golden scales

The 19th year of Chongzhen came quietly, but this date cannot be shouted out loudly in Beijing, unless it is tired of work and wants the Qing army to behead.However, after the bloody looting, the common people in Beijing hated the Manchus so much that they refused to use the name "Three Years of Shunzhi", so the more written and formal "Year of Bingxu" became a common saying.

In private, quite a few people call this unlucky year the "Year of the Dog", and at the same time add an accent to the word "dog", which is quite allusive.

Dorgon entered the palace on the first day of the Lunar New Year and accepted the congratulations from all the officials together with the emperor, and then went to the inner palace to discuss state affairs with the Queen Mother.This kind of behavior is not too much for the Manchus, but it is contrary to ethics in the eyes of the Han people.And morality is contagious, so even many Manchus with a high degree of Sinicization find it difficult to accept it.

It's just that Jierhalang can't hold his head up because of the defeat in Tianjin and the crime of negligence in Beijing Watch, which makes Dorgon's power fall into power, and no one dares to speak out.

In fact, Dorgon really went to Bumbutai to discuss state affairs.

And it is related to the fate of the entire Manchuria: whether to abandon Beijing and return to Shengjing.

Bumbutai knew that she was not as talented as the late emperor, and she was full of doubts about Dorgon's reputation as a "smart king", so she thought of the ancestral system.

The ancestral system is to sit side by side in the south of the four major Baylors, regardless of superiority and inferiority, and discuss politics together.Later, Huang Taiji put in a lot of effort to take the banner right into his own hands, and finally realized the rule of asking the government in the south alone, Baylor gave the seat, and other people stood by.Even after Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor, Manchuria's banner rights and political power still contradict each other, and it cannot be regarded as a complete feudal regime.

Judging from Huang Taiji's death, the Manchurians competed for the throne in a way that they had more cattle records and bigger fists, which is still the custom of the traditional tribal era.

At this time, since no one can unify the Qing Dynasty alone, the most reliable way is to invite the princes and Baylor.Conduct "democratic" discussions in the traditional way, and finally reach a resolution acceptable to all parties.

Because Hauge was captured, the Zhenglan Banner belonged to Jierhalang, but Niulu under the Zhenglan Banner was divided between Azig and Duoduo.In order to win the support of Abatai, the concubine son of the first Khan, Dorgon dug out the right to the banner with the red flag from Daishan and handed it to Abatean's son Boluo.

In this way.When the Eight Banners were discussing politics, the Queen Mother of Kunning Palace was high above, with the Mongolian Eight Banners behind her.On the Eight Banners of Manchuria, there are two white flags of Dorgon and Duoduo; the Zhenghong flag of Daishan; the inlaid red flag of Beileboluo; the two blue flags of Jierhalang;

In order to make the decision more correct, Dorgon proposed to let Han Junqi attend the meeting and express his opinions, but he has no voting rights.Having said that, among the Eight Banners of the Han Army, only Shang Kexi, King Zhishun and Geng Zhongming, King Huaishun, who were still alive among the Sanshun kings, were able to attend.

Hong Chengchou, as Dorgon's still valued think tank, also participated in this meeting, which made Sukesaha, Sony, Wu Bai and other important Manchurian officials jealous.And angry - breaking the rules of the ancestors.

However, Hong Chengchou had a hard time to say, since he lost Baoding, he was also suspicious of Dorgon, so cautious to the extreme, even his mother was sent to the palace as a hostage, how dare he speak on such an occasion?

On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month in the third year of Shunzhi, this meeting after several discussions was finally held in the Hall of Martial Arts in the Forbidden City. The participants were these ten figures who could affect the future situation of the world.

"Tianjin can't be defeated. Tens of thousands of people have been filled in, and the earthen wall has not been knocked down." The proud Duoduo said in frustration: "The Ming army has a smooth sea route. It can't be surrounded. What about this battle? Fighting? No one can blame it, the only blame is that we don’t have a navy.”

The meeting started with the failure of the crusade against Jierhalang and Tianjin, and ended with Duoduo's rebuttal.Ji Erhalang was very glad that he had found Duo Duo as a partner, and even let Duo ErGun cast a rat-fighting weapon.

"We lost to the Ming army fundamentally." Dai Shan complained that Dorgon had snatched his inlaid red flag, and said: "Back then, the first emperor collected all the flags and records together. It seems that the power is great, but now I want to Thinking, each Ding does not know who to listen to orders, which will inevitably lead to a decline in combat power. In my opinion, in the future, we still have to return to the rules of the first Khan. The Niu Lu of each Zhuangzi manages people in peacetime and leads the army in wartime. Soldiers, soldiers don’t know generals.”

Dorgon wanted to refute Daishan's regression, but his lung meridian was affected, and he coughed a series of times, unable to speak a word.

Jierhalang had no choice but to bite the bullet and come out, saying: "The rules of the late emperor are also good. Everyone came here when they were sweating first, and they all know what it was like at that time. Sometimes when the army marched out, the masters grabbed a lot of money. However, the armored soldiers were dismissed with only two blood-clothed coats. If the late emperor hadn't gathered the military power of each banner and distributed it fairly, I'm afraid it wouldn't be as grand as it is today."

"Fair?" Daishan snorted coldly.

Dorgon didn't think Huang Taiji was fair at all, and he tried every means to snatch Niulu from him and his younger brother, which was simply shameless.

"Don't make any noise." Bumbutai finally couldn't listen anymore, and said: "Your lords, Baylor, we are going to discuss a big plan today. Why bother to mention those old sesame and messy things? The regent prince, you It is up to you to lead the administration.”

Dorgon calmed down his breath. He couldn't bear the sight of this woman holding a chicken feather as an arrow, but he didn't dare to stir up public anger in front of so many princes Baylor, so he said slowly: "I think it's time to go."

"Take it as soon as you see it." Duoduo immediately echoed his brother: "The harvest of entering the customs this time is already the biggest since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and it is time to go back to manage the ancestral land well."

Dorgon glanced at his younger brother, and secretly praised: He really has grown up.

Speaking of it, even the Manchus themselves do not believe that 10 people annexed the world of fifteen provinces.Dorgon chose to go to the northwest first and then to the south of the Yangtze River. In fact, he wanted to leave a way for himself to get out of the customs.If they rushed to the south of the Yangtze River and were cut off by the Han people, wouldn't they not even be able to go back to their hometown?

It's just that I didn't expect to be beaten so embarrassingly at the time, and I didn't expect that most of the Manchus didn't want to go back because they saw the prosperity in the pass.

Jierhalang also wanted to go back outside the pass.He personally fought against the Ming army, knowing that these Ming troops are definitely not comparable to Liao Town in the past, it is best to go back and recuperate for a while, and then try soft and hard.

Daishan was unwilling to go back like this, because the two white flags grabbed the most, and the two yellow flags grabbed the best—because he occupied the treasure house of the Forbidden City, but his Zhenghong flag didn't get anything, and he even lost one. How can he be willing to go out with a red flag?

The Manchurians like to leave their family property to their youngest sons, not just because they love the youngest sons, but also because when the parents leave, the sons in front have grown up and can start their own families.As the eldest son, Daishan did not inherit the essence of Nuerhachi's strength, and was robbed by Huang Taiji, so he had no chance to stand on his own.

"If you want to leave, you should first agree on how to divide the harvest this time." Daishan coughed dryly and said, "Whether to divide according to the time when Xian Khan or the time of Emperor Xiandi. There must be an explanation for this."

During the time of Xian Khan, part of the grabbing from each banner went to the public, and the bulk was divided by the banner owner himself; in the era of the first emperor, the public accounted for seven, and each banner could only take three, and the harvest of Niulu Li Dingkou had to be guaranteed.Of course, Daishan hoped to get back his loss from the Gongzhong piece, so as not to enter the customs in vain.

Others felt that Zhenghongqi contributed the least in the battle against the Ming army and should not have too many captured.Going one step further, after the death of the first emperor, there was no one who could stand in charge of the affairs of the government, and who would be willing to hand over what he had seized.Huang Taiji can see that the right of the banner is hindering the regime, but can others not see the deprivation of the right of the banner by the regime?

So regarding the issue of spoils, the Eight Banners are in a mess. Unless someone is willing to spit out the meat in his mouth, don't expect to be able to calm down.

Dorgon was weak at this time, and it was good to be able to persist in attending. In the end, he lost his strength and almost passed out. This ended the first Eight Banners meeting.

The Han army developed from Wuzhenchaoha, which was an army drawn from the Han people in each banner.They cultivated the land of each banner on weekdays, and accepted the command of Gushan Ezhen appointed by the imperial court during wartime, so the biggest difference between them and the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners was that the Han Eight Banners did not occupy land.

Since there is no land, there is no problem of development, which makes Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming stand on the sidelines and treat it as a display.

Hong Chengchou felt sorry for himself in his heart, and felt sorry for why he couldn't insist on committing suicide at the beginning.Now that the hunted property has not been moved home, the Manchus will fight among themselves. Isn't this the work of a fool?However, in his capacity, he couldn't say such a thing, otherwise no one could tell the consequences.

"My lord, why can't we go back outside the pass first, and then make a detailed inventory before making distribution?" Hong Chengchou met with Dorgon in private and put forward his own opinion.

Dorgon half-lyed in the chair, shook his head and said, "Sir, I still don't understand us Manchurians. We like to say what we have to say first, and then do what we agreed to. If you don't understand what you said earlier, you will inevitably be hurt in the future." truth."

Hong Chengchou was deaf to the wind, and continued: "But now is really out of date. Our army has retreated to Beijing to hold on, and Baoding, Tianjin and other important cities have fallen into the hands of the Ming army. It is really in danger."

"How many people in the Ming army can stop my tens of thousands of troops?" Dorgon disagreed: "Our army suffers from the division of troops. If our army can make a fist, it is to lend ten courage to the Ming army. Don't dare to attack."

Hong Chengchou didn't know where Dorgon's self-confidence came from, he thought about it briefly, and said: "My lord, the Ming army invested at least 20 troops in the battle of Tianjin this time. I'm afraid they may not dare to take the initiative to attack."

Dorgon couldn't help trembling, and asked urgently: "Is this true?" (To be continued...)

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