"Do you think it's possible?"

Li Zicheng said with a smile.

"I think it is possible that Your Majesty is of no use to you now. Even if Your Majesty is not dead, what can you do with Your Majesty? Do you give up being emperor and then help Your Majesty as Cao Cao again?

If that happens, I have nothing to say.

If you continue to respect Your Majesty, then I will continue to be my Jinyiwei.

If you want to be emperor by yourself, even if you lock Your Majesty in Beijing, Nanjing will simply support a new king, with all kinds of yamen in it, and some of the royal kings are the six ministers of Nanjing, the chief censor of the Nanjing Censorate, the governors of the Five Army Governor's Office of Nanjing, Fengyang, and the two major garrison eunuchs in Nanjing. These people gather together to see which royal king is in line with their wishes and make him the new king. This is not a big deal, and you are still enemies of the Ming Dynasty.

Then the Ming Dynasty will attack you with Jiannu.

This is still the case of Your Majesty's death. If Your Majesty is forced to death by you, then Wu Sangui, Wang Yongji and Song Quan will not be able to surrender to you. Even if they surrender to Jiannu, they will not surrender to you. It's a revenge between the king and the father!

After all, they were still ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Surrendering Jiannu led Dorgon into the pass, they can say that they can use foreign troops to avenge Your Majesty. As ministers of the Ming Dynasty, they have no fault of their integrity, but surrendering to you is different. Not only them, but all the Ming ministers who surrender to you will bear the original sin in the future. Do you understand the original sin? The sins in their bones, the sins that flow through blood from generation to generation, as long as they have even a little bit of the lowest integrity, they will not surrender to you. It can be done before this, but after this, it will not work. Then they can surrender to Jiannu with ease.

If you surrender to Jiannu, you don’t have to bear the original sin.

My wise minister, and anyone who can avenge the wise master is my lord!"

Yang Qing said.

The last sentence was said by Song Quan when he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Li Zicheng looked at him deeply.

"Look, it's not only useless to keep Your Majesty, but it will also cause you trouble. It's different to let Your Majesty go. First of all, you don't have to worry about the fierce resistance of the Ming ministers in the north, and even lead Dorgon into the pass. Song Quan will be ordered, Wang Yongji will be ordered, and Li Yutian will be ordered. This is as your return to let Your Majesty go. They are not surrendering, and in order to thank you for not hurting Your Majesty, Wu Sangui will also be ordered. After all, his family is in your hands. As long as they do not surrender to Dorgon, you can successfully accept Shanhaiguan and the Great Wall and wait for Dorgon's army to come to the door to defeat him with a strong city."

Yang Qing continued.

"Then why did I let you go? Isn't it the same to keep you here?"

Li Zicheng suddenly said with a smile.

"Uh, different."

Yang Qing said.

"They can bring Dorgon to rescue the car.

First of all, you have to understand that they actually don’t like you. At least between you and Dorgon, they still like Dorgon more. You must understand that you have always been the lord of the poor. Will you continue to allow them to suck the marrow of the people? Will you allow them to annex the land to turn the people into slaves? Will you allow the gentry to use various means to avoid paying food in the future? You don’t even charge taxes now. Your army still relies on fighting the tyrants to raid their homes to maintain it. You even said that you should equalize their land. So do you think they will like you?

But Dorgon is different.

Dorgon would give them all they wanted and then work with them to squeeze the people.

Of course, you can do the same.

But you can't do this, because your subordinates are all under the banner of equalizing the fields and freeing grain. The people support you because you gave them hope. Because the King of Chuang came and did not pay grain. If you were with the gentry, they would abandon you without hesitation, just like you made His Majesty's rebellion back then.

If you don’t believe me, go back and ask your old brothers.

You can't be Dorgon.

They would not like you, they would do everything possible to find reasons to surrender. This is determined by the nature of both sides. Therefore, if you leave Your Majesty here, they would say that you threaten Your Majesty and then cheat them out of edicts. If Dorgon could give them enough promises, they would immediately turn to Dorgon, open the door under the banner of using troops to suppress King Kou Qin to rescue the emperor, and come to Beijing with Dorgon.

Also, you need to understand one thing.

Their loyalty to Your Majesty is based only on what Your Majesty can give them. If Your Majesty has no value or is contrary to their interests, they will abandon Your Majesty. As long as this abandonment can be more tactful and will not bring any bad reputation to them, this is very important to them.

For example, what can you do once they are at the city?

Threat them with His Holy Dame?

They will retreat aside, and they will say they dare not let His Majesty be in danger, and see how loyal they are. Then they will let Dorgon's army attack. Dorgon is not their subordinates, so they naturally cannot control it. They don't really care about His Majesty's life. At this time, if you kill His Majesty in anger, they will be happy because they can come to avenge His Majesty. If you ask His Majesty to order them to attack Dorgon, they will say that this is the life that His Majesty was forced to do under your threat. They don't need to obey, even if the cabinet often returns the imperial edict, let alone during wars?

Or I'll give you a little simpler.

The three families of Ming and Shunqing naturally had the deepest feelings for the Ming Dynasty, but when Ming could not choose, there were only two choices left, they would never choose you. When there was no choice, they would rather surrender to Dorgon.

What we have to do is not give them a reason to surrender to Dorgon. If Your Majesty dies here, they will say that I am Ming minister, and the avenger of Emperor Ming, that is, my lord, and then they can surrender to Dorgon with confidence. If Your Majesty stays here if Your Majesty stays here, they will say that you imprison Your Majesty and force the lord to insult the concubine. As Ming minister, they have to borrow troops to suppress the enemy, and then surrender to Dorgon with confidence to serve the king. This is not an unprecedented precedent in history.

Only when His Majesty was given away by gifts would they find no reason to surrender to Dorgon.

If there is another imperial edict, it will be safer.

If this is your Majesty's intention, then their surrender will be a rebellion against the Lord and treason, and they will no longer have the justice of surrender. And if your Majesty really does not allow them to surrender to Dorgon, then for those guys whose families are in the imperial and the areas where His Majesty controls, they need to be careful, because after His Majesty goes to Nanjing, you will also raid their homes in the north."

Yang Qing said.

"Taizu expelled the Tartars and restored China, and thus had the country of the Ming Dynasty for three hundred years. Although I was not worthy, I would never be able to let China enter the hands of the Tartars again, otherwise I would have no face to deal with Taizu."

Chongzhen said slowly from the side.

"Look, Your Majesty has already made it clear."

Yang Qing said.

"Don't you believe I can beat the Jurchens?"

Li Zicheng said.

"Yes, you only have the elite troops of the old camp who can fight against it, but it is still a little worse. How many elite troops of the old camp do you have? Dorgon led 80,000 people south, even with Wu Sangui's Guanning army, I can only think that you can rely on the fortress there to defend in Shanhaiguan, and you will still be defeated in the field battle. If Wu Sangui turns to Dorgon, you can say that you have no hope."

Yang Qing said frankly.

"As for your numerical advantage, that is meaningless and can be defeated even when facing you. The Jiannu will be defeated faster when facing Jiannu. In fact, if Wu Sangui and others surrender to Jiannu, then when facing Jiannu, I can guarantee that most generals of the official army will immediately turn against you and stab you in the back.

After all, you say you want to equalize their fields.

They don’t care about anything else, and whoever wants to equalize their fields is their enemy.

Whoever can guarantee their interests is their master, regardless of whether the other party is a foreigner or not.”

He added.

By the way, he did his best. Only the Qing army had already moved south, which was already considered as a golden finger for Li Zicheng. He did not know this in history. In fact, Dorgon had not really left Shenyang at this time but was just preparing to send troops. His goal was to cross the Rehe Mountains from western Liaoning, and he turned to Shanhaiguan after getting the news that Li Zicheng had broken through Beijing.

Li Zicheng sat there silently.

"Also, if you really want to let us go, it's best to let us go tomorrow!"

Yang Qing said.

“Why?”

Li Zicheng said.

"If Your Majesty returns south, how can the nobles in Beijing meet? What should they do with their relatives in Jiangnan? Sometimes, you cannot overestimate their lower limit. They have already taken the blame, so why bother to throw a broken jar? Anyway, you will take the blame in the end!"

Yang Qing said with a smile.

"You have a lot of thoughts!"

Li Zicheng said.

"Nothing, I just saw too many things!"

Yang Qing said with some vicissitudes of life.

He did see more things. From the chaotic times in the late Ming Dynasty and for more than three hundred years, the two men of Gun Gu kept refreshing their lower limits again and again. In this case, in order to avoid Chongzhen from going to Jiangnan and then liquidating his family, Yang Qing would never be surprised. Anyway, Li Zicheng took the blame in the end.

So it must be fast.

So fast that these guys didn't have time to react.

Li Zicheng probably also understood this point. Zhu Chunchen could even sell Chongzhen to him, so why can't others kill Chongzhen? There were more than one emperor who died in vain in the Ming Dynasty. In the past, it took some trouble to do it cleanly, but now as long as Chongzhen dies on the way south, the princes will immediately put the shit on Li Zicheng's head.

Li Zicheng looked at them deeply, Yang Qing looked at him with a innocent smile, Chongzhen continued to keep the emperor's expressionless face, and the air in the room seemed to solidify...

Suddenly, Li Zicheng smiled.

"Your Majesty, please dominate the Emperor's Hall!"

He stood up and said.

"Huangji Palace? Shouldn't it be Chengtian Gate?"

Chongzhen said with a strange smile on his face.

“As you wish.”
Chapter completed!