Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 55 Negotiating peace with the Manchus

Facing the doubts of the emperor and his ministers, Li Yan continued: "Actually, Li Chuang's Dashun is a put together pseudo-imperial court. It was formed by the confluence of many bandits over the years. As long as Li Chuang dares to destroy me, who has nominally surrendered to him, His base will make other bandits who take refuge in him feel miserable.

For example, Cao Cao and Luo Rucai are the largest bandits in Li Chuang's army.

Although Luo Rucai was killed, his old troops were still there, and they were still among Li Chuang's bandits, second only to Li Chuang's main force.

Although Cao Cao's murder seemed justified, his subordinates also had complaints.

Once Li Zicheng attacks my Henan province, Luo Rucai's old troops will definitely turn against Li Zicheng.

Therefore, Li Zicheng clearly knew that although Li Fang submitted to him in name, he was not sincere, so he did not dare to touch him. As long as Henan guarantees a retreat route for Liu Fangliang and Northwest Dashun, Li Zicheng must endure. This is why King Ding did not accept my foundation. "

Chongzhen clapped his hands: "Your Majesty is really good at it."

"The next goal is to face Shandong Liu Fangliang."

Lu Mou interfaced: "We must take the initiative to attack Shandong, and eventually push the front to Shouguang under our current conditions. The purpose of our campaign is to capture the Shouguang Salt Fields and solve our Zhili salt problem."

Although Zhili also produces salt, the quantity is small and bitter, making it almost inedible to humans. Zhili is now seriously short of salt, and the only way to solve the problem is to seize the nearest Shouguang salt field.

"This task will be carried out by Xiaguan and King Ding." Li Yanyong shouldered the heavy responsibility.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, because others were really bad. If they were defeated, the whole situation would be ruined again.

At this time, this palm-sized foundation cannot withstand any wind and waves.

"There is another and the most serious enemy, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties." Lu Mou pointed to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the northeast with a heavy expression.

This is the real national enemy and the real threat to the Ming Dynasty.

The five invasions of the Qing Dynasty had completely exhausted the morale and popular support of the Ming Dynasty, allowing the big tree of the Ming Dynasty to collapse without being chopped down.

This curse still exists. Shanhaiguan can stop the Manchu invaders, but northern Mongolia is an open door to the Manchu invaders. Once the Manchu invaders invade again, the palm-sized Ming Dynasty will be completely dead.

Facing the rogue bandits, King Ding might still be able to fight, but facing the Manchus, no one believed that he would still be able to fight.

How to do.

Lu Mou said solemnly and sadly: "Now, the only way is to negotiate peace with the Manchus and hold them back to buy me even half a year."

As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was silent, and all looked at Chongzhen.

All the courtiers in the palace knew that this was the only way to relieve Ming Dynasty from its current difficulties. But who dares to mention it?

For the first time, Chongzhen hinted to Yuan Chonghuan to negotiate for peace, but in the end, Yuan Chonghuan was chopped into pieces. Yuan Chonghuan became the scapegoat.

Chen Xinjia, who quietly negotiated peace with the Qing Dynasty for the second time, failed in the peace negotiation and was killed again by Chongzhen, who was regarded as the scapegoat.

But this time, if you, King Ding, bring it up, will it be useful? What will happen to you?

Lu Mou suddenly raised the issue that father and son had not discussed, which made Chongzhen furious. He stood up angrily and roared: "The ancestors of the Ming Dynasty taught that there is no marriage."

Lu Mou knelt down and protested: "My son and I didn't mention marriage."

"The ancestors taught us not to pay tribute."

"I don't have any tribute."

"Do not submit to me."

"I don't want to surrender."

Chongzhen's aura faltered. Yes, his son didn't say any of this.

"The emperor guards the gates of the country."

"But apart from this gate, what else is left in the Ming Dynasty?"

Roaring "The king dies in the country——"

"the world only has--"

"Shut up, shut up, shut up—"

The hall fell into silence, as quiet as death.

At this time, Li Yan came over and knelt beside Lu Mou: "Your Majesty, you are a man of courage and courage."

Zhang Zhiji came over and knelt down: "Long live, you are able to bend and stretch, you are truly a hero."

The ministers, including Wu Sangui, knelt down and shouted together: "Long live, endure the humiliation and bear the burden, restore the ancestral power, Fang is the true character of a man." ˆˆˆˆChongzhen looked up for a long time, with tears streaming down his face, and suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs: "Negotiation for peace——"

This roar was full of unwillingness and humiliation.

Lu Mou kowtows: "Father, I will definitely repay you for today's humiliation ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times in the future."

To negotiate peace with the Manchus, the best candidate is of course Wu Xiang.

Therefore, after Chongzhen's painful avoidance, the ministers discussed with Lu Mou the terms of peace negotiation with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and prepared to send Wu Xiang to contact Hong Chengchou, the ancestor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, to help reach a peace agreement and delay time.

With everyone's hope, Wu Xiang embarked on the road to negotiate peace with the Manchus.

Lu Mou planned to lead an army to attack Liu Fangliang in Shandong after sorting out his household affairs, so as to expand the living space for the suffocated Ming Dynasty.

When I walked into the household bank again, it was really empty. There were a group of rats moving around.

Lu Mou kindly made way for these rats to move, and said to Qian Tonghe who was following him: "In a moment, we will move the four million from the Internal Mint Department. However, I strictly stipulate that this The money must ensure the payment of official salaries and the payment of military pay to soldiers.”

Qian Tonghe was deeply moved: "With these words from the prince, the officials will be extremely grateful, and the soldiers will be more daring to fight." But the topic changed: "To run the court of Nuo Da, these four million silver dollars alone are really not enough. Support the tax collection until the end of the year and autumn.”

Then he continued: "Even if the autumn tax revenue comes, the area we are now under direct control will not be enough for the prince to use troops and meet the salary expenditure of the officials. Your Majesty, the gap is too big."

"If the gap is large, these two expenses must be guaranteed. Even if I sell the Forbidden City, I must guarantee it."

Qian Tonghe grinned, it's okay for you to buy some looted goods, but you want to sell the Forbidden City. Who would dare to buy it except the Manchu bandits?

Lu Mou suddenly discovered that there was a heavy door behind the silver warehouse, so he asked, "What's behind that?"

Qian Tonghe replied: "As for the prince, that is where the silver in the treasury is stored."

"What? Ya Kuyin?"

Qian Tonghe replied: "According to the ancestral regulations, one million taels of silver must be stored every year and cannot be touched. It is called the silver in the treasury and cannot be touched, so -"

"Does that mean there are tens of millions of taels of silver stored there?"

Qian Tonghe replied: "Except for the seven years since Chongzhen, there is no longer the ability to deposit according to the ancestral system. There are actually 27,610,000 taels of silver."

Lu Mou vomited blood directly.

No wonder Chongzhen died in poverty because of the money in the treasury.

No wonder Li Zicheng was able to collect 80 million taels of silver from Beijing, but his feelings were still so high.

Father Chongzhen, you died of poverty sitting on a pile of money.

History is indeed like this. Chongzhen really stuck to the old rules and ended up sitting on Yinzi Mountain, but he couldn't afford the 300,000 Guan Ning departure fee and died of poverty.

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a farmer, did formulate this method, called saving money. But before he died, he forgot to tell his descendants the next sentence, which was to draw emergency funds when he was in need.

This is comparable to forgetting to tell your children and grandchildren before you die that you have the passbook password.

And it was these descendants of the Ming Dynasty who had accumulated more than 20 million taels of silver, but they finally took advantage of Li Zicheng.

Lu Mou shouted excitedly: "Break it open, break that door open." Then he saw that each one was covered with black rust, and the huge silver balls were piled up like a mountain.

He cried, he really cried.

If I had known that I had so much money, why would I have offended all the officials and violently pressed for debt?

Damn it, what the hell did you do? Dad, what on earth have you been doing while sitting on the Silver Mountain?

If you stick to the old rules, it will be unreasonable for you to die.

The perverted Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that in order to prevent the treasury silver from being stolen or misappropriated, it should be cast into huge balls of five thousand taels each. You can't pick it up or move it. It can only grow moldy and rust here.

It can also be seen that an emperor with a small peasant mentality has reached the point of being crazy about accumulating wealth.

"Move out, move them all out, melt them and cast them into silver coins, hahaha, I am now the richest man in the world. Bandits, Manchus, I can kill you with money. Come on, let's fight with money Bar."

The Hu Bu no longer had to worry about money, so Lu Mou handed over the money to the Hu Bu and said, "You can't make money, so spend money."

Qian Tonghe's beard trembled with excitement: "I'm good at spending money."

Lu Mou felt relaxed and went to war again.

(End of this chapter)