In front of Xiaolingwei, Li Shouhan was very solemn in front of the dismount workshop, along the lower horse workshop to the Shenlie Mountain Stele, the Great Golden Gate, the Divine Meritorious Monument and the stele pavilion (commonly known as the Sifang City), the Shinto stone carvings and the Yuhe Bridge, the path next to the Shinto Yonglu led the horse and walked, behind him, Ma Shiying, Liu Kongzhao and other officials and nobles in Nanjing City dozens of mermaids dismounted from the horse and got off the sedan chair on foot. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The pine waves are bursting, and the sound of more than 1,000 immortal deer raised in the forest comes from time to time. The war horses and horses of the 12th Brigade of Peng Kun's garrison, who were waiting outside the Xiaoling Guard, neighed from time to time to echo with it. The mountain wind blowing from the depths of the Purple Mountain swept the flags in the phalanx.

According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing Xiaoling is the ancestral root of the place, enjoying a very special lofty status, not to mention, there are three fixed sacrifices and five small sacrifices every year. All major events in the country need to be sent to the ministers to pay tribute.

Today's activity is that Li Shouhan, Duke of Liang, the Liu family of Chengyi, the Xinjian Bo Wang family, the Chang family of Huaiyuan Marquis, the Xu family of the garrison mansion, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, and other civil officials, as well as the eunuchs of Nanjing Town, jointly initiated and came to the filial piety tomb to pay respects.

There is only one purpose, to report to Zhu Yuanzhang, who is buried here, that we plan to support your descendant Zhu Yousong as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. I came to say hello to you and hope for your consent.

In fact, this scene and process, to put it bluntly, are for the pro-Liluwang faction in Nanjing. The purpose is to show your strength.

Li Shouhan's alliance with Ma Shiying and joined the faction that supported King Fu, which immediately made the treacherous situation in Nanjing quickly become clear. He and the Nanyue Army were like a strong typhoon of magnitude 16, which quickly drove away the dry and drought conditions and brought abundant precipitation.

Li Shouhan said on the front foot that it was his heart to support King Fu, and on the back foot, Nanjing garrisoned the Yamen Xu family, Chang family and other older noble families also quickly expressed their stance and joined the faction of supporting King Fu. And as far away as Huai'an and other places, Zhenfei and Liu Zeqing sent people to the south along the canal in the starry night, saying, "Your Highness is in Huai'an for a day, and we will be vigilant day and night, and the worship will be flawless." Please wait for the public, don't worry. I hope to welcome His Royal Highness into Beijing as soon as possible! ”

Today's activity, in addition to paying tribute to Zhu Yuanzhang, is that the Nanyue Army sent Peng Kun's troops to the north and went to Huai'an along the canal to welcome His Royal Highness King Fu to go south to Liudu to supervise the country.

In the hall, everyone worshiped the spiritual seat of Zhu Yuanzhang and his wife in turn, and after the salute recited the text, he offered sacrifices. Artillery began to be fired in turn in the square outside the horse square to show solemnity.

After dozens of cannon shots, Peng Kun put on a red robe and trotted all the way to the princes, earls, and governors of the rank of prince, and announced loudly: "The subordinate soldiers and horses have been assembled. Please make a public announcement, can you set off to Huai'an to welcome His Royal Highness King Fu? ”

"Get up!"

According to the etiquette of the Ming army, this is the superior's agreement to the report of the subordinate, and you can do it.

The team of more than 10,000 people left the Purple Mountain, crossed the Yangtze River, and stopped at Pukou Town. It can be regarded as saying hello to the Shi Kefa Shi Pavilion Department who is stationed here, and then continue north.

The iron armor is sonorous, and the flag is hunting. Along the way, officials and generals from all over the country saw this well-equipped army, neat and high-morale, and their small calculations crackled loudly.

"Under the standard is the deputy general under the command of Huang Degong Huang Zongzhen, who is now stationed in Chuzhou, and was ordered to lead 5,000 elites to the front of the army to wait for the dispatch and go to Huai'an to meet the true dragon emperor!" As soon as he arrived at the border of Chuzhou, Huang Degong's subordinate deputy general led 5,000 soldiers and horses to meet him at the border and joined the team to welcome King Fu.

"Under the mark is the general of the barracks under the command of Liu Liangzuo Liu Zongzhen, who is now stationed in Shouzhou, and under the order of the army general, he led 3,000 cavalry as the vanguard of the army to Huai'an to meet the Son of Heaven!" On the ground of Shouzhou, the torrent of 3,000 cavalry could not wait to merge into the iron stream heading to Huai'an on the bank of the canal.

"We are the deputy general of the Lingbi Gaojie Gao General Barracks, and we brought 4,000 men and horses from the old battalion to the front of the army, as long as the adults give an order, we will go to the soup for the sake of His Royal Highness King Fu!" Gao Jie's subordinates, although they have long been Ming soldiers, still have the true colors of "thieves" in their demeanor.

The generals and officials along the way continue to send elites to join, and Fengyang is Ma Shiying's base camp, and he will also draw 10,000 elites from the new army to join the team to welcome His Royal Highness King Fu.

There are more than 10,000 people in the 12th Garrison Brigade, 10,000 new troops under Ma Shiying, 12,000 people in the Huang, Liu, and Gao three departments, and the miscellaneous and various teams, and the army of more than 50,000 people is also marching north with extraordinary momentum. This is not counting the officials from all walks of life, such as officials and mountain people who are eager to become famous from all sides.

In Nanjing, the gentlemen of Donglin could only grit their teeth and scold during the secret meeting, "Shameless martial artists, arrogant nobles, and obscene eunuchs!" But he didn't dare to say a word in public.

Looking at the dejected faces of his colleagues, Qian Qianyi was still good-looking, "Cheer up!" They only relied on their soldiers and horses to win our battle, and the righteous way of heaven is still in our hands. They have knives and guns, and we have a brilliant pen, and let's see if their knives and guns can cut our rafters one by one! ”

"Sure enough, it is called Tianqiaoxing, I don't know what Mu Zhaigong's plan is?"

"Wait!" Qian Qianyi sneered, and a murderous aura appeared in his eyes.

"Wait? Why wait? "Several Donglin members don't understand the secret. At present, the faction that supports King Fu has already occupied the absolute upper hand, if you wait any longer, will you really let Zhu Yousong ascend to the throne, and there will be good fruits for us people to eat?

"You all know the seven must-haves that Shi Xianzhi (Shi Kefa's words) summed up to King Fu, right?" Hearing Qian Qianyi say this, several people present nodded their heads like chickens pecking at broken rice. "Unfilial piety, greed, adultery, and alcoholism" were originally made up by them, so how could they not know? (Shi Kefa: When was Lao Tzu summed up the amount?) You said it first, right? Then I reprinted! ）

"What if such a person is put in a great position? I can't say it, I have to roll off the throne again! I'll just add fuel to the fire! He Li Shouhan is sharp with his sword and gun, how can he kill millions of living beings in this Nanjing city and block the mouths of Youyou? ”

"What's more, that Li was originally a mercenary, greedy for money and good goods, did not worship sages, did not respect scholars, but only regarded the luck of martial arts, and it was inevitable that there would be a time when he got carried away in the future. At that time, we will kill him fiercely with pen and ink for a while, so that he will step down in disgrace and roll back to his Nanzhong nest with his tail between his legs! ”

Qian Qianyi's words couldn't be clearer. This kind of trick is also a tactic that Donglin is familiar with. Hide in dark corners, waiting for the slightest lapse in the administrative process from the diligent adversaries, and then they will pounce on them like a vicious dog seeing a bubble of hot. Lip wagging hype, aggressiveness. Set off a great wave.

(Looks familiar, doesn't it?) That's right! Donglin's disciples and grandchildren are still using this trick. Not only does he have a family heirloom, but he can also get a dog food from a foreign master. You can recall all kinds of news hotspots in the past few years, and all kinds of bullshit citizen lawyers and human rights lawyers' performances. The so-called pigment leather @ life, jasmine leather @ life, are all masterpieces made by Donglin colleagues from all over the world with dog food. It's a pity that the pieces of land that were originally peaceful are now nothing but cooking. ）

As a result, the Donglin people in the city were only annoyed by the lack of a murder knife in their hands, but they could only force themselves to make a happy face on their faces, organize their family members and servants to paint the house, set up a colorful shed, and prepare to welcome the Son of Heaven into the city. Almost all the Donglin Party members silently recited the Xijiang Moon Poem written by Song Jiang in "Zhongyi Water Margin" in their hearts.

"Since childhood, I have studied history, and I have the power to plan when I grow up. Just like a tiger lying in the wilderness, lurking minions endure it. Unfortunately, the cheeks of the stabbing are worthy of being in Jiangzhou. If he has revenge, blood stains the mouth of the Xunyang River! "Bear with it for a while, sooner or later, you will have to let out this bad breath one day. This is the inner consensus of the gentlemen of Donglin. It's just that what they want to blood is not the Xunyang River in the Jiujiang section, but the entire Yangtze River.

The team that greeted the blessed king Zhu Yousong finally appeared at the Shuixi Gate of Nanjing.

Under the unanimous request of all the nobles, civil officials, and military generals, Zhu Yousong, the blessed king who was originally perched like a lost dog wandering around Jiangbei, finally reluctantly expressed his willingness to stand up and provoke the courage of Jiangshan Sheji at this time of national crisis, and temporarily manage it on behalf of his cousin. If the news of a few nephews comes, he will immediately push the throne and give up the country, return the country to his cousin's son, and so on.

This kind of performance is inevitably a little immature and clumsy in front of the old drama bones such as the gentlemen of Donglin, Lu Daqi, Zhao Zhilong, Qian Qianyi and other people who were originally ready to support King Lu, and cursed in their hearts, you pretend to be a grandson like this, so why do you want to come to Nanjing? However, there were tens of thousands of troops around, but no one dared to stand up and say that Zhu Yousong's play was too good. It's just that the mountains call long live and look at the dust and dance.

First pay homage to the filial piety tomb and then enter the city from Chaoyang Gate, stationed in the garrison house. After that, he was appointed as the supervisor of the state in Nanjing, and the national treasure of the prison was minted with gold, and the edict was issued to the world.

Zhu Yousong was supervising the country in Nanjing, so naturally there was a lot of excitement and a whole set of cumbersome etiquette procedures. Although it was during the national crisis, under the strong leadership of Qian Qianyi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, it was still rich and prosperous. His reasoning was: "At a time of national crisis, it is necessary to boost people's morale. Therefore, there should be such a great extravagance. "We won't talk about what kind of extravagance and waste it is, and what procedures it takes, so as not to suspect the author of cheating on the number of words.

Immediately afterwards, the highlight that countless people had been waiting for for a long time arrived.

Whenever a new monarch ascends to the throne for the first time, it is indispensable to have a large number of ministers, especially those who have meritorious service.

According to the courtiers' meeting, Shi Kefa, the former secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, was appointed as a scholar of the East Pavilion University and a secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and entered the cabinet to do business; Ma Shiying was a scholar of the Dongge University, a scholar of the military department, and the right deputy of the imperial history, and still served as the governor of Fengyang. Soon, Jiang Yueguang, the former Zhan Shifu Zhan Shi, was the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and Wang Duo, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, and the two of them were also scholars of Dongge University to work in the cabinet. With Zhang Shenyan as the secretary of the ministry, Liu Zongzhou was summoned as the imperial history of the left capital of the Imperial Procuratorate, and other yamen officials also made arrangements successively.

The arrangement of this position in the court and the central government is quite in line with the appetite of the gentlemen of Donglin. According to the intention of Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, Zhang Shenyan and others, it was to try to let the "righteous people" occupy the key areas, so that there was a new atmosphere at the beginning of the establishment of the imperial court. Sure enough, relying on the advantage of numbers and resources among the yamen of the six ministries and nine qing ministries in Nanjing, they were able to get their wish in arranging important ministers of the imperial court. There is quite a feeling of "Zhongzheng Yingchao" in the early years of Chongzhen.

However, this situation soon changed, and the battle for power in the imperial court began with Shousuke.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the Nanjing Military Department was the head of the hundred officials in the capital, and when the Hongguang Imperial Court was established, Shi Kefa became the chief scholar of course. However, this result was unacceptable to the so-called "eunuchs" headed by Xungui and Ma Shiying.

After all, on the issue of support, Shi Kefa did not agree to support King Fu, and there were famous "seven can'ts" circulating outside, so Zhu Yousong was also a little tired of this Shi Gebu from the heart. A political upheaval is quietly brewing among the civilian public.

This is the little dirt among the civil servants.

There is also an undercurrent among the military attachés and nobles.

Everyone sat in a row to share the fruits and get benefits, and Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, and Huang Degong, who were entrenched in Jiangbei, were the first to stand in line in the process of supporting, and they belonged to the meritorious ministers of Conglong, and they were each promoted to the rank of uncle. Among them, Gao Jie was named Xingpingbo, Liu Liangzuo was named Guangchangbo, Liu Zeqing was named Dongpingbo, and Huang Degong was named Jingnanbo. Even Zuo Liangyu, who was trapped in Jiujiang, was sealed as the Marquis of Ningnan.

There is a new group of nobles in the city of Nanjing. However, the original old Xungui was immediately unhappy. Why? Lao Tzu was also the first to raise the banner to support you Zhu Yousong as the emperor. Our ancestors are still old comrades-in-arms who fought together, why don't you give us a reward? Don't give us a promotion?

When they complained, they suddenly found that there was another person next to them who was even more aggrieved than them.

"Liang Guogong made the first contribution. How do I get a reward? ”

This is a result that many people are there waiting to see.

Lu Daqi, the servant of the ministry, took the lead in standing up and expressing his opinion: "Liang Guogong has always been strict with himself, and he has the style of a big tree general, quite like a gentleman of the ancients. The minister thought that His Majesty should praise Liang Guogong's merits with warm words. ”

Get! First put on a high hat of a moral gentleman, and then, tell you, your great merit has been praised by the emperor. That's all.

As soon as these words came out, even the four chief soldiers who had just been promoted to the earl were so frightened that they were about to pee!

Although they often claim to have tens of thousands or 100,000 soldiers, less than half of them can really be used to fight, and the elite soldiers among them are even more pitiful. Among them, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and Gao Jie have all directly or indirectly experienced the strength of the soldiers and horses of the Nanyue Army at different times and in different places.

Ask yourself, their soldiers in one town may not be able to defeat a garrison brigade of the Nanyue Army.

The four new earls scolded in their hearts: "You poor sour people want to die, don't pull me in!" "Their estimation of success or failure has become an instinct that seeps into their bones. With your eyes closed, you can see that in the Yangtze River and canals, the sailors under the command of Liang Guogong are crisscrossing and criss-crossing, and they can divide and surround their troops into small pieces at any time and swallow them one by one.

To the south were Li Shouhan's tens of thousands of authentic Southern Barbarian troops, and to the north were tens of thousands of Shandong soldiers and horses of his eldest son Li Huayu. Thinking of the Shandong soldiers and horses who had beaten Abatai at the beginning, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing were just turning their legs and stomachs.

"If the father and son of the Li family turn their faces because of this reward issue, the first ones to be unlucky are the old sons! No way! Lao Tzu must not be this shield! ”

Xingping Bo Gaojie, Guangchang Bo Liu Liangzuo, Dongping Bo Liu Zeqing, Jingnan Bo Huang Degong all made up their minds. I'd rather not want this earl than offend this figure who really has the final say in the Ming Dynasty!

"If Liang Guogong has no reward, the minister Gaojie will not dare to receive this reward." Gao Jie, who was beaten by Luo Hu and fled in the Lu family, didn't want to taste the combat effectiveness of the authentic Nanyue army. He didn't dare to hope that he could continue to run more than a thousand miles east and south and escape.

"Minister Liu Zeqing was a general under the Duke of Liang Guo and was controlled by his grandfather. The public regards Zeqing as a son and nephew, and a certain family has benefited a lot. Now, if the grandfather can't accept the reward, the minister will not dare to accept the knighthood. "Gotcha! Looking at Liu Zeqing's meaning, as long as Li Shouhan expressed a little meaning, he could immediately kneel down and kowtow in front of Zhu Yousong to recognize Li Shouhan as a godfather or godfather.

"Chen Huang Degong has long admired his grandfather's loyalty to the country! All the times King Qin entered the guard, he killed the corpses of Liao thieves all over the field! It can be described as a loyalty! Now that the Central Plains is swinging and thieves are rampant, it is necessary to have a person like Liang Guogong to command the whole army in order to restore the Ming Dynasty! If you can't give the grandfather a reward that matches his achievements, I'm afraid that the whole army will not accept it! It is not good for the morale of the army, and it is not conducive to the restoration of the Central Plains and the recovery of the Beijing Division! ”

Huang Degong, nicknamed "Huang Chuangzi", is the most courageous on weekdays. The military discipline and combat effectiveness of his subordinates are the best among the four towns in Jiangbei. His remarks were basically out of public interest, and he asked himself that the combat effectiveness of the troops and horses under his command was not as strong as that of the Nanyue Army.

The soldiers and horses of these four towns in Jiangbei are all people who have made meritorious contributions, and you have expressed their positions one after another, if you don't add officials to the Duke of Liang, then we don't dare to ask for this title. This scene made Zhu Yousong's face pale, and made Qian Qianyi, Zhao Zhilong and others feel a burst of joy in their hearts. "Good! The more this is the case, the greater the emperor's jealousy of you. When the time comes, see how you can handle yourself. ”

"Why are several uncles struggling with each other! Do you want Your Majesty to go against the ancestral system and crown Liang Guogong as the king?! Or, please send down a decree to seal the Duke of Liang Guo? ! Qian Qianyi's words were full of poisonous juice. Historically, the powerful ministers have conspired against each other, and the signal before usurping the throne is to add nine tins.

"Your Majesty, the minister has something to say." Under the intertwining of everyone's eyes, Li Shouhan slowly knelt on the ground. (To be continued.) )