Dolgon pondered for a moment and said, "However, in the eyes of the Han people, I am a Yidi in the Qing Dynasty, and the Han people are eager to skin me and eat my flesh, how can they unite with us?" ”

Fan Wencheng shook off his shirt and said, "No." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Although there is a difference between my Jurchen and Ming people, this is not the point. Maybe in the ordinary people, there can be some discrimination and some hatred in the psychology. However, these ordinary people work hard for three meals every day, and even if they feel uncomfortable, what can they do? ”

"As long as these people leave the land for half a month, the crops will be barren and they will not be able to eat. Their opinions and attitudes don't matter. ”

"The wealth of the Ming Kingdom was in the hands of the gentry. The whole country of the Ming Kingdom was governed by the gentry. As long as the gentry approve of us, we can easily unite them. ”

Dolgon looked at Fan Wencheng and didn't speak.

Fan Wencheng said: "On the surface, the gentry of the Ming Kingdom exalted morality, and their words must be called loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness. But in reality, day after day, the gentry encroached on the grassroots and centers of the state, refusing to pay taxes at the local level, evading taxes, and accepting the defection of small peasants. Using the status of the gentry to bully men and women. In the central control of officialdom, through the pressure of the group, the Ming emperor was constantly forced to retreat, and basically controlled the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"In fact, all the civil officials and gentry of the Ming Kingdom need is the word profit."

"The key now is to make clear the attitude of my Daqing, so that the gentry understand that my Daqing is mutually beneficial to the gentry."

Fan Wencheng looked at Dolgon's face, and saw that Dolgon was listening to his words seriously, and his heart was happy. He arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, now the gentry of the Ming Kingdom have set up two towns in Jiangbei in the south of the Yangtze River. The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River and the officials in Nanjing basically did not listen to the command of the Ming Emperor and ran around for the two towns in Jiangbei day and night. ”

"The reason why the gentry in the south are like this is that they are extremely disappointed in the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, so they can only throw off their arms and do it alone. The emperor of the Ming Kingdom was very supportive of Li Zhi over the years. In recent years, Li Zhi slaughtered the gentry in Shandong and Tianjin, but the emperor never punished Li Zhi, and even killed many Donglin Party ministers according to Li Zhi's request. Already aroused the wrath of the gentry. ”

However, because Li Zhi supported the imperial power, the emperor of the Ming State stiffened his waist a little and did not act according to the requirements of the civil officials and gentry of the Ming State. The gentry of the Ming Kingdom had actually become extremely resentful of the emperor and Li Zhi. Whether it is the south or the north, the gentry are full of complaints. ”

"As long as I, the Qing Dynasty, stand up and declare, it shows that we protect the interests of the Ming gentry. The gentry of the Ming Kingdom will fall to us like a hundred birds and phoenixes, and cooperate with us as much as possible. As long as we let the gentry of the Ming Kingdom trust, let alone unite with them against Li Zhi, I am afraid that we will enter the Central Plains, and they will welcome it. ”

Dolgon looked at Fan Wencheng, who was talking eloquently, and felt a little touched.

During the Huang Taiji era, the emperor reused the Han Chinese, and Dolgon was somewhat unimpressed, believing that the Han officials threatened the absolute leadership of the Manchurian aristocracy over the Manchu Qing Dynasty. However, after becoming emperor himself, Dolgon discovered that the Han people did have a different method than the Manchurian aristocracy - for example, this method of uniting the Han gentry, Nurhachi's descendants would never have come up with it.

Dolgon knocked on the table and asked, "Then how can we get the Ming gentry to trust us and think that we are in their interest?" ”

Fan Wencheng knelt on the ground and said loudly: "The minister thinks that in order to make the Ming gentry trust me in the Qing Dynasty, two strategies are needed: one is to determine the imperial examination, and the other is to exempt taxes." ”

"The imperial examination system already existed during the time of Emperor Wen, but it was held at an uncertain time, which made people feel unreliable. Now if the emperor wants to reassure the gentry of the Ming Kingdom, he must set the rule of trying every three years. ”

"At the same time, I, the Qing Dynasty, want to announce to the outside world that the meritorious and famous people will be exempted from the conscription of Tian Fu. As long as this article is set, the Ming gentry in Jiangnan will definitely support my Qing Dynasty. ”

"As long as these two national policies are set, the scholars in Jiangnan will definitely send troops to attack Li Zhi's back when Li Zhi attacks us."

Dolgon pondered Fan Wencheng's words and thought for a long time.

"If these two policies are decided, the scholars of the Ming Kingdom will send troops to support us?"

"Definitely."

Dolgon thought for a moment and took a breath: "Okay, just according to what you said, the imperial examination will be set and the tax will be exempted." ”

At the same time, we sent envoys to Nanjing to publicize our new national policy with the civil officials of the Ming Kingdom. Ask them to attack Li Zhi at a critical moment. ”

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Qian Qianyi, Shi Kefa, Zhang Shenyan and others sat in the Qianyun Tower, facing the envoys sent by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The messenger was a white-flaged Alajang, called Fall, with an interpreter. Qian Qianyi and this fall have to be translated to speak, which is very inconvenient. But even so, the message brought by the Manchu envoy still made Qian Qianyi's eyes shine.

Not only Qian Qianyi's eyes lit up, but when he heard that the Qing State clearly stipulated that scholars were exempt from taxes, several other officials and celebrities in the hall were very excited, and they couldn't help but turn their heads to each other.

Qian Qianyi looked at the fall with a smile and said, "In this way, the emperor of the Qing Kingdom is willing to rule the world with scholars!" ”

Before the Manchu envoy could answer, Zhang Shenyan laughed and said, "The Qing Emperor's approach is in line with the heavens. The Ming Dynasty did not explicitly stipulate that the gentry could be exempted from field conscription, but the Qing State explicitly made this provision. It's about respecting the dress and reviving the culture. After a pause, Zhang Shenyan said loudly: "If you are like Li Zhi in Tianjin, who slaughtered scholars and practiced scriptures, what is the difference between it and beasts?" ”

After listening to the translator, he said to Qian Qianyi: "So I hope that the scholars of the Ming Kingdom will distinguish between right and wrong, and attack Li Zhi from the rear when Li Zhi attacks my Qing Dynasty." I have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the Qing Dynasty, and 80,000 soldiers and horses in the two towns of Jiangbei, with a total of more than 200,000 people, can defeat Li Zhi. ”

Qian Qianyi laughed and was about to speak, but he heard Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, say loudly: "No! ”

Shi Kefa stood up and said: "The struggle between our scholars and Li Zhi is an internal matter of our Ming Dynasty, how can we involve the barbarians who covet Huaxia?" How many Han Chinese did the Tartars kill? If we unite with the Tartars to attack Li Zhi, then what is the difference between us and traitors? ”

Zhang Shenyan's eyes widened, and he shouted: "Shi Kefa, didn't you listen to what this envoy said?" The Qing State also had imperial examinations, and scholars were exempted, can this still be called barbarian tartars? I think this is more civilized than my Daming. ”

Qian Qianyi also stood up and said: "Xianzhi, the matter is urgent. I see that the country respects scholars and respects culture, and it is also a civilized country, which cannot be simply regarded as barbarians. ”

Shi Kefa looked at the other people in the room, and saw that several officials and gentry did not support his point of view, and his face sank.

He flicked his sleeves and strode out of the hall.

The other gentry saw Shi Kefa's fierce attitude and began to talk about it. There was also a civil servant who felt that he could not join forces with the Tartars to be an adulterer. But the attitude of several other people was different from Shi Kefa's, and they quickly suppressed this civil official who had different opinions, and finally the eight or nine people in the room looked at Qian Qianyi together.

Qian Qianyi looked at the civil officials and gentry on the left and right, nodded, and said to the Manchu envoy: "Okay, we will form an alliance with the Qing State. If Li Zhi goes on a northern expedition, our 80,000 elites will attack Tianjin. ”