Win the Ding 1617

Wu Sangui's move is clearly a remonstrance!

In the 300 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, when did a front-line frontier general threaten to bring troops to the capital to explain the truth to the court and the emperor?If it was during the Wanli and Tianqi years, Wu Sangui's actions would have been enough to decapitate his head and ransack his family, or even ransack his entire family.

However, in the Chongzhen Dynasty, which was full of Zhengying dynasties, this kind of rebellious behavior was not only not punished, but there were constant praises from the government and the opposition.

Some words and sentences in Wu Zongbing's memorabilia were even widely praised by countless officials and scholars, just like the telegrams sent by another general surnamed Wu hundreds of years later when he telegraphed the whole country.

"The ministers and others fought bloody battles on the battlefield, bleed and float on the oars, and those who did what they did, killed the captives and served the country. However, treacherous ministers accept bribes from the Tartars, deceive the sage's confidant, and talk about peace with demons. Their purpose is to disperse the morale of our army!"

"I have fought bloody battles with Jiannu for many years. From my point of view, Jiannu is nothing more than a clown. It has not been settled for many years, but the lack of food and wages is the reason why government orders are different. Now that the disadvantages have been eliminated, the morale of the army has been greatly boosted. There is no reason to let the enemy support the enemy. ?”

From Ningyuan, Shanhaiguan, to Jizhen, the military towns all over the country have rumors that the imperial court is going to negotiate peace with the slaves.After Wu Sangui's ship arrived in Tianjin, the news exploded in the official circles in the mainland like a big bomb.From the county magistrates and officials of Jiupin, to several governors and governors, and even the ministers and bureaucrats of the court, they were all very dissatisfied with this matter!

A political tide has already begun to brew intensely.

The government and the opposition, civil and military officials, have been united unprecedentedly since the defense of Beijing that year, and everyone is united to find out the guy who intends to betray the country and seek glory, so that he will be taken to Caishikou like the thief Yuan back then.Eat three thousand six hundred dollars!

Several governors who were stationed closer to Tianjin either visited the door in person, or sent confidant envoys to the Tianhou Palace to pay homage to the Shou Han, begging Uncle Ning Yuan to come out and preside over the overall situation, for the great Ming and the world!

"Damn big tomorrow!"

Send away a group of guys who came to emulate Shen Baoxu and cry Qin Ting.Looking at the back of the far away, the lingering sound of these people's generous speeches or pleadings still remains in my ears.Li Peiting sneered and commented on the behavior of these people.

"Wu Changbo is so powerful!" Shou Han also sneered twice, and threw aside the thick secret letters in his hand. He stood up and led the crowd to ask the emperor to come out and clarify the peace talks.Give an explanation to the people of the world, to the ancestors and the bloody soldiers at the border!

The behavior of these people is like the famous line in the pioneering spy war drama, "What you say is all doctrine, and what you think is business!"

What the princes of Gungon are concerned about is not how to win the battle in Liaodong, but how to continue fighting in Liaodong.Because only when Liao thieves make troubles and pay Liao continuously for years, can they exist in a legitimate way!

Liaojiao is the next non-big interest group. How many people benefit from it?That is, the elders of the cabinet, but there is one person.Didn't share the benefits?

Cutting off people's money is like killing one's parents.Officials at all levels are deeply aware of this, so they dare not express their attitudes deeply, and only dare to say a few vague words.

From the 46th year of Wanli to the present, a total of about 2000 million taels of silver has been collected in these years.However, in the past few years, the annual military expenditure has reached more than 800 million taels, and with the rest, it is still not enough to make ends meet.Liao pay is the main component of it.

At that time, in the middle of the Wanli period, there were more than 280 million taels of paper issued each year in Jiubian, which was shared by each town, and the distribution of food and payment was relatively average.

The towns in Liaodong quickly took a huge chunk of the military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty. Even now, Liaodong, including outside the customs and Shanhaiguan, although the amount of food and wages has been reduced and reduced, it is still nearly 500 million a year.

As for the income of the Ming Dynasty, in the mid-Wanli period, the imperial court’s annual summer grain and autumn grain amounted to about 600 million shi. Among them, the Taicang Bank of the Ministry of Households received about 360 million taels of silver every year, and those who had surplus military expenditures had been in deficit every year. With the war in Liaodong, the finances were even more difficult to make ends meet.Therefore, the Liao pay increase came into being.

From Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou and other places, Shanhai Town, Qiantunwei, Ningyuan Town, the aid and suppression generals, etc., add up to 20 million horses. Calculated on the basis of one stone grain per soldier per month, 200 grains are needed a year. Wanshi, there are all kinds of consumption, and the huge supply of food and wages has spawned interest groups.

Shanxi merchants, water transport merchants, grain merchants, and even salt merchants in Yangzhou, all lined up on this huge pie to share the fruit.Officials who are representatives or agents of various commercial interest groups have a way to get money in addition to profit from commercial activities.

That is the various extras and fire consumption by officials when collecting Liao pay, suppressing pay, and training pay!From the beginning of Zhang Juzheng's implementation of the one-whip method, to the fourth master Yongzheng, known as the first tyrant in the ages, implementing the return of fire consumption to the public, a major source of income for officials is to increase distribution and fire consumption.The so-called [-] snowflakes of silver from the magistrate in the three years of Qing Dynasty, the source of this silver is probably the fire consumption.This is still the performance of officials when they are relatively clean. If the official's hands are longer, the rake for holding money is denser, the means are more, and the integrity is less, for example, birthdays once a month, etc., the money I don't know how much it came.

Once Liaodong stopped fighting against the slaves, the amount of Liao's salary will inevitably decrease. Where can officials find their interests?With fewer additional grants on the heads of farmers, the suppression of wages and training wages should gradually lose their meaning.So what's the point of being an official? !

Whether it is Liao pay or three pay, there are too many interest groups involved, and each powerful interest group exists like Shanxi Merchants and Donglin Party.Now some people say that they want to negotiate a peace with the Liao bandits in Liaodong, and stop the army from then on. How can this be achieved?

Looking at the princes in the cabinet, who has not benefited from Liao's salary?It's just a matter of how many or how few.

Although Shou Han did not obtain direct benefits from Liao's salary and other three salaries, these additional dispatches and collections are also closely related to the development of the Southern Guangdong Army.

Let me ask, if there hadn't been a war in Liaodong, who would sell a large number of grains, rice, knives, weapons, armor, salt and shochu?If there are no various additional pies, the farmers will not be able to survive.How can there be a large number of refugees?How can the Chinese who have settled down and relocated to the sea to make a living?

Without the continuous arrival of immigrants, how can the Southern Guangdong Army have a population to change the ethnic structure of the southern and central regions?Assimilate and eliminate the natives step by step?

Thanks to the gift of ocean trade, Shouhan now has no shortage of precious metals such as gold and silver. All kinds of gemstones and pearls can be measured in buckets. The silver coins issued have even circulated north to Liaodong.From the ten states in the south, to Rome in the west, and to the huge area of ​​Wa in the east.

If there is nothing wrong in Daming, who will sell the refined grain, salt, sugar, meat, armor, swords, guns, weapons, cloth and other products produced by Nanzhong?Where can I find so many immigrants to reclaim the entire South Central Peninsula?

"My lord, no matter what, this peace negotiation cannot let the emperor succeed! Once he succeeds, my Nanzhong will be dead without a place to bury my corpse!" Li Peiting always went straight to the point when speaking to Shouhan.Never beat around the bush.

Shou Han also nodded slightly.Although he disdained to take a share of Liao's salary, what Liao's salary gave him was not just mere money!If he cared about money, he wouldn't have given Chongzhen nearly one million silver dollars and food every year to transfuse blood to the dying Ming court.

What he needs is time, and with time, he can accumulate enough strength.Create the ideal Ming Dynasty in your heart.For this reason, he offered money and food to Chongzhen.Make friends with the eunuch in the palace, and make friends with the Xungui Group.Even when Yang Sichang and Wang Chengen wielded the small hoe to dig the foot of the wall, he turned his eyes and closed his eyes and forbearance.For the ideal in mind.

Not to mention anything else, just the annual river-sea joint defense, nobles and eunuchs in the northern and southern capitals use this method to control the coastal trade of Ming Dynasty.Relying on the sale of customs defense and traffic order flags at high prices, as well as various seaborne commodities sold in Zhili and Gyeonggi in the north and south, and made great profits.This move was done by Shou Han stealing from what his in-law Zheng Zhilong did in history.According to historical records, "All seagoing ships are not allowed to use Zheng's command flag, and they are not allowed to travel. Each ship receives two thousand gold, and the annual income is tens of millions, so as to enrich the enemy's country." Anyway, those guys who go to sea for trade are not short of money, so they simply take it from them. It's too late to pluck the feathers!However, given the prosperity of Daming's maritime trade at this time, it is also a terrifying number to add up.According to the statistics of the customs, the nobles and eunuchs who have made a fortune relying on the joint defense agreement between the river and the sea earn at least ten million silver dollars a year!On the other hand, under the Ming court, the annual city ship tax was only 4 taels.

"After raising them for so long, it's time for them to contribute!"

Shou Han muttered to himself in a low voice.

Li Peiting on the side reminded softly: "My lord, Wu Sangui played well in Ningyuan and Tashan, should we send him some troops to make his momentum bigger. Maybe we can take this opportunity to open the way to Jinzhou and Guangning?"

The soldiers and horses of the two garrison brigades took hundreds of sea ships, beat gongs and drums, set off from Tianjin to the direction of Ningyuan.On the day of departure, officials below the governor of Tianjin, the city’s gentry, gentry and merchants, all went to the wharf to work as soldiers. Along the way, dozens of colorful sheds and archways were built high. Every few hundred steps, there was a place where gentlemen worked along the way. The cakes and meat are piled up like hills.

They want to use this behavior to show their position to the court and Uncle Ning Yuan!

The brigade sailed to the east, and a memorial was sent west to the capital by the messenger.

In the imperial court, there has been a lot of quarrel.

Although the eunuch didn't speak, he occasionally expressed his dissatisfaction with the emperor's behavior. Such a confidential matter actually bypassed us and directly gave the order to Chen Xinjia!Do we still think we are our own people?A feeling of distrust arises from the hearts of these physically and psychologically disabled people.What's more, they are also part of the vested interest group in Liaodong and Liaodong affairs.

Those Liaodong army officers and officials have never missed their festival respect, annual ceremony, ice respect and charcoal respect!

The officials and nobles of the DPRK and the Chinese government even played a concert one after another, criticizing Chen Xinjia loudly for his act of betraying the Lord, begging for honor, losing power and humiliating the country!The two big gangs who are usually incompatible with each other are fighting side by side for the common good this time!

However, the object of their battle was not Oala more than a hundred years ago, nor the Liao bandits who were raging in Liaodong at this time, but Emperor Chongzhen himself who was sitting on the throne.

However, Zhu Youjian on the throne is the emperor and the son of heaven after all. They can only say that there are people who deceived Sheng Cong and treacherous ministers who deceived the emperor.So, who is the traitor?Who is Chen Xinjia, Shangshu of the Shebing Department? !

for a while.Above the court, the nobles, led by Zhu Chunchen, Duke of Cheng, and Li Guozhen, Uncle of Xiangcheng, saw Chen Xinjia and couldn't help but beat him violently, causing Chen Dasi's head to bleed and his mouth and nose to bleed.See the nobles move their hands.The civil servants no longer considered the feeling of being in the same year as the same party, and rushed forward to fight Chen Xinjia, yelling and swearing that they would kill the traitorous officials.If Chongzhen hadn't sent eunuchs to stop it in time, it would have been possible to beat Chen Da Sima to death on the spot!

The city has long been a mass movement, with a large number of idlers yelling and cursing in the streets, opposing kneeling and surrendering.What's more, the main meeting place of the rally was located outside the gate of Chen Xinjia's mansion all the way to the entrance of the alley.The idlers reviled when they saw members of the Chen family coming in and out.His master and servants were so frightened that they didn't dare to show their faces on the street, and kept the door closed all day long.The common people still didn't let it go, they blatantly smeared manure on the gate of Chen's house, and some people kept throwing garbage and shit over the wall.

The arrival of Li Shouhan's inscription undoubtedly added fuel to this momentum.

The writers who were waving their flags and shouting against the surrender and peace negotiation with the Liao thieves suddenly found a hero who appeared in time.

Others are just verbally criticizing, but our Uncle Ning Yuan is here with practical actions!The two brigades crossed the sea to the east and joined the Tashan battlefield. This is undoubtedly the best expression and support for opposing surrender!

then.In the words of these officials, yesterday was also denounced by them as the chaos of the feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty.Li Shouhan, who was at the beginning of the Wu Kingdom, immediately transformed into Jiang Xiaobai, Duke Huan of Qi who helped the Zhou royal family and the nine princes respected the king and fought against the barbarians.Moreover, the adults and gentlemen think this metaphor is very appropriate, "Look. Back then, Jiang Xiaobai was also known as greedy for money and good goods, and also had the disease of a widow. Which one is missing? But. The faults of a gentleman are like the eclipse of the moon. People will always see it. However, the achievements of Duke Huan of Qi and Uncle Ningyuan are also rising like the sun, and people will always know it! His name will last forever!"

The speed with which he changed his face, the speed with which he moved into the position, the boldness of his words, and the righteousness of his words, made the parachutist who wrote "A Moment in a Billion Light Years" as a memory of his life's achievements far behind.

All of a sudden, inside and outside the capital, the ruling and opposition parties, and in the marketplace, all of them implicitly regarded Li Shouhan as the leader who opposed the peace talks.Countless people went to Ning Yuanbo Mansion in Zhongning and Longsheng Center outside Chaoyang Gate to pay their respects.

Shou Han's reputation quickly rose from the bottom to the top of the mountain in an instant, and it pulled several daily limit boards in a row, and there was still room for it to continue to climb.

Because Emperor Chongzhen has never made a public statement on the peace talks.As long as the emperor does not carry out peace talks with the Liao thieves behind the back of the court's subjects and civil and military officials for a day, which is a humiliating and humiliating activity, the protests in the capital will be wave after wave.Moreover, it gradually spread from the capital to everywhere.In the towns on the nine borders, as well as in Nanzhili and Liudu Nanjing, signs of trouble have already appeared.

It is now the night of March [-]th, a bright moon is shining brightly, and several early spring flowers and trees in the palace garden are fragrant and pleasant.But Chongzhen was very depressed, he couldn't sit in front of the imperial case to review the documents, and he didn't want to go to the queen's or any concubine's palace to relax and relieve his worries, so he had to wander in the courtyard of Qianqing Palace for a long time.

Sometimes he stops for a long time, looking up at the bright moon above the Huangji Hall; more often he lowers his head, walking from north to south, from south to north, back and forth on the long white marble corridor. Walking, the steps are sometimes light and sometimes heavy.A few eunuchs and maids waited carefully a few feet away, no one dared to cough lightly.

Everyone knows that everything is not going well at the moment, the court has reached a critical point, and the emperor is in an extremely bad mood. At this time, who dares to touch Ni Lin?

The military in the pass is extremely worrying. Li Zicheng and Cao Cao's two thieves besieged Kaifeng with 50 people, and knocked down the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties where King Wei Hui began to build the capital!Even though he and his courtiers knew that the bandits were overwhelming the territory, it can be said that they would never let it go without capturing Kaifeng.But in their minds, although Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were fierce, they were a group of thieves with no ambitions, and the attack on Kaifeng was just to plunder their "children and treasures".

But he knew in his heart that Li Zicheng was a strong scholar and horse, and he was quite good at winning the hearts of the people. This time he attacked Kaifeng, he might want to quickly establish himself as king.Although during the day I received military reports from officials in Henan and other places, saying that they had broken into the headquarters of the two thieves Cao and ransacked the official treasury in Kaifeng city to loot the property of the officials and gentry, it seems that the thieves are the thieves, and they are for the children of the rich.

Thinking of this, student Zhu Youjian calmed down a little.

"Although Kaifeng was the first provincial capital to be captured by the rogues, there are still many cities in the Central Plains. As long as we deal with the rogues, and when Sun Chuanting becomes a soldier in Shaanxi, I will order Sun Aiqing to go out of Tongguan and fight with Uncle Ning Yuan. The soldiers from Shandong, General Zuo Liangyu, who suppressed the bandits, will fight in the Central Plains, and then it will be the end of the bandits!"

But what about the affairs outside the customs?

Just now, the terms of the agreement were secretly sent to the Qianqing Palace. Seeing Huang Taiji offering conditions that were far higher than Chongzhen's bottom line, before he could be happy, Chongzhen's classmates were overwhelmingly scolded and sent baskets of impeachment texts drowned.

There are even some guys who want to be famous and deceive the imperial staff, actually ran outside the Taimiao holding Chengzu's tablet and cried bitterly!Who is this Nima for? ! (To be continued..)