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Under the resolute and powerful invitation of Li Chengdong, Emperor Yongli broke through the obstruction of Chen Bangfu, and finally moved to the city of Zhaoqing on July 29, the second year of Yongli (1648).
Li Chengdong had already prepared a 32-cabin extra-large dragon boat to welcome the emperor's arrival hundreds of miles away.
Emperor Yongli was full of joy, and he was "full of condolences" to this vicious enemy who had danced the butcher's knife not long ago.
Prior to this, Li Chengdong, who had never seen the emperor before, practiced the words that should be said when playing the right under the guidance of the curtain guests, especially "those who express their loyalty are well informed". When Emperor Yongli met with Wen Yan, "give sitting, condolences and then four", he competed to "bow his head and tremble, only to rise, kowtow and tend out".
I didn't say a word about what I had prepared in advance.
Someone asked him afterwards why he was like that, and he said:
"My warriors, let go of the voice, although it is forbidden, it is still vigorous, and it is even more talking. If you hear about it, it will be nothing more than a courtesy!”Despite this, Li Chengdong was extremely excited. On the 1st of August, he led hundreds of civil and military officials to hold a grand welcoming ceremony, and personally helped the emperor's Luan Yu into the Zhaoqing Palace on foot. And deliberately stored 10,000 taels of silver in the palace for the emperor's reward, and the decorative utensils such as the account were about 10,000 gold. This thoughtful consideration and arrangement moved Emperor Yongli very much. After the court, Li Chengdong Wei Duke was added, the best, and he was given the robes and bootlaces, Shang Fang sword, etc.
Li Chengdong thanked him and accepted. At this time, the first auxiliary scholar of the DPRK and Central China was Yan Qiheng, followed by Wang Huacheng and Zhu Tianlin. But no matter how big or small the political affairs are, they must first report to Li Chengdong before they play the Yongli Emperor.
From the very beginning, Li Chengdong grasped the real power of the DPRK and China. But he really wanted to be sincerely loyal to the Ming family and participate in the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Yongli specially worshiped Li Chengdong as a general and a great Sima, and ordered to build an altar to worship in the east of the city, like Han Gaozu worshiped Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, and prepared to come to confer the halberd in person.
When the altar was halfway built, Li Chengdong learned that Shanggong said: "The matter is in the ears of people, how can it be whether the altar is climbed or not!."”
He earnestly excused the matter, but Emperor Yongli insisted on not allowing it. It turned out that Li Chengdong was "a concubine who loves his neck, and he will not be conceived, and he will want to answer his intentions properly". He wants to serve the country loyally with real actions to mourn the dead Zhang Yuqiao. Li Chengdong's heart to serve the country is sincere.
On August 12, he played to Emperor Yongli and said:
"Nanxiong is responsible for the following affairs, and Yuguan (Da Yuling) is alone with foreign ministers. ”So "a word to go", raised 200,000 troops to the north and Nanxiong to go to the front line of Jiangxi to resist the Qing Dynasty. It turned out that he had already made contact with Jin Shenghuan, who occupied Nanchang anyway, and Jin was ready to move south and make an appointment with him to jointly take military action.
After Li Chengdong generously left the dynasty and led his army north, Emperor Yongli was anxious that the situation of the dynasty changed greatly.
At this time, it was Li Chengdong's adopted son Li Yuanyin who held the power of the imperial court. Yuan Yin's original surname is Jia, a native of Henan. Because "stupidity does not carry the trip, stay in Zhaoqing to guard the family". Although he is "violent and self-serving" and "laughing and scolding ruthlessly", he is a puppet, and his actions are mostly influenced by his henchman, the scheming Yuan Pengnian.
Yuan Pengnian, the name Jiemei, a native of Hubei Public Security, is the son of the famous poet Yuan Zhongdao. Chongzhen Jinshi, the director of the official rites department. Known for its straightforwardness. Hongguang was dismissed because of his opposition to the establishment of factory guards. After the fall of the Longwu Dynasty, Li Chengdong recommended him as the deputy envoy of Guangdong.
He posted a notice in the city of Guangzhou, saying:
"The money rat tail is the elegant system of the new dynasty, the crown and the broad belt, and the bad rules of the country. ”Strongly praise the Qing Dynasty's shaving order. It is ugly to slander the nation and flatter and win favor. And after Li Chengdong went anyway, he slandered the shaving of his hair and making it easy to obey, and regarded himself as "the first hero anyway". After Li Chengdong set out on the expedition, all his ideas were realized through Li Yuanyin. But the courtiers despised him for his repeated defections and deeds.
As a result, there was a situation in which the various planting parties fought against each other.
At this time, in the Yongli Dynasty, "the political affairs of the people were very obedient", and the ministers were divided into four types, each invoking each other, and opposing each other.
Among them, Hong Tianzhuo, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, Zeng Wei of Dali Temple, Li Qi of Guangdong Xuedao, Cao Ye, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Geng Xianzhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Mao Tongxiang, the political envoy, are all close confidants of Li Chengdong, and "all come from Wuyang (Guangzhou)" is the first type;Yuan Pengnian was particularly active in party struggles, and he "summoned comrades and expelled dissidents." As a result, "Li Yuanyin's gate is like a city, and those who climb its hall are not children who climb the dragon gate". He also carried out "worshipping the alliance and recognizing the sect", and all those surnamed Li and Jia were "all happy". Although Li Yuanyin is "reckless, the guest is not reluctant, and he does not send it". And greed, often make the servants gamble with the visitors, and often make the visitors "give it to them", but they still rush to it. In this regard, Li Yuanyin was complacent, and this situation was all caused by Yuan Pengnian. This has caused chaos in the DPRK and China. Emperor Yongli could do nothing about it.With Yan Qiheng, Wang Huacheng, Zhu Tianlan Sanxiangguo and the Ministry of Officials Shangshu Yanqing, the Ministry of Officials Wu Zhenzhu, as well as a variety of different backgrounds and experiences of the six departments of Wu Qilei, Hong Shipeng, Lei Defu, Yin Sanpin, Xu Zhaojin, Zhang Qi, etc., "all Nanning with the car", is the second type;
Coming from all walks of life and smelling like each other, forming a group is Liu Xiangke, the deputy capital of the Imperial Palace, Wu Xiangke, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Ding Shikui, the military department of the Jinbao, the household department of the matter of Meng Zhengfa, the rite of the department to the matter of Li Yongji, the Wenxuan Shilang in Shi Zhaozheng, the Guanglu Temple Zhengqing Lu Shilian, the Taifu Temple Zhengqing Ma Guang, the ritual Shilang in Xu Shiyi, etc., for the third kind;
Its Guangdong natives Hanlin Chen Shijie, Wu Yilian of the Ministry of Officials, Li Zhen of the Provincial Yuan, Gao Zhiming of the Criminal Department, and Yang Banghan of the Great Servant Temple are the fourth type. "All kinds of winds are classified into **" and poured into each other.
It was Ma Jixiang who constantly caused trouble for Emperor Yongli, interfered in court politics, and made Emperor Yongli himself unaware.
Ma Jixiang, who was extremely treacherous and good at greeting, colluded with Liu Chengyin to force Emperor Yongli to move to Wugang and suffered an unforeseen event, not only was he not held accountable, but soon appeared as a loyal minister.
When Emperor Yongli escaped from Wugang and migrated, Ma Jixiang did his best to work as a dog and horse.
"Displacement is hard, wind and rain do not avoid, take it as a small diligence, and flatter it."Won the favor of Emperor Yongli and entered the Marquis of Wen'an. And in the escape from Wugang, Ma Jixiang's concubine never left the queen mother's side, served diligently, won the favor of the queen mother, and gave the name Mrs. Qinmin. Ma Jixiang "has the inner master, and there is no worry". Therefore, under the full trust of Emperor Yongli, "he entered the cabinet to take charge of silk affairs, and was in charge of drafting." Although Qu Shiyun cannot compare with his cronies." In this way, the Yongli Dynasty's "civil and military promotion and chapter performance vote draft" passed him one by one, and then implemented. "To Emperor Arima. ”
One day, Ma Jixiang said to Li Chengdong:
"The towns of Shangnian Guibiao will be from the public anyway, and the merit is indispensable, and the knighthood has not yet been rewarded, and the name is neglected so that it can be heard. ”Li Chengdong listed Du Yonghe, Li Yuanyin, Luo Chengyao and other eight members. Ma Jixiang then wrote a recital in front of Li Chengdong and sealed it into the play. Not long after the recital was presented, the order of the knighthood was issued. Li Chengdong was very surprised by the speed, and Ma Jixiang was "showing his grace in this way". However, this move gave Li Chengdong a very bad impression, and he immediately saw through that this was a "demonstration of blessings" to himself, and he felt very unpleasant, and began to feel the seriousness of the problems in the imperial court.
He returned and sighed
"People say that Emperor Ma, don't you believe it?The reward is not classic, the fifth rank is also, the lord is in the court, and the scholar is together, it is in one place, breathing as desired, what a god!I abandon the old mother and young son for this move, but I hope that Zhongxing will be successful, and I will not be in vain. Seeing that the power traitor is like this now, it would be better to have help!”The power traitor was in power, which made him very disappointed, and "returned to Yangcheng depressed". October 15 is Li Yuanyin's birthday, and this is another good opportunity for Ma Jixiang and Yuan Pengnian to loot. The wind was released in advance, and because of Li Yuanyin's "increasing authority", "in the civil and military affairs of the DPRK, there was a lot of gifts", and Li Yuanyin accepted gifts of various names, and those who came did not refuse.
"There is private division outside the public division, there is private division outside the private division, and there is private division outside the private division. From August to winter, every day does not run to the gate of Yuanyin. ”The military generals led the troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty outside, and the chaos in the DPRK and China made all those who were loyal to the country worried. The orders are different, the people's hearts are scattered, and the problems that Qu Shiyun once worried about have become a fact. Qu Shiyun once again begged Emperor Yongli to move Guilin to command the overall situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty and make preparations for leading his division north to recover the Central Plains.
In fact, I hope that he will get rid of the encirclement of the group and forge ahead with inspiration. Emperor Yongli this time but contrary to the past, a mention of the move to Guilin or not to move east to the normal state of silence, and take the initiative, he sent an edict to Qu Shiyun for help, Qu Shiyun received this edict to the emperor "in the house" ambition is very happy, he will be with the lord Jiao Lian, according to the minister Wu Zaode and other "respectful recitation", and then another "please move Guilin Shu".
After analyzing the current excellent situation, he believed that it is of great significance not to favor the Linghai, and pointed out that in order to seize the opportunity and grasp the victory that has emerged, it is necessary to go west.
In the end, he earnestly hoped that Emperor Yongli would "quickly give a decision, drive the six dragons with stars, enter Gui and ** Chu, enter Chu and then stipulate the Central Plains".
This is to ask Emperor Yongli to speak and count, and really take practical actions to win the trust of his subjects.
Emperor Yongli commented after the performance:
Please be fortunate enough to control the middle and lower regulations of Jinling, "it is a fundamental plan", but because of "the East Auxiliary Department Qufang out of Yuguan", that is, when Li Chengdong was leading his troops to go out, "I listened to Kaiyin, and then made a plan for the Central Plains with Qing".Push the question until after Li Chengdong wins. In this way, the Yongli Emperor kept saying that he had moved Guilin, but he had not forgotten the promise of Chu, but in fact it was still empty. This can't help but make the sincere Qu Shiyun sincerely anxious. Qu Shiyun's note had just been issued, and he received an edict from Emperor Yongli on November 3.
This is a very peculiar edict, from the beginning of which he strongly praised Qu Shiyun and asked Qu Shiyun to leave Guilin immediately for Zhaoqing.
Here Emperor Yongli's evaluation of Qu Shiyun is not exaggerated, and the important problem is that he ignored the words he had just said 12 days ago, not only no longer mentioning the matter of moving Guilin, but with beautiful words, he wanted Qu Shiyun to leave the important place of enterprising and "protect the fundamental area of Zhongxing".
In this regard, Qu Shiyun "was frightened and ashamed" and refused.
He said in a letter on 17 November that he was "waiting for Xixing to send a letter to the emperor," that is, he was waiting for the emperor to fulfill his promise to go west, but the emperor had this idea again.
Qu Shiyun proceeded from the overall situation of the country and rejected the request of Emperor Yongli to go east, but after Emperor Yongli saw it, he was still not sober, and the criticism was: "I still believe in the edict of Xixing, and the emperor is here urgently, so don't delay the rectification." ”
In addition to making a confession that he was talking and counting, he still insisted that Qu Shiyun go to Zhaoqing as soon as possible.
I don't know who came up with this idea to him here, in short, this is an offensive and defensive strategy: Don't you repeatedly ask me to go to the front line of the anti-Qing Dynasty and garrison Guilin, but I want you to leave Guilin and come to Zhaoqing!Monarchs and ministers call each other to see who has moved whom?
Whatever the considerations of the Yongli Emperor, such a decision was very inappropriate.
Qu Shiyun still did not give up his efforts to persuade Emperor Yongli wholeheartedly.
On November 29, when the good news that the superintendent He Tengjiao had restored Hengzhou and that Li Chixin, the loyal battalion, had taken Yiyang and arrived in Xiangtan, he secretly invited Emperor Yongli to be lucky.
Shuzhong's analysis of the situation and the exposition of the truth of moving Guilin could not have been more thorough, but it did not move the heart of Emperor Yongli.
Emperor Yongli saw that Qu Shiyun was still stubborn, and the comfortable environment in Zhaoqing made him more and more reluctant to leave, he was willing to sit back and watch the endless fighting of his ministers and annoy him, and did not want to take the risk of going to Guilin again, although Qu Shiyun repeatedly said that if he could come in person, the number of anti-Qing soldiers would increase tenfold, Xunzhen was no longer cold and the superintendent's suspicion would disappear.
He had no intention of thinking more about it. In his view, the only way to resist the Qing Dynasty on the front line is to let it develop. As a result, the situation suddenly deteriorated to the point of being out of control.
The generals of Hunan, who were hoping that Emperor Yongli would be able to come to the front line in person, had become more and more contradictory since October of the second year of Yongli. Competition is difficult to reconcile.
Supervisor He Tengjiao decided to deploy forces to recover after the loss of Changsha, and the original He Tengjiao's subordinates, now the governor of the city, wanted to grab the merit, and ordered Ma Jinzhong to lead his troops to humiliate Tengjiao, but Ma refused to obey. In October, Du Yinxi summoned the loyal battalion into Hunan and ordered Ma Jinzhong to give up Changde.
Ma was very upset about this, and when he heard that the soldiers and horses of the loyal battalion had arrived, only a hundred miles away, he suspected that it was "just over the corner", and immediately ordered to "burn the banquets and houses, plunder the people, and set the camp south", and "set fire to the rafters".
And Wang Jincai, Niu Wancai and other generals also abandoned Baoqing and left. The loyal battalion, which had traveled a long distance, arrived at an empty city with "red soil, no stems and grass, and could not be left", so they abandoned it and led their troops east. Attacking Changsha is not ke, "turning and plundering thousands of miles, Yinxi cannot control it".
And everywhere they went, "the guards all walked around the camp", so that "Hunan Xinfuzhou County was empty".
He Tengjiao, who was stationed in Hengzhou at that time, was shocked when he heard the news, and urgently dispatched Ma Jinzhong and others to Changsha to attack together with the generals. At the same time, in order to stabilize the situation and stabilize the morale of the army, he went to the loyalty camp in person and asked Li Chixin to enter Hengzhou. As a result, his subordinates were afraid of being attacked by the loyalty camp and were unwilling to obey. He Tengjiao only brought 30 officials.
When he entered Xiangtan in the first month of the third year of Yongli (1649), Li Chixin had already led his troops to leave, and Xiangtan was an empty city without soldiers!The Qing army, which had already received the information, suddenly approached the city, and He Tengjiao was unfortunately captured. Indomitable killed. The death of the loyal and courageous anti-Qing famous general, the war situation in Chu has been very bad since then.
And just when He Tengjiao was heroic, there were murderous letters from Jiangxi one after another: the Qing soldiers conquered Nanchang, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren were killed, the former university scholar Jiang Yueguang threw himself into the water and died, Li Chengdong defeated Xinfeng and drowned.
After Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren anyway, all parts of Jiangxi returned to Ming one after another after receiving the rumors, but the Ganzhou guard Gao Jinku held on to it. Jin and Wang repeatedly organized attacks and retreated to Nanchang, but they took a defensive position, did not go out of Jiangxi, and stuck to the river.
Finally, the great opportunity for development was delayed, and when the Qing soldiers swarmed in, they were finally trapped in Nanchang.
And Emperor Yongli did not send troops in time to respond. Form a situation of fighting alone. When the situation was critical, Jin Shenghuan urgently sent Wu Zunzhou (Yizuozong Zhou) to Zhaoqing. Zhu Mouxing went to He Tengjiao in Hengzhou to ask for help.
Wu Zunzhou, who was originally a guest of Jin Shenghuan, was appointed governor anyway, he was obsessed with his official mind, only for the benefit of his personal wealth, and did not think about state affairs at all, he was originally to Zhaoqing for urgent help, but after he arrived, he did not say anything about asking for help, but "begged the governor".
In the chaotic Yongli Dynasty, no one cared about what happened to this envoy from Jiangxi?
Ding Shikui, who received him, received bribes of thousands of gold, so that Wu Zunzhou got his wish and obtained the appointment of the governor of Jiangxi. Jin Shenghuan in Jiangxi is eagerly looking forward to help, and he is waiting for it. When Emperor Yongli asked about the war situation in Jiangxi, Wu actually "spoke loudly to be relieved".
It wasn't until He Tengjiao reported Zhu Mouxing's request for rescue to the imperial court that Emperor Yongli learned of the real war situation in Jiangxi, and urgently asked He Tengjiao to send a salary of 10,000 gold to help, but "it was no longer possible".
After Nanchang was besieged for several months, the city was finally broken on the 19th day of the first month of the third year of Yongli (1649). Jin Shenghuan was hit by an arrow and threw himself into the water and died, and Wang Deren was killed when he broke through the siege. And Jiang Yueguang, a famous minister, has lived in seclusion in the mountains of his hometown of Nanchang since he left the Hongguang Dynasty angrily, and the Qing court should not be summoned.
Jin and Wang were welcomed to Nanchang as the leader of the alliance anyway, and the Yongli Dynasty added the prince and the prince, and the scholar of the Jianji Palace. Although Guang is old, his ambition to serve the country is undiminished, and he has repeatedly suggested that he unite the rebels from all over the country to show solidarity, but Jin Shengheng does not obey or listen, and his ambition is rarely displayed.
When the city was in danger, someone advised him to flee, and he said: "If I don't die today, what else can I do!.""Throw yourself into the pool and die.
Dying as an ancient style of six chapters and two quatrains, one of its quatrains cloud:
Since ancient times, who has not died, must know the smell and fragrance. Reading the ninth generation is only today, and it is Jichang to steal life.Li Chengdong's division was actually to go to aid Jiangxi and attack Ganzhou, if he could cooperate with Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, and echo the north and south, it would not be difficult to win the war. As a result, he made three trips to nothing. The first time he sent troops, he mistakenly believed that the Ganzhou guard general Gao Jinku had surrendered fraudulently, and went back and forth in vain.
The second grand march of the army, has passed the Yu Pass, after the sudden Qing troops attacked the camp, they retreated in a hurry, and actually made 200,000 troops lose their armor.
The third time is the Yongli three years in February again into Ganzhou, at this time Jin Shengheng, Wang Deren has been defeated and died, the brigade of Qing troops went south to Ganzhou, the enemy and our forces have undergone major changes, the battle is unfavorable, when the emergency retreat, Li Chengdong crossed the mountain stream when the horse drowned and died.
In this way, without knowing it, without winning the first battle, the 100,000 army that had a huge combat ability collapsed in an instant.
Li Chengdong's sudden defeat was due to both the court and himself. For such an important expedition, the Yongli Dynasty, which was full of talents, never discussed countermeasures, formulated plans, and even sent supervisors to keep track of the battle reports, but completely resigned himself to it, resulting in his expedition being purely a personal action.
Of course, this is not only the case for other armies, but also for other armies, and this is an inevitable phenomenon of the lack of unified leadership between the DPRK and China.
And Li Chengdong only relies on his own strength, and does not want or even excludes external support. At that time, "righteous teachers were everywhere", and not only did he not use it as help, but he was "still in trouble". Emperor Yongli then followed his meaning to "edict all righteous teachers to return to their hometowns and not to go out again".
As a result, "sitting here and competing to withdraw the feudal guards" formed Li Zidong's lone battle, and finally lost out of control.
This is what Li Chengdong and Emperor Yongli never expected.
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