Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 293 Assassination Mission
Hearing what Li Jing said was funny, Yuan Keli and Xu Guangqi laughed at the same time.

After laughing for a while, Li Jing continued: "At this time, we need to find some influential women to set an example. The most suitable women to set an example are of course the queen and the princess, but the queen and the princess are too far away from us. The pole can't hit them, so I can only let the two ladies set an example.

To be honest, my current influence is far less than that of the emperor, and the influence of the two ladies is even farther than that of the queen and princess. Therefore, the effect of the two ladies setting an example is not very obvious.

This time the emperor wants to marry me, so I happened to borrow the name of the emperor and the name of the princess.

Let the princess grow up with me, let her live like a commoner, let the common people understand the words and deeds of the princess, then everyone will follow the example, which is much more useful than me forcing the executive order. "

Upon hearing this, Yuan Keli and Xu Guangqi looked at each other with gratified smiles on their faces.

Through Li Jing's narration, the two elders felt that Li Jing's political skills were becoming more and more mature.

This marriage is just a trivial matter, who would have thought that he would take advantage of it to such an extent?
And if he didn't say it himself, others would not be able to see his intentions at all.

Emperor Chongzhen's response was beyond Fan Wencheng's expectations.

Fan Wencheng never expected that with Zhu Youjian's suspicious character, he would deal with Li Jing's secret communication with Da Jin in this way.

Fan Wencheng pondered for a long time in the inn, and finally a smile appeared on his face.

Just now he finally figured out that Zhu Youjian was skeptical of Li Jing after all.

Fan Wencheng dared to draw this conclusion because Zhu Youjian did not substantially improve Li Jing's position when he praised Li Jing.

What Zhu Youjian promoted was only Li Jing's false title, and his actual position was still Shanxi general. (In today's words, this approach is to raise one level of wages.)
There was only one thing Fan Wencheng didn't understand now. He didn't understand why Li Jing asked Zhu Youjian to send the princess to Pingyang Mansion.

Zhu Youjian has already lowered his social status to show his favor to Li Jing, but Li Jing even raised conditions. Isn't he afraid of angering Zhu Youjian?
As for Zhu Youjian's agreement to Li Jing's conditions, Fan Wencheng didn't care much. If Zhu Youjian and Li Jing had become a family, it would really underestimate the emperors of all dynasties.

Fan Wencheng is very clear that for the emperors, whether their daughters are happy is not in their consideration.There are many such things in history, such as sending people to see off relatives in the front, and sharpening knives in the back.

If he didn't understand Fan Wencheng, he didn't want to. From Fan Wencheng's point of view, his purpose of this trip had been achieved. Although Zhu Youjian calmed down his estrangement on the surface, Fan Wencheng knew that he was already in Zhu Youjian's heart. A seed of suspicion was planted.

In the future, as long as you fertilize and water again, this seed will germinate and grow.

Counting the time, Huang Taiji should have already figured out Li Jing's plot, and he has been out for a long time this time, it is time to return to Shengjing.

Before leaving, Fan Wencheng arranged one last thing.

He left four of them.

Fan Wencheng came to Pingyang Mansion this time to recruit Li Jing, and the accompanying guards were all the most elite soldiers selected from Jin's Han army after the surrender.

These soldiers have lived under the rule of Hou Jin for many years, and they have families and families. Like Fan Wencheng, these people no longer regard themselves as citizens of Ming Dynasty, and all of them have become traitors.

Fan Wencheng had only one purpose of leaving four people behind, to sneak into Pingyang Mansion, get close to Li Jing, and wait for an opportunity to assassinate him.

Fan Wencheng knew that even though Li Jing was not reused by Zhu Youjian, Li Jing was still a serious problem for Da Jin, and he had to get rid of this person.

However, Fan Wencheng also knew that it would not be easy to assassinate Li Jing, because Fan Wencheng had carefully observed Li Jing's mansion when he met Li Jing's mansion in Pingyang. With personal guards.

But during the meeting, Fan Wencheng discovered that there was only one guard beside Li Jing, and this guard had been standing beside the old gentleman. Obviously, Li Jing was afraid that he would hurt the old gentleman suddenly, so he ordered the guard Protect the old gentleman.

It can be seen that Li Jing's defense against himself is tight on the outside and loose on the inside, which also shows that Li Jing is very confident in his skills.

Fan Wencheng felt that Li Jing could be assassinated based on this.

Because no matter how good Li Jing's skills are, as long as he doesn't have many guards around him, there is a chance to assassinate him.

Of course, a strong attack is definitely not enough. With the strength of the guards of Li Jing's mansion, it is impossible to attack without several times the strength.

If Fan Wencheng could mobilize so many people in Pingyang Mansion to besiege Li Jing's mansion, it means that Hou Jin's troops had already reached Pingyang Mansion, and Li Jing had no more soldiers in his hands, and it was unnecessary to assassinate him at that time.

There is only one way to assassinate Li Jing, and that is to send people to sneak into Li Jing's mansion.

The four people Fan Wencheng left behind were the most skilled and cleverest among the guards he brought this time.

Fan Wencheng only left them one sentence: first look for an opportunity to sneak into Li's mansion, then wait patiently, the last blow will kill.

After leaving a large sum of money for these four people, Fan Wencheng immediately returned to Shengjing with the rest of his followers.

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Li Jing and Fan Wencheng's judgments on the reactions of Huang Taiji and the princes and ministers of the Houjin Dynasty were not wrong at all.

When they saw Fan Wencheng's letter, Huang Taiji and all the princes and ministers were indeed very angry. All the princes and ministers yelled that Fan Wencheng was greedy for life and afraid of death, and that he had lost the face of Da Jin, and even said that the Han people were not trustworthy.Huang Taiji immediately ordered Fan Wencheng to be arrested and beheaded for public display.

But undoubtedly, Fan Wencheng knew Huang Taiji better.

When the messenger informed Huang Taiji that Fan Wencheng had not returned, but had gone to Beijing, the princes and ministers of Houjin were all upset, saying that Fan Wencheng had defected to Daming, betrayed Dajin, and wanted to copy Fan Wencheng's family. But at this moment, Huang Taiji suddenly fell silent.

Fan Wencheng knew Huang Taiji well, and Huang Taiji also knew Fan Wencheng very well.

Huang Taiji knew that Fan Wencheng was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he didn't dare to defend Dajin's reputation with death when Li Jing humiliated Dajin, but Huang Taiji would never believe that Fan Wencheng absconded in fear of crime.Because if Fan Wencheng had really betrayed Da Jin, he would never have fled to Beijing.

Huang Taiji believed that Fan Wencheng must have another purpose in coming to Beijing.

Holding the letter written by Fan Wencheng, Huang Taiji read it again carefully, then closed his eyes and meditated silently.

Seeing that Huang Taiji suddenly kept silent, all the princes and ministers immediately kept silent, staring at Huang Taiji, waiting for Huang Taiji to order to capture Fan Wencheng's family.

After pondering for a while, Huang Taiji slowly opened his eyes and looked at the group of ministers.Beginning with the elder brother Daishan, Huang Taiji looked down one by one. When he saw Dorgon, Huang Taiji suddenly smiled, and raised the letter in his hand: "Fourteenth brother, please send this letter again." Read it carefully and tell me what you think."

Hearing this, Dorgon took a few steps forward, took the letter from Huang Taiji, and read it carefully.

After reading it, Dorgon presented the letter to Huang Taiji with both hands, and then continued: "Great Khan, according to my brother, Fan Wencheng's letter probably has a lot of meaning."

Huang Taiji nodded and said, "Tell me your opinion."

Dorgon gave a salute to Huang Taiji, and then said: "This letter is all about what happened when Fan Wencheng met Li Jing, almost all of it is what Li Jing said, even how Li Jing insulted Da Jin didn't miss anything. Why did Fan Wencheng write such a letter? Could it be that he wanted to scold us again for what Li Jing scolded us? Does he not want to live anymore?"

Speaking of this, Dorgon suddenly smiled, and turned to look at the ministers: "Fan Wencheng gave me a great gold in the third year of the destiny, and he has always been loyal. After Brother Khan succeeded to the throne, he has made many meritorious deeds. Said Fan Wencheng Cheng betrayed Da Jin, I don't believe it.

So why did Fan Wencheng write such a letter?I think he wanted to tell us Li Jing's intentions. I guess he was under the surveillance of Li Jing when he delivered the letter because he was in Pingyang Mansion, and he was afraid that Li Jing would find out if he told us Li Jing's intentions directly.Only then did I tell us what Li Jing said, and let us analyze it ourselves. "

Seeing everyone present nodding silently, Dorgon continued: "Then let's analyze what this letter means. This letter is almost full of Li Jing insulting Fan Wencheng himself and insulting Da Jin. See Li Jing's words." His words can be described as hating Fan Wencheng to the bone.

But Li Jing didn't kill Fan Wencheng. Could it be that he was afraid that the two countries would fight each other and not kill him?Li Jing was just a general, so there was no need to worry about this, not to mention that Fan Wencheng was going to recruit Li Jing, so he was not a messenger at all.

So why didn't Li Jing kill him?
The Han people have a saying that the master humiliated his ministers to death, and Li Jing insulted Da Jin so much. If Fan Wencheng was loyal, he would have blood spattered five steps and fight Li Jing desperately.

If Li Jing kills Fan Wencheng, we will know that Fan Wencheng is not afraid of death and is my Dajin's loyal minister.

But Fan Wencheng was afraid of death and did not do so, so our first reaction after hearing the news was that Fan Wencheng had lost face to Da Jin and should be executed, and at the same time we all believed that the Han people were untrustworthy and unusable.

I think Li Jing’s purpose of humiliating Da Jin while not killing Fan Wencheng is just to anger us so that we no longer reuse Han people. "

Seeing disapproval from some people present, Dorgon knew that in the eyes of these people, the Han people were not taken seriously at all, and they thought the Han people were dispensable.

Shaking his head slightly, Dorgon continued: "Although the Han people are far inferior to my Dajin in combat, they are not useless. For example, the firearms used by the army are beyond the reach of my Dajin. Back then, sweating first He was wounded by the artillery of the Ming army under the city of Ningyuan.

In addition, our Jurchen warriors are not good at farming and need to rely on the Han people to plow the fields for food. Without these Han people, it would be impossible for our Dajin to grow so quickly.Therefore, we must be cautious and cautious in how to treat the Han people. "

Speaking of this, Dorgon bowed solemnly to Huang Taiji and said: "Khan, this is my foolish opinion, it is inappropriate to say, I hope Khan will not be blamed."

Huang Taiji smiled and waved his hands and said: "The fourteenth brother's analysis is very well-organized, from my point of view (I don't know if Huang Taiji used the name "I" at the time, right?) From my point of view, this is what Fan Wencheng's letter said. And it is exactly as the fourteenth brother said, how to use the Han people, we must be cautious, and we must not force them too much."

After a pause, Huang Taiji continued: "Fan Wencheng has humiliated my Dajin this time, but he must be punished. It's just that Fan Wencheng is still in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, let's talk about it when he returns."

"Great Khan!" Dorgon saluted first.

(End of this chapter)