Qu Shiyun's hairs stood on end, this voice was so special, eerie, and he could feel as if a bloody breath was coming with the words.

Turning around, Qu Shiyun couldn't help but tremble slightly, and sure enough, it was Li Chengdong, the butcher, who was talking.

The first champion of the Yongli Dynasty, the predecessor of the Yongli Emperor, Ding Kuichu, died in the hands of Li Chengdong, and the men of the whole family were slaughtered, and the women were used as camp prostitutes, and the end was miserable. Ding Kuichu and Qu Shiyun have worked together in Guangxi for many years, one is the governor and the other is the governor, quite a colleague, and he is haunted by Ding Kuichu's death, but he can't help Li Chengdong, his psychology has fallen into a shadow, and he trembles when he hears the voice of the butcher.

"This, Zheng Chenggong hasn't changed his name yet." Qu Shiyun hesitated, Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong, is a powerful minister who supports Emperor Shaowu, Zheng Chenggong is naturally also a courtier of Emperor Shaowu, although he has not directly confronted Emperor Yongli on the battlefield, but has not been on the table to support Dai Yongli, and now like a lonely soul at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong, he insists on resisting the Qing Dynasty in the name of "loyalty and filial piety to recruit the general's guilty ministers".

But in any case, not being a minister is equivalent to disobedience, and in a feudal dynasty, it is a great disrespect, and the crime is the same as rebellion.

So Li Chengdong sneered and said slowly: "Even if you don't call yourself a minister, you are a thief, and you are more hateful than the Eastern Prisoners. ”

His voice is not high but has its own sound effects, and every word he says is terrifying, cold and frightening, and inexplicably there is an illusion of an axe and a neck.

Qu Shiyun unconsciously touched his neck, although a trace of fear flashed in his eyes, he still retorted unwillingly, his voice was amplified a little, quite emboldened for himself.

"Huiguo tolerance, although Zheng Chenggong has not been called a minister, but has accepted the envoy sent by the emperor, the words are very effective to be loyal to the emperor's meaning, I believe that in time, it will be on the table, we only need to wait for a while, we can be included in the imperial court, then not only can get a tiger general, but also accept its people, collect its people, kill two birds with one stone." Qu Shiyun looked around in a loud voice, and said eloquently: "Besides, Zheng Chenggong's royal majesty has skills and battles, and he is in Fujian for the imperial court to defeat the eastern captives, the imperial court can completely devote all its energy to Jiangxi, Jiangxi borders Huguang, and then the two roads go hand in hand, and arrive in Nanjing, which can recover Jiangnan like a bamboo, why not?" ”

This is reasonable, reasonable and reasonable, within the legal principle, the envoy of Emperor Yongli has indeed connected with Zheng Chenggong, the negotiations between the two sides are very fruitful, Zheng Chenggong's attachment can be reached in this month or two, many of the adults present are very clear, even Emperor Yongli knows.

The buzz in the hall started again, and the ministers nodded in agreement, but due to Li Chengdong's intimidation, it was inconvenient to stand up and support Qu Shiyun openly.

Emperor Yongli looked indifferent, looked at the courtiers below without saying a word, his eyes flashed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Li Chengdong snorted again in his nostrils, glared at Qu Shiyun and said: "The Zheng family was born as a pirate, and the gangsterism that can't be washed away and the backbone that can't be pulled out, since Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong, he has never put the emperor in his eyes. After Emperor Longwu was martyred, he knew that he would succeed to the throne in Guangxi, but instead of hurrying to support him and do what the loyal ministers should do, he went against the grain and respected the king of Tang. The son of the evil obstacle is the son of the evil man, Zheng Chenggong must not be a good person, the court should not accept this kind of person, it should not be, it will be a disaster in the future, maybe when he will follow his father who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and take refuge in the east! ”

There were constant foul language in his words, and he didn't look like a minister, which caused all the officials to look sideways and disdain them to the extreme, but a group of military generals were full of face and very happy, obviously Li Chengdong's way of speaking was very good for their appetite.

Qu Shiyun frowned, forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and arched his hand to Li Chengdong with a straight face: "Hui Guogong's words, guessing with imagination, it is inappropriate, Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing, Zheng Chenggong has broken off relations with him, and even the name in the ancestral ancestral hall has been crossed out, which shows Zheng Chenggong's heart, and has fought hundreds of battles with the Qing army in the past few days, killing countless Qing troops, if he really wants to follow Zheng Zhilong, why do these things?" ”

In fact, he still has a sentence that he hasn't spoken, what qualifications do you Li Chengdong have to ridicule Zheng Zhilong for being a pirate, you are also a former mountain bandit, the thief party who made trouble in Shaanxi with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong back then, and Gao Jie betrayed Li Zicheng and took refuge in the imperial court, can you wash away the past and become a new person? Besides, Erchen, you Li Chengdong are capricious, I'm afraid there are more masters than Zheng Zhilong who took refuge.

Fifty steps to laugh and a hundred steps, and the vertical is cheeky.

But Qu Shiyun didn't dare to say these words to his face, otherwise Li Chengdong might have to pull out a knife and cut people on the spot, splashing blood in the Taiji Palace, and this butcher wouldn't be able to do anything.

When Li Chengdong heard this, he didn't even bother to hum, he directly narrowed his eyes, put his mouth back slightly, and shouted, "Where is Hao Shangjiu?" ”

From near the end of the general's class, a general flashed out, took a few steps forward, bowed and shouted: "The last general!" ”

This person is tall and healthy, with big shoulders and a round waist, a face like a silver basin and eyes like copper bells, a face of steel needle-like beard and roots, and a face of horizontal flesh is set off into a hideous appearance like a beast, he is wearing a regimental collar court uniform, and a vivid leopard is embroidered on the chest complement, which is a three-rank military general.

Qu Shiyun frowned and looked at Li Chengdong, Li Chengdong smiled, showed a mouthful of white teeth, turned his face away, bowed to Emperor Yongli on the dragon chair, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, this is Hao Shangjiu, the chief soldier of Chaozhou, the general under the command of Weichen, who has fought a lot with the Zheng clan in Fujian, and knows him very well. ”

Qu Shiyun felt that it was not good, and just wanted to say something to stop it, but he heard Emperor Yongli wave his hand and said loudly: "Okay, Hao Aiqing will talk about it." ”

Hao Shangjiu responded, a huge mouth, a thunderbolt-like voice sounded in the hall, this person's voice was rude, his personality was fierce, and everyone in the hall was like a hurricane, and the sound was wave after wave.

"Your Majesty, the Zheng family was originally a giant on the sea, roaring water waves, from Quanzhou to Nanyang, burning, killing and looting, no one can control it, among them, Zheng Zhilong is still the leader, the coastal people are deeply harmed, where they pass, chickens and dogs are not left, the male plunders are enslaved by the soldiers, and the female is sold as a prostitute, and what is done, people and gods are angry!" Surprisingly, Hao Shangjiu has a rough appearance and rude behavior, but he is very scheming, although he speaks loudly, he is very organized, and he is a rough and beautiful character: "During the Apocalypse, Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, recruited An Zheng and appointed him as a guerrilla for coastal defense. The defeat of Emperor Longwu, he could not escape his responsibility. ”

Li Chengdong's eyes opened slightly, and he interrupted him: "It's important to say that these emperors know!" ”

Hao Shangjiu was full of excitement, and the six-foot man agreed like a docile cat, and then continued: "That Zheng Zhilong's crime is really hard to write, his son Zheng Chenggong, his son inherited his father's business, and he also made a living as a smuggler at sea, and despised the law. Not only that, after the death of the pseudo-Shaowu Emperor, this son still refused to belong to the emperor, blatantly plundered my people in the Chaozhou area, robbed money and grain, and had the responsibility to defend the land, led the troops to fight with it, and theorized with it on the battlefield, but he said that the emperor was not right, and the Tang King was the real son of heaven. The minister is not angry, and he fights, but unfortunately the soldiers are outnumbered, unable to capture it, but he captured a lot of people, what the minister said, every sentence is true, if the emperor does not believe it, he can summon the minister's soldiers to testify. ”

Emperor Yongli pondered for a moment, and looked at Qu Shiyun with ice in his eyes.

Qu Shiyun trembled with anger, what Hao Shangjiu said, half-truths and half-falsehoods, how to make him not angry.

It is true that Zheng Chenggong and Hao Shangjiu clashed, and it is not false that the two have met many times, but this is a common thing in the late Ming Dynasty.

The general soldiers of each town are like independent kingdoms, in order to compete with each other for resources and population, you rob my military salary, and I rob your grain and grass, almost every month, fighting and insulting each other, which is very usual. In order to mediate the contradictions between the four towns in Jiangbei, he took 300 white pole soldiers into Gao Jie's military camp, and only after painstaking persuasion did he resolve the contradiction between Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo, and maintain Nanjing's defense system.

Zheng Chenggong has a lot of soldiers, but the territory is small, unable to raise soldiers, of course to expand, Hao Shangjiu occupies Chaozhou, the land is fertile and grainy, Zheng Chenggong is trapped by the lack of food, borrowing grain from it, each side is its master, Hao Shangjiu of course refuses, as soon as he comes and goes, he hands it over, this is a fact.

However, whether Zheng Chenggong said anything bad about Emperor Yongli, but it was false, Zheng Chenggong cut off relations with Zheng Zhilong for the sake of the Ming court, raised the banner and fought against the Qing Dynasty alone, how could he openly say bad things about the emperor,

But Qu Shiyun couldn't refute it, and he didn't go into battle with Hao Shangjiu, how could he refute it. He could only stare at Hao Shangjiu with angry eyes, stretched out his hand trembling with anger, pointed at him and shouted: "Hao Zongbing, Daming Sheji, all in one move, if you deceive the emperor with some lies and lies for your own personal grudges, but the sinners of the Ming Dynasty will never recover in the future!" ”

Hao Shangjiu looked at Fang Liang with his eyes and sneered at Qu Shiyun's angry shouting.

Li Chengdong was on the side, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said gloomily: "Qu Shoupu, lying and lying, who said it and I can't tell you, why are you in such a hurry?" ”

Qu Shiyun was so angry that he couldn't speak, Li Chengdong was so anxious to fight Zheng Chenggong, he knew, the reason was just that Zheng Chenggong had many generals and many soldiers, if he was included in the Yongli Dynasty, it would inevitably compete for Li Chengdong's limelight, and it was difficult to ensure the current status and power of the Li family, which was the same as the reason why Li Yuanyin did not hesitate to assassinate Wang Huan a few months ago.

The warlord's train of thought, selfish to the extreme, Qu Shiyun looked at Li Chengdong with horizontal eyes, and then looked back at the team of civil servants who seemed to be like a group of quails, sighed secretly, bowed to Emperor Yongli and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are all thinking about the safety of the court, although Zheng Zhilong is evil, but his son is really a loyal minister and a good general. ”

Li Chengdong shouted: "Rebel and thief, how can you not fight!" ”

Qu Shiyun did not back down, it was a matter of the survival of the Ming Dynasty, this scholar was stubborn, threw aside the fear of Li Chengdong in his heart, turned his head back and replied viciously: "Zheng Chenggong was given the name by Emperor Longwu, it can't be a rebel!" ”

The two of them were like two fighting cocks, staring at each other eye to eye, and each other took a step forward, looking at the posture, as if they were about to start fighting if they didn't agree with each other.

The Manchu Dynasty looked at each other, and no one dared to speak out to persuade them.

"Two Aiqing, don't be angry yet. I am very pleased with your faithfulness, and you are rewarded with great rewards. Emperor Yongli, who had not been silent, finally opened the golden mouth, he sat up straight, with a cold face, and said to the courtiers in a cold tone: "I have an idea about this matter, Aiqing and put it down." ”

(End of chapter)