Chapter 269: Battle (5)
Several ministers of the Zhenghuang Banner thought that they had seen through the court situation, and they were also very appreciative of Prince Su's sudden enlightenment.
Whether Hauge really backed down and made the situation bigger in order to gain support in terms of resources and troops, or whether he was really beaten like a pig's head, a few old people with yellow flags, even Hesheri Soni, would never believe that it was the latter.
Militarily, it is ready to fight, and politically it is to recruit the Ming Dynasty to surrender officials, whether it is Donglin or the Eunuch Party, the Qi Party, the Chu Party, the Zhejiang Party, and the inclusive, anyway, as long as they are willing to surrender, they will all be awarded official positions.
In October, he also sent Wu Weihua, including demoted officials, out of Beijing to inspect Shanxi, Shandong and other places, appease the local gentry, win over the people's hearts, known as reducing taxes, and collect taxes from the tax book during the Wanli period.
Although the Qing court has always collected taxes according to the standard after the three salaries were imposed, even in the "prosperous era" of Kangxi. In the south of the Yangtze River, the richest time in the Kangxi period can not be compared with the Wanli period, the same poverty, but the Qing Dynasty's tax collection is more flexible than the Ming Dynasty, such as the northwest area will be less collected, and there will be disasters on the hurry to help, when the time will be large-scale reduction and exemption of Ding Yin, at least in the Yellow Book, plus the massacre and literary prison in the early Qing Dynasty, under high pressure, but also with "never add endowment" to disgust people, literati were also accepted as eagle dogs, so on top of the text, the early Qing Dynasty swept away all kinds of harsh government of the Ming Dynasty, and suddenly became a peaceful world, peaceful and prosperous.
In fact, from the first year of Shunzhi to the Kangxi period, the resistance and war of the Han people have not stopped for decades, and the most serious time of Shunzhi six to seven years, the household deposit is only a few thousand taels, and the official salary has not been issued, and the number of men in the whole banner has dropped from more than 60,000 to less than 60,000, and there are fires everywhere and smoke everywhere.
Even so, the Qing court survived.
There are many reasons, Nanming Tai is a waste, and the Eight Banners force is still useful in the early years of Shunzhi, but the Qing court's efforts in attracting and using Han officials and gentry in the early years are also an extremely important reason.
It is nothing more than under high pressure, not to measure the virtue, only willing to descend can be used, and everything in the past is reserved.
In this way, no matter how bitter the people are, the gentry are not bitter.
Then he respected Kong and opened the imperial examination, which was a hundred times smarter than the Mongolian Tatars, and in this way, he slowly sat down in the country.
But at this time, the Qing court is a little unstable.
Rumors about Yanjing never stopped, and rumors that Manchuria might withdraw at any time, or slaughter the city, loot, or the Ming army's Northern Expedition, would erupt almost every few days.
There is no department to deal with this situation in the political axe agency of the entire Qing Dynasty, which is not like the brocade guard of the Ming Dynasty, what is the price of the vegetable field every day, what are the people talking about in the teahouse, and every day there are "fighting incidents" to report to the East Factory and Jinyi Guard, and then every day by the factory guards and governors to report to the emperor, so the situation of public opinion is quite grasped.
The Qing Dynasty was not good, and now rumors broke out in the city every few days, and the Manchurians in the upper echelons did not know very well, and Dolgon heard some of them and took measures, but that was limited to them.
Although it has been a few months in Yanjing, the Eight Banners have been stationed in the inner city, and Fu Lin has officially ascended the throne from outside the Guan, but the Manchu Qing's mastery of the city of Yanjing is far from reaching the expected value!
If the people's hearts are not attached, the people's will will naturally affect the officials' hearts.
Recently, some officials have gone south, and the reasons are, of course, strange and varied.
However, from the original extremely optimistic about the Qing court, to the present two ends of the first rat, with doubts, the change of people's hearts, and the autumn after a leaf falls, many major events are reflected in these details.
Of course, now I am still more optimistic about the Qing court, many Han people and doctors are above the court, willing to work hard for the new dynasty, the best of which is the former main alliance of the Restoration Society, the famous genius Zhou Zhong in Jiangnan.
………… As soon as the sky was bright, Zhou Zhong came out of the house.
He was followed by a personal companion, and on the side of his straddle mount, one in front of him, three in the back, four people surrounded him and rushed to the palace.
Dolgon is very diligent, and he summons the nobles of the Eight Banners every day, and the Ezhen Zhangjing of each banner is also summoned at any time, and the ministers of the Ministry and the Minister of Han may be called in at any time to consult things.
As for the large-scale court meeting, the enthronement ceremony was held just ten days ago, and the government and the opposition were all in trouble, and everyone was tired, so it had been a long time since a large-scale assembly had been convened.
With the position given by Zhou Zhongbing, coupled with the status of the Han people, he was originally not qualified to see the regent, and if there was anything, he would report it to the official of the department, or the official would play on his behalf.
After the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the old system of the Ming Dynasty was mostly accepted, but there were several obvious changes.
One is that the military power of the governor and the governor has increased, the governing power has increased, and the change in official ranks is also very obvious. If the governor of the Ming Dynasty is not a key place or has a year of propaganda, he is generally the official position of the fourth grade, not to mention that compared with the political envoy, even the left and right senators of the political envoy are also higher than the official position of the governor.
Although the governor is powerful, his official position is not high, which can be regarded as a kind of suppression of the power of local administrative provinces in the Ming Dynasty.
The governor of the Qing Dynasty has improved a lot in grade, and the governor has directly increased the military department, and his authority is compared with the governor of the Ming Dynasty, and it seems that he can't add any control to the title of five provinces and seven provinces, but the actual power has increased greatly.
Another obvious change in the local system is the abolition of patrol mortgages.
The Qing Dynasty was not interested in the Ming Dynasty's patrol system, which had a deep meaning, and the Shunzhi period had restored the patrol system, but it was abolished not long after.
The abolition of the patrol system means that the local supervision has also been abolished in form, but this is only corresponding to the local official system, and in the case of the central government, the biggest change in politics in the early Qing Dynasty is the disappearance of the system in the matter.
The party struggle of the Ming Dynasty is largely reflected in the two positions of the imperial history and the ministry.
The bigwigs who uphold national politics will raise their protégés and old ones, among which they must encircle a group of imperial histories, these people are lackeys and thugs, pointing to who beats whom, and the party struggle arises, and the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate must be on the front line.
Xu Jie's Yan Song, Xia Yan's Xu Jie, nothing more than that.
It is a sharper weapon in the matter, and there is no Tang Dynasty's three-province system, and there is no prime minister. The cabinet has a reality but no name, so where is the restriction on the power of the monarch?
That is, to give the right to refute in the matter! Although this right of refusal is rarely used, after all, it is a kind of counterweight and restriction on the monarchy's power, and moreover, it is a counterweight and constraint on the system!
The similarities and differences between the monarchy of the Ming and Qing dynasties, that is, the reform of the system in the matter can be seen a little clue!
Now Zhou Zhong's military department still has an official position in the matter, but in terms of speaking, he is only proud of the fact that he first climbed Hong Chengchou, and then before Hong Chengchou left Beijing, he recommended him to Fan Wencheng.
No matter how Hong and Fan fight for power and how they intrigue in secret, at least the friendship on the surface is not bad.
Besides, Hong Chengchou and others don't recommend people, so Fan Wencheng included Zhou Zhong in his bag, but after a long time, he saw that Zhou Zhong wrote well, his brain was also very active, and his understanding of the Ming Dynasty was also very profound, especially in the southern Shilin, Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou were afraid that they did not know so deeply.
In this way, even if Zhou Zhong is red and purple again, the rank and official position or something will be secondary.
Fan Wencheng is just a scholar of the Inner Academy, but even if he is the master of the banner, who would dare to despise this Inner Bachelor?
There are many people who see the regent every day, but anyone who sees Fan Wencheng's sedan horse has to take the initiative to come forward and say goodbye!
To Wuying Palace, the best thing is to take the Xihua Gate to come in, and not far to the east is the Wuying Gate, the distance is close, and there is no need to detour from the left and right gates of Chang'an, let alone play the Donghua Gate to go around so much.
However, not everyone has the grace of hitting Xihuamen and entering the palace, Zhou Zhong shrank his head in the cold wind and waited for a long time, and finally saw Fan Wencheng's sedan car coming, Zhou Zhong was happy, and was about to go up, but he saw a full official riding a horse from a distance to catch up, looking at the top of the dress seemed to be a duke of the clan, but saw that he stopped Fan Wencheng's sedan car from afar, and then Fan Wencheng came down, saluted each other, and just stood and talked.
Yanjing in October, far colder than later generations, although it did not snow, but the cold wind was bitter, the palace gate here is an unobstructed open space, although Zhou Zhong wore warm, but the awkward place above his head was not very adaptable, so he felt extremely cold, but felt that the cold air kept invading the upper body, making him really unbearable.
Finally, after the Manchurian duke finished talking to Fan Wencheng, he drove his horse to the palace gate again. When I got closer, I saw that there was a jewel on the top, and there was a flower feather on the back of my head, with thick eyebrows and a hideous face, but although it was a full beard, I was not very old, between youth and middle age.
Although the appearance is so, Zhou Zhong did not dare to guess, the Manchurians were fishing and hunting in the early years, many of the older clans suffered when they were young, Huang Taiji lived in Hetuara when he was Beyler, and as the son of the Khan King, he also lived in the stilt house, the weather in the northeast, when winter came, the Khan King dared to go out only when he could wipe lard on his face, and the noble stomach was not very good, and the age of the uncle in front of him was really hard to guess.
Zhou Zhong was also cranky in his heart and calmed down his emotions, but when this Manchurian duke entered the palace gate, he made a detour, patted Zhou Zhong on the shoulder, and grinned: "Your name is Zhou Zhong, right?" ”
His Chinese language is very twisted, but Zhou Zhong understands it.
nodded again and again, and replied with a smile: "The next official is Zhou Zhong." ”
"Well, you're not bad, you're a good student, and you have a good future to run!"
The words were very straightforward, but Zhou Zhong knew that the Manchurians were counted as "futures" when they were promoted, and there were twenty-four prospects from Bai Ding to Baylor back then, so it was a good word of encouragement to say that the future was a good word of encouragement.
Immediately agreed, smiling, the duke nodded again, and then turned and went in.
(To be continued)