there is something I hope the emperor can agree." Chen Xin said in a rather melancholy tone.

"Elder Chen, please speak, I will definitely do it." Zhu Ci hesitated and promised, he had already anticipated what Chen Xin was going to do, and he felt a little unbearable.

"The minister implores the emperor to take care of Xiuxiu for the minister, help her find a good husband's family, don't let him be wronged, can the emperor do it." Chen Xin looked directly at Zhu Ci, at this moment, Chen Xin no longer seemed to be a courtier, but an old man who was desperate for his granddaughter.

"Grandpa!" Chen Xiuxiu was already crying.

Zhu Ci nodded without hesitation, in fact, even if Chen Xin didn't say it, if something happened to Chen Xin, he would also take care of Chen Xiuxiu for Chen Xin.

Seeing that Zhu Ci agreed, Chen Xin smiled with relief.

Chen Xin looked at Chen Xiuxiu again and said: "Xiuxiu, grandpa is leaving, in fact, what Xiuxiu thinks in his heart, grandpa has always known that grandpa couldn't see it before, and grandpa won't stop it in the future, you can do what you want in your heart, don't wronged yourself"

Chen Xin's instructions were like last words.

At this moment, as long as you are not stupid, you can predict what Chen Xin intends to do.

"Shut up, old man!" Mandado was not stupid, and naturally he could hear that something was wrong with Chen Xin's words, and shouted angrily, the dagger in his hand became tighter, and it stabbed directly into the flesh of Chen Xin's neck, and a large amount of blood flowed out of the wound.

Chen Xin was not afraid, and after Chen Xiuxiu said two more words, his eyes suddenly froze, revealing a sharp light.

"Thief, little old man is fighting with you!" Chen Xin burst into a shout, ignoring the dagger on his neck, turned around, and pinched Mandado's neck with both hands, his eyes were hideous, like a ghost.

Few people know that Chen Xin's son died at the hands of the Manchus, so Chen Xin didn't plan to live since he knew that he was kidnapped by the Manchus, and the Manchus still wanted to use him to threaten the emperor, which was simply delusional.

Mandaduo's face was pale, Chen Xin was so uncooperative, seeing that the purpose of threatening Zhu Ci with Chen Xin could not be achieved, he immediately looked fierce.

"Damn old man, since you want to die, I'll fulfill you with Mandatta!" Mandardo roared angrily, and the dagger in his hand slashed, and a large amount of blood flowed out of Chen Xin's neck, and his body instantly softened to the ground.

"Old Chen" Zhu Ci staggered angrily.

"Grandpa" Chen Xiuxiu couldn't stand this stimulation and fainted instantly.

Zhu Ci staggered angrily at Mandado and the others.

"Damn the thief! I'm going to cut you with a thousand cuts! ”

The Ying Long army surrounding Mandarta and the others all swarmed up and pounced on Mandardo and several other thieves.

"Hahahaha" Man Daduo laughed wildly, losing Chen Xin's shield, he knew that he would definitely die, but the Ming Emperor wanted to capture them alive, he didn't want to think about it, the dignified wolf, how to allow himself to be captured alive by the enemy.

Before the soldiers of the Ying Long Army could pounce, Mandardo had already stabbed the dagger into his heart. Several other thieves also bit their mouths and poisoned their sacs, killing themselves.

Sky Wolf, the number one spy under the command of the Manchu regent Dolgon, was entrenched in Nanjing City at some point, and had quietly stolen the secret of the Shenwu Field Cannon of the Firearms Bureau, and now he wanted to play the secret of new gunpowder and primer, which was a great threat to the Ming Dynasty, and now he is dead.

In this regard, Zhu Ci was not half happy, because with the death of the wolf, Chen Xin, the director of the Firearms Bureau, also died, which was also a major loss to Daming.

Zhu Ci ordered Chen Xin's body to be reined in, and returned to Nanjing with Chen Xiuxiu, who couldn't stand the stimulation and fell into a coma.

Northern.

The wolf's death soon reached Dorgon's ears.

Dolgon's eyes were hideous, gritting his teeth, no need to ask, the mission of the Sky Wolf failed, and he failed to detect the mystery of the two new secret weapons of the Ming Dynasty, which was a big threat to the Qing Dynasty.

"The decisive battle is imminent! Even if Da Ming still has a secret weapon, I believe that the bravery of the children of the Eight Banners will definitely make up for it! Dorgon cheered himself up.

At present, after several years of recovery in the Qing Dynasty, although the number of the Eight Banners is still not as large as before the Battle of Xuzhou, it has also recovered to 70,000, and the Mongolian steppe has also recruited 160,000 Mongolian iron horsemen.

At the same time, the number of Han Banner troops was established to a staggering 1.5 million people!

This is due to Zhu Cihe's two holy decrees to suppress the wealthy families, limit the price of land leases, and cancel the privilege of the wealthy families to never pay taxes, which is definitely an unacceptable loss for the wealthy families. When King Fu and King Lu rebelled, why they were able to gather an army of tens of millions of people in a short period of time was the reason why the wealthy families of the scholar clan rebelled.

In that battle, King Fu, King Lu and the Shi clan were defeated, and the people involved were either killed or fled to the north, and the north was the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and in order to fight against the Ming Dynasty, these people naturally formed an alliance with Dolgon.

In this regard, Dolgon welcomes everything, the current Ming is strong and the Qing is weak, and one more person who firmly resists the Ming Dynasty will have a better chance of winning.

Today, there is a sense of urgency in both the North and the South.

"I heard about the new deal in the south, the people there are rich, and the emperor is a wise lord today, I don't know when the king will be able to kill back and recover the lost land here!" An old man working in the fields suddenly looked at the sky and sighed.

is also like King Fu and King Lu back then, although they have the support of the wealthy families, they are not supported by the ordinary people.

After all, lowering the price of land lease and abolishing labor are great benefits for ordinary people, and it is worth their lives.

In order to make up for the loss of supporting King Fu and King Lu, many newly bought land nobles increased the cruel tax rate on the land under their names, and the tax on some land even reached as much as ninety percent, and the tenants who planted these lands were miserable, and the old man was one of them.

This year, he sold another grandson just enough to pay the land tax, he didn't know how many grandsons he still had to sell, under such pain, how could he not look forward to the Ming Dynasty to come back and rescue them.

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