With Wagda taking the lead in expressing his position, the rest of the descendants of Prince Li Daishan also advocated Daishan's proposal. So far, the entire family of Daishan has finally reached an agreement.

Then Dai Shan immediately began to act, and asked Shuotuo, Barama, Mandahai, Luo Luohun and others to take all the two red banner soldiers and horses, and go straight to Liaoyang, where they went to join Dolgon's brother Azig, who was stationed in Liaoyang.

As for himself, he stayed in Shengjing City with Wagda, who was committed to Haoge, and his grandson Duran and others, and put on a posture of loyalty to Huang Taiji, so as to respond to all changes with the same.

And the Manchurian clan magnates, or speculative bets, or take the opportunity to flee, chaos is like a pot, living alone in Shengjing City, the former Ming Dynasty Jiliao governor, the current Qing Dynasty university scholar Hong Chengchou, is sitting alone in his inner hall.

After Hong Chengchou was defeated in the Battle of Songjin and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji ordered him to be subordinate to the Yellow Banner Han Army, and was promoted to a scholar of the Inner Academy.

Although Hong Chengchou was appointed by the Qing court as a scholar, but there has been no specific official position and position, Huang Taiji only arranged a place for him, in a small courtyard in a deep alley as a place to live, and at the same time pretended to let him live and recuperate at home, but secretly instructed him to draw the guards, asking them to pay close attention to Hong Chengchou's actions, so that Hong Chengchou could not enter and leave arbitrarily, and at the same time, if there was any abnormality, immediately report.

Therefore, in the official history, the final emperor Taiji Dynasty, except for occasional consultation with this former Ming Dynasty important minister, did not entrust any official position, nor did he have another promotion and favor.

The real development of the Hong family, but also to the death of Huang Taiji, after Ming Sizong hanged himself, he followed the Qing soldiers into Beijing, the Shunzhi Emperor was very important to Hong Chengchou, and appointed him as the crown prince Taibao, the military department of Shangshu and the right capital of the Imperial Palace, entered the inner court to manage military affairs, awarded the secretary of the academy of scholars, and became the first Han prime minister of the Qing Dynasty.

Since then, in order to repay Shunzhi's kindness, Hong Chengchou began to serve the Qing court loyally. He continued to make plans for the Qing court, became a loyal eagle dog of the imperial court, swept away various small courts in the Southern Ming Dynasty, completely wiped out the embers of the Ming Dynasty, and made great contributions to the unification of the whole of China by the Qing Dynasty.

As a former Ming scholar who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and served as a pawn for the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty's unification of the whole country.

What they hope more is that the "Hong Chengchou", who has an early traditional meaning, has died long after being captured, and is a glorious name that will only stay in the annals of history forever. It is said that Hong Chengchou once wrote a couplet on the hall in gratitude for Emperor Chongzhen's favor: "Jun's grace is as deep as the sea, and the courtiers are as heavy as a mountain." After he descended, someone added one word to each of these couplets: "Jun's grace is as deep as the sea, and the courtiers are as heavy as a mountain?" ”

In fact, in real history, Hong Chengchou's last years were not as rich and glorious as people imagined, and his power was scorching, on the contrary, this person's situation has been shrouded in humiliation and embarrassment.

In history, after he completely eliminated the Yongli court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he returned to his hometown and built a luxurious mansion in Quanzhou to show his noble status and prominent power. However, what Hong Chengchou never expected was that after the completion of this luxurious and magnificent Hong Mansion, none of his relatives and friends came to the door, even Hong Chengchou's mother and younger brother refused to move in.

His two younger brothers, Hong Chengxian and Hong Chengjun, felt the destruction of the country and the overthrow of the society, and hated their brother's behavior of defecting to a foreign race and serving the enemy, and swore that "they would not wear the Qing Dynasty on their heads and the Qing Dynasty on their feet", and took their mother to live on the boat and live in seclusion across the river, and did not meet their brothers, reflecting the real Hongmen family style.

In the sixteenth year of Shunzhi (1659), Hong Chengchou, who was exhausted, was old and frail, and his eye disease worsened, and he was relieved and returned to Beijing in the first month of the second year.

The most embarrassing thing is that Hong Chengchou was strongly rejected by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, but he was not really accepted by the Qing Dynasty. At the beginning of entering the customs, Hong Chengchou suggested that the Manchu magnates be sinicized and learn Confucian etiquette. The Sinicized Manchus accepted the Confucian code of ethics, and also believed that Hong Chengchou was disadvantaged, disloyal and unfilial. The Manchu magnates in the court were full of contempt and contempt for Hong Chengchou, an important minister of the country.

In the "Biography of Erchen" compiled by Qianlong, Hong is among the best.

Therefore, when Hong Chengchou pacified the south and swept away the Southern Ming Dynasty and triumphantly swept the capital, how to settle him became a major problem for the imperial court. In the end, the Qing court treated him very coldly for this important Han minister who betrayed his homeland and took refuge in himself, did not give him the expected reward, nor did he have intimate appeasement, and the entire government and the opposition looked at the aged and decrepit Hong Chengchou with a strange gaze, and slowly walked back to the court.

Hong Chengchou experienced four periods in the Qing Dynasty: Huang Taiji, Dolgon, Shunzhi and Kangxi. Huang Taiji only used Hong Chengchou as a consultant, and did not really reuse it. After the Qing army entered the customs, although Dolgon and Shunzhi reused Hong Chengchou, they did not let him enter the decision-making level. In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), Emperor Shunzhi died, and his son Kangxi succeeded to the throne.

At this time, Hong Chengchou had reached the age of his prime, and he only held the empty title of university scholar, and was snubbed in the court, so he had to retire.

Originally, when an important figure like Hong Chengchou retired, the imperial court had to reward him for his merits to show the emperor's grace and preferential treatment of the deceased ministers. However, after several discussions, Emperor Kangxi only awarded Hong Chengchou the insignificant hereditary title of third-class light car captain, and sent this lackey who no longer had any value away.

Come to think of it, Hong Chengchou ruined his reputation, served for 20 years, and helped the Qing Dynasty unify the whole country after several wars, but he only got an insignificant little lieutenant, and provided new content of sarcasm to those who condemned him.

In the official history, in the fourth year of Kangxi (1665), Hong Chengchou died, ending his life of being bad. However, at this time, Hong Chengchou's status in the official documents of the Qing Dynasty was at least positive, and the Qing Dynasty still regarded him as a founding hero.

By the time of the Qianlong period, the thinking of the Manchu magnates had been completely sinicized, and the anti-Qing sentiment of the Han people in various places gradually subsided, and the ideology and culture between the Manchus and the Han were no longer as seriously antagonistic as in the early Qing Dynasty, and began to have a certain degree of integration.

Emperor Qianlong, who regarded himself as a descendant of Confucian sages and the co-ruler of China, sang and made peace with the Han literati, and began to praise Shi Kefa, Huang Daozhou and other examples of loyalty and patriotism, in order to encourage the people of the country to be blindly loyal to the Qing Dynasty. At this time, Hong Chengchou, as the founder of the Qing Dynasty, began to cover up the merits of "Xiaoqing" with the stain of "betraying the Ming", and his image began to be reversed and became a villain.

In Qianlong's words, that is, "Although he is a hero, he has a big loss in his name, Yu does not hide his flaws, and he can be listed as a second minister." With the emperor's instructions, Hong Chengchou, a hero in the early Qing Dynasty, was mercilessly included in the "Biography of the Second Minister", and ranked among the best, listed as the second minister, and completely became a harlequin image.

The current Hong Chengchou also got the news that the emperor Huang Taiji was killed or seriously injured by the Tang army in the Vladivostok expedition.

Yesterday, I finally had the opportunity to go to the street, but inadvertently, when I heard this shocking news, Hong Chengchou at that time was almost shocked and collapsed to the ground.

No way?

He has just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, it has only been a few months, and he has not yet had time to fully demonstrate his ability and talent to the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, and has not yet been reused and promoted.

Hong Chengchou, who has experienced countless political turmoil, can be sure in his heart that Huang Taiji, who cannot be treated like a waste, although he is still the emperor of the Qing Dynasty in name, has completely lost control over the political and military affairs of the entire Qing Emperor.

The supreme authority of the Qing Empire cannot be vacant forever, and it is impossible to remain in a state of no one for the long time, so next, there will definitely be ambitious and capable Aixin Jueluo clan to stand up and compete for the supreme power of the Qing Empire, and finally occupy the golden dragon chair.

And the only people who have the ability and ambition to seize the supreme power are undoubtedly Dolgon and Hauge. It's just that these two people have a very shallow relationship with Hong Chengchou, and they basically don't have much contact, Hong Chengchou just wants to put his face on their buttocks, but they don't have a chance.

What's more, for the prospects of these two people, Hong Chengchou, who is extremely well-informed in the city government, is not particularly optimistic.

On the surface, Dolgon now has the most power, the most soldiers and horses, and the entire huge expeditionary army is temporarily in charge, while Nahauge has insufficient power, few soldiers and horses, and few local support forces, it seems that Dolgon will win, but Hong Chengchou does not think so.

Because he knew that the internal struggle in the Qing Kingdom at the beginning was not just a battle between Dolgon and Haoge, but also that Li Xiao, the king of Pingliao, who was like a fierce tiger and had always been eyeing the Qing Dynasty, was likely to take this opportunity to intervene in this unprecedented huge internal struggle of the Qing Dynasty, and finally reap the benefits of the fisherman.

In this way, the Qing Empire, which he had just surrendered, would be fundamentally shaken, and the country might fall into the same endless infighting and strife as the Ming Dynasty.

And once the Qing Empire ends up like this, they, the former Ming ministers who surrendered to the Qing court, will undoubtedly be in a very awkward position, and they will no longer find the allegiance of their masters, and they are very likely to be panicked like lost dogs.

What's more, this domestic power struggle in the Qing Dynasty is about to break out, and they, traitorous courtiers, are very likely to be forced to stand in line. Then, even if you can escape the disaster of the sword soldiers, if you stand in the wrong line, I am afraid that you will not escape death in the end.

In other words, the current Hong Chengchou has unknowingly embarked on a thorny and dangerous road, which may die at any time, and it is more likely that he may die at that time and he may not know how to die.

A bone-chilling chill ran up his spine. After listening to the news, Hong Chengchou didn't know how he returned to his own courtyard after losing his soul.

What to do?

Huang Taiji has almost become a historical term, so what should I do next? What do you have to do to survive the intricacies and dangers of infighting?

Whether to be forced to stand in line, gamble on fate, and then live tremblingly, or to find another way, not to let himself become a victim of political struggle, has become the most urgent choice in front of Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou sat like this for an afternoon, and he shouldn't have been called to dinner by his servant Chen Tai.

In fact, this is also normal, now his future fate is hanging by a thread, where is the slightest bit of heart to eat.

However, when Hong Chengchou sat alone late at night, he finally thought of a way out for himself, which in his opinion was the safest and most valuable way out.

This way out is to betray the Qing Dynasty again and leave while the Qing Dynasty is now in chaos and there is no owner in the Qing Dynasty and the guards are lax in their vigilance.

However, Hong Chengchou no longer has the face to rejoin the Ming Dynasty, and the new master he plans to take refuge in is Li Xiao.

The dignified former governor of Jiliao in the Ming Dynasty and the current scholar of the Qing Dynasty, in order to survive, went to seek refuge in Li Xiao, who had never had a friendship, and to take refuge in this Li Xiao, who started from a broken hunter, which cannot but be said to be a great irony for Hong Chengchou.

However, in Hong Chengchou's view, this is the only way out for him now.

Hong Chengchou has already decided in his heart that the current Qing Empire must take this internal struggle as a turning point and inevitably turn from prosperity to decline, then, in such an environment, whether he is taking refuge in the other side, and whether he can finally survive this cruel internal struggle, the only thing waiting for him will only be an extremely bleak prospect.

On the contrary, when the Qing Dynasty was in decline, the ambitious and powerful Li Xiao, named Mingchen, was actually tantamount to an independent monarch, and he would only gain and lose power, and eventually become a third-party force far above the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Therefore, in Hong Chengchou's view, under the current rule of Li Xiao, it is no different from a huge and invisible empire, and the future of this empire is undoubtedly extremely bright and brilliant. If he can finally join Li Xiao's bureaucracy, he will undoubtedly have a much brighter future than whether he surrenders to the Qing Dynasty or to the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of this, a sneer appeared on Hong Chengchou's face. Then, the famous minister in history whispered a foul word.

"Hmph, damn it, Lao Tzu is no longer a loyal minister and a pure minister, and his face is a thing that his mother has long lost it. To put it bluntly, Lao Tzu is a **, whoever gives more money, who gives big benefits, Lao Tzu will give it to whom, Lao Tzu will serve whoever he wants, Lao Tzu is now, just fucking live for himself! ”