August is not young, and September is awarded.

As soon as autumn came, the weather cooled down, and the heat of the midsummer that had just passed disappeared in the autumn rain one after another.

The rain fell for more than ten days, and today the sky is finally clear. Looking up, there was a tile-blue sky without a trace of clouds overhead. The golden sunlight casts down on the autumn leaves on the roadside, and the yellow is dazzling.

Looking westward, on the side of the West Mountain, it is even more red like fire, and the maple leaves are red.

After a scorching summer torment, the capital has also regained its vitality.

Early in the morning, people who were at home with moldy people went out of their homes. Either go to Xiangshan to watch the red leaves, or go out of the city to see the endless autumn fields, the BMW carved cars are fragrant all over the road, and the wind is moving, but it is a rare peaceful scene.

That's right, the past ten years of Chongzhen and the first half of the eleventh year of Chongzhen have been rare peaceful days since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne. In the past year and a half, the climate in northern China has been quite good, at least there has been no major drought and snow as in previous years. Because of this, the Jiannu in the northeast did not go south to fight the grass valley as usual, which greatly relieved the northern border defense of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the internal war to exterminate the peasant army, everything was even more smooth. In October of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang's method of four positive and six corners and ten sides of the net finally saw results. The space for the remnants of the peasant army to move was greatly compressed, and they were struggling in the border areas of Huguang, Shaanxi, and Sichuan, and if nothing else happened, it was only a matter of time before they were completely wiped out.

By the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army, who succeeded Gao Yingxiang to the throne, had been basically defeated by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting.

Seeing that these two people have done an excellent job in Shaanxi, Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the military affairs of the five southern provinces who succeeded Lu Xiang to the throne, cannot be as beautiful as Hong and Sun due to lack of capital. In desperation, he decided to adopt the means of appeasement and recruit Zhang Xianzhong's department in the Huangmei area.

Speaking of this Xiong Wencan, he was originally the governor of Fujian, but because he successfully appeased the pirate Zheng Zhilong, the father of the later national hero Zheng Chenggong, he was promoted to the governor of Liangguang. Later, the power of Zheng Zhilong pacified the pirate Liu Xiang, and his reputation rose for a while

。 It can be said that the reason why this person started his family and achieved the position of a feudal official was all by appeasing thieves, but in fact, he had no military talent.

After he took over the post of prime minister of Lu Xiangsheng, he did not have a single soldier at hand, so he had no choice but to ask Zuo Liangyu to lend him 6,000 old and weak soldiers as personal soldiers, which put up the shelves of the military affairs yamen of the five southern provinces of the prime minister.

In October of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Xiong Wencan went to Anqing to urge Zuo Liangyu to use troops against Zhang Xianzhong. As a result, the high-flying Zuo Liangyu ignored his stubble at all.

As a superintendent, he has no soldiers and no generals in his hands, so naturally he can't talk about exterminating the thieves. In addition, Lord Xiong was also confused as an official, and even gave an excerpt to the imperial court, saying that the Huangmei generation of thieves had been active for nearly a year, and the reason was that it was too rich here, so all the enemies were recruited. If the imperial court moved all the people into the city, cleared the walls, destroyed all the crops and fields, filled all the wells, and the thieves could not feed the army and could not be replenished with manpower and material resources, they would naturally retreat.

The southeast is a place where the imperial court is rich in wealth, and it is too ridiculous for Lord Xiong to hurt people with this move, and Emperor Chongzhen was furious after seeing the excerpt, and scolded Xiong Wencan for "playing with Kou". Yang Sichang also couldn't cry or laugh, there was no way, so he dropped 3,000 people from Zhending, Baoding and Shanxi.

But this bit of people is impossible to use to solve Zhang Xianzhong. Lord Xiong started by appeasing the thief army, and at this time, he naturally started his old business.

So, Xiong Wencan sent his cronies into Zhang Xianzhong's camp to surrender.

Zhang Xianzhong was cunning, and in the past, as long as the situation was not good, he would surrender to the imperial court. But when the strength is relieved, they will rebel again. It can be said that this person cannot be trusted at all.

Since the Battle of Chuzhou, the peasant army has suffered a great blow, suffered a great loss of vitality, and is on the verge of defeat. This time, Xiong Wencan sent someone to surrender, if he wanted to make such a peerless achievement, he could raise his eyebrows in front of the emperor. （）

Zhang Xianzhong was able to grasp Xiong Wencan's eagerness to achieve results, and knew that he was greedy for money, and even allowed him to bribe heavily, and put forward harsh conditions to Lord Xiong to retain the unit structure and choose a place to resettle him. Anyway, in a word, it's okay to surrender, but you can't hand over the military power.

At that time, Yang Sichang and others did not fail to see the problem, because Zhang Xianzhong's character was too despicable to be believed at all. But Xiong Wencan was anxious to make meritorious contributions and kept sending people to Beijing to lobby. said that Zhang Xianzhong has a strong army, and he is the leading task in the thief army. If you want to completely eradicate the thieves, the imperial court does not know how much military spending will be spent in the future, and how many men and horses will be mobilized. Moreover, it may not be able to beat others. Now, if the banner mission of the thief army is surrendered, the thief will inevitably be shocked, and maybe there will be people who will ask for surrender one after another in the future

。

In this way, is it not a soldier who surrenders without a fight?

In the end, Xiong Wencan also swore that "if Zhang Xianzhong can be recruited, according to the minister's opinion, at most, the thief army will return to the imperial court, and the world will be peaceful." ”

Under the influence of Lord Xiong, Emperor Chongzhen, who was eager for quick success, made a final decision and agreed to all the conditions of Zhang Xianzhong, allowing Zhang Bu to settle in Baishazhou, more than ten miles outside the valley city, build a house and buy land, and settle down, just like the princes and kings of a small independent kingdom.

According to the roster sent by the magistrate, the total number of Zhang Xianzhong's men at this moment was only 18,000 people, including about 11,000 elite soldiers.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen felt that something was wrong.

Although he was born in the deep palace, he grew up in the hands of a woman. But since its accession to the throne, the Ming Dynasty has been plagued by internal and external troubles, and has been fighting wars every year. He has fought a lot of battles, and he, a layman, also has a certain amount of military knowledge.

Is it possible that there are 11,000 elite soldiers for 18,000 thieves? As far as he knew, the thief army had always been dragging their families in battle, and among the 20,000 horses, five or six thousand young men who were on the battlefield were considered good. As for the family-level elite, there are only one or two thousand-person appearances.

This point of people, as long as the imperial court is ruthless and mobilizes military horses from all over the country to suppress it, it will take some time and military salaries at most, and it will not be difficult to completely eradicate it. How can you say that you may not be able to beat people?

What else does this Xiong Wencan say about three years at most, and the thief army will all surrender to the imperial court, isn't this still a copy of Yuan Manzi's traitor's "Five Years of Pingliao"?

After a while, Emperor Chongzhen's disgust for Xiong Wencan reached the point of no return. I also know in my heart that Zhang Xianzhong, a thief, may bite you back at any time, as long as he gets recuperation and recovers.

But Emperor Chongzhen was an extremely good-looking person, so he could only endure it, and even praised Governor Xiong fiercely.

Emperor Chongzhen and Yang Sichang were worried, but the officials and people in the court and China did not know anything about it.

On the contrary, after this, both the government and the opposition were enveloped in joy.

Xiong Wencan's Fu Bureau was commended by the imperial court, which greatly encouraged the officials of the other main Fu faction

。 Governors everywhere sent people to appease the peasant army units that they were about to be completely defeated. The conditions offered are weaker than the other, and each is more compromised than the other. So much so that at that time, many people ridiculed the practice of the officials of the main Fu faction headed by Governor Xiong as "begging for thieves." ”

Today's peasant army is already in the dilemma of sunset, and when they saw the imperial court appeased, they were naturally very surprised, and decided to temporarily serve as an official army for a few days to breathe a sigh of relief.

That's right, it is to beg for thieves, with the fake surrender of a large number of thieves, there are more monks and less porridge, and the competition among officials in various places is becoming more and more fierce. Not only did he promise the peasant army to retain its structure, but he also paid out of his own pocket to supplement the supplies of the thief army.

There are so many wrongs, and there are cheap bastards. For a time, the wind of peasant surrender prevailed. In November, more than a dozen leaders, including Luo Rucai, Shunyi Wang, Shooting Collapse Tian, Yizhangqing, Yilong, Guo Tianxing, Wang Guoning, Chang Guoan, Yang Youxian, and Wang Guangen, surrendered to local officials

As for Li Zicheng and others, who did not surrender, they also loved that Shaanxi was completely defeated, and only more than ten horsemen fled into the Shangluo Mountains to survive.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the civil strife that has plagued the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years seems to have been completely quelled now.

Whether this is a superficial phenomenon or not, whether these thieves will come back and rebel again, no one knows, or they don't want to think about it.

On the Liaodong side, because of the good weather this year, Jiannu did not enter the prison. Let the people of the Ming Empire enjoy a rare peace and tranquility for more than a year.

As for Huang Taiji's return from the Korean campaign, on February 2 this year, he ordered Shuotuo, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi to attack Phi Dao, and then sent Azig to help in the war. And in April, the matter of completely conquering this lonely overseas military fortress did not take the court and the people to heart.

At that time, Phi Dao was the only territory controlled by the imperial court in Liaodong, and it directly threatened the rear of Jiannu. There are still more than 17,000 people on the island, and if used properly, it may not be a surprise force.

But at this moment, the news of the fall of Phi Island was deliberately forgotten by everyone.

Or, to them, the place is of little value.

But they didn't know that the eastern threat, which had always restricted the development of the Qing regime, had been completely lifted.

Having eliminated Korea and taking Phi Dao, the Manchus could concentrate all their forces south.

At that time, it will not only be as simple as the northern peoples going south to fight the grass valley

。 Rather, it is a battle for the world.

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A year and a half of peace is not long, but it is enough to make everyone forget that the situation in the world has changed dramatically.

Autumn is crisp, and the nobles in the capital have gone out of the city to enjoy the beautiful autumn leaves. However, the flow of oars in the city did not have the spare money and effort, and Chongzhen built slaves in the ninth year of the Emperor's reign, and had already robbed the Gyeonggi area into white land. It can be said that the people of the entire Shuntianfu are returning to poverty in an instant.

However, in addition to working to make a living, you might as well find some fun, relax your muscles, enjoy life, and feel that this life is quite hopeful.

As the cheapest and cheapest pastime in the capital, it is nothing more than spending five copper coins, calling a pot of incense, drinking a few bowls, and listening to the storyteller to come to a section of "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin".

"Smack!" Mr. Storyteller's shocking wood slapped on the case crisply: "Bian Xi invites Guan Gong to a feast in the Fatang." Guan Gong said: 'Bian Jun invited Guan Mou, is it a good intention, or a bad intention? Before Bian Xi could reply, Guan Gong had already seen a knife and axe hand in the wall clothes, so he shouted Bian Xi and said: "I think you are a good person, and I dare to do this!" Governor Bian Xi vented and shouted: "Leave and right!" ’……”

Today, Mr. is talking about the passage in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" where Guan Yu passed five levels and killed six generals.

In fact, all the regular visitors here have heard this story no less than seventeen or eighteen times. But it was about this gentleman's book that was so wonderful that it had already hooked everyone's souls. They all stretched their necks, pricked up their ears, and listened to how Guan Gong showed his might, so that everyone could be refreshed.

But he didn't want to, the gentleman suddenly arched his hand: "I want to know what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown." Early tomorrow, early tomorrow! ”

Mr. Storyteller sold Guan Zi like this, and all the tea customers "buzzed" and scolded: "Mr. Guan is really annoying, every time he talks about critical moments, he says that he will make a statement that the day is early, and he will sweep people's heads." ”

"The surname is Guan, it's not authentic for you to do this all the time. Don't think that your surname is Guan, when we see Guan Gong's face, we won't talk to you. Straight lady thief, you are so hateful, isn't it just a good story. But damn it, you only talk about a pot of tea every time, and you won't want to spend more time. Let's spend the same amount of money and go to other teahouses, how can this be listened to for an hour. A rude guest with a noisy temperament suddenly snapped up: "Why do you have to get a discount for listening to books with the same amount of money?" ”

"Yes, yes, the straight lady thief is so annoying, you have to finish this paragraph anyway today, otherwise it's not over

！ "Someone started, about the usual people have been putting up with Mr. Guan for a long time, and now someone is taking the lead, and the anger in his chest immediately bursts out.

After all, they are all rough people like peddlers and pawns, and for a while, the slapping of the table and the slapping of the bench and the slapping of the bench are out of control.

Hearing everyone's scolding, the teahouse owner gave up his hand again and again, and couldn't stop laughing. 、

Left and right are neighbors who have known each other all their lives, and since the boss has such a good attitude, everyone's anger has calmed down a little.

But at this time, the storyteller surnamed Guan giggled and sneered: "I said a pot of tea, what if others said an hour?" Others are talking like, can you listen to it? I'm just coaxing you donkeys' ears. Don't you smell it, I'd rather eat a bite of a peach than a basket of rotten pears. Don't be afraid that you will make a fuss now, and you will say that you will not listen to the old man's book in the future. If you don't believe it, let's see, in two days, you will have to roll back to the old man. ”

This remark caused a big uproar among everyone, and some people even rolled up their sleeves and clenched their fists to rush forward, ready to give this annoying guy an old punch: "The surname is Guan, don't think that you have a talent and fame, we can't beat you!" The law does not blame the public, and it is in vain to fight, even if you report to Shuntian Mansion, the government will not take us! ”

"Yes, beating this old boy, he actually scolded us for being donkeys, I have to give him a little color today."

The owner of the teahouse was shocked, thinking that when the fight started, his family didn't know how much he would be wrestled, and then he looked at the old man Guan who was even weaker, maybe he would die here. There was really a murder case, and it was not himself who was unlucky. Not only could this tea house not be opened, but he would have to stay in a prison cell for a few days.

He was almost crying, and he couldn't stop reaching out to stop everyone: "Everyone, Mr. Guan is just a little bad-tempered and offends you, so don't worry about him." For my sake, spare him! ”

It was at this moment that Mr. Kwan giggled louder. The voice was as straight as a knife scraping on the glazed tile, so sharp that it gave people goosebumps: "You want a book for an hour, good, well, in this case, the old man will say another paragraph today." ”

This shrill laugh quieted everyone.

When I looked closely, I found that the scars on Mr. Guan's face had been twisted into a ball.

He didn't know what was going on with his face, he was scarred all over the place, and he didn't know why he was injured

。 It was probably not well raised later, and a lot of fat grew on the wound, like huge centipedes twisting and hovering on the face. A few more glances will make people's hearts chill.

This Mr. Guan came to the capital a year ago, and I heard that he used to be a native of Shuntianfu and a poor family with a reputation for showing off his talents. There is still an old wife and a son and a daughter in the family, and he makes a living by teaching people on weekdays. When Chongzhen invaded the south in the ninth year of Jiannu, his wife was killed, and he, a son and a daughter were also captured by Jiannu. Later, for some reason, Mr. Guan escaped from the enemy and came back.

However, because his face was disfigured, no one would ask him to be a teacher to scare the child. In desperation, Guan Xiucai had to find a classmate who worked in the yamen of the capital to see if he could find a living.

But because he looks really scary, he was rejected one by one.

With no one to land, Guan Xiucai can only be a storyteller in a teahouse. After all, he is a scholar, and he is used to being a gentleman, and he is eloquent. As soon as the story in the romance book fell into his mouth, it was told so thoroughly that people couldn't stop listening to it. However, since this old Xiucai came to the teahouse, he probably missed his deceased wife and his children who fell into the hands of the enemy as slaves, and he was depressed. I don't have much energy when it comes to books, I only talk about a pot of tea every day, and I stop when I get a few pennies for wine. Then he sold a dime of wine, sold two taels of pig's head meat, and shrank in the corner of the wall and drank into a pile of mud.

"Smack!" With a sound, Guan Xiucai's shocked wood slapped on the case again: "Angry hair rushes to the crown, relying on the place, Xiaoxiao rain rest." Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, strong and fierce. Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. Don't wait, the young man's head is white, empty and sad. ”

"Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing; When will the courtiers perish? Drive a long car and step through the lack of Helan Mountain. Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood. To start from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and face the sky. ”

This poem is the Song Dynasty general Yue Pengju's "Manjianghong", it is said that before and after the siege of Bianjing, the Jin soldiers wantonly burned, killed and captified, **** women, and did all kinds of evil. In addition to gold and silver possessions, they captured a large number of Song officials and civilians, especially women. The Jin people specially asked for 600 girls". According to the "Words of the People in the Urn" and contained, on the 27th day of the leap November of the first year of Jingkang, the Jin soldiers plundered the huge room, and the house of Empress Liu, Lan Cong, and Meng of Huo Mingde burned thousands of rooms. More than 70 women were separated from the city......"

“…… The first batch of more than 3,400 women escorted by the Jin soldiers set off from Qingcheng Guoxiangzhai on 27 March and arrived in Yanshan on 27 April, leaving more than 1,900 women. Nearly half died within a month. Those who survive are lucky, but a tragic fate awaits them. On May 23, Zhao Gou's mother, Empress Wei, his wife and concubine Xing, and other Song prisoners finally arrived in Jin Shangjing. On the seventh day of the sixth month, the Emperor of Jin received Empress Wei and others, and then gave Zhao Gou's mother Empress Wei, Zhao Gou's wife Xing Bingyi and Jiang Zuimei, Emperor Zhao Huanhuan and other eighteen people to live in Huanyi Courtyard

。 In fact, the "Huanyi Courtyard" is not the main thing of Huanyi, but is actually a military prostitute camp......"

Another pot of tea passed, and Guan Xiucai talked for a long time. But this time, everyone didn't understand it very well.

Finally, someone shouted: "Wu Na's surname is Guan, what kind of bird book are you talking about, playing with us, right?" ”

"Yes, I don't understand, it's not good, you're talking about bird feathers?" The crowd was agitated again, and someone had already thrown the peels of melon seeds, oranges, and leftover fruits on the table towards Mr. Guan.

Mr. Guan accidentally hit a few oranges on his forehead, and the juice was really mushy. But he didn't wipe it, but suddenly cried loudly: "If you don't understand, it's right, if you don't understand, it's right." Before the Jin, after the Jin, the Great Song Dynasty. This Jiannu will still come, and will come...... The world is going to die...... In the future, your wives and mothers will be captured by Hou Jin Jian to be slaves and prostitutes. The country is ruined, and you have to be slaves to the country, and the two-legged sheep ......" but he was hoarse and exhausted, and he cried when he sang a long song.

"What a contemptuous man, so curse Lao Tzu, curse my Ming Dynasty. It's tolerable, it's unbearable! Finally, a listener completely broke out, and he didn't care about the charge of beating a famous scholar, so he jumped on the stage and slapped Mr. Guan hard: "Straight lady thief, what about Houjin Tartar, when our Ming Dynasty army is a decoration?" ”

Mr. Guan didn't dodge, the corners of his mouth were bleeding, and he couldn't help laughing: "Good fight, good fight, Chongzhen built slaves south in the ninth year, and when my Hun family was cut off by Jiannu with a knife, where was the army of the Ming Dynasty?" When my son and daughter were captured by Jiannu, where was the army of the Ming Dynasty? Look, look at this, yesterday's me is tomorrow's you. You're all going to be slaves, you're all going to be slaves! ”

"Crazy, crazy." The man was still to be beaten.

A teenage man jumped up, pushed him away, and shouted, "What are you doing, beating the reading seeds, I will take you to Shuntianfu today." ”

This person's face is weak, and he has obviously read a book for a few days. What's strange is that he is wearing a mandarin duck battle jacket and a big knife hanging from his waist, but he is dressed as a military man: "Mr. Guan, it's me, I'm Liu Ming, I have studied for two years in Mr.'s place." I didn't expect to see you here today, sir, you have become like this. ”

After speaking, he pulled Mr. Guan and walked out.

When the other tea guests saw that this person was a student of Mr. Guan, and that he had a knife on his waist, they were afraid in their hearts, and at the same time flashed to the side.

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