Wang Wenkui nodded.

At this time, Liu Zhengyang, Wang Wenkui's staff, walked in: "Ministry, Sichuan Governor Wang Aoyong recently published a newspaper in the "Sichuan Daily", expressing his recognition that the prince is in charge of the country in Guangzhou, and congratulates him, and is willing to listen to His Royal Highness the prince's temperance and dispatch!" ”

"Really?!"

Wang Wenkui was overjoyed, stood up, and looked at Zhao Shichun.

Soon, Zhao Shichun's protégé Zhou Yuanlian also walked in: "Bachelor, Gao Zongjian, the governor of Huguang, published a newspaper in the "Huguang Monthly", expressing his recognition of the prince's imprisonment in Guangzhou, and congratulating him, and willing to listen to His Royal Highness the prince's temperance and dispatch!" ”

"Report! His Royal Highness King Wugang Min published an article in the newspaper to congratulate His Royal Highness the Crown Prince on supervising the country! ”

"Report! His Royal Highness the King of Shu in Chengdu wrote an article to congratulate His Royal Highness the Prince on supervising the country! ”

……

At one moment, another member of the staff of these two people ran in.

And Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun were very happy after hearing this.

Wang Wenkui said: "I didn't expect that the civil and military forces and clans of Huguang and Sichuan would no longer be willing to serve the lord of the Emperor!" In this way, we are not a province fighting against the tyrant alone! ”

"Yes! Big things can be expected! The people of the world have long been dissatisfied with the tyrant and traitor, and now they will continue to act perversely, which will naturally lead to this result! ”

Zhao Shichun also said excitedly.

Wang Wenkui said: "Why don't you directly choose a day to help him ascend the throne, change the Yuan name, and reset the cabinet of the nine secretaries?" ”

Zhao Shichun nodded: "If you don't do it, now that even Sichuan and Huguang have responded, if you directly ascend the throne and change the Yuan number, maybe other provinces will also respond." ”

"The Point Guard Is Here"

So, under the leadership of Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun, the pseudo-prince found by Zhao Shichun was officially proclaimed emperor in March of the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, with the year name Shaowen, and the next year was set as the first year of Shaowen.

And Wang Wenkui served as the first assistant with the official titles of scholar of the Middle Pole Palace, young master and prince and prince, and secretary of the ministry.

Zhao Shichun was appointed as a second assistant with the official titles of scholar of the Wenhua Palace, young master and prince of the palace, and secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

In addition, the two Xinjiang officials who were willing to support them in doing so were also given the rank of Cabinet University Fellows.

Among them, Wang Aoyong, the governor of Sichuan, was a scholar of Dongge University, and supervised the four provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Yunnan and Guizhou.

Gao Zongjian, the governor of Huguang, is a scholar of Dongge University, and supervises the three provinces of Huguang, Henan and Shandong.

In addition, even the Portuguese governor of Haojing was given the rank of secretary of the military department.

These bureaucratic landlords, who only wanted to enslave the Han people in the name of Confucianism as before, were obviously very obsessed with such things as seniority and promotion to the rank of officials.

Therefore, not long after they established another imperial court, they couldn't wait to add many official titles to their heads that they had wanted to get in the imperial court but were difficult to obtain, instead of thinking about how to guard against the imperial court's attack or establish a system that was more conducive to resisting the imperial court.

As a matter of fact, these bureaucratic landlords, who only want to lie down and collect land rents and squeeze their own people as slaves, have not been able to establish any system.

Because they are essentially a group of conservative people, they naturally reject the construction of the system and only pay attention to the observance of etiquette and law.

In their values, what is the best of the ancestors, the older the better, and it is best to restore the Zhou system.

Of course, historical experience has taught them that the restoration of the weekly system is indeed inappropriate, cannot be abused, and will be very bad, so they just think that what they are most willing to do is to maintain the status quo, to maintain a rich life and maintain the continuous oppression of the Han people while they can talk about their hearts and minds and wander leisurely in the forest.

Therefore, Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun were only obsessed with seniority and promotion to knighthood at first.

This is indeed the case.

Although the final result is that Wang Wenkui is the first assistant.

But in fact, it was because Wang Wenkui controlled the military power and used the local battalion soldiers under his control to force Zhao Shichun to make concessions.

In fact, Zhao Shichun still fantasizes that his small court is also the same as the original court of the Ming Dynasty, and let the person from Hanlin Qingliu serve as the first assistant, that is, he will serve as the first assistant, so that it is more in line with the law of the ancestors, and of course, this is also more beneficial to him.

It's just that reality is reality, and the ideal model still has to compromise with reality after all.

Therefore, Zhao Shichun still pretended to give in generously and succumbed to the position of first assistant.

Of course, this process still takes a lot of time.

Zhao Shichun couldn't choose to let it from the beginning, and Wang Wenkui wouldn't tear his face at the beginning.

It's just that the process of internal strife for the first assistant has wasted a lot of time to step up defense against the advance of the imperial army.

When the Ming court learned that several southern provinces had set up separate imperial courts, the southern puppet imperial court had just determined who was the first assistant.

The words are divided into two ends.

Zhang Gui was not surprised when he knew that Liangguang, Huguang, and Sichuan had set up separate imperial courts, and he didn't even take it seriously.

Because Zhang Gui knew what kind of things the bureaucrats and landlords who did not conform to Confucian doctrine in the name of maintaining the status of Confucianism.

It is better to fear that these people will affect the rule of the imperial court than to fear the peasant rebel army that has become a sitting.

Because the former is twilight inside and out, and the latter is likely to be the founder of the new dynasty.

But Emperor Tianqi was still quite angry because of this betrayal, because his education told him that he was the son of heaven of the Ming Dynasty, and the subjects of the world must be loyal enough to him, which is the obligation of the subjects of the world, just as he, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, has the obligation to ensure that the subjects of the world live in a peaceful and prosperous world, and do not appear in the situation of the country being ruined and displaced.

What's more, Apocalypse is a serious person in his heart.

Of course, the emperor is indeed the most intolerant of betrayal and deception.

You can be bad, but you can't tease me.

Therefore, no matter how arrogant Zhang Gui is, killing the civil official clan is like slaughtering a dog, the apocalypse is not disgusted, and he is even happy to see a relative do many things that are not tolerated by the world.

Just like Xiao He's bullying of the people, Liu Bang was more reassured.

In this era when the real people are not the lowest people, Zhang Gui's behavior is actually similar to Xiao He's, and he has not gone in the direction of cultivating his own good personality.

Therefore, after Tianqi found out about this, he complained to Zhang Gui: "Even if I am a, they can't play with me like this, and then deceive the people of the world!" They said that this was done to preserve the ancestral system. ”

"Your Majesty wants to say that they want to be bitches and set up a chastity archway, obviously they want to oppose Your Majesty and the court, but they can't oppose it clearly, and forcibly arrange a pseudo-prince, and forcibly say that Your Majesty has died?"

Zhang Gui also asked.

"That's exactly what it means!"

As he spoke, Apocalypse threw the notebook on the Imperial Eucalyptus, and then asked, "Do you think they can make it?" ”

"All of a sudden, a governor plus two vassal kings and two governors, and another court was set up, which does seem to have some climate, but the minister thinks they are just rabbits' tails - they can't grow!"

Zhang Gui replied.

"How so?"

Apocalypse asked.

Zhang Guiyu said: "Your Majesty, their foundation is just the powerful bureaucrats who only want to oppress the people, and our foundation is the Han people in the world, they can only gather the wool of the Han people in the area under their rule to maintain their interests, and my Ming court is now trying to gather the wool of foreign countries around the world to maintain interests, if the people who are picked up wool are compared to cattle and horses, our cattle and horses are more than them." Therefore, they lost in the pattern, they are only staring at Kyushu, and we are staring at the whole world! ”

Tianqi said: "They don't know that there is a world besides Kyushu. ”

Zhang Gui nodded when he heard the apocalypse say this: "Your Majesty is not wrong! To be precise, it was the imperial court that led the Han people in the world to make them rebel. Your Majesty thinks it would be more accurate for the minister to say this? ”