As soon as Huang Taiji's words came out, everyone fell silent, even Du Du and Abatai, who were the most belligerent in the past, had to admit that the current strength of the Qing Dynasty had been greatly damaged, and the Ming Kingdom was regarded as its own vegetable garden in the past, and the words that could go in and grab a handful whenever they wanted were gone, thinking of this, the eyes of several ministers were red.

Suddenly, a person threw himself on the ground and kowtowed to Huang Taiji and said: "Your Majesty, you can't talk to the Ming Kingdom, if it is a peace talk, I will have no shame to see the emperor after I die!" Everyone raised their eyes and saw that it was Ning Wanme, who was crying and his eyes were red.

Seeing that Ning Wan and I took the lead, Fan Wencheng also knelt down, "Yes, your Majesty, Emperor Taizu was unbearable to be oppressed by the Ming State, and angrily promulgated the "Seven Hatreds", starting with thirteen pairs of armor, after more than ten years of conquest, he established this prestigious name, but now he wants to negotiate peace with the Ming State, doesn't this contribute to the prestige of the Ming State?" As soon as Fan Wencheng came out, several Hanchen behind him who had taken refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty also knelt down and begged Huang Taiji to take back his life in unison.

Looking at the few Hanchen who were crying tears and snot coming out of their eyes, Huang Taiji felt a burst of emotion in his heart, stood up and stepped forward to help Fan Wencheng up, and said with emotion: "I already know your Aiqing's thoughts, but you must also know my hardships." Now my Qing Dynasty is not as good as the previous two years, since the Ming Kingdom came out of that Pang Gang, my Qing Dynasty's situation has deteriorated, from Yanjing City to North Korea, and then to Julu, my Qing Dynasty has repeatedly lost troops. In addition, Phi Dao changed hands, and they continued to send warships from Phi Dao to harass our Liaodong border, which made our Qing army and people miserable. ”

Speaking of this, Huang Taiji's eyes were also red, and he was also aggrieved and bitter in his heart, although now the two Dolgon brothers did not dare to stab him anymore due to the great loss of strength, but what followed was a sharp shrinkage of the Qing Dynasty's troops, although the first two southern invasions brought back a lot of money and food and Han population, but they could not make up for the losses of so many elite soldiers killed in battle, and the losses suffered by these two southern invasions were enough to make every Jurchen feel distressed.

"The slave can't share the emperor's worries, it's really damned, the slave is incompetent!"

Seeing Huang Taiji crying, Fan Wencheng and others cried even more, and for a time a model of harmony between monarchs and ministers was staged in the Chongzheng Palace.

Seeing this situation, Du Du, the owner of the Red Flag Banner, was unhappy at first, although he was the hardcore of Huang Taiji, but he had always opposed Huang Taiji's reuse of Hanchen, especially for Ning Yu me and Fan Wencheng, he thought that these two people would not do anything but show off their mouths.

Now seeing a group of people in the main hall staging the harmony of the monarch and the minister made him feel even more disgusting, he couldn't help but stand up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, it's not impossible for us to make peace with the Ming Kingdom now, but the slave thinks that there is a more important thing The emperor may not have considered. ”

"Oh? Dudu, can you think of any good ideas? Huang Taiji couldn't help but be curious when he saw that Du Du, who had always only used a long knife to speak, had also begun to give advice.

"This" Du Du sneered for a while before he protested: "Your Majesty, the slave thinks that if the same Ming country makes peace, the person sent is very crucial, and the slave thinks that Master Fan Wencheng and Lord Ning Play Me must go together." ”

Du Du didn't mean anything else when he said this, he just wanted to disgust Fan Wencheng and Ning playing with me, aren't you against peace, let's send you to die, if you can't kill you, you will be disgusted to death.

"Hmm"

Huang Taiji was stunned for a while, but he was not stupid, and after a little turn of his mind, he understood Du Du's pitiful simple plan, you would rather play with me and Fan Wencheng Isn't it against making peace with the Ming Kingdom, then Lao Tzu will appoint you to go, disgusting you, if the emperor of the Ming Kingdom slaughters you, it would be better.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji's face slowly darkened, this Du Du was so bold and reckless in front of me, if I wasn't there, wouldn't these Hanchen have died without a place to be buried?

Just when Huang Taiji was about to get angry, several princes such as Dai Shan, Abatai, Azig, Zilharang and other princes Belle Ye fell to the ground and said in unison: "Your Majesty, Guangluo Belle is right, Ning Play me and Fan Wencheng are indeed the best candidates for peace. ”

"You guys" Huang Taiji's thin eyes first shot a sharp gaze, but then dimmed, he knew that this had nothing to do with anything else, it was just a pure Manchu and Han dispute. As more and more Hanchen ascended to high positions, the Manchurian people slowly felt threatened, and today they just took this opportunity to suppress those Hanchens.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji's eyes glanced at the more than a dozen Hanchen standing on the right, only to see Kong Youde and the others standing in place with their eyes and nose and nose and heart, and did not come out to intercede for Fan Wencheng and Ning to play me, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, if Kong Youde and they also jumped out to play against the Manchurians, he would be in a dilemma.

After thinking about it, Huang Taiji turned his gaze to Fan Wencheng and Ning Playing with me, and said kindly: "Two Qing families, what do you think?" ”

Fan Wencheng and Ning Yu glanced at each other, and smiled bitterly, it seems that the arm can't twist the thigh after all, and they can't change what Huang Taiji has decided.

However, Fan Wencheng is worthy of being known as one of the loyal dogs of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although he is only a showman, but his thinking is very quick, and seeing that the matter of peace is still irreversible, he came up with an idea as soon as his head turned.

"Your Majesty, since your holy will has been decided, the minions don't say much, but the minions think that the peace of the Ming Kingdom cannot extinguish the ambition of our Qing Dynasty, and we can't negotiate peace with the Ming Kingdom in vain, so we have to make demands on them."

"Make a request?" Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then said happily: "Yes, we have to ask them, and we want Daming to provide us with food, salt, iron and other things as much as possible." ”

"There is also silver, and Daming will give us three hundred every year, not five million taels of silver, otherwise we will never negotiate peace."

The crowd was excited, and many of them danced with excitement, making one after another many "reasonable" demands in their opinion, but they laughed at Huang Taiji and Dolgon, some of whom were still sober.

"Enough!" Huang Taiji shouted, and the bustling voice in the hall quieted down, and Huang Taiji immediately gestured to Fan Wencheng with a majestic gaze, and Fan Wencheng came forward and smiled bitterly after understanding: "Your Excellency, listen to the words of the lower officials, the requirements made by the right adults are completely impossible, and the Ming Kingdom will not agree to these requests." I don't know if the emperor of the country will agree, even if he agrees, the current Ming Dynasty's annual tax is only four million, where did he get the five million silver for us? Besides, if they can agree, why do we have to work so hard all these years to go south every year to plunder people and livestock? So don't even think about these things."

"Ugh"

After listening to Fan Wencheng's words, those who were dazed by the white flowers and silver came back to their senses one by one, and Du Du asked with an unkind face: "Then what should I do, is it just to make peace with the Ming Kingdom in vain?" ”

"Of course not." Fan Wencheng stroked his beard, a light shot out of his eyes, and said with a cruel smile: "Let's only put forward one condition, as long as the emperor of the Ming Kingdom agrees to kill a person, we will negotiate peace with them."

On the twenty-fifth day of September in the tenth year of Chongzhen, the Qingzhou Dingguo General's Mansion should be called the Champion Hou Mansion now.

Ma Gonggong stood in front of Pang Gang, and there were two brocade guards standing behind him, and he said to Pang Gang angrily: "Master Hou, you are giving our family a good word, when will you send troops?" ”

Sitting on a stone bench, Pang Gang, who was yawning, said impatiently: "Gonggong Ma, didn't the official say the day before yesterday, now that the official has no money and no food, do you let the soldiers go hungry to exterminate the rogue?" The emperor is not a hungry soldier, let the official suppress the bandits, and the court will not send food, but now he doesn't even give the official the right to levy grain locally, and he really treats the official as a dumbfounder? ”

Pang Gang's words were ruthless, which made Ma Gonggong blush, and he was also anxious, "Huge man, you can do it, send a soldier, it is not easy for our family to come to Qingzhou, the emperor is still waiting for your good news." ”

Now Ma Gonggong has been in the Champion Hou Mansion for almost half a month, Pang Gang eats and drinks well every day, and everyone eats fat for a while, but the thing has not been done at all, Pang Gang has been playing Tai Chi with him all day long, and has always refused to send troops.

Ma Gonggong is also anxious, the benefits have been given to you, but after you received the benefits, you didn't move, what do you mean?

Seeing that Ma Gonggong's eyes were red in a hurry, Pang Gang smiled and said: "Ma Gonggong, Pang is a rough man and doesn't like to play false, it is true that the emperor is adding officials to this official, but Pang Mou has not seen anything except for the title of champion Hou and hussar general, is it possible that the emperor thinks that this official can exterminate the rogue with empty hands?" Where does the food and grass come from? Where does the money come from? Don't you want money to send troops? These emperors didn't give it, could it be that the emperor thought that this official was a monkey, and he could conjure up a heavenly soldier and a heavenly future by pulling out his cold hair and blowing a breath? ”

Pang Gang's words were very polite, and he directly put the question on the table, his meaning was very clear, the emperor only gave me an empty title, but there was no real benefit at all, why should I work for him?

Listening to Pang Gang's words, Ma Gonggong was so shocked that he couldn't speak, for so many years, he had never seen anyone dare to say such a big rebellious thing. In his opinion, the emperor has given you so much glory, even if you give your net worth and surname, you will not hesitate to do so, how can you put forward conditions with the emperor? This is disobedience!

In a hurry, Ma Gonggong pointed at Pang Gang and shouted: "You are bold!" ”

"Hehe" Pang Gang sneered: "Gonggong Ma, this official is indeed very bold, you haven't heard of it, now this official will tell you clearly, if you want this official to send troops, don't fool this official with those false things, this official is not as stupid and loyal as Lu Dudu." ”

"You said Lu Xiangsheng is a fool!" Ma Gonggong couldn't say anything anymore, if what Pang Gang said just now was disobedience, then it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a big rebellion.

Okay, that's it, Ma Gonggong thinks about it himself, this official is also here today, if you want this official to send troops, then take the position of governor of the three provinces!

After speaking, Pang Gang flicked his sleeves and turned around and walked back, leaving only the stunned Ma Gonggong in a daze

"Father-in-law, father-in-law" The two brocade guards standing behind Father-in-law Ma couldn't help but scream softly when they saw Father-in-law Ma standing like a dead chicken.

After a long time, Gonggong Ma's dull eyes regained a trace of clarity, and he sighed lightly before he said bitterly: "Okay, let's hurry up and write a letter, tell the emperor about the situation here, and ask the emperor to come up and decide!" ”

Pang Gang, who returned to the inner courtyard, did not enter the house, but sat in the inner courtyard and thought about things carefully.

I don't know how long it took, the above soft Rouyi gently rested on his broad shoulders, and as soon as Pang Gang looked up, he found that a delicate and pretty face was looking at him with concern less than a foot away from him.

Pang Gang smiled gently, pulled the beauty of Rouyi and then let her sit on his lap, his right hand gently stroked the beauty's slightly bulging lower abdomen, the beauty reached out and hooked Pang Gang's neck before asking softly: "Husband, what are you thinking about when you look at you, concubine?" ”

After seeing the beauty, Pang Gang breathed a long sigh of relief, and gently kissed her delicate face before saying, "Manyao, Gonggong Ma came to urge me to send troops again, but I refused again." I'm thinking, for my own selfishness, but watching millions of people in Hubei fall into the scourge of war, my heart is not a good feeling, Manyao, do you think I am very selfish. ”

Wei Manyao smiled softly, hugged her husband's hands tighter, she put her pretty face on her husband's forehead, and said softly: "Husband, the concubine is very determined and persevering in your decision to kill, why did you take the posture of a little daughter today?" Although there is a war in Hubei, but there is a governor of Hubei and a general army of Hubei to be responsible, the emperor gave you an empty title and wanted you to sell your life, he inevitably thought we were too simple. ”

In the end, the disdain on Wei Manyao's face was undoubted, "Husband, have you ever thought about it, if you send troops to Hunan again this time to suppress the Kou, don't even think about it without an army of more than 20,000, plus grain, grass, baggage and other things, even if we can pacify Hubei, we will be dragged down by this war, and then the emperor in the Forbidden City will have all kinds of reasons to insert his hand into Shandong." ”

Pang Gang smiled bitterly, "That's for sure, now I'm not much better than demons and monsters in his eyes, right?" ”

When Ma Gonggong's letter was sent to Chongzhen by 800 miles of urgency, it was already four days later, at that time, Chongzhen was accompanying Queen Zhou to lunch, when Wang Chengen hurriedly came in with this letter to report, Chongzhen also smiled: "It seems that it is Ma Mian's slave who has brought me good news." ”

But when Chongzhen finished reading it, Chongzhen's face, who had finally had a smile, instantly turned blue.

"This Pang Gang is really disobedient! Bossy! Damn it! I conferred on him the title, rewarded him with the seal of the general of the conquest, and let him arbitrarily suppress bandits in the three provinces, but what about him, is this how he repaid me? What no money, no food, no grass, soldiers are tired and tired to fight again, these are all excuses, all excuses! I have made him a marquis, but he is still not satisfied, he actually wants to be the governor of the three provinces, he is dreaming of him! ”

Chongzhen's voice floated in Kunning Palace, frightening the dozens of eunuchs and palace maids around him all kneeling on the ground and trembling.

At this moment, only Queen Zhou dared to comfort the emperor, Queen Zhou looked at her husband, who was already a little gray in her sideburns, stepped forward and said distressedly: "Your Majesty, don't be too angry, since Pang Gang doesn't know how to lift, let's find another way to deal with him, if you are angry at this time, you can't do it." ”

For the "clever plan" that Chongzhen came up with a few days ago, Queen Zhou knew that it was nothing more than to use some false positions to entrap Pang Gang, and let him go to Hubei to exterminate Li Zicheng's gang of thieves for himself, but people were not fooled, and the title was accepted, but the soldiers were not sent, and they also found many high-sounding excuses not to raise troops, and saw that their husbands were angry.

Just when Empress Zhou was at a loss, Wang Chengen's voice sounded outside the door again: "Your Majesty, Yang Ge Lao asks to see you." ”

Chongzhen was angry and silent, and Queen Zhou had no choice but to say softly: "Hurry up!" ”

"The slave obeys."

After a while, a slight sound of footsteps sounded at the door, and then a loud voice rang out.

"Minister Yang Sichang knocks to see Your Majesty, may my emperor live long live!"

"Get up, don't play with these nonsense." Chongzhen waved his hand impatiently to get Yang Sichang up.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Yang Sichang stood up straight, took out a letter from his sleeve, raised it above his head and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, someone from outside the gate sent someone to send you a letter, please Your Majesty to read it!" ”

"Oh, the letter from over there?" Although Chongzhen was in a very bad mood at this time, his face still showed surprise, and he took the letter casually.

Of course, Chongzhen knew who Yang Sichang was referring to, and the only person who could be qualified to write a letter directly to Chongzhen outside the customs was Huang Taiji of the Manchu Dynasty.

Chongzhen took out the letter paper and opened it slowly, and the beginning of the letter was written in Chinese: Emperor Aixin Jueluo of the Qing Dynasty. His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I am a neighbor of the Ming Dynasty, and the two countries have fought no less than dozens of times, although my Qing Dynasty has repeatedly defeated the Ming army, but my Qing Dynasty has always been lenient, and there is no persecution of the Ming State after each time I have the upper hand. I have tried to reconcile with the Ming State several times, but my good intentions of the Qing Dynasty are regarded as weak and bullied by some people, some time ago, the Ming State Shandong General Army Pang Gang invaded the hinterland of my Qing Dynasty and slaughtered more than 20,000 people of my Qing Dynasty, the people are innocent, they have been persecuted by this kind of persecution, it is unbearable, for this reason I am full of righteous indignation, and now I give the Ming Kingdom a chance, if the Ming Kingdom can put this fang to death or hand it over to my Qing Dynasty to dispose of, I promise that from now on the Qing Dynasty will always be a brotherly state in the Ming Kingdom

After Chongzhen read this letter from Huang Taiji, the expression on his face kept changing, obviously in a very complicated mood

(To be continued)