Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 177 Master and slave

After Dorgon and Li Yongfang returned to Shenyang with the results of the peace talks, Huang Taiji did not vent his anger on Dorgon and Li Yongfang who were in charge of the peace talks because Daming wanted to form a father-son country with him.

On the contrary, Huang Taiji also rewarded the two of them greatly, and asked Dorgon to receive the Zhenghong Banner of Daishan in addition to the Zhengbai Banner.

And Li Yongfang, the son-in-law, was also promoted to Marquis, and was promoted to the capital of the Zhenghuang Banner of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

Although Huang Taiji knew that with the current strength of Qing Dynasty, there was no way to get any benefits from Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, Huang Taiji also knew that it was already a great gift for them that Daming was no longer confined.

Although, before this, there were still private merchants and frontier generals who secretly transported food, iron and other necessities to Manchuria, but it was still difficult to solve the survival crisis brought to Manchuria by the increasing natural disasters and increasing population.

Especially after Zhu Youxiao copied the eight major Shanxi merchants and increased his control over the frontier army, Huang Taiji was forced to enter the customs and invade Daming ahead of time.

But Huang Taiji has to admit that as long as there is no large-scale peasant uprising in Ming Dynasty, as long as the emperor of Ming Dynasty can control the country, then there will be no chaos in Ming Dynasty, and he, Huang Taiji, can only hope to reconcile with the Ming court , rather than relying on war to resolve the crisis, because the latter is more difficult.

Therefore, Huang Taiji understood that they really had no reason to ask for other benefits, and Dorgon's ability to negotiate such a result was also the result of his hard work.

However, Huang Taiji did not give up his idea of ​​taking over the Central Plains one day because of this.

Huang Taiji had changed the Wenguan to the Academy of Internal History, the Academy of Internal Secretaries, and the Academy of Neihong Literature, and Fan Wencheng, the most powerful adviser around Huang Taiji, was naturally regarded as a guest of honor and became a bachelor of the Academy of Internal Secretaries.

On this day, Huang Taiji heard that Fan Wencheng felt a little sick, and even came to visit Fan Wencheng's house in person. Fan Wencheng, who had already contracted the habit of a Tartar slave, was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground: "The master came, but the slave failed I know, please punish the master!"

Now Fan Wencheng has also become one of the few senior staff who can call himself a slave in front of Huang Taiji, so he suddenly uttered the word "slave" after seeing Huang Taiji.

"Get up, there is no need to be so formal. I came to see you today because I heard that you were sick and came to see you, and secondly, I wanted to chat with you. Now, we have reached a settlement with Daming, but whether it is Zhu Both you and I know that this contract is just a tactic to slow down the army, at least I don’t want his Zhu family to occupy the great rivers and mountains in the pass!"

After Huang Taiji said that, he sat directly on the chair opposite to Fan Wencheng, and asked again: "In your opinion, how long can this Ming Dynasty last?"

From Huang Taiji's point of view, the Ming Dynasty is full of domestic crises, its officials are already extremely corrupt, and there are constant disputes between the party and the party, so it will not survive.

Moreover, being familiar with history, he doesn't think that there are dynasties in this world that can enjoy the state for more than two hundred years and then come back for another 200 years. It is as powerful as the Han and Tang Dynasties, and it only lasts two to three hundred years, so he asked such a question.

"What the master said is very true. Even if Zhu Youxiao wants to revive Daming, he is powerless to return to heaven, and the slave looked at the sky last night, and the Ziwei star has also moved northward. The family ruled the pass for more than [-] years, which has caused the people to live in dire straits and disasters, from the point of view of slaves, even if you don’t attack the master, the Zhu family’s Daming will only live for more than [-] years.”

Fan Wencheng's words made Huang Taiji nod involuntarily: "Sir, what you said is reasonable, but now is not the time to start a new war with the Ming court. The most urgent thing is the two forces of Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong, which disturb my Qing Dynasty. If the two bandits are not eliminated, I will not be able to concentrate my forces to take the land of Daling River from Wu Xiang's tribe."

Hearing Huang Taiji mention this matter, Fan Wenchen silently nodded in agreement.

Both of them knew that the greatest threat to the Qing Dynasty was not Daming, nor the Wu Xiang Department of the Guan Ning Army, which was also furious and recharging its energy, but Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong, who were erratic and often attacked the Qing's rear.

However, Fan Wencheng knew that since Huang Taiji came to him, he naturally wanted to come up with a solution.

Therefore, without waiting for Huang Taiji to ask again, Fan Wencheng stood up and cupped his hands at Huang Taiji:

"Master, don't worry. Although these two groups of thieves are wandering around, there is no way to deal with them. As far as I know, this Yuan Chonghuan was born as a civil servant, but Mao Wenlong was originally a military officer in Denglai. Li Chen got rid of Mao Wenlong, but because of Zhu Youxiao's obstruction, Mao Wenlong was not punished. However, because of this, the rift between the two is getting bigger and bigger. From the point of view of slaves, now that we have reached a settlement with Daming , it is better to send someone to secretly communicate with Yuan Chonghuan and make friends with him;
Then he instigated Yuan Chonghuan to get rid of Mao Wenlong. Yuan Chonghuan brazenly beheaded the North Korean general since he was sent to North Korea. It can be seen that this person is courageous, insightful and ambitious. If Mao Wenlong is killed, Yuan Chonghuan's North Korean soldiers will probably be alone. At that time, it will be a breeze for us to use North Korea's invasion of our border to point at North Korea and wipe out Yuan Chonghuan's troops along the way. "

After hearing what Fan Wencheng said, Huang Taiji nodded in agreement: "Mr. is worthy of being my son-in-law. As you said, this Yuan Chonghuan is a man of great talent, self-willed, and narrow-minded. He can't tolerate Mao Wenlong and other warriors. I can also take advantage of the shortcomings of the scholar-bureaucrats in the Ming court and ask him, Yuan Chonghuan, to help me get rid of Mao Wenlong's troubles; but, who should go to see Yuan Chonghuan needs to be carefully considered."

And Fan Wencheng quickly said: "Let this matter be handled by the slave himself. When Yuan Chonghuan was in charge of Liaodong in the past, the slave also had a relationship with him once."

……

Time turned into summer, and except for Chang Yanling and three other battalion commanders who were going to the southwest and Guangdong and Guangxi to recruit troops but failed to arrive, the commanders of the other battalions of the Imperial Guard had already started recruiting.

Liu Bin, who was in charge of recruiting soldiers in the Gyeonggi area, even almost finished the recruiting work. Most of the people in this area had some hatred for the Tartars, so they were very active in recruiting, and many of them were even famous scholars.

Tan Botong, who was in charge of recruiting soldiers in Xuzhou, was standing on a school field provided by a certain thousand households, and standing in front of him was the first batch of newly recruited soldiers of the Imperial Guard.

But although there were quite a few people who came to apply because of the high salary of the imperial guards and the large number of landless refugees, the first batch alone had tens of thousands of people, but Qin Botong was very disappointed by this.

Because the call-in soldiers standing in front of him were almost like beggars, most of them were skinny, but very few were big and round.

Moreover, these summoned people stood without standing or sitting, and even Qin Botong and other Imperial Guard officers and soldiers taught for a week before most of them could tell the difference between left and right.

However, just because of such a trivial thing as turning left and right, thousands of people were brushed off.

And it's not easy for Oboi to go there. The people in the Qin land didn't have enough to eat, but now they heard that they can serve as soldiers to eat food. In some places, almost the whole village came here.

Obai had no choice but to find the local prefectural and county officials to exclude the elderly or those who were the only child at home, and then screened them according to the principles proposed by Zhu Youxiao before leaving 3 people for training. Under normal circumstances, during the training period, some people will leave automatically.

Fu Dahai's recruiting work in Huguang is also going smoothly, but the elimination rate is also very high.

(End of this chapter)