Chapter 572 Feng Quan's painstaking efforts
What Feng Quan said may not be a way out for the trapped central Qing Dynasty.
Now that the capital is surrounded, the regent's army is not informed, and the Prince Ying's army is thousands of miles away. If Beijing strives to resist, once the Shun army breaks through the city, it will be retaliated. Not only will the Qing court be gone, but more than 200,000 Eight Banners families in the capital will be slaughtered by the fierce revenge Shun army.
In this way, even if the army of the Regent and the Prince of Ying are still there, they will never be able to survive. Where will the hair be attached?
Without the court and territory, the two armies would probably either be wiped out by the Shun Army, or become Chinese bandits, or they would have scattered their way out.
Therefore, if we can negotiate with the Shun Army and the Qing Dynasty will come out of seclusion, the vitality of the Eight Banners will be greatly preserved, and we can still seek China again in the future.
Fan Wencheng was quite moved.
Although he was an important driving force for the Qing army to enter the pass and conquer China and become the leader of the Han people, he was not only unable to conquer China at the moment, but also facing the danger of destruction of the country. Of course, he had to change his thinking and seek the best ending for the Qing Dynasty.
As the Han people say, "A step back will make the sky wider.
In history, the Eight Banners had four entrances and four exits.
"Father, this is a way."
The young Fan Chengmo agreed with Grand Secretary Feng’s suggestions. Whether it is Beijing, Beizhi, or even the northern part of China, they are now in ruins and have no money and grain input in Jiangnan to maintain. Even if the Qing Dynasty occupied the north, it would be difficult to sustain. It would be better to leave the customs and let the Han people fight by themselves. When they were beaten to death, the Qing Dynasty would wait for an opportunity to enter the customs again.
Isn’t this a second trip to Beijing?
Fan Wencheng thought the peace talks between the Shun Army were feasible, but as Feng Quan said, he wanted to let the emperor take the imperial title and surrender to the lord of Manchukuo. He was afraid that the Manchu would not agree to this condition.
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.
Manchuria changed from Jianzhou to Later Jin, and from Later Jin to Qing, realizing a major transformation from local government to central government. This transformation was achieved by countless Manchu warriors in the past thirty years with their blood. Or the title of Emperor Qing was the joint efforts of all the Eight Banners soldiers. This title of emperor is not only the glory of the Aisin Gioro family, but also the glory of all the Eight Banners soldiers.
Suddenly giving up this glory was not only a serious blow to the Qing Dynasty's national power, but also a severe blow to the psychology of the Eight Banners soldiers.
It’s like a person who has worked hard all his life and finally saved up a fortune, but was burned up overnight by a fire. For this person, he has completely lost everything and has completely drained all his energy.
It is easy to enter the customs, but it is difficult to get out of the customs.
In order to offset the fear of the Jianzhou soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, how much hard work did Emperor Taizu spend and how many tough battles did the Jianzhou soldiers establish confidence in the Ming army.
Emperor Taizong even led the Eight Banners to fight against the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years before establishing a situation of fighting against the Qingming Festival.
Now, I have to give up, so many people will be unwilling to give up.
Fan Wencheng frowned slightly and remained silent.
He knew that Feng Quan asked the Qing Dynasty to take the title of emperor to give the Shun Army outside the city a "stairs" and it was also a way to show weakness by the unfavorable party of diplomatic negotiations, so as to exchange for a chance to make a comeback by showing weakness. But in his heart, the Grand Secretary who had been planning for the Qing Dynasty for 20 years always felt unwilling to accept it.
Feng Quan further stated that this method not only preserves the vitality of the Qing Dynasty, but also has the effect of sitting in the mountains and watching the tiger fight.
The general idea is that his Dashun family is not in the Guan area, but also in Daxi of Zhu Ming and Zhang Xianzhong.
The Qing Dynasty was able to enter Shanhaiguan not because the Eight Banners soldiers were so brave enough to break through the world's most powerful pass, but because of the internal struggle between Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui.
The current situation is not good for the Qing Dynasty, so I will decisively withdraw from the customs and throw the mess in the north to Dashun. Once the Qing army leaves the customs, Dashun will inevitably unify China next, and it will inevitably have conflicts with Zhu Ming and Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi.
In this way, it means that the Han people in the pass become in chaos again. In a short period of time, Dashun could not take action against the Qing Dynasty outside the pass. The Qing Dynasty could take this time to rest and recuperate, waiting for another opportunity like Wu Sangui's switch to appear.
The situation is even a bit like the Chongzhen Dynasty, when the thief became Zhu Ming, Zhu Ming became Li Chuang, and Zhang Xianzhong was still the same Zhang Xianzhong.
What remains unchanged is the disputed pass, or the broken north.
If the Qing Dynasty cannot occupy it, can you occupy it if you go to Dashun?
Grand Secretary Feng talked endlessly, and his words were reasonable and well-founded, and in line with current affairs. Not to mention Fan Wencheng was right, even Grand Secretary Feng felt that his method was unparalleled in the world.
It seems that this Grand Secretary Feng is determined to plan for the Qing Dynasty, but in his own heart, the Donglin Party and later the eunuch Party were feeding poison to the Qing Dynasty.
As long as the Qing court’s upper class talks and discusses, Beijing will be completely finished.
Because, the so-called peace talks are division - the division of people's hearts.
Once Fan Wencheng was moved to report this proposal, Feng Quan concluded that some people would definitely support this plan, and corresponding people would also oppose this plan.
At this time of crisis in Beijing, the city is not a shared hatred against the enemy, but a fight or a dispute with the enemy. This is a sign of a destruction of the country. The wind direction of the upper class will inevitably affect the lower class. I don’t know how many of the Eight Banners of the Manchurian soldiers who were willing to fight to the end, let alone those Han people wearing armor.
If the Shun Army was forcing it to a strong force, there might be internal strife in the city of Beijing.
No matter what the result is, the Shun Army outside the city is beneficial, and even more so for him, Feng Quan.
It can be said that he had disintegrated and split the Beijing defenders with just one mouth. How could Emperor Dashun Lu not look at him with admiration?
Of course, Feng Quan still hopes that the Qing court can be more sensible and take the initiative to come out of seclusion, so that his achievements of Grand Secretary Feng will be even more brilliant.
Without any effort, Dashun had a soldier and soldier, he told the Qing Dynasty to give up Beijing and take the initiative to leave the customs. Dashun would not be able to give him a count of Grand Secretary Feng, and I am afraid he would be embarrassed.
"Zhang Jing, this matter should be decided early, if you are late, you may not even have the chance to send envoys!" Feng Quan said earnestly.
Fan Wencheng pondered for a while and said that there were negotiation conditions in Beijing, because there were still 8,000 true Manchus and more than 20,000 armored Aha in the city. Beijing City is the most solid and tall city in the world. If the Shun Army is unwilling to negotiate and fight to destroy the Qing Dynasty, it would be a battle for the country to destroy the race in the city. At that time, there would be no need to mobilize and resist.
No matter how strong the Shun Army is, if it wants to seize the fierce resistance of Beijing, it will probably be a disaster. This is probably what the Ming Dynasty in the South is happy to see.
Now if there is no need to lose too many soldiers and horses into Beijing through peace talks, there is no reason for the Shun Army to make soldiers needless casualties and lose soldiers and generals in Beijing.
Fan Wencheng decided to have a peace talk. He wrote a letter alone and found another important Han official, Ning Wan.
Chapter completed!