Chifeng is the royal city of Lin Dan Khan, and as soon as he put down the tea bowl, before he could get up to greet him, he heard a heavy footsteps approaching.

Brother-in-law Amin barged in with an angry face, with a long knife pinned to his waist on the left and right, and three handcuffs hanging from it, and Lin Dan Khan's nephew followed behind his father, his face was at a loss.

"Great Khan, why haven't you mobilized yet?" Amin rushed to his eldest brother and yelled at his face, spraying saliva on Lin Danhan's face.

"Brother-in-law, sit, sit." Lin Danhan wiped the saliva off his face and beckoned Amin to sit down.

"Why don't you send troops?!" Amin hurried from North Korea, and when he saw Lin Dan Khan returning his horse to Nanshan, he was so anxious that he was about to cry.

"How can this be in a hurry?" Lin Dan Khan didn't understand how Amin was in such a hurry, before the Shun army attacked Zhili, Amin sent a letter asking him to immediately mobilize the whole country and prepare to go to Zhili and the Shun army for a decisive battle.

"That Xu Ping is so powerful, but if you come out of the empty country, you can send 500,000 troops!" Amin means that the young and old of sixteen to sixty years old go into battle, Lin Dan Khan of course does not have so much military rations, but Amin said that there is no need to bring more food: tell everyone that there are things in the Beijing Huahua World if they win, and if they lose the battle, no one wants to go home alive. This time, Amin rushed to Chifeng and almost pulled all his men, and there were tens of thousands of people who were hula, including Houjin soldiers and North Korean soldiers.

As a result, after waiting in Ningyuan for several days, Lin Dan Khan's shadow did not see a single one, and none of the surrounding departments received an order to send troops.

Knowing that Li Zicheng had invaded Beijing, Amin felt that this was the only chance to gamble on the national fortune, but he actually saw his brother-in-law still drinking milk tea at home: "Then Li Chuang has tens of thousands of people, and Shanxi has suffered a lot of losses, why are you so cowardly?" ”

"But we have to see first whether the border army of the Ming Dynasty will fight him." Lin Dan Khan only ordered all departments to prepare for mobilization, but the general mobilization order has not been issued, he thinks that it is necessary to confirm that Li Chuang and the Ming army will fight each other to the point of exhaustion before sending troops: "I know you said, that Li Chuang did not surrender when he was at the end of the road, and did not accept the Ming court's recruitment, since he did not reply to the letter, he must have beaten us, but now that the Ming army has surrendered to him, what else can we fight?" We can't even pull all the men out without even figuring out the reality of the enemy, so who will plant the land this year? There are so many animals to take care of. ”

"Plant, plant, when the soldiers come, this good crop will be surnamed Li, oh, and cattle and sheep." Amin dropped a sentence angrily, turned around and ignored his brother-in-law's repeated greetings, and walked away without looking back.

Walking with his son on the way back to North Korea, Amin suddenly said after a long silence after a long silence: "Son, do you know what the saddest thing in this world is? ”

"There is no greater mourning than death." Amin's son had been studying according to his requirements, and this idiom blurted out when he heard his father's questioning.

"No, the saddest thing is that you have been a thief all your life, but you care about what crops you grow when you are old, and your uncle has no hope." Amin felt that his cousin Huang Taiji was really unlucky, if he could survive to this day, he would definitely come out of the empty country, and at this juncture when Li Zicheng had just fought the Ming Dynasty, he would attack him when his old strength was about to be exhausted and his new strength had not gathered, and steal the inheritance of the Ming Dynasty: "No, my dead ghost cousin, he will definitely be able to do better than this, this is the level of me and Mang Gurtai, he is even more skilled than us combined." ”

"If you send troops early, how can King Shun calm people's hearts and take so many Ming troops for his own use?" Amin felt that there was no hope for the matter, and he ordered to return to North Korea and at the same time gathered his henchmen to explain: "Send a competent person to Beijing to see King Shun, and say that as long as the Celestial Empire makes me the vassal king of Korea, I will immediately keep my hair and change my surname to Jin...... No! Changed his surname to Li ...... Well, it's still not good, let the messenger please give me the surname of King Shun. In the future, if the Celestial Empire sends troops outside the pass, I will send troops to help the Celestial Soldiers to encircle and suppress the rebellion, and after the matter is completed, I will retreat to the south of the Yalu River, and I will never dare to take an inch of the Celestial Empire. Later generations guarded the northern frontier for the Celestial Empire, paying tribute every year, and going to the court every year. ”

As he spoke, a herd of cattle rushed in front of Amin and almost startled his horse.

"You Han dog, looking for death."

The wolf-like guards beside Amin pounced on him and whipped at the Han people who were herding cattle.

The herding of cattle was a white-haired old man, who was beaten to the ground by this group of soldiers, and the Han people who were captured or plundered in the past, Lin Dan Khan was generally used as a slave. Tens of thousands of prisoners were captured in the Songjin War before, regardless of whether the prisoners were general soldiers, deputy generals, or staff generals, or guerrillas, they were all treated with small soldiers, and they were all sent to work as coolies until they died. Like this kind of slave, Amin would not blink an eye even if he smoked a hundred of them.

"Attention, attention." Amin suddenly drank the guards today, because he had just had the idea of changing the court: "The word Han dog is not allowed to be used in the future." ”

Determined to lead by example, Amin also called the old man who had been beaten and screamed, and took out a piece of broken skin from under the saddle and wiped the blood all over his face.

After a few glances, Amin suddenly became interested, this old man herding cattle did not seem to be an ordinary prisoner of war, nor did he look like a general. It's all in this field, and when the other party thanked him, he raised his hands and feet and faintly gave people a feeling of not losing his sven, Amin looked at it for a while, and asked, "That man, what are you calling?" ”

"Great King," the old man nodded and said, "Old slave Hong Chengchou." ”

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"The king did not immediately send troops to Liaodong......" After the banquet, Xu Ping explained to Wu Sangui that after the Shun army entered Beijing, the grain and silver in Jiangnan would definitely be suspended, and the Dashun regime needed to quickly move south before material difficulties appeared to seize the rich Jiangnan. There are some reasons why Xu Ping did not say to Wu Sanguiming, that is, the manufacture of flintlock pistols is still a problem for Dashun, although the Li Shun regime tries its best to imitate this weapon, but the production is very limited, and the current daily output of muskets with barely passing the quality is in the single digits, which is basically equal to nothing.

In fact, don't talk about muskets, even bayonets Dashun imitation is a problem, the bayonets and firecrackers produced in the south are standard parts, and Dashun's own production cannot be replaced by each other at all. This kind of standardized equipment gives Dashun great benefits, because any damaged gun, as long as the parts on it are removed, can be used on another gun, which greatly improves the repair rate of damaged guns, but this process also makes Dashun high-level very shocked, Niu Jinxing, Sun Kewang privately believe that at least in five years, Dashun's Ministry of Industry can not reach such a technical height.

There is also the problem of the supply of gunpowder, in the past, when Kaifeng, every time it fought with the new army, it would make the Xuzhou battalion miserable, because the capture could not make up for the consumption, and this problem improved after the capture of Shaanxi and the capture of a large number of Qin army equipment. However, after the capture of Shaanxi, it was naturally impossible to continue to obtain supplies from the imperial court through the original supply channels, and the consumption of gunpowder by the Shun army was far greater than its own production, and almost half of the army's reserves were used up in the first battle of Shanxi. After easily seizing Beijing, the Shun army was relieved by the materials captured from the Beijing Division, but the output of the Beijing Division made the Dashun high-level extremely disappointed, and they thought that the massive amount of materials supplied to the northern border army every year was not all produced by the Beijing Division, but a considerable part of it was provided here.

However, according to the reports of officials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, more than eighty percent of the gunpowder and all the muskets and field guns were provided by the south, and recently Niu Jinxing was frantically digging all the caves in the north to dig out bat dung according to Sun Kewang's old method, and this one-time saltpeter resource can temporarily ensure that the output of gunpowder is higher than the daily wear and tear of the armies. But sooner or later, there will be a day of exhaustion, if we can't quickly seize the south and incorporate the saltpeter production areas in the south into the Dashun production system, sooner or later the Shun army will have to degenerate back to an army dominated by cold weapons such as broadswords and spears, and Niu Jinxing estimates that with the output of the north, it can only guarantee that 30,000 to 40,000 troops use flintlock guns and field artillery.

"The general misunderstood," Wu Sangui actually guessed some of Dashun's difficulties, although he didn't guess how bad the actual situation was, but since the Dashun regime had ordered the economical use of gunpowder, stopped most of the gunpowder supplies originally given to the border army, and not only did not issue new weapons to replace scrapped weapons, but collected those damaged guns that the Ming court never recovered, then it didn't take much intelligence to guess that there must be a big problem in Dashun's weapon production: "The last general just hopes that after the general unifies Jiangnan, When he returns to the outside of the division, he can make the last general a striker. ”

Wu Sangui originally hoped to be able to go south to make meritorious contributions, but more than 40,000 Wu Jiajun needed millions of taels of silver, opening fees, quilt silver, etc., and this money was reluctant to be spent, and Wu Sangui was of course unwilling to pay out of his own pocket. Now that the Li Shun regime has cut most of the salaries of the Liao soldiers in one go, Wu Sangui still has to reduce the number of troops and reduce unnecessary expenses, so he retreats to the next best thing, hoping to give him the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to the new dynasty and gain a foothold in Liaodong in the future.

"This is natural, I'm afraid there is no one more familiar with Liao Shi than the general." Seeing that Wu Sangui did not mention the issue of rewards and military salaries, Xu Ping breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and hurriedly agreed: "In my opinion, after the recovery of Liaodong, the post of Jiedu envoy is none other than the general. ”

Li Zicheng felt that the shortcomings of the civilian, military, and political affairs in the late Ming Dynasty were too great, and a good scholar might not be able to command a war, so in the Dashun political structure envisioned by Li Zicheng, whether it was the central or local government, the civil and military forces had to be able to fight against each other. On the central side of Dashun, Li Zicheng deliberately reduced the military department to a logistics department that was only responsible for providing military salaries and equipment, and handed over the selection of generals, soldier training, and operational planning to the future general's office. At the local level, the defense envoy could only order directly from the government and not the provincial garrisons, and if he wanted to command the army, he had to give orders through the provincial envoys.

In addition, Li Zicheng also intended to restore the prime minister's system, and the lesson he learned from the late Ming Dynasty was that if the emperor did not seize power, civil officials were likely to behave indiscriminately; But if the emperor seizes power, he is likely to not be able to fight the civilian officials, and will make the country worse because of their deception. Therefore, Li Zicheng gave Niu Jinxing great power, and planned to let the prime minister take full charge of state affairs from him, and the emperor no longer had the right to veto cabinet policies, but had the right to remove the prime minister - if the state affairs were messed up, only the prime minister would ask. Li Zicheng hoped that this would allow the civil officials to fight on their own, and that in order to keep their positions, the prime minister and the cabinet elders must closely monitor the six ministries and local officials, and they were not allowed to fool around. Since this is the case, it is even more necessary to separate the civil and military forces, and the military power must be separated from the civilian system and truly in the hands of Shuntianzi.

As for the other ideas, that is, how to restrain the Great General's Mansion, Li Zicheng's plan has not been revealed to anyone for the time being.

Seeing that Xu Ping agreed happily, Wu Sangui was also happy: "This time the general is going to the south, the Ming will be broken, the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River are beautiful, the water and soil raise people, the women are very different from our north, the general must buy some concubines back, and in the future, the warm nephrite is in his arms, and Wu Yu Chuyin is in his ears, that is the life of the gods." ”

Xu Ping replied with a smile: "How can General Wu know so clearly all his life?" ”

"The last general happens to have such a concubine," Wu Sangui said with a smile: "The surname is Chen Yuanyuan, can the general know?" ”

Listening to Wu Sangui's tone, it seemed that this woman was quite famous, Xu Ping shook his head and said, "Lonely and unheard." ”

"It is one of the eight famous prostitutes of Qinhuai River, and the taste is extraordinary." Wu Sangui recounted it vividly, and said with a grin: "The general cares? ”

"No, no." Xu Ping hurriedly waved his hand and refused: "General Wu misunderstood." ”

"It's just a little concubine, and besides, she's not a good family, she's just a pair of jade arms and a thousand pillows, a little red lips and thousands of prostitutes," Wu Sangui said generously: "The general will take her back in a while, if you don't like to give it back to the last general for a few days, if you like it, stay for more time." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Xu Ping desperately refused.

"It's just a concubine, why is the general so polite? This Jiangnan daughter is not easy to find in Beijing. Wu Sangui said for a while, and when he saw that Xu Ping didn't want it anyway, he said mockingly: "Also, the general is going to march south soon, and this Jiangnan woman wants as many as she wants, and when the time comes, the last general will ask the general for a few miles." ”

……

After the guests and hosts dispersed happily, after saying goodbye and returning home from Wu's mansion, Xu Ping came to the door and the guard ran over to report: "My lord, my uncle has arrived." ”

It was this evening, when Xu Ping had just gone to the Wu Mansion for a banquet, and the guards did not dare to disturb and waited, and the convoy carrying gifts lined up outside the gate of the General's Mansion.

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