Chapter 32: The National Fortune of Manchuria is Coming Soon
"Dorgon's implementation of the hair-cutting order brought about his own destruction. The fate of the Manchu people will soon be over!"
When the news of Dorgon's hair-cutting order spread from Beijing to Kaifeng, Li Laiheng finally took action, and the time for the Dashun Army to counterattack was not far away.
The Qing army's order to shave their heads was not limited to shaving their hair and changing clothes. Although the Manchus had won the Battle of Huolu and Dorgon occupied most of Shaanxi with lightning speed, the Qing army in the north had
The actual rule is not yet consolidated.
Dorgon issued the order to shave his hair, which was a helpless move.
Since the Dashun Army captured Xuzhou, water transportation from the north to the south has been cut off for a long time, and the grain shortage in Beijing has become worse day by day. Although the areas newly occupied by the Qing Army were many and wide, they were not important grain-producing areas in the Ming Dynasty, and there was no way to relieve the Qing Dynasty.
The army is facing an increasingly critical food crisis.
Under such urgent circumstances, Dorgon, who had just arrested Hauge who had fled Beijing and became the regent, had to urgently introduce some policies to save and control food.
But a good woman cannot make a meal without rice. These measures can only cure the symptoms but not the root cause. Moreover, Dorgon has just arrested Hauge, and the hearts of the people within the Eight Banners are wavering. In order to win over the hearts of the Manchu clan dignitaries, he also expressed his opposition to defecting to the Rui Party.
The Manchu nobles generously rewarded them, and in fact they themselves took the lead in destroying the various bans on food and supplies that had just been introduced.
Under such circumstances, Dorgon finally adopted Fan Wencheng's suggestion and decided to use the hair-cutting order as an excuse to confiscate the property of the northern gentry on a large scale. He raised a butcher's knife high against these foolish officials and gentry, confiscated their property, and seized
The large amount of grain stored in his cellar was used to supplement military supplies for the next step of crossing the Yellow River south.
Originally, since the Qing army entered the Beijing area, due to the brutality of the Manchu Eight Banners soldiers and the rise of the Dashun regime in the Central Plains, many refugees and hungry people had fled from the north into the Dashun-controlled area.
After Dorgon issued an order to shave off their hair in Beijing, not only the refugees, but also the refugees fled south to Shun. Even the gentry families of the middle class and above also had many people fleeing south to protect their hair.
Their first wish was of course to escape into the area controlled by the Nandu regime, but the occupied area of Dashun completely separated the areas controlled by the Qing army from the areas controlled by the Nandu regime.
Therefore, these officials and gentry who had fled south could only reluctantly enter Dashun. Their ancestral homes and properties left in the north would naturally be mercilessly confiscated by Dorgon, and this would further intensify and deepen the situation.
The hatred between these people and the Qing army made them human resources that could be utilized and mobilized by the Dashun army.
What pleased Li Laiheng the most was that Chen Zilong and Zhang Jiayu also successfully escaped from Beijing to Kaifeng under the protection of Chu Chuanghong Team official Li Yuan.
These two men lurked in the capital and presided over Chu Chuang's intelligence agency in Beijing. They made many achievements, and their achievements were no less than any general with outstanding military exploits.
In order to welcome the two of them back to Bian, Li Laiheng personally took brothers Fang Yiren and Fang Yizhi to Chenqiao to welcome them. He also brought many important civil and military officials from Dashun to welcome them. This was not only a reward for Chen Zhang's contribution, but also a reflection of his respect for the gentry coming from the north.
Welcome.
Fang Yizhi and Chen Zilong had been separated for a long time. When they reunited, they were overjoyed and cried bitterly:
"I didn't expect to see my brother here again!"
Chen Zilong touched his crown hair in shame and said: "If I hadn't cherished these few hairs, I shouldn't have continued to stay in Beijing to deliver information to His Highness."
"No problem!"
Li Laiheng said calmly: "Dorgon brought about his own destruction, and there is no need for your ministers to cut off their hair between the ten months and ten months of the lone general's hunt for his head."
Zhang Jiayu had never had direct contact with the civil and military ministers of Dashun, let alone what kind of person Li Laiheng, the king of Jin, was. After he fled from Beijing to Daming Mansion, he had already roughly understood the current situation of Dashun's senior officials.
Li Zicheng had died in the battle of Huolu, and Li Guo proclaimed himself emperor, with the title of Guangzhong. However, the actual military and political power of the Dashun regime was in the hands of the extremely young King of Jin Li Laiheng.
Of course, Zhang Jiayu was extremely curious about Li Laiheng.
Upon first meeting, Zhang Jiayu was even more heartbroken by the demeanor of King Jin:
He saw Li Laiheng simply wearing a sky-blue arrow jacket worn by ordinary soldiers and a Fanyang felt hat on his head. The only special thing about him was a thin red cloak.
The King of Jin's clothes were so simple, and his support was also extremely simple. As the Crown Prince of the Supervisory State, he did not even use the yellow cap. There was only a soldier beside him holding up a banner with the words "Prince of the Supervisory State" written on it.
It's just a yellow flag with the word "李" written on it.
Li Laiheng stepped forward in person, held Zhang Jiayu's arm and said with a smile:
"Dorgon's order to shave his hair was to drive fish out of the abyss, causing countless people to rush towards the land of Dashun. But I am not happy to win people, but to win scholars. If we are all people with lofty ideals that are rare in the world,
How can we not pacify the sea with just one or two people?"
Li Laiheng's fame-seeking and pretentiousness made Fang Yiren on the side feel chills on his back, but he also had to admit that the set of words he had taught Li Laiheng for a long time was indeed very useful to a young and naive northern scholar like Zhang Jiayu.
Attractive.
Zhang Jiayu knelt down and said enthusiastically: "Today I know how heroic a pioneering hero is!"
Li Laiheng said with a smile: "Gu is not the founder of Dashun, please stop talking nonsense. The founder of Dashun is actually Gu's ancestor, his father. Gu inherits the achievements of his father and ancestors, and only then can we have the land and people we have today."
Li Laiheng also said: "I heard that one of the bad policies of the Ming Dynasty was the eunuchs. As Gu's ancestor, his father did not like the eunuchs' government. Gu did not use eunuchs. There were only some female officials for the palace. Therefore, the ceremonial guards were simple, about
It will make the scholars from the north laugh."
Li Laiheng mentioned that Dashun had completely abolished the eunuch administration. This fact certainly made many scholars feel proud, because the struggle between eunuchs and civil servants in the Ming Dynasty for many years was a major line of struggle in the court.
Dashun abolished the positions of all eunuchs and replaced them with female officials, which made even some civil servants who were devoted to the Ming Dynasty feel that it was quite the style of the new dynasty.
But Zhang Jiayu felt strange in his heart. After all, although eunuchs were hated and hated by civil servants, they were indeed an ancient system. If the emperor did not have eunuchs as internal officials, how could he control the palace and check and balance the ministers? A series of questions immediately arose in his mind.
But I felt that this was not the right time to say it, so I just knelt down and thanked him repeatedly.
These scholars abandoned the Qing Dynasty and surrendered, and they still had the slightest bit of backbone. Li Laiheng also knew that even though the Qing court had issued an order to shave their heads, and Dorgon was still tightening control over the Ming Dynasty courtiers, it was said that Chongzhen
His son, Emperor Tongzhi Zhu Cixiang, was also tightly controlled by the plot. Except for the Manchus, even the chief ministers of the Ming Dynasty could not see him.
The Ming court was accelerating the demise of places in name only, but in fact there were still many gentry who would rather shave their heads and submit to the throne than give up their ancestral homes and properties - these properties were indeed more important to them than their lives and reputations.
After all, even if they fled south to Dashun, they all know that Dashun pursues the strategy of torture, looting and recovering stolen goods, so why don't they also peel off a few layers of your skin!
However, Li Laiheng didn't take it seriously. Dorgon's drive to drive fish in Yuan was just an unexpected surprise. He would never change Dashun's established policy just because of the arrival of these northern scholars. Instead, he would only use the opportunity of the Qing government's promulgation of the hair-cutting order to speed up the plan.
Promote strict new farming laws in Henan and Shandong provinces.
Bai Wang has already arrived in Kaifeng, and he has long been appointed by Li Laiheng as the Secretary of the Household Government. The Yingtian Division, which was originally responsible for implementing the camp system, was upgraded to the Yingtian Yuan, and Bai Wang also served as the president of the Yingtian Yuan.