Just as Zhu Hongsan was celebrating the occupation of Nanjing, Dolgon in the north ushered in his political crisis.

After Dolgon set out in Duoduo in September of the fourth year of Shunzhi, Dolgon personally led more than 200,000 Manchu and Han troops to Jiang Huang in Shanxi.

Jiang Hao was originally the commander-in-chief of the former Ming Dynasty, and Dolgon originally thought that according to the combat effectiveness of the former Ming army, he had taken the initiative in terms of numbers and morale this time, and the Shanxi Rebellion was not a cure.

There I knew that Dolgon's idea was a little simple, and the Shanxi Rebellion was ostensibly a rebellion by some former Ming generals who were not under the rule of the Manchu Dynasty, but behind the scenes, it was indeed a general outbreak of dissatisfaction of the Han landlord class in Shanxi with the Manchu aristocracy.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, in order to reward their own people, they issued three land enclosure orders, and distributed the unowned barren fields in all prefectures and counties near Beijing and the barren fields left by the Ming emperor's relatives, concubines, dukes, marquis, uncles, and eunuchs who died in the war to the kings, ministers, and soldiers. Of course, on paper, it is said that the land of the former Ming Emperor will be distributed, but when it is actually implemented, it really doesn't matter what land, not to mention the counties around Beijing, even Shandong and Henan have Eight Banner nobles to stake land, these Eight Banners children in the provinces to forcibly seize it, no matter what former Ming officials and local gentry, as long as they see your land, they will immediately get it.

Shanxi has always been barren land, and there is less land that could be cultivated, and the land enclosure order immediately caused heavy losses to most Han landlords. In addition, the Manchu Qing Dynasty vigorously implemented the law of escaping people and the order of shaving the head in the area of Beizhili, and at this time, coupled with Zhu Hongsan's ill intentions, he provided weapons and funds to those peasant armed forces, and for a time the entire Beizhili, Shandong and other places were full of flames.

It is precisely because of the strong oppression of the Manchu ruling class in Shanxi that a large number of Han people can no longer survive, and the landlord class provides food and weapons for various purposes, so Jiang Jiu's combat effectiveness is not at all comparable to those border armies of the former Ming Dynasty.

Dolgon led his troops to Datong occupied by Jiang Xuan, thinking that it could be captured in half a month, but he knew that from September to the end of November, Datong was still in Jiang Jiu's hands.

Of course, although Jiang Hao was named the acting king by Zhu Hongsan, after all, he fought against the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty with a single land, and according to history, Jiang Hao could only defend for half a year. But how do you know that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was unlucky, Dolgon's younger brother Duoduo, known as the "most meritorious of the founding kings" Prince Yu, was defeated by the Southern Ming army in the Nanchang Battle at the end of October, and the 130,000 army led by Duoduo was wiped out, and Duoduo himself did not know whether he was alive or dead.

After receiving the military report from the front, Dolgon immediately led his troops back to Beijing, and at this time, what Jiang Jiu and what peasant rebellion were secondary, and now Dolgon wanted to return to Beijing to stabilize the situation between Korea and China.

Because the previous emperor Huang Taiji died suddenly, the Manchu Qing did not designate an heir, and the Manchu Qing implemented the "Eight Princes' Deliberation", which was essentially a very small number of imperial relatives and nobles jointly agreed on some military affairs, including the election of the heir to the throne. Therefore, in the early Qing Dynasty, according to the "Constitution" at that time, the emperor did not have the right to pass on the throne arbitrarily, and even if an heir was appointed, he could only become the legitimate ruler after being elected by the parliament. This form was left until the last years of Kangxi, and the uproar of the Kowloon heir was the product of this tribal collegial system.

At this time, the Manchu elite was divided into two factions, one faction represented by the two yellow flags, and the other faction, the Dolgon brothers, who occupied the two white flags. Just when the two factions were evenly matched, Xiaozhuang recruited Daishan and several other banner owners to support the young Fulin, which suppressed Hauge and Dolgon.

It was precisely because Dolgon did not occupy an advantage in the high-level that in order to consolidate his position, he cooperated with Wu Sangui against public opinion and took advantage of the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty to attack Shanhaiguan. This action gave Dolgon great prestige, and in order to reward him, the Manchu court made him regent of his uncle. But Dorgon knew that although he was now in power, there were still many opposition forces waiting to make mistakes in the court, and the destruction of Dorgon was likely to give some people an opportunity.

Dolgon returned to Beijing with his men and horses before the Chinese New Year, and found his cronies and reds as soon as possible, and Suke Saha learned about the situation in the capital during this time.

Sukh Saha is a capricious man, a villain. Don't look at his current party affiliation with Dolgon, you must know that after Dolgon's death, he was the first to write to the Shunzhi Emperor to sue the regent Dolgon for plotting wrong, which led to Dolgon's body being exhumed and whipped. However, because of this, Suke Saha won the trust of Emperor Shunzhi and became one of the four auxiliary ministers in the early years of Kangxi.

Sukh Saha was not yet a descendant of high authority, but was only one of Dorgon's eyes and ears in the capital, and he came to see Dolgon as soon as he learned of Dorgon's return.

"Regent, the big thing is not good now, news is coming from the front line, Prince Yu's army has been wiped out!"

Dorgon already knew the news, and now he still had the heart to feel sorry for his brother, and what was important in the court.

Dolgon hurriedly asked, "How is it in the palace?" ”

"Regent, the messenger who reported the news was locked up by me in Beijing, and now there are no more than ten people who know the news, all of them are our own people! Everything is as usual in the palace, and the queen mother takes the emperor to the court every day. ”

Dorgon breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the news before it spread, and now he remembered to ask how the war was going, after all, Dordo was carrying all the essence of the two white flags: "How is the south?" Is it really all annihilated? ”

Suke Saha sighed and said: "Regent, the situation at the front is even more serious than what your subordinates said in their letter, according to the brothers of He Luohui who fled back, Prince Yu rushed forward and was ambushed by the Southern Ming army under the city of Nanchang. He Luohui was going to retreat to Jiujiang to hold on, Tan Tai had to instigate Prince Yu and the Ming army to fight a decisive battle, how do you know that the Ming army's firearms are very sharp, and we were defeated outside Wuchang City, and hundreds of generals below Prince Yu died in battle, only He Luohui ran back with less than a thousand people! ”

When Dolgon heard the news, he spit out a mouthful of old blood, it was 130,000 Manmeng elite soldiers, and his two white flags and 30,000 elites were inside, this time it was really nerve-wracking.

Seeing Dolgon vomiting blood, Suke Saha hurriedly stepped forward and asked with concern, "Regent, how are you?" ”

Dolgon shook his head and said, "It's okay, I'm sick, I have a cold in Shanxi, and I haven't been able to get better." ”

Dolgon, who cared about himself now, grabbed Sukh Saha's hand and asked, "How is Jiang Ning?" Is there any news from Hong Chengchou's side? ”

"The regent rest assured, news came from Hong Chengchou in November, he has ordered all the troops around Nanzhili to be concentrated in Jiangning, and he is ready for a decisive battle with Emperor Shenwu of Nanming."

Hearing that Hong Chengchou was prepared, Dolgon was relieved, and he was still relieved of Hong Chengchou's ability.

"Where did this Shenwu Emperor of Guangdong come from, and why is his army so powerful?"

"Your Majesty learned that this Shenwu Emperor's name is Zhu Hongsan, and when you hear the name, you know that he is a remote clan, I heard that he used to be a gangster in Wuchang, and when Wuchang was occupied by Zhang Xianzhong, he fled to Guangdong, and he didn't know how to bring up an army, and I heard that firearms are very powerful!"

"He Luo will say that he didn't explain the army's firearms?"

Sukh Saha continued: "I asked He Luohui in detail about this, and he explained that the firearms were no different from before, except that the muskets had a longer range and the artillery was more powerful, probably bought by the Ming army in Guangdong from missionaries. ”

These people in the Manchu Qing Dynasty fought against the Ming army outside the customs all the year round and knew a lot about the firearms of the Ming army. In fact, the firearms and equipment of the Ming army are the highest in the world in this era, and even the European powers have not equipped half of the armies with firearms, but the Ming army in Liaodong has achieved two-thirds of the whole army equipped with firearms.

In fact, there is no generation difference between the firearms of the Ming army in Guangdong and the Ming army in Liaodong, except that the muskets have a long range and the artillery is lighter. However, these Manchu hillbillies did not know enough to know the difference between the current army and the medieval army, they only saw the difference in equipment, and they did not know at all that the Ming army in Guangdong was able to win the battle not because of weapons and equipment, but because of various standardized training and scientific weapon configuration.

After hearing what Sukh Saha said, Dorgon said angrily: "It's similar to the previous Ming army, why can he still defeat the battle? ”

"Regent, He Luo will explain that there are a lot of troops, more than 400,000, which is several times that of our army, coupled with the dense water network outside Nanchang City, our army was infected with the plague when it passed through Henan, so the Ming army seized the flaw and won the battle."

After He Luohui fled back, in order to save his life, he deliberately exaggerated the number of the Ming army, but in fact, there was nothing wrong with what He Luohui said. Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren in Nanchang City have more than 100,000 troops, plus 200,000 people, and the Guangdong Ming Army's combat troops outside the city plus logistics force are almost 50,000 or 60,000, adding up to less than 300,000, which is not much different from 400,000.

Constrained by his previous knowledge of the Ming army, Dolgon did not recognize that He Luo would tell a lie. To know that all of your side is elite, the Ming army needs almost four or five hundred thousand people to win.

"What about the people of Ho Luo?"

"His Majesty was afraid that he would return to the capital and talk nonsense, so he locked him in the palace and waited for the regent to fall, and the regent was not at ease. . . ." After saying that, Sukh Saha made a gesture of cutting off his head, meaning that he could kill He Luohui.

Dolgon shook his head, now that there is only one of his cronies and generals left, Tan Tai, Nikan and others have all died in battle, how can they still kill their own people?

At this moment, the housekeeper of the palace outside the house whispered outside the door: "Lord, lord!" There's news from Jiangning! ”

Dorgon hurriedly asked Sukh Saha to open the door, and a dusty soldier entered the room.

The soldier knelt down on his knees and said, "Lord Wang, the slave is Governor Hong's subordinates, and he sent a front-line military report to Lord Wang!" ”

Dolgon didn't speak, but quickly took it, opened the sealed iron bucket with force, and took out Hong Chengchou's military report.

Before Dolgon finished reading, a mouthful of blood spurted out again, and he passed out.