Chapter 681 The World is Called the Qing Dynasty

On the canopy.

The sky was dim and foggy.

At Shanhaiguan, the sound of drums shook the earth.

The Dashun Army rushed into the enemy camp of the Guanning Army.

They attacked the enemy with shouting, and their momentum was unstoppable!

Just as we drove the enemy across the rocky river beach, a strong wind suddenly blew up!
Suddenly the sky became dark, sand and rocks were flying everywhere, and the sun disappeared.

The drums stopped, the shouting stopped, and there was only the sound of the howling wind.

……

[Li Zicheng's army marched from Beishan to the seaside, forming a battle array along the Shihe River west of Shanhaiguan. The Guanning Army formed a battle array in the east, relying on the Guancheng. The Qing Army faced the sea, facing the rear of Li Zicheng's battle array.]

[The number of troops in the late Ming Dynasty is a century-old mystery. There are different opinions on the number of Li Zicheng's troops, such as 60,000, 100,000, and 200,000.]

[At this time, the Battle of Shanhaiguan and Shihe was underway. Wu Sangui's Guanning Army fought fiercely with Li Zicheng's army until noon, when a sandstorm suddenly blew up, and the sky and the earth became dark in an instant.]

[At this time, the Qing brothers Ajige and Duoduo led 20,000 cavalrymen, mainly under two white flags, and charged into the battlefield from the right side of Wu Sangui's formation.]

[The Dashun army was defeated in an instant. The Qing army pursued the victory and defeated the Dashun army. The loss of soldiers and equipment was heavy. Li Zicheng had to retreat overnight.]

[When passing through Fanjiazhuang, Yongping, Wu Xiang was beheaded. ]

[On April 26, he returned to Beijing and killed 34 members of Wu Sangui's family.]

[On the day when the Battle of Shanhaiguan ended, Wu Sangui was granted the title of King of Pingxi by the Qing Regent Dorgon.]

……

{Strong wind, strong wind again.}
{Is this thing real or fake?}
{How should I put it? At that time, the Crown Prince of Joseon was in Shanhaiguan City. In order to avoid being hit by artillery shells, he leaned against the vegetable field at the foot of the city wall. Not far away was Dorgon's headquarters.}
{Dorgon invited the prince to meet him, but before he even sat down, he stood up and mounted his horse, asking him to go watch the battle with him.}
{“The sound of the cannon was like lightning, and the arrows fell like rain. The Qing soldiers blew the horn three times, shouted three times, and suddenly rushed into the enemy's formation. After firing several rounds of arrows, the swords flashed. At that time, the wind blew hard, and a gust of yellow dust came from near and far. Only then did we know that the enemy soldiers had been defeated. In a short time, the battlefield was empty and corpses were piled up.” From the Korean anonymous "Shen Guan Lu"}
……

Liu Song.

"Dafeng... the same style as Gaozu?"

Liu Yilong twirled his beard in disbelief.

Liu Yu felt that this was hard to say.

"Zhu Di also had strong winds..."

"Rather than saying it's a celestial phenomenon, I think it's Li Zicheng's fault in command."

"He led the army to march more than 500 miles in four and a half days, attacked from the air, and stormed Shanhaiguan."

"Wu Sangui's Guanning Army exhausted the Dashun Army, which gave the Qing Army the opportunity to inflict heavy damage at a relatively low cost."

"At the end of the day."

Liu Yu threw down a sentence.

"Li Zicheng's foundation is weak."

……

[On April 29, Li Zicheng held a ceremony to ascend the throne in Wuying Hall, with Niu Jinxing performing the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the gods on his behalf. The six ministries each issued an imperial edict.]

[After the ceremony was hastily concluded, the government “ordered all the people in the city to leave the city for refuge”, and at the same time set fire to the Ming Dynasty palaces and gate towers, and began to evacuate Beijing.]

[On the evening of April 30, the Qing army arrived in Jizhou and received news that the Dashun army had evacuated Beijing. Dorgon ordered Duoduo, Ajige, Wu Sangui and others to lead the elite troops to pursue them quickly, while he led part of the army to Beijing.]

【On the second day of May, Dorgon arrived in Beijing. 】

……

{Are you still thinking of holding a coronation ceremony at this time?}
{Beijing has long been the political center of the country since the Yuan Dynasty, and in people's minds, the imperial court in Beijing has an orthodox status.}
{Li Zicheng held a ceremony to declare to the nation that the Dashun regime had become the only legitimate regime in the country after overthrowing the Ming Dynasty, and that Beijing was the place where the Dashun Dynasty would be established.}
{Although they have temporarily given up due to military failure, they will return sooner or later.}
{Oh, I see. I just want to show off. I don’t want to prove myself great. I just want to tell people that I must get back what I lost!}

{How can we come back after burning down the palace?}
{Hmm...burning down the palace shows his determination to start from scratch!}
{Let the common people rebuild the palace, let them suffer more, and let someone else take the blame.}
……

Ming Dynasty - Wuzong Period
Zhu Houzhao kicked over the imperial desk in anger.

"Weren't you very good at fighting when you fought against the Ming Dynasty?"

"It's not like Beijing is undefendable, why are you running away?"

"What a bandit style!"

Zhu Houzhao started to curse nonsensically.

Curse Chongzhen, curse Li Zicheng, curse Wu Sangui, and curse the Qing soldiers.

Finally he sat down angrily.

He understood in his heart that there were powerful enemies following him outside and officials and gentry who were hostile to Dashun inside.

Li Zicheng was holding on to an isolated city after a recent defeat, and the consequences were beyond divination.

He could only run.

"damn it!"

……

On the canopy.

On the imperial road of the palace.

A yellow umbrella led the way, followed by a large yellow sedan chair carried by sixteen people.

In front and behind the yellow sedan chair, in addition to several bondservants, there were also a hundred cavalrymen wearing thirteen-row Baturu waistcoats.

They all rode on tall and fine horses, guarding both sides of the yellow sedan chair.

Inside the yellow sedan.

Wearing a black fox hat, a sable robe and a jacket with python patterns, Dorgon sat on a cushion, looking at the palace around him that was shrouded in black smoke.

There is a smile on the corner of the mouth.

"Take control of the Central Plains."

……

[After Dorgon entered the city, the first thing he did was to calm people's hearts. ]

[At that time, many people in the capital city pretended to report bandits and called their enemies "bandits", causing panic among the people. Dorgon issued an order to prohibit the pursuit and punishment of bandits, and the city gradually settled down. ]

【Then, Dorgon issued another order. 】

[Officials in various government offices in the Ming Dynasty were all employed as long as they were willing to shave their heads and surrender.]

[He was once a minister, and he is still a minister now. He was once a general, and he is still a general now.]

[In short, as long as the officials of the previous dynasty wore the official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty, they would not be punished and would be employed as usual.]

[If the princes of the Zhu family are willing to surrender, they will retain their titles.]

……

Northern Zhou Dynasty: Emperor Wu Period
Yuwen Yong pointed at the table, looked at Dorgon who was doing the exact opposite of Li Zicheng, and sighed:
"Dorgon's move is quite powerful."

"Shaving your head is like submission, and keeping your official position is a reward. It's basically hard to refuse."

"Compared to the alien lord who only knows how to conquer and massacre, his methods are indeed much more sophisticated."

Yang Jian on the side shook his head and said:

"It's just a stopgap measure."

"Sooner or later, we will have to tear our skins apart and wield the butcher knife."

Yuwen Yong took a look at those braids and grinned:

"By then, the world will have been decided."

"Nothing can be done about it."

The two fell into silence for a moment.

……

【Then, Dorgon immediately sent people to the counties, castles, and checkpoints around Beijing to tell the local officials and garrisons there that as long as they were willing to shave their heads and surrender, the Qing Dynasty would forgive their past mistakes and keep their original positions.】

[Without any effort, Dorgon quickly took over the entire Ming Dynasty's central government, including all central agencies and the vast majority of officials.]

[On the fourth day of May, Dorgon ordered that the "bandit" Li Zicheng invaded the capital, killed his master and exposed his corpse, and cruelly plundered the property of the kings, princesses, princes-in-law, officials and civilians, which angered both humans and gods. Therefore, all officials and civilians were required to mourn for Emperor Chongzhen for three days to reflect public opinion.]...

{No matter what, the Qing Dynasty was also a barbarian land at that time. Even if they surrendered, they were still unwilling to accept it in their hearts. Therefore, shaving their heads and surrendering was a form of suppression, and mourning for Chongzhen was a psychological test. This shows that they also understood etiquette and were not a barbarian land.}
{Dorgon's move was to tell the world that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was forced to death by Li Zicheng, and that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by Li Zicheng, not the Qing Dynasty.}
{Combined with the previous series of measures, this makes sense.}
……

Great Sui.

Yang Jian sighed.

"He is a Hu person."

"He is still a barbarian who wants to swallow up everything."

Dugu Jialuo was also very emotional.

"This man's methods are much more clever than Chongzhen and Li Zicheng."

"Let bygones be bygones, and retain your original position."

"this point is very important."

"Because these Jurchens could not speak Chinese and were completely unfamiliar with the local customs, climate and geography of the Han area, they had to rely on a large number of Han officials."

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"From this point of view, Dorgon should thank Emperor Chongzhen."

Dugu Jialuo said with some sarcasm:
"It was he who resolutely refused to flee or migrate south, and left the entire Ming dynasty's central government, institutions, and officials in Beijing."

"It was left to Li Zicheng and also to Dorgon."

……

[On the eighth day of the fifth month, Wu Sangui, Ajige and Duoduo caught up with Li Zicheng in Qingdu, Hebei. Li Zicheng's army was badly defeated, and the baggage and treasures he had robbed were captured by the Qing army. Then he was defeated again in Zhending, and fled from Jingxing across the Taihang Mountains to Shanxi. The entire Zhili also surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. ]

【On May 12, Wu Sangui and others returned to Beijing.】

……

Big man.

“It is very difficult for any regime to achieve victory on the front line if it does not have a generally stable rear.”

Liu Bang shook his wine cup and said pointedly:
"The main reason why the Dashun Army was defeated after the Battle of Shanhaiguan was not because the Qing army was invincible, but because of its own internal instability."

"Their thinking was wrong from the beginning. They wanted to change their thinking, but it was difficult to turn the ship around."

"On this point, Nai Gong has a lot to say!"

Liu Bang drank the wine cup in one gulp, wiped his mouth and said:

"Just kidding, the reason I defeated Xiang Yu was because I had a stable rear base!"

"As long as we have a strong rear base, we can bring heroes back to fight in three years!"

Lu Zhi closed her eyes and said leisurely:

"Do you think Dorgon will just stay here and not leave?"

Liu Bang thought for a moment and replied:
"Absolutely impossible."

……

[After occupying Beijing, Dorgon faced an important choice: stay in Beijing or return to Shengjing? ]

[This period of history is hardly recorded in Qing Dynasty historical documents, but it is recorded in Korean historical documents.]

[According to Korean historical records, the Eighth Prince Ajige asked his younger brother, the Ninth Prince Dorgon, not to build the capital in Beijing, saying that the Manchus were few in number and the Han people were many, and it was very dangerous to stay inside the Great Wall. It would be better to take advantage of the military power to massacre the city, send a few more princes to garrison Beijing, and then return the army to Shengjing.]

【Dorgon objected, saying that the late emperor Huang Taiji had clearly stated that if Beijing was captured, the capital should be moved immediately to make further progress.】

[It is also said that Beijing has been the place where kings flourished since ancient times, and only by establishing the capital in Beijing can the world be ruled. Shengjing is located outside the Great Wall after all, and it is difficult to rule the Central Plains. Moreover, for the Manchus, Beijing is not far from the Northeast, and they can advance or retreat. So they must stay. ]

【On June 11, Dorgon decided to establish Beijing as the capital. 】

……

On the canopy.

The vermilion "Ming Dynasty" withdrew from Beijing and started a new life in Nanjing.

"Dashun" roamed back and forth in Henan.

The black "Qing Dynasty" moved south from Liaodong and crossed Shanhaiguan.

Enter Beijing.

The scene changes.

A young emperor wearing a red crown and a bright yellow dragon robe sat on the dragon throne, looking around curiously.

Behind him, a woman wearing a dark blue court gown with a golden dragon pattern and a hairstyle in a flag-like style was looking ahead with sparkling eyes.

And in front of the little emperor.

It was Dorgon who was also wearing a dark blue robe.

Lift your head and look up.

Behind him were a group of civil and military officials dressed in Qing Dynasty uniforms.

I am bowing three times and kowtowing nine times.

……

[There was great resistance to moving the capital to Beijing. Many Jurchens did not want to move, so rumors that the Qing army would return to Shengjing in July or August were very popular.]

[After arriving in Beijing, many Eight Banner soldiers were not used to the climate and missed their hometown. Most of them still had wives and children in Liaodong.]

[Because it was the autumn harvest time, many soldiers said they wanted to go back to harvest wheat and were unwilling to move.]

[In response to this, Dorgon directly ordered that officials and soldiers at all levels should not return to Shengjing and bring their wives and children to Beijing.]

[Immediately, Dorgon decided to move the young Qing emperor from Shengjing to Beijing, regardless of everyone's complaints and opposition.]

[August 1644, , the th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty and the first year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty.]

[The young emperor of the Qing Dynasty moved the capital from Shengjing to Beijing and entered the palace through Zhengyang Gate on September 19th.]

[On the first day of October, Emperor Shunzhi ascended the throne for the second time at Taihemen.]

[The edict said: "We will continue to rule the world, and call it the Great Qing."]

【At this time, the Qing Dynasty occupied parts of Zhili, Shandong, and Shanxi. The Qing army entered the pass and established Beijing as the capital, which clearly expressed to the world the Qing Dynasty's determination and confidence to replace the Ming Dynasty and occupy the world.】

[It also clearly declared that the Qing Dynasty would unify China and no longer be a local regime in the northeast.]

……

Song Taizong period
Zhao Kuangyi looked at the dynasty that had changed its master again in the sky and said solemnly:

"In just half a year, the Qing Dynasty sent troops from Shengjing to Shanhaiguan, persuaded Wu Sangui to surrender, occupied Beijing, defeated Li Zicheng, and moved the emperor to Beijing."

"Dorgon has great strategic vision and strong execution capabilities."

"The Prince Regent...was able to upgrade the Qing Dynasty from a local government in the Northeast to a new dynasty. He really doesn't deserve the title of Regent."

"However, his achievements are too great to be feared by his master."

"How could this orphan and widow have room for him?"

Zhao Hengze looked at the scenes in the sky, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind!
"Hey! Father!"

"Why doesn't Dorgon learn from you?"

"Look, they are all orphans and widows, and they all have military power!"

"So much like you..."

Zhao Heng noticed Zhao Kuangyi's murderous gaze, swallowed his saliva, and added:

"He looks so much like my uncle..."

Zhao Kuangyi looked at Zhao Heng who was hiding his head and keeping silent, and said with gritted teeth:
"From now on, don't speak!"

"If you say a single word, I'll smash your mouth!"

……

{Suddenly a question arises: is Shunzhi considered the founding emperor?}

(End of this chapter)

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