As soon as the old lady's words came out, the two Mongolian princes who were sitting on the right hand side of the old lady were all panicked.

One of them, who was in his thirties, had the same style as the old lady, and was also Doama (Dolgon)'s favorite cake face, opened his mouth and asked: "Grandma, the Qing Dynasty is coming to an end, what can we do with the Horqin Ten Banners?" ”

The person who questioned her was called the old lady's "aunt and grandmother", and naturally she was the old lady's nephew, Korqin Left Wing Central Banner Zasak and Prince Bandi of Shuodarhan.

The 50,000 "Horqin Iron Cavalry" who were transferred to the Beijing Division by Bumu Butai this time were the commander and deputy commander of this Bandi prince and another hereditary king of the Korqin tribe of Nezasak Mongolia, Bi Riktu.

Na Bi Li Ketu "Bi Wangye" is the same age and team, but the generation is a generation shorter, he is the great-nephew of Bu Mu Butai, so he has to call the old queen mother "great-grandmother".

"Great-grandmother, doesn't it mean that even if there is no Guannai, our Qing Dynasty can still guard the territory of Kwantung, Korea, and Mongolia and continue to confront the Ming Dynasty, why is it not a situation of Great Liao, why is it going to end?"

Bu Mu Butai looked at his two younger generations, sighed and said, "Our Daqing wants to be a great Liao, but is the Ming Dynasty willing to be a Great Song Dynasty?" Besides, the reason why Da Liao can be called Da Liao is because Song Taizong's two northern expeditions to Yanyun were defeated by Da Liao. If Song Taizong won a complete victory in the Gaoliang River and wiped out the elite soldiers of the Khitans, would Da Liao still be able to dominate the outside of the fortress? ”

"How, how is this good?"

"The Qing Dynasty is coming to an end, and our Horqin Ten Banners will be miserable"

The two Mongolian princes are also anxious, their Horqin Mongols are no better than other bitter Mongols, they are shareholders of the Qing Dynasty! Since the time of Nurhachi, he has followed the Houjin Heavenly Soldiers to eat and drink spicy food, not only repeatedly followed the Later Jin (Daqing) Heavenly Soldiers into the Central Plains, but also helped Nurhachi and Huang Taiji to bully the Mongolian compatriots.

The Qing Dynasty is coming to an end, and other Mongolian tribes in the south and north of the desert can also change their camps and recognize the Ming as the master, and the Horqin department. I don't want to follow the funeral!

"The Empress Dowager, the minister thinks that the Qing Dynasty may not be over, and it can still be saved."

It is Suo Etu who also wants to rescue the Qing Dynasty, he is worse than the two Mongols, the Horqin Department is nomadic anyway, it is a big deal to "swim" and "swim" farther, it should still be able to survive. After all, the world is huge!

But he Suo Etu is a Manchurian, where can he run? Running to Rakshasa to vote for King Yu? Or do you flee to the Taiping Valley and close the valley to defend yourself?

At first glance, these two paths seem to be okay, but in reality they are not so easy to follow.

The road to the Rakshasa country as "Suotuff" is too far, and he can't bring a few subordinates with him, and a minister with a light pole can't do anything.

It's not close to Taipinggu Road, but you can still bring more people, but the problem is that the western territory was jointly conquered by the Qing Dynasty and the Great Zhou. Now that the Qing Dynasty is coming to an end, and Wu Zhou seems to be able to jump for a while, will Wu Yingqi's old boy come and turn into the Western Regions and take the blessed land of Taiping Valley?

So for Suo Etu, the best strategy is to rescue the Qing Dynasty!

"How can I save it?" The old lady asked.

"Empress Dowager, according to what the minister has seen, now that we and Yang Qilong are in the same boat, we should work together to rescue the 80,000 troops trapped in Shandong! With these 80,000 troops, the army that we can put together in the Qing Dynasty can still have a small 200,000, and even if we can't fight a decisive battle with the Ming army in Beijing, we can withdraw outside the pass by taking a step back. In the future, as long as Manchuria, Mongolia, and the Yang family's North Korea can work together to resist the Ming, the Qing Dynasty can still be maintained. ”

When the old lady heard Suo Etu say this, she didn't know what to say except for a sigh.

If the 80,000 troops trapped in Shandong can be rescued, the Qing Dynasty can really make up 200,000 troops with a little effort. But the problem is that in order to rescue these 80,000 troops, the Qing Dynasty has to send all the troops that can be looted in Beijing to the front!

But even then, coupled with the trapped 80,000 troops, the Qing Dynasty can take out more than 100,000 troops at most, even if it has already occupied a lot of territory in Shanxi, Wu Yingqi, who has been busy picking up silver from the Jin merchants recently, has also sent troops, and it is also the peak that he can make up 200,000 troops!

And the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Army had 400,000! And there are 400,000 people who can be replenished into the regular army at any time. 200,000 beats 400,000 (800,000), who is the advantage, isn't it clear at a glance?

Kangxi used more than 200,000 elites before, and also relied on six or seven fortresses, and also dug the back road of the Yellow River to flood Li Zhongshan, but the result was so ugly, and now the more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops who are scraped together can still win?

But the Qing Dynasty is now a gambler who loses red eyes, and the Chongzhen Emperor of the year has a fight, if you don't bet the last capital in your hand to gamble with the Qing Dynasty and Li Zicheng, it is really unwilling to die!

As soon as she thought of this, an "aunt" in her forties walked in outside the main hall of Cining Palace and gave the old empress dowager a squatting salute: "Empress Dowager, Daniel Zhang, the commander of the Nine Gates, asks to see you." ”

When the old lady heard this, she immediately smiled bitterly and said to Suo Etu: "Suo Etu, it seems that the surname Yang is not willing to be a little king of North Korea!" ”

Suo Etu said: "The Empress Dowager Shengming. In the future Qing Dynasty, his nephew will be the emperor, and his sister-in-law will be the queen mother, and he will be the number one relative of the Qing Dynasty! ”

Bumu Butai snorted: "I'm afraid he still wants to plot the dynasty and usurp the throne and become the second Yang Jian, the Duke of Sui, right?" ”

"Empress Dowager," said Suo Etu, "it is precisely because he has this mind that he will go with us to save the 80,000 army of Empress Dowager Yang and Prince Gong!" ”

Bumu Butai sighed and looked at the two Mongolian princes again.

"Auntie, if Yang Qilong votes for Daming, then the Sauron cavalry he has at hand will be used by Daming!"

"Great-grandmother. There are also a lot of cavalry in the Ming army of the Northern Expedition, if they get together with Yang Qilong's cavalry, it is impossible for us to nomadize to the land of Mughal in the west! ”

Bu Mu Butai nodded: "Okay, since you all have to gamble again, then bet on the last bit of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Shanxi, Niangzi Pass, the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Just when the last capital was ready to be staked in order to rescue the Qing Dynasty on the side of Beijing, Wu Yingqi placed in the Niangziguan City at the junction of Shanxi and Zhili, and also ushered in two envoys, one was the Qing mission headed by Chen Tingjing, an envoy sent by the Empress Dowager Yang of the Qing Dynasty; is also a Lu Sanhao and Lu Fat who Wu Yingqi was quite familiar with when he was in Yunnan.

"Prime Minister, now it's time for the lips to die and the teeth to be cold. The emperor of the Qing Dynasty can say that the Qing Dynasty only wants a situation of Liao, and the land of Shanxi and Henan can be ceded to the Great Zhou. But if the Qing Dynasty was defeated, the emperor's army would be wiped out in Shandong, and the Qing Dynasty would only withdraw from Guannai and withdraw to Saibei and Liaodong to recuperate. That pass is the West Zhou Dongming!

Prime Minister, do a good calculation, after the Ming Dynasty swallowed Shandong Province of the Qing Dynasty, how much wealth and population can it have, and even if the Great Zhou Dynasty takes Shanxi, how much land and population can be increased? Although there is only one word difference between Shandong and Shanxi, the population of Shandong is much more than that of Shanxi, and it has always been the most populous province in the northern part of the Qing Dynasty! ”

It is Chen Tingjing who is settling accounts for Wu Yingqi, in fact, there is no need to calculate this account, Wu Yingqi also knows that it is impossible for Da Zhou to fight against Da Ming alone - if you don't count the population of Shanxi, Hezhong and the Western Regions, the population of Da Zhou is less than 10 million, and Da Ming does not count Shandong has more than 60 million!

Shandong is also a province with a large population, even if many people have moved to Liaodong in the past two years, the population is still around 8 million, while the population of Shanxi is less than 3 million.

In other words, the population of the Ming Dynasty will soon break 70 million, and the population of the Great Zhou Dynasty is only 12 million if you count Shanxi (not counting the Western Regions and Hezhong). Didn't have to fight at all!

"Prime Minister, what Chen Zhongtang said makes sense, even if our Great Zhou pours out the strength of the country, we can pull out an army of 200,000 at most, and it is difficult to last, and we can't defeat the million army of the Ming Dynasty at all! Now Li Fuchen is sitting in Huguang and has gathered tens of thousands of troops, which is already sharpening his sword. Once the Great Qing Dynasty is defeated, we will be the next unlucky! ”

It was Wu Sanwei who was beating the drum on the side, this old man frowned, looking worried about the country and the people, and spoke for Daqing vigorously, it seems that he has received a lot of benefits from Chen Tingjing

Wu Yingqi seemed to be persuaded by his cheap fourth uncle, and nodded heavily: "Fourth uncle, Chen Zhongtang, the truth of cold lips and teeth, I still know the truth. You can rest assured, this appearance will never die without help!

Chen Zhongtang, you go back and tell the Qing Emperor that you can't write two Wu characters in one stroke, and since Benxiang is his uncle, there is no reason not to save him! But this land of Shanxi. Now there are still a lot of loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty who are not eye-opening! ”

Shanxi is a loyal minister! What Qixian, Taigu, Wenshui, Yuci, Xugou and other places, everywhere are the Qing Dynasty "loyal ministers", and Fan, Jin, Liang, Tian, Zhai, Huang, Erwang and other "eight loyal ministers" as the head, desperately resist, is not willing to take refuge in the Great Zhou In fact, Wu Yingqi is not very black, he only asked the loyal merchants in Shanxi to give him 10 million taels of silver, and then provide 100,000 camels, 100,000 mules and horses, 300,000 people and 3 million stone grain. In addition, each family will send some people to help develop the river.

But for this little request, those "loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty" in Shanxi refused to agree, which is really loyal!

"The prime minister can rest assured, as long as the prime minister sends troops to Zhili and helps my Qing emperor to exterminate the Ming army that broke into Zhili, the emperor can issue a Ming law to cede Shanxi to the Great Zhou. At that time, those Shanxi wealthy businessmen will not have the righteous reputation to resist the heavenly soldiers of the Great Zhou! ”

Chen Tingjing himself is also from Shanxi, and his family is also a Jin merchant, and now in order to protect the Qing Dynasty, he is also open.

With Chen Tingjing's assurance, Wu Yingqi finally relented, and together with Wu Sanwei, sent Chen Tingjing out of the Niangzi Pass.

Standing in the gate of Niangzi Pass, watching Chen Tingjing and his party leave in a hurry, Wu Yingqi just snorted coldly: "It's cutting Shanxi again, and it's selling Jin merchants again...... I'm afraid this Qing Dynasty is about to end, right? ”

"Prime Minister, the old man thinks so too......" Wu Sanwei was still a supporter of the Qing Dynasty just now, and his face changed at this time, "If Kangxi hadn't suffered a fiasco, how could he cede Shanxi to us?" It is even more impossible to package and sell all the eight imperial merchants!

We have to be cautious, and we must not smash all the old money we have in it. ”

It turned out that Wu Yingqi's purpose in sending troops to Shanxi was just to get a vote...... His Great Zhou was too poor, and he didn't get any oil and water in the river before, and the trade routes in the Western Regions didn't seem to be able to be counted on, so he was desperate, so he thought about learning from Li Zicheng and going to Shanxi to torture his salary.

Unexpectedly, Kangxi actually gave Brother Shanxi to him, and even the Eight Great Emperor Merchants were not guaranteed. It seems that this defeat is really not small!

"Fourth uncle," Wu Yingqi thought for a while, and then said to Wu Sanwei, "You go to meet Lu Sanhao first and touch the land of Daming......

As he spoke, Wu Yingqi's brows were already twisted.

Da Ming's hole cards, Wu Yingqi actually knew it for a long time...... When Wu Guogui and Wu Shijue ran to the New World, he had already guessed it.

Between the Ming Dynasty and the Great Zhou, as long as there is a little room for turnaround, Wu Guogui and Wu Shijue will not run away.

But even so, Wu Yingqi still wanted to fight again.

After all, Wu Xiaosu and Wu Xiaogang are Li Zhongshan's wives and concubines...... Li Yat-sen himself is also a relative of the emperor of the Great Zhou!

And the envoys sent by Li Yat-sen to the Great Zhou side, Daming Shangshu, Lu Yifeng, and Lu Sanhao were also from the Pingxi Palace.

There should be a little room for manoeuvre in this, right?

"Old prince, what did I Lu Sanhao do, don't you know? I've always said good things, been a good person, and done good things......"

In the city of Niangzi Pass, in Wu Sanwei's hotel, Lu Fatzi, who came from thousands of miles and came from the dust, finally had a good word with Wu Sangui's half-brother.

"Mr. Miyoshi, according to what you say, this Da Zhou and Da Ming can coexist in the future?"

Although Wu Sanwei and Lu Sanhao are not familiar with each other at all, I don't know how this person says good things, is a good person, and does good deeds. But Lu Sanhao's words still gave him hope.

"Of course...... Lu San said with a good smile, "Of course Da Zhou and Da Ming can coexist!"

What General Li means is that after the Qing Dynasty is destroyed, the Ming Dynasty and the Great Zhou, one east and one west, will turn the Shenzhou Continent into the world of our Han people! ”

"Shenzhou Continent?" As soon as Wu Sanwei heard this, he knew that it was not a good word.

Regarding the concept of the Shenzhou Continent, Wu Sanwei also knew it. It's basically the same as the Westerners' Asiatic continent. There is always a distance of 20,000 miles between the east and the west!

If the Ming Dynasty is in the east and the Great Zhou is in the west, the two sides will be divided equally.

Then what was distributed to the Great Zhou was the Mughal and Persian and what else was in the Levant and Arabia...... Listening to the name, it's not a good place to be too safe and stable!

"Mr. Miyoshi...... The west side of this Shenzhou continent is too poor, either grassland or desert, and there is no product at all. We're going to the Great Zhou, aren't we going to be poor for generations? ”

Lu San smiled and said, "What are those places afraid of now?" As long as it can be safe, there will always be a time for development in the future. As for the property...... Look carefully, there will always be.

If the Great Zhou does not go to the west, but stays in the east...... Then I, the Ming Dynasty, will definitely unify the eastern soil in the future.

Then it will be another life! When the old Wu family is defeated, I'm afraid I won't even have the strength to go west! ”

"What are you talking about?" Wu Sanwei immediately became angry, "I also have 200,000 male soldiers in Da Zhou, and I am afraid that you will not succeed in Da Ming?" ”

"Old Lord...... I have an army of 400,000 in Zhili and Shandong Daming alone! Lu San smiled and groaned, "If the Great Zhou wants to fight, there is no need to wait for the Qing Dynasty to be completely defeated."

It's just right to send troops now! Our three families, the Ming Dynasty, the Great Zhou, and the Qing Dynasty, will fight a battle of the Three Kingdoms on the territory of Zhili!

A battle is won or lost...... If the Great Zhou army is defeated, don't waste your strength on the eastern side of the country, and act west as soon as possible! ”

Wu Sanwei snorted, and looked unconvinced: "What if you defeat it?" ”

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Lu San said with a good smile, "General Li has an army of 400,000 troops, and he also has the support of Shandong Haoqiang...... How is it possible to beat? Old prince, you have to talk to Prime Minister Wu Cheng, when you go to the battlefield, you must see the situation clearly before fighting! ”

(End of chapter)