"It's the Spring Festival of another year, and it's sad to think back to the time when I once ruled over hundreds of millions of people, but now I can only be trapped in this cage-like siege."

Shengjing City, Aixin Jueluo Fulin disregarded the danger, stood at the head of the city, looking at the direction of BJ City, where he spent his youth, in his sight, the south has been occupied by the Xia army flags all over the mountains, and there is a solemn atmosphere.

Nearly a year has passed since the siege of Shengjing City, and the grain and grass reserves in the city have been consumed day after day, even if the reserves can last for at least two years, but in order to reduce losses, the imperial court still ordered the implementation of military management of grain, the collection of civilian grain stocks, and the fixed distribution of the same amount of grain per capita every day, giving priority to the supply of nobles and the army.

The military control of grain will inevitably affect the living conditions of the common people, and seeing that a year is approaching, the people in the city have food, and only the princes and nobles and those with a certain status in the banner can maintain the same living conditions as before the siege.

Even if Emperor Shunzhi took the lead in advocating frugality in order to save food, and ordered to reduce his imperial food expenses, eating only two meat and one vegetable per meal, it still could not change the extravagance of the princes and nobles below.

The emperor knew very well that the princes, nobles and ministers under him actively responded to his call for frugality on the surface, but secretly they were still full of fish and meat, and the people on the street were hungry and showed their faces, but the nobles in the palace ate with ruddy faces, and they looked like singing and dancing.

It was as if the Xia army in the outer city of the city did not exist.

Although the emperor knows all this, he is powerless to change, the Xia army is eyeing the outside of the city, he must maintain internal stability, if he goes too far, force some people in the city to the Xia army, open the city to surrender, then he really has no place to bury.

After looking at the city for a long time, Emperor Shunzhi finally sighed, turned around and walked down the city wall with the eunuchs, and when he returned to the Shengjing Palace, Fan Wencheng, a Hanchen who had withdrawn to the gate with the imperial court, had been waiting in the palace for a long time.

At this time, Fan Wencheng had already reached Huajia, and he occasionally contracted a cold on the way to Shengjing with the Qing court, leaving the root of the disease, and he needed someone to help him walk.

Even so, when Shengjing was surrounded by water, he still insisted on shrinking his clothes and food, donating the family property he had accumulated for the officials over the years to the imperial court, and supporting the imperial court to recruit troops to resist the enemy.

Seeing that Fan Wencheng had been waiting for him for a long time, Emperor Shunzhi hurriedly invited him into the warm hall and ordered someone to prepare a chair for him.

As soon as he mentioned his intentions, Fan Wencheng immediately sat up, he held his spirit, and said to the emperor: "Long live, the old minister has come all the way from his house, and the people in the city, regardless of the banner people and Han people, are hungry, if there is not enough food in the city, the old minister has a plan to try."

Listening to Fan Wencheng's words, Shunzhi suddenly lifted his spirit and listened carefully to Fan Wencheng's words.

I saw Fan Wencheng continue: "If the old minister is not mistaken, the former Fujian general Zheng Zhilong and his sons all moved to Shengjing with him, and Zheng Zhilong's daughter is the empress of the Nanren puppet emperor, and his eldest son Zheng Sen is deeply trusted by the puppet emperor, and holds a lot of power, long live Zheng Zhilong and his sons as hostages to exchange food with Xia Jun."

Speaking of the latter, he added: "Zheng Zhilong, as the father of the Nanren Empress, if the Nanren puppet emperor refuses to redeem him, and filial piety comes first, how will the people of the world view him?"

Fan Wencheng's plan won the emperor's heart, which made his eyes suddenly light up, slapped his thigh, and praised: "Good plan!"

However, he realized another problem, and said, "What if the southerners refuse?"

"Then push Zheng Zhilong and several of his sons to the top of the city, and kill them one after another in front of the entire army of the southerners!" Fan Wencheng said murderously: "The puppet emperor of the southern people can even stand by and watch his father-in-law, how can he govern this world well and let the people of the world obey the people?"

"Good!" Emperor Shunzhi was amazed and said, "Master Fan, you are really my loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty! Just do as you say!"

Fan Wencheng is indeed a dog loyal to the Qing Dynasty

, The rivers and mountains of the Qing Dynasty can almost be said to have been founded by him and Huang Taiji, Taizong of the Qing Dynasty, and he naturally does not want to sit back and watch the Qing Dynasty perish like this, and it will be counted as a day if he can survive for a day.

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Emperor Shunzhi soon sent people out of the city to the Xia army camp according to Fan Wencheng's suggestion, and met with Su Dingyuan, the supreme general of the Xia army, and Anton Bo Sufu, and expressed his intention to the two, expressing his willingness to take the reign of the dynasty and several uncles as hostages in exchange for supplies.

Here the Qing court kept an eye on it, and they did not directly pick out that they wanted to exchange for food, but exchanged it for various materials, including food, in order to prevent the Xia army from thinking that they were short of food, and thus refuse their request for food.

In the face of the request made by the Qing court's envoy, even if you are the Duke of Rongguo, Su Dingyuan did not dare to make a decision without authorization, this matter is very important, it is related to the prince and uncle, if he refuses the request of the Qing court without authorization, resulting in the death of the emperor and uncle, and the reputation of the emperor is damaged, then he will be guilty of a serious crime.

Therefore, Su Dingyuan decisively wrote a letter and ordered someone to send it to Jiangning quickly, so that the emperor could make his own decision.

It only took more than half a month to send the horses from Shengjing all the way to Jiangning City, and several horses were killed.

For Zheng Zhilong, the officials of the DPRK and China have no good feelings, and the rapid deterioration of the situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty against the Qing Dynasty has his share of credit in it, if it is not for his passive resistance to the Qing Dynasty and the surrender of the northern Fujian Pass to the Qing army, how could the Qing army easily invade Fujian and capture and kill Emperor Longwu?

Moreover, he also believed the nonsense of the Qing court, handed over all the Minnan and Zheng armies, and threw himself into the net with his sons, becoming a prisoner of the Manchu Dynasty, which was extremely stupid.

Not only did the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu have no good impression of Zheng Zhilong, Su Yan was also extremely disgusted with this cheap father-in-law, but he also had to take into account the feelings of Zhu Chenggong and Empress Zheng, Zhu Chenggong was far away in Luzon, and it was too late to tell him now, so Su Yan could only discuss with Empress Zheng whether to bring Zheng Zhilong's father and son back from Shengjing.

When Su Yan came to Kunning Palace, Empress Zheng had already learned about it through the eunuchs, and she seemed a little worried and uneasy.

Although she pretended to be calm and made herself look as calm as possible, Su Yan could still see from her constantly fluttering eyes that her heart was not as calm as it seemed on the surface.

Su Yan pulled her to sit on the stool in the palace, took out the book she brought with her from her sleeve, put it on the table, and said, "Zitong, take a look, this is sent by Rong Guogong, and after reading it, we will discuss about your father."

Empress Zheng nodded silently, reached out and picked up the book, and gently flipped through it.

There are only more than 100 words in the book, but Empress Zheng read it very carefully, and after a long time, she put the book down, looked at Su Yan, and asked, "I wonder what Your Majesty wants to do with the concubine's father and brother?"

Su Yan didn't expect her to throw the question to herself instead, she was stunned for a moment before replying, "No matter what they have behaved in the past, they are also your relatives, the prince's maiden relatives, and they should be rescued from the Tartars."

"But if you agree to the Hu people's conditions, won't you become an enemy?" Empress Zheng said that although she really wanted to redeem her father and brother, she was already a country, and she had to consider the whole country.

Seeing that she was worried about this, Su Yan couldn't help but laugh a little, he chuckled, stroked Empress Zheng's cheek, and said, "That Hu people are just trapped beasts, even if they give them some more supplies, why not? After all, it still can't change the fate of the Hu people's demise."

There were other palace maids in the Kunning Palace watching from the side, and by this blatant intimate act, Empress Zheng's cheeks inevitably flushed slightly, she gently pressed Su Yan's hand, took him away, and then met Su Yan's gaze, and said: "Your Majesty, if the concubine's unsuccessful father and brother can come back safely, the concubine will definitely teach them to keep to themselves, abide by the laws of the country, and not be the moths of the country that bully men and women."

"With Zitong's words, I'm relieved." Su Yan smiled and nodded, what he wanted was Empress Zheng's assurance, if the queen had the heart to restrain her family, then what would it matter if he ransomed Zheng Zhilong's idiots back, but redeeming them didn't mean that they would be able to raise them well, except for Zheng Zhilong's inconvenient age, several of his sons were sent to Luzon to help with reclamation.

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At the court meeting the next day, Su Yan announced that he agreed to the request of the Qing court, and ordered the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry to prepare the materials requested by the Qing court and send them to Shengjing City.

Along with the supplies, there is also a handwritten edict from Su Yan, he will not accept this blackmail from the Qing court in vain, since the Qing court wants to disgust him, then he must also be disgusted to go back, this deputy edict is to order Su Dingyuan and Su Fu to launch an artillery bombardment of Shengjing City after completing the handover - invest all the rocket artillery in the army, so that most of Shengjing City will be in flames!

The delivery of supplies and hostages was not completed until the end of March, when Zheng Zhilong and his sons, who had been under house arrest in Hu Jing for many years, were finally released and rediscovered.

Zheng Zhilong was wearing a new clothes, and staggered out of Shengjing slightly under the escort of the Qing army, he looked at the Xia army's tent that stretched for miles outside Shengjing City, his face was full of shock, and after a long time, he opened his mouth and muttered to himself:

"My son-in-law actually has such a means, I knew that today, I would not surrender to the Hu people when I said anything......

Although Zheng Zhilong and they have been under house arrest all these years, it does not mean that they know nothing about the outside world, and they often learn about the changes in the world from the Qing court's mansion newspaper, so they naturally know that the powerful Xia Dynasty in the south was established by their son-in-law.

Today, seeing the light of day and seeing the powerful Han army, Zheng Zhilong and his heart are naturally full of regret, but they are full of hope for a new life in the future, especially his sons, who have not yet arrived in Jiangning, and they have already begun to fantasize about how the emperor's brother-in-law will treat them well in the south.

Su Dingyuan did not sit at the handover scene, but was in charge of Anton Bo Su Fu, the former was very excited after receiving the emperor's hand, all the artillery in the general was concentrated, and he wanted to give the Qing army in the city a big surprise, of course, he didn't want to see those fools of the Zheng family.

Su Dingyuan stood in front of the rocket artillery position, gently stroking the cold rocket launcher, looking at the rocket launcher as if looking at a delicate beauty, Ma Xin stood behind him, and said with a smile: "Supervisor, if these rockets are shot, the Shengjing City of the Hu people will definitely be burned to the ground, and the last general can't wait to see that scene."

"You're right." Su Dingyuan withdrew his hand stroking the launch rack and said, "After besieging the city for a year, I can finally launch rockets into the city, to be honest, I also want to thank the emperor who is full of people, if it wasn't for them taking the initiative to provoke trouble, Your Majesty would not necessarily agree to launch rockets at the city."

After speaking, regardless of Ma Xin's answer, Su Dingyuan set his eyes on Shengjing City, his eyes were full of eagerness.

On the other side, Zheng Zhilong and the others finally met the young Korean governor Su Fu, who was quite friendly to them, and ordered a few people to be taken to the tent prepared for them separately to bathe in wide clothes and enjoy food, which made the Zheng father and son, who had been looked at with contempt by the Xia soldiers all the way, suddenly a little flattered.

The general disdainful gaze of Xia Jun along the way made Zheng Zhilong realize that the situation of his father and son would not be very good, and even if the emperor's son-in-law was present, he might not be able to be treated well, so after being taken to the tent prepared for them alone, Zheng Zhilong solemnly stopped several sons and said to them:

"This time I went south to Jiangning, and everyone else gave me a tail between my legs, don't be arrogant and domineering just because the fifth sister is the queen."

His sons were not particularly stupid, and they also realized the hostility of the Xia soldiers to him along the way, and when they saw their father being so serious, they all nodded and took their father's advice to heart.

Later, they were taken by the soldiers to take a bath and change clothes, and after a stick of incense, they changed into new clothes and were brought to Su Fu, where they enjoyed the food prepared for them under Su Fu's hospitality.

Just as they were gobbling up food, an impassioned and sharp horn suddenly sounded outside the tent, which made Zheng Zhilong subconsciously put down his hand

looked outside, then at Su Fu, and asked, "Uncle Andong, is this about to attack the city?"

"Definitely." Su Fu's sitting posture remained unchanged, with a faint smile on his face, and said, "Guozhang, and a few uncles, please finish the meal as soon as possible, and I will take you to see it later, and you will know what to do next."

For some reason, Zheng Zhilong looked at the smile on Su Fu's face, and a chill suddenly struck behind him, making him shudder.