Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Dorgon, who had just lost again in the struggle for the throne, successfully took over the administration of the Qing Dynasty. He mobilized his troops and generals, used the national power of the Tatars, and actually mobilized his elite to go south to invade the Ming Dynasty again!

Wu Sangui panicked.

The three giants of Liaodong, Wu Sangui, Wang Yongji, and Li Yutian, discussed countermeasures all night and finally reached an agreement——

Surrender the Tatars!

Of course, this matter cannot be done by civil servants. Wang Yongji and Li Yutian will wait until the matter is completed and leave directly. Wu Sangui must take care of everything.

In exchange, all the troops under the two men would be given to Wu Sangui...

At this time, it was only four days before Wu Sangui expressed his support for Li Zicheng!

However, these four days became the final bargaining chip for the Tatars to enter the border.

In real history, it was these four days that caused China to fall behind for 400 years...

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What a coincidence, the general sent by Li Zicheng to take over Shanhaiguan turned out to be Tang Tong!

Tang Tong was a general of the Ming Dynasty and the only general who served the king diligently.

He was betrayed by Du Zhizhi and had to surrender to Li Zicheng.

However, Tang Tong's heart has always been towards Daming.

Especially in this time and space, after Zhu Youjian successfully escaped from the capital, Tang Tong's heart became even more restless.

Wu Sangui and Tang Tong were old acquaintances. They both went out to the camp alone and had a secret discussion...

The two sides did not know what consensus was reached.

Tang Tong brought an army of [-] to guard Shanhaiguan, but Wu Sangui's army of [-] missed him.

Tang Tong's troops abandoned the messenger and led his troops straight to Shanhaiguan, while Wu Sangui——

Use actions to tell the world what is the shamelessness of political warlords!

four days.

Early in the morning, Wu Sangui summoned the generals, and in front of everyone, he beheaded Li Zicheng's messenger and confiscated [-] silver. The generals immediately burst into an uproar!

In order to suppress the emotions of the generals, the Big Three took action.

They hinted to their staff officer Tong Kuixing and presented a proposal to the generals to borrow troops from the Eastern captives to avenge the emperor.

In fact, Wu Sangui and others' behavior of sitting back and watching the capital being breached but remaining indifferent had already made the army officers dissatisfied.

Loyalty every slaughter dog generation.

The lower one is at the bottom, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism are engraved in the heart, rather than talked about on the lips.

Hearing that the big bosses wanted to borrow troops from the Tatars to fight Li Zicheng, who had forced the emperor to death, the soldiers calmed down.

It was this scene that completely made Wu Sangui make another decision.

He suppressed his plans for the time being, and while stabilizing the morale of the army, he sent people to Beijing to continue to pretend to surrender to Li Zicheng, and openly accepted Li Zicheng's arrangements.

At the same time, Wu Sangui and other three giants ordered the army to return under the banner of Li Zicheng.

Wu Sangui made this series of actions just to confuse Li Zicheng!

On the surface, the actions of the Liaodong army at this time were completely in line with Li Zicheng's requirements.

They stopped going to Beijing and followed Li Zicheng's order to return to their base.

Secretly, the three giants in Liaodong are fully prepared.

Early in the morning, before summoning the generals, the three sent Ningyuan's deputy general Yang Kun and guerrilla general Guo Yunlong to leave the pass and go north to borrow troops from the Qing court.

The selected sections of the letter are:

"In order to remember the loyal words of the lonely ministers who lost the country, (the Qing Dynasty) quickly selected elite soldiers and went straight to Zhongxie Xixie (Zhongxie: Zunhua, Xifengkou, Longjingkou and other places. Xixie: Miyun, Qiangziling, Gu North exit, etc.).

Sangui led his troops and joined forces to reach the capital (Beijing), exterminate the bandits in the palace, and show his great righteousness to China.

Then the repayment from our dynasty to the Northern Dynasty is nothing more than wealth and silk? The land (north of the Yellow River) will be broken as a reward, but I dare not break my promise. "

Wu Sangui borrows troops original text

(Note: The Qing history manuscript of this letter is vague and does not include the content. It only briefly describes the process. This letter of borrowing troops is included in the Qing Shilu.)

At the same time, Wu Sangui wrote a letter to his father Wu Xiang, saying that his son was loyal to the Ming Dynasty and would sever the father-son relationship with Wu Xiang from now on.

The excerpt is:

“If a father cannot be a loyal minister, how can a son be a filial son?

The son and his father parted ways, and they did not seek out thieves early. Even though they placed their father's cauldron next to him to lure Sangui, he did not care. "

The purpose was to save Wu Xiang's life on the grounds of severing the relationship between father and son.

When it comes to close relatives, Wu Sangui's letters are no longer slow, and they will not reach the capital for a month...

On the contrary, he ran faster than anyone else!

Even the rabbit can’t catch up!

Letter written on the morning of the [-]th——

On the [-]th, this letter was transferred to Li Zicheng.

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At this time, Li Zicheng had gained a lot.

The payment started at the end of last month, and it has only been a few days since today!

However, the gains are quite a lot!

Unexpectedly, no less than 7000 million taels of silver alone were obtained!

As for other treasures such as calligraphy and painting, they don’t count!

Of course, most of this money was contributed by the gentry and nobles.

For example - the Hui merchant Wang Ji who wanted to escape from the capital but fell into a trap.

His family alone has confiscated nearly one million taels of cash, dozens of pawn shops, four manors, calligraphy, paintings, antiques, pearls and jade, etc., with a total value of millions of taels!

At the beginning, this guy didn't even speak.

Liu Zongmin was immediately furious and ordered him to be tortured severely!

Liu Zongmin ordered people to grill him on an iron stove. As long as he did not confess, he would be grilled into skewers.

In this way, all his family property was forced out.

After vomiting the family property, Wang Ji couldn't bear the heat anymore and asked for two bowls of water.

However, he was already roasted on the outside and tender on the inside. After drinking two bowls of cold water, he immediately kicked his legs...

The cold water shocked Hot's heart - he was dead!

Among the merchants in the capital, except for a few who had great public dissatisfaction, Li Zicheng did not go to war. Only a small number of people who had a bad reputation were arrested and forced to pay.

However, many nobles and court officials were arrested.

How much was Zhou Kui, the father-in-law who swindled his daughter of 3000 taels of silver, forced to take out?

There were 52 taels of snowflake silver and "hundreds of thousands of precious coins." Seeing Zhou Guozhang being confiscated, the people clapped their hands and cheered.

He, Zhou Kui, was the father of the current queen and the father-in-law of the Ming Dynasty.

When the country was in danger, Emperor Chongzhen asked him to borrow money, but he didn't get any money!

Chongzhen had no choice but to send his own eunuchs to Zhou Kui's mansion to tell him his powerful relationship.

However, the 2 taels promised by Zhou Kui changed again!

Empress Zhou was helpless, so she took the money she earned from spinning and weaving with the palace maids, and sold her own gold and silver jewelry. She finally collected 5000 taels of silver and gave it to him, asking him to come up with an integer to attract the courtiers. !

however……

This old guy stole 2000 taels from his daughter, and the [-] taels of silver he promised was gone.

Only donated 3000 taels to the emperor...

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Now, in just over a month, all the family property that I had worked hard to accumulate was taken away by thieves!

Zhou Kui sat in the yard that was turned over in a mess, with no tables, chairs or benches left for him, listening to the people surrounding the door gesticulating, laughing and cursing...

Zhou Kui burst into tears, beat his chest and cried loudly:

"Ahhh~!"

"Oh my God~!"

"You, the plagued one, don't open your eyes~"

"How can I live like this~!"

His son was also crying and wiping away tears:

"Dad, how can we live like this!"