Qian Shisheng was unable to react for a moment due to Shi Kefa's enthusiasm, and his body was forcibly pressed into his seat.
"Xianzhi, what's wrong with you?" Qian Shisheng asked tentatively.
I felt something was wrong with Shi Kefa.
Shi Kefa held Qian Shisheng's hand tightly and said, "Just before I came to Yizhi's house, I met Hong Hengjiu."
"Humph, don't mention this kind of person who sells himself to join the bandits. Even if this person's name is mentioned in public, it will be a humiliation for us." Qian Shisheng said with a dark face.
There is an attitude of being incompatible with the thieves.
"You might as well listen to what I have to say first." As he said that, Shi Kefa told the whole story of his meeting with Hong Chengchou, especially the conversation between the two people.
After hearing these words, Qian Shisheng frowned and looked thoughtful.
After a moment, he said: "Xianzhi, you were deceived by this person. The words he said were deliberately intended to disturb your mind."
"Is that so? But I think what he said makes sense." Shi Kefa frowned.
Qian Shisheng said: "That's why he said that he was deliberately confusing your mind and making you no longer support the Ming Dynasty's alliance with the Qing Dynasty, so that the Tiger Character Banner would have the opportunity to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty. He was lying to you from the beginning to the end."
"But some of the things he said are indeed true." Shi Kefa said again.
Some things are there, everyone knows it. He doesn't think there is anything to lie to him. He is not a purdah woman. Even if there are some things that he doesn't understand deeply, he can send people to inquire and deepen his understanding.
After hearing this, Qian Shisheng shook his head and said, "I will tell you one thing, Xianzhi, and you will understand that he is lying to you."
"If you have anything to say, feel free to say it. I also hope that he is deliberately lying to me. This will confirm that the tiger thief is afraid of the alliance between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty." Shi Kefa said.
Although he didn't know what was wrong with Hong Chengchou's words, he hoped in his heart that Hong Chengchou was lying to him.
Qian Shisheng looked at Shi Kefa and said: "Let's not talk about anything else. Let's just talk about the fact that the Ming Dynasty has no fighting soldiers. Xianzhi, do you think so too? Even in the Northern Expedition, the Ming Dynasty still has soldiers who are good at fighting?"
Hearing this, Shi Kefa hesitated for a moment, but he still nodded.
With the weakening of the guards, even the capital camp is no longer functioning. Only Jiubian still has some capable and courageous warriors. The navy in the south may be barely available, but in land warfare, the current Ming Dynasty does not have many people available.
"Hong Hengjiu, a thief, knew Xianzhi that you would think so, so he deliberately said this to deceive you." Qian Shisheng said angrily.
Shi Kefa looked confused and said: "But I don't think he is deceiving me. There are indeed not many soldiers left in the Ming Dynasty who are good at fighting."
"This is his brilliance." Qian Shisheng said, "What is a good soldier? If he doesn't go to the battlefield, no matter how many soldiers and horses he has, he is just like a strong people and a garrison. He is far from being good at fighting."
Shi Kefa nodded.
He fully agrees with this point. If an army officer does not roll a few times on the battlefield, he is indeed not qualified to be called good at fighting.
Qian Shisheng continued: "Before the Northern Expedition, we may not have had any soldiers who were good at fighting, but after the Northern Expedition, will there be none? As long as we go to the battlefield and use the battlefield to test it, who among the survivors will dare to say that they are not good at fighting? When it comes to men, our Ming Dynasty has never been short of soldiers. Even if we invest hundreds of thousands of people and only have one hundred thousand left in the end, just these one hundred thousand are enough to make the tiger thieves helpless."
"Are so many people going to die?" Shi Kefa couldn't bear it, but he didn't think what Qian Shisheng said was wrong.
He understood the principle of a general dying in a hundred battles and a strong man returning in ten years.
It is impossible to become a good piece of iron without tempering, but what he feels sad about is the hundreds of thousands of lives that have been sacrificed in order to make a good piece of iron.
"It's not that we have to die so many people. It's because the tiger thieves won't let them go. If we don't die now, when the tiger thieves come to kill us, more people will die. If we die now, we are loyal to the country. When the tiger thieves come, we will kill them." If you die again, your death will be in vain." Qian Shisheng said.
In his eyes, the lives of the people are just consumables, and he won't feel it no matter how many people die.
Shi Kefa hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I heard that the tiger thieves are very friendly to the people and will not harm them. Even if the tiger thieves' army comes to kill them, they probably won't do anything to the people!"
The people at the bottom did not know much about the situation under the rule of the Tiger Character Banner, due to the lack of transportation and information channels. The only information they had was from the mouths of local squires.
But officials like them, who have access to the imperial court to obtain some information about the Tiger Flag, are naturally not as easy to deceive as the ignorant commoners.
"Do you believe this?" Qian Shisheng snorted and said, "Have you ever seen any bandit who would treat the people sincerely? He would even break the bones and suck out the marrow of the people under his rule. Have you forgotten those who came from the north?" The people who escaped came. How did they describe the tiger thieves? They said that the tiger thieves were evil tigers wearing human skins and could eat people without spitting out their bones. How could such a person be good to the people? It was a joke, that is, Xianzhi you Maybe you really believe it.”
The common people he talks about are never those who live at the bottom. Only those who have a small family income can be regarded as common people.
As for the people who were able to escape to live in Nandu, their families would naturally have a good income.
"Maybe what you said is right." Shi Kefa agreed.
In fact, he didn't believe that a bandit like Hu Ziqi would really be good to the people. Although he had never seen a bandit with his own eyes, he had heard a lot about it.
Qian Shisheng looked at Shi Kefa and said: "Xianzhi, you have to remember, never believe the words of bandits. Bandits have no lower limit. In order to achieve their goals, they dare to do anything."
"Brother Yi, don't worry, I know it well." Shi Kefa said, and then added, "Although the words of the bandits are not trustworthy, Hong Hengjiu is right. The Qing Dynasty in Liaodong has always been eyeing the Ming Dynasty, and it is no different from the bandits in the capital. , all want to replace me, Daming."
Qian Shisheng nodded and said: "Xianzhi, you are right. Although the Qing Dynasty sent envoys to seek an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, in fact, it did want to seek the empire of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, Mr. Fan would not I wanted to go to Shanhaiguan as soon as I opened my mouth."
"In terms of military strength, the Qing Kingdom is probably superior to the Ming Dynasty, especially after this piece of shit Zu Dashou defected to them, which directly caused the last elite of our Ming Dynasty to fall into the hands of others." Shi Kefa said bitterly.
He had no favorable impression of those who sought refuge with foreigners.
In his opinion, those Ming officials who took refuge with foreigners should retain their loyalty even if they committed suicide, and should not beg for mercy from foreigners.
