Now Xu Ping began to be glad that he didn't go to see Zhendonghou alone last night, if he hadn't brought a witness, maybe he wouldn't have believed his words, even if there was Qingzhi as a companion, he still couldn't help but wonder if yesterday's meeting was a dream.

Kiyoji and Xu Ping began to have a conversation on their own, and the two of them sighed as they confirmed what the other had heard.

Once again, it was Li Zicheng's turn to be dumbfounded, and Niu Jinxing, after being in a trance for a while, asked the two of them: "...... When I went to see Huang Hou yesterday, did anyone see it? ”

"General Xu's guards......" Qingzhi's first reaction was the same as Xu Ping's just now.

"No, I'm not asking the guards, I mean that when the two of you were talking to Huang Hou, were there other people on the side?"

"Two people won't be wind demons at the same time." Li Zicheng saw that Niu Jinxing was back on the old path, so he defended Xu Ping and them.

"King, you also know that Brother Xu is in charge of military affairs, and the Daoist ......" Niu Jinxing pointed at Qingzhi and argued: "The Daoist himself just said that he has been practicing recently. ”

"The poor road didn't go mad."

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In the end, Niu Jinxing had to admit that although the possibility of two people being wind demons at the same time existed, it was still impossible to go crazy in the exact same mode, Xu Ping said: "King, this matter must be kept absolutely secret. If the news is revealed, we will lose our trust, and it will still be detrimental to our great cause. ”

"If Huang Hou hadn't gone crazy, this would be a great plan, since ancient times, only the north and the south should be unified, and Ming Taizu would expel the Tartars, so you don't have to think about it." At present, the camp is only owned by half of Henan, although Niu Jinxing has great expectations for the future, but he also knows that this is a last resort optimism, otherwise he would not be in a hurry to go straight to the Beijing Division: "What's more, Brother Gao has been deeply rooted in the Far South, and he is looking at both sides, if Huang Hou really withdraws from the north, the south is also shared by our two families." ”

Breaking into the camp was originally a gray and uncertain fate, but as this proposal suddenly became brighter, Niu Jinxing was ecstatic in his heart: "King, we can't miss the opportunity, we should immediately agree to Huang Hou's suggestion, let Shan Lan Ying break through, and then go north to the capital without stopping." ”

Hearing that the three of them began to discuss military affairs, the Qingzhi Taoist priest took his leave elegantly: "Poor Dao still has some homework to do, and the three of them forgive their sins." "It's not all an excuse, every day when the Taoist priest Qingzhi has to wander to the open area to receive the qi, to receive the true qi sent from the Heavenly Master Zhang of Longhu Mountain, yesterday Qingzhi even forgot to do this important homework in a daze.

"If Huang Hou's intention is just to let his Shanlan camp escape from Kaifeng?" Different from Xu Ping, Li Zicheng was a little worried about this, the new army that stayed in Beijing was not easy to deal with, although the city of Beijing was large, but if several new military camps resolutely resisted, it would be difficult to break into the camp and take it, and now what Zhendonghou lacked the most was time to train recruits.

"The king is too worried, if Huang Hou is not trustworthy, we will ...... his secret agreement with us" Niu Jinxing confidently was about to tell the world about Zhendong Hou's conspiracy, but he was suddenly stunned: "As far as Huang Hou's words are concerned, will anyone believe them?" ”

"If we say it as it is, people all over the world will think that we are all crazy." Li Zicheng muttered to himself: "And you will think that we are very stupid, trying to make the world believe such a ridiculous thing." ”

"So we can't say it as it is, we have to say ......" Niu Jinxing stopped halfway through his words, and then refuted his own idea: "With Huang Hou's reputation, at best, he will be suspicious, if Huang Hou said that he escaped from the Shanlan camp with a trick, the people of the world will only laugh at us for being stupid, and even if the imperial court is dissatisfied with Huang Hou's abandonment of Kaifeng, but at that time, the Jingshi was in a hurry, and most of the faint monarchs would praise Huang Hou for his courage and strategy." ”

"Take out the letter that Huang Hou gave you and take a look," Niu Jinxing asked Xu Ping for Zhendonghou's appointment letter, and looked at it carefully, of course there would not be any explicit words on it, in fact, even if there were, it was useless, Zhendonghou never kept his word, but everyone has always only admired, every time he talked about Zhendonghou deceiving and killing Nurhachi, Niu Jinxing was also applauded, even if he broke the contract and deceived and killed his brother-in-law Kong Youde, including Niu Jinxing, they would only say: There is a clear distinction between public and private. But now when he was standing opposite Zhendong Hou, Niu Jinxing was full of displeasure: "Huang Hou is really good, we can't do anything about him." ”

Despite all these concerns, Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing, and Xu Ping decided to accept Zhendonghou's proposal, and the top priority was to return to Kaifeng as soon as possible, and notify Zhendonghou to fulfill the agreement after everything was deployed.

"In any case, the loss of the Beijing Division, the world is shaken, and Huang Hou led his troops to abandon the monarch's father, how can it take him a year or two to deter the south, we will definitely be able to pacify the north before him." Niu Jinxing finally concluded that after careful consideration, Niu Jinxing thought that what Zhendong Hou said might not be all false, if he really abandoned the Beijing Division, then he really needed an army to ensure that he could subdue the entire south: "The southerners are not good at fighting, we have most of the country, Huang Hou is no longer a skill, and we are not afraid of him." ”

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After receiving Li Zicheng's secret letter, Huang Shi knew that his plan was half successful.

"Compared with the ordinary leader of the peasant rebel army, Li Zicheng is quite magnanimous, and he can sit firmly in the position of the leader of the camp alliance to convince most people, but he is not a military and political genius like Han Taizu and Ming Taizu, and in the end, he is still a feudal emperor, and even if the authority of the feudal ruler seems to be strong, it is actually still a strong outsider."

Just like in the late Ming Dynasty and late Qing Dynasty, the rule of feudal emperors seemed like an indestructible behemoth, but it could collapse in the blink of an eye. Now Huangshi has a similar view of the New Army, and his subordinates have each other.

"I don't know how Ming'er is doing in the UK, I have repeatedly told him to see more of this island country, this place that if I had not come, I would have grown into a world hegemon in the next three hundred years."

Huang Shi remembered that although the Renaissance movement had achieved a great deal of success, Europe was still in darkness in general, and they were more of a burden than China, and the barbaric and ignorant Catholic theocracy was suffocating the people of Europa. Magnetism and electricity, proposed by the Italians, were being developed in England; The first scientist to propose blood circulation was burned at the stake by the Holy See, and it seems that in Cambridge, England, a certain doctor has just further developed this theory, put forward the capillary hypothesis, and even proposed that breathing and blood circulation work together to complete the circulation of "smoke" in the human body and "aura" in the atmosphere without knowing oxygen and carbon dioxide; There are also debates about embryology, gravity, and even the fluctuations of light and particles.

"Maybe not really, but I always feel that feudalism is the root cause of backwardness, and the British king has shaken the authority of ignorant religion in England because of his own selfishness, and now the feudal authority of the British king is basically gone. If Newton had been born in a country where he feared that he would be imprisoned for observing celestial bodies, and that he would be burned to death for opposing Roman medicine, his name would not have lived on forever. If I can build a country where the speaker is innocent rather than the man who speaks is immortal, and any idea can be contested without fear of violent sanctions, I think I will be able to replicate the success of Britain in my world. ”

Huang Shi remembered the conversation with Xu Ping, the other party firmly believed that China must have an emperor like other people Huang Shi had seen, summing up his previous ideas and assumptions, Huang Shi felt that in short, whoever advocated feudalism would destroy him:

The Great Tomorrow is unwilling to give up the position of slave owner that he takes for granted, well, I Huangshi will destroy him; It's very pitiful that Li Zicheng can't survive to rebel, but he is also an emperor and fantasizes about becoming a new slave owner, okay, I, Huangshi, have to destroy you.

So I needed a strong army to wipe out anyone who might be an enemy of the Chinese people, and now I'm the strongest candidate for the position of slave owner...... Well, my ambition in Yellowstone is to be a great man, not a martyr, and I can't destroy myself all over the place.

Thousands of years later, when someone asks who created the Chinese imperial system, primary school students will answer that it is Qin Shi Huanghuang, and when asked who ended the feudal imperial system, they will answer that it is me Huangshi.

"No thought should be judged by the Pope or the kings of Rome as harmful, this is the soil in which scientists, philosophers and thinkers can be born. Even if I advocate the idea of feudalism, maybe I shouldn't use violence to eradicate it. Trust my fellow citizens and let them decide what they are willing to accept, I've always wanted too much to be a leader over the years, maybe I should be a defender, defending the right of my fellow citizens to choose for themselves. ”

The new army, Yellowstone felt that taking them to the south would cause them to lose the basis for gaining privileges:

"Economic preferential treatment, I can use this to compensate them, Li Zicheng and I are willing to use wealth to satisfy him, but political privileges, especially hereditary political privileges, this should be my bottom line, and I must not give it. They may think I'm not kind to them, but they will understand it eventually, knowing that what I have in store for my children and grandchildren is at best a hereditary economic privilege. ”

Huang Shi never thought he was fit to be a martyr, and while he was worried about his country, he was equally concerned about whether his children and grandchildren could benefit from the country's strength. If a new and powerful country is established, he does not think that it is too much to give himself and his children and grandchildren a hereditary glorious status, but he feels that the position of the English king in the previous life is very beautiful, and the economy is not for nothing, and the prince and grandson will be surrounded by handsome girls from middle school, and the princess will needless to say that there will be many suitors: beauty, glory and a happy life, and there is no need to worry about the damn inheritance tax.

"As long as this country exists, my children and grandchildren will be heads of state, and when they go abroad, they will be treated with great hospitality because they are the heads of superpowers—that barren island nation can be a superpower for three hundred years, and I don't see that China will be able to do this because of its vast size and large population. My statue will forever remain in the heart of this superpower, and there may be many memorials. ”

"Isn't it the pursuit of the First Emperor to leave to his descendants the glory, wealth and power that are not easy to come by? I'm not so greedy, I'm not going to base my authority on the suffering of the people, and that will certainly not be easy. But glory and wealth, this should not be a big problem, I will be satisfied with leaving such a big piece of cake to my descendants, and as long as they don't mess around, they should be able to live forever with this country - three hundred years later, maybe this time it won't take three hundred years, humanity should enter the space age, and my children and grandchildren may be able to enjoy the legacy I left to them until the end of this universe. ”

As for the followers of the New Army, Huang Shi does not feel too sorry for them, if you take a long-term view, isn't political privilege in the final analysis just about having social status?

"Give back the rights that the people deserve to them, I think the British aristocracy is living well, rich and free, not to mention, your children and grandchildren will be the nobles of a superpower, a country whose land and people are a hundred times that of the barren island country, the so-called public and private are not wrong, it should be my kind of skill."

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Capital

The news that the offensive frenzy of the invading army had been repelled in Zhongdu had caused a frenzy, not only in the vicinity of Zhongdu, but also in the vicinity of Zhongdu, and the forces that had originally invaded Shandong had begun to retreat westward.

"As the saint said, Yu Shuai is the nemesis of the thief, this time Huang Hou and Yu Shuai practiced to destroy the thief, of course, the thief only returned with a feather."

Chen Yan immediately began to sing the praises of the Shengming of Chongzhen's Son of Heaven, and Emperor Chongzhen was also very useful to this flattery, after all, he was the one who overrode public opinion and promoted Yu Dong to the position of Jiangbei Governor: "Marshal and Yu Shuai led the Jiangbei Army to immediately send troops to Henan to beg for thieves, and relieve the siege of King Zhou and Kaifeng, what do you think?" ”

"Holy Lord, I'm afraid this is inappropriate."

In the past two years, Yu Dong has become famous, and he has the posture of becoming the second Marquis of Zhendong, which makes the cabinet worry again, it is of course good to have a big and small that can be used to control the Marquis of Zhendong, but it also needs some people from the Jiangbei Army to make a small one as the commander of the Jiangbei Military Affairs, and what worries the cabinet even more is that it is said that Yu Dong is extremely servile to the Marquis of Zhendong, which makes the cabinet even more uneasy.

"It's about to be a cold winter, and Henan is a nest that has been operated by Chuang and Xu Er thieves for many years, and I am afraid that it will be disadvantageous to the army."

"Although the Jiangbei Army won the battle hard, it continued to pay the salary, and now there is no silver in the treasury, and even the reward for this great victory cannot be allocated."

"Kaifeng is presided over by Gao Mingheng, and it is impregnable, and with Jia Shuai's assistance, there is absolutely nothing to be done about the thieves in winter."

"Shengshang, let's wait for the beginning of spring before relieving Kaifeng."

The cabinet succeeded in convincing the Emperor Chongzhen to wait a little longer, and they needed this time to consider how to deal with the new situation, and in addition to the worries about the military attaché taking power, these cabinet members also had a better judgment of the current situation than the Chongzhen Emperor. Although they won this time, first of all, they were very suspicious of how much water was in the battle report of the Jiangbei Army, and secondly, after Xu Ping appeared on the battlefield, even Zhendonghou stopped pursuing, which shows that Xu Ping's strength is still not to be underestimated.

The previous successive defeats of the new army in Henan also made these courtiers have a deep sense of fear of Xu Ping's strength, if the Marquis of Zhendong himself could not help his eldest disciple, he would lose the prestige of the Marquis of Zhendong, the last straw. The persistence of several battalions of the new army in Beijing can also give the cabinet some sense of security, and they feel that the immediate priority is not to go to Henan to gamble on life and death, but to delay the time to rebuild the new army and ensure the safety of the Beijing division.

To the delight of the cabinet, the Metropolitan Governor's Office did not agree to immediately lift the siege, and the Marquis of Zhendong did not stay outside to lead the troops, but said that he would immediately return to Beijing to meet the Son of Heaven and inform him of his next plan of action. The cabinet has secretly reached an agreement, must try to persuade Zhendonghou to agree not to Henan adventure, if Zhendonghou can give up Kaifeng Jiaming River, then the cabinet is willing to support him to further expand the size of the new army, they set the bottom line of the negotiation is 12 battalions of the new army, each battalion of 5,000 people, military salaries, soldiers are still preferential.

The cabinet felt that it was still very promising to persuade Zhendonghou to agree to this condition, after all, Zhendonghou's family and industry were also in Beijing, and besides, wouldn't the loss of the Son of Heaven be greater than his? For the sake of the safety of Sheji, the Son of Heaven can even give up a prince like King Zhou at a critical moment.

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After learning that the imperial court did not take advantage of the victory to pursue the Henan army, Hou Xun, who was supervising the division on the front line, was stunned, and after learning that the central capital had won a great victory and captured tens of thousands, he had been hoping that the imperial court would let the Jiangbei army immediately go to Henan to fight.

Unlike the interests of the officials in the imperial court, Hou Xun's responsibility was to relieve Kaifeng, and if the king of Zhou did fall to his enemies, he was sure that the cabinet would use him as a scapegoat. Although Hou Xun was also very concerned about the safety of the Ming court and Jingshi, he was more concerned about Kaifeng and firmly advocated that he would rather fight in Henan than go to Zhili to fight this battle.

It's just that Hou Xun's voice is becoming less and less concerned by the imperial court, and some old friends in the court are now vague about him, and do not express any opinion on his resolute main battle opinion, as for those enemies, they are desperately attacking his strategy, calling him a reckless and reckless man.

"If you want to die, you will die together, if you want to be stable, you will push me to die, how can there be such a cheap thing?" Hou Xun threw the teacup on the ground fiercely, but his ability was limited to a cruel word.

The last time Hou Xun begged the imperial court to send a new army and the Hebei army to Henan to fight to the death, there was a voice in the court saying that if Hou Xun was really as worried about the country and the people as he was in the chapter, and he was not in the same position as he was, he should first take his own standard battalion to Kaifeng to fight, maybe he would ask the saint to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

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Jingshi Di Daily:

His Excellency Baron Yu Dong, a famous military strategist and art of war, unfortunately passed away due to illness on October 8, 2244 (Confucius calendar), and the Qi Palace's palace sent a special person to mourn and bring His Majesty King Qi's most sincere, painful and deepest greetings to the family of Baron Yu Dong......

His Majesty the King of Qi personally went out to accept their petition and said on the spot that he would pay close attention to the development of the situation, and the heart of the King of Qi was also sad for the innocent people who were victims of the war, however, the King of Qi asked the two missions to understand: according to Chinese practice, the regent generally does not interfere with the decisions of the House of Secretaries, and China's national law is above the King of Qi.

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