"The criminal minister Mao Wenlong knocked on my emperor, and bowed to peace."

In the cramped edict prison of Jinyiwei, Zhu Youzhen came here accompanied by Cao Huachun, and he naturally came to see Mao Wenlong.

At first, Cao Huachun suggested that Mao Wenlong be brought into the palace, after all, the environment in the edict was really not good, and the evil spirit was too heavy, for fear of colliding with the holy bow.

But Zhu Youzhen said: "Mao Wenlong's heart has no social society, and he goes to the palace, isn't it blasphemy?" ”

Therefore, the place where the monarch and the minister met was chosen in this gloomy prison.

The cell is not big, there is a table and a chair, and Mao Wenlong, who has untied the shackles, knelt five steps away in front of Zhu Youzhen and kowtowed.

This distance made Cao Huachun a little worried, afraid that Mao Wenlong would take risks, so he stood behind Zhu Youzhen's side, and paid attention to Mao Wenlong at all times.

Zhu Youzhen looked down at Mao Wenlong, and did not exempt the latter from the courtesy, taking the confession of Cao Huachun's interrogation during this time and some information collected by the Spiegel Division, and asked them one by one.

"Mao Wenlong, you have committed a lot of crimes, any of these are enough to kill your head, you and I have a good discussion to see if you should kill or not."

The first sentence made Mao Wenlong break out in a cold sweat, and he didn't dare to say anything.

"One crime: Since you led Dongjiang Town, you have been arbitrary and uncontrolled, and the prison army sent by the imperial court to your Dongjiang died tragically, and Erdao was killed by Jiannu.

The second crime: becoming more and more arrogant and disobeying orders. Sun Guozhen is the governor of Denglai, and he is your superior, but Sun Guozhen's general orders have not been obeyed, and you can do whatever you want by your own temperament.

The third crime is to be greedy for money. A small Dongjiang town, you dare to report 100,000 troops to the imperial court, this is simply a big joke in the world.

The fourth crime is to open mutual markets without authorization and exchange transactions with maritime merchants from various countries.

His five crimes were to connive at his subordinates disguised as thieves to rob caravans, kill civilians, and falsely claim to be a post-gold thief and take on the military merits.

The six sins, sitting on the ground and watching, appeasement and nurturing the enemy.

Take a look, listen to it, one by one, appalling, Mao Wenlong, you are my Ming Dynasty's Dongjiang General Army, and you are the undisputed border general, but you look forward to your own business. ”

Mao Wenlong kowtowed again and again: "Your Majesty is Shengming, and the ministers also have grievances." ”

"Say, I'll hear what you have wronged."

Zhu Youzhen picked up the teacup and waited for Mao Wenlong's self-proof of innocence.

The latter is like a drowning man who has grasped a life-saving straw and loudly pleaded to save himself.

"Your Majesty, none of these six crimes have been committed by the minister, these are all slanders of thieves, and they are Huang Taiji's treacherous schemes.

Since the battle of the Hunhe River, my Ming Dynasty has successively lost more than 70 cities in Liaoyang, Shenyang and other western Liaoning, resulting in thousands of miles of territory in Liaodong have fallen into the hands of thieves.

Where would the minister have thought that in my small Dongjiang Town, the imperial court would send a prison army to come, so he did not send anyone to protect it, and the prison army died at the hands of Jiannu, and this minister mistakenly judged it.

The second crime is that the minister did not obey the general's order, and the minister was also forced to be helpless. Up and down Dongjiang Town, from the generals to the soldiers, everyone is tired of war, and the morale of the army is sluggish. If the three armies can't use their lives, the ministers act arbitrarily, if they don't win, the ministers' humble bodies are not worth mentioning, but if the court loses the Dongjiang River, the ministers are too big.

Your Majesty, the Dongjiang Salary Division is located in Ningyuan, and the Liao salary is in arrears every year, and even Guan Ningjun is short of salary, and how much grain can be squeezed out of the ministers, this money and grain, the 28,000 soldiers and soldiers in Dongjiang Town all watched with their eyes, and as soon as the ships escorting the money and grain entered the island, they would be divided up in an instant, and the ministers dared to swallow it privately, and they would not be eaten alive by the soldiers at that time.

Since the establishment of Dongjiang Town, there has never been a mutiny among soldiers, which shows that the ministers have never been greedy for a little bit of food.

As for falsely reporting the number of 100,000, it was because the traitor Wei Zhongxian was angry with his ministers back then, just to embarrass Wei Zhongxian.

The four crimes of slander and slander are even more out of nothing, the danger of Phi Dao choking southern Liaonan, for my Ming and Houjin to fight for the place, here, there are eight months a year is not peaceful, the scouts and scouts on both sides of the enemy and us are strangled all the time, such a place where soldiers must fight, where will there be businessmen who dare to come here to do business.

The five crimes of falsely accusing the minister of disguise as a thief to intercept and kill the caravan, which the minister did do, but the minister did not disguise, the minister sent troops to intercept and kill, but the minister intercepted and killed the fleet of Jin merchants.

Your Majesty, the Jin merchants fornicated with Jiannu and sold food, cloth, medicine, iron and other armaments and materials to Jiannu, this is not what the enemy is, and the minister can't watch this ship of life-saving things fall into the hands of the Houjin people, and live the life of Jiannu.

If Jiannu survives, then my Daming Erlang will die!

The six sin slander ministers sit on the ground and watch, appease and raise the enemy, and the ministers dare not be, all of them come to send troops or not, all of them are decided by the court, and the ministers dare not be monopolistic, hoping that Your Majesty will be judged! ”

After saying this defense, Mao Wenlong smashed his head on the ground, as if he had a great grievance.

Zhu Youzhen laughed, this was a sneer and a mockery.

"In this way, Qing is not only not a criminal minister, but also a loyal minister of my Ming Dynasty."

"The minister doesn't dare, but the minister doesn't dare to be the rebel and thief that the people of the world refer to."

Zhu Youzhen no longer looked at the confession, but took out the information of the Spiegel Division and asked: "In the first year of Chongzhen, on January 20 of the second year of the pseudo-queen Jin Tiancong, did you write a letter to Huang Taiji?" The content of the letter is, I hope that Huang Taiji will send an envoy to Phi Dao to meet with you privately? ”

Mao Wenlong shuddered suddenly, raised his head and said loudly: "No! The minister never sent a secret message to Huang Taiji. ”

"In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, on September 29 of the first year of the puppet queen Jin Tiancong, the thief, Wang Zideng, the deputy general of the Han Yellow Banner, has he ever been to Phi Island?"

When Zhu Youzhen said this, he raised his head and looked at Mao Wenlong, with a smile on his face: "Why don't you take a look yourself?" This information is not in Chinese, but in Manchu! ”

The latter's eyes widened, and he got up tremblingly, and outside the prison, Ding Xiu, a thousand households of Jinyi Wei, quietly turned half of his body to face Mao Wenlong.

Seeing that Mao Wenlong stood still and did not move, Zhu Youzhen continued to read down: "In the first year of Chongzhen, on May 16 of the second year of the pseudo-queen Jin Tiancong, you sent the general Ma Fangming and other three people to board the ship to Zhenjiang, and then went to Shenyang to meet Wang Zideng. ”

Mao Wenlong couldn't stand anymore, and sat on the ground as soon as his knees went weak, dumbfounded.

"I don't dare to say that I know all the letters between you and Huang Taiji, but I've read six or seven of them." Zhu Youzhen put down the information in his hand, and said to Mao Wenlong with a gloomy face: "Your old teacher personally rebelled against Nurhachi's son-in-law Liu Xingzuo back then, have you forgotten about this matter?"

Shenyang is the Shenyang of my Ming Dynasty, since the establishment of Shenyang Wei, it has been 260 years! Have you forgotten about this?

It's true that my Ming is decaying, but my Ming is not dead! The family and the country are still there, and those wanderers in the thief camp have not forgotten their homeland, and you think that what you are doing is seamless, and I tell you that you are too self-righteous.

In the city of Shenyang, the people loyal to my Ming Dynasty are not dead! ”

Mao Wenlong opened his mouth and didn't say anything several times.

But soon, Mao Wenlong seemed to think of something, raised his head and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister did write a letter to Huang Taiji, but this is all a delaying tactic of the minister, in order to paralyze Huang Taiji, the minister has never thought of treason and joining the enemy." ”

"But you have a lot of respect for yourself!"

Zhu Youzhen saw that Mao Wenlong was still stiff-mouthed until this moment, kicked over the low table in front of him angrily, got up and shouted angrily: "Can't you see the little abacus in your heart to bully the young, you actually want to maintain the current situation, neither want Houjin to enter the customs, but also don't want to see Houjin defeated."

What you want is to be the governor of Denglai, the governor of Liaodong, and then be the savior of my Ming Dynasty, Mao Wenlong, are you worthy! ”

Mao Wenlong stopped quibbling anymore, and kowtowed and cried.

"The minister is wrong, the minister's selfish intentions have made a big mistake, causing today's situation, Your Majesty wants to kill or chop, and the minister no longer dares to have the slightest resentment."

"I won't kill you." Zhu Youzhen squeezed out a sentence from his teeth: "Not only because of your past achievements, but also because Old Lady Yuan opened his mouth to intercede for you, I must take care of it."

I will cut you for the people, and in the future, you will be a farmer, as for these unbearable letters, I will burn them, and from now on there will be no pen left in the history books, and your reputation will be ruined. ”

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen turned around and wanted to leave, Mao Wenlong hurriedly stepped forward on his knees and howled.

"Your Majesty, the minister asks Your Majesty to sentence the minister to exile Liaodong, and the minister would rather die on the battlefield than die in the fields."

Zhu Youzhen stopped and glanced down.

"Three and a half months after the Battle of Jinzhou, my Daming Erlang killed more than 12,000 people, if you send troops to Zhenjiang and harass Houjin, maybe not so many people will die."

After that, don't stop and stride away.

For Mao Wenlong, Zhu Youzhen has absolutely no wrongs, the Battle of Jinxing has been fought for more than five months in history, and Mao Wenlong has been watching coldly from beginning to end, not a single soldier has been out, but the contact with Huang Taiji has been as many as four or five times.

Perhaps, as he Mao Wenlong said, he never thought of treason, let alone defecting to Huang Taiji, but just planned to paralyze Huang Taiji and make a delaying tactic.

But Mao Wenlong never thought about it from beginning to end, when he used this so-called delaying strategy, he happened to fall into the hands of Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji is also using such a delaying tactic to deal with Mao Wenlong to solve his own worries, and at the same time, he can use Mao Wenlong's ambiguous attitude to spread rumors to induce Daming to get rid of Mao Wenlong.

In the second year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong and ordered the deputy general Chen Jisheng to temporarily lead the Dongjiang River.

Half a year later, the Phi Dao Rebellion broke out, followed by the Dengzhou Rebellion.

The defense line of the Great Wall of Denglai Sea, which was created by Yuan Keli, completely collapsed.

Among the generals of the Dongjiang system, Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Liu Xingzhi surrendered to Houjin successively.

This is the power of intelligence warfare, Huang Taiji did not spend a single soldier, only relying on rumors to dismantle an extremely important strategic defense line of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, Bai Dedenlai Department nearly 30,000 elites!

Of course, perhaps this can't be all blamed on Mao Wenlong and the Dongjiang generals.

Who is to blame?

Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, or, Wei Zhongxian!

When Yuan Keli, who turned the tide and fell to the top, was framed and dismissed, perhaps this made Mao Wenlong think of Yu Qian and Qi Jiguang.

He no longer believed in the imperial court, so he thought of self-preservation, and thought of raising his own self-respect.

Whether Mao Wenlong did anything wrong or not, whether it was him, the Ming Dynasty, the country, and the imperial court, was at fault.

Leave it to the world to argue.

Zhu Youzhen left Mao Wenlong with dignity.

It can be regarded as an affirmation of his past achievements, and it is also a compensation for the injustice suffered by Yuan Keli.

The court doesn't owe Mao Wenlong anything!