Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

In the endless darkness, Huang Taiji gradually regained consciousness.But he still felt that his eyelids seemed to be extremely heavy, and he couldn't seem to open them no matter how hard he tried.

There was a strange singing of "Chi Chi" from outside the hall, and Huang Taiji understood that it was the shaman accompanying the army praying for him.But now Huang Taiji just wants to be quiet, he can't wait to scold these shamans immediately, but he is really powerless!

"It seems that this time we are going to reach the end of our life." Huang Taiji thought resignedly.

But then a sense of discontent suddenly filled Huang Taiji's whole body.He is not reconciled!Not reconciled!Having already entered the city of Beijing, Man Qing also took the first step to conquer the Central Plains, but his own body collapsed, and he will never see Man Qing conquer the world again. What kind of sadness is this?O hero's sorrow!

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

A rush of shouts rang in Huang Taiji's ears.Huang Taiji also exerted all his strength and tried to open his eyes, and suddenly saw the side of his bed collapsed, surrounded by relatives and generals of the Qing Dynasty.

I saw Huang Taiji's eyelids moving just now, and Dorgon, who was the most prestigious present, tried to shout a few times. Unexpectedly, Huang Taiji really woke up, so the faces of those relatives and generals in the Qing Dynasty also appeared. smiled.

Huang Taiji looked around the crowd slowly, and found that although they all had expressions of worry, fear, and joy on their faces, only Ao Bai, Tan Tai and others had red and swollen eyes.And of course Dorgon.Why--!This Dorgon!

"My ambitious brother!" Huang Taiji looked at him with a complicated expression.But at this moment, Huang Taiji clearly felt life passing in his body, it seemed that he was running out of time!

"Hey!" Huang Taiji sighed in his heart, "This is the end of the matter, so let's do some things to the best of our ability! Now the two white flags are already full-fledged."

"Your Majesty! What do you have to say?" Dorgon asked with concern when he saw Huang Taiji looking at him.

"Help me up! Help me up!" Huang Taiji said softly.

So everyone hurriedly helped Huang Taiji up.He took a few cushions and put them on his back so that Huang Taiji could sit and talk.

"Don't worry. I have an old problem, I just need to rest for a while." Huang Taiji comforted, and then he asked, "How long has it been since I fell asleep?"

"It's been a whole day." Oboi said at the side, "Your Majesty! We are all worried about your downfall!"

Huang Taiji seemed to glance at Oboi casually, but that sharp look was to tell Aoboi, "Stop talking nonsense." And Oboi shrank his neck slightly under Huang Taiji's gaze, Dodge backward.No longer dare to speak out.

"Then where is the Ming army in Henan? Are we ready to send troops?" Huang Taiji asked again.

But upon hearing this question, everyone in the room peeped at each other, and no one dared to make a sound.Huang Taiji's fainting caused the Qing army to panic.In addition, without the commander-in-chief, no one dared to act rashly.So I can only wait for Huang Taiji to wake up.

After turning his mind a little, Huang Taiji understood the trick here.So he looked at Dorgon.Said to him: "Fourteenth brother! I'm not here. You should make the decision here. What else is there to hesitate?"

"The emperor's lesson is! It's my younger brother who is timid, and my younger brother is afraid of losing the grace." Dorgon quickly bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

Huang Taiji took a long breath, and then said: "Among my brothers and nephews, you are the strongest in terms of talent, so why should I worry about it? It started with Lao Khan's seven great hatreds. After decades of time, our Qing Dynasty Finally occupied the capital city of the Ming Dynasty. National athletes have finally entered the Huahua River and Mountains, half of them can travel a hundred miles, we must not give up this breath. Give back what we got!"

"What the emperor said is true!" Dorgon and others responded quickly.

"Now the Ming army in Henan should have passed Baoding! If you don't send troops, it will be too late. I will appoint you, Prince Rui, as the general who conquers the South, and all the athletes of the Eight Banners will be in command of you. We must repel the Ming army in Henan and keep the capital. Only in this way can we stand firm." The more Huang Taiji said, the more excited he seemed to be, and sick flushes appeared on both cheeks.Everyone already knew that Huang Taiji had come back to life, so they didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of interrupting Huang Taiji's last words.

"Fourteenth brother! Those of my children are all useless, so I need you to worry about it. If you can help, for my sake, I will help you. If you really can't, then you will sit on the throne!"

Hearing this, everyone was shocked like a thunderbolt.Dorgon couldn't stand anymore, he rolled and crawled to the ground, and kowtowed repeatedly.While kowtowing, he also said with a crying voice: "I don't dare! I don't dare! I am a childless person, and I will do my best to help the nephews. If I have a bad intention, it will be abandoned by heaven." !God forsaken!"

Seeing Dorgon kneel down, everyone also knelt and kowtowed.And Aobai also said at the side: "The throne must belong to the emperor's elder brother, no one can take it away. Otherwise, the servant will fight to the death."

"Okay! Get up!" Huang Taiji raised his hand tremblingly, "Oboi! Don't say such things. We Eight Banners can't fight among ourselves. Fourteenth brother! Do you think this is the reason?"

"What the emperor said is true! What the emperor said is true!" Dorgon was still kneeling on the ground, kowtowing constantly.

Huang Taiji let out a long sigh, he finally exhausted the rest of his energy.He leaned softly on the cushion, and his voice became smaller and smaller: "Being able to enter the city of Beijing and sit on the dragon chair of the emperor, I really have no regrets in my life! I have no regrets in my life! It's just that the time is too short. lifetime……"

Before Huang Taiji plunged into the darkness of the eternal night, he finally thought of four big words in his mind - life is like a dream!

In the early morning of August 16th, [-]th year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji, the hero of a generation, died of illness in Beijing.As a minority leader who brought the Manchu Dynasty to the world and could fight for the world, Huang Taiji is worthy of the reputation of being a great talent.

Even when Huang Taiji was dying, he set the internal and external policies of the Qing Dynasty.

External: Huang Taiji asked to defend Beijing and repel the Runing Army.And based on Beijing, seize the entire North China Plain north of the Yellow River and the vast area in the Northwest.First form a state of separation between the north and the south with the Han people, and then look for opportunities to seize the entire world.

Internally: Huang Taiji performed the version of Baidicheng Tuogu in the late Ming Dynasty, using Liu Bei's old trick to bind Dorgon's hands and feet, so as to let his eldest son, Prince Su Haoge, take the throne.

And these arrangements are of course excellent, and if the rulers of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties implement them according to plan, they can also bring the greatest benefits to the Qing Dynasty.But Huang Taiji also neglected one point: with his death, the words he said also disappeared with the wind.

What's more, Huang Taiji ignored it. In his last words, he only said that his son should be enthroned, but he didn't specify who it was.Although all the relatives and generals in the palace at that time knew that Huang Taiji's designated successor was the eldest son Hauge, but such a loophole was always left.And this loophole will be infinitely magnified by Dorgon in the future.

"Fourteenth brother! The emperor just passed away, and you are going to lead the army south to fight. Aren't you afraid that the army's morale will be unstable? Or take the captured goods in the pass and return to Shengjing! Anyway, Shanhaiguan is also in our hands now. Wait until the matter of Shengjing is resolved. , we can come in at any time." Azige persuaded Dorgon.

Dorgon frowned, shook his head and said: "This is not good! That is the emperor's last words, so many people listened to it. We are not on a firm foothold now! And I have ordered the news to be blocked, and the funeral will not be released. Shengjing is also blocked, so it should be fine!"

When Huang Taiji's bones were not cold, it was indeed difficult for Dorgon to violate Huang Taiji's last order, otherwise, it would be very detrimental to controlling the Qing army in the future.Dorgon just asked Azige to be patient, and wait until Dorgon used his means to fully control the power of the Qing Dynasty.

But at this moment, Duoduo hurried over, and as soon as he met, he shouted out of breath: "Two brothers! Listen to the slaves in my banner: the two yellow banners have sent more than a dozen groups of people back to Liaodong overnight. If the two elder brothers don't move, then Shengjing will be taken by Hauge."

"Ah!" Dorgon and Azig exclaimed in unison.

And Azig cursed: "Oboi and Tan Tai, these two slaves, don't let me touch you! I'm going to take your skin off!"

In Shengjing, the personal grievances between Hauge and Dorgon are well known.And once Hauge came to the throne, the best ending for the three Dorgon brothers would be to die in confinement.So now Dorgon and the others have been forced, and they must not sit still.

At this time, Dorgon didn't care about Huang Taiji's last words.He said decisively: "Assemble the whole army! Return north immediately. Search all the property, livestock and people in the capital, and return to Shengjing from the pass of the Great Wall in several routes. Azig! Duoduo! The two of you are escorting the emperor's Coffin, with two white flags and our troops, come back from Shanhaiguan together with me!"

"it is good!"

"Then send the order quickly! Hey!" Dorgon finally said.

On August [-], the vanguard of the Runing Army encountered Qing army spies in Baoding.

On August [-]th, the family of the Runing Army arrived in Baoding, deployed troops, and prepared for a decisive battle with the Qing army.

On the same day, Huang Taiji died of illness in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

On August [-], due to the internal strife in the Qing Dynasty, Dorgon decided to abandon the decisive battle with the Runing Army and evacuate the capital despite Huang Taiji's death order.

At the same time, he ordered: plunder the capital for one day, and then divide into four routes on the [-]th, and return northward to Liaodong with the property and population seized in the capital.

The other three Qing troops who passed through the Great Wall and exited the customs, because they had a large number of seizures, they walked at a slower speed.As for Dorgon, he was galloping lightly and was about to return to Shengjing as quickly as possible.

On August [-]th, when the vanguard of the Runing Army cautiously approached the city of Beijing, they were surprised to find that the inner city and the imperial city of the capital were deserted. (To be continued..)