Chapter 99 The sun, moon, mountains and rivers are forever
Winning. This is the first thought in everyone's mind.
As Huang Taiji fell, the entire Shenyang City began to cheer hysterically.
It has been ten years since the Battle of Sarhu. The entire Ming Dynasty has been shrouded in the shadow of the Tatars. It has been ten years. In the past ten years, although the Tatars did not go deep into the south, they pillaged several times in the Liaodong area. I don’t know.
It caused many families to be broken up and killed, and how many people were kidnapped as slaves.
Half of the disasters in the entire Ming Dynasty were caused by the Tatars.
The world has been suffering from the Tartars for a long time. Unfortunately, the imperial court failed to live up to its expectations and could not defeat those savages. We could only watch helplessly as the Tartars plundered and fled again and again.
But today, everything changed. They defeated the Tatars.
No, it's not defeat. Today, the Ming Dynasty has completely eliminated the scourge of the Tatars. They cut off the foundation of the Tatars, killed all the Tatar troops, and even captured the Tatar emperor alive.
Of course Huang Taiji is not dead. After all, his value alive is much greater than dead.
So the moment he fainted, Lu Xiao immediately asked the imperial physician accompanying the army to use all means to save his life.
"I have only one request. If he dies, you go down and accompany him." This was Lu Xiao's request to the military doctor.
Half an hour later, Huang Taiji woke up. He wanted to commit suicide at the first moment. But unfortunately, the guards around him had long been on guard against this.
His hands were tied behind his back, a ball of sheepskin was stuffed in his mouth, and his whole body was tied into a rice dumpling.
Afterwards, Lu Xiao personally led the team and escorted Huang Taiji to the capital.
Along the way, Lu Xiao prepared a carriage specially for Huang Taiji. It was sealed with thick leather. It was warm and strong. But he made a move that made Huang Taiji dying of shame and anger.
Every time he went to a village or town where there were people, he would untie the leather around Huang Taiji's carriage. He even hung a huge sign on the carriage, which read, The Manchu Emperor Huang Taiji's car.
Huang Taiji wanted to die countless times, but failed to find the slightest chance. And as time went by, from being ashamed and angry at the beginning, to the end, he began to become numb.
Of course, he thought he had adapted. But when he arrived in the capital, he broke through the defense instantly.
Sacrificing prisoners has been one of the highest honors for military commanders since ancient times. The higher the status of the captives, the higher the honor will naturally be.
The key is that the news of Huang Taiji's capture had spread throughout the capital more than ten days ago. This caused people all over the capital to come out to watch the fun.
I don’t know if you all have this feeling. If you are walking on the road and there are a group of people watching you intently, you will feel uncomfortable all over.
Imagine what it would feel like if a group of people were enlarged to hundreds of thousands of people?
How would you feel if these hundreds of thousands of people prepared rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves to honor you?
When we were on the road before, there were just some villagers in the mountains. Watching from a distance had already made Huang Taiji dying of shame and anger. Those villagers were afraid of the Ming army and did not dare to step forward to watch carefully.
But the people in the capital were different. The emperor and the Manchu civil and military forces fought bloody battles with the Tatars for four days and four nights on the city wall. Together with countless soldiers, the people in the capital had unknowingly developed a feeling of sharing the same hatred and the same enemy.
Moreover, they watched the Tatars being defeated and fled. They had no fear of the Ming army, which defeated the Tatars, or of the Tatars. So they dared to run twenty miles outside the city to see the Tatar emperor.
What does it look like.
Lu Xiao led the team at the front and saw from a distance that there seemed to be a lot fewer officials in the court. There were also some unfamiliar faces. It seemed that after the battle to defend the capital, Chongzhen had accumulated enough prestige to implement
He made his own plan for cleaning the court.
Lu Xiao felt a bit regretful that he could not witness the implementation of this plan with his own eyes. After all, he was still very interested in the group of scoundrels in the court.
Chongzhen's eyes were red, obviously he had not slept all night last night. He did not put on any airs, but stood at the front of the team, looking nervously at the oncoming team.
Seeing that Lu Xiao was leading the team, he seemed to be relieved. Then he trotted all the way to meet them.
"Quick, quick, let me see, where is he?"
Lu Xiao waved his hand lightly, and the sergeant behind him immediately pulled open the tarpaulin of the carriage, revealing Huang Taiji curled up in a corner. If possible, Lu Xiao believed that Huang Taiji would definitely want to change his life on another planet.
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But unfortunately, not only can he not change planets, he can't even get out of this carriage.
“Okay, okay, okay…hahahahaha!
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Chongzhen looked up to the sky and laughed, with a kind of hysterical vent in his tone.
From the Wanli period to the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty was used as a pig farm by the Tatars. The Tatars could come and leave whenever they wanted. Neither emperor could solve this problem. But today, the court's most serious problem is under his control.
Solved in hand.
Doesn't this mean that he is wiser and more powerful than the two former emperors? Although it sounds a bit average, in fact, at the level of the emperor, this is really the case.
Because no one dares to evaluate creatures like emperors casually when they are in power. Only after their death will they be evaluated by future generations. The standards for future generations to evaluate an emperor are often people's livelihood, war, and court.
These aspects of politics.
Look at Chongzhen now. He cleans up the court and eliminates cliques and selfish interests in the court. This is the political level. He has won a great victory in foreign wars, completely solved the crisis of foreign enemies, and even captured the opponent's emperor alive. This is the supreme achievement of war. Regardless of this
Who fought this battle? As long as he is the emperor, it will naturally be blamed on him.
In later generations, people will only say that it was Chongzhen who was good at using people and hired Lu Xiao, a powerful general. And being good at using people is also one of the highest praises for the emperor.
Now, Chongzhen has only one last problem left, which is the issue of people's livelihood.
In this battle, Lu Xiao and Chongzhen can be said to have used the last of the Ming Dynasty. The entire tactical arrangement also sacrificed the interests of countless poor people. The scorched earth plan in Liaodong alone created an unknown number of refugees.
There were so many of them that they could not even wait for the day of victory. For the final battle, Chongzhen raided the homes of more than a dozen wealthy merchants in Jiangnan to gather all the food and grass. For this reason, the always stable
Disharmonious voices also appeared in Jiangnan.
The victory of this war was achieved at the expense of a large number of people's livelihood. Therefore, the last problem Chongzhen will face will become even more difficult in the future.
But at this moment, no one will think about these things. Because everyone is partying and celebrating. Even the major restaurants in the capital have set up free drinks on both sides of the street.
Enjoy it for the soldiers.
On this day, the flags covered the sky and the kettles blocked the roads.
On this day, the sun, moon, mountains and rivers will never fall.
