Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 82
In the morning of the next day, two fast horses sent from Shandong and Shanxi respectively entered the outer city of Beijing from the East Bianmen and West Bianmen at the same time, and entered the inner city from Zhengyangmen at the same time, and came straight to Prince Rui's mansion.

At this time Dorgon had just gotten up and was reading in his study.

For some reason, Dorgon dug out a copy of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" from the bookshelf.

The Jiannu royal family liked to bow horses more, but few liked to read. Dorgon was considered an outlier. Like Huang Taiji who just died last year, he was very obsessed with Daming's novels.

A "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was almost ruined by Dorgon.

As a result, it happened to turn to the episode of cooking wine and discussing heroes. Dorgon felt something, and immediately beckoned Cao Eryu, the coated slave who was waiting beside him, to come closer.

"What's your master's order?"

Cao Eryu asked flatteringly, with her waist slumped.

Dorgon raised the book in his hand and asked, "You dog slave, have you read Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"

Cao Eryu flattered: "The slaves don't read many books, not as good as the master, but they have read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and they can name a few of them."

Dorgon smiled and asked: "Then let me ask you, who can be called a hero in today's world?"

Cao Eryu said without hesitation: "Of course it is you, master, and only you."

"Where is Prince Su Hauge?" Dorgon asked again, "Where is Prince Li acting as a good person?"

"This..." Cao Eryu was a little frightened, she dared not let him comment on the prince alone.

Although he was coated with a white flag, if Hauge and Daishan wanted to kill him, it would be like crushing an ant.

"You don't have to be afraid." Dorgon said with a wave of his hand, "There is no one else here, just rest assured."

Cao Eryu then boldly said: "Prince Su is more than brave but not resourceful, and Prince Li is already old and incompetent. Both of them are inferior to you, master."

Dorgon laughed again: "Prince Zheng can be called a hero in the world."

Cao Eryu waved his hand and said: "Although Prince Zheng is listed as uncle and regent alongside my master, he is similar to Yuan Shao. He forgets righteousness when he sees small gains, and cherishes his life when he does big things. He is far worse than master."

Dorgon was in a good mood and kicked Cao Eryu.

"You dog slave, you talk in the same way, and you don't read much."

After laughing and cursing, Dorgon asked again: "Among you Han people, is Li Zicheng a hero?"

Cao Eryu laughed out loud when he heard the words, and said: "If Li Chuangwang's mere rogue can be called a hero, there will be no bears in this world."

Dorgon laughed, and asked again: "What about Chongzhen?"

"This is even more unacceptable." Cao Eryu said with great disdain, "Slavery, tell the truth, master, please don't laugh, even if you let this servant become the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you will not do worse than Chongzhen."

"Speaking of this Chongzhen, where has he gone now?" Dorgon asked, "Has he already gone to the south of the Yangtze River, or is he still hiding in the valley of Yanshan?"

Cao Eryu said: "Perhaps he is already dead."

I have to say that the news of this era is really blocked.

Until this time, there was no news of Chongzhen from Beijing.

What's even more outrageous is that Jiannu is still fighting under the banner of "assisting Ming Dynasty in suppressing thieves", and Wu Sangui is still Ming's Ping Xibo in name.

Of course the reality is another matter.

In fact, Wu Sangui had already become the king of Pingxi who built slaves.

"Master, both Shanxi and Shandong have been delivered urgently just now."

While talking, a guard walked in with two wax letters.

Cao Eryu took the two sealed letters, cut open the envelopes with a dagger, and handed them to Dorgon.

Dorgon took out two letterheads from the envelope and read them one after another, his face immediately collapsed.

Feeling the change in Dorgon's mood, Cao Eryu and the guard didn't dare to breathe.

"Go!" After a while, Dorgon said with a dark face, "Call Ning Wanwo, Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou."

"Hey!" Cao Eryu and the guard turned and left at the same time, and found another guard to inform Ning Wanwo, Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou respectively.

Soon after Ning Wan, the three of us came to Prince Rui's Mansion.

"Yechen's progress in Taiyuan is not going well, and Baiyintu also encountered stubborn resistance from the Ming army in Licheng." Dorgon said, "The situation in Shanxi and Shandong provinces is not what you imagined at all. Shouldn't you give me a reasonable explanation?"

The letter from Baiyintu was sent shortly after arriving in Licheng, so he only reported to Dorgon the fact that he was stubbornly resisted by the Ming army in Licheng. There was no time to report, otherwise Dorgon would not just look unhappy, but should be furious.

"Ah?" Ning Wan and the three of us were also stunned when we heard the words.

After a while, Hong Chengchou finally realized: "Regent, Shanxi's road is not going well, which is in our expectation, but Shandong is not going well, but it is really beyond our expectations, and you just said the army? Hasn’t Shandong already fallen into the hands of thieves? How could there still be a Ming army?”

Ning Wan me said: "Maybe it is a rebellious former Ming official."

Fan Wencheng said: "At most, it is borrowing the banner of the former Ming Dynasty."

Dorgon threw the urgent delivery from Baiyintu in front of the three of them: "What rebellion against the officials and gentry, Baiyintu has already made it very clear in the urgent delivery, the one who guards Licheng is the governor of Shandong who was just appointed by Chongzhen. Wang Jiayan also has Hu Xinshui, the admiral of Shandong soldiers, oh yes, this person was a general of King Pingxi two months ago."

"Ah? This!" Ning Wan and the three of us were hit again.

This situation was something they never expected.

"Prince Regent, is what Master Baiyintu said reliable?"

"Baiyintu captured several groups of messengers sent by Licheng alive, and the confessions they got were all the same. There were also many gentry in Jinan Prefecture who defected to the Qing Dynasty. They also said the same to Baiyintu. You say it is credible or not. letter?"

Dorgon's tone was already very bad, and Hong Chengchou who questioned him didn't dare to say anything more.

Fan Wencheng said: "So Chongzhen has returned to Nanjing? Then it will be difficult to pacify Jiangnan."

"Stop talking about Jiangnan now." Dorgon was a little impatient, "Take down Shanxi and Shandong provinces first, and then talk about other things."

Fan Wencheng immediately dared not bring up the topic of Jiangnan.

Because he has already seen that Dorgon probably has the idea of ​​getting rich and being safe again, thinking that he can destroy the thieves, and he will be satisfied by rowing the Yellow River with Daming.

Ning Wan said to me: "Shandong and Shanxi are not only the two wings of Beijing, but one of these two provinces produces food and the other is rich. They are indispensable to our Qing Dynasty, so we must take them at all costs."

"You don't need to talk about this." Dorgon became even more impatient, "The question now is how can we win the two provinces?"

"I'm afraid we can only send more reinforcements." Ning Wan said to me, "Fortunately, the rebellion in Beizhi has basically subsided now, and our Eight Banners elites can free up their hands to help Shanxi and Shandong."

"How many additional reinforcements will be sent?" Dorgon looked worried.

"At least one more banner must be sent to Shanxi and Shandong provinces." Hong Chengchou thought for a while and said, "In addition, there must be a considerable number of Eight Banners Han troops and Eight Banners Mongolia, otherwise it may not be enough to break the situation."

"It's impossible, don't even think about sending another flag." Dorgon directly vetoed it.

In fact, Dorgon also has his difficulties. His difficulty is that quite a few nobles of the Eight Banners, including his brother Azige, who is a compatriot with one mother, insisted on carrying out a thorough looting of Beizhi, and then took their wealth with them. The goods, livestock, women and children returned to the outside of the pass and returned to Shengjing.

For more than a month, many nobles have been clamoring to go home.

After two months away from home, these Eight Banners nobles miss the women and children at home.

So now it is impossible to dispatch an army with more than two banners.

Fan Wencheng said: "Then draw two Jiala from Xiangbai Banner and Zhenghuang Banner each, and then draw [-] Niulu from Eight Banners Mongolian and Eight Banners Han armies each to aid Shanxi and Shandong respectively."

After weighing for a while, Dorgon said: "Many former Ming generals in Shanxi rebelled, and they all asked my Qing Dynasty for help. My Qing Dynasty can't ignore it. Let He Luohui bring two Jiala with white flags to rush to help. Then draw ten Niulu from the Eight Banners Mongolian Army and the Eight Banners Han Army each, these troops should be enough, as for the Shandong side..."

"Regent, Shandong can't give up." Hong Chengchou became anxious when he heard this.

"Forget about Shandong." Dorgon said unhappily, "Didn't you Han people always pay attention to being famous? My Qing soldiers entered the pass to fight under the banner of helping the Ming Dynasty to suppress thieves. Since the Ming Dynasty has pacified Shandong, our Qing Dynasty will fight again." Sending troops to attack Dai, wouldn’t it be a back-and-forth and dishonesty? I’m afraid this is not a moral act.”

"Ah this?" Hong Chengchou was stunned speechless.

After thinking for a while, Dorgon said again: "In this way, select one of the former civil servants who surrendered to Nanjing who can speak well and send them to Nanjing, and tell Emperor Chongzhen that the Qing Dynasty wants to make peace with the Ming Dynasty, and the two countries will become a brotherly state. My Emperor Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty was still young, so I could treat him as a brother. The border between the two countries was bounded by the Yellow River. With me Daqing, I Daqing will also send troops to assist Daming in defeating the bandits."

Good guy, dare to love Dorgon because he wants to take Shandong directly with an envoy without using a sword.

Hong Chengchou was somewhat disapproving: "I know that Chongzhen is a man who has the best face, let alone give up a province without reason, even a hundred miles."

Dorgon said with a smile: "Then my Qing soldiers will be famous."

There is one more thing that Dorgon didn't say. By that time, Da Yuer had already entered the customs with Xiao Shunzhi, and the hundreds of thousands of Manchu family members and Bao Yi in Shengjing had also entered the customs. After returning to Shengjing, he will be able to mobilize all the troops of the Eight Banners Manchuria, and at the same time launch a war of annihilation against the Puppet Shun and Nanming.

Of course, if Chongzhen is wise, he might as well be the emperor for a few more years. They can completely unite with Nanming to destroy the pseudo-shun first, and then free up their hands to destroy Nanming.

(End of this chapter)