Dolgon's face was pale and stunned. Su Ke Saha knew that something was wrong when he saw Dolgon's demeanor, and he was just about to ask Jiang Ning what the situation was, but he knew that Dolgon suddenly vomited blood and passed out.

And the military newspaper stained with Dorgon's blood floated to the ground, which read: Your Majesty Hong Chengchou cried, the minister led the Jiangning Manchu Han army of 120,000 people, and on October 25 outside the city of Jiangning and the Guangdong Ming army of 300,000 people fought a bloody battle for days, just when he was about to win, the thief Li Chengdong led 100,000 cavalry to appear behind the army, and the subordinates were caught off guard by the two sides, and the army was annihilated, and the city of Jiangning was also captured by the Ming army. After the minister is settled, he will go to Beijing to die!

After Dolgon vomited blood and fell into a coma, he frightened Sukh Saha, and now his entire wealth is pressed on Dolgon, and now Dolgon's life and death do not know what to do?

Dolgon already had tuberculosis, and the climate was not suitable after entering the customs, and he had just returned from the Shanxi Labor Expedition, and Hong Chengchou's military report was undoubtedly the last straw.

Several Fujin in Prince Rui's Mansion knew that their prince had fainted, so they hurriedly ran over to visit, and for a while you cried and I shouted.

Finally, Dolgon was awakened by pinching and hammering, and Dolgon's face was like yellow wax, and he looked short-lived.

Regardless of his size and wife, Dolgon cried here, pulled Sukh Saha and said, "You go, order the Admiral of the Nine Gates, Tokchi, to block the Nine Gates, and no one shall enter or leave the Nine Gates without the order of the king!" (The official position of Admiral of Jiumen was established in the thirteenth year of Kangxi, and there is no one yet.) ）

Sukh Saha was shocked when he heard Dolgon say this, could it be that the regent wanted to do it?

"Lord Wang, do you want to do something to the palace? Now is not the right time! ”

Dolgon shook his head, Suke Saha's position is too low, he doesn't know his predicament, now Jiangxi and Nanzhili have been lost, the war in Shanxi is not going well, his two white flags have suffered heavy losses, and there is still the ability to usurp the throne, and his actions are just self-preservation.

Dorgon thought for a moment and then said, "You go and do one thing first, kill Haug in the prison, and say that he committed suicide!" ”

Hauge has always been a strong competitor of Dolgon, when Hauge went on an expedition to Sichuan, he was imprisoned by Dolgon after he returned, Dolgon was able to suppress him through his military exploits, and now he is defeated, Dolgon can no longer suppress Hauge, and only takes his life first.

When Dolgon saw Sukh Saha go out on errands, he drove away his wife from the house, and fell into deep thought. Now that his army has been defeated, his most powerful brother Duoduo is still dead on the battlefield, and Tan Tai doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, now he needs a victory too much, but the reassuring generals don't have this. Do you use your brother Azig? Azig is a candidate who can fight, but Azig is too ambitious, and he is really not at ease with more than 100,000 troops handed over to him.

In the next few days, the whole of Beijing fell into a panic, everyone thought that Dolgon was going to usurp the throne, Dolgon entered the palace and talked with the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang for a long night, as for what the uncle and sister-in-law talked about, we do not know, but the next day the court issued an edict in the name of the emperor, and the prince of Rui, Dolgon, was the regent of the emperor's father.

Originally, Dolgon was the regent of the emperor's uncle and the emperor's second uncle, but now he has directly become the emperor's father, and his rights are one step closer, and he almost abolished the emperor and called himself the emperor.

After becoming the regent of the emperor's father, Dolgon's "guards of honor, music, and guards are all pretended to be supreme", which means that Dolgon not only held real power, but also began to look up to the emperor in ceremonial pomp. In all government affairs, Dolgon no longer had the act of humility and advice, and did not obey the emperor's will, but all called the edict, just like the emperor. And cronyism, arbitrary dismissal and promotion of officials. In particular, he "did not let the kings, bailes, bezi, and princes enter the court to do business, but regarded themselves as the court", and ordered the above-mentioned people to wait in front of their palaces every day.

Dolgon was still in March of the fifth year of Shunzhi, and stored it in the palace with the letter of the Shunzhi Emperor, and every time he transferred troops and sent generals, he had to play the seal, which was very inconvenient. Therefore, he immediately sent someone to move the emperor's seal to his own mansion for later use. From that year on, Dolgon used the same type of ceremonial guard as the emperor.

At the same time, the emperor's hardcore confidant Prince Zheng Jierharang was unlucky, and Beizi Tunqi, Shangshan, Tunqika and others falsely accused Jierharang under the signal of Dolgon, saying that when Taizong was first mourned, Jierharang did not raise the ministers of the two yellow flags to seek to establish Prince Haoge of Su, as well as Hu Cong to enter the customs, and arbitrarily ordered the two blue flags to set up camp and move forward. The crime deserved death, and then the prison was raised. The sons and nephews of the lords Yidu, Fei Yingdong, and Yanguli were all implicated. Zilharang was dismissed lightly and demoted to the king of Doro.

At the same time that Dolgon in the north was seizing power, the Yongli regime, a small court in the south, also knew the news of Zhu Hongsan's occupation of Nanjing.

Zhu Hongsan's edict was transmitted to Guilin, Guangxi on the tenth day of December, and Zhu Youlang knew that Zhu Hongsan, the little gangster and shameless villain in his mouth, actually entered Nanjing one step ahead of him, and also worshiped Xiaoling, which made the good-tempered Zhu Youlang out of anger.

Zhu Youlang knew too much about the impact of worshipping Xiaoling on him, and the righteousness he originally occupied was now completely overwhelmed by Zhu Hongsan. Zhu Youlang looked at Zhu Hongsan's letter to himself, which said that he was very humble, an imperial uncle, but the condition was indeed for Zhu Youlang to give up the throne as King Gui and go to Nanjing to support.

Although Zhu Youlang is not highly educated, he also knows that the emperor who gives up the throne has only one way to die, so what is there to say.

Zhu Youlang threw Zhu Hongsan's edict to the ground and scolded angrily: "This kid thought that he would get carried away by taking advantage of the emptiness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to seize Nanjing!" How dare I abdicate! What do you say to do? ”

Shoufu Ding Kuichu knew that the emperor was angry when he said this, but he was actually afraid that he would wait for Wenchen to abandon him, which was the key.

Ding Kuichu hurriedly bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, that Zhu Hongsan Xiao'er was originally a gangster in the market, and his background is not clear, probably he heard some things about the Chu Domain when he was in Wuchang, and he was able to deceive Chen Zizhuang and others to support him when he fled to Guangdong." Now this guy has taken advantage of Li Chengdong to seize Nanjing anyway, although it has caused a sensation in the world, but Your Majesty can rest assured that the throne has been determined early, and this world is still Your Majesty's world! ”

Zhu Youlang was happy when he heard Ding Kuichu say this, his anger was fake, after all, he knew his own strength, and he had no hope of seizing Nanjing at all, but Zhu Hongsan's threat to his throne was real. Regardless of whether Zhu Hongsan's identity is true or not, it is true that he took the first step to worship Xiaoling, and it is really embarrassing that he failed to worship Xiaoling as a genuine emperor. If Zhu Hongsan used the prestige of worshipping Xiaoling to beat the idea of his subordinates, wouldn't he be alone?

Zhu Youlang now listened to Ding Kuichu's explanation of the legitimacy of his throne, and his heart was relieved, and he asked with a pleasant face: "What Lord Shoufu said is very true, what should we do next?" ”

Ding Kuichu did not answer the emperor's question, but continued: "Your Majesty, although Your Majesty's throne has been set early, there are still people in the court and Guangdong secretly communicating with each other!" ”

The cabinet ministers on the side, Lu Daqi and Qu Shiyun, were shocked, this Ding Kuichu is so ruthless, he can detain any basin on his head.

Lu Daqi hurriedly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, we also think that Zhu Hongsan's position is not right, how can such a person inherit the unification?" Now although Zhu Hongsan took the opportunity of the emptiness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to occupy Nanjing, the minister promised that it must be His Majesty who finally revived the Ming Dynasty! ”

Zhu Youlang listened to Lu Daqi and the others to show their loyalty, and he didn't want Ding Kuichu's family to be the only one in his heart, so he said to Ding Kuichu: "Shoufu, I believe in the loyalty of Lord Lu and Lord Qu, don't talk about this matter anymore, now let's talk about what to do next?" ”

Now the military power of the Yongli court in Guangxi is divided into two parts, one is the more than 400,000 troops under He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, who occupy a large area of land in Huguang in addition to Wuchang Prefecture, as well as several prefectures close to Sichuan. Another military group is part of the former Great Western Army that occupies Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, and the Great Western Army still has more than 200,000 troops. However, after the Great Western Army defected to Yongli, there was a division in the army, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi's status was originally comparable, although Sun Kewang was promoted as the leader of the alliance after entering Yunnan, but he could not be compared with Zhang Xianzhong after all, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu held heavy troops, and each regarded himself as the master of "Xifu" and "Nanfu", and he could not only obey Sun Kewang's life. Many historical books record that Sun Kewang took advantage of the flag-raising incident in the martial arts field to press Li Dingguo to the ground and beat him to the ground, so as to establish and improve his leading position in the whole army.

In fact, the most important thing to do now on the Yongli side is to fight for Sichuan, Sichuan was originally Zhang Xianzhong's world, and the officials at all levels of the original Ming Dynasty were either killed or driven to the eastern Sichuan area, and there was no threat at all. However, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated and retreated under the attack of Haoge, the prince of Manchu Su, and finally Zhang Xianzhong died in the army, and the remnants of the Great Western Army were defeated and retreated to Yungui under the leadership of Zhang Xianzhong's four godsons. At this time, due to the power struggle within the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Haoge was transferred back to Beijing, and died under Dolgon the next year, at this time Sichuan formed a power vacuum, which was a good opportunity for the Ming generals to regain lost territory.

Since the Hongguang period, the Southern Ming Dynasty has appointed Wang Yingxiong, a former scholar, as the governor of the Cabinet, Fan Yixuan as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and Ma Gan as the governor of Sichuan. In the first year of Yongli, Wang Yingxiong died of illness, and Ma Gan was killed by the Qing army. Emperor Yongli appointed Li Qiande, the former governor of Biyuan, as the governor of northeastern Sichuan, and was soon promoted to governor; He also sent the clan Zhu Rongfan to be the governor of military affairs, and Yang Qiaoran and Jiang Erwen were the governors. "Everyone is assigned to each other, and there are more officials than the people." Fan Yixuan saw ten sheep and nine herdsmen, and the power was scattered, and the upper sparse and extreme talked about the harm. The Yongli Imperial Court not only ignored this, but instead promoted Yang Qiaoran to the governor, appointed Zhan Tianyan, the supervisor of the military Dao, as the governor of northern Sichuan, and Fan Wenguang, the other supervisor of the military Dao, as the governor of southern Sichuan. The original governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Fan Yixuan, "did not exercise moderation, but only one county in Baoxu Prefecture". At the same time, the Yongli court also obeyed the sponsorship of the appointed governors and governors, and added officials to the warlords. This stupid practice of blindly buying people's hearts with officials has further aggravated the division and subversion of the Sichuan warlords. On the other hand, when Hao Ge led the army back to Beijing, he only appointed a general soldier (first Wang Zuntan, then Li Guoying) as the governor of Sichuan.

The warlords of Nanming, Sichuan, and Guizhou had already divided their own territories, and the imperial court appointed governors, governors, and other senior officials, followed by competing for power and profit, and the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty was put aside, and the civil and military generals were keen to fight the civil war. In the second year of Yongli, there was a battle in which Yang Zhan attacked and killed Ma Yingxuan and was defeated by Wang Xiang; the battle between Wang Xiang and the Leather Bear; Yuan Tao and Wu Dading killed Yang Zhan and captured the battle of Jiading; Li Zhanchun and others attacked and killed Zhu Rongfan.