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Liu Qi was already a little impatient in Shaanzhou, he had waited too long.

In addition to guarding the pontoon bridge in Shaanzhou, Liu Qi's scouts had already penetrated far into Shanxi, and five days later, the scouts finally brought news that the army had appeared.

At this time, Liu Qi had already eaten the county towns and larger towns near the Yellow River. Fortunately, these plague-like officers and soldiers are very polite, although Liu Qi has not used a single violent means, and no one in these places dares to say a word. Because, these places nominally belonged to Li Zicheng, and Liu Qi had every reason to kill these so-called magistrates.

The pontoon bridge is not wide, especially for large carts loaded with grain. For safety, these vehicles loaded with supplies could not pass in a queue and had to cross the pontoon bridge separately. It took almost a day for the huge flow of people and vehicles carrying supplies to fully pass the pontoon bridge, and the rest of the journey was finally smooth.

Shaanzhou is located in the westernmost part of Henan, and the lower Jiangnan must go south-east, which requires crossing the entire Henan.

Spring is supposed to be the busiest season of the year, and the wilderness is green, but unfortunately, this Henan province is a barren grass, there are few human traces in the farmland, and there are even fewer people encountered on the way.

The road was flat, the cavalry and scouts were scattered, and tens of thousands of troops were gathered, so there was no need to worry about safety. Zhou Huchen was a man who combined work and rest, and after the army began to move, he began to rest, lying on the roof of a grain truck, and he began to recharge with his face to the sky.

The next day, the army arrived in Michi County. In this dilapidated county town poisoned by the war, there are still officials, officials of Dashun.

More than 100,000 people stationed in the city made the officials of Mianchi County tremble, and it was naturally incumbent on them to reward the imperial army. For this kind of head and tail end, Cai Maode feels very helpless, there is no point in killing these pseudo-officials, Li Zicheng will definitely be reappointed, although the things given are a drop in the bucket, but it is better than nothing.

All the way east, not only did he not encounter the enemy, but Cai Maode actually found that his army seemed to be very popular, at least on the surface, there would be people everywhere to reward the army, and they were very enthusiastic, without exception. Whether it is sincere or false flattery, this makes Cai Maode start to be full of confidence, this move to Jiangnan seems to be correct, and it is not particularly difficult.

This is a true reaction of history, Li Zicheng is victorious, it is really the so-called luck to win the world, the world's wealthy families, those powerful gentry, local officials and landlords all know that when the dynasty changes, we must look at the direction of the wind, and place a quasi-bet, otherwise it will be a situation of broken bones, and the right bet is glory and wealth, and the worst can also seek a self-preservation. The same was true after the later Jiannu entered the customs, of course, there were people who resisted, but the majority of those who surrendered to be obedient to the people.

Whoever comes, it is the same, as long as there is no wanton plunder, these local officials and gentry are very well-behaved, and know how to do it to seek safety. Cai Maode led a serious imperial army, and these local officials and gentry were even more silent, afraid of getting into trouble.

While more than 100,000 people in Shanxi were still advancing, officials and businessmen who had wandered south had spread the news of the fall of Beijing and the death of Emperor Chongzhen all over Jiangnan.

Nanjing has a complete set of ruling institutions, these officials to the Nanjing military department Shangshu, the town guard eunuch, Nanjing garrison as the head, the news of the death of Emperor Chongzhen was confirmed, although it was a bolt from the blue, but the importance of Nanjing as a companion capital also showed. Within a few days, while holding a funeral for Emperor Chongzhen, the political tide in Jiangnan began to surge.

The first emperor died, and a new monarch must be appointed. As the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department in charge of military power, Shi Kefa now has the most right to speak. According to the Chinese tradition, it is based on the primogeniture inheritance system, and the bloodline is precious, and among the current kings of the Ming Dynasty, King Fu, King Gui, and King Hui should be the best candidates.

Zhu Youxiang, the king of Fu, was the oldest among the three feudatories, and he ran around like a headless fly, so he happened to run to Huai'an, near Nanjing. Compared with the other two vassal kings in Guangxi, the blessed king Zhu Youxiang naturally got the moon first near the water. However, things are far from that simple. The Jiangnan gentry had the largest number of Lin Party members, and they held the power of public opinion in Jiangnan. Obviously, Zhu Youxiang, the king of Fu, did not conform to the interests of the Donglin Party.

Speaking of the festival of the Donglin Party and the Fu Clan, this goes back a long time. Zhu Youxiang's father, Fu Wang Zhu Changxun was the loser of the "national capital dispute" in the Wanli period, when the Wanli Emperor favored Zheng Guifei, and regarded Zheng Guifei's son Zhu Changxun as a pearl in the palm of his hand, plus Zheng Guifei was blowing wind on the pillow of the Wanli Emperor all day long, and the Wanli Emperor had long had the idea of abolishing the long and young. Emperor Wanli first named the Zheng family as a concubine, but the mother of the eldest son was still a concubine, which was not in line with the ancient system, and secondly, Zhu Changluo did not let him go to school after he grew up, and then came up with the idea of merging the three kings, and made all the princes kings to reduce the status of the eldest son, but was blocked by the ministers (mainly the Donglin Party) and did not succeed. After the establishment of the crown prince, the two sides of the fierce competition, Donglin Party according to the feudal patriarchal system of "there is a grandson, no grandson to establish the long" principle, resolutely opposed to the establishment of Zhu Changxun as the prince, delayed for more than ten years, and later the eldest son Zhu Changluo was set up as the prince by the Wanli Emperor, and Zhu Changxun was finally named Luoyang as the king of Fu, this king of Fu Zuihou was killed by Li Zicheng in Luoyang. Therefore, Zhu Youxiang, who is the son of Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, obviously has no good impression of the Donglin Party psychologically. The Donglin people were naturally afraid that Zhu Youxiang would retaliate against the Donglin Party after he became emperor, and they were also afraid that he would favor the opponent of the Donglin Party - the Eunuch Party.

Therefore, proceeding from interests and in the name of King Fu's mediocrity, the Donglin Party began to create public opinion and resolutely oppose Zhu Youxiang, the king of Fu, as emperor. These people were headed by Qian Qianyi, the leader of Donglin, and in the name of Lixian, the people of Donglin launched an inexplicable heir - King Lu with great fanfare.

This King Lu, who had been deflated in the hands of Zhou Huchen, said that he had some eyesight, he reacted faster than Zhou Huchen, when Li Zicheng began to attack Shanxi, he reacted extremely quickly, and ran to Jiangnan with his family, and he is now also in Huai'an.

The benefits were tempting, especially in the support of the emperor, not only the ministers and gentry, but also the military generals began to participate in it.

This piece of fat and oily meat has been coveted by countless people, including Zhu Youxiang, who has been ready to be established as the new monarch. Originally, Chongzhen's sons did not know where to go, and Tianqi had no heirs, so the heirs could only be found from Wanli's heirs, and according to the rules of the Lun order, it should be the blessed king Zhu Youxiang, but now there is an accident.

Zhu Youxiang thought that King Lu's bloodline was remote, so he naturally lacked a reason to succeed, but there were very few people who came to show his loyalty to him and engage in speculation, so Zhu Youxiang finally couldn't sit still.

Zhu Yousong, who was already red-eyed, actually understood the truth of power coming out of the barrel of a gun, and with the help of the eunuch Lu Jiude, he directly asked for help from the general army of the three towns in Jiangbei. The commanders of these three towns are Gao Jie, Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie, Huang Degong was originally an ambitious warlord, and seeing that there was a big deal to do with "making a decision and supporting the establishment", it was really a good opportunity to have no capital and a lot of profits. So they hit it off and got rid of their immediate boss, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, who was secretly discussing with Shi Kefa.

Liu Liangzuo originally supported Lilu, but it can be seen that the situation is not good, and he decisively gave up his original intention.

The three towns became the founding fathers of the decision, and the news soon spread to Nanjing, and everyone was shocked. Ma Shiying, who was old in the officialdom, and Shi Kefa, the secretary of the military department, already had candidates, but now, he didn't dare to oppose his subordinates, plus the problem of interests, he didn't want to be hollowed out and eliminated.

Xinyi is really worthless, Ma Shiying resolutely abandoned Shi Kefa and chose to be Zhu Youxiang's decision-making father.

I have to say that Ma Shiying is very good at judging the situation and fighting for power and profit, after the unification of ideas in several towns, he immediately revised the book to Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of the Nanjing garrison, in the name of the governor of the three towns and Fengyang, and announced his support for Zhu Youxiang, the king of blessings.

Shi Kefa was still in the dark at first, pointing fingers and disagreeing, and scolded Zhu Yousong for being stupid and confused in a letter to Ma Shiying, but he didn't expect to become a handle in the hands of others. With Ma Shiying, he led the army to escort Zhu Yousong to Pukou, Nanjing. Others have no power and no soldiers, the general situation has been decided, and the remorseful Shi Kefa and the Donglin Party members and the nobles of Nanjing have no choice but to accept this reality.

Zhu Yousong turned to the warlords of the Three Towns to support him, which had a major impact on the subsequent changes in the situation. The most direct effect was to make his own wish come true and smoothly ascend to the supreme throne. The indirect impact is that the towns of Jiangbei regard themselves as "benefactors of the Son of Heaven" and "Conglong Yuanxun", and no one in Nanjing, from the emperor to the important ministers, can effectively control these high-flying and domineering troops. Thus opened the Southern Ming warlord Xunzhen Shili tail indiscriminately.

In fact, Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying and other important ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty regarded the emperor they selected and prepared to support as clay puppets from the beginning. Whoever is the ruler is important, it is important that it does not prevent them from holding the power in their hands. From the bottom of my heart, the once majestic emperor was just a symbol and an ornament for these important ministers. Among the seven reasons why Shi Kefa pointed out that the Fu King cannot be established, one of them is "intervening in the division". Yes, it is an emperor who "intervenes" that is taboo for important ministers. To everyone's surprise, Zhu Yousong, who seemed to everyone to be fat and confused, actually made a clever move and defeated the self-righteous Gonggong in Nanjing in one fell swoop.

The so-called "eunuchs" stood on the moral high ground this time, and with the addition of Liu Zeqing, who was stationed in Huai'an, the four towns with the strongest troops finally began to fully support Zhu Youxiang.

PS； This chapter is mainly based on information, which is very important, so it cannot be left without foreshadowing. At the end of the third volume, the fourth volume is the tiger in the south of the Yangtze River.

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