Do you want to be faithful to the second minister?

This is again a controversial topic.

Some people support Jiang Tianyi, thinking that deceiving the villain is not deception, that it is called justice, and some people think that faith is faithfulness, and double standards cannot be adopted because of different objects, and both sides insist on their own words, and no one can refute anyone.

In the end, even Wang Jiayan was numb.

I don't know if I should deceive Hong Chengchou and these ministers.

But Chongzhen's inner yardstick has never wavered.

Jiang Tianyi proposed that the legal principle is not human, but Chongzhen, as a traverser, hates human affection the most, it is precisely because of this sophistication that the whole society has been woven into an intricate network of relationships, and people in the relationship network, no matter what they want to do, even if they just seek a doctor or read a book, they have to find relationships everywhere.

It is also this sophistication that covers up all kinds of social chaos and violations of law and discipline.

As a result, speculative campers are prevalent in the world, and those who are honest and capable but not good at drilling campers are doubly excluded, and over time it forms a broken window effect in which bad money drives out good money.

If so, the country will be finished.

The Great Song Dynasty is like this, and the Ming Dynasty is also finished like this.

Even the modern Republic of China died in this way.

The crown prince fought against corruption with an iron fist in Shanghai, and as a result, he encountered the greatest sophistication.

The success of the Chinese revolution was also due to the fact that the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation broke away from human feelings and sophistication, truly achieved selflessness and strictly followed the rules in everything.

No matter what happens in the future, no matter whether it can be done or not, anyway, one of Chongzhen's grand goals as a traverser is to break the sophistication of human feelings and realize the true Confucianism, that is, the rule of law.

It is to use the Confucian set of norms to educate the people.

However, at the level of governance, the Legalist criterion must be adopted.

So Chongzhen didn't get too involved in tonight's debate.

In fact, more often than not, Chongzhen only acts as an audience.

Because his identity is too sensitive, he is the current emperor, and he is also wearing the halo of "enlightenment in the coal mountain", so once he is out of the debate, he will soon make the opponent cautious in his words and deeds.

After returning to the camping tent after the end, Chongzhen suddenly asked, "Gao Companion, did you receive a gift?" ”

Gao Qiqian was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Long live Lord, the old slave didn't say anything, let alone intercede for Hong Chengchou and these ministers." ”

"Get up, I said I punished you?" Chongzhen didn't have a good breath, "Tell me, who gave you gifts?" ”

"Long live Lord, that's a lot of it." Gao Qiqian wrenched his finger and counted carefully, "The first one is Hong Chengchou, the second one is Wu Sangui, as well as Jiang Hao, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, Wang Fuchen, etc., there are many others, but the old slave can't remember the name at once, there are always about thirty." ”

"More than thirty?" Chongzhen shook his head and smiled, "This is called the tree falling and scattering." ”

"Yes, yes, it's just that the tree is falling and scattering." Gao Qiqian echoed, "The big tree of Dolgon has fallen, and Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui, and Kong Youde should collapse if they lose their backbone." ”

After a pause, Gao Qiqian asked in a low voice: "Long live Lord, how should the old slave reply to these monkeys?" ”

"Are you testing my tone?" Chongzhen smiled and said, "Or do you want to teach me to do things?" Otherwise, you will teach me how to deal with these monkeys? ”

"Long live the old slave, how dare the old slave have such a rebellious thought."

Gao Qiqian just got up, and when he heard the words, he was so frightened that he fell to the ground, and said in his heart, Long Live Lord is really as wise as a torch now, and he will see it clearly if he is a little careful in his heart.

At that moment, Gao Qiqian was busy and said: "The old slave will hand over the gold, silver and jewelry given by the second minister to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he will not dare to accept gifts from others in the future, and he will not dare to accept any of them." ”

Chongzhen smiled, the old gelding was quite clever.

It is no wonder that so many emperors would like to use eunuchs.

As soon as the eunuch came, he was the emperor's domestic slave and could be killed at any turn.

Second, some eunuchs are indeed smart and capable.

However, it is absolutely impossible for him Chongzhen to give the eunuch a chance to hold power again.

As for Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui, and Jiang Hao, let's take this opportunity to clean them all up, if you keep them, it will be more troublesome, the main thing is that it doesn't take much trouble to clean up these ministers.

……

Chongzhen didn't want to give these monkeys a chance to return to the Ming Dynasty, but Fulin was very worried that these monkeys would rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore their sight.

Especially Hong Chengchou, it has been almost half a month since he received the holy decree, but he is still entrenched in Tianjin, and Wei is unwilling to lead his division back to Beijing, which can't help but make Fu Lin suspicious.

So Fulin gave a decree to Suppression and Sony, who were halfway through, to let them divert to Tianjin, first join Hong Chengchou's army and then return to Beijing.

By the beginning of June, Sony and Suppilon led the main forces of the Eight Banners to Tianjin Wei.

Hong Chengchou couldn't wait for Chongzhen's reply for a long time, so he also gave up the idea of rebelling, and immediately ordered hundreds of thousands of Manchu and Han troops to return to Beijing with Sony and Kupilon.

It must be said here that even if Hong Chengchou is against the water, he can't take many people away.

Dolgon's reform of the Eight Banners military system is still reliable, to a large extent, severing the personal dependence between the generals and the soldiers, because of the grace of the field, and most of the parents, wives and children are in Beijing, so the Eight Banners Mongolia, the Eight Banners Han Army and the Green Battalion soldiers are still very firm in their will to fight.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou took away a small number of family members at most.

Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi are similar.

Their original tribe had long since been torn apart by Dolgon.

In this way, on the one hand, they couldn't wait for Gao Qiqian's reply, and on the other hand, the troops in their hands were really limited, which was not enough for them to support their own troops, so when Sony and Kubilong arrived one after another, Hong Chengchou, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi, these ministers, gave up their thoughts and could only follow Sony and them back to Beijing.

On 15 June, the army led by Sony, Suppilon and Hong Chengchou arrived in Tongzhou.

Although Sonny and Suppilon are the main battle factions, they still know the army, and the garrison in Tongzhou shows their ability, because in this way, they can form a horn with Beijing, and the Ming army is in a situation where the enemy is on the back of the enemy.

At this time, the Qing army gathered in Tongzhou had 70,000 Eight Banners Manchuria, 20,000 Eight Banners Mongolia, 110,000 Eight Banners Han Army, 40,000 Green Battalions and 200,000 Lian Yong, a total of 440,000 horses.

Overnight, Tongzhou was transformed into a huge barracks.

In Beijing, there are 20,000 Eight Banners Manchuria plus 100,000 Lian Yong.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also increased its troops again and transferred two infantry towns from Nanjing.

By mid-June, with the exception of the second town that remained between Dagukou and Beijing to protect the grain route, the Ming army gathered outside Chaoyangmen had reached 7 infantry towns and 1 cavalry town, with more than 185,000 men.

By this time, the decisive battle between the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties was already on the line.

……

But Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan didn't give up yet, and pulled Hong Chengchou, who had just returned to Beijing, and the three of them entered the palace together to find Bumu Butai, trying to persuade the Queen Mother to come forward to stop this decisive battle.

"The slave waits for the Queen Mother to say goodbye." Hong Chengchou and the three knelt on the ground to say goodbye.

"Let's be flat." Bumu Butai motioned for the three of them to get up, and then asked, "Mr. Hengjiu didn't suffer any danger when he entered the city, right?" In the past month or so, the scouts of the Ming army have been extremely arrogant. ”

"Back to the Queen Mother, the minions are not in danger." Hong replied.

"The Ming army has lifted the blockade of Beijing and has withdrawn to the camp outside Chaoyangmen."

"That's good." Bu Mu Butai said happily, "The first emperor often said to the mourning family that Mr. is a national scholar, and the regent also respects Mr. very much, so if Mr. has a good one, it will be a great loss to the Qing Dynasty." ”

"Slaves are ashamed." Hong Chengchou said again, "Queen Mother, the slave has a heartfelt word that is not unhappy. ”

"Mr. is a countryman, what he offers must be a good policy for governing the country, and what he advances must be a good word." Bumu Butai said, "The mourning family is here to listen. ”

Hong Chengchou said solemnly: "The Ming army's firearms are sharp and the soldiers are flourishing, the defeat of the Hunhe River, the two defeats of Dagukou, and the defeat of Guting Town, which can prove that the Ming army is no longer the Ming army of the past, and it is difficult to say that the Qing soldiers will win the decisive battle with it. ”

"Servants and others also seconded the proposal." Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan also said in unison, "At this time, you must not fight a decisive battle with the Ming army. ”

Bu Mu Butai smiled, Wen Yan said: "The mourning family has no knowledge, but I have read a few Han history books, there are indeed many such precedents in Chinese history, when the foreign army in the north marched south, the Han dynasty in the south often held out, and waited for the veterans of the foreign army to be tired and attacked again, such as the Battle of Huangshui, the Battle of Quarry Rock in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Battle of Diaoyu City. ”

"What the Queen Mother said is extremely true." Hong Chengchou said, "For the weak side of the army, the only strategy is to fight with deep ditches and high bases, and to pursue and attack the veterans of the strong enemy division when they are tired." ”

Bumu Butai asked rhetorically, "But have there ever been counterexamples?" ”

"Counterexample?" Hong Chengchou didn't react at once.

Bumu Butai said: "In the history of China, can there be a foreign army in the north that does not fight with deep ditches and high bases, and finally drags down the army of the south? ”

"This?" Hong Chengchou was speechless.

There really isn't such a precedent in history?

Fan Wencheng hurriedly said: "Empress Dowager, the reason why there is no such precedent in history is because the Han people are not warlike, while the foreign tribes in the north are still martial, and their clansmen are brave and good at fighting, so in history, it is often the northern foreign army that oppresses the Han people in the south, but the Han people in the south rarely have the ability to fight back. ”

"So, why is the Qing Dynasty an exception?" Bumu Butai said with a smile, "In history, the foreign armies in the north have always pressed the Han army in the south, how did it change in our Qing Dynasty?" It became that the Han army in the south pressed the foreign army in the north to fight? I'm afraid this can't be justified, right? ”