Zhou Huchen admires Ruan Dacheng very much, the villain is really a villain, and he is a bachelor enough.

The villain also has the advantages of being a villain, he can fool people, and he can fool people better than Zhou Huchen, who thinks he can fool people very well.

Ruan Dacheng returned to power as a "soldier knower", and his only achievement in military affairs was to sing high-profile empty words, and there seems to be no achievements to speak of. Hongguang said in his edict: "When Ruan Dacheng saw it before, he played it to Mingshuang, so it was slightly usable." "It is said that Ruan Dacheng talked about his military strategy in front of the emperor, which is very beautiful. After he first became a squire in the military department, he even went on two sparse positions, and his name was "Liaison Control and Strangulation to Respond to the Four Advances", "The Yangtze River Two and Three to Fourteen Gaps", which was eloquent, showing that he was a military genius who was confident and knew the subtleties, and said impassionedly: "The minister's gray hair is gradually growing, and the heart is not old", and he should "bow to the best of his ability, and then die" eight words "Arrow the day".

As a result, Ruan Dacheng was soon promoted to the secretary of the military department. But from then on, he was busy accepting bribes and recommending, arresting and killing people, and his "own work" was so wasted that the emperor had to issue a decree to criticize: "Tell Ruan Dacheng: The traitors on the river are infested, and the rebels are rampant, so that the business and travel are infarcted, and it is necessary to be strict." ”

At that time, the situation was quite absurd, and the Qing army pursued Li Zicheng to the west, but Li Zicheng chased Zuo Liangyu to the south.

At this time, a major event occurred in Nanjing, and the matter was quickly reported to Zhou Huchen by an informant who was placed in Nanjing.

At the beginning of February, Honglu Temple Shaoqing Gao Mengqing's secret performance: Prince Zhu Cihong appeared in Zhejiang.

This is a major event that has caused a sensation in the entire south of the Yangtze River, and for Emperor Hongguang, it is tantamount to a slap in the face. According to the etiquette system, the crown prince is the legitimate heir to the imperial power, and he is also more supported by the people. After knowing that the crown prince was still alive, the people of Nanjing, who had long been dissatisfied with Emperor Hongguang, demanded that the prince take over the power. In order to appease the people's grievances, Emperor Hongguang had to show a high profile. When talking to his subordinates about Chongzhen's martyrdom, Emperor Hongguang expressed grief and choked up with sobs, claiming that he was really relieved to know the whereabouts of the crown prince now, and that if the prince's identity was confirmed, he could give up the throne.

Obviously, whether this incident is true or not, it has brought a huge shock to this newly established court. There was no way, the imperial court immediately sent people to Jinhua to greet him, and immediately after, the Hongguang court couldn't wait to give the crown prince a nickname in February, which was equivalent to making a predetermined conclusion for the identity of the prince who was about to enter the capital.

The day before the prince entered the southern capital, the monk Dabei, the protagonist of another suspicious case, was executed, is this a coincidence?

This is obviously a method of killing chickens and setting an example to monkeys, and there are two monkeys to be exemplified, one is the prince; The second is Donglin. The main case was the people of Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, and the target was directly aimed at the minister of Hongguang Dynasty, who was inclined to the Donglin Restoration Society.

It just so happened that after dealing with the affairs in Henan, Shi Kefa came back, and he rushed to Yangzhou.

The authenticity of the prince affects many interests, and it also makes Shi Kefa a little confused. The arrival of Shi Kefa just gave a person the opportunity to "communicate" with Zhou Huchen's father and son, this person's surname is Ye, and his name is Ye Yinzhi. Ye Yinzhi is a person in Chongzhen's early years, and his career is not smooth, and he has been serving as an inconspicuous imperial history in Nandu in recent years, because he has some contacts with Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng. Ye Yinzhi's current title is the imperial envoy of the right capital, although this is a nominal name, but he is also a senior inspector of the imperial court, and he is the military envoy of the town of Yangzhou.

Ye Yinzhi was arranged to come to Yangzhou, and Ma Shiying's arrangement made him tremble, because this was Zhou Huchen's territory. Ye Yinzhi is not afraid of Zhou Yuji, nor is he afraid of Shi Kefa, but he is afraid of Zhou Huchen. Therefore, Ye Yinzhi is very well-behaved, and he knows what he will do to make himself safer. Since coming to Yangzhou, except for a visit to Zhou Huchen's father and son, Ye Yinzhi has been low-key in an official residence in Yangzhou with nothing to do.

It just so happened that Shi Kefa came to Yangzhou, and a major event happened in Nanjing, and Ye Yinzhi could finally come out of the "recuperation" to breathe.

For the authenticity of this prince, Nanjing City has dispatched many road immortals, including eunuchs and courtiers, as well as Wang Duo, the former prince's lecturer, and Wang Duo insisted that the prince was fake. At the same time, Liu Zhengzong and Li Jinglian, teachers who had taught the prince in the past, were also summoned, and asked them to confront the prince. Liu Li and the others felt that this person was similar to the crown prince's appearance, but they couldn't confirm it. And in the process of confrontation, the prince also answered several wrong places. The most important thing is that according to the right attendant of the military department, Zuo Maodi, the prince has a black mole birthmark on his calf, which this person does not have.

I don't know if it was at the behest of Emperor Hongguang, but the officials in charge of hearing the case unanimously determined that the prince was a fake, and his real identity was the nephew of the former concubine Wang, named Wang Zhiming. However, the subjects did not believe in this result, and they privately believed that this was an excuse made up by Emperor Hongguang in order to keep the throne. A folk song began to circulate in Nanjing: "If you want to distinguish the prince from the fake, shoot the man first and shoot the horse, if the prince is strong, the thief will capture the king." There are even people who inscribe poems on the walls of the imperial city to satirize: "The hundred gods protect the thieves, meet the former star closed and opened, Fusu Yuan at sea is not dead, and he is sick in prison and ridiculed?" Safety is determined by the Guan Sect Society, how can loyalty and righteousness be listed on the stage? Where the fierce march is encountered, the whole world mourns to the thorns. "Point the finger at Emperor Hongguang.

"Zhou Shuai has been in the northern capital for a long time, do you know that it is not easy to come to this place south of the Yangtze River from the northern capital?" Shi Kefa came to Yangzhou, he obviously came for a purpose, and it was for Zhou Yuji.

This is difficult to answer, Li Zicheng must have been in chaos when he occupied Beijing at that time, and it was difficult for the prince to run to Jiangnan, but it was not impossible. Zhou Yuji didn't know what Shi Kefa meant, he thought about how to answer this question.

Zhou Yuji didn't know what Shi Kefa meant, but Zhou Huchen knew that this was Shi Kefa's temptation. Sometimes this person behaves quite normally, but sometimes he is a little mentally retarded, and today, Shi Kefa seems to have a slight increase in IQ.

"The cabinet thinks the prince is a fake?" Zhou Huchen quickly intervened, and also solved the embarrassment for Zhou Yuji.

"It's all the way, how could the prince come to Jiangnan? Many people in the court pointed out that it was false, how could this prince be real! ”

The language of Shi Kefa's answer was scorching, and Zhou Huchen understood that as one of the leaders of Donglin, Shi Kefa was given a tone. Judging from this pseudo-prince case, the Donglin Fushe people did not actively oppose Emperor Hongguang and his close minister Ma Shiying, who was worried that the crown prince would shake the legitimacy of his throne, but Ma Shiying and his ilk wanted to repeat the old trick and want to play a good show that trapped the Donglin Party in an embarrassment.

The Donglin Restoration Socialists who served in the DPRK and China were also considered to be wise and wise, and they were very taboo about the court and thought that they recognized the prince as true. The so-called party calamity is mainly due to their old grudges and contempt for all political opponents who have the stain of "opposing cases" from a personal point of view, and on this issue, because they occupy the commanding heights of morality, they have wantonly attacked the overall situation. In the case of the pseudo-prince, their strategy is purely defensive, hoping to win Hiromitsu's understanding with a defensive posture, while their political opponents try to frame each other in order to consolidate their power.

"True and false, false and false! Thick arms make sense! ”

Zhou Huchen didn't save face for anyone, this is purely a bloody incident, the truth is meaningless, his arms can't twist his thighs, this is Zhou Huchen's conclusion on this matter.

Ye Yinzhi has no right to speak, he is just a chaperone, a chaperone who is responsible for listening and then making a small report. This result is satisfactory, because he is also afraid that Zhou Yuji will take a different position, which will be a devastating blow to him personally. Zhou Yuji is too strong, once he stands on the opposite side of Ma Shiying, he will even cause an earthquake in the entire Nanjing.

Today, although it is only a few words, Ye Yinzhi can be regarded as understanding Zhou Huchen's power. Those superficial vulgarity and brutality cover up a lot of things, but that's not all at all, Zhou Huchen's political sense is too strong, much stronger than Shi Kefa.

This matter is equivalent to Zhou Huchen answering for Zhou Yuji, and Ye Yinzhi can happily report to Ma Shiying.

The matter of the fake prince has not completely subsided, and another troublesome matter has found Zhu Youxiang again.

There was a woman surnamed Tong in Henan who met Yue Qijie, the governor of Henan, and claimed to be the step-concubine of King Dechang (i.e., Zhu Yousong), and was separated from Zhu Yousong in the chaos. Yue Qijie and Guangchangbo Liu Liangzuo were convinced, and sent someone to escort them to Nanjing while playing the report.

On the way to Nanjing, local civil and military officials paid their respects, but the person who called herself Concubine Tong behaved frivolously and had no demeanor. According to the official report: "Where the county passes, there may be a division to provide a little feed, criticize and turn the table on the ground; Occasionally, those who are expected to be on the left side of the dust road will open the curtain and expose half of their faces, and say: Excuse me! Those who heard it laughed."

This Tong case is basically similar to the case of Dabei and the fake prince, and Tong is almost certainly not Zhu Yousong's princess.

The thing is very simple, when Zhu Yousong was the king of the county, he married the concubine Huang, but Concubine Huang died early without children, and later married the concubine Li, when Li Zicheng led the army to conquer Luoyang, Concubine Li died in trouble. In the Ming Dynasty, the princes and princesses had to report to the imperial court, and the imperial court sent personnel to canonize them, so as to conform to the etiquette system. Concubine Huang and Concubine Li are both princesses who have been officially canonized by the imperial court, and have not been canonized as concubines. Since she is called a step-concubine, this is already false.

The case of the concubine is absurd, but it alludes to the struggle for power.

Because, the first to report this matter was Chen Qianfu, the superintendent of Henan Province. He has always been at odds with the first assistant Ma Shiying, and in order to restrain Chen Qianfu, Ma Shiying appointed his brother-in-law Yue Qijie as the governor of Henan. As for the powerful figure Chen Qianfu, he has always had close ties with many local armed forces in Henan, and he originally wanted to use the good news of the discovery of Concubine Tong to gain the support of Emperor Hongguang and include these local armed forces in the Liliang against the Qing army. Unexpectedly, Ma Shiying took advantage of this God-given opportunity to take down a political enemy again.

Chen Qianfu had been trying to link the camps of many Henan heroes into the defense line of Qinwang Liliang, and in this way, there was friction with Ma Shiying, who was desperately trying to bring Henan under his control. Ma Shiying initially wanted to appoint Ruan Dacheng as governor of Henan, but failed, and he managed to get his brother-in-law Yue Qijie to take the position. This Yue Qijie from Guizhou, who was a fellow intellectual, was exiled for corruption, and after returning to Nanjing, he married Ma Shiying's sister. At first, Yue Qijie was supported by Xiao Yingxun, the most powerful man in Henan who controlled the Nanyang region. In the battle to suppress the remnants of the Dashun peasant rebellion, Xiao Yingxun recaptured a number of towns in the southwestern part of the province. When Xiao Yingxun's son Xiao Sanjie reported to Yue Qijie, Yue Qijie accused their father and son of being bandits. When Yue Qijie passed through Nanyang, Xiao Yingxun and his subordinates closed the gate to Yue Qijie to resist. On the other hand, when Chen Qianfu passed through Henan, he was welcomed by every village owner and hero. Out of jealousy and the redistribution of interests, Yue Qijie slandered Chen Qianfu to Ma Shiying. At this time, the case of Concubine Tong was discovered, and the case of Concubine Tong became a pawn for Ma Shiying to get rid of Chen Qianfu, and the truth of Concubine Tong became unimportant at this time, so Concubine Tong would die. Chen Qianfu, who was the discoverer of the concubine, was implicated, and he was thrown into prison for complicity in treason.

Chen Qianfu had a good relationship with the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Restoration Society was severely suppressed, so they began to attach themselves to the warlord Zuo Liangyu, who was located in Wuchang, an important town in the upper reaches of Nanjing. In his early years, Zuo Liangyu was picked up by Hou Sui, a member of the Donglin Party, and had close contacts with the Donglin Party, and was suspicious of each other with Ma, Ruan and others and Emperor Hongguang. So, Chen Qianfu was taken down as a matter of course. [bookid=3033574,bookname="Confucianism in the Late Han Dynasty"]