In the end, a compromise was reached on the issue of the emperor's throne. King Fu of the prison state was able to turn into a new emperor of the Ming Empire, but he had to make some guarantees: first, he agreed with the righteous act of turning razing into Xia and would not interfere in the internal affairs of the princes; Second, he will not change the national policy of valuing agriculture over commerce (in the opinion of some scholars in my Ming Dynasty, the so-called valuing agriculture over commerce, based on agriculture, can basically be interpreted as not leviing taxes other than agricultural taxes) and increase taxes on commerce: third, he will not restrict the free movement of people in the country; Fourth, he will not violate the law of his ancestors and arbitrarily open the sea ban (in fact, the sea trade is still the sea trade, but there is no city to collect taxes); In the end, he thought that I Daming did not hide the problem of land and land annexation.

These assurances were attributed by later historians to the "four noes and one no", and became the ancestral teachings of the Ming Empire, which later increasingly became a club of vassal states. These guarantees made the Ming court's source of financial revenue strictly limited to agricultural taxes, and considering the Ming Dynasty's gentry tax exemption, as well as the practice of not checking hidden households and not inhibiting land annexation, it will also make the tax source continue to decrease, which means that the Ming court will be in a constant financial contraction. Soon after, the Ming court's revenues shrank to the point where it could not even maintain the basic maintenance of the palace itself, let alone support the army and bureaucracy. So much so that the Ming Emperor had to constantly lease his land to those princes in exchange for funds to maintain the survival of the imperial court. Later, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty became the world-famous "Emperor of the Landless", and the entire imperial court became an institution similar to the United Nations of later generations, which was specially used by the vassal states of China, and the Ming Emperor became a role similar to the secretary of the United Nations in later generations, but this secretary did not need to be selected, it was hereditary. Moreover, like the United Nations in later generations, in the later Ming system, there were also the so-called five great fangbos (princes) who had a veto power on issues involving the princes.

In fact, neither King Fu nor King Yong are actually reluctant to accept such restrictions. However, these terms were extremely beneficial to all forces except the royal family and the rogues, and naturally they were supported by almost everyone, including the Donglin Party, which represented the interests of the big landowners and big merchants in the southeast. In the face of such an alliance, whether it is King Fu or King Yong, they are just alone. Where do they really have the strength to resist? Moreover, whether it is King Fu or King Yong, in fact, they don't know much about politics, and they can't discover the malice hidden behind these things themselves. And who would betray their own interests and stand on the side of two lonely people against an incomparably powerful alliance for those who truly understand the meaning of these things? Therefore, for the sake of the throne and for the sake of Zhongxing Daming, they still accepted such terms.

The most critical issue of the distribution of interests has been solved, and the rest is naturally a minor problem, including even the fact that King Fu should be canonized as the crown prince immediately after ascending the throne.

Then it was time to get busy for the enthronement ceremony. Although because the world is not yet peaceful, and the revenge of the first emperor has not been avenged, everything should be simple, but after all, this is the enthronement ceremony, so even if everything is simple, it cannot be too simple, therefore, there are still many people who have to rush to Beijing one after another, and the relevant preparations took almost a month.

During this time, whether it was Zheng Sen or Wu Sangui, in order to ensure their own interests, they naturally refused to leave the capital easily. And if they don't leave, naturally there will be no decent army to pursue Li Zicheng. Of course, the imperial court still urged some other military towns, such as Gao Jie and Jiang Jiu, to pursue Li Zicheng. However, these two people were afraid of Li Zicheng like tigers, although they knew that Li Zicheng had just suffered a big defeat, but they didn't dare to really catch up, but they just hung behind Li Zicheng's army from a distance of two days and pretended to be there. On the way of Li Zicheng's retreat, he also abandoned a lot of ruined and worthless cities, which allowed these two cowards to recover several cities. However, according to my Ming system, the recovery of the city or something is mainly counted as the credit of the civil officials who planned the pursuit, and the credit of the military attaches depends on the head. Therefore, in order to gain merit, these two cowards naturally have to do something to borrow from the local villagers. In short, the pursuit of Li Zicheng was delayed, and Li Zicheng arrived in his Xiangjing relatively smoothly.

On the day when Li Zicheng arrived in Xiangjing, the blessed king Zhu Yousong ascended the throne in Beijing and became the emperor, and the year name was still Hongguang, and at the same time, the Hongguang Emperor established Zhu Cihuan, the son of the first emperor, as the crown prince, and rewarded the meritorious ministers. Among the ministers, Ma Shiying, who was the first to stand up to support him in supervising the country, successfully entered the cabinet, and became the first assistant of the cabinet as in the original history. As for Qian Qianyi, he can be regarded as relying on his merits to enter the cabinet, although he is not the first assistant, but he can barely be regarded as the prime minister. In addition, Li Jiantai was also able to enter the cabinet, but as for Jiang Dejing, he was unable to enter the cabinet because his attitude was too fierce and too strong on the issue of King Fu's accession to the throne.

Wenchen's arrangement is important, but what really surprised the world was the reward for the two meritorious generals. The military generals of the Ming Dynasty became the chief soldier in their actual positions, and the road came to an end. According to the old system, it can only be a general's seal and become a general soldier; And then it's a knighthood. This is the same with the reward, but the strength of the reward is surprising.

Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, was named the king of Chao because of his son's military exploits. This king title is at the prince level, of course Zheng Zhilong has to pretend to say that he doesn't dare to accept it, so according to the way discussed by everyone, he was renamed King Anping, which is considered to be at the level of the county king. At the same time, he also gave his hometown Anping as a fief to the Zheng family.

The princes of the Ming Dynasty also theoretically had fiefs, but these fiefs were managed by the central government, and those who were princes could not directly interfere in the management of the fiefdoms, so they could only stay at home honestly and wait for the dividends of the fiefdoms. However, this fief obtained by the Zheng family was not the case, and Emperor Hongguang handed over all the power of Anping to the Zheng family, allowing the Zheng family to directly govern this fief with full authority, and the imperial court was not allowed to interfere.

In addition, Zheng Zhilong also received a reward of three million taels of silver.

In addition to Zheng Zhilong, Wu Sangui also received a lot of benefits, in addition to getting a marquis position, he also got a military salary of four million taels of silver. There are rats starving to death in my Ming Dynasty's treasury, and this money (whether it is for the Zheng family or Wu Sangui) is naturally not available to the imperial court. But meritorious service cannot be rewarded, so my Ming court began to embark on the road of borrowing debts. All the money involved in this was borrowed from the Zheng family. Of course, as collateral and interest on the borrowed money, the Hongguang court also leased Quanzhou to the Zheng family for twenty years. It can also be regarded as the beginning of the history of the Ming Dynasty relying on leasing land to maintain finances.

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