"Listen to what I have to say first." Chongzhen waved his hand to interrupt Zheng Sen, "Today I will teach you another lesson, what is a primary contradiction and what is a secondary contradiction."
"The main contradiction is a contradiction of life and death."
"Right now, it's a matter of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestral temple, the country, and the Han family's clothes!"
"Will this group of national thieves from the Donglin Party directly endanger the Ming Dynasty, the ancestral temple and the country, and the Han family's clothes?"
After saying this, Chongzhen continued: "Obviously not. Although these people are stupid and bad, they are still willing to protect the Ming Dynasty. What they want is nothing more than to change the emperor, to change someone they can easily control.
Emperor, then they will do whatever they say, but they probably don’t want to replace Daming."
Zheng Sen and other scholars fell silent. They also agreed with this judgment.
The Donglin Party launched an attack at this time, obviously wanting to change the emperor. These people are really bold.
Chongzhen said again: "Not to mention the ancestral temple and the Han family's clothes and clothes, I don't believe that they would be so rebellious that they would destroy the Confucian Temple and the Confucian Temple, and then burn the Confucian classics, and I don't believe that they are willing to shave their hair into a money rat tail.
, and then replace the luxurious Hanfu with a cheongsam and mandarin jacket, this is obviously not possible."
"But establishing slaves will endanger the Ming Dynasty."
"It will even endanger the ancestral temple, the country and the Han family's clothes."
"So, the conflict with Jiannu is the main conflict."
"The conflict between us and the Donglin Party is only a secondary conflict."
“When two pairs of contradictions conflict, priority should be given to resolving the main contradiction rather than the secondary contradiction.”
After saying this, Chongzhen said again: "So at this time, our priority is to solve the threat of the slaves, that is, to defend the Huanghuai defense line. Only by guarding the Huanghuai defense line, the threat level of the slaves to our Ming Dynasty will be reduced to the second level.
There must be a contradiction, so that the threat of the Donglin Party will rise to the main contradiction, and then it will be the right time to resolve the Donglin Party."
Jin Xuan said: "But Your Majesty, is it really okay to keep these national traitors?"
Chongzhen said: "Don't worry, they can't accomplish anything."
This is really not to underestimate them.
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Almost at the same time, Li Zicheng also received the news.
Song Xiance said: "Your Majesty, the situation is probably like this. There was indeed a fierce party struggle in the Nanjing court. Shi Kefa has resigned and is at home. In addition, although the Donglin Party failed to take away Chongzhen's power from the Imperial Party in the end,
There was no internal money, but the 200,000 rural warriors of Huai'an Prefecture were taken away by them."
Li Zicheng said with some surprise: "Isn't Shi Kefa also a member of the Donglin Party?"
"Shi Kefa is the leader of Donglin." Song Xiance said, "If nothing else happens, the Donglin Party should have split."
"Has the Donglin Party split?" Li Zicheng murmured, "It seems that the party struggle in Nanjing is really fierce. Huang Zongxi didn't lie to us."
Song Xiance said: "Your Majesty, if this is really the case, we in Dashun may have to send troops to help, otherwise Chongzhen and Ming Dynasty may really not be able to hold on."
"Yeah. _o_m" Li Zicheng nodded, "Then send troops."
When Niu Jinxing heard this, he immediately became anxious: "Your Majesty, we can't send troops!"
"Why?" Song Xiance asked, "Does the Prime Minister not understand the principle of dying lips and cold teeth?"
Niu Jinxing ignored Song Xiance and just said to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, Youdao is a centipede insect, dead and not dead. I never believe that Nanming can be so incompetent. Just a party fight can bring down dozens of people on the Xuzhou front line."
Wan Ming's army has been destroyed, so if I, Dashun, send troops at this time, it will only cause trouble and let the Ming army take advantage in vain."
Li Zicheng hesitated again: "What the Prime Minister said makes sense."
Song Xian snorted coldly and advised again: "Your Majesty, people will not stand up without faith, industries will not prosper without faith, and the country will decline without faith. Since we have promised Nanming, we should send troops."
To be honest, Song Xiance didn't care whether the Dashun army could save the Ming Dynasty or not, but since Niu Jinxing opposed sending troops, he had to facilitate the sending of troops. Anyway, he just couldn't make things easier for the bully Niu Jinxing.
"Oh, yes." Li Zicheng said with deep understanding, "That's the truth."
"Your Majesty." Niu Jinxing was anxious upon hearing this. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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"Sitting on a mountain and watching tigers fight has been our national policy from the beginning!"
Li Zicheng was a little at a loss as to what to do. In the end, Liu Zongmin couldn't stand it anymore and said angrily: "Your Majesty, since the Prime Minister and Zuo's military advisor have differences of opinion, they will send troops but not send troops."
"Ruhou, how do you say this?" Li Zicheng asked with his eyes shining.
Liu Zongmin chuckled and said: "My opinion is that we send troops, but not to attack Beijing, only to attack Guide! And there must be a prerequisite, that is, Chongzhen must give up Kaifeng Mansion to us to station troops! In this way, we will not get burned.
, to attract the Jiannu soldiers to our Dashun Army's side, but also to share the pressure for the Ming Army."
After a pause, Liu Zongmin continued: "With the support of our 100,000-strong army, if the Ming army cannot defend Xuzhou, then Chongzhen deserves to be killed, and God can't save him."
Li Zicheng: "This is a good idea. Come and call Huang Zongxi."
After a while, Huang Zongxi came to Li Zicheng's place, but he was a little confused after hearing the conditions.
What Li Zicheng meant was to ask the Ming Dynasty to cede Kaifeng Prefecture in exchange for the Dashun Army sending troops to support him? It was obviously not possible to cede Kaifeng Prefecture, even in name only.
If he agrees to this condition, not only will he, Huang Zongxi, be reduced to a street rat that everyone yells at, but the saint's wisdom will also be damaged. This is absolutely not allowed.
But if we can't get the Dashun Army to send troops, Xuzhou will be in danger.
Once Xuzhou is lost, the Huanghuai defense line will be completely destroyed, and half of the country in the south of the Yangtze River will probably not be able to be defended. If this is the case, the Ming Dynasty Zuo, the ancestral temples, and the Han family's clothing will also be completely destroyed.
Which of the two is more important? Is there a compromise?
It was definitely too late to go back to Xuzhou to request the order. It would take too much time to go back and forth.
So this idea can only be decided by him. How should he choose?
Seeing Huang Zongxi's silence, Liu Zongmin became a little impatient: "Hey, what do you say?"
Huang Zongxi immediately gritted his teeth and said: "Not an inch of our Ming Dynasty's territory is redundant, so it is impossible to cede Kaifeng Mansion to the Dashun Dynasty."
"Then get lost." Liu Zongmin said coldly, "We in Dashun will not send troops."
Huang Zongxi ignored Liu Zongmin's insults and said: "However, it is possible to borrow. Our Ming Dynasty can temporarily lend Kaifeng Mansion to the Dashun Army to garrison troops, and then return it after the Battle of Xuzhou."
"Lend Kaifeng City to us?" Li Zicheng was stunned when he heard this. Lend it to Jingzhou?
However, Liu Bei borrowed money from Jingzhou and never repaid it, and the same is true for us at Dashun.
At that moment, Li Zicheng clapped his hands and said, "Then you should vacate Kaifeng Mansion as soon as possible."
"I will respectfully welcome Dashun's heavenly soldiers in Kaifeng." Huang Zongxi raised his hands and said, "I hope your majesty can keep his word and make the country of brothers feel cold."
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More than ten days later, the time came to the tenth day of June.
Since May 15th, when he personally led the army to Xuzhou, Dorgon stayed in Zhakou Town for more than 20 days.
At this time, Dorgon walked out of Zhakou Town again, but he saw that in the wheat fields in the surrounding areas, the wheat seedlings had grown to two or three inches high. It was very green and gratifying to see.
He Luohui, who was accompanying him, observed his face and said with a smile: "Master, this wheat is growing really well."
"Well, the growth is indeed very good." Dorgon said happily, "Xuzhou is warmer than outside the pass. This wheat will grow faster in warmer places."
Cao Eryu said: "Looking at the growth situation, it is possible to harvest two stones of wheat per acre."
Dorgon couldn't hide his joy when he heard this. If he could really harvest two stones of wheat per acre, then the farming in Xuzhou would not only be able to replenish the public stocks of grain and repay the grain distributed by each banner's private treasury, but even have a lot of surplus.
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Being able to win the battle and harvest wheat at the same time, there is no better result than this.
However, just when Dorgon was looking forward to a good harvest, Luo Luohun, the flag owner with a red flag, came over angrily with a group of Baya soldiers.
"Prince Regent, it's broken! Something happened!"
From a distance away, Luo Luohun asked angrily: "Which dog slave was the one who swore that the puppet army in Luoyang would not send troops? Call this dog slave here, and the prince of this county will smash his mouth!"
"Luo Luohun.@essence/bookstore*update~~(This chapter is not finished yet!)
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What are you yelling about?" Dorgon frowned and said, "The puppet army in Luoyang sent troops?"
"The troops have been sent out, and they are all out!" Luo Luohun said, "More than a hundred thousand people have already garrisoned Kaifeng City. The forward cavalry has even reached outside Shangqiu City. Sang Kaidi has sent people to ask for help from me."
"Well done." Dorgon snorted coldly and added, "I am waiting for them to come."
"Uh, ah?" Dorgon's reaction surprised Luo Luohun. What's going on? Are you waiting for them to come? Regent, you have already prepared it? Why don't I believe it?
Dorgon was really ready. He immediately followed the pre-prepared countermeasures and had more than 10,000 people with white flags and white flags put on their armor and stomach, entered the outer castle of Xuzhou and replaced the flags with white flags.
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Of course, it's impossible to replace them all. I just replaced most of the Niuluo with the white flag.
Most of the Eight Banners Han Army is still stationed in forts outside Xuzhou and on both sides of the Yellow River.
In addition, more than 50,000 cavalrymen from the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Outer Mongolia were also taken away by Dorgon.
Dorgon gathered a total of forty Niulu troops from the Xiangbai Banner, the Eight Banner Mongolians, more than 40,000 cavalrymen from the Outer Mongols, more than 3,000 Han troops from the Eight Banners and more than 20 red cannons, and more than 20,000 accompanying troops.
Then there are thirty-seven Niulu with red flags stationed at Dangshan.
The total strength of all the troops is about 90,000. This is already the limit of the mobile troops that Dorgon can mobilize. If troops are mobilized from other directions, it will inevitably affect the direction of Pizhou, Xiazhen and Fengyang Mansion.
Under the surveillance of the army, if the Ming army invaded these towns at the same time, the farmland would most likely be destroyed.
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On June 15th, the Jiannu advance advanced outside Shangqiu City.
The Dashun army that was besieging Shangqiu City immediately turned around and attacked Jiannu.
After a fierce battle, the Dashun army was defeated and retreated straight into Kaifeng Mansion.
The cavalry and infantry of the Dashun Army are still very capable of fighting, even if they face the Eight Banners soldiers who built the slaves, they can only defeat the Eight Banners soldiers. However, the firearms unit of the Dashun Army is so bad that there is no way to compare with the Eight Banners and Han Army.
Therefore, as soon as the red barbarian artillery that established the slaves arrived, the Dashun army collapsed immediately.
However, the subsequent development of the war was different from what Dorgon and the others expected.
Dorgon and Hong Chengchou originally thought that if the Dashun Army sent troops to rescue Xuzhou or went north to make a surprise attack on Beijing, the form of fighting would be a field battle.
Dorgon is quite confident about field battles.
At least for now, the Eight Banners are invincible in field battles.@essence/bookstore·nothing wrong~~
However, what is very strange is that the Dashun Army sent troops this time. In addition to fighting a modest field battle with the Eight Banners soldiers under Shangqiu City, they actually entered the city defense mode after that.
Hundreds of thousands of Dashun troops huddled directly into Kaifeng City, acting as if they were cowering.
At this time, Dorgon felt a little uncomfortable. Should he stay and besiege the city for a long time? Or withdraw his troops?
It is definitely not possible to besiege Kaifeng for a long time, because the Eight Banners can only guarantee the siege of one city. Now that Chongzhen has been surrounded in Xuzhou City, there is no extra force to besiege Kaifeng.
Dorgon didn't want to be starved to death.
But if we withdraw our troops, what will happen if the Dashun Army comes back?
The Eight Banners soldiers can't run back and forth between Xuzhou and Guide, right?
Dorgon thought about it, but still couldn't make a decision, so he immediately summoned three dog-headed military advisors, Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo, to his camp to ask for advice.
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At the same time, Huang Zongxi also returned to Xuzhou City.
Li Zicheng was quite interested in Huang Zongxi and sent a team of cavalry to escort him back to Xuzhou.
As a result, when passing through the Tuntian area of Jiannu at night, they were chased by a group of Mongolian cavalry from outside the vassal state. In the end, all the more than 50 cavalrymen of the Dashun Army were killed in the battle.
Huang Zongxi jumped into the Yellow River, and Fu Shui was able to escape.
Fortunately, Huang Zongxi also grew up by the Yao River, so his water resistance is pretty good.
Moreover, it was already mid-June, and the weather was already extremely warm. Otherwise, Huang Zongxi would have been frozen into a popsicle by 70 to 80 miles of water.
After the border troops patrolling the night rescued Huang Zongxi, they took him to Chongzhen.
Hearing that Huang Zongxi had returned to Xuzhou, Chongzhen didn't even bother to put on his shoes and came barefoot. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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Go to the front hall.
"Huang Zongxi!" Before anyone entered the hall, Chongzhen's voice came in first, "Huang Zongxi! Where is Huang Zongxi?"
"Your Majesty, the student is here." Huang Zongxi, who was sitting on a chair and resting, quickly stood up, but as soon as he stood up, his whole body immediately tilted to one side. Fortunately, he raised his eyes and quickly helped him.
After traveling seventy or eighty miles of waterway and soaking in the water for several hours, Huang Zongxi had long since collapsed.
Even with a wooden board in his arms and multiple sheepskin bags tied to his body, it was still a bit overwhelming.
"Sit down, sit down and talk.@" Chongzhen motioned Huang Zongxi to sit back in his seat and asked again, "Did the Pseudo-Shun send out troops?"
"Back to the Holy Spirit, Pseudo-Shun has sent out troops." Huang Zongxi said with cupped hands, "However, instead of sending troops to attack Beijing, he only agreed to send troops to attack Guide Mansion, and he had to use Kaifeng Mansion as a condition."
