"Shi Gebu, you are going to the front line to comfort the soldiers on behalf of the emperor, you won't keep this expression all the time, right?"

Yang Qing asked Shi Kefa.

This guy had a completely villainous expression at this time, in stark contrast to Shi Kefa, whose heart was as blank as ashes, and the latter stood withered in the cold wind on the river, like those trees whose leaves had fallen and only gray branches remained, and there was no life at all, but it was shaking with the shaking of the ship......

"I'm ruined!"

Yang Qing continued to shamelessly shout out the lament in his heart for him.

"But I don't understand, are you an official for the emperor or an official for those gentry? There is no doubt that you are a loyal servant, but is it useful to be a loyal servant? Usually talk about the heart with his hands, and report to the king when he dies, the word loyalty is indeed admirable, but has the word of the minister done it? Kuang Fu Sheji, so as a first assistant, what have you done for the emperor? Do you have any substantive moves to change the current situation of Daming? No, you are just maintaining everything in the past, but it is everything in the past that has brought Daming to today's broken state of mountains and rivers.

Daming doesn't need to be conservative.

What the Ming needs is reform.

A radical reform, a radical metamorphosis, and then His Majesty will be able to achieve ZTE.

But you don't dare.

Even if you know that the Ming Dynasty can't continue like this, you don't dare to make any changes, even if you know that the result of the reform is to enrich the country and strengthen the army, you still don't dare to change, and the reason why you don't dare is just to keep your reputation among those gentry, for fear that they will call you a traitor to the country.

But you are the emperor's first assistant.

What you need is to be responsible for the emperor and not them, your ass has to sit on the emperor's side, not on their side, what you need to do is to help the emperor take care of them, not to help them deal with the emperor, what you need to do is to get money for the emperor to get money from them to reorganize the army, not to help them continue to be the moths of our Ming Dynasty, and let them eat away the Ming Dynasty. They have been corrupted for hundreds of years, and the Ming Dynasty, which made the four Yi fearful in the era of Emperor Chengzu, have been corrupted so that the mountains and rivers are broken today, and the emperor has been driven out of the capital, and if he is not careful, he may be driven out of the capital for the second time. ”

He continued.

Shi Kefa finally had a reaction.

"Do you think that with a holy decree, you can implement the new law?"

He said not without sarcasm.

"Of course, the holy decree is not enough, but I still have Shang Fang's sword, as well as Jinyi Guard and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses."

Yang Qing pulled out his Shang Fang sword and said.

"Can you kill all the people in the world?"

Shi Kefa sneered.

"But I can kill all those who dare to rebel against the emperor."

Yang Qing replied with a sword.

"To put it bluntly, the people in your eyes, or only those gentry, it is estimated that those soldiers and poor people are ants under your feet in your eyes to ignore, there is no place for them in your arrogant eyes, and those Gongon princes in Beijing also ignore their hunger and cold as you do, and then they are caught in the brains of these people who are regarded as ants by them, they die not noble at all, they die as despicable as a wild dog full of abscesses on the side of the road.

Do you want to make the next one of the same wild dogs?

I don't want to, anyway.

I don't want to be like Wei Zaode and thrown on the side of the road, and then Yuanyuan was stripped naked by the rebels and rode on a horse to the streets.

The emperor didn't want to.

You can keep your pride up, but we think it's best to keep your head down.

Therefore, we must look at the world in a different way, and look at all the people in the world, whether they are rich or poor, and then do our best to balance the interests of all people to the greatest extent, so that those gentry can earn less, let those poor people eat more, let the civil officials be more restrained, let those soldiers who shed blood for the country get more silver, and don't force them to be desperate and choose to use another way to let us see their anger!

As for the gentry......"

Yang Qing's left hand suddenly poked out as he spoke, snatched the spear from the hand of the soldier next to him, and stabbed it towards the river, with the explosion of the splash, an unlucky big fish was thrown directly into the air by him, and then with a wave of the sword of Shang Fang in his right hand, the big fish was instantly cut into two pieces.

"They have to agree, and if they don't, they'll die!"

Yang Qing said.

Shi Kefa, who was splashed with fish blood, did not move.

"I guess you won't listen to it, in your eyes, my eunuch is synonymous with traitors, but please remember one thing, when Beijing fell, only we, the eunuchs, were defending the emperor, and those who you could see were kneeling in front of Chengtianmen and asking Li Zicheng to kill the emperor quickly. I'm just a little bit of a learner, and I don't know how this behavior is explained in your books of sages. ”

Yang Qing wiped Shang Fang's sword and said sarcastically.

Shi Kefa still stood there silently looking at the Pukou Pier that was getting closer and closer in front of him.

At this time, the dock was still in chaos.

The soldiers who landed for reinforcements, the refugees who scrambled for the ships to go south, all crowded on the riverside, looking at this official ship with a full set of honor guards, and looking at the Ming Shoufu and the notorious loyal and brave man on the deck, who had already been familiar to the soldiers and civilians for a long time. Snowflakes fell on the gray sky background, and then they were blown away by the cold wind, and the icy river shook and beat the thin ice on the shore, and the withered aquatic plants swayed in the ice and snow......

Well, it's not so bleak.

The situation here is largely self-frightened.

Although Gao Yigong and Yuan Zongdi joined forces to move south from Tianchang, the real strength was actually only 80,000, and it also included part of the surrendered Ming army, and some of them were left to contain Gao Jie in the north.

And Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo's total army of more than 100,000 troops are arrayed in the north of Liuhe, and they are playing confrontation with Yuan Gao and the others, plus the three armies of Beijing, the total strength of his army has reached 200,000, but there are too many rabble, especially the gap between the cavalry, so Huang Degong does not dare to take the initiative to attack. Yuan Gao's second division combined had nearly 20,000 elite cavalry, and many rivers were frozen in the cold weather, and the restrictions on cavalry on the water network were greatly weakened, and Huang Degong really didn't dare to take the initiative to provoke them.

But to say that he kept Liuhe, there was no pressure.

As for Yangzhou, in fact, it was only attacked by the cavalry of the Shun army on the periphery, and thousands of rangers went over to say hello to those old friends who had fought side by side with them in Shanhaiguan, and probably drank and prostituted together, and by the way, killed a few gentry who did not have time to run into the city. As for the real battle that didn't happen at all, Huang Fei immediately took the whole army into Yangzhou to prepare for defense, anyway, at this time, the canal was frozen and had already been suspended, he drank wine and ate meat in Yangzhou City, and waited for Yang Qing's notice, and that kind of atmosphere of black clouds pressing down on the city was completely created by Huang Fei to scare the gentry into paying for him not to run.

This bastard deserves to get Yang Qing's true biography.

It is said that in just a few days, he collected more than 200,000 pieces of silver from the army, after all, for the salt merchants in Yangzhou, their exquisite gardens are all protected by him, and in this case, even if they don't look down on these rough billets, they must pay silver.

As for Huai'an, it was not attacked at all.

There were only 10,000 Shun troops on the opposite bank, although Lu Zhenfei wanted to attack and threaten Xuyi from the flank to force the Shun army to retreat, but the generals under his command who originally belonged to Liu Zeqing were all in violation of the excuse that Hongze Lake was frozen, the boat could not move, and the ice was too thin to march and other excuses to prevaricate, saying that the 20,000 cavalry of the Shun army had stepped on the solid ice on the Huai River, and their infantry could not go, which was too weird.

To put it bluntly, these guys are just ready to ride the wall.

They don't have a cuckold feud with Li Zicheng like Gao Jie, if they need to, they will surrender Li Zicheng, but if they want to send troops to defend the Ming Dynasty, this is definitely not possible, anyway, Lu Zhenfei can't control them as a literati, these guys are too lazy to ask for trouble, there is a Chongzhen Holy Decree or Yang Qing to force them, of course they have to give face, even if they go out for a walk and go through the motions, they have to go out for a walk, but there is only the order of the military department, which does not need to be ignored at all.

In other words, this is also an unexpected gain from this battle.

Chongzhen finally knew how many of the Jiangbei armies he could trust.

Especially after testing Huang Degong, a rare loyal minister, Chongzhen can at least be pleased that he has one under him who can do his duty, which is really a surprise for Chongzhen, who is suspicious by nature, otherwise he really doesn't know who among these southern generals is one he can really trust.

Pukou.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict says: I have been on the throne since the succession, seventeen years of the country's situation is declining, there are Jiannu rampant knocking on the pass as a disaster, there are natural disasters inside the famine all over the wilderness, thieves swarming, although I do my best, but in the end can not revive the country, so there is a disaster in Beijing, fortunately thanks to the help of loyal ministers, finally got out of danger and moved the capital to Nanjing. I have learned from the pain, every time I think about the past, although the law of my ancestors is good, but the time has changed, and it cannot be the law of eternity......"

On the dock, Shi Kefa read the holy decree.

And in front of him, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, refugees, and gentry all knelt on the ground.

But soon they couldn't get to their knees.

“…… From this day on, no matter what merit or official position, the gentry will pay food according to the practice of ordinary people......"

Shi Kefa read mechanically.

All the civil officials who came to greet him were dumbfounded, looking at him dumbfounded.

Suddenly, there was a cry of sorrow in the crowd

"Shi Daolin, you dare to falsely pass on the holy decree!"

A civil official roared angrily and rushed out like crazy, directly pounced on the holy decree in Shi Kefa's hand.

The next moment, Yang Qing's Shang Fang sword was horizontal in front of him, this guy was also agile, and he forcibly stopped the action of crashing into the blade, and then looked at Yang Qing with a fiery gaze.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, this decree is true!"

Yang Qing said sincerely.