Chapter 165 The Great Qing Mission
After being robbed by Zhao Peng, Shi Ke's face was a little unhappy. He was so angry that he trembled all over and pointed at Zhao Peng: "You! You! You..." The words behind him were so angry that they couldn't say them.
When Ma Shiying heard the words of praise, he felt proud and took the opportunity to raise his tablet and bow to Zhu Cilang: "Your Majesty, Mr. Shi Ge's character is indeed admirable, but he is easy to be confused when it comes to major issues. Your Majesty, I hope you think twice!"
Seeing that Shi Kefa was choked and could not speak, Zhang Guowei hurried forward: "Your Majesty, foreign invaders are not worth worrying about, and internal bandits are really a concern. If you do not clear the internal bandits first, you will never be able to resist foreign aggression! What's wrong with borrowing troops to combat the enemy?"
Zhao Peng said: "Your Majesty, it is not impossible to use Jiannu's troops to suppress the enemy. But there is no need to support Jiannu. You should sit in the mountains and watch the tiger's fight, so that Jiannu and the bandits will suffer both losses. Only in the Ming Dynasty can we reap the benefits of the fisherman!"
Shi Kefa said: "Since we are using troops to suppress the enemy, we should reconcile with Jiannu and treat each other honestly. If Zakana is executed and Jiannu retreats outside the pass in anger, wouldn't the bandit army take the opportunity to go south? Can our army resist the rebellion?"
Officials of the Donglin Party knelt down one after another: "Your Majesty think twice, it is the national policy of the Ming Dynasty to unite the enemy and pacify the enemy. It must not be abolished easily!"
Zhao Peng sneered: "Master Shi Ge, you are too naive to think! If Zakana is executed, Jiannu will retreat outside the pass in anger. The captive chief Dorgon has already established his capital in Shenjing. Have you ever seen a wolf spit out the fat meat that has reached his mouth? What Jiannu wants is to steal China, not to sincerely help me to storm the bandits! Then how could Dorgon be a minister of the Ming Dynasty? This person's ambition is inflated, and I must not join forces with the Ming Dynasty!"
Ma Shiying and his group also knelt down one after another: "Your Majesty think twice! Jiannu's wolf ambitions must not lead the wolf into the house!"
Even in the Donglin Party, there are many lower-level officials standing on Zhao Peng's side. For example, Chen Zilong, the military department, Zhang Zhengchen, the official department, Ma Jiazhi, and the Ministry of Works, Guan Zheng, and other young people. With their joining, Ma Shiying, who originally had fewer people than the Donglin Party, was equal to the Donglin Party.
Although young people such as Chen Zilong, Fang Yizhi, Zhang Zhengchen, Ma Jiazhi are also from the Donglin Party, they are truly upright and focus on the overall situation on major issues.
The people on both sides argued endlessly and could not stop for a moment. Zhao Peng stood in front of the steps and gave a secret wink at Han Zanzhou who was standing behind Zhu Cixuan. Han Zanzhou bent down knowingly and whispered in Zhu Cixuan's ear: "Emperor, the two sides argue endlessly and stalemate. I hope you can make a decision."
At this time, the emperor had the final decision to seize power, and the two sides could not stand stalemate. Wherever the emperor stood, he could win. Zhu Cixuan naturally stood on Zhao Peng's side, so he made a gesture to show that both sides of the fierce debate were quiet. Then he said, "Don't argue, I have decided, and I will not execute Zakana for the time being!"
The Donglin Party suddenly became excited and everyone smiled. If it weren't for the need to pay attention to etiquette in the court, the Donglin Party members would have cheered long ago. Looking at Ma Shiying and others, their faces changed.
Ma Shiying secretly complained in her heart: Your Majesty, you can't cheat on me like this.
Who knew that Zhu Ciyang's next words made the Donglin Party fall into the deep valley: "When the Jiannu mission comes to Beijing, then take the captive chief Zakarna to the Taizu Tomb, and execute Lingchi, and bring his head to the Jiannu mission back to show my determination to the Ming Dynasty!"
This is to execute Zakana in front of the Qing mission. This is too cruel and directly cut off all possibilities of peace talks between the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Shi Kefa can no longer argue. He was originally a traditional literati who was very interested in the way of the monarch and ministers. If most of the court officials were on their own side, he would fight with Zhao Peng and Ma Shiying to the end, but the number of people on both sides was equal, and the emperor stood opposite him, so he could only accept his fate. Shi Kefa was a loyal minister, and there was no doubt about this.
After the dynasty was dispersed, Qian Qianyi followed Zhao Peng: "Brother Zhongyong, please stay."
"Qiange, what's the matter?" Zhao Peng asked.
Qian Qianyi walked forward and blamed him: "Brother Zhongyong, you have a good relationship with my Donglin Party. Why do you have to make things difficult for Mr. Shi in the court today and make Mr. Shi not come to Taiwan?"
Zhao Peng replied: "Qiange, the boy has always admired Master Shi Ge Lao and respected Master Shi Ge Lao very much. What's more, Master Shi Ge Lao supported the prince to ascend the throne, otherwise there would be no boy today. But whether it is personal friendship or respect, it cannot affect the boy's mistakes of Master Shi Ge Lao, right? The alliance to pacify the enemy will bring a catastrophe to the Ming Dynasty! Qiange, have you forgotten the lessons of Song Jin and Song Meng back then? History has taught us China twice. Does the Ming Dynasty have to repeat the same mistake for the third time?"
Qian Qianyi asked: "Is it really that serious? Jiannu is just a small tribe with only 200,000 people. Can he still annex the Ming Dynasty, which has a population of billions?"
Zhao Peng said: "Although Jiannu is a small tribe, all the military generals and civil servants from the north have been captured. Since I left the north, the total military force of Jiannu has exceeded 200,000, of which the elite Eight Banners have exceeded 80,000, and the Green Camp has 120,000. Now the Green Camp has more troops. With the surrender of the north, the total military force of Jiannu may have exceeded 300,000! After the Jiannu, who has such a powerful force, will they let us go after the rebels? It is impossible to think about it with your brain?"
"Maybe you are right, Bo Zhongyong." Qian Qianyi did not fully agree with Zhao Peng's statement, but he was greedy for life and fear of death and always blew the wind on both sides, and whoever was strong would go to the other side. What's more, there was close interest exchanges between him and Zhao Peng.
Three days later, the ship hanging from the Qing Dynasty mission stopped at the dock by the Xiaguan Riverside Wharf, put down the springboard, and a middle-aged man in the Qing Dynasty uniform walked out of the boat, followed by a group of literati dressed up. Although they were wearing blue shirts and square scarves, if they looked at their heads carefully, they could find that there were no sideburns under the square scarves, that is, if they took off their hats, they would be exposed to a big bald head and a rat-tailed braid with money on top of their heads.
The guy in the robe of the Qing Dynasty was named Ning Wanwo. Like Fan Wencheng, he was a traitor who surrendered to the Later Jin Dynasty in the early days. He was originally an important official of the Qing Dynasty. But later, Fan Wencheng joined first and Hong Chengchou's surrender, so that his status in the Qing Dynasty was far less than that of Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou's Ning Wanwo. Later, when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, a large number of former Ming civil officials surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, making Ning Wanwo an optional person in the Qing Dynasty.
If it weren't for Ning Wan, I had made contributions to our Qing Dynasty and to avoid the hearts of all the scholars in the world, Dorgon would have told this guy to get out of here. Since it was useless, I wouldn't have sent him to the south to serve the Ming Dynasty.
Tang Qilong, Chen Hongfan and others were also here.
Chen Hongfan was originally the general of the Ming Dynasty. Before, King Fu implemented the strategy of uniting the enemy to suppress the enemy. Chen Hongfan and Zuo Maodi, Ma Shaoyu and others went on a mission to the north. As a result, after going to the north, Chen Hongfan and Ma Shaoyu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Tang Qilong was Chen Hongfan's son-in-law. Zuo Maodi was detained by the Qing Dynasty and lost his freedom in the north.
In the original historical time and space, the Southern Ming delegation sent a mission to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty had a very tough attitude, but Zuo Maodi was unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and was killed by the Qing court.
However, in this time and space, the Qing Dynasty's attack on Li Zicheng was not smooth. The land-covered bastions along the Fenhe Valley in Shanxi made the Qing army pay a heavy price for every step forward. Fortunately, they had a lot of cannon fodder in their hands, so the Eight Banners Army did not suffer much loss. As long as the Eight Banners Army did not suffer too much loss, it would not hurt the Qing Dynasty.
However, the majestic Qing Dynasty attack was too slow. It was difficult to move south from Shanxi along the Fen River Valley. Then it attacked Shaanxi from Henan to west. As a result, the land was covered with bastions along the Yellow River, which made Dorgon irritated.
What shocked Dorgon even more was that there were also castles everywhere on the Jiaodong Peninsula, and there was the Yuyuan Army of the King of Lu in southern Shandong.
"This damn castle group!" Dorgon, who was lying on the big jade crib, said gritting his teeth.
In order to enable the Ming Dynasty to implement the policy of "union and suppressing the enemy" to support the Qing Dynasty, Dorgon sent an envoy to Nanjing.
Chapter completed!