Interest is the core of all struggles, this sentence is a great man in later generations for the political struggle summed up the wise saying, this truth in the late Ming Dynasty more than 300 years ago is also applicable.

The reasons that these ministers of the Yongli Imperial Court said one by one for the people and the country were actually fighting for the interests of themselves or the party they represented. At present, the court is divided into the Chu Party dominated by Lu Daqi, Qu Shiyun, Zhang Tongchang, and He Tengjiao, and the Wu Party dominated by Ding Kuichu, Du Yinxi, Chen Bangfu, Wang Huacheng, and Zhu Tianlin.

Take Sun Kewang and the other Great Western Army's return to obedience, this is obviously a good thing that is definitely beneficial to the Yongli Small Imperial Court, but when it comes to Ding Kuichu, Lu Daqi, and Qu Shiyun, it has completely changed its taste.

Lu Daqi's side is because it was Yinduxi who advocated subduing Li Jin and other troops of the Dashun Army back then, he was not the Donglin Party at all, and now he is still getting together with Ding Kuichu, and the Dashun Army can't listen to the command of the Donglin Party. In order to compete with Ding Kuichu for the interests of the court, he had to look for foreign aid again. And at this time, Sun Kewang who came to the door was a good pillow, Sun Kewang was the Great Western Army, and he did not force Chongzhen's national enemies and family hatred to death, and he was the best candidate to win over.

Ding Kuichu did not agree to accept the Great Western Army because the Donglin Party already had He Tengjiao leading the troops outside, and he had to add the Great Western Army. What's more, he has already established a relationship with Yindu, so that there is no shortage of foreign aid on his side, and the Great Western Army will become dispensable, so he absolutely does not agree to accept the Great Western Army.

Zhu Youlang looked at the several cabinet scholars arguing below, and he was very helpless. Zhu Youlang is very weak, and he has no means of his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang at all. If it is Zhu Yuanzhang instead, he will definitely kill all the ministers who are arguing on both sides, so he can be as hesitant as Zhu Youlang.

After thinking about it, Zhu Youlang decided to do what Ding Kuichu said, after all, Sun Kewang's invitation to Prince Feng was really a bit too much. Now that the situation in the north is improving, there is no need for Sun Kewang's more than 200,000 people.

After Zhu Youlang decided, he said: "Gentlemen, I have made up my mind, just do what Mr. Shoufu Ding said, Prince Feng is indeed a little too much, so let's do it, Sun Kewang can be named a duke, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu can be named marquis!" ”

The emperor's words were holy decrees, and seeing that what they hoped for had failed, Lu Daqi and the others couldn't help but feel disappointed in their hearts, but Ding Kuichu's methods were not over.

Ding Kuichu was overjoyed to see the emperor accept his suggestion, and felt that it was better to take this opportunity to solve Lu Daqi and the others in one fell swoop today.

Ding Kuichu stood up again and said: "Your Majesty, Lord He's military newspaper said that Jiangxi and Fujian are subordinate to the king of Chu in Guangdong anyway. Jiangxi's Jin Shenghuan has always been unclear with the Donglin Party, and this time it is also the operation of Donglin Party member Qian Qianyi in the back anyway. Qian Qianyi and Master Lu are close friends, and Master He Qu is a master and apprentice, so the minister suspects that these two people are colluding with Qian Qianyi, and asks Your Majesty to issue an order to put these two people in prison! ”

Lu Daqi and Qu Shiyun were shocked when they heard this, Ding Kuichu was absolutely playful, the black hand behind him was no longer enjoyable, and the real knife was opened.

Lu Qu and the others hurriedly stood up to defend themselves, "Your Majesty, the ministers have severed relations with Qian Qianyi, and when the King of Chu was declared emperor against the sky last year, the ministers and others had already handed over the letters exchanged with Qian Qianyi to Your Majesty, please let Your Majesty know it!" ”

Although Zhu Youlang is weak, he is not confused, and he knows that he must not fight in the nest now, not to mention that keeping Lu Qu and the others can be regarded as containing Ding Kuichu and other Wu parties.

"Of course I believe you, gentlemen! Mr. Ding, don't mention the past! ”

Seeing that the emperor let Lu Qu and the others go, Ding Kuichu secretly said in his heart that it was a pity that such a good opportunity today didn't kill them, and he didn't know when he would have the opportunity in the future.

Lu Qu and the others were frightened enough by this incident, and they didn't have the heart to fight with Ding Kuichu, and today's court meeting ended hastily.

That night, Lu Daqi came to Qu Shiyun to discuss how to deal with Ding Kuichu.

"Brother Qitian, today Ding Lao'er wants to kill us, what do you say?"

Qu Shiyun sighed and said, "Brother Dongchuan, now that the court is controlled by traitors like Ding Kuichu, you and my brother are really useless!" ”

Lu Daqi thought for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Brother Qitian, do you still have contact with Lord Qian?" ”

Hearing Lu Daqi ask Qu Shiyun like this, Lu Daqi was surprised, Lu Daqi was thinking, this handle is not good in the hands of Ding Kuichu.

"Dongchuan, don't even think about this kind of thought, why didn't you and I go to the king of Chu back then, isn't it just to abide by the law of our ancestors! His Majesty is indeed much more legitimate than that Huguang Sect today. ”

Lu Daqi smiled bitterly in his heart, he thought so himself back then, that King Chu was very shrewd, and he was still a mortal enemy with Donglin boss Qian Qianyi, and he could still have good fruits to eat if he went to vote, so he chose Yongli Zhu Youlang. But he didn't expect Qian Qianyi to be able to vote for his mortal enemy, which really made Lu Daqi unexpected.

Lu Daqi saw that Qu Shiyun was so decisive, and there was no way but to take one step at a time.

Watching Lu Daqi say goodbye and leave, Qu Shiyun sighed, he and Qian Qianyi are also teachers and friends, and they have a very good relationship. But after Qian Qianyi voted for Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu, last year, Qu Shiyun completely broke off the relationship with Qian Qianyi.

After Qian Qianyi arrived in Guangdong, he did send a letter to Qu Shiyun, hoping that his senior disciples could help him, and explained in the letter that Zhu Hong, the king of Chu, was the best candidate for Zhongxing Daming. But Qu Shiyun is already loyal to Zhu Youlang, so can he betray his beliefs and become the slave of the three surnames? So Qu Shiyun secretly burned Qian Qianyi's letter.

The Huguang Qing army withdrew to Wuchang under the leadership of Tan Tai, and the news of Jiangxi and Fujian reached Sichuan anyway, and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty who were still fighting hard with the Manchu Jingyuan general Haoge were in high spirits. At this time, Haoge had eliminated Zhang Xianzhong, accounting for most of the entire Sichuan, and appointed Wang Zuntan, a general of the Ming Dynasty, as the governor of Sichuan.

At that time, Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan in the Southern Ming Dynasty, was guarding Neijiang, and Haoge ordered Wang Zuntan to surrender him. The ancients said that the ministers of the feudal territory should die to seal the frontier, and this is the time of a certain death. "In February of the first year of Shenwu, Neijiang was occupied by the Qing army, and Ma Gan died unyieldingly. In the same month, Hao Ge advanced to Zunyi (Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty), and Wang Yingxiong, a scholar of the Ming Governor's University, fled to Chishuiwei. Ming Sichuan general Jia Denglian and deputy general Tan Desheng surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and Haoge killed the second general and all the officers and soldiers under his command in the name of setting up a banquet to reward the army. Due to the continuous wars in Sichuan, social production has almost completely stopped, and it is impossible to solve the supply of food and wages, coupled with news from the south, the new annexed armies of Jiangxi and Fujian have rebelled, and Tan Tai has withdrawn to Wuchang and abandoned the entire south of the Yangtze River. Seeing that the situation in the whole country was like this, and that he really had no energy to fight, Hauge had to stop there, and led the Manchu and Han armies back to Beijing via Shaanxi, but Hauge did not know that he was immediately imprisoned by Dolgon when he returned to Beijing this time, and was secretly executed a few days later.

After Haoge left, he left Wang Zuntan, Li Guoying and other Ming generals to garrison Sichuan, and the troops were very thin. Due to the lack of food and salaries, coupled with the counteroffensive of the generals of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the generals who were divided into various places could not stand at all and were forced to retreat to northern Sichuan.

After the transfer of the main forces of the Great Western Army and the Qing Army, most of Sichuan and Guizhou were actually in a state of division and separation. Although the Southern Ming Dynasty appointed high-ranking officials such as the cabinet, governors, and governors since the Hongguang court, most of them only had false names, and the real power was in the hands of warlords entrenched in various places, and many of them only knew how to compete for power and profit with each other, and could not form a unified team to take advantage of the weak Qing army to recover the whole Sichuan.

At this time, the news of the return of the southern provinces to the rule of the Ming Dynasty reached the ears of the large and small warlords in Sichuan, and they couldn't tell the difference between Emperor Shenwu and Emperor Yongli, but after all, they wanted to find a boss, and the big and small warlords were collectively loyal to Emperor Yongli under the tandem of Wang Yingxiong, a scholar of the Inspector University, after all, they were close to themselves.

The allegiance of the generals in Sichuan, coupled with the attachment of Sun Kewang of the Great Western Army, the Yongli Emperor became the most powerful force in South China for a time, if you count the Shenwu regime in Guangdong, the entire south of the Yangtze River in addition to Nanzhili and Zhejiang, plus Wuchang Mansion located south of the Yangtze River, Nanming has recovered half of China, and it is a bit of a taste of the Manchu Qing Dynasty dividing the river and ruling the river.

And northern China was not very peaceful, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, a large number of land were encircled, and the Han people were forced to surrender. The Han Chinese who became serfs were not only brutally exploited, engaged in heavy labor, but also deprived of personal freedom, which led to a large number of flights. In order to protect the interests of the Manchurian aristocracy, the Qing court further enacted an extremely cruel fugitive law. The strict enforcement of the fugitive law caused fierce controversy within the Manchu and Han ruling classes. Some Han officials opposed the criminal law of severely punishing the owners of the nest and demanded that the law on fugitives be amended. In order to protect the interests of the Manchu princes and nobles, the Qing rulers had a stubborn attitude and insisted on the law of fugitives.

In Beizhili and Shanxi, where the Manchu enclosure movement was most severe, a large number of peasants fled, and most of these peasants joined the local rebels, who had many secret channels to obtain elite weapons from the south, and won and lost each other in the battle against the Manchu crusading army. In history, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied Jiangnan, they relied on Jiangnan's money and grain to suppress the rebellion little by little. However, now the news of Jiangxi and Fujian reached the north, and at the same time, under the fanning of the Jinyi Guard led by Qian Lide, the northern provinces immediately set off a new upsurge of rebellion against the enclosure and the Manchu Qing movement.

At this time, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, another four-surnamed family slave Jiang Hao raised the banner of anti-justice in Shanxi.

Jiang Huang is also a controversial figure in history, he was originally a military household in Shaanxi, and he was promoted to the general army in successive battles, but the general army was flooded at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Jiang Huang was really not a big man. Next, after Li Zicheng captured Shanxi, Jiang Hao surrendered to Li Zicheng without fighting.

If Li Zicheng can still talk about the great truth of good ministers choosing trees and perching at this time, what Jiang Jiu will do next will be a traitor.