Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 799 Dorgon: Is there still a way out for my Qing dynasty?
In the eighth year of Zhaowu, the fifth day of September.

Xianjing.

This is the prefecture of Hamheung Prefecture in South Hamgyong Province of North Korea in the past. Because it is a valley between mountains and the sea, it is considered a rich place in Xiannyeong Province, which is dominated by mountains.

Therefore, when Dorgon wanted to move the capital to North Korea, this place and Jingcheng in the north were recommended by Hong Chengchou as the new capital of the Qing Dynasty and the two capitals of the north and the south.

According to Hong Chengchou's original plan, the Qing Dynasty only needs to occupy some areas of Hamgyong Road, Ping'an Road, and Jiangling Road, and develop in a low-key manner to restore its vitality, and try not to attract too much attention from Ming Dynasty. Gou went to Daming and replaced him with a faint king.

At the same time, the navy was developed, and while strengthening the control of the Heilongjiang River Basin, it attempted to use the American New World as the Westerners said as the final retreat.

Because everyone from Dorgon to ordinary Manchu nobles knew that with the hatred between Ming and Qing, when Ming became stronger and had more energy, they would never mind completely destroying Qing.

Therefore, most of the Manchu nobles felt a sense of urgency to save their lives.

Surrendering to Ming Dynasty is not something that no one thought about, but now they have inquired clearly about Ming Dynasty's policy on surrendering people from the Qing Dynasty, which can be said to be extremely harsh.

If they were just ordinary bannermen, they could settle down peacefully and become Jurchen members of the Ming Empire when no one reported their crimes of killing Han, Mongol, and Chao people with real evidence.

But if someone makes a report with evidence, then I’m sorry, at least you will be sentenced to hard labor for more than ten years for reform, even if you raised the butcher’s knife under the order of your boss, you will not be exonerated.

Therefore, even ordinary bannermen who surrendered to Daming would almost all start with hard labor.

If you are an aristocrat, even if no one reports, you have to do hard labor for more than ten years to atone for your sins.

If someone makes a report, or if someone who led the army to slaughter the city of Daming, there is only one way to die; even if it is just to break the city and loot, he will be sent overseas to the government as a lifetime of hard labor until he dies of exhaustion.

Therefore, unless the nobles of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had slaughtered, made little meritorious service, and were willing to accept more than ten years of hard labor and reform, no one thought of surrendering to Ming Dynasty.

Having said that, no Manchu noble could accept even ten years of hard labor.

Therefore, if the Ming Dynasty wants to raise troops to destroy the Qing Dynasty in the future, a reliable retreat has become the hope of the Manchu nobles.

Originally, they put this hope on what the Westerners call the New World of America.

But last year, I learned that the Ming army forced Japan to sign the "Treaty of Edo" and that they were also plotting against the Americas.

This made the Manchu nobles feel that there was no way out.

This made them go all out last year and quickly captured most of Gyeonggi-do, Chungcheong-do, and Jeolla-do.

Prior to this, the Qing court actually obtained some information by capturing spies outside Jinyiwei North Town Fusi, and knew that the Ming Dynasty had planned to destroy the Qing Dynasty within a few years, so it changed its original plan to operate North Korea in a low-key manner.

Now, seeing that the Qing Dynasty was about to destroy the Li Dynasty and occupy the entire North Korea, they also received an expected news.

"September [-]st, the Jiangbei army gathered. On September [-]rd, at least [-] Ming troops crossed the Yalu River, cough cough..."

Dorgon, with gray hair at the age of 41, read the news from Jiangbei (Yalu River) spies, and suddenly coughed violently.

After his face flushed strangely, he immediately covered his mouth with a handkerchief, and when he took it off, he could see a striking blood red on it.

He is coughing up blood.

But he didn't care.

He was the root cause of his illness when he retreated from Beijing and returned to the outside of the customs. These years, because of state affairs and heirs worked day and night, his illness not only did not heal, but became more serious, and it has reached the point where it is difficult to cure.

The imperial doctor said that if you work less and rest in peace, you can live another seven or eight years.But if it was like this again, maybe one day he would die of illness.

Dorgon just smiled at that time and asked the imperial doctor to retreat.

He is in this position, how could he retire to take care of himself?

If he really retreated, he would only die faster, and his only daughter would be implicated.

Thinking of his daughter Dong'e, Dorgon couldn't help showing a gentle and sighing expression.

In the past two or three years, Dong'e not only presided over the construction of the Great Qing Arms Bureau in Xianjing, successfully imitated the flintlock gun, but also assisted the imperial court in catching a few spies outside the Jinyiwei in Xianjing, and interrogated some useful information.

It's a pity that Dong'e used flintlock guns imitated by Westerners, and the quality and quantity of flints were quite high, so it was impossible to expand production.

So far, the Qing Dynasty has only produced more than [-] rods.

Apart from saving a few hundred rods for Dong'e to equip her guard battalion, the rest were used to equip the Zhengbai flag directly led by Dorgon.

As for ordinary matchlock guns, the Qing Dynasty naturally imitated them as well.

However, although the production of ordinary matchlock guns is not limited by the quality of flint, the output is not much higher.Because the Qing Dynasty's steel output, military industry level, and number of craftsmen were quite limited.

Even counting the artisans plundered from North Korea, the current number cannot be compared with that of Huang Taiji.

Therefore, at present, there are only more than 1 matchlock guns produced by the Qing Military Bureau.

Most of the muskets used in the battle against the North Korean army were captured from the North Korean army, and a few were bought from Westerners.

As for the artillery, because the sea route is controlled by the Ming Navy, even with the ability of the Westerners, it cannot be smuggled in, and the Qing can only manufacture it by itself.

Although as early as the Huang Taiji period, the Qing Dynasty had accumulated a group of highly skilled cannon-making craftsmen, but when they escaped from the pass and escaped from Shenyang, they lost too much.

Therefore, there are not many Hongyi cannons that can be manufactured by the Qing Dynasty, and there are no breakthroughs in technology.Fighting North Korea is very useful, but if you want to fight against the Ming army... Thinking about the horror of the Ming army's artillery in the past, Dorgon shook his head bitterly.

'Why is Dong'e not a man? '

'Why didn't I keep the half of China I occupied? '

'If this is the case, Dong'e will definitely become the Holy Lord of my Qing Dynasty after a hundred years! '

This is what Dorgon sighed.

When he came back to his senses, Dorgon looked at Hong Chengchou who was sitting on the pony horse in front of him.

Hong Chengchou, who is about to be 60 years old, has more than half of his hair gray, and he is getting thinner. Even after receiving the honor of being bestowed by the Qing emperor, he still looks sad.

Because the situation that Daqing is facing now is really far from what he planned a few years ago.

But having said that, since they knew that Da Ming would not let them go, they could also annex North Korea as soon as possible, so that they could fight against Da Ming.

Now that Li's North Korea is about to be destroyed, Daming finally sends out troops, it seems that the hanging sharp blade has finally fallen, which makes people feel less uncomfortable.

"Heng Jiu, let's talk about it. The Ming army is attacking from three directions, and the North Army might break Pyongyang. How should we deal with it?"

Hong Chengchou said bitterly: "The current plan is to let the Eight Banners Army of the Manchu and Mongolian Dynasty and the Green Battalions resist steadily according to the city and terrain, so as to slow down the marching speed of the Ming army.

Never fight a big battle with the Ming army - once the big battle fails, it will be a big defeat, and the armies in the rear will no longer have the heart to resist. The explanation may be decided by the Ming army. "

Dorgon didn't ask the question of whether the Ming army could be defeated.

Because according to some relevant information he knows, coupled with his past personal experience, even he does not have the confidence to defeat the Ming army now.

What's more, with the current national strength of Ming Dynasty, they can win one or two partial battles several times, and they can't change the final outcome of death and national destruction.

He was a dying person, and it was nothing if he died at the hands of the Ming army.But I don't want Dong'e to die in this Mood for Love, and I also don't want Daqing to die like this.

So, he stared at Hong Chengchou and asked, "Heng Jiu, if we are unable to resist the Ming army in the end, besides America, do we have any other way out?"

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　　
　
(End of this chapter)