On the ninth day of June in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Shengjing, Dazheng Palace.

After more than a month of counting the spoils of war and evaluating the merits of various ministries and banners, Huang Taiji finally sorted out the aftermath of the robbery.

Chengjun Wang, the mighty general Yue Tuo died in battle, and he had to mourn and give him a canon. Huang Taiji issued an order to posthumously present Yue Tuo as Prince Cheng, giving five camels, two horses, and ten thousand taels of silver. Dropped out of the dynasty for three days to show mourning, and went to the spirit to drink wine and burn paper to worship, Yue Tuo can be said to have died well. Dai Shan thanked Huang Taiji as a father.

However, after Yue Tuo's death, the position of the owner of the Zhenghong Banner became the target of competition from all sides.

The side led by Dolgon proposed that according to the old system of Emperor Taizu Gao and the holy decree promulgated by the emperor, those who returned to their hometowns with the body on their backs could get half of the deceased's family property, and then half of the population and property of Niu Lu in the name of Yue Tuo should go to Prince Rui, who recaptured Prince Cheng's body. These populations will be assigned to the Positive White Flag, or Azig will be the banner owner of the Positive Banner.

And Huang Taiji's henchmen, led by Haoge, He Luohui, Ao Bai and others, strongly opposed this proposal. But I couldn't find any suitable reason, so I had to use the two red flags to fight hard repeatedly, and the number of people was sharply reduced, and Dai Shan should be in charge to recuperate for a few years.

But this proposal was also openly and secretly obstructed by Dai Shan, how could he use his property to repay the favor to the dead ghost son? This is not allowed in any way!

However, Yuetuo's sons quietly ran to Hauge and begged the uncle to help administer justice. First, we can't let the Niu Lu population of Zhenghongqi fall into the hands of outsiders. Second, we can't let Zhenghongqi's property loss be too large, and third, Daishan is too old, so let's live at home!

Huang Taiji, who got this bottom line, balanced left and right, and saw that the Dolgon brothers showed a benevolent and affectionate demeanor just right, so he simply got off the donkey and rewarded the position of the owner of the Red Flag to the head of Shuotuo, who guarded Baoding and took care of the capture!

(Li Peiting smirked, starling.) Spare you like a ghost. You still have to drink Lao Tzu's footwashing water! ）

Du Du, who was only spared from the defeat, was denied the opportunity to distribute the spoils of the battle, and the title of Anping Belle was stripped and ordered to hand over twenty good horses to atone for his crimes. But. The location of the owner of the Red Flag with the Red Flag of Du Du. But he barely managed to stay under the protection of the prestige of the Dolgon brothers.

After that, he took the advice of Dorgon, Prince Rui, who was ordered to be the general of the army. The banner of the Han army was greatly expanded, and the Tianyou soldiers of Kong Youde's department, the Tianzhu soldiers of Geng Zhongming's department, and dozens of clothed cattle records compiled and trained by Dolgon were merged. At the same time, tens of thousands of people who had been looted back from Korea were stuffed in, and they were organized into the four banners of the Han army. On the basis of the original Han military flag, the blue flag was slightly changed, and there were four kinds of pure blue inlaid yellow, pure blue inlaid white, pure blue inlaid red and pure cyan.

Kong Youde became the solid mountain of the Han army's red flag, Shang Kexi was the blue flag and the mountain was true, and Geng Zhongming was the yellow flag and the mountain was true. Shi Tingzhu is the Gushan Ezhen of the white flag, because of their reasons, the surnames Shang, Geng, Shi, Li, Tong, Zu, Cai, Wang and other surnames have become the eight surnames of the Han army.

Today is the day when the coffin of Prince Cheng Yuetuo will be buried. Huang Taiji also went to the supreme sacrifice in plain clothes.

Although it has been forbidden to carry out large-scale funeral activities in the form of so-called "cooking rice" and "throwing paper" since the time of Nurhachi, the traditional force is still very strong, especially under the auspices of Shuoto, the newly taken over the banner master, Zhenghongqi held Yue Tuo's funeral extremely prosperously, and almost the entire Shengjing was alarmed.

The so-called "cooking rice" and "throwing paper" customs. It is the tradition of the Jurchens to burn the deceased "all the things they eat and drink" during their lifetime. There are also rich and noble families who burn the dogs and horses they kept during their lifetimes. Although Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, father and son have repeatedly warned the Eight Banners to save food utensils, but today, Zhenghongqi still threw the weapons, armor, clothes, bedding and other things used by Yue Tuo into the fire and burned them together, and pushed several war horses and several hunting dogs that Yue Tuo rode before his death into the fire and burned them, so that they would continue to serve this master in the underworld.

Seeing hundreds of sets of brand-new clothes being burned by a fire, the officials and people in Shengjing City were all speechless, and Huang Taiji also shook his head in his heart. However, Fan Wencheng, the senior scholar of the Third Inner Academy, whispered in his ear, "Master! The minions thought it was a good thing! The more Shuotuo is like this, the better it will be for the master! ”

After figuring out the trick here, Huang Taiji was also happy to see Zhenghongqi extravagantly and wastefully holding a funeral for Yue Tuo.

Back in the palace, Huang Taiji untied the white cloth robe around his waist and the mourning clothes, and ordered someone to take his milk to drink.

"Your Majesty, Prince Rui is asking to see you outside the palace. It is said that there is a major military event to report to the emperor. ”

Before the cup of hot tits was finished, the commander of the Kabush Virtuous Soldiers, the Yellow Banner Xuzhang Jing Ashan, announced outside the palace that Dolgon had arrived.

"Xuan."

Huang Taiji's black face could not see joy, anger and sorrow, his mind was spinning rapidly, this fourteenth brother has gained a lot from entering the customs this time, and when he entered the palace at this time, he didn't know what was going on in Lu Dao.

"Your Majesty, can the concubines listen to you and Prince Rui behind the screen?"

Bumu Butai, the concubine of the Horqin Department who had just rounded the house, put away the porcelain bowl with her tits, and asked Huang Taiji's opinion with a smile.

"It's good! Don't alarm the fourteenth prince is. ”

For this Dafujin's niece and his new favorite, Huang Taiji has always been fond of him.

"The slave greets the emperor."

Outside the hall, Dolgon put down a huge package in his hand and gave Huangtai Ji a thousand greetings in a proper manner. Although he hated Huang Taiji to the core, Dolgon achieved the ultimate in forbearance, and in terms of etiquette and details, people couldn't find fault with a magnifying glass.

After some etiquette, Huang Taiji ordered Dolgon to sit down and speak.

"Fourteenth brother." Hearing these words of brotherly tenderness, Dorgon hurriedly got up and knelt down to thank him, but did not dare to resign.

"This is a conversation between you and my brother, and those mundane gifts will be put aside first." Huang Taiji deliberately showed his open-mindedness and generosity.

After Huang Taiji put on a show, he began to understand Dorgon's intentions.

"The slave led the army this time and entered the customs with Prince Cheng. Although the capture was quite rich and the results were brilliant, Prince Cheng was unfortunately martyred in a battle with the Ming army. The minion went back and thought about it, and finally found the crux of the problem. ”

Hearing Dolgon say this, Huang Taiji couldn't help but be shocked. If the reason for the defeat of Jinan can be found, it is bound to be avoided when fighting the Ming army in the future, and even treat others in their own way.

"Fourteenth brother, hurry up!"

"When the minions fought against Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, in Julu Jiazhuang, they found that this generation was not comparable to other Ming armies. The firebolts were released in rows as our Eight Banners warriors attacked. Originally, the minions thought that these firearms would definitely explode if they hit them a few more times, but these Nikans kept casting. ”

And what surprised Dorgon even more that day. Do not fire until the Jiannubu archers begin to draw their bows and arrows. When the archer enters the effective range of the bow and starts to draw his arrow. At the same time, it is also the best range of the firebolt. The Tianxiong Army struck row after row of firearms, and one by one the Eight Banner warriors fell to the ground. Blood, melted the frozen land.

Thinking of the bloody battle that day, Dolgon's slender eyes filled with tears.

"The Ming army has sharp firearms. If it can be used properly. But it is the great enemy of my Eight Banners warriors. ”

Dorgon ordered the large package he had placed outside the temple to be brought in. When it was opened, it was the remains of more than a dozen firearms.

"Your Majesty, please take a look. This is the fire gun captured by the minions in several battles with the Nanzhong Army in Changqing. ”

Huang Taiji was no stranger to the firebolts, but he was also a little surprised when he carefully examined the firebolts that Dorgon had placed in front of him. These firecrackers are made of one-color pure steel, and the mouths are strict and fine, and they are generally the same.

"The most ruthless, poisonous, and deadly thing about this thing is that it won't explode even a few guns! It's a pity that the fire rope is used, which is not as good as the Lumi Gun and the self-generated Fire Gun of the Shenji Battalion. ”

"Your Majesty, the minions captured a garrison in the Guanning army, this person is good at using firearms, and when the slave ordered him to watch these firecrackers, the slave told the slaves that there are two more poisonous places in these firearms! If you don't know the inside story, you will definitely suffer a big loss! ”

"What's so bad? Tell me about it! ”

At this time, Huang Taiji, the more he looked at Dolgon, the more pleasing he felt to the eye, and he was able to show him the experience on the battlefield and the capture of his subordinates, which was much stronger than other banner owners! He knew that all the banner owners had some small calculations and cautious eyes, even his eldest son Haoge was not like this?

"Your Majesty, please forgive the slave for the crime of losing his honor in front of the king."

Dolgon confessed, took a relatively complete fire gun in his hand, looked through the pile of parts on the side, found a half-broken spur, looked at it slightly, combined the sleeve with the gun, rotated it slightly, and with a soft click, the spur and the gun tube were tightly combined.

"Your Majesty, please take a look."

With both hands, he handed Huang Taiji the fire gun with the thorn on it.

"This is a sword?" Huang Taiji looked at the half-cut spur in his hand, and the fire prickle that broke the stinger.

"Not bad. Your Majesty, when the minions fought against the Nanzhong Army that day, the Southern Barbarians' fire guns were equipped with such swords on the gun tubes after several volleys. After that, the musketeers became short spearmen and were not afraid of close combat. Moreover, this group of Nikans also has vicious tricks when they are in hand-to-hand combat. That is, when he was only a few steps away from the officers and men of our army, he suddenly used the preloaded ammunition in the gun tube to break up the formation of our officers and men. They seem to have some kind of formation for the use of the sword, and they cooperate with each other tacitly. Obviously, a single Nikan martial arts is commonplace, even the Eight Banners Cultivation Soldiers are stronger than them! But if a few Nikans are together, they can deal with several Baturu without falling behind. ”

"Although my Eight Banners soldiers are brave and incomparable, but after all, there are few people, if every Ming army is like this, I am afraid, I can't afford to consume my Eight Banners!"

At this point, the atmosphere in the hall fell silent, and neither Huang Taiji nor Dolgon stopped talking, but only pondered. After a while, Huang Taiji suddenly woke up from his thoughts, and he didn't realize that his clothes were already soaked with sweat.

"It's really hot in June." Seeing that Dolgon's bare head was covered with beads of sweat, Huang Taiji called for Concubine Zhuang to come out.

"Take out those South China Sea Immortal Dew that my fourteenth brother seized a few days ago, chill them, and send them here."

Watching Bumu Butai fly away like a lark on the prairie, Dorgon withdrew his gaze.

"This South China Sea Immortal Dew was captured when it broke through the high diving camp. The same is the Ming army. is also equipped with Nanban equipment, Lu Xiangsheng is much more difficult to deal with than Gao Qi Dien! ”

"This is the reason why Lu Xiangsheng still has mourning after his death, and Gao Qiqian was shown to the public by the emperor of the Ming Kingdom."

When Shouhan received the order to enter Beijing to accept the reward and lead the army and horses into the city, what attracted the most attention of the civil and military officials of the people of Beijing was not the capture of those who showed their achievements, but a tablet that was obviously made in a hurry.

The makeshift tablet has not yet dried, and in many places the white stubble of the wood, which is two feet long, is still exposed. The huge tablet three feet wide was carried on the shoulders of twenty-four sturdy sergeants. It is enshrined with flowers and fruits. Literate people read out the names on the tablets.

"Emperor Ming Xuan, the Governor of the Military Department, Shangshu Lu Gong, is like a promotion!"

The Han guards ordered Lu Xiangsheng's coffin to be placed at the front of the queue, so that dozens of soldiers of the Tianxiong Army who survived were escorted to the most glorious part of the old chief's journey. With the march of the spiritual seat and coffin, the officials and people along the way kept kneeling down and saluting, "Lord Lu." Big Hero! "Lord Lu. Dry country loyalty! ”

Above the Heavenly Street, in front of the Daming Gate. Under the dense layers of guards of the Praetorian Guard, Emperor Chongzhen had already led his ministers here to wait for the arrival of the triumphant army.

When Lu Xiangsheng's coffin came up, Emperor Chongzhen mourned. Choked up with tears. The ministers whispered comforts beside them, asking the emperor to take care of the dragon's body. And Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Yang Sichang, the second assistant, stood behind Emperor Chongzhen, crying even more tears.

Then, in the praise of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, Chongzhen ascended to the Chengtian Gate and listened to Li Shouhan, who knelt down in front of the Jinshui Bridge, loudly reported his military exploits. Subsequently, Shouhan captured dozens of Soren dead soldiers, more than 200 officers and soldiers at all levels of various banners, and nearly 1,000 Mongolian Eight Banner Cloth Miscellaneous Soldiers.

At this time, the ceremony of sacrificing prisoners and offering Jiejie entered the climax, and the people of Beijing who watched the ceremony shouted long live, and Chongzhen ordered that more than 1,000 people be imprisoned, and they were divided into three times to be killed at the gates of various parts of the Beijing Division.

"Li can be regarded as using the head of my Eight Banners soldier to exchange himself for an earl, but unfortunately, there are too many people in the Ming Dynasty who despise him." Drinking the dew of the South China Sea that had been chilled with ice cubes in the Hunhe River in winter, Huang Taiji couldn't help but be a little cynical about Li Shouhan's situation.

"Yes! Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers were awarded the earl in a war, only the new king Yangming was alone, and the military generals were the servants in the eyes of the civil officials. ”

Regarding such a big news that Li Shouhan was named Ning Yuanbo, Huang Taiji and others naturally had a detailed work lurking in the Beijing Division to report it to Pegasus as soon as possible.

Huang Taiji has also become accustomed to the disgusting Li Shouhan and himself by the officials of the Ming State in the open, but a few generals and children and grandchildren who don't understand it very well are clamoring and threatening to set foot in the capital and capture the group of such presumptuous officials alive to give the emperor this bad breath.

For his subordinates' active pursuit of war, Huang Taiji had to encourage them first, and then give them an order to explain that it was powerful.

"Now that my soldiers have just returned from the customs and war, it is the soldiers and horses who are extremely tired and need to recuperate. When the turmoil in the Ming Dynasty arises, our army will attack the Ming again! ”

However, with this secret report comes another thing.

In the agreed reward, in addition to being canonized as Ning Yuanbo, Li Shouhan was promoted to the chief military officer of Nanzhong in his own official position, and he was even used as a naval division to carry out coastal defense and anti-smuggling matters in Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang provinces. For his loyal behavior of serving the country, the court and the central government from the emperor to the minister of civil and military affairs all admired, but this praise also contained evil intentions.

Yang Sichang and Wang Dehua successively preached to the emperor and the ministers who participated in the celebration banquet held for Li Shouhan that the soldiers of the Beijing camp went to battle with them this time, and they made considerable progress, and if they could have more experience, it would be just around the corner to reproduce the majesty of the two ancestors.

followed, Yang Sichang praised Ning Yuanbo and Li Shouhan in front of him for being good at training and using soldiers. I implore the emperor to entrust him with the important task of rectifying the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp.

For such a task, Shouhan naturally thanked Busen, the reason was that his envoy in the south also had to work hard, if he rectified the Beijing camp in the capital, wouldn't he miss the painstaking work entrusted by the emperor? But he also said that as long as the minister Li Shouhan can do it, he will do his best to do it.

Unexpectedly, Yang Sichang waited for this sentence.

"Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that Ning Yuanbo is diligent in state affairs, loyal to the country, loyal to the sun and the moon, and there are also people who are not skilled for a while. However, in the humble opinion of the ministers, Ning Yuanbo would not recommend the virtuous to represent himself, select a few from the generals under his command, and lead the troops to be stationed in Beijing. As soon as he came, he could stay in the Jingshi, so that Jiannu Xiaoxiao did not dare to face it. Second, it can be a model for the Beijing garrison and an example. ”

Shouhan was almost stunned at that time, and he was deceived by this treacherous bureaucrat in a daze, and he couldn't refute him in this court.

How to say?

"Am I not faithful to my kingdom? I don't want to leave the troops behind to take care of your home and nursing home?! ”

What surprised Shouhan even more was that Wang Dehua and Wang Chengen, who had fought side by side with Jiannu in Changqing, also told the emperor that Lord Yang's idea was really a foolproof strategy, which not only took care of Ning Yuanbo's loyalty but also completed the major event of tidying up the Beijing camp, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

And Wang Dehua recommended relevant candidates.

"The slave maid watched the Nanyue Army enter the guard generals this time, the commander of the garrison brigade, and the deputy general Wu Biao, who is brave and unmatched, and is dedicated to the country, and can be worthy of a great responsibility." (To be continued......)