Shi Kefa and the others sighed secretly.

Because of the statement of the bigwig Qian Qianyi, it means that the Donglin Party has completely failed in the major event of "supporting the establishment", and it is imperative for the Fu King Zhu Yousong to supervise the country.

Gao Hongtu, the head of the household, gave Shi Kefa a look.

Shi Kefa understood the meaning of this look, and the merit of supporting the establishment had already fallen, and now the only thing they could fight for was the merit of persuasion, and only by persuading them to ease the relationship with King Fu.

Who let them have an old feud between the Donglin Party and the Fu Clan?

Liu Kongzhao took out another copy of the official notice that had been prepared a long time ago.

It was first transcribed by Qian Qianyi, and then a group of Donglin Party bigwigs pressed their handprints.

The next day, Wang Duo, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, held a hundred officials in his hand and crossed the river to meet Zhu Yousong, expressing the ardent expectations of the Nanjing gentry and the people, hoping that he could come forward to supervise the country and turn the tide of the tide.

Zhu Yousong first excused himself in every possible way, and finally reluctantly accepted it.

At noon on the 29th of April, Zhu Yousong, accompanied by officials of the Ministry of Rites, crossed the river and arrived at Yanziji.

At this time, the Nanjing officials led by Shi Kefa and the Liudu Xungui led by Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, were already waiting outside Yifengmen, and then they went through a wave of processes.

After completing the process, Zhu Yousong did not rush into the city.

Zhu Yousong has also grown a lot in these years of displacement.

Zhu Yousong first took the civil officials and nobles to the Ming Tomb to pay homage to Emperor Taizu Gao, and then paid homage to Zhu Biao, the prince of Yiwen, before entering Nanjing and officially taking over the important task of Linguo.

A day later, on the first day of the fifth month, Zhu Yousong issued the first decree after the prison - the court to push the cabinet.

This is actually no problem in the procedure, because after Wanli, the cabinet responsibility system of the Ming Dynasty has evolved quite perfectly, and the country's affairs are first drafted by the cabinet to give opinions, and then sent to the celebrant for approval, if the emperor does not approve of the cabinet to vote again, the emperor approves to send it to the six departments and temples to implement the implementation.

In this system, the cabinet is responsible for decision-making, and the six ministries and temples are responsible for implementation, and the emperor only has the right to supervise, including the power to appoint and dismiss personnel, which is the most important in the powers, and the emperor also only has the right to supervise.

The emperor was also able to regain some of the personnel power through the decree.

Only once or twice a while, the civilian community can still tolerate it.

But as soon as the number of times is too much, the civilian group will attack in droves.

And the means of besieging the emperor are also extremely ruthless - officials strike on a large scale, paralyzing the government!

Speaking of this, Emperor Jiajing and Emperor Wanli's grandson have a deep understanding, both of them are suffering from large-scale strikes by civilian groups, but these two emperors are very different in terms of coping ability.

Emperor Jiajing divided the civil and official groups by co-opting and suppressing a group.

Emperor Wanli came to a broken jar, a broken jar, and you went on strike, and Lao Tzu also went on strike.

And then? Then under the joint efforts of the civil official group and the Wanli Emperor, the Ming Dynasty was tossed, so the historian said that the Ming Dynasty did not die in Chongzhen, but actually died in his grandfather Wanli.

Saying all this is actually to illustrate that the cabinet system is quite mature.

Not only is the efficiency high, but the acceptance of the officials and the people is also high, and there is also the endorsement of the emperor's ancestors, and the emperor can't help it.

But after the fall of Beijing, the whereabouts of the emperor and the three imperial heirs were unknown, the cabinet was also destroyed, and the entire bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty had come to a de facto standstill.

So in order to get things done, you must first restore the functioning of the bureaucracy.

If you want to get the bureaucracy back running, you must first have a brain – the cabinet.

However, the absence of procedural problems does not mean that there is nothing left, in fact, there is an even more urgent matter waiting for Zhu Yousong, the prison state, to deal with.

That is the pacification of the four towns in Jiangbei, or the suppression?

In addition to Huang Degong, the other three towns have become frightened birds.

They all felt that the Ming Dynasty was coming to an end, so they were desperately robbing their homes and accumulating assets.

At this time, Liu Liangzuo was burning and looting in Fengyang Mansion, Liu Zeqing was burning and looting in Huai'an Mansion, and it was not enough for Gao Jie to loot all the way to Yangzhou Mansion, and the city of Yangzhou Mansion was also surrounded by regiments.

What the fuck is this officer? It's a thief at all!

Only Huang Degong's army maintained strict discipline and did not plunder.

But whether it was Zhu Yousong, who had just become a prisoner, or Shi Kefa, the bigwigs of the Donglin Party, they didn't rest assured about this matter, but just transferred Huang Degong's department to Yizhen to act as a barrier in Nanjing.

As for Fengyang, Huai'an and Yangzhou, they will be troubled by Gao Jie.

It's nothing more than wanting money, as long as Gao Jie and the others still recognize the Ming court.

……

That's what officials in Nanjing think, and so do officials in Beijing.

Because on the same day that Zhu Yousong took over as a prisoner in Nanjing, the army of Jiannu also killed outside Beijing, and the Beijing officials who survived the disaster spontaneously flocked to Chaoyang Gate to greet them.

It turned out that it was not the expected Guanning army that came, but the Jiannu army.

Seeing Jiannu, the officials in Beijing were a little confused, but soon began to comfort themselves again, regardless of whether he was a Jiannu or a slave, as long as they still recognized Daming, they would borrow the help of the teacher to suppress it.

Until now, Wu Sangui has played the banner of "borrowing teachers to help suppress".

But in fact, from the moment the Battle of One Stone broke out, Jiannu was anti-guest and became the dominant.

Dolgon did not even allow Wu Sangui to enter Beijing, but ordered Duoduo to lead the Eight Banners of Mongolia to entrap Wu Sangui's Guanning army, bypassing the city of Beijing and continuing to pursue and kill the Dashun army.

Dolgon himself marched into Beijing with the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Han Army.

At this time, Beijing was really a mess, and the Forbidden City was almost completely reduced to ashes, and Li Zicheng set a fire before leaving, burning down almost the entire Forbidden City.

Only the Jianji Hall was left unaffected by the fire.

Sitting on the dragon chair in the Jianji Temple, Dolgon couldn't help but have a lot of thoughts.

He couldn't help but think of the testament left by Huang Taiji when he was dying, if he had to move the capital to Beijing, and then Xu Tu Central Plains.

At that time, Dolgon only thought that even if the Qing Dynasty could really capture Beijing one day, it would take at least a few decades, but he never imagined that it would occupy Beijing in only one year.

So now, do you really want to move the national capital to Beijing?

This is a big project, and Dorgon hesitated.

The other princes under the ranks, Baylor, did not have this vision.

Azig, who was a fellow of Dolgon and Duoduo's mother, said: "If you want me to say, this official of the Ming Dynasty is really stupid, he really thinks that we are here to help them exterminate the thieves, and I don't want to think that we have been fighting with the Ming Dynasty for fifty or sixty years, how can we help them in turn?" Are we Qing soldiers stupid? ”

Other Manchu aristocrats, such as Luo Luohun, also laughed.

After such a big victory, occupying such a big city, and so many estates, land, and people outside the city all became the spoils of the Qing soldiers, how could they not be happy?

One of the Manchu nobles present was counted as one, and their mouths were grinning to the root of their ears.

The only exception may be Dolgon, hearing Azig say this, Dolgon's face sank, if it were someone else, he would have gone back a long time ago, but Azig is his own brother.

Azig still didn't realize that something was wrong, and then said, "Old Fourteen, is there a big loot next?" And then return to Shengjing with people, livestock, grain, and gold and silver treasures? As for this Beijing city, it is enough to leave a prince Baylor to guard it, and if you don't want it, you can burn it down, wouldn't it be happy. ”

The Manchurian aristocracy at the bottom laughed again, apparently with a number of people who agreed with this approach.

Hong Chengchou, Ning Wanme, Fan Wencheng and other Hanchen are in a hurry, especially since Hong Chengchou descended to the Qing Dynasty, he has inevitably produced a first-class convert's fanaticism.

Because only by helping Jiannu to set the world can he prove that his decision to surrender to the Qing Dynasty is correct.

Otherwise, Jiannu has always been cowering in Liaodong, and in the end it will inevitably be destroyed by the Han dynasty, so wouldn't it become a big joke for him to surrender to the Qing Dynasty?

At that moment, Hong Chengchou came out of the class and said: "Regent, Beijing must not give up, let alone burn it, and the minister thinks that it is best not to engage in the previous set of burning, killing and looting, and the national policy of the Qing Dynasty should be changed." ”

"What?" Azig was immediately furious.

"Can't burn, kill, loot? So what are we fighting for? ”

Hong Chengchou didn't dare to reply to Azig, and only said to Dolgon: "Regent, the Ming Dynasty has been corrupted to the core, and it is impossible for the thieves to make a comeback after they withdraw from Beijing, so from now on, this Beijing city and even the entire Beizhi have become the city territory of my Great Qing Kingdom, and the people of Beizhi will also become the subjects of my Qing Dynasty. ”

"Fart." Azig snorted, "The Qing Dynasty is the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty, how did the people of the Ming Dynasty become the people of my Qing Dynasty?" Aren't you? ”

"yes." One Baylor chimed in, "Without the people of the Ming Dynasty, who are we robbing?" ”

In the minds of these Manchu princes, Baylor, robbing the Ming Dynasty had become a habit, and it was difficult to overcome or even change it.

But Dorgon was a political visionary.

Unlike the other princes, Baylor is blind.

And Dorgon has a good political skill.

Therefore, Dolgon did not hard-top Prince Baylor like Azig, but carried the emperor out of the palace.

Dolgon looked around and said with a serious face: "Taizong Bintian once left a testament before, if Beijing is ready, the capital should be moved to Beijing, and then Xu Tu Central Plains, so don't mention the matter of burning, killing, and plundering." ”

"Regent Mingjian." Hong Chengchou and other Hanchen were overjoyed when they heard this.

Azig and the other princes, Baylor, were extremely disappointed.

But there is no disappointment, this is Taizong's legacy.