Dongjinling is the nest of the Donglin Party, and the momentum and aggressiveness of the Donglin Party make the indecisive Shi Kefa suddenly hesitate. As for Shi Kefa, although he is not a member of the Donglin Party, he is a protégé of Zuo Guangdou, a veteran of the Donglin Party, and his position will be more or less inclined to the Donglin Party, because he is worried that if Zhu Yousong, who successfully ascends the throne, settles accounts after the autumn, he may not be implicated.

Just when Shi Kefa was undecided, Ma Shiying came to the door to help him.

Ma Shiying is a military general in his fifties, the word Yaocao, a native of Guiyang, Guizhou, a Jinshi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli (1619 AD), and successively served as the head of the Jinling Household Department, Langzhong, and the prefect of Datong. In the third year of Chongzhen, he was transferred to the deputy envoy of Yanghe Province in Shanxi Province for only one month, and was impeached by the eunuchs of the town guard and assigned to Jinling because of his money to make friends with the powerful people in the court. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, with the help of his friend Ruan Dacheng, he was able to make a comeback, and served as the right attendant of the military department and the right imperial history of the military department in Jinling, and the military affairs of Luzhou, Fengyang and other places.

With the military community supporting him, Shi Kefa's confidence has hardened a lot. He soon colluded with Ma Shiying, and revealed to Ma Shiying and Ma Shiying the slanderous words of the Donglin Party members such as Lu Daqi, the right attendant of the Nanjing Military Department, and Zhang Shenyan, the imperial historian of Nanjing, against the Fuwang Zhu Yousong.

"King Fu was disloyal and unfilial during the feudal period, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for him to dominate the world." Shi Kefa conspired with Ma Shiying, "The Donglin Party also condemned him to seven crimes, 'unfilial piety, abuse, interference, not studying, greed, lewdness, and alcoholism.'" ’。 ”

What Shi Kefa said was true, when Li Zicheng captured Luoyang, the blessed king Zhu Youxiang only cared about his own life, and even his father Zhu Changxun was cooked. On the way to flee south, he still only cared about his own life, but his mother was separated and his whereabouts were unknown. Such a character is not just unfilial piety.

As a result, the emperor of Nanming, under the control of Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying, was freshly baked, to everyone's surprise, and was recognized as the emperor neither the "pro-but not virtuous" Fu King, nor the "virtuous but not pro-" King Lu, but the "pro-skilled" Guiwang Zhu Changying.

However, the emperor who had conspiracy in this way could not convince the public. This King Gui itself does not have much advantage, first, King Gui is Zhu Youzhen's uncle, and ethically he still belongs to "giving up relatives and sparseness", "nephew and uncle"; Second, King Fu and King Lu were in Huai'an at this time, only two or three days away from Nanjing, while King Gui was far away in Guangxi, and it would take a month or two to hurry up and take office, and the geographical location suffered a big loss.

However, this result made the Donglin Party happy for a while, in their opinion, the original proposal of King Lu was also a last resort, as long as they did not choose King Fu, so that they would not be settled by the Autumn Queen, it didn't matter who was the emperor.

The happy Donglin party began to plan to send people to Guangxi to welcome King Gui to the throne, Jinling was a harmonious atmosphere on the surface, everyone was happy, Shi Kefa also thought that the overall situation had been decided, waiting to ask Zhu Changying, who was about to ascend the throne, to receive a reward.

Shi Kefa was too happy, in the troubled times, whoever holds the military power will be counted.

So who holds the military power in Jinling?

Zuo Liangyu, the word Kunshan, Linqing people. Since being defeated by Gao Jun Mountain in Luo Ying Mountain, he has been in a slump and was transferred to Xuzhou by Ma Shiying to confront the righteous army, and there are only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and no one will pay attention to his existence.

Gao Jie, the word Yingwu, Shaanxi Mizhi people. With Li Zicheng Tongyi, the same as the thief, originally Li Zicheng's general, nicknamed the mountain harrier, in the eighth year of Chongzhen. Unlike Liu Liangzuo, who was also Li Zicheng's general, was defeated and captured and surrendered, Gao Jie took the initiative to "abandon the darkness and turn to the light", because he stabbed Lou Zi - hooked up with Li Zicheng's wife Xing.

Huang Degong, Hushan, the late Ming Dynasty Kaiyuan Weiren, he first migrated from Hefei. In the war with the Righteous Army, he forced the five battalions of the Righteous Army, captured Ma Wu, killed Wang Xingguo, made great achievements, and was promoted to the general army of Luzhou.

Liu Liangzuo, the word Mingfu, Shanxi Datong Zuoweiren, Li Zicheng's general, was defeated and surrendered to the Ming court, and later participated in the pursuit of the righteous army and was promoted to the chief military officer.

Liu Zeqing, whose name is Hezhou, is a native of Cao County, Shandong, born in the army, the former general soldier of Shandong, because he was transferred to Henan to suppress bandits, he led the troops to flee south to Huai'an, and did not dare to return to Shandong.

At the moment, the four commanders who can control the situation are Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing, all of whom are subordinate to Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang. And the eunuch Lu Jiude who garrisoned Fengyang is Zhu Youxiang's old acquaintance, Lu Jiude served the old Fu King Zhu Changxun in the palace during the Wanli years, he is a eunuch who supports Zhu Youxiang, he said in front of Zhu Youxiang, he was incapable of helping your father on the horse, this time my father-in-law has an army in hand, and he must help you on the horse.

Just as Jinling was putting on the lights and preparing to welcome King Gui to the throne, Lu Jiude began to conspire among the generals, intending to forcibly support the enthronement of Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, by force.

The powerful faction has always coveted the "merit of making decisions" in favor of the new lord, so as to improve their political status and seize the right to speak in the court. Therefore, Lu Jiude's motion quickly received a positive response from Gao Jie, Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo. Soon, Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier, also defected from the camp of the Donglin Party and joined Lu Jiude's side.

The four general soldiers defected one after another, and the first to feel depressed was not Shi Kefa, but Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, because these four general soldiers were nominally under his control. Once the subordinates are finished, Ma Shiying will inevitably be set up first, and then eliminated, and the final outcome can be imagined.

At the critical moment, Ma Shiying changed the front and stood in the queue of support for Zhu Youxiang, and he handed Lu Jiude the "seven deadly sins" handed over by Shi Kefa during his secret conversation with him as a vote to join, and proposed to Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of the Nanjing garrison, to support King Fu.

Ma Shiying has enough confidence to let the civil servants of Jinling submit, behind him are the thousands of troops of the four general soldiers, and there is ironclad evidence that the Donglin Party and Shi Kefa "slandered" King Fu.

Keling's Shi Kefa was betrayed, and he was sold very badly, and his original position was definitely not kept.

On the first day of the fifth month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, arrived in Jinling under the armed escort of Ma Shiying and Gao Jie, and temporarily assumed the position of "supervising the country" (acting emperor) two days later. Of course, the first "prison of the country" was the result of the ministers' "arguments based on reason" on the grounds that "the whereabouts of the crown prince and the prince are unknown".

On 15 May, after being repeatedly "persuaded in" by the ministers, Zhu Yousong officially ascended the throne, which is known in history as the "Hongguang regime."

As soon as Zhu Youxiang came to power, he was awarded the title of meritorious minister, and Ma Shiying was able to enter the cabinet because of the first merit of "setting a policy", and in fact replaced Shi Kefa in charge of the military department and served as the first assistant of the cabinet.

Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, and Liu Zeqing borrowed the "merit of setting policies" and were respectively named Jingnan Hou, Xingpingbo, Guangchangbo, and Dongpingbo, and each led a town to garrison Jiangbei.

In this way, the power of the Donglin Party in Jinling was completely disintegrated.

Shi Kefa, who knew that he was losing power, took the initiative to ask Ying to supervise Huaiyang, and Zhu Youxiang of course agreed, so Shi Kefa was excluded from the highest decision-making level.