Chapter 178: This Year China Produces Emperors (4)

In June of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Huguang Province, Xiangyang Province

Not long ago, the plaque of "Chuang Wangfu" was hung in the Yin'an Hall of the Daming Xiang Palace, and at this time, the new "Chuang Wang" Li Zicheng, who has not yet become a one-eyed dragon, is wearing a newly created gold crown, sitting on the dragon chair in a big way, squinting at the generals in the palace. New・

In the center of the Yin'an Palace, there is an old scholar wearing a Confucian shirt and a square scarf on his head, holding a fold in his hand, tremblingly reciting an obscure article: "...... The minister heard that he was born to steam the people, and the tree was the king, so he was the one who crossed the heavens and the earth, and the priest Li Yuan. The Holy Emperor Ming King saw this as such. Knowing that heaven and earth cannot be lacking in food, he bends his body to serve it; Knowing that Li Yuan could not be left without an owner, he had to come as a last resort. When the society is difficult, it will be tilted; Suburban temples or substitutions, then the Zong Zhe compiles its rituals. It is to promote the wind and revitalize the wind, the style is solid for all generations, and it is impossible to descend after three or five years.

His Majesty, since his accession to the throne, Debu Quartet, benevolence and all things. The more ancient and modern it is, although Tang and Yu cannot pass this. The meeting of the sages all said that Zhu Mingguozuo had ended. The ministers heard that the darkness and the light were used, or the Tai was mutually beneficial, the mandate of heaven has not changed, and the number of calendars has returned, or it is difficult to consolidate the country, or the worries are to enlighten the saints. Qi has the scourge of ignorance, and Xiaobai is the chief of the five uncles; Jin has the difficulty of Li Ji, and the alliance of the princes of the heavy ear......

The honorable position of the minister cannot be empty for a long time, and the opportunity cannot be empty for a long time. If the day is empty, the throne will be lost; In the open air, there will be chaos. Fang Jin's heel is the season of a hundred kings, when the meeting of Yang Jiu, cunning and peeping, serving the country's flaws, Li Yuan waves, nothing to worry about, Anke is wasted and not compassionate? May Your Majesty save the love of Shun Yu to the public, and resist the festival of the nest by the narrow; Take the community as the business, not the small behavior first; Take the head of Qiantou as a worry, not to give up as a matter; The temple is to comfort the temple, and to release the diligence of the whole world. The so-called life is prosperous in the withered wattles, the abundant muscles are in the rotten bones, and the gods and men are safe, and there is no misfortune.

The ministers heard that the virtuous people lived in it, and now they looked up at the heavens and looked down on the hearts of the people, and the number of Zhu Ming was over, and the luck depended on the Li family. Xuande is connected to the gods, and the holy posture is combined in the two instruments, which should be the period of the world, and the luck of thousands of years. Fu Rui's table, heaven and man have signs; The omen of ZTE, the picture is a classic. Your Majesty is bright and the sun and the moon, no shadows and no candles, far-sighted, out of the mind, not more than dogs and horses worried about the country, late to see the road of people and gods to open Thailand. It is because there are now lakes and wide-born members xxx, xxx...... Thirty-four people played together, and the king of Wangchuang focused on the country's society, ascended to the ninety-five positions early, and ruled the world with the heart of An Lishu...... Respectfully! ”

Such difficult, obscure, and awkward rhetoric is obviously not something that the peasant army generals under Li Zicheng's command who can't read a few big characters can understand. Therefore, as soon as this Confucian scholar recited a few words in a low voice, some of the generals present who broke into the camp were already yawning, and their eyelids were fighting.

It wasn't until the Confucian scholar finished reading this carefully written exhortation form in one breath that he knelt on the ground and raised his folded hands above his head. The generals in the hall hurriedly cheered up, preparing to deal with the major events that had been rehearsed many times below, only to see Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, pretending to sit reserved for a while, before he slowly got up, took the persuasion form, and threw it aside lightly, "...... Mr. has a heart, but I have only now possessed the four prefectures of Xiangyang, Nanyang, Chengtian, and De'an, with limited territory and unstable foundation, so I rashly did this big thing, but it is just to make people laugh, and this matter will be talked about later! ”

“…… Chuang Wang, you can't be arrogant, the so-called name is not right! If there is no righteousness, how shall we govern the place? ”

In the face of Li Zicheng's false resignation, a "loyal minister" immediately stepped forward to argue, "...... That barbarian chief Dolgon only has the land of two provinces, and he dares to be the emperor! Now that His Majesty has the elite soldiers of the camp, and has won the support of the people, he only needs to climb the treasure and raise his arms, and the heroes of the world will gather to respond! ”

And the generals who had been in a pose for a long time below also knelt down together and shouted: "...... Please enter the throne quickly! Lead us to sweep the world! ”

Although everyone was enthusiastic, Li Zicheng still made three resignations and three concessions in accordance with the ancient etiquette, and then accepted the generals' intentions, announced that he would ascend the throne and become the emperor, and the capital would be Xiangyang. Originally, in the name of the camp, it should naturally be the name of the country with the word "Chuang", but the name of "Da Chuang Guo" is so ugly that even the generals of the camp feel that they can't stand it, so they changed it to Dashun to this, and another Dashun emperor is freshly baked!

Next, with Li Zicheng's brazen proclamation of the emperor, the rest of the rogues scattered in Huguang and the Central Plains were also deeply stimulated, and they all had the idea of being called a lonely widow. It's just that many of the leaders of the Liukou have not many soldiers and horses, their strength is weak, and their territory is close to the camp, so they dare not rebel against this strong neighbor, so they have to nominally accept the title of prince issued by the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng, and bow down to this reckless son of heaven and call him a minister.

And some of the other strong and powerful leaders of the Liukou naturally gave birth to the idea of starting anew, such as Luo Rucai, alias "Cao Cao", who had just captured Changsha at this time, and his soldiers and horses and territory were not much worse than Li Zicheng. Then a noble family tree was forged, and eventually. Luo Rucai also held a grand ceremony in Changsha after "three resignations and three concessions" in a very stylish manner, officially ascended the throne as the emperor, established the Great Chu State, and set the capital of Changsha, and at the same time canonized a large number of princes and generals, as if fighting against Li Zicheng's Dashun Dynasty.

Next, Zhang Xianzhong, who was entrenched in Nanchang, Jiangxi, also began to make preparations for becoming emperor in a similar way, and a Western missionary who had just been appointed by Zhang Xianzhong as an official of the Qintianjian suddenly discovered the great changes between the universes, especially the strange activities in the movement of the stars; Subsequently, huge fruit trees were found on the shores of Poyang Lake; Then some people saw the magical scene of the golden dragon flying in the sky above Zhang Xianzhong's Chinese army tent...... In short, all kinds of strange and auspicious supernatural rumors have come one after another, and the number of them is simply too numerous to mention.

In the face of so many auspicious signs, Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates were naturally cheering, and the persuasion tables of various styles flew like snowflakes, and some even killed the old hen and made a blood book to play. And Zhang Xianzhong naturally lived up to expectations and announced that he would ascend the throne and become the emperor and build the capital in Nanchang to open the country.

Regarding the news that Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng have been proclaimed emperors one after another, Wang Qiu, who has been living in Hangzhou Phoenix Villa for a while, expressed great interest. Among them, whether Li Zicheng established the Dashun Kingdom in Xi'an or Xiangyang, it sounds like he is okay. But the original historical "Emperor of the West" Zhang Xianzhong, if in Jiangxi instead of Sichuan to establish the "Great West", it will feel a little strange, although Jiangxi also has a "West" word, but from the map, it is obviously located in the southeast of China, in this side of the country is still called "West", how to look at it is a little inappropriate.

Then, Wang Qiu was stunned to learn that Comrade Zhang Xianzhong had chosen a very imaginative and surreal country name for himself:

“…… Big Moe Country? How could Zhang Xianzhong come up with such a name?! This guy is clearly not cute at all, is it?!! ”

Facing Wang Qiu's exclamation, Zhao Yinggong was very calm, "...... Don't worry, I can confirm that this Zhang Xianzhong should not be a traverser, and this country name has nothing to do with the Meng culture of our era at all, but it is just to follow the old practice of the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and plant grass on the head of the Ming Dynasty......"

The so-called "Tianwan Kingdom" was the regime established by Xu Shouhui, the leader of one of the rebel armies, in the Huguang area during the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. How did such a peculiar country name "Tianwan" come about? This is actually a word game Tianwan, if you remove the horizontal above the sky, it is big, and after removing the treasure cover on it, it is Yuan, that is to say, my Tianwan Kingdom will definitely be able to beat the Great Yuan Kingdom, because I have literally suppressed you.

But in the eyes of modern people, the end of the day is over, but no matter how you look at it, it looks like "it will be over in two days".

However, although the name of this Tianwan country is unlucky, its vitality is still tenacious, and it took nine years to perish in the chaotic times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

To get back to the point, now Zhang Xianzhong has established himself as the emperor and wants to replace the Ming Dynasty in charge of the world, so he also played a word game on the word "Daming", and initially prepared to set the country name as "Tianmeng". But his righteous son, Sun Kewang, who had studied in a private school for a few years and had a little ink in his belly, advised that since ancient times, the country name of two words is not as noble as the country name of one word, so Zhang Xianzhong changed the country name to "Da Meng" and proclaimed himself "Meng Huang......

In short, in the middle of July of this year, in the Nanchang Tengwang Pavilion, which was temporarily hung with a bright yellow silk veil, all the senior generals gathered together. Zhang Xianzhong, the "cute emperor" who did not have the slightest cute element on his body, sat on the dragon chair and looked at his subordinates with a smile: Emperor, long live! Banzai! Hooray!

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's territory was actually very small, only a small area from Jiujiang to Nanchang, but the pomp was very large. So since he ascended the throne, "Meng Huang" Zhang Xianzhong has been busy: first of all, the promulgation of the era name is "Tianmeng", although the country name does not use these two words, but it seems that it is not bad to change the adult name. Secondly, he naturally rewarded his subordinates and issued a large number of titles of Taishi, Prime Minister, and Guogong. Then there was the imitation of the Ming Dynasty's bureaucracy with many yamen, what cabinet, the five military governors' offices, the six central departments, and the Guozijian ...... All the yamen that the Ming Dynasty has, His Majesty Zhang Xianzhong, the "Meng Emperor", also has to do a set, I really don't know how he arranges the manpower, and he can still free up manpower to go out to fight?

So far, when there is a trend of the Mahayana, the Great Zhou, the Great Jin, and the Great Yuan in the north, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in South China have also staged a three-legged drama of Dashun, Dachu, and Dameng...... And all kinds of small separatist forces that have not claimed to be emperors are even more numerous, and the list is endless.

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On the other hand, seeing that all kinds of vulgar barbarians, thieves and grass cowards all set up altars to worship the sky one by one, and successively became emperors of various names, those dragon sons and grandsons of the Zhu Ming Dynasty couldn't sit still, and they also joined this increasingly lively trend of being called emperors.

The first to jump out was Zhu Changying, the king of Gui, who was the seventh son of the Wanli Emperor and was enshrined in Hengzhou, Hunan (modern Hengyang), and was the uncle and elder of the Chongzhen Emperor and the Emperor of the Apocalypse. After confirming the death of Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Changying, the king of Gui with low eyes, under the instigation of a down-and-out scholar, openly jumped out, on the grounds that "the country is in trouble, and it is necessary to establish a long monarch", declaring that he would take over the burden of the great son of tomorrow from the shoulders of the juniors, and also claimed to "resist the Liukou in the north, chase the Tartars in the east, and the thieves in the south", restore the ancestral country, and all kinds of mouths and cannons that don't want money are released.

However, the luck of His Royal Highness King Gui was really bad, because his territory Hengzhou was just sandwiched between the rogue and the thief, and as a result, he had just announced that he was going to claim the throne in the palace of the fief Hengzhou, and before he even had time to hold the enthronement ceremony, Luo Rucai led tens of thousands of rogue to leave Changsha and came to Hengzhou with a fierce killing. At this time, Zhu Changying, the king of Gui, who found himself unarmed, had to evacuate Hengzhou in a hurry and fled to Guilin, Guangxi.

Then, with the support of the Ming Dynasty government in Guangxi, Zhu Changying finally successfully ascended the throne in Guilin, officially inherited the throne of the Ming Empire, and promulgated the new era name as Yongli. It's a pity that the bad luck of this eternal son of heaven doesn't seem to be over, and the day after he ascended the throne and became emperor, he preliminarily cleaned up the "Australian thieves" in the Guangdong occupation area, and raised 40,000 troops, known as 100,000, along the Xijiang River by land and water, and launched a huge Guangxi raid!

In just one month, these short-haired soldiers of different skin colors and complicated banners invaded the territory of Guangxi for hundreds of miles, and even broke a series of famous cities such as Wuzhou, Xunzhou, and Liuzhou, and even the governor of Guangxi of the Ming Dynasty, who led the troops to resist the enemy, were defeated and killed in Liuzhou. Although Guilin seemed to be far away from the thieves' soldiers, the Yongli Emperor, who had already become a frightened bird, hurriedly pulled out his feet and slipped away, led the entire small court over the mountains and mountains, and fled all the way to Guiyang.

However, just when this freshly baked Yongli Emperor finally fled to Guiyang City to take a breather, ready to rely on the remnants of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty to continue to deal with thieves and rogues, he suddenly received a bad news from the north like a thunderbolt from the sky: in the second month of his ascension to the throne in Guilin, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, was also enthroned as emperor in Chengdu Shu Wangfu under the support of Sichuan civil and military officials!

At this moment, the internal contradictions immediately overwhelmed the external contradictions, and the two great emperors of Guiyang and Chengdu reprimanded each other as puppet emperors, and opened their mouths to each other, and at the same time tried their best to win over the hereditary Mu Wangfu in Yunnan, thus staging a "Southwest Three Kingdoms"...... However, because the King of Shu and the King of Gui did not have many soldiers and horses in their hands, and there were thousands of mountains and rivers in their hands, no one could crusade against anyone, so this confrontation is estimated to last for a long time.

At the same time, in the far northwest frontier, Zhu Zhi, the king of the Ming Dynasty, was also supported by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty's civil and military officials in Gansu, ascended the throne in Lanzhou, and officially proclaimed himself emperor a few months later, establishing a small secession regime.

In addition, the King of Qin of the Ming Dynasty, whose fief was in Xi'an, originally seemed to have the intention of inheriting the throne of the Ming Dynasty. However, Shaanxi was too close to several powerful neighbors, and before he could convince the civil and military officials of Shaanxi, the Guanning Iron Cavalry led by Wu Sangui, the crown prince of the Great Zhou Empire, had already broken through Xi'an City. The unfortunate last king of Qin failed to escape when the city was broken, became a prisoner, and then was strangled to death in his palace with a bowstring by Wu Sangui......

With the King of Gui, the King of Shu, the King of Su these Ming vassal kings successively called the emperor, Chongzhen's seven years of the Chinese land suddenly became more and more lively, the Ming Dynasty camp alone has six emperors at the same time, the emerging country is already in one breath already has the Great Yuan, the Qing Dynasty, the Great Jin, the Mahayana, the Great Zhou, the Great Jin, the Great Shun, the Great Chu, the Great Meng, a total of nine! All of a sudden, it seems that the thing of being lonely and widowed has become a common practice in China.

Up to now, for the emperor pandemic in the land of China in Chongzhen's seven years, all modern Chinese travelers are still just staying out of the matter and holding an attitude of watching the excitement. But then, Wang Qiu suddenly learned that they were also going to canonize an emperor to the throne!

And she was also an underage female emperor...... Or is it a Lori Empress who is very common in anime and very rare in reality?!

“…… Well, as for the reasons why the above agreed to canonize this female emperor, I have basically understood, anyway, we are a republican system, and it doesn't matter if we have the title of emperor...... But...... I remember that little Lori seems to live on Huaguo Mountain now! Hehe, the female emperor of Huaguo Mountain? It always sounds reminiscent of a female monkey! It seems to be quite interesting, so why don't you let me go......"

So, at Wang Qiu's voluntary request, the relevant parties prepared him a set of gorgeous clothes that looked like stage costumes, as well as a "canonization decree" written by the president of the country, and then sent him to Huaguo Mountain to preside over the enthronement of a certain little Lori......