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Chapter 167: The Funeral of the Second Emperor (I)

By the beginning of February of the seventh year of Chongzhen, there were only more than 20 cattle left in the two white flag soldiers and horses that were still stranded in Huaibei and obeyed the orders of Dolgon. And most of them have run a lot of people, only the five Niu Lu led by his uncle Abutai are relatively complete, because these people are the descendants of the old Khan Nurhachi, who used to have a respected status, but after Huang Taiji took power, they were quite suppressed, and naturally hated Huang Taiji.

In addition, the miscellaneous Han troops who were originally stranded in the Xuzhou area also responded to the call of Emperor Chongde of the Qing Dynasty, and crossed the Yangtze River to the south to divide the fields.

No way, as the saying goes, people die for money, and birds die for food. Whether it is Manchu or Han, who doesn't want to go to a good place like Jiangnan to enjoy happiness?

Seeing that the strength at hand had shrunk sharply, Dorgon himself became more and more weak-hearted, and even retreated.

However, Dolgon also knew that he had played too much this time, and he actually took advantage of the fact that Huang Taiji was in danger to preserve his strength and sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight! Even if he knelt in front of Huang Taiji now and wept bitterly and repented of his guilt, I was afraid that there would be no good fruit for him to eat.

Although Huang Taiji's recent holy decree from Jiangnan is very good, claiming that as long as Dolgon knows his way back and is willing to come to Jiangnan with two white flags, he will not be guilty of the past, and there are houses, gold and silver fields, and beauties of Jiangnan. However, Dolgon is also a smart king who is famous for his brains, and he knows that his good starling Huang Taiji will definitely not spare himself this time! Thinking about the tragic death of Mang Gultai and the death of Amin, Dolgon felt that if he listened to the sweet words of the starling and went south in a foolish manner, the end would be worse than them.

But the problem is that most of Dorgon's subordinates are generally reluctant to follow him to the dark again. First of all, of course, is the great temptation of Jiangnan women's granges and treasures, and those colleagues who have benefited from Jiangnan have brought news one after another, saying how luxurious and beautiful the pavilions and pavilions of the rich people in Jiangnan are, which makes them greedy; The second is that at present, Dolgon's strength can no longer compete with Huang Taiji, and if he fights, he will definitely lose. Therefore, these people all advised Dolgon, hoping that he would go south to admit his mistakes to the emperor for the sake of everyone's glory and wealth.

In the military robbery group of the Manchu Eight Banners, since he is the leader, he can't help but think about the glory and wealth of his subordinates. If you insist on going against the will of the people, the end will definitely be a betrayal of the people. Compared with the character of gambling on Emperor Taiji in the south, the risk of holding on to the end in Huaibei is not small at all!

Therefore, Dolgon discussed with Duo Abutai for a long time, but still couldn't make up his mind, and finally had to continue to survive, and at the same time hoped that Huang Taiji would be dazzled by the beauties of Jiangnan, and he would be tired and break his waist, or let the people in Jiangnan drag his hands and feet, and he couldn't take care of the mess on his side for the time being.

Unfortunately, this is purely Dolgon's wishful thinking, as a dignified generation of heroes, how can Huang Taiji be such a person who will be drunk on wine?

On the other hand, it is true that since the Jiangnan gentry, who regretted it, learned that the "Qing Dynasty's royal division" wanted both wealth and life for them, the prefectures and counties that had not yet been captured by the Qing army, or had already been nominally subdued, "competed to raise troops for recovery", and everywhere there were gentry who were organizing the righteous army and setting off a vigorous anti-Qing movement. Many of these places were suppressed before they could pull up the queue. But there were also people who really succeeded.

For example, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi and others, since they escaped from Tiger Hill in Suzhou, recruited troops to resist the Qing Dynasty in Songjiang Mansion, gathered more than 1,000 people within a few days, set up a statue of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty to swear to revolt, and the military name "Zhenwu" attempted to counterattack Suzhou and rescue the local people. However, although there were more than 1,000 volunteers gathered by Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi, they had nothing to do with their salaries and food, and most of them were refugee fishermen, untrained and undisciplined, so they were very useless. And the leading scholars did not know about the military at all, and they did not even organize group fights in the countryside. As a result, this "Zhenwu Army", which had a very majestic name, was scattered by a small group of Eight Banners rangers before it came to the city of Suzhou, and was killed and wounded, and Chen Zilong and other principals were only spared.

In addition to Songjiang Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi, the "Zhenwu Army" that was about to collapse at the touch of a button, the volunteers who emerged from other places in the south of the Yangtze River either cowered or spun up and down because they were all rabble, or even burst out of their own camps. In Huang Taiji's view, these waste firewood and cowards did not pose any real threat to the Great Qing Iron Cavalry at all, at most it was just the difference between strangulation a day earlier or a day later.

Therefore, after the capture of Suzhou, although many Hanchen admonished, it was hoped that the Qing army would not turn around and go north, but continue to sweep Songjiang and Jiangzhou and Jiaxing, so as to take all the south of the Yangtze River. In addition, there was a white flag general Turge, who failed to attack Jiangyin County with his three Niu Lu, so he had to cry bitterly and ask Huang Taiji for help. But Huang Taiji still insisted on solving the internal contradictions of the Eight Banners first, and was bent on subduing Dolgon!

On the third day of the second month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, after regrouping the Qing troops who participated in the Suzhou massacre, and roughly recuperating from the arrow wound on his right shoulder, Huang Taiji left the Fushui Villa, set off to travel, and ordered the whole army to return to Zhenjiang and prepare to cross the river to the north again. At the same time, Huang Taiji gave Dolgon an ultimatum, asking him to either cross the river south and kneel in front of his horse's hooves to bear the guilt, then Huang Taiji promised that he would not be guilty of the past, and everyone would still be good brothers in the future; Either the soldiers are strong, and the brothers will fight according to their abilities, and from then on, life and death will have their own destiny!

When the news reached Huaibei, the two white flags that were still stranded there were immediately shocked. Although no one dares to do anything directly against Dorgon for the time being, many people have begun to collude secretly. Prepare to abandon the darkness and turn to the light as soon as you see the emperor's royal drive. Dolgon, on the other hand, had to face a terrible choice: whether to be tied up and give his life to someone else; Or is it a desperate battle that is sure to be lost?

But it didn't take long for Dorgon to be pleasantly surprised to see that he didn't seem to have to do multiple-choice questions for the time being.

Because, Huang Taiji's royal car will never appear in front of him again.

To be precise, Emperor Taiji of the Chongde Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty died suddenly before he set off to cross the river from Zhenjiang Mansion to the north!

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In the middle of the night of the eighth day of the second month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Emperor Taiji of Chongde of the Qing Dynasty died suddenly at the age of 43 in the tent of the imperial camp in Zhenjiang. It is said that the cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage or myocardial infarction: Huang Taiji was obese since he was a child, had an unhealthy diet, suffered from severe hypertension, and often had nosebleeds......

In the past year or so, the Qing Empire has first gone from dormant to the peak, then from the peak to the abyss, and then from the abyss to climb out with difficulty, and the ups and downs of its national fortunes are like a roller coaster. Huang Taiji, who was already in poor health, couldn't help but be exhausted, especially in the Nanjing War that gambled on the national fortune, and the whole person almost collapsed, but he barely supported it with a fighting spirit. Therefore, without Huang Taiji's unconsciousness, he has burned out his vitality, and as long as a small inducement can make him die forever.

In short, in any case, Emperor Taiji of Chongde of the Great Qing Dynasty died violently in the Zhenjiang military camp without warning on the eve of preparing to cross the river to the north.

All of a sudden, the people of the Qing army in Jiangnan were in turmoil, and they were no longer able to go north to fight, and who would inherit the throne became a big problem.

At this time, Huang Taiji had a total of three sons still alive, the eldest son Haoge was twenty-six years old, the second son Ye Keshu was eight years old, and the youngest son Shuo Sai was seven years old. Among them, the two youngest sons of Ye Keshu and Shuo Sai are not only young, but also have a relatively humble status of their biological mothers, and according to the traditional rules of the Jurchens, they have no inheritance rights. According to this calculation, it seems that Hauge, the eldest son, will inherit the throne. But the problem is that Haoge's father-son relationship with Huang Taiji is not very good, so Huang Taiji has never considered handing over the throne to him, and naturally he will not pave the way for him. And Hauge himself is also rough-tempered, his talent is limited, and he can't subdue the powerful people of all banners.

On the other hand, if the order is to be brother-in-law, then it seems that the throne should go to Dolgon! After all, everyone still remembers that when Nurhachi died of illness, he wanted to let Dolgon ascend the throne, but he was just cut off by Huang Taiji who lifted the table.

What's even worse is that several Mongolian concubines who really controlled the imperial Taiji court: Empress Zhezhe Hai Lanzhu and Da Yu'er and others, did not give birth to sons, and had a bad relationship with Haoge. On the contrary, there seems to be some affection between Da Yu'er and Dolgon, the little uncle...... Therefore, it is difficult to say who these women left behind by Huang Taiji will face in this battle for the throne.

What's more, after the Qing Empire completely lost its homeland in Liaodong, the Han people who joined this system also began to have more and more power.

As the forces of all sides were stirred into this huge whirlpool, the future and fate of the Qing Empire became more and more unpredictable.

As a result, the Qing Empire, which had just taken advantage of the military miracle of conquering Jiangnan and the rich harvest of sacking the gentry in Jiangnan, was barely stopped by Huang Taiji, once again became unpredictable and unspeakable, and fell into a complex and indescribable undercurrent.

On the other side, just a few days after Emperor Chongde of the Great Qing Dynasty Emperor Taiji returned to the sky, the old opponent who became the Ninety-Five Emperor almost at the same time as him also entered the last moment of his life in a miserable and miserable atmosphere of decadence......

On the ninth day of the first month of February, Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, died at the age of 24 when he entered the dying Chizhou Mansion in Nanzhili.