The general trend of the world is changing rapidly.

Only three days after Wang Zheng took Nanjing, Li Zicheng led his army to capture Xi'an, which quickly spread and dispersed, and at the same time, outside the pass, it was not peaceful.

On the ninth day of the eighth month of the seventh lunar month of Chongzhen's seventeenth year, Huang Taiji died suddenly in the harem of Shengjing, and there was no prince.

At this time, the power of Dai Shan's two red flags has been weakened, and he himself is over the age of six, and he has long been out of politics.

What's more, the most talented of his sons, Yue Tuo and Sakhalian, had passed away when they were young, and the remaining Shuo Tuo was not liked by Dai Shan, and Man Dahai had just emerged, and he had no say in the matter of the new monarch at all.

However, with Dai Shan's qualifications and the strength of the two red flags, his attitude can still influence the development of the situation, which is the strength that both Dorgon and Hauge need to fight.

The various efforts of Huang Taiji to centralize power during his lifetime and the increasing feudalization of the children of the Eight Banners naturally made Huang Taiji's eldest son Haoge participate in the competition.

From the perspective of interests, the two Yellow Flag ministers both hoped that the prince would succeed to the throne, and the eight ministers of the court even swore that even if he died, he would let Haoge succeed to the throne, so as to repay the favor of Huang Taiji.

In the final analysis, these people are still profit-oriented, and only when the emperor's eldest son, Haoge, succeeds to the throne, can the political status and rights of the two yellow flags be guaranteed, and they will not be reduced to fish and meat.

The princely ministers who supported Hauge's succession to the throne considered Hauge to be a military merit and talent, and Tiancong had been promoted to Heshuo Baylor by the sixth year, when Dorgon was just a fledgling young man.

In the first year of Chongde, Haoge was promoted to Prince Heshuosu and was in charge of household affairs, and he was already able to sit on an equal footing with several uncles, and his power in the Eight Banners can be said to be in full swing.

When the slave chieftain Emperor Taiji was alive, he greatly weakened the power of the banners, but at the same time maintained the strength of the imperial party.

Therefore, the representatives of these three banners must support Hauge to succeed him, and the only one who has the ability to compete with Hauge is now Dolgon, the prince of Heshuorui.

Dolgon held two white flags in his hands, and his two brave and warlike brothers were his strong backing, and some of the clans in the Zhenghongqi, Zhenglanqi, and Zhenghuang Banners secretly supported him, which was even more powerful.

In addition, there is another person who cannot be ignored, he is the blue flag lord Zilharang.

While he is unlikely to be in the competition, his back, like Daizen, has a significant impact on the other factions, and whichever side the two men lean towards, it will tilt the balance of power severely.

The county king Adali, Bei Zishuo and others persuaded several times to make Dolgon establish himself as the emperor, but Dolgon, who has always been ruthless and decisive, has been hesitant this time and has not expressed his position.

On the 14th day of August in the 17th year of Chongzhen, that is, one month after the Shandong army captured Nanjing, Prince Dai Shan, Prince Zheng Jierharang, Prince Yu Duoduo, and Prince Rui Dolgon all came to Chongzheng Hall to hold a meeting to decide the ownership of the throne.

Speaking of which, the meeting of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was very similar to the court meeting of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty on weekdays, and the nobles of the various banners denounced each other, and no one was subject to anyone.

Although Hauge and Dolgon both want to be emperors, they are not stupid enough to speak lightly, and their years of hard work will be wasted.

What's more, although the elite of the Ming court was lost in Liaodong, only Wu Sangui, who was stationed in Shanhaiguan, could fight, but Shandong still held a trump card.

It's just that Anton Hou Wangzheng's attitude is not clear, although he respects the Ming court on the surface, but since the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, he has begun to ignore the will of Emperor Chongzhen and act completely according to his preferences.

The meeting lasted about two hours, and Dolgon, knowing the importance of his every word, did not say a word, but just stood by and watched.

However, as we talked, the situation still developed in the direction that Dolgon feared, and the contradictions of the Manchu Eight Banners Conference were concentrated on the two yellow flags headed by Hauge and the two white flags headed by Dolgon and Duoduo.

The two sides are fighting each other, and the commission will not be decided.

Hauge was supported by two yellow, two red, and two blue banners, while Dolgon only had two white flags and some of the remaining four banners of nobles, and the conditions for self-reliance were not ripe, and the biggest resistance came from the cronies of the former emperor Taiji of the two yellow banners.

These people are more senior than Dolgon and Hauge, and they have been working against Dolgon, and they can't do anything to them.

Dolgon, who had not said a word before, suddenly spoke at the end of the meeting, suggesting that the ninth son of Huang Taiji, the six-year-old Fulin, would be the emperor in history.

As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the hall, and Hauge and the princes and ministers looked at each other dumbfounded, and Dorgon's words made them unable to find any reason to refuse.

Previously, Hauge succeeded to the throne, which was in line with the people's will, but now if he wants to succeed to the throne, he will become a full careerist, and the general trend of public opinion will be in favor of Dorgon.

Dolgon seemed to give in, but in fact he made a ruthless move in a muffled voice, making a final struggle, saying a thousand things and ten thousand, he actually wanted to be the emperor more than Hauge in his heart.

But Dorgon is much more terrifying than Hauge, knows how to forbear, and then wins with one blow, so as to achieve his own ends, from this point of view, it is very similar to Wang Zheng.

As a result, Dai Shan and other princes and the eight ministers of the court jointly blessed the throne, and the ministers of the banner Baylor jointly swore an oath to declare heaven and earth, and change the Yuan Shunzhi.

Dolgon also achieved his goal, and Emperor Shunzhi was the follower, and decreed that the Prince of Zheng Jilharang and the Prince of Rui Dolgon were jointly appointed as auxiliary kings.

In this way, the crisis of the division of the Eight Banners was eliminated by Dolgon, and with this he took advantage of it to move closer to the pinnacle of power, and Hauge was reduced to an ordinary prince, inferior to Dolgon.

Zilharang was more than able to defend and not enough to attack, and it was obviously a wrong decision to use him to contain Dorgon, and the two auxiliary kings actually held only one power, and that was Dolgon himself.

As early as the Battle of Songjin, he delayed the fighter many times, allowing Wang Zheng to take advantage of it, resulting in the death of Azig and the annihilation of the Wuzhen artillery battalion.

Of course, this was a key factor in Dorgon's push to make Zilharan an also an auxiliary king.

At the Manchu court, the eight ministers of the two yellow banners discussed "sword forward", forcing Dolgon to recognize Haoge as the new emperor, and in desperation, he proposed to let Fulin succeed him, rather than being far-sighted from the beginning.

It's just that Hauge didn't have Dorgon's ruthless methods, and he was timid when most people supported him, and he actually believed Dorgon's weakness in an unfavorable situation.

If Dorgon were to stand in Hauge's position, he would immediately discuss a well-planned plan and use all his power to help him ascend to the throne.

After becoming an auxiliary king, Haug wanted to use Zilharang's hand to be equal to Dorgon again, but the abacus was empty again, and Zirharang only seconded Dorgon's decision, and was afraid of things.

Dolgon quickly figured out the weakness and attitude of Zilharang, and used the power of the auxiliary king to purge Adori, Shuo, Adali and their subordinates who had previously supported the Hauge faction one by one, and basically took charge of the Eight Banners internally.

Of course, these are all the words after Wang Zheng led his troops into Nanjing.