In October of the first year of China, Li Hongyu led his army into the city of Nanjing and was warmly welcomed by the people.

The civil and military officials who had shaved their hair and descended to the Qing Dynasty, such as Xu Wenjue and Qian Qianyi, the Duke of Wei, all knelt outside the Nanjing gate in civilian clothes to plead guilty, and they never imagined that Li Hongyu would one day be able to fight back and easily drive away the Qing army, so they felt panicked in their hearts.

Li Hongyu naturally could not have killed Xu Wenjue and Qian Qianyi and others, but he must not be used again for these officials who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the reason why he did not investigate the crimes of those civil and military officials who moved Beijing City and followed him to Nanjing was because Emperor Hongguang was in power at that time, so Emperor Hongguang dealt with it.

Besides, the city of Beijing fell suddenly due to the betrayal of traitors, and the officials in the city were blocked in the city by the Dashun army before they had time to escape, and they had to surrender.

But the situation in Nanjing City was different, those officials in Nanjing City opened the city gate to welcome the Qing army into the city, they had the opportunity to flee with Emperor Hongguang to flee elsewhere, but because of selfish intentions, they stayed in Nanjing and surrendered to the Manchus, and their hearts could be punished.

Therefore, Li Hongyu ordered the confiscation of the property of Xu Wenjue, Qian Qianyi and other civil and military officials who had shaved their hair and lowered their hair, and sent them to Yunnan for the people.

In May of the second year of Huaxia, the last Qing army in the south was wiped out in Changsha City, at this time the army of Mangui had arrived in Datong, pointing at Juyong Pass, and the Korean army was also under the Shanhai Pass, which made Dolgon in Beijing feel the restless mood of Emperor Chongzhen that year.

Originally, when it was learned that the Korean army had attacked the Manchu defenders on the Yalu River, Dolgon immediately sent troops to reinforcements.

As a result, the reinforced Qing army was attacked by Japanese soldiers in the western Liaoning corridor, and 30,000 Japanese soldiers under Yamashita Sakurako secretly arrived in Jinzhou on the ships of the Ming army's naval division, killing the unsuspecting Qing army by surprise, and retreated to Shanhaiguan after a fierce battle.

As a result, Dolgon could only watch as the Korean army and Japanese soldiers occupied the land of Liaodong and Liaoxi, cutting off the Manchu Qing's back route to retreat outside the Guan.

If Dolgon concentrates the Qing army, he can still recapture Liaodong and Liaoxi, but the Qing army under his command is distributed throughout the Ming Dynasty, and there is no time to assemble, otherwise it will be a complete collapse.

With the Mongol army led by Bahat into Liaodong to join the Korean army and the Japanese army, Dolgon's hopes of retaking Guanwai were dashed.

At this time, Dolgon suddenly realized that he had made a fatal mistake, that is, he should not expand so fast, so that the Qing army's forces were scattered, just giving Li Hongyu every opportunity to break through.

In fact, who would have thought that Li Hongyu's counterattack would be so sharp, like a trick, it attracted the Western Expeditionary Army, the Mongolian Army, the Korean Army and the Japanese Army, and caught the Manchus by surprise.

For this reason, Dolgon had no choice but to shrink his forces and the north bank of the Yellow River, preparing to rely on the natural danger of the Yellow River to block the advance of the Huaxia army, and sent troops to hold Juyong Pass and Shanhaiguan Pass, and resisted stubbornly.

At the end of May, Li Hongyu convened the first imperial council in Nanjing, to discuss the consolidation of the recovered southern provinces and the plan of an attack on the Manchus in the north.

Fang Yun, Shen Bocheng and other military and political officials from all over the country were all present and were warmly welcomed by Li Hongyu, these old friends had not seen each other for many years, so they naturally missed each other.

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At the banquet, when Empress Zhao Xin appeared, Fang Yun and Shen Bocheng, many officials were dumbfounded, and looked at Zhao Xin with stunned expressions, feeling that the Empress was quite similar to Zhao Scholar from Youchunfang, and they were quite surprised by this.

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't come unharmed." Zhao Xin smiled at this and greeted Fang Yun, Shen Bocheng and the others.

She was stunned by this opening of her mouth, and immediately heard that the queen was Zhao Daxue from Youchunfang, especially Fang Yun and Shen Bocheng and other Jinshi who entered the company in the same year as Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, they were even more shocked, they never thought that Zhao Xin would be a woman.

But now that they think about Fang Yun and the others, they are relieved, no wonder the relationship between Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin is so good, they privately thought that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin had a habit of breaking their sleeves, and now the truth is finally revealed.

Zhao Xin's deeds immediately spread in the north and south of the river, Zhao Xin can be in the officialdom for many years without being noticed by his daughter, and in terms of difficulty alone, he has surpassed the legendary Hua Mulan who served in the army on behalf of his father.

At the first imperial council, the first thing Li Hongyu decided was to reform the land and distribute it to the people in the countryside.

Unlike the previous dynasty, according to Li Hongyu's regulations, the common people have the right to use and inherit the land, but they do not have the right to buy and sell, otherwise it will be a felony once investigated and punished.

Obviously, Li Hongyu did this to prevent land annexation, so that the land would not be concentrated in the elite class, which would undoubtedly be detrimental to the state.

After the turmoil of the peasant army and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, many local magnates were killed, leaving behind many ownerless lands, and even the surviving magnates were inevitably suspected of collaborating with the Qing Dynasty and their assets were confiscated.

In this way, Li Hongyu completed the land reform relatively easily, and distributed the land that was originally occupied by the powerful to the people to cultivate, and the people are the cornerstone of the country's stability.

With the land reform, the second thing Li Hongyu did was tax innovation, including land tax, commercial tax and mining tax, etc., reducing the land tax and mining tax and increasing the commercial tax.

As for the third thing, to everyone's surprise, Li Hongyu announced that from now on, in order to better reproduce offspring, monogamy will be implemented within the scope of the Chinese Empire, and only one princess, including the crown prince Li Yunxuan, will be married.

In addition, Li Hongyu also abolished the lowly status and the deed of sale, prohibited human trafficking, and subordinates such as the family and the maid were in an employment relationship with the master's family, and were no longer subordinate.

As the three fires after the new monarch ascended the throne, Li Hongyu's three measures set off huge repercussions in the north and south of the river and won the support of the people.

In fact, now the high-level business and elite of the Chinese Empire have a close relationship with Li Hongyu, and the high-level business class is centered on the top ten imperial merchants of the former Ming Dynasty's overseas trade, and the elite class is mainly Li Hongyu's subordinates, so there is no difficulty and resistance in the implementation of the three major political measures.

This is also why Li Hongyu said that if the original power class of the Ming Dynasty is still alive, then his three major government affairs innovations are bound to be resisted and suppressed, because this can shake the interests of the original power class.

At the same time, Li Hongyu also made a plan to move his army north at this imperial meeting, preparing to divide his troops into two routes, all the way from Xiangyang Mansion and all the way north along the canal, forcing the Qing army into Beizhili and then encircling and annihilating it.

The Qing army stood on the occupied territory of only Henan, Shanxi, Shandong and Beizhili, and other areas, including Liaodong, had been captured by Li Hongyu's troops, especially the loss of Liaodong was a fatal blow to the Manchus.

If Dolgon recovered the troops of Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, and Beizhili, and concentrated his forces to flee north, then he could still avoid the fate of destruction, but under the temptation of immediate interests, even if Dolgon wanted to give up Henan and other places, then the local Manchu generals probably would not agree, how could they give up those places in vain.

With the news that Li Hongyu sent troops north, the people of Henan, Shanxi, Shandong and Beizhili rose up to fight with the local Qing army, and the Ming army that surrendered to the Qing army rebelled one after another, making the Qing army anxious.

As a result, the two Northern Expeditionary armies captured Henan, Shanxi, and Shandong with little effort, and at the end of the second year of Huaxia, the Qing army was surrounded in the northern part of Beizhili.

At this time, Dolgon realized that he had missed the best opportunity to avoid this catastrophe, that Li Hongyu's troops had blocked any escape of the Qing army, and that Tianjin had already been controlled by the Huaxia army, and that the port was full of ships of all sizes, posing a great threat to the city of Beijing.

Dolgon knew very well that he no longer had any chance of breaking through, so he summoned the Manchu nobles and sent people to negotiate peace, expressing his willingness to submit to Li Hongyu, hand over the city of Beijing and return to the ancestral land of Liaodong, and never invade south.

How could Li Hongyu easily let Dolgon and the others go, and now the Qing army trapped in the north of Beizhili is like a lamb to the slaughter, where is it qualified to negotiate peace with him.

Therefore, Li Hongyu rejected Dolgon's request and clearly told him that there was only one way to surrender.

Dolgon was naturally unwilling, so he mobilized troops in Baoding and prepared to fight the Chinese army going north, so that Li Hongyu knew that although the Qing army was weak, it could also cause heavy damage to the Chinese army.

In February of the third year of China, when everything was recovering, a fierce battle broke out outside Baoding between the Qing army with the Jurchen Eight Banners as the main force and the Chinese Northern Expeditionary Army with the sailor soldiers as the main force.

After two days and two nights of fighting, the exhausted Qing army was unable to fight again, abandoned Baoding City and fled back to Baijing City.

In March, another Northern Expeditionary Huaxia Army from Xiangyang via Henan and Shanxi also rushed to Beijing and surrounded Baijing City.

At this time, Dolgon knew that the general situation was gone, so he went to the palace to meet the Shunzhi Emperor and talk about surrendering to the Chinese army in order to preserve the Jurchen bloodline.

Therefore, in mid-April, when the Chinese army was preparing to attack the city, Dolgon led the young Shunzhi Emperor out of the city and surrendered as a sign of submission.

Since then, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which rose between the white mountains and black waters in Liaodong, has been completely destroyed, so Dolgon secretly regrets that he should not lead the army into the customs at that time, and as a result, he ended up destroying the country, and he has no face to see Nurhachi and Huang Taiji after his death.

In June of the second year of Huaxia, under the anticipation of the people of Beijing, Li Hongyu entered Beijing City surrounded by everyone, and he fulfilled the promise he made when he left and recaptured Beijing City.

It's just that Li Hongyu is no longer the Taishi of the Ming Dynasty, but the emperor of the Chinese Empire.

(End of chapter)