In the first month of the fifth year of Shenwu in the Ming Dynasty, in the eighth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, and in the sixth year of Yongli, Dorgon, the last hero in Qing Dynasty history, finally died at his home in Beijing. The next step was the rule of the young emperor Shunzhi. At first, Shunzhi respected the Yuan Concubine Borjijit as the Empress of Yi and enjoyed the Taimiao. Dorgon had no son and gave Dorbo the son of Prince Yu Duo Duo as Prince Rui, whose salary was three times that of other kings. Dorgon's close servant Zhan Dai and Suksaha were the minister of political discussion.

However, shortly after Dorgon's death, his political enemies came out to overturn the case and expose his crime of great rebellion. First, he discussed Ajige's crime, then restored the status of the nobles of the two yellow flags, and promoted the Mandahai, Wakda, Jieshu, Luo Keduo and others of the two red flags. Seeing that the momentum was wrong, Suksaha and others turned against each other one after another. Under this situation, first Xingluoshi and five others were imprisoned, and then officially announced Dorgon's crimes, pursuing all seals and destroying the tomb and digging corpses.

Then, Shunzhi successively punished Dorgon's tyrants, such as Ganglin, Bahana, Leng Sengji, Baiyintu, etc., and the power Dorgon cultivated for many years collapsed instantly. Two months after Dorgon's death, he suddenly fell from the peak of honor, which was completely the result of the internal conflicts and struggles of the ruling class. However, Dorgon's unparalleled contributions to the Qing Dynasty were by no means concealed by the political opponents.

Several upright ministers in the court felt that the emperor had done something too much. Without Dorgon, you had no hope of becoming an emperor at Shunzhi. Therefore, Peng Changgeng, the deputy director of the official department, and his first-class son Xu Er'an, wrote memorials to praise Dorgon's merits. Almost every sentence is reasonable, but the young emperor Shunzhi scolded him and exiled these unlucky guys to Ningguta as an army.

After Dorgon's death, it marked the complete death of the second generation of the Qing Dynasty who could fight the most. Although Shunzhi was also a qualified politician, it was not enough to compare with the southern Emperor Shenwu Zhu Hongsanyi. A founding emperor could be comparable to the founding king.

Dorgon died in the first month of the year. Zhu Hongsan, who was far away in Guizhou, did not receive a military newspaper forwarded from Nanjing until April of the fifth year of Shenwu. Because Ma Jiyuan and other cabinet masters in Nanjing had no idea of ​​the importance of Dorgon to the Qing Dynasty, they did not use 800 miles to speed up, but used normal transmission methods to send information.

Zhu Hongsan was very happy to see the news of Dorgon's death. To be honest, Zhu Hongsan really had no confidence to continue playing with Dorgon. It was not that Zhu Hongsan was afraid of Dorgon. Because Zhu Hongsan knew his abilities, he, a township cadre in later generations, could only survive until today. Dorgon did not have the knowledge of hundreds of years of later generations. He relied entirely on himself to list a local enterprise in the Northeast, a local area in the Qing Dynasty, which was located in the northeast. This courage and ability were not comparable to Zhu Hongsan.

However, Nurhaci probably did not do good things when he was young, and several sons with outstanding abilities died early. Huang Taiji, the most awesome, only reigned for seventeen years, Dorgon, the second awesome, lived only thirty-eight years, and Duoduo, the most awesome, lived only thirty-four years. The remaining nephews were either content with enjoyment or bravery and fierceness. The war might be pretty good, but governing the country was completely a waste.

Although Zhu Hongsan did not like Shunzhi, Shunzhi was still a sensible person after all, and he had a backer like Xiaozhuang behind him. So Zhu Hongsan decided to take advantage of the chaos in Shunzhi and immediately start the Northern Expedition when Shunzhi was in power for a while and the court was in chaos.

After a moment of calculation, Zhu Hongsan called Yao Qisheng, the military aircraft of the Military Affairs Office. Now the Military Affairs Office is not Hou Fangyu anymore. Hou Fangyu is very annoying. When Zhu Hongsan cleared the villages and camps in Shuixi in the fourth year of Shenwu, Hou Fangyu repeatedly accused Zhu Hongsan of being too cruel and hurting Tianhe. In anger, Zhu Hongsan drove Hou Fangyu to the newly established Dafang County to become the magistrate.

Zhu Hongsan, who was in the Military Affairs Office, remembered that a few years ago, a scholar from Zhejiang wrote a book to flatter him, and was disgusted by the cabinet masters and demoted him to Luzon. The Military Affairs Office was in need of such talent, so Zhu Hongsan issued a transfer order to transfer Yao Qisheng, a scholar from Kuaiji, Zhejiang, to his side and become his own secretary.

Yao Qisheng is just twenty-seven years old now, and he is not the one who looks like a fucking old man in TV series later generations. When Yao Qisheng heard the emperor call him, he quickly bowed and asked, "Is there anything wrong with Your Majesty?"

Zhu Hongsan likes Yao Qisheng very much after getting along for several months. He is much smoother than Hou Fangyu before. Even if he has objections, he will stop talking about it. He will not poke your lung tube directly like Hou Fangyu.

"Xizhi, remember, I sent an order to Liu Silai of Wuchang to seize Hanyang with his eyes, establish a stronghold on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and try my best to hoard military supplies. I also sent the same order to Yu Yinggui of Yangzhou to hoard military supplies!"

As a military aircraft, Yao Qisheng naturally knew the military situation across the country. He heard the emperor say this and asked quickly: "Your Majesty, are you going to prepare for the Northern Expedition?"

The Northern Expedition is a fashionable word in the long river of Chinese history. It often refers to the actions of southern regimes in the past dynasties to cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River to unify the whole country in order to restore the Central Plains. However, the actual effect is often unsatisfactory and often ends in failure, which shows that in history, China's northern region is significantly higher than that in the south, and the conditions and opportunities for the south to unify the whole country are not yet ripe.

There are only two successful cases of the Northern Expedition in history. One is that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty, overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty. The other is that during the first domestic revolutionary war in modern times, the Northern Expedition of the National Government finally completed the unification of the whole country in form. The success of these two Northern Expeditions was precisely because the entire economic center of China had moved south to the south at that time, so the south was stronger than the north in terms of population, economy, and weapons and equipment, and the Northern Expedition would naturally succeed.

However, due to the differences between the north and the south, it is still difficult to attack from south to north. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan decided a strategy in the first year of Shenwu to occupy the Lianghuai first, then occupy Shandong, and finally capture Beijing. However, now Zhu Hongsan is strong. In addition to the front battlefield of the Lianghuai, Zhu Hongsan also prepared a partial army, which is Liu Silai, the governor of Huguang in Wuchang.

After Liu Silai retreated to Jiujiang, he stubbornly sniped the army led by Jiergalang, the Qing Dynasty. Jiergalang attacked Jiujiang several times with the captured Ming Navy's inland gunboats. Once, they had already attacked the city, but were driven out of the city by the tenacious defenders. Liu Silai and others persisted for two months, and finally waited for reinforcements in May of the second year of Shenwu. Zhao Guoliang led two divisions of the Japanese dispatched army back.

There were more than a dozen naval warships coming back with Zhao Guoliang, which were a large warship of thousands of tons, which was not comparable to that of an inland gunboat of more than one hundred tons. With the arrival of reinforcements, Jiergalang knew that he was no longer a match for the Ming army, so he led his army to retreat to Wuchang and prepare to rely on the solid city walls of Wuchang and Hanyang to resist the Ming army.

However, the Wuchang city wall was not enough to be firm in front of the navy's artillery. On July 18, Liu Silai led the westward corps and blasted the Wuchang city wall in just one day, and this important area of ​​Jingzhou fell into the hands of the Ming army again.

Next, the Ming army in Wuchang and the Qing army in Hanyang confronted each other again. In fact, according to Liu Silai's intention, it was better to capture Hanyang. However, in order not to stimulate the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Hongsan did not agree with Liu Silai's combat strategy. In this way, Wuchang and Hanyang on both sides of the Yangtze River entered a strange sit-in war again after more than 100,000 people died in half a year.

Now that Dorgon is dead, the Yunnan and Guizhou have almost solved the problem, so Zhu Hongsan doesn't need to stay here, so Zhu Hongsan is preparing to start the Northern Expedition.

Zhu Hongsan heard Yao Qisheng ask and said with a smile: "Xizhi, Dorgon is dead now, and there is no one in the Qing Dynasty that I am afraid of. Zhu Youlang has already lived in a corner of Yunnan and there is no threat at all, so I decided to take the opportunity to fight the Northern Expedition!"

Yao Qisheng had a lot of eyes than Hou Fangyu. He heard the emperor say this and quickly bowed and said, "I congratulate Your Majesty first. Your Majesty's great achievements are comparable to those of the Han Dynasty. None of the dozen emperors in the former Ming Dynasty can compare with Your Majesty except Emperor Taizu Gao!"

Zhu Hongsan knew that Yao Qisheng was flattering, but who didn't like to listen to such words? What's more, Zhu Hongsan thought so in his heart. Zhu Di, a rebellious prince, could the temple name Taizong (Chengzu was later changed by Emperor Jiajing). Can't his temple name be as good as Zhu Di after his death?

Although Zhu Hongsan was happy, he did not show it. He just smiled and said, "Okay, Xizhi, go and send my orders out, and then Xuan Lu Daqi and Li Chengdong come in!"

Yao Qisheng bowed and retreated, and after a while, Lu Daqi and Li Chengdong came in.

Lu Daqi has been busy preparing for the Yunnan expedition these days. He heard from the Emperor Xuanzhao that he hurried over and asked, "Your Majesty, why are Xuanzhao me here?"

"Lu Aiqing, the big war here in Guizhou is gone. I am going to return to Nanjing. The matter in Yunnan will be caused by Lu Aiqing and the Prince of Jianning!"

Lu Daqi originally thought that the emperor was going to Yunnan in person, but he didn't expect that he would hand over the matter in Yunnan to him today. Li Chengdong's subordinates were all arrogant soldiers and he really couldn't command him.

"Your Majesty, the war in Yunnan is not yet decided, why should we return to Nanjing?"

"Lu Aiqing probably didn't know that Dorgon, the regent of the Qing Dynasty in the north, was dead, and there was no one else I had to worry about for me anymore, so I decided to take advantage of the unstable political situation of the Qing Dynasty to start the Northern Expedition!"

Lu Daqi was overjoyed when he heard the emperor say this. He was an old minister of the former Ming Dynasty. What else is more important than watching the land of China unify again?

Lu Daqi held back his excitement and bowed and said, "I congratulate Your Majesty on his success in the Northern Expedition!"

Zhu Hongsan nodded: "Okay! I will leave in half a month. I will go to Changsha first and then to Wuchang, and then go down the Yangtze River to Nanjing. The matters in Yunnan will be left to you two!"
Chapter completed!