Just as Zhu Hongsan celebrated his major occupation of Nanjing, Dorgon from the north ushered in his political crisis.

After Dorgon went to war in Duoduo in September of the fourth year of Shunzhi, Dorgon personally led more than 200,000 Manchu and Han troops to fight against Jiang Guan from Shanxi.

Jiang Yan was originally the general of the former Ming Dynasty. Dorgon originally thought that according to the combat effectiveness of the former Ming army, he took the initiative in both the number of people and the morale this time. The rebellion in Shanxi is not enough to cure the disease.

I knew that Dorgon was a little simple. On the surface, the Shanxi Rebellion was a rebellion by some former Ming surrender generals who were dissatisfied with the Qing Dynasty. However, behind the scenes, it was indeed a common outbreak of dissatisfaction among the Han landlords in Shanxi with the Qing nobles.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, in order to reward their own people, the land enclosure order was issued in three times, and the deserted fields left by the royal relatives, son-in-law, marquis, marquis, and eunuchs died in the war were distributed to the kings, ministers, and soldiers. Of course, on paper, it means to distribute the land of the former Ming royal relatives and nobles, but in actual implementation, it is true that no matter what land, not to mention the counties around the capital, even Shandong and Henan, the Eight Banners nobles went to enclose land. These Eight Banners children took over the land in various provinces. No matter what the former Ming officials and local gentry, as long as they liked your land, they would get it immediately.

Shanxi has always been poor land, and there was only a small amount of land that could be cultivated. The land enclosure immediately caused heavy losses to most Han landlords. In addition, the Qing Dynasty vigorously implemented the fugitive law in the northern Zhili area, the head shaving order and other laws that reversed history. At this time, Zhu Hongsan was maliciously encouraged the fire and provided weapons and funds to the peasant armed forces. For a time, the entire northern Zhili, Shandong and other places were full of war.

It was precisely because of the strong oppression of the Qing ruling class in Shanxi that a large number of Han people could not survive. In addition, the landlord class provided food and weapons for various purposes, so Jiang Yan's combat effectiveness was completely beyond the reach of the border troops of the Ming Dynasty.

Dorgon led his troops to Datong, occupied by Jiang Qin. He thought he could capture it in half a month, but he didn't know that from September to the end of November, Datong was still in Jiang Qin's hands.

Of course, although Jiang Yan was named the King of Dai by Zhu Hong, he was defeated by a mansion in the entire Qing Dynasty. According to history, Jiang Yan could only defend for half a year. But he did not know that the Qing Dynasty was lucky. Dorgon's younger brother Duoduo, known as "the most military achievements of the founding kings", Prince Yu. In the Nanchang Battle at the end of October, he was defeated by the Southern Ming army. The 130,000 army led by Duoduo was completely destroyed, and Duoduo himself still had no idea of ​​his life and death.

After receiving the military report from the front, Dorgon immediately led his troops back to Beijing. At this time, Jiang Guan and peasant rebellion were secondary. Now Dorgon wants to return to Beijing to stabilize the situation in the DPRK.

Because the previous generation of emperor Huang Taiji died suddenly, the Qing Dynasty did not designate an heir. In addition, the Qing Dynasty implemented the "Eight Kings' Discussion on Policy", and the Eight Kings' Discussion on Policy was essentially a small number of royal relatives and nobles jointly agreed on some military and national affairs, including the election of the heirs to the throne. Therefore, in the early Qing Dynasty, according to the "Constitution" at that time, the emperor had no right to pass the throne. Even if he designated the heirs, he had to go through parliamentary elections before he could become a legal ruler. This form remained until the end of the Kangxi period, and the sensation of the Nine Dragons' throne was the product of this tribal collegial system.

At this time, the high-level leaders of the Qing Dynasty were divided into two factions, one was the supporter of the Haoge faction represented by the two yellow flags, and the other was the Dorgon brothers who occupied the two white flags. Just when the two factions were evenly matched, Xiaozhuang won over Dai Shan and other other banner owners to support the young Fulin, which suppressed Haoge and Dorgon.

It was precisely because Dorgon did not have an advantage in the top leadership, and in order to consolidate his position, he could cooperate with Wu Sangui and take advantage of the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty to attack Shanhaiguan. This action gave Dorgon a great prestige and to reward him with the Qing court's title of the emperor's uncle Regent. However, Dorgon knew that although he was in power now, there were still many opposition forces in the court waiting for him to make mistakes. This time, the annihilation of Duoduo's entire army is likely to give some people an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Dorgon returned to Beijing with his men before the New Year, and immediately found his confidant and celebrity. Suksaha learned about the situation in the capital during this period.

Suksaha is a capricious man and is a villain. Although he is now affiliated with Dorgon, he should know that after Dorgon's death, he was the first to write a letter to Emperor Shunzhi to sue the regent Dorgon for his misconduct, which led to Dorgon being dug up to whip his body. However, because of this, Suksaha gained the trust of Emperor Shunzhi and became one of the four auxiliary ministers in the early years of Kangxi.

Suksaha is not as powerful as the later generations, but only Dorgon's eyes and ears in the capital. He immediately came to see Dorgon after learning that Dorgon was back.

"Regent, something is not going well now. News comes from the front line, Prince Yu's entire army is wiped out!"

Dorgon already knew this news. Now he still has the heart to feel sorry for his brothers, what is the important situation in the court?

Dorgon quickly asked, "How is the palace?"

"Regent, the messenger who reported the news was locked up by me in the capital. Now no more than ten people know the news, they are all our own people! Everything in the palace is as usual, and the Queen Mother takes the emperor to the court every day."

Dorgon breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the news that it had spread. Now he remembered to ask how the war was. After all, Duoduo was carrying all the essence of the two white flags: "How is it in the south? Is the entire army really annihilated?"

Suksaha sighed and said, "Regent, the situation on the front line is even more serious than what the ministers said in their letters. According to the brothers He Luohui who fled back, Prince Yu advanced rashly and caught an ambush of the Southern Ming army under Nanchang City. He Luohui was going to retreat to Jiujiang to defend, and Tan Tai insisted on inciting Prince Yu and the Ming army to fight to the decisive battle. But he knew that the Ming arms were very sharp. We were defeated outside Wuchang City. Hundreds of generals below Prince Yu were killed in battle. Only He Luo would run back with less than a thousand people!"

When Dorgon heard the news, he vomited blood. They were 130,000 Manchu and Mongolian elite soldiers, and his two white flags were all inside. This time it was really a trauma.

Seeing Dorgon vomiting blood, Suksaha hurried forward and asked with concern: "Regent, how are you?"

Dorgon shook his head and said, "It's okay, I'm old. I've got a cold in Shanxi and I haven't been able to recover."

Dorgon cares about himself now, and grabbed Suksaha's hand and asked, "How is Jiangning? Is there any news over Hong Chengchou?"

"Don't worry, the Regent, Hong Chengchou heard news in November that he had ordered all the troops around Nanzhili to Jiangning and was ready to fight against the Shenwu Emperor of Nanming."

Hearing that Hong Chengchou was prepared, Dorgon felt relieved and was relieved of Hong Chengchou's ability.

"Where is this Emperor Shenwu from Guangdong? Why is his army so powerful?"

"My dear master learned that the Emperor Shenwu is named Zhu Hongsan. He knew that he was a remote royal family from the clan. He heard that he was a gangster from Wuchang before. After Wuchang was occupied by Zhang Xianzhong, he fled to Guangdong. I don't know why he led an army. I heard that the firearms are very powerful!"

"Will He Luo say that he didn't explain how Jun's firearms were?"

Suksaha continued: "I asked He Luohui in detail this. He explained that the arms are no different from before. It is nothing more than the range of muskets and the power of artillery. Maybe it was bought by the Ming army in Guangdong for missionaries."

The Qing people fought with the Ming army for many years outside the pass and knew very well about Ming arms. In fact, the Ming army's firearms were the best in the world in this era. Even European powers could not have half of the troops equipped with firearms, but the Ming army in Liaodong had achieved two-thirds of the entire army equipped with firearms.

In fact, the firearms of the Ming army in Guangdong were not different from those of the Ming army in Liaodong. They were nothing more than the long range of muskets and lighter artillery. However, these Qing Dynasty country bumpkins did not have enough knowledge and did not know the difference between the army and the Middle Ages. They only saw the difference in equipment and did not know that the Ming army in Guangdong could win the battles not because of weapons and equipment, but various standardized training and scientific weapon configurations.

After hearing Suksaha's words, Dorgon said angrily: "As similar to the previous Ming army, why would He Luo still defeat the war?"

"Regent, He Luo will show that the number of troops is large, with more than 400,000, which is several times that of our army. In addition, the water network outside Nanchang City is dense, and our army is infected with a plague when passing through Henan. Only then was the Ming army seized the flaws and won the battle."

After He Luohui escaped back, in order to save his life, he deliberately exaggerated the number of Ming army. In fact, there was nothing wrong with what He Luohui said. Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren had more than 100,000 troops in Nanchang City, plus 200,000 civilians. The Guangdong Ming army combat troops outside the city and the logistics workers were about 50,000 or 60,000, which was less than 300,000, which was much different from 400,000.

Due to his previous understanding of the Ming army, Dorgon did not see that what He Luo would say was a lie. You should know that all his side were elite, and it would take almost 400,000 to win the Ming army.

"Where is He Luo knows people?"

"My subordinates are afraid that he will return to the capital and talk nonsense, so they lock him in the mansion, waiting for the regent to fail. If the regent is worried..." Suksaha made a beheading gesture after saying that, meaning that he could kill He Luohui.

Dorgon shook his head. Now he was the only one of his confidant generals. Tan Tai, Nikan and others were all killed in battle. How could he still kill his own people?

At this moment, the butler of the Prince's Mansion outside the house whispered outside the door: "Prince, Prince! News from Jiangning is coming!"

Dorgon quickly asked Suksaha to open the door, and a dusty military man came into the room outside the door.

The military man knelt down on his knees and said, "Prince, the slave is the subordinate of Governor Hong. I'll send a front-line military newspaper to the prince!"

Dorgon didn't say anything, quickly took it over, opened the sealed iron barrel and took out Hong Chengchou's military newspaper.

But before Dorgon finished reading it, he spurted out a mouthful of blood again and fainted.
Chapter completed!