Dashun Yongchang

After Xiao Yingkun left here,

Empress Gao also relaxed, and said to Li Laiheng: "You haven't been home for a long time, go home to see your mother and the others, your father should have a letter from home for you to bring back, they should also know the news of your return Don't make them wait too long."

But Li Laiheng didn't just leave, but stood on the spot with a look of hesitation. Seeing this, Empress Gao sat back, looked at him and asked, "Is there anything else you want to tell me?"

Li Laiheng finally made up his mind and said, "Your Highness, I want to go to Chengdu."

Empress Gao suddenly frowned and said: "Why? Didn't Your Majesty say that it is enough to ask Luo Danen to recommend a candidate, and then you can explain it clearly? Why are you going to Chengdu? Huang Hu is not easy to talk, this People go crazy, and no one can stop them."

Li Laiheng looked up at Empress Gao, and said calmly: "Going to Chengdu is risky, but persuading the Daxi Army to strike down and make friends with me is of great significance to Dashun.

I, Dashun, are currently isolated and helpless. The Manchus outside the customs and the gentry in the world are our enemies. If even the former rebels can't live in peace, then who else in the world will trust me, Dashun?

Outside the city of Suizhou, tens of thousands of cavalry from the Qing army passed by, and their military strength was even lower than that of the Ming army in its heyday.Although there were tens of thousands of troops in the city that day, none of the generals dared to go out to invite battle. Only His Majesty regarded the cavalry of the Qing army as nothing, and personally led [-] infantry out of the city to invite battle. One fought bravely to be the first, forcing Azig to abandon the camp, and then the tyrants in those places turned against our army again, and finally won this time.

Your Highness, my rebel army was originally born in a struggle between life and death, not the daughters of those wealthy and powerful families, and even refused to sit under the eaves, for fear that the tiles from the eaves would fall and hit their heads.Your Majesty has to take personal risks in order to win, how dare the minister not do things with all his heart for the sake of safety?

Besides, what His Majesty explained to the minister was only a rough idea, and the specific situation needs to be adjusted after arriving in Chengdu. The minister is very worried about whether he can correctly convey His Majesty's meaning to others.And if I can't see the current situation of Daxi Army and Zhang Xianzhong's daily behavior with my own eyes, how can I describe it to His Majesty so that His Majesty can make a correct judgment? "

Empress Gao hesitated for a moment, but she still said, "Your father only took in one adopted son from you. He really treats you like a son. If something happens to you, how can I explain to your father?"

Li Laiheng immediately replied: "I have already told my father about this matter before I came here. My father said that a man should not look forward and backward when doing things. If I really make up my mind, then he will not stop me."

Empress Gao stared at Li Laiheng and counted her breath, and said seriously: "If you promise me two things, I will agree with you to go, otherwise I will have someone escort you back to His Majesty, and let His Majesty discipline you well."

Li Laiheng was immediately refreshed when he heard this, and immediately bowed his hands to Empress Gao and replied respectfully: "Please speak, Your Highness."

Empress Gao said: "The first thing is, you must not reveal your identity, you can only be a follower in the mission. I still know Huang Hu. His personality is capricious, completely different from His Majesty. Even if he was calling you brother and brother one moment, he can pick up a knife and chop off your head the next moment.

His Majesty has always believed that Huang Hu is completely untrustworthy.Although this time he asked you to come back and spread the word that he wants to make peace with Huang Hu, but it should be the Daxi Army who followed Huang Hu, not Huang Hu himself, that His Majesty wants to make peace with.Once Huang Hu knows your identity, he may not let you come back, control you in his hands and threaten your father, it's not like he can't do such a thing. "

Li Laiheng's heart tightened. Of course he knew that Empress Gao's words were not threatening him. He grew up in the rebel army, so he naturally knew the deeds of several major rebel leaders.If you use one sentence to evaluate these rebel leaders, then except for Li Zicheng, everyone else has betrayed the rebel brothers in exchange for the court's leniency, although after recovering under the rule of the court, these people turned against each other again. But their dark spots cannot be washed off.

Then Li Laiheng replied to Empress Gao seriously: "Of course I won't reveal my identity. I just want to observe the Daxi Army and Zhang Xianzhong nearby. It would be inconvenient if I revealed my identity."

Only then did Empress Gao nod her head and said the second thing: "I also watched you grow up, I know that you are stubborn and always want to do your best. It doesn't have to be successful, His Majesty actually has two intentions, to convey His Majesty's intention of reconciliation to Zhang Xianzhong and Daxi Army, and observe Zhang Xianzhong and Daxi Army's reaction to His Majesty's request for peace.

In my opinion, His Majesty did not actually think that Zhang Xianzhong would be able to accept peace, but he should hope that the Great West Army would understand that our request for peace is not because of lack of strength in our hands, but that the rebels should not fight the rebels.As long as the Great Western Army can accept this statement, then Zhang Xianzhong will lose morality if he drives the Great Western Army to attack us.

The strength of our Daxi Army is not as good as ours, and we have occupied Hanzhong's geographical advantage. If even the people and harmony are lost, how long can Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Kingdom survive?

So, this time, when you go to Chengdu, you have to ensure your own safety before considering the task. If something changes, you should leave Chengdu immediately in the name of writing a letter to Xi’an. Don’t stubbornly stay in Chengdu and wait for a turnaround. what a great idea..."

When Li Laiheng came out of the imperial city, he felt a sense of relief. In the past, he mainly charged behind Li Guo, and didn't need to think much.But since he went to Li Zicheng's side, he also started to read and write, and learned to think and solve problems independently.

It should be said that staying by Li Zicheng's side for the past few months opened Li Laiheng's horizons at once.When he followed his adoptive father in the past, Li Guo only focused on his education, just follow His Majesty's order and charge.Among the generals of the rebel army, Li Guo is indeed the one who is loyal to Li Zicheng. After all, Li Guo grew up with Li Zicheng since he was a child. Although he is an uncle and nephew, he is actually similar to his brother.When Li Zicheng was tied up in front of the Yamen by the government and punished before he rebelled, it was Li Guo who risked his life and led others to rescue him.

Although Li Guo also performed well in the rebel army, he always stood by Li Zicheng's side. Therefore, when educating Li Laiheng, Li Guo also instilled this loyal thought into the righteous son's mind.In the past, Li Laiheng felt that his allegiance to Li Zicheng was a matter of course, and it was a sin to even think about why he should be loyal to Li Zicheng.

But after coming to Li Zicheng's side, the most common sentence he heard Li Zicheng said all day was "The position of the rebel army is the position of the people, so we need to be loyal to the people, not a specific person."

Li Zicheng once said to the Guards: "Who are the people? I, you, and he are all members of the people. To safeguard the interests of the people is to safeguard our interests. Therefore, those who betray the people are the most stupid. Because after breaking away from the collective of the people, you will find that you can't trust anyone. If you can betray the people, why can't others betray you?

The emperors of all dynasties always said that they were lonely and widowed, why?Because they are the dictators who have separated from the people. They regard the people of the world as cattle and horses, and they will seize every bit of the people's hard work.What did the looted wealth do?It is used to repair gardens, build palaces, and manufacture various luxuries for enjoyment.Who can sympathize with this kind of behavior of exploiting the world to support one person?Such a person is naturally a loner.

Therefore, don't be loyal to anyone, you should be loyal to your own interests and the interests of the people, this is the kind of loyalty that can make people feel sincere.When I lead you to protect the interests of the people, of course you should follow me. If you don't even have the courage to defend your own interests, who can you expect to defend your interests?

But if one day I betray the people, then of course you must stand on the side of the people and oppose me. This is revolution.Revolution is not about killing and destroying, but about defending the interests of the people.We may crush pots and pans in breaking the old world, but we will build a better new world..."

But when hearing these words from Li Zicheng for the first time, no matter the officers and soldiers, they were inexplicably shocked, but after listening to them for a long time, the guards felt that these words were much more pleasant than the righteousness of the monarch and his ministers, and the three cardinal principles and five constant principles.Because in the words of those scholars, the people below have only obligations and no rights, and you have to endure no matter whether the superiors give you reasonable or unreasonable punishments.

It's just that those who can join the rebel army are forced to pick up the knife when they are cornered by the world of ethics and ethics. Therefore, they actually have a kind of doubt about the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, the three cardinal principles and the five permanent principles.It's just because I can't say enough about scholars that I have to hold my nose and agree with this old order.

But after Li Zicheng instilled the principles of revolution in them, they immediately abandoned ethics and embraced the revolutionary idea of ​​resisting oppression.Because this revolutionary idea is the most in line with the aspirations of those who rose up to rebel.

If the old order of righteousness, the three cardinal principles and the five permanent principles were followed, then it would be wrong for them to rise up to rebel against the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, rebuilding a Dashun that conforms to the spirit of etiquette is to guide them, the ants who have gone astray, back to the right path.Such a new Dashun is actually not in the interests of the rebel army, because it means that they have fought for more than ten years in vain. Even the officers and soldiers who surrendered to the rebel army can look down on them, because in the eyes of these officers and soldiers, they are the ones who are causing trouble in the world. bane.

In the revolutionary narrative constructed by Li Zicheng, the fighting and sacrifices of the rebels are meaningful, because they are not thieves who disturb the world, but the people's armed forces to eliminate this old society of cannibalism.Those officers and soldiers who surrendered to them are abandoning the dark and turning to the bright.

Chapter 439 Father and Son One

When the sky was still full of stars, some people in Xi'an City had already lit up the lights, because today is February [-].At this time, February [-] is also known as the "Spring Dragon Festival". On this day, people in most parts of the north will get up before dawn, carry lanterns to the wells or rivers to fetch water, and return home to light lamps and burn incense. , Shangfu, in some places, plant ash will be arranged from the outside of the door to the water tank in the kitchen and circled around, which is called Yinlonghui.

Even those who have wells at home will fetch water from public wells today, which is called Zhanzhan popularity.Of course, since Chongzhen three years ago, due to continuous natural and man-made disasters, February [-] has not been celebrated in many places for a long time.When people can’t survive, who cares whether God is doing well or not.

Dai Tingshi, who lives in Taiping Lane in the south of Xi'an City, was awakened by his wife who was getting up, and only then did he know that she was going to prepare for the sacrifice on February [-].This made Dai Tingshi a little surprised and asked: "Didn't father say that we can't do it? It is said that Xi'an has not done it for several years."

Dai's wife dressed with the help of the maid, and casually replied: "Yesterday afternoon, when the father-in-law came back, he told the mother-in-law that he would take care of it. I don't know what happened. But the servants said that this year's February [-]nd in Xi'an It has to be done, and the Marshal's Mansion has already ordered the lifting of the curfew, it seems to say that His Majesty defeated the Qing army in Henan?"

Since being forcibly moved to Xi'an, Dai Tingshi has been hiding in his study and never went out, so he naturally did not hear the news.The Dai family is a prominent family in Qi County. Dai Tingshi's great-grandfather, Dai Bin, served as the general judge of the Daming Mansion in Zhili. His grandfather, Dai Guangqi, served successively as an inspector in Shaanxi and a political envoy in Henan. Wailang, however, saw the party struggles and wars in the last years of Chongzhen, so he resigned and returned to his hometown.

It's just that Dai Yunchang, who lived in seclusion at home, could not escape the trend of this era after all. After the Manchus entered the customs and Li Zicheng withdrew from Beijing, the peace that the people of the world expected did not come after all, and a new war between the Manchus and Dashun began again.Due to the back-and-forth between the Shanxi gentry between Dashun and the Manchus, the Shun army directly took drastic measures to relocate the famous gentry from all over Shanxi.

When Shunjun began to directly use force to break the situation, the gentry with big families and careers finally became frightened, and famous families like the Dai family had to respond to Shunjun's request and moved to Chang'an.Li Zicheng ordered to change Xi'an back to Chang'an after the founding of the People's Republic of China in Xi'an, but the local people still did not change their habitual usage, and still called themselves Xi'an people.

For people in this era, family relocation is a traumatic event, because leaving the roots of the hometown means losing influence in the village and wanting to establish a foundation in a new place At least three generations are required, so even prominent families will not migrate easily.

Dai Tingshi, who was originally dissatisfied with Dashun because of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, was even more displeased with this new dynasty established by rogues after he was forced to move from his hometown to Xi'an.Therefore, after Dai Tingshi arrived in Xi'an, he locked himself at home and immersed himself in the classics all day long, as if he was living in seclusion in the busy city.

There are only two elder sisters above Dai Tingshi. As the eldest son, Dai Tingshi stays behind closed doors, Dai Yunchang has no choice but to take charge of the family affairs by himself. Of course, in this time of chaos, Dai Yunchang also thinks it is a good thing for the eldest son to stay behind closed doors, so as to save himself from being stared at by outsiders. on.As a foreigner who has just moved here, it is impossible not to be targeted by the locals.

That is to say, when the Shun army entered Xi'an, they cleaned up the city once, which reduced the number of idlers in the city by more than half. In addition, the Shun army's management was strict, which was much more fair than the collusion between the gentry and the government in the Ming Dynasty, so they were moved to Xi'an. Although the migrant households had some conflicts with the locals, most of them made peace in private without getting into trouble with the government.

After she was dressed, Dai was about to ask the maid to blow out the candles and leave the room, but she saw her husband suddenly turned over and sat up, and then called the maid to go over to change her clothes. You went back to your room to rest at almost midnight last night, what are you doing up so early?"

While putting on his clothes, Dai Tingshi said, "I haven't seen people from Xi'an celebrating February [-]nd. Since I bumped into it, I just went to see it."

Although a little surprised by her husband's reaction, Dai's wife was quite happy to see her husband wanting to go out for the first time after arriving in Xi'an.Although she is also willing to be loyal to Daming, since Daming is over, then her family should live a good life, instead of looking for life and death to be buried with Daming.

Wife Dai couldn't understand those scholars who died for the Ming Dynasty. She felt that these scholars could not help the emperor govern the country and make the people live and work in peace and contentment when they were alive, and made their family members sad when they died.She even suspected that these scholars wanted to escape by death because they could not live the previous life under the new court.

Dai Tingshi didn't know that his wife had already thought so much in a flash. The reason why he wanted to go out was to see whether this so-called February [-] was Dashun trying to whitewash the peace, or the people of Xi'an really wanted to celebrate. The annual Spring Dragon Festival.

Although February [-] represents the beginning of a year of farming and also the beginning of spring, Dai Tingshi couldn't help shivering when he walked out of the room.At night without the sun, Xi'an is still very cold, which is worse than Qi County.

But when Dai Tingshi walked out of the gate, there were already dots of lights in the alley, all of them were people carrying lanterns to carry water.This mansion of his family was originally the property of the Du family in the south of the city. The environment behind the mansion is quite good, and it has a quiet taste in the busy city.If it wasn't for Du's ruin, they would not be able to buy this mansion.

Under the guidance of a servant carrying a lantern, Dai Tingshi, who had left the alley, also joined the larger parade of lights on the street.Big families like them disdain to fetch water from the wells in the square, which is a ritual thing in itself, so naturally they go to several legendary wells to fetch water, just like going to temples to worship Buddha also go to famous temples Only then can there be eminent monks, and you will definitely not be able to meet eminent monks in that kind of dilapidated small temple. After all, eminent monks also have to eat.

Dai Tingshi asked his servants, only to find out that his family was going to fetch water from Kaiyuan Temple, and it was probably a whole district away from his own house.The closer you get to Kaiyuan Temple, the denser the flow of people on the street. From a distance, it looks like a long dragon of lights swimming. However, Dai Tingshi also noticed that there are soldiers and policemen on the street every hundred steps. Order, which makes the flow of people on the street rolling forward, but not chaotic.

Shanxi and Shaanxi are not far apart, and besides being an official, the Dai family also runs businesses outside their counterparts, so Dai Tingshi can still understand Shaanxi dialect.Walking in the crowd of people, these Xi'an locals started chatting immediately. Apart from chatting about the trivial matters of Zhang's parents and Li Jiashou, they just mentioned a few news about the great victory in Henan.

Although Dai Tingshi thinks that the news spread by these Xi'an people may not be true, or that someone exaggerated the victory of the Shun Army through imagination, but he can hear that these Xi'an people are excited about the victory of the Shun Army, as if they have won the battle It's the same as the imperial court.

Of course, in the hearts of these Xi'an people, Dashun is the imperial court, but Dai Tingshi still believes that only Daming is the imperial court.When he saw the gate of Kaiyuan Temple, Dai Tingshi stopped suddenly, and the attendant who led the way with a lantern hurriedly said to him: "Young Master, are you tired? Why don't we go to the early shop over there and have a rest, and wait for someone It’s better to enter the temple less.”

Dai Tingshi replied in a dispirited way: "There's nothing to see, let's go back."

Seeing the back of Dai Tingshi turning and leaving, and looking back at the brightly lit Kaiyuan Temple in front of him, the attendant could only swallow his breath, sighed and followed Dai Tingshi's footsteps, calling in a low voice: "Master, wait for me..."

When Dai Tingshi walked back to the front of his house, the sky was already bright, and he stopped in the atrium for a while before walking to his study.Soon it was bright, and Dai's wife came to the study and invited Dai Tingshi to go to the main hall together. Under the agency of Dai Yunchang, the family first offered offerings and burned incense to the ancestors, and then sat down to eat noodles with fried oil cakes.

After breakfast, Dai Yunchang didn't get up to leave, but suddenly looked at his eldest son and asked, "Did you go out early this morning?"

Dai Tingshi got up and saluted his father, then replied: "Yes, my son wants to experience the customs of Xi'an, so he went out this morning."

Dai Yunchang took a careful look at his son, waved his hand to let the others back down, and asked after only the father and son were left in the hall, "So did you see anything when you went out?"

Dai Tingshi thought for a while and replied to his father: "The bones of the first emperor are not cold, but the people have forgotten the old kindness of Ming Dynasty, and only remember the achievements of Emperor Yongchang. Thinking that the people are so forgetful, I can't help feeling a little disheartened."

In fact, Dai Yunchang's road to the imperial examination was not smooth. He didn't get a Jinshi until he was 59 years old. After that, the power of the rebel army rose sharply, and the power of the Ming Dynasty plummeted immediately.If it is said that before Chongzhen ten years ago, Da Ming seemed to have some recovery momentum, then after Chongzhen ten years later, Da Ming would slide all the way into the abyss.And when Dai Yunchang entered his official career, it was the time when Daming was rushing towards the end, so he was much more calm about Daming's demise than his son.

Dai Yunchang pondered for a moment and then said to his son: "When I first became an official, I went to Weishi County to serve as the county magistrate for two years. You should still have an impression?"

Dai Tingshi hurriedly replied respectfully: "Yes, my father's official reputation in the local area is very good. When my Qixian merchants passed by Weishi County, they were all highly regarded. These merchants conveyed my father's official reputation back to the village. They are all proud of it.”

Dai Yunchang then asked: "Then do you know how the official reputation of being a father got better?"

This question made Dai Tingshi a little confused, so he could only reply: "It should be that my father has done some good things for the local people."

But my father shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I was 59 when I was an official for the first time, and I went to be an official in a place I was not familiar with, and it happened that Henan was in a mess after the war. What good deed? I didn’t do anything. I did whatever the court asked me to do. Other than that, I didn’t do anything. Just like that, the local people have already said that I’m a rare good official.”

Chapter 440 Father and Son II

Dai Tingshi didn't know how to respond to his father, no matter whether he agreed or opposed, it seemed wrong.Dai Yunchang went on to say: "If 20 years ago, an official like me would have received a mediocre evaluation at most. If it was in the era when Zhang Jiangling was in power, he would be just a mediocre official. But at that time, the people regarded An official like me is considered a rare good official. Do you think the people of Ming Dynasty have high demands on officials?"

Under his father's gaze, Dai Tingshi could only shake his head and honestly replied: "Not tall at all."

Dai Yunchang sighed and said, "The people's demands on officials are so low, yet the imperial court still can't meet them. So it is the imperial court that betrayed the common people first, not the common people forgetting Ming Dynasty first.

Although Li Zicheng was wrong in many ways, he said the truth in a sentence in the newspaper: those who have enjoyed the grace of the Ming Dynasty for generations are those of us gentry families who are not ordinary people, and ordinary people are just the heaviest burden of the Ming Dynasty.

Farmers raise a head of cattle, but also take good care of it so that it can contribute to the spring plowing.You see, the princes of the court do not understand this truth. While they even searched for the food grown in the people's homes, they expected the people to be grateful to the court. Isn't this a joke? "

Dai Tingshi was finally speechless. He knew that his father was educating him. Obviously, his father didn't like his performance after coming to Xi'an.But he was either unable or unwilling to refute his father's words, because what his father said was not a high-sounding righteousness, even he had to admit that what Li Zicheng and the rebels did was sometimes more like the official army than the official army.

For example, Sun Boya, who was called by the people at the time "the death of the court and the death of the Ming Dynasty", was indeed a rare and capable talent among the officials of the Ming Dynasty. The thieves suppression method used by this talented Ming Dynasty is to eradicate everything from grass to seedlings.

Sun Boya believes that the reason why the people of Qin surrendered and then rebelled, and rebelled and surrendered again, is that Shaanxi can no longer support so many people under the continuous natural disasters.As long as the imperial court was able to transport grain to Shaanxi, the people of Qin would not rebel as long as there were stutterers.

Under such circumstances, the local army in Shaanxi is no longer reliable, because they know that these township parties did not really rebel to overthrow Ming Dynasty, but raised the flag of rebellion because they couldn't survive.In the face of the township party that is just looking for a way to survive, how much will the Shaanxi government and army have to fight?What's more, the officers and soldiers in Shaanxi also have the problem of arrears of military pay. Letting them go hungry and kill their neighbors to defend the court will only arouse the sympathy of these officers and soldiers for the rebels.

Therefore, Sun Boya adopted the method of recruiting new troops from other provinces, and then indiscriminately killed the people in the area where the rebels were active. Without the support of these people, the rebels would not be able to obtain intelligence from the officers and soldiers, nor would they be able to get human support. After all, the rebels also need someone to make weapons and sew military uniforms for them, and they also need to settle down in their own homes.

The main force under Sun Boya came from other provinces, and he had no psychological barriers to killing Shaanxi people. Moreover, these recruited soldiers joined the army to serve as soldiers and eat food. the obedience of these soldiers.But for the Qin people, Sun Boya was the executioner of the Qin people brought in by the court from other places, not a hero.

As a native of Shanxi, Dai Tingshi naturally wants to protect Sun Boya, who is also from Shanxi.But he also had to admit that the method Sun Boya used to suppress bandits in Shaanxi was more like a thief than a thief.

And Sun Boya is already a rare talent in the imperial court. Although he harms the people, he can also quell the bandits. However, there are more generals in the army like Liu Zeqing who are good at harming the people and incompetent in suppressing bandits.

After being silent for a long time, Dai Tingshi finally bowed to his father and said: "Father, it is my fault. The master said: Do not do to others what you do not want to be done to yourself. But my son is trying to make those people miss Daming just like him. .”

Dai Yunchang looked at his son and nodded, then shook his head and said: "If it was the peace season, your talent would be enough to protect the family business. But it is not such a peace season now. When you are in charge of the family, your Every decision puts my family in an existential dilemma.

In the mansion we live in now, the previous owner even the King of Qin treated each other with courtesy, but when Li Zicheng entered Xi'an, the Du family tried to resist the situation because they couldn't see the situation clearly, and the family business was defeated in the end.

Do you think that the Shaanxi gentry supported Li Zicheng from the very beginning?No, they were afraid of being killed by Li Zicheng's butcher knife, so they chose to make peace with Li Zicheng.

Weinan Nan, Jingzhaofang, Chengnan Du, Fuping Li, Sanyuan Zhang, Lei, Jiao, these famous families in Shaanxi in the past were almost all killed by Li Zicheng, Nanjuyi, Nanjuye, Jiaoyuanpu , that is not a well-known celebrity, but under Li Zicheng's sword, it is just a handful of loess.

My Dai family passed down more than ten generations until my great-grandfather succeeded in changing the family and became a real prominent family in Qi County. It can't be destroyed by our father and son, right? "

Dai Tingshi was terrified, and finally admitted his mistake to his father again: "The boy is really immature these days because he is angry at home. If the father hadn't reminded him, the boy would almost have gone out of line."

Dai Yunchang nodded and said: "It's good if you can really recognize your mistakes. As a father, you are 66 years old. Although you are still in good health, this family will depend on you to take charge sooner or later. Emperor Yongchang defeated him in Henan this time. Do you know what it means to defeat the Qing army?"

After serious thinking for a moment, Dai Tingshi said: "The Qing army has never encountered defeat in all previous entry passes, so this time the Qing army entered the pass in a large scale and has the potential to sweep the Central Plains. If Li Zicheng is defeated this time, then not only Henan and Shandong will fall into the In the hands of the Manchus, I am afraid that Shanxi and Shaanxi cannot be preserved.

In the face of the Qing army that defeated Li Zicheng, the best result for the south was to hold the Jianghuai line. If the south was not prepared to deal with the result of the Qing army going south, then the south might be in danger.

Compared with the Manchus, the boy would rather choose Dashun. At least the army under Li Zicheng's command did not harass the people too much, and the Manchus always go all the way through the customs. How is this different from animals?

Emperor Yongchang defeated the Qing army in Henan this time. First, it broke the image of the Manchus as invincible, and second, it destroyed the momentum of the Qing army sweeping the Central Plains.The boy thought that since Azig's Qing army had been defeated, it was impossible for the Qing army in Shandong to make any progress, because the morale of the army and people in Dashun had already been stimulated, and it was impossible for the Qing army to defeat such a Dashun. "

Dai Yunchang agrees with his son's judgment. In his opinion, the son's biggest problem is that he is too emotional. As long as he can calm down, he can still deal with all kinds of troubles Dai's family is facing.

He then nodded in agreement and said: "If you miss the deer, the heroes of the world will pursue it together. It's just that Emperor Yongchang is the only one who can be called a hero in the world today. For example, Zhang Thief offering loyalty is just a person who is crowned with monkeys, not enough. They can be called heroes. Wu Sangui, Zuo Liangyu, Gao Jie and the like are nothing more than mere reckless men.

The southern provinces pushed King Xiaofu to join the great unification. If they can unite sincerely, they may not be able to settle down in the situation in the south of the Yangtze River. It is a pity that Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying once again set off party disputes. For no reason, Emperor Yongchang suppressed Nanjing and forced King Xiaofu to return to the vassal to supervise the country. .The north and south of the river are no longer capable of confronting Emperor Yongchang, and the only ones who can rival Dashun are the Manchus outside the gate.

As you said, Manchus and beasts, if Emperor Yongchang can unify the world, it would be better than letting the barbarians rule China.In the past, Zhu Sheng proposed to the Taizu the strategy of calming the world, saying: build walls high, accumulate grain widely, and become king slowly.

In my opinion, there are only two keys to competing for the world: the army and money and food.When Emperor Yongchang withdrew from Beijing and did not return to Xi'an, but went south along the canal to Jianghuai, I knew that Dashun might not lose.Because the best soldiers and generals in the world are all in the border areas, while the money and food are in the south.

Especially after more than ten years of natural disasters and wars in the northern provinces, they have long been dilapidated, but the southern provinces are still in peace. Therefore, if you want to bring peace to the world, you must first control the money and food in the south.

The military strength of the Shun army and the Manchus was only about the same. Although the number of frontier troops surrendered was somewhat different, the strength of the Qing army did not completely overwhelm the Shun army.In this case, whoever has sufficient money and food support can win the final victory.

After losing Beijing, Emperor Yongchang did not choose to return to the west, but chose to go south, and he also saw this when he thought about it.If the Qing army was allowed to go south first to get the money and food from Jiangnan, then even if Shaanxi was in danger of four fortresses, it would be impossible to stop the Qing army who was supported by money and food from the south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, Emperor Yongchang did not defeat the Qing army in Henan, but when he chose to go south, he had already won the victory. It was nothing more than when the victory would come.

I heard that Fu Shan is already working for Emperor Yongchang? "

This question caught him off guard, Dai Tingshi saw that he couldn't hide his father, so he had no choice but to tell the truth: "Qingzhu didn't become an official, and Emperor Yongchang didn't let him be an official, he was just in the army to treat people..."

Dai Yunchang waved his hand, stopped his son from explaining to Fu Shan, and asked him instead: "You have such a good relationship with him, why didn't he ever persuade you to become an official when he wrote the letter?"

After being silent for a while, Dai Tingshi finally nodded and said, "The Qing Lord persuaded me that the war between the Shun army and the Manchus was a national war, and opposing Dashun at this time was equivalent to supporting the Manchus. He thought we You should come out and do something for the common people instead of burying your head in the study.”

Dai Yunchang nodded and said: "This is what a true friend should say, and what he said is not bad at all. In the past, we could still live in seclusion in our hometown and ignore world affairs, but now we have been forced to move out of our homes. If we don't do something, who will intercede for us in the future? We can't just sit and eat, right?"

Chapter 441 Ordos Division