Although the situation in Huguang is very unfavorable, the situation in Jiangxi, which is close to Nanxiong in northern Guangdong and Huizhou Prefecture, is very favorable to the Ming Dynasty. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the first year of Hongguang (1645 in the Western calendar, the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty), the army of Prince Azig of Qing Ying pursued Li Zicheng's troops into the Jiujiang area, Zuo Liangyu died of illness, and the general followed Liangyu's son Zuo Mengeng to surrender to the Qing in Dongliu County (now Dongzhi County, Anhui).

When Azig, who accepted Zuo Menggeng's surrender, ordered Zuo Menggeng to lead his generals to Beijing to meet the Son of Heaven, Jin Shenghuan was not present, but was left in Jiangxi. Jin Shenghuan knew very well that once he went to Beijing to face the saint, it would mean that he might lose his military power forever, and Jin Shenghuan didn't want to lose his military power, so he took the initiative to ask to lead his troops and horses to expand the territory for the Qing Dynasty and collect Jiangxi. Azig agreed to Jin Shenghuan's request, so he granted Jin Shenghuan the post of chief military officer of the town guarding Jiangxi, and asked Jin Shenghuan to act together with Wang Tizhong, the former general of the Dashun army, who had also just surrendered to him, as the advance team of the Qing army to capture Jiangxi.

Jin Shenghuan's character Huchen was originally a hereditary military household and belonged to Yang Sichang's battalions. The Qing people fell into Liaodong, Shenghuan's family was captured, and he entered the customs alone, becoming the general of the Ming Dynasty Huanglong, and then joined the Zuo Liangyu army. He was promoted to chief military officer by the governor of the same prefecture. Nanmingfu Wang Jianguo, Zuo Liangyu went down the east of the river to denounce Ma Shiying. Liangyu died, and his son Zuo Mengeng surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and he was also a capable general.

After Azig was ordered to return to the court, Jin Shenghuan stayed in the name of the chief military officer of Jiangxi and worked with Wang Tizhong, the general of the Dashun army, to open up Jiangxi.

In the first year of Hongguang, Li Zicheng was suddenly killed, and the Dashun army was in civil strife, so he killed Bai Wang and surrendered to Azig.

Jin and Wang arrived in Jiujiang in late May of the first year of Hongguang, claiming that 200,000 Manchurian soldiers were coming, and surrendered Nanchang by coercion, but he was deeply worried about the king's courage and skill. In leap June, the Qing court's shaving decree arrived in Jiangxi, Jin Shenghuan led his troops to respond positively, but Wang Tizhong refused to shave his head, and Jin Shenghuan contacted Wang Tizhong's subordinate Wang Deren to kill Wang Tizhong.

Wang Deren, nicknamed Wang Zamao, turned out to be the general of Bai Wang of the Dashun Army, Wang Tizhong killed Bai Wang and surrendered to Azig, so he also surrendered, and still served as a guerrilla under Wang Tizhong. It was he who colluded with Jin Shenghuan inside and outside to kill Wang Tizhong and suppressed the troublemakers, so he became Jin Shenghuan's deputy.

Wang Deren's troops are all elite of the Dashun army, and their combat effectiveness is a few points stronger than Jin Shenghuan's troops. Through some design, Jin Shenghuan finally annexed Wang Deren's department, and the two departments were integrated, and Jin Shenghuan also had a team of 50,000 capable of fighting, including 30,000 or 40,000 descendants, and there were more miscellaneous troops incorporated, and the total strength was expanded to more than 100,000 people.

Among these more than 100,000 people, there were both the original Ming army and the remnants of the Dashun army, both Zuo Liangyu's other troops, and the local Ming army in Jiangxi.

After that, Jin Shenghuan conquered Fuzhou and killed Zhu Ciyan, the king of Yongming, took Ji'an, captured Kuang Zhao, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, and returned to Nanchang, and occupied Guangchang and Yuanzhou.

In the first year of Longwu (1646), after conquering the whole territory of Jiangxi, the Qing court only appointed Jin Shenghuan as the commander-in-chief of Jiangxi and other places, and Wang Deren was relegated to the rank of deputy general.

Jin Shenghuan fulfilled his original promise, and with great effort, he didn't expect that in the end, he only got a letter of appointment from the chief military officer of Jiangxi and other places, and Wang Deren, who got rid of the old leader for the sake of his future, was even worse, and only got the position of a deputy general.

As a result, Jin Shenghuan lodged a strong protest and solemn representations to the Qing court, and he believed that he had made great contributions to conquering Jiangxi Province independently, and repeatedly asked the Qing court to issue another edict, granting him the power to "control civil and military affairs" and "act cheaply".

As a result, the Ministry of War rejected his request, and stipulated, "If it is of great importance to suppress the Fuji, the town shall consult with the Fu and the Fu according to the same heart, and listen to the judgment of the Inner Court." ”

However, since the imperial court had not yet had time to send officials to Jiangxi to take over, and the land had not yet completely fallen into his hands, the Qing regent Dolgon made some compromises, but only verbally. Only changed his official rank from the chief military officer of Jiangxi and other places to the chief military officer of Jiangxi Military Affairs, although the real power has not changed, after all, the official position has been promoted by one level.

When Wei Guangchuan, the envoy of the Foreign Zhenfu Division, sent the information collected from Jiangxi to Zhu Youlang, Zhu Youlang's heart moved.

He knew that the Qing court's criterion for employing people was to be Manchu and Mongolian, then the Han people in Liaodong, and then to surrender after entering the customs. Jin Shenghuan defeated most of Jiangxi, but he only got the position of Jiangxi Governor, and he must be dissatisfied in his heart.

In the original history, the ending also seems to confirm his conjecture, when the Qing court appointed him as the governor of Jiangxi, Jin Shenghuan was disappointed, and complained in his heart that the Qing Dynasty was mean and unkind. In particular, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren extorted a batch of gold and silver treasures by force when they collected Jiangxi counties and counties, and became nouveau riche. The struggle for power and money made Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren increasingly dissatisfied with the Qing court. All the anger is like an undercurrent under a volcano, ready to move, just waiting for the opportunity to erupt.

For many major events in history, the fuse is often a small thing.

On the first day of the first month of 1648 (the fifth year of Shunzhi and the second year of Yongli), Dong Xuecheng, the inspector, recklessly asked Wang Deren for a courtesan. Because Wang Deren did not agree immediately, Dong Xuecheng immediately scolded: "I can let Wang Deren's wife sleep with me, let alone a courtesan?" When Wang Deren heard this, he pressed his sword and shouted: "My king has been a thief for 20 years, but I also know the difference between men and women. So he ran to Dong Xuecheng's mansion with his sword, cut Dong into pieces, and then went to meet Jin Shenghuan and forced Jin Shenghuan to have a showdown.

On the 27th day of the first lunar month, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren preemptively captured and killed Jiangxi governor Zhang Yutian, Jiangxi governor Dong Xuecheng, political envoy Chi Bianlong and other officials who were unwilling to follow the anti-Qing Dynasty, and invited Jiang Yueguang to revolt and declare the anti-Qing restoration of the Ming Dynasty. In a short period of time after Jiangxi anyway, the anti-Qing wave in Hubei, Anhui, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Fujian and other places rose.

In less than a month, Guangdong's Li Chengdong also broke out because of the accumulated dissatisfaction, and then announced that he would return to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and the situation in the world suddenly changed.

It's a pity that the Yongli Emperor in history was too incompetent, the center won weakly, and the party struggles continued, and it was a chaos, and he was unable to successfully unify these anyway forces, unite them, and twist them into a fist against the Qing army.

In the end, it was broken by the Qing army, and Jin Shenghuan alone resisted the more than 100,000 Manchurian and Mongolian main forces of the Qing court in Jiangxi, for more than eight months, and finally ran out of ammunition and food, and the city was broken and killed, which is a pity!