Great time travel

Chapter 151, the short-lived Qing Empire
On the evening of September [-]th in the sixth year of Chongzhen, the city of Beijing, which had just planted the flag of the Qing Dynasty for less than a year, once again rang out the screams of killing.

——Under the banner of "rescue Liaodong", the [-] Guanning Army, which claimed to rush to Shanhaiguan to deploy defenses, suddenly launched a mutiny when they passed by Gyeonggi and launched a surprise attack on Beijing.And the pre-arranged internal response in Beijing also opened the city gates, allowing Guan Ning's army to enter all the alleys in Beijing.Immediately afterwards, the Han army stationed in the city also collapsed or defected one after another, and followed the Guan Ning army to launch a fierce attack on the Eight Banners of Manchuria entrenched in the inner city!

All of a sudden, the city of Beijing seemed to be in a pot of boiling water. Thousands of torches were lit in the streets and alleys, illuminating the whole city brightly. Soldiers with various accents shouted murderously. The cries of the surname shook the sky, and the cannons that were originally aimed at the outside of the city of Beijing turned around at this moment, and bombarded the inner city one after another, smashing all the exquisite and luxurious mansions to bricks and stones. burst into flight.

Amidst the smog and shadows of swords and swords, the short rule of the Qing Empire over the city of Beijing for less than a year finally came to an end.

Although since taking over Beijing, the Qing court has always been wary of the Han Chinese becoming powerful.Unfortunately, the Jurchen Eight Banners had a limited population, and their political savvy and cultural level were even more tragic. If they did not rely on the bureaucratic system left over from the Ming Dynasty, they would not be able to rule this vast country at all.Especially after Huang Taiji's imperial expedition to the south, even part of the daily defense and security patrols of Beijing had to be handed over to the surrendered Han army.

If the Qing Empire was victorious and triumphant, the loyalty of these traitor troops should still be guaranteed.However, when the entire territory of Liaodong fell in an instant, and the glamorous coat of the Jurchen Eight Banners was bloody torn off, except for a few hard-core traitors, I am afraid that everyone would think that these Liaodong barbarians who have become bereaved dogs will mostly end up in the Central Plains. Rabbits can't grow their tails.

Therefore, following the rebellion of the Guan Ning army again, all the civil and Wuhan officials in the entire Beijing city refused to be buried with the Qing Dynasty. Another benefit.

About [-] Eight Banners soldiers who were ordered to stay in Beijing put up a desperate resistance, but due to the haste of the incident, they could only fight on their own, and the gates of various cities had been lost from the beginning. The art of riding and archery can't exert any advantage in the extremely chaotic night street fighting.Therefore, no matter how much they risked their lives and fought desperately, they were still retreated step by step by the swarming Guan Ning army.

Therefore, after a desperate resistance, the inner city of Beijing was also declared to have fallen, and more than 6 family members of the Eight Banners in the city had to retreat into the imperial palace of the Forbidden City in a hurry.Although most of these people are old, weak, women and children, they still showed extraordinary courage in such a desperate situation. Even children and old people took up sticks, knives and guns, especially Empress Zhezhe and Concubine Dayuer. Put on the armor personally, and call on everyone to fight until the last moment!
However, as famous chameleons and weeds in history, even though Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou had already slashed at the Tartars with their swords, they did not intend to do anything wrong. Reason - Therefore, when the "jurchen remnants" trapped in the Forbidden City were preparing to die collectively with grief, they did not receive a large-scale onslaught from the Guanning Army, but waited for the emissary sent by Zu Dashou to persuade them to surrender.

According to the envoy who persuaded the surrender, although the two sides are already facing each other in battle, God has the virtue of being good at life. Based on the friendship in the past, Guan Ning's army does not intend to kill all the family members of the Eight Banners, but prepares to get out of the way. On the other hand, all Manchu and Mongolian Banner people in Beijing will be "gifted out of the country", and their belongings can also be kept.After leaving the city, whether they planned to return to their hometown or go to Shandong to find their emperor, they were all at their own discretion.

Only Huang Taiji's concubines and children, as well as the wives and concubines of the banner owners of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, have to be temporarily detained.Because Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou need to use them as bargaining chips to exchange with the Qing court for the disciples of Guan Ning who are currently accompanying Huang Taiji.In order to make them feel at ease, Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou were willing to swear in public that they would treat them with courtesy.Of course, if the families of the Eight Banners in the Forbidden City refused to accept the "good intentions" of the Guan Ning army, then they had no choice but to let the Eight Banners be exterminated.

As soon as this announcement came out, the families of the [-] and Eight Banners who retreated to the Forbidden City immediately began to shake their hearts.

Before, everyone thought that this time was a dead end, and now they are full of tragic preparations for dying, even if they go to see the King of Hades, they will have to drag a few backs.But since it seems that there is still a way to survive, why not give it a try?Compared with the complete annihilation of the whole family, how bad can it be?
Besides, tens of thousands of people are trapped in the Forbidden City right now, there is no food inside and no reinforcements outside, and there is not even a single weapon in hand, and the Guan Ning army outside has set up all the Hongyi cannons, even if everyone resists desperately, How long can it last?Didn't he die in vain?

In the end, under the desire to survive, the family members of the Eight Banners in the Forbidden City agreed to the appeasement of the Guan Ning army, and opened the gate of the palace in fear, expecting the other party to keep their promises.And the Guan Ning army actually fulfilled their promise. After putting Huang Taiji's harem concubines and some of the wives and children of the Eight Banners under house arrest, they ordered the city gates to be opened, the passages to be cleared, and some ships were even collected to let the bannermen People can be evacuated from the canal.

So far, this brief "Beijing Change" has been completely settled.In the early morning of the next day, with the "Warning for Captives" posted all over the street, Beijing citizens who hid under the bed boards and trembled all night amidst the shouts and explosions finally learned that the city had changed its owner again.

"...In the past, the Ming court had no principles, treated good ministers harshly, and exploited all people. The people of the world were in dire straits. We raised our troops and had no choice but to make an alliance with the Tartars. We temporarily borrowed tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers. We wanted to send troops into Beijing to eliminate traitors and rectify the government. The cunning captives betrayed the alliance against the sky, took advantage of my internal emptiness, dominated Yandu, stole my Chinese artifacts, and changed my Chinese crown clothes. Forbearance, did not dare to act lightly.

Now, the puppet Qing Tartars favor treacherous ministers, they are greedy and collect taxes, and they are severely punished.Can't save the people from the fire and water, but run out of teachers and travel to rob people's money, suck marrow and skin, rape people's wives and daughters, how is it different from animals?Therefore, there was General Huang Liting who swept the acupoints in front of him to eliminate the evil atmosphere outside the pass, and restore a bright and bright world in Liaodong, which shows that the Tartars are exhausted.In the future, our army will urgently recruit benevolent and righteous divisions to save the people from misery.Now that the capital has been established, a sign was sent to inform the meeting: "The scholars and the people should not be panicked, and everyone should be safe."Ermin has abandoned the dark and turned to the bright, and those who report the Manchurian barbarians for hiding among the people will be rewarded heavily.The rest don't get military uniforms, and jade and stone are hard to separate, so I regret it too late.This call! "

Immediately afterwards, after the Guan Ning Army launched a round of suppression and captured and killed a few green-skinned hooligans who took advantage of the chaos and robbed, the order in Beijing was stabilized again.

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On the other hand, although the tens of thousands of Eight Banners women, children, old and weak in Beijing finally left the city safely, the Guan Ning Army did not mean to break the contract and hunt down.But that doesn't mean these guys really got away with it.Because after learning the news of the change in Beijing, the gentry and landlords in various prefectures and counties in Beizhili also celebrated with each other, and immediately responded in groups, organizing village braves to raise flags against the Qing Dynasty, and scrambling to fight the dog in the water.

——When the traversers killed the gentry and carried out land reforms in various occupied areas, the masters of the Eight Banners also aggressively encircled the land around Gyeonggi, and at the same time demoted all the gentry and tenant farmers on those lands to coat slaves.Although Huang Taiji, as a hero of his generation, would not fail to see the harm of this destructive and plundering policy, but in any case, he is also the king of the Manchus first, and he must first satisfy the interests of his own people.After all, those who benefited were the Eight Banners nobles who were the foundation of the Qing court's rule. Even Huang Taiji could only turn a blind eye and close one eye to express his acquiescence.

As a result, those gentry and villagers who suffered the most from the "Eight Banners Staking Movement" soon became the most staunch potential anti-Qing elements.

As a result, the Eight Banners women and children who fled in a hurry were attacked and robbed by the villagers in the suburbs of Beijing just twenty miles away from Beijing, and suffered heavy injuries for a time.Fortunately, also due to the staking of the land, there are many small groups of Eight Banners soldiers and horses scattered in the countryside of Beizhili. At this time, after hearing the news, they rushed to join them. After some fighting, they finally repelled the villagers He and the bandits attacked and escorted the Eight Banners women and children into Tianjin City.

What's more terrible is that with the fall of Beijing, the news of Guan Ning's rebellion against the Qing and self-reliance spread, and a series of vigorous chain reactions also occurred in the remaining Qing-occupied areas in Beizhili.Those local officials appointed by the Manchu Qing court were either expelled by force, or took the initiative to raise the flag to rebel against the Qing Dynasty. The entire North China Plain was full of noisy scenes of fallen trees and scattered monkeys.

Especially the Shanhaiguan garrison, who was directly facing an unknown and powerful enemy, immediately broke out a mutiny after learning that the backside had also become an enemy. Composed of the Han Army Banner and the Mongolian Army Banner, after learning that Shengjing and Beijing had changed hands one after another, his loyalty to the Qing court was greatly shaken immediately.In the end, the vast majority of the Mongols chose to open the gate of the camp and fled northward to the grasslands on their horses. The flag of the Han army and the surrendering Ming army collectively cut the braids on the back of their heads, and at the same time sent people to contact the Guanning army about surrendering.

On September 28, after the Guan Ning army took over Shanhaiguan peacefully, they turned around and approached Tianjin.Although neither Zu Dashou nor Wu Xiang had the intention to fight the Eight Banners soldiers to the end.But Tianjin is the gateway to Beijing, directly choking the throat of the capital, and you can take a boat along the canal to Beijing and Tongzhou overnight. Just pull the nail out.

Fortunately, the fall of Beijing already meant the complete disintegration of the Qing court's rule in Zhili.Although the Acropolis of Tianjin is very strong and there is plenty of food in store, the hearts of the people in the city have long been in chaos.Seeing that there was no way to return to Liaodong, the horrified Eight Banners had no choice but to continue fleeing south along the canal.The defenders in Tianjin City are also undercurrents, and there are constant exchanges of envoys with the approaching Guan Ning Army.

Next, on a dark and stormy night, Zu Dashou personally led a Guanning army and launched a surprise attack on Tianjin.However, from a military point of view, this night attack was actually unnecessary, because most of the soldiers and horses in Tianjin at that time had received the news beforehand, and they either took the time to escape, or they were prepared to surrender in advance, so after the city was broken, The Tianjin of Tianjin actually looks very peaceful, and the residential streets are all silent.

In short, with the quiet change of flag at the head of Tianjin City, the whole of Beizhili was permanently separated from the territory of the Qing Empire.

At this point, after the sudden loss of the entire Liaodong, the attack of Dengzhou Town and the betrayal of the Guanning Army, in just two or three months, the entire Qing Empire has gone from occupying almost the entire territory of Northern China to a The tone has shrunk to only Dezhou in the north and Yangzhou in the south, and a long and narrow land along the Grand Canal has become an extremely weird "canal empire".

Although this Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the golden waterway of China in the 10,000th century, there are prosperous cities along the river. If it is managed carefully, the tax revenue can support an army of [-]+.However, the Jurchen Eight Banners have only occupied this territory for only half a year, and they have not had time to lay a foundation at all.Under such drastic changes in the current situation and people's ulterior motives, no one knows how many days this unprecedented "canal empire" can last.

Perhaps, the Qing Empire, which was once in full swing, will soon bloom like a flower in the epiphyllum, and wither suddenly like a flower in the epiphyllum.

Therefore, His Majesty Huang Taiji, who was bullied by dogs in Huluo Pingyang, unfortunately learned of the above-mentioned bad news in the Jinan Imperial Camp, no matter how tough he was, he immediately vomited blood for three liters, and at the same time cursed Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang for rebellion. It must be a bad death.The soldiers of the Eight Banners hugged their families and relatives, weeping and crying in unison, feeling infinitely sad for the lost hometown and the unknown future and destiny.

But after crying, Huang Taiji had no choice but to wipe away his tears. Holding his nose, he reached an agreement with the envoys of Guan Ning's army, and exchanged his harem concubines with the disciples of Guan Ning's generals who had accompanied him and served as hostages before. , and the family members of the eight banner dignitaries who stayed in Beijing.Next, before Huang Taiji could decide whether to send his troops to the north immediately to take revenge on Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang, the two rebellious boys, new disasters came one after another!

——Preliminarily put down the rebellion of the gentry in Qingzhou Prefecture, and completed the mobilization of the militia in Dengzhou Town, and once again launched a large-scale attack on Jinan!