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Chapter 885
Xiao Zhuang is definitely a legendary woman. In terms of blood, she belongs to the Mongolian Tartars and is an out-and-out Horqin person. Her biological father is Baylor of Horqin Mongolia. Her marriage to Huang Taiji is definitely a political marriage. Not a union of love.

Back then, after Nurhachi unified Jurchen, Houjin was established.And started the foreign war of conquest. At first they just killed people and plundered livestock and other property to satisfy their barbaric nation.

Later, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan, and other Hanchens joined and offered advice, which greatly increased their ambitions, and the wild boar skin began to embrace the country and seek the world.

After the unification and establishment of the state, they first conquered Mongolia. The Manchu Iron Banner and the Mongolian Iron Cavalry belonged to nomadic peoples, and they all bowed and shot arrows.However, since Genghis Khan and his son, the eagle on the grasslands of Mongolia, have become depleted and torn apart.Of course they were not the opponents of the just-rising Nurhachi father and son. At that time, the Manchurian iron cavalry was truly invincible in the world. Yong Tieqi also has to bow down.

After repeated contests, Monan Mongolia and Mobei Mongolia were conquered, leaving only Moxi Mongolia in a corner in the west, and had to temporarily recognize the status of Nurhachi and his son as the banner master, lingering on.

Nurhachi established the Eight Banners system, and the Eight Banners Army, including various Mongolian ministries, came into being.

But Nurhachi and his sons are not confused. They are not as arrogant as Yelang. Of course, they know that the Mongolian tribes that are no less powerful than them submit to them and submit to them. That's all.

So Nurhachi and his son played another trick, using the method of marriage, to firmly grasp one wing of the Mongolian eagle so that they could not fly further. He married several Mongolian wives, the most famous being Huang Taiji who married two beauties from the Horqin tribe as wives and concubines.

Women in ancient times were born to serve men, especially those nomads. Although they were born noble, and some of them possessed unique skills and exquisite skills, they were ultimately men's playthings and tools for political interests. From this point of view It is said that they are destined to be tragedies.

However, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang is an exception. Her life can be described in a few words: mountains and rivers resurface, willows are dark and flowers are bright, bitter woods are in spring, full of twists and turns. At the age of 13, she married her uncle and conceived on behalf of her aunt, but she was not favored by Huang Taiji, and her status in the harem kept sinking. It was not until she gave birth to Xiao Fulin that her status began to stabilize.Huang Taiji passed away suddenly, and the two factions headed by Dorgon and Hauge fought each other for the succession to the throne.

At the critical moment, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang settled Dorgon, which allowed her biological son Xiao Fulin to take the throne. From then on, she became the Empress Dowager and started her brilliant and legendary life.

But now fate played another cruel joke on her. Dorgon and Xiao Fulin, the two men she could rely on, left her one after another, and her life fell into a trough again.

When the bad news came, it really broke her down. Her first thought was to surrender. At the price of these cities, she negotiated terms with Zhu Yousong. Her request was very simple, as long as their mother and child could return safely The grassland is enough, she is from Horqin, and the strong prey on the weak, she has long been used to it.Whoever is strong is a dragon, and whoever is weak is a worm.

But the situation in front of her made a 180-degree change in her thinking.Of course she knew that surrender was the simple truth of death or not.After Dorgon died, they became their orphans and widows supporting the building of the Qing Dynasty, and felt a little powerless. Now even her own son, Fulin, was ruthlessly taken away by Zhu Yousong. Now she has become a widow, truly The lonely family and widows in the house undoubtedly made things worse. How can people not bow their heads when they are under the eaves?
But now she sees that it is definitely not their orphans and widows who are fighting in the Qing Dynasty. Although there is no emperor's son, there are still a large number of loyal and brave Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, and the various tribes on the grassland, she is still popular.Now she is not representing herself, but the entire Eight Banners of Manchuria and the various tribes of Mongolia. Just like her marriage to Huang Taiji, she has been firmly tied to the chariot formed by these two families.

Why doesn't she want to save her son?Why didn't she want to avenge Dorgon, Xiao Fulin and Huang Taiji?In front of the peak power and desire, women such as Empress Lu and Wu Zetian in history have already set an example for him. She sat on that chair naturally, without any scheming or conspiracy, so why not do it?If she succeeds, she will be an ancient woman, and her blood and deep revenge will be avenged, and the world will have her own, but if she fails, she will die.

With such a tempting game in life, she would definitely choose to gamble to the end!The surrender she throws out is just testing people's support, and now she finally knows it well.

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang cheered up immediately: "Pass down the edict of Aijia, save your strength and abandon Yizhou and Heishan, and all the troops will retreat to the capital."

"I would like to obey the Queen Mother's order." Several ministers knelt down in unison, answering with enthusiasm.

These slave ministers of the Qing Dynasty now have a backbone. In fact, none of them are afraid that the Queen Mother will lead them to surrender, and the Qing system will collapse. The key is that they will not be able to keep their heads.

They all have a desire for power, whether it is the nobles of the Eight Banners or the Mongolian princes, they are all aiming at that chair, but they all have self-knowledge. In this precarious time of life and death, no one dares to cross the thunder pool half a step, which will only lead to Torn apart, suicidal, or conquered, only this young and beautiful woman in front of them is the support of their dreams.

Under the order of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, more than 5 Qing troops from Yizhou and blacks were all withdrawn. They pulled cannons, supplies, food and grass, and did not leave a single soldier.

A few days later, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang returned to the capital of the Qing Dynasty. The Crown Prince Taibao and Minister of State Gong Adai, who stayed behind in the capital, and Feng Quan, the Minister of Rites of the University of Hongwenguan, led the civil and military personnel from the capital to greet her.

The news of the repeated defeats of the former enemy has spread like wildfire, and it has already spread to the Qing Dynasty. The capital is Shengjing, and the officials are also panicked. There are deep feelings, but the rule of the Manchu Tartars has always been disapproved, and they are not optimistic, and now they see the dawn again.

However, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang returned to Beijing with tens of thousands of horses, and people's hearts immediately stabilized.The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang brought more than 5 elite soldiers, together with the Eight Banners Army and the Green Battalion guarding the capital, the total number of troops exceeded 11. If you count the tens of thousands of troops who went on an expedition to the North Korean Lee Dynasty, Daqing is still strong , and now, the tens of thousands of troops on the expedition to North Korea have won the battle on the Yalu River.

Although the regent Dorgon and the young emperor Fulin are gone, but the banner of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang is still there, and the spirit of the Qing Dynasty in their hearts will not fall.Because anyone with a discerning eye knows that the little emperor Shunzhi is just a puppet who was helped to the throne. In a sense, the regent Dorgon can also be regarded as a captive of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. This young man in his 30s The skills and courage possessed by women have already conquered the subjects of the Qing Dynasty. They realized that this is their real master, and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang has become the heart of the Qing Dynasty.

After the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang arrived in the capital, she immediately conferred civil and military titles, worshiped Hanchen Feng Quanhong, a scholar of the Wenguan University and the chief assistant of the cabinet, Gong Adai was the prince and Taibao, the minister of discussion and the minister of the Ministry of Rites, appointed the Mongolian royal official Wu Keshan as the second assistant of the cabinet, and was promoted to the military. The minister Ganglin is the minister of the Ministry of War, the minister Leng Sengji is the minister of the Ministry of Officials, Bai Yintu is the minister of the Ministry of Households, and the Mongolian prince Manzhu Xili is the minister of the Ministry of Industry.

(End of this chapter)