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The news of the Northern Expedition of the remnant Ming Dynasty in Nanjing, which was partial to Nanjing, soon reached Beijing.

In the Forbidden City, in the Wuying Palace, the regent of the Manchu Emperor's uncle, Dolgon, was pacing with his brows tightly locked. After the Jiannu army defeated Li Zicheng's peasant army, the whole of Beijing fell into the hands of Jiannu, and most of the mansions where the Ming princes and nobles lived were occupied by the Jiannu nobles. The Forbidden City, the imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty, naturally became the spoils of Jiannu, and Dolgon took a fancy to the Wuying Hall and regarded it as his own dormitory.

At this time, Dolgon's mind was mostly focused on exterminating Li Zicheng's peasant army, and he and his advisers believed that he and his advisers did not have to consider its threat for the time being. Although Cao Yue rescued the body of Emperor Chongzhen and several princes from Beijing and supported Zhu Cijiong to ascend the throne, Dolgon relied on Cao Yue to lead the army to rescue Zhu Cijiong and others from Beijing, and did not stay too long, and immediately evacuated Judging from this point, the strength of the remnant Ming is still very weak, and there are not many soldiers and horses in Cao Yue's hands, otherwise this guy would not have let Li Zicheng's peasant army break through Beijing.

Cao Yue was unable to prevent the peasant army from occupying Beijing, and Dolgon and his advisers believed that the military strength of the remnants of the Ming was not enough to fear, and the biggest threat to them now was Li Zicheng's peasant army, and they wanted to take advantage of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty's small * court to recover their vitality, to eliminate the peasant army led by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and occupy the places they controlled. After stabilizing the north, he will move south and confront the remnant Ming army.

Therefore, Dolgon poured out most of his forces to attack Li Zicheng's army, which had retreated to Shaanxi.

Not to mention, his strategy still worked, Li Zicheng's troops suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of One Stone and withdrew from Beijing, almost without a fight, after being defeated by Jiannu and Wu Sangui's Guanning army. had to retreat to Shaanxi, and he was in a state of survival.

Dolgon was ready to deal with Li Zicheng's men and horses within half a year, and after solving Li Zicheng's men, he would decide according to the situation whether to first crusade against the small * court of the Ming Dynasty, or Sichuan occupied by Zhang Xianzhong, or both.

At this time, Dolgon was full of ambition, and what he wanted now was not to defeat the Liukou and the Ming army, but to occupy the world. When Wu Sangui asked for orders to be attached, the Qing army officially entered the customs. Fan Wencheng, the first adviser under Dolgon and a scholar of the Inner Court, wrote a book, and Fan Wencheng said in the recital: "If Qin loses its deer, Chu and Han chase it, it is not me who fights with the Ming Dynasty, but also with the Liukou", and he advocated immediately sending troops to enter the Central Plains and seek to win the world.

Fan Wencheng was afraid that Jiannu would adopt the previous strategy, so he spent a lot of time persuading Dolgon to change his strategy against Han, saying: "I am the Qing army. The battle will be won, the attack will be won, and the thief is not as good as me; Conform to the will of the people and recruit the people. I am not as good as a thief", so it is necessary to change the previous policy of slaughter and looting, "strictly prohibit soldiers, and do not commit any crimes against the people in the land they occupy." That is, it is not only necessary to change the strategy of not defending the city strategically, but also to find ways to win the hearts and minds of the people. If the previous policy of burning, killing and looting was still adopted, it would be impossible to gain the support of the Han people.

Now the Qing army entered the customs at the invitation of Wu Sangui, the guard of the Daming Mountain Customs. The entry of the Qing army into the customs was also under the slogan of avenging Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. The Qing army could use this as an excuse to win the support of the Han people by changing its tactics.

Dolgon accepted Fan Wencheng's advice and prepared to fight the peasant army and the remnants of the Ming for the world.

In order to appease the people, after the Qing army occupied Beijing, Dolgon issued a strict order, strictly prohibiting the Qing army from burning, killing and looting after entering the city, and stopped shaving and changing clothes, and even made a big show for the Ming Chongzhen Emperor Zhu You's funeral, saying that he would avenge him. Dolgon's policy was strictly enforced, which won the favor of the Han gentry, and when the Jiannu entered Beijing, many of the gentry lined up to welcome them and spontaneously offered money and goods to reward the Jiannu army.

Relying on Fan Wencheng's proposal to build slaves, Dolgon quickly stabilized the situation in the Beijing area, and then a large number of officials and gentry from other occupied provinces, such as Taiyuan, Shunde, and Jinan, surrendered to the Manchus.

After reaping this, Dorgon consulted with the kings and ministers of Baylor and decided to move the capital to Beijing. The ruling faction led by Dolgon believed that in order to forge ahead and seek the world, it was necessary to move the capital to Beijing, and only by occupying this place could the whole country be unified and an immortal cause could be built for 10,000 years.

After making the decision to move the capital to Beijing, the Manchu nobles also set off from Shengjing for Beijing. Emperor Shunzhi, accompanied by his mother Bumu Butai and Empress Dowager Zhezhe, also arrived in Beijing from Shengjing and lived in the Forbidden City.

After Shunzhi arrived in Beijing, he issued an edict to the whole country at the Huangji Gate, and at the same time named Dolgon as the regent of the emperor's uncle, and gave him the clothes of the ermine python court. The Ministry of Rites built a monument for Dolgon, and gave Dolgon the Book of Treasures.

Both Dolgon and other Jiannu nobles believed that the Ming Dynasty was crippled by Li Zicheng and had to settle in Nanjing, and Li Zicheng now suffered a crushing defeat and no longer had the strength to pose a threat to the Qing Dynasty. But Dolgon didn't expect that less than a month after the Qing Dynasty officially moved its capital to Beijing, the remnant Ming Xiao* court waved the Northern Expedition, the number of troops in the Northern Expedition was more than 100,000, and the leader was still Cao Yue, who was afraid of many Qing soldiers.

Although Dolgon knew that Cao Yue's hundreds of thousands of horses were newly recruited, the Datong army that Cao Yue once led was also a newly recruited army, and they defeated the Qing army several times under the city of Datong, causing countless Eight Banners to die in a foreign land.

Cao Yue is a person, Dolgon will never despise. Sun Chuanting, another heavyweight in the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon will not despise it either. It was precisely because he was worried that the remnant Ming would quickly recover under the governance of Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting, so Dolgon decided to devote most of his strength to eliminate the Liukou, and after solving this biggest worry, he would find a way to solve the remnant Ming court.

In addition to thinking that the current Li Zicheng is more of a threat than the Remnant Ming, there is also the fact that the two natural dangers of crossing the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in the south can fight with the Remnant Ming, and the price paid for attacking the Remnant Ming in the south is greater.

Dolgon even thought about making peace with the remnant Ming temporarily, and the two sides lived in peace for a period of time and even joined forces to eliminate the Liukou, and then find a way to eliminate the remnant Ming Xiao* court after the power of the Qing Dynasty was adjusted and expanded. Fan Wencheng's suggestion allowed the Qing Dynasty to win the support of more Han Chinese and the gentry, as long as the Qing army first eliminated the Liukou and avenge Emperor Chongzhen, then the support of the gentry and the common people in the Guannai could be sustained. Given time, maybe without a fight, they can bend the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and no matter how capable Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting are, they will not be able to compete with the gentry. Both Dolgon and Fan Wencheng were aware of the influence of the gentry in the Ming dynasty, and as long as they won their support, things would be easy to do.

Now Dolgon gathered the remnants of Liu Zeqing in Shandong and confronted the Ming army. At the same time, he also sent people to contact Zuo Liangyu in Hubei, instigating Zuo Liangyu to disobey the Ming Dynasty and even cause chaos. Dolgon clearly told Zuo Liangyu that as long as he raised troops, the Qing army would definitely go south to support.

But now, Cao Yue unexpectedly led an army to the Northern Expedition to recover Beijing, disrupting all his plans. He had to summon Fan Wencheng to discuss countermeasures, and before Fan Wencheng arrived, Dorgon looked very restless. (To be continued.) )