If there is still "ice and fire", it is now the city of Beijing.

The "ice and fire" mentioned here is not talking about the weather, but about the strange things in Beijing.

If you ask the people of Beijing, they will whisper that the current Beijing city is almost the same as in the Chongzhen period.

At the beginning, the officials of the Chongzhen Dynasty mistakenly took Dolgon's general into the city of Beijing, and the city became the capital of the Qing Dynasty.

In the first two years, in addition to shaving their hair and making it easy to obey, the people of Beijing still thought that the Qing Dynasty was much better than the Chongzhen Dynasty's expropriation and extortion, and slowly the people's hearts were settled.

As a result, the regent of the Qing Dynasty was not greedy enough, and tried in vain to dominate the world, and it was understandable to dominate the world, but he had to raise a butcher's knife to my Han people.

Although several angels are not immortals, but they use immortal means, Prince Yu returned under the city of Yangzhou, and the Qing Dynasty seems to have gone downhill since then.

Later, there was a Qing Dynasty "Baturu" Aobai led the army to Nanjing City to fight to the death, and actually destroyed the Southern Ming Dynasty, the city of Beijing at that time was really lively, those who did not know seemed to feel that the world had been decided, but did not expect that the Nanjing government that was much more powerful than the Southern Ming Dynasty appeared.

The people of Beijing didn't know what the "government" was at first, but after a long time, everyone understood that in fact, there was not much difference between this government and the imperial court. They are all in charge of the affairs of the world. It's just that there is no emperor.

This Nanjing has changed its "government". There is no peace in the world anymore, it seems that there is a war every day, and ordinary people can't care more, as long as the war doesn't reach the doorstep, life will always have to pass.

Life must always be divided into good days and bad days, but the people in and outside the city of Beijing do not seem to have lived a good life in these years, just look at the piles of beggars outside the city gates, old Beijing will tell you. This is similar to the Chongzhen period.

In fact, these beggars are not all homeless, many people still have land and land, but when the green and yellow are not harvested, the imperial court is wantonly collecting military rations, and many people's homes have been looted out of grain, not to mention making a living, they can't stay at home and starve to death, although it is a shame to beg under the root of the imperial city of the capital, sometimes they will meet a good person, and they can always hang their lives.

The common people don't know why the imperial court is so short of food. It is said that the past two years have generally been smooth, unlike the Chongzhen Dynasty, where the sky is always open-minded. Not a drop of rain has been in place for half a year.

Dolgon, of course, knew why there was such a shortage of food in the north, since the destruction of the Southern Ming court, the Nanjing government refused to recognize the agreement with the Southern Ming court to open the canal, and since then, the price of grain in the capital has been more expensive day by day.

Although the northwestern provinces have opened their eyes in the past two years, and there is no shortage of water anymore, these provinces have been in war for many years, almost ten rooms and nine empty, and there are empty fields but no one cultivates them. Besides, even if these provinces have grain and transport it to the capital, it will consume most of it on the way, where can it be supplied to Beijing.

Fortunately, Hong Chengchou is still quite competitive, since he occupied the two lakes, the two provinces have been running well, and the capital has been maintaining the grain of the two lakes in recent years.

Dolgon had the idea of withdrawing to the Guannai when the price of grain in the capital had risen to more than three taels of silver and one stone, and he did not know that even if he returned to the Guannai, the Nanjing government and the angel Metropolitan Governor would not let them go, and Dolgon estimated that they would not, because he had seen the sentence "It is advisable to chase the poor with the remaining Yong" in the "China Daily".

Of course, this idea will be told to the people around him, Dolgon has even talked to Fan Wencheng about this, Fan Wencheng is noncommittal, since Wu Sangui defected to the Qing Dynasty, he has rarely made suggestions now.

What Dolgon and many Manchu ministers did not expect was that as soon as the news spread, the emperor received countless recitals, the content of which was nothing more than that the Great Qing Dynasty was far from the point of exhaustion, and now was far from the time to talk about withdrawing to the Guannei.

It is not unusual for the emperor to receive such a recital, but it is strange that these recitals are all written by the Han ministers, and there is not a single Manchu minister.

Dolgon still had some pride when he told the little emperor in the Wuying Palace, saying that the Qing court was very popular, just look at these twists and turns.

The scholar Feng Quan's recital is full of flowers, he started from the Ming Dynasty, saying that the Qing Emperor's entry into the customs to seize the world is the destiny of heaven, although the court has encountered some difficulties, but these difficulties are only temporary.

Feng Quan said in the recital that he had seen the heads of the Nanjing government and several so-called "angels" in Nanjing, except for fiddling with some strange and obscene things, but they were all ordinary people, and the Qing court had the wise leadership of the emperor of the Holy Ming and the regent of the emperor's uncle, and there was no reason to be afraid of them.

Feng Quan also sent people from the Confucian family in Qufu to seek refuge in the imperial court, and analyzed that the Nanjing government did not respect the way of saints, and after a long time, it would be abandoned by scholars all over the world, and it would not last long.

If Feng Quan's recital merely theoretically analyzed the sacredness and legitimacy of the Qing court and the demonic nature of the Nanjing government, and judged that the Qing dynasty was invincible, then some Hanchen earnestly put forward some opinions and suggestions in the recital, and Dolgon had already asked people to classify these suggestions and prepare to convene a special court meeting to consider whether to implement them.

Everyone didn't say anything in front of the little emperor, but when the little emperor retreated, Sony unceremoniously pointed out: "Don't think that these Hanchen are all for my Qing Dynasty, it's just that the people in Nanjing have come over, and they will no longer be officials." The ministers of the former Ming Dynasty were all used by them, and these Hanchen were considered 'traitors' in their eyes, right? And how can they be used? ”

Dolgon glanced at Sony, a little strange that this old man always didn't know the current affairs, why didn't he understand this truth? It's just that at this time, it's just a matter of gathering people's hearts.

Although most of the people left in the Wuying Hall were Manchu ministers, Fan Wencheng was still kept by Dolgon, and Dolgon felt a little embarrassed by Sony's straightforward remarks. looked at Fan Wencheng. Hopefully he can say a few words for himself.

"But it seems to the minister. This is not a bad thing, as long as these ministers must still rely on our Qing Dynasty, then they will do their best, from this point of view, the imperial court can still reward the Han ministers who have offered usable strategies to the imperial court, so that they can not only reassure their hearts, but also make people more attentive to do things for our Qing Dynasty. Of course, Fan Wencheng understood what Dolgon meant, and thought about it for a long time. He could only talk to Dolgon from above.

Tobe Shangshu Bahana stood up, and was about to say something, but Dolgon glared at him, and Bahana glanced at Dorgon, shook his head, and sat down again.

"Bahana, if you have something to say, don't you just have no money and no food in the household? What else can't be said? Seeing that Dorgon would not let Bahana speak, another royal uncle, the regent Zilharang, said to Bahana.

This had to be put aside, and Zilharang would not have rebelled against Dorgon's intentions, but since the Qing army's army was defeated on the battlefield. The Manchu ministers began to be dissatisfied with Dolgon, and Zilharang certainly had a problem with Dolgon's autocracy. I held back before, but today I finally can't help but complain.

Dorgon turned his head to look at Zilharan, but Zilharan sat upright, not squinting, ignoring Dorgon's gaze.

Bahana watched the two people sitting on the chair under the dragon chair fighting openly and secretly, not knowing whether to speak or not, and stood there in a dilemma.

Dolgon didn't know what to say, now the imperial court did encounter a big difficulty, in order to cope with the attack of the Nanjing National Defense Army, the imperial court had to expand the army, and now the total number has exceeded one million, such a huge army has been very difficult for the imperial court to raise.

What's more, the current new army is simply a monster that spends money and swallows money, just raising the 60,000 or 70,000 new army in the capital will be able to support the previous 500,000 army, Dolgon knows that Hong Chengchou has also trained a lot of teams similar to the new army in Lianghu, I don't know how he coped with it.

Dolgon had also heard that there were only five hundred taels of silver left in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen Dynasty, and he thought it was incredible. Now that it's my turn to be in charge, I feel that these rumors are not false.

"These Han people only know how to play the folds, don't you know to give some silver to the imperial court?" Dolgon glanced at the recitals of the high-minded Hanchen, and thought to himself with hatred.

"Dare to ask the regent, now the national defense army is in Cangzhou, this Cangzhou capital is close to the capital, the old minister heard that the day before yesterday lost thirty or forty thousand horses, and the front line fled to the national defense army Han soldiers are countless, Cangzhou is the gateway to Beijing, if Cangzhou is lost, my Qing Dynasty will be in danger, I don't know what the regent wants to do?"

Of course, Sony also knew about the financial situation of the Qing Dynasty, but it was useless to talk about it now, and no one could conjure up silver in this Wuying Palace, so Sony turned the topic to the battlefield.

Hearing Sonny talk about the Cangzhou war, Dolgon's face became even more ugly. The Wehrmacht fought without a fight in Cangzhou, and confronted the Qing army for nearly a month, but it didn't do anything, the morale of the Han army in the Qing army was getting lower and lower, and there were countless people who had different intentions.

The feeling of the sword hanging over his head was so uncomfortable that Dolgon couldn't sleep well every day these days, and even if he did, he would wake up from nightmares.

The results of the Battle of Guide had already been reported to the capital, and when he heard that Hauge had lost the city of Guide, Dolgon was furious and wanted to severely punish Hauge, but the Queen Mother specially sent someone to find him, asking him to let Hauge go this time, even if it was for the sake of her face, not to be too embarrassed Hauge.

Just when Dolgon was considering whether to let Hauge go, it was old Sonny who told him that Hauge was not a failure on the battlefield in Henan, and the main force of the Qing Dynasty still existed, and asked Dolgon to tell Hauge that the Qing cavalry should take out the momentum of the original attack on the pass, first, to protect Henan's grain route, and second, to make the national defense force unstable.

Although Dolgon was very tired of Sony, he had to admit that the old guy was to the point many times, so he decided to let Hauge go, and specially issued an edict to Hauge, asking him to keep the grain road in Henan, and at the same time to constantly harass the Wehrmacht, so that they would not be at peace.

It's just that the situation on the front line in Cangzhou is erosive, and although Tan Tai has stabilized the army, he obviously has no way to deal with the national defense force, so passively defending, it is only a matter of time before Cangzhou is lost.

When Sony talked about the Cangzhou War, he attracted the attention of everyone in the Wuying Palace, and no one cared about whether the household department had no money.

"The new army has been training for so long, and seeing that Cangzhou City is about to be lost, will the new army still nest in the capital?"

Although everyone no longer mentions the matter of the household department, no one can put forward useful ideas about the Cangzhou war, and the hall was quiet for a long time, and it was Sony who came out of class and said. (To be continued.) )