Song Xiance returned from the palace and secretly rushed to Li Yan at night, telling Wang Shuo and Li Yan about the capture of the crown prince and the prince's performance in the palace.Li Yan admired the prince's backbone and felt that this person was worthy of their support in the future.Song Xiance disagreed.His father Chongzhen is not the same, would rather die than surrender, has no backbone, has no ability to have the world in mind, just has a backbone, and the key is that the Ming Dynasty has great flaws in the cultivation of successors, that is, no matter how good the seedlings are, they can grow crooked.Otherwise, why are Zhu Di's descendants rarely competitive, but no matter what, Song Xiance and Li Yan's thoughts are secretly compatible.That is, if Wang Shuo wants to achieve great things, he must have the most authoritative figure in Zhu Ming.Chongzhen is dead, that is the prince, the prince is gone, and then it is the king Zhu Cijiong, and so on.Wang Shuo and Li Yan tried to avoid going out during this time, so as not to attract the attention of others.In addition to being summoned by the previous dynasty and Li Zicheng, Li Yan basically stayed in the residence arranged after entering Beijing, in the hutong near Chongwenmen, and discussed national governance and military strategy with Wang Shuo.This is also what Wang Shuo meant, they have already planned to leave, just wait for Wu Sangui to decide whether to descend to Dashun or Daqing, and then the overall situation will be visible.After they knew what they knew, they called Song Xiance to return to the northwest together.Wang Shuo knew that Wu Sangui must have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but he couldn't say anything unfounded.What's more, what is happening now is very different from the records in the history books, making Wang Shuo think that he has traveled to a universe parallel to modern times, not the Ming Dynasty in the past.Theoretically, people can't really return to their own past, and the Ming in this time interface is not necessarily the Ming in the history books.As for what Wu Sangui will do in the future at this time, he really has no bottom in his heart.But everything is conjecture, and no one can figure out what is going on.In case his guess is wrong, Li Yan will still be killed by Li Zicheng's suspicion as in the past, so it's better to be as careful as possible.Therefore, he still persuaded Li Yan vigorously, since he knew that he could not change Li Zicheng, he should not say more things that aroused his suspicion, and obey him more.Since you have decided to leave, it is better not to have more rights and wrongs, and to go out less.Although Li Yan felt that he was too verbose and too careful.But people are for his good, and in order to avoid listening to his verbosity, they have to stay at home with him and talk nonsense.The appearance of the crown prince has changed everything that was originally planned.Wang Shuo didn't care much about this prince in his heart.The development of his territory is completely dependent on the full support of the people.Getting a prince back will make the people feel that the nature of his government has changed, and he is going to maintain the feudal dynasty again.But Li Yan and Song Xiance care about this prince.Proceeding from the overall situation of the whole country, they believed that if they wanted to unify the whole country in the future, whether it was to deal with Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Shi Kefa, Zuo Liangyu and other warlords, the crown prince was Shang Fang's sword, which was orthodox and the basis for becoming famous.Without the crown prince, it would be quite difficult to fight out from the northwest.Their thinking also makes sense, after all, this is an era that values orthodoxy.Wang Shuo couldn't object, so he had to postpone the plan to return to the northwest, waiting for the opportunity to rescue the prince.The crown prince was locked up in the prison of Chengtianfu by Liu Zongmin, and he was heavily guarded, and it was really delusional to smash and rob the prison on the territory of the 100,000 Shun army.Song Xiance meant that Li Zicheng would soon lead his army to Shanhaiguan and force Wu Sangui to surrender.At that time, high-ranking generals such as Liu Zongmin will definitely follow King Chuang to the east, and the defense in Beijing will be loosened, and they will be able to act at that time, and maybe they can rescue the prince.In this way, everyone had to wait any longer.On March 29, Li Zicheng sent an envoy carrying 40,000 taels of silver and 1,000 taels of gold to Shanhaiguan, and at the same time crowned Wu Sangui as the Marquis of Pingxi, and raised his title by one level.As soon as the envoy set off, all battalions in Dashun received orders to prepare for the pull-out.Li Zicheng only left Liu Liang and Li Yu, two commanders of the Chinese army, to lead an army of 3,000 to guard the Beijing division, and Niu Jinxing to manage 100 officials, and the rest all marched east to meet Wu Sangui's arrival.Prior to this, Tang Tong, a stone guard, had sent someone to tell Wu Sangui that Emperor Dashun was going to pay him a salary and make him a marquis.At the same time, Tang Tong also brought Wu Sangui a letter, which Wu Xiang wrote to him, to the effect that Emperor Dashun treated the Wu family as a relative, and he had been released to go home, hoping that his son would come to Beijing as soon as possible to meet him.At the end of the letter, Wu Xiang told his son that his concubine Chen Yuanyuan was already under the protection of his family and rode alone to Shanhaiguan to find him.If he was persuaded to surrender, Wu Sangui was too lazy to watch.Without tangible guarantees, surrender is meaningless.Besides, by now, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Li Zicheng has made a miasma of Beijing and can't stay in Beijing at all.Even if he doesn't send troops to drive away Li Zicheng, Zhu Yousong of the Southern Ming Dynasty will definitely fight back in the future, and Li Zicheng is very likely to fail.At this time, he chose to lead his troops to drive away Li Zicheng, which was much wiser than choosing to surrender.The key is what Wu Xiangxin said at the end, which made him a little unable to sit still.Why is my father so confused, Chen Yuanyuan is a weak woman, how can she let her come to Shanhaiguan alone, now the world is so chaotic, what to do if something happens, he was a little anxious, sent someone to look for Chen Yuanyuan along the way, and wrote another letter, asking Tang Tong's people to bring the letter to his father.He didn't know the inside story of Chen Yuanyuan's escape, and complained about his father.From here, it can also be seen that Wu Sangui does have a soft spot for Chen Yuanyuan, and "rushing to the crown and being angry for a red face" is not unfounded.Li Zicheng gave money and sealed the official again, which forced him to express his position.If he doesn't return to Beijing this time, then Li Zicheng will definitely understand his intentions, and when the whole army comes to attack, he really can't beat it.Dolgon's side can really calm down, and he won't change his words until now, and won't help him if he doesn't surrender.He thought about it again and again, and the matter could not be delayed any longer.Li Zicheng's envoy would soon arrive at Shanhaiguan.At that time, if Dorgon's Eight Banners had not yet moved, he had no choice but to surrender.He asked the adjutant general Yang Kun to discuss.Yang Kun and Wu Sangui mean the same thing, it is a shame to surrender to the rogue, and it is much better to use troops to destroy Li Zicheng than to surrender him.Wu Sangui said to Yang Kun: "If we don't make concessions to the Manchus, if Dolgon doesn't come to help us, we really have no way out."
You take my handwritten letter to Shenyang, and Dolgon will take the Yellow River as the boundary, and the north of the Yellow River will be assigned to him" Yang Kun gasped when he heard the words and said: "In this way, let's give away such a big place and Tartar, I am afraid that we will have to bear the infamy of traitors in the future" Wu Sangui said sharply: "No, the Ming Dynasty may not even keep the south of the Yangtze River to be loyal to the country, what is the infamy behind him, as long as we breathe a sigh of relief in the future, we will kill all these rogues, China is rich in land and resources, and it will soon recover its strength."
At that time, as long as we don't die, we will risk the lives of the entire army of Guanning Iron Cavalry, and we will also regain the lost land", which is probably the guiding ideology of all Wu Sangui's behaviors
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