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Chapter 175 Face to face
On Turtle Mountain not far from the battlefield, Dorgon looked sadly at the mighty river ahead like Tuoba Tao standing on Guabu Mountain...

He didn't even look at the battlefield.

He knew it was impossible to win there. If Yang Feng could be hacked to death like this, he would not be alive until now. .

In fact, it was just used to make his unwilling generals give up.

After all, they lost.

But they are really unwilling!
In just two and a half years, less than two and a half years to be precise, the Qing Dynasty has already lost to this man four times. Not only in just two and a half years, the losses due to this man are almost equivalent to the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the past twenty years. The Eight Banners Manchuria was lost in the war, and he even captured Shenyang and even captured the Queen Mother and the Emperor, creating a Qing Dynasty version of the Jingkang Shame. But the problem is that every time he loses, he is unwilling to lose. The first time he advanced too deep, and the old and weak women and children who were defeated in Shenyang were his sneak attacks on the rear. It was not that he could not be defeated in the battle of Texas, but that the food could not support him. This time Or because he couldn't be consumed, or even because of internal discord.

It’s not like I can’t beat him!

It's all for a reason.

But for our Eight Banners Manchu warriors in the Qing Dynasty, they were really unwilling to do so.

So now they can give up.

How could a scholar from a remote place in Liaodong compare with a governor who was a serious Jinshi? That is to say, when I first started my career in the Qing Dynasty, I was very greedy and regarded Fan Wencheng as a capable person. Whenever I see real talents, I will never look down on him again.

This is the general trend.

Then he cast a casual glance at the battlefield.

Dorgon sighed.

Among these imperial examination families, there are always a few who are of the same age as him, or who were colleagues in the past. If he comes forward, the resistance of these people will be sharply reduced, so now he is considered the most important adviser around Dorgon. As for Fan Wencheng...

Hong Chengchou beside him lowered his head and said.

Dorgon said.

Behind them, there is a patch of blood red that seems to be specially dyed on the ground. In the middle of the blood red is a barely distinguishable figure. The reason why it is barely distinguishable is that he is also blood red, as if he emerged from the sea of ​​blood. . This scene is shocking even for a man like Dorgon who has experienced hundreds of battles. This figure is simply despairing. With this monster, it is almost impossible for us, the Qing Dynasty, to conquer Jiangnan.

As long as the regent destroys Li Zicheng and unifies the north, then Jiangnan will finally gain the goods.

"Regent, as long as our Qing Dynasty can lay a solid foundation in the pass, we can wait as long as it takes. From the time Taizu raised his army to the time when our Qing Dynasty took control of the Central Plains, it has only been a short thirty years. When the Prince Regent was young, he never thought that he would not be able to Will we be able to drink from the Yangtze River in thirty years? When the regent was young, did he ever think that in less than thirty years, our Qing Dynasty would have such a great foundation?
It's only been less than thirty years, so why not wait a few more years?

He actually went south with Dorgon. Dorgon knew very well that the most important thing in this trip was to appease the gentry. He was also the one who persuaded the gentry not to shave their hair and change clothes, and he was also the one who persuaded the gentry from all over the country to surrender.

He showed up to speak out!

Since ancient times, the struggle for supremacy between the north and the south has always resulted in the north annihilating the south. Although Ming Taizu used the south to rule the north, when he died, wasn't he still the emperor who used the north to rule the south?

How can Yang Feng stop it?
The most important thing is the people's support, especially the issue of shaving one's hair and wearing clothes easily can no longer continue. "

"Prince Regent, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are all short-sighted, and they are only interested in profit. They press too hard. They can work together to protect themselves, but if they don't worry about their lives, they will scheming and fighting for power. Although Yang Feng is strong, but watching his actions, The plan is far-reaching, and the gentry in Shandong are also dissatisfied with the system implemented in Xu Hai, Yiju and other places. It is just that the Qing Dynasty is in the north, so they have no choice but to follow it. , but when Master Wang returns to the north, as long as this generation is no longer afraid, dissatisfaction with him will inevitably accumulate, and as we, the Qing Dynasty, return to the north to restore benevolent rule, this generation will definitely know how to obey and rebel, and they will naturally deal with Yang Feng at that time. "

"But how long will that take?"

After all, those who control prefectures such as Huangzhou, Chengtian, and Anlu are nothing more than local imperial examination families.

Those specially selected Yang Yang regiments were already fleeing.

"Let's go!"

They just can't beat it.

Can someone like Fan Wencheng compare with him? The strength is not on the same level at all.

Hong Chengchou said.

He seemed to have forgotten that Yang Feng was actually from the north.

Dorgon...

He didn't speak, but it could be seen that he was obviously in much better spirits, and then he walked down Turtle Mountain so proudly. Of course, with his IQ, he actually understood what Hong Chengchou meant. The key is not to endure, but to continue to be the Holy Lord and Mingjun. , or to continue to implement slavery that has been boasted by the gentry as a restoration of royal government.

This was the core content of what Hong Chengchou told him so much.

Fight, you can't beat Yang Feng.

However, you can compete with him for the support of the gentry.

As long as you are a Holy Lord and Mingjun who is in the interests of the gentry and establish a solid foundation in the north, then you can compete with Yang Feng for time. The gentry in the south are resisting now only because they have not really felt the benefits of our Qing Dynasty, especially the shaving of hair. It is difficult for the southern gentry to have a good impression of the Qing Dynasty. But as long as Dorgon does not continue to forcibly shave his hair and change his clothes, and continues to promote slavery, then sooner or later the southern gentry will understand the goodness of our Qing Dynasty, and Yang Feng will gradually be disgusted and even abandoned by them. It's pulpy.

Very smart strategy.

Yang Feng really does not really serve the interests of the gentry.

There are many people, including the Shandong gentry, who are privately dissatisfied with his various policies, especially after his true colors were revealed before. But the problem is that the Shandong gentry is also afraid of the Qing Dynasty. After all, the two sides were already feuding with each other in the last war.

They are also afraid of death!
Dorgon's promise to them was useless.

They are not stupid. Promises are the most unreliable. If they go back and break their promises and kill their whole family, it will be too late. The safest thing is to block the Qing army from Shandong. This is the safest, so they are afraid of death to support them. Following Yang Feng, they can only support Yang Feng, after all, Yang Feng can protect them.

So did the Southern gentry.

They are extremely disgusted with shaving their hair and changing clothes. At least Dorgon's current performance still cannot reassure them, so the safest way is to block the Qing army north of the Yangtze River.

It can be said that Yang Feng can only be regarded as the least bad choice for the gentry at this stage.

But not the best.

There's just no one better than him.

What if there is?

What if Dorgon is really more like the Holy Lord and Mingjun than he is? but……

That would require transferring more benefits to the northern gentry!
Correspondingly, the benefits to the Eight Banners Manchuria and Mongolia must be restricted. In fact, Dorgon is allowed to learn from Kublai Khan and establish an alliance between foreign invaders and local slave owners. Hold on to the gentry, and then rely on the support of the gentry to use time to win. I, the Qing Dynasty, do not need to be stronger than all my opponents. As long as I hold firm and endure until my opponents all fall in civil strife, then I can still be the final winner.

Learn from the old turtle!

Gou can also win.

Of course, the disadvantage is that if you don't shave your head and change your clothes, you won't be able to achieve real conquest. You can only make an alliance based on interests, which is not stable.

Just like the Mongols lasted less than a hundred years.

Fortunately for Dorgon, he probably never thought that the Qing Dynasty could last more than two hundred years.

Hong Chengchou once again looked at Wuchang City opposite from Guishan Mountain.

Then he sighed with a complicated expression.

He also turned around and walked down Turtle Mountain.

Yang Feng, who was already blood red on the dock, stood in a quagmire of flesh and blood, just watching the retreat of the Qing army in front of him, and it was not a simple retreat, but the entire northward retreat of all Qing troops. His Battle of Wuchang came to an end, and Dorgon withdrew his troops. Although his brother was still nailed to the shelf in Wuchang City, he still withdrew his troops.

At this time, in distant Nanjing, Her Royal Highness the Princess was already receiving worship from the ministers.

Of course, still in Xuanwu Lake.

After all, Ma Shiying only controls Shence Gate and a small area around it now, and it is impossible for the supervisor to accept the worship of ministers in the city.

Because in theory the officials of the Nanjing imperial court were still Shi Kefa and others, the new appointments were only made on behalf of the original officials, including Ma Shiying acting as the chief assistant of the Wuyingdian bachelor. Because at this time, there was only Wuying Hall in the Nanjing Imperial Palace that could barely be used. This palace was in disrepair and most of the palaces were unusable, so the chief assistant was the bachelor of Wuying Hall. As a close confidant of the princess, Yang Guanguang will of course be in charge of the military department. Jin Sheng, as a minister, will definitely be in charge of the official department. Then he will recruit several old ministers from Susong, Zhejiang and other places to take charge of other ministries. Zhang Guowei, the bachelor who has already arrived in advance, With the title of Grand Scholar Governor of Yangzhou, Zhu Dadian, who was with him, was appointed as the new governor of Huaiyang and served as his deputy. Yuan Jixian and He Tengjiao were left as the governors of various places. Because Yang Shaobao defeated the Jianlu and saved Wuchang, she wanted to give him another official position. In fact, the princess wanted to add him to the rank of bachelor, but she still didn't have the nerve to propose it.

In the end, only virtual ones can be added.

But the Third Duke was a bit cruel. After all, he had only been an official for less than two years. It was shocking to go from being a scholar to the Third Duke in two years. There were not many Third Dukes in the Ming Dynasty. And he was originally the Prince's Shaobao, even if he was changed to Shaobao, he would still be in the first rank, so Her Royal Highness thought for a while and decided to give him a higher rank, and add Zuozhuguo.

Originally, the princess wanted to add Zhu Guo to him, but Ma Shiying quickly told her that this was unlucky...

Very unlucky.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were only three Shangzhu states.

To be precise, there were only two, because Li Shanchang later changed to Zuozhuguo, and the remaining two were in Shangzhuguo, one Xia Yan was executed, and the other Zhang Juzheng had his house confiscated after his death.

In this case, just give him Zuozhuguo honestly!

In addition, he also petitioned to reinstate the position of Prince Fu. The reason was that the Prince's performance was too poor before, and he could not fulfill his duties as a vassal for the country when facing rogue bandits or building captives. The main reason was that the princes and vassals were all pensioners. of waste...

It's almost the same.

In the late Ming Dynasty, official status in the royal palace was almost lifelong.

In theory, it is possible to be promoted, and in fact it was possible in the early days. But just like in theory, officials can also be promoted. Even in the Hongwu Dynasty, there were officials who were promoted to Shangshu, but later it was impossible to be promoted. There is also an unspoken rule that they will not be promoted again. In the end, officials affiliated with the royal palace became the exclusive domain of those officials who had committed some minor crimes but were dismissed a bit harshly. They were thrown into the palace to retire until they had enough time to resign. Yang Feng used this as an excuse and believed that the power of the vassal king must be strengthened in today's troubled times, so he re-established Wangfu and selected talented people to serve as the actual chief officials of the palace.

This request is very inexplicable. After all, everyone knows that the feudal king must be useless. What is your purpose of increasing the feudal king's strength? But after thinking about it carefully, Ma Shiying immediately suggested to the princess that Yang Feng should serve as the Fu of the three kings of Lu Hengde alone.

Isn't that what he wants?

Didn't he just feel that there were three vassal kings in Shandong, which prevented him from doing whatever he wanted?
What excuse are you looking for?
In this way, all three vassal kings in Shandong became his puppets.

In the end, Yang Shaobao used his victory in the Battle of Wuchang to grant Zuozhuguo, the right minister of the Ministry of War, the right deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the governor Jiliao Zhenbao of Shandong military affairs, and the three kings of Lu Hengde. As for the title, this supervisory state has no right. , the emperor had to make the decision himself, and by the way, he would give his parents and even his great-grandfather a promotion, and give it to his unmarried wife...

Forget it.

After all, we haven’t passed the door yet!
Xuanwu Lakeside.

"Use the princess to supervise the country..."

Chen Zilong smiled bitterly and shook his head.

He was also reactivated. He originally kept filial piety at home, but now he has passed the period of keeping filial piety. Before he kept filial piety, he was an official in Huizhou, so he was reactivated as the censor of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, and then led the Songjiang regiment training as censor.

Not only him, Shen Tingyang, Xu Du and other regiment training generals were all given the title of censor.

In this way, Tuanlian is not entirely a civilian armed force, but a local armed force under the supervision of the censor.

Officials supervise private affairs.

"Just let the princess be a princess. It's better than nothing. Besides, there are princesses in Taixi who will succeed us. Our Ming Dynasty is just a princess overseeing the country, so it's no big deal."

Shen Tingyang said.

He still knows quite a lot.

But on this issue, they, or the Jiangnan gentry, are really just being pretentious. As Shen Tingyang said, it's better than nothing. The Ming Dynasty at this time was not in the original history. In the original history, Chongzhen committed suicide and his son's whereabouts were unknown. In this case, no matter whether King Fu or King Lu would succeed, the succession would be legal. But now that Chongzhen is still alive, and two of his sons are alive, then no other clan has the legality to succeed, not even the supervising country. Everyone understands that after this kind of supervising the country, it is impossible to hand over power. of. In this way, Princess Kunxing became the best choice. She was the daughter of Chongzhen. She had no inheritance rights. Cousins ​​could compete for the throne, but there was no father-daughter competition for the throne.

As long as her father or her brother comes back, she will have to hand over her power no matter what the reason is.

As for not coming back...

That’s not bad!
A woman, who is still a young supervisor, cannot have the same power as a man. This supervisor will be very weak, which is a good thing for both ministers and local gentry.

The only thing that needs to be worried about is that Yang Feng uses this to gain power. But for now, the Ming Dynasty needs such a powerful figure, and even if Yang Feng can control the princess, he will not be worthy of his name after all. Not to mention that he is not the consort, even if he is. Consort, the Ming Dynasty's consort also had no power. If he really were the consort, his name would be even more dishonored.

and so……

At best he is a faceless person.

(End of this chapter)