Chapter 799 Dorgon: I, the Qing Dynasty, still have a way out?

Author: Linglinghou

Chapter 799 Dorgon: I, the Qing Dynasty, still have a way out?

The fifth day of the September 19th year of Zhaowu.

Xianjing.

This is the capital of Ham Hung Prefecture, South Hamgyong Province, Korea in the past. Because it is a mountain valley and coastal area, it is considered a rich place in Hamnin Road, which is mainly mountainous.

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

According to Hong Chengchou's original plan, the Qing Dynasty only needed to occupy Hamkyung Road and Ping'an Road, and Gangneung Road, and develop in a low-key manner to restore vitality, and try not to attract too much attention from the Ming Dynasty. At least for a period of 10 or 20 years, maybe it would be

If you can survive until the Ming Dynasty, you will be replaced by a foolish monarch.

At the same time, while developing navy forces, while strengthening control of the Heilongjiang River Basin, they also planned to use what the Westerners said to be the New Continent of the Americas as the last retreat.

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

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

It is not that no one has ever thought about surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, but they have found out the policies of the Ming Dynasty to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, which can be said to be extremely harsh.

If only ordinary bannermen, when no one verified the crimes of killing the people of the Ming Dynasty, such as Han, Mongolia, and Chao, they could settle down peacefully and become the Jurchens of the Ming Empire.

But if someone sues with evidence, I'm sorry, at least you will be sentenced to a hard labor team for more than ten years of hard labor for transformation. Even if you raise a butcher knife to someone under the order of your boss, you will not be exempted from being punished.

Therefore, even if ordinary bannermen surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, they almost had to start with hard labor.

If a nobleman, even if no one sues him, he will have to do more than ten years of hard labor to atone for his sins.

If someone sued, or had led troops to massacre the city in the Ming Dynasty, there was only one way to die; even if he was just a broken city and robbed, he would be sent overseas to serve as hard labor for the government for a lifetime until he was exhausted.

Therefore, no one among the Qing nobles who had already killed, made few contributions, and were willing to accept more than ten years of hard labor reform, would have no idea to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Having said that, even if I had been working hard for ten years, no Manchu noble could accept it.

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

Originally, they placed this hope on what the Westerners called the New Continent of America.

But last year, it was learned that the Ming army forced Japan to sign the Treaty of Edo and was also planning to plan in the Americas.

This made the Manchu nobles feel that they have no way out.

This made them take all their efforts last year and quickly captured most of Gyeonggi Province, Chungcheong Province and Jeolla Province.

Before this, the Qingting actually obtained some information by capturing spies from the North Fushi Department of the Jinyiwei. He knew that the Ming Dynasty had plans to destroy the Qing Dynasty within a few years, so he changed his initial 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, it also received an expected news.

"On September 1, Jiangbei troops gathered. On September 3, at least 40,000 Ming troops crossed the Yalu River, cough cough cough..."

Dorgon, who was 41 years old, had a gray hair at the age of 41 and suddenly started to cough violently, thinking about the news from the secret spy from Jiangbei (Yalu River).

After a strange flushing sound on his face, he immediately covered his mouth with a handkerchief. When he took it down, he could see a striking blood red on it.

He was coughing up blood.

But he didn't care.

He was the root of the disease when he retreated from Beijing to the outside world. In recent years, due to state affairs and children working day and night, his illness not only failed to heal, but became even worse, and it had reached the point where medicine was difficult to cure.

The imperial doctor said that if you work hard and keep your mind calmly, you can live for another seven or eight years. But if you do this like the present, you may die of illness one day.

Dorgon just smiled and asked the imperial physician to step down.

How could he retire from his spare time in this position?

If he really retreats, he will only die faster and will implicate his only daughter.

Thinking of his daughter Dong'e, Dorgon couldn't help but show a gentle and sighing look.

In the past two or three years, Dong'e not only presided over the construction of the Qing Military Arts Bureau in Xianjing, but also successfully imitated the flintlock rifle, but also assisted the court in capturing a few of the Jinyiwei's peripheral spies in Xianjing, and interrogating some useful information.

Unfortunately, Dong'e appointed flintlock rifles imitated by Westerners, which have very high requirements for the quality and quantity of flint, and cannot expand production at all.

So far, the Qing Dynasty has only produced more than 3,000 poles.

Except for leaving a few hundred guards to equip her, Dong'e used the rest to equip the Zhengbai Banner directly led by Dorgon.

As for ordinary costro guns, the Qing Dynasty naturally imitated them.

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

Even if the craftsmen who were plundered from North Korea are currently incomparable to those of the Huang Taiji period.

Therefore, the Qing Military Weapons Bureau currently produces only more than 10,000 convex guns.

Most of the muskets used in fighting against the Korean army were mainly captured by the Korean army, while a few were bought from Westerners.

As for artillery, because the sea route was controlled by the Ming Navy, even if the Westerners could not be smuggled, the Qing Dynasty could only make it by itself.

Although the Qing Dynasty accumulated a group of skilled artisans as early as the Huang Taiji period, when they escaped from the customs and Shenyang, they suffered too much losses.

So now the Qing Dynasty cannons can not be made in many red and barbarian cannons, and there is no technical breakthrough. It is very useful to fight North Korea, but if you want to fight against the Ming army... Think about the horror of the Ming army artillery in the past, Dorgon was bitterly aware of the terror of the Ming army artillery.

Shake his head.

‘Why is Dong'e not a man?’

‘Why did I not be able to save half of the China I occupied?’

‘If so, in my hundred years, Dong'e will definitely become the sacred master of my Qing Dynasty!’

This is what Dorgon sighed.

After coming back to his senses, Dorgon looked at Hong Chengchou, who was sitting on the stool in front of him.

Hong Chengchou, who was about to be sixty, had mostly gray hair and became thinner and thinner. Even though he received the honor of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, his face was still sad.

Because the situation that the Qing Dynasty has to face now is very different from what he planned a few years ago.

But then again, since they know that the Ming Dynasty will not let them go, they can annex North Korea as soon as possible, strengthen themselves, and fight against the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the Li family is about to be destroyed, the Ming Dynasty has finally sent troops, as if the hanging sharp blade has finally fallen, which makes people less uncomfortable.

"Heng Jiu, let's talk about it. The Ming army came to attack from three groups, and the Northern Army might all defeat Pyongyang. How should we deal with it?"

Hong Chengchou said with a bitter look: "For the sake of the present, the only way is to let the Eight Banners Army of the Manchu and Mongolian Dynasty and the green camps resist step by step based on the city and terrain, and slow down the speed of the Ming army's advance.

We must never fight a big battle with the Ming army. Once the big battle fails, it will be a big defeat, and the rear armies will no longer have the will to resist. I'm afraid that the Ming army will be ordered to be issued."

Dorgon did not ask whether the Ming army could defeat it again.

Because based on some relevant information he knew, coupled with his personal experience in the past, even he still has no confidence in defeating the Ming army.

What's more, with the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty, they were able to win one or two battles in part several times, but they could not change the end of their death and destruction.

He was a dying person, and it was nothing to die at the hands of the Ming army. But he didn't want Dong'e to die in such a beautiful life, and he also didn't want the Qing Dynasty to die like this.

So he stared at Hong Chengchou and asked, "Heng Jiu, if he can't resist the Ming army in the end, besides that America, I, the Qing Dynasty, have any other way out?"

Second update.

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