In January of the Jiashen year, Li Zicheng led the Dashun army out of Shaanxi to conquer Beijing. In a short period of two or three months, with the help of the military and the people's support, he quickly occupied a large area of territory in the entire Yellow River valley and part of the Yangtze River valley, and his ruling area included the entire territory of Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, and Shandong, as well as parts of Hubei, Jiangsu, and Anhui.

Jiang Liang, the chief soldier of Datong, Wang Chengyin, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, Du Zhizhi, the eunuch of the supervising army, Tang Tong, the chief soldier, Qiu Maohua, the guerrilla Xie Sufu, and the university scholar Li Jiantai, etc., all surrendered without a fight, and the list can be listed for a long time. It can be said that in the course of the Eastern Crusade of the Great Shun Army, there were no fierce battles. Moreover, the strength of the Dashun army was less than 100,000 when it set out, but after it arrived in Beijing, it increased several times.

At the end of the dynasty, people's hearts are scattered! As a foreign race, it is impossible for the Manchus not to care about the repetition and dissent of Han officials and generals. Moreover, the lessons of the first year of Jiashen must be guarded against.

And Huaiqing Cai Lu's uprising anyway sounded the alarm for the Qing court, so that it did not dare to lightly mobilize the forbidden brigade of the Beijing Division. Because it is not only the Han officials and generals who may have different intentions, but also some Mongolian tribes, including Chahar Mongolia.

The Chahar Department is a descendant of Yuan and Mongolia, and later a branch of Monan Mongolia, which has been an enemy since the rise of the Later Jin, until the ninth year of Tiancong, when Huang Taiji sent Dolgon to conquer and ended the long-term confrontation. In the eighth year of Tiancong, Huang Taiji united with other Mongolian tribes and personally inspected the Har Department many times, but the department was finally defeated, and the leader Lin Dan Khan led the people to flee to Qinghai, where he died of illness on the way. The following year, Dolgon pursued the army again, and Lin Dan Khan's wife and son had to surrender. And presented the jade seal of the Yuan Dynasty.

After Huang Taiji subdued the Chahar tribe, he and his brothers and nephews received Lin Dan Khan's daughters and enriched their own backyard. In order to appease the Chahar tribe. Huang Taiji married his second daughter, Princess Marota of Wenzhuang, the eldest daughter of Empress Xiaoduan, to Erke Kongol Ezhe, the eldest son of Lin Dan Khan, and the wedding was quite grand, and then he gave Ezhe the prince and built a mansion for them.

On the one hand, the Qing court encircled Chahar and used a soft and tender policy, but on the other hand, it took a lot of measures to control Chahar in politics. For example, he was given the title of prince. However, Zasak was not given the right to do so, and the imperial court managed the flag affairs in a unified manner, and governed in line with the principle of "separation of power and lordship, direct management, compilation of cavalry, and deprivation of military power".

But Chahar because of his status as a descendant of the Great Yuan Empire. has been dreaming of restoring the Mongol Empire, how can he be willing to surrender to the Qing Dynasty? Ezhe was relatively content with his duties, but soon fell ill and died, leaving only an infant daughter.

Four years later. Princess Wenzhuang, who was widowed at home, was ordered to marry Ezhe's younger brother Abunai. and gave birth to two sons: Burni and Robzang. Despite this, Abnay was clearly not as submissive as his elder brother Ezhe, and the noble lineage he inherited from Genghis Khan made him unruly and unwilling to become a slave of the Manchus. He began to redefine his authority within his own tribe, and began to gradually break away from the control of the Qing Dynasty, even while the princess was alive, he tried not to cooperate with the Qing Dynasty as much as possible.

In the two major events of Shunzhi's death and Kangxi's accession to the throne. Abner did not go and did not go to pay his respects. I don't go to Asaga either. Perhaps because of Princess Wenzhuang's affection, or because the war continued, the Qing court did not take any action.

When Princess Wenzhuang, who had been living in the cracks for a long time, was finally overwhelmed and died early, Abunai was in good spirits, and finally got rid of the shackles of the imperial court. So he quickly renewed the strings, and brought the treasures that should have been buried with the princess to make his newly married Fujin happy, and even gave the youngest son born to the princess to his eldest son, who had already separated from the family, to raise, and did not want to see him. That is to say, from now on, it is completely separated from the Qing Dynasty, draw a clear line, and never make a pilgrimage again.

Abney's eldest son, Burnie, did not arouse resentment for his father's failure to raise his younger brother, and he had more dreams and ambitions than his father. While Abnay was still enjoying himself, he was beginning to gather strength and gather momentum.

The change in the Chahar Department was learned when the Qing court was busy fighting against the Ming army. Although Princess Wenzhuang has passed away, there are still many family members she married in the past. Xin Zhu, the housekeeper of Princess Wenzhuang's mansion, sent his younger brother to secretly rush into the capital to report the news, asking the Qing court to take precautions.

"Abnai has no vassal courtesy, and it is disrespectful. should be dismissed from death, and the prince should be dismissed, and he should not be allowed to inherit. ”

"The people of Abnai who have been rewarded in their expeditions are more than the kings of the Inner Kingdom and the kings of Outer Mongolia. But the kings of the foreign kingdom, such as Baylor, come every year to greet him, and come to court every year. Abunai was ungrateful, and for eight years, he did not invite him. And if you don't ask the Empress Dowager and I bow in person, the youngest son born to the princess, Abunai is also handed over to the eldest son of the separated family, what is the heart? Such circumstances should be strictly examined and discussed by the Imperial Court. ”

"Abnay has not yet moved, but his son Burni is a wolf with ambition and is ready to attack, and should be punished to set an example."

"The war in Shandong is undecided, and there is a rebellion in Huaiqing, so at this time, the Chahar Department should be pacified and not moved lightly."

"If you want to pacify Chahar, only the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade can be adjusted, and the emptiness of the Beijing Division is the next policy."

"The Chahar Department has not yet moved, and at this time it is dispatched to recruit troops, and there is no name, and the second is afraid that it will arouse the suspicion of other Mongolian departments."

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The Qing court's disposition of the Chahar Department was indecisive due to disagreements, and the main reason was that the troops were not sufficient, and it was difficult to free up their hands under the oppression of the Ming army. At the same time, the Qing court also suspected that the Ming Dynasty was colluding with the Chahar Ministry because Princess Jianning's mother was from the Chahar Ministry.

However, in the current dilemma of needing food and salaries everywhere and needing soldiers and horses, not only can Chahar be guarded against, but also the plan of the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade to reinforce Shandong has been temporarily shelved. Now, the Qing court began to realize that it was difficult to sustain the current war situation, and intended to carry out a new round of strategic contraction.

In order to prevent the strategic contraction from being seen as a fiasco, the Qing court decided to reopen the negotiation of peace, and the negotiation conditions were set on the boundary between the two Huai, but the Ming army had to withdraw its troops from Shandong. The retreat of the Yellow River in its entirety is the final bottom line. Obviously, in exchange for the vast area between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the Jiaodong Peninsula, which had been occupied by the Ming army, felt that the Manchus had made a great concession.

As long as it can be stabilized, even if it is temporary, the Qing court will have the opportunity to eliminate internal troubles and recuperate and fight again. At the same time, a strategic contraction can make forces more concentrated, which is also quite beneficial for defense. Anyway, in the eyes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the land that was given out was not originally their own, just as Dolgon said at the beginning, "but if you have an inch, you will have an inch, and if you have a ruler, you will have an ear."

In fact, this kind of psychology lasted until the end of the Qing Dynasty in history, and they did not care about the compensation for land cedes, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty had always regarded the land of China ruled by them as an unexpected gain, and the gains were gratifying, but the losses were not sad. The Manchus also did not regard the Han as real subjects, but as their own slaves. Didn't Cixi just say that "I would rather give a friend than a house slave"! (To be continued......)