The atrocities of the Tartar side of the hair shaving order, supposedly to the will to resist and internal unity of the Great Ming Party, should obviously be a great benefit.

But the chain reaction it brought about will eventually lead to the ruling trouble on the side of the Ming court, which is really incredible. When Zhu Shuren heard the complaint of his subordinates for the first time, he was also quite surprised.

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Here's the thing: about ten days after the shaving order was issued, and it was also the fifth day after the official army recovered Jurong County, the time had turned to the month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

On the battlefield of Jinshan Temple, the officers and soldiers suddenly felt a huge frontal pressure, and countless new Han soldiers helped the Tartars to attack frantically and fill the only remaining channel between Jinshanzhou and the south bank of the Yangtze River.

After so many days of hard work on the part of the Qing army, the natural waterway between Jinshanzhou and the land south of the Yangtze River was finally completely blocked by the dammed embankment, and the Qing army was able to directly drive straight into the land route and fight a positional battle with Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong had to completely retreat to Jinshan Temple, abandon all the plains and sandbar terrain on Jinshan Island, and purely rely on the mountain to carry out the final defense.

Zheng Chenggong's side can also roughly understand: the reason why the Qing army was able to coerce so many supernumerary Han soldiers at once to serve as cannon fodder to strengthen the offensive is obviously the result of the hair shaving order.

After all, this is what Dodor ordered to shave his hair for. If it is completely ineffective and cannot help the Qing army coerce more people to follow the thieves, then won't the shaving order be issued in vain? Isn't it just a laughing stock with disadvantages but not benefits?

forced a large number of people in Changzhen to oppose the Qing Dynasty, which is just the disadvantage of the shaving order. can coerce more traitors, this is the benefit of the shaving order.

Forcing people to take sides will certainly make many people flee and resist, but it will also make many people who are relatively spineless and originally wavering become thieves with half push and half push. The pros and cons of any policy must be viewed from both sides.

But what puzzled Zheng Chenggong was that he originally thought that even if Duoduo relied on the shaving order to get more cannon fodder, these cannon fodder would definitely not be firm in their fighting spirit and would not really give their lives to the Tartars. After all, they are thieves because they are timid and afraid of things, and they don't want to anger those in power, what kind of fighting will this kind of person have?

However, the progress of the facts surprised Zheng Chenggong, because in the actual attack and defense of Jinshan Temple, he witnessed many traitor recruits who had just been shaved and coerced, helping the Qing army to charge, filling in the waterway, and risking arrows and bullets to transport armaments and wounded to the soldiers.

This kind of performance really doesn't look like a cowardly and scared person who was forced to go to the battlefield, but it seems that he wants to be a traitor from the bottom of his heart.

Driven by this incomprehension, Zheng Chenggong also kept an eye on it when commanding the defensive battle, and every time he repelled the Qing army, he no longer asked his soldiers to kill all the enemy wounded soldiers when cleaning the battlefield.

Instead, the soldiers were asked to screen, find a few traitor recruits who were left behind by the enemy and looked like they had just shaved their heads, pulled them back for good treatment, and then tortured them for internal information. Just one glance, it is a real Tartar who has shaved his head for many years, and the old Tartar is still fully mending and killing.

Zheng Chenggong's operation was really not in vain, and after saving dozens of traitors and wounded people who were still ordinary young and strong people in Changzhen last month, they came back and were isolated and interrogated, and they quickly got the information they wanted.

The staff member in charge of the torture sorted out the confession and reported to Zheng Chenggong: "Major General, I have already asked clearly, these people were originally ordinary people in Changzhen, and they were indeed disloyal to the monarch and patriotic, and it didn't matter whether they were ruled by the Ming Dynasty or by the puppet Qing Dynasty.

The Tartars told them to shave their heads so that they would not die, and at first, they really didn't intend to give the Tartars their lives, but just wanted to save their lives.

But just a few days ago, the Tartar generals suddenly preached some threatening words to them, and also took out some human and material evidence, warning them that they had to follow the Tartar army all the way to the dark, they had already shaved their heads, and it was impossible to return to the Ming Dynasty.

He also said that our Ming side has issued a new decree, and the army brought by Duoduo to Jiangnan must be resolutely and completely annihilated, and the thieves must also be annihilated.

The Tartar generals also threatened them, saying that under the city of Nanjing, Li Fuming and Li Junmen, after repelling the siege, killed all the wounded who had shaved their hair and braided their hair when cleaning the battlefield, and did not leave a single living mouth!

After Cao Bianjiao Cao Junmen recaptured Jurong County, he also purged the remnants of the enemy in Jurong County, and killed him as a Tartar soldier without saying a word when he saw the shaved head. So these of them, who have already shaved their heads, have no way to live! If you return to the Ming Dynasty, you will also be killed by the real Tartars, and the Nanjing Imperial Court will not screen it at all! When they heard this, out of fear, the dog jumped over the wall and helped the Tartar fight to the death. ”

Zheng Chenggong was shocked after hearing this, he didn't understand why the Nanjing Imperial Court had such a policy, so he immediately asked the sentinel ship, which was in charge of transmitting military information every day, to bring the news and doubts back to Zhu Shuren.

Zhu Shuren was also shocked when he heard this, so he quickly convened a cabinet meeting in Nanjing.

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"Who issued the decree that 'whoever shaves his head must be killed as a real Tartar'? How did I not know? Zhu Shuren is not polite to those corrupt Confucians now, and as soon as he arrived at Wenyuan Pavilion, where the cabinet was deliberating, he immediately threw out his own doubts.

Of course, he was by no means targeting his own father and Shi Kefa, but at anyone other than his father and Shi Kefa. After the wave of the Nanjing Siege and a bunch of civilian officials defected to the enemy and were implicated, the remaining cabinet elders and ministers have gradually lost their power.

And when Shi Kefa heard about this, he was also a little angry, and he fully understood how bad this kind of chaotic life would have on the Tartar situation.

After a hasty investigation, everyone confirmed that the Nanjing Imperial Court had indeed not made such a chaotic order, and Shi Kefa analyzed with Zhu Shuren in a deductive tone:

"Brother Xian, don't be anxious, I guess this is a discordant plan by the officials and staff of Duoduo! Most of them are rumors spread by the Tartars, adding fuel and vinegar, trying to slander the court in this way, so as to deceive the people who have shaved their heads into going all the way with them. ”

After the investigation just now, Zhu Shuren also calmed down a little, and realized that the probability of this possibility is indeed quite large.

He touched his beard and thought to himself: "According to the confession of Brother Zheng Xian who came back from the front line of Jinshan Temple, this possibility cannot be ruled out, and the Tartar must have also caught some evidence, and then added oil and vinegar to transfer flowers and trees, and explained the individual behaviors of the front-line soldiers as the iron law of my Ming court, forcing the head shaver to jump over the wall in a hurry."

However, although we have not issued such an order, the military discipline and style in the army, as well as the external propaganda of the Ministry of Rites, must also keep pace with the times and be improved, and they can no longer be so simple and rude.

I remember that before Qian Qianyi's two henchmen were taken out by me, he tried to draw a clear line with Qian Qianyi in order to cater to his superiors and show favor to me, and wrote some inappropriate words.

I remember that they criticized the head shaver as a traitor who forgot his ancestors, licked his face and made enemies, and was a traitor and a national scum. While this is a good statement in principle, it is somewhat one-size-fits-all. Many people are coerced by butcher's knives, and if they don't shave their heads, they will be killed on the spot.

Wu Butang, you should hurry up on this matter, you must eliminate the poison of those black and white official words, but you can't leave people with an excuse to be weak and surrender to the enemy, you think about the specific scale rhetoric, I just want the result. ”

Zhu Shuren's last half of the sentence was to order Wu Meicun, who was his division commander and the secretary of the state when he was the supervisor of the country. However, now that the other party has been promoted to the high position of the Ministry of Rites, Zhu Shuren is enough to repay the favor, and when he explains the work, there is no need to worry about the etiquette of teachers and students.

Wu Meicun is also measured, cherishes this opportunity to take charge of the propaganda war, and is not disgusted by Zhu Shuren's straightforward orders, and immediately said that he will do his best to do a good job.

Zhu Shuren thought about it again, and felt that this kind of major issue of right and wrong was still suitable for giving the emperor a chance to perform, so he suggested that an additional court meeting be held on this matter, so that the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty could debate in front of the monarch, and finally let the emperor express his position and evaluate the next standard for loyalty and traitor.

Zhu Changshu is weak and cowardly by nature, but he is not grounded, but Zhu Shuren believes that as long as he teaches his father-in-law a few lines, his father-in-law will definitely be able to understand it, and let him say it in public can also enhance the prestige and cohesion of the imperial court.

That's it.

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Another day passed, early in the morning.

In the Fengtian Temple of the Forbidden City, which had just been hastily restored, an additional court meeting was convened - this day was not the normal date of the five-day court meeting, and it was completely temporarily added.

There is only one topic today, how to characterize those former Daming people who have shaved their heads. Of course, the emperor must have hoped that everyone would discuss it on a case-by-case basis, distinguishing between taking the initiative to shave one's head and being forced to shave one's head.

How to deal with each situation, what the future captivity policy will be, and how to determine whether the Han who have been shaved will be active or passive will need to be agreed in detail.

Don't underestimate this kind of united front work, this is a problem involving the country, because if it is not handled well, it is very likely to force a large number of Han people to the side of the Qing State.

Now Jiangnan is quite good, only the land of the five counties has been invaded by the Tartars, but the two Huai in the north of the Yangtze River have fallen for several months, if the Tartars also promote the shaving order there, forcing countless Han people to the opposite side, the situation will be grim if it is not handled well.

The chaotic deliberations of many civil officials are naturally somewhat fair and somewhat corrupt.

A few rotten Confucians still haven't seen the change in the direction of the situation, and they are holding on to the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, and still preaching that "those who shave their heads are rebellious"-

Not to mention, there are still a lot of die-hard civil officials who have been preached like this in history. For example, Huang Daozhou, the first assistant of the cabinet of Emperor Longwu and Tang King Zhu Yujian in the original time and space, has always insisted on being so inaccommodating, and in the end even Zhu Yujian couldn't stand it, knowing that such a hard and rigid thing would be a big deal.

And now that Zhu Shuren is in control of the government, of course, he will write down this kind of civil officials who have always been on the moral high ground in a small book.

The traitors must be dealt with thoroughly, and those who destroy unity cannot be dealt with directly, but they can be transferred to unimportant posts, and they can also be raised with money, so that they can be harmless moral models, but don't give them the opportunity to kidnap the government.

After these people finished speaking, Zhu Shuren gave his father a look, and Zhu Changshu also knew the importance and knew that this was an opportunity to win the reputation of strengthening Renjun, so he said that he wanted to make a holy judgment.

As soon as Zhu Changshu spoke, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty finally quieted down and listened to the holy judgment.

Zhu Changshu said the line copied by Zhu Shuren: "In the autumn of this national disaster, there are great changes unseen in a century, why should the secretaries stick to the precedents and go against the way of benevolence?"

In my opinion, those who keep their hair are righteous people, those who shave their hair, and refugees. It is a loss of virtue for me to turn the people into refugees, and I have failed to protect my own people, so how can I bear to be harsh? The righteous people should be praised and promoted, and the refugees should be screened and rescued, but the traitors who really lick their faces and enemies can be severely punished! ”

As soon as Zhu Changshu's words came out, it was natural that except for the moral perversion of Huang Daozhou, the other civil officials were really impressed.

"Those who keep their hair, righteous people, those who shave their hair, refugees...... Your Majesty is really a benevolent monarch through the ages, summed up too appropriately, it is really a commanding height, a clear view of thousands of miles, making people look up to the mountains, and the scenery is stopped. ”

Zhu Shuren was also very satisfied with this effect. There was only a slight flash of guilt in my heart: I'm sorry to copy the most famous line of Zhu Yujian, the Longwu Emperor in another time and space.

However, Zhu Yujian has no chance to perform in this life, and only the emperor of Nanming is qualified to say this kind of thing, and he is qualified to set the tone. In order not to bury it, let Zhu Changshu say it.

If Da Ming can always adhere to such a flexible united front strategy, why can't he win back the hearts of the people who ride the wall.