I pondered for a long time, but before I could react, Xia Wanchun scolded: "Traitor, what face do you have to come to see the emperor!" ”

"Get out of here!"

Zhang Zhao kicked at Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou did not avoid it, and his face was full of guilt.

Seeing him like this, I was thinking, could it be that this guy suddenly woke up and wanted to return to the embrace of the motherland again.

But seriously, if I can get the assistance of a Confucian general like him, it will definitely be much easier to recover the Ming Dynasty than it is for me to do it alone.

Thinking of this, I said coldly: "Hong Chengchou, what are you doing looking for me?" ”

"The emperor ......" between the words, Hong Chengchou choked up, and then said: "The criminal heard that the emperor went north to Shengjing, and he specially rushed from Jinzhou, because he wanted to tell the emperor alone!" ”

Yes! Could it be true that as I expected, this guy wants to change his past mistakes and return to me?

"Say whatever you want!"

"Your Majesty, there are many people here, please take a step to speak!"

With that, Hong Chengchou walked to a forest on the side of the road.

Zhang Zhao and the others told me not to follow me, saying that Hong Chengchou might harm me, but I didn't think Hong Chengchou would be like that, so he tried his best to disagree and walked into the woods.

After entering the woods, Hong Chengchou knelt on the ground again, and told me frankly about his experience of surrendering to the Manchus.

I could tell that he wanted to tell me that the reason why he was surrendered by the Manchus was because he was helpless.

In fact, looking at his surrender from the perspective of later generations, he really can't be blamed completely, and Chongzhen's dog day also has an unshirkable responsibility.

So I said, "In that case, do you want to go back to Fuzhou with me and restore the Ming Dynasty?" ”

He hesitated for a while, and said helplessly: "Your Majesty, you can forgive the guilty minister, the guilty minister is very grateful." But since ancient times, one minister does not serve two masters, I have betrayed the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to betray the Manchu Qing again, and I hope the emperor will understand! ”

I grass! Hearing this, Lao Tzu was angry and just wanted to scold, but the buddy held back.

"Why does one minister not serve the two masters? You are Han, I need you now, as long as you turn back, I can continue to let you be the secretary of the military department. ”

"The emperor doesn't need to say much, the minister is already a well-known traitor, if he rebels against the Manchu Qing again, the minister will ......"

He couldn't go on, tears flowed in his eyes, like a typical intellectual, if he was a traitor like Wu Sangui, he would definitely surrender to me immediately with a cheeky face, but Hong Chengchou is not such a person in his bones.

"Then what do you want to say about me today?"

Without the slightest hesitation, he blurted out: "Xuanhua Sutra." ”

When I heard this, I was immediately excited.

"Could it be that you know the secrets in the Xuanhua Sutra?"

"Don't be impatient, please listen to the minister!"

Hong Chengchou said that he was originally stationed in Jinzhou on the orders of Dolgon, and heard that I had come to Shengjing to negotiate with the Manchus, and that I was going to sacrifice the "Xuanhua Sutra", so he rushed to Shengjing overnight, ready to stop me from offering the scriptures, but I was already out of the city, so he chased after me.

Talking about the scriptures, he talked eloquently: "After Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the four seas, in the sixth year of Hongwu, he asked the national teacher Liu Bowen to compile the "Xuanhua Sutra". There are a total of eight scriptures, which are the important weapons of my Daming Town. Emperor Taizu was worried about the instability of the country, so he gave the eight scriptures to the four princes and four loyal ministers, asking them to keep the scriptures for generations. ”

I'm grass, really as I thought, the scriptures are really divided into several books.

But I didn't expect Zhu Yuanzhang to be such a chicken thief, he didn't give the entire set of scriptures to any prince, nor did he let a certain minister take them all for himself, in fact, he was afraid that the people who got the scriptures would rebel.

Thinking of this, I eagerly asked, "Then to whom did each of these eight scriptures be given?" ”

"The four princes are the crown prince Zhu Biao, the king of Qin Zhu Zhang, the king of Jin Zhu Li, and the king of Yan Zhu Di; The four loyal ministers were Mu Ying, the Duke of Qian, Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, Chang Yuchun, and Li Wenzhong, the Duke of Cao. ”

When he said this, my heart suddenly brightened, because I now knew the owners of these scriptures, and I only had to find their descendants, and I should be able to find them.

So he immediately blurted out and said: "Isn't that the scripture I found in Beijing was left by Zhu Di, the king of Yan?" And what Tartar went to Yunnan to steal was the scripture left by Mu Ying, the Duke of Qianguo? ”

"Yes, the emperor, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, guarded Beijing, and later became the emperor, and the scriptures are naturally in the palace; And the Mu Ying family, who is in Yunnan, has always been loyal to the imperial court, and the scriptures were left in the palace of King Mu in Kunming! ”

Speaking of this, I asked again: "Then why did I only find a box of scriptures in the study in Nanjing, but I didn't find a scripture book, what is going on?" ”

"How so?" Hong Chengchou was stunned and didn't know why.

Then he looked around and saw that no one was there, so he took out a scripture book from his bosom and handed it to me directly.

"Your Majesty, this scripture was handed over to the minister by the descendants of the Duke of Hubei who often met spring the year before last, but unfortunately the minister is outside the customs and has no chance to give it to the emperor, your majesty, you must take it away!"

Originally, I hated Hong Chengchou a lot before, thinking that he was a traitor after all, but when he told me this, I could still feel that he had Han blood in his bones.

"Then how did you know about the scriptures?"

"The minister didn't know that it was the descendants of the Duke of Eguo who told the minister when they saw the chaos in the world! Therefore, if the emperor wants to find several other scriptures, he must find the descendants of those loyal ministers of the prince back then, and must not let the scriptures fall into the hands of the Tartars, otherwise we Han people will suffer. ”

Hearing this, I was very moved, this may be the reason why the Han family has not declined for 5,000 years.

I patted Hong Chengchou on the shoulder and said, "Old Hong, if I can restore the Ming Dynasty, I will definitely take credit to you." It's just that I've read this "Xuanhua Sutra" a few times, but I haven't found the specific secret? ”

"The sinner only wants to atone for his sins, and he has no merit! As for the secrets in the scriptures, the criminal ministers only listened to the descendants of the Duke of Eguo say that if they collected eight books, they could make the Ming Dynasty eternal, and the rest did not know! ”

"You say this as if you didn't say it. The biggest problem now is that I can't find out what secrets are hidden in the scriptures, but the Manchu and Tibetan lamas seem to already know about it! ”

"Your Majesty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty can know about this, and the ministers feel even more strange when the Tibetan lamas know about it."

Damn, annoying, really annoying! To this day, I still don't have a idea of the specific secrets in the book.

But the only good thing is knowing who owns the other books.

"Lao Hong, I can tell you a secret, the scripture I gave to the Tartars is fake. Hey! ”

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou was stunned, and said excitedly: "The emperor is wise, and the minister is afraid that the emperor will give the scriptures to the Tartars!" ”

"I can't be so stupid, but now that the scriptures of Yunnan Muwangfu have been stolen by the Tartars, you are idle in Manqing every day, why don't you help me steal that scripture?"

Hong Chengchou hesitated for a while and said: "It's okay to steal scriptures, but since the emperor has surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, if they meet on the battlefield in the future, there will definitely be no softness, I hope the emperor can understand!" ”

Understood, buddy, of course I understand.

I am already very grateful that a person like him, who has read the Confucian classics all his life and believes in the Three Principles and Five Constants, can risk his life to tell me the secrets of the scriptures.

"It's still very early to fight, and now I haven't even settled Wu Sangui yet, and when Wu Sangui is settled, I will slowly clean up the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and then you have to show mercy to your subordinates!"

I deliberately made a joke about him, because he fought very fiercely, on a par with Wu Sangui and Dolgon.

"The emperor is too humble! However, if the emperor really wants to fight the battlefield with a horizontal sword, the minister suggested that the emperor should read more military books. It does not necessarily have to be a military general to fight a war, and the minister only began to lead troops after the age of 30. ”

What he said is very reasonable, since the last time Wu Sangui besieged Nanjing, I have thought about reading some military books, because now the Ming Dynasty really has no talent to shoot in land warfare, buddy, as the king of a country, must be on top, and cannot completely rely on his subordinates.

After chatting about military matters, he talked to me about diplomacy again, saying that if I want to conquer the Manchus in the future, I can actually unite with Korea, after all, Korea has always served the Ming Dynasty as the right one.

I have thought of this point before when he said it, but I have always had a question, since North Korea respects the Ming Dynasty as Zhengshuo, why did Kim Jongtian, the young lord of Baekdu Mountain, who competed with Xia Wanchun that day, still follow Dolgon?

I was about to ask about this, but Zhang Zhao rushed in and told me that a group of Manchu officers and soldiers were coming towards us. Tell me to leave quickly, if it is discovered by the official army, Hong Chengchou and I will both die.

In view of this, I had no choice but to say goodbye to Hong Chengchou.

Before parting, he tearfully begged me to help him take care of his old mother in Fujian, and told me not to tell his old mother that he had surrendered to the Manchus, saying that he was ashamed of his old mother's upbringing.

Oops, looking at him a big man in tears, buddy I almost cried.

Seriously, he, like me, is a person chosen by history, and he has no right to decide his own life.

It's just that his situation is even more miserable than mine, I am at least still the emperor, and he has become a well-known traitor.

I agreed to his request, took the "Xuanhua Sutra" he gave, mounted my horse and galloped!