Dominate the Country

"Your servant respectfully invites the emperor to go hunting in the east!" The princes, nobles, civil and military officials in the Hall of Mental Cultivation in the Forbidden City all knelt and shouted in unison.

Their "hearts" finally fell at this moment, because Chen Ming finally arrived, and as soon as he arrived in Tianjin, he immediately launched an attack on Lutai Town, that is, the prelude to the battle of Beijing and Tianjin was opened. This is a battle that determines life and death, and the Qing Dynasty has reached a turning point in its destiny!

And in this case, when the outcome of the war is still uncertain, how can Beijing suddenly set off this wave of heated discussions on "hunting in the east"? Unbelievable things.

Are the civil and military officials of the Qing Dynasty all pig-brains, and don't know that their actions will greatly affect the morale and fighting spirit of the Qing army on the front line? Then we have to talk about the courage of Yongsheng, the Jiaqing Emperor.

——He was afraid! Very scared, very scared, very scared.

Yongsheng was afraid that the machete would fall on his head, and he didn't have the courage to learn from Emperor Chongzhen to commit suicide. Although the Qing Dynasty left behind a Zhu family's Yan'en Marquis, he was only a distant branch of the Zhu family. Zhu Yi, the ancestor of the Yan'en Marquis, was Hong Chengchou's military supervisor in Songshan. When Hong Chengchou's army was defeated, Zhu Yi and his nephew Zhu Wenyuan were captured and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and they were under the banner of the White Banner. If Zhu Hongwu could survive, he would strangle these two unfilial and unvirtuous descendants of the Ming Dynasty to death!

And the third prince Zhu, who had escaped and hid for a lifetime, was killed by the Qing Dynasty. Seventy-five years old, Zhu Cihuan, with white hair and beard, was taken to the execution ground, watching his two sons beheaded, and he was cut into pieces by a knife. Chongzhen's direct descendants were killed by the Qing Dynasty.

Given the ferocity of the Fu Han Army against the bannermen, if he, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was caught by the Fu Han Army, would he also be cut into pieces? Or would he be like the two emperors Hui and Qin after Jing Kang, who were abused and humiliated in every way, and finally died a bad death?

Whenever he thought of this, Yongsheng was in a state of confusion, with his heart beating like thunder. He tried his best not to think about this, but his brain couldn't control it at all. Yongsheng, who was afraid that the army would lose this battle, really couldn't bear the pressure of Mount Tai. When the news came that Chen Ming easily conquered Lutai Town, Yongsheng's defenses completely collapsed. What was shaking in front of his eyes was a sea of ​​blood and corpses, and each of the corpses was wearing the cotton armor of the Eight Banners. He felt that he was not as incompetent as Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qinzong, because he could escape, and the Fu Han Army was still in Jinmen, 200 miles away!

But he was also afraid that he would end up like Emperor Shun of Yuan. No, after the Fu Han Army defeated the Agui Army, Yongsheng would be worse than Emperor Shun of Yuan. The latter came from Mongolia after all, while the Manchus came from the White Mountains and Black Waters. Don't talk to him about the Manchu-Mongolian family at this time!

After the defeat of Agui's army, Yongxuan's straight road back to the Northeast was also cut off. It was difficult for him to go to the Northeast at that time, so he could only flee to Rehe and return to the Northeast from Mongolia. But was it too late? If the Fu Han army immediately sent troops to the Northeast after conquering Beijing, could the panicked Northeast resist? He had no time to go back. And can an emperor from the Baishan and Heishui wander on the grassland for a long time and make a comeback?

The answer is self-evident.

Yongsheng certainly also hoped that the Qing Dynasty could win, but this candlelight was too small and too weak compared to the shadow of failure. Under heavy pressure, Yongsheng chose a path that many people would choose - escape. Leave Beijing first!

In fact, many of the princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty were also terrified after seeing the real knives of the Fu Han army. This is different from last winter. At that time, the Fu Han army was small and isolated. It was obvious that they were just taking advantage of the death of the previous emperor, not really going to attack Beijing. Therefore, they thought the situation was stable and had a graceful demeanor.

Now it is completely different.

There is an endless stream of ships from Shandong to Caofeidian, and ships of soldiers and materials are sent to Tianjin. Although intelligence shows that most of the Fu Han army led by Chen Ming are miscellaneous brands in his army, who would care about this when they see that Lutai Town, which has been run by the Qing Dynasty for two months, is so vulnerable?

In this situation, the princes, nobles and civil and military officials in Beijing also realized the severity of the situation. If the Qing army loses the battle of Beijing and Tianjin, and they stay in Beijing, it means that they will lose everything they have! Family, family, property, and even their own lives.

So when Yongsheng revealed his intention to "hunt east" to several of his close confidants, this "hot discussion" quickly spread throughout Beijing, and the next day, all the civil and military officials in the court all knelt on the ground to ask for permission.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to stay in Beijing and live and die with the city..."

Fuheng's thin face showed a rare determination. In his heart, he had already given Yongsheng a big cross. He was really a stupid pig-like bastard. The war on the front line was getting more intense, and he, as the heart of the army, had to run away. Can Yongsheng be more deceiving?

The former Ming Emperor Chongzhen knew the truth that the king died for the country, and he, a descendant of the Aisin-Gioro family, was so cowardly?

Fuheng's face was as cold as a rock. He felt cold in his heart when he went to the palace late at night to persuade him to no avail. The Qing Dynasty was about to end, although he would also let his wife and children take the opportunity to leave.

"Uh..." Yongcheng's face flashed with embarrassment. He was not really stupid, how could he not know the possible impact of his actions on the frontline troops? But he was really scared.

"Ahem. The Eastern Hunting is a serious matter and cannot be accomplished in a short time. In my opinion, let the ministers go first, and I will come later." Yongcheng's style of wanting to build a memorial archway after becoming a king is really very much in the style of the Aisin Gioro clan. It is obvious that he came up with the method of the Eastern Hunting, but he wants to stay in Beijing to earn some reputation and military support.

Fuheng's broken heart felt a little warm. Fortunately, fortunately, Yongcheng was not stupid enough and knew that he was "one step late". In this way, although it means to pass the blame to the ministers, shouldn't the ministers take the blame for the emperor? As long as it does not shake the morale of the army on the front line.

"Since Fuheng is willing to stay in Beijing, then add Wu Tai, Bao Lai, Hasituo..." Yongcheng's mouth popped out the names of several bannermen in succession, and the faces of the civil and military ministers in the hall were all one-sided. Among these people, except Fuheng, the remaining few were conservatives who tried their best to persuade Yongcheng not to move the capital years ago.

Now Yongcheng left these people with Fuheng in Beijing, which was really full of endless malice.

"The old and weak of the Eight Banners in Beijing must go, go now! Half of the garrison will escort them along the way, and the treasures and curios in the Forbidden City and the Old Summer Palace, and the deposits in the Ministry of Revenue will all be transported away... and the Han people in the outer city must follow, all of them must go!" This question had been raised to Yongcheng before. If the Han people followed him to the outside of the Great Wall, they could be slaves and soldiers, and they could be used as human shields or even hostages when necessary!

No one was clamoring about the Qing Dynasty's ancestral system at this time, and the Han people were not allowed to leave the Great Wall. The Qing Dynasty's ancestral system certainly did not think of the big green fruit pills!

Even if there was no "ancestral law", the Manchu Qing Dynasty might not have reached such a step at the moment, and the Han people who were hungry all over the world went to the Northeast to open up land and seek food, and the Fu Han Army would not have been able to develop so fast. Yunyang, the hundreds of thousands of refugees and shanty dwellers in Yunyang provided great help to the early Fu Han Army.

Yongcheng slammed the imperial case hard, without looking at the nobles and ministers in the hall, and walked in while saying: "Go down and prepare!"

Fuheng and others looked up and saw Yongcheng walking in alone, his young body was so lonely and slightly bent.

This lonely figure must be the Daqingguo who is now in danger, and a large group of people couldn't help but moisten their eyes!

When the Qing Dynasty was about to "collapse", the scene that the Eight Banners had been expecting to see had already appeared in the court, full of civil and military officials, all of whom were bannermen.

The six ministers, assistant ministers, chief censors, Hanlin scholars and other positions in Beijing were all one Manchu and one Han. Now the two ministers, four assistant ministers, two chief censors and so on are all bannermen, but one is an old bannerman and the other is a new bannerman who has just been carried in. This ridiculous scene adds a touch of comedy to the curtain of the Qing Dynasty that is about to fall!

With the issuance of the "Eastern Hunting" decree, it means that the central power center of the Qing Dynasty officially gave up the capital, which also means that they gave up the Central Plains that they had occupied for more than a hundred years. Not only Fuheng, Suo Lin, Qing Gui and other Manchus cried loudly, but also Yu Minzhong and other former Han people, the new bannermen, and the sad cries made people cry!

Yu Zecheng released the pigeon in his hand, and looked at the teahouse behind him with nostalgia. This is the place where he had worked hard for many years. And when he came here again next time, his identity was no longer a businessman named "Yu Zecheng", but a dignified official named "Gao Jingcheng" in Chen Han.

"The Tartars didn't do their business in the previous two months, and now they are in a hurry to move. Don't you think it's too late?" Yu Zecheng laughed loudly. What kind of thing did the Qing Dynasty do? Even though Yu Zecheng had been staying in Beijing and had heard a lot about the fierce confrontation before the New Year, he had to give the Qing Dynasty a "brain-dead" evaluation. These two words are really fucking appropriate for the Tartars' actions.

An indecisive emperor and a group of pig teammates who dragged their legs down, they let two months of precious time pass in vain. When Yu Zecheng received the instructions from his superiors, he was so anxious that his hair turned white. With such a small body in the Beijing dark camp, how could it be possible to bear such a heavy burden? The Qing Dynasty's relocation of the capital was going to be ruined.

But the whole Beijing station did not expect that they just spread the news to the whole Beijing, and the internal strife and struggle of the Qing Dynasty forced Yongsheng to give up the plan of "relocating the capital".

The things that were thrown away before are now picked up again, and they have been well influenced by the garbage dump. The Qing Dynasty is really "smart".

"Let's go." Go into the cellar and hide for a while. This Beijing city will be the country of the Han family. At the moment, with the whole of Beijing and Tianjin in chaos, hiding in the cellar is the safest way. Their mission is completed, and they don't need to follow the crowd to the northeast.

On this day, the whole capital was in chaos. Countless princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty, whether old or new bannermen, dragged their families and carried the elderly and children to Tongzhou. After Tongzhou, they went to Jizhou, then Zunhua, and then they could go out of the Great Wall.

In fact, as long as the Fu Han Army did not take Jinzhou by sea, the bannermen could still easily run from Rehe to Shengjing.

It's just that the Fu Han Army's navy has too much advantage. Without the cold winter and ice accumulation, it is difficult to reassure the safety of Jinzhou, which is very close to the sea.

First, there were princes and ministers, and then a series of bannermen. Half of the troops left in Beijing were assigned to guard along the way, and the force was only a few thousand people. The slaves and guards of the princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty would not contribute to the ordinary bannermen.

This team was so long that the front had already reached Tongzhou, and the back was still in Beijing. Many ordinary bannermen who had just rushed out of Beijing ran to Tongzhou like crazy, but after the first hour, they were quickly surpassed by the long dragon of bannermen behind them after they ran out of strength and energy.

Fu Changan stood in a long dragon of more than 300 carriages. This was the master and property of their Fucha family. He was not happy at all. The long dragon was surrounded by dense carriages and people. If Agui was defeated, it would be a miracle if he could run away with so many burdens.

Countless Han people certainly could not fail to see the actions of the bannermen. They also hurriedly packed up their belongings and headed for the four gates with their families. However, they were often forced back by swords and guns before they even left the alley. In the past few days, they followed the Eight Banners first, and then the Han people in the outer city.

Yongcheng didn't know what kind of blow this news would cause to the front-line troops after it spread to the front, but he had already chosen to do so. The migration had already begun, and he could only move forward step by step. If he went to a cliff and fell to pieces, it was also his own choice.

The middle and low-level officials of various government offices in Beijing were also the targets of the Qing Dynasty's migration. Most of these people came from the Han literati class. No matter how loyal the literati said they were, during the period of dynasty change, these people had no integrity at all. When the Ming Dynasty fell, they surrendered collectively once when facing Li Zicheng's army. When the Eight Banners entered the pass, they surrendered collectively again. If the Qing Dynasty ignored them, would it be strange for them to continue to surrender after the Fu Han Army won the decisive battle of Beijing and Tianjin and entered Beijing?

In thousands of years of history, although there are always a few people with straight spines in the group of literati, such as Wen Tianxiang and Yu Qian, the vast majority of people are a group of spineless insects who can be "loyal".

It is said that they learn literary and martial arts and sell them to the emperor's family. They don't care who the emperor is. As long as the emperor can give them "glory and wealth", it's fine. If the emperor can respect Confucius and promote Confucianism, it would be even better.

In front of glory and wealth, there is no distinction between Manchus and Han, no bannermen and non-bannermen, they only have one identity with the same merits - officials.

Let’s not talk about how much similarity there is between Confucianism and the teachings of Confucius and Mencius in the Qing Dynasty. Anyway, ‘it’ is just a tool. Whoever rules the world can use it and use ‘it’ to govern the world. Whether it was the end of the Ming Dynasty or the end of the Qing Dynasty in the original time and space, whenever the country was at the critical moment of life and death, it was ‘its’ children who shouted for war, and it was ‘its’ children who finally surrendered. And after surrendering, they always said something like good birds choose trees to live in, and those who know the times are heroes, as if they were afraid that everyone in the world would know their true faces. They put on powder again and again!

The Qing Dynasty did not want to see their ‘slaves and dogs’ change their masters so easily, and then turn around and beat themselves and bite themselves. When an order came down, hundreds of thousands of middle and low-level officials had to pack up their belongings in tears. They didn’t want to leave, they actually wanted to stay, but their masters held knives in their hands, and if they didn’t leave, they would bleed and kill people, so they had to leave!

When the capital was in chaos, the Old Summer Palace was also in chaos. Those well-informed eunuchs had begun to steal all kinds of jewelry and curios in the palace. Some of them even secretly escaped from the palace, or simply hid in remote palace rooms.

They were different from the palace maids, the latter were all owned by someone. The palace maids of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were all under the banner of the Baoyi Banner, but the eunuchs were all kinds of people. Now that the palace was in chaos, the First Town of the Eight Banners New Army left in Beijing took out a banner to act as a transport team, moving a large amount of gold, silver, calligraphy and paintings stored in the palace onto the car.

And the Old Summer Palace.

Yongsheng had been staying in the Yangxin Palace, changing into casual clothes, looking at the concubines with tears in their eyes. Yongsheng didn't have many wives and concubines. He had four sons, but except for the eldest son Mianhui who was established, the other three sons all died. This child was all the concubine Wanyan, the daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Gongyi.

The pain of losing her sons again and again also completely destroyed Wanyan's health.

When Yongsheng succeeded Qianlong as the emperor, Wanyan still hoped that one day her son would ascend the throne and inherit the throne. But now it seems like a joke.

An eight-year-old child in the royal family is not young anymore and is very sensible. Mianhui knew why his father summoned him to meet him. He cried and said to Yongsheng: "Father, I am willing to stay with you..."