After Shi Kefa and Jiang Yueguang, Lu Daqi, Gao Hongtu and others met, everyone came to the boat again and urged King Fu to come ashore.

Zhu Yousong's Chengfu is relatively shallow, and his expression is no longer as respectful and trustworthy as Shi Kefa.

It's just that there are many eunuchs and nobles in front of him, plus a large number of middle- and lower-level officials and guards, Shi Kefa has doubts, but he doesn't have much to say.

After King Fu went ashore from the boat and sacrificed to the Tomb of Yixiao, after staying in the Inner Garrison Mansion before dark, Shi Kefa resigned, and then came out of the Garrison Mansion with the people of Donglin, and everyone went to Shi Kefa's mansion to drink tea and talk.

After all, Shi Kefa was in power, and soon after dark, someone went to his mansion and reported to him what had happened in the boat.

"Ma Yaocao is hateful." Shi Kefa slapped the case and said angrily: "The overall situation is undecided, the thieves are entrenched in Beijing, this is the time when our generation should work together to revive the country's strength, why bother to provoke infighting at this time!" ”

"Of course, what Ma Yaocao is planning is the position of the first assistant of the cabinet." Lu Daqi sneered: "Even if he is not good, he will be listed after the Daolin and become the second assistant of the cabinet, but I think he will never be willing to do this, if he does not sit in the position of the first assistant and control the court situation, he will not give up." ”

Shi Kefa's face was full of pain, and he looked up to the sky and said: "Why is it so, why is it so!" ”

"It's time to cheer up." Jiang Yueguang said: "My generation must make up our minds to get rid of this evil spirit." If we delay any longer, I am afraid that the hearts and nobles in the city, and the generals of the Beijing camp will be attached to Ma Shiying, and it will be difficult for us to get rid of this person at that time. ”

Gao Hongtu said in a deep voice: "Ma Shiyingfu has acted like this when he arrived in Nanjing, this thief is ambitious, and it is true that it is time to make up his mind." ”

Shi Kefa was silent, and only after a long time did he say: "When King Fu came to Nanjing, my generation fought and even killed ministers, which is really not suitable for human ministers. ”

"Even if you don't kill him, you must arrest him, announce the crime, and release him to the list!"

"Dao neighbors, at this time, it is constant, just like the matter of Yingli, sooner or later it will be ruined."

"What Ma Yaocao did, can there be a little bit of harmony and conspiracy for national affairs? If this person is not removed, the state affairs will be bad, and the idea of four towns and four towns outside you, and the idea of establishing eight towns in Nanjing to guard the middle will definitely not come true. ”

"Yes, Liu Zeqing is also attached to this person, if this person is removed, Liu will be able to do it anyway, Huang Degong has always been loyal, and he will not have twists and turns because of this, Gao Jie has always been rebellious, and he is not Ma Yaocao's old department, just appease him. Liu Liangzuo's uncertain villain, let alone take it to heart...... Taking advantage of this incident, it is not impossible to arrest the person first, and then announce the charges. ”

Shi Kefa was silent for a while, but he couldn't make a decision.

Everyone urged again and again, and Shi Kefa said: "Ma Yaocao didn't come unprepared, not only did His Royal Highness King Fu have many soldiers and horses guarding the four towns around him, but they all listened to this person's moderation. Just the three hundred Guizhou soldiers brought by this person's side, all of them rushed from his hometown one after another in Fengyang Governor's office, after a long war, brave and daring to die, and only listened to Ma Yaocao's order, we do it easily, once things don't work, Nanjing City has become a place of soldiers, and the good situation is ruined, why to the Daxing Emperor, why to the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, why to the people of the world? Ladies and gentlemen, there is no need to mention this matter, after His Royal Highness King Fu is in charge of the country, he should confess it clearly, and he will not lose a big one because of a small one, and sit back and watch the big opportunity. ”

"So, I'll take my leave."

Gao Hongtu rose up, followed by Lu Daqi and Jiang Yueguang.

Everyone only went out of the second gate of the Shi Mansion, and Gao Hongtu couldn't help but say: "Daolin is really a gentleman who can be bullied!" Ma Yaocao told King Fu about the seven things that could not be established, and King Fu supervised the country and then became the emperor for more than a month, and if King Fu took Ma Yaocao as the first assistant of the cabinet and did not give credit to his neighbors, what would he do? When the power is in hand, it is just a matter of looking forward and backward, and at this time, it is still timid to be forced to the head...... Alas, the servant has nothing to say! ”

Lu Daqi was also quite dissatisfied with Shi Kefa's decision, but he still defended the same year: "It is difficult for the neighbors to make up their minds, and they are still worried about the war, if Nanjing is destroyed by the war, it is true that they cannot explain to the people of the world." ”

Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, and Lu Daqi have relatively rich experience in political disputes, and these people have often served as local governors for a long time, and their determination to kill and make decisions is much firmer than Shi Kefa.

Emperor Chongzhen may have fallen in love with Shi Kefa's gentleness and frugality, and he was relatively relieved of Shi Kefa's character, and Shi Kefa also did quite well as the governor of Fengyang, at least there was no big mistake, which was also one of the important reasons why Emperor Chongzhen chose Shi Kefa to guard Nanjing.

However, Shi Kefa's flaw is that he has not served in the local government for a long time, has not experienced a real life-and-death decision, and has not been tempered in the war.

Not to mention that this experience is far from Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting, even compared with the few people in the same party in front of him.

"Actually, the servant has already repaired the book to Zuo Shuai." Gao Hongtu said with a calm face: "There are hundreds of thousands of troops in Zuo Shuai, which one of these Jiangbei dares to move?" ”

Zuo Liangyu was still famous at this time, and he was not exposed to the true face of the paper tiger.

Although it was repeatedly defeated by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, it still retained considerable strength because it was good at escaping, and there were also fierce generals like Jin Shengheng among his subordinates.

The most important thing is that Huguang is a grain-producing area and a densely populated place, although he and Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng fought a tug-of-war in Huguang successively, the extent of the destruction of Huguang is not serious.

It may be that Zhang Xianzhong stayed in Gucheng for a few years, and later, like Li Zicheng, wanted to include Huguang in his bag, so he didn't wreak havoc.

With such a treasure as Huguang, Zuo Liangyu's strength recovered quickly, and now claims to have an army of 500,000, and its actual strength should also exceed 200,000.

Outsiders don't know that most of Zuo Liangyu's troops are recruits and strong men, and their combat effectiveness is not strong, and their training and command ability is relatively weak, it is estimated that it is about the same level as Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing, and it is not as good as Gao Jie and Huang Degong.

Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji were originally fierce generals in the Beijing camp, and after they were released from the Beijing camp, they fought many vicious battles, and they had rich experience, and there were more elite soldiers and horses under their command, although the number of soldiers and horses was not as good as Zuo Liangyu, but the actual strength was not under the left.

Regarding this point, how can these civil officials in front of them, who are good at civil and official infighting, regard military generals as servants, and only remember that Zuo Liangyu's reputation is louder, and there are more soldiers and horses, how can they understand?

"Daolin always looks at the big picture." Lu Daqi said helplessly: "It's better not to be able to afford internal coaxing, it's just strange, how could Ma Yaocao know if the neighbor could stand, and how did he get the letter?" ”

"The letter was given to Ma Yaocao by a student." Jiang Yueguang, who didn't speak for a while, smiled coldly and said: "Originally, I wanted to use this matter to separate Ma Yaocao and Shi Daolin, so that Daolin could make up his mind and annihilate the villain around King Fu in one fell swoop." Now it seems that this thing is really self-defeating. ”

"Alas, how can you come up with such a clumsy plan!"

"It's really going to be a bad thing now!"

In the face of the accusations of the same party, Jiang Yueguang also didn't care, but said in a deep voice: "There is no such thing, Ma Yaocao relies on the merit of supporting the establishment and does not want to be in the cabinet?" This person is not Comrade Donglin, and sooner or later he will break up, but sooner or later. To be honest, the students are not worried about anything else, they are worried that after Ma Yaocao enters the cabinet, the Taoist neighbors will focus on the overall situation, and they will be false and wronged. The current situation of the Ming Dynasty is because there are too many treacherous evils and justice is not promoted. In the future, our comrades will never compromise with this generation again, and we will definitely fight with them to the end, and reproduce the situation of the righteous path in the early years of the Apocalypse, then there should still be great things to do! ”

This can be regarded as an idea of the Donglin Party at the beginning of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, although it may not be what Jiang Yueguang said personally, but it probably represents the attitude of the Nanjing Donglin Party and the Restoration Society.

In their opinion, all the mistakes and failures of the Chongzhen Dynasty were due to the fact that the emperor was too arbitrary, and secondly, there were villains such as Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren in power.

If the dynasties are all Donglin colleagues, why did the overall situation of the Ming Dynasty collapse to this point?

From the day Ma Shiying defied the will of Donglin and supported King Fu together with the four towns, a break was inevitable.

Ma Shiying himself wanted to make peace with Donglin and fight against the thieves and Dongyu together after fighting for power, but Donglin could not agree and would never let him go.

The subsequent incident of Ruan Dayue and the case of the prince from the south are nothing more than the extension and fermentation of this sentiment and practice of the Donglin Party.

The exclusion of Shi Kefa in the cabinet, the exclusion and confrontation of Ma Shiying by Jiang and others, and many emotional decisions, all of which are due to this consideration and determination.

This is the will and determination of a partisan, and it is also the general trend.

In Huguang, Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Donglin's forces are overwhelming, Ma Shiying and others took advantage of the victory, and the seeds of division have been deeply buried at the moment of success.

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After Gao Hongtu and others withdrew, Shi Kefa went to his big clothes and changed into a robe at home, and the worry between his eyebrows was incomprehensible.

Ma Shiying's stab in the back was unexpected, but it was actually a matter of course.

As long as this person wants to occupy the position of the cabinet, or wants to keep his position, it is inevitable to suppress Shi Kefa, and there is no other possibility.

Everything is not harmonious, the previous support, the establishment of the new dynasty, the new cabinet, the adjustment of military strength, the situation around Nanjing, as well as the combing of Huguang and Zhejiang, the combing of the financial system from Jiangnan to the southwest and the southeast, how to restore order and establish a defense system and a financial system in a short period of time, these are the top priorities in Shi Kefa's heart.

But the shadow of the court struggle is also that he can't get rid of the problem, at this moment, this first civil official who has the hope of the world, deep down, really has the idea and plan to avoid.

"What good is it for the country to make such a fuss, and what good is it for me to be here?" The subordinates were busy on the side, and Shi Kefa thought angrily: "In this way, it is better to go out, I don't believe it, I am supervising things in laymen, such as Ma Yaocao and Yang Wenweak, and I will not do as well as them!" ”