Shang Kexi lowered his head and finally said, "Duke of Chu, others called you a thief, Sima, but I respect you! The Ming Dynasty is already in danger, and I can't hold on, but I'm rescued by you. You are the right medicine and eradicating those gentry. Speaking of which, I hate them too! I was originally a mine disciple in Liaodong, and I have a deep blood hatred with Jiannu. If I were not forced to be desperate, how could I surrender to Jiannu? Since I surrendered to Jiannu, I will not be a three minister anymore, so I didn't plan to survive. But I beg you for one thing, I hope you can give me a happy life and not harm my family."

Li Guodong looked at Shang Kexi, who had gray hair, thought for a long time and said, "I can promise not to take you to Nanjing to humiliate you and let you die quickly. But you want me to let your family go, and I cannot agree to this. I don't want to see someone investing in building a Shang Kexi memorial hall in hundreds of years! So your family must be punished! But General Shang, don't worry, I, Li Laoer, follow the principle of killing less people, try not to kill anyone who can do it! Your son is not sixteen years old, right? I won't kill them, but they must be sent to the mine to work for the rest of your life to wash away the sins you have committed! Your daughter, I will arrange for them to marry someone, and your concubines, and they will remarry. As for your original wife, if she is willing to die with you, I will give her to commit suicide with you; if she is not willing, I will naturally have a place to make arrangements."

Afterwards, Li Guodong asked someone to loosen up Shang Kexi and gave him a bottle of the latest highly toxic poison developed by Song Yingxing, and then asked him to say his final farewell to his family.

Wang Xiangchun, who forced the rebellion of Sanshun King, was already dead, and the other culprit who forced the rebellion of them, was also dead. Their family did not escape the punishment they deserved. Wang Xiangchun's family was killed by Kong Youde during the Wuqiao mutiny; and Yuan Chonghuan's family had all fallen into the hands of Li Guodong. Those who should be executed should be executed and those who should be sent to be slaves should be sent to be slaves.

Shang Kexi learned that Yuan Chonghuan's family had been arrested. After saying goodbye to his family, he said to Li Guodong: "Yuan Chonghuan, who killed Mao Shuai, has received the punishment he deserves, and his family has also been punished by Duke Chu. Shang has no regrets when he died!"

Afterwards, Shang Kexi drank the poison. His wife was willing to die with him, and she also drank the poison and committed suicide.

But the Kong Youde family was not so lucky. Although Kong Youde was forced to rebel, Kong Youde was burned to death in the Battle of Yangzhou. After the Ming army broke the city, the Huai army had not had time to find Kong Youde's family, and his family was captured by Zhongzhen Camp. The Zhongzhen Camp, which hated Kong Youde deeply, killed all the male members of Kong Youde's family, and even the babies in the cradle were not spared. Except for Kong Sizhen taken away by Bumubutai, the rest were all soldier prostitutes.

Geng Zhongming, the last of the Sanshun Kings, committed suicide a few years ago due to the fugitive law. His son Geng Jimao was killed by the rebel army after the capital was destroyed. However, Li Guodong protected Geng Jingzhong and sent the six-year-old child into the army. He will be sent to the Americas in the future.

Let’s talk about another big traitor, Hong Chengchou. All his family members in the capital were killed. After Zhongzhen Camp attacked the city, the first thing he did was to find the Hong Chengchou family they hated the most. As a result, after finding Hong Chengchou’s home, Li Guodong had time to come, Hong Chengchou’s family, all men, women, and young, were slaughtered by Zhongzhen Camp.

Hong Chengchou's home in the capital was all the children he later married and had. His original wife, Li, fled back to Fujian after hearing that Hong Chengchou was captured. Hong Chengchou's mother and younger brother disdained his behavior and had never interacted with him. They were all in their hometown in Fujian, so they were not implicated.

The ones who were killed were the wife Liu, who was given to Hong Chengchou by the Qing Dynasty, as well as the children of Hong Chengchou and Liu, as well as Hong Chengchou's concubines, who were all chopped into meat paste by Zhongzhen Camp, and none of the slaves in the family were spared and all were killed.

As for the other officials in the capital, they were arrested by the Huai Army, taken into cages, loaded on ships, and headed to Dagukou, preparing to go out from Dagukou to take the sea to Nanjing, and wait for trial.

The canal transportation line has not been opened for five years and has not been restored yet. It will take some time before construction can be restored. However, because the steam engine has been successfully developed, the status of the canal will be replaced by railways and coastal shipping in the future.

Li Guodong looked through the "Biography of the Two Ministers" he wrote. Some of the people on the list were dead, and most of the remaining were arrested, but some of them escaped with the Qing Dynasty, such as Fan Wencheng, the first literati to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

"Go and tell the foreign vassals Mongolia to let them pursue the Qing Dynasty. The Eight Banners of Manchus and Mongolia can let go, but Fan Wencheng and Li Lutai must hand over them to me! And I want to live! These people must be severely punished!" Li Guodong said to Subude.

Subud said "No", then turned his head out and told the Mongols of the outer vassals that they would chase the fleeing Qing Dynasty.

There were not many Man Eight Banners in the capital, and all Man Eight Banners were sent to prisoners of war camps and then redistributed. Most of these captured Man Eight Banners were women and children, and women would be assigned to bachelors, while children would be concentrated and sent to immigrants after Chinese education.

The Eight Banners outside the Pass have all surrendered to Subud, and those people will also receive the most thorough Chinese education, cut their braids and keep their hair, and learn Chinese. Their next task is to expand their territory overseas.

On the vast grassland, a team mainly consisting of women, children, elderly and weak, and in a mess was driving vehicles of all sizes and big and small, walking on the grassland. This team is the Qing Dynasty team that fled.

The two wings of this fleeing team were protected by a few Korchin Mongolian cavalry and a very small number of Manchu Eight Banners cavalry, and accompanied by a small number of Han Eight Banners firearms.

"Empress Dowager! The big thing is wrong! The Mongolians are here! It is the foreign vassal Mongolia! They are under the banner of Ming Dynasty!" At this moment, someone hurriedly reported to Bumubutai.

"The Mongols are here?" Bumubutai fell off the wine glass on the table, "Li Lao Er! Are you going to kill us? We all ran away and never enter the Central Plains again. Do you still refuse to let us go?"

Obai said, "Empress Dowager, I think that Li Lao Er will definitely not harm you. After all, your sister is also with him. In the opinion of a slave, why don't we surrender, right?"

"Surrender?" Bumubutai sneered, "The emperor's son is gone. Could it be that the Ai family will live in the Hunde Duke Mansion built by Li Laoer for the emperor? What does this make the Ai family look like?"

"Since that's the case, that slave is willing to lead a large army to stop the Mongols!" Oboi beat him up.

The Qing Dynasty fleeing team immediately stopped advancing and surrounded all the vehicles. Manchu archers and Han army flag-fire weapons were in the circle. The Korqin Mongolian cavalry was responsible for protecting the two wings. Obai personally led the last thousand Manchu Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing Dynasty. In the middle of the outer periphery of the chariot formation, the Korqin Mongolian cavalry was protected on both sides.

The Mongolian army of the foreign vassals arrived and saw that the Qing army had formed a formation, they did not dare to step forward rashly.

Even if you get closer, the Qing army's bows and arrows and firearms can cause heavy losses to the Mongolian cavalry with almost no protection on the outer vassals. But the Mongolians were not stupid. They did not dare to get closer, but they knew how to use the mobility of the cavalry and circled around the chariot formation from afar, which made the Qing army very nervous and dared not move rashly.

Obai went back to report to Bumubutai: "Empress Dowager, the Mongolians are circling around us, and they will not attack. If we are surrounded by them for a long time, we will run out of our food and will have to wait to starve to death."

But the Qing army did not dare to give up the formation and run away. Once the formation and run away, then the gloomy Mongolian light cavalry followed closely behind and chased them all the way. How many people could escape to the Beihai alive?

There is no need to wait to starve to death. There is no water source where the Qing army is besieged! This team does not carry much water, and it will be completely cut off in just two days at most!

People can still be hungry for at least seven days without eating, but they can't last for three days without water.

The Mongolians surrounded the Qing army for three days. At this time, the Qing army had cut off water since yesterday. Most of the women, children, elderly and weak in the team cried continuously after the water was cut off, and everyone was so thirsty that their throats were tingling and their lips were cracked.

On the fourth day, the Mongolians sent someone to shoot a letter and told Bumubutai that they could negotiate and that if they could agree to their conditions, they would let them go to Beihai.

The conditions are very simple. The first is to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. The second is to hand over Fan Wencheng, Fan Yongdou, Li Lutai's son and others, as well as their families, to let go of the Qing Dynasty. The Mongolians also told Bumu Butai that the Duke of Chu was kind and kind, and was unwilling to massacre women, children, elderly and weak. As long as he could hand over the people on the list, the Mongols immediately let go of a road and could also provide them with food (it was provided by Duke of Chu anyway) and seeds to ensure that they arrived in the Beihai safely. After arriving in Beihai, they could also negotiate and provide them with weapons for the Western Expedition.

"It's okay to hand over Fan Yongdou, a useless dog, but Fan Xiandou (Wencheng) is my hero of the Qing Dynasty. Li Lutai has my Manchurian blood and has been killed in Yangzhou. It would be a lie to hand over these two people's families!" Bumu Buttai said angrily.

Sony, Oboi, Suksaha, Ebilong and other Manchu ministers begged: "Empress Dowager, don't harm my Qing Dynasty for the lives of a few people! Let's hand over these people and keep our Manchu seeds!"

"Actually, Li Laoer's conditions are not harsh. He asked us to surrender. We have already lost. So what if we surrender? The second is to hand over those Han people. They were originally Ming people, but they betrayed the Ming Dynasty and deserved punishment." Sony advised.

Bumubutai said: "I can consider submitting my sanctions. But if you hand over those people, will it make people feel disappointed in my Qing Dynasty in the future?"

Obai thought to himself: Return me to the Qing Dynasty? What are you like? Even the foreign vassal Mongolia can bully us at will! Thinking of this, Obai said: "Empress Dowager, I am a slave, please, in order to continue my Qing Dynasty's bloodline, I'd better hand over those people, otherwise we will all die here!"
Chapter completed!