In 1645, Zhu Youjian ascended the throne and became emperor under the support of Zheng Zhilong. By the beginning of the fifth year of Longwu in 1649, he finally got rid of the fate of a puppet and immediately began his layout.

During his days as a puppet emperor, Emperor Longwu had a deep understanding of the current situation in the Ming Dynasty.

The biggest problem in the Ming Dynasty today was not only the external threats of the Qing Dynasty, but also the issue of local forces growing and the loss of imperial power.

If the central authority is not reshape the central government and the emperor's majesty is strengthened, the empire will be a mess, and even if it can defeat the Qing Dynasty, it will evolve towards separatist rule in the late Han Dynasty.

Although Longwu may be able to restore his foundation by relying on the current local governor and generals, Longwu felt that this opportunity was slim, and even if he recovered, the country could not be considered his.

Although Longwu is now the emperor, he cannot use the local governor and governor, and he even dare not replace those disobedient governors. What is the emperor and the emperor?

At this time, Zhu Youjian had many loyal ministers, but most of these loyal ministers held heavy troops, which made Zhu Youjian afraid of being attacked, and it was difficult to control them, and he was not at ease with them, so he decided to reuse his brothers and let them take power.

Although the vassal kings will also threaten his position, compared to losing power and seizing power from the opposite sex, Zhu Youjian is willing to accept the bitter fruit of the future expansion of the vassal kings.

Furthermore, now we will use the vassal states to consolidate the imperial power and solve the current problem of warlord separatism. When the vassal states become bigger in the future, he can still reduce the vassal states.

In the room, Zhu Youjian talked with the two kings of Tang and Yu, so that they could understand the crisis facing the Zhu family and talked with them all night.

The next day, Zhu Youjian left the Tang King Zhu Yuyou to take charge of southern Jiangxi, and asked the Henan King Zhu Yue to go south to Guangzhou.

In this way, after Zhu Youjian moved to Changsha, he personally controlled Huguang, and had two more brothers who controlled Jiangxi and Guangdong respectively. Only then could he gradually become the real master of the empire, regain the power of life and death, and become an emperor who is arbitrary and decisive emperor.

Although Zhu Yihai was supported by the Zhejiang Group at that time, he was not as good as him.

The Zhejiang Group is composed of a group of warlords. Zhu Yihai has no choice but to use warlords. However, the relationship between Zhu Yihai and the Zhejiang Generals is not to suppress anyone, but a tacit cooperation. Zhu Yihai will not make rude and excessive demands on them, and the Zhejiang Generals do not regard it as a puppet, hoping to gain political benefits by supporting Zhu Yihai ascending the throne.

This is determined by the position of the two at this time. Zhu Yihai is just the national reserve and needs to unite everyone, give them benefits, gain their support, and thus ascend to the throne. Zhu Youjian is already the emperor, and he considers how to restore the emperor's dignity and strengthen his imperial power, so as not to let the power fall.

A few days later in Ganzhou, Zhu Youjian immediately drove into Huguang. At the end of February, he entered Changsha and was warmly welcomed by the people of Changsha.

Zhu Youjian immediately issued an order to change Changsha to Xijing, and to temporarily stay in the imperial court, and issued an order not to build a palace to show his determination to restore it. He also decided to select elite troops from the Chu and Gan soldiers, reorganize the Beijing camp soldiers, and send thirteen censors to inspect the local area, severely punish corruption, and rebuild the prestige of the court.

After Zhu Youjian moved to Changsha, Li Guogao, who was in Yuanzhou and the Qing army, withdrew from Jiangxi to Huguang, and the war on the Western Front was completely quelled.

At the same time, the Manchu general Zhejiang Governor Zhang Cunren withdrew from Yanzhou, and Ma Guanghui from eastern Zhejiang also gave up the encirclement and suppression of Siming Mountain, retreated to Ningbo City, and the eastern front also entered a state of truce.

At this point, the war that caused by Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty that affected Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and Chu finally stopped, and the Ming and Qing dynasties retreated back to the territory before the war began.

Although there was no change in the territory of both sides, the battle ended with the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty was unable to launch a new war in a short period of time.

After the entire battle, the main force of the Qing army entering Fujian was defeated, with heavy casualties. In addition, the Qing army suffered losses in Zhejiang and southern Jiangxi battlefields, with more than 70,000 casualties, and 20,000 of them were the Eight Banners soldiers.

The elite of the Qing Dynasty was the Eight Banners. With the myth that the Eight Banners soldiers could not defeat, the Qing Dynasty could shock the world and drive the Han soldiers several times the Eight Banners to serve the Qing Dynasty.

The previous battle in Jinhua had already made the Eight Banners lose face, and now it has lost 20,000 yuan. This is no longer a matter of loss of troops, but it will make the world question the ability of the Eight Banners, which is invincible, and is it fake.

For personnel losses, the full flag can be used to catch savages from outside the pass, the Meng flag can be selected from the outer vassals, and the Han flag can be used to raise the flag to the green camp, which is not impossible to solve.

However, after more than ten years of war in the Qing Dynasty, the myth of the Eight Banners' invincible collapsed, and the problem would be big.

Dorgon also knew in his heart that they were all human beings. Once the Han people were not afraid of the Eight Banners, the rule of Manchus in the pass would not be maintained at all.

Therefore, this battle was not a big deal to damage the Qing army's vitality, and it also caused great damage to the morale of the Qing army. If there was no big victory, the flag soldiers would probably have to doubt themselves.

This battle was also quite a loss for the Ming Dynasty, but the more than 100,000 Zheng troops who had not contributed to the anti-Qing Dynasty collapsed and were incorporated by the Zhejiang regime and controlled by the Zheng generals who resisted the Qing Dynasty. The strength of the Ming army was not only not weakened, but instead strengthened.

In addition to the continuous victory, the Ming army overcame their fear of the Qing army and their morale increased greatly, which finally gave the Ming army the courage to face the Qing army and compete with each other.

With such increase and decrease, the advantageous situation of the Qing army, which originally had an absolute advantage, was gradually offset. Although the Qing Dynasty was still strong and the Ming Dynasty was weak, it was not easy for the Qing Dynasty to destroy the Ming Dynasty.

If the Qing army had the strength to destroy Ming in one battle in the past, then the Ming Dynasty could barely fight with the Qing army for several rounds. Only when the Qing army fought well could they have a chance to destroy Ming. If the battle was not good, they would be in danger.

The Ming Dynasty had already fallen from one blow and could only be pressed to the ground and hit hard. Then he had the opportunity to fight and fight back.

In Beijing, shortly after the end of the Fujian Battle, Dorgon received news of his defeat.

This made Dorgon extremely angry and prepared to severely punish those who were unfavorable in the battle. However, just when he was angry, an unfortunate news came to Beijing and instantly wiped out his flames.

In the regent's residence, Dorgon was looking at the current situation gloomyly. After the Qing army was defeated, the various battlefields entered a period of stalemate and were unable to start war again, which affected his plan to unify the world.

At this time, a guard ran into the room in panic, knelt behind Dorgon, and said anxiously: "Master, something is not good. News from Nanjing is coming, Prince Yu is not good!"

"What?" Dorgon turned around, his face full of horror.

"Governor Fan rushed to report, Prince Yu was seriously injured and died, and he became sick with grief and anger. I am afraid it won't happen!" The guard looked panicked.

Dorgon's mind instantly turned blank, as if he was struck by lightning, his body retreated and hit the table before he could stabilize his body.

"Master, I feel sorry for you!" The aide on the side hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

Dorgon stood there for a while, pushed the opening staff, beat his chest and shouted, "I'm the god of evil!"
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