Ma Shiying listened, looked at Wu Zheng, and saw that Wu Zheng had a calm face, not intending to humiliate him, so he was not as angry as before, but replied calmly: "This year, Shiying has traveled to the mountains and villages in Zhejiang, and has heard more ugly ones. ”

Wu Zheng smiled, but he didn't smile at all, shook his hand and said, "No need, Wu is not interested in listening." ”

Ma Shiying said suddenly: "What does Master Hou want to hear, as long as Shiying knows, he will know everything, and he will say everything." ”

Seeing Ma Shiying on the road, Wu Zheng nodded with satisfaction and said: "You are the first assistant of the Hongguang Dynasty, you must know the real reason for the demise of the Hongguang Dynasty, and you may as well talk about it." ”

Ma Shiying was slightly stunned, he didn't expect that Wu Zheng wanted to know this, shouldn't he ask something more important? For example, his whereabouts in the past two years, and so on.

"Hou Ye wants to hear it, Shi Ying will talk about it, just ask Hou Ye to wait a while, let Shi Ying think about where to start first."

Wu Zheng nodded and said, "Don't be busy, think slowly, talk slowly." ”

Ma Shiying pondered for a long time, raised his head and said: "Actually, I said that this result has been buried since the time of supporting King Fu, do you believe it?" ”

Wu Zheng sighed "hmm" and said noncommittally: "Go on." ”

"The first emperor collapsed, and Nanjing proposed a new monarch. I propose to proclaim the blessed king...... Hou Ye Mingjian, according to the royal bloodline, the eldest concubine and the Lun order, the blessed king Zhu Yousong is the natural choice. ”

Wu Zheng said again: "Go on." ”

But the Donglin Party led by Qian Qianyi insisted on supporting Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, saying that they would not establish a long heir, but would establish a virtuous. But as we all know, King Fu's father, Lao Fuwang, is older than King Hui Zhu Changrun and King Gui Zhu Changying, and King Fu is his eldest son, and Emperor Chongzhen is the same generation, but Chongzhen's cousin, so whether it is in terms of eldest or younger brother and precedent of Emperor Jiajing's succession, King Fu's succession to the throne is obviously better than that of King Hui and Gui. As for Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, not only is he separated by blood, but even the generation is the same as Emperor Chongzhen's generation, no matter how you look at it, it is unlikely that he will be able to get his turn. ”

"Presumably Hou Ye has also heard of the great rites in the Jiajing Dynasty and the Wanli Dynasty to fight for the country, the Donglin Party is fighting for the bloodline and the eldest son, the so-called Lun Xuan Gangchang, according to their set of theories, Fu Wang Zhu Yousong is the natural choice. But when it came to supporting King Lifu, the Donglin Party people kept silent about their previous set of Lun Xuan Guidelines, which were enshrined as the law of all ages, but began to talk about Lixian. ”

In fact, the deep meaning is nothing more than worrying about Fu Wangli, or chasing complaints about demon books, assaults, palace moves and other cases. And Lu Wangli has no such troubles. He claimed that supporting Lu was a matter of raising troops, and he also agreed with my suggestion to support King Fu, but he also suggested that for the sake of the court, choose a compromise method, that is, not to establish King Fu nor King Lu, but to establish King Gui instead. ”

"After hearing this, the Donglin Party no longer objected, as long as they were not succeeded by King Fu, no matter who they chosen, they would not have an opinion, so as soon as they received the plan of the Shi Cabinet Department, the Ministry of Rites immediately prepared various honor guards, planning to set off to Guangxi to pick up King Gui to Nanjing to succeed to the throne."

Speaking of this, Ma Shiying smiled a little proudly, "But they forgot who I am?" I used nothing more than a delaying tactic, secretly I contacted Han Zanzhou, Liu Kongzhao and the four towns of the general soldiers Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, etc., led 50,000 troops to Fengyang to support the heirs, and then Yongfu Wang went straight to Yizhen, at that time, the Shi Ge Department could only accept the accompli, so there after the Shi Ge Department went to Nanjing, and I led the army to station, in order to deter Nanjing. ”

Wu Zheng secretly admired in his heart, Ma Shiying's hand was indeed clever, and the key was to use Shi Kefa to hide from the Donglin Party.

However, Wu Zheng also regretted that the Shi Gebu generation was a master, but his temperament was not as decisive as Ma Shiying, and he was too indecisive.

In fact, in the dispute between support and establishment, as Ma Shiying said, Shi Kefa is very clear about the merits.

No matter where the candidate is decided, King Fu should be the first choice, but in order to take care of the Donglin party, he concocted a plan to support "Gui", in order not to offend both.

But this "Gui" plan is very absurd, one is not in line with the usual order, let Emperor Chongzhen's cousins not stand, but go to Emperor Chongzhen's uncle, although they are all from Emperor Wanli, but where is the Apocalypse and the second Emperor Chongzhen? Where is the blessed king? Drive it or kill it? Therefore, its essence is not much different from "support".

The second is the extreme lack of operability, which is not as good as "supporting". King Lu Zhu Changshu is the same as King Fu, they are close to Huai'an, and they can get to Nanjing in a few days. However, King Gui is thousands of miles away in Guangxi, and he always wants a few months of going back and forth, and he is afraid that this King Gui has not yet arrived in Nanjing, and the Dashun army or the Qing army has already arrived in the city.

In this matter, from the perspective of Shi Kefa's insight and political means, it is extremely disproportionate, he realized the essence of the matter, but he was indecisive and worried, and did not have the determination and courage of an outstanding statesman, so he did not dare to quickly cut through the chaos and stabilize the situation, so that he later had to go out of Beijing to avoid trouble, and lost the great opportunity to reorganize the imperial court; On the issue of establishing a monarch, in the face of resistance and opposition, he did not have the courage to speak up, but only wanted not to offend the forces of all sides. This is still a slight gap compared to his teacher Zuo Guangdou.

In fact, there have been such things in all dynasties, and this kind of thing will be decisive, and it will be established, and if it is not established, it will not be established.

What is the middle ground?

Even this is even more absurd than Wu Zheng deposing the king of Lu and supporting the princess of Changping.

Because Wu Zheng only supported the prison country, although he was also a king, after all, the word "also" was added in front of it.

The prison is a monarch to a minister, but to the emperor, he is still a minister.

Deposing ministers with ministers is not a rebellion in the final analysis, which is also the key reason why an upright minister like Qian Sule did not object to Wu Zheng's "rebellion" in the end.

But Shi Kefa is the emperor who supports it like this, and the emperor is actually chosen by these powerful ministers, which is too ridiculous.

Although this is the nature of the world, there are some things that cannot be said.

In particular, Shi Kefa was the most powerful minister in Nanming at that time, and at this time, he decisively appointed a person, and he could avoid the dispute for support, maybe the party dispute would not have broken out so quickly.

At this time, Ma Shiying continued: "This support is indeed my victory, but I also know that this matter is not over so quickly, and King Fu's accession to the throne is just the beginning of the party struggle. And the most dangerous of these is not the party dispute, but the Fu King, Emperor Hongguang himself. ”