Chapter 375

In this world, there are no fools. Wang Chengen came to Jinzhou to see Cheng Shijie, and saw that the Ning Navy had taken almost all the land in western Liaoxi except Shanhaiguan in the name of quelling the rebellion of the Guanning Army, which showed that Cheng Shijie had already received the news.

His heart was actually sinking, and it was clear that Cheng Shijie knew that Emperor Chongzhen was in danger, but he was indifferent, which is very revealing.

Cheng Shijie was angry, because Emperor Chongzhen did too much to Cheng Shijie, in fact, when Li Guofu admonished Emperor Chongzhen, Wang Chengen had persuaded Emperor Chongzhen, but it was a pity that others spoke softly, and they were glared at by Emperor Chongzhen, so they didn't dare to say any more.

Cheng Shijie did give Wang Chengen benefits, but these benefits were not enough for Wang Chengen to help Cheng Shijie speak recklessly, he persuaded him, but there was no result, this is not something that Wang Chengen can decide.

Wang Chengen arrived in Jinzhou first, and wanted to find Zhu Weiyuan in advance, so that Zhu Weiyuan could help Emperor Chongzhen for the sake of his half-brother and sister.

However, Zhu Weiyuan has no feelings for her half-brother, if it is the Emperor of the Apocalypse Zhu Youxiao, even if she risks being punished by Cheng Shijie, she will still say that if it was not for the Emperor of the Apocalypse to protect her back then, the grass on Zhu Weiyuan's grave would not know how tall it was.

But what about Emperor Chongzhen?

Because her mother is Concubine Li Kang, Emperor Chongzhen's adoptive mother, but because of political problems, this brother has bullied Zhu Weiyuan a lot, and he didn't fall into the well to Emperor Chongzhen, even if she Zhu Weiyuan has a conscience, how can she help him?

Zhu Weiyuan is not the princess of Daming now, but the Duchess of Haiguo, the wife of the Cheng family, the Cheng family has no tradition of wife management, except for husband and children, in fact, let Wang Chengen go to Cheng Shijie.

"Come on, take the prince down to take a bath and change his clothes!"

"Yes!"

Wang Chengen didn't want to waste time and wanted Cheng Shijie to send troops immediately, but the problem was that the smell on his body was too big, and Cheng Shijie couldn't stand it.

In desperation, Wang Chengen had no choice but to follow the servant to take a bath.

When breaking through from the Northern Expedition camp of the Ming Army in Sanshen Mountain, Wang Chengen swore that he could complete the task, but the problem is that now seeing this situation, Cheng Shijie is lukewarm to him, which makes Wang Chengen feel that the problem is very troublesome.

There is also a bath in the Jinzhou General Military Mansion, and it is even bigger than the bath in Cheng Shijie's General Military Mansion in Jinzhou, in fact, Zu Dashou's bath is much larger than Huaqing Pool, who makes Zu Dashou know how to enjoy life?

Came to one of the small baths, the little eunuch beside Wang Chengen waved his hand to let the servants leave, and quietly looked inside the bathroom, he did not find the listening equipment, in fact, there were also listening devices in ancient times, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, there were listening devices called listening urns, and there were also folk listening devices, called earpieces.

That's how the so-called partition wall has ears. Of course, as long as you pay attention, you can find listening devices, so in many cases you can use writing to communicate, which shows that eavesdropping devices were more common in ancient times than in modern times.

"Godfather, I'm afraid this trip will not be easy!"

Wang Chengen closed his eyes, but he didn't have any frustration: "It's easy to do, it's hard to do, the emperor can wait for our family to save his life!" ”

"Now that General Cheng occupies Liaoxi, I'm just afraid of ......"

"The whole Guan Ning army deserves to die, they deserve it!"

When Wang Chengen came all the way, he saw a lot of Liaoxi officials who were hung on trees, and they could also be the hardcore henchmen of Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang, and their fate was almost the same, they were raided and hung on trees, and as for the old and weak women and children in the family, they would also be tried publicly, and once they were found to be evildoers, they would also be executed in public.

On the surface, Wang Chengen was confident, but he had no bottom in his heart, and traveled more than 2,000 miles to ask for help, but Cheng Shijie's reaction was flat, but Emperor Chongzhen didn't know how many days he could last.

Wang Chengen set off with more than 500 cavalry, only more than 80 people successfully arrived in Liaodong, and only 15 people came to Jinyi, who were either tired to death or died of illness.

Just when Wang Chengen entered the bathroom to take a bath, Sun Zhilan, Zhou Ning, Li Xin and others came up.

"I heard that Wang Chengen is here?"

"Hmm!"

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "You guys came just in time, give Ben Shuai a detailed reference, what should I do about this matter!" ”

Since Jiannu retreated from Shenyang, the Ning Navy occupied not only Shenyang, Tielingwei and other Liaodong 25 guards, but according to the map, directly occupied the original Liaodong Dusi and the long-abolished Nuergandusi, Nuergandusi had been repeatedly washed by Jiannu several times, and the tribes here either became Jiannu's servant soldiers, such as Sauron's dead soldiers, Xibe flying cavalry, armored war slaves, etc., or they were driven away, or they were killed.

After more than six months of searching, there are less than 30 tribes in the huge Nurgandus, with a total of more than 200,000 horses, and they also swore allegiance to Cheng Shijie, or they were wiped out on the spot.

Nominally, the Nurkan Dusi now belongs to Cheng Shijie, of course, the development value here is not great, and Cheng Shijie does not have the ability to operate this place as if it were southern Liaoning, and only set up the 7th Brigade of the Ning Navy in Nurgan City (now Nikolaevsk Terlin, Russia), that is, the Far East Provincial Management Committee.

So far, the Far East Management Committee is still in the preparatory stage, plus based on Tainingwei, the gradual annexation of the Daning Command Envoy, Cheng Shijie is no longer the king of Liaodong, nor is he the king of the Northeast, but the direct governor of the Far East.

From Shanhaiguan in the west, to Sakhalin Island in the east, from Lushun in the south, and to the Xing'an Mountains in the north in the north, it is now Cheng Shijie's territory. Although this territory is large, it is high-dimensional, the weather is cold, the population is sparse, and most of the area is not suitable for human habitation and survival.

Sun Zhilan groaned: "Dashuai, the so-called name is not right, if you don't go well, if you don't go well, you won't succeed, although we have taken Liaoxi now, but we have not been recognized by the imperial court, it is better to take this opportunity to get this name in hand!" ”

Zhou Ning saw that Cheng Shijie didn't say anything, and suddenly became a little anxious.

Cheng Shijie said: "Is this a bit of a danger to others?" ”

"How can this be regarded as taking advantage of people's danger!"

Sun Zhilan said with a serious face: "Daming because of Liaoyu, I don't know how many families have been forced to die, now that Liaoxi is controlled by our Ning Navy, the Ming court naturally does not need to levy Liaoyu anymore, and the court will be better off in the future!" ”

Cheng Shijie nodded and said, "What does the General Staff mean?" ”

"It's not very important whether it's named, it's just that our territory is bigger, and there are a lot of tens of thousands of troops, but the new territory needs to deter the younger generation, and I'm afraid that we won't be able to transfer many troops this time!"

Zhou Ning said with a serious face: "The new surrender of Liaoxi requires a large army to maintain stability, after all, the ancestral family and the Wu family have been entrenched in Liaoxi for more than ten years, they will definitely not be willing to lose Liaoxi, if there is no deterrence, I am afraid that there will be more accidents!" ”

"And that's exactly what happened!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Yongyan, you go and contact Wang Chengen first, and see what he means over there, Ben Shuai definitely doesn't believe that he came empty-handed!" ”

Sun Zhilan said lightly: "Okay! ”

After Wang Chengen took a bath, it was time to eat.

The meals were quite rich, and after nearly a day of bumpy rides on the road, everyone was so hungry that they devoured it. Only Wang Chengen was a little unable to eat. This can make Wang Chengen's godson Fang Zidong depressed. His godfather doesn't move chopsticks, does his godson gobble up like words?

Obviously, he couldn't eat the fragrant food on the table, which made Fang Zidong very uncomfortable, but fortunately, Wang Chengen said: "Zidong, you can eat!" ”

"Godfather eats first!"

"Okay!"

Wang Chengen also knew that Fang Zidong was a person who knew the rules, if he didn't move the chopsticks, Fang Zidong would never dare to move the chopsticks, just after Wang Chengen had just finished eating, he put down the chopsticks, and Sun Zhilan asked people to come over and invite Wang Chengen.

The two sides talked nonsense for half an hour, but they didn't get into the topic, Sun Zhili poured bitter water on Wang Chengen, saying that in order to quell the rebellion of the Guanning army, how many casualties did the Ning Navy pay to take Liaoxi, and now how much food did the Ning Navy take out in order to settle more than one million people in Liaoxi.

Sun Zhili is not exactly complaining to Wang Chengen, he is still asking for credit, Nurgan Dusi and Daning Dusi were basically taken down by the Ning Navy, and now they are just purging the remnants of the enemy, at most this time next year, Daming can have more Nurgan and Daning Dusi These two territories.

Now Wang Chengen can't hold on, Emperor Chongzhen is still in danger, how can he waste time.

Wang Chengen directly told Sun Zhixi: "How can Ning Haijun go north to King Qin?" ”

"Ning Haijun is loyal to His Majesty, the sun and the moon can be seen, now General Cheng is ordering troops, you also know that in the battle of Lanzhou last year, almost all the cavalry of the Ning Navy were folded in Lanzhou, and now the Ning Navy can mobilize three or four thousand cavalry to go north to the king of Qin to save the car!"

"Three or four thousand cavalry, this ......"

Wang Chengen wanted to say how could this work, but he understood that Sun Zhili was asking him for benefits, Wang Chengen was not a political material, and he directly moved the holy decree of Emperor Chongzhen out.

Sun Zhili felt that the negotiation was meaningless, because Emperor Chongzhen dared to give, and he directly sealed the king, not to mention, but also promoted to the pillar country, and opened the palace with the three divisions.

Although it is said that the opening of the Ming Dynasty is just a fictitious title, but if you want to ask who it is, if Cheng Shijie is to open the government and build the government, this is something that the Ning Navy wants to see, if there is the right and name of the opening of the government and the name of the government, the Ning Navy will not engage in a nondescript Liaodong Management Committee.

He, the leader of Liaodong government affairs, is at least a high-ranking official in the imperial court, but he only takes the name of the director of the management committee, I don't know, I think he doesn't even have an official position, with the name of Yitong Sansi, Cheng Shijie can recruit talents, just like Cao Cao served as the secretary, and the opening of the government set up five Cao, twenty-five divisions, Cao (in charge of the transfer of officials), Zuo Min (in charge of the people's household registration, taxes), Ke Cao (in charge of the affairs of the subject country and diplomatic affairs with the Eastern Wu Shu Han, five soldiers (in charge of officer selection and army training).

Cheng Shijie no longer has to hide it, although there are people doing this now, but it can't be above board, now what Ning Haijun is pursuing is not to be sneaky, but to go to the front and gain greater power and freedom.

On August 27, the ninth year of Emperor Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie was in Jinzhou, accepted the holy decree of Emperor Chongzhen, and was crowned King Guangping, Shangzhu State, and opened the palace with the three divisions.

Cheng Shijie took the holy decree.

Wang Chengen breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he was willing to accept the order, he was afraid that Cheng Shijie would not accept it, which would be a bad thing.

"Congratulations to the prince, well deserved!"

"Ben Shuai went north to the king of Qin to rescue, and you will wait to prepare the grain and grass!"

After Cheng Shijie accepted the holy decree, he ordered the four cavalry regiments of the Guards Brigade and more than 10,000 cavalry to go north to King Qin, and then the Ning Navy began to march towards the capital from the two directions of Tianjin and Liaoxi.

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Monan Shengjing, Eren Dabu Sannaoer City, this temporary Qing capital was recaptured by Jiannu again, held in this thunder time under the command of the army and people, nearly 100,000 horses, in addition to the thunder time sound department thousands of people successfully broke through, most of the battle died, survived more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians, surrendered to Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji declared to the outside world that Emperor Chongzhen and the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty had more than 300,000 troops and horses, and the whole army was wiped out, of course, Emperor Chongzhen and Lu Xiangsheng were still hiding in the hot spring valley to survive. In Huang Taiji's opinion, Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates were not worried, they ran out of ammunition and food, and they were just missing their last breath.

In fact, if it was only the annihilation of the army led by Emperor Chongzhen, the Manchus might not be so excited, after all, for so many years, it was the norm for the Qing army to defeat the Ming army, like the battle of Haizhou and the battle of Baliwan The fiasco at the turn of the autumn is called an accident.

People with a little experience can see that Emperor Chongzhen chose the worst season and rashly launched this expedition, and as long as the battle-hardened Huang Taiji and the princes dealt with it calmly, it was not difficult to defeat the Ming army.

It's just that they didn't expect the victory to come so brilliantly, the captured armor, ordnance, grain, cloth, mules, horses, artillery piled up like a mountain, countless, and the captured prisoners could not be counted, all this not only made the banner people, but also the Mongols and Han people look at the eyes of the two fires, and the blood boils!

The most exciting thing is that the Guan Ning army has changed flags, when they learned the news, the banner people couldn't believe their ears, and after making sure that they weren't joking with them, the cheers almost shook the walls of Shengjing!

Even idiots know what it means for the Guanning army to change banners, the Guanning defense line that has blocked them for more than 20 years is about to open to them, and the soldiers who can fight in Beizhili have been buried, and there is no power to stop them from breaking through the pass and sweeping the North China Plain!

Whether it was the banner people, the Mongols or the Han people, they all beat their chests and stomped their feet, and shouted impatiently: "Enter the customs!" Entry! Destroy the Ming Dynasty, and the world will be ours! Entry! Entry! ”

And those Jia La's foreheads were even more excited, drinking one by one at an informal celebration banquet, dancing with their hands, laughing wildly and shouting: "Now that the Ming Dynasty has exhausted its numbers, even the Son of Heaven has become a lost dog, and the Ming Dynasty is a ripe peach, just waiting for us to pick it!" The Ming Dynasty has lasted for two hundred and sixty years, and our Qing Dynasty should also have two or three hundred years of national fortune, right? ”

The call to go south was higher and higher, and everyone couldn't wait. This was a golden opportunity from heaven to destroy the defeat of the Ming Dynasty in a single battle, turning Beijing into an undefended city, and opening the mountains and seas to them, and with a single blow, the aging dynasty would fall with a bang, and then they could build a new dynasty on its ruins.

Such a good opportunity, how can we let it go! The banner owners are looking forward to entering the customs as soon as possible to sweep North China and establish immortal martial arts, and the flag people are looking forward to being able to get a large piece of fertile land after entering the customs, as well as magnificent mansions, beautiful women and all kinds of exquisite utensils.

But when it comes to urgency, there is really no one who can compare to Guan Ningjun and the Wenchen group in Beijing, they betrayed the Ming Dynasty, there is no turning back, they can only go one way to the dark, the Qing army entered the customs one day earlier to destroy the Ming Dynasty, they were relieved one day earlier, and at the same time reaped the huge benefits brought by the betrayal of the Ming Dynasty one day earlier!

It's just that why hasn't Huang Taiji entered the customs yet?

In fact, Huang Taiji is also very anxious, he hopes to enter the customs as soon as possible and take Beijing, even if he can't sweep Liuhe and annex the world, the worst thing is to reproduce the pattern of confrontation between the Khitan and the Northern Song Dynasty across the Baigou River!

As long as he can break out of Shanhaiguan and take Beijing and Tianjin, his dynasty will form a momentum of Mount Tai against the Ming Dynasty! With the support of the fertile land, population, and wealth of Beizhenli, it is not impossible to finally sweep the world and achieve a legend!

But he was soberly aware that Chongzhen and Lu Xiangsheng were always in trouble, and they had to kill these two bombs that could explode at any time before entering the customs, otherwise once the two monarchs and ministers returned to the customs, the situation was very likely to be reversed!

The most ideal situation is, of course, to kill Lu Xiangsheng, and then capture Chongzhen to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, it is really not possible, it is acceptable to kill the two together, anyway, you can't leave a future trouble. However, these two lives are too hard, with hundreds of thousands of troops ambushing on all sides, encircling and intercepting, as well as wind and snow and artillery.

Two or three hundred thousand Ming troops were buried like this, and they struggled to crawl out of the pile of dead people again and again, and under the protection of those remnants of the defeated generals, they marched all the way to the hot spring valley with difficulty and persistence!

After annihilating the main force of the Ming army, Huang Taiji did not continue to pursue, but just scattered a large number of Mongolian cavalry to let them keep biting the Ming army, and at the same time let the Qing army along the way stick to the camp, fortify the wall and clear the field, and kill and injure the Ming army as much as possible, even if they can't hold the camp, they can't leave a grain of grain for the Ming army.

As for the main force of the Qing army, they withdrew to Shengjing early to replace the equipment they had captured from the Ming army, recuperated and recuperated, and waited for the best time to enter the customs. However, the good news of the annihilation of the Ming army kept coming, but the heads of Lu Xiangsheng and Chongzhen were still stubbornly stuck in the necks of these two, and if they couldn't say it, they wouldn't come down, which really made Huang Taiji anxious!

What made Huang Taiji even more headache was that there was no good news from Tong Tulai's side, and what he was most worried about was actually Cheng Shijie. Once he didn't negotiate with Cheng Shijie, then going south to enter the customs would be a suicide, even if tens of millions of people in the entire Beizhili supported him, the result would still be the same, at most, let Cheng Shijie kill a few more people.

(End of chapter)