Nanjing Ming Imperial Palace, Wenyuan Pavilion.

Many people know the political structure of the Ming Dynasty, one south and one north, Beijing is the capital, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and Nanjing is the accompanying capital.

In that year, Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, leaving behind two sets of court teams, one in the south and one in the north, in order not to lose control of Jiangnan and facilitate tax collection.

However, due to the backwardness of transportation, communication and other factors in the current era, this political structure operated by the two groups has become a kind of bad government.

The central government gradually lost control of the south.

Not only politically, but also economically and militarily.

The Jiajing Nian Woko disaster is just one of the microcosms.

As a great unified dynasty, the performance of the middle and late Ming Dynasty is really not flattering.

In the Wanli year, the Ming Dynasty couldn't even beat Burma.

However, this political structure also has advantages, such as the fall of Beijing after the Jiashen National Disaster, and Chongzhen hanged himself; However, the Southern Ming court was able to stand up quickly, and fought against the Manchu court for a few more years.

Without the Nanking team, Dolgon would not have wasted so much time to unify the whole of China.

Now Gengshen is in a national disaster, and all the civil and military officials in Beijing have been killed by Lu Wanxue's traitorous party, which is equivalent to the annihilation of Beijing's political team, but the operation of the country needs officials, so Nanjing has become the only city that still retains a complete political operation system.

Zhu Youzhen issued a holy decree, which was to move all the officials of Nanjing's six departments, five monasteries, one courtyard and one department to Beijing and take over the government.

After the holy decree, there was a cabinet document signed by Qian Qianyi, Cheng Jiming and other six people, plus a secret letter written by Zhou Yanru to Wen Tiren.

Come to Beijing, the court needs you!

The incident happened suddenly, and the officials in Nanjing were also surprised, so they gathered in Wenyuan Pavilion to discuss it.

Wen Tiren, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is the head of the hundred officials in Nanjing, and he is the first to be the first, and he is also asking the hundred officials at this moment.

"You all know about the Gengshen national disaster, now that the court in Beijing is vacant, there are no more officials, and the country is in a mess, either we go north, or Your Majesty will move the capital back to Nanjing."

Nanjing's political envoy Yang Suoxiu frowned: "Gengshen's national disaster is really Lu Wanxue's doing?" ”

"What does Yang Tongzheng mean?"

"If this matter is done by Lu Wanxue, then we should naturally go north to Beijing and Kuang Fu Sheji, but what if Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, did it?" Yang Suoxiu raised his own questions: "After the incident, Zhu Chunchen was promoted to the Grand Master, the Prince and the Prince, the three princes and the three orphans were added to one body, and he had the privilege of riding in the palace, no matter how the lower officials looked at it, it was more like Zhu Chunchen's own trick directed and acted by himself."

Perhaps all of his colleagues in Beijing died tragically at the hands of Zhu Chunchen, who held the military power in his hands and coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but this holy decree was just to trick us into entering Beijing, so that he could take Nanzhili over. ”

As soon as this question was raised, many people nodded frequently, thinking that it was very possible.

Wu Guangyi, the secretary of Taichang Temple, echoed and said: "Ministry, what Yang Tongzheng said makes sense, we can't take this matter lightly, Lu Wanxue is only the assistant Jingying Rongzheng, and Zhu Chunchen is the commander of the Beijing camp, this time the Beijing camp soldiers are in an uproar, it is very likely that Zhu Chunchen himself manipulated it behind his back."

The holy decree said that he and Jinyiwei commanded Luo Yangxing to quell the rebellion together, but why was it so coincidental that only Zhu Chunchen was fine, and Luo Yangxing died in the chaos for no reason.

Moreover, the twenty-seven nobles of the Five Military Mansions all died, and on the day of the Gengshen National Disaster, Zhu Chunchen happened to gather them to have a banquet and have fun, what the hell is going on, Xia Guan thought, there is no need to say more. ”

"If this is really Zhu Chunchen's doing, then how can the old people of the Qian Pavilion still be alive?" Liu Tingyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, frowned and said, "Zhu Chunchen's trick to play tricks? ”

Wen Tiren also hesitated now: "Otherwise, let's write a secret letter to Qian Ge Lao and them, if Qian Ge Lao and others in the letter are urging us to enter the palace, it means that they have been controlled by Zhu Chunchen and tricked us into entering Beijing to murder them." ”

"Makes sense."

Hundreds of officials in Nanjing seconded the proposal, saying that they would wait a little longer and wait to see where the wind went.

Beijing is not too far from Nanjing, and it takes less than 20 days to get a secret letter from Qian Qianyi and the six people in Nanjing.

"Guys, we guessed it." Wen Tiren took the letter and said: "Cheng Ge Lao asked for help in the letter, saying that now Beijing has been controlled by Zhu Chunchen, let me wait to find a way to go north to King Qin as soon as possible." ”

Liu Tingyuan was embarrassed: "There are no soldiers in Jiangnan." ”

"What about the soldiers?" Wen Tiren asked angrily: "There are hundreds of thousands of military households in Zhili and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, how can there be no soldiers. ”

Liu Tingyuan said embarrassedly: "There has been no war in Jiangnan for a long time, and the military households of the guard station have long been three generations without training, and they are no different from the farmers.

In a hurry, without three years and two years, it is almost impossible to train a strong army that can go to the battlefield, and training requires a lot of silver. ”

Wen Tiren then looked at Zheng Sanjun, the head of the household.

The latter said: "What Liu Butang said is good, Hubu, there is indeed no silver." ”

Fortunately, Wen Tiren is quite sensible, and he didn't ask where the money went.

Where did the money go, of course, in the pockets of all of them here.

Now Nanjing, if you want money or not, you want soldiers without soldiers, and King Qin can't say anything.

Cao Yubian, the imperial historian of the left capital, suddenly said: "Or, or we will support the new monarch?" ”

Dozens of eyes turned to Cao Yubian, as if they were looking at a fool.

The new emperor is alive and well in Beijing, and the new emperor of Nanjing is established.

"Although Zhu Chunchen did the matter of Gengchen's national disaster, he has already held the Son of Heaven hostage, and the Holy Decree has put all the blame on Lu Wanxue, and now that Lu Wanxue is subdued, what excuse do we have to set up a new emperor in Nanjing."

Wen Tiren frowned and walked back and forth in Wenyuan Pavilion, anxious like ants on a hot pot.

"You also use your brains to think about what else you can do to get rid of Zhu Chunchen."

"How to get rid of it, Zhu Chunchen still has tens of thousands of Beijing battalion soldiers in his hands, although the Beijing camp is not as good as the border army now, but in the end, it is a soldier of the economic system, not a guard militia can be compared."

Wen Tiren stood up suddenly: "Jingying, not as good as the border army?" That's right! Frontier Army! ”

Everyone was stunned: "Border army? ”

"Yuan Chonghuan." Wen Tiren became excited: "Didn't Yuan Chonghuan enter Beijing a few months ago to ask for money from the old man." ”

Liu Tingyuan was embarrassed and said: "There is such a thing, but Qian Ge didn't give it, and in the end, His Majesty allocated the internal money to Yuan Chonghuan two million taels." ”

"Your Majesty has to give Yuan Chonghuan silver when he allocates internal money, Yuan Chonghuan is a loyal minister, can you not think about King Qin's rescue?" Wen Tiren came to the spirit: "Let's contact Yuan Chonghuan and ask him to raise troops and return to Beijing to rescue the driver." ”

"But Liaodong has only 50,000 soldiers, once you return to the division, the Ningjin defense line will be gone, and Jiannu will drive straight in, wouldn't it be more dangerous."

Wen Tiren said with the victory in his hand: "There are more than 50,000 soldiers in Liaodong, but because there is no money to pay, a large number of deserters are wandering between the gates and fields.

It is said that as long as there is silver, tens of thousands of wanderers can be gathered, supplemented by armor, and it is a large army in an instant.

Let's scrape together some money for Yuan Chonghuan, let him expand the army, and at the same time transfer Denglai soldiers to the north, and together they will destroy Zhu Chunchen.

Don't forget, the Denglai soldiers are the elite trained by Yuan Keli, and their combat power is no worse than Yuan Chonghuan's Guan Ning soldiers.

With the help of these two elites, are you afraid that you won't be able to destroy a Zhu Chunchen? ”

King Qin's rescue, will he be in Beijing?

A group of people moved their minds, but some people were worried: "The battle formation is a dangerous place, and the army will gather in Beijing at that time, in case, in case the emperor has a good ...... in Beijing."

"Then can't we justifiably stand up a new monarch in Nanjing?"

Everyone looked at each other, and then they all smiled.

In this way, the deal is not a loss.