Chapter 186: It's still a mess
Seeing that it has entered December, the year of Chongzhen is about to pass.
Ruan Dacheng found a new reason to deal with the Donglin people, that is, when the city of Beijing fell, some of the bureaucrats of the Donglin family and the Fushe joined the Dashun regime, and when Li Zicheng retreated to Beijing, some of them returned to the south, including Donglin celebrities Chen Mingxia and Xiang Yu.
Ruan Dacheng said that they were spies sent by the Da Shun regime and asked for an investigation. In this way, after intensive preparations, Chongzhen officially released the Shun case in December of the 17th year, and the punishment was divided into six grades. First class. There are eleven people such as Song Qijiao and Niu Jinxing. Second-class slashing duel. There are four people, including Guang Shiheng and Zhou Zhong. Third-class hanging. There are seven people including Chen Mingxia and Xiang Yu. Fourth-class soldiers are intended to be redeemed. There are fifteen people including Qian Weikun and Hou Sui. The fifth-class disciples are to be redeemed. There are ten people such as Song Xuexian and Fang Yizhi. The sixth rod is to be redeemed. There are eight people, including Pan Tongchun and Li.
In this way, the Shun bill was put forward as a counter-case to resist the Donglin Party's re-introduction, and finally expanded, and Ruan Dacheng wanted to completely knock the Donglin Party to the ground. The consumption of the Shun case on the Hongguang regime was huge, and when the news of the surrender of Li Zicheng by those "righteous men and gentlemen" reached Jiangnan, people were shocked. Everyone was angry and puzzled by these traitors who believed in the Confucian Gangchang, especially when people heard that these Donglin party members who had surrendered to Shun even compared Li Zicheng to Yao Shun and persuaded Li Zicheng to quickly pacify Jiangnan. The contrast of the great collapse of faith set off an earthquake in the south of the Yangtze River, and the families, relatives and friends of these civil officials who surrendered to Shun were no longer faceless, any plaques and ancestral halls symbolizing the glory of the family were smashed by angry students, and even their houses were set on fire, regardless of whether the people in the Shun case surrendered to Li Chuang or the Manchus in the future, they were implicated in history, even their descendants.
The occurrence of the Shun case caused some officials who planned to go south to surrender to the Manchus on the spot, and the officials who had returned to the south could not stay in their hometowns and fled one after another, some fled to the Zuo Liangyu camp in Huguang to instigate Zuo Liangyu, and some ran to the Shi Kefa camp in Yangzhou.
At the same time as creating a smooth case to crack down on Donglin and the Restoration Society, Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng set out to overturn the rebellion case and republish the "Three Dynasties Classics". But these were all resisted by Hongguang, although Ma Ruan's reasons were high-sounding, although the Donglin Party opposed Hongguang's accession to the throne, Zhu Youxiang still vetoed Ma Ruan's proposal. This Zhu Youxiang doesn't seem to be a complete stupid bird politically, and he also knows that he can't overthrow some things that shouldn't be overthrown.
In addition to Ruan Dacheng as the squire of the military department, Zhang Jie began to serve as the secretary of the ministry, Cai Yichen served as the squire of the ministry, and Yang Weiyuan served as the general political envoy.
The Ma Ruan Group's attack on Donglin and Fushe is definitely not just relying on the Shun case, this kind of attack is all-round. They contacted the clans, nobles, and eunuchs to launch a comprehensive exclusion of Donglin and Fushe, which undoubtedly harmed the new regime, and it reduced the cohesion of the regime, causing these suppressed people to throw themselves into the Manchu Qing or Dashun, or run to Zuo Liangyu and Shi Kefa to incite them.
At this time, something even more unexpected happened. There is a monk from the north, he declared in public outside the Xihua Gate in Nanjing that he was from the clan of the Qi domain, and was once named the king of Qi.
At first, Dabei said that Chongzhen named him the king of Qi, but he did not accept it and changed the title to the king of Wu. claimed that "King Lu is kind to the people, and everyone obeys him, and he should be on the right throne." When the officers of the Terracotta Division saw that he was incoherent and suspicious, they arrested him.
This incident caused a sensation in the whole Jiangnan, and Zhao Zhilong, the commander of the Jingshi Division, was ordered by Emperor Hongguang to interrogate the case, and he soon found that this monk of great compassion spoke upside down and had no credibility. Dabei first said that Chongzhen initially named him the king of Qi, but he refused, and later Chongzhen renamed him the king of Wu. Then he overturned the statement that Chongzhen was not martyred and died, saying that "King Xianming of Lu should be the Son of Heaven and want to give way to Hongguang", "King Lu is kind to the people, everyone obeys him, and he should be on the throne", and instead supported King Lu Zhu Changshu to be the emperor, and asked Emperor Hongguang to take the initiative to abdicate and make way for Xian.
Where would the officials believe his repeated nonsense, so they waited for him with a great punishment. The great sorrow that could not bear the pain quickly confessed, his real surname was Zhu, a native of Xiuning, Anhui Province, and he became a monk in a monastery in Suzhou at the age of fifteen. Because he knew that the Fu King Zhu Yousong was not popular, so he called himself the prince and wanted to overthrow the Hongguang regime, which did gain a certain amount of support among the people, and had many followers.
The result was absurd, the Great Compassion Monk was just a crazy and clumsy liar, and there was no need to pursue the case further, so he was ready to close the case. However, Ruan Dacheng, who has been promoted to the secretary of the military department, does not think so, and he insists that there must be a mastermind behind the scenes. Ruan Dacheng first sent his cronies to interrogate, fabricated charges from Dabei's confession, and put Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, Gao Hongtu, the cabinet secretary, Gu Xichou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Yi Yingchang, the secretary of the Imperial Palace, Xie Xuelong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Yuan Jixian, the deputy imperial history of the capital, Wu Weiye, Wu Weiye, Yao Sixiao, Qiao Ke and others in this blacklist of more than 100 people, hoping to turn this originally ordinary fraud case into a case of rebellion in which everyone supported King Lu to claim the title of emperor and tried in vain to subvert the Hongguang regime.
Most of the blacklists drawn up by Ruan Dacheng are members of the Donglin Party and the Fushe Society, and the two sides have a long-standing grudge, and Ruan Dacheng has obviously raised the banner of revenge.
At this time, Qian Qianyi also knew that Ruan Dacheng was fabricating charges to frame him, so he hurriedly defended himself and criticized Ruan Dacheng's clumsy accusations, and the contradictions began to become public. The matter was stabbed to Ma Shiying, the first assistant of the cabinet. After learning what happened, the treacherous and cunning Ma Shiying soon realized that the charges fabricated by Ruan Dacheng were difficult to convince the public, and he might tear himself into the water, so he refused to support Ruan Dacheng to launch a purge. In this way, the case ended with Da Pei being sentenced to public execution.
The Great Compassion Case ended, and although Zuihou did not suffer from the misfortune of Shiliu due to party disputes, it and the Shun case, as a landmark event, set off the prelude to the Southern Ming officials arranging each other, and a series of factional struggles triggered by dissatisfaction with the succession of the Fu King Zhu Yousong began.
With Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng's serious suppression of Donglin and the people in the Fushe Society, these so-called humble gentlemen had no choice but to continue to take advantage of their tongues, and one by one Donglin or pro-Donglin officials began to retreat, which made the entire Hongguang Dynasty a hall of Ma Ruan's words.
Seeing the changes in the situation, Zhou Huchen couldn't help it, and Zhou Yuji couldn't help it. And Cai Maode was only granted a household servant who had no real power, and he couldn't help, this Ma Shiying obviously had a defensive heart for Cai Maode.
Suddenly, Zhou Huchen felt that he was a little too small, this game of chess was too big for him to fall, and the only thing he could master was Yangzhou, where he was located. The whole layout is just this point, and Yangzhou has become his everything. Zhou Huchen thought about Henan for a while, but he thought about those "comrades-in-arms, he had a big head."
There is only one person to confide in worries and pressures, and the first staff member is Jian Chen.
This Jian Chen is indeed very good at his set, and during this time, whether it is training the new army or coordinating logistics, he is very competent, and he has done almost a drop of water.
Jian Chen happened to be in Yangzhou City, he learned that Zhou Huchen's summoning came quickly, and even the etiquette was waived, it seems that he has been very fulfilling recently, and he entered the door and began to shout directly: "Busy to death, so hard, is the young marshal calling me to give me a salary increase!" ”
Zhou Huchen got up and arched his hand: "Mr. has worked hard!" ”
This doesn't seem to be Zhou Huchen's style, Zhou Huchen will never be like this, Jian Chen clearly saw silence and some helplessness in Zhou Huchen's eyes.
Jian Chen didn't understand, what happened to this omnipotent and high-spirited Zhou Huchen? He can train this powerful army, he can defeat the strong with the weak, he can lead the army to gallop thousands of miles, he can get the big members of the imperial court, and he can make the emperor approve. Now, this all-round talent in Jian Chen's mind turned out to have this expression.
"Sir, please be seated." Seeing Jian Chen's puzzled expression, Zhou Huchen smiled bitterly.
There is no need to be polite, the staff is equal to their own people, Jian Chen sat down, he continued to look at Zhou Huchen and waited for him to explain.
"Li Zicheng is still retreating, Jiannu has advanced to Tongguan, how long can Shaanxi last?"
Hearing Zhou Huchen's explanation, Jian Chen understood, it turned out that Zhou Huchen was worried about the entire battle situation, and he was worried that Jiannu would go south, which was the reason why he lost his former chic.
"The young marshal thinks those people can't be trusted?" There is no need to talk nonsense between smart people, Jian Chen understands that Zhou Huchen is worried about the entire defense line in Jiangnan.
Zhou Huchen shook his head lightly: "Gao Jie escaped, Liu Liangzuo is, Liu Zeqing is too, and the only remaining Zuo Liangyu is not very reliable now!" ”
Zhou Huchen did not say Huang Degong and himself, which shows that there is no problem with Huang Degong's ally, the problem is that Zhou Huchen is worried about the combat effectiveness of these military towns, the entire defense line in the south of the Yangtze River is too large, plus the Yangtze River that spreads countless miles, once these armies fail, Jiannu will face crossing the river, and the entire imperial court will be stormy.
Jian Chen is also aware of this fact, but unfortunately he knows Zhou Huchen's army too well, and he is not worried: "We have Yangzhou, and now the workshop in Zhenjiang has stepped up to build large artillery, what if Jiannu comes?" One year or two years? With these artillery, what can Jiannu do if he brings the Hongyi cannon? We are not short of food, as long as we evacuate some people in advance, we will consume him to death! In this world, where can a young marshal not gallop! ”
Closing his eyes and falling into thought, Zhou Huchen understood that Jian Chen was not worried about that court at all, and he was not worried about Jiannu when he crossed the river. Jian Chen has too much confidence in this army, don't say that Jiannu can't break Yangzhou, that is, he doesn't defend Yangzhou, it is obviously not difficult for this army to break through, where in the world can not go.
The bystanders were clear, although Jian Chen's words were not much, but they made Zhou Huchen suddenly enlighten and let him pick up his confidence again. Jian Chen's words were a reminder that he didn't need to consider the changes in the current situation, the overall situation was uncontrollable, even if Emperor Hongguang was destroyed, it was nothing, with the existence of this army, he had everything.
Although it is not explicitly stated, this is the declaration of no poison and no husband!
The facts are in front of him, this Hongguang Emperor Zhu Youxiang is not as unbearable as recorded in history, at least he is good to Zhou Huchen and his son, Zhu Youxiang also has some political wisdom, he wants to stabilize this Jiangnan, whether the method is correct or not, Zhu Youxiang is working hard. This shows that Zhu Youxiang is not a broken royal family who can only have fun, and he is not a fat pig in historical records. Zhou Huchen was a little concerned, he began to care about this emperor, and wanted him to continue the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty and clean up this dilapidated world in his name.
A think tank is a think tank, Jian Chen woke up Zhou Huchen, I can go and gallop at will, don't care about others, the world is inherently unbreakable. Since it is useless to count on others, all Zhou Huchen needs is to strengthen himself and make his army strong, who can help me?
This is an era of heroes, and Zhou Huchen will be drowned if he doesn't become a hero!
looked at Zhou Huchen, who had a relaxed expression on his face, and went out in a chic manner. The Dashun army was still fighting with Jiannu, and the battle of Zhou Huchen began, and a winter military training in Yangzhou was immediately launched.
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