Today is the day when Shunzhi summoned Fan Wencheng into the palace to ask the right, before dawn, Fan Wencheng, who got up early because of old age, washed his face and used some white porridge under the servant's waiting--- originally faced with this kind of call, the general minister would choose to enter on an empty stomach, but Fan Wencheng was already dying, and if he didn't have some breakfast, he was afraid that he would faint directly.

tremblingly was helped into the sedan chair, and Fan Wencheng was thinking about how to answer this question. After August, Zheng's army ceased military operations along the canal to the north and instead built a wire south of Huai'an to divide the canal in two. At the same time, the Zheng army carried out two tentative attacks on Wuchang, although it failed to capture Wuchang, but more than 200,000 Zheng troops were entrenched in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the most direct impact was that the price of grain in the capital soared from one tael of silver and one stone in summer to nearly three taels of silver and one stone. The capital is known as the best place, but even if there is a porridge factory opened by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the nobles of the capital, you can still see the "road down" everywhere on the streets in the early morning.

Well, in fact, these roads are just a drop in the bucket for the capital of hundreds of thousands of people, and they are not important in Fan Wencheng's eyes. However, the rising food prices cannot be ignored! As the minds of the Manchus, the food needs of tens of thousands of magnates and hundreds of thousands of people serving these people in the capital must be guaranteed, oh no, there are also the Eight Banners stationed nearby, the Green Battalion. If these people don't have anything to eat in their stomachs, they will most likely spontaneously go to the countryside to engage in a "surplus grain collection system".

And once this kind of thing happens, Zhili, which has been slaughtered by the Manchu Qing Dynasty for many years, Shanxi, Shandong and other places will be even more unstable, Fan Wencheng has heard that tigers can be seen on the streets of CDs, if those new generations of people in fine clothes and food are hungry and growling, maybe the county towns and even the prefectures in these places can also appear this kind of tiger walking on the street.

Fan Wencheng knew very well that the direct result of this kind of thing was that the officials forced the people to rebel, and the Eight Banners and the Green Camp were not only unable to go south to rescue Jiangnan, but also had to return to the north to suppress it. However, if the food problem is not completely solved, the situation will be the same as that of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and there will be more and more hooves, and finally a Li Zicheng No. 2 with the official position of the Ming Dynasty will emerge and rush into the capital......

Of course, that's not to say things have to get that bad. If the situation could be stabilized after eliminating enough mouths to eat, the Manchus would have been able to get rid of their dependence on Cao Yun. But who wants to take that risk?

For the Qing court, it was a lack of food, but for Zhu Chenggong, it was an increase in food, and the millions of stone grain that were originally transported to Beijing a year now do not need to be transported, which is completely enough for Zheng Jun and the thirteen families in eastern Sichuan to eat and chew and have a surplus, with enough food and the golden waterway of the Yangtze River, as long as Zhu Chenggong and his generals do not collectively enter the trusteeship state, the Qing court will lose the entire south.

According to the marching speed of the Qing army, it took more than two months for the brigade to march from Beijing to Pukou. In the mid-17th century, the Yangtze River had not yet escaped the influence of the Xiaoice period, and the Yangtze River would freeze in winter. The Qing army was not accustomed to water warfare, and the frozen river could turn Zheng's ships into fixed batteries, unable to patrol the main waterway. Therefore, Fan Wencheng expected that in the next few days, it would be time for the imperial court to make a decision, if it was any later, the time to collect grain and so on, and when the troops reached the area controlled by the Zheng army, the ice of the Yangtze River should also melt.

"Master, the place has arrived."

Helped down from the sedan chair by the servant, Fan Wencheng walked into the palace through the doorway on the left. After a while, Fan Wencheng saw the familiar Shunzhi, and after the big salute, he felt a little weak in his body, and sat on his whole ass unusually.

Before Shunzhi could say anything, a tall guard wearing the armor of the Eight Banners ran in a panic and said something in front of Shunzhi's ear.

After hearing this, Shunzhi waved his hand to let the guards retreat and bring the door, and then the sound of porcelain breaking sounded in the hall one after another.

Fan Wencheng knew Shunzhi's temper even if he was not familiar with it, so he just didn't see or hear anything.

"Hateful, hateful! That Wu Sangui is really a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised! This dynasty treated him so kindly, he was captured, he couldn't serve the court with a death, and he was actually taken by the pseudo-king Gui to say something about the army anyway..."

"Captured and apostasy, it is a conspiracy! I'm going to kill the three clans of the Wu family! ”

Shunzhiqi's face was pale, and his hands trembled. At this time, the south study also sent a fold, and Shunzhi endured it without tearing it to pieces, and handed it to Fan Wencheng in front of him.

Fan Wencheng simply swept a few times and put it aside, feeling that his face was hit hard by a sledgehammer: It was Fan Wencheng himself who proposed to set up an altar to worship Wu Sangui that day!

When Hong Chengchou was worshiped by Chongzhen, when he arrived at the ninth altar, news came that Hong Chengchou had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Fan Wencheng originally expected that Wu Sangui would not be able to turn back, and set up a FLAG to strengthen the orthodox declaration of "I am the Qing Dynasty", but I didn't expect that history would repeat itself again!

Fan Wencheng really admired Wu Sangui's thickness of face and psychological quality, Wu Sangui, a man who fought all the way from Shanhaiguan to Mopan Mountain, actually had the face to surrender to Nanming, who was exhausted? Anyway, there were a lot of things like this in Guiming a few years ago, Jiang Hao in Datong, Jin Shenghuan in Nanchang, Wang Deren, Li Chengdong in Guangdong... The result? The result? These people all hung up street lamps, and they didn't get anything except for a posthumous seal from Yongli after they died. Fan Wencheng really couldn't complain in his heart: The seniors who have been jumping so repeatedly with you have hung up street lights, what about you?

complained in his heart that Wu Sangui, a "stupid man", harmed others, hurt himself and his family, and on the face, Fan Wencheng had to stabilize the emperor first to ensure that Shunzhi didn't really cut Wu Sangui's whole family with a hot brain. Far from it, Li Zicheng is a negative teacher.

"If you want me to be careful of Li Chuang's lesson, then ask Fan Shaobao to go home and rest!" Shunzhi called Fan Wencheng with an official title, and his tone did not have the kind of "grace" to the old minister at all.

"Your Majesty's talent, my Qing Dynasty has the mandate of Heaven to enter the Central Plains, how dare the minister dare to compare my Qing Dynasty with Li Chuangliukou!" Fan Wencheng was also a little anxious, kneeling down and kowtowing despite his aging joints. "However, in the humble opinion of the old minister, the pseudo-Gui Wang did not kill Wu Sangui, just to be a signboard to lure other court officers and soldiers to wait, Wu Sangui has been in the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, and has made outstanding achievements, and the pseudo-Gui Wang An can use it with confidence? If you kill his heirs, it may reassure the puppet king Gui, but it is not beautiful. If he gives preferential treatment to his heirs, and acknowledges that Wu Sangui was forced to surrender to the puppet Gui king, there may be some possibilities for change. ”

"If Your Majesty really remembers Wu Sangui's capricious things, you can follow the stories of the Pseudo-Fu King, King Lu, Zheng Zhilong and other stories when the situation is stable, and find excuses such as rebellion to behead his three clans.