The matter of the Southern Expedition was quickly decided, although Niu Jinxing was counting on the Southern Expedition with generals like Wang Qinian, Ji Xinghui, Zhou Xuzu, Jiang Zhu, Tang Tong, and Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng still trusted Xu Ping and Li Dingguo very much, and insisted that they be responsible for presiding over the Southern Expedition.

Another problem that led to Niu Jinxing's lack of confidence was the financial problem, the limited recovery activities and the continued exemption policy made Dashun's treasury not rich, Niu Jinxing's ambitious army expansion plan ended without a hitch, he could not expand the surrendered new army and other armies as planned to the point of Xu Ping's lineage - now not only can not continue to enrich but should be appropriately reduced, and there is not enough silver to reward the surrendered army to let them go south. Even if the generals want to make meritorious contributions, there is always a need for rewards for the soldiers to willingly leave their homeland and embark on the journey.

Li Zicheng knew that he could not restrain the robbery of the soldiers without giving enough rewards and salaries, and King Shun, who had already regarded the world as his own, could not tolerate this kind of thing, so he could only send the most obedient old troops to carry out the southern expedition.

In fact, Li Zicheng's attitude towards the surrender of generals is still a little dissatisfied, for example, although Wu Sangui decided to surrender, but on the issue of military salaries with the Dashun court, King Shun cut the military salary of the Guanning army by seventy percent, which made Wu Sangui and his senior brother very dissatisfied, and moved out of the previous set against Chongzhen, saying that the threat outside the gate was too great, and such a cut of military expenses was very harmful to the Dashun regime.

However, King Shun's confidence is much stronger than that of Emperor Chongzhen, although Chongzhen nominally has hundreds of thousands of Beijing troops, Hebei troops and Janissary Guards, King Shun only has tens of thousands, but Li Zicheng's tens of thousands are obedient and loyal, so Li Zicheng is not as worried about the Beiyu as Chongzhen, as long as the border army can stick to the border fortress like Chongzhen period, if the Beiyu army still dares to go deep into the interior regardless of logistics, they will no longer be like before into the land of no one, but will be attacked by the Shun army who dares to fight.

Dashun did not intend to immediately counterattack the attack, since Li Zicheng must not break his promise, Niu Jinxing thought that in the past three years, he would first endure and concentrate on guarding various passes, and then expand the army to crusade against Guanwai after the tax was restored.

"Chongzhen is so poor that he only wears cloth clothes, but the widow heard that Wu Xiang's family has more than 3 million taels of silver, and their father and son are handsome, and they don't know how much military salary they have embezzled over the years." Li Zicheng's dissatisfaction with the Wu family's father and son has other aspects, this time the army went east, Emperor Chongzhen asked Wu Xiang if he could send Wu Sangui to reinforce the Beijing division, Wu Xiang opened his mouth to need a million taels, and blocked Emperor Chongzhen back. Now that Chongzhen is martyred, Wu Sangui is also on the table, his father has eaten the military salary of the Ming Dynasty for a lifetime, and has accumulated countless family wealth, and now his son uses these private troops who rely on the military salary of the Ming Dynasty as the capital to eat Dashun, which makes Li Zicheng feel very unhappy.

"Your Majesty should think like this," Niu Jinxing persuaded: "If it weren't for the former Ming border marshal, all of whom harmed the public and private interests like Jiang Pai and the Wu family's father and son, then the Ming court would have hundreds of thousands of more troops to encircle and suppress us; Now Dashun will not send these hundreds of thousands of border troops to guard the Great Wall out of thin air. Although they are sinners of the Ming Court, they are the heroes of Dashun, they helped Your Majesty weaken the Ming Court, and also helped Your Majesty raise a useful border army, how can Your Majesty blame them? ”

"Having said that, the widow is still not happy." Although Xu Ping has a saying about orange oranges, but Li Zicheng is not pleasing to the eyes of these Ming court civil and military who betray the lord and seek glory, and he also had the idea of raiding the Wu family at the beginning, if it weren't for Xu Ping and Sun Kewang to help, Niu Jinxing almost couldn't stop him.

Liu Zongmin has always shouted for Li Zicheng's recklessness, and he always dismisses Niu Jinxing, Xu Ping and Sun Kewang's caution: "In fact, what if you copy the Wu family according to what the king said?" Could it be that Wu Sangui still dares to rebel, if he really has the courage, we just crusade against him, kill chickens and monkeys, and let other people who are bent on rebellion see the end of the rebellion! ”

"Where are the people who are trying to make trouble?" Niu Jinxing didn't think that Liu Zongmin really thought so, he felt that he was just watching the Wu family's father and son bend the law like this, and he was unhappy that he could end up well, and felt that this kind of thing that could be reused by the new dynasty after selling the previous dynasty was unreasonable, and he just wanted to find fault and accept people: "If they want to make a rebellion, they won't help Emperor Ming resist, and now if there is a sudden rebellion, it must be forced out by us mishandled." General Liu should not be reckless, where is the reason to let the king avenge Emperor Ming? If other people see that the king suddenly fights for the Ming Emperor, the first will feel that the king is confused, and the second will resist with all their might, which is not a good thing for the king's great cause. ”

"If we resist and destroy them, are we still afraid of them?" Liu Zongmin shouted dissatisfied.

"Why do you have to shout and kill when you can fight without bloodshed?" Niu Jinxing felt that martial artists were easy to be impulsive, and they didn't understand the truth of "if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan". Fortunately, Xu Ping and Sun Kewang have always supported themselves on this issue, and Li Dingguo, who is the only one who looks forward to the horse, also has a strong call from the military to adopt flexible political skills, so that Li Zicheng was not pulled over by his old brother.

"If you want to settle Jiangnan, one is in Lianghuai and the other is in Huguang," Xu Ping did Niu Jinxing a favor again, and brought the topic to the issue of the southern expedition: "The last general thought that the army should be divided into two routes, one along the canal and straight to Nanjing, and the other way out of Xiangyang, to collect Wuhan, and then Jiangxi. ”

After the Shun army withdrew from Jiangxi and turned to Shaanxi, Zuo Liangyu led his troops back to Huguang, and the remaining troops of the Shun army, which had few major generals, could only hold on to Xiangyang and were unable to expel the surrounding Chu army.

Xu Ping said a well-known truth, and everyone had no objection to this, and Gao Yigong, who was far away in Yunnan, had been running Yunnan for more than a year, and had also accumulated some materials, planning to go north again and return to Sichuan, recruit displaced people to restore Sichuan's agricultural production, and become one with the Shunjun ruling area in Shaanxi.

"To take the credit of Nanjing, the last general will not compete with the general." The last time Li Dingguo fought in Huguang, he had a better understanding of the geography there, and he also had considerable experience, so he recommended himself: "The last general is willing to take the Sanxi Battalion to the south and collect Huguang and Jiangxi for the king." ”

Sun Kewang also meant this, he felt that the hope of the two brothers to break the earth and seal the king was based on this southern expedition, and the opportunity to seal the king of Huguang, Jiangxi and even Liangguang was much greater than the chance of building a feudal domain in Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The military meeting soon set the tone, Li Zicheng still personally guarded Beijing, selected officials to control the place, and Xu Ping led more than 10,000 people from the three battalions of guards, armor, and avant-garde to the south along the canal, attacking the Jiangbei Army and then crossing the river to attack Nanjing, waiting for an opportunity to attack Zhejiang and Fujian; Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo took less than 20,000 soldiers and horses from the Sanxi Battalion to reinforce Xiangyang and stay behind, preparing to seize Huguang and Jiangxi, and decide whether to attack Liangguang according to the situation.

Xu Ping was a little surprised that Li Zicheng still let himself be in charge of attacking Nanjing, he thought that King Shun would not give him another chance to make great contributions, but Niu Jinxing at the military meeting was blocked by Li Zicheng as soon as he wanted to oppose it.

After returning home, a guard ran to Xu Ping to report the good news: "My lord, your uncle has been found. ”

"My uncle?" Xu Ping was surprised: "Where is his old man's family?" ”

The Jinan Prefecture, which had just surrendered to Dashun, reported that an old man who had been begging for food on the streets of Jinan for several years claimed to be Xu Ping's long-lost uncle, who claimed to have left Beijing to seek his nephew in Shandong after Xu Ping became a prisoner and was wanted by the Ming court. In the past three years, he has been incognito, unable to continue to act, can only live in Jinan to ask for food, after learning that the Shun army broke through Beijing, Jinan surrendered, the old man hurried to the yamen to beat the drum and voice the grievances, the prefect did not dare to slack off, personally ascended to the court trial. The old man's account of the past few years is all verified. The prefect, who would rather believe that he had a strange commodity and a habitable mentality, walked down from the court at that time, personally helped the old man with disabled legs up, and said, "The lower official meets the old uncle." At the same time as ordering the good news to the Beijing division, on the one hand, he invited a famous doctor to see the old man, and on the other hand, he urgently ordered to prepare a large car to warm the sedan chair and send the old man to Beijing to meet with the hot general's legion.

Seeing the pie falling from the sky, the prefect who saw that he had picked up a great achievement in vain was overjoyed, but after retreating, he pondered it carefully, and the prefect suddenly found out that something was wrong. What kind of heroic figure is he when he is a general, and he actually follows him to call his uncle, isn't he going to be scolded shamelessly by the world? Besides, when this matter reaches the ears of the general, it will most likely make him very unhappy, and he is a small prefect, but he is shameless to the point of calling the general and his old man brothers, which is also too ignorant, and he is unfortunately a few years older than the general and his old man's parents, isn't this a sense of being arrogant in front of the general?

That night, the Jinan prefect of Dashun knelt outside the door of the old man's house, desperately worshiped the old man as his grandfather, and began to give the old man a grandson gift, and also let the young son change his surname to the old man who was still asking for food on the street in the morning as his great-grandson.

A few days later, the prefect personally sent the old man out of Jinan City, and the carriage had been driven away for a long time, and the prefect still knelt on the ground and did not get up, looking like a filial son and grandson. Yuan Bao, a disciple of Shandong Daxia, followed behind the soldiers of the Dashun official mansion, escorting a long convoy, which was a rare treasure given to the old man by the local gentry in Shandong in the past few days, as well as countless servants, maids, cooks and gardeners.

"Grandfather, have a safe journey" The prefect of Jinan in Dashun shouted emotionally towards the distant car, and before leaving, he reminded him many times, so that the old man must not forget to ask the general cousin of the Beijing division on behalf of his grandson.

"If this is true," after returning to his back house, the prefect touched his long white beard and said proudly: "Uncle is a general of the dynasty, and when he thinks of his grandfather's nurturing grace, he will definitely bring me as a nephew." Moreover, the youngest son had changed his surname and become the only heir of his grandfather and his old man, and the prefect felt that the general's cousin would be grateful for his sacrifice.

"But what if that old begging for food is a liar?" The prefect's wife was still a little worried, feeling that her husband would inevitably recognize his ancestors too quickly, and once he recognized his grandfather, he would find out that he was a liar and could not repent. China's most important filial piety, in the Ming Dynasty, because of self-defense, even if the father was crazy, he was tortured and did not run. Even if the one who asks for food is a liar, once the identity of the ancestor and grandson is decided, the prefect will have to be filial for the rest of his life.

"How could the general spare the old thief and kill him with a knife, and I would be fine?" The prefect was confident, and said with a smile, when the time comes, it will be the general who killed his righteous grandfather, not that he himself does not admit it, of course, the so-called filial piety is not damaged. And the righteous grandfather violated the law of the country, pretended to be a nobleman, and reaped the consequences of his own actions, he himself understood the righteousness and did not harm the public for personal revenge, which can naturally be justified.

"But the master will still become the laughing stock of Shilin." The lady was still uneasy, and recognized a liar who asked for food as a godfather, and it was a godfather: "If there is anything wrong with this, confess it...... Confessing to his grandfather, "Even in his own home, there is no outsider in front of him except her husband, and the prefect's wife is still ashamed to say: "Don't say that this is an official of the imperial court, even if the people in the market say it, they will lose their dead, right?" ”

"How did this become a laughing stock for Shilin? And what is it that is? The prefect felt that his wife was so stupid that he was a little surprised: "Yes, if it was a small person in the market, of course people would be laughed to death, but I am not!" I am the court official of Dashun! Even if it's fake, I'm not afraid, or even better, because even if people in the world laugh at me, they will know my admiration for the general, and I'm willing to admit my relatives without even caring about the details. ”

As soon as he heard that it was the general's uncle, he didn't even bother to ask carefully and worshiped his godfather, of course, this is not something that people who don't admire Xu Ping can do. The prefect touched the chair in the study with emotion: "This is the time of the Ding Revolution, I don't know how many people covet this position as a husband, if you don't take advantage of this to let the general remember me, if something happens in the future, who will our family go to the court to beg?" ”

As for the son who is dedicated to the old man, it is just a concubine of the prefect, in case he really meets a liar, although it is sad, but he has a concubine heirloom and does not care too much about the concubine, and the prefect's wife has no objections, and the concubine must of course bear the brunt of the sacrifice for the family at the critical moment.

Many gentry in the place where gifts are given are also planning to do this, this person is the general's uncle is the best, you must know that there are few people in the world who have the opportunity to give gifts to the general, how can such a good opportunity be easily let go. But everyone knows that this is likely to be a liar who asks for food, because he is so hungry that he can't do it, and this unaccompanied old man wants to rely on big words to cheat a few meals of gruel to drink. But everyone still wants to make this matter as big as possible, even if it is not their gift, it will naturally be transferred to the general, or that sentence, ordinary people can't find the opportunity to give gifts to the general of the dynasty.

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