In the spring of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, when the ice and snow had not yet melted, a mighty Manchurian Mongol army slaughtered from Horqin into Mobei. From that day on, the entire Mobei Mongolia was lit with beacon fires, hundreds of thousands of Mongol herdsmen in the Mobei were plundered by the banners of the Mongols in the Mobei and the Khalkha tribes occupied in the Mobei were attacked by the Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces, and they were simply vulnerable and could only flee in a hurry.

Night had once again fallen on the steppe.

The minions set up canvas tents, which were produced in Dalian and were lighter than cowhide tents. And cheap, as for cowhide tents...... On the Yi market on both sides of Gaizhou, several canvas tents can be replaced.

A raging fire burned between the earth-gray tents. The minions who had been killed for a day roasted mutton, beef, and even camel meat, and for a time, the camp was filled with a tempting scent, and the minions who had stripped their armor from the tent were laughing happily and munching on the meat.

However, unlike the joy of the minions outside, Dolgon, who was in the tent, did not have a smile on his face. It was not that he was worried about today's war, in his opinion, at most in the autumn, the Khalkha Mongols would definitely surrender to him, and before winter, even if the Khalkha khans could not make this decision, the lords of the Ulus and Otoks would make their own choice - either starve to death in the winter, or submit to the Qing Dynasty.

Ever since he led his troops into Mongolia, he has been trying his best to recruit Mobei Mongolia, after all, what he needs is the Mongols who fought for the Great Qing Kingdom, not the dead. With the help of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, they fought all the way to the water and grass, leaving millions of Mongolians exhausted and their livestock recuperating.

If the animals don't stop coming down in the autumn and feed their fat, after a winter, it's not just the animals that will starve to death.

"Just wait another two or three months and we'll see!"

Coming out of the tent and stretching out in the slightly cool night breeze of Mobei, Dolgon looked at the wild, dark and dreary grassland with some distraction. Seeing that everyone didn't follow, Hong Chengchou hurriedly opened the tent and came out, and when he saw that he was silent, he smiled and said:

"Master, it's windy on the grassland, so let's go back."

At this time, Hong Chengchou had already put on the official robe of the Great Qing Dynasty, and even his hair had been shaved, looking no different from the officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

"Oh, I can't sleep!"

Dorgon pursed his lips and said.

"Now there is no news of the return of the ministries, so if you wait like this, it will always be reassuring to be there!"

"The master doesn't have to worry, now that De Shizi is really staring at Guannai and Chongzhen's throne, he will definitely seize the opportunity to go south,"

"But didn't Ming Ting reject him?"

"The more the court refuses, the more he insists."

Hong Chengchou said confidently.

"Today is different from last year, last year he was not strong enough, just out of the mountain, now under his command of hundreds of thousands of elites, now the flow of Kou in Henan, Hubei and other places, as long as he leads the troops to enter the two provinces in the name of suppressing the Kou, it is bound to take the opportunity to seize the power of the two provinces, follow the atrocities committed by Yu Nanzhili, kill the official and seize the government, and then now use the excuse of "Jing Difficult", so the Ming throne is naturally within reach! ”

After that, Hong Chengchou sneered.

"Who would miss such a great opportunity?"

Nodding slightly, Dorgon groaned.

"Opportunity, indeed a good opportunity, just ......"

Frowning and snorting, he said again.

"It's just that he doesn't move, it's really reassuring!"

"Master, now we don't need to ask him, the master's warriors and ministers, and the generals of the minions are better than all the dynasties, and the master doesn't have to worry about anything else, just act according to the plan and ......"

Following behind Dolgon, Hong Chengchou said again.

"This year, the first Mongolia, the collection of millions of people in northern Mongolia for the use of our Qing Dynasty, imitating the old law of southern Mongolia at the beginning, re-dividing the pastureland, reorganizing the surrendered Mongols, dividing a vast Etok into several Etok, merging a few small ones into large ones, and then incorporating them into eight banners according to the "alliance flag system", when the time comes, there will be no less than 300,000 troops under the master's command, so why worry about the great cause! ”

Or much more than 300,000!

Conquer Mobei Mongolia and strengthen your own strength!

This is Hong Chengchou's first "strategy" for Dolgon. Although he did not know much about the Mongols, he had something in common with Geldan in this regard, and decades later, when Dzungar rose, Geldan regarded the conquest of Mobei Mongolia as a prerequisite for defeating the Qing Dynasty, for no other reason - it was to strengthen his own strength, and to plunder his Ding Zhuang for his own use.

The Mongols are different from others, they say that they are Mongols, in fact, they can be Huns, Turks, Xianbei people, in short, whoever is strong is who they are, and whoever conquers the steppe, they are what kind of people. That is, Genghis Khan turned them into Mongols, but Monan Mongolia is the orthodoxy of the golden family, and as for Mobei Mongolia, it was just a slave of Monangol when it was just a slave of Monan.

But in any case, as long as they are conquered, these people will serve the Qing Kingdom with an iron heart. This is the reason why Hong Chengchou made this suggestion, compared to the sparsely populated Jurchens, there are more Mongolians! More people means more soldiers, and what does more soldiers mean?

It means the world!

As long as the Great Qing Kingdom can win the world, he Hong Chengchou will no longer be a traitor, no longer a scum, but a handsome man who obeys the mandate of heaven! At that time, he will be the founder of the Great Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains, and he will definitely be able to be a great minister in the Great Qing Dynasty, and he will enjoy full glory and wealth from generation to generation.

However, if Hong Chengchou knew that he had worked hard, sacrificed his honor, served the Manchu Qing for 20 years, and guided the Manchus to sit firmly after several wars, he only got a small light car lieutenant, and even was written into the "Biography of the Second Minister" by the Manchu Qing after his death, I don't know how he would feel.

Of course, people have no eyes before and after, for the current Hong Chengchou, he has only one thought in his heart, that is, to help his master win the throne of the Qing Dynasty, and then enter the Central Plains, according to his estimate, twenty or thirty years is enough.

"But, at that time, what about that person who took the throne of Daming?"

Dorgon worried.

"At that time, he will send all the troops of the country to crusade against my Qing Dynasty, what should I do?"

Dorgon asked rhetorically.

"Master, before his troops enter the capital, we just take the opportunity to negotiate peace with Chongzhen, and when Chongzhen transfers the border army to fight a decisive battle with him, let's take advantage of their defeat and send troops into the customs, and then why worry about not being able to enter the Central Plains!"

If it weren't for Zhu Guoqiang's appearance, in a few years, the Manchus would have taken over the world like this, and they seized a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to conquer a country with a population of hundreds of millions with just a few hundred thousand people.

It's simply ...... It's unbelievable, but they succeeded!

Who made all this happen?

It's him Hong Chengchou!

No one among the Manchus knew the Ming Dynasty better than him, and no one among the Han people knew the Manchus better than him, and it was precisely because of this understanding that he was always able to give the most important advice to the Manchus at the most critical time, and finally achieved the Manchu enslavement of the Han people.

"Hong Chengchou, that's hundreds of millions of Han people!"

Dorgon sighed.

"Hundreds of millions of Han people, with hundreds of thousands of Manchurians in my mere mere mere few hundred thousand, how can we have more small servants?"

The master's sigh made Hong Chengchou sneer.

"Master, why do you need to sigh like this? Hundreds of millions of Han people are just people, and there were millions of Liao people in Liaodong back then, but now they are still obedient to the Qing Dynasty? If you want them to be obedient people, what's the trouble! Kill those who are disobedient, and the rest will naturally obediently obey the people, and the people will just cut a stubble of leeks and a stubble. ”

Someone else might have been shocked to hear this, but Dorgon just nodded slightly, kill! This matter, our Daqing Kingdom is professional. What's the big deal?

At this moment, a herald suddenly came over in a hurry to report.

"Lord Qiyu, the Ming army with hundreds of thousands of troops, the soldiers are divided into two ways to invade our Qing Dynasty, all the way north to attack Gaizhou, Zu Dashou out of Jinzhou to attack the Daling River!"