Nearing one’s end!

In the office of the governor of the five provinces in Changsha City, thousands of miles away, an older man was standing there alone, watching the sunset gradually set in the west.

This person is none other than the famous governor of the five provinces, Hong Chengchou, who was originally from Nan'an, Fujian, was born in the 44th year of Wanli, and was born in the late Ming Dynasty from the official to the military department, the governor of Jiliao, who was captured by the Qing Dynasty after the defeat in the Battle of Songjin, and then surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. In April of the first year of Shunzhi, he entered the customs with the Qing army, and then began to be used by the Qing court. In the tenth year of Shunzhi, he was ordered to pass through Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, and the governor of military affairs and food and salary. Originally, in another time and space, he would return to Beijing after supervising the Qing army to capture Yunnan in the sixteenth year of Shunzhi. Two years later, he felt that he had won the world for the Qing Dynasty, so he would invite himself.

But now, he is still serving as the governor of the five provinces, and he still manages the military and political affairs of Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou, and still controls one side. And from his experience, it can be seen that whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, they must be extremely important to him. After the Songjin War, Emperor Chongzhen, who thought that he would be martyred, personally ordered an altar to be set up and held a mourning ceremony for him. Huang Taiji had tried every possible means to persuade him to surrender, and even sent his favorite concubine to persuade him to use it. Based on this experience alone, Hong Chengchou seems to be the good minister and wise general that the ancient emperors dreamed of. Perhaps, for the Ming Dynasty, he is not a good minister and a wise general, but for the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou is a great contribution, it can be said that if there is no Hong Chengchou, the Qing Dynasty will not even be able to sit on China's country for more than ten years, the reason why he did his best to give advice to the Qing Dynasty, and even came to Changsha in person, to do his best to exterminate the Ming Dynasty, is to be able to let the Qing Dynasty be the master of the Central Plains, so as to wash away the name of the traitor on his body, as long as the Qing Dynasty becomes China's orthodoxy, how can he be a traitor?

Hundreds of years later, when people evaluate him again, they will even think that he is the hero who "helped the Qing Dynasty pacify the world", and will be the first hero of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, in the past few years, when he was in Changsha, he had done his best to work hard for the future of the Qing Dynasty and for his own posthumous name. But in the sixteenth year of Shunzhi, after Zheng Chenggong entered Kou Jiangnan, everything was changed, and all his efforts were torn apart by Zheng Chenggong and others, even the Qing Dynasty...... It's also exhaustive!

Hong Chengchou, who was standing in the government office with his back hand, was completely haggard and depressed at this time. Decades of hard work had made him only a little older than his peers, and the deep sunken eye sockets on his thin face were inlaid with a pair of triangular eyes, only a little gleam in those eyes.

Just a few hours ago, on his desk was a secret report that had just come from the north - the Ming army landed in Manchuria and Shengjing fell, and this secret report was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Hong Chengchou.

Although he was mentally prepared for the approaching number of the Manchu Dynasty, he had already begun to prepare for his future even before the fall of Wuchang. even sat back and watched the fall of Wuchang, colluding with Wu Sangui and others, trying to protect themselves from the southwest.

But when the news came, it still made his whole body feel like he was in an unprecedented shock, although he didn't know what was going on in the north at the moment. But he knew very well what kind of impact the fall of Shengjing would have on the Qing Dynasty, and if this news came out, the blow to the Qing Dynasty would be fatal.

What to do?

For example, today's situation is no longer what it used to be! Now the Ming court not only occupies half of the world, but also the number of Manchu Qi is approaching, and there are rumors in various places, if the news of the fall of Shengjing is spread again, the consequences are unimaginable.

Hong Chengchou doesn't care about what kind of consequences the Qing Congress will be, what he has to think about is his future. When he entered the customs, he made a grand wish, that is, no matter what, he would help the Qing Dynasty unify the Central Plains and sit firmly in China.

But now, that dream has been shattered!

Instead of perishing, the Ming Dynasty once again showed a trend of revival when it was in a desperate situation! And this momentum is all unstoppable, although he can see the hidden dangers, but the defeat of the Great Qing Kingdom is decided! What to do?

Again, Hong Chengchou's mind came up with a young man who had not been forgotten for more than ten years, that year he was ordered by the regent to be the governor of Jiangnan, and it was there that he first met Xia Wanchun, who was still just a child, when Xia Wanchun was arrested in Songjiang to resist the Qing Dynasty, he was ready to go to righteousness generously, and even the suicide note to his wife and mother was written early. It's just that Hong Chengchou didn't plan to kill him, he heard that Xia Wanchun and his father-in-law Qian Zhan were arrested, so he wanted to personally persuade the two Weng sons-in-law to surrender, which could not only recruit "talents" for the Qing Dynasty, appease Jiangnan Shilin, and let Jiangnan Shilin be used by the Qing Dynasty.

That day in the old court hall in Nanjing, Hong Chengchou sat high and asked Xia Wanchun, who was arraigned below:

"How can you call a soldier a rebel if you have any great knowledge? Presumably he was deceived and mistakenly entered the army. If you return to the Qing Dynasty, you should not lose the beauty of the official. ”

Xia Wanchun was unmoved, and asked Hong Chengchou:

"Who are you?"

The tiger wolf servant next to him shouted:

"This is Lord Hong!" And the jailer whispered to him:

"This is Mr. Hong Hyung-koo."

Xia Wanchun pretended not to know, and shouted loudly:

"Hmph, the hall must be a fake. Mr. Hong Hengjiu of this dynasty, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he fought bravely in Songshan and Xingshan with Beiyu, blood spattered Zhangqu, the first emperor heard the shock and mourned, and personally composed poems to praise and remember. It is precisely because I admire the loyalty of Mr. Hong Hengjiu that I want to die for my country in order to emulate the heroic deeds of the martyrs. ”

The jailers were in dire straits. Hong Chengchou is like dust on the upper seat. One person came up and shouted at Xia Wanchun:

"It's Hong Chengchou who interrogated you above!" Xia Wanchun smiled loudly:

"Don't lie to me! Mr. Hong Hengjiu died in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and the Son of Heaven once came to the ancestral hall to sacrifice, tears were sprinkled with dragon face, and the ministers whimpered. What kind of traitor and ugly kind of thief are you, dare to trust the name of Mr. Zhonglie, wear a captive hat and pretend to be Mr. Hong, what a dog thief! ”

Hong Chengchou suddenly sweated like rain, the old dog's lips trembled, and the little hero hit his soul with every word, making this renegade person as embarrassed and uncomfortable as a thousand arrows. The important ministers of the Ming Dynasty who have eaten Lu for several generations are not as good as the humble sixteen-year-old boy in Jiangnan, which is really ashamed to die!

Xia Wanchun's words undoubtedly hit the pain point in his heart, but he couldn't turn back, because the feelings of the past had already quietly left him! For the sake of his personal death, he must completely bury Daming......

But now, it's a joke!

For more than ten years, every time in his dreams, he always thought of the young man in cloth, thinking of his generosity when he went to righteousness, I don't know how many times in his heart, I feel sorry for that young man, if he has not died, over time, he will definitely be able to be the pillar of the world! But in the end, he chose to be generous! The boy can do it, but he ...... Can't do it!

He can neither become a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, nor can he become a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty. If people don't do it for themselves, heaven and earth will be destroyed! Hong is like this, what's wrong?

Although he said this to himself countless times in his heart, Hong Chengchou also understood very well that what should come must come, once the Qing Dynasty perished, then he would be next, and then Zhang Huangyan in Jiangxi and Li Dingguo in Guangdong would pounce like a wolf, trying to use his Hong Chengchou's head to dye their tops...... No, go make a name for them!

"What should I do?" Staring at the sunset, Hong Chengchou only felt that his breathing became a little heavy, for the first time, he became dazed, even when he descended to the Qing Dynasty, he was not as dazed as he is now, at that time, he clearly knew what he wanted - to perish the Ming Dynasty!

And now, he is at a loss because he can't see the future.

"There is still a way, there is still a way to ......" said to himself, the only thing that made Hong Chengchou feel a little fortunate was that the main force of the Great Qing Kingdom still existed, that is to say, the Great Qing Kingdom still had the strength to breathe.

"As long as the Qing Kingdom is still there, then everything will be easy......"

Hong Chengchou tried his best to reassure himself in his heart, but reason and intuition told him that things were not as simple as he imagined.

"If the emperor is angry now and leads the troops out of the customs, then the Great Qing Kingdom will be finished!"

His brows were tightly locked, what Hong Chengchou was worried about now was not the qi of the Great Qing Kingdom, he was afraid that if the Great Qing Dynasty was finished, it would be his turn next, and he needed the Great Qing Dynasty to live well, and only in this way could he continue to sit and watch the world. Where is the way to live?

Although he was at a loss in his heart, Hong Chengchou knew very well where his life was, he couldn't be generous to righteousness back then, and now he also doesn't sacrifice his life for the Qing Dynasty, all he needs is to live! No one will give him this way of life, only he will fight for it!

"The key is still the Great Qing Kingdom!" With such a long sigh, Hong Chengchou's brows jumped slightly, and then he groaned.

"If you write to the court now, will the court believe what Hong said?" Thinking that since the fall of Wuchang, he and Wu Sangui and others tried to protect themselves in the southwest, and now he couldn't help but have some doubts about whether his suggestions would be used by the imperial court, after all, for the imperial court, he Hong Chengchou was not the person he was back then.

"What if the court doesn't believe Hong? If the imperial court insists on going its own way and has to go out of the customs, what should happen to the recovery of Manchuria? ”

Just when Hong Chengchou was suffering from gains and losses, his brows were locked again, and his eyebrows were full of melancholy......