In August of the second year of Guangzhong, Lin Maomao and other candidates for female officers set off from Yangzhou under the escort of Shun soldiers. When they took a boat along the canal to Xuzhou, they heard that the Ersheng chariot driver had left Kaifeng and headed for Shaanxi together.
News about ancestor worship in the north.
There are rumors on the road that Li Guo, Li Laiheng and his son are going back to their hometown in Mizhi to worship their ancestors. The Yan'an area, which has been renamed Tianbaofu, is also working day and night to build a monastery and a cemetery for this grand ceremony.
However, Chang'an was still in the hands of Qin Ni's Western invaders. It was about 1,180 miles from Chang'an to Mizhi, and many other prefectures and counties along the way were under the control of Sun Kewang.
Hearing that Emperor Guangzhong Li Guo was in very poor health, Lin Maomao thought that if the emperor and the governor went to northern Shaanxi under such circumstances, the situation in the northwest must have changed.
She is very smart and is a good candidate for a female official.
The development of things was probably not as expected by Lin Maomao. Since the Shun army defeated Dorgon in Xuzhou in the late spring of last year, the Qing army led by Wu Sangui and Duoduo in the northwest region no longer had a good atmosphere.
Although Duduo shot Zhang Xianzhong to death, Wu Sangui had no other option due to internal and external troubles. In the end, under the attack of the Shun Army and the Ximing Army, he could only tie up Duduo and surrender——
Wu Sangui also worshiped Sun Kewang, who was ten years younger than him, as his adoptive father and changed his name to Sun Sangui. It is said that he was initially named King Xie by Sun Kewang. Later, after the Western Ming Army captured Chang'an, Sun Kewang blamed Sun Sangui for failing to prevent Duduo from shooting Zhang Xianzhong to death.
For this reason, Sun Sangui was demoted from the royal title and was renamed Dingtianxie.
This title with a strange name is said to be a new word invented by Zhang Xianzhong one time when he dreamed of Heavenly Father and granted Heavenly Father’s will.
Sun Kewang achieved a very prominent position among the four generals of the Western Ming Dynasty as the leader of the alliance by forcing the remaining Qing troops to surrender and by supporting the Young Heavenly King.
From then on, the Western Ming Dynasty formed a power structure in which the Ming Emperor worshiped Sheji, the Heavenly King enjoyed the country, and the Eastern King held power.
After Sun Kewang occupied Chang'an, he once sent Ai Nengqi to attack Tongguan. He, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and others led the troops northward, preparing to regain Yan'an, the hometown of most of the old brothers in Xiying.
However, Gao Yigong, the Shunjun rear guard who was responsible for the defense of Tongguan, defeated Ai Nengqi who came to invade without any suspense.
At that time, a meeting of ministers was being held in Taiyuan to discuss whether to take advantage of the Northern Expedition to Liaodong to move the capital of Dashun to Beijing. Li Guo, Li Laiheng and his son, after learning that Sun Kewang had led troops to invade northern Shaanxi, immediately crossed the river from Shanxi and led the troops in person.
Protect the Tenpofu.
Governor Li Laiheng led the central army, the right army of the palace and the Qing army to surrender, with a total of about 80,000 troops. They once again pursued Sun Kewang to Yezhu Ridge and intercepted him, reenacting the scene where he and Dorgon had sworn an oath of confrontation.
Sun Kewang soon discovered that the Shun Army was well prepared and that the army was gathering in northern Shaanxi. Li Dingguo also reported to him that Sun Sangui's surrender troops were ready to move, and the Shun Army guerrilla troops Mi Layin and other units operating in Gansu were also reporting to him.
Longyou launched a massive attack.
Sun Kewang weighed the pros and cons, said hello to Li Laiheng at the foot of Yezhu Ridge, asked the Shun army to allow the Ximing envoys to go to Yan'an to worship their ancestors, and asked Li Laiheng to protect Zhang Xianzhong's grave at Sangzi on behalf of the Ximing generals.
Li Laiheng considered that after the Xuzhou War, the main task of the Shun Army was to completely wipe out the remaining forces of the Qing Dynasty. He had no intention of starting a war with Sun Kewang immediately, so he agreed to Xi Ming's request.
The two reached a gentleman's agreement at the foot of Yezhu Ridge. The Shun army agreed that Sun Kewang would occupy Chang'an, Hanzhong and Weinan, while the Western Ming Dynasty could not invade northern Shaanxi, nor could it develop into Gansu and compete with the Dashun army for territory.
By the winter of the first year of Guangzhong, Milayin had successively regained Ganzhou and other places, connecting the Hexi Corridor with Ningxia and Qingyang. Li Laiheng then decided to mobilize troops in the coming year on the grounds of holding an ancestor worship ceremony.
In the Hetao area, redeploy the northwest situation.
The ancestral tombs of Li Zicheng, Li Guo's family, and Li Laiheng's family are all located in the peripheral areas of northern Shaanxi. After the abandonment of the Hetao in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Mongolian cavalry raided and plundered the area.
If the Hetao area is left alone like the Ming Dynasty, then the Longxing area of Dashun will be under the threat of the Mongolian nomadic tribes for a long time. Even some small tribes with no more than a few hundred tents can be easily killed.
Near the Mizhi ancestral mausoleum in Dashun, people were burned, killed and looted.
Just like Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to Fengyang, even though Li Laiheng himself did not have a strong sense of blood or region, most of the civil and military officials of the Dashun Manchu Dynasty were native to Shaanxi, and the founding fathers were mostly from Yan'an Prefecture in northern Shaanxi.
These nobles will never accept:
My hometown has always been under the threat of the Mongols, and was frequently set on fire, killed, and robbed by some small tribes.
Li Laiheng's redeployment to the northwest received strong support from the particularly powerful "Qin Party" faction in the Dashun regime.
In the spring of the second year of Guangzhong, Liu Fangliang commanded the Dashundian left army to restore Yongping and Shanhaiguan. In April, he sent troops out of the customs and recovered the Ningyuan Guard, which had been abandoned by the Qing army. He then left troops here to garrison and renovate it.
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The army was gradually mobilized to Yulin and Ningxia, preparing to launch a counterattack against the Mongolian Tumote tribe entrenched in the Hetao in accordance with the requirements and deployment of the supervisory country, so as to ensure the safety of Dashun Longxing - in short, to the people who started in northern Shaanxi.
From a North Korean perspective, the Loop is an important piece of land that must be secured no matter what.
"Anyone among the ministers who dares to say anything about abandoning the trap is trying to make Gu abandon the land of his ancestors. He is treasonous and unethical and should be executed."
Futao is one of the political correctnesses of the Shun Dynasty; and in the future, in order to ensure the safety of the Hetao, it will inevitably become a natural political correctness to expand westward.
In Li Laiheng's life, there were countless marches, and this one especially made him feel happy and excited. In fact, this was not a march, but a grand trip; it was not an ordinary trip, but as the founding king and the new king of the country.
The Crown Prince went back to his hometown to pay homage to his ancestors.
The day of departure was an auspicious day chosen by Gong Zhen, the Minister of Rite Government. On that day, Fang Yiren, Gu Junen, Guo Junzhen, Liu Fangliang and other civil and military officials all went to Mizhi with the imperial driver.
Then Li Guo, who was seriously ill, rode on a docile old horse, and Li Laiheng rode a fast horse in front to guide them. The father and son led a number of accompanying civil and military personnel and more than 10,000 soldiers to set off for the hometown of Li Zicheng and Li Laiheng.
At every prefecture and county along the way, the people gathered in groups to worship Dao Zuo, shouting "Long live" with a sound like thunder. Fang Yiren took the lead in preparing silver coins and distributed them along the way to help the poor. When the team passed Suide, they walked on the road.
On the last eighty miles to Mizhi, more than ten thousand soldiers were shouting with golden drums, their armor was shining, and their flags were like clouds.
After hearing the news, the people came to welcome the old and the young. Many old people held incense in their hands and knelt on the ground, thinking that an emperor of peace had emerged from Yan'an. After the founding of the country, the rule of the world was finally coming. After more than ten years, The situation of hell on earth in Shaanxi has finally come to an end. Thinking of this, I can’t help but burst into tears with excitement.
Li Laiheng was also so excited that he took his two concubines, Luo Yanqing and Liu Youci, back to their hometown in Mizhi. Uncle Qing Li Changqing and the general Li Shiwei, who among the villagers had a high status in the Shun Dynasty, also accompanied them.
He was thinking a lot, sometimes thinking about the past when he was beaten severely by officers and soldiers when he was a civilian husband in Zhuxi County, sometimes thinking about the strategic years when he and Fang Yiren went south to Suizhou, and sometimes thinking about the glorious achievements he had made in the past few years since he went north to fight against the Qing Dynasty.
In the end, what Li Laiheng thought about most was his various plans and blueprints for the world.
"The Manchu Qing Dynasty has been wiped out...but this is just the beginning. It reaches the New World in the east, the most prosperous territory of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in the west, and even the extreme west where Gao Xianzhi once visited, reaching the Ice Ocean in the north, and opening up to the south The mainland, such a vast world, still awaits the struggle of a single person.
It's all just beginning!
I want to govern Dashun into Huang Taiji, an ideal country that Dorgon could not even imagine. Just look at it, I, Dashun, should be far better than the Qing Dynasty."