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Shandong, Jinan

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Huang Taiji, the monarch of the Qing Dynasty and the lord of the Eight Banners, was wearing a newly made bright yellow dragon robe, standing solemnly on the tower of Qichuan Gate in Jinan.

On the official road outside the city gate, it can be seen that a team of soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners is returning triumphantly.

——This is the white-flaged lord Duoduo Belle, who was ordered to pursue the remnants of Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, and returned to the city victoriously after the great success.

The next moment, the drums and horns sounded in unison, the city gate was wide open, and the soldiers entered the city, and the sound of joy was thunderous.

Immediately afterward, a tall Jurchen general wearing heavy armor walked quickly to the city amid a burst of cheers. Looking closely, although this person is rough and bearded, he is actually very young, and the tone of his speech is even more arrogant, and he doesn't care.

“…… Qi Yu Great Khan, the last general Duoduo was fortunate not to be dishonored, and now he has broken through Linyi, captured Zhu Dadian, the governor of Minggou Shandong, beheaded 600 enemies, and the remaining more than 1,000 people were all captured, but it is a pity that the king of Minggou has gone! The last general tortured all the officials captured in Linyi, but he didn't ask about the whereabouts of that guy! ”

I saw Duoduo make a hasty gesture and report to Huang Taiji, and ordered someone to bring in a middle-aged scribe with messy hair, ragged clothes, and handcuffs and shackles, which was Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong in the Ming Dynasty. Although he looked embarrassed at this time, he still glared angrily at Huang Taiji.

——At the "Dagukou Population Trade Market" in the late autumn of last year, a large number of displaced people were driven from within the jurisdiction to exchange military rations from the traversers, not only the wise and martial Emperor Taiji Khan, but also the decisive governor of Shandong, who was already a rare capable minister in the late Ming Dynasty.

Relying on the military rations and weapons exchanged for tens of thousands of displaced people, as well as a small amount of aid materials provided by Chen Xin, the commander of Dengzhou, Jiaodong, and according to the resistance order of Emperor Chongzhen's exiled court, Governor Zhu Dadian miraculously pulled up a barely able army to resist the approaching army of the Eight Banners.

In short, in the face of the southern expedition of the Qing army after the beginning of spring, the unrelenting Zhu Dadian can be said to have fought to the last moment - first fought with Huang Taiji's forward troops in Dezhou, and then held on to the provincial capital Jinan for two months. After the city broke through the siege, the tenacious Zhu Dadian also recruited local villagers, tossed and turned in Tai'an, Laiwu and other places, and launched several ambush battles against the Eight Banners who entered the mountains to pursue, and once made a small gain...... It's a pity that the general trend has gone after all, and finally in Linyi, Lunan, because of the betrayal of a landlord regiment to train arms, it led to the defeat and capture of Governor Zhu Dadian.

With the final defeat of this loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, so far, the remnants of the Ming court in Shandong have been completely swept away.

“…… Well, all the captives will be immediately taken into the barracks, strictly guarded, and screened and adapted at a later date! Although this Zhu Dadian has always been in trouble with my Qing Dynasty Heavenly Soldiers, he is also a well-known man, and he must be treated politely, take him down to freshen up, and then serve wine and meat to entertain him! ”

Huang Taiji said a few words to the left and right, then stretched out his hand to pull Duoduo, with a smile on his face, and said with a big smile: "...... Hehe, what is the point of leaving King Nade? It's just a wine bag and a rice bag! Don't take it personally! Fifteenth brother, today I will hold a banquet for you and others! ”

Before the monarchs and ministers finished their greetings, another rider rushed from the street and sent a front-line report to the Qichuan Gate Tower in Jinan. It turned out that Dolgon, who was ordered to attack eastern Henan and northern Henan, came to victory, and reported that he had taken Kaifeng - before, because of the lack of artillery and other city-breaking weapons in his hands, although Dolgon carried hundreds of thousands of hungry people all the way, and repeatedly attacked the city, but Kaifeng after all, the city wall is strong, and it is still a long battle.

Therefore, Dolgon learned from the wisdom of the ancients, and turned to dig the Yellow River embankment, the water attacked Kaifeng, and finally succeeded in hitting the soft underbelly of Kaifeng City - the monstrous Yellow River water poured into Kaifeng, and the water depth in the city reached one zhang after one night, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were buried in the belly of the fish, and even the city wall collapsed several sections. A few people climbed to the city walls, but they ran out of food, and soon began to eat human flesh......

When Dolgon ordered the Eight Banners to build a raft to attack the city, Fan Shangxiao, the governor of Henan in the Ming Dynasty, committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, and Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou, surrendered in despair. Dancing eBook ong>

With the fall of the provincial capital Kaifeng, the Ming Dynasty no longer had a large-scale army in Henan, and more importantly, it completely lost the confidence to resist the Eight Banners. In addition, Wu Xiang, the old general of Guanning, had already descended from the southwest of the mountain and invaded Luoyang, which was abandoned by Emperor Chongzhen, so except for the Nanyang area, which is said to be entrenched by the Liukou and still "disobedient to the king", the entire Henan has become the territory of the Great Qing Kingdom!

In one day, double happiness came to the door, and the civil and military officials who followed the emperor Taiji in Jinan were naturally thunderous and sycophant:

“…… Those who have won the Central Plains since ancient times have won the world! I have obtained the Central Plains in the Qing Dynasty, will this domination of the world be far away? ”

“…… There is no way to reverse the light and dusk, so the mountains and rivers are lost! My Qing Dynasty is like the sun rising, and I will definitely settle in China! ”

“…… Congratulations to Your Majesty! Congratulations to the Great Clearing! Banzai! Banzai! Hooray! ”

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In the face of the cheers of the courtiers, Huang Taiji naturally did not brush off their kindness, and immediately nodded and smiled, and said that he would reward Dolgon, the hero who conquered the Central Plains. However, although his face was smiling, his eyes were terrifyingly deep, and he could not see the slightest joy......

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Late at night, in the yamen of the former governor of Shandong, which was temporarily turned into a palace, Huang Taiji was holding an oil lamp and thinking about the map hanging on the wall.

It is a map that encompasses the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty, not only marking the prefectures and counties with small characters, mountains and rivers, but also drawing the territory of all forces in the world with charcoal according to the latest military trends in various places.

Judging from the map, the Qing Dynasty, which was born less than a year ago, is a prosperous atmosphere of flowers and brocade.

——On the Eastern Front battlefield of the Qing Dynasty, the main force of the Eight Banners Army of the Imperial Emperor Taiji had annihilated all the forces of the Ming Dynasty in Shandong and occupied the entire territory of Shandong Province except for Dengzhou Town in Jiaodong. And the partial division led by Dolgon also captured Kaifeng and controlled the eastern provinces of Henan.

On the Western Front battlefield of the Qing Dynasty, the defective Guanning Army was the main force. Among them, the Guanning army under Zu Dashou has initially swept away the resistance of Shanxi Province, captured the important town of Datong, and annihilated the border army of the Ming Dynasty here. The Guanning army under Wu Xiang crossed the Yellow River in the south, occupied Luoyang, and swept through western Henan in one go, and even Tongguan went down without a fight, thus opening the door to Guanzhong and Longxi.

So far, the Qing Dynasty has occupied all of the two provinces of Beizhili and Shanxi, most of the two provinces of Shandong and Henan, and a quarter of the former two capitals and thirteen political divisions have been started. If you add the hometown of Liaodong, it will be similar to the territory of the Wanyan Dajin Kingdom in the Two Song Dynasty.

However, as the supreme ruler of this brand-new empire, His Majesty Huang Taiji's mood is not at all easy.

——The rapid expansion of the territory of the Qing Dynasty not only meant the collapse of old enemies, but also the emergence of new enemies.

For example, the Shaanxi Liukou, who had plagued the Ming Dynasty for many years, became a scourge of the Qing Dynasty after the Central Plains changed hands.

Then, after defeating Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong of the Ming Kingdom, and seizing most of Shandong, Huang Taiji's territory bordered the rebels of Dengzhou Town, and he had to deal with the general Chen Xin, who had just rebelled against the Ming Dynasty last year, as well as the "overseas thief" and the world's number one general Huang Shi standing behind him...... Recalling the tragic experience of being beaten by Huangshi in various ways on the battlefield in Liaodong in the past, Huang Taiji couldn't help but feel dizzy and trembling.

And the rumored Australian big iron ship made Huang Taiji unable to think of any countermeasures at all - fortunately, the iron ship could not go ashore after all.

In addition, there was another more serious type of trouble, which lurked within the Qing Dynasty......

First of all, as we all know today, the reason why the Jurchen Eight Banners were able to seize Beijing so easily this time, and even entered the Central Plains and won the title of Shenzhou, forcing Emperor Chongzhen to flee in embarrassment, to a large extent, relied on the defection of the Guanning army.

In order to reward them for their great contributions, Huang Taiji is also extremely generous, and does not hesitate to reward, for example, Zu Dashou has just been named the king of Jin, Wu Xiang is the king of Zhou, and there are more than ten generals who have been awarded the title of duke. Nowadays, the whole territory of Shanxi west of Taihang Mountain, as well as the area of Luoyang, which has just changed banners, are only nominally included in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, but in fact they are the independent kingdom of the Guanning Army, just like the feudal towns of the late Tang Dynasty.

- It's not that Huang Taiji didn't think about unloading the mill and killing donkeys, crossing the river and demolishing bridges, but the strength of the Jurchen Eight Banners is really limited now, and if you don't count the vassal Han army, at most it can mobilize a field army of more than 50,000 people, and most of the Jurchen magnates only know how to use force to commit murder, but they don't know the way of civil governance. If Huang Taiji did not try his best to win over the Han eunuchs and warlords, the Great Qing Kingdom would not be able to gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains.

In fact, at this stage, Huang Taiji did not dare to regard the Guanning Army as his own servants at all, but only regarded them as allies who joined forces with the Jurchen Eight Banners to conquer the world, and led the Eight Banners into the Central Plains, just like the Horqin tribe in Mongolia.

If these people one day raise the flag and rebel for the greater good, Huang Taiji will not be surprised at all.

Secondly, in addition to the Guanning Iron Cavalry, which is getting bigger and bigger, there are also hidden dangers in the Jurchen Eight Banners that make Huang Taiji feel deeply uneasy.

- Speaking of which, the position of the Great Khan under Huang Taiji's ass had a feeling of being in the wrong way from the beginning.

When Nurhachi died. Originally, it was intended that Dorgon should inherit the throne. At that time, Huang Taiji relied on the alliance of Daishan, Amin, Mang Gurtai and several other big beylers who held real power, and forced Dolgon's mother, the eldest concubine Abahai, to death with his strength - you know, in the Jurchen and Mongolian barbarian peoples, they are very particular about a son and a mother. And the family to which Abahai belongs happens to be of noble blood and great power. After Huang Taiji forced Abahai to give Nurhachi a burial, the young Dolgon lost the possibility of ascending the throne.

But on the other hand, this practice of forcibly seizing the throne by virtue of strength also caused great damage to the cohesion within the Jurchen regime. In order to unite the Eight Banners, prevent civil war, and at the same time reward Dai Shan, Amin, and Mang Gurtai for their contributions, Huang Taiji had to implement the Eight Princes' Discussion and the Four Great Baylors on an equal footing, and everything was implemented after the Eight Banners were discussed, and he never made his own decisions, similar to the so-called "primitive tribal democracy".

Of course, no emperor of great talent can tolerate this embarrassing state of losing power for a long time. So after Huang Taiji gradually sat down on the throne of Khan, he began to do something to several brothers, first imprisoning Amin, and then designing to kill Mang Gurtai last year, and at the same time using some minor crimes to force Dai Shan to submit to softness. Then step by step, he implemented the imperial system of the Han people, trying to establish his supremacy in the Eight Banners.

The problem is that the system of the Eight Kings and the Four Great Baylors on an equal footing can be overthrown by Huang Taiji step by step, but the Eight Banners system set by Nurhachi cannot be easily changed - the so-called Eight Banners was originally a hybrid force that Nurhachi used force to forcibly integrate the Jianzhou Jurchen and other Jurchens. Except for the Jurchen Eight Banners. There are also Mongolian military flags, Han military flags and so on. The reason why it was divided in the first place was because there were huge differences between the various flags and ethnic groups, and it was difficult to integrate them in a short period of time.

Although Nurhachi made his son and nephew the owners of the banners, trying to turn the Eight Banners into the private property of the Aixin Jueluo family. But the problem is that there is a saying that the ass decides the head, and when the juniors of the Aixin Jueluo family become the flag owners, they have to start fighting for the interests of their flags. In the years from Nurhachi's army to Huang Taiji's succession, the infighting between the Eight Banners has never stopped.

When Emperor Chongzhen was distressed by the party struggle in the imperial court, why didn't Huang Taiji rack his brains to balance the forces of the Eight Banners?

Therefore, in the process of competing with the three major Baylors of Daishan, Amin, and Mang Gurtai, in order to balance the two red flags and the two blue flags, which are deep-rooted and long-standing old forces, Huang Taiji had to use his strength to fight, but kept raising the two white flags of the three brothers Dolgon, Azig, and Duoduo. In addition, Dordo and Azig are both fierce generals who can fight well, and Dorgon is a wise man who is resourceful and decisive, so the two white flags continue to grow. By the time Huang Taiji finally defeated the other three Baylors, the two white flags had also developed step by step to the point where they could not be dropped.

In this regard, Huang Taiji did not think about dealing with the Dolgon brothers of the two white flags, but Dolgon's power is huge, his status is noble, his style of action is very respectful, and the errands assigned to him are also good, and the relatives of the banners, even the young relatives of the two yellow flags, are also willing to make friends with Dolgon, and Huang Taiji can't find any suitable reason to deal with the two white flags and the Dolgon brothers.

What's more, almost when Huang Taiji finally defeated the other three Baylors, it also coincided with the collapse of the Ming Dynasty and the surrender of the Guanning Iron Cavalry. In the face of such a once-in-a-century fortunate event, Huang Taiji was naturally reluctant to give up the perfect opportunity to enter the Central Plains because of the power within the Eight Banners - so the suppression of the two white flags dragged on. The power of the two white flags under the names of the three Dolgon brothers has also expanded more and more in the great expansion of the past year or so, and in the interior of the Jurchen Eight Banners, they pose the same feudal threat to Huang Taiji as the Guanning army.

In fact, Huang Taiji sent Dolgon to lead a small number of partial divisions to attack Henan, and he originally had the intention of deliberately making it difficult to find faults, so he deliberately did not allocate Dolgon's siege heavy artillery, wanting him to hit a nail under the fortified city of Kaifeng, so as to facilitate the establishment of criminal crimes. Unexpectedly, he actually came up with a way for Dolgon to break the embankment and attack Kaifeng, which made him a great achievement. And Duoduo on the Shandong side also captured Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, even in order to maintain the most basic reputation of justice, Huang Taiji must reward two white flags - it is really a loss to steal chickens and rice!

However, although he was a little annoyed because the plan fell through, and even the two white flags had already shown signs of high merit, Huang Taiji never had the idea of merging the two white flags. After all, there are only so many people in the Jurchen Eight Banners, and they really can't afford to lose. If Baqi fights too hard and can't use all his strength on the Han people, then there will be a danger of being pushed back by the Han people.

What's more, the three Dolgon brothers with two white flags hated Huang Taiji deeply because their mother was forced to be martyred. But if you change to the other people in the Eight Banners, will you be loyal and reliable? Amin is still in captivity, Mang Gurtai's entire family was killed by Huang Taiji's design, Daishan has just been cut off a lot of authority by Huang Taiji, and Zilharang's father Shulhaqi died in the hands of Nurhachi...... For Huang Taiji, these guys are all wolf cubs, and they are definitely not familiar with them, as long as they sit on the sweat seat and slack off a little, they will open their bloody mouths and bite up!

Of course, those who change to those Han military flags and Mongolian military flags are probably the same.

Therefore, in this case, if you want to have a stable throne under your buttocks, the best way is to go out in person, defeat more powerful enemies, and use indisputable military feats to deter all careerists...... Thinking of this, Huang Taiji raised the oil lamp again and pondered the battle situation on the map.

——At present, Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong of the Ming Kingdom, has been captured, and most of Henan has also surrendered, and there are no more Ming Dynasty officials and troops near the Eight Banners, leaving only the two new opponents of Dengzhou Town rebels in the east and Wenxiangjiao demons in the south.

Regarding Chen Xinshuai's Dengzhou Army, the Jurchen Eight Banners had dealt with them on the battlefield and knew that this was a hard bone that was not easy to gnaw. Now that there is Huangshi, an old enemy, to back up the Dengzhou army, it seems to be even more difficult to fight - when Duoduo went south to pursue Zhu Dadian, Huang Taiji also tentatively sent a small group of soldiers and horses with two yellow flags, and fought with the Dengzhou army several times in Laizhou Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion, all of which were defeated.

The Smelling Fragrance Sect in the south is an even stranger opponent. Huang Taiji only knew that they were a branch of the White Lotus Sect, and they were a little arrogant, and they actually sent envoys to the outside of the border to seal themselves as their "Nine-Tailed Great Protectors"! In the year of the Apocalypse, the former Wenxiang sect leader Xu Hongru once set off a big chaos in Shandong, and even called the emperor, but it was pacified by the Ming Dynasty officials and troops in just a few months, which shows that the combat effectiveness at that time must not be strong. But this time, the anti-thief soldiers and horses of the Wenxiang Sect have been galloping between Jianghuai for a year, and it seems that they have become able to fight some?

As for which opponent to attack first, Huang Taiji was still hesitant for a while - the Dengzhou army is a hard bone, but after all, the territory is small, and there will not be too many soldiers and horses; And the situation of the Wenxiang Sect is ignorant of it, and if you rush to fight it, it may be a big gamble.

Then, with the arrival of an urgent military intelligence, he finally made his final choice......