For Chongzhen, there is nothing more terrible than losing the throne.

Therefore, he can't eat and sleep well these days, because he is afraid that Yu Guozhen will suddenly send troops to force him to take the throne, or kill him to help the prince and bring the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

But he definitely didn't expect that it was not Yu Guozhen who took away his throne, but those people in Jinling City.

Wang Chengen secretly complained, these days, he has also been to the city and heard the voice of newspaper sellers, but he didn't expect to come here today and just encounter this news.

Kun Xing raised his head, looked at Chongzhen who was trembling, and grabbed his clothes, for fear that he would rush out in anger. Chongzhen forced himself to calm down and glanced at Wang Chengen, who hurriedly ran over and bought a newspaper.

Chongzhen directly found the news about the small court of Jinling.

"Small court" is not a good name, but Chongzhen feels very commendable, especially when he saw that the people of Jinling were on November 17, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, when Yu Guozhen's tiger guard was escorting him to Zhigu, he had already begun to propose to respect him as the emperor and set up a new emperor. ”

Then I saw the dispute of supporting Fu and Lu, and even Shi Kefa put forward the statement of supporting Gui, Chongzhen couldn't help but scold: "Harboring evil intentions, harboring evil intentions!" ”

Immediately afterwards, seeing that in the end, Ma Shiying, with the support of the four towns in Jiangbei, supported the king of Fu into Jinling, and was preparing to ascend the throne as the emperor, and the Jinling Town Shousi also took over and closed the "People's Livelihood Express", and before taking over, the editor-in-chief Gu Jiang angrily published the last issue of the newspaper, and then destroyed the newspaper equipment. Chongzhen gritted his teeth and said: "Woe to the country and the people, woe to the country and the people!" ”

Although his political ability is not too outstanding, he can also see that the small Jinling court in the mouth of "Xinxiang Express" is really not the court that supports the crisis and does serious things.

What made him even more angry was that he couldn't take the position that originally belonged to Ye.

"This ...... This isn't necessarily true, is it? A eunuch cautiously comforted him from behind: "Emperor." Maybe it's made up ......"

"You know what, stay all that shit, to do such a thing. Donglin ...... Donglin ...... Wei Zhongxian shouldn't have been captured in the first place, and Wei Zhongxian should have been let take this group of waste, no. This group of hypocrites are all wiped out and eradicated! ”

Chongzhen almost lost his temper.

"Emperor, Emperor!" Wang Chengen hurriedly reminded: "Why don't we go back?" ”

"No, don't go back, keep going!" Chongzhen said with a gloomy face, he even suffered the pain of going to the country, and now this blow is just a handful of salt added to the wound, and he can still bear it.

But then he went to the bank and went shopping on the street, he was absent-minded. The current situation made him understand very well. He originally thought that Yu Guozhen, who was the most threatening to the Ming Dynasty, didn't have to do anything at all, and if he let the situation develop, the Ming Dynasty would die in internal strife - the small court in Jinling was really not serious. It's an internal strife, and the pseudo-Taoists in the Middle East are even more happy.

What made him even more angry was that he could see it clearly, but there was nothing he could do about it.

No, he could still do something, at least. can leave his true thoughts.

In fact, he had revealed his intention to move Jinling several times, but he was obstructed by some Donglin party members in the Beijing division, and finally had to use the ruined city to meet Li Zicheng's army of more than 100,000.

Thinking of this, he walked very briskly on the way home. When he got to his lodgings, he went to his study, a room facing west, and because of the glass and lime plastered walls, it was very bright during the day, even if there were no candles. Chongzhen picked up the pen and stared at the stack of paper for a moment, and then finally wrote.

"Lost National Record", he wrote down these three words first, but immediately, he erased them, crumpled them into a ball, and then changed a piece of paper and wrote down another three words: "Mistaken National Record".

After only writing three words, he thought that something was wrong, wasn't he just writing some kind of memoirs of Lao Shizi according to Yu Guozhen's instructions?

Putting down the pen and paper, he took back the "Xinxiang Express" and began to browse through the rest of the articles on it. In addition to introducing the content of the small court of Jinling, this newspaper also introduced a content, that is, the Huwei navy went to the capital of Guangzhou and took over the city defense of Guangzhou.

"Fang Kongzhi?"

Chongzhen saw this name, he had an impression of this person, the governor of Huguang who was imprisoned after being attacked by Yang Sichang, but after Yang Sichang's death, quite some people re-recommended Fang Kongzhi in front of Chongzhen, saying that he was a generalist in both military and political affairs and could turn the tide, but Chongzhen did not adopt his proposal because of his kinship with Yu Guozhen.

Chongzhen glanced at the time, Fang Kongzhi set off to receive the Guang'zhou capital, it was a matter of December 10 in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, with the speed of Xinxiang's news transmission, it had been confirmed that he had arrived in Tamna at this moment - obviously, compared to those people in Jinling who elected King Fu as the emperor without knowing whether he was alive or dead, and symbolically respected him as the emperor, Xinxiang still left him more or less face.

In Chongzhen's own opinion, this is to save face for him, but he doesn't know that it is actually because Xinxiang planned to take advantage of the internal strife in Jinling to take over Liangguang without blood.

"Shen Youlong, the governor of Liangguang, doesn't know how he will deal with Fang Kongzhi...... The newspaper said that Fang Kongzhi was escorted by the South China Sea Fleet of the Xinxiang Water Army, 20,000 Tiger Guards, so many people, Shen Youlong was afraid that he would not be able to fight against it......"

As Chongzhen thought, Shen Youlong, the governor of Liangguang, was indeed powerless to confront Huwei, in fact, because of the relationship between commerce and trade, the entire city of Guangzhou's city was almost undefended for Xinxiang. When the first Xinxiang ship docked, the city had already fallen into Xinxiang's pocket.

In Shen Youlong's view, those who entered Guangzhou were rebellious troops, and Yu Guozhen was just a martial artist, and he assigned Huwei to take over Guangzhou, which was not at all what he called "preparing for the Kou", but taking advantage of the chaos to support the army and expand the territory.

Shen Youlong was extremely angry in his heart, if he lost the city because of the unfavorable battle, he would still be able to talk about masturbation, after all, he tried his best, but in this way, the city was taken away by someone without blood, in addition to proving his incompetence, I am afraid that the history of the Qing Dynasty will suspect that he has colluded with the "chaotic army". Therefore, he made up his mind, when he saw Fang Kongzhi escorted by the chaotic army, he must scold the other party, only in this way can he show his integrity.

It's just that for ten days, Fang Kongzhi didn't see him, he was under house arrest in the yamen, and although he could send servants to the street to buy vegetables every day, he himself was forbidden to go out.

It wasn't until today that he could hear it: Fang Kongzhi is here to see!

He had been preparing for a long time to scold Fang Kongzhi for being obedient, but when he heard that Fang Kongzhi really came to see him, he felt a little emotion in his heart.

"Brother Shen Nian, I have been really busy these past few days, and I haven't been able to come in time to greet you, and I ask the military to take a break to blame."

Fang Kongzhi and Shen Youlong are both Jinshi in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, and the two sides have this level of relationship, and they were more or less acquaintances before. Seeing him saluting himself, Shen Youlong proudly did not return the salute: "I don't dare to be called your brother's brother, Shen is a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, and your Excellency is a minister of the South China Sea, and you are called a brother, please mention it." ”

"Brother Shen Nian is a great Ming Jinshi, so if you are on the plate today, Brother Shen Nian can have the power to turn the tide?" Fang Kongzhi had long known that he would scold, so he was not annoyed, and asked rhetorically: "Gyeonggi has fallen, the rebellion is rampant, the Central Plains area, the people are poor, the people outside the customs are built, the tigers are eyeing each other, the princes of Jinling are selfish and misleading the country. In such a situation, if Brother Shen Nian can do something, the foolish brother is willing to attach Ji Wei and serve Brother Nian! ”

"You...... What do you mean by this, but what you are doing now is loyal to the country? ”

"The foolish brother treats the sinful body and the minister who reprimands, if he doesn't think about the country, how can he be a wife again? The foolish brother is more willing to write poems under the forest springs, sail on the rivers and lakes, and be happy and happy, isn't it better than being busy all day now, but it is still not understood, and even those who are as knowledgeable as young brothers also misunderstand the foolish brother! ”

"Misunderstanding?"

"Naturally, it was a misunderstanding!"

"Shen is the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangzhou, you put me under house arrest here, connived at the soldiers to run amok and harass the officials in the township, all of this is a misunderstanding? In just ten days, Your Excellency has already sent troops to one of the counties, and more than hundreds of officials have been appointed by Your Excellency's Great Seal, all of which are misunderstandings? ”

Fang Kongzhi came here, naturally with a big seal, his seal engraved as "Huaxia Ming Liangguang Governor", originally only "Huaxia Liangguang Governor", but because of his insistence, he added the word "Daming". In addition to the 20,000 Tiger Guards, there were also working groups with a total number of more than 3,000 people - according to Xinxiang's experience in Changhua, a working group of 500 people, plus 500 Tiger Guards, could roughly control a medium-sized county. A city as large as the capital of Guangzhou, of course, requires more manpower.

With sufficient manpower, after Fang Kongzhi took over the city defense of Guangzhou, the first step was to send troops to detain all the officials and officials at all levels, occupy various yamen, and the personnel he brought took over the power of the entire Guangzhou and its surrounding counties. The working group also went directly to the township below, began to control the grassroots, and dismissed the old grassroots forces such as Lizheng and Baochang.

The first thing they did was to build roads, not only to facilitate the circulation of goods, but also to facilitate the regime's control over remote areas.

Of course, this process was not all peaceful, and few of them had to resist or set up stumbling blocks behind their backs, for these people, Fang Kongzhi deserved to be a governor, he was unrelenting, directly implemented the "wartime military control provisions", publicly announced the sentence, and the serious ones were directly executed, and the minor ones were also exiled overseas, and they were sent to the South China Sea Islands on ships.

Shen Youlong had heard all these things, so he felt both angry and funny about Fang Kongzhi's self-defense.

"Brother Shen Nian is really well-informed, but Brother Shen Nian still has news that he doesn't know." Fang Kongzhi smiled and said: "I won't say much about the rest, foolish brother, I came this time to send the young brother on the road." ”

"On the road...... Sure enough, I was crazy! Hearing the word "on the road", Shen Youlong was not only not afraid, but felt relieved, and he said sharply: "You have received the grace of the first emperor, so perverse and rebellious, although Shen is dead, he will become a powerful ghost and take your life!" ”

(To be continued)