Dashun Yongchang

Chapter 581

After the prospect of the new government gradually emerged, Ma Shiying naturally realized that her responsibility was actually not to control the country's personnel for Li Zicheng, but to run the country.

Ma Shiying is not a pedantic person, although he reads the books of sages, but he is not a well-behaved Taoist, otherwise he would not be able to play Shi Kefa, Lu Daqi and other Donglin gentlemen on the applause.

When he moved closer to Li Zicheng, he naturally accepted Li Zicheng's ideas on governing the country.Yes, it is an idea rather than an idea. After all, an idea can be changed at any time, but once an idea is confirmed, it is difficult to change it, because when an idea is accepted by people, it is no longer the unique idea of ​​the proposer, and others will not allow it You can modify it as you like.

Ma Shiying and Li Zicheng's series of discussions and policy formulation on governing the country are based on the concept of running the country. Not only the two of them, but the entire new government officials are also being indoctrinated with this concept.This also means that neither Li Zicheng nor Ma Shiying can easily betray this idea, otherwise the new government will collapse quickly.

And the concept of running a country is indeed much stronger than defending the emperor's country. After all, the emperor may be a foolish emperor, or he may be a self-willed monarch like Chongzhen. Opposition opinions will be issued, which means that there will be fewer obstacles for everyone to do things.

Now that he has accepted the idea of ​​running a country, Ma Shiying is naturally interested in selling overseas land to fill the fiscal deficit. After all, he can get an extra fortune without offending a large number of vested interests in the country. This is of course a good thing Couldn't be better.

Therefore, in the past, his actions for overseas colonization were just following Li Zicheng's footsteps.But now, he feels that overseas colonization is a necessary good governance for the new government, which is almost as important as the salt tax to the country.

Under the promotion of Ma Shiying, Zheng Zhilong's expansion of power in the Mekong Delta has also proceeded very smoothly.At this time, the Mekong Delta is still in an undeveloped virgin jungle. Although the place belongs to the Kingdom of Cambodia, the population of the Kingdom of Cambodia is mainly in the Tonle Sap Lake Plain. There is no interest in developing the jungle of the Mekong Delta that floods every year. Vietnamese people are constantly migrating to the delta to ease the pressure of domestic population growth.

The only slightly larger port city in the Mekong Delta is called Priango, which means the forest of the kingdom in Khmer; Saigon was also written on the official documents, which means the only way to pay tribute from the west. This city is also the residence of the Deputy King of Cambodia.

However, at this time, the Kingdom of Cambodia was falling into constant civil strife. In 1642, the son of Jeta II killed King Annan I with the help of Malay Muslim businessmen and proclaimed himself king as Ramatibadi I.Later, he gave up his Buddhist beliefs and converted to Islam, took the Christian name Ibrahim, launched the Cambodian-Dutch War, and cleared out the Dutch forces in the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Although Ramatibadi I regained control of the kingdom, he could not eliminate the various power groups in Cambodia. At this time, there are two major forces in Cambodia, one is pro-Thai and the other is pro-Vietnamese. Thailand was once The Kingdom of Cambodia was destroyed. Although the Kingdom of Cambodia was restored later, there are still a large number of pro-Thai people in the country.Although Vietnam has not destroyed the Kingdom of Cambodia, it has occupied many territories of the Kingdom of Cambodia through continuous wars. For Cambodia, Vietnam is an emerging power.

At this time, China suddenly sent people to Cambodia to intervene, trying to buy land from the Kingdom of Cambodia to build a port, which made the political situation in Cambodia even more chaotic.After much deliberation, Ramatibadi I finally did not dare to offend the Shang Kingdom of the Central Plains. In April of the fourth year of Yongchang, he sent envoys to Yangzhou to pay tribute to Dashun to establish the suzerain-vassal relationship, and secondly, he hoped to obtain the favor of Dashun. Protect.

Ma Shiying must have been very happy about the coming of the Kingdom of Cambodia, because he could ask the emperor for credit and reward. After all, this is a tribute from afar, which means that the prestige of the dynasty has expanded outwards.

However, he knew that Li Zicheng didn't like this, so Ma Shiying just called Zheng Zhilong over to pay tribute to the Kingdom of Cambodia, and asked him, "How much land can be sold in Cambodia?"

Although Zheng Zhilong was also a sea merchant, he is paying more and more attention to his image now. After all, he has already gone ashore and become a marquis. Regarding Ma Shiying's naked question, he said very dissatisfied: "We are also How could the kingdom of the heavens sell the land belonging to the country at will, Mr. Ma Ge, what you said is too much."

Ma Shiying said disapprovingly: "If you don't sell the overseas land to fill the fiscal deficit, how can your navy's budget be able to drink from the northwest wind? Your navy has also made a lot of money from overseas trade. Why haven't I seen you bring it back to support the national treasury? "

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he immediately changed the subject and said: "The Mekong Delta plus the Champa Kingdom on the side is about 3 to 4 times the size of Taiwan. Mao estimates that 1000 million more land can be divided for sale."

Now Ma Shiying frowned and said, "Didn't Cham pay tribute to us just now? Why did you include Cham's land? Besides, Cham has a lot of interests with the Ruan family in Vietnam. We If you want to touch Champo, don't you have to drink Ruan's conflict?"

Zheng Zhilong nodded and replied: "Old Ma Ge is right. The Ruan clan has actually occupied most of Champa's land. Except for the surrounding area of ​​the king's capital, the king of Champo's other lands are either occupied by the Ruan clan or by their subordinates. Therefore, if we do not bring Champa under the rule first, Champa must also be annexed by the Ruan family.

After the king of Champa paid tribute to our court, Ruan estimated that he would only speed up the annexation of Champa.Once the Nguyen family brings Champa under its rule, it will be directly adjacent to the Mekong Delta, so we will still have conflicts with it after all.Late conflicts are worse than early conflicts. It is best to find out where everyone's boundaries are while King Champa is still fighting with the Ruan family. "

Zheng Zhilong obviously wanted to fight the Ruan family, but Ma Shiying was a little undecided, so he temporarily put aside the conversation with Zheng Zhilong, and went to Pingshan Hall to visit Li Zicheng first.

Hearing Ma Shiying talk about his intention to come, Li Zicheng did not answer him immediately, saying that he needs to understand the situation of Vietnam, Champa, Cambodia, Thailand, and Nanzhang first, and then give a comprehensive answer to the southern part of the mainland .

However, he was in favor of Ma Shiying's development plan for the Mekong River Delta, but he said to Ma Shiying: "The development of the Mekong River Delta is indeed a good thing, but given the natural environment and climate of the Mekong River Delta, if only loose immigrants are encouraged to develop, I think It is relatively difficult, because it is difficult for individuals to resist sudden disasters during the reclamation process, and the immigrant family will be finished after a natural disaster.

In addition, if a place like the Mekong Delta wants to be fully developed, it will not be able to form a basic scale without ten years of investment. Are those individual investors really willing to buy the land there for development?I think Mr. Ma should still think about how to let those investors invest money with peace of mind. If this problem is not solved, even if we occupy the entire Mekong Delta, it will be a waste of effort. "

After Ma Shiying went back, he consulted with Ruan Dacheng and others, and asked them if they could solve the problem raised by Li Zicheng.After hearing this, Wang Sui and Liu Mi immediately suggested to Ma Shiying, "This problem is actually not difficult to solve. Follow the example of Lianghuai Salt Industry Company and Huaiyang Canal Management Company to organize overseas reclamation companies. The shareholders of the company only enjoy dividends. Leave it to Zheng Zhilong's people to do it, so that domestic investors don't have to work hard to manage overseas land, and Zheng Zhilong can also get domestic financial support..."

While Ma Shiying was studying how to make domestic people feel at ease to buy overseas land, Li Zicheng also held a military and political meeting a few days later to discuss the safety of Champa.

At the meeting, Li Zicheng first introduced the basic situation: "Vietnam is Annan, which claims to be the Dai Viet Dynasty. The name of the Li family turned against Mo, and finally the Mo family was expelled to the Gaoping area, and the Wu family ruled in Xuanguang Town. After Zheng Song recovered his meritorious service, he followed Thang Long and established the Li family as king, and the Nguyen family ruled in Hue.

The entire population of Vietnam is about 300 million. The Zheng family accounts for more than two-thirds, and the population of the Nguyen family is only one-third of the population in the north. The two sides have fought three times in order to unify Vietnam. The latest one ended in the 16th year of Chongzhen. This time it took nine years.Every time the Zheng family went south and the Ruan family won the defense.

In terms of military strength, the Zheng family in the north is about 10, the Ruan family in the south is about 2, and the rest are militiamen..."

After listening to Li Zicheng's introduction, the naval generals headed by Zheng Zhilong advocated suppressing Ruan, the army generals headed by Liu Zongmin demanded appeasement, and Ma Shiying believed that the Zheng family should befriend the Ruan family.

After everyone had expressed their opinions, Li Zicheng said: "It's not impossible to make good friends with the Zheng family and attack the Ruan family, but it's not necessary. If the Zheng family really annexed the Ruan family, then the Cham Po Isn't there a bigger enemy?

It is indeed necessary to appease the Ruan family, but we must first punish him. If we don't show our ability to teach him a lesson, how can the Ruan family accept our kindness?It's even more troublesome if he mistakes our kindness for weakness.

As for the matter of sending troops to Zhanpo, I think it is not appropriate to send troops directly. After all, China is the suzerain of the neighboring countries. If we have to do everything ourselves, won’t we be exhausted in the future?

We not only want to be famous as a teacher, but also find a few younger brothers to send troops with us to show the status of the suzerain.Let North Korea and Japan send troops with us, and let Champa cede a few pieces of land to them afterwards, do we have any losses..."

Chapter 582 Changes in North Korea

Li Zicheng's suggestion caused some uproar in the military, but Liu Zongmin and other generals who did not want to go to sea to fight finally accepted Li Zicheng's idea.For these old rebels, although Yangzhou is prosperous, it is still not as comfortable as the climate of their hometown. It is okay to fight north, but there is no motivation to go south.

Of course, not every army likes to go north to fight the Qing army, and it is not unresponsive to go south to fight those overseas natives with low combat power.After all, Xu Dingguo set an example. He dragged a mob to Taiwan and was able to sweep an island. In the end, he got a gold mine for himself.

Now the ratio of gold to silver is close to 1:15. The annual gold production in Taiwan is 3000 taels, and Xu’s gold mine can produce about 600 taels of sand gold, which is 9000 taels of silver a year. After deducting taxes and labor, it is about 4500 taels of pure benefit.It is almost the income of [-] mu of fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River.This has almost laid the economic foundation of a family, can you not make people jealous?

Therefore, some former Ming army generals who surrendered to Dashun, especially the generals from the four towns, really wanted to go overseas to try their luck.Of course, they also know that the overseas situation is complicated, and if they really want to take risks with their direct descendants, they really have to think about it carefully, but they support the recruitment of some Koreans and Japanese as cannon fodder.

For Zheng Zhilong, he doesn't mind sending any soldiers to fight, as long as the imperial court can send troops to support him. After all, these sea merchants under him have only been focusing on doing business these years and have no energy to fight desperately.The Zheng family still had some direct descendants, but he really didn't dare to throw them out all at once, and if they were exhausted, he would be a poor commander.

Li Zicheng did not order the generals of the four towns to go to Zhanpo, but chose to mobilize Lu Guangzu and other troops from Zuo Liangyu's department, with a limit of 5000.Li Zicheng said to Ma Shiying and Zheng Zhilong: "The preparation time for this battle is longer, and it doesn't matter if the army is educated to go to sea to fight more comprehensively. mechanism, as an example for the future.”

After the meeting, Zheng Zhilong did not go down the mountain immediately, but stayed on with an excuse. Later, he complained to Li Zicheng: "Macao is too small, and our navy stationed there is excluded by the Cantonese. I think the naval base is better to go further south. Move around, it’s better to find a place on Hainan Island or across from Hainan Island than to be cramped in Macau.”

After thinking for a while, Li Zicheng said: "The Pearl River's gateway can't just be opened like this. I don't feel relieved without a fleet guarding it. Moreover, the navy still needs logistics supplies. At the Pearl River Estuary, at least Foshan and Guangzhou can be obtained." Support, although Hainan Island or the opposite Leizhou Peninsula is empty, but these two places cannot support the consumption of the naval base.

Otherwise, Hong Kong Island and its surrounding areas at the mouth of the Pearl River will be assigned to the Navy, and you will build them yourself. You can also find two suitable places to establish sub-bases in Hainan and Leizhou Peninsula, so that you can take care of everything? "

Zheng Zhilong hesitated a bit, but still raised the issue of construction costs to Li Zicheng.Li Zicheng was also speechless about this. The navy's expenses were really expensive, because this thing had to set up bases almost everywhere, otherwise it could only be used as an armed merchant ship.There is still a big difference between professional warships and armed merchant fleets, at least the former will not just run for their lives as soon as the wind falls.

After sending Zheng Zhilong away, Li Zicheng called Chen Yuanyuan and asked, "Do we have any regular sources of news about North Korea and Japan?"

Chen Yuanyuan thought for a while and said, "On the North Korean side, there are quite a few people from the second class in Nansandao who are willing to get close to us, and the Statistics Department has developed a lot of peripheral members among them; She took the initiative to establish contact with us, and it is said that it was led by the Crown Princess, and it seems that she had a rather unpleasant life in the palace."

Standing in front of the window of Pingshan Hall, Li Zicheng stroked the railing for a long time, and finally patted the railing lightly and said: "From the current situation, the power of the Manchu Qing has been attracted to the pass and the grassland, and it is difficult for them to take care of it." Go to North Korea. Let North Korea move first,

Li Jing refuses to abdicate, so help him.

Let Lin Qingye contact the imperial concubine to clean up the pro-Qing faction inside and outside the Korean palace, and ask the imperial son to open the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after he succeeds to the throne, which will be the head of the six ministries.Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must be born in Lingnan University or those who have studied in China. "

Chen Yuanyuan quickly complied. When advancing certain matters, the communication channel of the Statistics Department was much faster than the imperial court's channel.She felt a little sorry for North Korea's end. The anti-shizi faction in North Korea is indeed not small. When Dashun had already stated that he hoped that Li Zhen would abdicate and be succeeded by his son to set things right, the anti-shizi faction was still delaying, and seemed to want to wait. What a general change.

But this kind of waiting will only consume the patience of China. With the accumulation of Mongolian dissatisfaction with the Manchus on the grassland, former Ming generals like Jiang Tuan have repeated emotions again. The influence of various races is rapidly dissipating.

If there is an anti-Qing rebellion in North Korea at this time, the Manchus will be in a more difficult situation.If you don't send troops to suppress it, you will lose North Korea, and if you send troops to suppress it, you will worry about Dashun's Northern Expedition. If you send fewer troops, it may not be able to do anything to North Korea.

Chen Yuanyuan couldn't help but feel moved when he thought of this, so he asked, "Is Your Majesty planning the Northern Expedition?"

Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "The Northern Expedition is still early, but the Jiaodong Peninsula should be able to try to get it back. North Korea or Jiaodong, I also want to see which place Dorgon will choose..."

At the end of June in the fourth year of Yongchang, Lin Qingye, who was stationed in Busan, received a secret letter from the Clippers of the Statistics Department. There are also liners to Busan, and Tsushima to Jeju; these liners are all owned by the Chunghwa Cruise Company.

The opening of these liners has greatly shortened the contact time between land and sea in East Asia, changed the year-based contacts into months, and greatly stimulated the shipbuilding industry and navigation technology.In fact, by the spring of the fourth year of Yongchang, Chunghwa Shipping Company had begun to use the same-latitude navigation method to accurately locate the route between Shanghai and Jeju Island to solve the problem of direct flights between the two places.

The first batch of 34 students graduated from the Yongchang Four-year Dashun Naval Academy. Almost all of these students have mastered the techniques of marine surveying and chart surveying. Dashun Navy finally has a group of technical backbones who can write and write.In the same year, Huai'an Shipyard trial-manufactured the third soft-sail three-masted ship for ocean-going adventures, and launched it into the water for testing.According to Li Zicheng's order, this group of trainees will be scattered on six ships, and the survey and mapping of the country's coastline will be completed first.

However, at this time, neither the Koreans nor the Japanese were aware of the rapid progress of China's maritime shipping industry. Anyway, the ship manufacturing technology of the two countries was far behind that of China in the past, so businessmen from both countries liked to take Chinese ships when they went to sea.As an island country, Japan's shipbuilding technology is not as good as that of North Korea, which is really funny.

After Lin Qingye received the secret letter from the Statistics Department, he went to communicate with Xu Mu, Yin Shandao, Yin Kai and other southern parties. Regarding Lin Qingye's proposal to support the prince to eradicate the treacherous party in Seoul, although they did not know that there was a secret letter, they also believed that Lin Qingye had the support of Shangguo to propose a coup d'état with such confidence.

However, there are also differences within the Nanren Party regarding Lin Qingye's proposal. Some people think that since a coup is about to be launched, they should simply overthrow the Li Zhen family and elect another clan to go up, such as Li Guang, the son of Huai Enjun Li Deren, and the Nanren Party The relationship between them is much closer than that of the eldest son.

It was just that Lin Qingye, who had always been close to Li Guang in the past, vetoed this proposal. After realizing Lin Qingye's firm attitude, the Nanren Party still compromised.For the Nanren Party, which has not entered the center for many years, regaining the ruling power now is more important than anything else.

After the Southern People's Party unified their opinions, Jiang Wenxing, who served as the envoy of the Incheon Governor's Office, also sent a reply to Lin Qingye, expressing Jiang's willingness to support the Southern People's Party in power.After the two sides reached a tacit agreement, in July, Lin Qingye arrived in Incheon with his subordinates Li Shunnan and Li Shizhong by boat, accompanied by 1500 well-equipped new troops.

Incheon Port, including the surrounding 50 miles, has been leased to Dashun. Dashun merchants are preparing to build a horse-drawn railway from Incheon to Noryangjin south of the Han River, so Incheon City is becoming more and more prosperous.

Although Jiang Wenxing was very excited about Lin Qingye's arrival, he immediately pointed out to him: "This place is too close to the capital. With so many troops ashore, the capital will receive news soon. Therefore, if we cannot enter Beijing as soon as possible, I am afraid that the capital will Cut off the Han River traffic."

Lin Qingye agreed with Jiang Wenxing's judgment, and he also asked, "Then, have the city gate and palace gate guards settled?"

Jiang Wenxing immediately said: "The gate of the palace is easy to manage, and Jiang Wenming will serve as the guard of the palace gate. However, the gate of the city is not easy to manage. I am afraid that we must win over the Han Party like Jin Yu and Jin Youming."

Lin Qingye then asked Jiang Wenxing to contact the two of them, if not, he could only storm the city gate. On the evening of July 7, Lin Qingye led the team to Seoul. He immediately divided his troops into two groups, one for the west gate and the other for the east gate, which was the closest to the palace.At night, Lin Qingye, who was standing near the west gate, saw the lanterns on the city wall, and immediately lit a torch in response, and the city gate was opened a moment later.

Li Shizhong led the team to rush in first, and Lin Qingye also led the team to follow. It was Jin Youming who opened the city gate, and he quickly followed Lin Qingye's team with his servants.Then the soldiers entered the palace smoothly, and then under the guidance of the concubine Jiang sent people to control all parts of the palace.Although there were 198 so-called martial arts prisons in the palace, they immediately put down their weapons and surrendered when they saw Prince Concubine's people standing in the army.

Mrs. Jiang brought her trusted eunuch into Zhao's palace in Zhaorong, and Mrs. Zhao died suddenly after a while.Under Lin Qingye's watchful eyes and Jin Youming's persuasion, Li Yu could only push the boat along the way and said: "I have been in poor health for the past two years. After my son returned, I wanted him to take my place, but I didn't expect such a situation to happen." matter. Then call a court meeting of the group of ministers, and I will sit in the seat of the son today..."

Although Li Zhen tried to protect his courtiers by handing over power, Zhao's natal family was still eradicated, Jin Zidian and other anti-world factions were exiled, and the Southern People's Party and the Han Party ruled together, changing the situation in North Korea.

The first thing the son did after he ascended the throne was to reorganize the third-hand army in the capital and establish a new army.The leaders of the new army are Lin Qingye and Jiang Wenming. In August, the prince expelled the representatives of the Qing Dynasty in the capital, but did not cut off the business exchanges between the two sides.

Chapter 583

When the North Korean coup spread to Beijing, the Manchu people were at a loss, because in their view, the son of Joseon admired Manchu martial arts very much when he was a hostage in Shengjing, so after he returned to North Korea, he would definitely become the Qing dynasty With the powerful help of the Qing Dynasty, the pro-Ming faction in North Korea was suppressed, so that North Korea became a loyal vassal of the Qing Dynasty.

But the son of Joseon launched a coup and immediately took the measure of severing tribute with the Qing Dynasty after ascending the throne. Does this mean that this person was just acting in Shengjing? It was a waste of everyone's affection for the son of Joseon.Therefore, the Manchus became angry after being at a loss, and many ministers expressed to Dorgon that they should send troops to punish North Korea and bring the son of North Korea back for punishment.

However, at this time, Tara Yingerdai, who was in charge of the household department, stood up and opposed this kind of emotional catharsis. He persuaded his uncle, the regent, "North Korea is just a small country. Even if it rebels against our country, it is nothing more than The deportation of our country's envoys and businessmen does not pose any actual threat to our country. Looking at its drive to continue to cut off trade, it can be seen that the son of Joseon is not really in a daze and wants to go to war with our country.

At this time, our country mobilizes troops and horses to fight North Korea, so what will Li Zicheng in the south do?The slaves thought that it was impossible for Li Zicheng to sit back and watch our country send troops to North Korea and remain indifferent.Even Dashun should have been involved in the North Korean coup, otherwise how could the coup go so smoothly?

If the North Korean coup was really planned by Li Zicheng, then when our army moves, it must also be when the other army moves.At that time, our army will be far away in North Korea, isn't it tantamount to fighting on both ends?Li Zicheng has been reorganizing the army for the past few years, and the slave thinks that the current Shun army cannot be weaker than it was three years ago.At this time, the division of our army is tantamount to increasing the strength of the opponent.

Therefore, North Korea is determined not to fight..."

Ying'erdai is a rare talent among the Manchus with both civil and military skills, especially in financial management and foreign negotiations. As an important minister of the two white banners, his opinions are naturally more important to Dorgon than others.Considering that Yingerdai has been in charge of North Korean affairs in the past, many people simply shut up.

However, not all the ministers and generals were willing to be convinced. Soon some people questioned Ying Erdai, "Should we just let North Korea go? Even if he didn't have any courage today, if the North Koreans feel that they will not be punished for what they do. If punished, they will definitely start violating our country's borders."

Ying Erdai immediately retorted: "Now it costs 300 million taels a year just to raise the Eight Banners, plus another 300 million taels of food and salaries for the Han army and officials. They collected more than five million taels a year, which was barely enough to support people, and they couldn’t do anything else. After all, North Korea is not a troubled heart like Mongolia, so you have to endure it. If someone thinks they can turn out money, Then the servant is willing to abdicate to the virtuous, and will no longer obstruct the conquest of North Korea."

Seeing that Ying Erdai was going to put down the burden, the few people who were still arguing with him just now died down.After entering the customs, I asked which position was the most annoying. It was probably the position of the Minister of the Ministry of Finance. His hair was gray all over, and he looked older than ten years.

Even the high-ranking Dorgon had to say a few words of comfort immediately when he heard what Ying Erdai said. He knew better than others that most of the government affairs of the Qing Dynasty today were actually about money and food, and there was no Ying Erdai. Erdai shared this work for himself, and it is estimated that his body would not be able to bear the workload long ago.

Following the steps given by Dorgon, Ying Erdai changed the subject and said: "The slaves still understand the character of the North Koreans. They bully their subordinates and flatter their superiors in order to speak loudly, but it is difficult to take responsibility. Dongzheng has already conquered North Korea. Today's so-called coup is just a struggle for power within North Korea, not a real revenge for Ming Dynasty. The slaves are willing to go to North Korea to persuade the son of North Korea to resume paying tribute to our dynasty. There is no need to send out any troops. I also ask my uncle, the Regent, to give me permission."

Now even the still dissatisfied Manchu relatives and nobles have calmed down at this time. Since Ying Erdai thinks that he can persuade the Joseon prince to go anyway with his tongue, why should everyone object.To be honest, it’s not that the Manchu ministers present couldn’t see what Ying Erdai saw. They just felt scared and thought that North Korea, which was the first to jump out and rebel, should be suppressed first.

Since the founding of Nurhachi, the Manchus have relied on force to subdue the small tribes around them and force them to recognize the suzerainty of the Manchus. The Manchus themselves know very well that it is foolish to try to attract these small tribes around to vote with the Manchu culture.Just subdue it with force, and you will inevitably rebel because of the decline of force.

When the Dashun led by Li Zicheng was eyeing the border, the Manchus were really worried that the rebellion in North Korea would lead to a series of rebellions among border peoples.This is not their fantasy. After all, the Manchus suppressed the Mongols’ rebellion. Although the Mongols sent envoys to admit their mistakes and beg for mercy, if the Mongols knew that the Manchus were unable to suppress the surrounding rebellions, would they still maintain their current obedience? ?

Compared with the Han people, the Manchus are actually more afraid of the Mongols, because the Mongols are nomads, which means that once the Manchus leave the customs, they may not even have a place to escape.After all, the Han people are farming people, so as long as the land is taken back, the Han people will stop.The Ming people chased and killed Meng Yuan, that is, they chased and killed Yuan Ting instead of ordinary Mongols.

Although Dorgon was a little reluctant to let Yingerdai take this risk, if the Koreans really went crazy, even if he sent troops to North Korea to avenge Yingerdai, he would not be able to save the humerus minister with two white flags up.But seeing the silence of the other Manchu relatives in the Hall of Martial Heroes, he had to choose between sending diplomats or sending troops, otherwise his majesty as the regent would be challenged.

After thinking for a while, Dorgon said: "The autumn harvest is coming soon, and the household affairs are busy, so it's better to wait until October to discuss the matter of going to North Korea."

While the others were still thinking about it, Duoduo, the Prince of Deyu, who had just been entrusted by the Jin Dynasty, suddenly came out and said: "North Korea may not be conscripted, but the Southern Kingdom must be guarded against. Li Zicheng has recuperated in the past two years, and his strength has risen very fast. I am worried that he will Taking advantage of the North Korean coup to send troops to test our reality, we must be prepared for this.”

The Southern Expedition ended at the beginning of the second year of Shunzhi. Although Azig was stripped of his title because of his unauthorized withdrawal of troops, he was reinstated in May of the third year of Shunzhi. He didn't make any mistakes, and he also seized large tracts of land in Hebei and Shandong. The reward for meritorious deeds further strengthened Dorgon and the Duoduo brothers' right to speak in the Eight Banners.

In July of the fourth year of Shunzhi, Dorgon went a step further due to the pacification of the Mongolian rebellion, and Dorgon even ordered the cancellation of Prince Heshuo Zheng's power to listen to government affairs, which meant that Dorgon further strengthened his brother's power.If it is said that in the past, everyone was in awe of the Dorgon brothers, but most of them were in awe of their achievements, then now everyone is in awe of the Dorgon brothers, because they are in awe of their power.

Even the two empress dowagers were respectful and courteous when they saw Dorgon, and there were already rumors that they would add the word "huang" to Dorgon's uncle Regent.Because when Duoduo went to Mongolia, Dorgon used the excuse that Emperor Shunzhi's letter talisman was stored in the palace, and it was very inconvenient to ask for a seal every time he dispatched troops.Therefore, even if they sent people to move the emperor's seals to his own mansion for storage, they did not return them after Mongolia quelled the chaos.

After Duoduo led his troops back to Beijing, the types of honor guards used by Dorgon were the same as those of the emperor, 20 types, but the specific number of each type was slightly less than that of the emperor.But unlike before entering the customs, the relatives of the Eight Banners could accuse Dorgon face to face. At this time, the relatives of the Eight Banners did not dare to entangle with Dorgon on this issue. Dorgon.

Facing the appearance of Prince Yu Duoduo, everyone didn't understand what the two brothers wanted to do, so they simply kept silent.So Duduo didn't hide it, and said openly: "Haoge hasn't been back to the capital for two years, and the emperor also wondered about this elder brother. I think it's better to let Prince Ying replace him and return to the capital, so that the emperor can see him." Seeing my brother, I want to comfort my brotherhood; secondly, the Prince of England happened to be patrolling the border to deter internal and external enemies. What do you think?"

For this suggestion, the relatives and nobles of the Eight Banners all looked at Dorgon nervously for a moment, which clearly meant to take over the military power in Hauge's hands.But watching Dorgon remain silent, everyone did not dare to raise objections after all.

Dorgon glanced at everyone, and finally said: "It's not a bad thing for Prince Su to go back to Beijing to rest for a while. If you don't have any opinions, let's make it so."

How dare everyone disagree? This clearly shows that the uncle, the Regent, does not want any hope for the Two Yellow Banners, and intends to further gather the military power of the Eight Banners.Previously, Hauge was not allowed to come back because he was afraid that Hauge would become a banner against the two white flags in the capital. Now that Hauge was allowed to come back, he did not want Huang Taiji's family to have any military power.

After the meeting of ministers Wang, Yingerdai followed Dorgon. First, he asked him to go to North Korea as an envoy again, and on the other hand, he raised the issue of fleeing people, "...the land in the pass is barren, and the climate is very different from that outside the pass. Our Manchus can still sow broadly and harvest a lot outside the customs, but this kind of farming in the customs can't even reap the seeds. Therefore, we can only rely on the local Han slaves for farming.

But now these Han people are unwilling to be the slaves of the Manchus, and they destroy farm tools and flee at every turn. Most of the land occupied by the banners is abandoned.If this continues, I am afraid that the Bannerman will no longer be able to concentrate on the battle. "

Dorgon wondered: "I have repeatedly ordered the people not to take in the fugitives. How did they escape?"

Ying Erdai said: "Today, it is not the civilians who dare to take in the fugitives, but the powerful families of the Han army. They took these fugitives into the army as a part of the army, and we were blocked even if we wanted to investigate."

Although Dorgon was angry, he didn't lose his mind. He said: "I'm afraid it's not appropriate to pursue the issue of the escapees of the Han army at this time. Is there no way to make those escapees feel at ease?"

Ying Erdai thought for a while and said: "Then we must issue a decree prohibiting the banner people from treating the slaves harshly, and ensure that the slaves' share is not less than half of the field's production..."

Chapter 584

Yingerdai asked Dorgon to be speechless. After the Eight Banners entered the customs, the suppression of the Han servants in the enclosure has reached the point where wars are everywhere outside Beijing. Don't say fifty-fifty, sixty-fourth. It is quite benevolent, most of them are [-]% to [-]%, and a few even reach [-]% to [-]%.

What does this high percentage share mean?It means that the servant can only support himself, and his family members will all starve to death.This is also the root cause of repeated bans on escapees.And once the Han people flee, the land will be abandoned again, because the Manchus are no longer willing to farm by themselves, they would rather go back to enclose a piece of land.

The inside of the pass is different from the outside of the pass. There are a lot of Han people here, so for the Manchus, enclosing land is like hunting in a forest. When the prey in this forest is finished, then change to another forest instead of saving seeds for those prey. .Especially after the failure of the Southern Expedition, the Manchus were even more reluctant to work because they felt that they would not stay in the customs for long.

Since the stay is not long, why do you want to run the home?Is it not good to just enclose the land of the Han people and let the Han people support themselves?If Li Zicheng calls, they don't have to regret leaving any property, they just need to take their family and run away.This mentality of the invaders made the scale of the Manchu enclosure outside of Beijing bigger and bigger, and it has already begun to break through the range of 300 miles.