The name of the country is stolen Chapter 318 Fan Wencheng: Don't blame the imperial court if you can't survive! Blame the Southern Dog for stopping the water transportation!
Chapter 318 Fan Wencheng: Don't blame the imperial court if you can't survive! Blame the Southern Dog for stopping the water transportation!
After Dorgon and Jierhalang reached a compromise and exchange of interests, the Qing court's decision-making process was quite rapid. Two army construction strategies, including "approving the preparation of the Han Green Camp and sending backbones from the Two Yellow Banners to rebuild the Two White Banners," were immediately approved.
Quick execution.
In the Ming Dynasty in the south, the complicated process of drafting by six ministries, meeting with the cabinet, forming documents, and then approving by the ceremonial supervisor... is not yet available in the Qing court in the north. Nowadays, there are many situations where the two kings agree in private.
Historically, the initial construction of the Green Camp occurred about three years after Shunzhi. Four years later, the Qing army discovered that the Eight Banners soldiers were not accustomed to water warfare and were not suitable for areas with dense water networks in the south of the Yangtze River. They continued to suppress popular uprisings, so they slowly prepared it.
Now it can be regarded as being forced by the butterfly effect of Zhu Shuren, and it was born two years in advance.
According to the document just issued by Dorgon, the Green Battalion will recruit about 200,000 people from the northern Han people, and the number may be expanded in the future. Basically, compared with the Eight Banners' current situation, "a regular soldier can have twice as many reserve reserves as secondary soldiers."
In proportion, the corresponding reserve force of 200,000 green battalions is 400,000, and the total of the two together is 600,000.
Historically, the size of the "600,000 Green Camp" was maintained for a very long time in the subsequent rule of the Qing Dynasty. When dealing with the San Francisco Rebellion, the Green Camp was 600,000. By the time of Qianlong and Jiaqing, it was still 600,000.
It was not until the foreigners invaded, Hong Xiuquan stirred up trouble in the Taiping Army, and the Green Camp could not bear the pressure that the Qing Dynasty further expanded its army and established a new type of army. Later, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang's Hunan Army and Huai Army were formed.
Of course, currently we expect to recruit 600,000 people and train them to become combat effective. It will definitely not happen overnight, it will take at least several years.
Therefore, what Dorgon asked for this year was to raise the first 200,000 first. After we have the backbone, we can further expand according to the model of regular military and reserve forces.
There will be subsequent waves of recruitment expansion every one or two years, and full combat strength will be formed in three to five years - I just don't know if the Qing court can survive until that time, and I don't know how strong the fighting will of the Green Battalion raised in this way is.
The reason why this year's target was set so high is because Dorgon felt that part of it could be solved by reorganizing the Ming army that surrendered to the north, and Zhao'an could absorb the captives of bandits and solve another part.
In this way, the final part that needs to be supplemented by strong men is estimated to be only tens of thousands of people, so it should be possible to complete it.
However, after the actual recruitment began, the progress was still less smooth than expected.
In the first ten days and a half, almost no Han people were recruited to volunteer as soldiers, and only some surrendered troops and prisoners were recruited.
This forced Dorgon to find his trusted traitor civil servants and counselors, and work together to find a way to arouse the hatred of the northern Han people towards the Southern Ming Dynasty and mobilize people's support to help the Qing Dynasty.
Hong Chengchou is now in the south, following Azig, so the old top hardcore traitors in Beijing are none other than Fan Wencheng and three others.
Among them, Bao Chengxian had already lost power due to his previous crimes and was now seriously ill and was about to die. He was unable to help Dorgon with any ideas. In the end, it was Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo who helped Dorgon come up with some ideas to boost morale.
Fan Wencheng, in particular, seems very sad recently. Ever since he heard that his banner holder, Prince Duduo of Yu, died in battle, Fan Wencheng has been absent from court wearing sackcloth and mourning, and his eyes are red from crying every day.
He also asked the youngest son born by his younger wife to wear sackcloth and mourn for Duduo, and secretly performed filial piety rituals - one of the sons born to Fan Wencheng's younger wife was actually Duduo's son. When Huang Taiji was still alive, he was also a filial son because of Duduo.
Huang Taiji fined the wives and concubines of Han ministers under his banner twenty thousand taels. This matter is clearly recorded in history.
Only by being a slave can you achieve this level, and be happy that your wife can give birth to the master's seed. It has to be said that it is the best to a certain extent. You must have such a product when raising a dog.
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The publicity strategy that Fan Wencheng came up with for Dorgon was quickly and secretly deployed.
A few days later, Beijing in mid-March.
The weather was still unusually cold, and all businesses in the market were sluggish. Even on the busiest Qianmen Street, it was already midnight and there were still no shops open for business.
Behind the door panel of every shop, there are pairs of eyes, staring at their peers and the passers-by on the street. They want to wait for their peers to open the door and confirm that there is a flow of customers before opening the door with the crowd. For fear of standing out and being blackmailed.
The marauders are on the lookout.
For the Han people in Beijing, the war has ended for more than half a year. The plague that started the year before last year has also gradually subsided with the death of a large number of people - those who can survive to this day basically have some immunity.
Most of them have shaved their heads and put their hair into braids required by the Qing court. There are only a handful of reclusive scholars who consider themselves old people and still have some thoughts about hiding in Tibet. The rest are accustomed to being slaves to the Qing Dynasty.
A large number of people died, which alleviated the pressure. After the war, food prices in the capital also fell for a time, and life at that time seemed to be no more difficult than when Emperor Chongzhen was alive.
Moreover, Dorgon was indeed good at acting before.
Since entering the customs last year, considering that the Hebei area was still under the control of the Ming Dynasty before February, it was under the control of Li Zicheng from March to May, and then it was all taken over by the Qing court. The people changed their owners twice within a year, and Dorgon announced
The abolition of the three wages system left by the Ming Dynasty once made the people of Hebei and Shandong cheer for joy.
However, all this came to an end with the bad news of Duduo's defeat at the beginning of the year. Historically, Dorgon would have to perform another performance, and it took until the third year of Shunzhi to announce the re-allocation of Liao pay.
He also said that the originally promised abolition of three rates was actually unreasonable. It only abolished "those miscellaneous rates newly added in the late Chongzhen period". However, for Wanli, those that had been levied during the Tianqi period were not included in the exemption (there were already levies in the late Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty).
The rates are high, but not as high as during the Chongzhen period)
Now, the northern court is running out of money and food in advance, so of course the Liao Dynasty has to restart the levy in advance, which is equivalent to one year earlier than the same period in history. Of course, the acting skills of "benevolent government and caring for the people" are lost in advance.
After hearing that the three-payer army had been re-introduced, the northern Han people were naturally shocked. The expectations they had for the Qing court at the beginning last year were completely gone.
It's just that everyone has become slaves, has no weapons, and can't resist, so they have to continue to accept the situation. Anyway, they have been accepting the situation for so many years under Chongzhen and Li Zicheng, and they will have to suffer for a few more years.
At worst, the emperors, generals and ministers will fight each other dog by dog and produce a result. Whoever has the last laugh will be treated as his slaves. It has nothing to do with the common people!
Those dog emperors are all the same!
As for Beijing specifically, since it was announced in February that the three-rate levy would be re-introduced this year, the price of food in the capital has skyrocketed. Everyone is worried that there will be problems with the money and food maintenance of the imperial court, and that it will not be able to support the few people in Beijing.
population of 100,000
(Note: Chongzhen had a population of one million. The plague in the 16th year of Chongzhen killed more than half of them. Two wars and increased torture also killed many more, so now there are only a few hundred thousand left.)
A few days ago, because I heard that the imperial court was going to hold the first Enke Spring Festival since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, many candidates from all over the north were coming to Beijing (it was also Zhu Shuren's butterfly effect, which was one year earlier than history).
The superiors transferred grain from everywhere to the capital to whitewash peace, and also killed a bunch of profiteers who were hoarding grain and reluctant to sell it, and confiscated the grain. Only then did they rely on a two-pronged approach of adding grain bags with knife handles to temporarily lower the price of grain.
But this has also caused merchants to become increasingly panicked. Very few shops on the street dare to open their doors early in the morning for fear of being targeted by raiders.
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This was Chunwei's free day after he had just finished his exams and was waiting for the results to be released.
Several candidates from Shandong had been in seclusion for a long time recently. They wanted to relax after the exam, so they wandered around Qianmen Street for a long time. However, it was almost noon and no shops were open, which undoubtedly made these outsiders very worried.
disappointment.
"The city of Beijing is in such a state of decline. There is no sign of a new dynasty waiting to be revived. Instead, it is just in ruins. Alas." A man in his thirties from Shandong couldn't help but sigh.
His name was Fu Yijian, his ancestral home was in Jiangxi, and he was a family of scholars for several generations. However, Jiangxi's Nanbang imperial examination was too difficult, and his father's generation could not pass it, so he managed to immigrate to Liaocheng, Shandong to take the Northern exam.
After arriving in Shandong, the north was in turmoil for many years. As expected, Fu Yijian couldn't read as well as those immigrants from Jiangxi, so Fu Yijian won the imperial examination.
This time, the Qing Dynasty hurriedly opened Enke and used the front of fire to win over the hearts of scholars. Because it had no time to build its own "Juren treasury", it posthumously recognized a large number of those who had passed the examination during the Chongzhen period of the previous Ming Dynasty and allowed them to directly participate in the Qing Dynasty's examinations.
Fu Yijian and some other Shandong fellow citizens naturally came here after hearing the news and took advantage of this blue ocean period to make a profit.
At this moment, facing Fu Yijian's complaints, another Shandong scholar next to him, Li Shihao of Jiaozhou Prefecture, could not help but echo:
"Brother Fu is very worried. I heard that in order to stabilize the price of grain in the capital, the imperial court caused all the merchants to run away. This is not an option in the long run. The world is about to be settled, and the three-month salary is going to be collected again, how can we still do it?
Is there such a shortage of food? Could it be that some huge corrupt people are working to enrich their own pockets! When we become officials in the future, we must fight against these corrupt people!"
When Fu Yijian heard that he agreed with him, he could only smile and show his agreement. However, there were several other Shandong scholars beside him, who felt contempt for Li Shihao in his heart:
He is from Jiaozhou Prefecture, which is different from other Shandong Juzi. Jiaozhou Prefecture is located on the peninsula in the far east of Shandong. There is still Liu Zeqing, the general of the Ming Dynasty who retreated and came here, but he has not been destroyed. He guards a little mountainous area and serves as his local emperor. Ming Dynasty
There are still some remnants of the civil servants of the dynasty at the tip of the Shandong Peninsula.
Therefore, people from Jiaozhou Prefecture could either choose to go south to Nanjing and continue to take the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty in the future, or they could cross the border slightly and take the examination in areas controlled by the Qing Dynasty.
Li Shihao's knowledge was not very bad, but everyone who traveled with him had heard about it. He thought there were too many scholars in the south and the competition was fierce, so he wanted to come to the north to pick up the slack.
Because I heard that after most of the north fell, the Nanjing court could no longer organize the North-South ranking examination in this autumn of national crisis. Naturally, they would not be happy if a few scholars from the unoccupied areas of Shandong were allowed to take the Southern ranking test against the southerners.
In order to make the exam easier and have a higher passing rate, what’s the point of being a traitor? If you are a traitor, you will have an official position, so just be one!
While a group of people were wandering around, they suddenly saw a group of Qing soldiers surrounded by several petty officials, filing out from the Zhengyangmen Archery Tower, and the sparse pedestrians on the street also fled.
They were the ones with the most prestigious titles, so they were not very afraid, and dared to watch the excitement from a distance. After a while, the group of soldiers entered the house, and they didn't know what they were doing. Then, those shops that were passed by the petty officials and soldiers
, the shopkeepers were picked out one by one and forced to open businesses.
Among them, several rice stores were the first to reopen.
Fu Yijian, Li Shihao and others looked at it and couldn't help but speculate: Could it be that the imperial court had killed too many profiteers who were hoarding grain and reluctant to sell it, and no one dared to open a business, so it came to force people to open a business again with a knife?
However, those unscrupulous merchants should have learned well after the disaster they suffered a few days ago, and don’t dare to store too much grain for sale in the city? Then even if the shop is raided, they can still argue that there is really no grain to sell? Why?
Will he follow the imperial court's rules?
Everyone was curious and couldn't help but come over.
And because all industries have been depressed for many days, almost no shops were open during the imperial examination days. Many poor people in Beijing have no money to save too much food.
You have to go hungry to buy rice, and now you are so hungry that your chest is pressed against your back.
Seeing that grain stores have reopened one after another, it is natural that countless poor people, with their only wages, flocked there to buy.
However, the next moment, everyone's wails and screams suddenly resounded throughout Qianmen Street.
"Thirty taels of silver and a dou of rice? Is it a dou and not a stone? You damn profiteers, do you think the court's knife is not sharp enough? Didn't those profiteers who were killed a few days ago die miserably enough?"
"What? Why are these rice and noodles so expensive? I managed to save some money without paying three wages, but it's not enough to survive when food prices rise. There's no way I can survive..."
"What an old man you are! Aren't you going to charge three wages again this year?"
Similar situations to those on Qianmen Street are happening in other markets in Beijing at the moment. Groups of hard laborers and poor vendors are all complaining, but they dare not make it too obvious or vent their anger on the rulers.
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This situation is not common in other rural areas in Hebei, because rural areas are self-sufficient and eat what they grow. They do not expect "commercial grain", so the rise and fall of grain prices will not have such a big impact.
Beijing is different. Even if more than half of the population dies, the remaining hundreds of thousands are not agricultural people after all. Most of the poor people among them are businessmen and servants.
For the non-agricultural population, rising food prices are simply fatal.
The officials responsible for the governance of the capital, of course, also knew that these unruly people were being picky. In normal times, the officials of the Qing Dynasty would have used their swords to attack these gossips.
However, today, the imperial court rarely sent anyone to suppress the market, nor did it try to stabilize food prices.
Those "profiteers" who were scolded also became confident:
"The imperial court has no choice. It is really out of food. Do you want to buy it? The imperial court's rations must be supplied to the regent's newly recruited Green Battalion as military rations.
If you can’t survive, just go and serve as a soldier and get food! If you can’t choose to be a soldier, just get out of Beijing! Is Beijing a place where cats and dogs deserve to live?”
"The price of grain this time was determined by the imperial court! If you are to blame, blame the puppet government in Jiangnan for cutting off water transportation! In previous years, grain from Jiangnan would have arrived at this time! It is they who did not let us young and old men in Beijing survive!
Follow the prince and kill all the rebels in Jiangnan, so that the city of Beijing will have food!"
Of course, those who said these words were not only the grain store owners who had just been ordered by the court officials and soldiers, but also more rhythmic personnel who were mixed in the crowd and arranged by Fan Wencheng. They belonged to the three religions and nine streams of Shuntian Mansion, specializing in
Misleading people who don’t know the truth.
For a time, the poor, who were forced by extremely high food prices, were quickly led astray.
"How wise and wise, benevolent and caring are the emperor and the regent? How could they let us starve like Mingshi did?"
"The reason for the sharp rise in food prices this time is that today is different from previous years. Water transportation from the north to the south has been temporarily interrupted! How can we, young and old men in the capital, millions of people, expect that the output of the broken fields in Hebei will be enough to feed us? In the next two hundred years before the Ming Dynasty,
, in which year did we not rely on water transportation from the south of the Yangtze River?"
"It's just a damned fake Ming. He established a fake emperor in the south of the Yangtze River and directly withheld the surplus grain from the land of wealth to eat for himself. Isn't this going to starve to death all the old and young men in Sijiu City?"
"Especially I heard that the people who supported the puppet emperor the most were the in-laws and son-in-law of the pseudo-emperor, the Shen family. When Zhu Youjian was alive five years ago, the Shen family had no good intentions when they encouraged Zhu Youjian to "change water transportation to sea".
Just because his family has controlled the Yellow Sea shipping for generations, he can make huge profits by changing the imperial water transportation to the sea! He can also use grain trade to manipulate the imperial court and threaten the imperial court with the lives of the people in the capital! Now his evil intentions are finally revealed!"
"And we, the Qing Dynasty, don't eat him for free, but even if we buy him with money, he won't! Not only does he not allow the Shen family's fleet to sell grain by sea, he even pretends to be a pirate to intercept and kill other families who want to sell grain! This kind of thing
Beasts are the mortal enemies of everyone in the capital! One day they must eat their flesh and sleep on their skin!"
Soon, everyone in Beijing knew that the rise in food prices was due to the complete loss of water transportation and had nothing to do with anything else. The blame was on those beasts who cut off water transportation!
Ordinary people who don't care about national affairs can't help but panic after hearing so many intensive bombings. Many poor people queuing up talk about retreating:
"Then what should we do now? If the food prices continue to rise like this, and the Jiangnan canal supply is cut off for a whole year, we will all starve to death! Or we can only leave the capital and go back to the countryside to find some opportunities to contribute and make ends meet.
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But those in charge of Shuntian Prefecture had obviously learned more morale-boosting techniques through advance training, and they quickly started to stir up trouble among the crowd:
"That's not possible! It took our ancestors several generations to sneak into the capital. If we had stayed outside in the past two years, I would have died of starvation, or even a dog would have been born in this city of Beijing!
My grandparents and two great-uncles in my family only found a chance in the imperial palace and brought our family to Beijing! If we leave Beijing now, wouldn’t the many knives our ancestors received have been in vain! We will die in Beijing.
Here! We will fight with our lives against anyone who doesn’t let us live in Beijing!
I have decided that I will become a green soldier! Follow the imperial soldiers and kill all the pseudo-Mings in the south of the Yangtze River, and that will not be the only way to enjoy life! When water transportation is restored, we will return to our hometown in glory and return to Beijing!"
"That's right, and even if there are people who are false about their intentions, we old and young men in Beijing will not have a good life! You think about it, I heard that Zhu Shuren was a profiteer and bastard from Suzhou! He is most unkind because of his wealth!
Those Suzhou dogs who lived in the Ming Dynasty were just bastards who deserved to receive food from generation to generation! When they followed Zhang Shicheng to rebel against Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang decided that the Suzhou government would have to pay 590,000 shi of grain every year! Later, the loss of taxes and losses was added,
That’s 1.7 million stones!
Their ancestors were scoundrels, and they deserve to be given 1.7 million shi every year for generations to come! If Zhu Shuren gains power now, can he make Suzhou sluts continue to provide 1.7 million shi to us Beijingers every year for generations to come?
Impossible! Zhu Shu people will definitely favor those Suzhou cheap bones! So only by letting the court that represents the interests of our northerners destroy the Jiangnan dogs can we continue to have the cheap bones of Nanjing, Suzhou and Songjiang offered to us from generation to generation!
Aren’t those people from the south of the Yangtze River just good at reading, greedy for wealth, ruthless, and treacherous? How can we be as brave, bold, honest, and honest as our northerners? Qian Ming let those cunning bastards get so much money and food, so they should pay back their capital with profits!"
Rhetoric like this is spread all over Beijing. It has to be said that Fan Wencheng's design is still very detailed, and every sentence hits the key points.
Countless people who originally had no resentment or hatred had to think: Indeed, this bastard Zhu Shuren is a Suzhou dog! Even if we return to the Ming Dynasty, will we still ruthlessly scrape Suzhou's ill-gotten gains like the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty did in the future?
If water transportation to the south of the Yangtze River is cut off, how will the city of Beijing survive in the future? Even if it returns to the previous dynasty, it will not be able to survive! Therefore, Jiangnan interest groups cannot be allowed to succeed!
By extension, more comments that were unfavorable to Nan Ming were becoming larger and larger in scale, and spread under the guidance of Fan Wencheng.
For example, even ordinary people who purely pursue the unification of the world and no longer fight will soon hear a statement that is unfavorable to Nanming:
"The Nanjing Puppet Dynasty did not want to unify the world at all! Only the Qing Dynasty in Beijing was thinking so much that the people of the world would no longer fight wars! The Nanjing imperial court just wanted to take out the rich land and live alone in his own little life!
They are eager to get rid of the burden of the north, which requires money and food to rule! Therefore, all good people who are determined to unify the world should serve the Qing Dynasty!"
Considering that in the next one or two years, it is indeed possible that the North and the South will fall into a state of truce and rest, Fan Wencheng's vicious deception is indeed deceptive to a certain extent. Therefore, a small group of people with lofty ideals who simply do not want the world to be divided,
I have also been deceived to varying degrees.
Fan Wencheng was instructed by Dorgon to repeatedly encourage him like this, and in the end it was indeed very helpful to his recruitment work for the Green Camp. At least in the pre-Ming Dynasty, there were countless people with grievances in several densely populated cities that benefited most from the north-south water transportation.
, was instigated by the Qing court to join the Green Camp.
Beijing, Tongzhou, Tianjin in North Zhili, Liaocheng and Linqing in Shandong are all important towns along the Grand Canal. They were all water transport cities with a population of one million.
Although six years ago, Zhu Shuren helped his father Shen Tingyang suggest that Chongzhen's water transportation should be changed to the sea, tens of thousands of people in these cities every year, and hundreds of thousands in five years, have been "replaced with employment in other places" by Shen Tingyang, or obtained
Farming in the south, other industrial and commercial development, or shipping sailors, absorbed a lot of surplus labor.
However, there are always people in every dynasty and every generation who are unwilling to move away from their hometowns. Some people are simply conservative, or have core interests in the original water transportation industry that they absolutely cannot give up.
These people have been starved to death for several years, but it is impossible for them all to starve to death. Now that Dorgon has cut off water transportation, it has provoked internal conflicts among the Han people in the north and south. These former dock workers and trackers have become the first batch of people in the Qing court.
Green camp’s main target.
Dorgon's 200,000 green battalion this year, in addition to reorganizing and reorganizing surrendered prisoners, also targeted these dock workers and trackers as soldiers.
Of course, Dorgon's actions naturally aroused a lot of resistance in the northern land.
For example, in Shandong, in the Luxi Plain under the control of the Qing army, the "Manjiadong" peasant uprising broke out before, which started in the early 17th year of Chongzhen.
The so-called "Manjiadong" was originally used by some peasant army leaders in Jiaxiang, Juye and other places, such as Gong Wencai and others, to hide their troops in various caves on the edge of the mountainous area and Daze (Juye Ze) to avoid being hunted by the government and wait for the government troops to retreat.
Come out again.
Later, it gradually developed into big cities in Shandong like Jining. The method of confrontation also evolved from relying on Daze caves to "tunnel warfare." Villages dug holes to prevent the Qing army from killing and robbing the countryside. When the Qing army came, Sanguang would directly hide.
Confrontation and transfer in the tunnel.
In the original history, Manjiadong in Shandong Province was finally pacified by Hauge and Abatai. They also used a very brutal "cage strategy" similar to that of the Japanese army in later generations. A complete grid blockade cut off the movement and movement of the tunnel warfare rebels.
supply.
In the end, the core rebel army led by Gong Wencai refused to surrender and was cannibalized until they starved to death.
But now, the butterfly effect has obviously also affected the civil uprising in Shandong. Because the southern expedition was unfavorable, the Qing government further imposed exorbitant levies in the north to solve the shortage of money and food, and also recruited troops from the Green Camp. Naturally, the poor people in Shandong saw the face of the Qing army earlier and more thoroughly.
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Gong Wencai's digging confrontation received a wider response, and Abatai was transferred to replace the dead Duduo, resulting in the Qing army in Shandong becoming increasingly empty, leaving only Hauge alone with the power to deal with the Shandong people.
Change.
Hauge asked for more troops and rotation of troops for combat. Jierhalang in the DPRK and China also faced pressure and asked Dorgon to accept it in exchange for his continued support for the Green Camp policy.
Ji'erharang's statement also makes sense: Didn't it mean that the imperial court's money and food did not support the continuation of a large-scale southern expedition? He also said that the newly trained Green Battalion could not expect to be directly thrown into the southern battlefield as cannon fodder in the future, and had to undergo rigorous training first.
Year?
In this case, why not just use battle to train? Just send the new green battalion to be trained to fight in Dingmanjiadong and practice their courage by seeing the blood! Let the trackers from Shandong kill the farmers in Shandong and use the civil war of the Han people to train the troops.
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Because the direct armed forces were greatly weakened, Dorgon could only make moderate concessions for the time being. The final result was that a large number of newly recruited green battalions who were pure recruits were dragged to the nearby Shandong battlefield to replace training with low-intensity combat.
And Hauge, who holds the power of Shandong's thieves, also found that by chance, he seemed to be able to get out of the shadow of the previous failure in internal fighting...
But in any case, Dorgon's series of operations, which were similar to cannibalism, completely tore the hearts of the northern people of the Qing court.
When money and food are in short supply, what they choose is to find an excuse to redraw the line internally, divide the people into two parts, and then unite some people to directly rob and kill the other people. In this way, they can survive the money and food crisis.
After all, human civilization has no new output at all, and it relies on killing big households and robbing the rich to tap the existing wealth. In the end of the world, people can still survive for a long time.
No matter how miserable the second year of Shunzhi was, it was still better than the situation in the apocalyptic novel. There was still production, but there were just more mouths to eat in the north. If you killed some of them and ate them, you would still have enough food.
Although the people who benefited from it could lick their blood and be cultivated with loyalty, the people who were killed and forced to the other side were full of resentment and regarded the Qing government as their life and death enemy.