"Can someone say something secretly to blackmail you?"

Zhu Chengyun has come to this point, I don't know how many times he has walked the tightrope, how many open guns and hidden arrows he has dodged, how can he not see this idea of a small officer? Presumably, someone said hello and wanted to benefit from this project?

After all, the meat on the legs of flies is also meat.

"Could it be that in this Nanjing city, there is something bigger than Lone?"

"Don't dare, don't dare!" The junior officer hurriedly waved his hand, "The emperor is first, and you are the second!" ”

"Poof... This sycophant is filmed, I'm afraid I don't know that there is something called the prince. Zhu Chenggong grinned, "Okay, if you say it honestly, what have those people done to you, this king can still pardon you, and allow you to make meritorious contributions, if you resist... Have you ever heard the saying that you are strict in resisting and celebrating the New Year in the dungeon? ”

The little officer only felt that the golden python in Zhu Chenggong's python robe was about to fly out and eat people, so he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground, saying that he was blinded by lard and deserved to die.

"When the lower official was just in charge of this matter, the lower official's immediate boss Liu Guerrilla hinted that the lower official wanted some filial piety, but the lower official was paid that little military salary, where could he have the money to honor the official? As a last resort, under his hint, the lower officials had no choice but to deduct the wages of the migrant workers. ”

When Zhu Chenggong was sweating profusely and personally interrogated, Zhuo Butai, who was in charge of the whole army, had a smile on his face. In the past few days, he has met with several groups of secret envoys from the south, and they have all said that as soon as the "Qing Heavenly Soldiers" arrive, they will "fight in front of the enemy."

Zhuo Butai, who suffered a big defeat in Yunnan at the beginning of the year, didn't believe it at first, until some high-ranking officials and generals of the Zheng army actually sent protons, and Zhuo Butai was half of the big stone in his heart.

Looking at the two boys in the tent with white faces like rabbits, Zhuo Butai couldn't help but be a little eager to try. However, thinking that in the future, these boys might want to be officials in the same dynasty as him, so he still suppressed the power of the desolation in his body first.

"My lord, I am the son of my father, General Xiao, and I came here to show my father's sincerity."

"I am the son of Huang Zhao, also..."

Zhuo Butai comforted the two lovely boys with kind words, and asked them to go down and shave their heads.

Zhu Chenggong's request for the breach in the city wall was to complete the repair within 15 days, but before the 15-day deadline had expired, the situation had already changed dramatically.

On November 27, the Qing army captured Baoying and Xinghua counties at the same time.

On December 1, the Qing army conquered the city of Gaoyouzhou.

On December 3, the Taizhou gentry surrendered to the Qing army. Gaoyou is located in the north of Yangzhou, Taizhou is located in the east of Yangzhou, after 14 years, the situation of Yangzhou is like a dangerous egg again!

The last time the Qing army conquered Yangzhou, it was in the first year of Hongguang.

On April 17 of the first year of Hongguang, the Qing army entered the vicinity of Yangzhou City and camped and arrived at the city the next day. Shi Kefa, the supreme governor in Yangzhou City, can be said to have done nothing, except for asking the whole family to accompany him to die, he didn't even do anything to prevent his generals from surrendering--- well, in fact, the Shi Ge Department also wrote a "Fu Dolgon Book" and pretended to be forced back before he died.

It took only seven days from April 17, when the Qing army entered the vicinity of Yangzhou, to April 24, when the Qing army blew up the city wall of Yangzhou with red-coated artillery. In these seven days, the general soldier Zhang Tianlu, Zhang Tianfu surrendered to the Qing army with soldiers and horses on April 21, and also participated in the siege of the city as a pawn of the Manchurians, on April 22, Li Qifeng, the chief soldier of Gansu Town, and Gao Qifeng, the supervisor of the army, colluded with the Sichuan general Hu Shangyou, Han Shangliang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Shi Kefa actually expressed his fear of chaos in the city, and did not stop it!

Please, you are so cowardly to send meat to your opponent to develop, and you refused to surrender and was killed by the Qing army after the city was broken, is it to save the Qing court? (The Sprinkle family had to wonder if Lord Shi Gebu had voted for some important position in the Qing court, would he have helped the Ming army like the captain of the transport brigade?) What a hymn to loyalty! No wonder Qianlong gave Shi Kefa a nickname)

Zheng Xi, who was sitting in the Yangzhou Mansion, didn't know Shi Kefa's glorious deeds at that time, but he could also feel the sense of crisis of the black clouds pressing down on the city. As the northern gate of Nanjing, Yangzhou was lost, so half of King Min's Northern Expedition failed; Although he is indeed secretly happy about his brother's loss, if he weakens too much, he can't even sell for a good price if he surrenders.

What's more, since he was assigned to Yangzhou, he has carefully inserted a lot of nails into Yangzhou Mansion, and the generals who do not directly belong to him have more or less received his favor, and he also accepted all the women sent by the local gentry---- not because he was lustful, but with the purpose of political marriage, he sent a disciple to help give birth to a child.

Even after the slaughter of the Qing army more than ten years ago, Yangzhou is still a super metropolis compared to the Zhongzuo Institute, and Zheng Xi does not want to give up the status of Yangzhou Emperor at all.

"Someone, write me a warrant, just say that the big war is imminent, and give the whole army a promotion fee, two taels for each soldier and four taels for the sentry officer..."

A Fujian Xiucai who acted as a secretary sharpened the ink and wrote down the general meaning in a vulgar vernacular and handed it to Zheng Xi for a look. Zheng Xi nodded and used the seal on the strip. So some of his own soldiers took the slips to the silver vault to open the door, and pushed out cartloads of small silver ingots and transported them to the barracks.

In addition to the pro-soldiers who escorted the silver, there were also pro-soldiers who were responsible for the distribution of the silver--- Zheng Xi planned to let his pro-soldiers distribute the silver according to the roster, rather than through officers at all levels. If those officers still want to forcibly collect the soldiers' silver, then they can directly cut off people's skulls according to the situation, and then completely fire and fall off this small hill, even if it is inconvenient to do so for some reason, it can also be a good guarantee that those troops will not join the enemy.

Hearing that Zheng Raid jumped over himself and gave money to his subordinates, several subordinates wrote MMP in their hearts: At this moment, there is no way for him to jump ship, so he can only either die for Zheng Raid, or accompany him to be buried with Yangzhou!

After rewarding the big-headed soldiers with great fanfare, Zheng Xi had people send hundreds of taels to tens of thousands of taels of silver to those above the guerrillas. However, this silver was not the usual fifty-tael kuping silver, but huge silver ingots that were melted together.

Sixteen taels and one pound, dozens or hundreds of catties of silver melted together, but it does not look as attractive as a silver ingot, but it is chilling: this silver ingot, if you want to move it, how to move it?

Along with the white lump came a sealed letter. Among them, they are either kind words to appease and state their past achievements; or knock carelessly, cutting off their thoughts of joining the enemy; But no matter how different the contents of each letter may be, the final content is the same: "Look at the silver ingot, how is it different from what you usually see?" ”

Liu Zaishi, a guerrilla from Xiaohaikou, looked at the dozens of catties of silver sent, except that he felt that the silver was a little poor, but he didn't see anything unusual. "Is there gunpowder hidden in this silver?"

Ling Qinsui raised it up and shook it, and looked again to see if there was a hidden arquebus, Liu Zaishi wondered.

"Xiucai," Liu Zaishi called for the paperwork he had asked for and showed him the letter, "What does the difference in this silver ingot mean?" ”

Na Xiucai looked at the letter, and then at the silver lump on the ground. I saw that the outside of this silver lump seemed to be covered with pulp, but in some places it was smooth like jade...

It makes people turn the silver lump upside down, and there is some blackness that looks like burnt underneath...

"This is the meaning of the burning of jade!" Xiucai was shocked.