Jiang Yan originally thought that this would change the dynasty and he could still be rich for a lifetime. But what surprised him was that Li Zicheng had not persisted in Beijing for a few months and was defeated by the coalition forces of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty and Wu Sangui on a stone. Then Li Zicheng was defeated all the way and finally retreated to Shaanxi to defend Tongguan.

After Li Zicheng left Beijing, in April of the 17th year of Chongzhen, the Qing Dynasty sent Prince Ying Ajige to lead troops to pursue Li Zicheng. Jiang Guan, who knew that Li Zicheng had retreated, led his confidants to attack the Dashun Army in the city and killed the Dashun Army guard Ke Tianxiang and Zhang Tianlin. Just after Jiang Guan killed the leader of the rebel army, the Qing army arrived in Datong on May 10th. Jiang Guan surrendered Prince Ying Ajige and still appointed him as the general.

In July of the first year of Hongguang in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Jiang Guan was called to Beijing. Grand Secretary Ganglin followed the will of the Regent Dorgon to conduct a questioning, accusing him of submitting to the Qing court on the eighth day of the sixth month of the first year of Shunzhi. In July, he used the Chongzhen reign of the Ming Dynasty to send it to civil and military officials, and supported the Ming Dynasty royal family, King Zao Qiang, which was a serious crime.

However, the four-subscribed slaves had their own ways to resolve them. Jiang Guan knelt on the ground and explained that when the Qing army entered the pass, people were not determined and had to take some expedient measures, "I didn't dare to have two intentions." Gang Lin scolded him out of no way, "I made a mistake in King Ying's journey to the west last winter, and you were suspicious." Gang Lin scolded him for a long time before finally announcing: "You guy has committed a lot of crimes, but I am kind to the Qing Dynasty. The regent issued an order to make you compensate for your merits and demerits, and the past will not be pursued. You will still conquer Datong and do your best in the future."

In fact, this was the policy of the Qing Dynasty, that is, except for their own people, they trusted the Mongolians the most, and then trusted the Liaodong Han people who followed him outside the pass, and were still very cautious about the new subordinates who surrendered to him after entering the pass. Originally, Dorgon just wanted to hit Jiang Yan so that he could work hard. But he didn't expect that Jiang Yan, a slave from four surnames, had a different mind.

Jiang Guan thought he would not have enough soldiers to pay for the Qing Dynasty, so he handed over the Datong area to the Qing court. Then he defeated the Dashun Army in Yulin, Shaanxi. Not only did he have no rewards, but he was suspicious. He was full of resentment, but he had to give in. At this point, the seeds of dissatisfaction germinated in Jiang Guan's heart. In the following years, the Qing court used troops to southern Shaanxi and Sichuan, and repeatedly recruited Shanxi's manpower and material resources, which increased the burden on the officials and the people, which made Jiang Guan, who regarded Shanxi as a forbidden fertilization, very dissatisfied.

After Jiang Yan surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, although he still appointed the general position, the military power was in the hands of the Qing general Wu Weihua, and Prince Ajige was in charge of the charge of Prince Ajige. The Qing court never paid attention to Jiang Yan, and Jiang Yan still had no power. Prince Ajige was the twelfth son of Nurhaci. He was in charge of Datong, and on the excuse that the Han people in Datong refused to shave their hair and comb their braids, they killed innocent people indiscriminately and became unkind as officials. Just when Jiang Yan's dissatisfaction reached its peak

At that time, news of the anti-Qingqing climax in the south spread to Shanxi. At this time, Ajige was idle in Beijing by Dorgon. Wu Weihua and other eight banners of Manchu and Han were transferred to the south to quell the rebellion. Shanxi became the world of Jiang Guan. Therefore, in September of the first year of Shenwu, Jiang Guan raised the uprising banner in Datong, Shanxi, and once again betrayed his master. Jiang Guan announced that he was easy to Liufa, called himself the general, and announced his loyalty to Emperor Shenwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Of course, loyalty to Zhu Hongsan is not Jiang Guan, who has a great vision. He is really far away from Shanxi, but he went to Jiangxi and Fujian to be loyal to Zhu Hongsan. I don’t know that there is an Emperor Yongli in Guangxi. However, Jiang Guan made a mistake and loyalty to Zhu Hongsan brought a lot of assistance to Jiang Guan. Zhu Hongsan from Guangdong even gave weapons to bandits in Shandong, let alone a large warlord who owned a large area of ​​land. After receiving the news that Jiang Guan was loyal to him in October, Zhu Hongsan from Guangdong immediately issued an order to grant Jiang Guan the title of King of Dai and the rule of Shanxi. This order was opposed by the ministers in the court. It was not appropriate for Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong to be the prince, but there was no way out in the war. This time he got a prince again, and would he still talk about the laws of the country?

However, Zhu Hongsan ignored these stinky old masters and directly issued an order to personally sign Jiang Guan as the King of Dai. You must know that Shanxi is 108,000 miles away from Guangdong, and it is not good to ask others to be stabbed. Zhu Hongsan still can't do such a thing. While being appointed as the king, Zhu Hongsan ordered the Jinyiwei in the north to do his best to help Jiang Guan, and that the nail behind the Qing Dynasty must play a role more.

Jiang Yan received rewards and assistance from Emperor Shenwu. At this time, the emptiness of the northern hinterland occupied by the Qing Dynasty was a good time for Jiang Yan to develop. In less than two months, the entire Shanxi province, except for the provincial capital Taiyuan and a few cities, was almost occupied by Jiang Yan, and Shanxi's anti-Qing and restoration movement quickly affected the northwest regions such as Shaanxi.

From a geographical point of view, Shanxi is close to Jifu, and the sudden change in the situation poses great threat to the ruling center of Manchu aristocrats. However, Shanxi is quite far away from the area controlled by the Nanming Dynasty and is separated by the Qing Dynasty ruling area, so the contact between the two sides is naturally difficult. Many historical records of the Southern Ming Dynasty do not talk about the anti-Qing and restoration movements in Jin, Shaanxi and other places represented by Jiang Guan, or just pass by the background of the times. The "Southern Ming History" in their minds is the authentic history of the southern Ming power. However, looking at the overall situation, the Ming power in the early Qing Dynasty could not be limited to the south. The anti-Qing revolution led by Jiang Guan and others was not an ordinary mutiny or rebellion, but a large-scale contest between the Ming power in the north and the Qing Dynasty.

After Jiang Yan's uprising, the Qing Dynasty initially attempted to adopt a policy of pacification to resolve the problem. Dorgon had killed his biggest competitor, Haoge, and called himself the regent of the emperor. Now he wanted to persuade Jiang Yan to change his mind as the supreme ruler. On the tenth day of December, Dorgon sent an envoy to explain to Jiang Yan that he deliberately made Jiang Yan's rebellion against the Qing Dynasty just misunderstood the intention of the Qing court and gave Jiang Yan the opportunity to step down. Then he announced that if he could repent and return to sincerity, he would still "be kind as usual". However, Dorgon, who was not familiar with the class struggle, did not know that the fundamental reason for Jiang Yan's anti-Qing was the conflict between the Manchu and Han ethnic groups. Before Jiang Yan's actions, he had been suspicious of the Qing court, and his attempt to surrender after opposing the Qing Dynasty was like a flood, and his future was even more unimaginable, so he ignored Dorgon's appeasement.

In history, every emerging dynasty had a military process from prosperity to decline, and the Qing Dynasty was no exception. However, the process of prosperity to decline by the rulers of the Qing court was particularly rapid. From the first year of Shunzhi to the fourth year, the invincible scenes of the Eight Banners of Manchuria never appeared again as if they were short-lived.

The strength of the Eight Banners of Manchuria has declined rapidly and it is difficult to continue to serve as the main force to conquer the country for objective reasons: First, the Eight Banners of Manchuria originated from adult Manchu men, and the Manchus was a very small ethnic group at that time. At the beginning of the entry into the pass, the total strength of the Qing army was less than 100,000, including the Han army and Mongolian soldiers. There were only tens of thousands of Manchuria soldiers who could actually go out in armor. After entering the Central Plains, the number of people who died in battle and died of illness may exceed the natural breeding number of people. After entering the residential area of ​​the Han people, they enjoyed preferential treatment from winners of varying degrees, and gradually grew up the pursuit of comfort in life. It was far less simple and brave to use their lives before and after entering the pass. In summary, there were fewer soldiers and lower morale.

Second, the generals who were leading the army in the early days of the Qing Dynasty were infected with smallpox and fascinated by the fact that they had become obsessed with women and internal conflicts, and withered. By the seventh year of Shunzhi, the long-standing battle formations that the Qing Dynasty relied on to establish the country, and the great generals who had made outstanding achievements no longer existed. These relatives, the princes were generally young at the time of death, and Jiergalang was the longest-lived one, and only lived to be fifty-seven years old (Zhu Hong's three words: I said it was a punishment from heaven!). Even if their children inherited their titles, they were not very young and lacked combat experience and could not replace their fathers' roles on the battlefield. Although there were still a group of nobles below the princes and generals, they were no longer as heroic as they were back then.

Seeing that there was no way to solve Jiang Qi, Dorgon had to deploy heavy troops on the Shanxi border to prevent Jiang Qi from coming out to make trouble. After Duoduo eliminated the resistance forces of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he turned around to deal with Jiang Qi.

Historians have always talked about the Southern Ming Dynasty, and they mostly focused on the South and paid little attention to the anti-Qing and restoration movement of Jiang Yan and others. This reflects that they did not understand the situation in the country at that time, and it is likely that they were deeply influenced by the historical records of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Although the Yongli court verbally took responsibility for restoring the Ming Dynasty, the information was unclear and had never had a far-sighted strategic plan. In the historical records of the Southern Ming Dynasty, in addition to seeing a few records of Jiang Yan, they were very dispelled from the large-scale anti-Qing movements in the mountains and Shaanxi, and they knew nothing about the dilemma of the elite and powerful generals of the Qing court to Shanxi, and other places with weak troops.

When the Yongli court was at its climax of the national anti-Qing and restoration movement, it only knew that the situation in Jiangxi and Huguang was reversed, and Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren, Li Chengdong, and He Tengjiao were killed and fell into Zhang Huang's misfortune. Yongli's monarch and ministers did not understand Tan Tai at all. After stabilizing the situation in Jiangxi, He Luo did not dare to go deep into Guangdong and retreated north. He did not know why Jiergalang and Luke Dehun sent troops to Hunan to pursue the Zhongzhen Camp headed by Li Jin and others. Because He Tengjiao, the head of the Ming Dynasty, commanded blindly for the sake of his conscience, was captured and killed by the Qing army in a daze. Jiergalang and others took advantage of the situation to temporarily stabilize the situation in Hunan and hurriedly returned to Beijing without caring about the original target.

The retreat of the two Qing troops north was obviously because the Qing court wanted to strengthen the capital. In order to strengthen the foundation of the capital, the Yongli court was immersed in the grief of Jin, Wang, Li, and He Fu. Fortunately, the Qing army did not take advantage of the victory and went directly to Guangdong and Guangxi. I don’t know that this was the most stressful moment for the Qing court. In nearly a year, Zhu Youlang, Qu Shisi, Lu Daqi and others lived a peaceful life in darkness and were intrigued by the intrigue between Guangdong and Guangxi. It was not until the Qing court eliminated the Qing court and the faction that Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming led his army southward, and woke up like a dream and became in chaos.

The monarchs and ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty closed their eyes and were just passing by, which shows that this is a silly way to realize the great task of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. The anti-Qing struggles of Jiang Guan, Liu Qian, Wang Yongqiang, Yu Yin and others proved that the Qing Dynasty's rule in the north was far from stable, and on the other hand, it proved that the combat capabilities of the Eight Banners of Manchuria were quite limited. From Jiangxi and Guangdong, the Yongli court was awarded titles and officials in time, while the leaders of the various rebel armies in Shanxi and Shaanxi were probably far away to serve the Ming court, claiming to be a general, a grand clerk, a governor, and a general. The Yongli court seemed to only know that Jiang Guan was against the Qing Dynasty in Datong, so the others were not very clear. Although the barriers between mountains and rivers were one of the reasons, later Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Lu Jianguo, Zheng Chenggong and others often sent secret envoys to the Qing ruling region to contact the lurking righteous men in various places. In contrast, the Yongli court's short-sighted vision was really amazing.
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