Chapter 51 Everyone is upright and the court is prosperous
Just when Chongzhen was integrating the southern half of the Yangtze River as quickly as possible and concentrating all his efforts on building the Huanghuai defense line, Dorgon, who had just entered Beijing, was not idle either. He issued a decree to shave off his troops two days ago.
It means forcing the Han people to shave their money-rat tails like the Manchus.
Jiannu's obsession with hairstyle and clothing comes from a serious lack of security.
Because the slave population was too small, they were very concerned about whether the Han people they conquered really surrendered.
At that time, because the Han people were unwilling to surrender sincerely, the old slaves launched a mass killing in Liaodong, killing more than two million Han people until only about 200,000 Baoyi were left.
The criteria used by Jiannu to judge whether the Han people sincerely surrendered were also simple and crude.
If you are willing to shave your hair and become more submissive, you are truly surrendering; if you are not willing, you are not truly surrendering.
Ever since Lao Nu raised his troops, Jian Nu has been resolutely carrying out the order of shaving his hair.
However, after entering Beijing, Dorgon listened to the advice of Han officials such as Hong Chengchou and Fan Wencheng. In order to win the approval of the Beizhi officials and the Ming army in the border towns, he suspended the execution of the hair-cutting order.
The effect of doing this is also extremely significant, depending on the entire North Direct Communication.
But within a few days, Dorgon had another recurrence and felt that he still needed to shave his hair.
As a result, as soon as the hair-cutting order was issued, many state capitals that had "surrendered" began to rebel again.
Regarding the rebellion of Beizhi officials, gentry and common people, Dorgon had one reaction - resolutely sent troops to suppress it!
So the infantry, vest, red and even white-tooth soldiers of the Eight Banners Manchuria were dispatched one after another to brutally suppress the rebellious Han officials, gentry and people, and took the opportunity to loot.
This is actually Dorgon's real intention, to grab grain!
The food reserves of the Jiannu were barely enough for themselves, but now there were suddenly so many surrendered troops from Dashun, as well as the demoted troops from the Ming Dynasty. The pressure suddenly doubled, so they had to find a way to get some food.
As soon as Dorgon thought about it, blood flowed in the capital.
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Let’s talk about Yangzhou.
The court test has ended, and the four prime ministers and assistants of the cabinet have been freshly appointed and have begun to govern the country. However, Prince Fu Zhu Yousong and the Nanjing nobles headed by Wei Guogong Xu Hongji who arrived one after another are still waiting outside the palace.
Among them, Zhu Yousong and Chengyibo Liu Kongzhao were the most worried.
Liu Kongzhao was really filled with regret. If he had known that Chongzhen was not dead yet, even if he was beaten to death, he would not have dared to do this and forced the Donglin Party members to support Zhu Yousong. Now that it was over, Chongzhen would definitely settle the score in the future.
Zhu Yousong, Liu Kongzhao and other Nanjing dignitaries waited until dusk when they finally saw Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang and other Nanjing officials coming out of the carriage surrounded by Shi Kefa and Meng Zhaoxiang, the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment in Beijing.
You can vaguely hear officials saying that this time the people are in full swing, and there is hope for the Ming Dynasty to be revived.
Liu Kongzhao didn't care about etiquette at this moment, and rushed directly in front of Zhu Yousong, blocking Shi Kefa's path.
However, he did not dare to be as domineering as before, but instead he was a little servile: "Da Sima, is this the end of the court push? You must have got what you wanted, right? Chief Minister of the Cabinet?"
Shi Kefa frowned and said, "Uncle Chengyi, are you okay?"
Behind Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang and others also looked at him with disdain.
The state machinery was restored, and the status of nobles was rapidly declining at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Liu Kongzhao's smile became even more humble: "How is the holy dragon body? Are you tired?"
Shi Kefa smiled and said: "It's better to wait until the Holy Spirit summons you, and Uncle Chengyi will greet you in person."
After saying that, Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu and others surrounded Meng Zhaoxiang and walked away. Not only did they not give face to Liu Kongzhao, they also did not give face to Xu Hongji and Zhu Yousong.
Zhu Yousong tasted the coolness of the world again.
Just one night later, he was once again ignored.
The vassal king of the Ming Dynasty is really not a human being. Is it okay if I don’t want to be the vassal king?
But Zhu Yousong only dared to think about this, and he would never dare to say it.
All the civil servants left, leaving only Zhu Yousong and a group of nobles outside the camp. They waited and waited. When it was already dark, the troops in the camp were all leaving one after another, but the emperor had not yet summoned them.
Finally, Zhu Yousong and the nobles finally saw an acquaintance, Jingnan Bohuang Degong.
At that time, Huang Degong was leading a team of servants and escorting more than a dozen officers out of the camp gate.
Then with an order, more than a dozen officers fell to the ground, and Zhu Yousong and others fell into silence.
"Prince Fu? Duke Wei?" Huang Degong finally saw Zhu Yousong and the others, walked up to him and asked, "Why are you still here? Haven't you returned to Nanjing yet?"
Zhu Yousong smiled bitterly and said: "The Holy One has not yet summoned me, so I dare not return."
"Your Majesty?" Huang Degong was stunned for a moment and said, "Your Majesty has already left Yangzhou by water, and I'm afraid he has already passed Shao Bo Town."
"Ah?" Zhu Yousong was stunned.
Liu Kongzhao, Xu Hongji and others also looked at each other.
The Holy Spirit left without even seeing us?
Your Majesty doesn't want to see me and other nobles in the clan?
Liu Kongzhao refused to give up and asked again: "Did the Holy One leave a message?"
"No." Huang Degong shook his head and said, "Everyone, please take the lead in the military affairs of this town."
After a while, Huang Degong set off with the last group of Ming troops. The tents, camp gates and watchtowers were also dismantled and put on donkey carts or horse-drawn carriages to be taken away.
All that was left was a mess.
There are also the stunned Zhu Yousong and the nobles.
Although it was already early May and he was wearing warm brocade fur coats, Zhu Yousong and the nobles in Nanjing still felt waves of chill.
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Chongzhen didn't mean to snub or beat Zhu Yousong and the others.
He really didn't have time to pay attention to these rice bugs, he had to rush to Huai'an Mansion.
As a time traveler, Chongzhen clearly knew the next direction of history.
It is now the sixth day of May. In the next month, the officials and gentry of Shandong, Shanxi and Henan provinces, as well as the Ming army that originally surrendered to Dashun, launched rebellions one after another. The newly established local government of Dashun will soon fall apart.
Historically, Nanming had just been founded and was engaged in fierce party struggles, so it had no time to visit the north.
As a result, Jiannu took a huge advantage and only sent two partial armies with less than 10,000 people, and the two provinces of Shanxi and Shandong decided.
Then a partial division of Jiannu will advance along the canal to the north bank of the Yellow River.
By early October this year, Fulinhui was brought to Beijing by Dorgon to ascend the throne.
In the same month, Jiannu divided his troops into two groups, one led by Azig, passing through Datong via Tumote Mongolia, and then invaded northern Shaanxi from the direction of Yulin, with the intention of wiping out the Dashun army.
The other group, led by Duduo, went south along the canal with the intention of attacking Nanming.
In other words, it only takes five months to complete the attack, and he still has five months to build the Huanghuai defense line.
Of course, it is not Chongzhen's style to just be beaten without fighting back. If there is enough time, he will send powerful ministers and even a small number of elite troops into Shandong. Even if he still cannot win against Jiannu in the end, at least he cannot let Jiannu win with just two partial armies.
It must at least create some trouble for the Jiannu slaves.
Forget it about Shanxi and leave it to Li Zicheng.
Therefore, it is possible that in less than five months, the slaves will go south in advance.
Because the Ming army carried out extensive construction and construction of walled cities and fortresses along the Huanghuai River, it would definitely attract the attention of the Jiannu slaves. The Ming Dynasty's actions in Shandong and even Shanxi would also inevitably attract the counterattack of the Jiannu slaves.
To sum up, it is very likely that the slave-building army will move south in advance.
Therefore, we must seize the time to build the Huanghuai defense line, otherwise things will change if it is too late.
Some people will say that it is feasible not to stimulate the establishment of slaves. The establishment of slaves will first attack the Dashun Army.
In fact, Shi Kefa and Gao Hongtu really hoped that Chongzhen would be laid to rest and stay in Nanjing to be the emperor, leaving the government affairs to the cabinet and the military affairs to Huang Degong, Zuo Liangyu, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing. If they feel that
If you don't have a minister anymore, you can inspect the Imperial College and take a stroll along the Qinhuai River.
Or simply choose a wave of beautiful girls in Nanzhili and create a prince as soon as possible.
In fact, Chongzhen didn't have to work so hard. According to the original trajectory, there is a high probability that Duduo's army would still be attracted by the bandits and attack Tongguan instead.
In this way, Ming Dynasty can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
But the question is, what happened after the Dashun army was destroyed by Jiannu?
Only the southern half of the Yangtze River is left to face the front of the Jiannu soldiers alone?
No, it's not enough to face Jiannu alone, you also have to face the attack of Dashun Army.
Because after the Dashun Army withdraws from Shaanxi, it will move south along the Yangtze River to attack Wuchang.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty will be one against two, facing Jiannu and the Dashun army at the same time, and death will be inevitable.
Therefore, Chongzhen had no other choice but to seize the time to build the Huanghuai defense line as soon as possible and seek Shandong.
Of course, there are two things that need to be done before that, which is to eradicate Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing. If these two cancers are not eradicated, they will leave great hidden dangers.
Among them, Liu Liangzuo left it to Huang Degong to solve it.
Huang Degong's strength has greatly increased after annexing Gao Jie's 10,000 pro-army troops. As long as no major accidents occur, there will be no suspense in suppressing Liu Liangzuo.
Because Liu Liangzuo didn't have the skills to fight like Huang Degong, his strength was far inferior to Huang Degong.
Liu Zeqing, on the other hand, was dealt with by Chongzhen himself, still with only a thousand Yiding.
The good news is that as the news of Chongzhen's southern tour of the prefecture spread and the cabinet was rebuilt, the chaos and disorder in the southern half of the Yangtze River was quickly restored, and order was quickly restored in the officialdom.
Once order in the officialdom is restored, warlords like Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo will lose room for development, and their subordinates may even become disloyal. Not everyone is willing to become a rebel.
The bad news is that there is no way to conduct a surprise attack on Liu Zeqing like Gao Jie did.
There is no doubt that Liu Zeqing must be paying close attention to the movements of the other three towns. Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo and Huang Degong must be his key monitoring targets, so it is difficult to hide what happened in Yangzhou from his eyes.
If nothing else, Liu Zeqing will soon know everything that happened in Yangzhou.
However, Chongzhen had already made up his mind about this, and Liu Zeqing could not make any waves.
Facing the true imperial power, Liu Zeqing would not have the slightest chance to resist.
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