Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 249 Farce
The sincerity of the Mongols was to release an insignificant scholar.

The scholar was let out of the river in a daze, and then, as if in a dream, he arrived at the city wall and was hanged on the city wall by the Ming army.

Only then did he come to his senses, and he was saved.

But he also remembered his mission.

"General, general, let them go."

The scholar didn't know Yang Chao, so he called the general casually, not at Yang Chao, but at all the soldiers indiscriminately.

Only then did Yang Chao come over and asked, "Who should you let go?"

The scholar said: "What kind of son of theirs, they said they were arrested by you. If they let him go, they will let Mr. Gao go!"

Yang Chao said noncommittally, "What else?"

The scholar said: "Also, if you let people go, they won't be able to attack the city."

Yang Chao regretted: "I'm sorry, the man is not in our hands, and has already been sent back to Huai'an."

The scholar looked at Yang Chao suspiciously, and suddenly became a little annoyed: "My husband, you are just dying!"

As soon as he finished cursing, he suddenly saw Zhang Dun, Li Liang and several other soldiers surrounding him with unfriendly expressions.

The scholar immediately curbed his arrogance and hummed in a low voice: "I want to see Song Dianshi, I want to see Song Dianshi."

As he spoke, he slipped away from the soldiers and quickly walked down the city wall.

A quarter of an hour later, Song Lian walked up to the top of the city and hurriedly found Yang Chao.

Song Lian asked: "General Yang, did you really capture the shellfish of the Tartars?"

Yang Chao sighed: "It seems that he was arrested, but he was sent to Huai'an."

Song Lian also looked suspicious, and then lay down on the crenel with concern, looking at colleagues passing by the river one by one.

Guard, master, master, he saw familiar faces one by one, and finally his eyes fell on the figure in the middle who was terrified and kneeling by the river, that was Gao Liangming, the magistrate of Haizhou.

Seeing Gao Liangming's appearance, Song Lian was angry and angry, but at the same time he couldn't bear it.

Taking a deep breath, he turned to Yang Chao and said, "General Yang, if you really captured them, let them go. Just treat it as my debt to you!"

Song Lian lowered his head, already begging.

Yang Chao was very depressed. Like the scholar just now, Song Lian believed that Yang Chao had captured the captives.

Of course he has reason to believe it, because the scholar came back from the captive army. The captive soldiers have no reason to frame Yang Chao, and Yang Chao has talked with the captive soldiers for so long. If there is no one in hand, why did he talk about it? .

Yang Chao knew that he couldn't convince Song Lian even if he was procrastinating for time. In order to save Zhizhou, he selectively believed that Yang Chao had a hostage in his hands.

So Yang Chao said in another way: "Lord Song, if the imperial court finds out that we exchanged hostages privately and negotiated peace with captive soldiers, what will the emperor do?"

Song Lian was stunned suddenly.

That’s right, Chen Xinjia’s peace talks, I heard that he followed the secret decree of Emperor Chongzhen, and after the incident was exposed, he was still killed by the emperor. If they exchanged hostages with the captive soldiers here, the result would not be much better.

But he really couldn't bear to watch Gao Liangming being killed by the captive soldiers.

Song Lian said: "The tartars also said that as long as their shellfish are released, they will not attack Haizhou City."

Yang Chao said again: "I heard that they also asked for a huge amount of silver taels!"

Song Lian said: "Haizhou is rich and there are many salt merchants. The money can still be scraped together, so it's not worth mentioning."

In Yang Chao's heart, the little favor he had built up for Song Lian in the past two days has weakened a little, because Song Lian's tone is obviously planning to attack the salt merchants in the city. , the purpose is to save the Zhizhou who abandoned the city and fled.

In Song Lian's eyes, Zhizhou and him are the same people. As for Yang Chao and those salt merchants, they are just inferior people.

Yang Chao sneered: "Sir Song, discuss peace before the battle, do you think the laws of the country can tolerate it, can the emperor tolerate it?"

National laws and emperors are still very important in the hearts of these literati.

Song Lian was stunned for a while, and finally insisted: "It is for the sake of the [-] people in Haizhou, and I will take care of it!"

Song Lian found a reason for himself, for the sake of the people, um, this weight is more important than the emperor in theory, the people are the most important, the community is second, and the king is the lightest.

But only when they are looking for a reason, they will think of Mencius' words. In their eyes, I am afraid that only the emperor is the emperor, because the emperor can bestow power on them.

It's just ironic that Song Lian kept saying that he was for the people, but in the end he wanted to seize the people's wealth and hand it over to the enemy.

It's not just Song Lian who is like this, but the entire civil servant group of Ming Dynasty. This is already institutionalized and theoretical hypocrisy.

While the two were talking, the soldiers beheaded another person, and Song Lian's heart ached.

I am already impatient with Yang Chao: "Are you going to let him go or not?"

But Yang Chao continued to ask: "What if the captive soldiers refuse to retreat after I release them?"

Song Lian hummed: "At that time, I will be responsible for it!"

Yang Chao said, "I'm afraid you won't be able to bear this responsibility."

Song Lian suddenly pointed at Yang Chao angrily. He didn't expect Yang Chao to be so disrespectful to him. Although Yang Chao had never been as respectful to them as the military attache of Haizhou Guard, he had never spoken so condescendingly.

But Song Lian really had nothing to do with Yang Chao, he withdrew his fingers, gritted his teeth and said, "How on earth are you willing to let him go?"

Yang Chao was also depressed, knowing that it would not be good for defending the city to be at odds with Song Lian at this time.

So he explained the reason in a serious manner: "The captive soldiers can really retreat, and if Master Song is really willing to take responsibility, I don't care if I let them go. But the cunning of the Tartars is not to be trusted! I have to see the Tartars retreat first before releasing them."

Song Lian snorted: "How is this possible?"

Yang Chao said: "I didn't let them all retreat, I just retreated first to show my sincerity!"

Song Lian pondered for a moment, and said bitterly: "Since Mr. Yang needs integrity, then I will let the soldiers give you integrity."

After speaking, he suddenly said to the scholar just now: "Brother Jiwen, please go back and tell the Tartars to withdraw their troops."

The scholar's expression changed immediately: "Your Majesty Song, you absolutely must not, if we don't release them first, the Tartars will not withdraw their troops."

Song Lian said: "Brother Jiwen, don't worry, you go back and tell the Tartars that we can give them 10 taels of silver first, and then they will withdraw their troops."

The scholar said: "We can shout out, give them 10 taels of silver, they will definitely be willing to withdraw their troops first, and I don't need to go back."

Song Lian said: "Where do you have to go, we have to show our integrity first, otherwise the captive soldiers won't believe it."

The scholar's face was already pale and he begged: "I can't go back, they will kill me, they will kill me."

The scholar finally escaped from danger, like a dying person who suddenly survived, but let him die again, he will be more frightened than the first time.

Song Lian said coldly: "You have to go back, otherwise the captive soldiers won't believe it. You can save Mr. Gao by going back."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the scholar's reaction, he immediately ordered: "Come on, send him down!"

The scholar immediately knelt down and hugged Song Lian's leg: "Please, Mr. Song, I can't go back. Mr. Song, you forgot that I gave you a painting by Dong Qichang a few days ago, as well as the painting of Dong Qichang who was there years ago. 1000 taels of silver!"

Song Lian's face was already dark, but Yang Chao's soldiers did not move, he immediately went to Min Zhuang next to him: "Don't do anything yet!"

Yang Chao's soldiers didn't take Song Lian's order seriously, but the minzhuang dared not listen to Dian Shi's words, and immediately started to stuff the crying scholar who was so inhuman and whose legs were weak that he couldn't stand up, into a hanging basket, and pushed him away. Down the city wall.

Then Song Lian was about to go to the city, but Yang Chao said with a smile: "Master Song, in fact, you can show your integrity even more if you go!"

Song Lian snorted coldly and left with a flick of his sleeves.

The scholar who was sent off the city wall collapsed on the ground, lying on the city wall and weeping in mourning, and was finally captured by a captive soldier on horseback.

I don't know if it played a role, but the captive soldiers stopped killing.

"My lord, is Master Song really going to give the Tartars 10 taels of silver?"

Li Wuliu couldn't understand Song Lian's approach.

Yang Chao smiled wryly, "What else can we do? He's gone down to raise money."

Li Wuliu sighed: "If you give me 10 taels of silver, I will go down and help them take Nazhizhou back."

The other soldiers booed one after another: "Then you go!"

Turge looked cold, he didn't expect the Ming army to propose to give them a sum of money so that they would withdraw first.

This made Turg reluctantly agree.

Because of the 10 taels of silver, not to mention the Mongols, even his cronies with the white flag are inclined to withdraw the army with money.

The promise of 10 taels of silver actually made Turge unable to mobilize his morale for a while.

In front of Turger was a scholar who was limp on the ground.

Turge said coldly to the scholar: "I'll give you an hour, if you don't send the money after an hour, I'll kill you first."

Seeing Turge's eyes, the scholar shuddered, but he didn't even dare to say a word.

It didn't take an hour, half an hour later, Yang Chao saw Song Lian leading the yamen servants, carrying boxes one by one up the city wall.

It seems that Haizhou is really rich, and Song Lian raised 10 taels of silver in half an hour.

But do you really want to give the money to the soldiers?
Yang Chao was very unwilling.

Trying his best to persuade him one last time: "Lord Song, I really don't have anyone in my hands. Even if you send the money, the captive soldiers will not retreat if they don't get someone. And even if there are people, I'm sure the captive soldiers will not retreat." .”

Song Lian snorted coldly, ignored Yang Chao, and just asked people to put the silver into the hanging basket.

Yang Chao shook his head, ignored Song Lian, and directly ordered Li Wuliu, "Fire!"

In fact, the cannons on the city had been aimed long ago, but if the captive soldiers did not attack the city, Yang Chao would not have to provoke them, time was in his favour.

As soon as the artillery was fired, it was tantamount to sending a signal to the captive soldiers: I don't want to talk about it at all, I just want to fight.

The negotiations broke down as soon as the guns were fired. If they couldn't kill a few people, they would let the captive soldiers attack the city again.

Song Lian also understood this truth, and was taken aback for a moment: "You, how dare you!"

But as soon as his words fell, Li Wuliu's cannon had already fired, and it hit the camp of the captive soldiers!

This shot means that this negotiation farce is over.

(End of this chapter)