Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

"Great! He is worthy of being my son. The bandits in Kuidong have been pacified, and I can focus on the north!" After receiving the victory report from Melas, Lianhua Khan, who was commanding the battle in the Suide State Guard camp, was very pleased.

"This is the list of meritorious soldiers drawn up by the King of Qi. Please have a look at it, Great Khan," the Minister of War Harahuri respectfully asked the Great Khan.

Sultan took a look and saw a long list of people, including Qin Wang Chuo Siji, Turpan Duke Xi Rimo, Huguang Governor Hu Maozhen, Chahar Admiral Alinbao, Du Qianhu Chang Ada, Zhongfeng Doctor (Second Rank Official) Chen Hongzhu, etc. It was more than ten pages long. He couldn't help but feel happy. The second son wanted to show his support and win people's hearts! Although he saw through his second son's trick at a glance, he couldn't let down the meritorious officials as it was the time to recruit people. He still decided to give him a large reward.

The emperor issued an edict to grant Qi Wang Mailas an imperial robe, ten white camels, a thousand imperial horses, and five thousand acres of good land; to grant Qin Wang Chuo Siji an imperial robe, eight white camels, eight hundred imperial horses, and four thousand acres of good land; to promote the third-class Turpan Duke Xi Rimo to the second-class Turpan Duke; to promote Huguang Governor Hu Maozhen to Huguang Governor-General; to promote Zhongfeng Doctor Chen Hongzhu to Huguang Governor and add the title of Assistant Minister of the Ministry of War; to confer Alinbao the title of the first-class Junzhou Earl and Ada the title of the third-class Yunxi Earl; to promote Datong Deputy General Zheng Guoyin, Zhu Ma Deputy General Li Yingming, and Pianguanying Deputy General Ma Zhilin to the title of General Soldiers; and to reward the rest of the generals. The most eye-catching of the many rewards was the reward to Zhongfeng Doctor Chen Hongzhu. This person was a confidant of Qi Wang Mailas. He was originally just a second-rank official, but he was promoted to the second-rank governor with the title of Assistant Minister of the Ministry of War, which was a great honor to Qi Wang.

Then the Great Khan issued an edict, "Malas and Xirimo immediately led their troops north to attack Li Guoying, the pseudo-Qing governor entrenched in northern Sichuan and Hanzhong. They must annihilate Li Guoying's troops as soon as possible and advance to Xi'an from the south; Chuo Siji stayed in Huguang to preside over Huguang military affairs, and must beware of the Huguang Qing army going north to rescue Shaanxi." On the surface, this was to take ruthless action against the Qing army in Shaanxi, but in fact, they were worried that if the King of Qi continued to stay in Huguang, his power would grow too fast and threaten the position of the crown prince, so they simply transferred him away from Huguang and supported the King of Qin Chuo Siji, who had a shallow foundation and could not threaten the crown prince. As an emperor, he had to support the power in the court that could check and balance the crown prince, otherwise the throne would be unstable; but as a father, he did not want his sons to kill each other one day in the future. So on the one hand, he allowed the King of Qi to develop his own power, and on the other hand, he curbed the King of Qi's power from growing too fast and making the crown prince uneasy.

After arranging the rewards for the meritorious soldiers in the battle of Huguang, he made another move and appointed Fu Shan, the governor of Shaanxi, as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and Duikana, a demoted official, as the governor of Shaanxi and the minister of the Ministry of War. Fu Shan was one of the first Han officials to surrender to the Wei Kingdom and was also a senior official of the Wei Kingdom. He could convince the public in terms of seniority. Duikana was a university scholar of the National History Academy in the Qing Dynasty. Although he had surrendered to the Wei Kingdom not long ago, he was a serious Manchu son. Appointing him as the governor of Shaanxi would help to disintegrate the military morale of the Eight Banners of Shaanxi. The most important thing is that the Great Khan wanted to promote ethnic integration by reusing officials of the Han, Manchu, Tibetan, Hui and other ethnic groups, and at the same time check and balance the deep-rooted Mongolian noble forces within the Wei Kingdom, so as to prevent these military nobles from becoming arrogant and threatening the imperial power.

After arranging all these, Sultan felt a little tired and couldn't help but laugh at himself, "Everyone says that the emperor is good, but who knows the hard work!" Suddenly, inspiration came to him, and he picked up his pen and wrote:

"Yu Meiren: The Hardships of Imperial Career"

How many white hairs have been added to my temples?
Who knows the hard work?
I am delighted to hear the good news.
Still as heroic and domineering as he ever was.

After reading all the memorials, time has passed.
Peace and happiness are so hard to find.

I stole half a day of leisure with great difficulty,
The great cause of unifying the north is at hand.

This poem is full of complaints: Being an emperor is hard! It is really hard! It is harder than climbing to the sky to take a break! In later generations, a sour scholar named Yangyang Daming once used this poem to ridicule all the emperors in the world: If you think being an emperor is hard, you can just give up the throne and let your son travel around the mountains and rivers. But from ancient times to the present, how many emperors have been willing to abdicate? It’s because they are reluctant to give up the word "power"! ——
In the poem "Yu Meiren: Lamenting the Hardships of the Imperial Career", the Great Khan Lianhua said that "the great cause of unifying the north is before our eyes", which is by no means nonsense. In fact, he had already made plans to annihilate the Qing Zhenwu small court in the northwest and complete the great cause of unifying the north. In addition to ordering Qi Wang Mailas, Qin Wang Chuo Siji, and General Xi Rimo of the Southern Expedition to destroy the Ming Dynasty in three ways, seize Kuidong and cut off the connection between the Zhenwu small court and the Qing army in other provinces, he also ordered General Tuoli of the Northern Expedition to lead his troops to capture Fuzhou and Yichuan, cut off the connection between Yan'an and Xi'an, and planned to first annihilate the army led by Huilan, the Prince of Qingzhong, in Yansui, and then concentrate all efforts to capture Xi'an, the capital of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty. Not long ago, Tuoli and Altan Cang jointly reported that Fuzhou and Yichuan had been captured. This means that the Wei army has surrounded the Huilan troops of the Qingzhong Prince stationed in Yan'an Prefecture and Yulin Wei. As long as the more than 100,000 Qing troops under Huilan are eliminated, the unification of the north is just around the corner! General Toli and Deputy General Altan Cang were ordered to lead 60,000 guards to attack Fuzhou. Du Yonghe, the Qing general guarding Fuzhou, wanted to attack the camp while the guards were unstable. However, Toli, known as the "Eagle of Oirat", was very good at using scouts. The Qing troops were spotted by the guards as soon as they left the city. In the fierce battle, Du Yonghe not only failed to gain an advantage, but also lost his deputy general Jiang Yu.

"Come here! Bring me some wine, I want to offer a memorial service to my brother Jiang!" After escaping back to the city, Du Yonghe ordered the city gates to be closed. After inspecting the city defenses, he ordered wine to be brought to offer a memorial service to Jiang Yu. He and Jiang Yu were both generals under Li Chengdong. After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, they were assigned to the command of Li Shutai, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Because they were both from the Ming army and had resolutely resisted the Qing army, they were not trusted by Li Shutai and were sent to Shaanxi. They were both wanderers in the world and comrades who had shared life and death, so their feelings were naturally deep!

"The general is paying tribute to Deputy General Jiang today. I wonder who will come to pay tribute to the general in the future?" Just as I was feeling sad, I suddenly heard a voice beside me.

Du Yonghe was furious, and looking back, he saw that it was Luo Nai, the governor of Fuzhou. He drew his sword and put it to Luo Nai's neck, and said, "I don't know who will come to pay tribute to me, but no one dares to pay tribute to you now."

"I am just a civil servant, it is easy for the general to kill me. But as a Han Chinese, do you really want to die for the Manchus? How can you face your ancestors after you die with only a golden tail?" Luo Nai was not afraid at all.

"The Wei State is also a Hu country. Do you think you can face your ancestors if you surrender to Wei?" Du Yonghe argued.

"Don't you know that you don't have to shave your head or change your clothes when you surrender to Wei? Moreover, several important officials in the Wei court, such as Liu Haogu and Xue Zongzhou, are all Han people," Luo Nai retorted.

After hearing this, Du Yonghe sighed: "Actually, I had intended to surrender a long time ago, but I was afraid of being looked down upon by the Wei army, so I wanted to win one or two battles before surrendering. Unexpectedly, by some mistake, I ended up killing my brother Jiang."

On October 1667, , Du Yonghe and Luo Nai surrendered Fuzhou to the Wei. Then, Toli and Alatan Cang continued to march eastward and captured Yichuan on October , completing the task assigned by the Great Khan. (End of this chapter)