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Chapter 300 The traitor must die

They gave up the Qing Dynasty south of the Yellow River and quickly ended their internal strife.

It can't be said to be internal fighting.

It's just a redistribution of power.

Hauge finally got his wish and became the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, but Jirgalang and Ajige were still listed as regents. The whole process was very dull. This is why the Wild Boar Skin Family is stronger than the Wanyan Family. They are relatively restrained in internal fighting and will not be as bloody as the Wanyan Family.

Of course, the main reason is that the strength of all parties is now very balanced.

The two white flags suffered heavy losses and have become almost the weakest, but because of Dorgon's relationship, they have received widespread support from the Han army. Although Hauge has become the strongest by winning over the two yellow flags, he himself has little prestige in the Han army and Mongolia, and now the Han army has the largest number of troops in my Qing Dynasty...

Very sad reality.

The Eight Banner Han Army has become the backbone of our Qing Dynasty.

Most of these Eight Banner Han troops joined after entering the Pass, that is, the surrendered Ming army and militia.

Behind these people were the military families and local tyrants, including the former high-ranking officials of the garrisons. Therefore, the problem of evil slaves bullying their masters became more and more serious in our Qing Dynasty.

As for Jirgalang, he still cunningly chose to be a centrist. After all, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty is not a popular figure now. If you are the boss, you have to bear the consequences of being the boss...

When I open my eyes, I see hundreds of thousands of mouths!

After that, without supplies from the south and with the continued shrinking of the population in the north, the territory became smaller and smaller. The local tyrants could not control it and it was surrounded from all sides, lacking everything from food to salt.

We also have to win over those vassal states.

Wu Sangui, Jiang Ge, and Mongolian princes all had to be won over.

Why would people continue to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty if they are not given benefits?
Don’t say they had no choice. Wu Sangui and Jiang Ge did have no choice, but the generals under their command were different. They did not dare to defect again, but their generals did not care!

Even if the main generals don't dare, those middle and lower-level officers don't mind defecting!
You have to give benefits.

If we don't give them any benefits, they will find a chance to chop off Wu Sangui and do it gloriously.

The same goes for the Mongolian princes. There are already many who have defected. If they are not given enough benefits to win them over, more and more Mongolian princes will defect. After all, for them, whoever feeds them is their mother. Yang Feng treated the Ordos tribe who followed Li Zicheng south equally. In fact, King Yang even held the hand of Batu, who was already a general under Li Zicheng, and promised to build ten temples for the Shunyi King, which moved the latter as if he had seen his biological father...

To be precise, he felt closer to her than his biological father, Erlinchen.

Therefore, Yang Feng’s attitude towards the Mongolian tribes was already very clear.

This will make the Mongolian tribes even more unstable in the future.

Unless I, the Qing Dynasty, give them more.

But the problem is that our Qing Dynasty is really poor now. The women and children of the Eight Banners in the capital are almost unable to get enough food, so these masters have to find ways to find ways to go out hunting, fishing or even farming. For example, in Nanyuan, there are a bunch of iron farmers who are secretly growing vegetables.

You have to do it sneakily!
It’s not that it’s not certain, but it’s too embarrassing. I was supposed to be the master.

Therefore, those die-hard farmers who went to Nanyuan to grow vegetables all claimed to be hunting. Even if they had a dead mouse in their waists, they had to claim that their masters had come back from hunting and accepted some radishes and cabbages as a gift from their servants. It turned out that there are still many good servants in this world!

Of course, this is just a small thing.

Things will become increasingly difficult in the future. After all, after the war in Jiangnan is over, it will be Yang Feng's turn to march north.

What could the Qing Dynasty use to resist at that time?
There is no money, no food, and no people.

In total, even with the pass added up, they could gather 30,000 Eight Banners Manchu warriors. Not to mention resisting Yang Feng, if Wu Sangui, Jiang Ge, and Mongolian princes were not counted, relying on the Eight Banners warriors alone, they might be able to fight Zhang Xianzhong back and forth. At least the Lich King is not short of food, thanks to Qiu Zude, the Shandong governor from Sichuan, who has been sending new crops and new agricultural technologies to Sichuan over the years, and Sichuan's grain production has continued to increase. Although these are all for Wang Yingxiong, Qiu Zude is from Chengdu after all, and it is impossible for him not to give a portion to Zhang Xianzhong. The Lich King, who owns the Chengdu Plain, has become a big grain merchant.

And thanks to Sun Kewang's reforms, Chengdu, which at this time in history would have been a city where tigers would have entered to look for food, has now become a paradise.

Therefore, if he were to really fight against the Qing Dynasty, as long as he shouted out that he had three meals a day with meat, the Han army of the Eight Banners would probably defect immediately.

The poor Han soldiers of the Eight Banners now only have two meals a day, and only one of them is dry.

In short, my position as the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty really has no appeal now.

Since Hauge likes it, just give it to him.

At this point, sister Dayuer and her daughter were finally abandoned by our Qing Dynasty.

They are dead!

I, the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, announced this to the world through an imperial decree.

When the Holy Mother Empress Dowager Lao Fo fled the capital, she encountered Yang Feng in Yizhou. In order to avoid being humiliated by this evildoer, she resolutely committed suicide to follow the late emperor. As for the Chenghai Tower now, it is a fake one. Yang Feng deliberately found a fake one there to deceive people. As for the original Qing emperor who was also imprisoned in Shanhaiguan, he just drowned at the seaside a few days ago, so Haoge succeeded to the throne. This is true. A Qing merchant who went to Shanhaiguan learned about it during an audience. In short, the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who had been in power for five years but had stayed on the beach of Shanhaiguan for four years, had passed away. He was swept into the sea by the sea and his body was gone.

It is definitely impossible not to acknowledge him. After all, when Dorgon was alive, our Qing Dynasty had always used the Shunzhi reign title, and in fact, we would occasionally send someone disguised as a businessman to meet the emperor.

Listen to the royal sound.

Remind His Majesty the Emperor not to forget his empire.

Although in the eyes of His Majesty the Emperor they are just a bunch of lunatics, he is now carefree, jumping around, fishing and catching shrimps every day, running in the waves with a bunch of boyfriends and girlfriends. What's the point of being the crappy Emperor of the Qing Dynasty? Is that the life a human being should live?
He is already history anyway.

Of course, the fact that I, the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, am still on that beach, still running around with those fishermen’s daughters is another matter.

He was just thrown into the water, not really drowned.

"Forget it, let him continue his carefree childhood!"

King Yang said with emotion as he looked at the latest report on the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

This report was sent by the Ninghai City garrison commander, who suggested that they just let him be swept away by the waves, as it would be of no use anyway, and that they should also let Sister Dayuer fall into the water together. They had forgotten the happiness they had with Sister Dayuer, and now they were tired of playing with her and were thinking about killing her. They were truly scumbags!

However, Sister Dayuer does not have as many guests as she used to have during this period.

Aesthetic fatigue!
She was not very pretty to begin with, and in the past she had relied on her status as an advantage, but this had faded over the years. To the Ninghai City defenders, the income this woman brought each year was getting less and less, but if she and her son escaped, they would be charged with a serious crime, so the best thing to do was to instigate Yang Feng to kill them both.

However, Yang Feng was not interested in this. Sister Dayuer was not useless. She would be needed to appease the Mongolian tribes in the future. As for the fact that she had many guests, it was not a big deal in the eyes of the Mongolian tribes. A temple would be built for her in the future.

Let her recite scriptures and worship Buddha on the grassland, and let the Mongolian herdsmen feel the great grace of the Ming Dynasty.

As for her son...

Let her son continue running around on the beach!
"Your Majesty is truly kind-hearted!"

Fang Yizhi said with a smile.

He came as the Governor-General of Fengyang to meet Her Majesty the Queen and state his position.

Now that Huaixi has been completely recovered, he, the governor of Fengyang, can return to Fengyang. As for Zhu Dadian, who was originally in charge of the Fengyang battle, he has resigned due to illness and returned to Jinhua. Zhu may not be in serious condition, but there is nothing more sad than a broken heart. Although the Jingnan Army did not attack Jinhua, as the second most powerful person in the Zhejiang faction, he is now scolded by the Zhejiang gentry and has become a traitor. After all, he controls the Zhejiang New Army, but cannot return to save Zhejiang...

His Zhejiang New Army was supported by the gentry in Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou.

Now the latter is fighting fiercely with the Jingnan Army!

During this period, Li Zhifang led the Confucius and Mencius Knights and the Jingnan Army to try to cross the river and attack Hangzhou many times, and even landed in Haiyan, but they were all defeated by the Zhejiang militia. The latter is currently the strongest legion in the Ming Dynasty and it is not an exaggeration. Qi Jiguang's legacy is still something that all forces in the Ming Dynasty can only look up to.

Of course, this did not stop the Shandong gentry from craving for the wealth of Hangzhou.

Just like Li Zhifang said, the Shandong noble families didn't care about the death of more than 150 Confucius and Mencius Knights. It was just a few young elites who died. None of these families lacked young people, so a new batch of Confucius and Mencius Knights had already gone south with new followers. Even the Shandong Elders Association asked Duke Yansheng to lead the army in person, and they are currently trying to persuade him. However, considering Duke Yansheng's willingness to accept good advice, he is expected to lead the army in person. It is estimated that the drama of Duke Yansheng, the Grand Master of the Confucius and Mencius Knights, personally leading the Confucius and Mencius Knights to charge into battle can still be staged.

In short, Zhu was exhausted and simply resigned and went home like Zhang Guowei.

So Fang Yizhi succeeded him as governor of Fengyang.

Although the Qing army had fled, suppressing bandits in various places was still a big task.

Tens of thousands of defeated Green Flag Army soldiers were forming bandit gangs and roaming around Huaixi. His principles towards these defeated Green Flag Army soldiers were the same as Yang Feng's.

kill!

Even if it means killing!

After realizing the truth of natural selection and survival of the fittest, he now likes to kill people in traps. After all, this is the lowest cost. When dealing with the bandit gangs formed by the defeated soldiers of the Green Flag Army, he always coaxes them to surrender, makes all kinds of promises, even takes out silver, and swears to the sky in a personal letter.

After the latter believed it and surrendered, they were immediately ambushed and killed.

Quite brutal.

It has to be said that a former top scholar, at least one of the top three scholars in the Ming Dynasty, is already moving closer to Zeng the Barber. It is estimated that he will also be given the title of saint in the future.

But it's different for some others.

"Your Majesty, if you are so kind to the false emperor and empress of Jianlu, why can't you show leniency to those officials and gentry who have colluded with the rebellion?"

He said.

"It's simple. Heretics are more hateful than pagans."

Yang Feng said.

Fang Yizhi fell silent for a moment.

This explanation really left him speechless.

"In my opinion, traitors are more hateful than aliens. Aliens are enemies, clear enemies. If they come to invade us, we will kill them and then go to plow their homes and kill all those who are taller than the wheels. The relationship between us is so simple. Moreover, alien invasion can make us unite, put aside the fights between each other, and resist foreign enemies with all our strength, forcing us to reform bad things, speed up the development of better things, and make us stronger. We are born in adversity and die in comfort! But traitors are different. They will destroy us from within, make us suspicious of each other and even kill each other, make our internal affairs corrupt, and even make our country decay. They will not bring us any benefits, but will only destroy us secretly.

How many dynasties since ancient times have been truly destroyed by foreign enemies?
Even those that were destroyed by foreign enemies had already been corroded by spies and were rotten to the core. The foreign enemies merely gave a push to the rotten house. Take the Ming Dynasty for example. If it had not been rotten to the core, how could it have allowed the Jianlu to enter?

Not to mention the time of Taizu, even in the Chenghua period, we would have been the ones to plow the fields and dig holes.

So I can let the Emperor and Empress of Jianlu go, besides they were actually being punished, but I will not let any traitor go, traitors must die.

And the three tribes must be exterminated.

Otherwise, their descendants will not be ashamed of the crimes of their ancestors, but will only think that I persecuted them, and then continue to hate me and Her Majesty the Queen, lying in wait for the opportunity to take revenge. Once the day comes when I can no longer suppress them, they will immediately counterattack.

I don't like leaving so many troubles for myself, so let them die together as a family!"

Yang Feng continued.

Fang Yizhi continued to remain silent.

He wanted to protect the powerful families in Huaixi, but it was obvious that Yang Feng would not let them go.

"Your Majesty has learned a lesson."

he said with a sigh.

"You don't need to worry about these matters of punishing the rebels. The Jinyiwei has been rebuilt. This is the Jinyiwei's responsibility. You just need to continue to suppress the bandits. Also, don't forget to go north and rebuild the prefectures, counties and cities in Henan. After all, we have to march north again."

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

Of course the Jinyiwei must be rebuilt and strengthened. In fact, the current Jinyiwei have all been replaced by his attendants. Similarly, the Northern and Southern Yamen must also be rebuilt, and the Imperial Prison must also be built bigger. In the future, the Imperial Prison will be overcrowded and cannot accommodate more people if it is smaller.

There are a wide variety of torture instruments, especially the tongs.

Of course, Fang Yizhi also has ways to deal with him.

First, among the aristocratic families in Huaixi, there were those who followed Fang Yizhi to fight against the Qing Dynasty. They were all military and political officials, so he had long left bloodlines to these aristocratic families. Second, even those on Yang Feng’s purge list could escape. At most, their family businesses would be abandoned, but they could still escape if they wanted to. After all, the current situation was still chaotic and the imperial court had not yet been completely rebuilt. They could just run away and hide incognito. So this kind of struggle was not that simple, and it would even be a long-term one. Fortunately, King Yang had plenty of time to play with them. After all, he was only in his twenties.

"It's the prime of life, the best time of our lives!"

King Yang evaluated himself in the mirror.

(End of this chapter)