191 Dumb loss
Dolgon's messenger entered and found that there were so many people in the Chinese military tent, and they were all the most powerful group of princes in the Qing Dynasty, and they couldn't help but secretly complain in their hearts.
If this happens, no matter what, he has to face it.
So, he had no choice but to kneel down to salute, and then put his hands on the letter and said: "General Fengtian's recital, please Your Majesty to read it!" ”
Watching the letter turn to Huang Taiji, everyone's eyes were on the messenger. Damn, according to the etiquette system, don't you want to briefly explain the situation? What, dumb?
Seeing this situation, many people sighed in their hearts, could it be, what happened to Dorgon? Otherwise, the messenger will say a great victory or something, right?
Duoduo suddenly became worried, especially when he saw Azig coming over, his heart was even tighter, so he asked directly, "How was the result?" ”
Naturally, Dorgon's messenger knew that he was very close to his brother.
At this time, he asked, he couldn't help but answer, so he said with a lack of anger: "This time, I killed Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao of the Ming Kingdom, destroyed Sun Chengzong and his family, and captured the king of the Ming Kingdom, Zhu Youshu, the king of Jinan, Zhu Ciying, the king of the county, Zhu Cixian, the general of Fengguo, and Feng Xu, the eunuch of the supervising army, and plundered back more than 200,000 people and animals, more than 700,000 taels of silver, and other materials ......."
Listening to the messenger's words, the worry on Dordor suddenly disappeared. Think about it, when did the Qing Dynasty kill the governor of the Ming Kingdom? and that Sun Chengzong, who can be said to be an old opponent of the Qing Dynasty, is now even more destroyed, which is really happy. Also, even the vassal kings of the Ming Kingdom were captured alive, which was something that had never happened in the Qing Dynasty. This time, Dolgon, it can be said that it is a great victory, and he completely defeated Azig.
Thinking so, he deliberately turned to Azig, tilted his head, and let out his nostrils at him, a look of contempt.
The other leaders of the captives were also quite satisfied with Dorgon's victory. After all, it has created several firsts in the history of Jianyu.
Only Azig has a slightly ugly face, although it can be said that the number of people and animals captured is not much different from him, but the other results are brilliant! On the whole, it is true that Dorgon's results are more brilliant.
In this way, in the tent of the Chinese army, the atmosphere is good. There were even a few who forgot that Huang Taiji was sitting there, and even commented he.
"This time he even captured the vassal king alive, this Ming army is really incompetent enough. Let's go back and enter the customs again, and simply plunder the Emperor of Mingguo! ”
"Yes, just like our ancestors, we plundered the two emperors of the Song Kingdom at the beginning, and there are countless concubines, tsk!"
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For a long time, Jianyu has always regarded himself as Houjin, but he didn't know that later generations would pick up their skin, proving that they were not Houjin at all.
At first he watched Dorgon's recital, his face still smiling, but slowly, the smile on his face decreased, and at last, even his face was gloomy, as if it were the sky before the storm.
Suddenly, a "pop" sound was heard, which immediately startled these people in the Chinese military tent, and the leaders of the Jianyu who spoke immediately shut up, with a trace of incomprehension and fear, turned their heads to look at the Manchu Emperor on the handsome seat.
I saw that the letter was slapped on the desk, and Huang Taiji had a cold fat face, as if he was trying to suppress his anger.
When Azig saw it, his heart was overjoyed, his eyes moved, and he immediately played: "I don't know what makes Your Majesty so angry?" ”
Huang Taiji stared at him when he heard the voice, and a sense of fear welled up in Azig's heart.
He knows that this emperor is ruthless, if he is evil, don't look at him on the surface he may smile with you, he will hold a knife in his hand at any time.
However, what relieved him was that Huang Taiji did not stare at him anymore, but glanced at the people in the military tent and shouted coldly: "Dolgon has lived up to his intentions, and the 100,000-strong army has lost nearly 30,000 horses when he enters the pass. When did the Qing Dynasty have such a big loss! ”
As soon as they heard this, everyone was taken aback. Even Azig and Duoduo didn't have the heart to laugh at each other, and looked at Huang Taiji one after another.
These leaders of Jianyu were all fought since childhood, and none of them were straw bales who had never been on the battlefield. Therefore, it was clear to each of them that the loss of almost 30,000 horses was very terrifying. Under normal circumstances, if the losses are close to 30%, the morale of the army will collapse.
And Huang Taiji is obviously more shrewd than them, not only military, but also political, people's livelihood and other things, can be regarded as proficient. Therefore, he understands that this time Dolgon brought 100,000 Qing troops into the customs, and lost nearly 30,000, what a bad impact this will have on the Qing Dynasty!
For a long time, the Qing Dynasty has been victorious against the Ming State repeatedly, and in terms of morale alone, it has maintained a huge advantage. The soldiers of the Qing army will be brave when they see the Ming army, and the soldiers of the Ming State will be afraid of three points when they see the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty; This back and forth will play a very huge role in the victory or defeat of the war.
And now, the Qing army that entered the pass was first annihilated by 5,000 foot soldiers, and then ambushed by the Ming army, losing half of the booty, not to mention, nearly 20,000 men and horses, and even more high-level Qing officials like Turg were killed in battle. These things are definitely a blow to the Qing army that entered the customs. And for those Ming troops who won the Qing army, it was a huge encouragement, and when they met again in the future, that Ming army would be difficult to deal with.
After the war, Dolgon did not dare to hide it from Huang Taiji. So he knows it too. It was precisely because of this that he was even more uneasy in his heart.
In that case, he is self-aware, even if he leads the army by himself, it is very likely that he will be brave to the Ming army. Who could have known that when the Ming army faced the Qing army, it would be so brave and good at fighting, and it was not afraid of death? Who can know that the elite of the Ming army is obviously following behind, how can they suddenly ambush to the front?
From these things, Huang Taiji smelled something very different, something that worried him. He made a decision in his heart, and when he turned back, he must contact the Jin Shang side to find out the key reasons for the sudden change in the Ming army this time. In the officialdom of the Ming Kingdom, I don't know what new situations will appear?
Thinking so, after a while, Huang Taiji also eased up. He glanced below, and suddenly his face was cloudy again, and he said with a smile: "However, most of the people and horses lost are coated minions, and the main force of my Qing Dynasty has not suffered much loss." This time, the general of Fengtian led his troops to gallop in the Daming Pass, and even the vassal king was captured by me, hehe, good, good! ”
Seeing this change in him, the people in the Chinese military tent couldn't react for a while.
Is Dolgon's entry good or bad?
Naturally, they didn't know that Huang Taiji was very, very dissatisfied with this entry in his heart, and his opinion of Dolgon was very big. However, he could not show it like this, otherwise the morale of the Qing army would be greatly damaged. Therefore, he made a decision to try to downplay the negative things of this entry and talk more about the good things brought about by this entry.
This is a dumb loss, and if you eat it, you can only eat it, and you can't make a noise.
As for secretly, Huang Taiji must be held responsible, and in addition, it is necessary to investigate the reason why the Ming army suddenly became brave in this matter. When you turn back against the Ming army, you must fight back fiercely.
Dorgon has returned, so there's no need to stay any longer. Continuing to besiege the city of Jinzhou has lost its meaning.
So, he sent messengers overnight to give instructions to Dolgon's side and explain the details. He believed that the people over there would definitely not be willing to publicize the defeat of the battlefield. Fortunately, they recaptured a lot of materials and people, at least there is something to say, and most of the losses are indeed Baoyi and Mongols, which are easy to replenish. Otherwise, it's hard to cover it up.
The next day, Huang Taiji sent a decree back to Shengjing, and at the same time spread the news that Dolgon had captured the Ming vassal land alive and brought back nearly 200,000 animals and animals throughout the army, but he did not mention the loss of nearly 30,000 horses.
It's just that Huang Taiji didn't know that the Jin merchants he had high hopes for wanted to find out what had happened to the Ming court through the Jin merchants, but it was impossible. Because Jin Shang is now difficult to protect himself!
The flapping of butterfly wings changed a lot for Dolgon's entry this time.
It's a bit of a good thing for Jianyu. At least in the original history, Yue Tuo was infected with smallpox during this entry and died in the pass. However, in this plane, he returned to Liaodong alive.
After this daybreak, the army of Jianyu marched out, leaving a mess and returning to Shengjing. In Daming Jingshi, the civil and military officials who had been worried all night finally slowly understood the reason why the factory guards made such a big move last night when they were in the court.
"What? Yushi Liu Meicai is suspected of rebellion? How is this possible? ”
"What's impossible, he and those arrested rebel grain merchants are all in the same group."
"But those grain merchants can't be rebellious, right?"
"Then what if the Yang Pavilion is also involved?"
"Wouldn't it, Yang Gebu? You said that Yang Gebu was also arrested and plotted rebellion? ”
"Not only the Yang Pavilion Department, but also many imperial histories, all of them have been arrested by the factory guards, ah, I don't know if the factory guards will arrest people?"
"This ...... Isn't the emperor afraid of making a big mess when he arrests people so indiscriminately? ”
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Discussions like this began on a small scale, but then slowly expanded to cover the entire yamen. Many people are very worried, they don't know what the emperor is crazy about, he has raided so many people at once, and most of them are imperial history.
As the saying goes, Xiucai rebelled for three years, and the imperial history is actually just a mouth, if you want to say that there are people in the court who rebel, no matter what, it can't be the imperial history, right?
Thinking like this, many people are worried that the emperor is crazy and messed up. So the question they are most concerned about is whether the emperor will continue to arrest people, and the next one, will he catch himself?
For this reason, they went to the chief officials of their respective yamen one after another, wanting to have a clear explanation.
The chief officials of the yamen were also worried, so they had the courage to look for them one by one, and soon new news came back. It is said that Liu Meicai, Liao Guoxuan, Yang Zhiqi and Yang Sichang, the assistant minister of the cabinet, are suspected of rebellion, and the other imperial histories were only found out and corrupted and bent the law.
It stands to reason that those who have been seized and confiscated are not all guilty of rebellion, which shows that the emperor is differentiated, and they should not be crazy, they should be able to rest assured. But in fact, on the contrary, they didn't expect the emperor to be arrested because those imperial histories were all corrupt, so they were even more worried.
In this world, who hasn't done something unfortunate? Will the emperor still arrest himself when he turns around? After all, before last night, it seemed that everything was still fine, and suddenly it was caught!
All of a sudden, all the yamen of the imperial court basically had no intention of working, worried, and sighed to each other.
At noon, taking advantage of the interval between meals, the officials who had gathered began to discuss.
"It's not a way to go on like this, you can't say who is who, you can arrest whoever you want, right?"
"Then what's the way, it's not to let the Yamen of the Criminal Department arrest people, otherwise, the Yamen of the Criminal Department can also find a reason to resist the will, or the will will will be rejected by the six sections. Now this time, it is the factory guard who is arresting people. It is said that there is not even a driver's post, and people are arrested directly. ”
"Your Majesty, this is not a rule, this ...... This world is ruled by the emperor and our scholars, is it ...... Could it be that the emperor doesn't care about it and wants to be a tyrant? ”
"No, we can't let the emperor mess around like this, as courtiers, we must persuade the emperor and do our duty as courtiers!"
"Yes, we must do something, but we must not let the emperor stink for 10,000 years!"
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In this way, they slowly came to a consensus, although it was impossible to oppose the emperor openly, but they naturally had their means.
Some courtiers began to write letters, asking about the movements of the factory guards, and demanding that the evidence be released, otherwise such a large-scale arrest would inevitably cause panic among the people of Jingshi.
Some courtiers began to ask for leave for various reasons, or headaches, brain fever, or backaches, anyway, they just found a reason to take sick leave, and they all went home. Your emperor is arbitrary, that's okay, you do everything yourself.
If only one or two officials do this, it will be a wave in the sea, and there will be no waves at all. However, when there are more officials on strike, the matter becomes serious. Especially now, after the war, when all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, and there are refugees waiting to be fed, once the imperial court falls into a strike crisis, it will inevitably trigger a series of adverse reactions.
In general, doing such a thing will definitely leave a bad impression on the emperor. However, now these officials are all in danger, and they are worried that they will be arrested by the factory guards because they have done those corrupt and perverse things. Compared to such consequences, what is it to pretend to be sick and go home? Besides, everyone is like this, the law does not blame the public, you are the emperor, is it possible to arrest everyone?
Even those who are waiting for promotion and becoming officials in Beijing have many bribes. If they just arrested a few people because of other things, then these people probably have no scruples, but will clap their hands and vacate their official positions.
But now that the emperor has arrested so many people at one time and raided their homes, these people don't dare to come up at this time. Otherwise, believe it or not, someone will immediately break the bribery matter, can your emperor arrest such a person?
If it is caught, then there will still be no one to do it, and the yamen will still be paralyzed. If they don't catch it, why can they do it and others can't? Your emperor has lost the reason to arrest people, and this is a problem!
By the next day, there were more and more Ming officials in Beijing, and there were more and more strikes, which had begun to affect the operation of the yamen.
Of course, in terms of public opinion, these officials will not be so stupid to put out their same corrupt and perverted the law, saying that the emperor, you can't deal with this; The apparent reasons are that they have raised all kinds of doubts about this rebellion case.
Grain merchant rebellion? Is this possible?
Imperial history rebellion? It's a joke, right?
A rebellion by such an important minister as the Yang Cabinet Department? No one believes that he is even a powerful minister, right?
This kind of questioning, they are justified in questioning, because they feel that the emperor has arrested these grain merchants and officials for the crime of treason, how can he convince the people of the world? As long as you grasp this point, people in the world will definitely question it, even if you are an emperor, under such great pressure, it will be impossible to bear it!
Emperor, you want to be willful, right, then wait and see! In this world, it is no longer the emperor who can do whatever he wants!
In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen had already learned of these things at the first time. In fact, he had expected this.
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