At the Ming army camp, nearby people came with sheep and wine to greet the king. In the past six months, the people near Nanjing have been in dire straits.
When Hongguang built the palace, the people near Nanjing thought they would have a stable life. Who knew that Hongguang drafted women to build the palace, and the people nearby were tortured and harmed a lot. When the Qing army came, Nanjing's famous officials and officials surrendered, and they were spared.
To avoid the calamity of swordsmanship.
When Duduo was still in Nanjing, it was relatively stable. However, when he later ordered to shave his hair, the people resisted and uprisings broke out in many places. However, under the force of the Tatars, the matter was finally suppressed.
, only a small number of people are still resisting.
Most people have become obedient citizens, just hoping to continue to live a stable life.
But who would have thought that instead of having a stable life after shaving, it would be a more difficult life. Because King Lu raised a flag, ascended the throne to supervise the country, and called for rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, chaos broke out in Jiangnan, and soon spread to Jiangning. First, the grain requisition faction
Pay, and then increase the payment layer upon layer.
I thought it was just for a while, but who knew it would be endless.
The people suffered terribly. The Qing army reorganized the Green Camp and launched numerous mutinies and rebellions, which made the people suffer even more.
After the war, the people no longer have a stable life for a day, and everyone begins to miss the days under the Ming Dynasty. After all the hardships, they are not as hard as this.
Now I heard that the prison army was invincible and surrounded Nanjing, so everyone came to greet and express condolences. People from all over the country collected some money, food and drinks to come. Many people even actively came to sign up for the army, and some were willing to serve as soldiers.
Guide, willing to wait for the eyeliner.
Everyone has only one appeal. I hope that the Jianguo can capture Nanjing as soon as possible and restore peace, so that everyone can live in peace for a few days. If we continue to go through this trouble, we really can't survive.
This autumn, as soon as the grain was harvested, the Qing troops went to the countryside to rob almost all of it.
For these enthusiastic villagers, Zhu Yihai still let the officers receive them very politely, and basically accepted all the money, food, drinks, etc. they sent.
However, for these young people who came to join the army, the imperial camp was confiscated. They only sent officers to help set up some rural regiments, gave them some weapons, and took advantage of the opportunity to help them train.
Zhu Yihai has already made arrangements to divide his troops into three groups before, and is currently making preparations. The troops will be divided soon, to go to Zhenjiang and Changsu, and to go to Anhui Taiping. Now he has some local regiments. After the troops are divided, they can also take on some tasks.
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"Your Highness, Qian Qianyi is out of the city."
"Call."
The last emissary, Chen Hongfan, was cut a thousand times in front of Yifeng Gate, and he wailed for a long time before dying.
Chen is the deputy envoy and Qian is the chief envoy.
However, few people know about Qian Qianyi's secret communication with Zhu Yihai.
Many people shouted that they wanted to chop Qian Qianyi into pieces as well.
Qian Qianyi didn't come alone, he came out with a convoy.
When they met, he first presented the gift list, and then the royal letter.
One million taels of silver, all newly plundered from the city of Nanjing, were melted overnight into snowflake silver, a total of one million taels, all of which were large silver ingots of 50 taels and 20,000 ingots.
There are also one hundred thousand taels of gold, which are made into gold ingots.
Ten thousand bolts of silk and twenty thousand bolts of cloth.
There was also a cart full of jewelry, jade, etc., and even ten beauties were sent.
Zhu Yihai met Qian Qianyi for the first time. This leader of Donglin, whose water was too cold and his head was itchy, looked really elegant.
Zhu Yihai used to be disdainful of Qian Qianyi, but since he took the initiative and continuously reported information about the Tatars, Zhu Yihai's impression of him has changed slightly.
However, I still feel that Qian belongs to that kind of complex person. Generally speaking, this person's bones are a bit soft. He can't do it if he is asked to sacrifice his life for justice. However, surrendering and rebelling will have some psychological barriers that cannot be overcome, so
I was in a dilemma and was very tangled.
After all, people like Qian Qianyi cherish their feathers and care about their reputation. His ability to become the leader of Donglin, the master of poetry, is inseparable from his good reputation.
But, he is not the kind of person with moral obsessiveness, but the kind of person who can be flexible, just like when he married Liu Rushi as a wife, he was willing to go out of his way to get the beauty he embraced.
This kind of person is very complicated.
If you are just making friends, you cannot treat this kind of person as a confidant, but as a prisoner, you have to accept such a person, just like he accepted Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng.
As long as it is beneficial to the country and to others, such people should be used.
Of course, Qian Qianyi is still visiting as an envoy of the Qing Dynasty.
His current official status is the Minister of the Ministry of Rites of the Qing Dynasty, a bachelor of the Internal Secretariat, and the envoy of the Southern Mission.
"Chen Hongfan sent Gu one million taels of silver, but Gu was too late to kill him with a thousand swords. Now that you are here to send gold and silver, aren't you afraid that Gu will kill you too?"
Qian Qianyi stood in the big tent, very calm and calm. He glanced at everyone in the tent. There were many familiar old faces here, and even many former Donglin comrades and juniors.
"I'm here to negotiate peace with the Jianguo. Although the Jianguo has gained a temporary advantage, the Jianguo has not yet stabilized its foundation. If we continue to fight, even if we can capture the city of Nanjing, it won't be able to hold it."
"So it would be better to have a good peace talk and come up with friendly terms that are acceptable to both countries. When the two countries cease fighting and turn their hostilities into friendship, the supervisory country can safely govern the south of the Yangtze River, and we, the Qing Dynasty, can safely guard the north of the Yangtze River and not invade each other.
Isn’t it good?”
"Our sincerity is very great. After the regent asked the Qing emperor for instructions, he received permission to return all the south of the Yangtze River to the Ming Dynasty, and the north of the Yangtze River to the Qing Dynasty. From now on, it will be governed across the river, so that the water from the well will not interfere with the water of the river.
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"What are your plans, Your Highness?"
Privately, in the tent, only the emperor and his ministers played the match.
Qian Qianyi asked Zhu Yihai about his future plans.
Zhu Yihai poured him a cup of tea, thanked him in person for the valuable information he sent, and said with a smile, "I heard that Dorgon in Beijing is not having a good life now?"
"Well, that's true." Qian Qianyi thanked him and took the teacup with both hands. "Before the Qing army entered the pass, Dorgon asked his two brothers, Duduo and Azige, to lead the southern expedition respectively, sweeping away Li Zicheng and
King Fu, this greatly increased Dorgon's prestige. He also took the opportunity to give Hauge's Zhenglan flag to Duduo. Dorgon directly took over the two white flags. The brothers occupied three of the eight flags. They had strong soldiers and horses and were the most powerful.
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This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "He also used the excuse that the emperor was young and did not personally govern, and the regent took charge of government affairs on his behalf. It turns out that the ministers were divided into ministerial affairs, and now it is not convenient for the regent to take charge of the affairs.
The Bailes take charge of the ministry, which weakens the power of the Bailes. It also expands the number of members of the Council of Kings and Ministers to discuss government affairs, further weakening the power of the princes and the Bailes."
"He even squeezed the power of another regent uncle Jierhalang step by step. Not only did he overtake Jierhalang's status ranking, he even gradually took over the power and drove the clan elder Daishan back home to recuperate."
Qian Qianyi sighed, "But with the rise of His Highness in the south, Jiangnan was corrupted, Huguang was corrupted, Xu Yang was corrupted and Shandong was corrupted, and the Qing court suffered many failures, which made it very anxious for a while.
Food and salary from the south cannot be sent to Beijing, military expenditures have increased significantly, the Ministry of Household Affairs is in financial deficit and in arrears, all officials in Beijing cannot be paid, and the monthly rations of bannermen cannot be paid.
Jierhalang, Daishan, Hauge, etc. all attacked Dorgon and directed him to make serious mistakes in his decision-making in power. Although Dorgon was still holding on, Dorgon's brothers Azig and Duduo were found guilty.
Impeachment, Dorgon had no choice but to punish them.
Even several of Dorgon's confidants were seized with the opportunity to attack, and Dorgon was forced to abandon his vehicle to save his commander.
If the situation in the south does not improve, Dorgon may no longer be able to suppress those princes and princes, especially Jierhalang, Daishan, and Hauge.
Now Guanzhong has also begun to become turbulent. The three of them are actively planning to let Hauge take command and lead the troops in the Western Expedition. They are even planning to have Beizi Mandahai, the seventh son of Daishan, take command of the Southern Expedition.
Now the internal fighting among the Tatars in Beijing is fierce, and the turmoil in the south has become an opportunity for them to attack Dorgon. Dorgon's position is very unstable and may be overthrown at any time. However, Dorgon can hold on to the situation for the time being. If
The situation in the south cannot be opened yet, and he has already planned to let his brothers Azige and Duduo lead the army again. Azige will go from Datong to Hanzhong, Guanzhong, and Duduo will go to Shandong, Huaiyang, and Jiangnan.
It's just that Daishan and the others are now unwilling to let them lead the troops.
Zhu Yihai was very happy to hear this.
Not only was the party in the Ming Dynasty fierce in internal fighting, but the Tatars were also the same. However, although the Tatars were fighting, they were now in a period of rapid growth, and they still had strong strength despite internal fighting.
As for Chongzhen and Hongguang, they are already extremely corrupt. If they continue to fight among themselves, they will be completely powerless to resist.
Zhu Yihai's own small court, which was less than a year old, also had many factions.
For example, he has his own central department, as well as many local departments. Within the central department there are civil and military departments, and within the military department there are the Yuying Department, Zhejiang East Department, Jingying Department, Navy Department, etc.
In the local system, the Zheng family in Fujian is also the first.
There are many factions and factions, but fortunately, Zhu Yihai has an elite imperial camp in his hands. He also established this court with his own hands. He has a base in eastern Zhejiang and the prestige of his series of victories, so he is now in a difficult situation.
good.
At least for carrying the banner of restoration, all parties still respect him as the supervisor.
He is now able to suppress all factions. For example, among the civil servants in the central government, there are former members of the Donglin Party, members of the Socialist Party, and Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng, who were originally known as traitors, but they all dare not live here with Zhu Yihai.
This is because Zhu Yihai has prestige and strength and will not be easily fooled by people on either side.
After all, whether it was Chongzhen or Hongguang, those previous emperors were not prophets after all. The confidence they gained was often incomplete or even wrong, so the judgments they made were sometimes inaccurate.
But in Zhu Yihai's case, no one could easily deceive him on many important matters, because he already knew the detailed answers.
The main threat Dorgon faced came from his identity. He was not the real emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he was just the uncle of the regent. The institutional tradition of the Qing Dynasty gave the banner owners, princes and beile great power.
The Qing Dynasty was not a completely centralized system and retained many of the deliberation systems of the tribal era, which were all obstacles to Dorgon's rule.
When the current situation is not going well, his authority will naturally be more vulnerable to challenge.
Zhu Yihai's main threat is the Tatars, but at this stage Dorgon's main threat comes from behind.
