Chapter 242: Blackmail at both ends

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No matter what time it is, it is all fists talking, An **, who won the war, is in the sky, and the Dashun army that has failed miserably is miserable, and even Niu Jinxing, the great prime minister, has lost his former demeanor, bowed his head, and walked into the hall very obediently.

After entering, Niu Jinxing peeked and saw a tall and strong young man sitting on the main seat, even if he was sitting, he was not much shorter than ordinary people standing. The whole body is shrouded in a cloud of evil energy, sitting there, not angry and arrogant, just this momentum, I don't know how many times stronger than Li Zicheng, who has already been called the emperor!

Just by taking a look, Niu Jinxing hurriedly lowered his head. Gu Zhenhua was also looking at Niu Jinxing, this guy looked like he was forty or fifty years old, with two small black beards, his forehead and chin were very narrow, his mouth was very thin, and he had a hooked nose. Judging from his face, this guy is a scathing, sinister and cunning person, and it is no wonder that Li Yan will die at his hands.

Gu Zhenhua smiled slightly: "Prime Minister Niu, I don't know if you came from afar, what's the matter?" ”

"Qi Ji Guogong, I came here with the will of the saint to congratulate An ** on his victory in Qinyang and killed countless Tartars. This is an unprecedented blow to the Tartars since they entered the customs, which is really happy and exciting! ”

"Hahaha, one or two victories are nothing, there is still a long way to go to resist the Qing Dynasty, and if you want to recapture the old capital, you still need soldiers to fight bloodily."

"Grandpa Guo is right! I also see it this way, you also know that at present, the Dashun army has been newly defeated, and its strength has suffered a little loss, and I also ask the Duke of Ji to read on the friendship of the alliance and provide some help, so that we can work together to fight against the strong enemy. ”

I want something!

Gu Zhenhua smiled slightly: "Prime Minister Niu, just say what you need, I will do my best." ”

"Happy, thank you for your generosity!"

Niu Jinxing bowed to the ground, and then said, "Grandpa Guo." The Dashun army has now retreated to Xi'an Mansion, and there are still 200,000 soldiers with armor, but they lack food and clothing, and the weather is cold, so they can't fight, so they need 1 million quintals of food and 100,000 cotton clothes. The rest of the swords, guns, swords, halberds, and weapons of all kinds were 50,000 pieces, 100,000 catties of gunpowder, and 1,000,000 taels of gold and silver......"

Niu Jinxing said unashamedly, and Gu Zhenhua waved his hand impatiently.

"Prime Minister Niu, are you the warehouse of the Dashun Army? What do you want? We have just experienced a big war, and the soldiers need to be compensated. The damaged city must be restored, and the Tartars must be prevented from counterattacking. If we talk about 10,000 or 20,000 quintals of grain, we have discussed, but one mouth is 1 million quintals, and there is no negotiation! ”

Niu Jinxing saw Gu Zhenhua's anger, and hurriedly said: "Ji Guogong, as the saying goes, the sky is full of asking for money to pay back on the spot. An ** can win the Tartars, but also rely on our bloody battle in northern Shaanxi, it is the soldiers with their lives piled up, if you don't save you when you see death, I'm afraid that it will damage morality! ”

Gu Zhenhua sneered slightly, stood up, walked around the ground twice, and suddenly smiled: "Prime Minister Niu." I will give you a maximum of 100,000 loads of grain and 300,000 taels of silver. As for the other weapons and the like, we have seized a lot from the Tartars, and we can give them to you! ”

"This!" One hundred thousand taels is obviously much lower than Niu Jinxing's expectations, but this can't be too bad to eat, and he gritted his teeth and admitted it!

"Grandpa Guo, thank you first."

"Slow!" Gu Zhenhua smiled: "Prime Minister Niu." You can't give things for nothing, you also have to show a little sincerity, right? ”

"Take out what?"

Gu Zhenhua said: "You just said that the Dashun army still has 200,000 armor, don't talk about this kind of deception, there can be 20,000 elite soldiers in it to lift you." ”

Niu Jinxing suddenly looked embarrassed. What Gu Zhenhua said was not wrong at all, in fact, they didn't even have 20,000 people. This time, the Dashun army was defeated and retreated to northern Shaanxi, and the losses were quite heavy, and the generals Zhang Nai, Liu Tichun surrendered with their headquarters. Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi were both seriously injured, and their subordinates were completely lost. At present, only Li Guo and Gao Yigong are still fighting in Li Zicheng's hands.

Of course, this kind of truth Niu Jinxing can't say, he patted his chest and said: "Ji Guogong, although the Dashun army has suffered losses, there are still 50,000 elite soldiers!" ”

"Hahaha, I don't care if you have tens of thousands, Benjue only asks you to send 100,000 people over. If you exchange one load of food for one person, you will not suffer a loss! ”

Don't you suffer a loss?

Niu Jinxing suddenly widened his eyes, those people who followed the Dashun army to fight in the south and the north, even if they couldn't fight, but they were all healthy, of course, the unhealthy ones would have starved to death.

Take a load of grain for a person, and you can say it! People are cheaper than pigs!

"By the way, Prime Minister Niu Cheng, I would like to ask King Chuang to give an order to let Bai Wang's department, which is stationed between Huguang and Henan, accept the unified reorganization of An**!"

"What?" Niu Venus jumped completely, this request is too much!

"Ji Guogong, our two families are allies, when the Dashun Army was strong, I didn't think about annexing you, but now you want to annex the Dashun Army, it's too moral, what will the people of the world say? You are about to go to more than half of the Dashun army with one mouth, do you want to annex all the Dashun army in the next step, this kind of unreasonable request, I don't dare to agree! ”

Gu Zhenhua remained silent and said: "Benjue is not asking for personnel, it is not for the purpose of being in the army, to be honest, a group of rabble, given to Benjue, it is useless." Benjue wants to organize them into the Tuntian Grange, so that they can have a piece of land and be able to settle down, and the burden of your Dashun army will be lightened. The Tartars are not the Great Ming, they will raise the butcher's knife mercilessly. ”

"Gong Ji, since you are thinking about us, then you might as well allow 100,000 people to eat Henan, and we will send people to manage it. As for the income from Tuntian, isn't it better for everyone to share it equally? ”

At this time, Li Jibo and Xia Shouli rushed over, and they were about to report to Gu Zhenhua about the consumption of military supplies, and by the way, they urged Gu Zhenhua to ask for more things in Nanjing.

happened to bump into Niu Jinxing, and when he heard Lao Niu's request, Xia Shouli jumped out at once.

"What do you mean by eating Henan, treating us as Tang monk meat, do you want to take a bite? Just by virtue of your military discipline, when you arrive in Henan, it will be a group of bandits, and how many ordinary people will suffer, I firmly oppose it! ”

In front of Gu Zhenhua, Niu Jinxing didn't dare to be angry, but in front of the people below, he didn't care.

"Hmph, dare to say that the Dashun army is a bandit, we will be bandits, if An ** doesn't give things, and the living can't let the urine suffocate to death, we will take refuge in the Tartars and hand over Shaanxi to them!"

"You dare!" Xia Shouli's eyes widened: "You say this to the people, see if you can get out of Ji County alive?" ”

Li Jibo also sneered: "Niu Jinxing, you can't threaten us with this trick, what can you do if you surrender the Tartars, Li Zicheng is the one who claims to be the emperor." Since ancient times, you know better than me what the emperor will do if he surrenders. It's like Empress Li is so honest, and he has been killed, let alone Li Zicheng? You will definitely die, only by cooperating with An**, can you have a glimmer of life, where to go, no need to say more about the old man, you can decide for yourself! ”

Niu Jinxing was completely forced into a corner now, not left and right, and his head was already sweating.

Gu Zhenhua smiled slightly: "Prime Minister Niu Cheng, Benjue doesn't have a lot of money, if it drags on any longer, I'm afraid I won't even be able to take out 100,000 quintals!" ”

Niu Jinxing gritted his teeth, "Ji Guogong, go to report to the saint on the next horse, whether you agree or not, let me talk later." ”

Seeing Niu Jinxing leaving, Xia Shouli smiled and said: "Grandpa Guo, you are ruthless enough, you asked for half of the Dashun Army at once, and I don't know if Li Zicheng can agree." If he agrees, I think that all 100,000 people should be put in Nanyang, reclaim the land, send them to the factory to work, and in a year or two, Nanyang will be able to prosper! ”

Li Jibo shook his head: "It's good to have people, the old man estimates that there is nothing to extort in the Dashun Army at the moment except for people." But when these people come in, until next year's summer harvest, they need at least 200,000 quintals of grain, and they have to give Li Zicheng 100,000 quintals, which is 300,000 quintals, can we afford it? ”

"Man is iron, rice is steel. You can't play anything without food! Gu Zhenhua also sighed.

"I think that if we want to solve the food problem, we have to start from Nanjing, let Ma Shiying and them spit out a little more, Jiangnan is rich, and it is still no problem to lele the belt of trousers."

Of course, what Gu Zhenhua said was right, there was a war in front, and material support should be provided in the back, but the problem was that Nanjing's fear of An ** was getting deeper and deeper.

The news of this victory has not yet passed, if they know that An ** has won another big victory, and if they don't play the trick of twelve gold medals, they will not make An ** feel better.

"Grandpa Guo, it must not be easy to ask for something from Nanjing, and it is too easy to just prevaricate and drag it out for a few months, I think it is far away and does not quench your thirst!" Li Jibo is obviously not optimistic.

But Xia Shouli on the side said: "Grandpa Guo, you have the great merit of protecting the sky, and with the situation of winning the Tartars, you simply take the army directly into Beijing, and the Qing monarch is on the side, following the example of Zhu Di, the king of Yan back then, so that you have what you want!" ”

"No!" Li Jibo hurriedly shook his head: "You must not do this, Zhu Di only went south after he had a stable rear, and now Henan is unstable, and Grandpa Guo can't leave for a while." In addition, Zhu Di is a royal family, and people in the world only regard the Battle of Jingjing as an internal struggle in the Zhu family. But Grandpa Guo went south, what is this, isn't it a plot to usurp the throne? ”

Gu Zhenhua suddenly laughed loudly: "Two gentlemen, things are not so troublesome, we can use grain to blackmail Li Zicheng, and in the same way, we can also use the Dashun Army to blackmail Nanjing. ”

Li Jibo's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said with a smile: "Grandpa Guo, do you have any clever plans?" ”

"Think about it, if there are tens of thousands of heroes who resisted the Qing Dynasty, there is no food, and the Nanjing court does not give food, what will the people of the world think? Can Ma Shiying withstand the negotiation? ”