Forbidden city.

A group of palace people shrank outside the hall tremblingly, listening quietly to the continuous sound of porcelain pieces breaking in the hall.

Seeing that the voice in the hall was gradually depressed, a young palace maid wanted to go in and clean up, but was dragged back by the older grandmother. "You don't want to die? Long live when you got so angry? You go in now, long live the Lord will use you as a vase! There was just one like you, didn't you get a slap? ”

Her tone was quick and low, but her face was full of indescribable kindness.

The young palace maid hurriedly shrank back like a frightened deer.

Since eight years ago, Long Live Lord raided Dolgon's house, Long Live Lord's temper has been getting better and better day by day, at least for the people around him--- last year Wu Liangfu and other eunuchs handed over to foreign ministers, embezzled and accepted bribes, and engaged in personal fraud, but Fulin actually slapped himself in the face and said that "eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics", and he was not investigated.

It can be seen that Fulin is not bad to the people around him, and it can even be said that he is a little pampered. is so angry with the people around him, it can be seen how far Fulin's state of mind has fallen.

After repulsing several eunuchs who conveyed the news of the request, Fu Lin sat on the ground and cried.

I don't know how long it took, and another eunuch with no eyes came. "Your Majesty, Fan Wencheng asks to see you."

Fu Lin was just about to have a seizure, when he heard Fan Wencheng's three words, he suddenly lost most of his anger, "Let him come." ”

Looking at Fu Lin's ever-changing expression, the little eunuch ran out like a fly, and almost fell. In less than half an hour, this old minister who had gone through four dynasties came to Fulin.

"Give a seat."

Fan Wencheng's ass was stained with half of the stool.

"Your Majesty, the old minister heard that His Majesty has been in a panic for days, so that he can't look at the court, and now that the country has been decided, I don't know what else Your Majesty is worried about?"

"Fan Wencheng, Fan Wencheng, you are also an understanding person, what am I worried about, are you still so twisted and turned? You Han people, you just don't talk well! ”

"How dare the old minister! If Your Majesty says Zheng Reverse's words, in the humble opinion of the old minister, Zheng Reversity is actually not to be afraid! ”

Fu Lin closed his mouth and planned to spray this bad old man, making an expression of a melon-eating crowd. "Tell me about it."

"At present, in addition to Huai'an, Fengyang and other places, most of the southern Zhili fell into the hands of Zheng Zhili, and Zheng Zhili's hundreds of thousands of troops were violent, going upstream, threatening Hubei to the west, cutting off the north-south exchanges, especially Caoyun. If the transportation is cut off, it will be like a person breaking his blood vessels, and the treasury of my Qing Dynasty will soon be consumed by a steady stream of military spending, and the warehouse of the household department will see rats..."

"Well, that's right, I know that."

"However, ordinary people often only consider problems from the side of the Qing Dynasty, but not from the side of Zheng and Rebellion."

Fan Wencheng deliberately paused when he said this.

"Zheng Wei only needs to go up the river, Huguang and other places are empty, and the northland is extremely slow to raise grain and grass, and when the Manchurian army passes, Hubei, Bihuan and other places have already changed hands."

"Your Majesty, although I was troubled by grain and grass in the Qing Dynasty, but now, it is Zheng Wei who is even more troubled. Can the old minister take a look at the map? ”

"It doesn't matter."

A huge map was hung, which had been corrected by the well-appointed missionary John Tang of Shunzhi, and was not much less accurate than the European maps of his time--- at least no longer painted as landscape paintings.

Fan Wencheng's eyes were dizzy, he took out his glasses from his arms and put them on, found the Yangtze River and pointed with his finger: "In the Song Dynasty, the people had the words of Suhu and the world. Your Majesty must have heard of it. ”

But by the time of the Ming Dynasty, this phrase had become familiar with the lake and the world. Nanzhili, especially in Jiangning, Suzhou, Zhenjiang and other prefectures, the people give up their roots and do their last business. Not only is grain not self-sufficient, but sometimes it has to be transported in Huguang and other places. Now that the Huguang and Nanzhili trade routes have been blocked, the people of Nanzhi themselves are waiting to be fed, where is the surplus grain to supply Zheng Wei's 200,000 army? ”

"Taking the grain sent to Beijing every year as an example, a total of 3 million stone grain is needed a year, and the loss of this is more than 10 million? The 200,000 army ate horses all the way, and Zheng Wei was not familiar with the people's feelings, and the grain floating in the middle may be twice as much. Fan Wencheng came to this conclusion based on his own views on the rotten system of the Ming Dynasty.

"As soon as the winter is over, the south will fall into a food shortage, and the north will be self-sufficient except for the Jingshi, and then the old thing of the second year of Shunzhi will be repeated."

Fan Wencheng didn't tell the whole truth.

Although China's production gradually shifted westward in the Ming Dynasty, Nanzhili still bore the vast majority of the share of grain (nearly 1.8 million stone in Nanzhili and only 250,000 stone in Huguang), and Nanzhili, who had nearly 10 million people, would not be eaten to death by 200,000 troops.

However, the long-lived lord in front of him, when he learned that Zhu Chenggong had made the Northern Expedition, he wanted to say that he would return to Shengjing to avoid the limelight, but fortunately he was scolded back by the Queen Mother. If at this time, Long Live Lord goes crazy again and wants to go to Shengjing to "worship his ancestors", it is not the same as telling those Han officials who became traitors in the Guannei: I can't stay in the Central Plains in the Qing Dynasty, everyone should take care of each other! If so, would he also follow and return to Shengjing, where the palace is the same as the landlord's compound? I have been thinking about the Qing Dynasty for decades, is the purpose to return to Manchuria to chew the snow?

No, absolutely not!

Fan Wencheng couldn't stop glancing at Fu Lin with his spare eyes.

Sure enough, the young and vigorous Fu Lin was fooled by Fan Wencheng's selective truth-telling method, and pricked up his ears to listen to what tricks this old minister of the Taizu era had.

"Fan Aiqing is really an old minister of the Four Dynasties, which makes me feel like I have seen the sun. Fan Qing said let's see, is there any way to expel Zheng Wei. ”

"That minister has the courage to speak, if there is any absurdity, I only hope that the emperor will atone for his sins."

"First, Zheng Cheng is a strong boat, and the canal is calm, Zheng Cheng is likely to take advantage of the fact that the canal is not yet frozen, and lead his sailors to the north to sweep Huai'an (Qingjiangpu), Linqing and other places. Therefore, it is necessary to set up more forts and iron cables in the narrower part of the canal to block the north-south traffic of the canal; Second, imitating the story of Chongzhen, sixteen altars were set up to worship the king of Pingxi. Third, they hired national gunsmiths such as Franc Machinery to Macao and other places with a lot of money, and made more cannons and sent them to various places. Fourth, withdraw a batch of Manchurian Eight Banners and return to Beijing. ”

"At this time, it is the time to use troops, why do you want to withdraw the Eight Banners of Manchuria and go back? And not to reinforce the South? ”

"The minister has no intention of looking down on the Manchurian warriors! It is precisely because my Manchurian warriors are invincible that I have to withdraw, and inadvertently leak the news, in this way, the officials and people of Jiangbei saw that the Eight Banners of Manchuria had returned to the north, and naturally thought that Zheng Wei was just arrogant for a while, and if all the Eight Banners of Manchuria went south, not only would the capital be empty and fearful of life, but also some people among the officials and people would think that the Qing Dynasty was already gambling with Zheng Zheng on the fortunes of the country. ”

A half-truth, half-truth, Fu Linmao suddenly opened. "Fan Aiqing is worthy of being my minister! The three courts of the Inner Court immediately drafted and published the decree and copied it in the world. ”

In mid-August, Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, who had been "martyred" in the vision of the Qing court, was pulled back on the altar and set up an altar outside the Zhengyang Gate to pay tribute.