When Zhu Hongsan saw that the food and food on the table were cold, he called the guy over and asked him to remove the banquet and make a few fresh stir-fry.

After a while, the wine and food came up. Zhu Hongsan put a glass of wine for Feng Ruoshu and asked, "Uncle, this is the case in the north. Are there any actions in Nanjing?"

Feng Ruoshu said: "On May 21st, a few days after you left, Shi Kefa asked the Yangzhou Supervisor to agree. Ma Shiying recommended Ruan Dacheng to serve as the Minister of War. Ruan Dacheng submitted a memorial and proposed the strategy of using the enemy to suppress the enemy. Everyone agreed in the morning court."

Zhu Hongsan sighed and said, "It seems that these guys are really not afraid of death. Can you even mention this kind of shit theory?"

Feng Ruoshu asked, "Lord? Why do you think of the Qing Dynasty so much? There are only more than 200,000 people in their clan, and they cannot achieve great things."

Zhu Hongsan thought: "Do I want to tell you what I watched from later TV series?" Zhu Hongsan said: "What did my uncle think of this strategy of using the enemy to suppress the enemy?"

Feng Ruoshu said: "Ruan Dacheng was very clear at that time, and I will explain it in detail to you."

After hearing this, Zhu Hongsan realized that the historical robbery was a very successful strategy at that time, but he didn't expect Li Zi to succeed so quickly.

At the beginning of its establishment, the Hongguang Dynasty had to face a complex and changeable external situation. Due to its limited strength and serious internal struggles between the party, the Hongguang Dynasty must have a set of clever external strategies if it wants to survive in dangerous and chaotic times.

而弘光王朝的对外策略——借虏平寇,也历来被无数的文人学者和历史学家们所诟病.在后世看来,南明的这一策略是消极的,保守的,弊端严重的,但也不该脱离实际看问题,一味的痛骂弘光君臣,却忽视了当时一系列错综复杂的情况.

The so-called "borrowing the enemy to pacify the enemy" in the Hongguang Dynasty was to make good friends with the Qing Dynasty, borrow the power of the Qing army, to pacify the "breach enemy" Li Zicheng, and then choose whether to fight or be in harmony with the Qing side depending on the situation.

Within the Hongguang Dynasty, both the eunuch party and the Donglin party agreed with this strategy. Senior officials such as Shi Kefa, Liu Zongzhou, and Ma Shiying were the proposers and practitioners of this strategy.

From this point of view, this policy should have been implemented with the consent of all ministers at that time. Looking at history, we cannot look at history from the perspective of later generations. We must bring ourselves into the situation at that time, so that we can clear away the fog of history and see the true face of history.

The emergence of the strategy of using the enemy to suppress the country was the result of the superposition of many factors, which was actually very helpless. First of all, the monarch and ministers of Hongguang did not understand the specific situation in the north.

After Wu Sangui led the Qing army into the pass and defeated Li Zicheng, various news flew everywhere. At that time, it was rumored that the Ming general Wu Sangui defeated Li Zicheng and returned to Beijing. There was even a saying that Wu Sangui returned to Beijing to succeed the throne as Prince Chongzhen.

The senior officials of the Hongguang court only heard that Wu Sangui had joined forces with the Qing army to defeat the thief Li Zicheng, but they were not aware that Wu Sangui had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. They generally regarded Wu Sangui as his "owner" and felt that he had an alliance with the Qing Dynasty, not an affiliation. They took it for granted that they could win over Wu Sangui and make friends with the Qing Dynasty through Wu Sangui.

At that time, Wu Sangui and the Qing army defeated Li Zicheng, which was a good thing for the Hongguang Dynasty. Since Li Zicheng defeated Sun Chuanting in the 16th year of Chongzhen, his strength and prestige have increased greatly until he captured Beijing in March of the 17th year of Chongzhen. He was the most important threat to the Ming Dynasty.

Taking the literati and officials in Jiangnan, and after the birth of a new dynasty in history, they would definitely send elite soldiers and generals to unify the country. So they naturally believed that after Li Zicheng pacified the north, he would naturally not let the Southern Ming Dynasty go.

Especially Li Zicheng deployed a 70,000 army in the Jingxiang area, which not only made Zuo Liangyu feel the threat from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, but also made the Ming Dynasty officials in Nanjing deeply feel the threat from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Now that the thieves are defeated, Li Zicheng is too busy to take care of himself, which really makes Hongguang's monarch and ministers breathe a sigh of relief.

Another thing is that Hongguang rulers and ministers did not expect Li Zicheng to die so quickly. Many Ming Dynasty officials believed that "Dashun" and "Da Qing" would fall into a long-term confrontation in the north, and eventually both sides suffered losses.

Therefore, Hongguang's monarch and ministers were very happy to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight, hoping to reap the benefits of fishermen in the future. From a historical perspective, this was also right. Regardless of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, the north was in chaos and had no time to look south, which gave those who fled to the south a chance to breathe.

What is different from the Eastern Jin and Southern Song dynasties was that the Hongguang Dynasty was at that time was fierce and conflicted. Not only did the civil servants’ group fight against each other, but the internal struggles continued, the military generals also held their own troops, refused to obey commands, formed gangs and fought fiercely, and even met with each other.

In order to annex Huang Degong's army and territory, Gao Jie sent troops to attack Huang Degong and his subordinates, which almost caused a civil war. It was only after Shi Kefa's mediation that he could barely quell.

Liu Zeqing had a good relationship with the Donglin Party in the early days and supported King Lu. However, after learning that Gao Jie, Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo both supported King Fu, he immediately turned to join the "House of the Fu School", which made the people of the Donglin Party hate it to the core.

Zuo Liangyu was promoted by Hou Xun, a member of the Donglin Party in his early years and had a deep relationship with the Donglin Party. The Donglin Party regarded Huang Shu as an intermediary and made friends with Zuo Liangyu to put pressure on Ma Shiying and others.

Ma Shiying then ordered the construction of a military fortress on the Yangtze River to prevent Zuo Liangyu from going east. Such a regime with many factions and constant internal struggles is difficult to be proactive and ambitious, so "using the enemy to pacify the enemy" can be said to be the only feasible move.

At that time, everyone in the Southern Ming Dynasty agreed that they would first use the help of the enemy to drag down the two major military groups in the north, and then take the opportunity to clean up the internal affairs first, complete the integration, and then look at the situation and restore the old mountains and rivers.

Zhu Hongsan heard Feng Ruoshu's explanation, but he thought about it and would not lose a solution to the problem. If Hongguang Dynasty was given enough time, for example, ten years, the Qing Dynasty might not be able to defeat the united southern regime.

But unfortunately, history cannot assume that Li Zicheng's incompetence, coupled with the super combat effectiveness of the Qing army, and the correct governance methods after Dorgon entered the pass, and finally the cruelty of the internal struggle of the Hongguang Dynasty.

The Hongguang Dynasty did not integrate the internal situation until it perished, which led to chaos within itself. In addition, the Qing army went south and the Ming Dynasty lost its last chance to rekindle. The remaining Yongli lasted for more than ten years, which was just a dynasty's return to death before its death.

After hearing this, Zhu Hongsan nodded and thought to himself: "Look at history, don't look at it with a erotic look. All the parties involved have no fools. He must have made a very correct choice in the historical environment at that time. As for right or wrong, no one can grasp it."

Since the strategy of "borrowing the enemy by placing the enemy" has been determined, it must be implemented. The first step is to select officials to form a mission and go north to contact the Qing Dynasty.

But this first step was really a bit difficult for the Hongguang Dynasty. The Donglin messengers who usually shouted loyalty to serve the country, serve the country and the people, and were ready to die. When they heard that they were going to go to the country of tigers and wolves and barbarians, their previous bold words were suddenly destroyed, and they all turned into turtles.

However, there were still some volunteers. Former Governor-General Chen Hongfan took the initiative to request an envoy. Another official named Zuo Maodi also offered to act as an envoy because his mother's coffin was in Beijing. Another Ma Shaoyu once went to the Qing Dynasty during the Chongzhen period to negotiate with Huang Taiji. The Hongguang court brought him together and finally formed an envoy with Zuo Maodi, Chen Hongfan and Ma Shaoyu as envoys, with hundreds of people.

This place must spoil the experiences of these mission members, which really makes the listeners cry.

After going through twists and turns, the Southern Ming delegation arrived in Beijing on October 12, the 17th year of Chongzhen. The Qing Dynasty placed them in Honglu Temple and sent troops to guard them, which was like house arrest.

During the mission members' stay in Beijing, the Qing Dynasty officials were arrogant and rude. Dorgon had no intention of making peace with the Southern Ming Dynasty and did not receive the members of the mission. He sent people to collect the gold, silver and silk brought by the mission, and then sent them out to get out.

The Qing Dynasty originally sent troops to escort the delegation members south. Not long after he left, Dorgon suddenly repented and sent someone to bring Zuo Maodi, Ma Shaoyu and others back, allowing Chen Hongfan to return to the Southern Ming Dynasty.

It is generally believed that Chen Hongfan secretly committed bad news and reported to the Qing court, asking him to seize other members of the mission, and only let Chen Hongfan go back for "activity", spying on the Qing Dynasty and surrendering officials from the Southern Ming Dynasty.

After Zuo Maodi and others were taken back to Beijing, they were imprisoned in the Imperial Hospital of the Qing Dynasty. Dorgon sent Hong Chengchou, Li Jiantai and other former Ming Dynasty surrendered officials to persuade Zuo Maodi to surrender, but they were scolded by Zuo Maodi. Since Dorgon entered the pass, he has seen too many servile boneless officials. He heard that Zuo Maodi is loyal and unyielding, and he suddenly admires him. Therefore, he has always imprisoned the members of the delegation and has not killed them.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it was May of the first year of Hongguang. The Qing army went to Jiangnan and occupied Nanjing. Dorgon believed that the time had come and informed the members of the delegation: The Ming Dynasty was dead, and you should surrender quickly. When Zuo Maodi heard the news of the fall of Nanjing, he burst into tears and wrote a poem to express his ambition: "The way back is to return to the Gorge, how about the way back? The cold soul of the inch pill cannot be eliminated, and it will never be worn into cold smoke!"

Zuo Maodi was righteous and strong, but not everyone was as backbone as him. Hearing that Hongguang's court had collapsed, many members of the mission had been intent on surrendering.

One of them was a man named Ai Daxuan secretly shaved his hair and wanted to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. After Zuo Maodi learned about it, he immediately summoned the members of the delegation and beat Ai Daxuan to death in public. Now, Dorgon could no longer bear it. It would be fine if you don’t surrender yourself, but you would also stop others from throwing into the arms of "My Qing Dynasty", and you would piss me off to death!

Dorgon soon sent troops into the Imperial Hospital and forced the delegation members to surrender, otherwise they would die. Under the fear of death, those who are not afraid are often the minority.

Most of the members of the mission surrendered under threat, but Zuo Maodi, Wang Yibin, Wang Tingzuo, Liu Tong, Zhang Liangzuo and Chen Yongji refused to surrender. Dorgon then threw these six people into the water prison and tortured them, but these six people were really hard-working. After suffering all the hardships, they just refused to bow their heads.

While feeling his loyalty and righteousness, Dorgon also hoped to surrender these six loyal and righteous people to set an example and example for the officials of the Ming Dynasty to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

So Dorgon personally summoned him to host a banquet and praised the loyalty of the six people in public, saying that if the six people could surrender, they would have to treat them well! He also asked the former Ming Dynasty officials who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty to take turns to persuade them. However, the six people were determined and treated death as if they were homeless, and were not moved by the high officials and generous salaries given by the Qing Dynasty. Dorgon had no choice but to order the six people to be executed.

On June 19, the first year of Hongguang, Zuo Maodi, Wang Yibin, Wang Tingzuo, Liu Tong, Zhang Liangzuo and Chen Yongji were taken to the execution ground to beheaded. Before the execution, Dorgon was not willing to give up and said that if anyone was willing to surrender, he could be granted the title of king. Zuo Maodi said his last words firmly: "I would rather be the southern ghost than the northern king!" After saying that, Zuo Maodi immediately went to death with the other five people, without any fear of being executed.
Chapter completed!