Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 261

Beijing.

Regent Dorgon is attending a palace banquet to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

His sister-in-law, the Holy Mother, Empress Dowager Bumbutai, came over to pour him wine and toasted him. Seeing her sister-in-law's eyes, the emperor's uncle, the regent, who was already slightly drunk, took it immediately.

When they took the wine glass, the two touched their fingers, and Dorgon felt his heart beat a few beats slower.

The Empress Dowager, known as Horqin's Heavenly Nobility, smiled at her brother-in-law. The smiling Dorgon was so drunk that he looked up and drank it all in one gulp.

"Slow down, Regent."

The 32-year-old Bumbutai was in the age of a tiger and a wolf. Her husband died suddenly, leaving orphans and widows.Thinking that when she was 13 years old, she was sent to Shengjing by her elder brother from the Horqin Grassland. She married her aunt's husband, Huang Taiji, as a side Fujin, and gave birth to three daughters and one son for her husband.But in the palace, although she was taken care of by her aunt, her status was not stable.

Huangtai recruited newcomers every year, and even later brought her sister Hai Lanzhu into the palace. She was extremely favored and trusted, and the sisters almost turned against each other.

Lin Danhan's widow entered the palace, which also caused her status to decline again and again.

It's just that no one expected that Huang Taiji would collapse in his prime, let alone that the throne would eventually fall to his eight-year-old son, Fulin, so she was honored by mother and son, and was honored as the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother. It was Dafujin's aunt Zhezhe, who was not even conferred the title of queen mother, but was honored as the lord of the country, Fujin.

Compared to her aunt's indifference to everything, Buzhebutai had to think about the young emperor's son. She knew very well that the throne should have belonged to the eldest prince Hauge, but Dorgon refused. She wanted to be emperor, but The other kings were unwilling, and finally let her son Fulin take advantage of it.

But in the face of the increasingly powerful regent Dorgon, she dared not take it lightly, but she was in the deep palace, and a woman like her couldn't control the overall situation, so she could only show her brother-in-law as much as possible.

She had long seen the different taste in her uncle's eyes when he looked at her, but she could only endure it, and even condoned it intentionally or unintentionally.

"I heard that the situation in the south is not very good recently? Jingzhou, Wuchang, and Hangzhou were besieged by the Ming army one after another. After winning Yunyang, they lost it, and lost Xiangyang?"

Dorgon looked at his sister-in-law, wishing he could grab her hand and hold it in her arms.

"The Empress Dowager doesn't need to worry. It's just that the remnants of the hypocrisy have nowhere to go. They jumped the wall and threw themselves into Remnant. Now it seems to be very powerful, but the imperial court has dispatched [-] elite Eight Banners to the south, and they will surely win the battle and put down the rebellion."

The Queen Mother nodded.

"I have believed in Master Hong's ability, but now he has no soldiers under his command. Tong Dai is a well-known family in Manchuria. He used to do a good job in handling logistics, food and pay, but fighting is not his specialty. The governor's place is even more important." Inexperienced, it is not his fault that Huguang is corrupt now, there is no doubt about Hong University's ability, it is just that Huguang is short of major generals."

"Why doesn't the Regent adjust the king of Xi and the king of Sanshun to go south? They are the powerful generals in Liaodong, and they have the advantage of artillery. .”

The queen mother is a young woman, but not a simple woman. She has a natural sensitivity to politics and has her own unique insights through various news.

When Dorgon heard the Queen Mother mentioning Hong Chengchou, he frowned and felt jealous.

It is rumored that after the Songjin War that year, Hong Chengchou was captured, and he would rather die than surrender, and went on a hunger strike to die for his country.Huang Taiji attached great importance to Hong Chengchou's ability, and wanted to appease Hong Chengchou wholeheartedly, but he could not persuade Hong Chengchou by all means.In the end, Bumbutai volunteered to go out and go to persuade him to surrender every day.

Legend has it that Hong Chengchou was very weak after going on hunger strike for many days.

The queen mother directly fed Hong Chengchou with ginseng soup in her mouth, and rescued Hong Chengchou. After careful care and many days of heart-to-heart talk, she finally persuaded Hong Chengchou to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, this is just a rumor, no one has seen it with their own eyes.

But this rumor spread widely, and whenever Dorgon thought about it, he felt a thorn in his heart, a pricking pain in his heart.

He and the queen mother are still limited to expressing affection with each other, occasionally touching hands, this old man Hong Chengchou can still be treated like this.

Now hearing the Queen Mother mention Hong Chengchou again, it made him even more dissatisfied.

"Hong Chengchou is old. He did nothing to appease the southern provinces in Jiangning, and let the situation deteriorate to this point. He just changed to the six provinces of Huguang, but he sent the banner officer to urge Pan Shiliang to send troops to Jingzhou, which caused the soldiers to mutiny because of asking for rewards. In the end, not only Xunyang was lost, but Xiangyang was also lost, so he has to bear the greatest responsibility."

The queen mother didn't know that her brother-in-law was so hostile to Hong Chengchou because of a rumor.

"The important thing now is not to discuss who is responsible for the crime, but to rescue the dangerous situation in Jingxiang as soon as possible. Although our Eight Banners are elite and brave, but the last time the army marched south for many years, we just returned, and we have to go south again, and the soldiers have no rest. Besides , I heard that when Prince Ying and Prince Yu fought against Jianghan, Suzhou and Hangzhou last time, the soldiers could not tolerate the heat in the south of the Central Plains, and they were not acclimatized to the environment."

"To conquer the south, the Manchus and Mongolians should be the main force, but the Han people should also be used as a supplement."

Dorgon was a little impatient. Although he liked his sister-in-law, he didn't want to listen to women talking about this important military matter.What do they know!

Why did the court transfer Wu Sangui and King Sanshun back to Liaodong?

Why not just let them guard the Central Plains, or even the southern part directly at the forefront?
Because even Dorgon has always been suspicious or even jealous of these people. For example, Wu Sangui, this person is by no means simple. If this person goes out of Wuchang or Hangzhou, he must be beyond the reach of the Tartars.

There will be many uncontrollable risks.

The same is true of King Sanshun, whether it is Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming or Shang Kexi, none of these guys are simple, and if they don't like it, they will cause chaos.

Compared with the remnants of the remnants of the remnants of the remnants of the Ming and Shun in the south today, Dorgon is more wary of these Han generals.

"Is it too much for the regent to use Jiangnan Juren to be strict with me? There are a lot of discussions in the court now."

Dorgon didn't want to talk about this. Yan Wogong was single-handedly picked up by him, and he used it again and again, which violated the normal system, but what he needs now is Yan Wogong, who has no Eight Banners background and has nothing to do with the princes and ministers in the court. Yet capable and faithful to him.

There are many capable people in the DPRK, such as Aobai, Sony, and Tan Tai, who are all rare generals and talents, but the problem is that these people are not loyal to him. Not loyal to him Dorgon.

Even Azig and Duoduo, the two brothers of the same mother, sometimes turn their elbows outward and slap him from time to time. Among these princes and princes in Manchuria, which one is simple?

Even Fan Wencheng, Hong Chengchou and other Han scholars and ministers have long been deeply involved with princes and nobles.

Fan Wencheng, an old traitor, was loyal to Huang Taiji and his son, and was very opposed to him proclaiming emperor, and Hong Chengchou was similar.

Yan Wogong has no background but is capable and can be loyal to him, so he naturally wants to reuse him.

"Drunk, drunk."

Dorgon was in a bad mood, waved his hands, and was not in the mood to continue talking with his sister-in-law, "Rong Chen will take his leave first!"

The queen mother realized that her uncle was not very happy, she came back to her senses, and said to him with concern, "Then the regent should go back to rest early."

Dorgon didn't even bother to say goodbye to the young nephew emperor, so he turned around and left.

Just came back to the mansion.

Suksaha came to see him in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, Hangzhou, Hangzhou has fallen."

Dorgon, who was picking up the teacup and trying to hangover, felt dazed for a while, when the teacup in his hand fell to the ground, it fell to pieces, and the tea spilled all over the floor.

"Your Majesty?" Suksaha hurried up to support him.

Shaking his head, it took a while for Dorgon to get better.

"Say, what's going on?"

"Minglu Jianguo bought many cannons in red from the south, forty or fifty, bigger than our General Weiyuan cannon. It also damaged a lot, and the Ming army not only besieged Hangzhou, but also sent troops to take Huzhou and attack Jiaxing."

"Although the Ming army attacking Jiaxing was repulsed by Zheng Jiwu, the general of Jiaxing, Haining Hou, and Zhu Dagang, deputy general of Haiyan Bo Haining, Huzhou fell and Zhucheng fell."

"Hangzhou has become an isolated city. The green battalion outside the city can't withdraw in time. All the villages have been breached. There are only a few thousand soldiers in the city and only ten days' food."

"Governor Zhang Cunren and governor Xiao Qiyuan led the officials in the city to lead more than a thousand Manchu and Mongolian soldiers to break through the siege and go to Jiangning for help. They were intercepted along the way in Huzhou and other places. More than a thousand troops lost five out of ten, and only five hundred people fled to Jiangning. Jiang Ning."

When Dorgon heard the punch hit the table, the smell of alcohol welled up in his stomach, and he couldn't hold it anymore, he spit it out directly, and the sour smell filled the study.

Suksaha hurriedly helped clean up.

"go on."

"After Zhang Cunren and others left, the city held on for more than ten days. The food was cut off. The soldiers and the people caught rats and netted birds to satisfy their hunger. Without fuel, they demolished houses and set fire to them. Finally, when the food ran out, the Ming army dug trenches to the bottom of the city, and hundreds of cannons were transported to the bottom of the city. In desperation, Admiral Tian Xiong committed suicide and died for the country, and his troops then surrendered in Kaesong."

Dorgon's face was gloomy and terrifying.

"Zhang Cunren should be killed, Xiao Qiyuan should be killed, Tian Xiong, what a pity."

"Where's Su Song's Green Camp, the national treasure Wu Shengzhao, Li Chengdong, Yang Chengzu, Li Yuchun, and others, are they all dead people?

"The navy of the Ming army raided and harassed, everyone was too busy to take care of themselves. Li Chengdong lost several cities in a row, and the national treasure of Tu was also attacked in Wujiang. Wu Shengzhao fought several battles with the Ming army, but they were all invincible..."

silence.

Dorgon remained silent, like a beast.

There was another sound of footsteps.

"My lord, Jiang Ning's strict scriptures are in a hurry!"

"Read!" Dorgon said in a low voice.

The visitor read carefully, Yan Wogong played eight hundred miles in a hurry, saying that Jiangsu and Zhejiang were completely corrupt. He was one step late. Xiao Qiyuan, as well as Xunyan, Fenshou, Fenzun Bingfan, Jian and other officials who fled Hangzhou and fled generals.

Pan Yinglou of Yandao, who had made great contributions in the fight against Hangzhou, was authorized to act as the interim governor, Tian Xiong, the admiral who stayed behind, was authorized to act as the interim governor, and Li Yuchun, the general soldier of Songjiang, was appointed as the admiral. to save the crisis in Hangzhou.

"late."

Dorgon let out a long sigh. When Yan Wogong sent out this memorial, he obviously had not received the news of Hangzhou's fall.

Su Ke Saha said in a low voice, "Although Mr. Yan is a strategist, he killed dozens of people including the governor, governor, inspector, and general without a request, which is too shocking and seriously overstepped."

But Dorgon said, "Everyone deserves to be killed. You deserve to die. If you kill him well, Mr. Yan can have such courage. It's beyond my expectation. The crisis in the south of the Yangtze River just needs such a decisive officer."

"Come here, give Yan Wogong a reply, and say that those people killed well. In addition, Hangzhou has been lost, and Tian Xiong died for the country. He should be rewarded. Gu agreed to let Pan Yinglou be the governor. After Tian Xiong died, Li Yuchun would be the governor of Zhejiang. Governor, Zheng Jiwu is the admiral of Zhejiang. I hope they will work together to recover Hangzhou and pacify Jiangnan as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)