Chapter VIII
Quit Shanhaiguan and return to your hometown outside the pass?
Fei Yanggu was so scared that he didn't dare to say a word. He thought the emperor was crazy. The other guards from the two yellow flags were so shocked that they didn't dare to raise their heads. They didn't know whether this was the emperor's true words, or whether they were angry or fearful.
An older guard's teeth trembled even more because he realized that he might have heard the least and the scene that he should have seen the least. The holy heart was unpredictable. No matter what reason the emperor said such amazing words at this time, after he woke up, he would never want his ruthlessness to be seen and heard by his servants. Then, this means that they... the guards dare not think about it, and kneeled down and felt their hands and feet were cold.
Fei Yanggu did not dare to move, and even breathed became difficult. In a trance, he vaguely remembered that seven years ago, when the emperor heard the news of Prince Jing Jin's death in battle, he was also frightened. But at that time, the emperor at least wanted to cut the river with the Ming Dynasty, instead of withdrawing from Shanhaiguan and returning to his hometown outside the pass as he said. Withdrawing from Shanhaiguan, everything was over, everything was over!
Emperor, is he frightened? Or did he really decide to give up the Han people's splendor? Can the Empress Dowager agree to do this? Can the princes and ministers of Manzhou agree? Can the Eight Banners who enjoyed the blood lipids of the Han people agree?...
Fei Yanggu's heart was full of turmoil. He dared not speak or move, but there was a voice in his heart that the Han people's magnificent country was created by three generations of Manzhou for countless lives. We must not give up, we must not! Even the emperor cannot give up!
Fei Yanggu's silence did not wake up Shunzhi, nor did he relieve his madness. He had been suppressed for too long. When he saw the fire in Sanwan on the city tower that night, he wanted to return north and leave this damn Yangzhou. But he didn't dare because he was afraid that the people in the world would laugh at him as the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was scared back to Beijing by the thief scholar!
But he was really scared. That thief scholar was so scary, even more terrifying than Li Dingguo and Zheng Sen.
"Jiangnan is lost, Huguang is lost, Yungui is lost, and they are defeated, and they are both defeated... After losing one after another, no one wins... Jidu is dead, Yue Le is dead, Li Lutai is dead, Zhang Changgeng is surrendered, and I heard that even Jiang Guozhu is surrendered... Wu Sangui is rebelling, but I don't know where Hong Chengchou is and whether he has rebelled... I am sorry to them, I have always used them, but are they just following me like this?..."
Shunzhi became more and more excited as he spoke, his face became more and more redder, and his cheeks were even more twitching.
"Do you know, I am really afraid... I am the emperor, the monarch of the people in the world, the ruler of the Qing Dynasty, and the co-rule of Manchu and Mongolia, so I should not be afraid, but I am just afraid... I am really afraid, Fei Yanggu, do you know? There are tens of millions of Han people in the world!... And there are only tens of thousands of people in Manzhou and tens of thousands of people!... After entering the pass, how many Han people have we killed? Tens of millions of people!... Now the Han people are becoming fierce and they are fighting back. If this continues, can we Manzhou people still be safe?
No, no!…The Han people will never spare us. The thief scholar is a madman. He slaughtered Guangzhou, he slaughtered Jiangning, and he also slaughtered Yue Le, Lang Ting Zuo and others alive!…If this madman really wants to defeat me, will he let me go?…No, the thief scholar will only kill all my Manzhou and slaughter them, so that we can slaughter our sons and grandsons...
I...I can't let this happen, but I can't beat him. I can only leave and take my tribesmen away. We withdraw from Shanhaiguan and return to our hometown outside the pass. Such a thief scholar can't catch me anymore, right?... He can't catch me. Now, it's still too late, and it's still too late...I have returned the country to the Han people. What kind of deep hatred should be eliminated, right?..."
Shunzhi was really crazy now. He couldn't control himself at all. He stared at him in fear and shouted and pointed at him. Every word and every sentence he said from his mouth made several guards kneeling on the ground scattered.
"Let's go! Fei Yanggu, pass on my will, leave now, go back to Beijing immediately to prepare to leave the customs!"
Shunzhi couldn't wait, so he asked Fei Yanggu to return to Beijing on the spot.
None of the guards dared to move, and Fei Yanggu dared not move, and he dared not obey the order.
Seeing that Fei Yanggu didn't go to issue an order, Shunzhi was furious and scolded, "Why haven't you been going yet? Why, even you, a slave, are you going to betray me!"
The silent Fei Yanggu finally broke out. He broke free from the emperor's hands and roared: "Master, you are crazy!"
"I'm crazy?"
Shunzhi was stunned, staring at Fei Yanggu blankly. There seemed to be images overlapping in front of him. He seemed to see Ama's appearance, and his mouth opened wide. He seemed to see Ama pointing at him and scolding him angrily.
"Ninth Prince, you are a prodigal son, you are a waste of money! The rabbit on the grassland is stronger than you! The country you have built with your grandfather and you are so timid that you want to leave the land and run away! How can you be the descendants of Aisin Gioro? Why is there no heroic spirit of your ancestors in your blood! How can you scare the lowly Han people like you, a cowardly and timid person..."
During the hallucination, Shunzhi heard Ama's scolding like a heavy stone, hitting his head one by one. At first he was as shocked as a wooden chicken, and then his face was flushed with shame. Later, his red face turned purple, his temples jumped randomly, and his whole body trembled. He suddenly jumped up and burst out with a violent anger. He shouted at Fei Yanggu, who was frightened by the emperor's appearance: "Ama, my child is not a coward! My child is bleeding from Aisin Gioro, the blood of you and Taizu. My child does not run away, and I am not afraid. My child is swearing to defend the Qing Dynasty to the death!"
After saying that, Shunzhi turned his head suddenly, glanced at the few guards who were scared to death with crazy eyes, and gritted his teeth and said, "Would you like to follow me and fight the damn Han people!"
"Slaves and others swear to follow the emperor to the death!"
The guards kowtowed their heads on the ground at the same time, and Fei Yanggu also knelt down. Although he didn't know what happened, he didn't want to know. He only knew that the emperor had returned to normal and the courage to disappear had returned to him. He was still the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
"Go, ask Obai, Sony and others to come. I figured it out. It's nothing to lose. I can also go back to Beijing, but before that, I will still attack his thief scholar. I can't just go back to Beijing."
Shunzhi made up his mind. Wu Sangui's rebellion had no choice. He had to return to Beijing. The Eight Banners of Shengjing could not save the near fire. If he wanted to block Wu Sangui, he would have to return to Beijing immediately. Therefore, Yangzhou would be thrown to the Ming army, but before leaving, he would have to organize an offensive. Even if he could not defeat the thief scholar, he would have to let the other party know that the Qing emperor was not so easy to meet.
However, before Sony and Oboi arrived, Shunzhi received an urgent report from the Taiping Army to Yangzhou City.
Chapter completed!