Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 400 Text Prison

The meeting of kings and ministers for discussing politics was a system in the early Qing Dynasty, when upper nobles such as Manchu clan kings, Eight Banners, and Baylor participated in handling state affairs.

This is related to the originally backward tribal slavery in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. After the founding of the old slaves, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty transformed into a feudal system, some customs of tribal military aristocrats were preserved, and it became a meeting of kings and ministers to discuss politics.

After the Qing court entered the customs, the Ming system was used, but the power was not actually in the cabinet. All important military and state affairs were handled by the meeting of the king and ministers.

In fact, this surpassed the six cabinets of the Qing court, and became a means for the Manchu nobles to control the government. Dorgon came to power.

At this time, after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the number of members who could participate in the meeting of kings and ministers increased a lot. In addition to the princes, county kings, and Baylor in the royal family, Beizi and the public also participated in the discussion.In addition to Gushan Ezhen and ministers from the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Gushan Ezhen from the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Liubu Manchu and Mongolian Ministers were also listed as ministers of state affairs, but few ministers from the Hanjun Banner were included.

For today's meeting, Dorgon didn't even invite the Mongolian ministers, and it was entirely a discussion among the Manchus.

After listening to his words, the people discussed a lot below. Suddenly, Prince Zheng Jierhalang said again: "I conquered the world by riding horses, and the Manchu warriors are the foundation of the Qing Dynasty. It is bound to become bigger, so the branch will be strong and the stem will be weak, and the cart before the horse, I am afraid it will be difficult to suppress in the future."

The population of Manchuria is too small, and they are actually afraid of ruling the Central Plains. They never worry about the Han people and are always on guard against the Han people. The so-called Manchu family is just a joke. The Qing court is best at saying one thing and doing another, although There is no regulation, but in fact people do not intermarry with you, and they never thought of blending in, they just came to enslave the Han people, but the braided dramas in later generations are still there to have sex with the Manchus, it's a fucking embarrassment.

Dorgon said with a smile: "The loss of the Han Banners this time is much more serious than the full Eight Banners. For capable Han people, this king will promise to take advantage of the benefits of raising the flag to absorb them as bannermen, but the number of Han army banners In this way, the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia will still be able to suppress the Han army banner. In addition, in the future, the green battalion will have to arrange bannermen as supervisors, and even directly lead the green battalion to fight. The civil servants of the Han people came to monitor the generals of the green battalion. This is my king's strategy in military affairs, what do you think?"

For the Manchu nobles at the moment, the most important thing is to reduce the casualties of the Manchus in the future battles, maintain the deterrent power of the Manchus against the Han people, and continue to unify the world. Dorgon's strategy, Undoubtedly the most suitable.

At present, all the Manchurian nobles discussed among themselves for a while, and then nodded their approval.

Seeing this, Dorgon returned to the throne of the regent with satisfaction. He had made a mistake in appointing Luck Dehun before, and now he is eager to implement new policies and make achievements in order to obtain the continued support of the Manchu nobles.

Dorgon sat down again, stopped the Manchu nobles from continuing to discuss, and then said: "In terms of local management, for those places that are disobedient and newly conquered cities, the main thing is to massacre the city as a deterrent, but for the areas that have been controlled and stable, Don't kill randomly, everything is according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, but the control of thoughts must be strengthened, and all those literati who harbor old wisdom must be purged. Not only can it not appear in the book, anyone who dares to speak will be killed."

"The land in the south of the Yangtze River has been repeated many times. This time, Jiangxi was easily captured by Wang Yan because the literati in the south of the Yangtze River did not obey the rule of the Qing Dynasty, launched a rebellion, and hindered Jiangnan's plan to rescue the land in the south of the Yangtze River. The regent said it well. , for those Han people who have repeated thoughts, they should be thoroughly cleaned." Duoduo nodded in agreement.

Dorgon glanced at the crowd, then looked at Jierhalang, "What does Prince Zheng think? If there is no opinion, this king will issue a decree and prepare to promulgate it for implementation."

Since the Eight Banners entered the customs, more than 5 people have died in battle or disease. As far as the total force of 18 is concerned, the loss has been close to [-]%, which represents the decline of Manchuria's strength.

Dorgon's strategy is undoubtedly the best solution to deal with this change. Ji Erhalang thought for a while and found no loopholes, so he also nodded.

"Then do as the king wants~"

After Dorgon finished speaking, he turned around and left. The meeting of kings and ministers discussing politics was temporarily over.

During the period from then to the end of the new year, the Qing court was in an extremely busy state. A large number of men under sixteen in Manchuria were also recruited into the banners, bringing the number of Manchu Banners back to [-].

The Mongolian and Han Eight Banners, according to the regulations, were filled in by males in the establishment. If there were no males in the family or the males were too young, the vacated places would be selected from the green battalion, so that a large number of green battalion generals successfully raised the flag and jumped became the ruling class.

The Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties have returned to the number of 18, but the combat power is naturally far from what it was when they entered the customs, but even so, the strength of the Manchu Qing is still far superior to that of Nanming.

Since entering the customs, the Manchu Qing accepted more than 50 soldiers from the Shun army in the north, and then attacked the Hongguang court, and obtained nearly [-] soldiers from the four towns in Jiangbei and Zuozhen in Wuchang.

Although the Qing army suffered defeats in Huguang and Jiangxi and lost more than 18 soldiers and horses, in terms of total force, the Qing court still had 30 Eight Banners and more than [-] Green Battalion soldiers. After completing the expansion of the army, the entire Southern Ming Dynasty, including the two vassals of Lu and Gui, Zheng Chenggong, and Chen Zilong, only had about [-] people.

In terms of the general trend of the world, the Qing court still has an absolute advantage.

It has been a month since Dorgon's decree was promulgated, and the law and order in Beijing became more and more strict. Groups of soldiers patrolled the streets and alleys. From time to time, soldiers rushed into the houses on the street and moved out a large number of secretaries. , Burned directly on the street, and the owner of the house was also dragged away by the soldiers.

Just after the morning court, the scholar Zhan Ba ​​passed by the street in a sedan chair, his heart tightened, and he secretly reminded himself to be careful.

At this time, another sedan chair was chasing up beside his sedan chair, and the person in the sedan chair raised the curtains and called out, "Scholar Zhan, come to my residence for a drink, okay?"

Hearing the sound, Zhan Ba ​​lifted up the curtains, seeing it as Chen Mingxia, the Zuo servant of the Ministry of Officials and a bachelor of the Imperial Academy, his heart was moved, and he smiled: "Master Chen invites me, of course I am willing to go."

Seeing that Zhan Ba ​​agreed, Chen Mingxia lowered the curtain and let the sedan chair bearers come forward, and the two sedan chairs went towards Chen Mingxia's mansion one behind the other.

(Thanks to the descendants of Ziye Sanlang for rewarding 007 book coins and being promoted to the first hall master of this book. The author will try his best to keep three changes in the past few days. Thank you for your support. Thanks to Xiami 666, a small bookworm CC fan, Huamanlou [-], The monthly ticket of the descendant of Ziye Saburo, thanks to Yuedong Woxin for the reward.)
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