Dorgon, as a meritorious servant of the Qing Dynasty, entered the Guanding Dingding as the de facto supreme ruler. Its political wisdom should not be underestimated, and this article will probe dorgon's political shrewdness from three things.
The first thing: to support the young emperor
Some people will always say that after the death of Emperor Taiji, Dorgon had the opportunity to inherit the throne, and he ceded it to Fu Lin, is this really the case? In the late Emperor Taiji period, Dorgon was a very talented figure with high prestige, "Emperor Taizong started a business in Shengjing, colleagues and kings were meritorious, and the crown of the Rui King's merits" can be seen to be widely appreciated. However, when Emperor Taiji was alive, he made great achievements both internally and externally, which was also incomparable to Dorgon, and the Emperor's extreme personal prestige also reached its peak, with a lot of die-hard loyalties, and within the two yellow flags, represented by Turg, Soni, Aobai, etc., he did not back down: "I belong to the emperor, I am clothed by the emperor, the grace of nurturing is the same as the heavens, if I do not establish the son of the emperor, I would rather die from the emperor underground."
At the same time, Hauge, the eldest son of Emperor Taiji, himself mastered the blue flag, and Zilharang, who set the blue flag, also expressed support. And the Daishan family, who mastered the two red flags, did not want to get involved in the whirlpool, he was inclined to Hauge, but he was a throwing pot attitude towards Dorgon, "If the rui king allows, the blessing of our country; otherwise, he should be a prince", what does it mean? That is, if you can get the two yellow flags, you will go up; if you can't, listen to the voices of the two yellow flags to support Hauge. Although, Daishan is very skilled and does not want his descendants to be involved in the line. However, his son Shuoto and grandson Adali still strongly support Dorgon, but they do not have much strength, because zhenghongqi is the flag master, and the red flag owner is his eldest son Yuetuo, and Shuoto and Adali are both "minority shareholders" within the two red flags.
How is Dolgun strong at this time? He only had the support of the two white flags of the two brothers in his hands, although the combat strength was not weak, but the overall was still inferior to the two yellow flags; at the same time, the two yellow flags had made preparations and arranged the strength of the troops to control the door, and it was almost impossible to achieve strong. So he took advantage of Hauge's modesty of "Fu Xiaode thin, not worthy", took advantage of the rule gap, and actively proposed a third plan, Li Fu Lin. Some people say that the relationship with Concubine Zhuang is not ordinary, at that time, there was actually no choice, and only this road was the best. First, if you don't set up the eldest son, go to Shuosai, who is the second son of The First Line, Shunzhi is already fifteen years old in the first year, and still needs to assist the government? Direct pro-government, this has nothing to do with them, the rights of the big men are not guaranteed; the second is that the third son Fulin can only be established in order, if the fourth son Bomu Bogol is chosen, then it may be easy to oppose the various departments of Princess Zhuang's family. Grandpa Bomu Bogol's family was only the Abbahai Ministry, and its status was not as good as the former. At the end of the Emperor Taiji and in the early period after entering the customs, Horqin made the greatest contribution, and almost every battle of each department must be followed by soldiers.
In the end, Dorgon made a fortune as he wished, exploited a loophole, and won the support of everyone, and at the same time he chose a Zilharang to assist the government, rather than the powerful faction of Daishan, which paved the way for him to kick Zilharang in the back and monopolize power. Combined, it can be seen that this process is more refined than Dolgun calculates.
The second thing: the battle for the jam
After Dorgon sat on the throne as regent, he was keenly aware of the changes in Shanhaiguan, and after learning that Li Zicheng had sent Tang Tong to attack Wu Sangui and personally took Wu Sangui's family to Shanhaiguan to "force a surrender", he immediately organized and mobilized all men over the age of ten and seventy in the country to join the army and concentrate his forces to go to Shanhaiguan to back Wu Sangui.
On April 22, Tang Tong and Wu Sangui fought fiercely, and the gap between the two sides was not large, so Dorgon watched from the sidelines for a long time, waiting for the two sides to be consumed. When Li Zicheng was about to capture the cities of Dongxiluo and the North Wing, and Wu Sangui sent several people out of the siege to ask him for help, Dorgon estimated that the strength of the two sides had been greatly damaged, so he sent troops into Shanhaiguan to reap the benefits of the fishermen.
The 53,000 men who pursued and killed the peasant army Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui followed, followed by king Sanshun with a total of 26,000 people, and finally harvested after the Eight Banners Army Hall. The real Manchurian Eight Banners were less than 100,000 people, and relying on this strength, they quickly gathered more than 400,000 troops and gradually unified the whole country. In this process, the strength of the Manchurian Eight Banner Army was properly preserved, and the war of attrition was all Han Chinese, and eventually sat firmly in rule. Dorgon's pinch point, the input-output calculation is accurate.
The third thing: deal with party strife
How the Ming Dynasty failed, the late Ming Party had a great negative role, and Dorgon was certainly clear. In the early Qing Dynasty, forced by the population restrictions of Manchuria, it was forced to use a large number of old people, many of which were some old fritters in the official field at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so the party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty was immediately reflected in the political situation in the early Qing Dynasty, and it was entangled with the internal contradictions in Manchuria.
At the beginning of the Shunzhi dynasty, the Donglin Party was no longer in favor of the castration party, but the civil official north-south party struggle began again. In July of the second year of Shunzhi, Zhejiang Daoyushi Wu Dashang impeached the remnants of the castrated party, and the spearhead was directed at Feng Quan and his henchmen Sun Zhihu. Hong Chengyu and Jin Zhijun, the han high-ranking officials in the Qing court, were all southerners, and all secretly supported Wu. After fully considering the influence of these people's strength and stubbornness, dorgon decided to take advantage of the situation to attack the southern faction and avoid the gain of power over the southern officials of the central and southern dynasties, in order to prevent Hong Chengyu and other old members of the Ming Dynasty from becoming bigger, and it may be adversely affected by the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Dorgon publicly denounced Gong Dingzi in the court, but only dismissed Li Sen from his post first, and did not investigate the others. Dorgon made better use of them through the struggle between the two sides, so as to achieve his goal of using Han to rule Han.
Through the handling of this matter, basically until the death of Dolgun, the party struggle and even the entire Han people did not become bigger, Fan Wencheng, Hong Chengyu, and so on were crushed to death, and Wu Sangui of the outer domain did not dare to look up and make a mistake.
In summary, Dorgon's strategic vision in the entire political vortex is very high, and he is best at pinching the rhythm and exerting extreme pressure, and his opponents are often pressed to death by him. So Dorgon was a real political actuary.