Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

The optimism of Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers in the court was based on the people's long-term fear of the government and the authority of the Ming Dynasty that lasted for more than 300 years.However, the fall of Fengyang this time caused the false power of the Ming Dynasty government to collapse in the hearts of many bankrupt people. They suddenly found a way out, which is to join the peasant rebel army and take this bankrupt bankrupt. The evil government was completely overthrown.

This really makes a single spark start a prairie fire!Moreover, the morale of the peasant rebel army was also greatly increased, which made them confident to start attacking the big city proactively, and dared to fight the main force of the Ming army.

And don't forget that the life-and-death enemy of the Ming Dynasty at this time is not just the peasant rebel army.What is the Queen Jinhan King in Liaodong——Huang Taiji doing?

Two things: one is to wipe out all the enemies inside and outside Houjin!

First of all, after Kong Youde's rebels surrendered, on June [-], the seventh year of Tiancong (that is, the sixth year of Chongzhen. For the sake of convenience in the text, the name of the Ming Dynasty will be used to describe it), Huang Taiji sent more than [-] Manchu and Han soldiers. The left and right wings attacked Lushun, and the victory was achieved on July [-]. The fortress of Lushunkou, the southern gate of Liaodong, fell into Houjin's hands, and a large number of people, animals and property were captured at the same time.

In December of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji ordered the deputy capital to dominate Qilan, and Samusha led [-] soldiers to conquer the unconquered land in Heilongjiang.In the second year, good news came from their homeland, and they took over [-] Huerha strong men, men and women, old and young.At the same time, Wu Bahai also won many battles and victories when he went to Warka.

Huang Taiji expanded his territory in the northeast to the south from Lushunkou, north to the east of the Wusuli River and the middle reaches of Heilongjiang.And with the addition of a large number of birth girls, the strength of the Eight Banners has been greatly improved.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji personally led troops to conquer Har, and set off in April to pursue Lin Danhan.After crossing the Yellow River, the Houjin army ran out of food, shot yellow sheep to satisfy their hunger, and had no water, so they drank a cup of water with a sheep, so they had to return halfway.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, when Huang Taiji visited Hal again, he realized that Lin Danhan had died of illness in Dacaotan, Qinghai.In the second year, Dorgon, Yue Tuo and others were sent to receive his son Erke Konguoer Ezhe and his followers.Dorgon accidentally obtained the Chuan Guoxie of the Yuan Dynasty.

This victory marked that all of Monan Mongolia belonged to Hou Jin.The Manchurian and Mongolian troops outside the pass were unified in the hands of Huang Taiji, and Houjin could also have no worries.He wholeheartedly dealt with the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, Huang Taiji took advantage of the opportunity of conquering Chahar in the seventh and eighth years of Chongzhen to attack the Ming Dynasty, but mainly wandered around Datong and Xuanfu, and had not fundamentally shaken the rule of the Ming Dynasty.However, this also made it impossible for the Shanxi frontier army to join the Ming army that encircled and suppressed the peasant rebel army.

In internal affairs, Huang Taiji also made outstanding achievements.

Five years after Chongzhen's four years.Huang Taiji focused on establishing a more solid foundation for Hou Jin's rule.On August [-]th of the fifth year of Chongzhen, he ordered Gushan Ezhen of the Eight Banners to investigate the poverty and suffering of the people in all the banners to which he belonged, and carefully judge the criminals.At this time, the ruler of the Later Jin Dynasty, who was known as a hunting hunter, also proposed that shooting and hunting should not be allowed to enter Zhuangtun privately.It is not allowed to take firewood without authorization.No noise is allowed.

In the first month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji warned all Niulu Ezhen: When there is a conflict between farming and fighting, they would rather obey the farming.This brings a stable farming life to an important position.

Moreover, Huang Taiji himself has a good cultural quality, and at this time he implemented measures to revitalize culture and education.He changed his father Nurhachi's policy of massacring literati, and conducted examinations, selecting 200 students from Manchu, Han, and Mongolia.He has realized the importance of developing culture and education to governing the country.It cannot be said that not reading will not cause mistakes.

Therefore, Huang Taiji stipulated that from the fifth year of Chongzhen, all the children of ministers under the age of fifteen and over eight years old should all be ordered to study.And began to punctuate Manchu.Absorb the advanced culture of the Han nationality.Translated and is currently translating: "Ministry of Criminal Justice", "Su Shu", "Three Strategies", "Wan Bao Quan Shu", "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", "Six Secret Teachings", "Mencius", "Three Kingdoms" and so on.And eight years after Chongzhen, the ministers of Jin's library translated the history books of the four dynasties of Liao, Jin, Song and Yuan Dynasties.

What is even more valuable is that Huang Taiji also attached great importance to ethnic policy.Another success of his is to expand the influence of "Nurturing People Well".Huang Taiji advocated that no matter whether the government or the people, give to the family and Zhuangtun, don't let a person lose his place.

On the second day of June in the sixth year of Chongzhen, in a speech, Huang Taiji ordered the soldiers to "do nothing to disturb" the newly attached people.Therefore, under the influence of Huang Taiji's policy, Ming generals Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and others surrendered to Houjin one after another.

Moreover, Huang Taiji re-appointed Kong Youde as the Marshal of the capital, and Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi as the commander-in-chief, allowing them to continue to lead the troops and rank alongside Heshuo Baylor.It turned out that the army of Hou Jin was all Manchurian Eight Banners. In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Tong Yangxing was appointed as the general officer to manage the Han soldiers. When Ma Guangyuan led the Han soldiers in the sixth year of Chongzhen, a Han army flag was actually formed, which was called Wuzhenchaoha in Manchu.

Therefore, on March [-], the seventh year of Chongzhen, when Huang Taiji paraded in the suburbs of Shenyang, there were eight Manchurian banners, two Mongolian banners, and one old Hanbing banner, a total of eleven banners.What is very different from before is that the army at this time has changed from a private armed force to a national army.

The other thing is total recuperation.Although Houjin achieved brilliant results in the battle of Dalinghe City, this kind of war with the power of the whole country also consumed a considerable amount of Houjin's national power.It can be said that the Dalinghe victory of the Later Jin Dynasty is the same as the Ruzhou victory of the Runing Army. It is a military victory and a financial defeat.

Let me make an interesting hypothesis here. If the Ming Dynasty did not have the internal trouble of the peasant rebel army, as long as the Ming Dynasty relied on its national power to continuously send troops to Liaodong to fight against the Houjin, even if it was defeated every game, it would probably kill the Houjin. Jin's strength was worn away.

Anyway, there is not much to say about this impossible assumption.After getting the Chuanguo Yuxi, I heard that the central capital of the Ming Dynasty was captured by the peasant rebel army.Those in power in the later Jin Dynasty were swept away from the humble mentality of the central power of the Ming Dynasty, and they began to prepare for the establishment of the country, and they were going to be on an equal footing with the Ming Dynasty.

Somewhat sadly, the Ming Dynasty gradually moved from civilization to barbarism at this time, while the Later Jin Dynasty gradually moved from barbarism to civilization.Like the Runing Army, the Later Jin Dynasty is establishing its own order and civilization. Although they all learn from the Ming Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty wants to suck blood from the mother body of the Ming Dynasty, and the Runing Army wants to establish its own order and civilization in the Ming Dynasty. Parasitic development towards this mother body.

The only difference is that although the Runing Army has developed fast enough, it is still far inferior to Houjin, which has occupied the entire outside of the pass.

But no matter what the future holds, the most important thing now is to regain Fengyang as soon as possible.And the fangs of the Runing army turned on the peasant rebel army who withdrew from Fengyang and headed south. (To be continued..)