The day after Jun arrived in Wuchang, Gao Junshan summoned his Chongwen disciple Tian Zhengchun alone. Tian Zhengchun is the director of the Operations Department of the General Affairs Bureau in Huguang, and is the No. 3 person in the General Affairs Bureau, in charge of the intelligence work of Nanming.

The General Affairs Bureau has undercover agents in Jinling, and Gao Hongtu and Jiang Yueguang in Jinling are members of the General Affairs Bureau that Liu Lishun developed.

Gao Hongtu is currently a scholar of the Southern Ming Dynasty and a scholar of Dongge University, and a prince and a prince; Jiang Yueguang is currently a scholar of the Southern Ming Dynasty and a scholar of Dongge University, and is also in charge of the Jinling Hanlin Academy.

Therefore, the Operations Department of the Huguang General Affairs Bureau has a very thorough understanding of Nanming's internal information, and Tian Zhengchun made a detailed report to Gao Junshan on the development trend of Nanming:

Since Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to the capital, the Ming Dynasty has been implementing the "two capitals" system, and Jinling was set as the accompanying capital. Jinling, like the Jingshi, has six departments, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the General Administration Division, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the Hanlin Academy, the Guozijian and other institutions, and the rank of officials is also the same as that of the Jingshi. The capital is located in Shuntianfu, and the Jinling is located in Yingtianfu, which is collectively called Erjing Mansion.

Under this two-Beijing system, although the officials of Jinling have the same rank as the officials of the Beijing Division, most of them are idle positions in name, and they have positions but no power. The officials of the various ministries in Jinling are often frustrated in the struggle of the imperial court officialdom, although the power is no longer after being transferred to Jinling, but it is also a way to provide for the elderly.

This situation was finally broken by Gao Junshan, and from the day the capital was broken, the leisurely days of Jinling officials finally came to an end. Jinling, which was originally not taken seriously, began to become a new political center.

Most of the officials of the various ministries in Jinling have no power, but there are a few exceptions, and the three official posts involved in Jinling's defense, namely, the Jinling Counselor, the Commander of the Machinery and Military Department, the Jinling Garrison Eunuch, and the Admiral Jinling Military Minister, hold real power.

At this time, Jinling's military department Shangshu was the Shi Kefa who was defeated by Gao Junshan for the second time. On the first day of the fourth month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644 AD), he issued a public report in Jinling that "called on the subjects of the world to revolt and donate money to King Qin", and actively planned to go north to King Qin. It seems that he has forgotten the lesson of the two defeats.

Who is Shi Kefa?

He is a native of Henan Xiangfu, the first year of Chongzhen's Jinshi, studied under the Donglin Party Zuo Guangdou, successively served as the Xi'an Mansion Push Official, Hubu Langzhong, Chongzhen eight years with the military department of the Lang Lu Xiangsheng led the army to level the thief, two years later promoted to the imperial history, Chongzhen 14 years of the governor Cao Yun, Chongzhen 16 years of Jinling military department of Shangshu, counselor of the machine, can be regarded as a step by step, the official fortune of the prosperous character.

On the seventh day of the fourth month, he led the southern army to prepare for another battle with Cao Wenzhao, who was stationed in Huguang, and was determined to recover Huguang and save the country from decline at the time of this "crisis of the sect".

However, the next day, Shi Kefa's self-confidence was devastated, because he received definite news that Zhu Youzhen had returned to the West.

Now the Jinling court is in chaos, and it is even more impossible for Shi Kefa to achieve his salvation in the midst of decline.

However, the chaotic situation in Jinling was quickly brought under control, and the Wenchen quickly unified their course of action, realizing that the priority was not to go north to "King Qin", but to elect a new emperor.

Because Zhu Youzhen's prince and son fell into the hands of the righteous army, they didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and they knew that it would be a long way to wait for the prince to go south to prison the country.

At present, there are four people who are qualified to be emperors for the Wenchen of Jinling to choose from, they are:

Xinfu King Zhu Yousong, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen's cousin, his father - Lao Fu Wang Zhu Changxun is the third son of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, when Li Zicheng captured Luoyang, the Fu King weighing more than 360 pounds was cooked with a few deer, called "Fulu Banquet". After Zhu Changxun's death, Zhu Yousong, who escaped from Luoyang by luck, attacked King Fu.

Huiwang Zhu Changrun, the sixth son of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, and the sixth uncle of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen. In the twenty-ninth year of Wanli (1601 AD), he was crowned king, but it was not until the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627 AD) that he became a vassal of Jingzhou, but he was chased and beaten by the righteous army of Gao Junshan, and was chased to hide in Tibet, and finally saw through the red dust and converted to Buddhism. Although he still runs around, he worships the Buddha and participates in Zen all day long, and does not ask about the world.

Guiwang Zhu Changying, the seventh son of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, the half-brother of Huiwang Zhu Changrun, and the seventh uncle of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen. In the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627 AD), he was in Hengzhou and was taken refuge in Guangxi by Gao Jun Mountain.

King Lu Zhu Changshu, the third son of King Lujian Zhu Yiyi, the grandson of Emperor Zhu Zaigao of Longqing, and the cousin of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen. In the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1618 AD), he was crowned King Lu, and he had profound attainments in music, painting, and chess.

After fierce debate in the court, it is generally inclined that Zhu Yousong, the king of Xinfu, will be the emperor, and there are reasons for the following:

First, Zhu Yousong's father is the elder, which is in line with the selection principle of "standing tall and not young";

Second, Zhu Yousong and Zhu Youzhen are inherited by the same generation, although they are "younger brothers", but they are much more reasonable than other players in "nephews and uncles";

Third, Zhu Yousong fled for many years and almost became a beggar, in stark contrast to other vassal kings who accompanied his palace dependents.

Everyone's opinions tend to be unanimous, and it looks like the matter of Emperor Zhangluo's succession to the throne.

However, just when the selection of the heir was about to be finalized, the Donglin Party, led by Qian Qianyi, a dismissed servant of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, resolutely opposed Zhu Youxiang's succession.

If you want to prevent Zhu Youxiang from ascending to the throne, you have to come up with a reason, and if you want to come up with a reason, you should also come up with a convincing one.

It's really nonsense, which of these four candidates can be called "virtuous"?

However, you don't care if other people's reasons are sufficient, anyway, they will mess things up.

What to do? The eyes of all the ministers were on Shi Kefa, who had the final decision.

Shi Kefa did not expect the fact that it was about to come true, and was confused by a sentence from the Donglin Party, which put him in a dilemma.

Zhu Youxiang, the king of Fufu, was enough to convince the public both ethically and legally, but the powerful Donglin Party did not agree. Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, was satisfied, and the Donglin Party was satisfied, but the practice of "sacrificing relatives and establishing sparseness" was difficult to convince the public.

Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changshu are virtuous and who are not, Shi Kefa can't figure it out, but he has a hunch that if he doesn't quickly establish an emperor, if this continues, it will inevitably lead to a huge political turmoil!

Why did the Donglin Party resolutely oppose Zhu Youxiang as emperor? That's because the Donglin Party had a holiday with the old Fu King Zhu Changxun.

Lao Fu Wang Zhu Changxun was born on the fifth day of the first month of the 14th year of Wanli (1586 AD), his father was Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and his mother was Zheng Guifei. Zheng Guifei was favored, and Zhu Changxun was also deeply favored by Wanli and wanted to make him the prince.

In order to prevent Zhu Changxun from inheriting the unification, the Donglin Party can be said to have spared no expense and launched a fierce "national capital dispute" with Emperor Wanli and Zheng Guifei. Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun disposed of more than 300 officials for this purpose, and nearly half of them were deposed or even exiled. Zhu Yijun even protested with "neglect of government", but to no avail. The Donglin Party is unswerving, with the courage to go to difficulties with generosity, and vows not to give up until the goal is achieved!

It was a fifteen-year tug-of-war, and Zhu Yijun finally gave in, and in the twenty-ninth year of Wanli (1601 AD), his eldest son Zhu Changluo was canonized as the crown prince, and Zhu Changxun was canonized as King Fu at the same time.

Mountains and rivers take turns, although Zhu Changxun is dead, but whether Zhu Yousong, the king of Xinfu, will settle accounts after the autumn, the Donglin party people have no bottom in their hearts. Instead of risking his political future or even his life, it is better to simply offend King Fu's father and son to the end.