Li Dingguo, who had scared Shunzhi so much that he almost wanted to rule the river, was also defeated by Wu Sangui, and the war in the southwest was going very smoothly. In order to avoid problems in the "war of annihilation", Hong Chengchou, who had been idle in Changsha, also went to Guiyang to participate in the Yunnan military conference.

Shunzhi's move is actually thinking that Hong Chengchou has been planning on the front line for several years after all, and he knows the Ming army in the southwest very well, and now the army is finally attacking the southwest according to the "three-way entry into Yunnan" plan he deployed, but now he is idle in Changsha and is only responsible for the transportation of grain and grass for the army, which is inevitably a little chilling, so Shunzhi wants to ask Hong Chengchou to go to Guiyang to help Doni give advice, and by the way, he will be given credit after the war, so it can be regarded as the completion of this good story of the monarch and minister. Unexpectedly, this matter caused an uproar in Beijing, and the Manchurian prince Beile Dudao Emperor wanted Hong Chengchou, a Han man, to overwhelm the Manchurian generals in front of him, to rob the first merit of destroying the country!

I don't know how this trend of Hong Chengchou got up, and Jidu and Du Eryou, who opposed the appointment of Han officials, went to Guangdong, saying that the snake is not headless, and the two heads of Biji and Du Eryou are not there, and the trend is even more fierce, which caught Shunzhi off guard, and he wonders how this wave of opposition rose.

What those who oppose say is that the basic national policy of the Qing Dynasty is to worship Manchuria first and take Manchuria as the foundation, and should not reuse the Han people, let alone let the Han people make great contributions. In fact, the real idea is that none of their families have any children to go south with Doni, the king of Xinjun, which all refers to sharing some military exploits in the battle to destroy the country, but the emperor asked Hong Chengchou to go to Guiyang to seek the first credit. Hong Chengchou still has Han officials and generals under his command, and he must also share the merits, so how many military merits can be left for their children? This Manchurian child worked hard to put the prosperous days in Beijing. Wearing the stars and the moon to fight the southern barbarians in the south, what is the picture? It's not about the feats and the future! Now that the merit and future are called by the emperor to the Han people, can the people of Manchuria agree? Absolutely no!

It is related to the future of his own children, that is, without Prince Jane's call, the whole of Manchuria is also united against the emperor. In order to prove that their claims were valid, they turned out the edict of Shunzhi's accession to the throne. The first article of this edict is to emphasize that the princes of Manchukuo should be ordered to open the country and help the world and the people. Those who have great honors and laborers should be given special gifts to be close to the virtuous; The second is to confer the title of the grandson and nephew of the prince and the prince of the county; The third article says that the founding ministers of Manchuria. Or strategize, win the temple, or work hard to open up the territory. All should be crowned dukes and counts. The vast coupons of tin, and the rest of the country, eternal and endless; The fourth article is that since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Manchurian generals and other officials should be shaded.

The addition of these four articles together refers to one thing, that is, all the titles of the Qing Dynasty should be taken by Manchus, all important positions should also be held by Manchus, and all great achievements should also be established by Manchu children.

Han?

The rivers and mountains were brought down by our Manchurian children, what happened to the Guan Han people! What the Han people have to do is to be slaves of our Manchurians. Obediently farm for our Manchurians and weave for our Manchurians. Man man things for us, work hard for us man! If there is a good-looking daughter in the family, it is for us to choose a happy one! What else is the use of the Han Chinese? It's useless for bullshit! If the Han people are useful, can this country be brought down by our Manchurians!

Of course, Shunzhi was only nine years old when this edict was issued, and who knows what this edict was talking about, this edict was issued by Dolgon, but it was unanimously supported and approved by the whole of Manchuria. However, even if Shunzhi was young and ignorant when this edict was issued, he could not deny that this edict was issued by him, the emperor. Therefore, Shunzhi was very aggrieved, and what he was aggrieved was not that the people of Manchukuo moved out of his edict to oppose him, but that the people of Manchukuo misunderstood his intentions as an emperor

Shunzhi never thought of reusing the Han people and raising the Han people to the same status as the Manchus, otherwise he would not have said anything to the minions of Suke Saha and Aobai about the "Manchu and Han family". Yes, Hong Chengchou was indeed reactivated and reused by him, and the great authority he gave Hong Chengchou to the five provinces was unprecedented since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and he was a major member who could control the military and political affairs of the five provinces!

The power is so great that no one among the Han officials (including the Han army bannermen) has it, and even the four kings of Pingxi, Dingnan, Pingnan, and Jingnan, who are the princes, are only limited to Sichuan, or Guangxi, or Guangdong, and there is only one province, but Hong Chengchou can control the five provinces, which is almost equal to the power of the Dingguo general Yu Duoduo and the Jingyuan general Yingji King Azig in the early years of Shunzhi, far exceeding the power of the original Dolgon edict to Hong Chengchou to appease Jiangnan!

But it wasn't because the war in the south collapsed at that time, and everyone in Manchuria was afraid of Li Dingguo, who was a famous king, so Shunzhi had to use Hong Chengchou, so he hoped that Hong Chengchou could stabilize the south for him and let those Han troops act as cannon fodder, instead of the Manchurian children continuing to die in the south!

Shunzhi was very depressed, when he used Hong Chengchou, the Eight Banners were unanimously opposed, and it was he who insisted on implementing it. Hong Chengchou did not live up to his expectations, and sent troops to pacify Huguang and Liangguang in more than a year. In the face of the Yunnan-Guizhou region under the control of the powerful Great Western Army, Hong Chengchou advocated fighting on the defensive, and then attacking on a large scale when the conditions were ripe, and at the same time stepping up the surrender of the commander of the Great Western Army, and this plan was also agreed and supported by Shunzhi. However, because the war in the south lasted for several years, which led to a surge in military spending, the imperial court's finances were in an all-round emergency, coupled with the repeated hardships of the Manchurian army, the local officials and people were exhausted, so not only the Manchurian people were dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou, but also the Hanchen in the court were increasingly dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou, and even Shunzhi himself lost patience.

Unifying Yunnan and Guizhou as soon as possible, completely eliminating the Southern Ming, so that the Qing Dynasty can truly unify the world, has always been the greatest wish of Shunzhi's heart. But after all, he is young, and like Chongzhen back then, he has slowly lost his patience, although he has never had any verbal accusations against Hong Chengchou, but Hong Chengchou still grasped from the will that the Son of Heaven has no patience, and Manchurian has always been dissatisfied with himself, so he is very afraid that Hong Chengchou, who will become Yuan Chonghuan's second, asked for dismissal from the imperial court on the grounds of his "guilt, incompetence, and old illness" in May last year.

Hong Chengchou's five provincial strategies can be dismissed. But the Great Western Army, which guards the danger of Yungui and the Yongli regime under its protection, cannot be solved by a single edict. It is not easy to defend, and it is difficult to attack. If you take the risk of attacking and lose your troops, how will this end end?

Shunzhi, who received Hong Chengchou's self-request to be relieved, was very headache, if Hong Chengchou was relieved, who would be able to go to the south to sit in the town and share his worries? Although Hong Chengchou has not made any progress for several years, he has at least stabilized the front. did not let Sun Kewang occupy Hunan and Hubei. If you change someone, I am afraid that it is far inferior to Hong Chengchou, in case the situation that has been difficult to stabilize will be ruined again. Shunzhi didn't regret taking the medicine.

It's really a great Qing Dynasty, just when the helpless Hong Chengchou packed up and prepared to return to Beijing to accept punishment, just when Shunzhi was restless and had a headache whether to change people, and how to deal with the war situation in the south. However, there was news of the internal strife between Sun Kewang and Li Ding, the "lords of the Great Western Army". This news made Hong Chengchou see hope, and it also made Shunzhi see hope. The patience of the monarch and the minister was surprisingly good, and after waiting for a few months of anxiety, another great news came, Sun Kewang was defeated and surrendered!

Overjoyed, really overjoyed!

The elderly Hong Chengchou recovered his spirits, and the ambitious Shangjuan court could implement the strategy of "entering Yunnan by three routes", and the young Son of Heaven also sent a large army to the southwest with ambition. But at the same time as the army left Beijing. Shunzhi made a decree to receive Hong Chengchou's power under Doni, so that Hong Chengchou, who was preparing to show his ambitions in the southwest, suddenly became a grain and grass transport officer with no soldiers, no generals, no transfer and no command.

Hong Chengchou was disappointed. He didn't expect that the emperor, who had always trusted him, would relieve him of his power and idle him again when great things were expected to succeed. Shunzhi did not feel uneasy and guilty about Hong Chengchou's arrangement, because he believed that since the three-way strategy of entering Yunnan could be implemented, then the Son of Heaven would respect the ancestral system and weaken the appointment of Han officials. At that time, he used Hong Chengchou as the five provinces to make use of it, and now, this five provinces strategy has no use value, he naturally will not let the first credit for destroying the country fall into the hands of a Han person, even if this Han person is loyal to him, he often puts "the monarch and the minister get along" on his lips

In his bones, Shunzhi never believed in the Han people, although he liquidated Dolgon, but in terms of governance, he has always continued Dolgon's idea - to control Han but not to reuse Han.

During the regency of Dolgon, he advocated the use of Han to control Han, but he never reused Han officials, and only drove Han officials and Han generals to act as vanguard and cannon fodder for the south to extinguish the Ming Dynasty, otherwise there would be no rebellion by Li Chengdong, Jin Shengheng, Wang Deren, Jiang Xiang and others.

In the final analysis, the rebellion of Li Chengdong and others was not taken seriously by the Qing court, and they did not receive titles and rewards equal to their military exploits. During the regent of Dolgon, Hong Chengchou was only a false name such as a bachelor of the Academy of Literature, and only briefly replaced Duoduo in Jiangnan to deal with the crisis when the situation in Jiangnan was eroded due to the "shaving order" in the second year of Shunzhi, and then he has been idle in Beijing. Characters such as Hong Chengchou were not reused by Dolgon, let alone the rest of the Han officials.

In the treatment of the princes of the Manchurian clan, who was known as the "noble stomach of the heavens", Dolgon did not hesitate to give favors, bestow or promote knighthoods. The six Shangshu of the Qing court, the squire, the eight banners, the deputy commanders, the commanders of the guards, the garrison generals, and the generals and generals who went out to the army were all served by Manchus.

After Shunzhi came into power, although he was forced to resist the pressure of Manchu to use Hong Chengchou as the strategy of the five provinces due to the repeated wars in the south, and the prime minister fought against the Southern Ming Dynasty, he did more than Dolgon in dealing with the Manchurian clan. He designated the princely titles of Prince Dai Shan, Prince Zheng Ji'er Harang, Prince Yu Duofeng, Prince Su Haoge, Prince Chengyi Shuosai, King Yue of Kele County, and King Le Ke Dehun of Shun County as hereditary and non-descending princes, so as to ensure that the weight of the descendants of Aixin Jueluo in the Qing court was overwhelming any force.

In addition to the seven hereditary princes, Shunzhi also added candidates for the princes and ministers of the parliament in the ninth year of Shunzhi, so that there were as many as 17 council kings and councillors in Manchuria, namely Shuo Sai, the prince of Shuo Chengyi, the king of Doroqian County, Wakda, the prince of Xianxiang, the prince of Doroan, the king of Doroan, the king of Doroxin, the king of Doroxin, the king of Doromin, Ledu, Dorobele Shangshan, the prince Jidu, Du Eryou, Duran, etc. From the eighth to the twelfth year of Shunzhi, Shunzhi has appointed more than 30 ministers of parliament, such as Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanme, Xifu, etc., who are scholars of the Inner Academy. Hubu Shangshu Cheke, Ministry of Rites Shangshu Jue Luo Langqiu, Military Department Shangshu Mongolian Gushan Ezhen Ming Andali, etc., Two Yellow Banners and other banner ministers Aobai, Suke Saha, Kubilong and so on.

Among the dozens of ministers and ministers of the government, only Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan I are Han, and these two are Han people who served in Manzhou as early as the Later Jin Dynasty. Therefore, they have long been regarded as banner people rather than Han people. None of the Han officials who surrendered after the Qing army entered the customs could be included in the Council of Princes and Ministers, and even none of the Han officials who surrendered outside the customs could attend.

In addition to these, Shunzhi also rewarded the Manchurian children as officials, but even so, when he used Hong Chengchou and other Han officials out of exploitation, the Manchurian children still felt resentful, thinking that the emperor was abandoning the Qing national policy based on Manchuria. began to rely on Han officials and snub his own family!

Fortunately, the emperor could still listen to his voice, and decisively took over Hong Lao'er's power and left him idle. The Eight Banners are not going to shout and kill Hong Chengchou. After all, this Han man still made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty, and it is impossible to say that he really wants to kill people, but it is not possible to reward him for his great merit. How can you crown the Han people as kings again.

For Kong Youde, Shang Kexi's death. Geng Jimao's surrender, there are not a few people in Manchu who are honestly sad, but most of them are very happy, because the death or surrender of these Han princes can take back the territory of a province that Dolgon originally promised them, how many Manchurian children can be raised? How many Manchurian children can be arranged? How much wealth can be scraped?

When relatives and friends gathered together in private, many people heard that the Guangdong thief Xiucai was not a good-for-nothing guy. Where is it, but you can only understand it by yourself. I can't say yes.

Han official, just help do things. Can't you always give them a big reward, the merit of destroying the country is too great, if Hong Chengchou really wins, the court will not give him the title of king?

Bah!

At present, it is our Manchurian disciples who are working hard in the southwest, and the commander of the army is our Manchu prince, how can this great achievement not fall on him Hong Chengchou! If you want to be crowned king, dream of you!

On leading troops to fight, from the first year of Shunzhi to the present, which large-scale conquest was not led by the princes and nobles of Manchuria? Which time is not invincible, invincible!

In the Shanhaiguan Battle in the first year of Shunzhi, the regent Dolgon personally went out and commanded the Eight Banners to charge! After entering the customs, the army of the Eight Banners was non-stop, successively led by the Prince of Yu Duoduo, the Prince of Ying Azig, the Prince of Su Haoge, the Prince of Zheng Jierharang, the Prince of Xun Mandahai, the Prince of Duanzhong Boluo, the Prince of Jing Nikan, the King of Qianjun Wakda, Belle Leke Dehun and other clan kings Baylor, led the Eight Banners of the strong army, supplemented by the four kings of Pingxi, Dingnan, Jingnan, Pingnan and the Han soldiers of the Duke of Xushun and the green battalion composed of Han people in various provinces to conquer the south and fight the north, the momentum was like a bamboo, and soon unified most of China, laying the foundation for the Qing Dynasty to unify the world!

Among them, which battle needs to reuse the Han people as the commander? Which battle made the Han people go!

There is no reason, we Manchurian are fighting to break our heads, and we can't ask a Han person to jump over our Manchurian heads!

The crowd under the Eight Banners was passionate, and they unanimously opposed Shunzhi's arrangement to ask Hong Chengchou to go to Guiyang to help Doni just in case, even if Shunzhi asked Ao to worship them, the great achievement of destroying the country must be our Manchurians, Hong Chengchou just went to help King Xinjun make a plan, he was a layman, and it was impossible to grab the first credit. But he still couldn't suppress the turmoil under his banner, so he had to issue a decree to recall Hong Chengchou.

Shunzhi was really embarrassed to slap himself in the face again and transfer Hong Chengchou back, so he had to go to Kunning Palace to find the Queen Mother.

The Empress Dowager Bo Bozit said: "Hong Chengchou is a long-cherished minister, both civil and military. Previously, he was ordered to appease Jiangnan and made a great contribution, this time he still used Wende Suihuai, so that Sun Kewang returned to my Leyu, the situation in the southwest has changed, and now the army is progressing smoothly, and the emperor uses him to help Doni, which is also a good thing. After all, Doni is young and has not gone through a battle, Nanming's side was defeated so quickly, what if he had the heart of underestimating the enemy and fell into the ambush of the Ming army? So, it's not a bad thing to ask Hong Chengchou to mention it on the side. The gang in the flag has little knowledge, don't pay attention to them as the emperor, let them make trouble, I will support you, I don't expect these minions to turn against the sky. As for the post-war merits, I think Hong Chengchou should be rewarded, when Dolgon was there, he promised to kill the Southern Ming Dynasty and be crowned king, and now our mother and son are finally waiting for this day, and they can't be harsh on the meritorious personnel, so they can do what they should do. ”

Originally, the Queen Mother's words were heard by Shunzhi, and they were similar to what he thought. But in the end, I heard the Queen Mother take Dolgon to talk about things, and said that she would give Hong Chengchou the king, and she couldn't help but feel a little angry. blurted out: "I didn't expect that after so many years, Eniang still thinks about Dolgon"

"You!"

His son's words made Borbozit's face turn white, and his originally squinted eyes widened, and he said angrily: "Emperor, what do you mean by this? Are you here to ridicule Eniang today? Licentious! ”

"Erchen doesn't dare!"

Shunzhi knew that he had gone too far, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly apologized: "Erchen has no such thoughts, E-niang must not be angry!" "But what I thought in my heart was that it was fortunate that I didn't tell Concubine Zhuang Niangniang about persuading General Hong to surrender. Otherwise, I don't know what Eniang's face looks like.

Borzigit was really angry with her son, but what her son said made her very uncomfortable, so she had to snort. Aunt Su Mala on the side also served a bowl of tea with interest. Borzigit casually took the pretended tea and put the matter over.

Shunzhi was also busy talking about Hong Chengchou, and he said: "Actually, when Hong Chengchou was ordered to leave Beijing. Erchen is looking at the face of the emperor's mother. Cai specially rewarded him with python robes, hats, boots and socks, turquoise inlaid bags and bows, two saddle bridles, and five horses, so that he could go to office in a beautiful manner, so that he always thought about my good to him in the Qing Dynasty. But for him, Erchen can't trust him in twelve points, after all, he is a Han, not our Manchurian. Moreover, Eniang, you think, Qianming Chongzhen favored him at the beginning. was promoted exceptionally, and within a few years, he jumped from a four-grade governor to a governor and governor. Commanding the army and rising to the top is not unbeautiful. But what did Hong Chengchou do in the end? Didn't he still betray Chongzhen. Speaking of this, Shunzhi paused and said: "This kind of renegade and stealing people is the most hated in the minds of the Han people. ”

After Borzigit heard this, he sneered and ridiculed his son: "Since you look down on Hong Chengchou, why do you want to reuse him?" You are a son of heaven, E-Niang is really ashamed of you! Hong Chengchou, who is over the age of six, has been working hard for you on the front line for eight years, but you look down on others, and you criticize him with the courtiers. You say, what you just said can be said by a son of heaven? With the heart of a villain, Hong Chengchou's efforts are thankless, since you dislike him, why don't you send someone else? ”

The queen mother's accusation made Shunzhi speechless, so he had to say: "Eniang, the son is just a joke, why do you want to be angry?" Alas, for the sake of an irrelevant Han Chinese, why bother? Erchen doesn't really want to do anything with Hong Chengchou, why do you bother to protect him. ”

The Queen Mother said unhappily: "Now that your wings are stiff, you will stab me with words at every turn, you always speak and do things on a whim, and you don't think about the consequences at all, you might as well ask yourself, are you like a son of heaven?" ”

"Eniang, Erchen is not what you think, but how to arrange Hong Chengchou, Erchen needs to be cautious. Eniang didn't know that Hong Chengchou's son Hong Shiming fell into the hands of Taiping Kou. Shunzhi said aggrievedly.

Hong Shiming was sent by the Ministry of Rites to Guangdong to run a township test, but the result was unknown because of the fall of Guangzhou, after the Ministry of Rites reported the matter, Shunzhi thought that Hong Shiming had been killed by the Taiping Army, but unexpectedly Hong Chengchou himself wrote that his son was still alive and is now a prisoner of the Taiping Army.

Of course, Borzigit also knew about Hong Shiming's affairs, she shook her head and said to Shunzhi: "You mean that Hong Chengchou will refuse to serve the Qing Dynasty because of his son?" ”

Shunzhi hurriedly said: "That's not it, Erchen thinks that Hong Chengchou is not that kind of person." It's just that this incident has become an excuse for the banner to attack Hong Chengchou, and Erchen has already issued an order to Jidu to rescue Hong Shiming, but now that the Eight Banners are making a lot of trouble, they have to force Erchen to recall Hong Chengchou, and Erchen can't make up his mind, so he came to ask the queen mother for an idea. ”

The Queen Mother thought for a while and said, "What idea can E-Niang have?" There is no doubt about employing people, no need for suspicious people, Hong Chengchou was enabled by you back then, and now people have made meritorious contributions, and they have been working hard for you, the emperor, from beginning to end, and now even their sons have fallen into the hands of the Ming army, you are not the emperor who is not comforting others, but suspicious of others, thinking of recalling others, you yourself said, will this work? E-Niang still said the same thing, as long as people help you destroy Nanming, you should fulfill Dorgon's promise. ”

When Shunzhi heard this, he hurriedly said: "This can't be done!" Even if the son does not recall Hong Chengchou, it is impossible to give him the title of king! ”

"That's it, now you are the emperor, the Qing Dynasty's home is yours, E-Niang is old, and what she says is unpleasant, how to deal with Hong Chengchou, you are the emperor's own decision, E-Niang only reminds you of one sentence, that is, if you listen to those words, you will not be rewarded for Hong Chengchou's great achievements, and you can't be too wronged by others, you know! In addition, I have to think about saving other people's sons, but I can't let people lose their sons when they are old, and they will not end well for our Daqing Dynasty. ”

After speaking, the Queen Mother no longer paid attention to her son, but stood up from the chair and walked towards the west side hall without looking back. Over there, the third elder brother Xuan Ye, who had just returned to the palace, was playing with the second brother Fuquan, she hadn't seen Xuan Ye's grandson for a few days, and Baba thought about it very much.

Shunzhi, who was thrown by his mother, left Cining Palace sullenly, although he decided not to recall Hong Chengchou, but his heart was still depressed, so he went to find his Toma Fa, wanting to relieve the depression in his heart. (To be continued.) )