If the top ten tragic characters are selected at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Donglin boss Qian Qianyi should be able to rank first.

Qian Qianyi was born wealthy, his family background is very good, and Lao Qian is indeed very smart and good at studying, so he became a popular figure in the Nanzhili area at a young age. And Lao Qian also lived up to expectations, and at the age of twenty-eight, he was admitted to the Jinshi, or Tanhua. Lao Qian naturally entered the Hanlin Academy and became an editor, that is, a pre-university bachelor's class. If Lao Qian is a figure like Zhang Juzheng, he must be low-key for more than ten years, accumulate a lot of money, and become famous once. But Lao Qian has intelligence, but he has no political talent. A young jinshi who had just entered the industry dared to get involved in the party struggle, and was finally framed by Zhou Yanru and squatted in prison for a period of time. After getting out of prison, he couldn't be an official, so he could only return to Nanzhili in a gray manner, and put his affection on the mountains and rivers.

If in peacetime, a person like Lao Qian will also live an ordinary life, and after his death, he will be a famous poet or writer in the history books, etc. But Lao Qian was lucky to encounter a change of dynasty once every few hundred years, and after the emperor hanged himself in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Lao Qian once again ushered in a turning point in fate.

Qian Qianyi wanted to support King Lu when the Donglin Party had no soldiers, but was slapped in the face by Ma Shiying and other eunuchs. If Qian Qianyi is a backbone character, you can not be an official and continue to live in seclusion in Changshu's hometown, but Lao Qian's fame is still very heavy, and what he wants most in this life is to enter the cabinet. So after Emperor Hongguang ascended the throne, Qian Qianyi went out of the mountain and became the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

If Qian Qianyi was a figure, now when the country was in danger, he should come forward, bridge the split between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, contact his protégés, and start preparing for the Northern Expedition. But Lao Qian is still an indecisive master, and he was picked up by a few friends, and the three major cases of Nanming were caused. In the end, he asked Hou Fangyu to persuade Zuo Liangyu to prepare for a Qingjun side.

In fact, if there was no Zuo Liangyu's peace, Nanming would have been able to fight with the Qing army in Xuzhou and the south, not to mention whether he could win the battle, at least he could give the imperial court some time to prepare. However, in order to deal with Zuo Liangyu, Ma Shiying had no choice but to mobilize the four towns of Jiangbei to deploy defenses along the Yangtze River to prevent Zuo Liangyu, causing Yangzhou, a strong city in the world, to be taken down in one day.

After Yangzhou was captured, Emperor Hongguang and Ma Shiying fled, and Qian Qianyi had no choice but to kneel outside the city under the heavy rain to welcome the Qing army into the city. At this time, you can also defend Qian Qianyi, saying that he sacrificed his reputation to protect the lives of millions of people in Nanjing, but the next two things of "the water is too cold" and "the scalp is itchy" completely made Qian Qianyi a laughing stock at that time. So far, Qian Qianyi has only suffered a loss in personal morality, but since he accepted the Manchu Qing Dynasty's expedition, Qian Qianyi has always been classified as a second-minister.

In the matter of the righteousness of the family and the country, Qian Qianyi is far inferior to his concubine Liu. Although Liu Ru was from a bad background, he was able to stand up when the country was in danger, sell his property to support the rebels, and persuaded Qian Qianyi to contact his protégé and former officials to support the anti-Qing cause, which was much stronger than Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi came to Beijing full of hope, thinking that he could give a scholar by virtue of his reputation as a Donglin boss, but where did he think that the Manchu Qing Dynasty only needed his reputation as Qian Qianyi, and only gave him the false title of a waiter in the Ministry of Rites and asked him to compile books. When the disheartened Qian Qianyi saw this ending, he also regretted coming to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and after staying for less than half a year, he resigned and returned to his hometown in Changshu due to poor health.

At this time, Qian Qianyi was already sixty-four years old, and he had reached the age of sixtieth, and he was ready to return to his hometown to live in seclusion. But when he returned home, he saw that his wife, concubines, and children were all gone, and the house was empty, and the family who stayed behind said that his uncle had come to take the old lady's whole family to Guangdong.

Qian Qianyi hated his cheap uncle King Chu very much, and he had already issued a notice back then, cutting off relations with his daughter, and listening to his eldest wife and a few concubines who voted for the bastard King Chu regardless of themselves, Qian Qianyi jumped to his feet and scolded angrily.

Liu Ru's heart moved when he heard about it, this is an opportunity. Now the only big anti-Qing forces are the two emperors in the south, and Liu Ru, who has made up his mind, is trying his best to persuade Qian Qianyi to go to Guangdong.

Qian Qianyi is actually a literati who has no ideas, a little afraid of death, a bit of an official fan, and a little glass-hearted. At that time, Hongguang had already cut off relations with his daughter when he got married, and now he is embarrassed to go to his son-in-law? However, Liu Ruye's words dispelled his concerns, that is, with his prestige, identity and status, it is very likely that he will enter the cabinet in Guangdong.

Entering the cabinet is Qian Qianyi's lifelong grudge, but fate has joked with him, and he has been hovering on the edge of entering the cabinet all his life. In the Chongzhen period, he was one step away, and he was still one step away in the Hongguang period, and he thought he could enter the cabinet when he went to Beijing, but he didn't expect the Manchu Qing Dynasty to be completely indifferent to him. Qian Qianyi began to move in his heart when he heard Liu say this, the king of Chu is not orthodox, and the Donglin Party he represents controls public opinion and can build momentum for the king of Chu. I believe that the bastard King Chu can know his usefulness, and it will be logical to enter the cabinet when the time comes, Qian Qianyi, who has made up his mind, immediately took Liu Rushi to Guangzhou and defected to his bastard son-in-law Zhu Hongsan.

However, when he arrived in Guangzhou, Qian Qianyi was greatly disappointed, and the cabinet quota of the Shenwu regime in Guangzhou was full, and there was still his place there. However, Zhu Hongsan is still good to Qian Qianyi, after all, he is an old man, and he got a separate house for Qian Qianyi and Liu Ruyi in Beicheng, and he doesn't need to go to Dongcheng to meet with his original wife (Zhu Hongsanyu: In fact, Lao Tzu wants to play with Liu Ruis more conveniently!) ）。

Qian Qianyi also settled down in Guangzhou in this way, but his appointment to resume has not been delayed. Because Liu is like this, Qian Qianyi has fallen out with his daughter, and he first proposed to cut off relations with his daughter, and now he is cheeky to beg his daughter, even the cheeky Qian Qianyi can't do it, but Qian Qianyi can only ask for his old acquaintance Chen Zizhuang.

Chen Zizhuang was a clear stream back then, and naturally had a common language with the-stirring sticks of the Donglin Party, and had several acquaintances with Qian Qianyi when he was in Nanjing. Of course, Qian Qianyi was in full swing at that time, and he could see the little Chen Zizhuang there, but now he is under the fence, and there is no way but to come to the door to ask for officials.

What Qian Qianyi didn't expect was that Chen Zizhuang met him warmly, and patted his chest and promised to speak for himself in front of the emperor. Sure enough, within a few days, the will to recover came down, and Qian Qianyi was ordered to serve as the chief military aircraft of the newly established Military Aircraft Department. At first, Qian Qianyi didn't look at this small five-grade official position at all, but after going to work, he found that the importance of this position was simply a copy of the celebrant supervisor. Qian Qianyi, who was highly used, was very grateful to Chen Zizhuang, and used the power in his hands to help the Guangdong faction several times when the Huguang faction and the Guangdong faction were vying for power and profit.

This period was the honeymoon period for Qian Qianyi and the Cantonese faction, but what Chen Zizhuang didn't know was that tigers always had to grow up. As Qian Qianyi gained a foothold in Guangdong, he began to demand a higher position.

When Qian Qianyi took advantage of his privilege to control the military aircraft and knew that Jin Shenghuan in Jiangxi had hope anyway, Qian Qianyi keenly grasped that this was an opportunity for him to enter the cabinet. Qian Qianyi immediately wrote a letter to his friend Jiang Yueguang and asked him to promote Jin Shenghuan's anyway.

Although the success of the Jiangxi incident is not all due to Jiang Yueguang, Jiang Yueguang did play an important role here, so when the good news reached Guangdong, Qian Qianyi's status also rose, and there were even calls in the officialdom for Qian Qianyi to join the cabinet.

Chen Zizhuang only discovered at this time that Qian Qianyi, who was not a bullshit a year ago, had grown to the point of threatening himself, so there was a scene where Huang Yingxiu came forward to suppress Qian Qianyi.

But Chen Zizhuang still overestimated Qian Qianyi's moral level, and when Lao Qian found out that he and the Cantonese faction had changed from friends to rivals, he went directly to find the Huguang faction, the sworn enemy of the Cantonese faction, for help. And the condition for Ma Mingyuan of the Huguang faction was to bring down Chen Zizhuang, and then arch Ma Mingyuan to take the position, naturally, the Huguang faction reciprocated Li and arranged for Qian Qianyi to enter the cabinet.

And what Qian Qianyi didn't know was that he himself was also used by Ma Mingyuan, Ma Mingyuan and Emperor Zhu Hongsan had been friends for more than 20 years, and he knew the methods of this bastard emperor when Zhu Hongsan was seven or eight years old, so Ma Mingyuan could still guess what Zhu Hongsan wanted to do next.

Now that Jiangxi and Fujian have been returned to Emperor Shenwu, and the Qing army in Huguang has retreated to Wuchang, it is a good time to counterattack Nanjing. Coupled with the combat effectiveness of the Guangdong New Army, there is a good chance that the recovery of Nanjing will be successful. Guangzhou is very prosperous and wealthy, but its political status is far less important than Nanjing, and it can be seen from the humble palace built by Emperor Zhu Hongsan in Guangzhou that the emperor has no intention of staying here for long.

But after returning to Nanjing, it was the stronghold of the Donglin Party. Although the Donglin Party has been destroyed because of the war in the north, the foundation is still there. If you want to gain a foothold in Nanzhili, you must win over the Donglin Party, and at this time, Qian Qianyi, who is the boss of Donglin, will come in handy.

Ma Mingyuan estimated that even if he didn't help himself, the emperor was very likely to let Qian Qianyi enter the cabinet after a while, so why not push the boat by himself? So when Qian Qianyi found Ma Mingyuan to work together to deal with the Guangdong faction, Ma Mingyuan patted his chest and promised that as long as he became the chief prime minister, he would ensure that Qian Qianyi would enter the cabinet.

In this way, the Huguang faction represented by Ma Mingyuan and the Donglin Party represented by Qian Qianyi reached a simple political alliance, that is, sacrificing the political interests of the Guangdong faction and achieving their own interests respectively. This kind of temporary alliance of interests is very common in officialdom, and enemies of life and death may become allies for the sake of interests, not to mention that Ma Mingyuan and Qian Qianyi do not have a deep hatred. However, it is difficult to say how long this alliance of interests can last, and it is not impossible that the two will become enemies in the next moment.