In the Qianqing Palace, the Manchu Qing Dynasty ministers were dead silent.

No one expected that Liu Ximing and his soldiers and horses would transmit information to the Manchus so cruelly.

Dolgon held Nikan's head and tried to say a few words, but when he looked down and saw the lines on his face, he couldn't say anything.

"Kill, kill, kill!"

Dorgon held back for a moment, then snapped a few words out between his teeth.

In the court, Prince Zheng Jierharang shouted: "Yes, kill the Han dog to avenge the sons." ”

Hong Chengchou, who was standing with a servant on his face, hurriedly stepped out and said:

"Your Majesty, princes, the slave has something to play."

Dolgon casually put Nikan's head back in the box and motioned for his subordinates to take it down, looking at Hong Chengchou.

"Hong Shangshu, please speak."

Huang Taiji also knows how to employ people, when Hong Chengchou first joined the Qing Dynasty, he only gave Hong Chengchou a consulting title, and did not directly confer officials.

In fact, he left the opportunity to win over Hong Chengchou to his son.

Sure enough, after Fulin succeeded to the throne and successfully entered the Central Plains, he immediately named him the crown prince Taibao, the secretary of the military department and the right capital of the Imperial Court according to Hong Chengchou's original position in the Ming court.

Hong Chengchou also became a Han minister on an equal footing with Fan Wencheng, but compared with the Manchu masters, of course, these Han Eight Banners can only call themselves slaves.

Hearing Dolgon's words, Hong Chengchou said with a respectful face:

"The slave thinks that my goal now is to win the world, so this governance policy cannot be as before, now the Ming Kingdom has a court in Wuchang, and there is also a court in Nanjing, and the two must not get along peacefully, this is the opportunity for my Qing Dynasty."

"Now it seems that although there are not many soldiers and horses under the command of the Wuchang Imperial Court, the morale of the army is much higher than that of the Nanchang Imperial Court, but Wuchang is not without disadvantages, and the Huguang, Shaanxi and other places they occupy have all been ravaged by rogue gangsters for many years, and there are too many differences compared with Jiangnan."

"The slave thinks that my Qing Dynasty should now appease the local area and attack the Nanjing Imperial Court quickly, as long as I can preemptively bring the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River into the hands of my Qing Dynasty, then I will be invincible when the Wuchang Imperial Court fights."

Hong Chengchou had not yet woken up at this time, and the Wuchang court led by Liu Ximing had revolutionized the war situation, and his concept was still stuck on the gains and losses of a battle.

After listening to Hong Chengchou's recital, a hint of appreciation flashed on Dolgon's face.

"What Hong Shangshu said is reasonable."

Dolgon turned his head and arched his hand perfunctorily towards Fulin, looked at the courtier again, and said:

"Liu Xi ordered to send his subordinates to humiliate us, in order to let us kill on a large scale, and when the people in Hebei and other places resist our Qing Dynasty, then we will talk about seizing the world, pass on the king's order, all my Qing officers and soldiers, not to loot places."

"In addition, send a number of soldiers and horses to Hebei to defend in case the Ming army invades Hebei, and send some soldiers and horses to Duoduo so that he can capture Nanjing as soon as possible."

With Dolgon's decision, the Qing army in the Beijing division moved again, and the 150,000 army composed of Manchu and Han soldiers was once again transferred to the Duoduo army along the Shandong line.

The Qing army's offensive against the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty increased dramatically.

On the Western Front, only 100,000 men and horses went to attack Zhufu County in Hebei, and at the same time advanced towards Henan.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty originally wanted to capture all the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty in Hebei and other places to Beijing to strengthen their momentum, but who knew that a group of Chongzhen ministers, including Sun Chengzong, had already gone to Wuchang with their whole family, and the Qing army directly pounced.

The Duoduo soldiers, who had been supported, suddenly became much more violent.

In November, Qing troops conquered Shandong.

In December, the Qing army broke through Huai'an, Xuzhou and other places, and Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo surrendered one after another.

In the first month of the second year of Zhengxing, the Qing soldiers booby-trapped Gao Jie, annexed his subordinates, and then broke Huang in Chuzhou.

In January of the second year of Zhengxing, the Qing army broke Yangzhou, killed Shi Kefa, and slaughtered the city of Yangzhou.

In February of the second year of Zhengxing, the Qing soldiers came to the city of Nanjing, and the whole south of the Yangtze River was full of smoke.

When the news came out, the world was shocked, and many people thought that the Manchu Qing Dynasty had the potential to dominate the world, and there were more actions behind the scenes.

At the same time that Jiangnan was in a panic, there was also a big wave within the Wuchang court.

"Prime Minister, the Tartars are raging, Jiangnan is the essence of my Ming Dynasty, please send troops to rescue quickly!"

On the Imperial Palace, Huang Zongxi, Chen Zilong and a group of Jiangnan ministers wept blood.

Sun Chengzong is already eighty-one years old, although he is dying of old age, but when he arrives in Wuchang, he is still regarded by Zhu Cihong as a treasure, and he is specially crowned as a Taifu and allowed to stay in the court.

At this moment, Sun Chengzong couldn't help but pull Liu Ximing's embroidered robe with a cane and said:

"Prime Minister, although Nanjing is a puppet dynasty, but it is also a citizen of this dynasty, I heard that Jianyu was slaughtered in Yangzhou for ten days, and this revenge is not avenged, what face do we have to meet the people of Jiangnan!"

On the Jinluan Palace, Liu Ximing was sweating profusely and looked helpless.

"Your Majesty, my lords, why don't you want to send troops to expel the Tartars as soon as possible, but the court is short of soldiers and food."

He snapped his fingers and counted them one by one:

"Everyone, please see, in order to garrison Shanxi and Shaanxi and guard against the attack of Li Zicheng and Jianyu, nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses in these two places cannot move."

"In addition to attacking Jiangnan, Jianyu also has another army approaching Wuchang, in order to resist their 100,000 people, Cao Bianjiao, Shao Derong and other 70,000 people have been struggling to support, you don't know the combat power of Jianyu, where I will bring you troops."

"There are soldiers in Jiujiang and Nanchang, but there are only 50,000 of them, and in the face of hundreds of thousands of troops, what are these people going to do, do they want to kill themselves?"

Liu Ximing had a very aggrieved expression and I wanted to cry, "The world is in great trouble today, this dynasty has not even equipped the officials, and the local money and grain can only be collected by squeezing the merchants, otherwise even the military salaries of the soldiers will not be paid, and now you want me to send troops, what can I do?"

Li Jinghong did not report to the court at all in the next battle at Jingcheng Pass, if the ministers of the Zhengxing Dynasty knew that Liu Xi's army under his command could fight ten of them, I was afraid that the entire court would explode.

But now, hearing that Liu Xifang put the "bottom line" of the imperial court in front of him, all the civil and military ministers of the imperial court were silent.

Sun Chuanting, Liu Zongzhou and others have approached Liu Ximing many times, specifically to talk about the affairs of the imperial court's finances, the Zhengxing Dynasty's finances are chaotic, and the household department nominally manages the world's finances, but the officials below do not report taxes to the household department at all.

What can really maintain the operation of the household is the monthly silver money of about 400,000 taels transferred from Liu Ximing's Prime Minister's Mansion.

However, when Liu Zongzhou, Sun Chuanting and others asked Liu Ximing to disclose the source of this financial income, they found out that this money was actually "borrowed" by Liu Ximing from Han Yuan Firm and other merchants in advance.

In such a situation, a group of ministers of the Zhengxing Dynasty are also helpless.

Huang Zongxi, Chen Zilong and others were aware of the local situation, but from the very beginning, Liu Ximing did not disclose his financial situation to them.

In the eyes of the Datong Society scholars who were transferred from the Restoration Society, they saw that because the Liu family did not have to pay taxes, the local people could be exempted from exploitation.

Because the Liu family has appeal in the local area, the local people are willing to spontaneously gather troops to form a militia group to defend their hometown.

When the Zhengxing Dynasty was first established, Huang Zongxi and others proposed to raise troops to recover the lost territory as soon as possible, but Liu Ximing directly threw over a sentence, it was okay for the militia to defend their hometown, but if they wanted to go to war, how could they not pay military salaries.

Without knowing that the Liu family's business and trade system included internal consumption, and that the annual sales were as high as hundreds of millions of taels, Huang Zongxi and other old-style literati could not imagine how much financial revenue the modern fiscal and taxation system could support.

Huang Zonghui knew, but at this time, he had already made up his mind to take a boat with Liu Ximing, but he was silent about it.

Huang Zongxi, Chen Zilong and other ministers have always been concerned about Jiangnan, and they couldn't help but kneel and cry when they heard the words.

"The emperor is above, isn't there any salvation for me in Jiangnan?"

"Woo woo"

There were many Jiangnan officials in the court, and they all wept when they heard this.

On the dragon chair, Zhu Cihong also listened to tears and was in a low mood.

"Prime Minister, the imperial court really can't do anything, but after Jianyu fights Nanjing, isn't it us next, you must know that your lips are dead and your teeth are cold."

Liu Ximing wiped the sweat from his forehead vigorously, and smiled bitterly and arched his hand towards Zhu Cihong.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, we are not without a chance of winning, but we didn't expect Jianyu to come so quickly, and the new court was too late to react. Now that officials at all levels are in place one after another, as long as the local taxes can be collected, we will be able to expand and send troops immediately. ”

"Now that all the more than 200,000 soldiers in the imperial court are all elites, it shouldn't be a problem to resist the Jianyu soldiers for the time being."

Zhengxing court, the emperor's hundred officials lamented.

Liu Ximing stood upright, "Your Majesty, the minister has sent righteous soldiers to the south of the Yangtze River to lurk first, and he will first slaughter the thieves of my Han people to deter the barbarians." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Cihong and the others were all stunned.