The night was already very dark, and the entire Forbidden City in Beijing was quiet except for a bearded man who could not sleep with his eyes open on the bed of the Mother Queen Mother Bumubutai. The man who slept on the queen mother's bed was of course the most ruthless person in the Qing Dynasty. He held the emperor and slept with the queen mother's regent Dorgon. He put his hands behind his head and looked steadily at the beams. Aunt Bumbutai beside her also woke up. She found that her brother-in-law and old lover was still worrying about national affairs, so she put a hand over, stroked Dorgon's beard, and asked in a low voice: "Why aren't you sleeping yet? You've worked so hard during the day, and you exerted so much energy just now. If you don't get a good rest, you won't have the energy to go to court tomorrow."
Aunt Bumubutai now speaks Manchu, and her Chinese is very poor - she is Mongolian, married to a Manchu emperor, and hooked up with a Manchu regent. She basically has no contact with Han people, so I can't speak Chinese very well either.
In addition, she is not very beautiful. She was originally sent to Huang Taiji Palace as a surrogate mother for Concubine Zhezhe to serve as a sidekick for Fujin. However, because of her mediocre appearance, she was not favored by Huang Taiji. She was initially promoted to the Second Fujin, but later she was continuously demoted to the Fifth Fortune... her status was not even as good as that of the Fourth Fortune, Batma Hong, who moved from Lin Dan Khan (she She is Dorgon's mother-in-law), so you can imagine how beautiful she is.
Therefore, the rumors that Aunt Bumu Butai seduced Hong Chengchou are absolutely false. When Hong Chengchou's small body met a Mongolian aunt like Bumu Butai, I really don't know if he was seduced or forced? If he really wanted to do it, I guess Hong Chengchou would rather die than surrender to the Qing Dynasty...
Moreover, Aunt Bumubutai doesn’t speak Chinese well, so how can she communicate with a Fujianese?
But the woman Huang Taiji didn't like was treated as a treasure by Dorgon! Not long after Huang Taiji died, he hooked up with Bumbutai and lived a happy life of holding the emperor hostage and sleeping with the queen mother.
Dorgon turned his head, smiled affectionately at Bumbutai's round, plump face, and sighed: "I can't sleep...I always think about that Zhu Cihong. ..... Hauge became impatient by staying on the bank of the Yellow River. Every now and then, he would send me a memorial, saying that he would go south to attack Henan and Shandong! But the prince of the Southern Dynasty, Zhu Cixiang, was not a fuel-efficient lamp. He was able to hijack Chongzhen, lead his troops to break out from Beijing, and assassinate the powerful Eight Banners army led by Duolong at Dagukou. Now he has created a lot of moths in Nanjing and slandered our Qing Dynasty every day. He is really bad! "
Aunt Bumubutai looked at Dorgon in surprise and said in her heart: Who is this Zhu Cixiang? It can make you Dorgon feel so bad... and even call your mother-in-law, how bad is this!
The aunt asked: "Then why do you still want to marry that girl from Dongguo? Aren't you afraid that she will suffer a loss?"
"Hey..." Dorgon sighed, "If the other person is not bad, how can I marry Dongguo if he is harmed by me? The way of the world is that people are good and can be bullied. How can I be worthy of him?" There are no good people in Dongguo!"
Aunt Bumubutai thought about it for a while, and it seemed that she had the same idea. Don’t you share the same fate as Dongguo? Whether it is Huang Taiji or Dorgon, they are both masters who kill without blinking an eye! When she thought about it again, she felt something was wrong.
"The child's uncle," Aunt Bumubutai squinted her charming little eyes (Dorgon likes small eyes), "You don't sleep at night, are you worried that Hauge will be plotted by Zhu Cihong?"
"Huh!" Dorgon snorted coldly, "Will I be worried about Hauge? I am worried about the 50,000 troops under his command... Less than half of these 50,000 troops are real Manchus! We Manchus Less, if you lose too much, your vitality will be damaged!"
It turns out that Dorgon has been dispatching troops to the northern part of the river (Yellow River) in Kaifeng Prefecture and Daming Prefecture and Cangzhou Prefecture these days.
The main force of the real Tatars, the two yellow flags and the two blue flags, mobilized nearly 20,000 people in total. It was divided into groups by famous Manchu generals such as Hauge, Obai, Yuedong, and Tan Tai. Among them, Hauge was ordered to control the generals.
Four traitors, including Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, Li Shutai (son of Li Yongfang) and Liu Zhiyuan, led a total of 20,000 Han troops from Zhenghuang Banner, Xianglan Banner, Zhenglan Banner and Xianghuang Banner Han troops to accompany the expedition.
In addition, Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo, who had defected to the Qing Dynasty earlier, also led their troops to join Hauge's men. The two traitors were both carried into the Eight Banners. Liu Liangzuo was attached to the Han Army under the Yellow Banner, and Xu Dingguo was attached to the Han Army under the White Banner.
However, the army brought by the two men was too weak and the Eight Banners masters did not like it, so they were not incorporated into the Eight Banners. Instead, they were reorganized into the Green Battalion with the green flag as their symbol, becoming a second-class traitor army that was not qualified to be slaves. After the adaptation was completed, local bandits or small groups of Ming troops who had defected to the Qing Dynasty were added, raising the total number of troops to more than 10,000.
However, after more than 50,000 troops arrived one after another, Dorgon did not issue an order to attack. Let Hauge, Obai and others wait by the Yellow River. From the end of the first year of Shunzhi to January of the second year of Shunyong, the weather is getting warmer and the frozen Yellow River and Daqing River are about to freeze. Attack The order from Daming or Dashun still has not been issued.
Not only did Haoge and Obai, who were craning their necks to make a fortune, as well as the Eight Banners soldiers of the two yellow and two blue flags waiting impatiently, even the Eight Banners kings who stayed in Beijing and Cong Zhangde and Wei The soldiers with red flags under the command of Luo Luohun who were transferred back from Hui Er Mansion were also anxious.
Moreover, rumors began to appear in Beijing that in order to marry his only daughter to Zhu Cixiang and become the empress of the Ming Dynasty, Dorgon planned to give up all the southward war and cede Shandong and Henan to the Ming Dynasty.
"The child's uncle," Aunt Bumubutai thought carefully about her words, "If there was no marriage between Dongguo and the Zhu family prince, you could still suppress the desire of the two yellow flags, the two red flags and the two blue flags to go south. But now. Many people think you have selfish motives..."
"Humph!" Dorgon snorted. He was holding the emperor and sleeping with the queen mother hostage. How could he not be selfish? He is very selfish and wants to find an opportunity to kill brothers Hauge and Fulin and become the emperor himself!
But this time, he suppressed Hauge and Obai and prevented them from going south, not for selfish reasons, but for the sake of the Qing Dynasty and the Northern Dynasties.
"Bumbutai," Dorgon snorted, "You don't have to use aggressive methods on me, I have my own opinions... I can always make money for those brats who are looking forward to burning, killing and looting every day. Yes! But they can't be anxious, they have to calm down and take their time... I have a lot of enemies in the Qing Dynasty, and there are a lot of troubles to solve. They have to come one by one! Hauge and Obai, they have to be honest. They stay by the Yellow River! Let them spend the New Year by the Yellow River!"
