King Lu's position as the superintendent of the state has been firmly seated for two months, and the three fires of the new superintendent have not aroused any overt resistance, but have won the hearts of the beneficiary strata -

The victimized wealthy merchant class did not dare to resist, and at the same time was tempted by the picture of the rising status of the future merchant class. At the same time, the poor people can reap the benefits of the abolition of the three salaries. This means that the rich did not resist, but the poor supported more, and the situation can be described as very good.

In such a situation, if King Fu wants to toss again, the hope is extremely slim. But it's a pity that others may have a way out, but King Fu himself and Liu Liangzuo have no way out, and they refuse to sit down and wait for death.

is like the famous sentence in Zhuge Liang's "Later Teacher's Table": If you don't kill thieves, Wang Ye will also die. But sit and wait for death, who will cut it down?

Faced with the tenth day of the fifth month, King Lu of the Prison State sent a messenger to Fengyang again, and Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, once again chose to forcibly continue to call the sick, and the ink did not move forward.

The envoy didn't talk much nonsense, only observed in Fengyang for a day or two, then went back, walked for three days on the road back to Nanjing, and after reporting clearly, King Lu sent the imperial doctor as planned, together with the envoy, to urge King Fu to accept the treatment for the third time.

This can be regarded as giving enough to the other party, and showing the court's cold treatment and generosity, and further winning the hearts of the old Zhu family in the world - we have invited it three times, that is, those hypocrites in ancient times, and they will accept it after three resignations, which is tolerant enough.

On May 19, the two imperial physicians followed the envoy to Fengyang again, and this time King Fu simply came to the door and disappeared, and forcibly drove the envoy out.

And in fact, before that, King Fu was already preparing to jump off the wall in a hurry.

He faced the only old Zhu family princes in the world who were still dragging and refused to go to the vicinity of Nanjing like him, and sent a series of letters, just like the operation of King Wu and Liu Bi in tandem with the kings before the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of the Han Dynasty.

In this proclamation to catch ducks on the shelves, King Fu mainly said the following reasons:

Although it is said that the first emperor had a last word, which was passed through the mouth of Empress Yi'an, Empress Yi'an has now been under house arrest in Hangzhou by Shen and Zheng Zhu.

King Lu used his uncle and nephew to let Queen Yi'an, who should have enjoyed the treatment of the queen mother, resign to the palace, like a monk, which can be described as disloyal and unkind, and there is a suspicion of blocking the inside and outside, and the edict is chaotic. ”

And even if the first emperor had his last words and ordered King Lu to supervise the country, his original intention was just to temporarily control the situation when the soldiers were in turmoil and displacement, so as to wait for King Ding and King Yong to flee south to take over the throne.

At the beginning of March, when he was imprisoned, he was cut off from the two kings of Ding and Yong, but for more than a month, the north and south were blocked, and he could not escape and arrive, and it was still possible. But now it has been more than three months since the second king's message was cut off, which is thousands of miles away, and anyone who lives should have arrived.

Moreover, the last message about the two kings is that they have died in the scourge of thieves. Therefore, it can now be concluded that the two kings are gone, and even if the first emperor helped the two kings to take over the throne and temporarily set up a prison state, the original intention has been exhausted. Today's plan, since Yilun often re-judged and elected a new monarch to settle the world, how can he tamper with the original intention of the first emperor and usurp the artifact in vain! ”

In the end, of course, Zhu Yousong inevitably pointed out the last crime of King Lu's prison regime:

King Lu has no queen, and has always been lenient and cowardly, and has no ambition, which is well known in this clan. Now he has a lot of power and desires, and the cruelty of his clan relatives must be done by his son-in-law Zhu Shuren to hold the country hostage. All my Ming clan should be punished by the traitors, and the side of the prison country should be cleared, so that they can be restored to the king of the good king with peace of mind.

This one is not unusual, since they have to resist in tandem to protect themselves, if there is no excuse, they have to find some excuses to say that King Lu is a puppet held hostage by traitors.

What's more, if Zhu Shuren knew, he wouldn't feel wronged in private. Even when no one is around, he can admit to heaven and earth alone: That's right! Ye is a traitor who coerces the king, and he likes to support cowardly puppets, and he is still the No. 1 thief in Tianzi! But who let the pig princes of the old Zhu family do a bad job!

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Zhu Yousong's tandem cannot be very secretive. So while complaining about illness and resisting, while letting Liu Liangzuo frantically prepare for defense, his secret letters to the kings were also searched and intercepted by court officials-

Zhu Shuren was very wary of this kind of thing, so before he left the capital, he advised his father-in-law to pay attention to letting local officials spy on the kings, especially those princes who couldn't resist.

After Zhu Shuren returned to Wuchang, Shen Tingyang was still in Nanjing, even if he was only in charge of the household department, he would help his son pay attention to these potential risks, so this policy has been implemented well.

After intercepting these serial letters, Shi Kefa also knew the priorities, and did not officially announce them in the court immediately, so that the matter would be irreparable, and it would cause more princes to jump over the wall in a hurry.

Therefore, Shi Kefa still chose a small-scale discussion with only three people participating in the first time, and only submitted these secret reports to Zhu Changzhu, the prison state, and let Shen Tingyang participate in the discussion, and the other four Shangshu were still hidden in the dark for the first time.

After working together in the past two months, he also realized that Zhu Changzhu is a very benevolent and cowardly prince, he listens to everything below, he will never make any arbitrary decisions, and he is very humble when listening to the opinions of his ministers.

Working with such a prison lord, Shi Kefa is also gradually handy, and he likes to play alone.

This time was no exception, the three of them were very easy-going, and Shi Kefa went straight to the point and told the situation.

When Zhu Changzhu heard this, his first reaction was to be startled, and then he quickly calmed down - because he was already mentally prepared for the possibility of Fuwang's nephew doing something, and he had been preparing for more than two months, and he had sent someone to invite him two or three times.

At this moment, it is nothing more than the second boot finally landing, which makes people's hearts beat and relax.

Zhu Changzhu asked sadly: "Shi Qing thinks, what can I do if so?" But you have to raise an army at once...... Alas, in the past two months, the situation in the north has been declining, and I heard that in April the Tartars were killed by the Yellow River, and now it seems that they have crossed the Taihang Mountains and entered Shanxi?

Even though the terrain of Shanxi is rugged, it may be able to carry the tartars for a few months, but at most it will be delayed until autumn. If the Tartars move fast, they may move south in the fall. Even if the thieves delay for a while longer, and delay until the cold near the middle of winter and do not use the soldiers, at most in the spring of next year, the southern half of my Ming Dynasty will inevitably suffer from the Tartar soldiers.

At this moment, Lone really doesn't want to see my Han army killing each other, if you can solve the Fu Wang nephew with less killing, then it would be the best. ”

From Zhu Changzhu's words, it is not difficult to see that in the past two months, he is still concerned about current affairs. Although he was incompetent in handling government affairs, at least he was not ignorant of the situation, and he would read the report of the military department every day, at least let the eunuchs read it to him.

Historically, Chongzhen died in March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, and a stone battle was put into the customs in April.

In addition, after the Tartars arrived in Beijing, they had to fight among themselves to confirm the dominance of the Dolgon faction, so it was not until October of that year that the Tartars were able to completely conquer Hebei, as well as the parts of Henan and Shandong north of the Yellow River.

Then Azig and Duoduo divided their troops to the south to deal with Li Zicheng and Nanming respectively. And because of Li Zicheng's procrastination, Li Zicheng also counterattacked Huaiqing Mansion north of the Yellow River from Kaifeng and Luoyang in Henan Province, forcing Duoduo to respond to Azig in a roundabout way, wasting a few months, and catching up with the coldest season of winter is not conducive to the use of troops, so in the end, it was in February of the following year that he officially attacked the hinterland of Nanming and killed Huainan in April.

In this life, Chongzhen's death was nearly two months ahead of schedule, and the remaining strength of Li Zicheng when he took Beijing was still weaker than that of the same period in history. Therefore, in the face of the attack of the Tartars, the time that Li Zicheng can hold on will be slightly shorter.

In this way, according to theoretical deduction, it may be possible that in July the Tartars will be able to launch an attack on Kaifeng and Luoyang in Henan, as well as the subsequent Shaanxi. In this way, it is very likely that before October, the territory between Henan and Huaibei will be completely finished, and then the commander of the Qing army's southern expedition may still be able to rush to attack Huainan before the coldest days of winter.

Although none of this has happened yet, a person with a little military knowledge can roughly estimate the enemy's progress.

Even Shi Kefa, who was indecisive and despised the Tartars at the beginning of history, in this life, because of the butterfly effect of Zhu Shuren, because of Zhu Shuren's previous subtle reminders, and because Li Zicheng did a better job than another time and space, even Shi Kefa has clearly realized that the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty has now become a Tartar! Not a thief!

Of course, all the actions of the Nanjing Imperial Court must be deployed around the rhythm of "the first wave of Tartar attacks may be faced in late autumn and early winter this year". Shi Kefa and Shen Tingyang also have a consensus:

If the first wave can be withheld, then the offensive will most likely be a heavy setback, so that the Tartars will have to withdraw their troops and return to the north and start from scratch again, so that the south can have at least another year and a half of respite and put the interior in order.

Because when the winter offensive comes, the more it drags on, the more it is not conducive to the battle, and it needs to be fought quickly, as long as there is a wave of small defeats, it can hold on for a long time. Just like the battle of Cao Cao's Chibi back then, it was also the use of troops in the middle of winter, and there was no artemisia grass in the south, and the cavalry troops could not hold on for a long time.

All the decisions made by the Nanjing Imperial Court at the moment must not hinder the core goal of "defending against the potential October Offensive"! Otherwise, the world is gone, and it is useless for a group of sects to win the fight!

Shi Kefa also had to make a prudent suggestion after thinking deeply about the current situation: "What the king is worried about is really a blessing to the world. At present, although we can pacify King Fu with soldiers and horses, the soldiers and horses that the Tartars have fought farthest are close to Huaiqing, Weihui, and Linqing.

If the two Huai generals were in confusion because of the imperial court's action against King Fu, it was very likely that the Tartars would change their goals and attack the remaining state capitals in Shandong and Huaibei in advance. And because of this, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are in a civil war with the army that is bewitched and coerced by King Fu, which makes it even cheaper. We also have to beware that King Fu directly surrendered to the Tartars as a puppet in order to save his life.

From this point of view, it is really necessary to be cautious when it comes to the Huaibei Domain. It's better to wait and see, if the Tartars go south, they might as well fight the Tartars first, so that those unruly soldiers and horses will not die in the Han infighting.

In contrast, the imperial court should speed up the use of this opportunity, first take down all the other vassal kings who are in tandem with King Fu, cut off their wings, and consolidate the rear of our Ming Dynasty.

Especially looking at the letters of King Fu's collusion, as well as the envoys who captured and interrogated, the most vassal kings in the Liangguang region were connected with King Fu, especially this 'King of Jingjiang', who had already heard that he had quite an idea. It is better to let Zhu Shuren, the governor of Huguang, take advantage of the situation to go south with Huguang soldiers, and quickly eliminate the collusion between the two Guangzhous.

The other provinces are carried out at the same time, and after the internal rectification is thorough, it is better to deal with King Fu first, and more to disintegrate the hearts of the officials and generals who have been coerced in the north, and then show leniency, saying that they will only punish the evil, so that other Huaibei generals except Liu Liangzuo can return to the imperial court with peace of mind.

It's really not good, and some conditions can be given to the generals, including Liu Zeqing, as long as they insist on resisting on the Tartar flank at that time, even if it is like a separation, the court will praise them, and compare them with Wu Sangui.

The minister estimated that when the Tartars attacked south, the Laiwu Peninsula in Shandong Province, located east of the Taishan and Mongolian mountains, would definitely not be valued by the Tartars, because those places were surrounded by the sea on three sides, and there were mountainous areas isolated from the Central Plains, and they were not on the main traffic routes for the Tartars to the south. As long as Liu Zeqing is willing to dodge at that time, even if he is seized on the Shandong Peninsula, most of the Tartars will not care.

And as long as the imperial court controls this territory and does not occupy it by the Tartars, the local money, grain and population are not used by the Tartars, and his own soldiers and horses do not surrender as traitors, it is enough. In this way, when the time comes, the imperial court will hope to solve the rebellion of King Fu by only punishing Liu Liangzuo, and the other coerced generals will still have a chance to fight! Minimize civil war damage! ”

Zhu Changzhu listened to Shi Kefa's nuanced and long analysis, and he was completely relieved, he pondered it carefully, and realized the beauty of Shi Kefa's strategy.

The biggest problem of the separatist forces between the two Huai is that they are now caught in the cracks, and whoever fights first will suffer losses, and they may still be forced to defect to the enemy.

In contrast, the potential rebels in Liangguang or other southern hinterlands, those who colluded with King Fu, could only be cleaned up by the Nanjing court. If the Nanjing court does not do it, there will be no one else to do it for it - you can't expect the Vietnamese to invade Liangguang, right?

Therefore, to eat good things, of course, you have to eat in the bowl and look at the pot, and to eat bitter medicine in reverse, eat the bowl first, maybe when the bowl is finished, the pot will no longer have to be eaten by yourself.

After a secret discussion between the three parties, Zhu Changzhu immediately made a decision, and asked Shi Kefa to speed up the search for all the feudal kings who were in tandem and did not come to Nanjing in the name of colluding with King Fu to make trouble.

Nanzhili and Jiangxi, just rely on Shi Kefa to do it himself, and Zhejiang is handed over to Zhang Guowei, the governor of Zhejiang, who is also an old friend of Shen Tingyang and Zhu Shuren.

Other Huguang Sichuan, in fact, there is no need to do it, the local vassal king has long been killed by Zhang Xianzhong back then, and the only remaining ones have been actively sent by Zhu Shuren in the past two months.

So in the end, there were only two Guang left, which allowed Zhu Shuren to advance lightly, lead the troops with secret orders, prepare with both soft and hard hands, and extinguish the thunder!

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After the secret decree was issued, all parties quickly started together, and several vassal kings who colluded with King Fu's letter were arrested and questioned without reacting, and dared to resist or escape, and were shot directly - this is also a special period, the prison prince has made a special decree, there is no problem, these princes have been clearly involved in the crime of rebellion.

Because the news was well blocked, it was not until the beginning of June that King Fu of Huaibei learned that several of his secret colluding with Neiying Tongzong had been arrested and killed.

He also had to bite the bullet, on the fifth day of the sixth month, relying on the support of Ruan Dacheng and Liu Liangzuo, he hurriedly and forcibly proclaimed the emperor, and then inevitably said his reasons for being the emperor, as well as his closest blood relationship with the first emperor, and the invalidity of the first emperor's last words of the prison state, etc., trying to call on a group of people to follow him.

However, of course, no one in the world who sees his strength will follow him. Only Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo were determined to be traitors, knowing that the Nanjing court would not forgive them. And even Liu Zeqing of the Shandong Peninsula chose to wait and see.

Among the civil officials, only Ruan Dacheng, a scum of Shilin, a big traitor in history, and later generations can be pushed out by the local chronicles of Tongcheng and Huaining not to recognize him as the best of the locals, and chose to take the lead in supporting King Fu, and was directly named a pseudo-scholar by King Fu.

(Note: Ruan Dacheng's question was mentioned earlier, so remind me again.) Later Huaining local chronicles said that Ruan Dacheng was from Tongcheng, and Tongcheng local chronicles said that Ruan Dacheng was from Huaining.

Until the 21st century, Baidu Encyclopedia entries didn't dare to write his hometown, and when you click on the entry modification record, you can see many rounds of appeals and scolding. As soon as I write it is Tongcheng people, contemporary Tongcheng people have complaints, and when I say that it is Huaining people, contemporary Huaining people will complain, so I have to not write)

Even Ruan Dacheng's close friend Ma Shiying and the governor of Fengyang, who are genuine, felt that this matter was too big and hopeless, and tried to flee south to apologize, but they were detained under house arrest by the military leader Liu Liangzuo, and they had to be used as a signboard - I have to mention here that Ma Shiying is not too bad in nature, but his interests are bound by Ruan Dacheng.

In history, although Ma Shiying supported King Fu's ascension, he didn't think so from the beginning. At the beginning, Ma Shiying tried to cooperate with Shi Kefa, but the problem was that in the era of war and chaos, the rebellious people in the army could not be completely controlled by civilian officials.

Ma Shiying also saw that Liu Liangzuo and even the historical Gaojie, Liu Zeqing and others had already sharpened their knives and Huo Huo was about to make a dragon contribution, he was afraid that he would be thrown away by the people below and thrown to the opposite side, so he had to speculate on the end.

But now the situation is so bad, Ma Shiying is not stupid, he knows that King Fu is impossible to succeed, and he wants to be the emperor in Fengyang, this place has no strategic depth, and is surrounded by thieves, Tartars and the Nanjing court, how can they all die, why should he die with him?

It's a pity that his attempt to escape and resist finally verified the loss of control of the military leaders in this era, Liu Liangzuo didn't do anything, and directly tied up his old boss and forcibly used him as a signboard. In this way, even if it is verified that Ma Shiying did not participate in the future, a crime of incompetence is inevitable, and if he can be dismissed and exiled, he will be lenient even if the Nanjing court is lenient.

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King Fu hurriedly tossed in Huaibei, trying to claim the emperor according to the central capital Fengyang, but because of the news blockage, Zhu Shuren had already advanced thousands of miles, leading troops from the south of Huguang to break into Liangguang, and began to liquidate another way of anti-thieves.

Not to mention, there is a vassal king Jingjiang in the Liangguang region, who is really the head iron. This King of Jingjiang is not the descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first King of Jingjiang is the son of Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Zhu Wenzheng, and it has been passed on to the Chongzhen period, and it is already the thirteenth generation, named Zhu Hengjia.

Historically, after the fall of King Fu's regime, this Zhu Hengjia also fought for orthodoxy with King Tang and King Lu, proclaimed himself a prisoner in Liangguang, and finally tried to claim the emperor, and then was overthrown and killed.

Now, because of the butterfly effect, Zhu Hengjia was dozing off and handed over a pillow by King Fu when he had a conflict with the Nanjing court and resisted the court, so he was embarrassed.

He himself still called the prison country, but respected King Fu as the emperor, but because the Nanjing "puppet dynasty" isolated the north and the south, the emperor in the central capital Fengyang could not directly exercise the power of Liangguang, so he, the prison state, supervised Liangguang on his behalf.

Because he was more prepared than in the same period in history, and with the help of King Fu's forces to infiltrate the series, Zhu Hengjia really made a bigger noise than in the same period in history.

Because of his sudden sneak attack and hijacking of the local governor's minister, Ding Kuichu, the governor of Liangguang, was captured by the sneak attack, and Zhu Hengjia once won tens of thousands of troops who did not know the truth and were willing to support King Fu.

(In history, it was Ding Kuichu who captured Zhu Hengjia, but Ding Kuichu didn't have any ability, he was an insider in internal fighting, and an outsider in fighting outside, as soon as the Qing army arrived, he surrendered, and also dedicated the confiscated property of the kings of Liangguang to 200,000 taels of gold and 3 million taels of silver to Duoduo/Li Chengdong)

The butterfly effect of these little people is not important, anyway, it is a drama where Zhu Hengjia and the other kings of the Liangguang domain and the incompetent governor eat dog.

And when Zhu Shuren led the heavenly soldiers to kill with lightning speed, there were only one or two small battles, and the soldiers of the Liangguang Guard, who had not fought for a long time, quickly collapsed and directly chose to surrender to the imperial court.

It took less than a month for Zhu Shuren to occupy all parts from Guangzhou to Guilin, including staking land, and Haosheng liquidated it.

Zhu Hengjia also knew that he was guilty of too much to live, and he was afraid of being tortured, so he chose to commit suicide before being captured. And Ding Kuichu, the governor of Liangguang who was captured by him, was also killed in revenge by a desperate thief henchman. Zhu Shuren had no choice but to ask the imperial court to send a new governor over.

Of course, if King Lu's father-in-law is annoyed and can't send a governor without a suitable candidate, then it's okay, anyway, having a governor in a province is enough to govern, and the governor is not a must, and he can also let Zhu Shuren be the governor of Liangguang.

In just over a month, some of the big traitors under the command of the remaining vassal kings and governors of Liangguang, Ding Kuichu, who were targeted by Zhu Shuren and could remember their names in the history books in his previous life, disappeared in various forms and legally.

In history, the 200,000 taels of gold and 3 million taels of silver that Ding Kuichu gave to Duoduo and Li Chengdong were all confiscated by Zhu Shuren.

After making this contribution to countering the rebellion, after Zhu Shuren returned to Wuchang, he should also be able to be justified and added to the rank of knight.

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ps: I don't want to write more about the Han civil war, so I'll pass the account, but I can't help but explain. Everyone knows that the king of Jingjiang, who was completely controlled by Liangguang and rebelled in history, is directly gone, and even the strains are gone, so that's it.

This is also a 6,000-word chapter, which is actually equal to two more.