The two Tibetan monks and laymen and the Gushi Khan's mission headed by Ilaguksan were still trekking through the vast and desolate land of Qinghai, and they could already see the Hexi Corridor in the distance, and the cavalry of the Mongol tribes in Gansu had come to meet them.

To the consternation of Iraguk and the others, a bad news came from the grassland like a winter white-haired wind.

"The emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom wants to ask Ning Yuanbo for peace? Voluntarily become Ning Yuanbo's vassal minister? ”

Because of the relationship between time and space, the news heard by the third class of Ilagouk in Qinghai was far behind.

However, the envoys sent by the two Buddhas nervously started a small abacus in their hearts.

"The Buddha said to be deferential to the north, but now that the north is about to pay tribute to the south of the country, is it necessary for us to be so deferential to him? If you want to do it, you are also a slave of the strong, and you can't be a Langsheng of Langsheng! ”

All kinds of thoughts were beating small drums in his heart, but the messenger of Gushi Khan did not understand the secret, and only urged the team to move forward.

All the way east, when he arrived near the Hexi Corridor, worse news came, "Bogda Khan was happy for a while because the young marshal of the Li family agreed to his request for peace, and he had been summoned by the Buddha!" ”

"That! Who succeeded Bogda Khan's great cause? Made a new one Bogda Khan? ”

At the southern end of Yongchang in Liangzhou, adjacent to Qinghai, the large grass beach with abundant water and grass is called the location of Summer Tara in Tibetan, and it is also the last place of Lin Dan Khan. For Ilaguk and others, it is also a landmark place for Tibetan Buddhism. It was here that the Mongolian nobleman of the Yuan Dynasty, Yongchang Wang Kuoduan, had close contacts with Tibetan Buddhist monks Saban and Basipa and others, laying the foundation for Tibetan Buddhism to go out of Wusi Tibet.

Lin Dan Khan of that year, after being pursued by the Houjin soldiers for forty-one consecutive days, gave up the basic plate of Chahar. Turning westward, plundering and annexing former allies and subordinates, the Khalkha, Tumut, Ordos and other tribes were defeated one after another. After crossing the Yellow River to the west, in order to make up for the loss of people, horses and property in the process of being pursued for a long time, it was even more "annexed and disturbed Yulin." Attacking Liangzhou and attacking Ganzhou, there is no way forward. However, it is only the last vestiges of the sunset. Soon after, he died of smallpox.

The Mongolian tribes here are all courtiers of the Qing Kingdom and followers of Tibetan Buddhism, so it is natural that they should give a good reception to the delegation from the snowy Buddha country to Shengjing to meet the Qing Emperor. The third class of Iraguk can also recuperate for a few days in this fertile meadow to replenish their horses and strength. Prepare yourself for the next long journey.

At the reception banquet held by several Mongolian princes for the distinguished guests who came from afar, Ilaguk was very surprised with a wine bowl and asked the Mongolian Belle with a big belly and a pair of hoop legs about the situation in the distance.

"I don't know. It's just that I heard from the merchants who came from afar that Morgan Taiji's soldiers and horses were the strongest. The three of them have three banners of soldiers and horses, and one banner of soldiers and horses has a good relationship with them. Moreover, Morgen Taiji fought bravely and made outstanding military achievements, and there were many people who made meritorious contributions under his command among the Eight Banners. Moreover, this Taiji is the lord of benevolence and righteousness, and among the various departments of the Eight Banners, I don't know how many people have benefited from him. Come to think of it, his odds are better. ”

Dolgon's expedition to the Great Grass Beach left a deep impression on the Mongol princes in this area. Intentionally or unintentionally, this Lord Belle also hopes that this acquaintance can sit on that chair.

The wine is hot. Several Mongol princes sent slave girls, horses, silk and other gifts to the envoys of Gushi Khan and the two Buddhas. And these two naturally can't accept it, so they have to give something in return. Ilaguk 3 gave each prince Belle two arquebuses, five iron steel knives, a collar of armor, five horses of fine cotton cloth, and a bucket of 20 catties of fine sugar.

"If it weren't for the mountains and rivers blocking the road. It is difficult to transship, and it is also a way to make a fortune by changing hands for trade. Looking at these Mongolian princes in the remote western frontier stroking the gifts they had given, grinning with joy, Ilaguksan muttered in his heart.

Walked out of the tent and looked at the starry sky. Listening to the occasional neighing of horses in the distance, and smelling the smell of the lights burning in the camp, Iraguksan's heart fluctuated, "If I arrive in Shengjing this time, but the country has changed hands, then how can I explain to the Buddha?" ”

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, "Why should I take this responsibility myself?" What the Han people say will not be subject to the orders of foreign monarchs, that is to be arbitrary. But I can't make up my mind now! Therefore, it is better to ask for more attendance reports! He made up his mind, turned around and returned to the tent, drank the two newly arrived Mongolian slave girls out of the bed, and ordered them to prepare paper, pen and ink, and the adults should write to the Buddha!

A small group of men and horses returned to Uszang along the way they came, and told the Buddha about the great changes that had taken place in the distance, and Ilaguk San was determined to drink and feast with the various Mongolian princes along the way, and along the way, the goods in his bag had quietly gone down half.

In the major Mongol tribes along the way, the monks and laymen of Gushi Khan and Uszang set up post stations to be responsible for delivering news and letters.

In Shengjing, the entire city is covered in white.

White tents and flags were everywhere, and people wore white filial piety clothes, covering up all the colors and costumes that might not allow the mourning atmosphere, and even the candles were replaced with white.

The two Yellow Banner factions, which advocated the succession of the father to the death of the son, and the Tashan faction headed by Dolgon, who advocated the death of the brother and the brother, did not give in to each other, and they quarreled in Liaoyang for several days without a single result. However, he almost faced each other with swords several times at the venue, and later forced the old man to give an order that everyone should not carry weapons when entering the venue!

Although swords are no longer brought into the venue, the various swords and swords are still undiminished.

In the end, under the mediation of Empress Zhezhe and Dai Shan, who came from Shengjing, the two sides took a step back and decided to transport Huang Taiji's coffin back to Shengjing first, open a mourning hall to worship, and plan how to choose a site for burial.

In this way, there will be no mortuary and no burial, and the tragedy of the five sons attacking each other in armor will happen!

However, in this way, the two white flags, which originally occupied an absolute advantage, lost part of the initiative. Once they return to Shengjing, they are in control of the situation.

Really. As soon as Huang Taiji's coffin departed from Liaoyang, the movement of troops and horses in the direction of Shengjing was frequent. The soldiers and horses of the brigade with two yellow flags marched into the city from all over the city, and set up checkpoints on the streets to check them. Several city gates in Shengjing were also taken over by the two yellow flags, and the entry and exit of personnel and vehicles were strictly checked. For the yamen of various ministries and courtyards, the mansions of princes and ministers were robbed by two white flags. Including the Imperial Palace, they were all under the escort of the troops of the two white flags.

The two sides are such a tense confrontation, whoever looks at the other party is eager to swallow it, but neither of them dares to make the first move.

Although verbally it is still aggressive, unwilling to make the slightest concession, and fighting a war of words with those who support Dorgon's succession every day for the matter of establishing a successor or a chief, Sonny and others are sad to find that their side is gradually showing a decline.

The Prince of Su Hauge that they pushed hard. Because of the scene at Wanbaoqiao, it fell behind morally, every time Sonny and others talked about emotion, someone would coldly throw out a sentence to the convenience: "When the first emperor died, Prince Su delayed his move, and on the way to the funeral, he secretly took his concubine, drank and had fun, and his own virtue was lost." Are you going to make these people the lord of my Qing Dynasty? ”

I was slapped in the face several times. The excited Ao Bai and others wanted to take advantage of the return of Huang Taiji's coffin to Shengjing and go back to arrange it in advance. Mobilize the elite soldiers of the two yellow banners and the Kabush soldiers and other emperor's pro-army to take down this group of rebellious ministers and thieves who support Dolgon in one fell swoop, and then re-establish the Ming Lord.

However, do the two yellow flags really have this strength?

He Luo will secretly think in his heart.

In the midst of this dispute, the Tashan system began to show its terrifying strength in front of the Eight Banners nobles. Not only the Three Banners led by the Dolgon brothers, but also the Red Banner Manchuria with Shuoto as the banner owner also verbally expressed neutrality, but openly and secretly they were cheering for Dolgon's flag. Those two yellow flags and two blue flags Manchuria. There are also many people who say that they want to set up a wise, resolute, benevolent and righteous prince as everyone's new master, and lead the Qing officials and people to move forward. As for whether they are the heirs of the first emperor, they also have a lot of words, and these words also made Sony, He Luohui, Leng Seng Ji and others speechless.

"What heirs should be made emperors are the fallacies of those Nikans! Emperor Daxing was the eighth son of Emperor Taizu Gao. According to the theory of the Han people, I am afraid that I can't even touch the edge of the big position, but how can I be established as my Dajin, the Khan and the emperor of the Qing Dynasty? If it is according to what the Han people said, Emperor Taizu Gao should appoint Prince Li as the successor to the Khan! ”

I want to mobilize the strength of the Eight Banners Mongolian and Han armies to join, but, as the popular saying goes, "The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny." "The Eight Banners Mongolian banner lords faced Sonny and the others who rushed to them, but they were concerned about him.

As for the group of people led by Wu Keshan, the prince of Horqin Mongolia, he replied bluntly, "As long as it is good for the Qing Dynasty and the bloodline of the descendants of Emperor Taizu Gao, we will not object to Dolgon or Haoge as the emperor!" This seems to be fair, but Sony understands it very well from other sources. 、

The cattle and sheep products in the fiefdoms of these princes, such as red and blue flowers, as well as the alkali produced in the salt lake, all rely on Dolgon's channels for export, how can they offend this gold owner?

In fact, the lethality of the red and blue flowers is not only effective against the kings of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Horqin Mongolia, but also for the princes of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Han Army Banner.

Unlike mink and ginseng, which are traditional animal and plant economic products, the production and collection cost of red and blue flowers is much lower than that of ginseng mink. While their value is high, their costs are just as high, and there are plenty of uncertainties. It is necessary to send experienced and strong clothed minions to hunt and gather in the deep mountains and old forests, not to mention the long consumption cycle, and the cost of investment is also large. But red and blue flowers are different.

The mountains are all over the wilderness, as long as you send out the old, weak, sick and disabled clothed slaves under your command and take care of three meals, you can collect a lot. After drying, one pound of red and blue flowers can be exchanged for almost half a pound of rice or two taels of salt. With such an input-output ratio, which fool would not fail to do it!

Comparatively speaking, Hauge's faction does not have such economic strength.

The "two ends outside" model implemented by Dolgon allowed the princes of the Qing Dynasty to obtain a lot of tangible benefits, and the clothed servants who were fed at home could not only no longer worry about food, but also had more than half of their wages scraped by their masters. Those cloths dyed with red and blue flowers can make the princes and Baylors make a lot of money. Up and down the Eight Banners, for this big gesture of Rui Wangye. It's all praised.

In comparison, Huang Taiji's actions of building mining farms and smelters, building weapons, manufacturing firecrackers, and casting artillery are a waste of labor and money. Not to mention that a running horse Chongzhen can't make money, he has to fill in this black hole that will never see the bottom every year. In this regard, some of the children of the Eight Banners of the nobles sneered at the hard silver dollars in their hands: "What is the use of letting Chen Banda's slave consume so much money, grain, and labor to cast artillery every year?" There is that money and food. Why don't you give it to us! ”

However, immediately after Huang Taiji's death, Dolgon ordered people to occupy the smelting ground and the artillery workshop of Chenbanda, and forcibly put these factories under his own military control. After that, it's even clearer.

A large number of two white flags and red flags flocked from all over southern Liaoning, and according to the establishment of Niu Lu and Jiala, they went to the warehouses outside Liaoyang City to receive armor knives and guns, and the warehouses of dozens of workshops outside Liaoyang City were all opened, and tens of thousands of armor, knives, guns and equipment were distributed to those two white flag coatings. These coats, which were mainly captured and surrendered to the Ming army, put on their armor again and picked up swords and guns. According to the formation of Niu Lu Jiala, it was fully equipped with personnel, and within a few days, the outer city of Liaoyang was controlled by tens of thousands of new troops who supported Dai Dolgon.

This kind of thing is still happening everywhere. In those printing and dyeing workshops opened by the two white flags, there are a large number of eight flags and flags coated. With the acquiescence of the owner of this banner, these people were also reorganized by the two white flags and built into an army according to Niu Lu.

Compared with the strength shown by the violent expansion of the faction that supported Dolgon, these two yellow flags and the positive blue flag faction that supported Hauge. But it seems to be powerless. Not only could they not win allies and supporters from other flags, but even their own basic market was threatened to fall apart.

Have the heart to follow the ideas of Ao Bai and others. The two yellow flags and the blue flags were mobilized, and the two white flags were a life-and-death battle with the two white flags, but Sony and others were very sad to find that the two yellow flags personally led by Huang Taiji and Haoge's own positive blue flag were no longer monolithic.

"Do you want us to send troops to fight Prince Rui and the others? OK! But. Our Zhenghuang Banner is the emperor's personal soldiers. Without the emperor's will, Aobai, don't say that you are a Meler Zhangjing, you are the king of heaven, and we will not accompany you. "This is to carry out the dead Huang Taiji as a shield. And a set of arguments that refused to be dispatched.

"Everyone is the descendant of the great grandfather, what can't we sit down and discuss? As long as the masters are decided, I will kowtow to the new master as soon as possible! "This is the statement of the people who came out and sludged a vote.

However, no matter what, Sonny and the others carefully investigated the background of these people, and they were very angry and sad to find that most of these people were the generals who were sent by Huang Taiji to be dispatched by Dolgon during the Battle of Tower Hill. At the beginning, Niu Lu Zhangjing even got a share of Paishku, and after the war, one by one they became Jiala Zhangjing, Niu Lu Zhangjing, and even two Mel Zhangjing!

And the other group of people were given by Sony, and they were completely invested in Dorgon's banner, and these people were the ones who suffered a big loss from Sony when they bought the treetops not long ago. Dolgon paid off their debts with the money, so that their family would not become other people's slaves, and they would not have to travel one-way to the Hunhe River, which was a great favor to help them in the end of their lives. When these people learned that they were pitted by Sony to ascend to heaven and Nirvana, in the face of the people sent by Sony, it was too late to grit their teeth and take revenge, how could they have the time to listen to what you say? If you don't blast the messenger and lobbyist out on the spot, you will already save a lot of face for the dead Huang Taiji.

"You are the emperor's servant, and I am also the emperor's minion. Your official position is not necessarily higher than mine, so why should you command and order me? This is the truest thought in the hearts of many people who have formed a feud with Sony.

They shirked the blame like this, Sony and the others broke their fingers to calculate the number of soldiers and horses, and suddenly found that the two yellow flags and the blue flags, which were originally thought to be strong and could have the power to fight with the two white flags and the red flags, could only be mobilized at most no more than seventy percent of the soldiers and horses, and this was only the number that was promised to be dispatched on the surface.

However, the two sides are already in a state of flux. In Shengjing City, their soldiers and horses continued to march into the city, sending troops to patrol the streets. The banners are all "The emperor has recently died, in order to prevent traitors from taking the opportunity to make trouble." ”

On the middle street, on one side of the street is a soldier and horse patrol with a white flag, and on the other side is a soldier and horse patrol with a yellow flag. As they passed each other, the soldiers glared angrily.

"Auntie, if this continues, sooner or later the city of Shengjing will become a battlefield! You are the empress of the Daxing Emperor. You've got to say something. ”

In the palace, Bumu Butai and Zhezhe's aunt and nephew retreated left and right, and discussed in secret. (To be continued.) )