Win the Ding 1617

On the ninth day of June in the 12th year of Chongzhen, Shengjing, Dazheng Hall.

After more than a month of counting the spoils and evaluating the merits of the various ministries and banners, Huang Taiji finally figured out the aftermath of the robbery.

The king of Chengjun and Yangwei General Yue Tuo died in battle, so he had to be honored and honored to give him a seal.Huang Taiji decreed to posthumously present Yue Tuo as Prince Cheng, five camels, two horses, and ten thousand taels of silver.He stopped going to court for three days to express his condolences, and went to the funeral to drink wine and burn paper to worship. Yue Tuo died well.Daishan thanked Huang Taiji as his father.

However, after Yue Tuo's death, the position of Zhenghong Banner became the target of all parties' contention.

The party headed by Dorgon proposed that according to the old system of Emperor Taizu Gao and the imperial decree promulgated by the emperor, those who carry the body and return home can get half of the deceased's family property. Take back Prince Rui's remains of Prince Cheng.These populations will be organized into the Zhengbai Banner, or Azig will be the owner of the Zhenghong Banner.

However, Huang Taiji's confidants, headed by Hauge, He Luohui, Aobai and others, strongly opposed this proposal.But I couldn't find any suitable reason, so I had to use the two red flags to fight hard, and the population dropped sharply. Daishan should be in charge of recuperating for a few years. As for the implementation of the old system of Emperor Taizu Gao, more property in the two red flags can be given Dorgon some for compensation.

However, this idea was obstructed by Daishan both openly and secretly. How could he use his own property to pay back the favor of that dead devil's son?This is impossible in any case!

However, several sons of Yue Tuo quietly ran to Hauge, begging this uncle to help him uphold justice.One cannot let Zhenghongqi's Niulu population fall into the hands of outsiders.Two, Zhenghongqi's property should not be lost too much. Three, Daishan is too old, so he should spend his life at home!

Huang Taiji, who got this bottom line, balanced it left and right, and saw that the Dorgon brothers showed a benevolent and friendly demeanor just right, so he simply went down the slope and awarded the position of the owner of the Zhenghong Banner to Shouyu Baoding , Nursing on the head of Shuo Tuo, who has made meritorious deeds!

(Li Peiting grinned grimly, Mynah. Forgive you for being a ghost. You still have to drink my footwashing water!)

However, Du Du, who was defeated only by his own life, was canceled the opportunity to distribute the spoils of this entry, deprived Anping Baylor of his title, and ordered him to hand over twenty good horses as atonement.but.The position of Du Du's inlaid red flag banner owner.However, under the protection of the prestige brothers Dorgon, they reluctantly stayed.

After that, he adopted the suggestion of Prince Rui Dorgon, who was ordered by the general.Large-scale expansion of the Han army banner, the combination of Tianyou soldiers under Kong Youde, Tianyou soldiers under Geng Zhongming, and dozens of coated Niulu compiled and trained by Dorgon.At the same time, tens of thousands of people looted from North Korea were stuffed in, and they were compiled into the Four Banners of the Han Army.The flag banners are slightly changed on the basis of the blue flag of the original Han army flag, and are divided into four colors: pure blue with yellow, pure blue with white, pure blue with red and pure blue.

Kong Youde became Gushan Ezhen of the Zhenghong Banner of the Han Army, Shang Kexi became Gushan Ezhen of the Xianglan Banner, and Geng Zhongming became Gushan Ezhen of the Zhenghuang Banner.Shi Tingzhu is Gushan Ezhen of Zhengbai Banner. Because of them, Shang, Geng, Shi, Li, Tong, Zu, Cai, Wang and other surnames became the eight major surnames of the Han army.

Today is the day to bury the coffin of Prince Cheng Yuetuo.Huang Taiji also went to the sacrifice in plain clothes.

Although the so-called "cooking" and "throwing paper" have been banned since the Nurhachi era, the power of tradition is still very strong, especially under the auspices of Shuo Tuo, the banner owner who has just taken over. Zheng Hongqi held Yue Tuo's funeral in such a lively manner that almost the entire Shengjing was alarmed.

The so-called "cooking rice" and "throwing paper" customs.It is the tradition of the Jurchens to burn the deceased "all the food and drink they sacrificed" during their lifetime.Rich and noble families also burned their dogs and horses during their lifetime.Although Nurhachi, Huang Taiji and his son have repeatedly warned the Eight Banners to save food and utensils, today, Zhenghongqi still throws the weapons, armor, clothes, bedding, etc. that Yue Tuo used before his death into the fire and burns them together. A few war horses and a few favorite hounds were pushed into the fire and burned, so that they would continue to serve the master even in the underworld.

Seeing hundreds of sets of brand-new clothes being burned in a single fire, the officials and people in Shengjing City were all speechless, and Huang Taiji shook his head inwardly.However, Fan Wencheng, a scholar from the Third Academy of the Inner Academy, reminded him in a low voice, "Master! This slave thinks this is a good thing! The more Shuo Tuo behaves like this, the better it is for the master!"

Having figured out the key points here, Huang Taiji was also happy to see Zheng Hongqi planning a funeral for Yue Tuo with extravagance.

Back in the palace, Huang Taiji untied the white cloth robe around his waist and the mourning clothes, and ordered someone to fetch milk to drink.

"Your Majesty, Prince Rui is asking for an audience outside the palace. He said that he has important military affairs to report to the Emperor."

Before the cup of hot milk was finished, the leader of the Kabush Xianbing Zhenghuangqi Zhangjing Ashan reported outside the hall that Dorgon had come.

"Xuan."

Huangtai Jihei's face showed no joy, anger, sorrow or joy, his mind was spinning rapidly, this fourteenth brother's entry into the customs can be said to be fruitful, and he entered the palace at this time, and he didn't know what was going on.

"Your Majesty, can this concubine listen to you and Prince Rui talking behind the screen?"

Bumbutai, the concubine of the Horqin family who had just consummated her marriage, put away the porcelain bowl containing the **, and asked Huang Taiji's opinion with a charming smile.

"Alright! Don't disturb the Fourteenth Prince."

Huang Taiji has always loved Dafujin's niece and his new favorite.

"Slave pays respects to the emperor."

Outside the hall, Dorgon put down a huge package in his hand, and respectfully greeted Huang Taiji with a thousand greetings.Although he hates Huang Taiji deeply, Dorgon has achieved the ultimate in forbearance. In terms of etiquette and details, even a magnifying glass can't find any faults.

After some etiquette, Huang Taiji ordered Dorgon to sit down and speak.

"Fourteenth brother." Hearing these words full of warmth between brothers, Dorgon hurriedly got up and knelt down to thank him, not daring to say anything modestly.

"This is a conversation between you and my brother. Put aside those ordinary rituals." Huang Taiji intentionally showed his mind and generosity.

After Huang Taiji performed, he began to understand Dorgon's intentions.

"This time, the servant led the army and entered the customs together with Prince Cheng. Although the capture was quite rich and the results were brilliant, Prince Cheng unfortunately died in the battle with the Ming army. The slave went back and thought about it, and finally found the crux of the problem. "

Hearing what Dorgon said, Huang Taiji couldn't help but also cheered up.If the reason for the defeat of Jinan can be found, it will certainly be avoided when fighting the Ming army in the future, and even treat him in his own way.

"Fourteenth brother, tell me quickly!"

"When the slaves fought against Xuan's governor Lu Xiangsheng's troops in Julu Jiazhuang, they realized that this generation was not comparable to other Ming troops. When our Eight Banners warriors attacked, the firecrackers were continuously released row by row. Originally, the slaves thought that these firecrackers were more powerful. Hitting it a few times will definitely blow up the chamber, but these Nikans keep casting."

And what surprised Dorgon even more that day.The Jiannubu archers will not fire until they start to draw their bows and set their arrows.When the archer enters the effective range of the bow and starts to draw the bow and nock the arrow.At the same time, it is also the best range of firearms.Row after row of firecrackers from the Tianxiong Army hit them, and the Eight Banners warriors fell to the ground one by one.Hot blood melted the frozen land.

Thinking of the bloody battle that day, Dorgon couldn't help but tears filled his slender eyes.

"The firearms of the Ming army are sharp. If they can be used properly, they will be the enemy of my Eight Banners warriors."

Dorgon ordered someone to bring in the big package he left outside the temple.After opening it, it was the wreckage of more than a dozen firecrackers.

"Your Majesty, please take a look. This is the firecracker captured by the slave in several battles with the South Central Army in Changqing."

Huang Taiji is no stranger to firecrackers, but when he carefully looked at the firecrackers that Dorgon placed in front of him, he was a little surprised.These firecrackers are made of pure steel of one color, and the muzzles are strict and precise, and they are generally the same.

"The most ruthless, poisonous and deadly thing about this thing is that it won't blow up when fired several times! Unfortunately, it uses a matchlock, which is not as good as the Lumi gun and self-generated fire gun of Shenjiying."

"Your Majesty, this servant has captured a garrison in Guan Ning's army. This man is good at using firecrackers. When the servant ordered him to watch these firecrackers, this servant told the servant that there are two tricky things about these firecrackers! If you don't know Insider information will definitely suffer a lot!"

"What's the tricky thing? Tell me quickly!"

At this time, Huang Taiji saw Dorgon as more and more pleasing to the eye. He was able to show him the emperor his experience on the battlefield and the captures of his subordinates, which was much better than other banner owners!He knew that every banner owner was a bit narrow-minded, even his eldest son Hauge wasn't like that?

"Your Majesty, please forgive the slave-lord's crime of disrespect."

Dorgon confessed his guilt, took a relatively complete firecracker in his hand, searched through the pile of parts on the side, found a half-broken thorn, looked at it a little, and combined the sleeve with the barrel , rotate it a little, and there is a light click, and the thorn and barrel are perfectly combined.

"Your Majesty, please take a look."

With both hands, he handed the fire blunderbuss with a good thorn to Huang Taiji.

"Is this the gun sword?" Huang Taiji looked at the half of the gun stab in his hand, and the gun with the broken bracket.

"That's right. Your Majesty, when the servants fought against the Nanzhong Army that day, the Nanmanzi's firecrackers were equipped with such swords on the barrels after firing a few salvos. After that, the firecracker soldiers became short spearmen. They are afraid of melee combat. Moreover, this group of Nikans also have vicious tricks in melee combat. That is, when they are only a few steps away from our soldiers, they suddenly release the pre-loaded ammunition in the barrel to break up our soldiers. They seem to be There is a certain formation method for the gun sword, and there is a tacit understanding between each other. It is obvious that a single Nikan's martial arts is common, and even the Eight Banners' training soldiers are better than them! But if several Nikan are together, they can deal with several Batu Resolute but not downwind."

"Although my Eight Banners soldiers are unmatched in bravery, they are few in number after all. If they are like this every time they encounter a Ming army, I'm afraid, my Eight Banners can't afford it!"

Speaking of this, the atmosphere in the hall fell into silence. Both Huang Taiji and Dorgon stopped talking, just contemplating.After a while, Huang Taiji suddenly woke up from his thoughts, not realizing that his clothes were already soaked in sweat.

"The weather in June is really hot." Seeing that Dorgon's bald head was covered with sweat, Huang Taiji called Concubine Zhuang to come out.

"Take out the Nanhai Xianlu that my fourteenth brother seized a few days ago, freeze it, and send it here."

Seeing Bumbutai flying away like a lark on the grassland, Dorgon looked away.

"This Nanhai Xianlu was captured when Gao Qiqian's camp was breached. It is also from the Ming army. It is also equipped with Nanban equipment. Lu Xiangsheng is much more difficult to deal with than Gao Qiqian!"

"This is the reason why Lu Xiangsheng still mourned after his death, while Gao Qiqian was shown to the public by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

When Shou Han received the order to enter the capital to accept the reward and lead the army and horses into the city, the civil and military officials of the capital people were most moved. It was not the captures that showed their achievements, but a tablet that was clearly made in a hurry.

The paint on the improvised tablet is still wet, and the white stubble of the wood is still exposed in many places, which is one foot or two feet long.The huge three-foot-wide tablet was carried on the shoulders of 24 strong sergeants.It is enshrined with fresh flowers and fruits.Literate people read the name on the tablet.

"Emperor Mingxuan, Governor-General of the Ministry of War, Minister of the Ministry of War, Lord Lu, taboo Xiang is promoted to the position!"

The guard ordered people to place Lu Xiangsheng's coffin at the front of the queue, so that dozens of soldiers from the Tianxiong Army who survived by chance guarded the most honorable part of the old officer's journey.As the coffins and coffins moved forward, the officials and civilians along the way kept kneeling and saluting, "Master Lu, a great hero!" "Master Lu, you are loyal to the country!"

On Tianjie, in front of Daming Gate.Under the dense protection of the imperial guards, Emperor Chongzhen had already led his ministers here to wait for the arrival of the triumphant army.

When Lu Xiangsheng's coffin came up, Emperor Chongzhen mourned greatly while supporting the coffin.I can't cry.The ministers comforted in a low voice, asking the emperor to take care of the dragon body.Standing behind Emperor Chongzhen, Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Yang Sichang, the second assistant, cried like rain.

Then, amidst the praises of officials from the Ministry of Rites, Chongzhen climbed up to the Chengtian Gate and listened to Li Shouhan, who knelt in front of the Jinshui Bridge, report his military exploits loudly.Afterwards, the Shou Han sent dozens of Sauron's dead soldiers, more than 200 officers and soldiers of various banners at all levels, and nearly a thousand Mongolian Eight Banners coated and handymen one by one.

At this time, the ceremony of presenting prisoners and victories entered the climax, and the people of the capital watching the ceremony shouted long live. Chongzhen ordered these more than a thousand people to be imprisoned, beheaded three times at various city gates in the capital, and hang their heads for public display.

"Mr. Li exchanged the head of my Eight Banners soldier for an earl. It's a pity that there are too many people who despise him in the Ming Dynasty." However, Huang Taiji was a little cynical about Li Shouhan's situation.

"That's right! Since the beginning of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, only Wang Xinjian, Wang Yangming, has been awarded the title of earl by ministers in one battle. Military generals are servants and servants in the eyes of civil officials. Now Li Shouhan only relies on two times to resist us. The military merits of the soldiers are awarded knighthoods, which is naturally despised by the officials of the Ming Dynasty."

Regarding the big news that Li Shouhan was named Bo Ningyuan, Huang Taiji and others naturally had secret agents lurking in the capital to immediately report it.

Huang Taiji is already used to the disgusting Li Shouhan and himself from the officials of the Ming Dynasty, but a few generals and descendants who don't understand it are clamoring, threatening to flatten the capital and capture those officials who are so presumptuous alive. The emperor let out such a bad breath.

For the active pursuit of the subordinates, Huang Taiji had to encourage them first, and then gave them an order to explain their strength.

"Now our soldiers have just entered the customs and returned from defeating the Ming Dynasty. The soldiers and horses are extremely exhausted and need to recuperate. When there is chaos in the Ming Dynasty, our army will attack the Ming Dynasty again!"

However, with this secret report, there is another thing.

Among the agreed rewards, in addition to being canonized as Uncle Ning Yuan, Li Shouhan himself was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the South China Central Committee, and even used his navy to carry out coastal defense anti-smuggling matters in the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang.That's all, for his loyal act of serving the country, everyone from the emperor to the civil and military ministers in the court praised him, but this praise also contained evil intentions.

Yang Sichang and Wang Dehua successively announced to the emperor and all the ministers who participated in the celebration banquet held for Li Shouhan that the soldiers of the Beijing camp have made great progress in accompanying them in the battle. .

Then, Yang Sichang praised Ning Yuan Bo Li Shouhan face to face for being good at training and using soldiers.I implore the emperor to entrust the important task of rectifying the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp.

For such a task, Shou Han is naturally grateful and indifferent, the reason is that he has to work hard on his errand in the south, if he rectifies the Beijing camp in the capital, wouldn't he miss the painstaking efforts entrusted by the emperor?But he also stated that as long as the minister Li Shouhan can do it, he will definitely do his best.

Unexpectedly, Yang Sichang was waiting for this sentence.

"Your Majesty, I also think that Uncle Ning Yuan is diligent in state affairs, devoted to the country, and loyal to the sun and the moon. It is possible for a moment to be incapacitated. However, in my humble opinion, it is better for Uncle Ning Yuan to recommend a virtuous person to replace him. Some of them were selected and transferred to lead the troops stationed in the capital. Firstly, they could stay in the capital to guard the capital, making Jiannu Xiaoxiao afraid to face it. Secondly, they could serve as a model for the garrison of the capital and serve as an example.”

Shou Han almost didn't faint from the anger at that time, he was fooled by this old treacherous bureaucrat, and he couldn't refute him in this court.

How to say?

"I'm not loyal to the country? I don't want to leave the troops to look after your home?!"

What surprised Shouhan even more was that Wang Dehua and Wang Chengen, who had fought side by side with Jiannu in Changqing, also told the emperor that Master Yang's idea was a perfect strategy, which not only took care of Uncle Ning Yuan's loyalty, but also completed the Beijing camp. The major event of finishing can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

And Wang Dehua even recommended relevant candidates.

"The servants watched the Southern Guangdong Army enter the guard this time. The commander of the garrison brigade and the deputy general Wu Biao are unparalleled in bravery and dedicated to the country. They are worthy of great responsibility." (To be continued...)