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Chapter 407 Dorgon's Countermeasures
In the land of North China at the end of February, spring plowing has started for half a month.

However, due to the harsh environment of the Little Ice Age, there is still a small spring snow from time to time, which is destined to freeze some early-germinated seedlings, resulting in another bad harvest this year, and the people are miserable.

Historically, the two years of Chongzhen's [-]th and [-]th years were the two years with the most frequent and severe natural disasters in the late Ming Dynasty.It is not entirely a coincidence that the Ming Dynasty ended suddenly at this time point——

Taking a closer look at the historical details, it is not difficult to find that at least half of the teams of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were coerced by Chongzhen 16 years later in terms of scale.
In those two years, their expansion speed was like an extra hook, much faster than in previous years, as if they had suddenly broken through a threshold, opened up the two veins of Ren and Du, and then plummeted.

Obviously, from an objective and natural point of view, it was precisely because of the severe disasters in those two years that the number of people who could not survive at all suddenly increased by another order of magnitude, giving all the rogue chiefs endless resources to coerce.

And history often tells people an experience: After successive catastrophes, they often do not end because of the demise of a dynasty.

The catastrophe should have lasted for three or four years. If the previous dynasty died just after the first two years, then the latter dynasty would have to bear the aftermath of the catastrophe for another year or two after catching up.

God will not stop disasters suddenly just because Ming Dynasty died.

However, according to the original development, although the initial stage after the entry of the Qing Dynasty was also disastrous, it happened to catch up with the expansion period of the transfer of conflicts to the south.After conquering the south of the Yangtze River, he was able to immediately rely on the shaving order to massacre the city's massive population and snatch all the surplus food and materials from the south, so as to maintain his rule.

According to the textual research of later generations, at the turn of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the drought and flood locust plague, which lasted for more than three years and nearly four years, could last from the 16th year of Chongzhen to the third year of Shunzhi (the first year of Shunzhi and the 17th year of Chongzhen coincided, so After the 17th year of Chongzhen, it will be delayed for another two years, until the third year of Shunzhi)

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It's just that Jierhalang is relatively old and not aggressive enough.A few months after Huang Taiji's death, the Qing Dynasty encountered a god-sent opportunity when Chongzhen was killed and Wu Sangui entered the customs with the Qing army.

But the problem is that Ji Erhalang's suggestion, which seems to be completely in line with the public's heart, sounds so harsh to Dorgon's ears, and it can immediately stir several sensitive nodes in his nerves.

Not only did the fate of the Qing Dynasty become obscure, but even Dorgon's personal political future was cast in a deep shadow——

The war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, during the reign of Chongzhen, from the second year to the third year of Chongzhen, there was a big wave (that wave of breakthroughs was also the main reason why Yuan Chonghuan was finally killed), and then the Qing army stopped for two or three times In the sixth and seventh years of Chongzhen, it was not until the sixth and seventh years that it broke through again.

Jierhalang didn't respond immediately, but after being silent for a while, he hummed inaudibly:
"Do you want to fight again? Although I am good at fighting, there is no reason to fight bloody barbarians every year. Now that I have been frustrated this time, I need to rest and rebuild the army. How can I rush to put all my eggs in one basket? What's more, even if the army is reorganized and sent troops, the regent will have Are you sure you will win?"

After taking stock of the key points, Ji Erhalang summed up with great momentum:

In any case, this year can only be a miserable day for the common people. Even if there is excessive taxation, we must collect enough money and food to raise troops and expand the army.
This king is willing to promise that he will not mention the matter of the Southern Expedition this year!The reconstruction of the two white flags also allows the backbone to be drawn from the two yellow flags to command!But Prince Zheng must also agree to the formation of the Green Army!Otherwise, the first two promises made by me will be void! "

Fortunately, there are not many personal grievances. The main reason is that the understanding of the ruling method is too different.

There is only one core question: In the short term, should we continue to spend money and organize a new round of southern expedition as soon as possible!

Grief is grief, the problem still has to be solved,
So within a few days after receiving the news that Nikan had also died, Dorgon privately found Prince Zheng, the "Uncle Xinyi Assistant Government" Jierhalang, who was also assisting the government, and wanted to discuss with him the next step in military affairs. Roughly.

Even if the two white flags to be rebuilt in the future will be taken over by Jierhalang and Haogra to a considerable extent, they will no longer be absolutely loyal to themselves.But as long as the Han Chinese green camp led by him thinks about his goodness of Dorgon, and knows that Dorgon in the Qing court is relatively allowed to delegate power to the Han people, then with the support of the green camp in the future, it is still possible for him to win in the power struggle There are cards.

Conservatives such as Hauge and Jierharang have more or less lost points on this series of issues.Many conservatives in the Qing Dynasty were worried that after moving the capital to the customs, they would lose strategic depth in the future. If the Central Plains changed, it would be inconvenient to return to the outside of the customs.

The differences in ideas between the two sides are too deep, and the swords are on the verge of breaking out.

As Jierhalang said, he also casually cited a few examples:

We have to feed 20 bannermen, 90 men, women, old and children. Can we expect to extract the food and grass we need from the only 2000 million northern Han Chinese?Not to mention whether it can be squeezed out, even if it can be squeezed out, the hearts of the people will be lost!
Now my only chance in the Qing Dynasty is to transfer the anger and unwillingness of the northern Han people to starve to death to the hatred of the southern Han people!
Our Manchu troops are not enough, and it will take time to rebuild the Eight Banners, so immediately expand the army to a new army composed of pure northern Han Chinese!Use the bait of robbing the rich and prosperous land in the south to lure the Han people in the north to fight for us! "

In fact, those who are familiar with Qing palace dramas, especially street stall dramas such as "The Secret History of Xiaozhuang" basically know that when Huang Taiji died, the two yellow flags supported Hauge's succession at the beginning, but the two masters of Dorgon and Duoduo Bai Qi never agreed, and put on a posture of "If Hauge wants to win the throne, he will fight to the end, and he will not hesitate to civil war".

However, now, with the successive deaths of Duduo and Nikan, the Manchu troops equivalent to at least two reorganized banners have been completely wiped out, and many troops have been severely damaged.

On this big issue of right and wrong, Dorgon is a resolute main fighter, insisting on responding to Wu Sangui, leading troops into Beijing, and insisting on moving the young Emperor Shunzhi to Beijing.

It can be said that Dorgon's status was not achieved by a small conspiracy of internal fighting.

Dorgon once again resisted all opinions and insisted on establishing the capital in Beijing, and then dispatched two brothers from the same mother to fight against Li Zicheng and Nanming respectively.
He conquered so much land in one year in the Qing Dynasty, which made Dorgon's personal prestige rise to the peak, and also made Jierhalang and Haoge completely lose the possibility of fighting for power.

The Eight Banners are not made of iron, so how can we keep fighting without breathing?And when it comes to rotating troops to fight in rounds, the Qing army doesn't have the strength now.

The other thing is to serve the purpose of the Southern Expedition, which is to prepare for the establishment of a new green battalion.

Even in modern times, and even in the modern World War I and World War II, when encountering wartime needs to expand the army and mobilize reserves, this is basically the way recruits are recruited.

Among the five banners, one of the banners at Azig lost more than half of its troops, all of which were fought against Zhang Huangyan in a war of attrition, including the one that was attacked by Zhu Wenzhen's Huguang cavalry when it first came into contact with the Nanyang Ming army last year. The loss is not small.

It can be seen from this that no matter who the two yellow flags pushed to the throne in the end, they were loyal to Huang Taiji and only accepted Huang Taiji's son as the throne. This has never changed.

Duoduo's two flags were all given away for nothing. If two more flags were raised, they might be severely injured. Then all four and a half of them would be pressed up. If the rear is completely empty, what if the northern Han people rebel?
Jierhalang doesn't even need to talk about the big reason, just from the analysis of the strength comparison, he thinks that he can't fight anymore.

After Dorgon calmed down a bit, he knew that he had lost so much that it was impossible to say anything. The only way to do it right now was to "take a step back" with Jierhalang again to find a new balance.

If the second thing can't be done, even if Jierhalang promised him the first thing and organize a new southern expedition, the Qing court is not strong enough now, so going there will be nothing.

Dorgon had no choice but to find other high-sounding reasons, reasons for the country, to convince Jierhalang:
"Prince Zheng! Whether we continue to fight against Nanming depends on whether our Qing Dynasty has the strength to fight! Even if we don't have the strength to win a decisive victory, we should at least maintain the pressure by fighting!

"It's a good plan. The two white flags are the foundation of our power, but the two yellow flags are absolutely loyal to the late emperor... Let the two yellow flags draw people to rebuild the two white flags. Will the two white flags built in the future be able to obey the king's orders?" ..." Dorgon thought viciously in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on the surface.

Dorgon said, and finally threw out his countermeasures to deal with Jierhalang's strategy of "slowly figure it out and rebuild the Eight Banners"-to establish a green army of Han people!Give the Han people autonomy, rob for selfishness, and encourage the Han people to snowball arms!

Jierhalang was a conservative, and he couldn't help being surprised and angry when he heard this: "How can we be so anxious to expand the army! We Manchus rule the Han people, and we are walking on thin ice.
Although the Han people in the north have experienced years of severe drought, flood, locust plague and soldiers, their household registration has been halved repeatedly. Although we don’t know the exact number, there must be more than 1000 million, and certainly less than 2000 million.

Now that the two white flags have been beaten so badly that even the seeds of officers have disappeared, the regiment has been completely wiped out. If they want to rebuild, of course they have to borrow officers at all levels from other flags to build a new team.

Afterwards, Chongzhen broke through in nine years, grabbed one back then, broke through again in 11 years, and went back that year (killing Lu Xiangsheng). From the autumn of 13 to the spring of 15, it was a tug-of-war with Hong Chengchou...

This year the disaster situation has not improved at all. Just look at the spring snow outside at the end of February. How many seedlings will freeze to death?I am afraid that many people will starve to death this spring!There is no good harvest in the autumn harvest. In every province and every year, at least one million people starve to death!The famine in the world has reached an unacceptable level!

Ji Erhalang's eyelids twitched, thinking about whether the game conditions are profit or loss. In the end, the interests of small groups surpassed the interests of the country.

But now, with Duo Duo's death in battle and most of the Southern Expeditionary Army being wiped out, the army that Dorgon can control that is still loyal to him has been directly reduced by half!It is no exaggeration to say that an arm was broken!
Will Hauge and Jierharang continue to listen to him obediently?Can he hold it back?
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Four years of disaster relief, six years of disaster relief, and eight years of self-sufficiency.

Our Manchu population is only more than 20 young and strong men, counting the old and weak, women and children, the whole family is 90 people, and we will almost rule the northern Han people who are [-] times larger than ours. If the northern Han people are armed, one day they will directly make trouble Stand up against me, Da Qing, you, Dorgon, are the sinners of Da Qing! "

Two flags are all destroyed, and one flag is severely damaged to the limit, and only five flags have combat effectiveness.

It can be said that although the Qing army was warlike, it also had a rest period. It entered the customs every three or four years in the early stage, and at least one or two years later, unless it was a war of attrition with Hong Chengchou, because it had been stalemate and could not retreat.

That being the case, it is better to make a painful decision and postpone the organization of the new Southern Expedition immediately, in exchange for Jierhalang agreeing to form a green battalion.
At the same time, the two yellow flags were mixed with sand into the two white flags. I made it clear that I couldn't stop it, so I might as well go along with the flow and make a personal favor.

Dorgon and Jierhalang sat facing each other, and did not overwhelm them with power. They also asked the eunuch to serve good tea and high-quality milk wine for Jierhalang, so as to moisten his throat when talking about business. Which to drink.

You didn't care about civil affairs before, maybe you don't know how scarce our treasury and military supplies in various places are now!The reason why Chongzhen died last year was mainly because of the severe disasters in the north for years!Millions of Han people followed the robbers and rose up!

After the settlement was settled, Dorgon went straight to the point: "The defeat of the fifteenth brother and Nikan this time, the king will naturally not shirk it. When I ordered the generals, I should have thought that they were impulsive and decisive, and they were easy to put all their eggs in one basket. Now we have lost our two flags Soldiers and horses are really a pity for the ruling and opposition parties.

He couldn't help thinking, and thought to himself: What I want is nothing more than two things,

When Huang Taiji first died, he and Jierhalang had the same regent status.Although Hauge made a behind-the-scenes deal with Jierharang and suppressed him, Hauge still has a slight influence in the army and in the court.

Of course, at this time last year, Duoduo chose to bring two white flags as the main force for the Southern Expedition, and this choice itself is not a problem.Because in history, he almost chose this way. In Duduo's view at that time, those Han people who went south to fight Jianghuai and Jiangnan, those weak places, were simply picking up a piece of merit.
Since there is a chance to make great contributions, why not leave it to your direct line troops to do it?Who would have thought that this chance of meritorious deeds would turn into a chance of death in the end?
At this moment, Dorgon had already guessed what Jierharang was planning, but he really couldn't resist, who made his main direct troops be greatly weakened!His authority has been shaken!

Therefore, only four half-full flags can be directly put into battle.

Now Duduo's biggest problem is not only that the two flags were given to him for free, but also his and Dorgon's direct descendants, which made the internal power structure of the Qing Dynasty extremely unbalanced——

Here we have to talk about a public case when Huang Taiji died.

But in any case, professional military personnel must make up for it.Otherwise, relying entirely on the "Zhao Kuomen" with superior bloodlines to lead the troops, the new army will not be finished?

"...So this king believes that the most important thing right now is to rebuild the two white flags that were wiped out! At the same time, let the two red flags that have been damaged be recuperated! Instead of underestimating the enemy and making a desperate move!
The Prince of England's offensive in Nanyang should also be restrained, let the damaged troops return to the rear, and recapture the second divisions of the two red flags and the two blue flags to make up for the shortage of the divisions killed in battle, and then practice.

Later, in order to avoid civil war, under the coordination of Jierhalang, the two yellow flags expressed their willingness to take a step back with Dorgon: the two white flags did not support Dorgon's succession, and in exchange for the two yellow flags, it was also allowed to choose another son of the late emperor (Huang Taiji) After succeeding to the throne, Fulin (Shunzhi) succeeded in picking up the leak.

For example, in the German army during World War I, the veterans were three to four times the number of new recruits. During the war, a division of the regular army was divided into multiple regiments, and each division had a regiment of veterans in the new army, and the remaining regiments were Newly mobilized reserves.After a few months of handing over and leading, the new troops will form a preliminary combat effectiveness.

Dorgon is a big black fat man with a big beard, and his appearance has nothing to do with being handsome. At most, he can barely be described as "heroic", because of his muscles hidden under the fat.

When the news reached the capital, Dorgon, as the regent, was naturally shocked and sad, and also felt great pressure and anxiety.

The two "regent uncles" and "assistant uncles" had nothing to avoid overstepping. Anyway, the emperor was still a child and couldn't govern himself, so the two started this meeting in the Hall of Martial Arts.

After four years of Shunzhi, the disaster situation gradually slowed down, and the production and recuperation of the people gradually recovered. It was not until six years after Shunzhi that the disaster problem was basically overturned.

However, the battle is fierce and dangerous, and victory or defeat is unpredictable. I, the Qing Dynasty, suffered such a small setback, and we should all work together to regroup as soon as possible. We must not give the southern barbarians a chance to gain a firm foothold. I wonder what brother Wang thinks? "

It has to be said that Jierhalang's opinion, from the perspective of army building, is still very sophisticated.

And since the two white flags were established and wiped out, I'm afraid they don't even have the necessary generals and assistants for reconstruction. In my opinion, it's better to transfer some soldiers from the two yellow flags as the backbone to rebuild the two white flags.

However, other areas in the north except the capital still have to recover to the eighth year of Shunzhi to ensure the balance of local fiscal revenue and expenditure, and to maintain local food self-sufficiency without relying on robbery and foreign transportation.

The wheel of history that the Qing court used to transfer conflicts to the outside world and solve food shortages was abruptly broken, and it could no longer roll forward.

From the two yellow flags, one Niulu can be drawn from each Jiala to make up the two white flags, and then new recruits can be recruited from the second white flags to make up the remaining four Niulu. Form an army and re-form combat effectiveness. "

Of course, considering that among the families of Liangbaiqi, many of them are from noble families with noble status, those relatives of Yuangushan, Meileerzhen, Jiala, and Niulu can continue to be directly involved if they are added to the army. To be an official, even if they did not have a military position before, they can also be an official by blood.

One is to immediately organize a new Southern Expedition, transfer conflicts to Nanming, rob enough money and food to maintain the rule, and prevent internal collapse.

With this in mind, Dorgon showed a painful expression, and exchanged terms with Jierhalang: "Forget it, organizing a new southern expedition immediately has no chance of winning. Even if the green camp is formed, it will take time to practice and adjust. It is unusable.

At the beginning, he always regretted that the two yellow flags did not fully have the right to speak, and he was deeply concerned about the threat of civil war as a threat to the two white flags.

This time Dorgon was willing to give in, so he took advantage of it first.

As for the establishment of a green battalion independent of the Han army flag system, although Jierhalang is afraid, he knows one of the most simple truths - Dorgon is also a Manchu, and Dorgon will never get a Han armed to build him Own anti?
Maybe, he has some ghostly tricks to restrict the generals of the green battalion and ensure their loyalty?
No matter what the specific method is, he can only believe that Dorgon is at least okay from a national standpoint.

After weighing it over and over again, Jierhalang agreed to the compromise plan.

(End of this chapter)