Nanjing Military Department Yamen

Shi Kefa, the secretary of the military department, was talking with Qian Qianyi, a visiting former waiter of the Ministry of Rites. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Nanjing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, although all kinds of yamen are available, basically the same as Beijing, but most of the officials are idle, most of them are political losers who were sent to Nanjing for retirement, but the status is not lower than the relative yamen in Beijing.

The six departments of Nanjing, headed by the military department, and Shi Kefa, the secretary of the military department, was actually the leader of the Nanjing Wenchen. The real power in the whole of Nanjing is the secretary of the military department, the eunuch of the Nanjing garrison, and the lord of the military affairs of Nanjing.

If it is a peaceful season, the officials of Nanjing are naturally leisurely, but at present, the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty are in full swing, half of the northern country has fallen into the hands of the thieves, and even the capital Beijing may have been captured by the thieves, and their whereabouts of Emperor Chongzhen are unknown, which makes Nanjing's status important all of a sudden.

If Beijing falls, then Nanjing will become the capital of the Ming Dynasty from the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the Nanjing Yamen is readily available, and it can directly control the entire Ming Dynasty.

But the question is where is the emperor?

As early as the beginning of March, the imperial court issued a holy decree to the Quartet, and the army crossed the Yellow River from Shaanxi, and the whole of Shanxi was captured by the thieves.

After receiving the holy decree of King Qin, Shi Kefa immediately ordered to gather troops from all over the south of the Yangtze River and rush to King Qin in Beijing. However, Shi Kefa stayed in Guazhou for nearly a month, but the officers and soldiers from all over the country came very slowly, and the army gathered in the past month was less than 20,000.

Just when Shi Kefa ignored it and decided to rush to Beijing with 20,000 troops, a news came from the north, that is, Beijing had fallen. After hearing the news, Shi Kefa looked up to the sky and sighed, and immediately stopped at Guazhou.

News came from the north one after another, some said that Chongzhen had escaped from Beijing, some said that Chongzhen had been martyred, but the prince and the kings had escaped and were on their way to Nanjing.

The news came one after another, and Shi Kefa didn't know whether to believe it. If Chongzhen can escape to Nanjing, then of course he is still the son of heaven of the Ming Dynasty. If Chongzhen was martyred, then the crown prince or Chongzhen's other sons should inherit the throne.

But so much time has passed, and Chongzhen has not escaped, so it seems that the possibility of martyrdom is very large.

At the beginning, it was rumored that Chongzhen had gone south by sea, and other officials in Nanjing were also overjoyed and ran to celebrate. The Son of Heaven is still there, so there is still something to be done in the Ming Dynasty!

However, Wei Shaocheng, a former university scholar, soon escaped from Beijing, confirming that Chongzhen had hanged himself on the coal mountain on March 19, and that Chongzhen's three sons had been captured by the intrusive army and could not escape from Beijing.

Since Chongzhen and his son are not in the army, they can only be enthroned by the side vassal king.

Fu Wang Zhu Yousong, Lu Wang Zhu Changshu and Zhou Wang Heng all took refuge in Huai'an, very close to Nanjing. In terms of blood, it is naturally the closest to King Fu. The old Fu King Zhu Changxun and Chongzhen's father are brothers, and King Fu is Chongzhen's cousin, and the elder brother and successor are the most suitable.

As early as a few days ago, Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Huai'an, wrote to Shi Kefa, saying that "Lunxu should be in the Fu King, and it is advisable to determine the owner of the society as soon as possible."

Of course, Shi Kefa knew that King Fu was more suitable, but there were many objections among the ministers in Nanjing. Among them, the Donglin Party led by Qian Qianyi, the former waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was the most opposed, which made Shi Kefa hesitate.

Today, Qian Qianyi's visit is to persuade Shi Kefa to give up Zhu Yousong, the king of Lifu, and change Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, as the emperor.

"Brother Mu Zhai, state affairs are like this, it is advisable to set the throne as soon as possible to stabilize people's hearts, King Fu is the cousin of the first emperor, and the brother is the last brother, and the succession is the most appropriate." Shi Kefa said slowly to Qian Qianyi, although Qian Qianyi in front of him has no official position now, he used to be a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and now he is the leader of the Donglin Party.

"Brother Dao's opinion is not disagree," Qian Qianyi shook his head and said to Shi Kefa: "State affairs are in full swing, naturally there should be a virtuous king, King Fu is greedy, ****, alcoholic, unfilial, abused, does not study, and intervenes in Yousi as a vassal king, and his notoriety is well known." My Ming state affairs are so difficult, it is the time for the king to work hard, and although the king of Lu is a little far away, but his wisdom and perseverance are the lord of my Ming Zhongxing. ”

Listening to Qian Qianyi's words, Shi Kefa was speechless. Qian Qianyi said beautifully, but he couldn't hide his selfishness. Because the Donglin Party and the Fu Fan have a grudge. I think that at the beginning, it was the efforts of the Donglin Party that King Fu's father, the old King Fu Zhu Changxun, tried to plot the position of the prince in vain, and now the Donglin Party people are afraid that King Fu Zhu Yousong will hold a grudge and do everything possible to prevent King Fu from succeeding to the throne.

Although he knew the selfishness of Qian Qianyi and the Donglin Party, Shi Kefa could not declare it, as the head of the Nanjing Wenchen, he and Shoufu were undoubtedly at this time, so he naturally needed to reconcile the opinions of all parties.

The two sides were silent for a while, but Shi Kefa spoke first, and in order to ease the atmosphere, he said a small thing.

"Brother Mu Zhai, the north has fallen, and the south is not very peaceful, a few days ago, the military department got a report, the pirate Gu Rong brazenly attacked Zhoushan Island, besieged the city for several days, fortunately, there is a Daishan patrol Ren Mou, led his subordinate archers to the edge, broke the pirates under the city of Zhoushan, and captured the bandit leader Gu Rong." What Shi Kefa meant when he said this was that now that state affairs are like this, we, as officials of the imperial court, should not engage in party struggles, but should work together to go to state affairs.

Who knew that when Qian Qianyi heard this, he suddenly interrupted Shi Kefa's words.

"I'm afraid that the report that Brother Dao Lin got was wrong."

"Huh!" Shi Kefa looked at Qian Qianyi in surprise, the report obtained by the Ministry of War was transmitted from below, and there was a report from Jinyiwei as a basis, how could there be a mistake.

"For this Daishan patrol Ren, Qianyi heard another statement, saying that this Ren colluded with pirates to attack Zhoushan and plunder the people, and then Ren took the opportunity to relieve the siege of Zhoushan, so as to make meritorious contributions to the position of Zhoushan general."

"Where did Brother Mu Zhai's statement come from?" Shi Kefa frowned, and looked at Qian Qianyi dissatisfied, the Ministry of War is Shi Kefa's territory, and he doesn't like people to dictate the affairs of the Ministry of War.

"A distant relative of Qianyi is doing business in Zhoushan, and he has experienced the chaos in Zhoushan, and what I said is what he saw with his own eyes, and there will be no fake."

Listening to Qian Qianyi's words, a wave of anger surged from Shi Kefa's chest, with Qian Qianyi's reputation and character, he naturally wouldn't lie. When he saw the delivery of the report in the morning, he also applauded the inspection surnamed Ren, with hundreds of archers from a single inspection department, he broke thousands of pirates, which can be described as a talent, and Ren is still a talented person, which can be described as both civil and military, and it is really a blessing for the Ming Dynasty to have such a talent. But who knew that this inspector surnamed Ren dared to brazenly collude with pirates, attack Zhoushan, and poison the people. No, I have to order a thorough investigation into the matter and arrest this person for interrogation.

After Qian Qianyi left, Shi Kefa asked people to immediately transfer all the official documents about the Zhoushan War, and read them again, and the more they looked at them, the more suspicious they became. As early as more than a month ago, the Zhoushan staff general reported that he had exterminated Gu Rong, a pirate who had attacked Chongming, and captured Gu Rongsheng alive. But soon, Gu Rong's remnants actually killed Zhoushan again, besieged the city for several days, Zhoushan generals were so frightened that they abandoned the city and fled, fortunately, Daishan Inspector Ren arrived in time with his troops, broke the pirate army, and kept Zhoushan from losing, according to Ren's report, Gu Rong was actually captured by him, but was forcibly taken away by Zhoushan Counselor.

The more Shi Kefa looked at it, the more suspicious he felt, and immediately took out a pen and paper to write down an order to investigate the matter thoroughly. But when the brush is lifted, it can't be dropped.

State affairs are already like this, and there can no longer be turmoil in Jiangnan. Ren colluded with pirates, or not, his strength was there, if he ordered a thorough investigation and forced Ren to take risks, the southeast would be unstable.

That's it, just pretend to be confused, since Ren is trying to get an official position, he simply satisfies him, hoping that he can take care of the country's kindness and serve the country loyally.

After thinking about it for a long time, Shi Kefa wrote down an order appointing Ren Siqi as a coastal defense guerrilla. As for Huang Binqing, the general of Zhoushan, he was beaten by pirates and besieged the city of Zhoushan for several days, and he was so frightened that he abandoned the city and fled, he was really a brave and incompetent person. If in the past, Shi Kefa would definitely dismiss him from his official position, but now let's leave him alone, and you can also contain Ren! (To be continued.) )