nanming man

Chapter 255 Recruiting Talents
Although Gao Yihuan had no hope for Li Zicheng, he still sighed and felt a little heavy when he heard the news that Li Zicheng had withdrawn from Beijing.

After Donglu entered the pass, he won another [-] troops from Wu Sangui, Gao Di and others, and his strength can be said to have greatly increased.

But this time is different from the history. In the battle of a piece of stone, Dorgon watched Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng fight, and after both sides were exhausted, he suddenly joined the battle group and defeated Li Zicheng. profiteering.

This time it was Li Zicheng who fought against the Qing army first. After learning of Wu Sangui's rebellion, he retreated hastily and did not suffer a sudden attack. Li Zicheng's loss should not be great.

Dorgon fought a battle with Li Zicheng. The Qing army must have paid more casualties than in history, but Wu Sangui retained his strength.

This change may be due to Gao Yihuan's reminder to Li Zicheng, which made Li Zicheng pay more attention to Wu Sangui than in history. There was no such thing as torture of Wu Xiang, and Wu Sangui did not decide to surrender from the beginning.

Wu Sangui may have seen the entrance of the Qing army, and was extremely dissatisfied with Li Zicheng's practice of torturing and plundering officials of the Ming Dynasty. He believed that Li Zicheng could not unite with the officials and gentry in a timely manner to carry out political transformation, and that the Dashun regime would definitely not stand firm. It would be unlucky to mix with him sooner or later, so he fell to the Qing army.

But because Li Zicheng listened to his words, he was wary of Wu Sangui, and he noticed Wu Sangui's movement, so he didn't cause a big defeat.

Gao Yihuan thought wildly for a while, but still hoped that Li Zicheng would not lose too much, and it would be best to block the Qing army one more time.

Gao Yihuan sighed for a while, cheered up, and said, "Yicheng, the movement of the main force of the Shun army, the route of the Qing army's pursuit, and the situation in Beijing, you must continue to inquire, and report to me as soon as you have news."

"Second brother, don't worry, I have sent three teams of scouts northward."

Gao Yihuan nodded, remained silent for a while, and said, "Now, tell me about the situation in Nanjing?"

Gao Yihuan was very surprised that the prince actually arrived in Nanjing and became emperor.

With the crown prince ascending the throne, he killed Liu Liangzuo, so he was completely uncertain about what would happen in the future.

Gao Yihuan has the heart to fight for the world, but if Nanming is too strong, the world may not be so contentious.

But at the moment, the anti-Qing is the first, and a unified banner is needed. Nanming can support it if he can.

"Second brother, I don't know much about this. I just know that some time ago, Nanjing was thinking about Yonglu, and Jiangbei was thinking about Yongfu. The two sides quarreled fiercely. But after Prince Ming was brought to Haizhou, Gao Mingheng and Ma Shiying led the troops one after another. Arrived, and then went to Nanjing with the Mentaizi."

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, very puzzled, "Who brought Prince Ming to Haizhou?"

"It's one of Gao Mingheng's subordinate governors, who seems to be called Wang Yan!"

"Wang Yan?" Gao Yihuan searched in his mind, and couldn't help but wonder, there was no such person in his impression.

Gao Yihuan was silent for a while, then said in a deep voice, "Go ahead!"

Taking advantage of Gao Yihuan's contemplation, Gao Yicheng asked someone to bring a cup of tea, drank it in one gulp, and then said: "When the crown prince arrived in Nanjing, the Ming officials in Nanjing didn't recognize him at first, but later some officials who had seen the crown prince crossed the river to recognize him, so they welcomed him in." Nanjing is enthroned. I don’t know about other circumstances.”

Gao Yihuan nodded. Li Zicheng didn't suffer much. The Nanming court was inherited by the crown prince, and the environment for resisting the Qing Dynasty should be better.

At this moment, Gao Yihuan looked at Liang Yizhang who was sitting beside him again, and said, "Master Liang, you came from Beijing, do you know what's going on in Beijing? Did the Lord go south after Li Zicheng captured Beijing, or did he go south after Donglu entered the pass? "

Liang Yizhang sighed first, "Oh, at first I thought it was Yi's surname changed, and I didn't want to see that the barbarians invaded the south. After the Qing army entered the customs, I escaped from Beijing with a few colleagues."

After the middle and late Ming Dynasty, humanistic thought was active, and many gentry put more emphasis on self-interest, and no longer believed in loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.

The ministers in Beijing have long reached an unspeakable consensus in their hearts, that is, Daming is about to end.

Throughout history, the change of dynasties is not once or twice. Whether the old Zhu's family is in charge of the country or the old Li's family is in charge of the country, isn't it all the country of the Han people?
Don't the officials and gentry still wear the same clothes, take the official photos, and get the money?
That being the case, it doesn't matter who is sitting on the dragon chair, besides, Daming is indeed rotten, and it's time to change the emperor.

Under the influence of this kind of thinking, Beijing officials can be said to have rebelled like a cloud, and many people stayed in Beijing, preparing to serve the new dynasty.

However, everyone did not expect that Li Zicheng was too pitiful. They had just taken refuge in him and were ready to contribute to the new dynasty. When the captives came, he fled to the west, leaving the officials and gentry stunned.

This made Beijing officials miserable.

Unlike Li Zicheng, Donglu is a foreigner, and if he seeks refuge with Donglu, he will be reprimanded.

All of a sudden, officials in Beijing went south one after another. Liang Yizhang took advantage of the opportunity of the Shun army's westward retreat to escape from Beijing.

After Gao Yihuan heard this, his heart skipped a beat, "Mr. Liang, where are the officials who escaped from Beijing with you? Where are you going to Nanjing?"

Liang Yizhang shook his head, "We originally planned to go to Nanjing, but the Nanjing court is making great efforts to keep the officials from the north out of the gate, and even arrest them and put them in prison. Nanjing is impossible to go to, so I came to General Gao."

Hearing the words, Gao Yihuan narrowed his eyes. He originally thought that Nanming would be less foolish when Prince Ming ascended the throne in Nanjing, but he didn't expect that he would start to follow the case and force the officials in the north to surrender.

The Ming Dynasty was a two-capital system, and in the true sense of the two capitals, Nanjing almost retained all the treatment of the capital.

In Nanjing, there are central institutions that completely correspond to those in Beijing. There are quite a few of the six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Imperial Academy, and the establishment is basically full.

However, although the grades and official positions of Nanjing officials are the same as those in Beijing, they actually have no real power and nothing to do. They are all those who have failed in political struggles or have been eliminated due to lack of ability.

In fact, Nanjing is a place of exile for those who were eliminated from official struggles, or courtiers who were thrown into the cold palace.

Now that Beijing has collapsed, the ministers in Nanjing have turned over and become the masters. It can be regarded as our turn to be awesome, and they naturally want to protect their rights.

Whether it is Donglin or Ma Ruan, they both want to take advantage of the fall of the northern capital and the opportunity for officials in Beijing to be taken over by the same pot, so that their own people can control the central government to the local government.

It is against this background that it is not surprising that the Nanming court rejected the officials who went south.

Not long after, in order to deal with Ma Ruan, the Donglin party members proposed not to use officials who had been designated as eunuchs, and blocked a large number of out-of-field officials and gentry from the Nanjing court so that they could take power more easily.

However, when the Nanjing imperial court was vigorously promoting smooth and reverse cases, and when Ma Ruan and Donglin were excluding each other, Donglu, who occupied Beijing, used the relationship between Hong Chengchou and others to recruit a large number of officials and gentry who were rejected by Nanming, such as Feng Quan. The Qing Dynasty gained the support of many officials and gentry, thus gaining a firm foothold in the north.

In history, the Qing Dynasty entered six times, and the last time they stayed in the pass for more than half a year, breaking through more than 30 prefectures and counties. The Ming army had nothing to do with them. Why did they finally withdraw from the pass?
Because they did not have the support of the Han gentry, they were incapable of governing the place, and occupying it was for nothing.

This time, because of the fall of the Chongzhen Dynasty and the defeat of Dashun, people's hearts were in turmoil. When Nanming refused and Hong Chengchou and others recruited him, a large number of officials took refuge in him.

After hearing Liang Yizhang's words, Gao Yihuan couldn't help knocking on the chair a few times, then suddenly stood up and said to Liang Yizhang: "Mr. Liang, the Nanjing court refuses to accept officials who go south. These officials can only return north, and then fall into the hands of Donglu Therefore, it is very likely that the captives will defect to the captives. In this way, the captive soldiers are good at fighting and can attack cities and territories, and the rebellious officials and gentry can govern the region for them.

Gao Yihuan had already walked in front of Liang Yizhang, took his hand, and said sincerely: "Mr. Liang, I have something to ask, I hope you can help me recruit these officials, and give them an extra way to let them come to me. Come here. This is not only for me, but also for the world!"

(End of this chapter)