Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 288 Fan Wencheng

Li Jing took a few glances, and suddenly said to a soldier: "Bring that big cloak."

Hearing this, the soldiers hurriedly took out a mink fur cloak from the box, and handed it to Li Jing.

Li Jing took it, stroked it lightly a few times, turned to Yuan Keli and said with a smile: "Sir, the student has always wanted to give you a big cloak. The fur of this big cloak is good. It will be winter soon. The student borrowed flowers to present Buddha, so I took this." A cloak to honor your old age."

Yuan Keli took the cloak from Li Jing's hand, stroked it lightly twice, smiled and said: "That's right, since it's your filial piety, I'll accept it as a teacher."

Li Jing turned his head to look at the person who came, and said with a smile: "Huang Taiji wants to recruit Li, and he will not only give Li this little thing, but also give it to an official. What kind of official is he going to give to Li?" ?”

"My Khan said that if General Li surrenders, he will be given the title of King Pingnan." The man hurriedly said.

"Hahaha! King Pingnan? It's a big deal, but I don't know how much territory this King Pingnan controls? Is it the entire Ming Dynasty?" Li Jing laughed.

The man didn't know how to answer, so he was silent.

But he also knew that Li Jing should have something else to say.

Because even if Li Jing didn't get involved, he knew that Huang Taiji would never make a Pingnan King who could rule the entire Ming Dynasty.

Sure enough, Li Jing spoke again.

I saw Li Jing smiled, shook the greeting card in his hand, glanced at it, and said, "Your name is Fan Xiandou written on this greeting card, isn't your name fake?"

Li Jing's few words didn't match the topic at all, which made the man unable to keep up with Li Jing's train of thought.

The man was stunned for a while, but he didn't understand what Li Jing meant when he said this.

After a while, the man said slowly: "Xiandou is the character of Zi Xia, and the name of Zai Xia is above Xia Cheng."

Hearing this name, Li Jing's eyes shrank suddenly, and he swept towards Fan Wencheng like a blade: "Fan Wencheng? So it's you!"

Fan Wencheng's heart trembled suddenly when Li Jing glanced at him, and then he heard Li Jing slowly ask: "Are you Han? You used to be a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, but you were sent down to the Eastern Captives later?"

Fan Wencheng nodded silently, but then said: "Actually, I had no choice but to return to the Kingdom of Jin. My ancestors lived in Fushun. In the 46th year of Wanli, the gold master Nurhachi led troops to the south, captured Fushun, and captured more than [-] Han people. His lower body was among them. Later, he was given to a man in armor as a slave. In order to survive, I had to compromise and surrender to the Kingdom of Jin."

Hearing Fan Wencheng's defense, Li Jing sneered and said, "Are you a scholar?"

Fan Wencheng nodded and said, "This is the 43rd year Wanli student (scholar)."

Li Jing sneered and said: "You can pass the examination of a scholar, and you have read a lot of books, but I'm afraid that all your books have been read into the stomach of a dog. You don't even have the integrity of a literati, how dare you call yourself a scholar! Let me ask you , do you know Su Wu herding sheep?"

Fan Wencheng was scolded by Li Jing, he wanted to say that you are a vulgar person who knows the integrity of a scholar, but he didn't want Li Jing to talk about Su Wu shepherding, Fan Wencheng opened his mouth, but finally shut up.

Li Jing pointed to Fan Wencheng and said, "You don't dare to open your mouth, but you probably know it. Su Wu's Hu festival is not disgraceful, the snow is ice and the sky, nineteen years of poverty, thirsty to drink snow, hungry to eat felt. Living in Beihai (Belga Lake area), keep the Han family in your heart, this is really a model for our generation of Han people. You can’t learn from Su Gong, so you should take this as a lesson. However, after you became a thief, you repeatedly followed the east to invade the border of our Ming Dynasty and captured me The people of the Ming Dynasty have a lot of money and a lot of money, what face do you have at this time to call yourself a Han Chinese? I wonder if you will have the face to meet your ancestors after you die?"

Fan Wencheng didn't want Li Jing to speak so sharply, so he was sweating profusely for a while.

In fact, there are not many people who call Fan Wencheng a traitor, and Fan Wencheng is not ignorant, but Li Jing is the only one who scolds Fan Wencheng like this in front of his face.

In addition, Fan Wencheng has always defended himself as "the bones of the Ming Dynasty and the flesh of the Qing Dynasty (golden)", but at this time in front of Li Jing, for some reason, he couldn't say this.

Li Jing paused, pointed to Fan Wencheng, and continued, "I should have killed people like you who have forgotten their ancestors, but if you come to see me, if I kill you, it will just tarnish my reputation. Let me go. But, listen to me. Whatever I ask you next, you can answer me. Otherwise, even if I don’t kill you, can’t I still torture you? With your integrity, you can’t compare to Su Lord, therefore, if you don’t want to suffer, then answer my question obediently.”

At this time, Fan Wencheng had already been overwhelmed by Li Jing's momentum, and his eloquent tongue seemed to be knotted, so he just nodded.

Seeing this, Li Jing smiled slightly, and raised his teacup to respect Yuan Keli.

Yuan Keli nodded with a smile.

Li Jing took a sip of tea lightly, put down the cup, and said, "Tell me, how did Huang Taiji know about me."

Fan Wencheng cupped his hands at Li Jinggong and said, "It's like this. A few months ago, after our Khan lost the battle in Datong, he sent people to carefully investigate the garrison in Datong..."

It turned out that after Huang Taiji's disastrous defeat in the battle of Guantunbao, he carefully questioned the defeated army who had fled back, and learned that there were more than [-] Ming troops in ambush, plus thousands of people defending Deshengbao, the total reached two. Thousands of people.

When Huang Taiji learned that there were so many people in this army, he immediately became restless.

However, Huang Taiji didn't think much about it at the time, and still wanted to solve this army through military means, so there was a plan to go deep alone and attack from behind.

It's just that Huang Taiji didn't expect that the gang under him would not see good things. After penetrating into the hinterland of Datong, the bandits broke out and robbed wantonly, exposing their possessions. As a result, the sneak attack plan failed. Five thousand elites were made dumplings by the Ming army, and none of them escaped. go out.

Nearly 2 people were lost in the two wars, which made Huang Taiji very heartbroken.

At this time, Huang Taiji knew that military means would definitely not be able to deal with this Ming army, so he had to think of another way.

In fact, there is only one way Huang Taiji can think of, which is to find a way to recruit this Ming army.To be precise, it was the general who recruited and surrendered this army, that is, Cao Wenzhao.

However, Cao Wenzhao is the commander-in-chief of Datong, and it is too difficult to recruit and surrender.

You must know that the General Soldier of Datong is a first-rank general. Although the rank of generals is not very valuable, there are not many people in Daming who can reach this level.

In addition, Cao Wenzhao also has an additional title, that is, the title of the second-rank prince Shaobao. Although this title is a false title, the rank is real.Civil officials can look down on the first-rank chief soldier, but they dare not look down on the prince Shaobao.

Moreover, Cao Wenzhao, the commander-in-chief, absolutely had real power in his hands. If he wanted to recruit this person, Huang Taiji didn't even know what price he would give. (The Qing people compiled the history of the Ming Dynasty, saying that Huang Taiji used countermeasures, deceived Chongzhen, and finally killed Yuan Chonghuan. This historical data can basically be concluded as nonsense. You must know that Yuan Chonghuan was the governor of Jiliao. He wanted money and people. There was someone, and he served as a civil servant. At that time, there was no second general with his high rank in the entire Ming Dynasty. Not to mention that Huang Taiji was bribed, even if Yuan Chonghuan was given the Khan position, Yuan Chonghuan might not be willing to do it.)
Huang Taiji couldn't offer a price to buy Cao Wenzhao, so he had to settle for the next best thing, hoping to buy Cao Wenzhao's subordinates.

So Huang Taiji sent a spy to enter Datong. After many inquiries, he accidentally learned that the army stationed in Datong was not the regular army of Ming Dynasty, but was trained by Shanxi General Li Jing himself, named Jishi Army.

After hearing the news, the emperor was overjoyed.

General Shanxi, is this a little official?To put it in a curse word, there may not be as many bastards in Beijing's Yongding River.

In Huang Taiji's mind, Li Jing trained such an army, but the Ming court only gave him the post of general in Shanxi. He might feel very depressed, and he might resent the court.At this time, if Li Jingxu was given a lot of money and a lot of money, Li Jing would definitely lead his troops to vote.

After all, Huang Taiji suffered from being uneducated. He probably didn't know how much it would cost to train an army like Ji Shijun. If he knew that Li Jing spent millions of taels on Ji Shijun, he would be killed. He will not use money to bribe Li Jing.

In addition, Hou Jin's intelligence work at this time was simply not comparable to that of Daming's professional intelligence personnel, and the work was done very carelessly.

These spies only found out that the Jishi Army was trained by Li Jing, so they went back to report to Huang Taiji, but they didn't know why the Shanxi General was able to train so many troops, and why the Shanxi General's subordinates were assigned to the General Army of Datong command.

But it's no wonder that the military establishment of the Ming Dynasty was a bit chaotic, and the Hou Jin gang was illiterate. They never thought that the Shanxi generals would only be under the jurisdiction of the Shanxi General Army and had nothing to do with the Datong General Army.It was Li Jing's personal action that Ji Shijun went to Datong to fight.

Of course, they never expected that even Emperor Chongzhen would have to negotiate with Li Jinghao if he wanted to mobilize the Ji Shijun to fight.

Wrong information will lead to wrong judgments, and this is the case with Huang Taiji.

After getting the news, Huang Taiji immediately summoned Prince Baylor to discuss, and finally everyone agreed to send someone secretly into Datong to recruit Li Jing.Of course, who to send has to be carefully discussed.

First of all, this person cannot be a Jurchen, because the Jurchens really attract hatred in Daming, and if they accidentally reveal their Xingzang, they will end up being cut to pieces.

Of course, it can’t be Mongolians. Although the appearance of Mongolians is not much different from that of Han people, the smell of mutton on Mongolians is too strong. As long as the noses of Han people are not blind, they can smell it.

You must know that in the eyes of the Han people, the Mongols are not treated very well. When they see the Mongols, they will definitely not treat each other well.With the character of the Mongols, once they are humiliated, they will inevitably draw their swords to face each other. In that case, things will not be able to be done.

The Jurchens can't do it, and the Mongols can't do it either. The only ones left are the Han Chinese.

But they don't trust the Jurchens of the Han people.In the eyes of the Jurchens, the Han people are all greedy and lustful. If they are asked to take precious women to bribe them, once they run away halfway, they will have nowhere to look for them.

Just when everyone was in dispute, Huang Taiji thought of a candidate: Fan Wencheng.

Huang Taiji knew Fan Wencheng very well. He knew that if there was any Han Chinese who could convince the Jurchens, it was Fan Wencheng.

(End of this chapter)