Chapter 26: Incompetent Civil Officials
The second news is that Wu Sangui resolutely surrendered to Jiannu Dolgon on the grounds that Li Zicheng abused his father and plundered his concubine!
This is something Zhu Youzhen did not expect.
He thought that he would take Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang and his concubine Chen Yuanyuan so that he could prevent Liu Zongmin, a general under Li Zicheng, from abusing his family.
It also prevented Wu Sangui from surrendering to Jiannu, and gave Jiannu an opportunity to invade the Central Plains.
However, what Zhu Youzhen didn't expect was that even if he, the emperor, was not too burdensome, he took Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang and his concubine Chen Yuanyuan to retreat south.
Even though he, the emperor, had already crowned him Wu Sangui as Ping Xibo, and repeatedly ordered him not to surrender to Jiannu.
Even, Zhu Youzhen has already said that he can accept him, Wu Sangui surrendered to Li Zicheng.
But Wu Sangui still surrendered to Jiannu!
still chose to be a traitor!
Zhu Youzhen said that he did not understand this.
But after thinking about it, I feel that it is reasonable.
Wu Sangui is a powerful man in the world, so it is naturally impossible for him to choose to surrender to Jiannu because his father and concubine were executed, and the fundamental reason why he surrendered to Jiannu is because Jiannu Dolgon gave him greater benefits.
If Zhu Youzhen expected it to be true, Wu Sangui was already the king of Pingxi in Jiannu at this time.
And Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin and other thieves just took a blame very wrongly.
Wu Sangui wanted to lure the Qing troops into the customs, but refused Li Zicheng's surrender, and could only use Li Zicheng's destruction of his family as a reason to gain the support of the gentry group who were also killed by Li Zicheng.
Although Wu Sangui knew that his father Wu Xiang and his concubine Chen Yuanyuan were not in the hands of Li Zicheng, but in the hands of himself, the Ming Emperor.
But Wu Sangui still had to use this as an excuse.
Wu Sangui can't use himself as an excuse as an emperor, after all, he was his king before, if Wu Sangui directly rebelled on the grounds that he robbed his concubine, he would be scolded by the whole world, saying that he betrayed the lord and abandoned the king.
And now he insists that it is Li Zicheng who harmed his family, and he wants to lead the Qing soldiers into the customs as his father's blood feud and eliminate the thieves for the emperor.
Zhu Youzhen can't do anything about this.
From beginning to end, Wu Sangui was using himself, the emperor, to cover up his own shamelessness.
And he, the emperor, can't control this Shanhaiguan chief military officer.
This made Zhu Youzhen feel very aggrieved.
Of course, Li Zicheng is more wronged than Zhu Youzhen.
From beginning to end, Li Zi did not let Liu Zongmin touch the Wu family, and the Wu family's family had been taken away by himself, the emperor.
But he, Wu Sangui, beat him up, saying that Li Zicheng had harmed his family.
But the gentry who were not shallow enough to be harmed by Li Zicheng believed it.
Zhu Youzhen didn't mind that he Wu Sangui was playing with Li Zicheng like this, but he was very angry that Wu Sangui was actually under the banner of the Savior King Qin.
"Your Majesty, Ping Xibo has now led the Jiannu Eight Banners into the King of Guanqin, saying that he wants to get rid of the thieves, recapture the national capital, and save Your Majesty!"
In the middle of the matter, Wu Aoning handed the report to Zhu Youzhen with joy on his face.
It can be seen that this is good news, otherwise his face would not be full of joy.
Not only Wu Aoning was delighted, but even Li Banghua, who was the secretary of the military department, said happily: "Your Majesty, Pingxibo Wu Sangui led Jiannu into the customs, which is undoubtedly a great help to my Ming Dynasty, and when the time comes, I am only afraid that Li Zicheng's disciples will compete with Wu Sangui and others, and have no time to take care of us, it is undoubtedly a good thing, Your Majesty can encourage this Pingxibo and Jiannu regent Dolgon to say a few words, and agree to fight traitors together!" ”
Other ministers who accompanied Li Banghua, the secretary of the military department, also hurriedly chimed in.
These officials are all from the gentry class, and they are not interested in Li Zicheng, not to mention that Li Zicheng also wantonly tortured the money of the gentry, and even the property left in the capital with them was looted, so these officials danced happily when they heard that Wu Sangui and the Jiannu Eight Banners entered the customs to assist the Ming Dynasty in attacking Li Zi.
Some officials even suggested that there was no need to go south, as long as Ping Xibo and Jiannu Eight Banners destroyed Li Zicheng's army, maybe His Majesty would be able to return to Beijing in advance.
"What a good thing! It's called luring a wolf into the house! Not only can we not stop moving south, but we must speed up the retreat to the south! ”
Zhu Youzhen immediately denied the illusions of Li Banghua and a large number of other civil officials.
"Since ancient times, it is not my race, and its heart will be different, and Dorgon, the regent of Jiannu, has always had the ambition to win the world! Li Ziwei is a thief, even if there is something wrong, he is also my Chinese descendant, even if the country changes color, my Han people are still the masters of this world; But let Wu Sangui let Jiannu enter the customs, so that the regent Dolgon can have a chance to seize the world, if Shenzhou Lu sinks in the future, and the world is occupied by the Hu people, how can we Han people survive, the training of the Southern Song Dynasty is not far away, and you still want to be a fourth-class people? ”
Zhu Youzhen's questioning made all the officials fall silent.
As the saying goes, the butt determines the head, as they were born in the gentry class, these officials naturally have a deep hatred for Li Zicheng, and when they heard that Wu Sangui led Jiannu into the customs to eliminate Li Zicheng, they took it for granted that this was a good thing, at least they could get rid of Li Zicheng, who had harmed his family wealth.
People always think in an optimistic direction, and these officials are no exception, and the limitations of class have caused them to fall into a kind of narrow-mindedness.
And Zhu Youzhen's words were undoubtedly a scorching thunder, which exploded in their ears and made them deaf.
"Your Majesty is right, since ancient times, the Han and the thieves are not separated, when the time comes, Li Zicheng is in addition, but the introduction of Jiannu, a more ferocious thief, you must also know the essence of the Jiannu Eight Banners, before there was still Shanhaiguan blocking, Jiannu Eight Banners can not be one step closer to the Central Plains, and now Wu Sangui, that big man 0 traitor, actually surrendered to Jiannu, and brought Jiannu into the customs, doesn't this put me in a more dangerous situation of facing both the thief and the Jiannu Eight Banners!"
Zuo Zhongyun Li Mingrui stood up and was the first to choose to support Zhu Youzhen's point of view.
Li Banghua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, also came back to his senses at this time, and suddenly realized that this was indeed a very dangerous signal, and he knelt down directly in a panic: "Weichen is stupid and guilty, almost harmed Your Majesty, and harmed my Daming Jiangshan Sheji, now that Jiannu has entered the customs, please go south quickly!" Don't stop any further! ”
Zhou Yuji and other officials also knelt down busily: "Please Your Majesty go south quickly!" ”
Zhu Youzhen felt very disappointed, among the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, few of them had strategic thinking, and they all listened to the wind and rain, and began to hear that Wu Sangui was happy when he led the Eight Banners into the pass to attack the army, but now when he heard himself say this, he was all panicked.
Zhu Youzhen really didn't know if he could take this group of pig teammates to make Daming rise again.
Fortunately, there are still a few people in the DPRK who understand, at least they are not stupid, and they can understand a little.
There is no general in the country, so Li Banghua can only be the secretary of the military department.
"It's right to speed up the retreat to the south, but can't you be calm? Now that Wu Sangui and Jiannu have just entered the customs, they are still fighting fiercely with Li Zicheng, so they are so panicked, and they don't want to think about it, there is still a Liu Zeqing who listens to the tune and does not listen to the announcement in the Shandong territory that is about to enter, in case this person comes to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes, where will you be! ”
As soon as Zhu Youzhen asked, the minister realized that he was indeed impulsive this time, and he didn't think further.
Li Banghua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was even more ashamed and prostrate on the ground: "The ministers are incompetent!" ”
"The subordinates are incompetent!" Other officials also chimed in, and now they really have to admit that they are incompetent, and they have withdrawn all the way south from the capital to here, except for the value of the sacrifice of the dead officials and people in Tongzhou and the reorganization work, most of the civil officials have not made the slightest contribution.