Chapter 17: The Lord and the Curtain (2nd Update, Asking for Support)

If the court doesn't believe Hong!

When this thought and mind came to mind, Hong Chengchou's expression became helpless, now it is impossible for the Great Qing Kingdom to believe in him Hong someone, not only does he not believe it, but he even believes that if the Great Qing Kingdom has a chance to defeat the Ming Kingdom, once the world is calm, he Hong is probably the first person in Fulin to want to kill!

Ming Guo wants him to Hong Chengchou!

And Qing Guo will not let him go in the future, Hong Chengchou!

When a traitor is in this position, it is really rare!

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou couldn't help sighing, knowing that he had no place on either side now, and then beckoned to the door.

"Hong Jiu."

As soon as Hong Chengchou's words fell, a middle-aged man outside the door immediately responded with his hand down.

"Master, what do you have to call the little one?"

Hong Jiu is Hong Chengchou's house slave, when the battle of Songjin was fought, he was persuaded to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and after he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he has always followed him, and there is no one more reliable than him by Hong Chengchou's side.

"Hasn't Governor Zhang returned to the city yet?"

The prefect Zhang in his mouth is Zhang Daocheng, the prefect of Changsha, he is a native of Shanxi, the fifth son of Zhang Quan, the former Ming Dynasty Liaodong Imperial History, and Shanxi Qinshui Bagong. In July of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, he led 200 self-prepared horsemen to "Confucian clothes in the army", and later served as the official of Kangfu in southwest Jiangxi. In March of the eleventh year of Shunzhi, he went to the Changsha shogunate, because Hong Chengchou was in urgent need of employment at that time, and he was the deceased, so he ordered before leaving the army, and he acted in Changsha Prefecture. Zhang Daocheng, who served in Changsha, was mainly responsible for important tasks closely related to war preparedness, and it can be said that he has always been Hong Chengchou's very effective assistant and highly valued.

"Back to the master, Lord Zhang has not come back from the city, I heard that he went to the township to check the spring ploughing."

"Oh, he just can't be idle for a moment, and in the past few years, he has to be on the side to make the old man worry-free."

Hong Chengchou nodded slightly, knowing that for Zhang Daocheng, who is the prefect of Changsha, the most important thing is to prepare money and grain, and now he goes to the countryside to inspect spring ploughing, it must be to ensure the autumn class, thinking about Zhang Daocheng's hard work in the past two years, Hong Chengchou is slightly pleased.

The friends in this scene really live up to someone Hong!

"Master, Mr. Zhu has been waiting in the mansion."

Hong Jiu reported on the sidelines.

"Mr. Zhu is waiting? Why do you say it now? ”

Hong Chengchou immediately said with some displeasure.

Mr. Zhu in Hong Jiu's mouth is Zhu Yingsheng, the Chongzhen 12-year-old man, after entering the Qing Dynasty, he first served as a scholar in Yingzhou, and then went out as a patrol according to the imperial history, Shunzhi ten years to Baoqing Mansion to promote the official, to appease the exile, Fu Sui remnants, spare no effort, Shunzhi 13 years was dismissed due to the delay of the year tribute bud tea. After his dismissal, he assisted Yuan Kuoyu, the governor of Biyuan, in the work of dividing and disintegrating the Southern Ming army, and won the surrender of Sun Kewang's generals Jiang Chunsheng, Jiang Hesheng, the general soldiers Wang Ruitai, Wang Renqing, Xie Chenglong, Xie Caishang, and Taoist Sun Yinggeng. This series of defection incidents was triggered through the ties of blood and township party relations, and even melons and vines, and the destructive effect of the anti-Qing contingent is self-evident. Therefore, Hong Chengchou deeply regretted Zhu Yingsheng's talent, "to the effect of the army", in the past few years, for him to recruit a large number of anti-Qing troops, and he is also the think tank of Hong Chengchou's shogunate, very influential on it. Because of this, Hong Chengchou attaches great importance to his talent, and when he heard that Zhu Yingsheng had been waiting, he was naturally a little unhappy.

"Back to the master, it was Mr. Zhu who said, don't disturb the master to think about things, let the little one not spread it for the time being."

This is also Zhu Yingsheng's temper, so Hong Chengchou immediately said to Hong Jiu:

"Well, you go and ask Mr. Zhu to come over."

After a while, Zhu Yingsheng entered the house, and when he Hong Chengchou saluted, Hong Jiu had already served tea and made a thousand, and then quietly withdrew outside the room.

"Yunqi, I think you should already know!"

Hong Chengchou asked bluntly.

"This news can't be hidden, it seems that the gas of this Great Qing Kingdom is ......"

Shaking his head, Zhu Yingsheng sighed.

"The Hu people have no luck for a hundred years, it seems that the ancients did not deceive me!"

This exclamation is more helpless, after all, he descended to the Qing Dynasty back then, and even now, in Yingtian Guangyuan's hometown, he is still ashamed of him, and because he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and in addition to his clan, the reason why he surrendered at the beginning was that he wanted to change into an official uniform, but he never thought of it, but in just ten years, the Great Qing Kingdom, which once seemed to be in full swing, actually looked like a few people who were exhausted.

"Hey, in such a desperate situation, you can still be prosperous, and the number of bright qi is not exhausted!"

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but sigh, once upon a time, he also believed that Daming's qi was not exhausted, but in order to be able to wash away the reputation behind him, even if the qi was not exhausted, he had to kill this qi, talent is the root of the problem, as long as you kill someone, there will naturally be no problem, and this qi is the human heart at all, how can there be any human heart if you kill all the people?

But to his surprise, even if he killed so many people, he still didn't kill all the Qi of Da Ming!

"Zhongtang, in my opinion, it is not the Ming Dynasty's qi that is not exhausted, but the Han people's qi is not exhausted, this is the foundation of the four kings' ability to dominate the turmoil!"

Zhu Yingsheng looked at Hong Chengchou, and there was also a slight sigh in his tone, back then, he didn't feel that the Ming Qi was exhausted, so he directly lowered the Qing, and then exchanged for a red top of the Great Qing Kingdom, but he didn't count the hearts of the people in the world.

"The Qing people are really tyrannical since the Yi Kou entered the customs, but where the Han family sons and daughters will not let the mermaid meat, the old Qing people are powerful, although the Han people were killed by it, but the resistance is not stopped, so more than ten years like a day, although the resistance is getting weaker and weaker, but its heart is not dead, until Zheng Chenggong takes the emptiness of Jiangnan into Nanjing, after winning Jiangnan, how can the Han people in the world be willing to fall into the hands of foreign races? In this way, in line with the general trend, there is the current trend of ZTE......"

It's taken so many years to figure this out!

Zhu Yingsheng smiled bitterly in his heart, but unfortunately he understood too late! If you understood the number of Da Ming Qi back then, not the number of Han popularity, how could you be in such a dilemma as now?

And Zhu Yingsheng's words also made Hong Chengchou nod his head thoughtfully, the Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty, and the Han people are the Han people! Now there is Ming Zhongxing, which is clearly Han Zhongxing!

Silent, Hong Chengchou just slowly paced to the window, he pushed the window open, and then silently watched the sunset, a blood-like remnant sun in the sky had fallen to the green branches outside the window. For some reason, at this time, he always felt that the remnant sun was very similar to the sunset in Liaodong that year, how similar it was! It all gives people a gloomy and ominous feeling, is this the fate of the old man?

"If the emperor leads the troops to withdraw from the pass, I am afraid that in a few months, this Changsha will definitely fall into the hands of the Ming army."

Breaking the silence, Hong Chengchou spoke out the reality he was not willing to face.

"That's why I want to go to the court and ......"

"Zhongtang wants to prevent the emperor from withdrawing to Manchuria!"

Zhu Yingsheng, as his think tank, almost unthinkingly said Hong Chengchou's plan.

"If you want to come to Zhongtang, it must be the excuse that the current situation, coupled with the fact that Manchuria is completely unpopulated and not enough to support the army, to lobby the emperor and the court to stay in the Central Plains!"

Without waiting for Hong Chengchou to speak, Zhu Yingsheng shook his head and analyzed.

"In my opinion, Zhongtang's suggestion will never be adopted by the imperial court, after all, for the imperial court, going to Manchuria is just a dead end, and staying in Zhili is certain death, what does Lord Zhongtang think the emperor will choose?"

One is a dead end, and the other is certain death.

Obviously, there is a glimmer of life in the former, but there is no life in the latter. When the time comes, the emperor will inevitably choose the former.

"It's a dead end, maybe there's still a little life!"

When Hong Chengchou replied like this, the bitterness on his face became stronger and stronger, after all, he knew very well that if the emperor led the troops to leave the Central Plains, what would be the result waiting for him at that time!

When the time comes, his Hong Chengchou's head will be the way for others to ascend. Therefore, he hoped that the emperor could stay in the pass and block him for him, so that he could calmly face everything next, at least make some plans for the future.

"Therefore, if Zhongtang wants to persuade the emperor to stay in the Guannei, he must find a way to convince the Emperor and the lords of the court that there is still a glimmer of life if he stays in the Guannai, not a certain death!"

And not a mortal choice!

Zhu Yingsheng's words made Hong Chengchou stunned, he looked at Zhu Yingsheng in surprise, and asked urgently.

"What's Yunqi's best plan?"

Stay in the emperor and let him see the way to live?

Although I don't know what Zhu Yingsheng's good strategy can make the emperor think so, Hong Chengchou knows very well that the emperor stays in the customs for one more year, for him, it is equivalent to one more year to prepare for other things, as long as the emperor is there and the Great Qing Kingdom is there, he Hong Chengchou will be hidden behind the Great Qing Kingdom, so that he can slowly plan for the future.

"I can't talk about a good strategy, but it's ......"

Zhu Yingsheng stared at Hong Chengchou and asked rhetorically.

"As far as the imperial court is concerned, now, Shanhaiguan has been seized, Manchuria has been occupied, it can be said that their retreat has been cut off at once, with Manchuria as a retreat, this great Qing country has become a rootless Ping, if they are all against today, it is impossible to allow them to be strong in the Central Plains, so now the court must be worried about the future, if Zhongtang can come up with an idea at this time......"

There was a slight pause, and then Zhu Yingsheng said.

"When the time comes, how can the imperial court refuse?"

Zhu Yingsheng's words made Hong Chengchou's brows raise slightly, and the whole person fell into silence.

What does the imperial court need?

What the court needs now is a life-saving straw, as long as this straw is thrown over, the court will naturally not let it go, but what kind of grass is this grass?

Whether the imperial court will grasp this grass or whether the imperial court will be attracted to this grass and thus adopt this suggestion is the most important thing, if you want to convince the imperial court, he Hong Chengchou must first believe in this method.

"Please allow Qi to make it clear!"