Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Li Dingguo, who had made Shunzhi so frightened that he almost wanted to go to the river, was also defeated by Wu Sangui. The war in the southwest was going very smoothly. Nanming was about to end. In order to have no problem with the "Battle to Destroy the Country", Hong Chengchou, who had been idle in Changsha for a long time, also went to Guiyang to participate in the military meeting in Yunnan.

Shunzhi's move was actually thinking that Hong Chengchou had been planning on the front line for several years, and he knew a lot about the Ming Army in the southwest. The Erjin army finally invaded the southwest according to the "Three Roads Entering Yunnan" plan he deployed, but now it is idle. In Changsha, he was only responsible for the transportation of the army's food and grass, and it was a bit chilling, so Shunzhi wanted to ask Hong Chengchou to go to Guiyang to help Doni with advice, and by the way, after the war, he would give him credits. Unexpectedly, this incident caused an uproar in Beijing. The Manchu prince, Bailer Dudao, wanted to let Hong Chengchou, the Han Chinese, overwhelm the Manchu generals and schools in front of him to **** the first credit for destroying the country!

I don’t know how this trend against Hong Chengchou started. Jidu and Du Eryou, the most fierce opponents of the appointment of Han officials, went to Guangdong. On the contrary, it was even more fierce, which caught Shunzhi by surprise and wondered how this wave of opposition came about.

Those who opposed it said that the basic national policy of the Qing Dynasty was to worship Manchuria first, with Manchuria as the foundation, and the Han people should not be reused, let alone make great contributions to the Han people. In fact, the real idea is that which of them has no children to follow the commander of the letter, Doni, to go south. This all points to some merits in the war of destroying the country, but the emperor asked Hong Chengchou to go to Guiyang to seek the first merits, and Hong Chengchou also helped Han officials and Han generals. They must also follow the distribution of merits, so how many battle merits are left for their children? The Manchu children worked hard to live the prosperous life in Beijing, but they went to the south to fight the southern barbarians. What is the picture? It's not about military exploits and future! Now that the credit and future are given to the Han people by the emperor, can Manchuria agree? Absolutely not!

It is related to the future of his children, that is, there is no Prince Jane here to call. Manchuria also held a group against the emperor. In order to prove that their argument was tenable, they turned out the ensign of Shunzhi's ascension to the throne. The first article of this edict was to emphasize that the princes of Manzhou were ordered to found the country. To help the world and the people, those who have great honors and labors should add special rituals and honor their relatives and talents; the second article is to confer nobility on the princes and the children, grandchildren and nephews of the county king; while the third article is about the founding of Manchuria. , or devise strategies to win the temple, or make great achievements, open up the territory and expand the soil. All of them should be conferred the title of Duke and Earl, the great coupons of tin, and the end of time with the country.

The addition of these four points directly points to one thing, that is, all titles of the Qing Dynasty should be held by Manchurians, all important positions should also be held by Manchurians, and all great merits should also be held by Manchurians The children are honored.

Chinese?

Jiangshan was captured by our Manchurian children, so what does it have to do with the Han people! What the Han people have to do is to be the slaves of the Manchus obediently, and obediently farm the fields for the Manchus. Weave cloth for our people, make things for us, and work for our people! If there is a beautiful daughter at home. But it is for us to choose happy ones! Besides these, what use are the Han people? Shit is useless! If the Han people are useful, will this country be able to bring down the Manchus!

Of course, Shunzhi was only nine years old when this edict was released. How could he know what the edict was talking about? This edict was issued by Dorgon, but it was unanimously supported and approved by the whole state. However, even if Shunzhi was young and ignorant when this edict was issued, he could not deny that the edict was issued by his emperor. Therefore, Shunzhi was very aggrieved. What he was aggrieved was not that Manchuria moved out his edict to oppose him. Instead, it was because the whole state misunderstood the intentions of his emperor.

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Shunzhi never thought of reusing the Han people and raising the Han people to the same status as the Manchus. Otherwise, he wouldn't say "Man and Han family" to the slaves like Suksaha and Aobai. Yes, Hong Chengchou was indeed re-enabled and reused by him. He gave Hong Chengchou the authority of the Five Provinces' economic strategy that has never been seen since the founding of the Qing Dynasty.

The power is so great that none of the Han officials (including the Han army bannermen) have it. Even the four kings of Pingxi, Dingnan, Pingnan, and Jingnan, who are nobles as princes, are limited to Sichuan, Guangxi, or Guangdong. Only One province, but Hong Chengchou can control five provinces, which is almost equal to the power of the Dingguo general Duo Duo and the Jingyuan general Yingji King Azige in the early years of Shunzhi. Appeal to the power of Jiangnan!

But giving Hong Chengchou so much power was not because of the collapse of the war in the south at that time, and Li Dingguo, who was feared by everyone in Manzhou, had to use Hong Chengchou in Shunzhi, and hoped that Hong Chengchou could stabilize the south for him and let those Han troops Acting as cannon fodder, instead of Manchu children continuing to die in the south!

Shunzhi was very distressed. When he started Hong Chengchou, the Eight Banners were unanimously opposed, and he insisted on implementing it. Hong Chengchou also did not disappoint his expectations. After sending troops for more than a year, Huguang and Guangdong and Guangxi were pacified. Facing the Yunnan-Guizhou area under the control of the quite powerful Daxi Army, Hong Chengchou advocated that defense should be the battle, and when conditions were ripe, then attacked aggressively. However, due to the continuous war in the south for several years, the military expenditure has surged, and the financial affairs of the imperial court have been in a state of emergency. In addition, the Manchu soldiers have repeatedly traveled far away, and the local officials and people have been exhausted. Therefore, not only Manchuria is dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou, but also Han ministers in the imperial court are also dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou became increasingly dissatisfied, and even Shunzhi himself lost his patience.

It has always been Shunzhi's greatest wish to unify Yunnan and Guizhou as soon as possible, completely eliminate Nanming, and thus allow the Qing Dynasty to truly dominate the world. But he is young after all. Like Chongzhen back then, he has gradually lost patience. Although he has never criticized Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou still understands from his will that the emperor has no patience. He was always dissatisfied, so he was afraid that Hong Chengchou, who became Yuan Chonghuan's second, asked the court to be dismissed in May last year on the grounds that he was "guilty, incompetent, and old."

Hong Chengchou's five provincial classics can be dismissed, but the Daxi Army, which is guarding the natural dangers of Yunnan and Guizhou, and the Yongli regime under its protection, cannot be solved by a single edict. It is not easy to defend, and it is difficult to attack, in case of risky attack. Losing soldiers and losing generals, how will this ending end?

Shunzhi, who received Hong Chengchou's self-appointment, was very troubled. If Hong Chengchou was relieved. Who can go to the south to sit in town and share his worries? Although Hong Chengchou has made no progress for several years. But at least the battle line was stabilized, and Sun Kewang was not allowed to occupy Hunan and Hubei. Going to another person would probably be far inferior to Hong Chengchou. In case the situation that was finally stabilized was ruined again, Shunzhi had no regrets.

God bless the Qing Dynasty, just as the helpless Hong Chengchou was packing his bags and preparing to return to Beijing to be punished, just as Shunzhi was restless and worried about whether to replace him or not, and how to deal with the war situation in the south. However, news came that Sun Kewang, the "lord" of the Great Western Army, and Li Ding had a domestic strife. This news gave Hong Chengchou hope and Shunzhi hope. The patience of the monarch and ministers is surprisingly good. After waiting anxiously for several months, another great news came that Sun Kewang was defeated and surrendered!

Overjoyed, really overjoyed!

The aged Hong Chengchou recovered his spirits, and the ambitious court could implement the strategy of "Three Roads to Yunnan", and the young emperor also ambitiously sent an army to the southwest. But at the same time when the army was leaving Beijing, Shunzhi made a decree to transfer Hong Chengchou's power to Doni's men. This made Hong Chengchou, who was preparing to develop his ambitions in the southwest, suddenly become a food and grass transfer officer with no soldiers, no generals, no mobilization and no command.

Hong Chengchou was greatly disappointed. He didn't expect that the emperor who had always trusted Thaksin had relieved his power and made him idle again when the big event was expected to succeed. Arrangements for Hong Chengchou. Shunzhi had no uneasiness or guilt, because he thought that since the three-way strategy of entering Yunnan could be implemented, he would have to respect the ancestral system and weaken the appointment of Han officials. Back then, the reason he used Hong Chengchou as the scripture of the Five Provinces was to use it. Now, the scriptures of the Five Provinces have no value for use. Naturally, he would not let the first merit of destroying the country fall into the hands of a Han, even if the Han was loyal to him. It is also often said that "the ruler and his ministers get along with each other".

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In his bones, Shunzhi never believed in Han people. Although he liquidated Dorgon, he continued Dorgon's idea in politics - using Han to control Han but not reusing Han.

During the Dorgon Regency. Advocating the use of Han to rule Han, but never reused Han officials. Only drive the Han officials and Han generals to act as the vanguard and cannon fodder for the south to destroy the Ming Dynasty, otherwise there will be no rebellion by Li Chengdong, Jin Shengheng, Wang Deren, Jiang Xiang and others.

In the final analysis, the rebellion of Li Chengdong and others did not receive the attention of the Qing court, and did not receive titles and awards equivalent to their military exploits. During Dorgon's regency, Hong Chengchou was just a false name such as a bachelor of the Academy of Neiwen. He only briefly replaced Duo Duo in Jiangnan to deal with the crisis in the second year of Shunzhi when the "hair shaving order" led to the erosion of the situation in Jiangnan. Being idle in Beijing, Dorgon called him to ask if he had any problems that could not be solved, but he never gave him an important position and ordered him to be on his own. People such as Hong Chengchou were not reused by Dorgon, let alone the rest of the Han officials.

However, when dealing with the princes of the Manchu clan, who were known as "Tianhuang and Guiwei", Dorgon did not hesitate to grant graces, bestow gifts or promote titles. The six ministers of the Qing court, the ministers, the commanders of the Eight Banners, the deputy commanders, the commanders of the army, the garrison generals, and the generals and generals on expeditions were all held by Manchurians. The Manchurians took office, and only a few of the Han army flags were able to get a piece of the pie.

After Shunzhi came into power, although he was forced by the repeated wars in the south and had to bear the pressure of Manchuria to use Hong Chengchou as the economic strategy of the five provinces, the premier did more than Dorgon in dealing with the Manchu clan during the war in Nanming. . He appointed Prince Li, Prince Daishan, Prince Zheng, Jierhalang, Prince Yu, Duofeng, Prince Su Haoge, Prince Chengyi, Shuosai, Prince Yueruo of Kele County, and Prince Lekedehun of Shuncheng County. For the hereditary, the prince who does not surrender, to ensure that the weight of the descendants of Aisin Gioro in the Qing court overwhelms any force.

In addition to the seven princes who were hereditary and irreplaceable, Shunzhi also added candidates for political princes and ministers in the ninth year of Shunzhi, so that there were as many as 17 governors and Baylors in Manzhou. Wang Wakda, Prince Xianxiang Fushou, Wang Yuele of Doluoan County, Duoni Wang of Doluoxin County, Wang Ledu of Dolomin County, Dorobelle Shangshan, Prince Jidu, Dueryou, Duran, etc. From the eighth year to the twelfth year of Shunzhi, Shunzhi successively appointed more than 30 ministers, such as Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Xifu, etc. Ke, the Minister of Rites Jue Luo Langqiu, the Minister of War, Mongolian Gushan'ezhenming Anda Li, etc., the two yellow flags and other important officials of the flag, Aobai, Sukesaha, Ebilong and so on.

Among the dozens of political princes and ministers, only Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan I were Han Chinese, and these two were Han Chinese who served in Manchuria as early as the post-Jin period, so they were long regarded as bannermen rather than Han. None of the Han officials who surrendered after the Qing army entered the customs was able to sit in the meeting of the princes and ministers. Even the Han officials who surrendered outside the customs were not able to attend.

In addition to these, Shunzhi also greatly rewarded Manchu children as officials, but even so. When he used Hong Chengchou and other Han officials out of consideration, the Manchu disciples still felt resentful. He believed that the emperor was abandoning the national policy of the Qing Dynasty, which was based on Manchuria, and began to rely on Han officials and neglected his own family!

Fortunately, the emperor still listened to Jin's voice, and decisively took Hong Laoer's power and left him idle. The Eight Banners did not mean to yell at Hong Chengchou to kill him. After all, this Han Chinese still made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty. If he really wanted to kill others, he could not justify it, but it would not work to reward him for his great deeds. Originally, Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, Kong Youde's gang of Han people were crowned kings, and they took a lot of territory in the Qing Dynasty. How can the Han people be made king again?

Regarding the death of Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, and the surrender of Geng Jimao, few people in Manchuria honestly feel sad, but most of them are very happy, because the death or surrender of these Han princes will allow the original Dorgon to be given to him. Their land in one province is taken back, how many Manchu children can this raise? How many Manchu children can be arranged? How much wealth can be scraped?

When family and friends gather in Qili in private, many people hear that the Cantonese thief is not a good-for-nothing guy. Some of them are where they are, but they can only comprehend from their own hearts, and it is definitely impossible to say.

Han officer. It's enough to help with things, but you can't always give them a big reward, the achievement of destroying the country is too great. If it was really called Hong Chengchou, wouldn't the court have given him the title of king?

Pooh!

Right now in the southwest are our Manchu children, the commander-in-chief of the army is the prince of our Manchus, how could this great merit not fall on him Hong Chengchou! If you want to be crowned king, dream it!

In terms of leading troops to fight, from the first year of Shunzhi to the present, which large-scale campaign was not led by the princes and nobles of Manzhou? When is not invincible, invincible!

In the Shanhaiguan War in the first year of Shunzhi, the regent Dorgon personally went to the battle. Command the Eight Banners to charge! After entering the customs, the army of the Eight Banners did not stop. They were successively composed of Prince Yu Duoduo, Prince Ajige of England, Prince Hauge of Su, Prince of Zheng Jierhalang, Prince of Xun Man Dahai, Prince of Duanzhong Bo Luo, Prince Jingjing Nikan, Prince of Qian County Wakda, Belek Dehun and other clan kings, Belle, lead the Eight Banners powerhouse. Supplemented by the four kings of Pingxi, Dingnan, Jingnan, and Pingnan, as well as the Han soldiers of Duke Xushun, as well as the green battalions composed of Han people in various provinces, they conquered the south and fought the north. The foundation of the world!

Which of these battles needs to reuse the Han Chinese as the coach? In which battle did the Han people win this piece of merit!

There's no reason for it, even if we in Manchuria smash our heads up and down, we can't ask a Chinese man to jump over our Manchu people's heads!

The people under the Eight Banners were enthusiastic and unanimously opposed to Shunzhi's arrangement to ask Hong Chengchou to go to Guiyang to help Doni just in case. Helping the Xinjun King to make plans, he is a fighter, and it is impossible to grab the first credit. But he still couldn't suppress the turmoil under his banner, he had to issue a decree to recall Hong Chengchou.

Shunzhi was really embarrassed to slap himself in the face again to bring Hong Chengchou back, so he had to go to Kunning Palace to ask the Queen Mother for advice.

Empress Dowager Borbozite said: "Hong Chengchou is a long-awaited minister with both civil and military skills. He has made great contributions to the south of the Yangtze River by ordering him to appease Jiangnan. This time, he still cares about his virtues and makes Sun Kewang return to me in Leyu. The situation has changed. Now that the army is progressing smoothly, it is also a good thing for the emperor to use him to help Donny. After all, Donny is young and has never been through a battle. Nanming's side has been defeated so quickly. What should we do about the Ming army's ambush? So, it's not a bad thing to ask Hong Chengchou to mention it on the side. Those people in the banner have little knowledge, you emperor, ignore them, let them make trouble, I'll support you I don't think these slaves can turn against the sky. As for the post-war recitation of merits, I think Hong Chengchou should be greatly rewarded. Back then, when Dorgon was there, he promised to pacify the people who destroyed Nanming and named him king. Until this day, we can no longer treat people with meritorious deeds harshly, we can do whatever we want."

Originally, Shunzhi's remarks from the empress dowager could be heard, and they were similar to what he thought, but in the end, when he heard the empress dowager talking about Dorgon and saying that he would make Hong Chengchou king, he couldn't help feeling a little angry, and blurted out: "No Thinking about it for so many years. E-niang still thinks about Dorgon..."

"you!"

The son's words made Borbozite's face turn white suddenly, and his originally squinted eyes widened, and he said angrily: "Emperor. What do you mean by this? Are you here to ridicule E-niang today? Presumptuous! "

"My son doesn't dare!"

Shunzhi knew that he had said too much, and was so frightened that he quickly apologized: "My son has no such thoughts. E-niang, don't be angry!" But what he thought was that it was fortunate that Concubine Zhuang's concubine persuaded General Hong to surrender. Otherwise, E-Niang's face would look ugly.

Bolzigit was really angry with her son, but what her son said made her very uncomfortable, so she could only snort. Suma Lagu, who was on the side, also served a bowl of clear tea with interest, and Bolzijit casually served it as a tea drink, and turned the matter over.

Shunzhi was also busy talking about Hong Chengchou, he said: "Actually, when Hong Chengchou was ordered to leave the capital, it was just because of the face of the emperor's mother that I gave him the robe, hat, boots and socks of the Mang Dynasty, and turquoise inlays. The bag bow and arrow, the second mate of the saddle and the bridle, and the five horses, let him take office in a glorious way, and let him always think about the goodness of the Qing Dynasty to him. After all, he is a Han Chinese, not a Manchurian. Besides, E-niang, you think, Chongzhen of the former Ming Dynasty was very fond of him at the beginning, and he was promoted exceptionally. In a few years, he became a governor, governor, and commander from a fourth-rank superintendent. The army, the sky is rising. It’s not a bad sight. But what did Hong Chengchou do in the end? Didn’t he betray Chongzhen.” Having said this, Shunzhi paused, and said: “This kind of traitor and stealing life are in the hearts of the Han people. The most hated."

After listening to Bolzijit, he sneered and sneered at his son: "You look down on Hong Chengchou, why do you want to reuse him?... You are the emperor, E-niang is really ashamed for you! Hong Chengchou, who is over sixty years old You have been working for you on the front line for eight years, but you look down on others, point fingers at him with the courtiers, and criticize him. You said that what you said just now is something that an emperor can say?  … Treat the heart of a gentleman with the belly of a villain. Hong Chengchou's contribution is not thankful, since you dislike him, why don't you send someone else?"

The empress dowager's accusation made Shunzhi unable to speak, so he could only say: "Emian, my son is just a joke, why do you have to be so angry? ... Alas, for an irrelevant Han, why bother? Neither is my son. What do you really want to do with Hong Chengchou, why should you protect him wholeheartedly?"

The queen mother said unhappily: "Now that your wings are hard, you can stab me with words at every turn. You always talk and do things on a whim, and don't think about the consequences at all. You might as well ask yourself, do you behave like a ten thousand times emperor?"

"Emian, Erchen is not what you think, but in how to arrange Hong Chengchou, Erchen needs to be careful. Ernie doesn't know anything, but Hong Chengchou's son Hong Shiming is in the hands of Taiping bandits." Shunzhi said aggrieved. .

Hong Shiming was sent by the Ministry of Rites to Guangdong to conduct a township trial, but his whereabouts were unknown due to the fall of Guangzhou. After the Ministry of Rites reported the incident, Shunzhi thought that Hong Shiming had been killed by the Taiping Army, but Hong Chengchou wrote to himself that his son was still alive. He is now a prisoner of the Taiping Army.

Of course, Bolzijit also knew about Hong Shiming. She shook her head and said to Shunzhi, "You mean that Hong Chengchou would refuse to work for the Qing Dynasty because of his son?"

Shunzhi hurriedly said: "That's not true, Erchen thinks that Hong Chengchou is not that kind of person. But this matter has become an excuse for his attack on Hong Chengchou. Erchen has ordered Jidu to rescue Hong Shiming, but now the eight banners are in trouble. It's amazing, I had to force my son to recall Hong Chengchou, he couldn't make up his mind, so he came to ask his mother for an idea."

The Empress Dowager thought for a while and said, "What can E-Niang have? I don't have any doubts about using people, but I don't need to use people who are suspicious. You started Hong Chengchou back then, but now they have made contributions, and they have been serving you as the emperor from beginning to end. You work hard, and now even your son has fallen into the hands of the Ming army. You, the emperor, do not comfort others. Instead, you doubt them and think about recalling them. You say it yourself, does this work? E-niang still said that, as long as People helped you destroy Nanming, so you should fulfill Dorgon's promise."

When Shunzhi heard this, he hurriedly said, "That's impossible! Even if my son doesn't recall Hong Chengchou, it's impossible for him to be crowned king!"

"Forget it, now you are the emperor, and the family of the Qing Dynasty is yours. E-niang is old, and her words are ugly. How to deal with Hong Chengchou, you are the emperor, you can decide for yourself, E-niang only reminds you, it is you After listening to the words of the subordinates, I don't want to pay Hong Chengchou's great merit, and I can't be too wronged, you know! In addition, I have to think about saving my son, but I can't let my old man lose his son and die for our Qing Dynasty. Good ending."

After speaking, the queen mother ignored her son, stood up from the chair, and walked towards the west side hall without turning her head. Over there, the third elder brother, Xuan Ye, who just returned to the palace, is playing with the second elder brother, Fuquan. She hasn't seen Xuan Ye, the grandson, for some days, and she thinks about it very much.

Shunzhi, who was abandoned by his mother, left the Cining Palace gloomily. Although he decided not to recall Hong Chengchou, he was still depressed. (To be continued.)