Chapter 208: The Qing Dynasty does not fall
After the whip sounded three times, outside the Huangji Gate, the courtiers wearing the two court robes of the Ming and Qing dynasties kowtowed to the Qing regent Dolgon, who was sitting on a chair on the edge of the empty throne.
Dolgon's brow furrowed, as if something was going on.
He's so much more troubled now than the Dolgon of history!
A few hundred miles west of Beijing, there is a Datong Mansion ruled by the king of the Ming Dynasty, and now there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and there is also an impregnable Datong Xiongcheng, as well as a large number of small cities and small forts, and a side wall. If you want to send troops to gnaw hard, you will either suffer heavy casualties, or you will have to spend time, effort and food.
There is also a sea sand fort on the Weihe estuary in the southeast of Beijing, built on an island at the mouth of the Weihe River. Although it is not far from the land, it is not easy for the Qing army without a sailor to go up. Besides, there is an earthen city on it, and there is a Ming army that is very good at using firearms to defend it!
If they can't move the Hongyi cannons, it depends on their level of using firearms in the Battle of Dagukou, and thousands of real Manchuria may not be able to defeat that fortress.
Real Manchuria is not cabbage, how can it be consumed like this? Let's just wait for the Wei River to freeze in winter.
Therefore, Dolgon now often discusses with his subordinates how to fight Datong, and simply ignores Haisha Island - I don't care about Xiao'er Island!
In addition to Datong and Haisha Island, Li Zicheng of Taiyuan did not stop. refuses to honestly hand over Shanxi, and also concentrates troops in Taiyuan Mansion, looking like he wants to resist the heavenly soldiers!
In the current situation, if Li Zicheng hides in Shaanxi, Dolgon will let him go for the time being. Da Ming is not dead, and there is a legend that he is the reincarnated prince of Zhu Yuanzhang. You must concentrate on dealing with it, otherwise when Zhu Cihong develops for a few years, he may come back.
But the problem is that Shanxi can't ignore it! Shanxi is known as the mountains and rivers in the surface, and it is built from a high house. If it is not taken, the city of Beijing will always be under Li Zicheng's troops. It is impossible for the Qing Dynasty to let go and deal with the remnants of the Ming!
Otherwise, when the Qing Dynasty went south, Li Zicheng stabbed Beijing back and recaptured it, and the Qing Dynasty would be over.
Therefore, Dolgon's plan in June and July of the first year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty was to first Shanxi and then Shandong. Of course, before sending troops, the capital of the Qing Kingdom had to be moved from Shengjing to Beijing. In the future, the children of the Eight Banners will be registered in Beijing, and it is much closer to send troops from Beijing than from Shengjing.
After the relocation of the capital is completed, in September or October, he will unite with the king of the Ming Dynasty in Datong to fight Li Zicheng. After cleaning up Li Zicheng, he turned around and beat Zhu Cijiong, the acting king, and surrounded Datong first.
After completing the siege of Datong, you may be able to free up your hands to use troops against Shandong!
According to Dorgon's mind, there must be half of the country this time, right? Shandong is a must, and the East Road can only be stopped at least until Xuzhou. And then see if the remnant Ming is willing to pay the New Year's coin? If he was willing, the Qing Dynasty would have switched to using troops to clean up Henan and Shaanxi, and completely extinguished Li Zicheng. After that, do you want to dominate the world?
But Dolgon got the news yesterday that Kong Yinzhi, the sage of Yan, didn't know what was crazy, and actually thought that the Qing Dynasty was going to dig his family's ancestral grave - what was there to dig up Confucius's grave? When Confucius died, Confucianism had no market at all, so Confucius was not very rich, what funeral goods could he have?
The Qing Dynasty spent so much effort to come in, and so many people died, just to dig an ancient tomb with little oil and water?
Co-authored the Great Qing Kingdom is an upside-down?
Outrageous! The Great Qing Kingdom only looted, not dug graves!
What's even more unbelievable is that Zhu Cihong's kid actually believed it, and he also posted "Seeking the East Prisoner" with Kong Yinzhi, a foolish worm, to protect his name and protect Confucius. He also appointed Shi Kefa as the governor of the seven provinces, garrisoning Shandong, defending Confucius while cleaning up the Central Plains......
Now Dorgon was very annoyed. Because once the Ming court regarded the Qing Dynasty as the "enemy of Confucius", it would be impossible for the acting king of Datong to join forces with the Qing Dynasty, and Shandong's Shi Kefa could not be unguarded.
In this way, the Qing Dynasty could not concentrate the main force to attack Li Zicheng, and it was necessary to divide troops to guard against the Ming army in the direction of Datong and Shandong.
Moreover, Dolgon also got the news that after Zhu Cihong left Dagukou, he stayed in Dengzhou for nearly two months, during which he vigorously rectified the seven guards of Denglai, and also held group exercises in various prefectures and counties in Denglai. In the end, he sealed the Tang domain in Jiaozhou (belonging to Laizhou Prefecture), and moved the Lu domain to Qingzhou. and gave the two feudal domains the power to manage the army on the horse and the people on the horse.
Of course, these measures are not what Dolgon is most worried about, what Dolgon is most worried about is that Zhu Cihong left a rather powerful sailor in Dengzhou!
The coastlines of Liaodong, Liaoxi, and Korea are now under the threat of the Dengzhou Naval Division!
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"I'm calling everyone over today to tell you about the "Asking for the Great Qing Dynasty"...... Do you all know that? It was Kong Yinzhi's bastard who drafted it, and I wanted to dig up the grave of Kong Sage in the Qing Dynasty, which is nothing. I also respect Confucius in the Qing Dynasty, and I will open a department to get scholars in the future, so that scholars can also take the exam to become officials, how can I dig up Confucius's grave? But Zhu Cihong's kid was ignorant, how could he believe it, and he was bent on embarrassing me in the Qing Dynasty. You here, whether Manchu or Han, are all good ministers of my Qing Dynasty, and you have all said it, how to clarify this matter? ”
Dolgon spoke Chinese, very fluently, and his tone was not dignified, but he couldn't cry or laugh a little, as if he was counting down a junior who made a mistake, and he didn't have much malice.
Of course, this attitude was also deliberately disguised for the Hanchen to see. Zhu Cihong killed so many of his warriors with two white flags, and he couldn't wait to catch Zhu Cihong to skin and cramp.
But if you can't catch the problem, you can't kill it!
Zhu Cihong is a difficult opponent!
"Regent, the slave thinks that if he wants to clarify this matter, he has to send Confucian ministers to the Southern Dynasty, so that the scholars and doctors of the Southern Dynasty can see how my Qing Dynasty respects Confucian ministers and respects Confucius and Mencius."
It was Fan Wencheng who made the suggestion. Now that Hong Chengchou is dead, his death has also made most of the traitors who took refuge in the Qing Dynasty become cautious, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault. So Fan Wencheng could only work harder.
But there are exceptions!
"Regent, the slave Sun Zhiqi is willing to tell Jiangnan!" This time, an official in his fifties with a shaved head but wearing a Ming Dynasty official uniform came out to play.
He is the famous Sun Zhiqi!
When Zhu Cihong was in the south of Emperor Chongzhen, he was living in his hometown of Zichuan County, Jinan Prefecture for many years, and he was already an idle cloud and wild crane. But he didn't give up and wanted to take refuge in the new master. At that time, Li Zicheng had already been defeated, and the Qing Dynasty was in the limelight. So he shaved his braided head with the servants at home, changed into Manchurian clothes, and wanted to welcome the Qing Dynasty.
As a result, the Qing Dynasty did not welcome it, but saw Zhu Cihong "doing misdeeds" in Denglai, and the more he tossed, the more prosperous he became. He didn't dare to stay in Zichuan, so he took his family to Beijing to defect to the Qing Dynasty. Dolgon made him a squire of the Ministry of Rites, but he did not let him enter the banner, and still let him be a Hanchen.
At this time, Dolgon did not implement shaving in Beijing, so Sun Zhiqi, who shaved his own hair, was a bit different.
"Are you willing to go to Jiangnan as an envoy?" Dolgon didn't know that Sun Zhiqi was a notorious eunuch (if Hong Chengchou was still there, he would definitely not let Sun Zhiqi go), and he didn't find anyone else asking for help, so he nodded, "Then you can go...... But in what name? ”
"The slave is the angel of the Qing Dynasty, so he naturally went to Jiangnan to proclaim the edict in the name of the minister." Sun Zhiqi said.
"That's it......" Dolgon misses Hong Chengchou a little at this time, now no one tells him the inside story of Daming, although Fan Wencheng is also a high-level traitor, but he is not from the power circle of Daming, and he does not know the situation of Daming. As for the other big traitors with weight, they don't dare to speak now.
But people can't be resurrected after death! Dolgon had no choice but to look at a group of lifeless traitor ministers and asked, "You Hanchen have all said, can Sun Zhiqi do this?" ”
As the head of Hanchen, Luo Yangxing came out and said: "Lord, if Sun Shilang goes to Jiangnan in the name of Xuanzhi, most of them will be killed by Prince Zhu Ming, and it is estimated that he will not even be able to reach Yanzhou." ”
"This king doesn't think it's okay either...... Zhu Cihong is murderous! Dorgon nodded, "In what name?" ”
"This ......," Luo Yangxing thought for a while, "I heard that Prince Zhu Ming once asked the prince Gege for marriage, so it is better to let Sun Shilang go to Jiangnan in the name of the envoy and his relatives." ”