"Donglin*** is Qian Qianyi, it's only appropriate for him to take the lead."

Not wanting to bear this notoriety, Zhang Jie was indignant.

"There's no way, it's because he's the leader of Donglin and his power is all over Jiangnan that he lets you take the lead."

Hearing Zhao Zhilong's words, Zhang Jie completely lost his temper.

Zhang Jie's refusal to be the leader is related to his reputation.

He was a Jinshi in the forty-first year of Wanli, and was successively attached to Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, and was demoted to Nanjing because of Wen Tiren's defeat.

After the establishment of the Hongguang regime, he was reinstated by Ma Shiying, who was "isolated" at the time, and served as the secretary of the ministry in name only.

Chongji is completely destroyed, and He Lao is in the east and west.

The "Jie" refers to him.

His reputation is already stinky enough, and with a clause of "leading the people to open the city and surrender", he will never be able to turn over.

Zhang Jie guessed that it was already like this anyway, so it was better to fight with Qian Qianyi to break the net.

In fact, Zhao Zhilong didn't care about what Zhang Jie thought.

In fact, the real headache for him was the fake prince in the Wuying Palace.

Although he supported the establishment of a fake prince to "ascend the throne", after all, he did not hold an enthronement ceremony, so he was not a real emperor.

Zhao Zhilong's original plan was to sit the matter down, and then hand over this fake prince and real emperor to Yang Chengying, and it didn't matter what he did.

Someone saw the stakes involved.

The person who reminded him was Liu Kongzhi.

"The world seems to be in the bag of King Zhou, and it is a matter of time before he ascends the throne. Therefore, under the pretext that the crown prince was not found, he did not appoint a new king, but only became a regent."

Liu Kongzhi reminded: "What do you want to do now to make the fake come true and support the fake prince as the real emperor?"

"Well, what about this......" Zhao Zhilong was a little confused about how to answer.

He has realized the seriousness of the problem.

"In order to establish the legitimacy of the regent, the matter of the fake prince will inevitably be unearthed, and at that time, we will also be severely punished for making the fake true."

Liu Kongzhi further said, "Don't forget, Yang Chengying killed the clan and the nobles, and he was not merciful. You also handed him the handle of the knife, it is not a suicide."

"What should I do?" Zhao Zhilong couldn't think of a good countermeasure for a while, so he had to ask.

The fake prince has been erected on the dragon chair of the Wuying Palace, and if it is bombarded down again, it will cause the people to be puzzled.

If the enthronement ceremony is really held, there will be a situation that Liu Kongzhi said, and the fake prince and those who support the fake prince will be killed.

"Drag!" Liu Kongzhi said, "Anyway, the Liaodong Army is almost here, let's just continue to drag it out."

Zhao Zhilong nodded in approval.

From then on, no matter how the fake prince's internal eunuch urged, Zhao Zhilong dragged it out.

There were a few officials who came to Nanjing to do business, but they didn't have the opportunity to get in touch with secrets, and they thought that the prince was following Ming Yingzong's "change of seizing the door" and took the opportunity of the coup to regain his own throne, and congratulated Zhao Zhilong one after another.

Zhao Zhilong looked confused.

These officials told Zhao Zhilong to hold an enthronement ceremony as soon as possible and justifiably resist the Liaodong Army.

Yang Cheng should be the "regent", and since the prince has been found, he should not be the "regent".

They naively thought that there was no "justification", and the Liaodong Army retreated without a fight.

Zhao Zhilong was stunned, waiting for these officials to leave the main hall and prepare to leave.

He finally reacted, "Quick, lock the door and don't let them leave!"

"Uncle Zhao, what do you mean by this?" Someone asked nervously.

"Several, don't blame me for being ruthless, abolishing a big thing, it's not for you to get involved, since you are involved, you can't complain about others."

Zhao Zhilong waved his hand, and the family members rushed up and tied up the officials.

Instead of throwing them into prison, he killed them outright.

The body was put in a coffin and buried in a mass grave outside the city.

On the whole, the people have been very calm in the past few days, except for those who killed the Qian soldiers and burned Ma Shiying and Ruan Dayue

house, looking for Liu Zhengzong and Li Jinglian who "recognized the wrong person" everywhere, did not do anything else.

The upper floors are lively.

In addition to the things mentioned earlier, one of the most popular things is...... Suicide.

A group of officials who were attached to Ma Shiying to commit evil and were afraid of being liquidated chose to commit suicide.

The more wronged is Gao Zhuo, the official worships the secretary of the Criminal Department, and has saved the persecuted minister in the unjust prison many times.

But whoever made him the secretary of the Criminal Department was destined to be the back of the pot and chose to hang himself.

The most bizarre is Yang Weiyuan, the official worship of the left deputy capital Yushi, the veteran of the Three Dynasties. In the eyes of the Donglin Party, he belonged to the hardcore eunuch party, and killed many elites of the Donglin Party with his own hands.

He didn't have any drama during the Chongzhen years, but because he gave money, he was used by Ma Shiying.

In the face of surging public opinion outside, he had no choice but to threaten to commit suicide and buy three coffins.

Why three?

Because Yang Weiyuan, who is already a lot old, is not old-hearted, he took two beautiful concubines in Nanjing.

Hearing that the elders of the Three Dynasties were going to commit suicide and martyrdom, the people who ate melons came to watch and surrounded Yang Weiyuan's mansion.

Yang Weiyuan had to die if he didn't die, so he forced the two concubines to hang themselves.

It was his turn, no.

He could only ask the housekeeper to put the three coffins in the main hall, wear mourning clothes, and cry to the onlookers outside, saying that our master had committed suicide and martyred the country.

caused a sigh from the people.

In fact, Yang Weiyuan is alive and well, three coffins, one is empty, and the other two are holding his two concubines.

That night, Yang Weiyuan took a capable servant, rolled up the soft, and fled overnight, not knowing what to do.

A few days later, the Liaodong Army found a male corpse by the river, with white beard and hair, and half of his body was eaten by wild dogs.

Someone recognized that this was the famous Yang Weiyuan.

Only then did I know that Yang Weiyuan was not dead, but ran away overnight.

As for who killed Yang Weiyuan, it is unknown.

That's of course an afterthought.

I mention this sentence because this kind of person has done all the bad things in his life, and he doesn't even have the courage to commit suicide and martyrdom. Because of his accidental death, he was far-fetched to write "Death Festival"!

On 12 February, the Liaodong Army, which had been delayed for one or two days due to crossing the river, arrived at the foot of Nanjing.

Zhao Zhilong and others opened the city gate, kowtowed in the direction of the Liaodong Army outside the east gate, and presented a surrender table.

After thinking about it again, Zhao Zhilong didn't dare to surrender in the name of the fake prince, so he could only put his name in the first place and Zhang Jie's name in the first place among civil officials.

Yang Chengying rode his horse in front of these people, and pointed at the plate containing the descending table and seal in Zhao Zhilong's hand with a whip, and the guards immediately stepped forward to take it.

"The one who knows the times is Junjie, you guys are quite quick to react and lead me into the city!" Yang Chengying said loudly.

"Your Ministers obey." Zhao Zhilong got up, came to Yang Chengying's horse, stretched out his hand to grab the horse's halter, led the horse in front, and led the Liaodong army into the city.

The people had already gathered on both sides of the streets in the city, and when they saw the majestic Yang Chengying, they knelt down and shouted long live.

Followed behind Yang Chengying was the neatly marched Liaodong Army.

Looking at the Liaodong soldiers with a well-made firearm and the various cannons that were pulled into the city later, they were all amazed.