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Chapter 246 Dorgon Assisting the Government

Outside the pass, Shenyang City, the residence of the Prince Regent.

At the end of last year, Huang Taiji died suddenly and did not leave a will before his death. This caused a fierce political struggle within the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

However, because of the prudence of Daishan and Jierhalang, coupled with Hauge's weak compromise, there was no internal strife in the Qing Dynasty, and the two sides finally reached a compromise.

At this time, Fulin, who was only six years old, succeeded the lord of the Qing Dynasty, called the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and changed his reign name to Shunzhi.

However, the power of Manchu Qing was in the hands of Jierhalang and Dorgon, while Huang Taiji's eldest son Haoge got nothing.

In this political struggle, Hauge's supporter, Jierharang, won the position of the first auxiliary government, and Dorgon was the second auxiliary government. On the surface, the Hauge faction still had a little advantage, but in fact Hauge Already completely lost.

Here I have to say that Dorgon is indeed cunning. He agreed with Jierharang to be the first auxiliary government instead of letting Hauge do it, fully demonstrating his political wisdom.

If Hauge served as assistant government, he might still be able to continue fighting with Dorgon and gather his supporters around him, but if Jierhalang was in charge, the hearts of the two yellow flags would be broken.

Although Jierharang served as the first auxiliary government, he was not Hauge and could not unite the forces left by Huang Taiji to Hauge, so he could not compete with Dorgon.

In this way, in just a few months, Dorgon never had an advantage, and now he has the vast majority of power in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

At this time, in the mansion of Prince Ruiqing, several businessmen who fled from Zhangjiakou knelt on the ground and reported the situation in the customs to Dorgon.

These businessmen, who dared to flee to the outside of the customs in a hurry before the Shun army captured Zhangjiakou, are now all bare-skinned, with a pigtail behind their heads, shaving their hair voluntarily, and changing into Manchu costumes.

There was no way, Dashun and Daming wanted to destroy them, and they couldn't go back inside the pass, so they simply ran to Liaodong to subdue the Qing Dynasty.

"A message to the Regent! Li Zicheng marched from Guandong in the first month, and occupied most of the east of the river in February. Most of the money that the regent gave the slaves enough money fell into the hands of the intruders."

It was Fan Yongdou who was speaking, and he was in Zhangjiakou to make arrangements for the flow of materials from inside the pass to outside the pass, otherwise it would have to be carried by Li Zicheng this time.

After hearing Fan Yongdou's words, Dorgon's eyes were a bit dark, "Aren't the eyeliners of your Shanxi merchants all over the five northern provinces? Why don't you even know that the intruders are about to move?"

After Dorgon took over as assistant government, in order to quickly establish his prestige, he allocated another batch of money to Shanxi merchants, hoping to get some materials through them to alleviate the shortage of materials outside the customs.

Now that the materials are not available, but the money is gone, Dorgon is very embarrassed, and it also arouses the dissatisfaction of the Manchu nobles. Dorgon is naturally annoyed, wishing to kill the fools in front of him.

Fan Yongdou hurriedly kowtowed and cried: "Returning to the Regent, the servants did receive a little rumor at the beginning of the year, but it was news from the Ming Dynasty. No one thought that the burglar would suddenly attack."

Fan Yongdou actually concealed something from Dorgon and did not mention his son.

When Gao Yihuan came to the door, he raised his vigilance in his heart and transferred some supplies to Zhangjiakou.

However, he was afraid of affecting the redemption of Fan Sanba, so he kept silent and did not inform others.

It's just that he didn't expect that Gao Yihuan, who had no morals and no integrity at all, would actually tell Mingshun and Mingshun about the Fan family's clearing up.

Until now, he still hasn't figured out why Gao Yihuan, a rogue, would give money to those who have no grievances or enmities.

In December, Gao Yihuan leaked the news to Ma Shiying, and in the first month, he told Li Zicheng.

After Ma Shiying's memorabilia was uploaded, the Jin merchants had already received the wind, but the Ming Dynasty dealt with this kind of thing, there was a process, and the Shanxi merchants were not in a hurry to transfer them all.

They had connections in the court and thought they could deal with it calmly, but they didn't expect that within half a month, Li Zicheng would hit Shanxi and copy them.

Now that things are like this, although Dorgon is annoyed in his heart, the silver can't be changed back.

At this time, he suddenly asked with a gloomy face, "Where is Li Zicheng fighting now?"

"Reporting to the Regent, the thieves are so powerful that they have already reached Beijing!" Fan Yongdou couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that Dorgon hadn't pursued him, and kowtowed quickly.

The thieves actually attacked Beijing, and the situation in the pass would undergo a huge change.

If Li Zicheng were allowed to destroy the Ming Dynasty and digest the power of the Ming Dynasty, then the customs would become a monolith, and the enemy facing the Qing army would not be the decaying Ming Dynasty, but a dynasty full of vigor.

This is obviously not good for Man Qing.

Dole Gun just got the position of regent, and faced such a challenge, he suddenly became a little excited.

Dorgon frowned when he heard the words, and immediately said: "Go, call Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou for this king!"

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Historically, Li Zicheng led his troops across Changping and arrived at Shahe on March [-].

On the [-]th, they entered Gaobeidian and Xizhimen, bombarded the city with cannons, and attacked Pingzemen, Zhangyimen, and Xizhimen at noon. ,

That night, some defenders opened the Guangning Gate in the outer city, and the Shun army entered the outer city of Beijing.

Two days later, that is, in the early morning of March [-], Zhang Jinyan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, took the initiative to open the Zhengyang Gate to welcome Liu Zongmin's troops into the city. nave.

On the same day, Chongzhen took the eunuch Wang Chengen to Meishan for a lookout, and then returned to Qianqing Palace. All the ministers fled. Finally, Chongzhen went to Jingshan and hanged himself.

That is to say, it took only a few days for Li Zicheng to arrive in Beijing and the city was broken.

A regime that cannot defend against the enemy externally, suffers consecutive defeats, and makes the people groan under the iron hooves of the Hulu, but cannot calm the people internally, instead increases the burden on the people and makes it impossible for the people to survive.

The common people have spent more than ten years in disappointment again and again. By this time, there are not many people in the north who are nostalgic for the Ming Dynasty.

At night, in Kunning Palace, Zhou Hou welcomed Chongzhen into the palace and set up a table of simple meals.

Four dishes and one soup, not like the home of an emperor.

"Your Majesty, have the intruders already attacked the city?" Zhou Hou was a young soldier, and she tried to calm herself down, but her trembling lips still betrayed her.

As the soldiers approached the city, Chongzhen began to regret it in his heart. He took the initiative to issue an order to Wu Sangui, intending to rely on Wu Sangui's troops to resist Li Zicheng, at least to send the prince out.

Now that things have happened, he can die, but Daming's world cannot end!

In history, Chongzhen also decided to send out the prince only at the end, but it was too late.

The same is true now, the transfer order was passed on, but there was no movement in Shanhaiguan, instead, the bandits had already entered the outer city.

Chongzhen nodded, and Empress Zhou immediately had tears in her eyes, but Chongzhen still hardened his heart: "Queen, you are the mother of a country. Now that the situation is over, you must not be humiliated!"

Empress Zhou understood what Chongzhen meant, she took a deep look at Chongzhen, and suddenly said, "Your Majesty, we also have a home in Nanjing!" She stopped her tears and walked towards the apse.

Chongzhen sat down on the chair, suddenly a series of tears rolled down his cheeks.

But after a while, he stopped crying again, and he had to arrange the funeral, "Go, call the prince and the others."

At this moment, an eunuch led a civil servant to the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and without caring about the etiquette, he shouted anxiously: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Governor Gao, please make a southern tour! Your Majesty~"

(End of this chapter)