Chapter 453 I want to fight to the death, but what can I do?

After gathering everyone, Qian Jue just entertained everyone with delicious food and drinks, and said that he would ask the emperor for reinforcements and prepare for war with all his strength.

Every once in a while, Qian Jue inspected the garrison in Jinan Prefecture, and then he did a "big thing", that is, he built a recruitment monument to encourage the people of Jinan Prefecture to respond to the court's call and voluntarily join the green camp, and advocated the gentry to recruit rural warriors on their own.

, protect the home and the country.

Then there was nothing more. Qian Jue sang very high-pitched songs, but there was never any real action.

For example, when encouraging the recruitment of soldiers, he did not provide food, grass, military pay, or even take responsibility for weapons. Shandong was in a desperate hurry, and Qian Jue was the only one who was taking care of himself.

Those who are interested can clearly see that this Qian Jue does not look like a mediocre official. He must have something wrong with his thinking and wants to show his innocence.

However, due to the lack of practical evidence, and the fact that Nalan Mingzhu, an important official in the imperial court, was backed by Nalan Mingzhu, no one dared to expose this.

Qian Jue was not in a hurry, but Ming Dynasty did not delay with Shandong. After Zhu Kezang left, Wang Xianwu tried his best to clear out northern Jiangsu. He was currently besieging Xuzhou. Xuzhou was in danger and the days before it was captured were numbered.

As the saying goes, there have been more than fifty large-scale conquests in Xuzhou in the past dynasties. It is difficult to say the right and wrong, but historians have all noticed that it was on this ancient battlefield that

Xuzhou has always been a strategic location with an extremely advantageous geographical location and convenient water and land transportation.

Before the Southern Song Dynasty, it was surrounded by the Surabaya River in the north and east. Qufu and other places could be reached in the north along the Surabaya River, Huaiyin could be reached in the south, and Luoyang could be reached in the west by the Bianshui River. Water transportation was a more efficient method than land transportation in the cold weapon era.

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Xuzhou's strategic position is obvious. If you occupy Xuzhou's favorable position, you can attack Qilu by going north, sweep the Jianghuai River by going south, and strive for hegemony in the Central Plains by going west.

It can be said that it is the key to the north and the south and the crossroads between the east and the west. According to historical records, nearly 400 wars, large and small, have occurred in the Xuzhou area from ancient times to the present. Xuzhou has suffered a lot from wars precisely because it is located in a strategic location.

And now Xuzhou is about to be conquered. Xuzhou's neighbor to the north, Yanzhou Magistrate Zhang Penghie, remembers that he was like an ant on a hot pot. He sent people to Jinan Prefecture every now and then to ask for help, but Qian Jue ignored him and never heard any reply at all. If not

The Ming army seemed to have a chokehold, so Zhang Penghie had already come over with his sword and chopped down the bastard Qian Jue.

Zhang Penghie, the prefect of Yanzhou, is different from Qian Jue. He is a more upright official.

If Zhu Kezang had not traveled through time, he would have served as an official for more than fifty years. Because of his lofty aspirations, his dedication to the country, his noble conduct, rigorous style, his life of fine work, his clear conduct, his extraordinary talents, and his outstanding political achievements, he is famous all over the world.

, he was called a "virtuous prime minister" and an "upright official" at that time, and was finally praised by Kangxi as an upright official who was "unparalleled among the honest officials in the world".

However, now he is facing a life-or-death situation. Once the Ming army breaks through Yanzhou Prefecture, as a Han minister of the Qing Dynasty, he needs to be loyal and die for the city. The righteousness of the nation seems to have no choice but to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Before Yanzhou City was breached, he was bound by morality to do his best to protect Yanzhou.

However, Qian Jue didn't care about the life and death of Yanzhou. He just ate, drank and had fun with his subordinates every day, with an attitude of dying if he had enough.

Therefore, most of the local officials who were recruited to Jinan by Qian Jue were just hanging around for a day. The few conscientious ones had secretly prepared hanging ropes with red crane crowns, ready to die in the face of danger to repay the king.

After all, the Qing Dynasty had been in power for decades, and there were still die-hards determined to fight against the Ming Dynasty.

But as soon as the news came out that "the Qing Dynasty was overthrown and Emperor Kangxi surrendered to the enemy", these die-hards panicked and all rushed to Qian Jue's governor's office.

Before they arrived at the third hall of the Yamen, they heard Qian Jue taunting people from a distance: "I am dumbfounded. We officials have not surrendered yet. How can we surrender first when we are emperors?"

Then I heard two people speaking with authentic accents from the capital also started to chime in. One of them had a drake voice and sounded like a father-in-law.

"Master Qian, don't be angry. The emperor has tried his best. He took the eunuch Liang Jiugong to Jingshan Mountain!"

"Yes, I also saw the emperor and Eunuch Liang going up to Jingshan, but then they came down crying again."

"Why come down? Shouldn't it be hoisted up?"

These are Qian Jue's words. He sounds like a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty!

"Isn't it because the crooked-neck trees on Jingshan Mountain were cut down and the emperor couldn't find a place to hang himself?"

"Excuses, they are all excuses!" Qian Jue roared, "If you want to hang yourself, you just need to find a beam, but you don't have to hang it on a tree!"

"The emperor has already voted, what should we do?" Qian Jue was furious, as if he hated iron but could not make steel.

"The emperor said that you can decide for yourself. He has already voted for whatever he should vote for." A father-in-law said.

Several people sang in harmony, and the officials outside were dumbfounded. Are they free to surrender?

They have lived for so long and have never heard of the concept of freedom of surrender. It is really contrary to the way of a "gentleman".

Qian Jue had long noticed that someone was talking to him, but he didn't say anything. He just took the copy of the table reduction and strode out. Then he raised the fake table reduction made by Ming Dynasty and loudly said to the officials outside: "Everyone

Do you all know? The Qing Dynasty fell, and our Emperor Kangxi surrendered! This is a surrender. It is written in both Manchu and Chinese. It also uses the emperor's treasure and was sent by the father-in-law and imperial guards in the palace.

, the unmistakable Qing Dynasty is gone!”

All the officials in the courtyard were dumbfounded!

The emperor has descended!

How can the emperor surrender?

The emperor has surrendered, so how can the people below surrender?

There is no way to negotiate treatment with Daming.

These officials generally believe that surrendering to the Ming Dynasty cannot be in vain. If the treatment is poor, it is better to die and gain a reputation as a loyal hero.

Why did so many gentry surrender to the Qing Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty?

The direct reason is that the treatment given by the Qing Dynasty was good, and the Ming Dynasty's rotten tax system could not be exposed, so naturally a large number of people defected.

Even corrupt officials who had made a lot of money were afraid of being ripped off for military pay and being tortured by Li Zicheng, so they naturally wanted to join the Tatars.

The underlying reason is that the imperial examination system shaped the "common landlords", and one of their core interests was the imperial examination system.

With this system, they as a group can always be officials. It doesn't matter who they serve as officials or what the emperor's last name is.

As long as you pass the imperial examination, why did the Qing Dynasty be abandoned by various places so quickly in the last years?

Because of the abolition of the imperial examination, big landowners, squires and bureaucrats at all levels from all over the country have entered the "Consultative Bureau". Where do you think the power of such a department comes from?

The emperor is a child, the Eight Banners have long since died, and the imperial examinations are no longer allowed, so he might as well stand on his own feet.

If the Tatars resolutely abolish the imperial examination when they enter the customs, then the landowners who have breasts are mothers and have holes to kneel down, must let the Tatars know what "an inch of rivers and mountains, an inch of blood" means.

I'm going too far. Now Shandong officials are extremely worried.

The Qing Kingdom is gone! How could the Qing Kingdom be gone?

The country is gone, so which country do you guys belong to now?

People from Ming Dynasty?

If you are a person from the Ming Dynasty, you cannot rebel against the Qing Dynasty, nor can you die for the Qing Dynasty.

By the way, the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty seems a bit difficult, what should I do?

We, a group of people, only know stereotypes and do not know how to practice Confucianism or study things to achieve knowledge. We are at a huge disadvantage when fighting against the southern gentry!

While everyone was dumbfounded, Qian Jue had already spoken: "Everyone, I originally wanted to lead troops to the capital with you to serve the king. But now the emperor has surrendered and the Qing Dynasty is gone. So what is before us now?

It’s nothing more than three ways!”

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