In Guangzhou, the ministers were helpless, just because His Royal Highness the Prison State refused to leave for the southern capital. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info but before that, the attitude of the prison was not like this.

After the recovery of the southern capital, Zhou Shixiang immediately ordered people to hurry up and report the victory, and His Royal Highness and the first assistant Guo Zhiqi wept with joy when they heard that Nanjing was restored, and ran into the temple to worship their ancestors. At the same time, Zhou Shixiang reported that the Qing army camp in Yangzhou, Jiangbei, had gathered 200,000 troops, and they were building ships day and night with the intention of attacking south. Therefore, I asked the prison country to go north and return to the capital as soon as possible, so as to calm the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, so that the gentry of the restored Ming Dynasty would enthusiastically come to vote and settle the country as soon as possible.

The supervisor summoned the cabinet to discuss the matter of returning the capital, and the second assistant Lian Chengbi objected on the grounds that the Qing soldiers were in Jiangbei, and it was dangerous for the prison to go south at this time, so it was better to wait for Zhou Shixiang to repel the Jiangbei army before moving the capital.

University scholar Hong Yuao was inclined to move the capital of Jianguo, but considering that Jiangbei did have a Qing army, and Jiangnan, Fujian and Zhejiang had not yet been pacified, although the southern capital was Xiongcheng and the Ming Dynasty, it was not as safe as Guangzhou, so when Jianguo asked him for his opinion, he gave a later opinion.

Hong Yuao also opposed the immediate relocation of the capital, which made Lianchengbi suddenly come to the spirit. Since the "palace storming case", even the city wall has been a man with his tail between his legs these days, there is no way, his cronies Zhang Xiaoqi, Cheng Bangjun, Qin Rong and others have been put in prison, although he has asked for pardon from the prison state several times, and the prison country has also made a will, but Wang Shirong, who presided over the so-called rebellion in the military marshal's mansion, has been refuted, saying that the case has not yet been clarified and cannot be released.

Lian Chengbi was furious, found Ding Zhixiang, who was in charge of the Criminal Department, and asked him whether the trial was in charge of the Criminal Department or the Military Marshal's Office. Ding Zhixiang spread his hands and said that at present, the state affairs are in danger, and everything is in power, whether it is the Criminal Department, the Military Marshal's Mansion, and everything related to the safety of the court can be managed.

When Lian Chengbi heard this, he said, Since your criminal department can manage it, then release the person. Ding Zhixiang agreed, saying that since it was the will of His Royal Highness the Prison State, he would definitely release him, but he had to report the matter to the Duke of Yueguo to know. As a result, this report was more than a month, and now Zhang Xiaoqi and they are still in prison, and they don't know whether they are alive or dead.

This incident made Lianchengbi more and more disgusted with Zhou Shixiang and his henchmen, but they were under the eaves and had to bow their heads. After the palace case, the Yongli courtiers who usually served him no longer came to his door, and it was difficult for him to have a momentum, and it was rare to settle down for a few days. A month ago, a group of officials such as Fu Gang, a scholar of the Yongli Imperial Court, Zhang Zuochen, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, Sun Shun, a scholar of the Ministry of War, Cheng Yuan, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and Wan Niance, a servant of the Ministry of Households, returned to Guangzhou from Annan with the eldest princess of Changle.

The eldest princess is the daughter of Shaowu, although Tang Jianguo has rehabilitated his brother, nicknamed "Wenzong", and enshrined in the Taimiao, but in the eyes of these Yongli court officials in the city wall, Shaowu is still a rebel, and this matter has not been approved by the Son of Heaven for a day, so it can not be counted for a day. Therefore, even with some hostility towards the eldest princess, and the eldest princess has been married by the Son of Heaven to Zhou Shixiang, which makes Lian Chengbi unable to have any good feelings towards this daughter of the King James rebel.

After the eldest princess returned to Guangzhou, she was admitted to the palace by His Royal Highness the Prison State, Guo Zhiqi, Song Xianggong and others went to visit the eldest princess, but even the city wall never went. He single-mindedly regarded Fugang and others as powerful support, and wanted to introduce them to the court as helpers against the Zhou party. Who would have thought that Fugang and they didn't pay attention to him at all, but fought with Zhou Party members Xu Yingyuan, Guo Shao and others, and even collectively testified that the will brought back by the eldest princess to canonize Zhou Shixiang as the king of Qi was indeed drafted by the Son of Heaven in western Yunnan after escaping from Kunming, and it could not be faked.

Fu Gang even said that when the Son of Heaven wrote this edict, he regretted it: "I regret not accepting Guo's strange words when I was in Kunming, and I made Zhou Shixiang the king early, so that today's exile." ”

The proof of Fu Gang and others and the letter of King Qi with the jade seal of the Son of Heaven made His Royal Highness no longer doubt it, and ordered the cabinet to organize the ceremony of King Qi and Jin Jue, but the first assistant Guo Zhiqi and the scholar Song Xianggong and others suggested that the Duke of Yue Guo was now leading the Northern Expedition, and he could not be separated, so it was better to wait for the army to recover the southern capital before canonization. The prison state agreed, if the southern capital was taken and Zhou Shixiang was crowned as the king of Qi, it could also show how generous the court's merits were, and it could also be used to declare to the world the Zhu family's favor for meritorious ministers.

Zhou Shixiang was about to be crowned the king of Qi, and the ministers of Fugang and Sun Shun who were trusted by the Son of Heaven refused to help him, and even the city wall was annoyed and anxious, but he didn't want Hong Yuao, who had always followed the will of the Zhou Party, would speak out to support him, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Thinking about the other party's loyalty camp behind him, although it is not as good as the Taiping Army, it also has more than 100,000 soldiers, and I can't help but have the heart to win over Hong Yuao.

Lian Chengbi and Hong Yuao opposed the immediate relocation of the capital, Song Xianggong, Yuan Kuoyu, and Ding Zhixiang tried their best to ask the prison country to immediately set off for the southern capital, and the situation was deadlocked, and finally Guo Zhiqi said that the safety of the prison country is important, but it is more important to stabilize the people's hearts.

Guo Zhiqi's words were in line with the meaning of the country, so he made a decision on the spot, and he didn't have to be pompous. He also ordered the cabinet minister Song Xianggong to stay in Guangzhou, and the rest of the cabinet, the eunuchs, and the officials of Jiuqing, commanded by Jinyiwei, made Zhou Baoguo and Zhu Tonghuwei, the general of the eighth town, get up as soon as possible, and after passing Shaoguan, take a boat along the Ganjiang River to Jiujiang, and take the official road by land to Nanjing.

This route is much more difficult and time-consuming than taking the lower reaches of the Wuchang Shunjiang River, but considering the new descent of Huguang, the Yangtze River Water Division was rebuilt from the Qing court's Dongting Lake Water Division and Wuchang Water Battalion. Therefore, Song Xianggong suggested that they take the land route, from Jiangxi to Nanjing, so that it is safe and safe.

The prison state accepted this route and ordered all officials to make preparations quickly. When the eldest princess in the palace heard that her uncle was going to return the capital, she asked her to go with her. Considering the danger on the road, the prison asked the princess and the princess to stay in Guangzhou, and it was not too late to go when Nanjing was too peaceful.

Changle said: "My niece is a clan relative, and it is loyal if the country does not flee when it is in danger; He also got the Son of Heaven to be married to Zhou Shixiang, and it was righteous for her husband to follow her when she was in trouble. Does my uncle want Shuyi to be an unfaithful and unrighteous person? ”

Jian Guo sighed with emotion, knowing that he couldn't help this niece, so he agreed to Changle to drive with the car. Who would have thought that when the foreign dynasty was preparing to move the capital, Hong Shiming, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, received a letter from his father Hong Chengchou, saying that the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang had returned to China.

The return of the Son of Heaven is very important, Hong Shiming did not think much about it, so he sent the letter to the cabinet, originally wanting to show it to the first assistant Guo Zhiqi or Song Xianggong, but it was Lianchengbi who did not want the cabinet to be on duty. What the letter said made Lian Chengbi very surprised, and he took the letter and entered the palace to see the prison state, but as soon as the prison country heard that the Son of Heaven had returned to China, he refused to go to the southern capital. When Song Xianggong and Guo Zhiqi heard the news, it had already spread throughout the city of Guangzhou. (To be continued.) )