Chapter 216: Da Ming is still Da Ming

"These people, they really can't be used..."

Chen Cao said and looked at Cao Wenzhao: "Deputy General Cao, you have been in Liaodong for a long time, why don't you tell me, this Liaodong soldier, can you still fight with Jiannu?" ”

Cao Wenzhao glanced at Sun Chuanting, and then said: "The last general thinks that the soldiers of Liaodong, except for those that Guogong said before, have no soldiers available, let alone engage with the Tartars." ”

This is an obvious problem, even if they don't need to explain, Sun Chuanting can know it, but now what he thinks in his heart is another problem with what Chen Cao did.

Chen Cao snorted coldly: "Yuan Chonghuan can gather 100,000 troops, and the military expenses of 7 million are all provided by me, and the imperial court has not paid a penny at all, Boya, you should know that this time I am in charge of the Dingwu army, no one can get me down, unless I die." ”

Zhao Xin interjected: "Lord Sun, there may be some things you don't know, the official document sent by Wei Guogong personally asked Grandpa to spend 11 million taels on the army, does Lord Sun know that this is the sum of taxes paid by the Ming Dynasty for many years?" Five years..."

Chen Cao sneered: "The emperor wants to squeeze the last drop of my blood, so I asked Wei Guogong if they could eat this eleven million taels, even if it was such an obvious question, Wei Guogong took the silver as usual and put the letter of appointment on my mansion." ”

Chen Cao's words were for everyone to hear: "I'm dead, it's not so easy for you to live a good life, just as the so-called tree falls and scatters, will you, the generals, officials and soldiers I personally trained, rebel for me?" Therefore, your end is only to be dismissed, maybe you Sun Boya, Lu Jiandou and Hong Hengjiu will all be poisoned in their own homes. ”

Hong Chengchou was afraid of death, and when he heard this, he immediately strengthened his belief in following Chen Cao, and Sun Chuanting asked: "Grandpa, the lower officials read the books of the sages, and all they learn is to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country..."

"The Ming Dynasty has to forget, are you still unwilling to save the country?"

As soon as Chen Cao asked, Sun Chuanting immediately smiled bitterly: "Grandpa, what is this called saving the country, it is clear that he is setting up another mountain to be the emperor..."

Everyone in the tent looked at Chen Cao, this is a serious question, it's like someone else has put their lives on you, and then they suddenly regretted it and said they wouldn't do it, who can stand it?

Chen Cao first looked at Zhao Xin: "Zhao Xin, do you want to be a national prince?" ”

Zhao Xin smiled: "Of course I want to, my lords of the Ming Dynasty are all human beings, I am from a bitter background, if I can become a heirloom lord, it would be great..."

Chen Cao looked at Tang Kainian again: "How is it, what about you?" ”

Tang Kainian is usually more serious, but when he talked about this question, he was a little excited: "The last general still remembers that King Kaiping was just a smuggled salt seller..."

"Hahaha..."

The rest of the generals all laughed, and Zhao Xin even smiled and slapped Tang Kainian: "Old Tang, your appetite is bigger than mine..."

Chen Cao also smiled, and looked at Cao Wenzhao: "Back then, the Qi family army was framed by Wang Bao and killed seven or eight out of ten in Jizhen, and now I try my best to protect you as the deputy chief soldier of Liaoxi, what do you think of what I did?" ”

"Wen Zhao only knows that the Duke of Guo has the grace of knowing my Cao family."

Lu Xiangsheng was finally asked: "How is it, how does Jiandou think he can save Daming?" ”

"Save Daming, the last general thinks that he needs to use fierce medicine, otherwise there is no help..."

"Brother Jiandou, you..."Sun Chuanting looked like he hated iron but not steel: "Grandpa, you are also taught by the sage, and the monarch wants the minister to die..."

"Joke..."Chen Cao said coldly: "I said, I never thought of opposing the Ming Dynasty, what I want to oppose is just the emperor of the Zhu family, the Ming Dynasty is still the Ming Dynasty, but the emperor has to be replaced..."

None of the people who knew what was going on understood Chen Cao's words, just like the current Sun Chuanting: "The Ming Dynasty was established by Emperor Taizu, even if you become the emperor, you can't become the emperor of the Ming Dynasty..."

Zhao Xin wanted to kill someone, but Chen Cao stopped him with his eyes, and then smiled: "You are right, but you may have forgotten that the reason why Emperor Taizu was able to become the first emperor of the ages was because he expelled the Tartars and restored the country of my Han people; ”

Chen Cao looked at Sun Chuanting and said with interest: "You said, the emperor of the Zhu family expelled the Tartars, but in the end he was destroyed by them, can the people still believe them?"

And at that time, it was me Chen Cao who expelled the Tartars, do you think the people of the world believe in me Chen Cao or continue to believe in the Zhu family? ”

"Grandpa, you're arguing with words..."

Sun Chuanting felt that his eloquence was not as strong as Chen Caoqiang, who wrote articles.

Zhao Xin smiled helplessly and said, "Master Sun, are you confused... Do you know how many people have rebelled since the fifth year of the Apocalypse to this year? Do you know how many people have been affected?

Hebei and Shandong have been in drought for three years, and Nanzhili has been washed by the flood and even the crops cannot survive, Henan is thousands of miles away, Shaanxi has become a wasteland, and the people can not survive, if you go to Shaanxi, maybe you feel that these people are really pitiful. ”

"Are the rebels justified?"

Sun Chuanting was a little angry, but Chen Cao was not angry at all, but said in a comforting tone: "The people rebelled when they couldn't survive, you have to remember that Emperor Taizu rebelled because he couldn't survive." ”

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Grandpa, in this way, you are also the Taizu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty?" Can there be two Taizu emperors in the Ming Dynasty? How should this historical material be written? ”

"The Ming Dynasty is just a code name for a house, and the owner of the house is not surnamed Daming, he can be surnamed Zhu, or he can be surnamed Chen, or even surnamed Sun," Chen Cao sat back in place: "Now the owner of this house has a serious illness that will infect future generations, if the owner is not carried out of this house and let new people live in it, otherwise a plague will be formed, and this house must be burned down, and it must not be kept;

As for whether it is Emperor Taizu or not, that is also a matter for the future, who dares to guarantee it now? In history, there are more people who have been killed if they rebelled, why, Boya also wants to die with me? ”

Sun Chuanting didn't speak, and Chen Cao said kindly: "After the Ming Dynasty changed its surname, life must be even better than now, everyone has books to read, everyone has clothes to wear...

My goal is to bring the Ming Dynasty together with other countries to form a trend of universal harmony..."

"The world is the same..."Sun Chuanting muttered: "There are many non-Han people in the world, how can there be great harmony?" ”

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"On June 11, the Tartar army entrenched in the Shuangtaizi River crossed the Shuangtaizi River at night and attacked the Xiping Fort where the Chen Cao Department of the Duke of Liangguo was stationed, and the Tartar cavalry numbered 20,000.

On the 18th, the Tartar army of nearly 50,000 people surrounded the city of Guangning, and the Duke of Liangguo held on to the city, and had abandoned the fortresses around the city, and the Tartar rangers had reappeared outside the city of Dalinghe..."

"Chen Cao is defeated?"

Yuan Chonghuan frowned: "The Dingwu army under his command is full of firearms, and there are many Hongyi cannons, can they also fail?" ”

Gu Linsheng said: "Ming Gong, even if our army firearms are fired in a formation, the Tartars can be broken, and Chen Cao's department is not an iron-clad army, and failure is a common thing, but Ming Gong can use this to write to the imperial court and say that his battle is unfavorable." ”

Yuan Chonghuan nodded, his goal had been achieved, but now that even Chen Cao was defeated, if he wanted to completely win Huang Taiji, he still needed a certain plan: "Chen Cao held on to Guangning City, and also withdrew all the troops in the surrounding fortresses, it is understandable to shrink his strength, but in this way, it is we who face the Tartar soldiers." ”

Deng Zhen's eyes rolled, and then said: "Duke Ming, the student thinks that it is better to report this matter to the eunuch as soon as possible, and then send a document to the imperial court, this time the imperial court has strongly supported Ming Gong's plan, once it misses, the student is worried that there will be big trouble..."

Deng Zhen's words reminded Yuan Chonghuan that the emperor never gave him a small amount of military spending, since he began to propose the construction of the Guanningjin defense line when he took office, he allocated at least 30 million taels of silver in the past few years, but what made Yuan Chonghuan headache was that most of this money was taken away by the eunuchs without he could handle it, and he carried a skin.

Yuan Chonghuan couldn't help but feel cold in his heart, once the Liao affair reached the stage of being out of control, he would not be able to escape death: "It makes sense, immediately go and inform the eunuch of the prison army, and then report to the imperial court urgently, Chen Cao must take the main responsibility for this matter." ”

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On the 14th Ghost Day of July, Chen Cao met Wu Chun, the eunuch who had arrived from Beijing, in Guangning City, and of course, the matter was a bit serious.

"No one in the inner court wants to come, and all the factions have gone to Governor Yuan Chonghuan, but we are the only ones who want to come."

Wu Chun thought that Chen Cao was a mallet, and he would slap him up like before.

Chen Cao took out a set of eyes and style of the Ming Dynasty's contempt for eunuchs, looked at Wu Chun and said: "Gonggong Wu, that's because Yuan Chonghuan has more money there, and the money given by His Majesty is in his hands, if you want to share the spoils, you have to go to him to get money, I, Chen Cao, am just sticking to Liaodong now, as long as I don't lose Guangning City, even Your Majesty, you can't ask me for my guilt..."

Wu Chun was shocked in his heart, he thought that Chen Cao would treat himself the same as before, but he didn't know that he had suffered a loss from the beginning, so he simply took out the eunuch faction: "Liangguo Gong, don't forget that our family came to send you the emperor's will to preach for you, by the way, the emperor also said that if the war in Liaodong is unfavorable, Chen Cao will be fully responsible..."

"Ahaha..." Chen Cao raised his head and laughed twice arrogantly, and then said with a serious face: "Yes, the minister must obey His Majesty's will...

Come, please go down and rest in Gonggong Wu, and prepare the ceremony to present..."

Wu Chun felt that Chen Cao was crazy, and this attitude changed too quickly, so he said a little unacceptable: "No... You're welcome..."

"What you want, today's Halloween Festival, celebrated in the city, and there is a big feast tonight..."

Wu Chun: "Ah..."