Dashun Yongchang

The biggest difference between the noble family and ordinary gentry lies in the mastery of the high-level sources of the court, while the difference between the gentry and the poor family lies in the understanding of the inside story of the government's decrees, and the difference between the poor family and the grassroots is that the latter even has official documents from the court. can not see.Compared with the so-called power, in fact, the right to control information is the foundation of the survival of a famous family.

After the last time the Guide Mansion was breached by the peasant army, causing the Hou family to suffer huge losses, the Hou family could no longer afford another similar loss. Hou Xun lived in seclusion outside the city before because he did not want the Hou family to be involved again. The war between Shun and Ming, because he has lost confidence in whether Daming can exterminate the rogues, but the honor and status of the Hou clan come from the court, as long as he continues to show his face, he will have to shoulder the mission of maintaining the village against the rogues, Otherwise, Daming's official relations would be useless.

However, after Li Zicheng set up the banner of escorting the remains of the prince and the late emperor to the south, the Hongguang court in the south almost lost its legitimacy. Even Hou Xun had to go to Xuzhou to pay homage to the late emperor and meet the prince in person. The status of monarch and minister among the princes is gone.

At this time, it was already difficult for the gentry from all over the world to unfurl the righteous banner of supporting the Ming Dynasty to exterminate the thieves, because their future monarch was in Li Zicheng's army, and attacking Li Zicheng was actually opposing the prince's succession to the Datong.In fact, Ming Dynasty did not have a strong successor to the throne who could resist the legitimacy of the prince, not King Fu, let alone others.Nanjing's move to embrace Fuwang first cut off the possibility of other choices, because other people had to decide whether to challenge Emperor Hongguang's succession before they could challenge the crown prince's orthodox heir status.

So those who opposed Emperor Hongguang simply chose to support the prince. Those who supported Emperor Hongguang felt that after Emperor Hongguang had no future, he would rather return to the status of a supporter of the prince than try to support other people, because now the only way to support the prince is to support the prince. Will be liquidated, because the prince himself has no power, and the power of the prince comes from Li Zicheng.

After Li Zicheng defeated the Azig Army, Marshal Du's Mansion, the military and political core shaped by Li Zicheng, won more hearts. Marshal's Mansion, but as long as they don't directly name Dashun, everyone doesn't have to choose between Shunming. This is at least a good way to deceive one's ears.

This is the biggest reason why the main representatives of the Guide gentry will appear outside the city gate to welcome Li Zicheng. After the Shun army defeated the Qing army going south, they recognized the highest military and political authority that seemed to represent the unity of Dashun and Ming. , In fact, it is also an acknowledgment of the trend of Dashun replacing Daming, but this is not the same as the psychology of the gentry in various places a year ago.

When the Peasant Army hit the outskirts of Beijing a year ago, except for a few gentry who were still trying to save Ming Dynasty, most people were ready to accept the demise of Ming Dynasty.The reason they accepted the demise of the Ming Dynasty was not that the peasant army was too powerful, but because they lost support for the imperial court, which could neither quell internal civil uprisings nor resist the invasion of the Manchus.

However, the gentry from all over the world still have a certain psychological advantage when facing the peasant army, because they think that this is just a desperate move by a group of refugees who cannot survive. up.Although Li Zicheng and other rebels roamed across the Central Plains, they almost never approached the most prosperous and affluent Jiangnan region of the empire. This is why some officials wanted to persuade Chongzhen to go south.

Therefore, before Li Zicheng defeated the Azig army, the general opinion of the Ming gentry was that the Manchus outside the customs were indeed tyrannical, and that no matter how mobilized the official army was, they would not be able to defeat them. The Liaodong Ming army was ranked first among the Ming army With the power of one, under the supply of the court, there was almost no shortage of salary, which was much better than that of other frontier soldiers.

However, the force of the bandits is not much stronger than that of the official army. If it wasn't for the court's messing around, Sun Chuanting would have almost wiped out Li Zicheng at the beginning. Gained the upper hand, if the court hadn't dragged itself back, the thieves would have been wiped out long ago.

Therefore, in the eyes of the gentry, as long as there is an outstanding figure who integrates the power of Daming, it is not difficult to extinguish the thieves.So whether the surname should be Li in this world is not Li Zicheng's final say, but depends on whether these gentry support the new dynasty.This is why Li Zicheng's torture of officials after entering Beijing will anger the gentry everywhere.

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang claimed to "kill all the millions of soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River, and the sword on his waist is still bloody", but he didn't see any gentry who dared to stand up against Emperor Zhu. They just lived in seclusion and did not become officials of the Ming Dynasty. man of faith.

Before Li Zicheng showed his overwhelming strength, the gentry would jump out and bark at him, but after Li Zicheng showed his strength to defeat the Manchus, the gentry wisely chose to back down.In order to prevent their own family from becoming the chicken that was slaughtered by the new dynasty, local prominent families like Hou Xun had to show surrender to Li Zicheng.

Even if dozens of members of his family died at the hands of the Shun Army, to the helmsmen of these big families, the deaths of these people were nothing more than loyalty to the old dynasty, not resistance to the new dynasty.In Hou Xun's view, with the death of these family members and clansmen, the Hou family's grace to Daming has been repaid, and how to make the Hou family continue to thrive in the new dynasty is the most important thing.

For a nephew who regards the battle between Daming and Dashun as a personal grievance between the Hou family and Li Zicheng, it is a bit petty, so it is said that warriors cannot be in charge of the family business, otherwise the family will inevitably die because of these people's rash decisions. Cut off the inheritance.After all, Hou Xun didn't dare to sit still, so he pretended not to know anything and went to see Ding Kuichu.

After Hou Xun entered the Ding Mansion, he realized that there was someone in the living room who had come earlier than himself.

Ye Tinggui has also arrived.Ye Tinggui's luck was actually quite good. He was in the capital when Guide Mansion was besieged by the peasant army. Afterwards, the Ming army was defeated in the Battle of Songshan. The news of being captured by the peasant army, so he went south to Lianghuai to join the eldest son Ye Yuanzi.

After Beijing was captured by the peasant army, he chose to support King Fu's ascension to the throne, but party struggles broke out within the Hongguang Dynasty, which made him very disappointed in the Hongguang Dynasty.After Emperor Hongguang abdicated, he simply resigned again, then went to Yangzhou to pay homage to the first emperor, and then returned home with his family.

Both Ye Tinggui and Ding Kuichu were Juren in Wanli for 40 years, but Ye Tinggui's luck was much worse on the way to Jinshi, but it did not hinder the relationship between the two.Therefore, after Ye Tinggui returned to his hometown, he and Ding Kuichu got very close.

Hou Xun sat down and

Ye Tinggui chatted for a few words before he realized that the other party was invited by Ding Kuichu, and he himself didn't know what Ding Kuichu invited him to do.Just when Hou Xun was puzzled, Ding Kuichu, who had put on his home clothes, walked into the living room with a haggard face.

After meeting Hou Xun and Ye Tinggui, Ding Kuichu said bluntly to them: "At first I wanted to talk to Brother Ye, and then I asked Brother Ye and Brother Hou to talk, because I'm sick now and it's not suitable to see you." Too many people have returned to the countryside to recuperate after handing over their official duties in a day or two."

Hou Xun is actually younger than both of them, but although he was late in the exam, he was admitted as a Jinshi with Ding Kuichu, and his official career was more prosperous than the two, so his relationship with Ding Kuichu was not as deep as that of Ye Tinggui. The relationship was relatively shallow, so he immediately heard the implication of Ding Kuichu's words, and Ye Tinggui asked a little puzzled: "Brother Ding, what's wrong with you? Weren't you fine before?"

Ding Kuichu twitched the corners of his mouth, squeezed out a bitter smile and said, "Your Majesty said that I should take care of my body and not become sick from overwork. I think what Your Majesty said is right. Since I want to take care of my illness, I shouldn't see too many foreigners." Isn't it a guest?"

Ding Kuichu was known as a child prodigy when he was young. Although he may not be very good at doing things, he is still quite keen when trying to figure out what he wants.Almost as soon as he walked out of Song Quan's mansion, he figured out Li Zicheng's intentions, which is why he immediately invited his old friend to meet.

Hou Xun was silent and was thinking about where he should ask, but Ye Tinggui asked Ding Kuichu bluntly: "Brother Ding, you didn't make any mistakes in your tenure. Why did Emperor Yongchang humiliate you like this? Could it be that he You just won a game, and you want to humiliate the gentry again?"

Ding Kuichu glanced at Hou Xun, and said to Ye Tinggui just now: "Brother Ye, do you know why I invited you over, but no one else?"

Ye Tinggui looked at the other party with a puzzled face, and then Ding Kuichu said: "Although the Ye family is also a Guide family, when the Shun army attacked the city last time,

You are not in Guide, so you have nothing to do with Shunjun, so I won't be too taboo when I invite you to come and talk.

The reason why His Majesty asked me to go back to my hometown to recuperate was actually for two things. The first thing was the clearing of the land, and the second thing was about the confiscation of Song Quan's property. "

Ye Tinggui was still thinking about the connection between these two incidents and Ding Kuichu's forced resignation, and Hou Xun sighed and got up to bid farewell to Ding Kuichu. At least Emperor Yongchang didn't mean to kill them all, but it seems that the matter of clearing up the land really can't be dragged on. Take care."

Ye Tinggui followed Ding Kuichu to send Hou Xun away, and then he frowned and said, "What is Brother Hou doing here? You just sat down for a while and left?"

Ding Kuichu was silent for a while and then said: "He has heard what he wants to hear, so he should go. Forget about him, I invite you to come over, I still want to remind you, I heard that you and Song Yuanping The relationship is good? If you have any documents to contact him, it would be better to destroy them as soon as possible..."

Chapter 476 Bai Guangen's Life

"Master, shall I bring you breakfast?" A young woman in red wrung out a towel soaked in hot water and handed it to Bai Guangen who had just returned from exercising.

Bai Guangen, who had been exercising for half an hour in the morning, also had a lot of sweat on his forehead. He took the hot towel and wiped it off, then nodded and replied, "Send it here, Liangbi is going out?"

The concubine arranged for the maid to serve vegetables, and replied obediently: "Brother just went to the Yamen to eat."

Bai Guangen walked to the table and sat down, took a sip of millet porridge from the handmaid, and said with emotion: "It's still millet porridge to support people."

Seeing this, the concubine also leaned over and said, "Master, when can we go back to Shaanxi? I ​​miss my family too, this capital is really not a place for people to live in now."

Bai Guangen was not annoyed when he heard this, he took a bite of oil cake, and then slowly said: "Nonsense, aren't we human? What do you mean that the capital is not a place for people to live? I remember that you just wanted to make a living in the capital." Is the house settled down? Look at the house we live in now, it is much bigger than what you wanted at the beginning. "

The concubine sighed and said: "I used to want to stay in the capital because the people in the capital were so lively. At that time, all kinds of famous and special products from all over the world were available in the capital, not to mention eating, drinking and having fun, which was not comparable to my hometown in Shaanxi.

But now the people in the inner city have been kicked out, and when I go out, I meet only Liao people who speak Manchurian, so we have become outsiders here.Don't say that you can't see famous rare specialties, and now you can't even meet anyone who can talk.What's the difference between living here and going to jail? "

Bai Guangen asked with a normal expression: "Aren't people going to the outer city now?"

The concubine even shook her head and said: "At least there is food in the inner city, and now the outer city can't even guarantee food. If the families of officials who used to live in the inner city failed to be elected as officials in the court, now they can only Living by pawning their property, the civilians below will suffer even more. If they want to leave the city to flee famine, they will have to starve to death if they stay in the city. They say that now is not as good as it was when Dashun was here..."

Bai Guangen finally put down the bowl and chopsticks heavily and scolded: "Shut up, you are a big man, you don't know what to say and what not to say! This is what you can say? If outsiders listen to you , our family has to be buried in your mouth."

The little concubine was taken aback, and quickly closed her mouth. Looking at the little concubine Bai Guangen who was secretly wiping away tears, he couldn't bear it anymore. In fact, he also felt that what his little concubine said was right. The current Beijing city is like a big prison.

In fact, the scope of his activities is smaller than that of his own concubine, because there are no relatives and friends he can visit in the inner city. Although he can be regarded as entering the banner now, the new Han army they joined after entering the customs is actually not They are not trusted, so even colleagues in the same banner have nothing to talk about. Everyone can only be wary of each other, for fear of saying something that should not be said and being informed.

Only after experiencing the wariness of the Manchus against these Han generals, did Bai Guangen feel that Dashun treated these surrendering generals simply too politely, allowing them to bring their own troops after surrendering.On the Manchu side, a military leader like him was trapped in the city of Beijing, and the generals below could still be reused by the Manchus, but he was separated from his own troops.

For these generals, only by sharing joys and sorrows with soldiers in the army can they gain the strength of these soldiers.If you are not in the army at ordinary times and only lead the army when it is time to fight, then this army is only obeying your command, and will not be loyal to you anymore.

Bai Guangen knew that it would be difficult for him to go out to lead troops to fight in the future, because he was neither the old Han army that the Manchus were close to, nor the Liaodong people, and he had more troops.The Manchus are still very polite to those surrendering generals who only have a few thousand troops in their hands, but they will not give any chance to make meritorious service to generals with more than tens of thousands of troops. For example, how many troops did King Sanshun bring when he surrendered? This time when they entered the customs, there was still this little force, and Wu Sangui was an exception.

The most influential person in Liaodong Town is naturally the ancestral family, but Wu Sangui was the commander-in-chief of Liaodong Town in the Ming Dynasty who persisted until the end, so he naturally became the head coach of Liaodong Town who surrendered to the Manchus in name.Removing Wu Sangui would make it easier for the Liaodong people to gather around their ancestral home, so the Manchus had to tolerate Wu Sangui continuing to control this huge Han army.

On the other hand, compared with the total number of Ming troops who surrendered to the Manchus after the Manchus entered the customs, the officers and soldiers of Liaodong Town led by Wu Sangui were only a small part. Wu Sangui, an independent military group.As for the Bai Guangen tribe that surrendered outside Shanhaiguan, although the number is almost the same as Wu Sangui's tribe, the Manchus did not allow this army to exist independently.

Since he was left in the city of Beijing, Bai Guangen had the time to think about how the Manchus treated himself and other Han surrendered generals, so he understood a lot of things that he couldn't see before.

In the past, when he held the army in his hands, he felt that he could be sold for a price. In fact, many generals of the Ming army had this idea.But now he finally understands that this is nothing but wishful thinking. No matter Da Ming, Da Shun or Man Qing, it is impossible to tolerate those generals who try to use the army as a fool. Even if they accept their conditions, they will sooner or later agree with them. liquidate the account.

Therefore, their best choice is to always be loyal to Daming. After all, they are the old masters, and they will be more tolerant to them; followed by Dashun, but Dashun is still the world of Han people; If I want to use you, I will always be on guard against you.It's just that I understood this truth a little too late.

Bai Guangen felt that the price he paid was a bit high.

Sighing in his heart, this concubine is the only one around him who is reliable, at least not the eyes and ears of the people, so he put down his body and whispered a few words of comfort.Then the concubine choked up and said: "I can only say this to the master. How dare we speak out outside? Looking at the crowds on the street, the concubine is very panicked. It's not very important. I don’t want to go out…”

Hearing the little concubine's sobs, Bai Guangen suddenly felt that millet porridge didn't taste good anymore, and suddenly he hated Li Zicheng a little bit. If this guy hadn't kept him in the first place, he wouldn't be under house arrest here. life.Although he can't go out at will now, the news of Azig's defeat has been spread in the Eight Banners for a long time. See and hear.

The reason why he was able to live in the capital before was because he was able to reunite with his son, who was captured by the Manchus when he was in Liaodong. This time, after he surrendered, the father and son were finally reunited; secondly, he felt that Li Zicheng might be fine. Now is the chance to stand up. After all, Emperor Yongchang insisted on sending troops to Shanhaiguan first, but he was hit by Wu Sangui's plan to delay the army on the way, and then retreated without fighting again when he arrived at Shanhaiguan.

Judging from Li Zicheng's series of operations, he felt that Li Zicheng probably made these chaotic decisions because he was dazzled by the victory.Thinking that people like himself were sent to the Manchus for nothing, he complained about Li Zicheng, and it was not impossible to fight at Shanhaiguan that day, even if the Qing army had already run outside Shanhaiguan, but if you fight, Dashun may not lose.

Li Zicheng's refusal to take the gamble is timid in Bai Guangen's view. Can a timid military commander still win the war?Therefore, when he surrendered to Manren, even though he had no other choice, the stone in his heart fell.But the only thing he didn't expect was that after Li Zicheng fled all the way south, he could achieve another great victory in Henan.

What Bai Guangen didn't know was that the Qing army had already been defeated twice in the battles of Huangtuzhuang and Tianjin, and the defeat of the Azig army in Henan was the third time.In order to maintain their deterrent force against the Han people, the Manchus concealed the previous two defeats, saying that they had won a small victory, anyway, did the Shun army really retreat?

But this time the defeat of the Azig Army could not be concealed any longer. Only when Bai Guangen learned about it did he think that the Shun Army had defeated the Manchus for the first time.Because of Azig's failure, Bai Guangen felt that he had lost money in surrendering to the Manchurians. If he followed Li Zicheng to the south that day, he would not only have to live under house arrest in Beijing, but also earn military merits in this war. up.

Bai Guangen felt that among the generals in the Shun Army, Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin were the only ones who could make him feel inferior. The others were on the same level as him. Therefore, since the Shun Army could defeat the Azig Army, he had no reason will lose.Therefore, Li Zicheng is looking down on him. Fortunately, he really thought that Li Zicheng had confided in him.

Bai Guangen can only scold Li Zicheng in his heart now, but at this moment, the butler walked into the courtyard with a manchurian shrimp, and Bai Guangen, who was sitting in the living room facing the courtyard, saw it at a glance, and he subconsciously stood up stand up.

During Huang Taiji's reign, it was stipulated that the guards around Khan were guards, and the guards around Baylor the kings were guards. Although they were divided into first, second and third ranks, the status of guards was one level higher than that of guards.This is actually Huang Taiji's further performance of internal centralization, using the status of people around him to highlight his own status, further destroying the remnants of the tribal alliance within the Manchus, making Aixinjueluo the master of all Manchus.In the Nurhachi era, Aixinjueluo was actually the leader of the Jurchen ministries, not the master.

But Huang Taiji suddenly died suddenly, and the Nine Kings defeated political opponents such as Haoge and Jierhalang and became the regent of his uncle. A large number of his cronies even blatantly used the guards belonging to the emperor as his own guards.

The one who can drive straight into his mansion like this is naturally the manchurian shrimp beside Jiu Wang.Bai Guangen's judgment was correct. The manchurian shrimp just glanced at the unfinished breakfast on the table, and then blatantly sent him a message that the Nine Kings wanted to see him, and asked him to go to the Prince Regent's Mansion immediately.

Chapter 477 Dorgon One

Although Bai Guangen was a little surprised how the regent would think of himself as an idler, since he handed over his military power, he has completely become an idle bannerman in Beijing. Apart from being a soldier and an official, a bannerman is not allowed to participate in other livelihoods , even the new Han army like them have to abide by such rules, so Bai Guangen is really free.

Since the regent ascended the throne in Beijing in Shunzhi last year as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he himself has become the righteous uncle regent, and since then he has started a career of monopolizing the government. Harang, Daishan and others were restrained, but the changes in the internal power of the Manchus brought about by the relocation of the capital made these three original Manchurian power factions lose most of their foundations.

In the agricultural era, if you want to raise soldiers, you must first support people, and to support people, you need land.The large and small manors outside the customs are the foundation of these Eight Banners relatives, and their people and soldiers are born on these private estates.But after the capital was moved, the power to distribute the land was in the hands of the regent. In this way, Dorgon controlled most of the Eight Banners relatives and nobles, forcing these people to obey him.

For example, Tan Tai and others from the two yellow flags have already begun to show their favor to the regent, and even if Haoge, Jierhalang, Daishan and others are unwilling to move their servants to Beijing, their manor is now far away The city of Beijing is also quite far away, which means that their private power can no longer threaten Dorgon.

Therefore, Hauge, who still had a certain strength outside the customs, almost became a loner after arriving in the customs, completely at the mercy of Dorgon.Daishan, who once played an important role in the negotiation of Khan's position, was helpless except to delay the entry.As for Jierhalang, who was recommended by Hauge to regent with Dorgon, he was only divided into a master and slave with Dorgon when he was outside the customs, but after the capital was moved, he was deprived of all parliamentary power.

Dorgon, who has the power in his hands, is naturally very busy, not to mention summoning idlers like Bai Guangen, even if Bai Guangen took the initiative to ask to see the regent, it would not be a good time.So Bai Guangen followed the manchurian shrimp to Xiaonancheng with a trace of fear and excitement, and he even sent the manchurian shrimp a snack, wondering why the regent summoned him.

Regardless of whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, silver was quite easy to use. Although the price of goods in Beijing was soaring due to the lack of food, the Manchus still preferred to collect gold and silver rather than elegant things like antique calligraphy and paintings.Obviously, the Manchus at this time are not even proficient in the knowledge of accepting bribes, and they don’t know that if they circulate antique calligraphy and paintings, it will be much more efficient than collecting a dozen or 20 taels of silver at a time, because no amount of silver can be carried with them. up.

It's just that this Manchurian shrimp didn't know why Dorgon summoned him, he just said that the Nine Kings ordered him to be summoned after talking with the two Han officials, and seemed to have something to ask him.

When I came to the mansion of Dorgon in Xiaonan City, the decayed Xiaonan City had completely changed. Because Li Zicheng did not burn down the palace city before leaving the capital, the regent spent all his thoughts on building his own mansion. It is said that It also embezzled a lot of big wood that was originally used to repair the palace.

Seven or eight months have passed, and this luxurious residence of the Prince Regent has also begun to take shape. Coupled with the police posts deployed from the street corner, this place seems to have completely become another Forbidden City.Dorgon's rule was very strict, so the security of Xiaonancheng was even stricter than that of Daming. Under the eyes of these Manchurian soldiers, Bai Guangen felt great pressure, and he immediately restrained himself. Without squinting, he walked into the Prince Regent's Palace.

After passing through several corridors and moon gates, Bai Guangen was brought into a hall. Seeing the manchurian shrimp in front of him stop and salute his superior, Bai Guangen quickly followed suit and made a salute to his uncle, the regent. asked Ann.

Soon a voice came from the top, "General Bai, don't be too polite, come forward and talk, go and get a chair for General Bai."

Soon, a guard moved a chair from the side and placed it in the middle of the hall. Bai Guangen thanked the regent before sitting down cautiously, not daring to sit still.When he sat down, he also took the opportunity to look at the person sitting above him from the corner of his eye, and found that besides the regent, there were two Han officials sitting on the left and right, one was his old boss Hong Chengchou, the other The position is Song Quan.

Only then did Bai Guangen understand who the two Han officials Manchuria Xia was talking about were. He was wondering how Dorgon would mention himself when he was talking to these two people, and whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. Here Dorgon spoke to him again. Said: "General Bai, don't be nervous. The king came here because he wanted to ask you something. I heard that you were taken seriously when Li Zicheng was by his side. You also participated in Li Zicheng's discussions on important military and political affairs. ,Yeah?"

Although Bai Guangen didn't know what Dorgon wanted to ask himself, he still replied without hesitation: "Although Li Zicheng liked to call his subordinates for a meeting to discuss military affairs, those of us surrendered generals were just listening in. What Li Zicheng wanted to hear were those who followed him. Brother’s speech. As for government matters, they will not be discussed at the military meeting, Li Zicheng will only discuss with Niu Jinxing and others..."

When Bai Guangen introduced the internal power organization and decision-making process of the Shun Army, Dorgon listened with gusto, and raised a few detailed questions from time to time.Bai Guangen soon realized that the Prince Regent summoned him this time not for himself, but because he wanted to learn information about the Shun Army from him.

In fact, he had already shared this information with the Manchus once before. After he surrendered to the Manchus at Shanhaiguan, the Manchus sent many people to the army to collect information on the commanding and combat habits of the Shun army.He was not the only one who was questioned, his subordinates were also questioned, but the last time Manchu seemed to be a bit routine and didn't show any special attention.

Seeing the regent's serious attitude today, Bai Guangen was also shocked in his heart. Obviously, the attack caused by the Shun army to the Manchus really hurt the Manchus, otherwise the regent would not be so eager to call himself over to ask These things.As a person who survived between the rebel army and the official army, Bai Guangen was still able to hide his emotions, so he hardly showed anything, but answered Dorgon's question honestly.But Bai Guangen didn't notice that he replied too fast, as if he was gloating.

Neither Dorgon nor Song Quan noticed Bai Guangen's abnormality, they only cared about what Bai Guangen said, but Hong Chengchou looked at Bai Guangen with complicated eyes. He obviously noticed the abnormality of this old subordinate.But Hong Chengchou didn't say anything after all, and continued to listen silently.

Dorgon questioned Bai Guangen repeatedly for nearly an hour. After hearing the other party repeating, he finally stopped the questioning and said to Bai Guangen: "General Bai also made a contribution to this dynasty by abandoning darkness and turning to light at Shanhaiguan. However, I was busy with my affairs before, so I ignored General Bai. If you have time in the future, come and visit me. Your son is also down-to-earth, and I will reward him. I hope you father and son will continue to work hard in the future. ..."

Speaking of which, Dorgon picked up the teacup at hand, Bai Guangen was stunned for a while before he realized it, and quickly got up to leave.When he went out with the guards of the palace, he was also a little surprised at how familiar and keen these Manchus were to the rules of Daming's officialdom, as if they were only now enjoying the fun of being an official.

After Bai Guangen left, Dorgon glanced at the newspaper on the table beside him, and then said to Hong Chengchou and Song Quan: "What do you think of what Bai Guangen said just now? Can you see who is advising Li Zicheng?"

Hong Chengchou was the first to say: "When the slave was in charge of suppressing thieves in the pass, Li Zicheng hadn't become popular yet, so the rogues who rebelled with Li Zicheng should not have such insight. After that, the slave has been outside the pass all the time. I understand very well, just listening to the few words of people like Bai Guangen, it is really difficult for the servant to judge the person who advises Li Zicheng."

Seeing this, Dorgon turned his attention to Song Quan. Compared with Hong Chengchou, Song Quan had been among the thieves for a while at least.But Song Quan still shook his head and said: "What the servant said before is still the same as what he thinks now, there is no change.

The advisers around Li Zicheng depended on Niu Jinxing for government affairs, Song Xiance for military strategy, Yang Yongyu, Gu Junen and others.Looking at those close to him, Niu Jinxing is a great Ming Juren, Song Xiance is a quack warlock, Yang Yongyu, and Gu Junen are all low-level officials who have no ambitions. Their knowledge and structure can disturb the world, but they cannot calm the world.

As for those high-ranking Ming officials who surrendered to the Shun Dynasty, they were forced by the general situation and believed that Ming's destiny had come to an end, so they switched to the Shun Dynasty. Officials and gentry from all over the country came to vote one after another.

Therefore, the servant never felt that there was such a so-called expert around Li Zicheng.The servant thought that this was just Li Zicheng's achievements by mistake. "

Dorgon was quite displeased when he heard this. He was not a scholar who said that he respected ghosts and gods and stayed away. Manchus worshiped shamans decades ago, and it was only later that Huang Taiji converted him to believe in Tibetan Buddhism.Tibetan Buddhism itself is a new religion created by combining Buddhist teachings with mysticism such as shamanism. From this point of view, it is somewhat more progressive than shamanism worshiped by totems.

In Dorgon's view, what kind of accidental collision is tantamount to acknowledging Li Zicheng's destiny? Only those who are favored by the destiny will turn evil into good fortune and get things done, so Huang Taiji always said God bless him when he fought in the past. Manchu people, so that Manchu people believe that Huang Taiji is the real man, and he will definitely win if he goes to war with him.

Therefore, Dorgon immediately cut off Song Quan's words and said: "One time was a mistake, and the second time and three times were also mistakes? See Li Zicheng's method of conquering the four towns in Jiangbei and forcing Emperor Hongguang to abdicate and return to the vassal. The money and food, without arousing the resistance of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, can this be achieved by mistake? In that case, how can we deal with Li Zicheng? He can win us no matter what he does. There is no need for such useless words It's laid out, what this king wants now is how to deal with Li Zicheng, not what you said about Li Zicheng's good luck..."

Chapter 478 Dorgon II

Facing Dorgon's dissatisfaction, Song Quan could only keep his mouth shut.After pondering for a moment, Dorgon said: "If we can't find such a counselor beside Li Zicheng, then we should attribute all this to Li Zicheng, and then make a new understanding of Li Zicheng."

For these Han people, Dorgon basically agrees with Huang Taiji's view that they must be used but must be controlled.Compared with the simple-minded Manchus, the Han people are undoubtedly more flexible, but there is no handicraft work that the Han people can't do well, and the Manchus are far from being able to compare with the Han people except for the skills of making bows and saddles. of.

Therefore, although Dorgon also advocated admiring the Manchuria, he also believed that the Manchus were inseparable from the Han people, because the affairs other than fighting were basically done by the Han people. If there were no these Han people to do these things, then the Manchus would not only It is impossible to concentrate on fighting, and it is difficult to enjoy the comfortable life now.

Therefore, Manchurianism has changed a lot from Nurhaci to Huangtaiji. The Manchus in Nurhaci also advocated the complete expulsion of the Han people from Liaodong.But in the later period of Huang Taiji's administration, Manchurianism has been transformed into Manchurians first, Mongols second, and Hans third. Manchuria should allow Hans to exist, but these Hans can only exist as slaves of Manchus, not beyond Manchuria. Man becomes the leader of the country.

After entering the customs, Dorgon divided the Han people into the old Han army and the new Han army. He believed that the old Han army could almost be regarded as his own, while the new Han army was the surveillance object to be observed. But it can still be used to suppress those Han people who do not accept the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

However, whether it is the old Han army or the new Han army, in Dorgon's view, there is a problem, that is, they like to form small circles, and then form cliques to fight each other.Although there are also struggles among the Manchus, the Manchus have been facing one or several powerful enemies since they raised their troops against the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, although the Manchus’ internal struggles are cruel, the scope of the struggles will not spread to the lower levels. On external issues, the Manchus are still able to maintain unity.

Of course, this is not to say how noble the character of the Manchus is, but because of the beneficial legacy of the tribal alliance system.Nurhachi’s unified establishment of Jurchen was not essentially annexation of other Jurchen tribes by the Aixinjueluo clan, but a tribal alliance co-owner like Genghis Khan. It’s just that Nurhachi stayed in the Ming army for a long time, so he imitated the Ming army The Eight Banners, the organizational form of the national army, was established, thus depriving the small tribes of their right to rule over the tribal people.

On the contrary, although the Mongols established the dominance of the Golden Family over the Mongols, Genghis Khan did not completely take away their ruling power over the tribesmen from the hands of the Mongolian tribal lords.The Mongols fought for Genghis Khan, but their families were still controlled by the various Taijis, and even after they retired from the army, they still had to return to their tribes. Therefore, the Mongols did not directly pledge their allegiance to the Golden Family, but first Yu Xiaotaiji, Xiaotaiji is loyal to Dataiji, and then he is loyal to the Golden Family.

This kind of feudal lord structure based on nomadic life makes the Golden Family have little power in their hands, so they are often betrayed by the big and small Taiji below.But Jianzhou Jurchens are not nomads, they also cultivate land, so when Nurhaci brought these small tribes out of the deep mountains and old forests, and then distributed them to the fields near Shenyang, he took the right from the chiefs of these small tribes. their dominion over the people.

In this way, the Aixinjueluo clan, who was originally only the co-owner of the tribal alliance, soon became the Great Khan of the Houjin Kingdom, surpassing the status of the patriarchs of other Jurchen tribes and becoming the co-lord of the Jurchen clan.However, as a nation and a country, Jianzhou Jurchen are still very young, so the politics of the post-Jin Kingdom has not yet completely broken away from the organizational form of joint consultations by representatives of various ministries. .

However, unlike the national consciousness aroused by the Manchus during the war, the Han people had not really completed the reconstruction of their national consciousness at this time.The consciousness of nationality existed in the Chinese during the Spring and Autumn and Western Han Dynasties, as well as in the Southern Song Dynasty and the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Because the Chinese living in the Central Plains in these periods were threatened by external enemies, they formed a Han consciousness.

The reason why the Red Turban Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was able to destroy the Mongol cavalry and destroy a part of a world empire was that the Han people’s national consciousness was aroused under the Mongol rule, thus truly separating the Mongols from China. People are separated.Even though those Han landlords and scholars still supported Da Yuan, they did not resist the rising consciousness of national independence.

Zhu Yuanzhang's expulsion of the Mongols to restore China's territory is actually consistent with the actions taken by the Spaniards for more than 700 years to recover the lost land.The Spaniards wiped out all the kingdoms established by the Arabs in the Iberian Peninsula, and then rebuilt the Spanish Kingdom, which inspired the Spaniards' sense of national honor, thus creating the Spanish Empire Age.