Chapter 406

Li Xin begged to see Lu Xiangsheng under the banner of Cheng Shijie, Lu Xiangsheng was not too strange, in fact, because of the delay of the news, Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy to annihilate the Qing army, Song Xiance hammered to death Dolgon, Duoduo, Azig, Daishan, Yue Tuo and others, Huang Taiji, Jierharang, Haoge and others were killed by rocket artillery.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't receive any of these news, and he thought that Cheng Shijie needed him to cooperate in the decisive moment of the duel with Jiannu, after all, Lu Xiangsheng is now commanding the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army, especially after the convergence with Lei Shisheng's department, there are more than 50,000 soldiers and horses.

It's just that Lu Xiangsheng's department has almost run out of ammunition and has become an army that is almost pure in the era of cold weapons, but these more than 50,000 troops in the era of cold weapons also have a certain amount of combat effectiveness.

Li Xin waited outside the camp for less than a quarter of an hour, when an officer of the Tianxiong Army came to Li Xin and said, "Champion Hou, please come over!" ”

Li Xin immediately untied his matching knife and revolver and handed them to the Tianxiong Army officer.

The officer of the Tianxiong Army shook his head and said, "No need! ”

Li Xin came to Lu Xiangsheng's big tent of the Chinese army and found that there were twenty or thirty generals in the big tent, but these generals also seemed to be refugees, without exception, they were all so thin that they were out of shape, obviously they did not suffer less.

"Meet the Champion Hou!"

Looking at Li Xin coming over, Lu Xiangsheng asked, "How is Guannei now?" ”

Li Xin did not hesitate, and then told Lu Xiangsheng what happened during this period of time, first the Northern Expedition army fell into Jiannu's tricks and defeated Sanshenshan, and then Jiannu under the leadership of Huang Taiji, the army was divided into two roads, all the way led by Dolgon, and attacked Taiyuan from Shanxi.

All the way, it was led by Huang Taiji, with the Guanning army as the lead, the entire Yongping Mansion, Shuntian Mansion, Baoding Mansion almost all looked at the wind, Huang Taiji entered Beijing, and sent troops south, entered Zhending Mansion, prepared to meet with the Dolgon Division, Dolgon Department through Jingcheng, into the North Zhili.

At this time, after mobilization, the Ning Navy marched north with an army of 100,000 troops, first attacking Liaoxi, and occupying the entire Liaoxi except Shanhaiguan, although the Ning Navy and Navy were divided into two routes, all the way to attack Funingwei and all the way to Tianjin Wei......

After Li Xin's narration for more than half an hour, the generals under Lu Xiangsheng knew that the Qing army, including Huang Taiji, had been completely annihilated by the Ning Navy, and the generals were overjoyed and shouted excitedly.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Li Xin and frowned slightly: "Do you have more important things?" ”

"Is the Holy One well?"

"Your Majesty's health is not bad, but his temper is getting worse and worse!"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled bitterly: "Roaring all day long to counterattack Jiannu, you are here for Your Majesty, right?" If you have any ideas, you can say them directly, Ben Hou is not used to going around......"

"Just ......"

"Stand down!"

The generals retired one after another.

At this time, only Li Chongzhen and Lei Shisheng under Lu Xiangsheng, as well as Li Xin, were left in the big tent.

Li Xin still didn't speak.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "They are all the most trusted generals of Benhou, you can say anything directly!" ”

Li Xin was silent for a moment, but still decided to get straight to the point: "That's the case, after the fall of Beijing, because the domestic dragons have no leader, and the prince is young, so in order to stabilize the hearts of the army and the people, after the Liaodong Management Committee discussed with the queen, the queen issued a decree to canonize our marshal and have a regent, and lead the army to the northern expedition as the regent supervising the country......"

Lu Xiangsheng knew Emperor Chongzhen's temper, because he seized the army and killed Zhu Chunchen, the commander of the three armies, Emperor Chongzhen has always been at odds with Lu Xiangsheng, and now he is still on guard against Lu Xiangsheng everywhere, especially after Gao Jie and Chen Guodong came to Emperor Chongzhen, they were even more unpretentious to Lu Xiangsheng.

The current Emperor Chongzhen is very unkind to see Lu Xiangsheng, seeing Lu Xiangsheng's whole yin and yang weirdness, the real but untrue connotation Lu Xiangsheng, saying that Lu Xiangsheng is Cao Cao or Wang Mang, if you want to be Cao Cao, it is best to kill the monarch in advance, otherwise he will have no chance, and now Cheng Shijie has sent someone to his side.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie, the king of Guangping, was canonized by Emperor Chongzhen himself, but the regent was canonized by Empress Zhou, so the trouble is even greater.

Lu Xiangsheng's expression moved slightly: "This is troublesome...... His Majesty is still here, but Empress Zhou canonized King Guangping as the regent, which is an arrogance...... It's a big taboo! ”

Li Xin said with a smile: "The regent is only in charge of the world on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and has not yet officially ascended the throne. However, after he took over the power, a series of policies and guidelines were stable and effective, and he could also be used according to his talents, and he did have the resources of the master, and the Ming army and people were extremely satisfied with him......"

Lu Xiangsheng was silent for a long time: "You mean, even if His Majesty returns to Beijing now, the people will no longer accept him, right?" ”

Li Xin was very frank: "Yes. ”

Lu Xiangsheng's gaze became extremely sharp: "Then what do you want?" Kill the king? ”

Li Xin smiled bitterly and arched his hand: "Don't dare, I don't dare to have such an idea, because I know that my family's handsome and champion Hou are very nostalgic for the old love, although Your Majesty has made a big mistake, but with the grace of common sense to you, you will not allow others to hurt him." Besides, my handsome family also promised the queen that he would never hurt His Majesty! ”

Lu Xiangsheng's expression slowed slightly, and he asked, "Then what are you going to do?" ”

Li Xin lowered his voice and said: "I can't let him go back to Beijing, Daming has just been hit hard, and there is chaos, and the chaos will continue to ferment!" ”

"How is this possible?"

Li Xin said with a wry smile: "After Huang Taiji took Beijing, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, was proclaimed emperor by Nanjing, and Zhu Cunji, the king of Qin, was supported by Li Zicheng and called the emperor in Xi'an, and now Nanjing is actively expanding the army, it is said that the army is approaching more than 300,000, and Li Zicheng's department is to take Hexi and control Guanzhong, if it were not for Qin Liangyu and the old general Qin blocked Li Zicheng's road to Sichuan, maybe even Sichuan would not be spared, in addition to King Lu, there are more than a dozen emperors in this world......"

Lu Xiangsheng also understands the crisis that Li Xin said, once Emperor Chongzhen returns to Beijing, it will undoubtedly add fuel to the fire, and if you don't do it, you will have to kill it again!

Li Xin continued: "So, no matter what, you can't let him return to Beijing, and it's best not to let people know that he's still alive!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng's eyes froze: "What do you mean ......?"

Although Li Xin's voice was low, the words were clear: "Get a fake news that he died of illness, and then secretly send him to a place where no one knows him, give him a manor, let the queen and a few concubines, and a few children accompany him, eat and drink well, but he is not allowed to contact the outside world...... There is no other way! ”

Lu Xiangsheng's face changed even more, and finally sighed deeply.

Although Lu Xiangsheng reluctantly agreed with Li Xin's opinion, the problem was that Chen Guodong did not agree, he knew that the last time Li Xin and Meng En and others wanted to force Cheng Shijie to kill people with Huang Taiji's knife and trap Cheng Shijie in an unrighteous place, and now he put forward such a bad idea.

Chen Guodong did not make a decision, but immediately asked people to inform Cheng Shijie, but a few days later, he did not receive news from Cheng Shijie, no news, just a message.

Chen Guodong seemed that Cheng Shijie agreed to Li Xin's plan, and he announced to the public that Emperor Chongzhen suddenly suffered from a strange disease, was bedridden, and coughed up blood.

While taking Emperor Chongzhen directly through Funingwei, to Liaodong, now the best place in the world for medical conditions is actually Liaodong, after Emperor Chongzhen arrived in Jinzhou, Liaodong, Empress Zhou and Zhu Cihong went to meet Emperor Chongzhen at the same time, at this time, the news was released to the public.

Shocked to hear that Emperor Chongzhen was critically ill, it can be said that the whole country was shocked.

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On the other hand, when Cheng Shijie led the civil and military officials to arrive in the Forbidden City, he watched nearly half of the palace in the Forbidden City become ruins, the carved beams and paintings were all turned into ashes, the vermilion pillars were blackened and even burst by the fire, almost all the roofs of the buildings collapsed, and the red bricks and blue tiles turned into piles of rubble......

Cheng Shijie said indignantly: "Huang Taiji is fucking, it's really ruthless!" What he can't get, I'd rather destroy it than let Ben Shuai get it. ”

Wen Tiren wanted to explain that this catastrophe had nothing to do with Huang Taiji, however, he didn't open his mouth, because this catastrophe was caused by the Qing army and the Guan Ning army fighting with the Ning Navy in the Forbidden City in order to capture Empress Zhou.

Wang Yingxiong looked at Fan Wencheng and didn't explain, and he naturally wouldn't explain it himself.

Sun Zhili didn't know Cheng Shijie's intentions, and said cautiously: "If you allocate special funds for half a year at most, you can restore your original appearance......"

Without waiting for Sun Zhili to finish speaking, Cheng Shijie said: "Don't keep it!" ”

"Keep it?"

Sun Zhirong looked puzzled: "The dignified imperial palace was burned like this, and it was not repaired, how to reflect the majesty of the empire??" ”

"Why does the majesty of the Ming Empire need to rely on a palace to embody?"

Cheng Shijie said with a serious face: "Ben Shuai wants to keep this ruin, not only to keep it, but also to erect a stone tablet and engrave an inscription to warn future generations, because an emperor is impatient and greedy, listens to slander, and causes a catastrophe, and almost even his wife and children were burned alive; Ben Shuai wants to tell future generations that the monarch must not be greedy for merit and willfulness, alienate the virtuous, and must not pretend to understand the major affairs of the country, otherwise the end will be much more tragic than this time! ”

Sun Zhili was a little speechless, Cheng Shijie was too ruthless, keeping this palace full of ruins, this is a slap in the face of Emperor Chongzhen, if this palace has been kept, then Emperor Chongzhen's black material has always been there. If it goes dark......

In fact, Cheng Shijie's intention to keep this ruin is to warn future generations, just like the Old Summer Palace, when it comes to the Old Summer Palace, the garden of ten thousand gardens, no one will not think of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and no one will not think of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

The re-handing of the city of Beijing does not seem to have caused any waves, and even if there were any waves, the steady stream of food destined for distribution to the streets was drowned out.

The common people are actually very easy to serve, as long as they can eat better and have more money, they will be very satisfied. Cheng Shijie had a very thorough understanding of the thoughts of the common people, the shaver was not guilty, opened a warehouse and released grain, and easily settled the city of Beijing with these two orders.

As for what to do with the distribution of military food in Beijing...... It's easy to do, it's just transferred from the south, it's a small meaning, this is called having food in your hands, and you don't panic in your heart.

The common people in Beijing also found that the soldiers of the Ning Navy were very easy to get along with, not to mention trespassing on people's houses and robbing people's girls, even if they wanted to borrow some firewood or something, they politely waited outside the door, and gave money according to the price when they bought things, so polite that they were not used to it.

During the day, these soldiers were busy transporting food and distributing it from house to house, and in the evening they returned to the dilapidated camp, and after dinner, those who should patrol went out to patrol, and those who did not patrol lay on the courtyard wall, enjoying the night view of Beijing.

After a great turmoil, the prosperity of Beijing City has been eliminated by nine out of ten, but it still makes these simple soldiers look fascinated, and when they look at this side at night, the head of a wall is also strange and scary.

At first, the common people were very afraid of these soldiers who could even build slaves, but soon felt that they had nothing to fear, and then saw that they lived in tattered barracks, distributed food everywhere during the day, and patrolled at night, and ate nothing but canned food or biscuits, or salt beans could deal with it to fill their stomachs, and they felt that these soldiers were too hard.

Some wealthy people brought ingredients to make fragrant hot soup and personally sent it to them, but they didn't dare to accept it, saying that there was an order from above to take the people's things and engage in military law, which really made people speechless.

As for those civil and military officials, they are enjoying the hospitality of cockroaches, rats and mosquitoes in prison. Wen Tiren, Wang Yingxiong, Chen Xinjia, Qian Qianyi...... These are all big people in the officialdom and stomping on the literary world will cause a big earthquake.

Now he is locked up in prison with insects and ants as his companions, unkempt and frightened, as embarrassed as he wants.

As for those who gathered to take refuge in Xungui, they were stuffed into one cell after another, and the whole prison was gloomy and bleak, crying constantly, and if the scholars and doctors let the emperor throw him into the prison, no matter whether they did it right or not, a large number of scholars would jump up and plead for him, and scold the emperor.

In the end, the emperor will still release him obediently, not only has there been no loss, but he is also famous, better than the effect of a court cane, but now no one thinks that going to prison is a good thing, seeing that almost the entire central officials have run to the prison to get together, everyone feels a chill rushing to the backbone!

Some people still fantasize that Jiangnan scholars will rise up and plead for themselves, but those who know the inside story know that there is no hope, because the Jiangnan group of scholars who always like to challenge the limit of death have already established a new monarch to fight against Cheng Shijie, and Cheng Shijie can't tolerate such a provocation no matter how generous he is. Dream on!

Now they just want to know what Cheng Shijie plans to do with them!

If Cheng Shijie chooses an auspicious day for the zodiac to ascend the throne, then he will definitely have an amnesty for the world, and they can successfully come out, so the civil and military officials in the prison are actually not worried.

They believe that the imprisonment is only temporary, after all, Cheng Shijie can still use them, no matter who the emperor sits, they are the pillars of the country who govern the world.

It's a pity, they think too much, Cheng Shijie is now flipping through the small book, settling accounts with them, and everything they have done has to pay a price.

(End of chapter)