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Chapter 163 Two Emperors Share a Common Imperial Court

No matter how ups and downs the process was, when the calendar turned to December, the flames of war burning in Nanjing finally gradually extinguished.

So, Fu Zhou Yanru, who was almost alive, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and prepared to clean up the mess with the help of the "Qing Friendly Army" and rebuild the Nanjing Imperial Court. But this work first encountered a big problem, the Yonghe Emperor Zhu Yihai, who was supported by the Donglin Party, had already shaved his head and changed into a monk's robe before the Nanjing War, and he didn't know where he had gone. Since then, there has been a shortage of soldiers, and Zhou Yanru didn't bother to look for it. Now that the imperial court is about to be rebuilt, I noticed this trouble, and suddenly I sat on the wax and even the emperor was gone, whose assistant was he Zhou Yanru?

You can't learn from the Poles to play an aristocratic republic, and there is still a veto, right?! The Ming Dynasty scholars don't seem to have this concept yet!

However, before Zhou Yanru could think about which Zhu Ming clan should be appointed as emperor, the "Great Qing Friends" had already helped him solve this problem.

Looking at the middle-aged fat man who was standing next to Huang Taiji in fear, Da Mingfu Zhou Yanru couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva with difficulty.

“…… This is ...... Prince Fu ...... Uh, no, should it be said that it is the king of Shaofu? ”

“…… Exactly, this is Zhu Yousong, the Shaofu King of the Ming Dynasty, who is on the genealogy jade plate, and I guarantee that he is genuine, as if it were fake! ”

Huang Taiji smiled and patted the middle-aged fat man on the shoulder, and announced, "...... Mr. Zhou, you Donglin gentlemen have established a new revolution in Jiangnan, and now they are inseparable from that Chongzhen child. And King Fu's whole family also died at the hands of the deposed emperor of Chongzhen, and you can be said to be the same enemy, so you might as well get closer in the future...... Also, I heard that your original emperor is missing, and the throne in Nanjing is vacant, so you need to find someone to sit on? I think this Shaofu King is very suitable, and it should be no problem for him to ascend the throne and become emperor! Well, in order to prevent too many dreams at night, so it was decided! ”

Speaking of which, the fate of this Shaofu King Zhu Yousong in this time and space can also be called extremely bumpy: his father (Lao Fu Wang) and his family were attacked by Emperor Chongzhen's soldiers because they were suspected of rebellion, and they were wiped out. Only this Shaofu King Zhu Yousong took advantage of the chaos to escape from the tunnel, and under the cover of his henchmen eunuchs and domestic servants, he was exiled in the Lianghuai area, originally wanted to flee to Jiangnan, but was caught by the Wenxiangjiao rebels on the way.

Knowing that he had captured such a high-ranking captive of the Ming Empire, Wang Ke, the leader of the Wenxiang Sect, was also very interested, and felt that this guy was a strange thing to live in. However, due to the chaotic situation in the world at that time, Wang Ke didn't think about how to use this guy for a while, so he ordered Zhu Yousong to be taken to Xuzhou Palace for detention. Next, the Qing army raided Xuzhou successfully, and Zhu Yousong, the Shaofu King in the cell, was suddenly reversed again and became a prisoner of Huang Taiji.

At this moment, His Royal Highness King Fu was thrown out by Huang Taiji as a "symbol of the transition period" of the Qing Dynasty's entry into the south of the Yangtze River.

Obviously, His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty took the Jiangnan scholars off guard.

Looking at His Royal Highness King Fu, who looked sluggish and did not look like a human monarch in front of him, Zhou Yanru sweated in a cold sweat for a while!

Will there be no problem with letting this Shaofu King Zhu Yousong be the emperor?

This is clearly the boss of the problem, okay?!!

Indeed, according to the rules of feudal etiquette, if you don't consider the royal lineage of Emperor Chongzhen, then the Ming clan closest to the bloodline of the Son of Heaven is the son of Emperor Wanli, the son of King Fu of Luoyang, the uncle of Emperor Chongzhen and Emperor Tianqi, Emperor Wanli once intended to depose the crown prince (Emperor Taichang) and let this youngest son inherit the throne...... Moreover, in order to recruit troops and prepare for war to raise military salaries for the crusade against the Donglin Party in Jiangnan, Emperor Chongzhen really disregarded his family affection and killed King Fu. It seems that this Shaofu King and the Donglin Party should be very able to talk.

But the problem is that King Fu and Emperor Chongzhen are indeed new hatreds, but they are also old hatreds with the Donglin Party members in Jiangnan!

I remember that in the last years of Wanli, in the battle for the establishment of the prince, the Donglin Party at that time stood on the opposite side of King Fu clearly. In order to thwart Emperor Wanli's attempt to let his young son King Fu inherit the throne, the early group of Donglin gentlemen used all kinds of tricks to roll and splash and reverse black and white, and it took a lot of effort to finally drive the old King Fu to Luoyang. The Donglin Party was proud of this, and also praised this incident as a great achievement of the eternal future...... If Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu back then, is put on the throne now, wouldn't it be tantamount to a slap in the face?

But the question is, in the face of the bloody knife of the Qing Emperor, does the unarmed Zhou Yanru have the ability to say "no"?

Therefore, even if the slap in the face hurts, the Nanjing Donglin Party clique headed by Zhou Yanru can only tearfully thank the Manchurian master for the slap.

Of course, he can also be like those disciplined scholars in the history books, find a rope and hang himself to die, and save his full name.

But the question is, now that it has come to this point, does he Zhou Yanru still have any reputation to speak of?

As I said before, the vast majority of people in the world who seek death, if they fail to commit suicide once, usually do not have the courage to start a second suicide immediately. Today's Zhou Yanru, in order to fight for power and profit in the troubled times, has even done such a thing as supporting the puppet emperor and helping to suppress it, and there is naturally not much left of this discipline. Isn't it just to support the blessed king, what's the big deal? Is it worthwhile to die for it?

What about slapping yourself in the face? Is there such a thing as slapping in the face, you can get used to it when you hit it.

Besides, even if Zhou Yanru wants to "repay the king when he dies", Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen and Yonghe Emperor Zhu Yihai are afraid that they will not accept his love!

So, on the third day of December in the sixth year of Chongzhen, under the persuasion of the former cabinet assistant Zhou Yanru, Zhu Yousong, the king of Shaofu, ascended the throne and became the emperor in the imperial city of Nanjing, and changed the name to Hongguang, known as Emperor Hongguang in history. At the same time, he worshiped the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji as his father-in-law and called himself "Emperor Er".

Next, as the so-called son of heaven and a courtier, since Nanjing has Emperor Hongguang, then there should also be corresponding courtiers. But the problem is that in the previous war, the scholars and servants of the Nanjing court almost escaped, leaving only two or three big cats and kittens with Zhou Yanru as the head, and for a time they couldn't put together a team of six departments of the imperial court. Besides, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty mobilized the soldiers of the country, sacrificed so many warriors, and finally conquered the city of Nanjing.

In the face of this situation, His Majesty Huang Taiji once again fully developed his scattered thinking, and put forward a rationalization proposal of "one court and two brands", only to see Huang Taiji pat Zhu Yousong's shoulder with a smile, and said to the cowering "child emperor": Son, since you worship me as your father-in-law, then we are a family. A family should not divide each other, my court is your court, and my courtiers are your courtiers, which saves trouble and money! Since then, the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty have become one, and there will be no more conflicts, isn't it a good thing?

In the past, Shi Jingtang, the ancestor of the Later Jin Dynasty, ceded the sixteen states of Youyun, and called the emperor to Yelu Deguang, the lord of the Khitan, leaving a reputation for eternity, but even so, he did not invite Yelu Deguang to Bianliang (Kaifeng), or moved to Shangjing in Liao, and came to the same palace as a father and son......

Zhu Yousong's feelings about this matter must be very distressed, but the problem is that he, the emperor, also does not have the right to say "no".

In short, just like many of the troops of European countries in later generations, they belong to both NATO and the EU. Now the Qing Dynasty court, which moved to Nanjing with Huang Taiji, also hung two signs, each of which held the same official position in the Ming and Qing dynasties. For example, Hong Chengchou, who had just shaved his head a year ago and had a money rattail braid, suddenly appeared crying and laughing, and he became a cabinet scholar of Emperor Hongguang of the Ming Dynasty again...... Since then, when the Nanjing Imperial Palace goes to court every day, there are two people sitting on the Danqi of the Jinluan Palace, the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji naturally sits on the dragon chair, and the Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong takes a bench to sit at the feet of the Huang Taiji, and the two emperors accept the worship of the civil and military officials together......

In the end, as a reward for Zhou Yanru's sufficient knowledge of current affairs, Huang Taiji let him continue to serve as an assistant, and he also accepted the employment of Huang Taiji and Zhu Yousong at the same time, and served as the cabinet assistant of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In addition to having no power at all, and not even having an office location, it can be called an infinite scenery, directly catching up with the legendary Mr. Su Qin who "wore the seal of the Six Kingdoms" in the Warring States Period!!

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Although under the brains of Huang Taiji, there was a strange phenomenon of "two emperors in the same hall" and "two countries sharing the imperial court and capital" in Nanjing, but for the gentlemen of Jiangnan Jin, who have long been left with little left, as long as they do not violate their interests, everything is easy to discuss.

But the problem is that it is impossible for Huang Taiji not to violate their interests, and the demands of these scholars and gentry in Jiangnan are unwilling to even pay taxes. And Huang Taiji's plan is to confiscate even their grange and mansion, and by the way, demote this class of scholars to coated minions!

After the end of the Battle of Nanjing, Huang Taiji took stock of the military strength at hand, and now there are still 10,000 Manchurian bannermen, 15,000 northern Han troops, and more than 20,000 surrendered Ming troops who have just been incorporated and the Yangtze River Naval Division of the original Nanjing Imperial Court.

Obviously, with just these 10,000 Manchurians, there is no way to gain a firm foothold in Jiangnan, where they are not familiar with their lives.

Therefore, according to the principle of "a strong soldier can be the son of heaven", Huang Taiji believes that his top priority is to win the hearts of the army. Try to turn all the soldiers except the Manchurians into real people, and for this reason, let them "have perseverance in those who have permanent property" and seize the property of the landlords and gentry in Jiangnan to satisfy their appetites...... Of course, if you do this, you will definitely greatly offend the landlord and gentry clique of the Donglin Party, which has a huge influence in the south of the Yangtze River. But through this period of contact, Huang Taiji has also seen through their essence, and feels that these people are simply a group of white-eyed wolves who are not familiar with it, not only are they insatiable, they refuse to pay taxes or serve hard labor, but they are all rebellious Emperor Chongzhen treated them so kindly and gave them so many privileges, but they appointed a political enemy of the Donglin Party as an assistant, and they wanted to support the puppet emperor to rebel. Now that he is replaced by himself, the Khan of the Liaodong Alien Race, to be the emperor, how can he expect these white-eyed wolves to be happy and sincere to him and fulfill his duties?

Since the Jiangnan scholars are a gang of scourges no matter what, and sooner or later they will rebel and cause chaos, so it is better to slaughter them and eat them as soon as possible.

So, on the second day of Emperor Hongguang's accession to the throne, Huang Taiji issued a murderous decree, annencing: "...... Nanjing, a city full of traitors, are secretly in contact with Emperor Chongzhen. Therefore, they degraded their people as slaves, seized their wealth and houses, and rewarded the warriors of the Qing Dynasty! Those who dare to resist will be killed! ”

In an instant, the remaining 500,000 citizens in Nanjing, whether they were peddlers and pawns, or people who raised people and scholars, and even imperial relatives and official families, were all demoted from free men to clothed slaves. And the mansions and property of these citizens naturally belong to their future owners!

For a time, the whole city of Nanjing was in a panic. Countless citizens flocked to the city gates, wanting to escape from this slave camp, but were blocked by the Qing army who had been prepared for a long time, and rushed back with a mess of sticks and whips, and the city gate was blocked, and the artillery on the city wall was aimed at the city, and tens of thousands of Qing army soldiers, including those who had just defected to the Ming Dynasty, were all swords and guns in hand, staring eagerly at the citizens in the city, as if looking at a group of lambs to be slaughtered!

In the end, these 500,000 citizens finally appeared, and they were now caged birds, unable to escape again, destined to become slaves. So some hanged themselves, some jumped into the Qinhuai River, and many more accepted their fate in despair, and the whole family sat on the street crying.

With the earth-shattering cries of the citizens of Nanjing, the soldiers of the Qing Empire all got the mansion money and slaves, and naturally there must be a grange next. For this reason, Huang Taiji issued a holy decree on the sixth day of the first month of December: "...... The people of the prefectures and counties near Beijing have no owners of the wasteland, and the emperor's relatives and concubines, such as the princes and eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, countless people have died in the war, and there are many ownerless lands...... and distributed them to the kings and ministers of the north, and the soldiers. ”

Since then, the Qing Empire has launched a vigorous "horse racing movement" in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although according to Huang Taiji, the enclosed land should be ownerless wasteland, but when it comes to implementing the policy, it is actually often the owner and the unowned land that is encircled in one piece. Later, it was simply a grange that was cultivated by people, so that not only did they have fields, but also serfs who farmed the land. Huang Taiji also specially stipulated the standard, according to the level of the title and official position, as well as the number of military exploits, each soldier and clerk of the Qing Dynasty can be allocated a certain number of farmlands and slaves...... At this point, the social system of the Qing occupation area in Jiangnan completely regressed to the era of serfdom.

At the same time, after learning that the Jiangnan side had actually begun to wanton "welfare", the Qing troops (mainly the Han army with unreliable loyalty, as well as other Manchu power groups that originally opposed Huang Taiji) and other armed forces stranded in Jiangbei also crossed the Yangtze River from Yangzhou and other places to the south, wanting to get a piece of the pie. And Huang Taiji, who is bent on laying a foundation in Jiangnan, does not refuse to come to these new forces, and declares that he wants to "equalize the rich and the poor" Since the local tyrants in Jiangnan are so rich, we, the poor people in the north, will equalize their wealth and poverty! So that everyone has a house, a field and a woman!

Although this kind of revolutionary words, it felt very awkward to say it in the mouth of Huang Taiji, an alien invader. However, there are a lot of more awkward things, and it is not bad for this one or two things, in short, the Qing court in accordance with the principle of "Ji Ding grants land", all the generals and soldiers who cross the river to join Huang Taiji, everyone can get a certain amount of land according to their rank. Of course, the serfs who farmed the land had to be captured by themselves. In this way, they made countless grievances in the south of the Yangtze River, and they had to rely on themselves as the emperor.

All of a sudden, thousands of northerners happily came to settle down in Nanjing, the world's largest city. Many guys who were originally just small army leaders or even bandit leaders lived in the courtyard of the deep house, sat on the eight-lift sedan chair, slept with Qinhuai beauties, and some people sounded gongs to open the way, and some people served them closely. Everyone is like winning the lottery jackpot and is in a state of joy to enter "heaven".

As a result, the Qing Empire also had a large number of hardcore supporters in Jiangnan Xun, but it only suffered the people of Nanjing who were reduced to slaves, especially those women with small feet and the old and weak, not only lost their freedom, separated their husbands and wives and families, but also forced to do rough work that had never been done in peacetime, sewing clothes for the Qing army, transporting military rations, and even building government and digging fortifications, and many people were soon exhausted to death.

Of course, such a simple and crude "land reform" policy will naturally lead to a serious backlash and even armed resistance in the countryside of Nanjing. But relying on a steady stream of soldiers from Jiangbei, the Qing army easily crushed the desperate struggles of the local gentry.

However, as the ranks of the Qing army swelled, the fields and serfs near the city of Nanjing were not enough. However, Huang Taiji said very wisely: It doesn't matter, Jiangnan is not only Yingtian, there is still a lot of land that has not been occupied! As a result, one after another of the ruffians and bandits holding the banner of the Qing Dynasty soon launched a vigorous action to fight local tyrants in Taiping Mansion, Ningguo Mansion and Zhenjiang Mansion, and everywhere they passed, they robbed and burned corpses all over the field, just like the Ah Q comrade in Lu Xun's pen, the driving force for him to go to the "revolution" is just "ingots, foreign money, foreign gauze shirts" plus "Ning-style bed of a talented lady", and the ideological consciousness of all kinds of soldiers and ruffians in the chaotic times at the end of the Ming Dynasty is probably not as good as this Ah Q comrade!

Faced with such a picture of purgatory in which life was ruined and prosperous, Emperor Hongguang, who was purely a puppet, naturally did not dare to talk nonsense.

However, Zhou Yanru, a powerless and powerless light pole assistant, really couldn't stand it, so he had the courage to find an opportunity and put forward a proposal to Huang Taiji, hoping that the Qing Empire could restrain the soldiers, treat the gentry well, give the Donglin Party high-ranking officials Houlu, and at the same time exempt them from the burden of money and food, so that the gentry of the world can return to their hearts and reproduce the grand occasion of the "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty" in the early years of Chongzhen, so that Haiqing River Yan will rule the world greatly.

However, Huang Taiji was not at all interested in the grand occasion of the "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty", but was very interested in the family property of the "Zhongzheng", and had already made up his mind to restore the slavery system in Jiangnan, so he immediately retorted that as far as he knew, the scholars in Jiangnan were not righteous men and gentlemen, but a group of shameless people without a father and a king, who were not worthy of living between heaven and earth at all, and did not punish them for the nine clans to thank God, which was already caused by the benevolence of the Qing court, how could they think of more benefits? Now that the Qing Dynasty is in difficulty, it is natural to borrow money from their children to reward the generals.

The reason why scholars in the feudal era often behaved arrogantly was that no matter who was the emperor in the world, in order to maintain the bureaucracy of a unified empire, they had to be courteous to these cultured people. But when the rulers decided to learn from medieval Western Europe, restore the feudal lordship system, and no longer need a bureaucracy, then they became useless.

Zhou Yanru, who was dumbfounded, had to say that if the Qing Dynasty insisted on doing this, the land south of the Yangtze River would not be easy to pacify. And Huang Taiji patted the saber on his waist very confidently: "...... It doesn't matter, as long as my bow and knife are still there, what if the people of Jiangnan are not easy to pacify? Just make an example! ”

On the other hand, seeing that the Qing Dynasty King who was finally invited from Jiangbei had actually become the demon king Shura who wanted to destroy his own scholars and doctors, the Jiangnan Donglin Party members who regretted it also hurriedly organized a meeting in private to discuss self-help strategies to deal with the current crisis......