Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

Chapter 316: The internal and external thieves must be eliminated

In the Regent's Palace of the Imperial Uncle in Beijing, Aixinjueluo Dorgon was tirelessly reviewing memorials. Yes, the emperor's uncle and the regent have one more word "emperor" than the previous uncle and the regent.

The greater the credit, the greater the power!

In the first year of Shunzhi (1644), he was named "Uncle Regent", given the title of "Uncle Regent", given the imperial robe of mink and python, and built a monument to record his achievements.

In the second year of Shunzhi, he was promoted to "the emperor's uncle and regent". For all great ceremonies, such as hunting or setting off, the princes and nobles would gather in one place to wait for the decree to be delivered, and they would also "kneel down in formation" to send him off. If they return to the palace, they need to be sent to the palace gate. In the case of New Year's Day or celebrations, the civil and military ministers must go to congratulate Emperor Shunzhi after congratulating him. When going to court, he would get off the sedan chair inside the Meridian Gate, while the kings would get off the sedan chair outside the Meridian Gate and so on.

In the third year of Shunzhi, he simply sent people to move all the emperor's seals to his residence on the grounds that "Emperor Shunzhi's letters and talismans were stored in the palace. Every time he dispatched troops and generals, he had to request seals, which was very inconvenient." Collect for later use. From this year onwards, the types of ceremonial guards used were the same as those of the emperor, which were all twenty, but the specific number of each type was slightly less than that of the emperor.

Beginning in the fourth year of Shunzhi, if officials in their memorials refer to "the Imperial Uncle and the Regent" as "Nine Princes", or omit words without using the full title, they will be dismissed from their posts. Moreover, "from now on, kneeling and worshiping will always stop wherever salutations are performed."

In short, the gap between this man and the emperor is getting smaller and smaller. He is truly inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people.

To be able to do this, of course there are means. The Han people have always had a tradition of party struggle. In July of the second year of Shunzhi, Wu Dashangshu, the censor of Zhejiang Province, impeached the remnants of the eunuch party. The target was Feng Quan and his party aide Sun Zhixian, etc., which kicked off the party struggle between the north and the south. Although Dorgon felt that the northern Han people were more loyal to Manchuria and supported Feng Quan's faction, he did not delve into the southern party. Instead, he made better use of them through the struggle between the northern and southern Han officials to achieve the goal of ruling the Han with Han.

After pacifying the Han officials, he then attacked the dissident forces among the Manchu nobles. First, he took advantage of Hauge's desire to seize military power, worshiped him as General Jingyuan, and transferred him to Sichuan to fight Zhang Xianzhong from afar. As soon as he left, he took care of his followers. Even the Xinyi Auxiliary Prince Jierhalang, who was also the regent at the time, was fined two thousand silver and dismissed from the Auxiliary position for building a palace that exceeded the regulations and used bronze lions, bronze turtles, and bronze cranes without authorization. The matter did not end here. The emperor's uncle and the regent were planning further actions like a cheetah preparing to prey, preparing to deliver a fatal blow to Jilharang and Haug's group.

For the young emperor Fulin and his son, this one was not much better. Not only did he control the government and despise the emperor's bow, he also refused to give honorific titles to the late emperor's concubines. Fulin's biological mother, Bo'er Jijin Bumubutai, was named the Zhuang Concubine of Yongfu Palace when Huang Taiji became emperor, and she is still the Zhuang Concubine of Yongfu Palace to this day. However, this woman could endure it. Faced with his advances, she had to compromise. She kept giving him high hats and titles, from uncle and regent to emperor's uncle and regent, and then stopped kneeling in front of the emperor, which made him really unhappy. I have the nerve to depose the emperor immediately and establish myself. Every time he thought of the charming character of this widowed sister-in-law who was one year younger than him, a fire was burning in Aixinjueluo Dorgon's heart. Forget it, the world has not yet been unified, and I am not very old, so let the yellow-mouthed boy stay on the throne of the emperor for a few more years.

Manchuria used force to build its country. If you want to secure your position, you must make great achievements! In the past few years, he not only consolidated his rule internally, but also made great achievements externally.

First, taking advantage of the contradiction between the Southern Ming, Tang and Shandong vassals, Dorobelebolo was appointed as the general in the southern expedition. Together with Gushan Ezhen Tu Lai and others, he led troops south to attack Zhejiang and Fujian. It went very smoothly. Not only did he easily conquer Zhejiang and force Nanming Lu to supervise the country's navigation, he also lured Zheng Zhilong, a powerful Fujian faction, to surrender and killed Emperor Longwu. He also sent General Pingnan and King Kong Youde of Gongshun to attack Huguang and Guangdong together with King Huaishun Geng Zhongming, King Zhishun Shang Kexi, Xushun Gong Shen Zhixiang, Gushan'e Zhenjinli on the right, and Meile Zhangjing Tuntai on the left. It also went well. The army of Nanming Governor He Tengjiao collapsed at the first touch, and the Qing army easily captured Changsha. Almost at the same time, Jin Shenghuan, the governor of Jiangxi in the Qing Dynasty, conquered Ganzhou, and Jiangxi became the land of the Qing Dynasty.

In the direction of Shaanxi and Sichuan, after General Jingyuan and Prince Su Hauge led the army into Shaanxi, they cooperated with Meng Qiaofang, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, and defeated many rebel groups such as He Zhen and Sun Shoufa, and occupied Shaanxi. Then he entered Sichuan, shot Zhang Xianzhong to death in Xichong, defeated Zhang Xianzhong's army, beheaded tens of thousands of people, and forced the remaining Daxi Army to enter Yunnan from Guizhou to find a new base.

The situation in Sichuan gradually stabilized, but the old rival Hauge was also praised by Emperor Shunzhi and gained great popularity. This is something he doesn't want to see. Fortunately, the Sichuan area has been in turmoil for many years, social production has stalled, and the supply of food and wages cannot be solved. Hauge has difficulty in separatist rule and has repeatedly requested the imperial court to allocate food.

Dorgon was happy when he saw the sparseness on the Hauge. Hao Ge, Hao Ge, the birds are gone and the good bows are hidden. The cunning rabbit dies and the lackey is cooked. Once Zhang Xianzhong dies, your mission will be over, and you will never get another grain of food from your lonely hands. The day when the food is exhausted and returned to the capital, it will be the time to take your life.

Dorgon actually yearned for the throne very much. However, because he was the first to advocate the establishment of Fulin at the meeting of kings, once the situation was established, it was difficult to go back on his word and overturn the previous proposal. Although he occupies the position of regent and controls the military and political power of the Qing Dynasty, under one person and above ten thousand people, he failed to ascend the throne after all, which is really a shortcoming for this talented and strategic regent. It was okay when he was fighting or dealing with political affairs, but when he was free, his spiritual world fell into a kind of self-contradiction, regret and sorrow, self-pity and self-blame.

The greater his achievements, the more intense his desire for power became. Later, this desire that burned his heart like fire actually made him do ridiculous things: stealing royal utensils, privately making emperor's robes, He admired himself in the mirror, etc., and even ordered historians to write notes on his daily life according to the imperial system, and built a palace that exceeded the size of an emperor. The army was dispatched, punishments were rewarded, and she was deposed. As soon as one went out of his way, there was only one King Rui inside and outside the pass.

With most of China in hand, the government under his own control, and the earth under his feet, he can supposedly claim the title of emperor. But Dorgon was a cautious person. He felt that the world was not completely calm yet, and there were still some forces that opposed him that had not been eradicated, so it was not yet time to rule the world.

At his status, there are not many forces in the world who dare to oppose him, and those who can threaten him are even rarer.

Dorgon put down the book on Hauge, calmed down his mood, and took out a small piece of paper. The note was written by him last year and was tucked into the Buddhist scriptures on the desk. He read it in his spare time to alert himself. It read: "The internal thief Hauge and the external thief Sultan must be eliminated!"

(End of this chapter)