On the twenty-eighth day of the fifth year of Yongli, Qianqing Palace in Beijing.

Taking advantage of Dolgon's accidental death, Shunji began a liquidation of Dolgon and his cronies after he became pro-government.

Nearly a year has passed now, and Dolgon has pursued all the canons, destroyed tombs and exhumed corpses, inlaid white flags to solidify mountains and Ezhen He Luohui, university scholars Ganglin and Qi Chongge, ministers of the interior Leng Seng Ji, Sina Buku, Bei Zigong Adai, Xihan, and Tan Tai, the general of Zhengnan who had participated in the suppression of Li Chengdong and Jin Shengheng anyway, were all killed. Even Prince Azig, who had died in Dolgon and wanted to replace him, had been imprisoned and died.

After this series of political struggles, power was finally returned from the regent Dolgon and his henchmen to the two yellow banner nobles of the Huang Taiji line, who had been suppressed during Dolgon's reign. With the support of the Eight Banners nobles, Shunzhi also refocused his attention on this anointed land in eastern Asia.

Relying on the creation of the Nurhachi era, the accumulation of the Huang Taiji era and the release of the Dolgon era, the Manchu Qing Dynasty took advantage of the fact that the actual rule of the Ming Dynasty in the north was overthrown by the peasant rebel army represented by Li Zicheng, and quickly crushed Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and the Southern Ming Hongguang, Longwu, Shaowu and other dynasties.

At present, in addition to the civil unrest in various places, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty are only the Lu Jianguo group in the southeast and the Yongli ****** in the southwest.

Three months ago, the Pingnan general Han army set the red flag Gushan Ezhen Jinli, Zhejiang and Fujian governor Chen Jin led the Hangzhou garrison of the Eight Banners, the Zhejiang and Fujian Governor Standard Battalion, the Zhejiang Admiral Standard Battalion, and the Dinghai General Army Standard Battalion to the east to Zhoushan, and attacked Zhoushan after capturing and killing the famous general of the Ming army's naval division, Danghu Hou Ruanjin. Ten days later, the city was broken, the concubines and princes of the Lu Prison State were captured, and a large number of officials, including Zhang Kentang, the first assistant to the cabinet, either surrendered or died.

Seeing that the city of Zhoushan was broken, the army of Lu Jianguo was forced to go south, and after entering Wenzhou Sanpan, they were pursued by Mei Le, Zhangjing, Wu Ruyu, and Dinghai General Zhang Jie cooperated with the Wenzhou Qing army to defeat the Zhoushan Ming army that fell here again. It was forced to continue south. Including the governor Jingyang general Zhang Ying, the governor of the seal of the general Ruan Shu and Ruan Yu, the new attack on Hu Hou Ruan Mei, the governor of the general Ruan Jie, Wei Bin and others successively carried a large number of soldiers, ships and artillery to surrender to the Qing army in Min'an, Fujian.

The power of the Ming army in Zhoushan was basically wiped out, and the Qing army in the southwest battlefield also invaded Guangxi and recently captured Nanning. drove the long-legged son to Guizhou. As for the extermination of anti-Qing forces such as the Shandong Yuyuan Army, the list is even more numerous.

In the first year of pro-government, so many achievements have been made, and Shunzhi, who has broken free from the shadow of Dolgon, can't help but feel a little fluttering when he listens to the sycophants and servants around him.

However, just as the Manchu Qing Dynasty was about to completely wipe out the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in various places, Zhu Chenggong of Fujian defeated the Qing army several times in Zhangzhou in southern Fujian and surrounded Zhangzhou Prefecture; The remnants of the Dalanshan Ming Army, which had been flattened last year, entered Jinhua Mansion in one fell swoop under the leadership of a military general named Chen Wen, and repelled the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Qing army in Zhejiang.

In this way, when they thought that the southeast battlefield was about to be completely won, one Zhu Chenggong and the other Chen Wen opened a gap in Fujian and Zhejiang, two provinces that had almost achieved complete success. It posed no small threat to the Manchu rule in these two places.

Zhu Chenggong didn't mention that Zheng Zhilong's stupid son has been making trouble in Fujian for many years, and after thinking about it, Shunzhi still plans to decide to let Chen Jin, Jin Li, and Zhang Xuesheng, the governor of Fujian, who know more about the local situation, solve it.

As for Chen Wen, this name Shunzhi is somewhat familiar, and it seems that he has heard it before. After recalling it for a long time, it was only after being reminded by the close ministers that it was the Ming army general who ambushed the standard battalion of the governor of Zhejiang last year when Dolgon was still alive and beheaded a deputy general. It can be regarded as a rare ruthless role in the Zhejiang Ming Army over the years.

But who would have thought that this guy would be far more ruthless than he imagined. In the case of Zhoushan being besieged, it chose to move westward. Far away from the support of the coastal Ming army, he took advantage of the Qing army's short defense loopholes during this period to occupy Jinhua, and repelled the Qing army that was encircled and suppressed with inferior troops, and even swallowed the lone Fubiao battalion.

Although he only lost a mansion, the appearance of this Ming army general has made Shunzhi feel a little obstructive, after receiving Chen Jin's report. He summoned his cronies Sonny and Aobai, and sent a message to Boluo, the prince of Duanzhong, who had captured Jinhua, and Hong Chengchou, a bachelor who knew more about Jiangnan, to come to discuss.

After the death of Emperor Taiji, Dolgon and Hauge competed for the throne, and the six people of Sony, Aobai, Tan Tai, Turai, Gong Adai and Xihan of the two yellow flags swore to support Hauge. Among them, Ao Bai drew his sword against Dolgon when discussing politics. Faced with the threat of force from the "First Warrior of Manchuria", the powerful Dolgon had to give up the idea of continuing to fight, and replaced Fulin, who was also the son of Huang Taiji, to the throne.

Later, Gong Adai, Xihan and Tan Tai were attached to Dolgon, and Turai died relatively early, and when Shunzhi's pro-government liquidated Dolgon and his henchmen, the only two remaining stalwarts of the two yellow banners who were repeatedly persecuted when Dolgon was powerful naturally became Shunzhi's cronies.

After circulating Chen Jin's report, Sonny and Ao Bai glanced at each other, and then set their eyes on Bo Luo and Hong Chengchou, who were more familiar with it, like Shunzhi.

Bo Luo knew about the things in the newspaper yesterday, Jinhua General Ma Jinbao was a general under him, and later he appointed Ma Jinbao as the Quzhou General Soldier, although this military general said that the ability to fight is not big, but the victory is to scrape the ground, and the annual filial piety is far more than others, so for Ma Jinbao, Bo Luo has always been a protective attitude.

Chen Jin's report deliberately arrived half a day later than Ma Jinbao's people, and it emphasized Chen Wen's cunning, talking about Chen Wen's division of troops in Taizhou to contain Ma Jinbao and attack Jinhua at the same time, without mentioning that Ma Jinbao's rampant conquest in Jinhua led to the rapid growth of the Ming army. As for the failure of the encirclement and suppression, it was also attributed to the reckless advance of the dead man's guerrilla by the left battalion of the Fubiao battalion, and the defeat on the southern front was almost a passing one.

Bo Luo knows very well that there is a relationship between Chen Jin and his face, and Ma Jinbao's bribes to Chen Jin, Jin Li, Xiao Qiyuan and others are indispensable. Since Chen Jin is willing to suppress Ma Jinbao's guilt, he is also happy to see it, after all, Ma Jinbao has a lot of filial piety on weekdays, and the person sent this time also brought an equally expensive amount of filial piety.

As for the chaos in Jinhua. What can a Ming army general do, isn't there still a Manchurian soldier, and there are still opponents in this world that Manchurian soldiers can't beat?

"Your Majesty, the slave has been to Jinhua, which is in the land of four wars, although there are mountains and rivers, they are not enough to hold on. The barbarian surnamed Chen took the opportunity of the army gathering in Zhoushan to attack Jinhua and succeeded. It's just a little bit more lucky. Just like Chen Jin said, when the Eight Banners of Hangzhou Garrison and the upgrading and supervision of the standard are completed, they can naturally be leveled in one fell swoop, and there is no need to worry. ”

In a few words, Bo Luo blamed Chen Wen's good fortune for the loss of Jinhua, which was clearly a posture of protecting Ma Jinbao, how could the three people on the same hall not know, even the pro-government Shunzhi for only a year can see the clues. It's just that Bolo, Nikan and Mandahai are the three kings of the six ministries together, and their status is very high, and for Shunzhi, who has just liquidated Dolgon, who urgently needs the support of other princes of the Eight Banners, Bolo's words carry extremely heavy weight.

Seeing Bolo was unimpressed. Shunzhi kicked the ball on Hong Chengchou's body again, wanting to see what opinions this minion, who had been in the Han army with a yellow flag since his surrender, was worth considering.

Hong Chengchou thought about it, and did not intend to refute Bolo's opinion, but only mentioned another problem in the newspaper - how to solve Chen Wen, the only remaining Ming army in Zhejiang, and Zheng Chenggong in Fujian.

"Your Majesty, the servants read Governor Chen's report, which said that Chen Wen's supervising army, the puppet governor of Zhejiang, Wang Jiang, was captured by a small force sent by Chen Jin. It has surrendered to the imperial court. Since this is the case, it is better to let Wang Jiang surrender to him. And it was said in the newspaper. Chen Wen is the hereditary hundred households of Tianjin's right guard, and the slave thinks that he can let the governor of Zhili investigate in detail, and if there is still a family here, the two-pronged approach may be twice the result with half the effort. ”

Recruiting and rebelling was the most common trick of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Hong Chengchou did not mention those who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty after being captured, and many places did not have to bother to fight since the Qing army entered the customs. As long as a man of argument is sent in front of the Manchurian army, a large number of soldiers and territory can be exchanged. Before Chen Wen entered Siming Mountain, many civil and military generals of the Lu Jian Dynasty were recruited and surrendered by Yan Wugong, if it were not for Wang Yi's killing of Yan Wugong's envoy, this momentum may be difficult to contain for a while.

"In this way, if you can recruit success. By adjusting the defense and dividing his generals, this military general is not a cause for concern. If not, you can also use this time to let Hangzhou garrison Eight Banners, Raising Battalion and Supervising Battalion complete rest, and when Jiangxi is over, the army can enter Quzhou from Guangxin Mansion to converge with the Supervising Battalion, and cooperate with Hangzhou's garrison Eight Banners and Raising Battalion. ”

The matter of Jiangxi in Hong Chengchou's mouth is the anti-Qing righteous army that was active in Jiangxi and Fujian, among which the military department Shangshu Jiangxi governor Jie Chongxi, Dingnan Hou Cao Dahao, Pingjiang Bo Zhang Zisheng and Ning Hongbo Hong Guoyu were called the four great Kou of Jiangxi by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the righteous army organized by these four people once camped for hundreds of miles, gathered hundreds of thousands, and ran rampant in Jiangxi and Fujian.

In the face of such a large-scale anti-Qing army, the Manchus had to dispatch green camps in Fujian, Jiangxi, and Southern Jiangxi provinces to encircle and suppress. Until the second day of October last year, Hong Guoyu was captured in Xincheng County, Jiangxi, and Jie Chongxi and Cao Dahao were also captured by the Qing army in May this year.

As long as Zhang Zisheng is eliminated, the Qing army can be transferred to continue to suppress the remnants, and the rest will be overwhelmingly advantageous whether they are invested in the Fujian battlefield or the Zhejiang battlefield.

Hong Chengchou's plan not only included Chen Jin's mention of sending Hangzhou to garrison the Eight Banners to participate in the battle to besiege the Jinhua Ming army, but also proposed to use the time of surrender to wait for the Qing army to encircle and suppress the Ming army in Jiangxi to participate in the encirclement and suppression after completing the established combat mission. In this way, the siege of Jinhua next year can ensure that nothing goes wrong.

As for Zheng Chenggong, Hong Chengchou and his father Zheng Zhilong are fellow villagers, and he also had his part in recruiting Zheng Zhilong back then, and he also knew a little about Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong has been raising troops for many years, but the performance in combat is not very stable, and this year's performance has exceeded the past, but there are still many soldiers and generals in Fujian, and there will always be someone who can relieve the siege of Zhangzhou.

In addition, Zheng Chenggong besieged Zhangzhou, the southernmost part of Fujian, and Jinhua, which Chen Wen occupied, could attack Ningshao and Hangzhou, and Quzhou in the south, and if ******** took Lu Jianguo ashore, it would be very convenient to attack Taizhou. But if Lu Jianguo really went ashore, it would not be as simple as the chaos of a government.

Therefore, he planned to set the tone for the Manchu masters to first Chen and then Zheng, so that Ma Jinbao could also use this time to expand his strength and make meritorious contributions, and he would not go against Bolo's thoughts.

Hong Chengchou's plan was very clear, and it was quickly approved by Bolo, and Sony saw that Shunzhi didn't seem to plan to make too many changes, so he said yes, only Ao Bai seemed to want to raise any objections and was also signaled by Sony to talk about it later.

Then the five of them talked about some other things before ending the summons, Bolo and Hong Chengchou went back separately, while Ao Bai and Sonny got together to continue what had not been said just now.

"The failure of the encirclement and suppression of Jinhua is clearly due to the incompetence of Ma Jinbao, and now all the blame is placed on the guerrillas of the Fubiao battalion. In the future, if Ma Jinbao is defeated again, won't it be a major event for the emperor? ”

Sony is very clear about Aobai's personality, martial arts, loyalty above all else, and likes to go straight, such a person will not end up well for a long time, but some things must be made clear to him, otherwise it will be difficult for Shunzhi to explain.

"Brother Xian, you only know one and don't know the other, Ma Jinbao is an old general of Prince Duanzhong, and it is normal to protect one or two. The emperor has not been diligent for a long time, and he needs the support of Prince Duanzhong, so there is no need to worry about Ma Jinbao's crime. As for that barbarian, naturally there are Hangzhou Garrison Eight Banners to deal with, although the Han Eight Banners are not as good as our Manchurian Eight Banners, but dealing with a newly debuted barbarian general is not a matter of holding a handle! ”

It's not that he doesn't understand these things, but in his opinion, nothing is as important as the military and political affairs of the Manchu Emperor, like Ma Jinbao, who only knows how to scrape the ground and bribe the officials, has naturally had to be punished in order to subdue the rest of the green camp generals and urge them to do things well, otherwise wouldn't they put the cart before the horse?

As for the argument that the Eight Banners are invincible in Sony's mouth, in his opinion, it is also normal, not to mention the Eight Banners, even the Han Eight Banners are not something that the Ming Army can resist as long as they fight seriously.

Because of this, Sony quickly persuaded Aobai by taking advantage of Shunzhi's situation, and this matter set the tone, and when it came to discussing politics, it could naturally be settled smoothly.

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Contrary to the understatement of the Qianqing Palace in Beijing, Lu Jianguo of Haitan in Fujian Province has entered Zheng Chenggong's territory, but the two sides are still arguing over the etiquette of the meeting, and cannot enter into substantive negotiations.

The news that Chen Wen captured Jinhua, the Qing army's encirclement and suppression failed, and Wang Jiang was captured had arrived.

The matter of entering Zhoushan was originally just a civilian-official clique headed by Zhang Kentang, who wanted to use Chen Wen, Wang Yi's subordinate, to check and balance Zhang Mingzhen and Ruan Jin in the future, and prevent them from becoming like Zheng Cai under power. But this motion was not only opposed by Zhang Mingzhen, but even Chen Wen chose to resist the order.

But now it seems that with Chen Wen's martial bravery, if he is really transferred to Zhoushan, he may really be able to hold Zhoushan City, and this also makes them particularly resentful of Chen Wen, who is disrespectful to the will.

It's just that resentment is resentment, and these monarchs and ministers who overestimated the ability of Chen Wen and his subordinates can rely on only this invincible general since his debut at a time when the army has no food and grass and no fighting spirit. If it can prompt it to attack Taizhou, then the monarchs and ministers of the Lu Jianguo can go ashore under the escort of Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, without having to send people under the fence here.

The tone has been set, and the candidates who went to Jinhua to preach comfort and supervise the army have also been dispatched, but the only thing left is whether this strong army, which was once subordinate to Wang Yi and Wang Jiang, the two civil officials and supervisors, can be completely brought under the banner of Lu Jianguo, that's all. (To be continued.) )