Emperor Zhu Yujian of Longwu was praised by the proponents as eloquent, which is really a bit excessive.

Just think about it, under the constraints of the ancestral system of Taizu, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty in successive dynasties have prevented the clan vassal kings from entering the official ranks.

It can be seen from this that Zhu Yujian, who has no experience in governance, can roughly go?

Besides, if you really have to be eloquent, you won't tear your face with Zhu Yihai.

Obviously, Fujian and Shaoxing are separated by a strip of water, and cooperation will benefit both sides, and division will cause two harms.

If you can't even recognize this, how can you start talking about talent?

However, one thing is certain, Zhu Yujian does have great ambitions, and he wants to turn the tide and restore the country.

It's a pity that Dazhi needs to be matched with eloquence, otherwise there should be an idiom, called Zhi Dacai Shu.

This is to put it mildly, generally speaking, the heart is higher than the sky, and life is thinner than paper.

Zhu Yujian did issue many edicts, and most of them were good governance that was beneficial to the people.

For example, in view of the harm brought by party strife to state affairs since Wanli, he put forward the policy of eliminating party strife and "using the public to give up". He also "personally" wrote three "Handbooks" of "Jin Gentleman", "Rong Zheng", and "Confucianism", calling on the officials of the DPRK and China to abandon the dispute over the gateway and jointly contribute to the great cause of restoring the Ming Dynasty.

The day after he ascended the throne, he issued a special edict to appease the ministers, and the edict did not hold any officials who had previously participated in party disputes accountable.

For example, he issued an edict to rectify the rule of officials, severely punish corruption, and stipulate that "small greed must be roded, and big greed must be killed."

For example, when he heard that soldiers and civilians who were forced by the Qing court to shave their heads were often killed by the Ming army, he issued a special edict that "some people should be shunned by the people, and no people should be refugees", strictly prohibiting indiscriminate massacres.

There are many more, although most of these are from the advice of people like Huang Daozhou and others, not from Zhu Yujian himself, but as an emperor, it is already very good to be good at receiving advice.

Unfortunately, these decrees often do not leave the palace gates.

The implementation of the decree first requires the cooperation of the local government.

Zhu Yujian has only been supported for more than a year, and before he ascended the throne, he annoyed Chongzhen because the vassal king led troops into Beijing, and he was reprimanded and imprisoned for seven years.

Although everyone supported him, this was just a puppet supported for their own interests, and no one really respected Zhu Yujian's edict.

Originally, as long as Zhu Yujian indulged in wine like Emperor Hongguang, everyone would be fine, and it would be regarded as an offering tablet.

It's a pity that this tablet has a thought, and he actually wants to recover the lost land and learn from Wu to fight for the Northern Expedition.

At this time, this group of supporters couldn't sit still.

Especially the Zheng Zhilong brothers, the purpose of their support for Zhu Yujian is to set up a banner and establish a force, so that they can have enough bargaining chips in the bargaining with the Qing court in the future, how can they have a trace of the Northern Expedition to restore the Ming Dynasty?

And Zhu Yujian was only ten days after he ascended the throne, and he issued an edict to kill Ma Dechang, the envoy sent by the Qing Dynasty to surrender, indicating that he did not share the sky in the Qing Dynasty.

Doesn't this cut off the channel between the Zheng Zhilong brothers and the Qing court?

How could the Zheng Zhilong brothers not regard Zhu Yujian as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh?

Zhu Yujian also proposed to change the direction of the imperial court's governance from "Pingkou" (suppressing peasant uprisings) to "imperial capture" (resisting the Qing Dynasty), and appointed Jin Sheng, Yang Tinglin, He Tengjiao, etc., to absorb the remnants of Li Zicheng's peasant army, and repeatedly planned to send troops to the Northern Expedition, but they were all blocked by the Zheng brothers and became empty talk.

That's not all, Zhu Yujian still has to drive in person.

This is a joke, the Zheng brothers are going to be Cao Cao, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, the emperor is personally recruited, who are they coercing?

There is no doubt that the Zheng brothers are determined to stop it.

But the Zheng brothers really did not expect that the remnants of the peasant army, which had always been looked down upon by them, showed extraordinary combat effectiveness when they joined forces with the Ming army to resist the Qing army.

They survived on the battlefield in Jiangxi and blocked the 100,000 Qing troops moving south.

The situation was very good, and Emperor Longwu, who was unwilling to spend his days, finally decided to take the expedition in person to get rid of the manipulation of the Zheng brothers.

He also put forward a grand strategy in view of the situation at that time.

The core of the strategy is to drive his own expedition and enter the Jiangxi region, which was fiercely contested by the Ming and Qing dynasties, connecting He Tengjiao in Hunan in the west, Zheng Zhilong in Fujian in the east, and Guangdong in the back to control the overall situation.

If it succeeds in Jiangxi, it will use the forces of Shaoxing Prefecture in eastern Zhejiang to contain the rear of the Qing army, and then order He Tengjiao's troops to go out of Hubei, go east to the Yangtze River, and sweep the south of the Yangtze River.

Look, it's really powerful, and it's doable.

The question is, which one can Zhu Yujian command?

However, he was immersed in his own imagination, and impassionedly left Fuzhou at the end of last year, and arrived in Jianning ten days later, and began to prepare for the westward march to Ganzhou.

The old minister Huang Daozhou advised Zhu Yujian not to recruit in person, he saw that the Zheng family did not move, and the army departments were cowardly and wait-and-see.

And this admonition was adopted by Zhu Yujian, in Zhu Yujian's view, no matter who is in charge of the Qingtai Dynasty, it is his nephews and grandchildren, and even great-great-grandchildren (according to the genealogy, Zhu Yujian is the ancestor of Emperor Hongguang), so that the Qingtai Dynasty comes to help, it is their duty.

Poor Zhu Yujian drove the pro-conquest, and it was really a pro-conquest.

Less than 10,000 men followed him westward.

These people are not the regular army allocated by the Zheng brothers.

Instead, Huang Daozhou and others scattered their wealth and raised 20,000 taels of silver, many of which were joined by local volunteers.

When Huang Daozhou and Zhu Yujian cried goodbye, Zhu Yujian had nothing to give, and only gave Huang Daozhou a blank letter of appointment.

In Zhu Yujian's view, his edict is everywhere, and his subjects will bow and worship, and everything will be obeyed.

But in fact, it is a piece of waste paper, not to mention in Yingtianfu, even in Fujian, no one takes it seriously.

Huang Daozhou repeatedly told Zhu Yujian: "Instead of sitting and waiting for death, it is better for the monarch and the ministers to fight together." I am a minister, and I act as an emperor first, and I think I am an example for others. However, Your Majesty must not be in a hurry, and after the old minister asks for reinforcements, he will join forces to fight with Jianyu. ”

But Zhu Yujian's blood was already swollen at this time, and his mind was full of what the Holy Driver was, invincible, recovering the lost land, and rebuilding the Ming Dynasty.

How could they really care about the advice of the Zodiac Zhou?

But, can it really be so easy to defeat the Qing army?

Obviously, it was impossible, the Zheng brothers didn't even bother to object, and only used one trick, that is, to restrain Zhu Yujian!

That is, no soldiers, no food!

At the right time, it was Duoduo who led his troops south to fortify Hangzhou, and the Qing army in Hangzhou reinforced Jiangxi, and the situation on the battlefield in Jiangxi was reversed in an instant, and the combined forces of the Ming army and the peasant army were defeated in the blink of an eye.

Zhu Yujian, who had not yet entered Jiangxi, did not send a single arrow, he heard the wind and collapsed, he beat his chest and feet, while looking up to the sky and crying out, "Heaven's will is like this, it is not a crime of war", and ordered to retreat.

At this time, the Qing army invaded Fujian on two fronts.

Li Chengdong on the West Road took Cheng'an to Jianyang and forced Jianning.

The East Road Duoduo is even more powerful.