Qing Dynasty, Shenyang City.
This city, which had been cold for a while, finally became lively for a while when the autumn of Tiancong's ninth year arrived.
What made Shenyang city lively was the two great events of Dajin changing the country's title and Funing Khan proclaiming himself emperor. Dajin's country name was changed to the clear and refreshing Daqing, and Funing Khan also made half a step forward, from being a Khan to an emperor with a high status of ninety-five. If you change the name of the country and call yourself emperor, you will naturally have to change the title of the reign. Starting next year, the reign name of the Qing Dynasty will be changed to Chongde.
When Da Jin changed his country's title and Funing proclaimed himself emperor, the eight Khans and the two Queen Mothers also had to follow suit. The eight Khan Amma became the Emperor Amma... The eight Emperor Amma, how festive!
The two Khan empresses became two empress dowagers. Among them, Huang Taiji's official Zhezhe was called the mother empress dowager because she moved out of Qingning Palace after Huang Taiji's death (Qingning Palace was vacated for Funing to live in) and moved to Qingning Palace. She entered Guanju Palace, which is located southeast of Qingning Palace, so everyone called her Queen Mother Dong behind her back.
Funing's biological mother Taisong still lived in Linzhi Palace, southwest of Qingning Palace, so she was also called the Queen Mother of the West!
The two Queen Mothers of the East and West appear to be equals, but in fact they can listen to politics behind the curtain and discuss national affairs with the eight Queen Mothers. Only the Queen Mother Taisong of the West has a sacred vote in the Queen Mother's political meeting.
At this moment, the Queen Mother of the West was in the Chongzheng Hall discussing the military affairs of the Qing Dynasty with six of the eight emperors' ama (Duduo and Mang Gurtai were not here) and one more.
"Empress Dowager, dear emperors, the news coming from the customs indicates that the Ming Dynasty is unlikely to launch the Eastern Expedition for the time being. The Chongzhen Emperor did not know what medicine he took wrongly. He actually thought that the Ming Dynasty had to deal with the 300-year natural disaster. If If you succeed in overcoming the tribulation, you will get another 300 years of national rule. So Chongzhen’s current thoughts are on how to reserve food for overcoming the tribulation..."
The person who was reporting the news about the "Ming Dynasty disaster" coming from Beijing to Taisong, the Queen Mother of the West, and the six emperors' ama and one of them was none other than Sony, the newly appointed academician of the Academy of Chinese History.
At the same time as the Great Jin Dynasty was transformed into the Great Qing Dynasty, the central administrative organs of this newly created separatist regime also underwent some improvements. The Wen Guan, which originally assisted the Great Khan, the Queen Mother and Zhu Amama in their administration, was changed into the three inner academies, namely the Inner Academy of History, the Inner Secret Academy, and the Inner Hongwen Academy. The functions of the three inner courtyards are similar to the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty. The head of the house is also called a grand scholar, and one courtyard has a grand scholar. The current bachelor of the Internal Academy of History is Sony, the bachelor of the Internal Secretariat is Bao Chengxian, a great slave of the Zhenghong Banner Han Army, and the bachelor of the Neihong Academy of Literature is also a great slave of the Zhenghong Banner Han Army named Ning Wanwo.
In other words, one of the three bachelors came from Zhenghuang Banner in Manchuria and was considered a confidant of Taisong and Funing. The other two are both traitors of Zheng Hongqi and slaves of Dai Amma.
However, the power of the three academies in the Qing Dynasty is not as powerful as that of the Ming Dynasty's cabinet. After all, there are eight emperors in the Qing Dynasty who are suppressing them. Who are the academicians? It's not their turn to make decisions at all, so just report honestly.
"Prepare food to prepare for the disaster... He really thought of it!" Daishan Daiama smiled contemptuously, "There are so many of them, and the famine is so severe, how much food should be prepared?"
"At least 100 million stones!" Sony said with a smile, "This is really a lot of money!"
"Oh, how could it be possible to prepare it?" Dorgon sneered, "Zhu Youjian is so kind this time... If I were him, I wouldn't care about how many people starve to death. First, concentrate on unification. The world is right!"
Dorgon is indeed a ruthless man, and his ruthlessness is no worse than in his previous life. In his opinion, starving to death of some common people is not a problem at all. How could the Qing Dynasty (Later Jin Dynasty) not have some people starve to death, and not be able to survive peacefully? No one dares to rise up!
Now the military strength of the Ming Dynasty is only higher than that of the Qing Dynasty. Even if some people rebel, given the strength of the Ming army, are they still afraid that they will not be able to suppress them? It is simply stupid to give up the opportunity to eliminate the Qing Dynasty in order to prepare food and relieve famine!
However, Zhu Youjian was frightened by the endless famines and civil unrest in his previous life. After severely damaging the Hou Jin Dynasty (Qing Dynasty), he directly upgraded the natural disasters to become the number one enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
So he put aside the scourge of the Qing Dynasty - because he knew that in those years when the Ming Dynasty was in trouble, the Jin Dynasty was also having a hard time... If it hadn't sucked so much blood from the Ming Dynasty, it would probably have been because of this disaster. Great loss of vitality!
As long as the Ming Dynasty can cope with the disaster, wouldn't it be easy to turn around and destroy Jianzhou?
Tai Song, the Queen Mother of the West, also felt that this news was a bit false. The Ming Dynasty had a population of 200 million. It would not be a problem for one to 20 million people to starve to death. Is there any need to be so nervous?
She asked: "Sony, there is no fraud, right?"
Sony smiled and said: "Queen Mother, you can't be deceived... I have carefully verified that the Ming Dynasty began to prepare grain for the disaster a few years ago. It built 'grain cities' in Xiangyang and Nanyang and released them." 500 trade licenses are used in exchange for rice. As the saying goes, you can’t transport grain thousands of miles away, and you can’t transport grass a hundred miles away. Zhu Youjian actually wanted to transport rice from thousands of miles away. It seems that the food shortage in the Ming Dynasty was really severe. !”
"This is God helping the Qing Dynasty!" Dai Ama Daishan said with a smile, "This is the blessing of the Queen Mother and the Emperor... In my opinion, we must seize the time to enter North Korea now. Got it!
Fourteenth, how about we send troops as soon as the autumn harvest is over? "
Dorgon nodded and said with a smile: "Everything is ready in North Korea, all it needs is the east wind... And for this east wind, someone has to go to Japan to borrow it! Who can go?"
Dorgon's plan was to drag Japan into trouble - as long as Ming Dynasty and Japan had a fight in Korea, Houjin would be safe. There is a precedent for this matter. It was not the Battle of Wanli and Korea. How could Nurhachi rise so comfortably? If Toyotomi Hideyoshi hadn't taken the wrong medicine, would the Ming Dynasty have allowed Nurhaci to deal with the Hercynian Jurchens so comfortably? Can the elites of Liao Town who have not been used up in North Korea still be unable to deal with Nurhachi who has not annexed most of Haixi?
"Doama," Sony volunteered at this time, "This slave is willing to go to Japan... I must have a smooth tongue to persuade Japan to enter Korea again!"
"What do you want to say?" Dorgon asked with a smile.
Sony said: "Of course I am learning Zhuge Liang's method of lobbying Jiangdong in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"... Now the Ming Dynasty has swallowed Mongolia and its strength has greatly increased, just like Cao Cao swallowed Yuan Shao. I am Uncle Liu in the Qing Dynasty. The defeat of Luo Mahe is equivalent to the defeat of Dangyang. Now we in the Qing Dynasty are Liu Huangshu who retreated to Jiangxia. If we want to defeat the Ming Dynasty, the Cao thief, we have to win over the Japanese country, Soochow."
"It's interesting!" Azig laughed, "It seems that this is really what happened... It's just that our Uncle Liu Huang is a little younger. He doesn't look like Uncle Liu Huang, but more like Liu Adou."
"Brother Twelve!" When Dorgon heard this, he quickly reminded, "Why are you talking?"
"A slip of the tongue, a slip of the tongue..." Azig cupped his hands towards the drowsy Funing, "Ama said the wrong thing again, don't take it to heart!"
Funing looked confused - who did Uncle Liu Huang say? Is this my new Ama? Is there going to be Amma Liu again?
Taisong smiled and said: "Ji Amma just have to be more careful in the future...Sony, this time you have to go out and talk to the scholars. Can you speak better than others by yourself? Do you want to find some helpers?" ?”
Dorgon said: "That's right, we need to find some helpers for Sony. Niulu Zhangjing Nikon from Zhengbai Banner is pretty good. He can handle things and is resourceful. He also learned Korean... There should be some in Japan too. People who are proficient in Korean.”
"Zhenghong Banner should also send someone!" Dai Shan said, "Xia Puzhi of the Han Army of Zhenghong Banner has some skills and can go to Japan."
Amadegelei, a comrade of Zhenglan Banner, said: "Then Zhenglan Banner should also send someone... Just send Li Jianeng. He is Fushun Li's son-in-law, and there are several All at once.”
Taisong nodded: "Okay, I can't tell. Let Sony be the chief envoy, and Nikon, Sharp, and Li Jianeng be the deputy envoys!"
