Chapter 279: Longwu succeeds to the throne

After Dolgon broke through Nanjing, he quickly divided his troops to attack all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, and captured the Hongguang family who had just escaped less than 60 miles from Nanjing, and the Hongguang Emperor was also hacked to death by Dolgon's order.

When the news came, the whole country was shocked.

After Mo Li received He Zhenbei's report, he didn't make a sound.

Damn, I didn't expect Hongguang, this old boy, to be so useless, he couldn't even hold it for a month and let people break through Nanjing, causing Lao Tzu to change his strategy again.

Mo Li originally planned to consolidate his strength after recovering Shandong, and then move south to kill Dolgon, but he didn't think that the Hongguang Imperial Court was too cowardly, and it made people take the old nest in a short time.

The Nanjing Imperial Court is gone, so the Jin soldiers will attack Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang next, threatening Moli's rule in Huguang and having to be defended.

Subsequently, Mo Li announced that he would lead the General Staff to return to Wuchang and personally sit in Wuchang to resist the Jin army's invasion of Huguang.

Now Hongguang is also finished, Zhu Dadian died in battle, Shi Kefa committed suicide, Xu Hongji is nowhere to be found, Liu Rongsi is also shrinking in Huai'an, Ma Shiying was sent to Luzhou by Jin Bing*, and the entire land of China is still holding high the banner of resisting Jin and can withstand the impact of Jin soldiers, only the Mo family army led by Mo Li.

Judging from the current situation, it is not only a crisis, but also an opportunity.

Needless to say, almost all the soldiers and horses in the Ming Dynasty were disabled by the Jin soldiers, even Lu Xiangsheng and Chen Qiyu and their 350 million horses, and when it came time to join forces with the Mo army, there were less than 20,000 people left, and more than half of them were lost.

After arriving in Henan, Mo Li met with Lu Xiangsheng and Chen Qiyu, and asked them to discuss the current situation with his subordinates. Gradually, Lu Xiangsheng and Chen Qiyu also admired the military discipline and military appearance of the Mo Family, and they yearned for it.

Now almost only the Mo family army is left fighting alone. Da Ming can be said to be completely falling apart.

Beijing and Nanjing were occupied by Jin soldiers, Fujian was the territory of the pirate Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong was recruited by Fujian governor Xiong Wencan in the first year of Chongzhen, and is now the governor of Fujian Navy and the general army of Fuzhou, mainly to guard against the Dutch and the Japanese.

Zhejiang and southern Anhui are now the territory of Wang Ziyong and Zhang Xianzhong, but sooner or later the Jin soldiers will also march into Zhejiang and Anhui, and it is unknown whether Wang Ziyong and Zhang Xianzhong will resist the Jin soldiers and whether they can resist the Jin soldiers.

Now the only ones that can be called the official army of the Ming Dynasty are the Mojia army, as well as the armies of Guangdong and Guangxi. Zheng Zhilong's sailors can barely be called the Ming army.

Most of Guangxi and Guangdong are the territory of Zhu Changying, the king of Gui.

After the Hongguang Emperor Zhu Changxun was executed by Dolgon, his family was not spared and was poisoned.

After a few days, two Ming clans successively announced that they would supervise the country and inherit the unification.

One is Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, and the other is Zhu Changying, the king of Gui.

Zhu Yujian is a descendant of Zhu Huan, the twenty-third son of Ming Taizu, and is the ninth grandson of Taizu. In April 1606 (the thirty-fourth year of Wanli), Bingshen was born in Nanyang Tang Palace, and his mother was concubine Mao.

In 1632 (the fifth year of Chongzhen), Zhu Yujian succeeded as the king of Tang and fiefdom Nanyang.

However, just a few days after Zhu Yujian was named the king of Tang, Li Zicheng's Dashun army broke through Nanyang, and Zhu Yujian had to flee south in a hurry under the protection of the palace guards.

Zhu Yujian first fled to Anqing and then to Hangzhou. Not long after, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, and then Zhu Changxun succeeded him. After Zhu Changxun succeeded to the throne, he still named him the king of Tang, but the fief was changed to Huizhou, Guangdong.

Zhu Yujian then went to his fiefdom in Huizhou, Guangdong, however, when Zhu Yujian was still halfway through, he heard the news that the Jin soldiers had broken through Nanjing and Hongguang was killed, and at this time, Zhu Yujian had only traveled to Tingzhou Mansion in Fujian.

After the news of the fall of Nanjing spread, Zheng Zhilong and Huang Daozhou, the prefect of Tingzhou in Fujian, discussed supporting Zhu Yujian as the superintendent of the state and leading the people of Fujian, Jiangxi and Liangguang to resist the Jin soldiers.

On June 28 of the first year of Hongguang, Zhu Yujian, with the support of Zheng Zhilong, Huang Daozhou and others, proclaimed the state of supervision in Fuzhou, changed the name of the country to Longwu, and presided over the political situation of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

It should be said that Zhu Yujian is still a relatively good emperor, he is a Ming Dynasty, plus his early experience is more peculiar, his life is hard, and he knows the suffering of the lower class people. After ascending the throne, he immediately implemented benevolent governance, rectified the rule of officials, and severely punished corruption.

In view of the harm brought by party strife to state affairs since Wanli, Zhu Yujian put forward the policy of eliminating party strife and "using the public to be clear."

In view of the current complicated situation, Zhu Yujian changed the previous Chongzhen court and Hongguang court, which were dominated by Pingkou, and advocated uniting all forces to unanimously resist the southern invasion of the Jin soldiers.

For this reason, Zhu Yujian actively sent people to contact Wang Ziyong and Zhang Xianzhong, and prepared to recruit Wang Ziyong and other peasant armies.

However, Zhu Yujian, as an unpopular Ming dynasty who succeeded to the throne and became the emperor, was also an exiled vassal king, lacking both his own team and not enough fame, and this innate weakness made him unable to rely on the brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui, who advocated the establishment of Fujian's real power.

After ascending the throne, he supported Dai Gong and crowned Zheng Zhilong as the Marquis of Pingyu, Zheng Hongkui as the Marquis of Dingju, Zheng Zhibao as Cheng Jibo, and Zheng Cai as Yongshengbo.

In addition, in order to win the hearts of the people, more than 20 people, including Huang Daozhou, Jiang Dejing, Su Guansheng, He Wusu, Huang Mingjun, Chen Zizhuang, Lin Xuji, Zeng Ying, Zhu Jizuo, and Fu Guan, were appointed as scholars.

Zhu Yujian, who lacked the strength of his own lineage, could only rely on Zheng Zhilong and the Zheng family brothers militarily, and politically in order to win the hearts of the people, a large number of officials made wishes, although to a certain extent, it showed the prosperity of the Longwu court, but it was also doomed that Zhu Yujian could not become a strong king.

Due to his dependence on the Zheng family militarily and his dependence on the ministers politically, Zhu Yujian basically became an almost hollow emperor, and many of his ideas could not be effectively implemented, and the ministers below often violated the situation. Sometimes he even fought with Zhu Yujian in the court, and in order not to lose the support of his ministers, Zhu Yujian often had to compromise.

As a result, the matter of Zhao'an Wang's self-use and Zhang Xianzhong's own use was shelved indefinitely because of the opposition of the minister.

Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang and the secretary of Nanjing's household department, fled to Luzhou after the defeat of Fengyang, and then fled to Hangzhou and Shaoxing, where he continued to organize troops to resist Jin. After Ma Shiying learned that Zhu Yujian was proclaimed emperor in Fuzhou, he sent someone to express his willingness to respect Zhu Yujian and asked to see Zhu Yujian.

Zhu Yujian was happy when he heard the news, and planned to accept Ma Shiying's department to enhance the anti-gold force. However, many scholars in the court expressed strong opposition, and Huang Jin, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Cao Xuejiao, the secretary of Taichang Temple, fought hard. Zhu Yujian had no choice but to issue an edict to designate Shiying as a "criminal auxiliary" and a "reverse auxiliary", and let him "redeem himself" in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Zhu Yujian didn't even control the forces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang around him, and naturally had no binding force on the Mojia army in Huguang and Henan, just to win over Moli, Zhu Yujian added Moli as the Duke of Dingguo, hoping that he would restore his homeland for the Ming Dynasty and drive out the Tartars......