On the morning of the next day, two fast horses sent from Shandong and Shanxi entered the outer city of Beijing almost at the same time from the Dongbianmen and the Xibianmen, and entered the inner city from the Zhengyangmen at the same time, heading straight for the palace of Prince Rui.

At this time, Dorgon had just gotten up and was reading a book in his study.

Somehow, Dolgon pulled out a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" from the bookshelf.

The Jiannu royal family likes more archers and horses, but few like to read, Dolgon is an outlier, he is the same as Huang Taiji, who just died last year, very obsessed with the Ming Dynasty.

A "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was almost ruined by Dolgon.

As a result, it happened to be the time when the wine was boiled and the hero was discussed, and Dolgon felt something, and immediately beckoned to call Cao Eryu, the clothed servant who was waiting next to him, to the front.

"What does the master command?"

Cao Eryu slumped his waist and asked with a flattering expression.

Dolgon raised the book in his hand and asked, "Dog minion, have you read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?" ”

Cao Eryu said in a sneering voice: "The slave doesn't read many books, not as good as the master, but the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been read, and I can name a few of them." ”

Dolgon smiled and asked, "Then I ask you, who can be called a hero in this world?" ”

Cao Eryu said without thinking: "Of course, it is the master, and only the master." ”

"Where's Prince Hauge?" Dolgon asked, "What about Prince Li's Daishan?" ”

"This ......" Cao Eryu was a little scared, and asked him to evaluate the prince by himself, but he really didn't dare.

Although he is covered with a white flag, if Hauge and Daishan want to kill him, it is like pinching an ant to death.

"You don't have to be afraid." Dolgon waved his hand and said, "There's no one else here, just don't worry." ”

Cao Eryu plucked up his courage and said: "Prince Su is more than brave but not resourceful, and Prince Li is already old and faint, neither of them is as good as your master." ”

Dolgon smiled again: "Prince Zheng can be described as a hero in the world. ”

Cao Eryu waved his hand and said: "Although Prince Zheng is listed as his uncle regent alongside his master, he is similar to Yuan Shao. ”

Dolgon was in a good mood and kicked Cao Eryu.

"Dog minion, he talks one by one, and he doesn't read much."

After smiling and scolding, Dolgon asked again: "Among you Han people, Li Zicheng can be described as a hero in the world?" ”

Cao Eryu laughed out loud when he heard this, and said: "If Li Chuang Wang is a thief who can be called a hero, there will be no more bear's ears in this world. ”

Dolgon laughed and asked, "What about Chongzhen?" ”

"This one is even worse." Cao Eryu said with great disdain, "Slave to tell the truth, master, don't laugh, even if you let the slave be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you won't do worse than Chongzhen." ”

"Speaking of this Chongzhen, where did he run now?" Dolgon said, "Have you gone to Jiangnan, or are you still hiding in the ravine of Yanshan?" ”

Cao Eryu said: "Maybe it's dead." ”

I have to say that the news of this era is really closed.

Until this time, there was no news of Chongzhen on the Beijing side.

What's even more outrageous is that Jiannu is still under the banner of "assisting the Ming Dynasty to suppress thieves", and Wu Sangui is still the Ping Xibo of the Ming Dynasty in name.

Actually, of course, it's a different story.

In fact, Wu Sangui had already become the king of Pingxi in Jiannu.

"Master, Shanxi and Shandong have just been delivered urgently."

As he spoke, a guard walked in with two fire-lacquered letters.

Cao Eryu took the two fire-lacquered letters, slashed the envelopes with a dagger, and handed them to Dolgon.

Dorgon took out two letters from the envelope and read them at once, and his face immediately fell.

Feeling the change in Dolgon's mood, Cao Eryu and the guard didn't dare to breathe.

"Go!" After a long time, Dolgon said with a dark face, "Call Ning Wanme, Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou." ”

"Huh!" Cao Eryu and the guards turned around and left at the same time, and found another guard to inform Ning Wanme, Fan Wencheng, and Hong Chengchou respectively.

Soon, the three of us came to Prince Rui's mansion.

"Ye Chen's progress in Taiyuan was not smooth, and Baiyintu also encountered stubborn resistance from the Ming army in Licheng." "The situation in Shanxi and Shandong provinces is not at all what you suspected, should you give me a reasonable explanation?" ”

Bai Yintu's letter was sent shortly after he arrived in Licheng, so he only reported to Dolgon the fact that he was stubbornly resisted by the Ming army in Licheng, and he had not had time to report the defeat of Ao Bai in Ansan Town and what happened after that, otherwise Dolgon would not just look displeased, but should have been furious.

"Huh?" Ning Wan and the three of us were also stunned when they heard this.

After a long time, Hong Chengchou reacted: "Regent, the road in Shanxi is not going well, in fact, it has been expected by us, but Shandong is also not going well, but it is really beyond our expectations, and you just explained the army?" Hasn't Shandong already fallen into the hands of thieves? How could there still be a Ming army? ”

Ning Wan said: "Maybe it's the rebellious former Ming gentry." ”

Fan Wencheng said: "At most, it is to borrow the banner of Qianming." ”

Dolgon threw the express delivery sent by Baiyintu in front of the three of them: "What kind of rebel official gentry, Baiyintu has made it very clear in the urgent delivery, it is Wang Jiayan, the governor of Shandong who has just been enthroned by Chongzhen, and Hu Xinshui, the commander of Shandong, oh yes, this person was still the general of the king of Pingxi two months ago." ”

"Huh? This! "Ning Wan and the three of us were hit by a critical attack again.

This situation was something they never expected.

"Lord Regent, is the situation that Lord Baiyintu said reliable?"

"Baiyintu captured several groups of messengers sent by Licheng alive, and the confessions they got were the same, and there were also many squires in Jinan Mansion who took refuge in the Qing Dynasty, and they said the same thing to Baiyintu, do you say it is credible or not?"

Dolgon's tone was already very unkind, and Hong Chengchou, who raised the question, did not dare to say anything more.

Fan Wencheng said: "So Chongzhen has returned to Nanjing? Then it will be tricky to pacify Jiangnan. ”

"Don't talk about Jiangnan now." Dolgon was already a little impatient, "Let's take down Shanxi and Shandong provinces first, and then talk about anything else." ”

Fan Wencheng immediately did not dare to mention the topic of Jiangnan.

Because he had already seen that Dolgon had the idea of being rich and peaceful, thinking that he could destroy the thieves and be satisfied with the Ming Dynasty by rowing the Yellow River to rule him.

Ning Wan said: "Shandong and Shanxi are not only the two wings of Beijing, but also these two provinces, one produces grain and the other has money, which is indispensable for my Qing Dynasty, so I must take it down at all costs." ”

"You don't need to say this again." Dorgon was even more impatient, "The question now is how to take the two provinces?" ”

"I'm afraid we can only send reinforcements." Ning Wan said, "Fortunately, now that the rebellion in the entire Beizhi has basically subsided, my Eight Banners elite can already free up their hands to rush to help Shanxi and Shandong." ”

"How many reinforcements are you going to send?" Dolgon's face was gloomy.

"At least we have to send an additional flag to Shanxi and Shandong provinces." Hong Chengchou thought for a while and said, "In addition, there must be a considerable number of Eight Banners Han Army and Eight Banners Mongolia, otherwise it may not be enough to break the situation." ”

"It's impossible, don't even think about sending an extra flag." Dolgon vetoed it outright.

Dolgon actually had his difficulties, and his difficulty was that a considerable number of the Eight Banners nobles, including his brother Azig, who was a fellow mother, insisted on carrying out a wave of complete looting of Beizhi, and then returned to Guanwai and Shengjing with goods, livestock, women and children.

For more than a month, many nobles have been clamoring to go home.

After being away from home for two months, these Eight Banners nobles missed the women and children in the family.

Therefore, if you want to dispatch an army of more than two flags now, you can't do it at all.

Fan Wencheng said: "Then two Jiala will be drawn from the inlaid white flag and the Zhenghuang flag, and then twenty Niu Lu will be drawn from the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Eight Banners Han Army, and they will rush to Shanxi and Shandong respectively. ”

After weighing for a moment, Dolgon said: "There are many former Ming generals in Shanxi who rebelled, and they all asked for help from my Qing Dynasty, my Qing Dynasty can't ignore it, so let He Luo Hui take the two Jiala with white flags to help, and then draw ten Niu Lu from the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Eight Banners Han Army to him, these troops should be enough, as for the Shandong side, ......"

"Regent, Shandong can't give up." Hong Chengchou immediately became anxious when he heard this.

"Forget it." Dolgon didn't have a good breath and said, "Haven't you Han people always paid attention to being famous for their teachers? Since the Ming Dynasty has pacified Shandong, my Qing Dynasty sent troops to attack the Dynasty, isn't it a reversal of word and no faith? I'm afraid this is not a moral act. ”

"Ahh Hong Chengchou was dumbfounded.

After thinking about it, Dolgon said: "In this way, from among the former Ming Wenchens who surrendered, choose a man who can speak well and send him to Nanjing, and tell Emperor Chongzhen that I want to reconcile with the Ming Dynasty, and the two countries will become brotherly states, and my Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty is still young, and he can use his brotherhood to serve him, and the territory of the two countries will be bounded by the Yellow River, and the Ming Dynasty will give the whole province of Shandong north of the Yellow River, the Huai'an Mansion in the south, and the Weihui Mansion and Huaiqing Mansion in Henan to my Qing Dynasty, and my Qing Dynasty should also send troops to assist the Ming Dynasty to destroy the thieves." ”

Good fellow, Dolgon wants to take Shandong without spending a sword and soldier, and directly rely on an envoy.

Hong Chengchou was a little disapproving: "Chen Su knows that Chongzhen is a person, and he has the best face, not to mention giving up a province for no reason, even if it is a hundred miles of land, he will not will." ”

Dolgon was stunned: "Then my Qing army will be famous." ”

There is another sentence that Dolgon didn't say, by that time, Da Yuer had already taken Xiao Shunzhi into the customs, and hundreds of thousands of Manchurian dependents and Baoyi in Shengjing had also entered the customs, and the nobles of the Eight Banners would no longer make trouble to return to Shengjing, and he would have the ability to mobilize all the troops of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and at the same time launch a war of annihilation against the puppet Shun and Nanming.

Of course, if Chongzhen knows each other, he might as well let him be the emperor for a few more years, and they can unite with Nanming to destroy the pseudo-shun first, and then free up their hands to destroy Nanming.