The mutually beneficial mechanism established by Zhu Shuren through Zheng Chenggong and Wu Sangui really worked well from the beginning.

In just ten days, by the time of the second transaction, Wu Sangui's side had a big harvest - Gao Jie's descendants, as well as some of Bai Guangen's old troops who followed Gao Jie because of the butterfly effect, also because of Li Zicheng's lax control, Wu Sangui, who was caught with the opportunity, was lured by silver bullet diplomacy and the bait of retreating south, and abducted to Shanhaiguan.

Jimen Mako's troops are also unstable.

A part of the Mako troops sent by Li Zicheng to coerce Wu Sangui escaped and joined Wu without permission under Wu Sangui's persuasion and a large amount of money.

As for the follow-up to Wu, whether to choose to retreat south or continue to fight with Wu Sangui is to stay free-

But those who want to retreat south will not get any money. After all, there is no need to sacrifice their lives for the safety of the southern retreat, and it is very good for Wu Sangui to help them issue free ferry tickets, and even detain all the property of the southern evacuees to transfer and pay heavy rewards to the troops who stayed in Shanhaiguan to hold on.

And Wu Sangui will not only deduct from the inside, but also accept Zheng Chenggong's silver externally. Anyway, he, the middleman, has left enough for the price difference, and he will definitely make a steady profit.

Only Ma Ke himself, as well as his closest relatives and family members, did not seize the opportunity to surrender to the enemy because they were too strictly guarded by Li Zicheng. After some of them defected to the enemy, Li Zicheng's vigilance against these newly attached Ming troops became more and more intense.

In the end, at the end of the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, in the next half month, Wu Sangui actually caught more people from Bai Guangen's old department and those who followed Gao Jie than in the same period in history, as well as a small number of centaurs in Ma Ke.

The Ming army on the three sides of Hebei, because of the persuasion of Zhu Shuren, the route, and the influence of the silver bullet offensive, at least half of the Ming army, which should have resolutely surrendered, became capricious and abandoned the darkness and turned to the light again.

In terms of breaking into the army, at least more than 20,000 of the original Ming Dynasty border troops who had not been surrendered for a long time were taken away, and Bai Guangenmake's thief troops were only half empty.

On Wu Sangui's side, although he annexed more than 20,000 Ming troops, his own combat strength did not increase, because thousands of people from Zhang Guozhu's own lineage, as well as thousands of other Guan Ning troops who were not descendants of the Wu family, were all transported away by Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong.

Most of Bai Guangen's old department brought by Gao Jie was also bought by Zhang Mingzhen, and a few Tang Tong and Ma Ke's old department followed south.

After accounting, Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong made a net profit of about 30,000 soldiers and horses on the nine sides.

Among them, Li Fuming's department, which was originally devoted to Zhu Shuren, has six or seven thousand people (Li Fuming is considered to have survived the butterfly effect extraordinarily, and his status in the Yongping Prefecture Defense Area is on the same level as Wu Sangui, he wants to support Governor Wang Yongji to go south, Wu Sangui can't control it, so it can't be regarded as Wu Sangui's loss),

Zhang Guozhu's department had five or six thousand people, other non-descendant Guan Ning troops had three or four thousand, Bai Guangen's department was nearly 10,000, and Ma Ke and Tang Tong's troops added up to three or four thousand. Wu Sangui also had a net loss of several thousand people compared with the same period in history.

But considering that Li Zicheng on the opposite side has a net loss of 30,000, even if Wu Sangui has a few thousand fewer people, the power comparison between him and Li Zicheng is still superior to the same period in history.

Moreover, the troops under Wu Sangui's command are now much higher in terms of cohesion than in the same period in history.

Because Wu Sangui has become wealthy, the extra rewards are very positive, and the morale is extremely high in a short period of time, and he is very enthusiastic about being fed with silver.

Zhu Shuren's hand draws blood at the same time on both sides of the front and back, almost the same as when he drew blood at the same time on the battlefield in Henan more than a year ago, facing Li Zicheng and Sun Chuanting——

At that time, Li Zicheng was severely injured by Zhu Shuren in Chen County, destroyed Li Jiyu's department, recruited Yuan Shizhong, and also caused certain damage to other troops such as Yuan Zongdi and killed Tian Jianxiu.

However, because Zhu Shuren also took away Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Kaifeng, Sun Chuanting later lost the help of the main force of the Henan official army.

Both sides were secretly slashed with a big knife, and in the end, Sun Chuanting still did not fight Li Zicheng, who had exhausted Zeze and frantically expanded the army at any cost, and died in Xi'an.

In today's situation, Zhu Shuren is doing his old tricks again, or desperately pulling elite troops to the south, regardless of the enemy, I will do whatever it takes to draw blood, whether it is the original Ming army that should have followed Li Zicheng in history, or the original Ming army that should have followed Wu Sangui, they can all pull it, and all he spent was a huge amount of silver.

It is equivalent to the blood of all forces on the northern border, and once again only the south is strengthened.

The 20,000 or 30,000 people were pulled away, and it was only the first wave of operations, which was the extent to which Zhu Shuren could do it when Wu Sangui felt that he still had a way to go.

In the future, if Wu Sangui's situation deteriorates more and more, and he himself can't control the situation, then the proportion of his subordinates who want to return to the south will be even higher. At that time, even if it is Wu Sangui's lineage, there will be more than one general Zhang Guozhu who will go, so Zhu Shuren is not in a hurry, anyway, he has an absolute naval advantage and can keep the route of pulling people open at any time.

More importantly, during the negotiation process, Zhu Shuren also instructed Zheng Chenggong to repeatedly publicize the new policies of the southern government to the trilateral army in Hebei:

Although it is not yet known who the new emperor will be in the future, the surname of the country and the governor of Huguang are willing to take on the role of the intermediary, ensuring that the trilateral troops of Hebei will not hold anyone accountable for the martyrdom of the first emperor and the failure to rescue.

This propaganda offensive is also very important.

Historically, the Ming army on the three sides of Hebei Province turned their guns to fight the Southern Ming Dynasty with a special iron force after being a thief, mainly because the system of the Ming Dynasty was too harsh on the warriors, and the Confucian scholars and doctors were often on the line, coupled with the harsh laws and inflexible systems of the Chongzhen Dynasty for more than ten years, everyone on the three sides of Hebei was in danger.

We are afraid that "when the first emperor dies, we will not save us when we see death, if Daming rises again, will we be liquidated", so we can only go all the way to the dark and give Daming a funeral.

After all, the Ming army on the three sides of Hebei is indeed the most suspicious on the issue of "not saving the driver", they are so close to the emperor, they all sit and watch Chongzhen's death, or surrender to the enemy before the emperor dies, and they are not loyal to Chongzhen.

Therefore, at this juncture, it is very important to abandon the historical responsibility of pursuing the martial artists and be flexible and tactful.

Maybe in the future, those princes in Nanjing will continue to talk about principles, but he, Zhu Shuren, can take on a big responsibility in advance and promise to go out: as long as he, Zhu Shuren, is in power, in the future, the civilian clique will definitely not be allowed to turn over the old accounts of the historical responsibility of the troops participating in the war!

However, in view of the old accounts of the historical responsibility of the civil official group, Zhu Shuren is not afraid to turn it over. Anyway, the literati don't have a knife handle in their hands, and it is not a big deal to liquidate it when the time is good in the future.

Of course, the situation is critical now, and there is no hurry to talk about it, just pretend that you don't know how to pretend to be a lake.

Moreover, even if Zhu Shuren's promise has no legal effect, he doesn't count what he said, but at least for the moment he controls the main source of wealth of the Ming Dynasty. As for the question of whether or not to pay or distribute food to the Ming army that had retreated from the north and had problems left over from history, he could have the final say, and that would be enough.

As long as the soldiers have food to eat and military salaries, they can be temporarily stabilized.

His father, Shen Tingyang, is still in charge of the position of the head of the household department in Nanjing, and in the case of the collapse of the six departments in Beijing, Shen Tingyang is equivalent to the new head of the household department, and the right to issue money and collect taxes is in the hands of the Shen family, and his words are very credible.

Moreover, the real power position of the household department Shangshu, although it is impossible to be the first assistant in the future Nanjing court, is definitely an important cabinet elder in the cabinet!

Take 10,000 steps back, to put it mildly, the Ming army on the three sides of Hebei who retreated south was willing to continue to serve the Ming Dynasty after listening to Shen Tingyang and Zhu Shuren's "promise not to liquidate".

If one day, the southern imperial court wants to let another faction take power, and let those political enemies who deny the policies of Shen Tingyang and Zhu Shuren take power, these former Hebei trilateral Ming troops just think about it with their toes, and they all know who they should support with their own swords and guns!

If they don't support the long-term power of the country's surname and change the civil officials who love to liquidate historical responsibilities as the first assistant, then these unclean former Hebei trilateral Ming troops will be severely punished!

Only when the country surnamed Ye is in power for a long time, can their glory and wealth be guaranteed for a long time! Their net worth and life have been bound to the power of the country from now on! As long as the country is in power, they will have a good life!

If you want to be liquidated and questioned, or be glorious and rich, let's do it yourself!

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Zhu Shuren frantically drew blood with both hands and backhands, weakened Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui at the same time, and used the blood drawn to strengthen the armed forces of the southern court in the future.

The negotiations between Wu Sangui and Dolgon have finally made progress.

These two things are actually parallel in time, and even the time when Dolgon made a decision to change was two or three days earlier than Zheng Chenggong's second wave of shipping withdrawals.

As early as the twenty-third day of the first month, that is, the day after Wu Sangui agreed to Zheng Chenggong's new conditions, he sent an envoy to contact Dolgon for the last time, and also brought the latest version of the conditions, everything was according to Zhu Shuren's remote control of the words.

Dolgon and his troops did not stay in Shengjing (Shenyang), but went out to Tashan in person, assuming that they could intervene at any time.

Tashan is only the last 200 miles away from Shanhaiguan, and there is a way to bypass Yanshan, take the Liucheng grassland from the north side and detour back to Jimen, with the speed of action of the Qing cavalry, no matter where you go, it is very fast.

Before Dorgon determined his strategy and determined the conditions he could obtain, the garrison of Tower Hill was indeed the best choice.

The elite cavalry of the Eighth Period he brought also reached as many as 30,000 or 40,000 people, almost more than half of the main force of the Full Eight Banners, in addition to almost the same number of Mongolian Eight Banner cavalry, as well as tens of thousands of infantry and artillery of the Han Army Banner with slightly weaker combat power.

The total strength reached 60,000 or 70,000 cavalry and 20,000 or 30,000 infantry. From the scale of this force, it can also be seen that Dorgon is really ambitious, and he dares to gamble on the main force.

With neither Hauge nor Zilharan supporting the gamble, these forces were basically the limit of what Dorgon could use.

Who let Huang Taiji die in the past four months, there is no prince and banner master in the Qing Kingdom who can make enough great feats and establish absolute prestige.

The remaining small half of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's troops have to wait for Dolgon to win this bet and really enter Beijing City, then his prestige will naturally burst in an instant, and then Zilharang and Hauge will become the existence of a plummeting voice, and no one can question his Dolgon's decision-making!

At this juncture, Wu Sangui's envoy arrived again, and Dolgon naturally attached great importance to it.

Before the envoy was received, he was first placed by Dolgon, so that he could see the battle of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, "show the banner and strengthen the army", and watched the 90,000 troops lined up in a row, the men and horses were majestic, and before the conditions were discussed, the momentum was sufficient.

After a process of coercion, the messenger was brought before Dolgon.

Dolgon was a stout black fat man, in his early thirties, a year younger than Chongzhen, and when he met the messenger, he sat on a tiger-skin chair with a golden sword, and his face was not arrogant.

Those questioning words do not need to be opened by him personally, and the Han civil officials who have just attached themselves to him will do it for him. And this Han cultural official is also an old acquaintance, it is Fan Wencheng, a veteran traitor and a scholar of the Inner Academy.

Fan Wencheng already had a very high status at the end of the Huangtaiji Dynasty, after all, he was the first person in the Qing Dynasty. In recent months, though, he has just suffered some setbacks.

First of all, in a series of power struggles after Huang Taiji's death, Fan Wencheng's direct master, Shuotuo, was involved in Mouli Da Eucalyptus and was killed, and he was naturally implicated as a subordinate, and after being punished, he was transferred to the Yellow Flag. But soon Fan Wencheng was usurped by Dorgon's younger brother Duoduo to take over his newly married wife, which made Fan Wencheng very uneasy, lest Duoduo trouble him again.

Therefore, at present, Fan Wencheng is also very eager to show that he still has the value of continuing to be used in front of Dolgon, hoping that Dolgon will pay attention to him and not let Dolgon's younger brother Dordo deal with him.

To prove his worth, of course, he must strive to cut more meat from the Ming Dynasty and sacrifice it to the master through diplomatic negotiations, so that the master can value him!

So, as soon as Fan Wencheng came up, he opened up with all his firepower and asked Wu Sangui's envoy why he was reluctant to agree to the proposal of the great Prince Rui! Why don't you want to sacrifice Shanhaiguan and surrender to the Manchus!

The envoy sent by Wu Sangui was named Tong Kuixing, whose official position was Tongzhi of the Prison and Discipline, and he was a civil official of the five-grade supervising army. Guan Ningjun's idea of "borrowing teachers to help suppress" was originally proposed by Wu Sangui and others.

This Tong Kuixing is not Wu Sangui's confidant, and with Wu Sangui's status now, it is not his turn to use a five-grade civil official as a confidant.

It's just that Wu Sangui is theoretically pressed by the governor Wang Yongji and the governor Li Yutian. Even though Wang Yongji had just withdrawn with Zheng Chenggong's fleet in recent days, Li Yutian remained in Shanhaiguan. Wu Sangui sent an envoy, of course, to respect the opinions of the nominal officials, but also to avoid suspicion, so he took the order of Li Yutian to send Tong Kuixing to show that Wu Sangui was dedicated to the public and had no selfish thoughts.

In the face of Fan Wencheng's questioning, Tong Kuixing is not a backbone existence, but fortunately, the negotiation strategy explained by Zhu Shuren through Zheng Chenggong is not bad, and he can barely withstand it:

"Your Highness, Mr. Fan, my general has long had a heart of harmony with your army, but the conditions offered by your country are really unacceptable, and it is not easy for my general to make the kind of decision to turn his back on his father and ancestors!

I hope Your Royal Highness can understand that my generals are still under the pressure of Governor Wang and Governor Li, and if he dares to agree to commit treason and sacrifice his land, I am afraid that even the soldiers under his command will not be able to agree. ”

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PS: I know that many people have doubts about the protagonist's ability to win over. A few words here.

The starting point can be found by writing casually and whitewashing anyone's essays casually. In fact, the less people read the book, the more unrestrained it can be, because if no one reads it, no one will be jealous, and no one will expose it.

I think there are very few people who read this book, and you can just let it go. But I can't demand myself according to the requirements of those who casually abandon the pseudonym vest, I have to think that every book is a trace, and the Internet has a memory,

I will write other books in the future, and if there are some people reading them, I can't leave the stain of being too unrestrained and whitewashing historical traitors.

In the mainstream circle of authors who are a little watched, and who are also qualified to be stared at and find faults, there is an unwritten bottom limit for historical writing, you can't be empty, and you can't change the main crimes committed by traitors in history.

If you write that you have traveled to the time when Wu Sangui became the king of Pingxi, and you want the three feudal clans anyway, then of course there is no problem, anyway, it is already an established fact to lead the Qing soldiers into the customs before.

If you write that you travel to the Apocalypse Dynasty, or directly prevent the Jiashen Revolution from happening, and let Wu Sangui release the preconditions of the Qing soldiers be directly wiped out, and it will not happen later, that's okay.

But I'm writing a timeline that spans the change of Jiashen. I can only minimize the losses of the Ming army, and the Dora people will go south and divide and disintegrate. Everyone can understand that "most of the forces under Wu Sangui will be co-opted in the end".

But Wu Sangui's own historical crimes, I still have to let him happen, this is a signboard, and it can't be empty. Otherwise, wouldn't it teach bad children who don't read enough history books?

What if there are new junior high school readers, the first book they read about the end of the Ming Dynasty is a book about Wu Sangui who did not become a traitor? Isn't it misguided?

In the same way, when it comes to the time node of the fall of Han rule, there are several people on the pillar of historical shame who cannot be washed away, otherwise something will happen. Look at the starting point, who can give Qin Hui, Fan Wencheng, Hong Chengchou, and Wang Jingwei ...... But you can still wash this kind of Jia Nidao, because after all, Jia Nidao was only said to be "misguided by the country", and he did not become a thief and a traitor.

People who have been benchmark traitors in history cannot be washed away from their benchmark traitors. His subordinates can be traitors because of the butterfly effect, and the limit of operation is to isolate these people into bare-bones commanders, and in the end, he will be a traitor if everyone betrays his relatives.

That's all, that's it, everyone understands.