The battle report of the capture of Hangzhou and the capture of Hongguang reached Nanjing, and Duoduo was overjoyed when he heard it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoHongguang's arrest meant the complete collapse of the Ming Dynasty and the glorious victory of the Qing Dynasty!

In just over a month, the two biggest enemies of the Qing Dynasty were destroyed one after another, and after the Great Shun Army was defeated by Azig, the news of Li Zicheng's death also spread, marking the death of the Shun Army in name only. Now Hongguang has been arrested, and the Southern Ming court has collapsed. The four towns of Nanmingjiang and Beibei surrendered together with hundreds of thousands of troops from Zuomengeng's department, and the troops in other places were no longer to be afraid. The remaining provinces of Jiangxi, Huguang and Guangxi only need to send envoys to pass on the message.

Satisfied, Duoduo went to Beijing to deliver the documents of victory, and at the same time submitted an application to return to the north with the army. The climate in the south in summer is really hot, and the Eight Banners soldiers born in the north can't stand it at all, and there are more and more sick soldiers who are not accustomed to the water and soil, and even the war horses are not used to eating the forage in the south and are not adapted to the climate here, resulting in tens of thousands of war horses being tired. This is the weather in June, so what if it's the hottest month of August?

Now that the battle has been fought, let's return to the north as soon as possible!

But there are two things that need to be done before returning to the North.

The first thing was to reorganize the surrendered Green Battalion. The Ming army that surrendered to Duoduo in the four towns of Jiangbei amounted to more than 200,000, including 23 soldiers, 2 supervising military daoists, 47 deputy generals, 86 generals and guerrillas, and a total of 238,300 horse infantry, not including Zuomenggeng's troops who surrendered to Azig.

But most of them were ordinary soldiers with no combat effectiveness. Now that the big thing has been decided, there is no point in feeding so many people, it is a pure waste of food.

So Duoduo ordered the Green Battalion to be dismissed. However, before the dismissal, the generals of the Green Battalion must be properly placed, and the generals who surrender must be appointed according to their original ranks, and cannot be dismissed or demoted, otherwise it will cause uneasiness and even riots among the generals of the Green Battalion.

After consideration, Duoduo ordered all the generals of the Green Battalion to be appointed at the same level, such as Gao Jie's general Li Chengdong was appointed as the general of Wu Song, Guo Hu was appointed as the general of Guangde, Hu Maozhen was appointed as the general of Ningguo, and Gao Jinku was appointed as the deputy general of Jiangning (Jiangning is Nanjing). Huang Degong's general, Ma Degong, was appointed as the general soldier of Jingkou, that is, the general army of Zhenjiang. In addition, some generals who did not belong to the Four Towns system were also arranged in this way, such as Wang Zhigang, the chief soldier of the Southern Ming Dynasty, who was appointed by Duoduo as the chief soldier of Xuzhou and so on.

Most of the generals have made arrangements, of course, there are some generals who are not easy to arrange, such as Liu Liangzuo and Li Benshen, who have been ranked in the Southern Ming Dynasty as Guangchangbo and Zuodu Governor respectively, Duoduo is unwilling to formally recognize their official positions, but if they are awarded new official titles such as chief soldier, it is equivalent to demoting the two, which will inevitably cause them to be suspicious, and the consequences are quite unpredictable. As a result, Duoduo adopted a temporary arrangement and ordered Liu Liangzuo and Li Benshen to temporarily "serve as former officials" and avoided their formal appointments.

Of course, the appointment of these generals required the formal approval of the regent Dorgon, who sent the proposal to Peking along with the report.

After learning that he had not been demoted, all the generals were reassured, so Duoduo announced that he would disarm, and that all the cavalry of the generals would be retained, and the infantry would be dismantled. Newly recruited people who have been away from their hometowns for a long time will be allowed to return to their native places, and their sailors and warships will still be repaired by the leading officers and trained diligently. That is, only cavalry, elite infantry and sailors and other technical arms are retained.

After the reduction, the number of troops under the generals was greatly reduced. For example, the commander-in-chief Li Chengdong had more than 10,000 troops, but only 3,400 remained after the reduction. Li Chengdong is a heavy general under Gao Jie, and the combat effectiveness of his troops is second to none among the four towns in Jiangbei. Generally speaking, the remaining troops of each general are more than one or two thousand, and as few as five or six hundred.

After the reduction, the number of troops under each general was greatly reduced, from more than 200,000 to less than 100,000. However, after laying off the old and weak recruits, the combat effectiveness is even better than before.

After the reduction of troops, Duoduo left the highest-ranking and potentially dangerous people such as Li Benshen and Liu Liangzuo near Nanjing, so that the Eight Banners Army in Nanjing could monitor these people at any time.

As for Li Chengdong and Tian Xiong, who are slightly inferior in status, they are used with confidence and sent them to the front line of the war. However, at this time, the troops of the four towns had no ability to oppose the Qing Dynasty at all. The Eight Banners stationed in Nanjing and Hangzhou were the military basis for the Qing government's rule in Jiangnan, and with them, the troops would never dare to act rashly.

More importantly, the generals of the four towns were no longer "feudal towns" at this time, they had lost control over the local administrative and financial powers, and could no longer privately accumulate or even plunder money as they did in the Hongguang era, and the food and salary required by their troops were completely dependent on the rationing of the Qing authorities. At the same time, the generals with limited troops in their hands can no longer recruit troops on their own and expand their power as before. In this way, the generals lost their ability to dominate and had to obediently obey the dispatch of the Qing court.

After completing the deployment of the Green Battalion Commander Commander, Dodor began the second task, which was to issue a shaving order.

In fact, as early as the good news of the fall of Nanjing by Azig reached Beijing, the Manchu regent Dolgon, thinking that the world was decided, brazenly ordered all male officials and citizens in the country to shave their hair in early June. He also issued an order to Nanjing, ordering "all civilian, military, military and civilians everywhere to shave their hair, and if they do not obey, they will be engaged in military law."

Now that Hangzhou has fallen and all parts of the country have surrendered, Duoduo thinks it is time to issue a shaving order. In Duoduo's view, the entire gentry and common people in Jiangnan were under the obscenity of the Eight Banners, and it was the best time to issue a shaving order.

Dorgon and the Duoduo would never realize that the Qing army was so successful not because they were too powerful, but because for the vast majority of the Ming people, there was no concept of home and country at all. Whether it is Ming or Qing, it is just a change of court and a change of tax payer. The peasants, who account for the vast majority of the population, and a considerable number of gentry and landlords live in the rural areas, and their relationship with the imperial court and the government is mainly manifested in the fact that they are given and served according to the rules and regulations, and there are many people who have never entered the city in their lives. As long as you are not forced by the court and the government, you will not rise up to make trouble, which is the so-called "world of peace".

Once the head is strictly ordered to be shaved, if the majesty of the imperial court is directly added to his head, the consequences can be imagined. How can parents who have given their hair to their bodies be easily shaved off? How can the inheritance of thousands of years of Hermes-Epitek be easily changed with a mere shaving order? After shaving his hair, didn't he turn from a Han man to a barbarian?

As a result, as soon as the shaving order came out, not only did the people who were originally going to surrender to the Qing Dynasty immediately change their ways, but even the people of the prefectures and counties that had already been attached to it also rose up one after another and raised banners against the Qing Dynasty.

Duoduo didn't expect the consequences of the promulgation of the shaving order to be so serious, like a stone stirring up a thousand waves, and a rolling frenzy of anti-Qing immediately broke out in all parts of Jiangnan!

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