Chapter 491: Dolgon's Heart Is Like Ashes
Beijing City, the Imperial Palace Jinluan Palace.
Since Dolgon woke up, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty asked to see Dolgon, and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and the little emperor of Shunzhi directly took the opportunity to let Dolgon meet with the hundred officials in the Jinluan Palace, in fact, in the current situation that the Ming army is about to come to the city, the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang and the Emperor Shunzhi can not sit still, or no one in the entire Qing Dynasty can sit still.
Dolgon agreed to the request of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and the little emperor of Shunzhi, and summoned hundreds of civil and military officials in the Jinluan Hall of the imperial palace to discuss state affairs.
The first thing Dolgon did was to tell the hundred officials about the fact that he had written a letter to the Ming Emperor to sue for peace.
In this regard, whether it was the Manchus, the Han or the Mongols, they were silent, and for a while the entire Jinluan Hall was quiet, and everyone tacitly stopped discussing and waited for the decision of the Ming Emperor to come.
More than an hour later, a general with a white flag walked into the hall quickly under the call of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and the Emperor Shunzhi.
"Emperor Qi, Queen Mother, Regent, the envoy brought back the reply of the Ming Emperor, the Ming refused to surrender, and the Ming Emperor said bluntly that there is only one way in the Qing Dynasty, and that is to lay down the arms and surrender unconditionally!" The white flag general knelt on one knee on the ground and presented the letter of request for peace written by Dolgon himself, without any traces of opening the envelope, indicating that the Ming Emperor did not even bother to read the letter of peace, and the decision to refuse to make peace was so firm.
At this moment, the entire Jinluan Hall was fried.
Emperor Daming's refusal to sue for peace doesn't mean that he doesn't intend to give the Qing Dynasty a way to live at all?
The Manchurians were angry, shouting loudly that they still had the strength to fight a battle, and they would send troops to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army again, and most of the Han officials also clamored for another decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty, but the Mongols were all silent, their eyes flashed, and they did not say anything, but their thoughts were not difficult to guess.
The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, who was behind the curtain, couldn't help but look at her brother Wu Keshan, the representative of the Mongolian Horqin Tribe.
It's a pity that after Wu Keshan found out, although he was a little unbearable, he still turned his head and once again showed Mongolia's attitude, and subconsciously felt that the Manchus would undoubtedly lose this time, and they couldn't even keep the ancestral land of Liaodong, and there was no room to turn over, and Mongolia could no longer continue to be a hardcore ally of the Manchus for its own interests.
Dolgon looked coldly at the civil and military officials on the Jinluan Palace.
In the final analysis, it is still the Manchu children who are the most credible, the Mongols seem to have turned away from the Qing Dynasty, and even disregard Da Yu'er's face, which is enough to explain everything, as for those Han people who are also clamoring loudly, their thoughts are even clearer.
Most of these Han officials are the sons of the scholars and heroes, representing the interests of the scholars and heroes, and the Ming Dynasty obviously suppressed the scholars and heroes, and they have helped the Qing Dynasty to fight against the Ming Dynasty for so long, and the things have been done, and the money has come out, in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, they are the representatives of the traitors, if the Qing Dynasty is really defeated, they have no good fruit to eat, and they wish that the Qing Dynasty would continue to fight with the Ming Dynasty in order to protect them.
Dolgon did not admit defeat, and also wanted to take the Eight Banners and the Ming Dynasty to continue the war, but the Qing Dynasty's nearly two million troops were defeated under the Ming Army's Northern Expedition, and now the Eight Banners can still fight less than 30,000, and the Han Banner Army is less than 100,000, that is to say, if the Mongols are not counted, the Qing Dynasty only has 130,000 Qing Dynasty can take it. Those Han people may have no way to retreat, and they have to make a desperate bet, and they want to have a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty, but he Dolgon can't do that, he must leave a little last fire for the Manchus, otherwise he will lose all the young and strong people and have only one way to exterminate the clan!
Dorgon looked at the void of the Golden Luan Hall with infinite confusion in his eyes.
He thought about his whole life.
From the age of 12 to the age of 14, he went to Mongolia with his father Khan for the first time, and in the two years, as his father's favorite son, he was wherever his father Khan went.
When he was fourteen years old, his father Khan's army was defeated under the city of Ningyuan, and he was seriously injured and died. It is rumored that before his father Khan died, he personally passed the throne to him, and the edict was in the hands of his father Khan's concubine and his mother, but before he could see the edict, Eniang was forced to death by Huang Taiji and Dai Shan and other four people, and Huang Taiji ascended to the throne.
Huang Taiji is the starling he respects, if there is no scene of Eniang being forced to die, even if he believes in the edict of his father Khan, but he will not care whether he sits on the Khan seat or the starling sits on the Khan seat, if the starling sits on the Khan seat, he believes in the starling's talent, and will try his best to assist the starling, there will be no two hearts, he is sincere, but unfortunately he didn't see it, the starling and others should not have waited for him to express his position and directly forced his Eniang to death.
He really doesn't care about the throne, but Eniang died because of it, and since then he has hated Huang Taiji, but he knows very well that he is too weak to fight against Huang Taiji who has ascended to the throne, all he can do is to make a lot of military exploits, gain the trust of Huang Taiji, and then take revenge and regain the throne that should belong to him.
Since then, at the age of sixteen, he led his troops to Mongolia for the first time, won a great victory, and was awarded the seal of Shanbeile with his military exploits.
In the next ten years, he fought every year, continued to go on expeditions, and made a large number of military exploits, and finally when he was twenty-four years old, because of the re-breaking of Mongolia, the surrender of the Mongolian Chahar Lin Dan Khan's descendant Ezhe, for the Qing Dynasty to completely subjugate the Mongolian tribes, by the Prince of Rui, in the palm of the two banners, indirect control of the four phases of the army, since then, he began to have the capital to compete with the Emperor Taiji.
In the next few years, in addition to his war, Amin and Mang Gurtai were convicted, Amin was imprisoned and died, Mang Gurtai was cut off after his death, and half of the revenge was avenged, and then he continued to fight with Huang Taiji.
It's a pity that he was still too tender after all, and finally couldn't fight Huang Taiji, and at the age of twenty-nine, he was caught by Huang Taiji, took the opportunity to ask for guilt, and cut the prince and part of the military power, for which he was depressed for a while, but then he regained his strength. The following year, he defeated the Ming army again, and made several military exploits, forcing Huang Taiji to restore his royal title and military power, since then, he saw that Huang Taiji was not invincible, and he tried his best to confront Huang Taiji.
Finally, in the year he was thirty-one years old, Huang Taiji died, he finally died, and no one could suppress him anymore.
Then, although he did not ascend the throne as soon as Huang Taiji died, he only became a regent, and let Huang Taiji's son Fulin ascend the throne, but then, as he gradually became powerful, as long as he wanted, he could abolish Fulin on the throne at any time, but he did not do that, he had suffered the sin, he wanted to let Huang Taiji's son suffer again, let Huang Taiji's son taste what it feels like to be held down and unable to move, in fact, there is another reason, that is, Da Yuer, This is a woman he must get, and because of her, he has never been cruel to Fu Lin.
Before the battle of Yan Dangshan, he finally got this woman and pressed this woman under him, fulfilling one of his long-cherished wishes for many years.
Thinking of this, Dolgon subconsciously glanced at the big jade behind the curtain, and then at the little fulin beside her.
Forget it, that's the end of it.
I thought that I would lead the Eight Banners into the customs and sweep half of the Han people in a short period of time, and the Qing Dynasty could occupy all the splendid rivers and mountains of the Han people just like the Mongols back then.
It's a pity that the situation in the early stage is excellent, not to mention himself, even the whole world thinks that he can really finally destroy the Ming Dynasty and occupy all the splendid rivers and mountains of the Han people, but although the Ming Dynasty only has half of the country, it also retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, it seems that it is surviving, but it has also changed an emperor, since then, the Ying Dragon Army was born, and the Ming Dynasty has completely changed.
Today, the Ming Dynasty has changed even more, a Northern Expedition, not only forced him to lose eight battles, but could only retreat to Beijing City to survive, even the ancestral land of Liaodong, at this moment was occupied by a sea-crossing army of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty really did not have any strength to resist the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was defeated, completely defeated, and there was no room to turn over.
Thinking of the current situation, Dolgon's heart was shattered and he was in despair.
After a while, Dolgon suddenly walked down the steps without saying a word, and walked towards the outside of the Jinluan Palace, leaving a group of civil and military officials who were stunned, the Queen Mother and the Little Emperor of Shunzhi, and others, all of whom did not know what had happened.