"The mother is more than 80 years old, and she should be self-conscious. Son, minister, you can't not die. —Wei Jingyu

"Reluctantly, Yuansheng. I am in danger and give orders, I will not make it difficult, who will be the one who suffers! Hand in hand with you Huangquan, book the Simeng, and forget it. —Marsh Ski

"The ancestors of the sect for more than 270 years, once they came here, although there was a dragon regret, there was a fish rotten, and they lived in the wall, there was no help, and the law should be subdued. The burial is covered with a horn scarf and a green shirt, covered with a single jacket, and the mourning is carried out in order to mourn. —Wu Linzheng

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On May 15 of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, this was the third day after the martyrdom of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.

The city of Beijing was broken, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, it stands to reason that even if the literati in the world are not martyred, they should at least wear linen and wear filial piety to cry for it, but what they see is full of laughter.

The former dynasty died, the latter dynasty stands, this is the inevitability of history, the Southern Song Dynasty died in Yashan and there were 200,000 people who defended the country and were martyred, in contrast, in this gray 1644, there are very few people who can be martyred for the Ming Dynasty.

In the area of Beizhili, the Dashun army swept all over the country, and few of the remaining high-ranking officials and dignitaries did not think about martyrdom for the end of the Ming Dynasty, but only thought about how to win the favor of the new master Li Zicheng.

In the area south of the Yangtze River, the Shandong army annihilated the Zheng clan with a thunderbolt and unified the south of the Yangtze River.

Among the people who went with the Ming Dynasty, there were only a handful of dignitaries, but few people knew the names of the unknown people who were hundreds or thousands, and they were worthless but martyred one after another, which is really very puzzling.

Most of the people who threw themselves into the water and hanged themselves were literati, and those who committed suicide with swords were mostly martial arts pawns.

The people of the world have not yet woken up from the national disaster of Jiashen, and even the Shandong Army's scholarly hall and military academy in Licheng have set off a debate.

This debate originated from the dispute between the civil and military forces, and the martial arts students in the military academy believed that they should immediately complete their studies to gain actual combat experience, and advocated entering the military to experience and train, so as to contribute to the country.

The students in the scholarly fragrance thought otherwise, and they were divided into two factions, one of which felt that the current imperial court did not exist and should be martyred.

The other faction is headed by Li Jian, the son of the Li family in Ziyang, who believes that the world cannot be without a king for a day, and the Marquis of Anton fights for civil and martial arts, and respects the Confucian Mansion in Qufu, and is a model for the world's scholars, and should succeed to the throne as soon as possible.

However, after all, this is a stunned young man who has not yet graduated, even though some of them are particularly outstanding and have returned from training in the army and various departments, but their debate will still be blocked in the military academy and the scholarly hall after all.

Having said that, there were indeed more than a dozen soldiers in the Shandong Army Shuxiang Hall who died by hanging.

When the patrol officers found that most of them were rescued in time, the Student Affairs Department under the Staff Office heard about the incident and took it very seriously, and immediately reported it to the Student Affairs Advisor of the Staff Office.

After a brief discussion in the staff's office, the Nanjing side quickly reacted to the matter, sending a large number of clerks and cadres to various schools and private schools to preach the words of loyalty to avenge the king.

Within a few days, the content of the last holy decree left by Emperor Chongzhen finally came out.

Wang Zheng was named the king of Qi and commanded the world's soldiers and horses, which made many people feel very puzzled, saying that Emperor Chongzhen had finally done a clear thing.

The people of the world were shocked again, since the king of Qi already has a national surname, he should be called the emperor immediately, this kind of news is more and more, and it can't be suppressed at all.

Even within the Shandong Army, there are many people who are ready to move, and in the final analysis, they are still salivating for the matter of dividing the heroes.

As a result, there were two factions in the Staff's Office, among which the conservatives, led by the special adviser Guan Qingtong, believed that they should be proclaimed emperor before Li Zicheng in order to demonstrate their legitimacy.

However, a group of staff members headed by Chief of Staff Li Yan thought otherwise, and advocated continuing to use words such as "avenging the king" to divert attention, so as to achieve the goal of recruiting the remnants of the former Ming Dynasty who were still loyal to the former Ming Dynasty.

These two methods of doing things have their own reasons, and the emperor before Li Zicheng took the lead, and there is also merit in continuing to spread rumors.

Emperor Chongzhen had just been martyred for a few days, and Wang Zheng couldn't wait to be called emperor, which was really against human ethics.

For Wang Zheng, he is still more inclined to the second type, and he has the impression that the Qing Dynasty entered the customs in history under the banner of avenging Chongzhen and annihilating Li Zicheng, so it reduced the resistance of many Manchu and Han disagreements.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has just fallen for a few days, many people's homes are still using the lunar calendar issued by the imperial court many years ago.

Therefore, the method of directly claiming the emperor is not advisable, Wang Zheng thought about it again and again, and did not take the approach of any of their factions, and planned to make preparations with both hands.

First of all, Wang Zheng immediately sent people to the palace of the king of Lu in Shandong to welcome the king of Lu to Nanjing, preparing to support him to supervise the country, and sent personnel from the spy department to monitor the movements of the Tang king in Fujian, as well as the king of Fu in Nanjing, and other princes.

In Wang Zheng's eyes, sooner or later there will be a battle with Li Zicheng, even if Li Zicheng wants to belong to him for the first time, he will never be tolerated.

In this case, why not push the boat down the river, continue to spread the rumors that the Shandong army wants to avenge Chongzhen, and call on people of insight in the world to defect to him.

In the past two days, Nanjing has been busy both inside and outside, once extinguished, once prosperous, everyone knows that a new era is coming.

The Shandong army is in Nanjing, and the Dashun army is chasing the Central Plains, and it is not known who the flowers will be.

In the early morning of 17 May, in the sound of fireworks and firecrackers, Wang Zheng, the king of Qi, led more than 1,000 civil and military generals inside and outside the Shandong army to support Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, to supervise the country in Nanjing, and changed the 17th year of Chongzhen to the first year of the Lu prison state.

Lu Jianguo Zhu was called by the sea, respecting Emperor Zhen as "Shaotian Interpretation Dao Gangming Ming Ke Ming Fen Wu Dun Ren Mao Xiaolie Emperor", respecting Emperor Zhen's will, worshiping Wang Qi Wang Zheng as the generalissimo of civil and military advocacy and righteousness, commanding the world's water, land, soldiers, horses and ships.

On May 19, 1644, the envoy of the Dutch East India Company came to Nanjing again, and the two sides again began negotiations on the Taiwan issue.

The Dutch East India Company lowered its requirements to allow the Qi army to enter and leave Taiwan freely like the Zheng clan, and to share trade with Japan, but the Qi army had to obey the equal status of the Dutch fleet and the Qi army's naval division on the southeast coast, and the Dutch ships did not have to fly the Qi military flag to go to sea.

Hearing this, Wang Zheng, who was standing on the Wuying Palace, said:

"The Dutch red-haired Yi is really rampant, and the king also put forward conditions, what you just said, it's okay." Speaking of this, Wang Zheng changed his words and sneered:

"But this king wants you to ..... every year in Japan, Taiwan, and Manila Fifty of the total trade volume of these places, the Dutch fleet will never be allowed to approach our Ming territorial waters, let your eighteen members of the board come to His Royal Highness Lu Jianguo, and call him a tribute! ”

Jem, who was acting as a temporary translator on the side, was wide-eyed and seemed very surprised, but it didn't take long for him to truthfully translate these words to the wide-eyed foreigners of the Dutch East India Company.

“.......”

After listening to this, the other party scolded non-stop, and it seemed that he was angry, but Wang Zheng smiled slightly, and was very satisfied with their reaction.

The Dutch East India Company seemed to want to negotiate, but the Qi army did not budge.

On May 21 of the first year of the Lu Jian Kingdom, the negotiations between the two sides broke down completely, and the envoys of the Dutch East India Company met angrily and declared war with the Qi army.