And Hong Chengchou also hurriedly urged Ruan Dacheng: "Brother Yuanhai, everyone is waiting for your Pingnan strategy!" ”

Ruan Dacheng saw that the princes and Baylor were so enthusiastic, and naturally said unreservedly: "Now that the imperial court wants to pacify the Jinhua thieves, the first thing is to let the princes, Baylor, and Beizi go all out to serve the imperial court until the last moment, and the best way is to establish a feudal town!" ”

The prince and Baylor who were present originally thought that their interests would be damaged, but they were all happy to hear Ruan Dacheng say this, although the trend of militarization within the Qing Dynasty is becoming more and more serious, but everyone did not expect Ruan Dacheng to put forward such a plan to take care of their own interests, so Haoge, who was originally against Ruan Dacheng, was the first to agree: "The ten strategies of Pingnan are indeed unique strategies, and Shandong will be guarded by me!" ”

After all, although he retreated from Xuzhou as soon as possible to preserve most of his troops and did everything possible to enrich his troops, Haoge has less than 10,000 soldiers in his hands now, of which less than half of the soldiers can fight, and now Ruan Dacheng's plan allows him to justifiably annex tens of thousands of Qing troops in Shandong.

As soon as Hauge said this, all the princes and Baylor present were also very enthusiastic: "Although King Su is willing to share worries for the country, the whole province of Shandong can't work hard to Su Wang!" ”

"That's true, everyone is doing their best to serve the imperial court, and Mr. Ruan's plan is indeed the best plan!"

"Shandong Province alone can set up two or three feudal towns!"

"I, Kong Youde, am also willing to do my best to serve the imperial court!"

"Henan can be handed over to Prince Ying, who will be responsible for Shaanxi?"

For the princes and Baylor, this is a political fertilizer, he knows very well that as long as he seizes this opportunity, he will be the emperor in the real sense in his own territory, even if there are a few princes and Baylor who don't understand what a "feudal town" is, naturally someone will popularize the huge benefits to them, and they can also react to support Ruan Dacheng at the first time.

And Dolgon, as the regent, was naturally shocked by Ruan Dacheng's strange strategy: "Ruan Dacheng, are you preparing to harm our Great Qing Kingdom?" Isn't the defeat of King Fu because of the four towns in Jiangbei? ”

And Ruan Dacheng said very confidently: "Hongguang died at the hands of Zuo Liangyu, not because of the four towns, King Yu led the southern expedition at that time to know the situation best, at that time Xingping Bo Gaojie did not die in Suizhou, the Qing Dynasty's southern expedition will definitely not be so smooth, and the Jinhua thieves will not rise quickly!" ”

This is the life of King Duoduo of Yu, so he immediately replied: "I would rather Gao Jie is still alive than the old department of Xingping is used by Jinhua thieves, but is there some Meng Lang in Lifan Town?" ”

He and Dolgon have the same views on many issues, and Ruan Dacheng dispelled his doubts at the first time: "This is the best way to let all the princes and Baylor work together to be loyal to the imperial court, in fact, there is nothing wrong with Hongguang Dynasty establishing the four towns of Jiangbei, what is wrong is the improper use of people, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, and Huang Degong not only have a false reputation, but also fight to the death with ghosts, how can they defend the Jingshi, but the princes and Baylor are completely different!" ”

The princes and Baylor present were all overjoyed when they heard this, they felt that Ruan Dacheng's words were too beautiful, this proposal maximized their interests, and more importantly, since everyone has supreme power in their own territory, the Yue Ming army must have resisted desperately during the Northern Expedition.

Immediately, one of Baylor spoke: "Regent, instead of letting us run around the land, let's become a feudal town, so that we will all do our best to deal with the Jinhua thieves, and we don't need to be distracted by the imperial court!" ”

Such a statement is naturally echoed: "Yes, this is true, after we become a feudal town, we will definitely fight to the death and fight with the Jinhua thieves until the last moment!" ”

"Regent, you should hurry up and agree to this!"

"Regent, what are you hesitating about? If there is any difficulty, we have solved it for you! ”

Now the princes and Baylor are directly surrounding Dolgon, and he must be allowed to agree on the spot.

For Dolgon, it was a real bitter wine that had to be drunk.

From the beginning of Huang Taiji, the Great Qing Kingdom has been striving to transform from a tribal alliance to a feudal state, and in the process of constantly centralizing power, by the time of the regency of Dolgon, he, the regent, was already a man of his word, and no one dared to openly confront him.

But after the two southern expeditions, everyone in the Great Qing Dynasty did not like Dolgon, the regent, and felt that it was Dolgon's indiscriminate command of the two southern expeditions that would cause such an astonishing loss, especially Dolgon's efforts to launch the second southern expedition against the public was hated by the Manchu nobles, and now Dolgon has been the target of the public, and everyone is just venting their anger through Ruan Dacheng's suggestion.

Although Dolgon didn't want to compromise, he knew very well that if he didn't compromise, the consequences would be very serious, even serious to the point of falling to the ground, and now several young Baylors were ready to draw their knives, so he could only follow the ideas of the princes and Baylor: "Since everyone thinks that it is a good thing for the autumn of the survival of the imperial court, then I will naturally be as good as the flow, but the key is how to preserve the prestige of the imperial court!" ”

Although theoretically the feudal towns would have nearly unlimited power and override the imperial court, whether it was human or financial affairs, and could appoint officials large and small on their own, Dolgon's understanding of the feudal towns was completely different, and he still held more power.

But the princes and Baylor are now turning their eyes to Ruan Dacheng: "Since Mr. Ruan has proposed such a clever plan, he must have planned it a long time ago, why don't you tell me how to do it!" ”

The Chengtian Dynasty did not expect that a year after the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty, the Great Qing Dynasty did not learn any historical lessons but decided to establish another feudal town, and the Hongguang Dynasty only established the four towns of Jiangbei and the upstream Ningnan Hou Zuo Liangyu, while the Great Qing Dynasty set up more than a dozen feudal towns in one go, and Shandong, Henan, and Shaanxi, which were led by the Chengtian Dynasty, became the land of feudal towns, and even the small half of the northern Zhili became the power of the feudal towns.

Now the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty is only the provincial capitals of the provinces and the old land outside the Guan, except for the Jingshi Shuntianfu and most of the Zhili, and everyone did not expect Ruan Dacheng to be so tossed, so that the appearance of the entire Qing Dynasty has completely changed.

Although Dolgon tried his best to save a little face for the Qing court, even Gao Yigong, who was born as a martial artist, felt that the national fortune of the Great Qing Kingdom would definitely not last long: "If Jianyu continues to toss like this, I am afraid that there will be no national fortune for a few years, this is God to help my sister and brother-in-law!" ”

Although Gao Yigong was born as a martial artist, he knew very well that Li Zicheng's failure was to continue to rule the world immediately with the experience of fighting the world immediately, and failed to successfully complete the transformation from a thief to a feudal emperor, and the Qing Dynasty had obviously begun to appoint civilian officials to govern the country and achieved great results, but now he has retreated to the idea of fighting the world immediately, and the national fortune will definitely not last long.

And Wang Sunfan, the governor of Huguang opposite him, didn't expect Ruan Dacheng to be so good at tossing: "I almost thought that Ruan Dacheng's plan to build the ten strategies of Pingnan was His Majesty's plan, and later I learned from Fengtian Niangniang that there was no such thing, but this is too exaggerated!" It is already a particularly bold exception for the imperial court to let Hou Zehou go south to serve as the governor of Guangdong, but I didn't expect Jianyu to be so confused, this is really a great idea! ”

The biggest advantage of the Great Qing State at the moment is that although he has countless problems, his daily operation is still a normal country, but as soon as these dozen or so feudal towns are established, the prestige of the Great Qing Dynasty is naturally gone, and it is just the strongest feudal town.

And Gao Yigong also felt that this was too incredible, and he said repeatedly: "It is indeed Tianyou Daming, I originally thought that after Yuan Zongdi went south to Guangxi, most of us were not Azig's opponents, but in this way, the odds of winning are very great!" ”

Liu Yongxi not only sent Houze Hou Tian Jianxiu to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses south and serve as the governor of Guangdong, but now Yuan Zongdi also led 3,000 elites south to Guangxi, in addition to Liu Yongxi's intention to send a loyal battalion to Guiyang, plus several old loyal battalions that have been transferred eastward one after another, the loyal battalion can be said to be almost discounted in strength.

Since the loyal battalion has been transferred east and south, and the old department of the west camp has also been rumored to have gone south, now everyone feels that the Chengtian Dynasty is not ready to launch a northern expedition, after all, after transferring so many troops and horses, the Yue Ming army on the Huguang side has already launched an offensive.

But since Empress Fengtian Gao is Gao Yigong's own sister, Gao Yigong knows a lot of inside information, and now he has understood Liu Yongxi's specific thoughts.

Although Azig in Henan was the strongest and most well-preserved field group in the Qing Army, and Shanxi and Shaanxi both had several feudal towns within one province, but there was only one feudal town in Henan Province, but although Azig got the whole province of Henan except the provincial capital, he now bears several times the responsibility than before.

In the past, Azig spent most of his energy dealing with the Northern Expedition of the Yue Ming army, but now he was distracted from the affairs of the whole province of Henan, and he could not afford to lose a piece of territory.

Stimulated by the continuous southward movement of the Vietnamese Ming army, Azig has now devoted all his energy to pacifying the "rogue bandits" and "local bandits" in the province, not only dispersing his field forces to all the prefectures and counties of the province, but even preparing to personally lead troops to deal with the so-called "Caozhou thieves" of Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and Zuo Menggeng, while the defense of the southern border is placed in a relatively secondary position.

And the Yue Ming army is now advancing north, so it is natural to be able to hit Azig by surprise and even annihilate several Niu Lu and battalion heads of Azig's department, and Wang Sunfan completely agrees with Gao Yigong's point of view: "I think this Northern Expedition has a sixty percent chance of winning, but how to win on the battlefield still requires Empress Fengtian Gao to lead the soldiers of the three armies to gallop on the battlefield!" ”

Gao Yigong didn't expect Wang Sunfan to have such an arrangement: "This Northern Expedition, my sister will also lead the army to conquer in person?" ”