Chapter 443: Trying to buy a life with silver
Compared with the news that Li Jing appointed Sun Yuanhua as the Gongfang Langzhong of the Qin Palace, it seemed so calm, and the imperial court didn't even regard it as a big problem, after all, Li Jing at that time had already shown a certain degree of listening to propaganda and not listening to tunes, but no matter what he Li Jing did, he could at least pull out a certain banner to cover his behavior!
For example, this time, when the new artillery presided over by Gongfang Langzhong Sun Yuanhua was urgently transported to the front line of Xuanhua, the Qin army was still fighting the Mongol Tatar invasion and sending troops to rescue Xuanfu Town. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Master Ma, come up with a way, the Qin army has already arrived outside the city." Ma Shiying, who retreated all the way from Yangyuan to Xuanhua Mansion and tried to go east to Baoan Prefecture from Xuanhua Mansion, saw that the east was blocked, so he simply fled to Zhangjiakou with his people, but before he could continue to flee back to Beijing along the Great Wall, he was cut off by the Qin cavalry who caught up.
The garrison outside the mouth who did not admit defeat attacked once, trying to cover the escape of the big merchants, but this group of people was in their sight, and after being surrounded by groups of Qin troops, only one round of artillery fire, they were defeated and collapsed.
"Figured out? Benfu is now unable to protect himself, what else can he do? Ma Shiying was in a panic in the past two days, and he didn't even sleep well when he ran away all the way, and now he finally ran to Zhangjiakou, and originally wanted to take a rest, but he was immediately blocked by the cavalry of the Qin army, and then he was even more depressed when he was noisy by these big businessmen in the city.
"But if you don't come up with some way, Qin Jun's artillery will be beaten, and we won't even have a way out!" Fan Yongdou, who was elected as a representative of the merchants, is now completely stupid, the Qin army keeps saying that they want to fight the Tartars, then they will fight, but what does it mean that the army is surrounding Zhangjiakou now? Are they going to rebel?
"Survival? Ben Fu estimated that now that the Xuanhua Mansion is lost, they are not rebelling, what is it? But can the imperial court still have the spare power to take care of this? Even now, Ma Shiying has his own unique source channels, he knows that Henan and Shandong in the south have ended, the last two elites of the imperial court have been lost, and the general army of Baoding has even gone to Tianjin, and his copy for help can't even be sent to Xuanfu Town.
"Then the court doesn't care, what can we do?" Fan Yongdou has one head and two big, when the silver was first issued, the imperial court made it clear to them with a package ticket, and they didn't take any of their original property and land in Shanxi, but now? Not to mention the land and property in Shanxi, they can't even save their lives.
The most important thing is that they don't have time, they don't even have time to collect the silver deposits and goods outside Zhangjiakou and run away, otherwise the Cai family can go out of the city in a hurry and be killed by the Qin army?
"Benfu has no choice, it seems that he can only survive with the city, and the imperial court can only send Guan Ning's army into the pass to quell the rebellion." Ma Shiying was vaguely perfunctory, God knows what he thinks in his heart now, anyway, for the time being, let these businessmen who are deeply involved with the defenders of Zhangjiakou fool away, and then think about it in the long run.
After saying something more, Fan Yongdou also knew that it would be useless to continue talking, the governor estimated that he was frightened by the Qin army, and he didn't dare to go out of the city to fight, but they wanted to live, so they had to find another way.
"Come on, come up to Benfu." As soon as Ma Shiying and the others left, they immediately summoned the remnants of their own governor's standard battalion, and even Ma Tianbao, who was originally under the command of Wan Quanwei, followed him all the time.
"My lord, what do you command?" Ma Tianbao is also desperate now, Wanquan Zhongwei is basically buried, and those who remain by his side are only two or three hundred elite families, and the rest have been wiped out by the Qin army.
"Here, it's not your cronies, it's Benfu's governor standard camp, Benfu has said first, if anyone colludes with the merchants in the city and tries to make trouble, Benfu will allow you to go out by yourself, but in the future, we will lose our feelings, don't see each other again." Ma Shiying looked at these generals who followed his own outlaws, and laughed miserably in his heart, but what could he do? The Qin army is so strong, no matter how much he resists, it will be nothing more than a dead end.
"My lord, what you said, our brother has not been following you for a few years, and has been under your protection to survive in this troubled world. The general of the Xunfu Standard Battalion is not stupid, as soon as Ma Shiying mentions the big families in the city, he knows that this is to surrender.
"Okay, Ding San, you bring someone for me to guard the temporary governor's yamen first, and the soldiers and horses in the nearby standard camp are not allowed to unload their armor, always lift my spirits, don't be touched in the middle of the night." As soon as Ma Shiying heard this, he immediately knew, and the people below didn't want to die.
"My lord, surrendering rashly is a capital crime." Ma Tianbao couldn't bear such a big change, after all, they were still the Ming army before, and now that the Qin army is coming to the city, can they just drop like this?
"So what do you say? Now that there are 10,000 Qin troops outside the city, and they are constantly increasing, this is not for our thousands of good sons and daughters to consider the future, can they surrender? "Ma Shiying's heart can't support it anymore, the big families in the city will definitely not surrender, their ancestral property has been confiscated by the Qin army, and most of the clansmen in their hometown have been sent to mine, this kind of grudge, plus the fear that the Qin army will attack them, so they will never surrender.
"But the big families in the city, the guys in each family, the guards, counting their corrupted guards, there are at least three or four thousand people, and they are all dead soldiers, once we are ready to surrender, it will be a fire." Ma Tianbao is not stupid, this year Da Ming's eyes are almost gone, can he die with him?
"So let's do it first, go directly out of Dongcheng tonight, lead the Qin army into the city, our manpower must be all notified, and now continue to fight with the Qin army, then our family members can't be saved, if anyone wants to go all the way to the dark, then don't worry about being ruthless." Ma Shiying squinted his eyes and glanced for a week, but no one dared to look at him.
"I originally thought that the imperial court could still send the main force of the Beijing camp to rescue us, but ah, the imperial court is now over, the 100,000 Ming army led by Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, was completely wiped out by Kong Youde in Denglai, and only a few thousand people fled back to Beijing, and Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Henan, led the main force of the 80,000 Ming army, and also wiped out the whole army in Dengfeng, the right governor of the governor's mansion, Qin Yiming, led the troops and horses to Daimyo, and the whole army surrendered after being surrounded by the Qin army, and the Qin governor committed suicide and martyrdom, and the Guanning army looked at it earlier, I am afraid that it is ready to surrender to Daqin, and there is a Qi army in the south of the Beijing division, The Eastern and Western Qin Army and the Guanning Army are eyeing each other, and the so-called 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Beijing Battalion are nothing more than coaxing the Holy Lord, we should think about our own future. ”
Ma Shiying said so much in one breath, just to wake up these people under him, Daming is over, don't try to resist the general trend anymore, this world, it is estimated that Li Jing is sitting, they are guarding in this lonely city, there are no elite soldiers inside, no rescue outside, even if they guard for a year, what can they do? In the end, people die and the lights go out, and the history books still estimate that they have to be smeared, so they don't know the current affairs.
"Lord Futai, you give me the right words, have you contacted the Qin army, don't go out of the city to surrender at that time, but we were beaten by the Qin army, not to mention that the two of us together, there are only 1,200 people, and the soldiers in the city are much stronger than us, if you start to do it, if they find out in advance, it will be terrible." Ma Tianbao wanted to surrender, but there was no way, the most important thing was that if the Qin army didn't have an accurate word, he would cut them down at that time, and it would be really wronged.
"That's true, come on, please come out Mr. Liu, and have a reassurance with you." Ma Shiyingken surrendered, that decision is not a day to make up your mind, no, the person invited out, everyone knows.
"Liu Qingsong? Shopkeeper Liu, didn't you open a shop in Xuanfu Town? Ma Tianbao was stunned for a moment, isn't this the shopkeeper of the Four Seas Trading Company in Xuanfu City? In the past, he also carried silver to his house.
"The commander makes the lord come unharmed, this official Shen Cewei has hundreds of subordinate households, and I have seen Lord Futai, the commander and the adults." Shopkeeper Liu, oh no, Liu Baihu's appearance immediately calmed down everyone present, Shen Cewei? Isn't that Qin Jun's people?
"Okay, don't dwell on this matter anymore, Liu Baihu was specially brought out from the Xuanfu by the official, if it weren't for him, the official wouldn't dare to act rashly." Ma Shiying said with a smile, he is the governor of the imperial court, and he also has a way to be on the Qin army's side, which is his confidence to dare to surrender.
"That's right, I believe that you adults also know what form it is now, Daming can't keep it, not only the Central Plains rivers and mountains have changed color, but now even Huguang and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are almost the same, my lord Li Jing plays the role of the land of mountains and Shaanxi, and the army occupies Sichuan, a few days ago, the Sichuan general soldier Li Weixin Li also surrendered, and now the army enters the Xuanfu, looking down on the Beijing Division, only sending an army for a while, don't you all think about your own future?"
Zhangjiakou was a particularly important place for the Qin army, because it hoarded enough food and a large amount of silver and materials for 50,000 people for a month, and if it could take here, the Qin army would have enough confidence to continue fighting.
"I just ask, if I surrender, whether His Royal Highness the King of Qin can spare my life, over the years, I have also seen through the situation, no one in the northwest of the King of Qin is his opponent, I think I am just a court commander who eats a mess, and now I have come to the end of the road, I just ask His Royal Highness the King of Qin to raise his noble hand and spare my life." Ma Tianbao was born like this, and it is just the common feeling of seeking advantages and avoiding harm.
"This is easy to say, His Royal Highness the King of Qin of my family governs the country with benevolence, and you adults only look at the former Datong General Soldier Gao Xun, and the Governor of Datong, Zhang Tinggong, will know that you will be given an official position to live in, but this power, you will have to rely on your own abilities in the future." Liu Qingsong naturally wouldn't talk nonsense, but he got a clear order from behind him.
"But you adults have to pay a business, at least there must be a meeting gift, I also ambushed personnel in Zhangjiakou, and deliberately did a few things arranged in advance, and the contact with the army outside the city is naturally easy and abnormal, if you make up your mind to take refuge in my lord, then please An Fangcai said, tonight, open the city gate and let my army enter the city, as for the rest of the things, just leave it to us to do."
"Really?" The other generals were moved, if they could save their lives, or even be able to mix up an official and a half-post in the new dynasty, then what other thoughts did they have?
"Of course, my lord Qin Jun is not responsible for all the lawlessness of the Ming Court in the past, and it will be the same in the future, this order has been officially promulgated, and all armies are subordinate, not to mention that all your lords are outstanding people for a while, since my lord is determined to be in the world, how can he snub your lords?" Liu Qingsong saw that the generals of the Ming army here had the heart to take refuge, and he didn't hurry up and pick up the good ones and said, of course, if these people were found to have done anything illegal afterwards and took the opportunity to have their property confiscated, then it would be no wonder who would kill them anyway.
"In that case, Lord Futai, let's do it, anyway, we are desperate now, if we don't do it, we will wait for death, after this village, there will be no such shop, and it will be a question of whether the Qin army that enters the city will bypass us at that time." Ma Tianbao gritted his teeth and simply dried up.
"Okay, in that case, please send a letter to the army outside the city as soon as possible, let's start tonight and open the east gate to welcome the king into the city." Ma Shiying also had time to make up his mind, because he had negotiated with Liu Qingsong before, according to the letter given by His Royal Highness the King of Qin, as long as the governor was willing to surrender before the army attacked, at least he would be placed according to the officials at the level of the political envoys.
"Then immediately go and inform the army outside the city!" Liu Qingsong saw that his matter was over, so he quickly went down to make arrangements.
In the temporary governor's yamen, the soldiers of the standard battalion heard the general's order, and immediately all went out of the camp on high alert, and 200 cronies were arranged in the small mansion, and Ma Tianbao personally led the family troops of the department to be on tight alert, for fear that the news would be exposed and the soldiers in the city would attack.
As for the merchants, now they are gathering together to try to send people out to negotiate, ready to use the silver to buy their lives, but what they don't know is that the Qin army, which has already had a better choice, is now just dealing with them.
"Look, the tone is really big, in one breath, the twelve largest merchants promised to provide our Qin army with 1.5 million taels of silver for military supplies, and promised to give us thirty percent of the profit every year in the future, if I don't know their details, I really want to agree to it."
It was Zheng Renbao who was responsible for commanding the battle against Zhangjiakou, and Ning You was sent by Zheng Renbao to besiege Baoan Prefecture because of his big background, anyway, it is best to do it yourself, otherwise God knows if Ning You will do something stupid, at this juncture, everyone can win the world if they are united, and no one dares to relax. (To be continued.) )