Chapter 525: Northern and Southern Dynasties

On February 16 of the first year of Hua, the Ming Dynasty officials in Nanjing were martyred by Emperor Chongzhen, and they all asked the crown prince's prince in Nanjing, Zhu Cihong, to succeed him as emperor.

On February 20 of the first year of Hua, Zhu Cihong was proclaimed emperor, and the emperor's name was Hongguang, and in the history without Li Meng, this emperor title should be inherited by one of his distant brothers.

Liu Zongzhou was appointed as the first assistant scholar of the cabinet and concurrently served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Ma Shiying was appointed as the deputy assistant and concurrently served as the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of Nanjing, was the chief eunuch, in charge of the inner palace and Nanjing Jinyiwei, Huang Degong was the general soldier of Yingtian, and Liu Liangzuo was the chief soldier of Zhenjiang, defending the important places in Nanjing.

When he ascended the throne, he sealed Zuo Liangyu, the Marquis of Ningnan in Jiujiang, and was named the Duke of Ningnan, the first-class title of the Ming Dynasty.

Most of the generals have obtained knighthoods, Huang Degong was named Loyal and Yongbo, Liu Liangzuo is Yiyong Uncle, if the military generals wanted to get the knighthood, it was possible to make great meritorious contributions.

And now that the small imperial court in Jiangnan has been established, Emperor Hongguang has sprinkled the title like money, and Liu Zongzhou claims to be Fangzheng, but he is also silent about this big violation of etiquette and rules.

The territory controlled by the small imperial court is the southern part of the Yangtze River in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, and it looks like half of the country, but this half of the country is counted carefully, Jiangxi is equivalent to Ningnan Gongzuo Liangyu's own territory at this time, Fujian is the independent kingdom of the Zheng family, the distance between the two Guangyun and Guizhou is too far, and the distant water cannot quench the thirst.

What can really be controlled, that is, the places in Jiangnan and Jiangxi, the force he relies on is Lu Jiude's tens of thousands of soldiers, Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo's soldiers and horses, Ma Shiying's troops brought back from Fengyang, and the noble forces represented by the Xu family, the Duke of Wei, who garrisoned Nanjing.

In this situation, there is no such thing as the imperial court arming, basically the soldiers and horses everywhere are controlled in their own hands everywhere, and the soldiers are the generals, this situation is to put it bluntly, it is warlordization, several warlords together support the existence of the emperor, and now the soldiers are in their hands is the strength, no one will hand over the military power, whether the emperor can be mobilized or not, is nothing more than to see the attitude of those warlords towards the little emperor.

What's more, Zhu Cihong is not very old, and he has been raised in the palace since he was a child, and he is ignorant about the matter of governing the country and sitting in the world, all of which are taught by Lu Jiude and Liu Zongzhou, and there is no prestige, and the only way is to spread the title to win people's hearts.

During this time, Beizhili was killing people every day, except for Hejian Mansion and Yongping Mansion, the Li people in the rest of Beizhili had a very good impression of Shandong.

The Jiaozhou camp is not only light on the local exploitation, but also very reasonable, as long as you do it within the rules he set, you will definitely not cause any trouble.

People are good at being bullied, the government is too easy to talk, and there are many powerful people among the people who are beginning to think about making some tricks to see if they can make some cheap money in this Jiaozhou camp.

With such a mentality, Emperor Chongzhen was killed, a large number of routs poured in, and the security of several provinces around the capital suddenly collapsed, and there were rout soldiers burning and looting everywhere, and the villages, which had been peaceful for a while, became tense again, and the large families mobilized their families and the people to protect themselves, and the small families fled to Hejian Mansion or Yongping Mansion one after another.

However, this situation did not last long, and then the Hebei Army, armed Yanding and Huzhuang teams of the Jiaozhou battalion began to enter in large numbers.

The Jiaozhou battalion, which has always given people the impression of being kind and strict in military discipline, has exposed his iron-blooded side, and the armed forces are clearing everywhere, how can those routs who are like straw bags be able to resist, and they were still thinking that it would be hard labor to be caught, and they would escape when the time came.

Who would have thought that what the Jiaozhou battalion did was to kill, catch the rout and behead them on the spot, do not accept surrender, do not treat the wounded, and after being caught, there is only killing.

When it came to the fifteenth day of the first month, the place was calm and abnormal, the road was not left behind, and the door was not closed at night, and the name of the Jiaozhou camp could stop the children's night crying.

Those people with crooked minds in the local area were silent, no one dared to talk nonsense, desperately supported the army to help the salary, everyone then remembered that the Shandong soldiers and horses slaughtered more than 40,000 Tartar soldiers and horses in Beizhili back then, and set up a Beijing view outside the Beijing Division.

It was not until the local capital was killed that Zhang Jiang, the commander-in-chief of the Hebei Army, issued an order to seal the sword, and he could accept the surrender of the rout and thieves, and all the prisoners would be sent to the tuntian granges everywhere for five to ten years of hard labor, and the rank of their tuntian households would be adjusted according to their performance.

After getting the news, the rout, and the bandits who took advantage of the chaos, it was really like an amnesty, they had been killed by the Jiaozhou battalion, and a few years of hard labor were nothing, it was better than being slaughtered by these killing gods.

The Jinzhou Liu family of Zhending Mansion is now finally raising their eyebrows, and the big clan of Beizhili has a trouble, that is, there are too many imperial villages and noble industries in Beizhili, and if they want to make money, it will always cause conflicts of one kind or another, although there are also many people in the Liu family who are officials, but compared to those noble children, the royal bloodline, but it is too far behind.

Up to now, everything is different, at present, the Liu family in Jinzhou is the only big family in Beizhili that has a relationship with Shandong, and Li Meng's pocket is also short of people, and he directly promoted Liu Qing to be the governor of Beizhili, and he is in charge of all the provinces except Shuntianfu, and the business of the Liu family has swelled, and the governor of Beizhili does not have this position at all, but now there is no official position more legitimate than this in the prefectures and counties of Beizhili.

Liu Qingyang knew that he was playing the right chess pieces, helping the army's actions in Shanxi, logistics on the grassland, as well as intelligence investigation, matchmaking, and military salary handling in Beizhili, these things, Qi Guogong gave enough returns, if you want to have greater wealth in the new dynasty, it depends on your own performance.

Liu Qingyang of the Liu family in the era without Li Meng, he was lost in the tide of the times, but in this era, some people appreciated and promoted, and soon glowed with their own light, although Li Mengjiushi asked Liu Qingyang to maintain the Hebei place, but Liu Qingyang was actively observing the actions of Henan and Shandong, as well as Hejian Mansion and Yongping Mansion, which were ruled by Shandong for a period of time, no one ordered, Liu Qingyang took the initiative to begin to inventory the land everywhere, and re-counted the Huangzhuang real estate, after registering the book, the results of the statistics, into Li Meng's hands.

Liu Qingyang's move is indeed greatly appreciated by Li Meng, and it must be remembered in his heart, and it will be more useful in the future.

The surrender document of Gao Di, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, was sent on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, and he and his soldiers and horses were blocked in a small place on the side of Funingwei, and the news was extremely closed.

After knowing the situation outside, Gao Di, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, regretted that it was too late, and all he could do was to send the surrender documents to Qi Guogong as soon as possible.

When Gao Di sent the documents to Chengcheng, he also had a heart, and Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of the Ningyuan regiment training who was more closed than him, did not inform him.

He thought clearly in his heart that a person like Qi Guogong who has achieved great things must have a lot of stomach, although he made his choice a little late, he would still be forgiven, but on the second day of the second month of February, he was informed that Zhang Jiang, the chief soldier of Hebei, had led 6,000 soldiers to the city of Funingwei.

Surrender, one or two silver and a soldier, protect the family's property, and be a rich man, Shandong's conditions are simply open, after hearing it, Gao Di, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, heard it, but felt as if it was five thunderbolts, people in this position, a hundred responses, the emperor of the soil in general, how could he give up easily.

But what if you don't lose it, can you fight with Shandong soldiers and horses, can you fight, Gao Di doesn't have this certainty in his heart, several of his soldiers and horses are planted in the hands of the other party, and they are defeated cleanly, how to fight.

Now Gao Di has understood that the best result is to keep his family property and family as required by Shandong, and to be a rich man for the rest of his life, but he is not reconciled, so many things, such a position, do you have to give up so easily.

The reason for his decision to surrender was very simple, Zhang Jiang, the commander-in-chief of the Hebei Army, brought sixteen-pounder field guns this time, set up artillery under the city, loaded ammunition, and fired out a single shot.

In the current naval ships of the Jiaozhou battalion, there are larger caliber cannons, but in land warfare, this is the most powerful firearm, a cannon shot, the Funing guard city wall is being blasted open, the masonry is shattered, the guards on the city have long been flashed far away, but seeing this gap, everyone is speechless, and then there is such a cannon, the city wall is directly opened.

The disparity in force is so great, what else to fight, is it necessary to wait for the artillery to blast the city open, and the elite soldiers of the other side wearing armor and holding fire guns and spears come in and slaughter?

Fortunately, the officer guarding the city wall was Gao Di's confidant, or he had a conscience, and before surrendering, he hurriedly ran to Gao Di's mansion in the city, and told him about the situation outside the city.

In the afternoon of the same day, Gao Di led the army of his headquarters to surrender, handed over all military power, and brought his family and property to live in Shandong under the escort of a group of Shandong soldiers.

On the second day of Emperor Hongguang's accession to the throne in Nanjing, the governor of Shanxi and the officials of Shanxi Prefecture and County jointly sent a letter to the Duke of Qi, requesting that the Jiaozhou camp enter Jin to maintain law and order, and the hundred officials of Shanxi were willing to accept the arrangement of the Duke of Qi.

On the first day of the first month of March in the first year of Hua, Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, proclaimed himself the king of Qi, and on the same day, Shandong promulgated the "policy of disposal and sale of ownerless land" to the world, and the world was in an uproar.

The Hongguang regime in the south of the Yangtze River was known as the Southern Ming Dynasty by the world, and some literati wrote limericks to mock: they were crowded, and the new dynasty looked like, but I don't know whether it was Chen or Tang in the end.

Nan Chen, Nan Tang, what the ending is, everyone knows