The alliance of the enemy and Pingko also said that the enemy and Pingko refer to the Hongguang regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and adopted the policy of uniting the Qing Dynasty to eliminate the peasant army such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the Central Plains.

Of course, this is an explanation from Baidu in later generations. Although Baidu's knowledge may not be completely correct, it must have been recognized by mainstream people if it can be written in public. This is true. Most historians in later generations used class contradictions to explain history. When the Qing Dynasty was in exile, the main contradiction within the Ming Dynasty was the class contradiction between landless peasants and the landlord class.

However, after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the main contradiction changed from internal contradictions to national contradictions that were consistent with the external ethnic contradictions. At this time, Ma Shiying and other Southern Ming bureaucrats did not adapt to the historical trend and united with the bandits to the outside world. They insisted on doing a reversal to jointly eliminate peasant uprising troops such as Li Zicheng. Isn’t it a sinner to reverse history?

In addition, the Ming Dynasty was written by Huang Zongxi, the Donglin Party’s big writer, and it would be strange if Ma Shiying was good. Mistaken historical books and wrong historical views would smear the original history of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Ma Cheng was a product of later exam-oriented education, and naturally learned the kind of history that was smeared, so he was furious when he heard Ma Shiying admit that the court was about to unite with the Qing Dynasty.

"Dad, you... don't you know that the Qing Dynasty was ambition? Can they be willing to leave when they enter the Central Plains flower world? Now you still have to negotiate and cede land. Can you get the right ancestors and ancestors?"

Ma Cheng was angry, and these words were a little heavy. After hearing Ma Cheng's words, Ma Shiying cursed: "What? Are the lords in the court not as good as Qiu Ba?"

At noon, Hou Fangyu scolded Ma Chengqiu Ba, and now Ma Shiying scolded Ma Chengqiu Ba again, but Ma Cheng did not dare to retort, so he had no choice but to sit aside and sulk.

Ma Shiying sighed when he saw Ma Cheng's appearance: "Cheng'er, he has served as the chief officer, censor, prefect, governor, and the prime minister for his father. He has been in the officialdom for more than 20 years. Isn't he as a young boy? Even if he is not a father, Zhang Shenyan, Gao Hongtu, Shi Kefa and others are all fools? Can't they see what the Qing Dynasty really wants?"

When Ma Cheng heard Ma Shiying say this, he suddenly thought of a fact, a fact that he had been ignored before, that is, the Lianlu Pingwu was agreed by all the ministers in the court. If Ma Shiying couldn't see through it, wouldn't the other ministers in the court see through it? Ma Shiying just said that he had been ups and downs in the officialdom for more than 20 years, could he still see the true intentions of the Qing Dynasty?

When Ma Cheng heard Ma Shiying say this, he quickly asked, "Dad, since you know what the Qing Dynasty wants to do, why do you still have to negotiate with the Qing Dynasty?"

"Oh, this is something that is unforgivable! The princes in the court also agreed with my proposal when they saw the difficulties!" Ma Shiying stood up and said the current difficulties of the court. Ma Cheng was stunned after hearing this. He did not expect that Nanming was in danger now, and only the alliance of the enemy was the only way out.

In history, the blame for the Lianlu Pingzi was put on Ma Shiying's head, but fortunately, although the Qing Dynasty burned down Ming Dynasty books, some of them were still not burned. At that time, the first person to write a letter to propose that the Lianlu Pingzi was Ma Shiying, but Shi Kefa, Zhang Shenyan and other Donglin Party did not object, but they all agreed. What does this mean, it shows that there was a big problem in Nanming at that time.

The first problem is the legitimacy of Zhu Yousong. Originally, this emperor was not born by Zhu Yousong, but by Zhu Youjian, who was born by Chongzhen. According to normal procedures, Zhu Youjian died and his son was also his son. It was only now that Zhu Youjian was forced to hang on the coal mountain by Li Zicheng, so it was Zhu Yousong's turn to be the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

The first thing Zhu Yousong did to ascend to the throne of the emperor was to prove his legitimacy. How should he prove it? Of course, he had to raise the banner to avenge the late emperor, so there was absolutely no possibility of reconciliation among bandits such as Zhu Yousong and Li Zicheng. Not only was there no possibility of reconciliation, Zhu Yousong also had to announce that the world would avenge the late emperor, so that he could prove that he was orthodox. At the same time, setting a goal for everyone when the country was panic, which could also play a role in stabilizing people's hearts.

The second point is the financial problem. Since the first year of Chongzhen, the country has fought for 17 years, and the north has been defeated in ruins. Although the southern provinces are not bad, the money and food for the war are transported from the southern provinces. Although the northern provinces are now in the hands of bandits, there are still 700,000 or 800,000 troops along the Yangtze River waiting to eat and receive military pay, and the money still needs to be collected from the people of the southern provinces.

The country needs money, but the literati and officials of the Ming Dynasty did not have to pay taxes. Nan Zhili was in a prosperous literary style and a large amount of land was occupied by aristocratic families. How to get more money became the second problem for cabinet ministers such as Ma Shiying. Taxes were collected according to the rules and offended the literati of Nan Zhili. If they were not collected by taxes, they would not do it. Therefore, Ma Shiying needed time to slowly resolve various contradictions in the court. In order to gain time, they must choose an alliance among the two forces of Li Zicheng and the Qing Dynasty. Li Zicheng said that it was impossible to form an alliance, and the only one left was the Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, the Qing Dynasty also had a big weakness, that is, the population problem. The entire Qing Dynasty now has less than one million people. The Jin Dynasty in the Northern Song Dynasty was much stronger than the Qing Dynasty today. Didn’t it just occupy the Yangtze River in the north? So the ministers in the court had a very detailed calculation. The Qing Dynasty had only 200,000 troops, which allowed them to fight against Li Zicheng and millions of bandits. Finally, when the Southern Ming recovered its strength, it was using the advantages of population and financial resources to purge them in one fell swoop.

The third point is that at that time, Wu Sangui and the Qing Dynasty defeated Li Zicheng, which was a good thing for Hongguang's monarch and ministers. Since Li Zicheng defeated Sun Chuanting in the 16th year of Chongzhen, his strength and prestige have increased greatly until he captured Beijing in March of the 17th year of Chongzhen. He was the most important threat to the Ming Dynasty.

Taking the literati and officials in Jiangnan, and after the birth of a new dynasty in history, they would definitely send elite soldiers and generals to unify the country. So they naturally believed that after Li Zicheng pacified the north, he would naturally not let the Southern Ming Dynasty go.

Especially Li Zicheng deployed a 70,000 army in the Jingxiang area, which not only made Zuo Liangyu feel the threat from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, but also made the Ming Dynasty officials in Nanjing deeply feel the threat from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Now that the thieves are defeated, Li Zicheng is too busy to take care of himself, which really makes Hongguang's monarch and ministers relieve themselves. Many Ming Dynasty officials believe that Li Zicheng and the Qing Dynasty will fall into a long-term confrontation in the north, and will eventually suffer both losses.

Therefore, Hongguang's monarch and ministers were very happy to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight, hoping to reap the benefits of fishermen in the future. From a historical perspective, this was also right. Regardless of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, the north was in chaos and had no time to look south, which gave those who fled to the south a chance to breathe.

Both Ma Shiying and the Donglin Party are not fools. There is no need to choose these three issues. They can only join forces with the Qing Dynasty to deal with Li Zicheng.

Ma Cheng was just a courier in later generations, and he just followed the crowd about history and never considered the problem from the perspective of the country. Now, when Ma Shiying talked about the problem, Ma Cheng was stunned. The problem was here, what do you think you should do?

Of course, what Ma Shiying said was based on the premise that Li Zicheng could withstand the Qing Dynasty, but Ma Cheng knew that Li Zicheng would not be able to withstand even half a year. After Li Zicheng was defeated from Shanhaiguan, he fought and fled all the way. He did not last for a few days without persisting in the Tianjian Tongguan, and finally he had to retreat to Huguang.

Zhang Xianzhong was even more miserable and retreated step by step under Haoge's attack. In the end, Zhang Xianzhong died under the arrow. His four godsons could only retreat to the barren Yunnan-Guizhou area.

Ma Cheng knew history, but Ma Shiying didn't know it. Ma Shiying was still using bandits to restrain the Qing Dynasty. He never expected that the bandits who had been in the Central Plains for more than ten years would be beaten to the Qing Dynasty within a year.

Ma Cheng knew that this peace talks would definitely fail. The Qing army was going south in half a year, but what could he do? He told Ma Shiying directly that he had traveled from time to time in later generations? Not to mention whether Ma Shiying believed it or not, he just learned that his son became another person and that Ma Shiying could let Ma Cheng take over his son's body? There is no human rights law in this world to protect Ma Cheng's human rights.

Ma Shiying sighed in a daze when he saw Ma Cheng. What he and Ma Cheng just revealed was only the surface, and there were deep problems. Although Ma Shiying did not say that this time, the alliance to suppress the enemy was proposed by Ma Shiying, it was unanimously agreed between inside and outside the court. This was the first time that Ma Shiying had proposed to be the prime minister and was approved. Ma Shiying also wanted to use this incident to ease relations with the Donglin Party.

Ma Shiying even thought about the candidate for the peace talks, so he used the governor of Yingtian Zuo Maodi, who was the backbone of the Donglin Party. He gave him the title of Minister of War and asked him to go to Beijing for peace talks, which was just right for the Donglin Party to be in good terms.

"Father, although you think so well, you should know that the four towns in Jiangbei are not reliable. What if the Qing Dynasty goes south and surrenders to the enemy?" Ma Cheng saw that he could not convince Ma Shiying, so he told the story of the four towns in Jiangbei in history to reveal a little.

Ma Shiying snorted when he heard Ma Cheng say this: "Hmph, do you think you are a father? The four towns have the virtues, domineering, Liu Zeqing is sleek, Liu Liang is sophisticated, and only Huang Degong can have some ability. Being a father is afraid of their repetition, so he let Shi Kefa supervise Yangzhou. With Shi Xianzhi in Yangzhou, these four towns should be honest. Yangzhou is a strong city in the world. If these four towns cannot fight in field, is it not enough to defend the city?"

Ma Cheng didn't expect that Ma Shiying knew these four towns very well and analyzed the personalities of the four towns very thoroughly. Gao Jie finally died at the hands of Xu Dingguo because of his domineering and underestimating the enemy. Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo surrendered to the Qing Dynasty without fighting. Among the four towns, only Huang Degong fought for the Ming Dynasty until the last moment.
Chapter completed!