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Chapter 737: Envoys and Camps (Part 2)

Li Guodong's words first surfaced the sincerity of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, and also explained the potential threat of Wu Sangui.

Li Zicheng was stunned first, and then laughed: "In your eyes, you are still a thief! You are thief at once, where is your sincerity?"

"King of Chuang, I am a minister of the Ming Dynasty. You are naturally thieves in my eyes. Although the emperor has changed his words to call you Dashun, in my eyes, you are still thieves. But I am willing to form an alliance for the Ming Dynasty and Dashun. I believe the King of Chuang will not make things difficult for me." Li Guodong replied calmly. He knew that Li Zicheng was not the kind of villain who would revenge. Chongzhen's three sons were not a thief at once, and Li Zicheng did not make things difficult for them.

Li Zicheng laughed: "I passed by the capital. I didn't want to occupy the capital at all. I just pretended to attack the city and put some pressure on the Ming Dynasty. I just wanted to ask for a title from you Emperor Chongzhen, and grant the northwest land to you, and help you Daming deal with Jiannu. Who knew that your Daming civil officials and generals opened the city one after another, and I was embarrassed to not go in. Now that things have anything else to negotiate with you Daming?"

"King of Chuang, don't forget that the Ming Dynasty still has a million troops, occupying the rich land in the south. And King of Chuang now occupies the north, there is Jiannu in Liaodong and the Ming Dynasty in the south. You Dashun are sandwiched between the two powerful people, so you can't be enemies on both sides, right? What's more, Zhang Xianzhong in the southwest and you are not the same as you."

Li Guodong knew very well that in fact, what Li Zicheng wanted most now was to cease war with the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible. He could not survive under the attacks between the north and the south of the Ming Dynasty. He either cooperated with the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty. However, Li Zicheng also knew that the Qing Dynasty was trying to steal the wolf ambitions of the Central Plains, because Dorgon wanted to expand, he could only rob Li Zicheng of his current territory.

In the past, when Li Zicheng had not taken the capital, he secretly regarded the thieves as allies from the Later Jin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. Every time the thief army was almost wiped out, the Later Jin invaded. But now Li Zicheng has taken the capital, and he and the Qing Dynasty are destined to be enemies.

"Then the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, are you planning to truce the war with our Dashun?" Li Zicheng asked.

"Yes, truce, join forces to deal with Jiannu! King Chuang, since you have entered the capital, you are the common ruler of the world, you can only block the attack of Jiannu. The guys at both ends of the head and rat in the capital have opened the city gate for you today. Can you guarantee that when Jiannu comes, they will not open the city gate to greet Jiannu? And according to the news obtained by our Jinyiwei, Jiannu has colluded with the gentry in the pass. King Chuang, you also know, how hatred do those gentry hate you? They will definitely stand with Jiannu to deal with you! So we need to join forces to eliminate the gentry internally and fight against Jiannu externally."

"Hahaha!" Li Zicheng laughed, "I didn't expect you, a Ming officer and soldier, also hate the Ming gentry?"

"Of course! Although they were gentry of the Ming Dynasty, they were enemies of the Ming Dynasty! Your Majesty also said that the Ming Dynasty raised sects for 276 years and raised such a group of wolves and heartbroken things! Emperor Zhengde and Emperor Tianqi all fell into the water and died of illness. In fact, they were all harmed by gentry! King Chuang, to be honest, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty was not from grassroots origins? Like everyone here, they were all from peasants. How many corrupt officials did Taizu kill back then? So the emperor of the Ming Dynasty actually wanted to do the good of the people. But those gentry and nobles wanted to exploit the people more until they forced the people back. When your knife was placed on their necks, it was too late for them to regret it." Li Guodong replied righteously.

"Okay! Well said!" Li Zicheng stood up, walked down the steps, and walked to Li Guodong, "This Ming envoy is really a hero!"

"King of Chuang, even the dragon robe is broken today. Rats can run away in the treasury in the palace. If you are wrong, the rats will starve to death. You don't think that the Emperor of Ming took away all the silver, right? This can prove that when the Jinyiwei rescued the Emperor of Ming, there were only more than twenty cars with him. Even if there was money, how much could it be? At most, it may not exceed 200,000 taels? But in the capital city, those corrupt officials randomly copied one of them, probably more than one million taels!"

Li Zicheng nodded: "Eh, I have copied the Forbidden City. Apart from searching for a few worn dragon robes, I found nothing. There was only more than one hundred taels of silver in the silver treasury. I finally knew how poor Chongzhen was. But I couldn't understand it at all. The world belonged to the emperor. Why was he so poor that he could tolerate officials' honor and wealth that could rival the country?"

"Because the Taizu Chengzu did not have the means of Taizu, he dared not offend the civil servant group, and he too trusted the noble group, and did not see the essence of those vassal kings clearly. So what about the vassal kings? No matter how much they have, they are not the emperor. Even the princess Zhou owed Wu Sangui one million taels of silver and wanted the officials in the court to raise funds. Zhou owed two thousand taels of silver, but the silver was the queen who sold his dowry and sold five thousand taels of silver to the princess. The princess actually swallowed all the silver given by his daughter and donated two thousand taels of silver. Even the princess was like this, let alone others? So he was deceived by civil servants and nobles from beginning to end today."

"Well said!" Li Zicheng laughed, "I hate those traitors the most! Let me tell you the truth. You are ready to pick up sticks in the capital, and I am just waiting to make money out of those traitors, hahaha! By the way, the boss of Zhou, who is talking about, is the dog official who presented the two little princes to you!"

"How are the two princes?"

"Don't worry, um, um, um, um, um, I, Lao Li, will not bully children. Although the prince and the two little princes kept calling me a rebel, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um."

At this time, someone suddenly shouted: "Master, Mo Jiang thinks this envoy of the Ming Dynasty is very familiar, and it seems that he has seen it somewhere!"

Li Guodong looked in the direction of the sound, and saw that Liu Tichun was calling.

Li Yan said: "Since he is an envoy of officers and soldiers, there are many familiar people, maybe he has seen it on the battlefield before when he was fighting."

Li Zicheng also turned his head and glared at Liu Tichun: "Old Liu, I have seen many people on the battlefield, so it is normal for me to be familiar."

"General Liu is right," Li Guodong laughed, "We have indeed seen it on the battlefield. The King of Chuang is to be honest. Li Mouxing will not change his name or surname. He is Li Lao Er, and the Ming Dynasty Wuwei Bo is the one!"

The people around him became nervous, and only the sound of armor and weapons collided in the tent were heard. The generals of the rebel army drew their swords and pointed at Li Guodong.

"Why are you so nervous? Today I'm just here to negotiate to express our sincerity in the Ming Dynasty!" Li Guodong said without changing his expression.

"Put down all the weapons!" Li Zicheng shouted, "Wu Weibo is also our old friend! How can he treat it like this?"

Seeing that everyone had put down their weapons, Li Zicheng turned his head and bowed to Li Guodong: "Wu Wei Bo, I didn't expect that you are so brave that you dare to break into my dragon's and tiger's den alone!"

"Li knew that the King of Chuang was a hero who was magnanimous, otherwise I wouldn't dare to come." Li Guodong said with a smile.

Li Zicheng laughed: "Wu Weibo said this well. The dog officials in the court slandered the king, saying that he was a murderous devil, and he also specialized in eating the hearts and livers of children. Humph! But he didn't bully Chongzhen's three sons? Chen Yongfu cumed blindly with one eye, and did not cause trouble for him. Instead, he used him more. It's a pity that those gentry slandered the widow so much!"

"What are you polite to those gentry? Just use a knife to deal with it! If you kill them all, the world will be quiet."
Chapter completed!
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