"All ministers and ministers, please stand up!"
In the Temple of Heaven, which has been transformed into a meeting building for kings and ministers to discuss political affairs, Emperor Kangxi very politely called on a group of rebellious ministers and traitors who elected him to be the emperor to stand up. In the past period of time, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who followed the rules of the Qing Dynasty, sat condescendingly, while the ministers below him knelt. Very unequal!
Now this rule must be changed. Is this the "original monarch and original minister"? Logically speaking, it is best to give each person a seat and sit down to discuss the truth. However, the following group of former ministers also saved some face for Kangxi. Although Kangxi prepared chairs for them, everyone still stood and talked politely. Therefore, compared with the Ming Dynasty’s National People’s Political Council, the Qing Dynasty’s Council of Kings and Ministers was still not advanced enough!
In addition, the representativeness of this Qing Dynasty Council of Kings and Ministers was not as representative as the Ming Dynasty People’s Council. The representatives participating in the meeting of the Council of Ministers are all the Council of Kings and Ministers or their plenipotentiaries.
The representatives of the National People's Council literally represent the people of the country. Of course, in actual operation, the political officials dispatched to areas that are not directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court are appointed by the local feudal lord.
However, even if this meeting of kings and ministers was not representative enough, this system had already progressed to the point where Kangxi was under great pressure - this meeting of kings and ministers had deposed an emperor and actually elected an emperor. This means that if Kangxi does not work hard, he may still be deposed again.
So he must work harder!
Kangxi saw the political kings and ministers below standing there in a swaggering manner, and bowed to them in return, and then he smiled and said: "Since the political kings and ministers still trust me, they will continue to support me as emperor. Then I should come up with a way to reverse the decline of the Qing Dynasty.
To be honest, I have actually been thinking of a way out for the Qing Dynasty for a long time. The current situation in the Central Plains looks like that of the late Yuan Dynasty, or that of the Later Jin, Later Han, Later Zhou and early Northern Song Dynasty when the Central Plains was not yet unified. Our Qing Dynasty was based on the Eight Banners, which arose between the white mountains and black waters. It was not originally a state of the Han people in the Central Plains, and could be compared to the Khitan or the Mongolian Yuan. If there were no heroes in the Central Plains, then I, the Qing Dynasty, might be able to enjoy a century-long national destiny in the Central Plains. Unfortunately, my lack of virtue caused the gods to send heroes to the Central Plains, and this is why the world is falling apart.
And what we, the Qing Dynasty, want to do now is not to go against heaven and try to unify the world again. Instead, they retreated to seek a great Khitan-like state. The Khitan state of the Northern Qing Dynasty was established. Although it failed to take over the Central Plains, it occupied the sixteen states of Yanyun, Monan, Mobei, and the vast land of the Northeast, and enjoyed a kingdom of 200 In the 18th year, it merged with the Song Dynasty into the Northern and Southern Dynasties. What do you think, gentlemen? "
Now the political discussion begins!
Nowadays, even the emperor can be dismissed and elected by the meeting of political kings and ministers, so of course issues involving changes in the Qing Dynasty's major political principles must be discussed.
Moreover, only if the meeting of political kings and ministers passes the "Qing Dynasty and Liao Transformation Plan" can the Qing Dynasty formally form an alliance with the Zhou Dynasty and Dajing. Otherwise, if the Qing Dynasty aims to unify the world, how can this alliance be formed?
In addition, Kangxi also knew that the current Qing Dynasty Council of Kings and Ministers was very transparent to the Zhou and Ming Dynasties. What they were discussing here would be known immediately by Emperor Wu Sangui of the Zhou Dynasty, General Li Zhongshan of the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Geng Jingzhong of Dajing!
If they all know it, then they can let go of the civil war. Anyway, the Qing Dynasty is defeated by the Liao Dynasty. As long as you can destroy the enemies in the Central Plains, how can you have the Song Dynasty do it? Isn’t it quite delicious? of?
As for the Qing Dynasty, as long as the national policy of the Qing Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty was determined, Kangxi could shed the burden in the direction of the Central Plains - the Central Plains territory controlled by the Liao Dynasty was as large as the sixteen states of Yanyun. !
Therefore, all the territory south of the Sixteen Prefectures can be transformed into vassal towns!
"Brother Imperial, I think it would be good to be a member of the Liao Dynasty!" Prince Gong Chang Ning is now the most powerful among the political kings, so he was the first to speak and question, "But the current area outside the customs is still a bit deserted. Only around Shengjing is there. It is a bit popular, and the two vassals of Mobei and Korea are not very convinced. How can the four provinces of Mountains and Rivers really disappear, how can we establish a country in the Qing Dynasty? Brother Emperor, have you ever thought about it? "
"Chang Ning, of course I have thought of a countermeasure to what you said." Kangxi replied pleasantly, "My countermeasure is to unite the people to establish a country!"
"What does it mean to unite the people to establish a country?" Chang Ning asked.
Kangxi said: "I will unite all the ministers and ministers to establish our new Qing Dynasty together!
Specifically, I want to seal most of the land in the four provinces of Shanhe within the pass to all my ministers and ministers. I only have direct jurisdiction over Shuntian Prefecture, Datong Prefecture, Xuanhua Prefecture, Zunhua Prefecture, Yongping Prefecture, Yizhou and the newly established Tianjin Prefecture, a total of five prefectures and two states.
At the same time, I will also re-divide the jurisdictions of Monan Mongolia, General Shengjing, and General Heilongjiang, and create two new positions: General Jilin and General Monan, and then divide the jurisdictions of the four generals Monan, Shengjing, Heilongjiang, and Jilin. Within the jurisdiction, territories were divided for the vassal lords of the four provinces of Shanhe. Each vassal lord moved the landless peasants from the four provinces of Shanhe to establish Touxiajunzhou in the area under the jurisdiction of the four generals. In this way, the landless farmers in the four provinces of Shanhe and Henan can get land, and the areas under the jurisdiction of the four generals outside the Great Wall can also get people. In less than ten years, there will be a paradise inside and outside the pass! "
In fact, in the early years of Kangxi, the Qing Dynasty faced a great situation similar to that of the "United States"!
The population, land, resources, industries, and even military power are all at the "United States" level.
If the Qing court could do some personnel work, develop Sichuan, develop Northeast China, develop overseas trade, promote industrial and commercial development, and accelerate national integration. It is not difficult to create a true Kangxi era.
With a population of tens of millions and less than 100 million, guarding such a large land, it also had four top industrial chains at the time: silk, porcelain, white sugar (except in China, only brown sugar was available elsewhere), and tea. And there are no powerful countries worth mentioning around, even the Western colonists. At this time, their strength in the East cannot even be suppressed by Zheng Ming.
If the Qing Dynasty did not carry out coastal relocation and took Zheng Zhilong as a vassal, it would only be a matter of time before it swallowed up Southeast Asia. At that time, the Southeast Asian countries except Myanmar and Vietnam had very small populations, few indigenous people, and even fewer white skins. Guangdong and Fujian If the coastal Han people continue to immigrate, coupled with a relatively strong Zheng Group, sooner or later they will become an absolute majority in the local area.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Qing Dynasty had a dreamy start and ended dismally!
But today's Qing Dynasty has reached the point where the king and ministers who discuss politics can remove and elect the emperor, so they can only unite to establish a country!
However, when Chang Ning heard Kangxi's strategy of "developing beyond the Great Wall and uniting the people to build a country", his face suddenly turned ugly.
He is General Shengjing!
General Shengjing's jurisdiction was originally decided by him alone. What happened now? Are you going to give a piece of it to General Jilin? Are you going to let the feudal lords in Guan build a military state on the remaining Shengjing territory?
In this way, doesn’t his power become smaller?
But Chang Ning did not take any measures to oppose Kangxi because most of the political kings and ministers would have their territories within the pass!
Heading down to Junzhou is their retreat!
If you can't survive in the customs, you can still continue to survive in the military state outside the Great Wall!
If Chang Ning wants to object, it means cutting off everyone's retreat. How can this be done?
Just when Chang Ning wanted to object but did not dare to object, Kangxi smiled and said to Chang Ning: "Lao Wu, I will give you a military envoy in the pass, right? How about Dengzhou Prefecture? Dengzhou is far away from Liaonan (Liaodong) Peninsula) is very close, and the military state under your command is located in Liaonan. Dengzhou and Liaonan are separated by a strait, how convenient is it to travel between them?"
This condition sounds okay!
Chang Ning thought about it, nodded and said: "Your Majesty, I am very grateful to you for the fiefdom you gave me. However, I still have many Zhuangzi around Shengjing. How should I deal with them?"
"It's all yours!" Kangxi said with a smile, "Fellow ministers, I will allocate houses and land to you in Shengjing! When Shengjing develops, our Qing Dynasty will officially implement the two-capital patrol system. How many of us live in Beijing? How many months do you want to live in Shengjing? What do you think?"
What else?
Of course I agree!
Kangxi has finally started to do things with people. Can their ministers disapprove?
So in the midst of the "Emperor's Holy Ming" (which now means "we agree"), Kangxi's strategy of "developing beyond the Great Wall and uniting the people to build a country" was finally approved.
Kangxi took a breath. Although he was not satisfied, it could only be this way!
Who made the population of the Northeast disappear with ancestors named Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, and Dorgon? If we want to re-develop it now, we cannot rely on the limited power of the imperial court, let alone relying on the private sector to work alone. We must unite the efforts of all ministers and everyone can work together to achieve success.
So the Qing Dynasty can only build the "United States" now!
After talking about the development of Northeast China, Kangxi turned his attention to his uncle Yang Qilong. Yang Qilong is so powerful now! For his meritorious service in escaping from battle, he not only became the uncle of the state, but was also granted the title of First-Class Duke. Others call him "First-class Super Brave Duke" or "First-class Super Fierce Duke", but I don't know what kind of first-class Duke he is. Anyway, it’s great.
Kangxi pointed at Yang Qilong and said to the political kings and ministers: "Dear ministers, I also plan to send my uncle Yang Qilong as the general to supervise the country of North Korea, and order him to send troops to North Korea to help the North Korean monarchs and ministers resist the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese. This is The troops and military expenses required for a troop dispatch are all raised by the uncle himself. In the future, affairs in Korea will also be decided by the uncle himself. What do you think?"
A group of political kings and ministers have long known about Yang Qilong's dispatch of troops to North Korea - they have all said hello!
Of course everyone has no objections. Not only do they have no objections, but most of them have invested in Yang Qilong!
The cunning rabbit has three caves!
What if we can't defend it inside the pass and we can't hold it outside the pass either?
Therefore, we have to leave a way out for Yang Qilong. If there is a "surplus son" (a redundant, undistributed son) in the family, let him follow Yang Qilong to North Korea and open a "separate family". Colonization, that's how it started .
They are all a group of run-down nobles, paupers, and street gangsters who have no property in their hometowns and go overseas to conquer the country. If the family has a territory to inherit, and if there is a duke, marquis, or earl who can become a duke, who can go across the ocean to work hard?
Da Zhou, Chang'an, Imperial City.
The news that Kangxi was engaged in the "United States" and "colonialism" was quickly reported to the Emperor Wu Sangui of the Great Zhou Dynasty - it was not reported by some cunning political king or minister. Their news was not transmitted that fast. This was the first time. The secret package sent to Wu Sangui was delivered to Chang'an by "Chen Sun Xuanye" by flying 800 miles.
"Boss, second, and third, what do you think?"
When Wu Sangui saw that his three sons had read Kangxi's secret information one by one, he smiled and asked.
"Father," Wu Yingxiong said, "it seems that Kangxi has decided to become the emperor of the Liao Kingdom. From now on, our opponent will be the Ming Dynasty!"
Wu Yingqi added: "Father, I think our opponent is the Three Li Kings of the Ming Dynasty! Except for Li Fuchen, Li Zhongshan, and Li Laishun, there is nothing to fear."
Wu Guogui shook his head and said: "Father, as far as I know, the center of the Ming Dynasty is controlled by three people: General Li Zhongshan, Shangshu Zuocheng, Chen Yonghua, Shangshu Zuocheng, and Shangshu Youcheng Lu Sanhao. Now Li Zhongshan is managing Henan. , Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao jointly led the affairs of the country, while Li Fuchen and Li Laishun did not have much power in the Ming Dynasty."
Wu Sangui nodded and said: "Three Lis share the Ming Dynasty, one Li is in the center, and the two Lis in the town, left, Chen and Youlu, are the assistants. That's probably what happened! Then how should we deal with them?"
This is the first time Wu Sangui has expressed his intention to deal with Ming Dynasty!
Although there were the Three Kingdoms Alliance of Zhou, Qing, and Dajing before, and the so-called Ming siege network.
But it was all the people below who were working with the people in Dajing and Qing Dynasty. Wu Sangui just did not object and did not strongly support it.
In addition, Wu Sangui's main energy at that time was still supporting Kangxi's fight for fortune! It is hard to say whether the Zhou Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty will really form an alliance. After all, Fuquan was going to win, and he would not be close to the Zhou Dynasty and rebel against the Ming Dynasty like Kangxi.
And now, the new national policy of the Qing Dynasty has been decided-it is to become the new Liao!
With this new national policy, the Zhou-Qing alliance may come true, so the national policy of the Great Zhou Dynasty can also shift from mainly anti-Qing to anti-Ming.
"Father," Wu Guogui said, "I think we should concentrate our efforts to kill Li Zicheng and Li Laishun first. Li Zicheng has grown old and is no longer as brave as he used to be. And looking at Li Shun's performance in the past few years, they don't seem to be that strong. Being strong is just a bluff based on the reputation of the past."
The biggest weakness of Li Zicheng and Li Laishun is that they don't have many old brothers!
Fighting with troops is an empirical matter. Only experienced veterans and energetic young soldiers can exert their greatest combat effectiveness. The main reason why the armies of Wu Sangui, Li Fuchen, and Li Zhongshan were strong was the good combination of old and new.
Wu Sangui's brother Ning and the Shaanxi-Gansu anti-bandit gang are all ruthless men who have been trained on the battlefield for half a lifetime, and their children and nephews have also been trained by Wu Sangui, so their combat effectiveness is naturally very reliable.
Although Li Fuchen's group was much smaller, the combination of old brothers and young brothers was very good. Li Fuchen himself was the leader of the Ming army who surrendered the rest of Datong, and he had many sons, adopted sons, and wild seeds. The teachings were all good. Li Zhongshan used these brothers to set up Jingwu Sect and Lecture Hall, and trained a group of grassroots officers. Coupled with a large number of firearms, the army's combat effectiveness was also quite strong.
In comparison, the groups of Li Zicheng and Li Laishun are really far behind. All the old brothers were lost, and the second generation who grew up hiding among the people did not receive strict military education.
When they first got up, they looked quite intimidating. They also used the idea of dividing their fields to encourage many poor men, and at one time they had a sweeping momentum. But as time went by, Li Zicheng grew old, and the Li Shun Group settled down in the comfort zone of Wuchang, and their true colors were exposed.
In recent years, we have been inseparable from opponents like Jieshu in Nanchang and Jiujiang. It's really not that good!
In comparison, Li Fuchen was much more powerful. Within a few months, he captured Anqing, which was heavily defended by Jieshu, and now he swept through southern Anhui where Dajing and the Qing (allied forces) were stationed. He was unstoppable along the way without encountering an enemy.
Earlier, when they defeated Shang Jia in Guangdong, Sun Yanling and Ma Xiong in Guangxi, and forced Wu Sanwei, they were all unstoppable.
Wu Sangui nodded and said with a smile: "I have long wanted to deal with the traitor Li Zicheng. If Li Fuchen hadn't intervened last time, Li Zicheng would have died a long time ago. Next time I deal with Li Zicheng, will Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan intervene? ?”
"Father, I have already made arrangements." Wu Yingxiong smiled and took over the topic, "The Li brothers will turn against each other soon. There will also be chaos in Guangdong and Guangxi. Maybe we can take advantage of the chaos to capture Guangdong!"
(End of chapter)
