After returning to the county order signing room in Liaoyang County, Bai Mu reported the news he got from the captives to Jiang Chuan one by one.

Jiang Chuan's fingers tapped rhythmically on the table, and he muttered for a moment and said: "No wonder there are no big fish in Liaoyang City, it turns out that it is because Huang Taiji is seriously ill, and they all ran back to snatch the throne, this matter is interesting." ”

Bai Mu said: "That's what those captives said. In order to confirm this news, the last general deliberately interrogated several more Tartar generals among the captives, and they all said the same thing. ”

Jiang Chuan pondered the news, and suddenly thought of some historical materials he had read in his previous life. After Huang Taiji became seriously ill, he died without making a will to pass on the throne to anyone. After his death, Hauge, Dolgon, and others, who were eligible to inherit the throne, were almost fighting for the throne.

Later, because of his personal relationship with Concubine Zhuang of Yongfu Palace or out of political compromise, Dolgon proposed to establish Concubine Zhuang's son, that is, the ninth son of Huang Taiji, the six-year-old Fu Lin as emperor.

This proposal was not only in line with the original intention of the ministers who supported Hauge's two yellow flags to support the prince, but also showed that Dolgon himself would not participate in the struggle for the throne, and in the end both sides compromised and accepted the proposal.

Moreover, Dolgon also proposed that the prince of Zheng, Zilharang, be an auxiliary government with him, and did not have a monopoly on power, so in the end the Manchu nobles were forced to accept this proposal, and Dolgon became the actual power holder of the Manchu state.

Of course, this is a historical thing. But in this paradoxical time and space, I don't know if history will develop like this, after all, many things have changed.

Not to mention anything else, the two Yellow Banner ministers in history, Aobai, who strongly supported Hauge's succession, have died under his own hands, and Dorgon's brother Duoduo has also been defeated in his own hands, will these factors affect the balance of strength between the two sides vying for the throne, so as to affect the direction of the throne?

However, Jiang Chuan didn't care who sat on the throne, whether it was Dolgon, Hauge, or the little kid Fu Lin who came to be this emperor, it didn't make much difference to him.

Because the Manchu Qing Dynasty was destined to be crushed into the dust of history by the iron hooves of his Jiang army.

The question he was thinking about now was that if the news of the captives was true, then the attention of the entire Manchu nobility was now focused on the attribution of the throne, which led to the heavy gathering of troops in Shengjing, so there must be an emptiness on the periphery.

That being the case, now is a good opportunity to seize Gaizhou and Quang Ninh. Otherwise, once this opportunity is missed, once the ownership of the throne is clear and the Manchu Qing is internally stabilized, it will inevitably strengthen the defense of Gaizhou and Quang Ninh, and it will not be so easy to attack it at that time.

It's just that he has just taken Liaoyang, and if he wants to continue to attack Gaizhou and Guangning, his troops are a little thin. Because on the one hand, it is necessary to allocate a part of the forces to defend Liaoyang, guarding the prisoners and those who are still restless to the Tartars, which leads to the fact that there will not be too many troops that can go on the expedition.

Second, when attacking Liaoyang, the shells of the red-coated artillery were almost consumed, so if you want to attack Guangning and Liaoyang, you must use the traditional siege method, in that case, the casualties will be too large, I am afraid that it will have an impact on the morale of the soldiers of the Ming army who have just been reorganized, and more seriously, it will weaken your own strength, once the Tartars launch a counteroffensive, it will be a little troublesome.

But if such an excellent opportunity is not grasped, Jiang Chuan is really unwilling.

He needs to find someone to discuss, and the best candidate is naturally Liu Ji. It's just that Liu Ji is in the Erlong Valley base at this time.

Jiang Chuan raised his head and said to Bai Mu: "You personally bring people back to Erlong Valley to pick up the military division to Liaoyang, and then you stay to guard Erlong Valley and let others send the military division over, be quick." If you have something at hand, go to Ran Wu to hand it over, and set off as soon as the handover is completed. ”

Bai Mu clenched his fists and took the order, turned around and strode away.

Since Liaoyang is already in hand, many strategic arrangements in the future will revolve around Liaoyang, and various centers of gravity will gradually shift from Erlong Valley to Liaoyang.

So many things need to be discussed with Liu Ji, and civil affairs need to be handled by Liu Ji, which is not what Jiang Chuan is good at, and he is too lazy to do.

Come to think of it, it's because there are too few talents at hand, otherwise I wouldn't have to pick up one and go back.

And the capture of Liaoyang does not mean that the entire region has been conquered. There are still many villages and even tribal settlements around Liaoyang City, and there are even some earthen cities built by locals, which have not yet been naturalized and still need to be subdued one by one.

How to subdue, conquer by force or use the method of appeasement to temporarily stabilize.

In addition, now is spring, it is the time to plough the field and sow seeds, how to arrange farming? These need to be discussed and then a charter is made.

It is simple to take down a place by force, but if you want to govern it well and occupy it for a long time to win the hearts and minds of the local people, this is the really difficult thing.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chuan felt that his head was big.

So he suddenly understood why there were so many faint monarchs in ancient times, it was really because being a Ming monarch was really not ordinary hardship. Now that I am talking about it, the real city is Liaoyang, and the emperor is in charge of hundreds of cities in the world, and the big and small things are not more like cow hair.

Although it is said that officials at all levels help to share the burden, but the big idea has to be taken by himself. If you are not careful, the people below will read the scriptures crookedly, and the goodwill and kindness of the emperor and the court will eventually become tyranny and tyranny.

So this is also the main reason why many emperors still have Daomingjun working hard at the beginning of his ascension, but within a few years, he began to be lazy and fished, and slowly became a faint monarch, it is too tiring to be a good emperor.

But now that I've embarked on this path, no matter how tired I am, I have to hold on.

After sitting and thinking for a while, Jiang Chuan got up and walked out of the signing room, looking at the clear blue sky, breathing a breath of pure natural and pollution-free absolute fresh air, and feeling much more comfortable.

The sound of steady and rhythmic footsteps came, and Jiang Chuan didn't need to look back to know that this was the military commander Li Jian coming, and when he turned around, Li Jian walked towards him.

"Look at you, but there's good news? Is there another good news on the White Mountain? Jiang Chuan looked at Li Jian with a happy face and asked with a smile.

"The lord is wise, it is the good news from General Baishan's side." Li Jian said with a smile, and then handed a battle report in his hand to Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan opened it and saw that it was the battle report written by Bai Shan himself, and he was in a good mood after quickly scanning it.

It turned out that Bai Shan took the right army to Gaizhou City and found that Gaizhou was also heavily defended and could not start, so he had an idea after sending people to reconnoiter near Gaizhou.

There are many Mongol or Manchu villages in the vicinity of Gaizhou, and these villages are far away from the city of Gaizhou. Of course, in every village there were Manchu or Mongol chiefs who ruled over hundreds of Han slaves, and these Han slaves were assigned to each Manchu or Mongol family to serve as slaves for them, and the situation was miserable, often without food, clothing, and no one to take care of them.

Moreover, these Manchus or Mongolians who were able to obtain Han slaves were all warriors who had worked the battlefield, so they were eligible to be assigned slaves.

Once these Manchu or Mongolian slave owners had a large-scale war, they would bring their own weapons and armor to assemble and go to war. If there is no war, they will work as a farmer at home, which is the principle of the Manchurian Eight Banners system.

After Bai Shan learned of this situation, he sent several cavalry to disguise themselves as horse bandits, ransack more than a dozen Manchu villages, looted the property and grain of these Manchus, and then killed some Manchus and deliberately let some Manchus go.

For a time, the Manchurian villages in the entire Gaizhou region were full of grass and trees, and the people were panicked.

Those Manchurians who were "lucky" to escape with their lives naturally went to Gaizhou to cry and move the rescuers.

Naturally, Adaali, who was guarding Gaizhou, could not let it go, and sent a cavalry of 3,000 people out of the city to suppress the bandits.

Bai Shan naturally expected this for a long time, set up a pocket, let the three thousand Qing soldiers get into the pocket, and then suddenly launched a siege, almost annihilating the three thousand Qing troops, and the remaining hundreds of Qing soldiers fled back to Gaizhou City in panic.

Therefore, Baishan meant that he would continue to operate in the vicinity of Gaizhou, on the one hand, continue to loot Manchu villages to fund the army, and secondly, continue to use this to force the Tartars to send troops out of the city, and then break through each one to weaken the strength of the Qing army in Gaizhou.