Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 855 Dream

In the last ten days of November, the flowers are no longer in full swing, and the beauty of peaches and plums is gone. The cold wind blowing from the north mercilessly destroys this prosperous place, and the whole south of the Yangtze River is shivering in the cold wind.In Hangzhou, in Suzhou, in Huzhou, in Nanjing, Anqing, Shaoxing, Yangzhou...these prosperous cities piled up like towers of gold and piled up like sand are full of chills. From time to time, you can see a few people wearing Ling Luo silk satin, the well-dressed rich man cried and laughed on the street for a while, spit wildly when he saw the grain shop, and even picked up stones to throw them. The madness of his demeanor was in sharp contrast to their attire.

They are all crazy!
There is no way not to be crazy. During the food shortage that lasted for two months, those guys who are used to making money from the country and making black-hearted money first became rich overnight, and then the wealth disappeared overnight, and they owed a whole lot of debt , Wife divorced, family ruined, how can these guys who love money like their lives bear such a blow!After learning that the stocks in my hands have turned into a pile of waste paper that is too rough to wipe my ass overnight, and after knowing that I can sell all the food I bought at a high price and I can't make any money back, many The unscrupulous grain merchants and the stock speculators immediately went crazy, ostentatiously wearing those gorgeous clothes, crying and making a scene, and some people even avoided the process of going crazy, throwing themselves into the river, hanging themselves, and so on. During the time, tragedies of family ruin and death occurred frequently. From time to time, a few corpses floated in those beautiful rivers, and one or two corpses dangled on the trees by the river like grouse hanging from the eaves. Kind of a horror atmosphere!

In just two months, more than 3000 million taels of silver evaporated from the Jiangnan market. This speed can only be described as "horrific".Because too much silver has disappeared from the Jiangnan market in a short period of time, some cities have even experienced money shortages—the silver has been circled away, and the currency that can be used for transactions has been greatly reduced. It is only natural that there is a money shortage up.The terrified rich people in the south of the Yangtze River ran to the bank with the bank notes, demanding to take out the silver deposited in the bank, but unfortunately, the silver had disappeared——was used by unscrupulous banks to lend money to unscrupulous merchants to buy food stocks , hoarding food, food prices plummeted, and those black-hearted guys lost their money, and the money bank naturally couldn't get back the money they lent, so one after another went bankrupt, or they simply packed up the little money left, and took the money with them. escape.This move intensified the panic even more, and the whole Jiangnan was at a loss.The Jiangnan gentry group and the government were at a loss as to what to do about it. They were shocked and angry: "Who did that little bitch learn these tricks from? It's so vicious!"

In fact, they should go to Yang Menglong to settle accounts. It was Yang Menglong who talked to Cheng Qi about the financial crisis that broke out in the modern world. Although the talk was fragmentary, Cheng Qi still learned a lot from it. All of them are displayed at one time, and the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are pitted into climaxes one after another!
The entire Jiangnan area was tricked by Cheng Qi to the point of vomiting blood. Countless wealthy businessmen wailed loudly while covering their empty wallets. They were no longer in the mood to care about the Heluo area's affairs. The Heluo area was finally clear.

However, after Yang Menglong was assassinated, the overall situation in the world seemed to be turned upside down. The situation changed so fast that there was no chance to breathe.Just when the food shortage was at its worst, news came from the north: Huang Taiji, the slave chieftain of Houjin Jiannu, had ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor on November [-], and changed the name of the country to "Qing"!
The news that Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor was like a bolt from the blue, shocking everyone's eyes!After the shock, there was anger. From the officials and gentry to the traffickers and lackeys, everyone yelled! For more than 2000 years, the majesty of the Son of Heaven has been rooted in this land, and no one can shake it. If you are a hero, you can become the king and hegemony, but you must never become the emperor. Once you become the emperor, all the powerful will regard you as the number one opponent , to crush you at all costs!Even if the emperor has become a puppet, those princes who hold heavy soldiers don't pay attention to the emperor at all, but if someone proclaims the emperor, they will definitely send troops and spare no effort to uproot him, because you are proclaiming the emperor and beating the emperor. At the same time, the faces of these nominal ministers were swollen. Even for the last trace of the empire's majesty, they could not stand idly by!
This is the power of the Son of Heaven!
Now, Huang Taiji establishes himself as the emperor, and he wants to challenge the majesty of the emperor and the entire Ming Empire!

If everything was still as it was in history, when the Golden Eight Banners were invincible and beat the entire Ming Empire to the point where they had no temper and no time to protect themselves, then Huang Taiji would proclaim himself emperor, even if he proclaimed himself the Jade Emperor, no one in Daming would dare to say a word.But today is not what it used to be, and the aura of Jurchen's invincibility has long been shattered. In Lushun and in the Hetao area, Hou Jin defeated the Ming army many times and suffered heavy casualties. emperor! Everyone in Daming cursed: "Those Jiannu really don't know how to write death! Do you really think that they can do whatever they want after the champion is assassinated? Heluo Xinjun and Tianxiong Army are still there! How dare they call it dead?" God, just wait, they will definitely be beaten out of their bodies!"

Some even shook their heads and sighed: "It's a pity that the life and death of the champion is uncertain, otherwise Jiannu would not have the guts! Alas, this country can't do without the champion, and something happened to him, and Jiannu became arrogant again!" The words touched everyone's mood All very heavy.

Yeah, it really wouldn't work without that unreliable guy.When he was still there, Jiannu was beaten to the brink of death, and he couldn't breathe. Now that he has collapsed, Jiannu immediately became majestic!

So, how is Yang Menglong doing now?
He's in a very bad situation now.

Yang Menglong was lucky, the bullet didn't break his intestines, and the military doctor he trained with blood was also high enough to help him take out the bullet smoothly.But at the same time, he was unlucky. Taiwan's hot and humid climate soon made his wounds infected and fester.In the era of cold weapons, wound infection was basically equivalent to a death sentence. In fact, not many soldiers died directly from hand-to-hand combat, but many died from wound infection. Although the military doctors took care of him in three shifts, staying around day and night, Jin Yiwei Do your best, no matter what medicinal materials you need, no matter how difficult it is, you will get them in the shortest time. Whoever you need, even if he hides in a mouse hole, Jin Yiwei will tie him up within a few days, but Yang Menglong's wound Infection cannot be controlled.He had a high fever and fell into a coma. After the high fever finally subsided, he felt cold all over again—this was the sequelae of excessive blood loss.The wound was good and bad, and there was no hope of healing at all. The high fever and low temperature caused a series of complications. In the worst case, even the soup could not be poured into it.The imperial doctor was too frightened to use the medicine, for fear that if something happened to him, he would punish his whole family.But under the threat of Heluo's new army, they still have to use all their abilities to treat them with all their strength.However, it is useless even if they put all their energy into breastfeeding, this kind of injury cannot be saved by them.

The imperial doctor tried his best, but it was useless;
The military doctor tried his best to nurse, but it was useless;
Quack doctors... Most of the quack doctors were thrown out by the new army of Heluo as soon as they wrote their prescriptions—a fool's stuff.

Korean ginseng from North Korea, hibiscus from the southern slope of Mount Everest in Tibet, snow lotus from Tianshan Mountain, secret recipes from European courts...these expensive and frightening medicines still have no effect when used for free.

In the end, everyone was desperate and couldn't think of any other way. A charlatan stood up and said, "Let me try!"

The quack doctor, who was so poor that he could not even wear shoes, used a scalpel to gouge out the carrion around Yang Menglong's wound, cleaned it, applied gold wound medicine, and then grabbed a rooster with a bright red comb and was extremely vigorous and killed it. Carefully cut off a large piece of skin from its body, carefully sewed it on the Yangkou, and applied Jinchuang medicine again... After finishing all this, he said to Li Yan with some anxiety: "This is an ancestral method, don't care about it." No, I don't know what to do... A dead horse is a living horse doctor!"

Li Yan sighed: "That's the only way... Just in case, please invite Madam over here!"

Miraculously, Yang Menglong's symptoms of wound infection disappeared after being tortured by this charlatan, and his fever also subsided slowly. Although he was still unconscious, his condition did start to improve.Li Yan, Xu Meng, Li Xu and the others were all overjoyed, and the red lady was even more ecstatic, and rewarded that quack doctor with all her private money!
However, at this moment, the news of Huang Taiji proclaiming himself emperor reached Taiwan.

Along with this news, Chongzhen was furious and ordered to mobilize elite troops to prepare for the imperial conquest to clean up the bad news about Huang Taiji.

When Li Yan received the bad news, his face was pale, and the hand holding the letter trembled violently.

He failed to pry out anything useful from the mouth of the assassin who was captured alive. This kind of assassins are all dead men, and they have long since given up on their own lives. He wanted to dig out something useful from their mouths. ,too difficult!The assassin finally died in prison, and his death was unclear. Since his death, Li Yan's heart has been hanging, always feeling that there will be great changes.However, most of his energy was absorbed by the situation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Huguang, and he had no time to care about other things. Now, the sharp sword hanging above his head finally fell, and in a flash of cold light, it almost shattered his heart!

Yang Menglong's assassination, Huang Taiji's proclaiming emperor, and Chongzhen's royal conquest... This is by no means a coincidence, there seems to be a thin thread connecting all these intermittently.Li Yan just tried to scrutinize the joints in detail, and then he felt cold all over. If his guess unfortunately came true, the whole Ming Dynasty might be turned into a sea of ​​blood!

Looking at the unconscious Yang Menglong, he sighed, "It's true that misfortunes never come singly..."

During this period of coma, Yang Menglong kept dreaming the same dream. He dreamed that corpses covered the plains and rivers were stained red with blood. Laughing wildly in the sea of ​​blood, civilians howling in despair... He also dreamed of countless Ming soldiers, some he knew, some he didn't know, they were covered in blood, their swords and armor were crippled, their bodies were full of feathered arrows, clenched and broken holding a tattered battle flag, his eyes were bloodshot, his expression was grief and anger, and he roared in his lungs: "Your Majesty, wake up! Let us have a great battle with the Jiannu Tartars!" field!"

The whistling of swan whistles piercing into the clouds, the whistling of conch horns and horns, and thunderous bangs, it seemed that thousands of war drums were beating at the same time, shaking the heavens and the earth.Groups of soldiers of the Heluo New Army stood up from the banks of the Daling River, from Jinzhou Lushun, from Dengzhou, and from the places where they had fought, wearing armor full of blood and mud, holding their horizontal swords tightly.槊 formed a neat phalanx, watched him silently, and waited anxiously for his order.

How could he have such a strange dream? When he wakes up, he must talk to Xiao Yufang, he thought.

(End of this chapter)