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The heavy rain poured, Duoduo gave an order, the Qing army rushed into Yangzhou City like a beast, constantly swinging knives and slashing, even babies did not let go, everywhere in the mud are the corpses of babies, or lined with horses' hooves, or by human feet, liver and brain smeared on the ground, crying in the wilderness.

After a few days, the sky was dark, and the corpses on the roads had risen through the rain, and the green skin was like a drum, and the flesh and blood collapsed. The stench is pressing, the menstrual period is burning, and the unpleasant smell is becoming more and more disgusting. Around, around, there are burned houses. The room is dense, formed like fog, and smells fishy for hundreds of miles.

Duoduo rode his war horse alone among the countless corpses, there was not a living person in the street, and the surroundings were so quiet that people were afraid, Duoduo became more and more panicked the more he walked, "Someone! He shouted, but there was not a single soldier in sight.

Suddenly, a cold and creepy voice came from behind: "Prince Yu, you stepped on me"

Duoduo Huo Ran turned around, only to see a man with a disheveled head, a festering face, and a bloody body, gnawing on a rotten arm, and Sensen's white teeth creaked as he chewed.

"Who are you? Don't come here" The visceral fear made Duoduo feel a chill penetrate his head from his tail vertebrae, and his hairs stood on end, and he couldn't help but scream hysterically

With this shout, the originally dead and silent Yangzhou City was all shocked, but when he saw the festering corpses all over the street standing up one by one, he slowly surrounded him, and there were creepy calls everywhere, "Duoduo, take your life, you owe us 800,000 lives"

"Don't come, don't come!" Duoduo's scalp was numb, his hands and feet were weak, and he yelled in despair

"Ahh After a scream, Dodor awoke from his nightmare;

Outside the window, small raindrops clicked, and a gust of wind blew in through the window, and Duoduo felt a chill on his body. Only then did I find that the clothes on my body were all soaked with sweat.

After asking his servants to bring clean clothes to change into, Duoduo was still haunted by the horrors of his dreams;

In the past two months, he would dream of the Yangzhou Massacre from time to time, and each time he would wake up to the cries of countless unjust ghosts.

A few days ago, he asked people to invite the monks of Fayuan Temple to practice, but it was only a few days, and he had nightmares again;

"These bald donkeys dare to deceive this king." Duoduo scolded and was about to send troops to Fayuan Temple to arrest people. Outside, a soldier hurriedly rushed in and said, "Lord Wang, Master Ning said that he had something urgent to see you." ”

"What's the matter?"

"The minions don't know."

"Rubbish!" An irritable Duoduo scolded, causing the soldier to fall to his knees with a thud.

Duoduo walked quickly to the front hall, and after I respectfully finished paying respects, he got up and rolled up his horseshoe sleeves and said: "Lord Wang, according to the information sent back by Xizuo, there are signs of the Qin army gathering in many places, especially Huai'an and Xuzhou, and the Qin army is transporting grain and grass to the two places through the canal;

Other than that. More than 200 large ships were also assembled in Yangzhou, which seemed to be used to transport troops, and the Qin troops in Fengyang and Shouzhou all had abnormal movements, and all kinds of signs showed that. The Qin army seems to have the intention of moving north. ”

"Won't it?" Duoduo asked uncertainly, "Is the message accurate?" ”

"Lord Wang, the stakes are very high, how dare the lower officials talk nonsense?"

Dodor paced a few steps through the hall. Sit down on the Taishi chair, pick up the tea and think while drinking. "How is this possible? According to previous information, the Qin State wanted to help the people of Huainan last year. There is also a shortage of grain, and now that the summer grain has not been harvested, it is precisely the lack of green and yellow, how can the Qin army raise troops to attack at this time? ”

Ning Wan reminded me: "Don't forget, Lord Wang, Qin Mu has just defeated Zheng Zhilong's sailors and taken over Fujian, Fujian has not suffered from wars and famines over the years, and there must be a lot of grain reserves in large households, and it is not excluded that Qin Mu obtained grain and grass from Fujian for the Northern Expedition." ”

If that's the case, then the Qing Dynasty will be in trouble.

For the Qing Dynasty, now is the most difficult time, the entire north of the Huai River is in the middle of the green and yellow, difficult;

This year, Dolgon also learned from the Qin State to promote corn, sweet potatoes and other crops, but in many places the sweet potatoes have not yet grown, and the red seedling vines have been eaten almost completely, and I don't know how many people starved to death every day under the rule of the Manchu Dynasty.

Even the sergeants and soldiers in the army were half hungry and half full, and there was no meal.

Duoduo originally wanted to recruit more troops to increase the strength of the Qing army, but the supply of food and grass was not available, and there was no way to recruit soldiers.

"Master Ning, this king asked you to send someone to Huguang secretly to buy grain, how is the situation?"

"Back to the prince, this can't be counted on, it is not difficult to buy grain at a high price in Huguang, but the Qin army is very strict, and only a very small number of people can be transported.

Duoduo frowned, now the Qing Dynasty is not only short of food, but also the Mongol tribes have been about to leave, two months ago, the Sunit tribe's Tengjitai brazen rebellion, caused a very bad impact;

Duoduo tried his best to win over and promise many benefits;

Dolgon also made a multi-pronged approach in Beijing, letting the two princesses and the three county lords marry to Mongolia, and let the little emperor of Shunzhi and the daughter of Wu Keshan, the prince of Zhuoliktu of the Korqin Department, Borzigit. Hui Min is engaged and ready to be hired as the queen.

In addition, a large amount of goods and slaves were rewarded, and in short, it took many efforts to barely stabilize the Mongol tribes.

Duoduo knew very well that it was unreliable to tie up the Mongol tribes with these alone, and once the Qin army went on a northern expedition and the Qing Dynasty lost again, these Mongol tribes were afraid that they would throw knives from behind.

Sensing the seriousness of the situation, Duoduo asked Ning Wan to strengthen the investigation of the Qin army, and at the same time sent people back to Beijing to report to Dolgon to prepare.

The messenger galloped all the way from Bozhou to the north, changing horses but not people, and along the way, the people were mostly hungry and cold, and they were struggling to survive. In the wilderness, one here and another, the harvest has not yet been harvested.

In general, only a small number of land has been reclaimed for crops;

There are also large areas of wasteland everywhere, overgrown with weeds, uninhabited, and unburied bones on the roadside.

In the vicinity of Yanjing, most of the land is planted with crops, but it will take longer to wait for the harvest.

The Han people around Yanjing had almost no land of their own, and most of the Han people became Manchu slaves.

Last year, due to the successive defeats of the Manchus, the Manchus were very dissatisfied with the regent Dolgon;

In order to encompass the soldiers of the Eight Banners, Dolgon ordered: "All the people of the prefectures and counties near Beijing have no owners of the wasteland, as well as the emperor's relatives, horses, dukes, marquis, uncles, eunuchs, etc., who died in the rebellion, there are many ownerless lands,...... and distributed them to the kings, lords, soldiers, and so on. ”

As soon as this order was given, the Manchu officials and magnates immediately sent people to stake the land, at first it was just a barren land, but then it was followed by a unified enclosure of the owner and the unowned land;

The encirclement also included the houses and farms, so that a large number of Han landlords and peasants suddenly lost their fields and houses, and had no means of living, so they could only become Manchurian slaves.

Dolgon's enclosure order was warmly supported by the Manchu magnates and the soldiers of the Eight Banners, which also allowed him to successfully eliminate the crisis of internal division, which can be said to be a very clever political skill.

In just four days, Dorgon received an urgent letter from Dorgon for eight hundred miles;

Dolgon didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly summoned Fan Wencheng, a scholar of the Inner Secretariat, Feng Quan, a scholar of the Inner Hongwen Academy and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, Chen Mingxia, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials and a bachelor of Hanlin, and Gua Erjia, a scholar of the National Academy of History. Ganglin, Uchihong Bunin University Schsheri. Xi Fu, university scholar Feng Guozhu and other eight people discussed countermeasures;

Since Dorgon became regent of the royal father, he married the Virgin Queen Mother Borzigit. After Bumu Butai, the regent palace of Nanyuan has officially become the center of power of the Qing Dynasty, and the prestige of Dolgon is also growing, and the intimidating momentum on his body is not daring to face it.

After Fan Wencheng and the others visited, they stood cautiously under the hall, and Dolgon asked the eunuch to read Duoduo's beliefs again, and then sighed: "Qin Mu is going to the east and the west all day long, but there is no shortage of money and food, I am sitting in the land of the seven northern provinces in the Qing Dynasty, but the situation is so difficult, why can you teach me?" ”

Fan Wencheng replied: "Your Majesty, Qin Mu sits on the rich land of Jiangnan and Huguang, and although he continues to conquer the east and west, he actually uses not many troops, and the troops that entered Guizhou and Yunnan at first were only 10,000, and the momentum is like a bamboo, and it is not a problem to support the war by war.

Attacking the dragon of Zheng Zhizhi was just a battle of sailors, and the loss of money and grain was extremely limited, so it was easy to get a rich Fujian, which was to conquer the east and west, not only did not lose its own strength, but its strength increased day by day. ”

"That means that it is true that he is preparing to raise troops to the north, and what countermeasures do you have for this?"

Fan Wencheng thought for a while and replied: "Your Majesty, the slave thinks that at present, for my Qing Dynasty, the superior policy is nothing more than one word. ”

"What word?"

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(To be continued......)