"Sister, sister."

When Song Sanniang was mediating the conflict between the two little girls, a rather heroic woman in red came over. When she saw the girl named Si Yan crying, she said: "Why are you crying? It's your own fault."

You've eaten all the sesame cakes, why should you ask your sister to give them to you? You ignored me and came over to complain. Go back to your room and copy the Three-Character Sutra. You're not allowed to come out until you finish copying."

"Ah, mother."

The little girl cried when she heard this, but the woman in red was not soft-hearted at all. She waved her hand and had the crying girl brought back to the house to copy the Three-Character Sutra.

At this time, Song Sanniang looked at the woman in red and said, "What useful news can my sister get from going down the mountain this time?"

The red lady nodded and said: "There is indeed some useful news. Zhang Xianzhong mobilized his troops to attack Sichuan again, but he encountered General Qin Liangyu halfway. He retreated without fighting and never entered Sichuan."

"Well, Zhang Xianzhong is determined to win the Sichuan terrain, and he will not give up so easily. However, we in Kuimen have suffered a lot. Zhang Xianzhong fought with Qin Liangyu's White Army, and we were the only ones caught in the middle to suffer."

Song Sanniang smiled bitterly, and the red lady said: "Yes, but it doesn't matter. Zhang Xianzhong has not been here for a long time. The imperial court sent Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, Hong Chengchou's Shaanxi Army, and Sun Chuanting's newly formed Qin Army to encircle Gao Yingxiang's troops in northern Shaanxi.

Gao Yingxiang is the leader of the rebel army, and Zhang Xianzhong will definitely return to rescue Gao Yingxiang when the time comes. Once Zhang Xianzhong leaves, our life will be easier."

After hearing this, Song Sanniang frowned and said, "Zhang Xianzhong wants to return to northern Shaanxi?"

Hearing this, the Red Lady said: "Of course, Gao Yingxiang is the leader of the rebel army. If anyone dares not to save him when he is in trouble, and whoever fails to rescue him would be doing a disservice to justice. How should the heroes of the world view him, and how will he serve the masses?

However, it is not easy for Zhang Xianzhong to save Gao Yingxiang. After all, if he wants to go to northern Shaanxi, he has to pass through southern Shaanxi, and now southern Shaanxi is the territory of Lantian County. Zhang Xianzhong can bully us, but against Lantian County, which has strong troops and horses,

I'm afraid it will take some effort. At that time, it will definitely be a scene of two tigers fighting each other.

The red lady said, but she didn't see a trace of worry flashing in Song Sanniang's eyes.

"Hey, by the way, Sanniang, let me tell you an interesting story. Do you know about Lantian County Honorable Li Chaosheng?"

Song Sanniang nodded slightly: "I know, I've heard a little bit about it."

"He is getting married."

"ah?"

After hearing this, Xiaoju, the maid behind Song Sanniang, widened her eyes and turned to look at Song Sanniang. He was Song Sanniang's personal maid. She knew everything about Li Chaosheng and Song Sanniang back then.

Song Sanniang's expression was very calm at this time and she said: "Oh, I didn't expect that he is so powerful that he is getting married just now."

The red lady looked at the maid in surprise, then at Song Sanniang and said, "You don't know Li Chaosheng, do you?"

Song Sanniang said with a smile: "Sister, you are kidding me. Li Chaosheng is a powerful person. How could I, the daughter of a bandit, know him?"

After hearing this, Song Sanniang said: "That's true, but it's interesting to say that after the news that Li Chaosheng in Lantian was planning to get married came out, the world was shocked. Countless people wanted to send their daughters to Lantian. If Li Chaosheng could get married,

If you are selected, it will be like a pheasant turning into a golden phoenix, rising to the sky in one step."

Song Sanniang nodded after hearing this and said, "Yes, I don't know which girl is so lucky."

The red lady looked at Song Sanniang strangely: "Sister, are you okay?"

"It's alright."

Song Sanniang smiled, and the red lady said: "As long as everything is alright, I won't accompany you. I will go to the army to have a look."

"Sister, do it yourself."

…

After the red lady left, the maid Xiaoju ran over and said: "Miss, that Li Chaosheng is unkind and unrighteous. He actually wants to marry another woman. Miss, let's go back to Lantian. We can't take advantage of other women."

Song Sanniang sighed after hearing this and said: "Xiao Ju, don't talk nonsense. We are the daughters of bandits, and now we are also doing the bandits' business. He is a prince, and there is no chance that the world will have his share in the future. Such a person, your lady

I'm not good enough for him."

"Why don't you deserve it? He, Li Chaosheng, also came from a bandit family. Why should he look down on bandits?"

Xiaoju yelled unconvinced, and Song Sanniang smiled bitterly and said: "This is different, he is now a prince, and his wife should be a noble lady, or even a princess or princess, so they can help his career.

.”

Xiaoju pointed at Li Niansheng who was kicking sandbags not far away and said, "What about Niansheng? She is Li Chaosheng's daughter."

Song Sanniang heard this and said: "Nian Sheng is my daughter. I can support her. I'm not looking for him in this life. How could he know about Nian Sheng's existence? Okay, Xiaoju, just pretend this never happened."

"But Miss."

Song Sanniang sighed and said, "Go ahead."

Xiaoju stamped her feet angrily, Song Sanniang looked at the sky and murmured: "Your wife should be a lady, not a female bandit with blood on her hands."

Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen knew about Li Chaosheng's preparations for his wedding, and felt that he might have seized an opportunity that could be exploited, so he called Cao Huachun to the palace overnight.

Cao Huachun was an old eunuch from the Three Dynasties. When Wei Zhongxian was there, he had considerable power. Although eunuchs were not reused in these years, he was very popular with Chongzhen. Compared with him, Wang Chengen was more loyal than cunning, so Wang Chengen was suitable.

Just stay by your side and serve you, and don't worry about him gaining power.

Cao Huachun may not be as loyal as Wang Chengen, but he is definitely more reliable than the princes of the court. Because they have lost power, all they can rely on is the emperor, and their rights are the extension of the imperial power.

So they can only try their best to get close to the emperor, because if something happens to the emperor, something will happen to them, and they will die miserably.

You must know that they are not stupid. After the emperor is gone, they are like lost dogs. The ministers wish they could beheaded alive. As for the rebels, these forces that can overthrow the imperial power, they cannot take refuge because that dynasty will use the eunuchs of the previous dynasty to serve them.

The emperor of this dynasty.

In addition, those who now hope to overthrow the imperial court are rebels like Li Zicheng. After years of public opinion fermentation by scholar-bureaucrats, these eunuchs are the main source of anger and resentment. Many ministers even put the blame on them for the people's lack of food. A powerful man

If they eunuch the country, they can be slaughtered alive by the peasant uprising army.

Therefore, the eunuch had almost no other way to go except to hug the emperor's thick leg. People who often listen to storytelling may have heard such a story. It is said that when Li Zicheng broke into BJ City, it was the great eunuch Cao Huachun who opened the Changyi Gate to offer sacrifices.

drop.

In fact, the possibility of this is almost zero, because six years before Li Zicheng attacked BJ, Cao Huachun retired and returned to his hometown. He may have secretly done some work for the court, but he was not in BJ City at all at that time. You insist on saying that now

It was he who opened the Changyi Gate to surrender. Could it be that this old eunuch also knew the magic of space teleportation?

Moreover, this matter is not only controversial in modern times, but was also litigated at the time. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, two "important ministers" Yang Bo and Yang Shimao, who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty at that time, read a book by Cao Huachun, saying that they opened the city

The one who surrendered at the gate was Cao Huachun, and asked Emperor Shunzhi to execute Cao Huachun.

However, Shunzhi later helped Cao Huachun prove his innocence. For this reason, Cao Huachun escaped with his life and even wrote a poem.

Serving the country with foolish loyalty and neglecting one's own life, who is making baseless accusations? He has been slandered for six years at home, and he believes that history is untrue.

With such a simple poem, you can see how helpless Lao Cao was back then. I have done immoral things all my life. I don’t dare to admit any sins. But you opened the Changyi Gate to surrender out of nothing, and I can’t admit it.

, I can admit the crime of beheading, but you can’t frame me for something you haven’t done. Lao Cao feels wronged.

In fact, according to the record in the "Northern Strategy of the Ming Dynasty", it was Zhang Jinyan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Zhu Chunchen, the consort, who opened the city gate to surrender, and they did not open the Changyi Gate, but the Zhengyang Gate and the Qihua Gate.

And why the shit basin was placed on Cao Huachun? This was obviously to shirk responsibility and to tell the world that the Ming Dynasty died at the hands of the eunuchs, not us scholar-bureaucrats. We are all strong-willed. In the end, it was the eunuchs who

The Ming Dynasty was sold.

To put it bluntly, this is the blame-shifting of the scholar-bureaucrat class.

The theory that Cao Huachun opened the city and surrendered is so popular. First, the "History of the Ming Dynasty" compiled by the Qing Dynasty does contain rumors that Cao Huachun opened the city and surrendered. But as we have mentioned before, in the History of the Ming Dynasty, that is nonsense. After all, Zhang Xianzhong killed Zhang Xianzhong in it.

There are over 600 million people. Is this true? Does the Ming Dynasty have a population of 600 million?

Another important reason is that the popularity of eunuchs in the eyes of the common people is so poor. Coupled with the propaganda of scholar-bureaucrats, they have become a trend. In modern times, our old man Jin Yong also borrowed this point in his "Blue Blood Sword", which suddenly made him famous.

It opened.

Just like the myth of Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang did not have a straw boat to borrow arrows, let alone an empty city plan.

So it is true that Lao Cao is a bastard, but he is still loyal to Chongzhen, and he is also a rare person who can do things under Chongzhen.

This time Chongzhen called Cao Huachun into the palace, mainly because he wanted to know if Li Chaosheng was preparing to get married and whether he could take advantage of it.

"His Majesty."

In the royal study room in the palace, Chongzhen was sitting on a chair, and Queen Zhou stood behind Chongzhen. He came to bring food to Chongzhen, but was left to listen. Chongzhen's original words were: "I have nothing to hide from you."

So Empress Zhou also listened in. In front of the royal book case, there were two people, one was the eunuch Cao Huachun, and the other was the emperor's personal eunuch Wang Cheng'en.

These two people can be regarded as the top figures in the eunuch world. At this time, the two people were standing respectfully. Chongzhen took a sip of the tofu soup stewed by Queen Zhou, looked up at the two eunuchs and said: "I heard that Li Chaosheng of Lantian is preparing to marry

Marriage, choosing a suitable woman?"

After hearing this, Cao Huachun said: "It is your Majesty, Jin Yiwei has confirmed the authenticity of this news."

Chongzhen took a sip of the soup and said, "Then do you think there is any place that can be used?"

After hearing this, Cao Huachun said: "Your Majesty, I think I can send beautiful women into Lantian to confuse Li Chaosheng. If it doesn't work, I can also become a spy."

After hearing this, Chongzhen said: "What are the chances of winning?"

Cao Huachun said: "If His Majesty personally issued the decree, it would be 60%."

After hearing this, Chongzhen looked at Cao Huachun and said: "I personally issued the order? Let's talk about it."

Cao Huachun said: "It is your Majesty, but this matter is difficult for your Majesty. The old slave said this, which is an insult to your majesty. The old slave will ask for thirty battles, and then come back to offer advice to your majesty."

After hearing this, Chongzhen waved his hands and said, "I forgive you for not being guilty. Go ahead."

Cao Huachun said: "Your Majesty, the old slave's plan is that your Majesty can reward Li Chaosheng with some maids of suitable age in the palace. These maids are all very good-looking. If one of them is valued by Li Chaosheng, he will marry him as his wife, or even fill the house as a side chamber.

, it is of great benefit to us all, and your majesty can reward you more. With more people, Li Chaosheng has more to choose from, and we have a greater chance of winning. Moreover, the old slave can also train a few spies there to spy for your majesty.
To be continued...