Dashun was caught in the middle before the Qing army entered the customs. After entering the customs, there was a power vacuum in Henan, Shandong and other places due to the westward withdrawal of Li Zicheng's main force.
Nan Ming never thought that the Qing army could sweep the world, and foreign invasion was only a temporary tinea disease for the Ming Dynasty, not fatal, and the focus should also be on preventing Li Zicheng. It is not surprising that the Ming Dynasty had such an idea. After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, many people thought that Li Zicheng would become the master of the world, so many local bureaucrats took refuge in Li Zicheng. Although Li Zicheng was later defeated because Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs, the main force of Dashun Army was still there, but it just returned to the situation that it had never been in the capital area. Mao started from the grass, and it is understandable that Nan Ming was worried about Li Zicheng.
Besides, in the Qing Dynasty, Nan Ming underestimated the strength and ambition of the Qing Dynasty. How can a tiny country with a population of only a few hundred thousand annex the vast Central Plains dynasty? Until today, people still think that the Qing army won the world by luck. At that time, it was even more difficult to predict that the Qing army would win the world. Not only did Nan Ming think so, but even the Qing army was not confident. During the Ming Dynasty chaos, the Qing army was willing to make a fortune, but those under 70 and over 10 became troops. This is obviously an opportunity to enter the customs and win the Central Plains. This is a life-and-death battle. If the Qing army is defeated by Li Zicheng, Jinzhou and Fuzhou, including Shenyang, which have been seized for many years, may be in jeopardy. Although the Qing army won battles again and again, it also knew that its country was too small to do its best, including the decision of Dourgen to move the capital to Shenyang in the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, from the standpoint of most ordinary people at that time, it was not believed that the Qing army could win the Central Plains.
The ambition of the Qing dynasty was also underestimated. The Qing army entered the mainland many times just to grab money and population, so Nan Ming thought that the Qing army had no ambition and no ambition to annex the Central Plains. This was expected by Fan Wencheng, a counselor of the Qing Dynasty. Fan Wencheng wrote:
He abandoned Zunhua and Tu Yongping and went back twice. He will treat me as a man without ambition, but the children of gold and silk are maps. He also said: now is the time to be strict in discipline and not make mistakes in autumn, and declare the intention of the Central Plains to forge ahead: officials still perform their duties, people are reinstated, talents are recorded, and there is no complaint. In the north of the river, it can be passed down and settled. ?
Fan Wencheng's expectation is almost the same as that after the Qing army entered the customs. Nan Ming really thought that the Qing army had no ambition, no ambition to annex the Central Plains, just to plunder money, food and population. Nanming wanted to learn from the Tang Dynasty and use Qing soldiers to pacify Li Zicheng, just like using Xiongnu Uighur soldiers to pacify internal rebellion. However, they don't know that borrowing soldiers must first strengthen themselves. Without its own strength, it will eventually be annexed. For example, in the Northern Song Dynasty, Jin Bing was used to destroy Liao, and as a result, Jingkang was destroyed by Mongolia. The premise of cooperation is equal strength. Otherwise, everyone else is trying to kill each other, and I am a fish. With the strength of Nanming, it is no different to cooperate with the Qing army.
For example, at that time, Chen Zilong wrote to Emperor Hong Guang, saying that it was not impossible to cooperate with the Qing army. Chongzhen also wants revenge, but it is necessary to train its own strong army. If Li Zicheng is defeated, but we are unable to drive away the Qing army, the Qing army wins the Central Plains, and the Central Plains falls into the hands of foreign countries, then we are sinners through the ages. Therefore, we should let our army enter Henan, Shandong and other places, recover lost ground as soon as possible and appease the people.
However, at that time, Hong Guang was so obsessed with beauty and happiness that he ignored it. In fact, the then emperor Hong Guang did not care about politics, but gave it to Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying and others. However, the proposed plan was not implemented, but the policy of joint land and flat ports was continued. When the Qing army entered Li Zicheng, it didn't have time to look eastward. When the Qing army didn't gain a foothold, there was a power vacuum in Henan and Shandong. The local villagers shouted the slogan of helping the Ming Dynasty destroy bandits, but they didn't wait until Nanming. Nan Ming was afraid of fighting the Qing army head-on, making the Qing army go south to fight against itself, so he never sent troops to the north, just stuck to the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and had no enterprising heart. But we can only say that Shi Kefa and others are incompetent, but we can't think they are fools.
The most important thing is that the army can't do the policy formulated by Nanming in conjunction with Lupingkou. Let's take Liu Liangzuo and Alex Gao, four towns in the north of the Yangtze River, as examples, because they were all given titles because of their decisive efforts and had no enterprising spirit at all. No matter for the Qing army or Dashun Daxi, they are all defeated and have long lost their courage. When they see the enemy, they will flee. When they see people, it is common to rob and kill them. It is said that Shi Kefa was arrested as a strong man to build a mansion for them. They can't beat the peasant army, let alone the more ferocious Qing army. At this time, it is impossible to let them go north.
Every time there is a war in the imperial court, these military leaders can't mobilize at all. Every time, they were forced to March for fear of mutiny. However, the government stipulated that the salary of the four towns in Jiangbei was 200,000 denier grain and 402,000 silver. Moreover, it has been a year and a half since the founding of the People's Republic of China in Nanming. Obviously, it's not because soldiers are underpaid. This is just an excuse. As a warlord, Shi Kefa also wanted to petition the imperial court to protect these people. Don't let everyone look so ugly, so did Zu Dashou. No matter what happens, the officials of Liaodong Governor's Court will shield western Liaoning, because the imperial court can't face them. This shows that Nanming's troops are unreliable, but it is also helpless to unite Pingkou.
We must understand a truth. In troubled times, you need an army to have the right to speak. Political power comes from a gun, and weak countries have no diplomacy. Nanming's internal troubles are more difficult to deal with than external troubles. Nanming does not have its own powerful armed forces, nor can it deter these military leaders, nor can it give confidence to the people at both ends of these snakes and rats. Nan Ming really doesn't know how to go on. Nanming is more difficult than the Eastern Jin and Southern Song Dynasties.