Chapter 140 The Prime Minister Must Begin in the State and County
Since Dorgon is unwilling to take all the responsibility, then the princes and Baylor are afraid that they will fight to the death at that time, but the Great Qing Kingdom is originally a barbarian, and the tradition of deliberation is not decided by the tribal leader, so everyone thinks that it is not a bad thing to make a noise when the time comes.
And Dolgon also said calmly: "Anyway, everyone will take responsibility when the time comes, and it is up to everyone to decide whether our Great Qing Kingdom retreats to the outside of the gate now!" ”
As soon as Dolgon's words came out, the audience naturally burst into an uproar.
After the defeat of the previous Duoduo and Haogenan expeditions, there was a suggestion within the Qing Dynasty to abandon the Central Plains and return to the hometown of Longxing in Liaodong, after all, the Huang Taiji period was a very beautiful and romantic time for them.
After entering the customs, although the great mountains and rivers and tens of millions of people were taken, but also the Qing army, which is known for its invincibility in cavalry and archery, encountered new problems, and many people felt that it was better to retreat outside the customs according to the story of Huang Taiji with Shanhaiguan as the boundary, and when they wanted to enter the customs and plunder the spoils.
However, the opinions of these people have been comprehensively criticized, after all, from Nurhachi to Huang Taiji, the Great Qing Kingdom has fought hard for decades and experienced many wars and vicious battles, just for the sake of entering the customs, but it is not a great hatred to pay such an astonishing sacrifice to retreat outside the customs.
And it is just that he didn't enter the customs before, after entering the customs, since so many gold, silver, jade, silk and beautiful houses and fields have been obtained, how can he give up such a luxurious life and enjoy returning to the bitter cold place outside the customs, and Dolgon even borrowed the support of these vested interests to forcibly launch the second southern expedition.
However, the Second Southern Expedition was defeated again, and the Great Qing Kingdom was once again faced with the question of whether to retreat outside the Guan, and when the time came, there would be a lot of quarrel around this issue, even to the extent that both sides were wielding knives, and I am afraid that if they did not quarrel until they were exhausted, both sides would not give up their views.
The prince who was present suddenly felt that no matter whether he wanted to retreat outside the customs or not, the Great Qing Kingdom would not be the same Great Qing Kingdom as before.
And for the Chengtian Dynasty, the great victory of the Battle of Xuzhou gave this nascent dynasty all the legitimacy at once, whether it was the south or the south, whether it was the gentry, the scholar or the Shengdou careful to regard the Chengtian Dynasty as the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, and the thing that the scholars in the world are most looking forward to now is that the Chengtian Dynasty can open the imperial examination.
Although everyone knows very well that the Chengtian Dynasty, as the orthodoxy of the world, will sooner or later open the imperial examination, but the scholars know very well that the first imperial examination of the Chengtian Dynasty will be extraordinarily relaxed, and there are even many extraordinarily generous moves, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for many scholars who feel that it is difficult to obtain the examination under normal circumstances.
And Liu Yongxi didn't expect the Jianghuai war to end so quickly, Dolgon not only did not sweep the Jianghuai and even Xuzhou did not take it, although Xuzhou was full of dangers, there were many situations that Liu Yongxi expected, but in the end there was a big victory without danger.
According to the grapevine, the Qing envoy was already on the way, and the negotiation condition was that the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River were bounded by the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River, which Emperor Hongguang had failed to reach by all means last year.
Since Xuzhou is in the hands of the Chengtian Dynasty, it is insincere for the Qing State to put forward this condition, and the Qing Dynasty failed in its two southern expeditions, and the Chengtian Dynasty occupied an absolute advantage on the battlefield, and it was absolutely impossible to take the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River as the boundary, and many people suggested that the Yellow River should be used as the boundary.
But for Liu Yongxi, the biggest change in this victory is that his orders suddenly become easy to use, no matter what he wants or what orders he has, naturally someone will take all the details into consideration with the highest efficiency at the first time.
A typical example is that Sun Kewang was originally hesitant about the appointment of the pacification of Yunnan, although Liu Yongxi had high hopes for him, but Sun Kewang always felt that Liu Yongxi's order might hide some conspiracy, but after the news of the victory of the Yue Ming army over the Qing army in Xuzhou, Sun Kewang immediately changed his attitude and prepared to set off immediately, and he even proposed to solve the money, food and all the materials needed for the march by himself, as long as the imperial court could fulfill his promise to let him pacify Yunnan.
After all, he had already saved a staggering amount of gold and silver when he was under Zhang Xianzhong, and this amazing bloody wealth after entering the Chengtian Dynasty was not a good thing.
And Liu Yongxi is also good as a stream, and then the Hunan problem that plagued the Yue Ming army for more than half a year has also been completely solved, although He Tengjiao is known as 100,000 elites, but just one Sun Kewang is enough to solve the whole province of Hunan, not to mention that Liu Yongxi also sent Hao Shaoqi, a fierce general, led by the loyal town to accompany him.
But even if Liu Yongxi sent a cat and a dog over, he could still easily solve the Hunan problem, and the first to greet him was He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang of the Chongzhen Dynasty and the Longwu Dynasty, but He Tengjiao had already come too late, so Liu Yongxi directly placed him in the General's Mansion as Jin Shenghuan's deputy.
This arrangement is simply an insult to He Tengjiao, a local magistrate from a jinshi, but everyone has no objection to Liu Yongxi's disposal, and even He Tengjiao himself said that "thunder, rain and dew are all graces", and went to Nanjing very happily to take office.
He Tengjiao is the dignified governor of Huguang after all, although he was snubbed in the Chengtian Dynasty, he still saved his life and even preserved his official position, but Wang Jincai, another general from the Dashun Army, did not have such good luck.
At the beginning, Emperor Chengtian and Empress Fengtian asked him to go to Jingzhou to join the army, but Wang Jincai not only refused to accept the edict but also sent soldiers and horses to intercept Hao Shaoqi's soldiers and horses going north, and now that the Chengtian Dynasty has won a great victory, Wang Jincai can only die.
In fact, Wang Jincai also wanted to surrender to the Chengyue Ming army before the battle, but the generals under his command knew very well that if Wang Jincai could succeed, their old generals would definitely be unlucky, so they did not hesitate to offer their heads to Hao Shaoqi, who was heading south.
Among Liu Yongxi's series of complicated operations, the most surprising thing was to let Jiang Yueguang, a cabinet minister who accompanied the army, sit in Changsha to temporarily regify the governor of Hunan, while Wang Sunfan, the former governor of Jiangxi, who had never entered the cabinet, instead served as the governor of Huguang and became Jiang Yueguang's top boss.
Let's not talk about whether Liu Yongxi's operation of dividing Huguang Province into Hunan and Hubei is reasonable, Wang Sun Fan, who has never entered the cabinet, is above the cabinet minister Jiang Yueguang, which is an operation that no one can understand, and there is no such precedent in the history of this dynasty.
But although everyone couldn't understand Liu Yongxi's operation, no one raised any objections, after all, although the Chengtian Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were nominally in the same line, they were actually two completely different dynasties, and many of the traditions of the Ming Dynasty would definitely be broken, and even Jiang Yueguang, who was with the army, breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, he is not the descendant of Emperor Liu Yongxi, although he has entered the cabinet but has no foundation at all, although he has been getting along with Emperor Chengtian during this time, but he doesn't know how to find his place in the cabinet, after all, he is completely different from Zhang Guowei and Zhu Dadian, and the relationship between Liu Yongxi and the queens is even worse than that of Hubu Shangshutong.
Although it is a new challenge to sit in Changsha to govern Hunan, since Liu Yongxi has given him such an important position, he naturally trusts him very much, and in terms of qualifications in the Chengtian Dynasty, he is indeed inferior to Wang Sun Fan, so he just hopes to have a chance to meet the saint before he patrols Hunan.
And Liu Yongxi immediately said his thoughts: "The prime minister must start from the state and county, and the fierce general must be sent from the army, the biggest difference between this dynasty and the Hongguang dynasty is here, so I hope Mr. Yan Ji can understand my good intentions!" ”
Jiang Yueguang knew that Liu Yongxi was talking about the biggest difference between "this dynasty and the Hongguang dynasty", but this was actually the biggest difference between the story of the Chengtian Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.
Although there are indeed people in the Hongwu Dynasty who are candidates for prime minister, but after orthodoxy, it is already "non-Jinshi cannot be Hanlin, non-Hanlin is not allowed to enter the cabinet", but the two hundred years of ancestral family law has not been able to break, and only this nominally Zhongxing Ming Emperor Chengtian dares to break the convention, I am afraid that there will be more and more examples of ministers to pacify the local area in the future: "Your Majesty has a good intention, and the old minister has a heart!" Your Majesty wants to experience Weichen, and Lu Zhenfei should have done the same before Governor Fujian! ”
Liu Yongxi laughed: "That's right, when the situation in Fujian stabilizes, Lu Xiangguo will still go back to Beijing to do business, Mr. Jiang is now patrolling Hunan, and when the situation in Hunan stabilizes, I will choose a suitable governor. ”
Liu Yongxi said his thoughts so frankly, Jiang Yueguang naturally expressed his understanding: "Your Majesty, this is to train the old minister more, and the old minister will serve the court no matter what position he goes!" ”
And Liu Yongxi immediately laughed: "Mr. Yan Ji, rest assured, the DPRK has already left you a position in Xiangguo!" ”
Jiang Yanji knew that according to Liu Yongxi's idea that "the prime minister must start from the state and county, and the fierce general must be sent to the army", I am afraid that most cabinet ministers will have to experience a few years in the position of governor and governor before they really enter the cabinet, and they are ahead of others, so they are naturally determined, but he still reminded him: "Your Majesty is thinking about a thousand years of plans, and he is naturally more thoughtful than the old ministers, but I heard that the imperial court is going to negotiate peace with the Qing State?" ”
Liu Yongxi also said frankly: "Negotiation of peace is just a banner, the country will send a division to the Northern Expedition sooner or later, since the Beijing division is still in the hands of the Qing State, no matter how you talk about it, you can't talk about the result, I Liu Yongxi is not willing to be the son of heaven in the Southern Dynasty, and Mr. Jiang is naturally not willing to be the prime minister of the Southern Kingdom!" ”
Jiang Yueguang likes Liu Yongxi, who has the atmosphere of the founding emperor: "Since Your Majesty has figured it out, the old minister will naturally rest assured, but when will the country prepare for the Northern Expedition?" ”