Chapter Twenty-Four: Dorgon's Countermeasures
Fan Wencheng, this person is quite famous, and he is currently serving as the chief scholar of the "My Daqing" Secretariat.
Hong Chengchou and Feng Quan have a lot of credit, right?
But in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty, after all, he was just a "second minister" who betrayed the master, and he couldn't escape the addition of the second minister's record in the end.
However, Fan Wencheng is completely different from the above-mentioned people, he was personally praised by the so-called "Emperor of the Ages" Emperor Kangxi as the first Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty.
However, it is such a so-called Ming Ji Wenchen No. 1, and he even failed to win a show talent during the Chongzhen years.
This can't help but make people think, is my Daming show so difficult to test?
It can't be said that it has not been reused, it is basically a little transparent, and Emperor Chongzhen didn't even know that Daming still had such a powerful talent.
As soon as the edict of Emperor Shaowu Zhu Cihong's amnesty reached Beijing, Dolgon immediately summoned Fan Wencheng to discuss countermeasures.
Dolgon's vision was very vicious, and he could see at a glance that this so-called amnesty edict was the newly established small court of the Ming Kingdom in Nanjing to win people's hearts.
This kind of thing can't be careless.
"Mr. Fan, how many troops does my Qing Dynasty have in Shandong, Henan and other places now, and these places are all submissive?"
Dolgon took a sip of a tea leaf in his hand, then asked.
Since entering the customs, he has been particularly fond of the elegant things in the Ming Emperor's palace, and he has almost to taste all kinds of tea.
Many Jurchen aristocrats are roughly like this.
Even Dolgon didn't realize that they had moved from the barefoot barbarians outside the gate who were not afraid of death to the gentry of the Ming court, whom they once hated the most.
Many Jurchen nobles began to become irritable and utilitarian, and they no longer liked to charge ahead when fighting, and most liked the tactics of using the green battalion cannon fodder to fill in the line.
Once the battle is lost, the probability of the Eight Banners Army losing their armor and giving up the battle directly is more than ten times that of the time when they were outside the pass.
More and more Eight Banner generals began to understand a truth, even if they lost the battle, they would not be guilty at all as a nobleman of the Eight Banners, because the Han generals of the Green Battalion were used for them.
No matter how embarrassed they escaped, as long as they returned to the rear safely and organized more men and horses to win again, they were the biggest contributors to the victory.
The overall situation has been decided, and there is no need to engage in any death war.
The so-called green camp is the collective name of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty formed by the incorporation of the surrendered original Ming army after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs.
This kind of subtle change is like boiling a frog in warm water, at first glance there seems to be no change, and the Qing Dynasty is still the Qing Dynasty that is "invincible" outside the customs.
As long as you put on the lightning rod armor and step on the war horse, under the layers of armor, before the thunderous war horse, the resistance will still fall apart in an instant.
At this time, the generals of the Eight Banners will inadvertently sigh: Our Eight Banners Iron Cavalry is invincible in the world!
But in fact, everything has inevitably changed since the moment they entered the customs and began to enclose the land.
The pace of corruption and degeneration of the Eight Banners was completely unpredictable by anyone, including Dorgon.
Fan Wencheng had been thinking about countermeasures, and his hands were shaking.
It's not scary, it's tired.
After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Fan Wencheng entered the secretariat, which was equivalent to the first assistant of the cabinet.
Therefore, some systems and regulations in the early Qing Dynasty were probably from Fan Wencheng.
He said: "Lord Wang, the Shaowu Imperial Court is fighting with the Qing Dynasty, and we should also take immediate countermeasures. ”
"The best countermeasure is to transfer troops to completely occupy Shandong and Henan."
"My Qing Dynasty only has a few thousand banner troops in Shandong, and the rest are green battalions that have surrendered and reorganized, and there are even several giants in Denglai, Qingzhou and other places, each with tens of thousands of brave soldiers, attacking cities and plundering land everywhere under the banner of the Shaowu court."
"With these thousands of banner troops alone, I am afraid that it will be difficult to stabilize the situation in Shandong......"
Dolgon snorted, slowly put down the exquisite glass teacup, he looked down at the teacup used by the Chongzhen Empress Zhou, and sighed and said:
"This king also knows this truth, but now I really have no troops to adjust. Except for the defense forces of the Beijing Division, the rest of the troops were led by Azig and Duoduo to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng. ”
"Li Zicheng has been beaten by the Qing Dynasty to lose his armor, fled from Shanxi and Shaanxi in embarrassment, and is entrenched in Wuchang, if he does not take advantage of the victory to pursue at this time, will he not repeat the mistakes of the past?"
The so-called repetition of the mistakes in Dolgon's words refers to Sun Chuanting's encirclement and suppression of the Liukou during the Chongzhen period, and almost annihilated Li Zicheng's camp in Shangluo Mountain.
In the end, because of the tense war in Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen transferred Sun Chuanting out of the customs to resist the Qing army, which led to Li Zicheng's escape from Shangluo Mountain and a comeback.
At that time, war arose in Liaodong, and this was still a strategy used by Dolgon for fear that Li Zicheng would be completely exterminated.
He didn't expect that one day he would end up in the same situation as Emperor Chongzhen.
It's just that Dolgon's will is very strong, and he has always only asked Fan Wencheng for his opinion, and then found a way for himself, instead of directly adopting his opinion.
In Dolgon's view, Shandong and Henan can be passed on and decided, but the thief Li Zicheng is the first priority.
After listening to Fan Wencheng, Dolgon had roughly made a decision, he made a fist and slammed it on the table, and the exquisite glass teacup fell to the ground.
"Please Mr. Fan draw up a holy decree and promulgate it to the world, whether there is a place to submit to my Qing Dynasty or not, it will be served."
"Add Prince Yu Duoduo as the general of Dingguo, coordinate the war in Shanxi, and this king will mobilize soldiers and horses all the way to Baoding for him, and be sure to kill Li Zicheng before he escapes into Henan!"
Dolgon's face showed a fierce light, looked at his right hand clenched into a fist, and said coldly:
"As long as Li Zicheng dies, this king can free up this hand, clean up Shandong, and then move south to capture Jinling."
"In this world, I am going to be decided."
Fan Wencheng hurriedly got up, prostrate on the ground, and bowed repeatedly: "His Royal Highness the regent is wise, His Royal Highness the regent is wise!" ”
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Following the edict of the Shaowu court of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing, the Qing dynasty in Beijing soon issued an edict in response.
Every word in this edict was written by Fan Wencheng, the chief university scholar of the Secretariat.
"I came from the Qing Dynasty volunteers, and was invited by Sangui, the chief soldier of Nerming Mountain Customs, to avenge the monarch's father, not to kill the people, but to be punished now only by thieves. Those who come and return will return to their officials, and those who come and return will return to their jobs. The teacher is strict in discipline, and he will not be harmed. ”
That's what it means, that's what it is.
As Zhu Cihong expected, Dolgon's choice was no different from history, and he still went all out to destroy Dashun first.
This edict was intended to show the political stance of the Tatar Qing, which could not only delay time but also grab some people to go back.
It's just that I don't know what choice people in the world have to make in the face of these two edicts of the Northern and Southern Dynasties?