In the first month of the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty, the eighth year of Shunzhi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the sixth year of the Yongli Dynasty, the last hero in the history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Dolgon, finally died at his home in Beijing. Next is the pro-government of the little emperor Shunzhi, at the beginning of Shunzhi Zundolgon Zhenggong palace concubine Borzigit clan as the righteous queen, only enjoy the temple. Dolgon, who had no children, gave Dolbo, the son of Duoduo, the prince of Yu, as Prince Rui, and was three times as many as the other kings. and made Dolgon's close attendants, Zhan Dai and Sukh Saha, the ministers of the council.

However, soon after Dorgon's death, his political enemies came out one after another to overturn the case and expose his great rebellion, first discussing Azig's crimes, and then restoring the status of the nobles of the two yellow banners, and promoting the two red banners of Mandahai, Wakda, Jieshu, and Rocoduo. Seeing that the momentum was not right, the White Flag Minister Sukh Saha and others also defected. In this situation, the first Xing Rosh and five others were imprisoned, and then Dolgon was officially declared guilty, all the canons were seized, and the graves were destroyed and the corpses were exhumed.

Then, Shunzhi punished Dolgon's doglegs such as Ganglin, Bahana, Leng Seng Ji, and Bai Yintu one after another, and the power that Dolgon had cultivated for many years collapsed in an instant. Two months after Dorgon's death, the sudden fall from the pinnacle of honor was entirely the result of a struggle of contradictions within the ruling class. However, Dorgon's immortal exploits to the Manchus were by no means covered up by the few sins of his political opponents.

Several upright ministers in the court felt that the emperor had gone too far, and without Dorgon, you Shunzhi had no hope of becoming the emperor at all. Therefore, Peng Changgeng, the deputy director of the official department, and Xu Er'an, the first-class son, respectively went up and praised Dolgon's exploits, almost every sentence was reasonable, but they were scolded by the little emperor of Shunzhi and exiled these unlucky eggs to Ningguta to fill the army.

After the death of Dolgon, it marked the complete death of the second generation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although Shunzhi was also a qualified politician, but compared with the Shenwu Emperor Zhu Hongsanyi in the south, it was completely inadequate, and a Shoucheng emperor could be compared with the founding king.

Dolgon died in the first month, and Zhu Hongsan, who was far away in Guizhou, did not receive a military report from Nanjing until April of the fifth year of Shenwu. Because Ma Jiyuan and other cabinet elders in Nanjing were completely unaware of the importance of Dolgon to the Manchus, they did not use 800 li to expedite, but used the normal means of transmission to send the message.

Zhu Hongsan was very happy to see the news of Dolgon's death, to be honest, Zhu Hongsan really didn't have the confidence to play with Dolgon, it wasn't that Zhu Hongsan was afraid of Dolgon. Because Zhu Hongsan knows his ability, he is a township cadre in later generations, and he can only get to this day by relying on his foresight. Dolgon does not have the knowledge of hundreds of years of later generations, and completely relies on himself to toss and list a local enterprise in the northeast of the Manchu Dynasty, which is not comparable to Zhu Hongsan.

However, Nurhachi probably didn't do anything good when he was young, and several of his capable sons died early. The most powerful Emperor Taiji only reigned for seventeen years, the second most powerful Dolgon only lived to be thirty-eight years old, and the most powerful Duoduo in the war only lived to be thirty-four years old. The rest of the sons and nephews are either content with pleasure or brave and ruthless, and the war may be good, but governing the country is a complete waste.

Although Zhu Hongsan didn't look down on Shunzhi, after all, Shunzhi is still an understanding person, mainly because he has such a backer as Xiaozhuang behind him. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan decided to take advantage of the fact that Shunzhi was in power for a long time and the chaos between the DPRK and China immediately started the Northern Expedition.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Hongsan called Yao Qisheng, the military aircraft of the Military Aircraft Department, and now the Military Aircraft Department is not Hou Fangyu, Hou Fangyu is very annoying, in the fourth year of Shenwu, when Zhu Hongsan was in Shuixi to clear the township and merge the tun, Hou Fangyu repeatedly accused Zhu Hongsan of being too ruthless and hurting the heavens, and Zhu Hongsan angrily drove Hou Fangyu to the newly established Dafang County to be the magistrate of the county.

Zhu Hongsan of the Military Aircraft Department remembered that a few years ago, there was a showman from Zhejiang who wrote a book to himself and was disgusted by the cabinet elders and relegated to Luzon. The Military Aircraft Department was in need of this kind of talent, and Zhu Hongsan ordered Yao Qisheng, a talented talent from Zhejiang Huiji, to be his chief secretary.

Yao Qisheng is now just twenty-seven years old, and he is not the dry little old man he looked like in the TV series in later generations. When Yao Qisheng heard the emperor calling him, he hurriedly bowed down and asked, "Is there something wrong with Your Majesty?" ”

Zhu Hongsan likes this Yao Qisheng very much after getting along in the past few months, he is much more sleek than Hou Fangyu before, even if he has objections, he will stop talking about it, unlike Hou Fangyu, who pokes your lungs directly.

"Xizhi, you remember, give an order to Liu Siyun in Wuchang, and ask him to seize Hanyang by chance, establish a stronghold on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and at the same time hoard military supplies as much as possible. and sent the same order to Yu Yinggui in Yangzhou, asking him to hoard military supplies! ”

As a military aircraft, Yao Qisheng naturally knew the military situation in the whole country, and when he heard the emperor say this, he hurriedly asked: "Your Majesty, but you are going to prepare for the Northern Expedition?" ”

The Northern Expedition is a very fashionable word in the long river of Chinese history, and it often refers to the actions of the southern regimes in successive dynasties to restore the Central Plains, cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and unify the whole country, but the actual results are often unsatisfactory and often end in failure, which shows that in history, the political, military, and economic strength of the north of China is significantly higher than that of the south, and the conditions and opportunities for the south to unify the whole country are not yet ripe.

There are probably only two successful cases of the Northern Expedition in history, one is that Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in the Northern Expedition, and the other is the Northern Expedition of the Nationalist Government during the First Civil Revolutionary War in modern times, which finally completed the unification of the whole country in form. The success of these two Northern Expeditions was precisely because the economic center of the whole of China had moved south to the south at that time, so the south was stronger than the north in terms of population, economy, and weaponry, and the Northern Expedition could naturally succeed.

However, because of the regional differences between the north and the south, the north is high and the south is low, and it is still somewhat difficult to attack from the south to the north. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan set a strategy as early as the first year of Shenwu, which was to occupy Lianghuai first, then occupy Shandong, and finally capture Beijing. However, now Zhu Hongsan is strong, in addition to the frontal battlefield of Lianghuai, Zhu Hongsan also prepared a partial division, which is Liu Siyi, the governor of Huguang in Wuchang.

After Liu Siyi retreated to Jiujiang, he stubbornly sniped the army led by the Manchu Qing Dynasty Jierharang. With the help of the captured river gunboats of the Ming navy, Jilharang attacked Jiujiang several times, and once he had already entered the city, but was driven out of the city by the stubborn defenders. Liu Siyun and others persisted for two months, and finally waited for reinforcements in May of the second year of Shenwu, and two divisions of the Wa State Dispatch Army led by Zhao Guoliang returned.

Zhao Guoliang came back with more than a dozen warships of the navy, which were large warships of more than 1,000 tons, and they were not at all comparable to the kind of river gunboats of more than 100 tons. With the arrival of reinforcements, Zilharang knew that he was no longer the opponent of the Ming army, and retreated to Wuchang with his army, preparing to rely on the strong walls of Wuchang and Hanyang to resist the Ming army.

However, the Wuchang city wall was not enough to see in front of the navy's artillery, and on July 18, Liu Siyi led the westward marching corps to blast open the Wuchang city wall in only one day, and this Jingzhou important land fell into the hands of the Ming army again.

The next thing is that the Ming army in Wuchang and the Qing army in Hanyang confronted each other again, in fact, according to Liu Sicheng's meaning, it is better to capture Hanyang, but Zhu Hongsan, in order not to stimulate the Manchu Qing Dynasty, did not agree with Liu Sicheng's combat strategy, so that Wuchang and Hanyang on both sides of the Yangtze River, after fighting for half a year and killing more than 100,000 people, entered a strange sit-down war again.

Now that Dolgon is dead, Yungui's side has almost been resolved, and there is no need for Zhu Hongsan to stay here, so Zhu Hongsan is ready to start the Northern Expedition.

Zhu Hongsan heard Yao Qisheng ask and said with a smile: "Xizhi, now that Dolgon is dead, there is no one on the Manchu side who makes me jealous, and Zhu Youlang is already living in a corner of Yunnan, and there is no threat at all, so I decided to see the opportunity to go north!" ”

Yao Qisheng was much more eye-catching than Hou Fangyu, and when he heard the emperor say this, he hurriedly bowed down and said: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, Your Majesty's great achievements are comparable to the Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, and there is no one among the more than a dozen emperors of the former Ming Dynasty who can compare to Your Majesty except Emperor Taizu Gao!" ”

Zhu Hongsan knew that Yao Qisheng was patting on the back, but who doesn't like to hear this kind of talk? What's more, that's what Zhu Hongsan thinks in his heart, Zhu Di, a rebellious prince, can have the temple name Taizong (Chengzu was later changed by Emperor Jiajing), and the temple number after his death can't catch up with Zhu Di?

Although Zhu Hongsan was happy in his heart, he didn't show it, he just smiled and said, "Okay, Xizhi, you go and send out my order, and then Xuanlu Daqi and Li Chengdong come in!" ”

Yao Qisheng bowed and retreated, and after a while, Lu Daqi and Li Chengdong came in.

Lu Daqi was busy preparing for the Yunnan expedition in the past few days, and when he heard the emperor's summons, he hurried over, bowed down and asked, "Your Majesty, what is the matter with the summoning ministers?" ”

"Lu Aiqing, the big war here in Guizhou is gone, I want to return to Nanjing, and the matter of Yunnan is up to Lu Aiqing and the king of Jianning County!"

Lu Daqi originally thought that the emperor was going to Yunnan in person, but he didn't expect to come today and hand over the affairs of Yunnan to him. Li Chengdong's subordinates are all arrogant soldiers, and he really can't command him.

"Your Majesty, now that the war in Yunnan is unresolved, why do you want to return to Nanjing?"

"Lu Aiqing probably didn't know that Dolgon, the regent of the Manchu Qing in the north, was dead, and there was no one on the Manchu side who I cared about, so I decided to take advantage of the unstable political situation in the Manchu Qing to start the Northern Expedition!"

Lu Daqi was overjoyed when he heard the emperor say this, he was an old minister of the former Ming Dynasty, what could be more important than watching the land of China return to unification again?

Lu Daqi held back his excitement and bowed down and said, "The minister congratulates His Majesty on the success of the Northern Expedition in advance!" ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded: "Okay!" I will leave in half a month, first to Changsha and then to Wuchang, and then down the Yangtze River back to Nanjing, and the affairs of Yunnan will be handed over to the two of you! ”

Li Chengdong has been sick in Guiyang for more than a year, and there is no need for a general like him in that kind of public security war, as long as a middle-level officer, so Li Chengdong is very happy to hear that he wants to fight Yunnan by himself.