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Chapter 191 I am the Female Bodhisattva of the Qing Dynasty

While Yang Feng was carrying out a large-scale ban in Jiangnan, rapidly pushing Datong from a small booklet with a little popularity to the top of the world, in the distant northern capital, Sister Dayuer, who had regained her freedom, was honored as the Empress Dowager Zhaosheng...

She has miracles!
Previously, in order to cover up the fact that she had so many guests at Chenghai Tower, the literati of our Qing Dynasty made up a lot of legends for her.

Yang Feng tried to violate her, but was scared away by the appearance of Luohan, and he never dared to have any evil thoughts again.

Even Lin Qingye tried to violate her, but was struck by lightning.

……

In short, there are a lot of them!

She has performed so many miracles, so it’s not excessive to give her the title of Zhaosheng, right?

Finally, the ministers wrote to her and gave her the honorific title of Zhaosheng Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty. Then, she gave Dorgon the honorific title of Emperor Father Regent by the Empress Dowager's decree. However, she did not marry Dorgon, but she replaced her son to honor Dorgon as Emperor Father. In short, the Qing Dynasty officially entered the co-governance mode of two saints. In the court, Sister Mei Niang and Li Zhi were imitated. Sister Dayuer and Dorgon were on the same level, accepting the worship of ministers and deciding national affairs. As a consolation to the two yellow flags, Oboi and Sony were both granted the title of first-class marquis. Hauge led the Zhenglan Banner to attack Ninghai City but failed. The Zhenglan Banner was lowered and the Zhengbai Banner and the two yellow flags were raised to form the upper three flags. Dorgon also led the Xiangbai Banner, and returned it to Dodo's son Doni when he grew up.

Moreover, Dorgon had no son, and he said that he would give the Plain White Banner to him in the future.

What a deep love between uncle and nephew!
As for Ajige, he was still a small flag owner, but a few more Niulu were given to him, which made Ajige very unhappy.

As for Hauge...

What else can this cowardly rebel do?

Of course I endured it.

The key is that the combination of Sister Dayuer and Dorgon crushed him, both in terms of the strength of the army they controlled and their legitimacy. In the past, he could still count on winning over the two yellow flags, but now the two yellow flags are cheering for the Holy Mother Empress Dowager. So despite the general dissatisfaction within the Zhenglan Banner, he did not have the courage to break up with them. Instead, he had to admit his mistakes under the personal comfort of Sister Dayuer, admitting that he failed to rescue his brother because of his poor fighting.

Of course, Sister Dayuer kindly forgave him.

In short, Hauge just became weak.

It must be said that after more than half a year of special training, Sister Dayuer had become extremely mature at this time, and her political skills had made a great improvement, especially in dealing with men. Her skills were no worse than those of Concubine Yi. Whether it was Haoge, Oboi, Sony, or the leaders of other banners, after being summoned and greeted by her in person, they were all moved to tears and swore to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty and to follow the Holy Mother Empress Dowager.

Even after Wu Sangui was summoned, he said with emotion when he returned that the Holy Mother Empress Dowager was truly the incarnation of a Bodhisattva.

Living Bodhisattva!
Female Bodhisattva!
The Qing Dynasty is fortunate!

The country is fortunate!

In the end, with her personal charm, she swept away the haze that had shrouded the Qing Dynasty due to a series of failures.

Of course, there will still not be enough food.

But this is not a big deal for Sister Dayuer. If it doesn't work, just kill some more people without food. Besides, when it gets cold in a few days, you can go out to plunder. Yang Feng is now relying on the Great Water Wall to protect Shandong. This Great Water Wall is meaningless in winter. The Qing army can walk on the ice to cross this barrier and plunder Shandong. As long as they don't risk going deep into southern Shandong like last time, it's still okay to just use cavalry to plunder in northwest Shandong and Jinan and other prefectures. Yang Feng won't turn all the cities in Shandong into fortresses like Dezhou, right?
If you want to grab something, you can always grab some.

Of course, this is known to everyone, and various parts of Shandong have already begun preparing for war.

Especially after Yang Feng skinned Duoduo, the Shandong gentry no longer had any illusions. During this period of time, before the freezing, they were doing their best to transport food and ammunition to coastal fortresses such as Ninghai City and Gegu New City. If war broke out again, they would have to rely on them to contain the enemy behind the lines.

The Qing army was also mobilizing troops to prepare for a new round of offensive.

In fact, for the Qing Dynasty, the 17th year of Chongzhen or the first year of Shunzhi was a year of great change despite the Qing Dynasty's version of the Jingkang Shame, the Battle of Dezhou, and the consecutive defeats of the Battle of Wuchang.

The victory of entering the pass and taking the capital city alone is enough to offset all the failures.

What's more, they got more than just the capital.

The Qing Dynasty has now evolved from a separatist force in Liaodong to one of the great powers that are vying for supremacy in the world. It has escaped the icy and snowy Liaodong that has imprisoned them for generations and entered the Central Plains that they have long dreamed of. It has evolved from a group with less than 100,000 combat-ready soldiers to a great power that controls northern Zhili and half of Shanxi and Henan, and even expanded to southern Zhili, with a population of tens of millions and a military force of more than 300,000. It can be said that it has made a qualitative leap.

Dajin is not a dream!

What are a few tactical failures?
From a strategic point of view, the Qing Dynasty can be said to have won a complete victory this year.

It was just a little too hasty.

He was a bit greedy. Even though he had eaten enough, he still wanted to eat more, which resulted in these failures. If he had not been greedy, but had expanded steadily step by step, these failures would not have occurred.

In short, it’s not that the Qing Dynasty was incapable, but that the victory came too suddenly, so we couldn’t stop.

I just fell down.

At this time, another force, Li Zicheng, began to attack Sichuan.

Aid Sichuan.

His Majesty the Emperor authorized the King of Qin to send troops into Sichuan to rescue the subjects who were harmed by Zhang Xianzhong.

But the latter did not kill the King of Shu...

The envoy sent by Wang Guangtai was lucky enough to find him before Zhang Xianzhong captured Chengdu. Although he did not believe Yang Feng's good intentions, Zhang Xianzhong realized that this was a good opportunity, so he sent someone to Chengdu to assure the King of Shu that he would not invade the palace. The latter, who was ready to commit suicide, did not want to die after all, and Zhang Xianzhong threatened the officials and gentry in the city that if the King of Shu died, he would massacre the city.

In the end, under the unanimous persuasion of officials and gentry in the city, the King of Shu did not commit suicide.

But he claimed that if the enemy troops set foot in the palace, he would die for his country.

Then the King of Shu carried a hanging rope with him every day.

Zhang Xianzhong successfully entered Chengdu, and then strictly enforced military discipline, without violating any laws...

Of course, as long as the meaning is there.

For a group like his, it was already his greatest ability to give such an order. As for whether his generals and soldiers would listen to him, he had no guarantee. However, the attitude of the Sichuan gentry towards him had changed at this time. After all, there was Li Zicheng in the north, and they had to choose one.

In this situation, there is really no need to fight Zhang Xianzhong to the death.

So what if I win?

Wait for Li Zicheng to take over?

If you lose, you have to follow the thief; if you win, you have to follow the thief as well. This damn world makes one sigh.

Therefore, the cities around Chengdu all welcomed the Western King's army.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Xianzhong quickly stabilized the situation in Sichuan. Only Ma Qian, the governor of Dazhou, and Zeng Ying, the previously defeated defender of Qutang, were still resisting in eastern Sichuan. However, because the military order transmission system collapsed, Wang Yingxiong was only in theoretical control, and they actually had the final say. Chongqing, southern Sichuan, and Chengdu were all under Zhang Xianzhong's control. At present, Zhang Xianzhong was fighting Ma Ke in northern Sichuan, who had been ordered by Li Zicheng to go south. The latter was retreating step by step. Li Zicheng decided to launch a large-scale expedition against Zhang Xianzhong just because he saw that he was about to be driven out of Sichuan.

Li Zicheng did not dare to do so before, after all, his biggest opponent was the Qing army. Only after Dorgon's defeat in the Battle of Wuchang did he feel completely relieved, convinced that Dorgon would not be able to attack Shaanxi in the short term.

Take advantage of this opportunity to kill Zhang Xianzhong. Nanjing.

“This is a bit difficult to handle!”

Yang Feng looked at Li Qiande in front of him with a conflicted look on his face.

The latter was He Tengjiao's predecessor, but he was unlucky and was beaten all the way by Zhang Xianzhong in Huguang, so he fled to Guizhou. Then Chongzhen appointed He Tengjiao as the governor of Huguang. When the latter took office, Zhang Xianzhong had already begun to withdraw. Li Qiande had been in Guizhou all the time and had neither been newly appointed nor punished.

Anyway, wait.

It was not until the establishment of the Regent Court that when Wang Yingxiong was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the army in Zunyi, he was given a military governorship to follow Wang Yingxiong.

As for his visit this time, it was very simple. Zhang Xianzhong sent someone to contact Wang Yingxiong and tried to surrender to the court.

There was nothing Mr. Zhang could do.

He certainly could not stop Li Zicheng, who used the emperor to control the princes. Not only did he have a much larger army, but he also received a large number of the original government troops, including generals such as Sun Shoufa who were forced to accept his orders. After more than half a year of rectification, his rule had been initially stabilized, and the various forces in the control area that were originally in chaos had also completed their submission to him, either by his military force or in front of Chongzhen's imperial edict. Even at this time, Zhang Xianzhong had not yet taken back Jiange from Ma Ke, but he was already attacking Jiange with all his strength. It was not difficult to attack from the south, as he was very familiar with that place.

At this time, if Wang Yingxiong's group behind him also launched an attack, he would have no chance of winning.

Surrender became the only move that could save him.

"Zhuguo, it was you who sent someone to tell us that the Regent could recruit us."

The person next to Li Qiande said.

This is Liu Wenxiu.

In order to show his sincerity, Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to send a general.

He first went to Zunyi to meet Wang Yingxiong, and then came with Li Qiande. Wang Yingxiong supported the amnesty. After all, he had to choose between Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Zhang Xianzhong was the weakest and easiest to negotiate terms. He controlled Sichuan, and with Wang Yingxiong as a threat from behind, the interests of Sichuan gentry could be guaranteed.

But Li Zicheng couldn't do that.

Li Zicheng wanted to destroy Zhang Xianzhong, and the Sichuan group headed by Wang Yingxiong had no qualifications to negotiate conditions.

At the same time, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places also had to kneel down at Li Zicheng's feet and beg for mercy.

But Zhang Xianzhong didn't have this ability.

So in this situation, saving Zhang Xianzhong is equivalent to saving eastern Sichuan and Yunnan and Guizhou. Moreover, Wang Yingxiong's family is from Chongqing. The condition for him to accept Zhang Xianzhong's surrender is that Zhang Xianzhong must hand over Chongqing.

"Is there any evidence? Did I write any written documents? Don't slander someone out of thin air."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Liu Wenxiu...

"Zhuguo, since they are sincere in their surrender, you might as well consider it. After all, after so many years of war, it is a good thing to put an end to the war."

Yuan Jixian quickly said with a smile.

So there was no need for Yang Feng to push them, these old guys were tempted on their own.

If Li Zicheng controlled Sichuan, then it would be Wang Jun's turn to sail to Yizhou. It could be said that Zhang Xianzhong's surrender was a blessing from heaven for them, and this opportunity must be seized.

"You must be qualified to surrender sincerely. Now you haven't even taken Jiange, so what qualifications do you have to talk about stopping Li Zicheng? We can accept your surrender, but if you surrender here and Li Zicheng attacks Chengdu, we will have to face Li Zicheng's accusations. Unless you can occupy Jiange and at least repel Li Zicheng's attack in Jiange, then you will be qualified to surrender. Otherwise, your life and death have nothing to do with us."

Yang Feng said.

"Isn't Zhuguo afraid that Li Zicheng will occupy Sichuan? Then the army will leave the Three Gorges and head straight to Nanjing downstream?"

Liu Wenxiu said.

"We are afraid, but so what? We are afraid of many things these days. We are also afraid that Li Zicheng will go south from Nanyang, we are also afraid that Jianlu will reinforce Fengyang, and we are also afraid that Jianlu will attack Shandong, but so what? If the enemy comes, we will stop him. If the water comes, we will block it. If you don't even have the ability to stop Li Zicheng, how can we prevent him from occupying Sichuan?"

Yang Feng said.

Liu Wenxiu was speechless.

however……

This matter needs to be discussed in court.

Now it's just the cabinet elders discussing it.

The decision of the ministers is not the final decision, the decision of the court is.

As for the court meeting...

The result of the court discussion was to accept Zhang Xianzhong's surrender.

Of course, this result has nothing to do with Yang Feng.

Because the canal had begun to freeze at this time and a new round of harassment by the Qing army was about to begin, Yang Feng had to hurry back to ensure the safety of Shandong. As for how to explain to Li Zicheng and how to assist Zhang Xianzhong after the court accepted Zhang Xianzhong's surrender, this would be resolved by the dignitaries in Nanjing themselves!

However, when Yang Feng left Nanjing, he finally received good news.

Zhang Xianzhong captured Jiange.

So he finally obtained the minimum qualification for surrender, but as Yang Feng said, he still had to demonstrate the strength to defeat Li Zicheng.

The fact that the officials in Nanjing agreed to his surrender did not mean that they would support him. They just cheered him on. If he wanted to get real support, he still had to be qualified. Nanjing only relayed Wang Yingxiong's opinion to Xi'an. Although it was rejected by Li Zicheng in an imperial edict, as a loyal minister, he could not stop giving advice just because of a rejection.

So I will continue to persuade the emperor to accept it.

Unless Li Zicheng captures Jiange, Nanjing will continue to make suggestions.

Zhang Xianzhong still has to continue working hard to prove his worth.

On the day Yang Feng arrived at Andongwei, a thousand Qing cavalrymen crossed the canal on the ice and raided Chiping. However, because the surrounding people had already entered the city, and the militia and garrison in the city were heavily guarded, they turned to Jinan after they determined that they could not break through. On the same day, the Qing army on the northern front also had a thousand cavalrymen crossing the Gejin River and the Majia River, which were filled after Yang Feng opened the canal, and then raided Deping. Because the city was also heavily guarded and there was nothing to plunder, they then went south. That night, the Qing cavalrymen attacked Yuncheng at night. Because they had already planted a traitor, they quickly broke through Yuncheng with the help of the inside and outside forces. However, the loss was not great. After all, the area had been evacuated before, and the people had basically moved to Yanzhou.

The area around Caozhou is like this, with some frontier castles centered on Caozhou.

At this point, the war in Shandong reignited.

(End of this chapter)