Chapter 178: The Northern Expedition to the Central Plains

"Yellow River!"

Yang Qing pointed to the sand table and said: "We must advance to the Yellow River, the first army immediately goes north along the Yellow River, since Kaifeng City has been destroyed, then directly seize Zhengzhou, don't care about Yuan Zongdi, send someone to tell him, we will not pass the Tiger Pass, but the outside of the Tiger Pass will be ours." ”

The cabinet bigwigs looked at each other.

Then they all nodded in satisfaction.

"But is it time to welcome back to the saints?"

Zhang Guowei said.

Apparently they want to make a profit, too.

Now Yang Qing's flying and domineering is actually because this guy controls the prison country, although the days without the emperor are indeed very happy, but compared with restricting Yang Qing's power, it is more cost-effective to welcome back the emperor. Even under the current situation, even if the emperor is returned, he will be Yang Qing's puppet, but after all, there is room for manipulation, the young emperor will definitely not be willing to be a puppet all the time, they can form an alliance with the emperor and fight with Yang Qing, and now they can't fight even if they want to! They are engaged couples, and they can't get in at all!

"Welcome, of course welcome!"

Yang Qing said.

"The mountain mausoleum of Emperor Daxing has been completed, and Your Majesty should return south to fulfill the responsibility of the son of man!"

He went on to say.

Chongzhen's tomb can only be built in Nanjing, as for his wife to move in the future, according to the Ministry of Rites site on Zhongshan Mountain, not far from the filial piety tomb, the assault was finally completed for a few months, and the mausoleum number has been determined as Anling. He didn't have a few comfortable days in his life, and in the end, his wife was separated and died of murder, which can be regarded as letting him rest in peace, as for the temple number Liezong, as in the original history, this was also proposed by Zhang Shenyan.

It's just that Hongguang didn't have a good impression of his brother in history, and finally changed it to Sizong, which was not so good.

There is merit to calm the people, and to respect the cause of virtue.

I think before I remember.

This shows Hiromitsu's resentment towards his cousin.

As for welcoming back the emperor......

That was pure fantasy, if there was no one million stone of grain per year, maybe Li Zicheng would consider accepting some exchanges, but with these grains, there was no need to count on it. Li Zicheng is not stupid, isn't he able to ask for food from Jiangnan just because he has such a special hostage in his hands? Without the emperor in hand, Yang Qing was not a fool, how could he give him a million stone of grain every year?

Now Li Zicheng needs food even more, so as long as Li Zicheng's regime does not collapse, Zhu Cihong will not expect to escape from the clutches of the devil!

In that case, let's put on a show.

"This matter should be presided over by the Ministry of Rites......"

Yang Qing said.

Then he was interrupted again.

"Yu Zhong Yonghou, Li Zicheng broke through Taiyuan and bloodied the gentry and merchants in the city, the Mongolian army fled east to Zhili, Jiang Hao and the remnants of the Taiyuan merchant group fled south to Zelu, Li Zicheng swept Shanxi to the south out of Huozhou, and Liu Zongmin guarded Taiyuan, Li Laiheng guarded Ulzhou, and divided troops to guard the passes of Taihang Mountain. Qing Duoduo Department went south, and the north Zhili fell to the wind, and it was estimated that the Yellow River was facing at this time, Yuan Zongdi sent the saint to Xi'an, and divided his troops to guard Heyang and Zhengzhou. ”

A staff officer reported.

"Looking at the wind and descending, and looking at the wind and descending, two years ago they looked at the wind and descended to welcome Li Zicheng, and now they are looking at the wind and descending to welcome Jiannu, this is Kong Chengren Meng said to take righteousness? Three hundred years of raising a monk in the Ming Dynasty, he raised such a group of dogs? ”

Yang Qing was overwhelmed with emotion.

The ministers smiled awkwardly.

However, they still don't know much about our Qing Dynasty and don't know the benefits of our Qing Dynasty, after all, because of the Korean shaving of hair and easy to wear, the Jiangnan gentry are generally not interested in Dolgon. These guys really don't have any loyalty to the Zhu family, and they actually don't have much resistance to surrendering to the alien race, after all, it's not that the ancestor hasn't done it, but this kind of thing is beyond the bottom line of their tolerance. So the original history of the Yangtze River defense line collapsed overnight, but after the Qing army shaved their hair and changed clothes, they had to face Jiangyin's rather than surrender and the stubborn resistance of the southeast for many years, in the final analysis, the Jiangnan gentry did not care about the change of dynasty, did not care about foreign rule, but for cultural inheritance, for the ancestors left behind still very concerned.

"Loyal and brave marquis, Fengyang Mansion will report and send an envoy to Fengyang."

Another staff officer reported.

"Send it!"

Yang Qing, Shi Kefa and the others looked at each other and said.

"Fengtian carried the emperor, and the edict said: Now Jiannu entered the customs and stole the northern capital, Zhang rebelled to the north to peep into Hanzhong, I was uneasy in the west, so the west tour was to calm the people, the king of Qin was in Xi'an, and led the troops to escort, and the affairs of the eastern part of the country were informed of the Nanjing prison state, and the Nanjing ministers ordered the northern expedition to recover the northern capital with the prison country......"

At Pukou Wharf, Gong Dingyu read out the holy decree.

However, at this time, Gong Shilang obviously no longer had the pride of last time, and it could be seen that his face was full of vicissitudes and loneliness, after all, he was still hit hard during this time. Last time, he was full of pride and supported Xinjun's clothes and returned with honor, but Xinjun was forced to retreat in a blink of an eye and even his nest was copied, causing him to wander and have to follow him to Luoyang, not to mention the pain of running around along the way, and even eating was not very abundant. And because of his evil deeds of surrendering Li Zicheng as a minion, his clan actually held a meeting to expel him from the family, which can be said to be the most severe punishment for the gentry, which can basically be described as ruined, and at this moment he actually came to Nanjing again......

It's all about being an exhibit!

"There is no jade seal in the holy decree, and the ministers dare not receive the decree!"

Shi Kefa said.

"Emperor Daxing's edict, with the king of Qin as Beijing to stay behind to resist Jiannu, now Jiannu stole the northern capital, the king of Qin should lead the counterattack to regain the lost territory, why go west to Guanzhong to avoid the enemy? Even if the situation is critical, Your Majesty should also return to the southern capital to settle the world, Xi'an is not the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but the fief of the King of Qin, how can it be livable for Your Majesty? And the funeral of Emperor Daxing is approaching, how can Your Majesty not come? Please send your majesty to return to the southern capital quickly, and the ministers will go north to welcome you! ”

He went on to say.

"Shi Gebu, Your Majesty has gone to Xi'an, this is a holy decree, and the ministers of the Southern Capital can do it!"

Du Zhizhi said.

"The envoy, please come back, there is no jade seal in the holy decree, and you can't distinguish between truth and falsehood!"

Shi Kefa said.

This holy decree is for the prison state, but their ministers can refuse to cross the river on the grounds that the holy decree has no jade seal, and it doesn't matter if the prison country does not accept the decree or not, and then scare Li Zicheng to send the emperor back on the grounds of sending troops to take over the driver, although they both understand what is going on, but this procedure must be there.

Of course, these are all imaginary.

As for the real ......

"Luoyang is yours."

Yang Qing stood in a nearby restaurant, looked at the scene of receiving the decree below, and said to Ma Bao, who came to deliver the decree together.

"We will not attack Luoyang, with the Tiger Pass and other passes east of Luoyang as the boundary, Zelu belongs to us, but the north is bounded by the Taihang Mountain passes, but in the short term you must send troops to help me seize Henan and the western part of Shandong, and protect the Yellow River transportation line. Otherwise, even if I want to give you food, it is impossible to transport it to you, and a million stone of grain will definitely not be transported by land, and you must go through the Yellow River to Luoyang, and how to transport the rest to Xi'an is none of my business. As for Hanzhong, it is ours, and in the original agreement, your territory did not include Hanzhong, but you did not fulfill the agreement, but this time you have to give up Hanzhong. ”

He continued.

"Even if we give it up, will you accept it?"

Ma Bao said sarcastically.

"That's our own business!"

Yang Qing said.

Of course, he knew that it was impossible for Li Zicheng to give up Hanzhong, but this matter had to be explained first, and then he could continue to watch Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong fight for Hanzhong......

At this time, the most anxious is Zhang Xianzhong.

Li Zicheng's 300,000-strong army entered the pass, and Zhang Xianzhong, who had finally gotten a chance to breathe and could even start attacking Hanzhong, was beaten back to his original form in a blink of an eye, and had to hide back in Sichuan, waiting for him to go south, and the situation on the western front returned to the beginning again.

I have to say that Zhang Xianzhong is really unlucky.

And Yang Qing is waiting for him to come to the door to admit defeat, and then this side is not to recognize Li Zicheng's rule over Hanzhong, and turn Hanzhong into a card table similar to the modern Korean Peninsula. needed to scare Li Zicheng, so he joined forces with Zhang Xianzhong to go north, anyway, Hanzhong has been fighting for so many years, and it is basically about to become a pure battlefield no man's land.

The other borders are kept in peace, so as to avoid disturbances on the flanks when fighting with the Qing army.

The rest is to force Li Zicheng to develop westward.

There's still a place to the west!

Longyou, the Hexi Corridor, and even the Hetao and Hehuang areas, these are the directions that Li Zicheng can develop, at this time, in addition to the Hetao area, the others are all messy all kinds of Mongolia, Yarkand, Dzungaria, and Heshuote, which control Tibet, these Mongolias are basically scattered sand, especially because of different beliefs and enemies of each other. At this time, Ge Erdan had already been born, and soon he would be recognized as the reincarnation of a certain Buddha and then sent to study Buddhism, and finally let the Buddhist era in the Western Regions bloom with the last afterglow......

And then it's completely finished.

Li Zicheng can take advantage of the opportunity of the scattered sand of the Mongolian tribes to continue to develop westward to release his power, those Mongolian tribes can't stop him, these guys can't even beat the Ming army in the era of the musket! How to deal with the 300,000 Shun army of the Spanish phalanx, especially Li Zicheng, who also has a large number of cavalry, and even began to play dragoons.

Yang Qing would have supported his westward expansion.

He is still the king of Qin of the Ming Dynasty, and he is still a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, and the places he laid down are naturally all of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Zicheng has become big because of this......

That's not a problem.

What is the royal road in this era?

Population, education, and industrialization are kings.

If he really completes the transformation of Jiangnan, sitting on the richest land in the world, sitting on the Ming Dynasty with a population of more than 100 million and tens of millions of reserves, it is not Li Zicheng who can resist it at all, even if he absorbs all the Mongolians in the Western Regions, he is also a scum in front of the musket infantry that covers the grassland, so he develops in the west.

Yang Qing will maintain peace with him for at least ten years.

Ten years later, there will be basically no one in this world who can stop the modernization of the Ming Dynasty, and he will not be an exception, from the moment he decided to withdraw to Guanzhong, he has completely withdrawn from the stage of hegemony, and can only wait for the real overlord to come as a separatist force.