Chapter 621: Dorgon 2

Speaking from the heart, in the face of Dolgon's life merits, perhaps the peasant rebels treated him like this, and people could also find a reason to seek psychological balance, but for the Great Qing State that entered the Central Plains, it was obviously unfair to knock Dolgon to the ground and then step on the feet of hundreds of millions. But this is caused by the power struggle within the ruling group, which has been the case since ancient times, but people can't deceive themselves, and the first person to feel uneasy is the Qing ancestor Fulin.

In the tenth year of Shunzhi, Shizu sent an edict to the Ministry of Works, saying that King Rui's cemetery was destroyed because of sin, and he couldn't bear it, so he repaired the door and wall of his cemetery house, and the pillars were painted with black powder, and he still ordered King Xinjun to assign people to guard it. If he hated it to the bone and had a clear conscience, why did Emperor Shunzhi ask about Dorgon's tomb and let it be destroyed, why should he repair it, and why should he send people to guard it? At this time, the ancestor probably also felt that he had gone too far in dealing with Dolgon.

Coincidentally, in the twelfth year of Shunzhi, Peng Changgeng, the deputy director of the official department, and Xu Er'an, the first-class son, respectively wrote to Dolgon to complain, believing that among the kings, Dolgon should be the crown. Dolgon not only initiated the establishment of the emperor, but also set up a personal plot to support him with Adali and Shuoto. Moreover, after Dolgon entered Yanjing with great power, he did not stand on his own, but welcomed the emperor to move the capital. It was indeed wrong for Dolgon to succumb to Hauge's death and marry his princess, but he did not sin much, and asked for Dorgon's rehabilitation, restoration of his title, repair of his tomb, and begging for mercy.

This matter was strongly opposed by the ruling Zilharang, and Shangshu not only scolded Dolgon, but also suggested that Peng Changgeng and Xu Er'an be put to death, their family property confiscated, and their wives as slaves. Judging from the results of this matter, although Shizu was once uneasy in his heart, he didn't want to label himself as capricious and ungrateful so quickly, and he didn't want to be rehabilitated, and he didn't want to deal with the person who asked for rehabilitation. Therefore, he deliberately issued an edict to punish Peng Changgeng and Xu Er'an leniently, and exiled them to the land of Ningguta, and Xu Er'an's first-class viscount was inherited by his son.

More than 100 years have passed, and in the 34th year of Qianlong, Emperor Hongli of the Qing Dynasty issued an edict, saying that Dolgon had been regent for many years, and he was convicted because of his self-deprecation. But remembering that he entered the customs with all the people and determined the Central Plains, his previous exploits should not be extinguished, and now his tomb is overgrown with weeds and barren, which is pitiful. Therefore, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was ordered to send personnel to inspect and repair the walled houses, plant pine and catalpa trees, and allow many of the princes of the close branches of Dolgon to make regular sacrifices, and Dolgon's unjust case began to take a turn for the better.

Nine years later, Gaozong had to read the history books that recorded the life and deeds of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, and felt the difficulties of the ancestors' entrepreneurship and the merits of the heroes.

Emperor Gaozong issued an edict saying that if Dolgon had the intention of rebellion, there was no need to use the Ming Huanglonggon as evidence after his death, because Dolgon could establish himself as the emperor during his lifetime, and cited the example of Zhao Kuangyi, the son of Taizu, of the Song Dynasty who plotted to usurp the throne of Zhao Defang, the son of Taizu, and established himself.

Moreover, Gaozong also pointed out that during the regency of Dorgon, he handled government affairs impartially and uprightly, but it was only because of his prestige that the villain framed him for rebellion after his death, constituting an unjust prison, all of which did not come from the holy judgment of the ancestors, otherwise he would not dare to overturn the case as a descendant of later generations. In addition, Gaozong also said with emotion that whenever he read history and saw Dolgon feeling that Taizong treated him the most generously and deeply understood the righteousness of the monarch and the young emperor, he couldn't help but cry for him.

Therefore, he ordered to restore the title of Prince Rui, posthumously said Zhong, added jade, and ordered to supplement the succession seal, repair his tomb according to the prince's garden bed system, and set up a monument for him. At the same time, Dolbo's descendants were ordered to succeed Dolgon's heirs, so Dolbo's great-grandson Chunying Monteon was reinstated as Prince Rui. Gaozong's move was very heroic, with the soul of Andorgon.

For Dorgon's rehabilitation, Gojong did do a just thing, but at the same time, he was a denier to His Holiness, and ordered that none of the previous edicts on this matter should be recorded in the history of the country. As a result, the archives of Dolgon were destroyed, so that there is little historical information about Dolgon's biography and his posthumous liquidation, making it difficult to find out the true circumstances of Dolgon's liquidation after his death.

In the feudal society where the imperial power is supreme, this is helpless, and Gaozong's style of action has always been like this, and later when he ordered the revision of the "Siku Quanshu", he also burned all the historical books that recorded the bad words of the Qing Dynasty, and abridged and tampered with, committing the evil deeds of not being able to restore the original face of history.

Does Dorgon want to be emperor or not? Who doesn't want to be an emperor? The most valuable thing about Dorgon's merits should be his wisdom in taking the overall situation into account in desperation.

The support for Fulin's accession to the throne was caused by the equal strength of the two yellow flags and the two white flags, and the important evidence that Gaozong overturned the case for him was that when the regent led the army into the customs, Shizu was young and had not yet been in power.

At that time, Dolgon did have the possibility of self-reliance, at that time, the Central Plains only knew that there was a regent, and no one knew that there was a young emperor outside the Liaodong Pass, and Dolgon entered Beijing for the first time in the Wuying Palace, that is, he was worshiped as an emperor by the officials and gentry of the previous dynasty. At this time, if Dolgon had become independent, the result would have been the same as that of the heir to the throne at the Dazheng Hall meeting that day, that is, it would cause internal strife in the Great Qing Kingdom, which would lead to wars between the banners.

In this case, would there still be a Qing dynasty in Chinese history? This shows the significance of Dolgon to the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, to this day, when it comes to Dolgon, for him personally, it is really a long life, a lonely posthumous thing, but for the Qing Dynasty, it is a flying cloud, who is competing for merit?

In the process of the Qing army's march into Jiangnan, it burned, killed and looted, arousing strong resistance from the people in Jiangnan, especially the enforcement of the shaving order, and the raging fire of resistance against the Qing Dynasty was ignited in various places. The Qing court brutally suppressed and carried out a large-scale massacre in Yangzhou, Jiading, Jiangyin and other places, known as Yangzhou for ten days, and Jiading for three massacres.

Since then, the Qing army has implemented shaving and changing clothes in various places, and the Qing army has taken many massacres to suppress it, resulting in a sharp decline in the population, and the scene of depression in the people's livelihood and no one for thousands of miles in the southwest region has occurred. The Qing army occupied the southwest region and relocated the population of Huguang to fill Sichuan to supplement the shortage of labor, which is regarded as the second Huguang to fill Sichuan in history.

The Qing court's policy of land enclosure and confiscation led the people to abandon their land and increase the number of displaced people. To this end, the fugitive law was enacted, which strictly prohibited slaves from escaping, and intensified ethnic contradictions in the Gyeonggi region. Later, the Qing court ordered the cessation of these policies, and implemented the policy of rewarding land reclamation, reducing and reducing taxes, and officially opened the department to recruit scholars, posthumously honoring Emperor Zhen and the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

How many people were killed by the Qing army? There are many reasons for the death and injury of civilians in the war, the most important of which is the massacre of the city, and the most famous of them is the massacre in the early Qing Dynasty.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, political corruption, and the suffering of the people, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, rose up and captured Beijing, and the Ming Dynasty fell. Who knew that at this time, Wu Sangui, a general of the Ming Dynasty guarding Shanhaiguan with a strong army, opened Shanhaiguan and surrendered to the Qing army, and hundreds of thousands of eight-banner iron horsemen stepped on the Central Plains. When the Qing army entered the pass, whenever it encountered resistance, it would burn its houses, kill its people, and take its goods, so that the soldiers and soldiers would do whatever they wanted, and they would go to war and burn for 37 years, so that the Chinese population would be reduced by two-thirds.

The famous Yangzhou Ten Days and Jiading Three Massacres were all ordered to seal the knife after they were almost killed, and in Yangzhou alone, more than 800,000 people died.

The main force of the Qing army under the command of Prince Duoduo of Yu besieged the city of Yangzhou, which was guarded by Shi Kefa, the governor of the Southern Ming Dynasty. The Qing army besieged Yangzhou, and Shi Kefa was supervising the division in Yangzhou, sticking to the lonely city, and urgently ordered the towns to help, but the towns refused to send troops. The Qing army took the opportunity to lure him to surrender, Shi Kefa sternly refused, and the commander of the Qing army and the king of Yu Duoduo wrote five times, but Shi Kefa did not open the seal.

Duoduo ordered the Qing army to capture the northwest corner of Yangzhou at any cost, and the Qing army swarmed to the sound of drums and artillery of the attack, and every time one Qing soldier fell under the arrow, another made up for it. Soon the corpses piled up higher and higher, and some of the Qing soldiers could climb the city walls without even a ladder. After the Qing army attacked the city, Shi Kefa led the army and civilians to fight bloodily, but as the Qing soldiers increased more and more, the Southern Ming soldiers who defended the city also began to panic. They jumped off the city wall and fled, some of them fell to their deaths, and some of them died in the chaos in the street battles that followed.

After seven days and seven nights of fierce fighting, Yangzhou City was captured by the Qing army, and the soldiers and civilians fought hard from one lane to another, and most of them died heroically. Shi Kefa attempted suicide and was captured by the Qing army, Duoduo persuaded him to surrender, Shi Kefa said: "I am a Chinese man, and I am willing to live? So he was righteous.

After the collapse of Yangzhou's city defense, the residents of Yangzhou City had no choice but to resign themselves to fate. Despite the heavy rains, some of the inhabitants were busy burning incense in the hope that they would be able to save their lives through this active currying, and at the same time they began to hide a large amount of gold and silver treasures. But after the fall of this ancient Yangzhou city in the bloody rain, it once again faced a greater catastrophe, soon after the fall of the city, the commander of the Qing army, Duoduo, ordered the slaughter of the city in the name of not listening to the invitation to surrender, and for a time the prosperous fireworks ancient alley became a bloody slaughterhouse.

After the Qing army entered the city, they were led by those Han Chinese who surrendered from one rich household to another, and the Qing soldiers first robbed the silver, and then plundered everything. Until daylight on the 20th, there were no personal injuries. But as night fell, the sound of slamming doors, whipping and howling of wounded people was heard. The fire spread that night, but in some places the fire was extinguished by the rain.

On the 21st, a proclamation promised that those who had hidden would be pardoned if they could turn themselves in, and many of those who had hidden in their homes came out. But when they came out, they were divided into piles of fifty or sixty men, and tied up with ropes under the supervision of three or four soldiers. Then he began to stab them with a spear, killing them on the spot, even those who fell to the ground.

A soldier carries a knife in front of the guide, a soldier with a spear in the rear, and a soldier in the center to guard the left and right of the team to prevent escape. The three Qing soldiers drove dozens of people like cattle and sheep, and those who did not move forward were beaten or killed immediately. The women were also tied around their necks with long ropes and dragged by ropes, and they were so tired that they fell and fell with mud all over their feet because they had difficulty walking on their small feet.

At this time, the streets were full of abandoned babies, trampled by horses' hooves, or trampled by human feet, sobbing and sobbing. Passing by a ditch and a pond, I saw that there were piles of corpses stored inside, hands and feet pillowed, blood flowed into the water, turned into colorful, the pond was filled with corpses, the corpses were scattered in the street, pillowing each other, the sky was dark and it was impossible to tell who the deceased was. Leaning over and calling out in the pile of corpses, no one answered, and in the distance I saw several torches swarming from the south, and the corpses piled up like fish scales at the foot of the city wall.

The stench of blood filled the air, and mutilated corpses were everywhere. Those who tried to escape by jumping from the walls either broke their thighs or fell into the hands of scoundrels and stragglers, who took them and tortured them to hand over their treasures. In the city, some people hid in the garbage heap and covered their bodies with mud and dirt in the hope of avoiding people's attention, but the Qing soldiers stabbed the garbage heap with their spears from time to time until the people inside squirmed like animals and blood flowed from their wounds.

The fire spread, and those who were still alive because they were hiding in their houses or basements were either consumed by the merciless fire, or they ran out into the streets in fear and were killed by the Qing soldiers who were still slaughtering the city. Even those lonely and helpless citizens who had been let go by the regular Qing army and wandered naked in the streets were stopped by hordes of stragglers and beaten to death with sticks.

The massacre was not until the 25th, the sixth day of indiscriminate killing and looting. The Qing army received an order from Prince Yu to seal the sword, and the monks were ordered to begin collecting and burning the corpses. On the 27th, rations began, and according to the crematorium, more than 800,000 people died in the massacre, not including those who fell into wells and rivers, set themselves on fire in closed homes, and hanged themselves in remote places.

The tragic slaughter of the city made the prosperous Yangzhou city turn into a place of ruins in an instant, and the famous town in the south of the Yangtze River became a hell on earth overnight, and later generations called Yangzhou Ten Days.