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Chapter 175: China Produces Emperors This Year (1)

Riding on the war horse that has lost a lot of weight for a while, looking at the Fengshan Gate Tower in Hangzhou, the familiar and unfamiliar five-star red flag, the general army of the Ming Dynasty and the western part of Zhejiang, and the modern traverser Wang Dou suddenly felt like a dream for a while, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

Traveling to the end of the Ming Dynasty for seven years, from the original Great Wall across the Central Plains, all the way to the Jiangnan Water Town, his life turned a huge circle on the land of China, and finally seemed to return to the original point. However, this is enough to think of Shunxiang Fort that was reduced to ruins in the war, and those familiar faces who died in the war, and I am already lucky to have come this far.

Thinking of this, Wang Dou couldn't help but sigh, closed his eyes, and the past events of the past few months seemed to be vivid.

In the late autumn of last year, when Emperor Chongzhen and his commander Lu Xiangsheng led tens of thousands of troops to march along the Yangtze River to Nanjing, in an attempt to lay the foundation of the emperor in a war, Wang Dou was also ordered to take 4,000 partial divisions to go deep into southern Anhui over the mountains and mountains to attack Huizhou at the foot of the Yellow Mountain.

Compared with the exciting Battle of Nanjing in the north, the process of the Battle of Huizhou in the south was lackluster, except for the endless trekking through mountains and rivers, the enemy soldiers that Wang Dou encountered were basically either crushed at the touch of a button, or surrendered to the wind. Soon, he successfully captured the capital of Huizhou, captured the prefect of Huizhou alive, collected and surrendered about 2,000 soldiers, and the surrounding counties also announced the change of banners.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Dou, who was named the commander-in-chief of western Zhejiang because of his merits, continued to cross the provincial border and entered Zhejiang eastward according to the instructions of Emperor Chongzhen, easily seized Chun'an County, which was empty, and then entered Tonglu County, which was adjacent to Hangzhou, and had contact with the frontier forces of the "Australian thieves" here. As a traverser, Wang Dou quickly determined the identity and origin of the other party, and couldn't help but be shocked for a while.

However, at this time, Wang Dou's child daughter-in-law, Xie Xiuniang, suddenly ran to his barracks in rags and unkempt. And Wang Dou, who was in the mountainous area of western Zhejiang, was stunned to learn the bad news that the Central Plains Liukou went south in a big way, entered the rear of Huguang of Emperor Chongzhen, and Wuchang Xiangyang and other famous cities fell one after another. What's worse is that the old mother Zhong, who followed Wang Dou all the way to Jiangnan and thought that she could live a rich life, also escaped from Wuchang because the boat capsized and unfortunately fell into the water and died!

Before Wang Dou could be sad, the report of the defeat in the Battle of Nanjing came immediately. Next, the news of Emperor Chongzhen's death in Chizhou came. This series of earth-shattering changes almost smashed Wang Dou into a daze for a while. By the time he reacted, Empress Dowager Wen Fu of Zhou and Little Emperor Zhu Cihong had already taken the coffin of Emperor Chongzhen and entered Huizhou all the way, announcing that the imperial court had been rebuilt here.

Wang Dou has no opinion on such a thing, anyway, it is common sense that the father and son will succeed to the throne. But the problem is that after a series of defeats, the Chongzhen Emperor's court almost lost its territory of soldiers and horses. And Wang Dou, who has 6,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, seems to have become the largest warlord in the court, several times more than the forbidden army around the emperor, posing a huge potential threat to the civil court around the little emperor.

As a result, as soon as this small imperial court opened in Huizhou, the cabinet assistant Wen Tiren immediately began to reduce Wang Dou's military power, first trying to entrap the local officials appointed by Wang Dou, or deposing them, and then installing their own candidates. Next, in the name of "escort", he transferred several side soldiers and horses around Wang Dou. In the end, he sacrificed the trick of rising and descending secretly, and ordered Wang Qiu to hand over the army and return to the court to serve as an empty position.

In the face of such a series of interlocking combination punches, Wang Dou, who was caught off guard, could not parry the Shunxiang Army, the henchman line he established in Shunxiang Fort in Xuanfu, and after more than a year of displacement from Saibei to Jiangnan, there was not much left. At this time, the troops under Wang Dou's command were not his private army, but the official army of the Ming Dynasty that was pulled up according to the principle of "size and size".

Therefore, Wang Dou, who has now become the focus of the imperial court, has been completely disheartened, although he did not plan to pull the flag and rebel, but he was not ready to return to the imperial court to suffer the splint of the Qingliu civil officials and the emperor's relatives, but left an official seal and a letter of resignation in the camp tent, abandoned the army and ran away, took his wife and family, and went straight to Hangzhou to "defect to the thief".

The people in the Phoenix Villa Headquarters expressed a certain degree of surprise at this compatriot who suddenly appeared, but after inquiring about his origin, they only carried out a general routine disposition: among them, Wang Dou himself was allowed to take his wife back to live in the modern world, and his team of more than 100 family members was placed in the newly occupied area of Liaodong, where Huang Shi settled in the collective farm built there. Wang Dou's family members basically agreed with the above arrangement, they were originally from a military family that farmed the land, and it was not bad to be able to return to the north.

After settling down Wang Dou's group of defectors, Wang Qiu marked the situation of various forces in the south of the Yangtze River on the map, and couldn't help but smile: "...... There is an emperor in Huizhou, an emperor in Nanjing, and another emperor in Shanghai, how about the more and more emperors of the Ming Dynasty? ”

What he didn't expect at this time was that with the death of Emperor Chongzhen as the starting signal, the number of special creatures like "emperors" would increase rapidly like mushrooms after summer rains on the land of China in this time and space......

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Although Zhang Pu, Zhang Dai, Fang Yizhi and other envoys of the Shanghai court were very worried about the possible collusion between the Hangzhou thieves and the remnants of Emperor Chongzhen of Huizhou, in fact, there was no danger at all. In the next few days, Zhang Pu easily negotiated the details of the grain and ordnance procurement contract with the "leader of the thieves." By the time they set off for their return, Shen Tingyang's sand boat gang had already transported the first batch of 100,000 stone grain and rice to Shanghai.

So far, the court of the Yonghe Emperor in Shanghai, which has been in a stormy situation since its establishment, has finally temporarily got rid of the crisis of food shortage.

At the same time, after more than a month of standoff, stalemate, envoy exchange and intrigue, in order to compete for the throne left over from the death of Huang Taiji, the full-scale civil war of the Manchu Eight Banners finally broke out in late March.

The first to lose patience and take the initiative to provoke a civil war in the Qing court was the eldest son of Huang Taiji, the banner owner of the Blue Banner.

According to Hauge's thinking, as the only adult son of Huang Taiji, he was the undisputed next emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Who would have thought that after such a few days, Mo said that the other flags with ill intentions would even refuse to support the two yellow flags and fifty Niu Lu of the two yellow flags of the emperor Taiji, and immediately split into many small groups after the emperor's death. Among them, He Luohui, the commander of the Zhenghuang Banner, and Tan Tai, the commander of the Yellow Banner, clearly opposed Haoge's accession to the throne, but their control of Niu Lu was very limited. Sonny Aobai and others, who were in control of the Imperial Taiji Imperial Army, were uncertain, and at the same time sent envoys to Haug Dolgon and Empress Zhezhe to bargain, ready to wait for the price to sell.

What's even more worrying is that the blue flag lord Zilharang has also continued to recruit troops and horses during this time, and at the same time co-opted the forces of the two red flags Since the death of the Great Belle Daishan, his two red flags have also split into many small groups, led by the sons of Daishan and his brother Chu Ying, among which seven or eight Niu Lu of Adali and Shuotuo have expressed their allegiance to Dolgon, and the other groups are hesitating, but most of them have expressed goodwill and closeness to Zilharang.

On the contrary, Dorgon, who was originally the most threatening opponent, had six or five bulls under his two white flags, but he was still in pieces, and only twenty-seven bulls remained in Dolgon's hands, and there was a lot of shortage. Only the five Oxels under the command of his uncle Abutai were basically fully manned, and they were all heavy cavalry. The simple-minded Azig took his thirteen Niu Lu in Yangzhou in a dilemma, after the death of Huang Taiji, he even crossed the river and went to have no goal, if he returned to Xuzhou, he would have to be looked at by the two little brothers Duoduo and Dorgon, and he was really in a dilemma.

In this way, Ji'er Harang, who has thirty or forty Niu Lu, seems to have the qualifications to win the throne, after all, he is also surnamed Aixin Jueluo!

As time passed, instead of becoming clearer, the situation became more and more chaotic, and Hauge, who was relatively simple-minded, could no longer sit still. At this time, the Zhenglan Banner under his name had a total of forty-two Niu Lu troops, but only the twenty-eight Niu Lu led by Hao Ge himself was barely considered a descendant, and Abatai and others, who were also in the Zhenglan Banner, did not listen to him. Therefore, at first, Haoge planned to integrate the Zhenglan Banner, fire and Abatai, and then unite with Turge, who was resting in the Jiangyin area, to form an army of forty-five Niu Lu, and finally drove to Nanjing, coerced the imperial court, and forced the Empress Dowager Zhezhe to agree to his succession.

However, Fan Wencheng, who had secretly taken refuge in Haoge at this time, rushed to the Haoge camp in Liyang at night to give him advice: "...... In the matter of fighting for the throne, how can soldiers and nobles act so slowly? Now that the attitude of the two yellow flags is wandering, Nanjing's defense is empty, and there are very few garrisons, His Royal Highness only needs to wave his army to smash Beijing and force the queen mother to surrender, so he can naturally set the throne early. After the name has been decided, why should you care about the number of soldiers and horses under your command? ”

As soon as Hauge heard that he felt reasonable, he gathered more than 5,000 soldiers and horses under his command, bypassed the camps where the banners were stationed, and rushed straight to Nanjing along the avenue.

At this time, the Empress Dowager Zhezhe of the Nanjing court held various seals of the Qing imperial family and nominally controlled the legitimate central power of the Qing Dynasty, but most of the Mengjun Banner and the two yellow banners Niulu who supported her were still stranded in the Zhenjiang area. In the dilapidated city of Nanjing, there are not many descendants.

As a result, when Hao Ge led the army of Zhenglan Banner to the city of Nanjing, he immediately caught the Empress Dowager Zhezhe off guard. Sonny and Aobai, who were in control of the Imperial Taiji Imperial Army, actually stood still in Yuhuatai. The city wall of Nanjing is still dilapidated, and there are many gaps and collapses, and it is impossible to hold on. So the Empress Dowager Zhezhe had to send a few guards and horses around her to fight against the enemy, but the army was defeated and killed, and the two little princes of Huang Taiji also disappeared in the chaos. However, the two favorite concubines, Da Yuer and Hai Lanzhu, managed to abscond from Jiangbei with the jade seal of the royal family, and went all the way to Dolgon in Xuzhou.

For the defection of these two beautiful women, Dolgon was immediately overjoyed, knowing that Da Yuer had an old relationship with him, and Hai Lanzhu was a natural beauty, and he could fascinate the emperor Taiji, which naturally made Dolgon quite envious, so he immediately accepted Da Yuer and Hai Lanzhu as concubines in accordance with the old Jurchen customs, and went through Haoge's crime of "rebellion", self-proclaimed alliance leader, and claimed to go south to crusade.

At the same time, although Haoge in Nanjing failed to find the jade seal, he captured the entire civil official team of Huang Taiji, so he simply proclaimed the emperor in the Forbidden City of Nanjing under the support and persuasion of a group of Han ministers.

However, the two bitter enemies, Hauge and Dolgon, were unable to fight in the end. Because of the sudden appearance of Haoge, the emperor and Dolgon, the leader of the alliance, the remaining banner leaders all expressed their resolute denial, and after learning of the Nanjing Incident, Azig, who regarded Yangzhou as his own territory, immediately went north to Chen soldiers in the Huai River to Jinqing Jiangpu to block Dolgon's southward road. The lord of the Blue Banner, Zilharang, united with Abatai and gathered an army of more than 100 Niu Lu to march into Nanjing, demanding an explanation from the new emperor Hauge about his status and power.

Looking at the black pressure of soldiers and horses outside the city, Haoge, who has limited psychological quality, suddenly became numb, just trying to keep the throne under his ass, and everything else is negotiable. Next, after some bargaining, Emperor Hauge announced that he would split the territory and seal the territory, and the three powerful factions of Zilharang and Abatai Azig were all crowned princes, and each of them received a land as a vassal state, and if he could conquer more territory in the future, it would also belong to his own people.

According to this policy, Azig was the governor of Yangzhou, Abatai was the governor of Changzhou, and Jierharang was the governor of Taiping, and they were allowed to expand their territories in northern Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and southern Anhui. Haoge, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, only kept the land of Yingtian, Zhenjiang and Erfu, and did not dare to hope for more.

In addition, the two Yellow Banner tribesmen who were unwilling to join Hauge could also defect to any vassal king whom he recognized, and the emperor could not pursue them.

After such a decentralization of power and bloodletting, relying on the mutual containment of various banner leaders, the new Qing Emperor Haoge finally barely sat on the throne. And the only unwilling Dolgon, also unable to go south, had to brazenly claim the emperor in Xuzhou, change the country name back to Dajin, and call himself the Dajin Emperor.

However, because he knows that he is alone and cannot be replenished, he cannot withstand any internal friction. Therefore, although the Manchu Eight Banners were divided, they still did not dare to kill each other, but acquiesced to the reality of peaceful separation. Next, Abatai and Zilharang broke up under the city of Nanjing, and led their men to their own places, preparing to start the long-stagnant Jiangnan strategy again. Among them, Zilharang planned to march west from Taiping Province and conquer the upper reaches along the Yangtze River. Abatai is ready to first pull out the nail of the remaining Jiangyin county in Changzhou Prefecture, and then take advantage of the situation to go straight to Suzhou and Songjiang, and take all the fertile soil in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, what Abatai didn't know was that the nail in Jiangyin County was not so easy to pull out.

Because, just when he was preparing for the Eastern Crusade, the aid fleet of the "Australian Thieves" also quietly arrived at the Jiangyin Wharf......