Chapter 59: Let Eunuch Du perform the peace talks again
"Childe, just rest assured to go back to your life, and then I have to have a good talk with Du's father-in-law, after all, the matter of Zen is not a child's play."
Li Yan felt that Chongzhen's words were reasonable, a good emperor, said that if you take off your robe and give way, you will take off your robe and give way?
Even if Chongzhen is generous, it involves a lot of things, of course, it has to list rules and regulations, the two sides have to bargain, and finally have to break His Majesty the king's holy ruling, how can it be negotiated at once?
He can't delay here, he can't stay in the place of right and wrong for a long time, 6 million taels of silver, saved Zhang Shiyao and other four or five hundred people.
This matter has finally been done, one yard to one yard, hurry out of the city so as not to have too many dreams at night.
Li Yan made up his mind and said: "Since this is the case, Li Yan will not bother, I hope that His Majesty the Ming Emperor and Gonggong Du will negotiate a positive result as soon as possible, and the world will be very fortunate."
"Haha, borrow the auspicious words of the son."
Li Yan said goodbye, and Chongzhen still ordered the prince to send him off.
Li Yan, Li Nian, and Li Mu took 200 Dashun troops to loosen the ties and lead more than 400 people including Ma Shiyao away, and of course they would not give them horses and equipment, but only allowed them to drive the empty cart pulling silver out of the Qianqing Palace.
The crown prince Zhu Cihong took 50 guards to send them out of the palace all the way, and then the city gates were closed.
After leaving the palace, the three Li Yan brothers, including Ma Shiyao and others, breathed a sigh of relief.
"Chongzhen is really a trustworthy person." Li Niandao.
"Yes, if he dares to play tricks, our brother will definitely splatter the palace with blood." Li Mu echoed.
"Thank you to the military advisor and the two generals, if it weren't for you risking your life and running to save each other, Shiyao and these hundreds of brothers would have been in different places a long time ago, and this kindness Shiyao has remembered."
Ma Shiyao said and kicked off the saddle and dismounted to kowtow to the three Li Yan brothers, and the more than 400 rescued prisoners also saluted.
Reborn after the catastrophe, it is a blessing for them to recreate.
Li Yan said: "General Ma's words are serious, brothers, there is no need to be like this. We are all generals of Dashun, we are a family, I, Li Yan, just did one thing that should be done, you are too much to see like this, hurry up."
In front of the Dashun military camp on the bank of the moat, Liu Fangliang lined up with 5,000 soldiers and horses to greet him.
Liu Fangliang and Liu Rukui gave their son Li Yan a salute, and then Ma Shiyao saw Liu Fangliang and Liu Rukui again, greeting each other, just a few days apart, almost separated by yin and yang.
This reunion is extraordinary.
Liu Fangliang felt that this matter was also going well, and he also prepared for the worst, if there was a change in the palace, he would definitely lead the army to attack the city and meet Li Yan in the city.
Now Ma Shiyao and the others have been rescued, but there is no news from Dugong Gonggong, so they have to order someone to send a letter to His Majesty King Chuang, while waiting for news from the palace here......
The Ming army at the head of the palace saw that the thieves had no intention of attacking the city, so they also put away their bows and arrows, and the 300 Beijing battalion soldiers such as Jin Xuan, who were secretly ambushed in the palace, also withdrew.
Wang Chengen took more than 100 brocade guards to carry all the silver away and put it in the warehouse. Due to the staggering amount of silver and the lack of manpower, Wang Chengen gathered another 200 eunuchs to help.
These brocade guards and eunuchs counted the silver until their hands were sore, and they carried the silver until they were tired, but they still enjoyed it.
It was a blessing for them that the palace had so much silver at once.
Not only the eunuchs and palace maids were happy, but the civil and military generals were also very excited, just these hundreds of captives were killed, who would have thought that the emperor would deduct so much silver from them at once.
The emperor's ability to extort bamboo is absolutely first-class!
This time, these thieves lost a lot of money. However, their silver is also robbed of the common people, the rich and the gentry, and fundamentally speaking, it is still the silver of our Ming Dynasty.
If you go back some time, the emperor has so much silver at once, is he still worried about not having food? Will the border generals of the Ming border army mutiniate because they can't receive money?
Soon, this matter also became an interesting talk among the 1,500 Ming generals in the city, so follow Emperor Chongzhen well, and you don't have to worry about not being able to pay your salary.
What the emperor has now is silver!
Of course, the happiest is Chongzhen, for him, having silver is equivalent to having everything
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Cultivation and upgrading rely on silver.
"Wang Daban, send 500,000 taels of silver to my Heart Nourishing Hall tonight." Chongzhen quietly instructed Wang Chengen.
"Minion Command." Wang Chengen agreed, thinking in his heart, the emperor asked for 200,000 taels last time, and this time he asked for 500,000 taels.
Originally, the seven million taels of silver in this palace were all hoarded by the lord himself, and the speed was staggering, but it was not a tax from the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, all the silver in the palace belongs to the emperor, how much and when to use it, of course, it is ready-made, and it is so troublesome to use it?
I understand, it is better to keep the silver privately in the Heart Cultivation Palace than to store it in the inner treasury, although the inner treasury is the emperor's private small treasury, but it is more convenient for the lord to use the silver in the future, and it is also used to block the mouths of those stinky civil officials.
Wang Chengen thought about it himself, and suddenly became enlightened.
"Emperor, what should I do with Gonggong Du?" Wang Chengen suddenly thought of this dog minion.
"Let's go, I'll take a look at him first."
Chongzhen deliberately let Du Xun enter the palace this time, naturally it is not a matter of peace talks, Chongzhen has an account to settle for him.
A few days ago, Eunuch Du died and came back to life, hiding from the world and crossing the sea, and turning the group of Emperor Chongzhen.
At that time, Eunuch Du was one of Chongzhen's most trusted eunuchs, and he was ordered to supervise Xuanhua, but he and Xuanhua General Wang Chengyun treasoned and surrendered to the enemy, and opened the door to meet him.
Li Zicheng's men and horses entered Xuanhua, and Eunuch Du concealed the sky and the sea, claiming that he had been martyred.
When the news reached Jingshi, Chongzhen was in pain, like mourning.
Then Chongzhen personally held a memorial service for Eunuch Du, and in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, he gave a eulogy with tears in his eyes, that scene, that guy, was quite touching.
After the memorial service, Chongzhen not only crowned Eunuch Du as a martyr, but also crowned Eunuch Du's wife and son, and the eunuch had no wife and no children, so he sealed his nephew to comfort Eunuch Du's dead in the sky.
But what is surprising is that when Li Zicheng's soldiers came to the city, this Du Gonggong entered the city again, and the civil and military officials seemed to have bumped into a ghost when they saw him.
Du Gonggong didn't care, swaggered to see Chongzhen, and said that he was here to negotiate peace with Chongzhen on behalf of Li Zicheng, and listed 123 articles for Chongzhen to agree, and then Li Zicheng withdrew from the army.
As a result, Chongzhen didn't agree, and of course Li Zicheng didn't retreat, but Eunuch Du retreated, leaving Chongzhen as if no one was around, and went to Li Zicheng to be a hero.
Then Chongzhen was miserable.
Whenever Chongzhen remembered that incident, he really felt that Zhu Youzhen's brain was in water at that time.
Since this eunuch Du has such great ability, he must be allowed to enter the palace again, let him replace Li Yan, and represent Li Zicheng to perform peace talks with me again.
Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen