At the same time as Hong Chengchou's personal soldiers set out, the Manchu court in Beijing also discussed the relevant measures for the southeast war on this festive day in the first lunar month. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The past six years of Yongli, that is, the ninth year of Shunzhi, was almost a bad year for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

On the southwest battlefield, the southwest Ming army, which had previously cowered in Yunnan and Guizhou, finally released the power that had been accumulated for a long time in this year, first Li Dingguo and Feng Shuangli defeated Shen Yongzhong, the Duke of Xushun, in the south of Huguang, and then at the same time that Feng Shuangli continued to pursue and kill Shen Yongzhong, Li Dingguo entered Guangxi and killed Kong Youde, the most famous king of Dingnan in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. At the same time, Liu Wenxiu, who entered Sichuan, led the Ming army to sweep all the way, directly driving the Qing army in Sichuan all the way to Ganshan in the north. And at the end of the year, it was a fiasco in which Prince Nikan, who went south to exterminate the Ming army in the southwest, was beheaded by Li Dingguo.

The southwestern battlefield is like this, and the southeastern battlefield is actually not much better. Last year, the Qing army in Zhejiang gathered a large army to defeat the Ming army in Zhoushan, which was the purpose of Shunzhi's seven years of encirclement and suppression of Dalanshan. Unexpectedly, the Ming army in Zhoushan drove away, but the anti-Qing movement in Zhejiang was not suppressed, but became more in full swing this year.

In April this year, Chen Wen defeated the Governor's Battalion in Lingxi, and then captured Jinhua's general soldier Ma Jinbao. Next, Quzhou was naturally besieged by the Ming army, after which although the Ming army withdrew for a time, but in the battle of Shentangyuan in September, the Qing army, which was twice as large as the enemy, still ushered in a crushing defeat, and Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, died in the capital of Quzhou a month later.

It can even be said that if there was no infighting initiated by the civilian officials of the prison army in the middle of the year, this Zhejiang Ming army would have expanded several times as much as it is now.

The pig-like teammates on the side of the Ming army have never been broken, starting from Yang Hao in the Battle of Salhu, until today, this is also a real key reason why the Qing army can be so smooth. But in the end, these things are still uncertain, after all, no one knows which guy who has always been righteous and awe-inspiring on weekdays will riot into a trap.

However, this year, even with the help of the pig teammates of the Ming army, the Manchu Qing still killed a governor, a general soldier, three deputy generals and two prefectures in five counties in Zhejiang; On the Fujian battlefield, because the Zhejiang Qing army, which had always come to Fujian's aid if there was something in Fujian, was pinned down in the southwest of Zhejiang, the southern part of Zhangzhou Prefecture, which originally belonged to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was lost, and the defenders also surrendered to the Ming army, and even Quanzhou was besieged.

Over the past year, even if the Ming army in Sichuan suffered the defeat of Baoning, Guangxi began to be gradually recovered by the Qing army because of Li Dingguo's northward advance, and the Ming army in Huguang failed to expand the results due to the division of troops in Chenzhou and Hengyang, and even Hengyang was forced to give up. However, the strategic initiative in the southwest battlefield had changed hands, and the Manchu magnates in Beijing would shudder when they thought of the scene of Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang joining forces to go north.

The same problem, on the side of the southeast battlefield, although under the strategy of Hong Chengchou, who had already set off in advance, Chen Wenli had exhausted his minions, and did not open up the route that threatened the neighboring provinces and the outlet to the sea to join forces with the Fujian Ming army, and even Zheng Chenggong was forced to retract to Zhangzhou to recuperate, but the strategic initiative was still in the hands of the Zhejiang Ming army, according to the report of Zhejiang Wenwu, within a few months, once Chen Wen's next wave of recruits entered the camp, then the war would inevitably restart.

Moreover, in addition to the military threat, the Zhejiang Ming army also managed to make the Confucian family Nanzong, who had just accepted the appointment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, fall back to the Ming army, which meant that the Southern Ming ******, who had already shaken his head, suddenly had the capital to compete with the identity of the Confucian orthodox dynasty. After all, although the Southern Sect of the Confucian family is not hereditary Yan Shenggong, it is a real great sect, and the Southern Song Dynasty used to take this as the orthodoxy of the Confucian family, which greatly hindered and damaged the hearts of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to converge on the Confucian scholars and doctors.

Once I thought that the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River regarded the Southern Ming ****** as an orthodox dynasty like the Southern Song Dynasty, the more the Manchus felt that the Confucian Northern Sect they canonized, the Jin came to Fengjin, the Yuan came to Fengyuan, the Ming came to Fengming, the Ming came to Fengchuang, and the Qing Dynasty immediately changed their Manchu Qing, and I can't count how many times they changed their masters, and once served Kublai Khan, the butcher with Han blood on his hands, as the "great master of Confucianism".

Nowadays, although the scale of the Ming army on the southwest battlefield is larger, the threat is also greater, but in the final analysis, it is only a military and political threat, but the southeast is a land of wealth, and the Ming army is like a bamboo, and it has the tiger skin of the Confucian family, so it can be said that the three major problems of politics, military and economy all exist.

Once it is developed, then the impact will only be greater than that of the southwest, not less than that of the southwest, even if there is an emperor in the hands of the southwest Ming army, it is useless. How many emperors have changed in the Southern Ming Dynasty in just nine years, Hongguang of the Fu Domain, King Lu of the Lu Domain, Longwu and Shaowu of the Tang Domain, and the Lu Jianguo of the Lu Domain, who is said to have just gone to the prison country, and the King of Jingjiang of the Ning Domain, who has not yet become independent......

As long as the power is established, the children of the old Zhu family will be an emperor at will, and this is what the civil and military officials of the Ming court have done in recent years, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty firmly believes that Chen Wen will never let go of such an easy opportunity to become a very popular minister.

It is precisely because of this that the Manchu court, after discussion, still released Hong Chengchou, a fierce dog. At least in their opinion, as long as Hong Chengchou is present on the southeast battlefield, even if he can't win quickly, at least he won't let the Ming army continue to develop and pose a greater threat.

The news came not long ago, Hong Chengchou's three-plate axe has begun to work, the Zhejiang Ming army has temporarily reined in the minions, the Fujian Ming army has returned to the lair **** wound, and the two provinces have temporarily calmed down, especially the Fujian Ming and Qing armies can help anyone for the time being.

Hong Chengchou used various means to buy a few months for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and if there was no threat from the Ming army in the southwest, they would have sent the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners south to suppress it. However, the situation in the southwest was the same, and the Eight Banners Army left behind in Beijing also had to deter the Green Battalion in the north and those Mongol allies, and it would be extremely difficult for the Manchus with limited elite troops to move south immediately.

In fact, the civil and military officials in Zhejiang also had their own ideas about the issue of the southeast, and even Chen Jin, who had already been martyred for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, put it into practice, which is said to be quite effective.

However, the Manchu elite did not recognize it, and several imperial meetings did not call any high-ranking Han officials, and even veteran traitors like Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan I were not qualified to attend the meeting. And today, Shunzhi even invited the oldest prince of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Prince Zheng Prince Zheng Jierharang, who was once ranked before Dolgon, to come over, in order to make a decision on the matter as soon as possible.

"According to the report of the Pingnan general Han Army's Red Flag Gushan Ezhen Jinli, the Supervisory Battalion performed quite well in the Battle of Shentangyuan after copying the mandarin duck formation of the rebel Chen Wen, and the number of killed and injured thieves was quite amazing.

In the main hall, the Manchu Qing Dynasty who were qualified to attend the meeting and some ministers who had the blue eyes of Shunzhi, such as Sony, Aobai, Kubilong, Suke Saha and others who were the ministers of the guard, could only stand on the main hall, and only Prince Zheng Zierharang had a seat and could sit and discuss matters like Shunzhi.

"The number of wins and losses can be counted by estimate? I think Jin Li, the dog minion, is also going back more and more! ”

Over the years, the Manchu Eight Banner Army has been obsessed with the gentle countryside of Beijing and cannot extricate itself, and the decline in combat effectiveness may not have been discovered, but it is no longer as if everyone enthusiastically and courageously marched forward as soon as they heard the news of "seizing the west" in Liaodong. The days of wealth and glory have begun to wear down their fighting spirit, so they are more inclined to use the green battalion to suppress the Ming army and the anti-Qing righteous army in various places.

This matter has been discussed many times among the Manchu elites, some feel that it does not matter if they strengthen a small number of green battalion soldiers, and some feel that the green battalion soldiers are also the objects to be guarded against, after all, examples such as Jin Shengheng, Li Chengliang and Jiang Pai are really harmful to the Manchus.

For this reason, the two sides have debated many times, and each time they broke up unhappily, seeing this, Shunzhi had to invite Prince Zheng Jierharang, who was originally very jealous, to give an opinion. But who would have thought that as soon as Zilharang finished listening to Sony and told the ins and outs of the matter, he opened his mouth and directly scolded Jin Li, which really stunned everyone in the hall.

When the Manchu court was first established, many ceremonial things were still very rough, and the palace was full of nobles and Shunzhi's cronies, and there was no imperial history, and Zierharang's identity was there, even Shunzhi, who was the emperor, was not good at criticizing his uncle for any inappropriate words.

In a word, Zilharang was not even interested in listening to the arguments held by those nobles and Manchu ministers, so he stood up directly and said to Shunzhi: "Your Majesty, the foundation of my dynasty is the Eight Banners, the Eight Banners of the Manchu Army are the heaviest, the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Army are the second, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army are the second. As for the green camp, they are just dogs used to chase and bite their prey, and they must not be so hungry that they have no strength to chase their prey, nor can they be allowed to eat too much, because when they are full, they will bark their teeth at their masters. ”

"I haven't seen that group of thieves and slaves in Zhejiang, but those Zhejiang Ming troops on the banks of the Hunhe River still echo in the minds of the slaves to this day. Although I am not afraid of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, but there are more ants and will bite the elephant to death, we are only forty or fifty thousand men, and there are too many men of the Han people. ”

Zilharang said that he sat down again after his thoughts, and did not tell Shunzhi what to do, but it was precisely because of this, Shunzhi looked at Zilharang more pleasing to the eye, because the original Dolgon, who was also the regent, was completely different, not only slept with his wife, but also stole his right to be the emperor, but Zilharang was more like his slave than his master.

Zilharang's identity was there, and Shunzhi had obviously been persuaded by it, and the remaining nobles and Manchu ministers naturally did not dare to have any objections, at least not to say it to their faces.

The matter has been decided, and soon, with the angel all the way south, the high-level civil and military officials of Hangzhou, who have been discussing this matter for nearly a month, finally received the holy decree on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

In addition to a series of high-level civil and military officials such as the Pingnan General Han Army with the Red Flag Gushan Ezhen Jinli, the Han Army with the Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen Liu Zhiyuan, the Governor of Zhejiang Xiao Qiyuan, and the Governor of Zhejiang Tian Xiong, even Xu Lei, who was easy to use the Li family's mother and daughter to lure Li Ruixin to surrender before blocking his wife's mouth, was among them.

However, in the holy decree, not only did they not allow the copying of the Ming army's tactics as they expected, but also vigorously criticized the behavior of privately organizing and training the mandarin duck array.

In addition, Xu Lei was demoted from the garrison of the left battalion to the commander of Qian, and his subordinates were transferred to the Fubiao battalion, and even Tian Xiong was fined by the Qing court for half a year on the grounds that his majesty was not strict. In fact, this is all light, in contrast, Jin Li, who asked for this matter, went directly to the end, seized the title, seized the position, and went to prison, and his dispatch from General Pingnan was also transferred to Liu Zhiyuan, who was ambiguous about this before. (To be continued.) )