Chapter 308: Feng Zhu Yousong as Emperor

If Zhang Gaoping really chose this, then it could only be wishful thinking, because the Chongzhen Emperor in Beijing was not a lord who was willing to share the world equally with others.

However, the Battle of Jingyan was almost completed in Nanjing, and if he didn't find a way as soon as possible, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Northern Expedition would quickly collapse.

This is also the reason why Zhang Gaoping is very clear, King Fu is dead, if the Battle of Jingyan is abolished, let alone him, it is Sun Dewen who will all suffer, the eunuchs themselves have no descendants, but there are still relatives, and the destruction of the nine clans is an ironclad fact, and there is absolutely no escape.

"At present, we can only support the son of the world to succeed to the throne to appease the hearts of the army."

Sun Dewen is an old man's words, but Zhang Gaoping has other ideas: "The prince and the crown, and there is no prestige, now Chen Cao has seized the Taiping Gate, if he does not get his support, I am afraid that there is no way to continue the battle of Jingyan, and in addition, I will learn that Yang He, the trilateral governor arranged by the Northern Dynasty, besieged the rebel refugees in Xi'an, and got the order of the imperial court to go to Luoyang." ”

The imperial court has already planned to copy King Fu's old road in Luoyang first and then surround it, so now Zhang Gaoping and others are facing a huge choice, support Zhu Yousong as King Fu, and then continue to Jingjing, but the premise is that Chen Cao's support must be obtained, and the second is to stick to Nanjing after attacking Nanjing, divide the territory to Chen Cao, and let him help defend it.

No matter which of these two paths is, it must have Chen Cao's support, otherwise it will not work out at all.

Sun Dewen asked: "Do you have to be supported by Chen Cao?" ”

Zhang Gaoping was also unwilling, but the facts were in front of him, the reason why they were able to enter Andemen and Fengtaimen several times was the 100 artillery pieces supported by Chen Cao, and the various materials, ordnance, grain and grass transported by Chen Cao in the early stage of the war are now, half of the hundreds of thousands of people in the Jingnan Army are supplied by Chen Cao.

If they really stubbornly held Nanjing on their own, Zhang Gaoping had reason to believe that the imperial court in the north would definitely trap them, not to mention that now hundreds of thousands of northern troops had rushed to Nanjing under the leadership of Cheng Guogong, and Yangzhou would have to rely on Chen Cao's men and horses to hold on.

In the big tent, Zhu Yousong's figure is better than that of his father, and under the dress of linen and filial piety, he looks extremely hateful.

Of course, this is just Chen Cao's opinion.

Today's meeting is very unique, Zhang Gaoping, a confidant of King Fu, rarely put Chen Cao, the governor of the Jingnan camp, in the first place, after learning the reason from Sun Dewen, Chen Cao frowned, making everyone think that he was going to retreat.

I saw Chen Cao arching his hand towards Zhu Yousong: "Shizi, Lao Fu Wang Xue goes, the minister thinks that in order to stabilize the military heart of hundreds of thousands of troops, and in order to be able to achieve the wish of Lao Fu Wang, the minister asks Shizi to go to the mausoleum of Emperor Taizu immediately to worship his ancestors, and announce to the world, that is, the throne of Emperor Daming." ”

Zhang Gaoping and Sun Dewen never imagined that Chen Cao could be so attentive, because they all knew that Chen Cao, who was stuck in Songjiang, had long planned to become the emperor, but he had never acted, but he didn't expect Chen Cao to be willing to serve Zhu Yousong as the emperor.

can get such a strong arm strength, even Zhu Yousong, a stupid little fat man, can also know the current situation, so he said excitedly: "Really, Liang Guogong is willing to help me become the emperor?" ”

Chen Cao stood up with a righteous face and knelt down on one knee towards Zhu Yousong: "The minister invites the prince to leave immediately to worship his ancestors, that is, the throne of the Ming Emperor." ”

With Chen Cao taking the lead, Zhang Gaoping and other generals and strategists got up and knelt down towards Zhu Yousong: "Please take the throne of the emperor..."

"Since this is the case, I will comply with your Aiqing's request and ascend the throne."

"Report, the defenders in the city have attacked Taipingmen in a big way."

Chen Cao immediately stood up: "Shizi, without further ado, please go to Taizu's mausoleum as soon as possible, and hand it over to the minister at the Taipingmen to solve it." ”

"Good..."

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On December 20 of the second year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yousong, the son of the Fu Domain, announced that he would ascend the throne and be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty after worshipping his ancestors in Nanjing.

This fat man, who was a cousin of Emperor Chongzhen, finally became the emperor after his father's death.

On the same day, Chen Cao, the Duke of Liangguo, led the Dingwu army to break the stone pillar Tusi soldiers led by Qin Liangyu and tens of thousands of defenders in the city at the Taiping Gate.

On December 21, Chen Cao's department broke Qin Liangyu's department again outside the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army on Taiping South Street, killing more than 20,000 enemies, the defenders of the inner city collapsed, and countless people fled from Huaimen;

On another day, nearly 100,000 defenders surrendered to the Dingwu Army and the Longwu Army that had entered the city.

Sun Chengzong, Qin Liangyu and others withdrew from Qingliangmen with nearly 100,000 horses and crossed the river all the way to the north.

Of course, they can withdraw, and it will definitely not work without Chen Cao's nod.

On the first day of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, Zhu Yousong officially held an enthronement ceremony in the Nanjing Imperial Palace, and issued a document to announce it to the world.

On the same day, Chen Cao, the Duke of Liangguo, was renamed the king of Songjiang County, and the governor of the five armies; Zhang Gaoping is the Duke of Anguo, the Left Governor of the Five Armies, Li Wanchang is the Duke of Changguo, and the Right Governor of the Five Armies;

The rest of the confidants and generals of the original Fu King were rewarded, and the strategists were set up as officials of the five governments and six departments.

The city of Nanjing, into the hands of the Chongde Dynasty.

When Emperor Chongzhen learned that Nanjing had fallen and Zhu Yousong ascended the throne as emperor, he vomited blood in a coma in the court, and only woke up two days later.

Chengguo Duke Zhu Chunchen with 100,000 Beijing battalion and 50,000 border troops marched to Shandong, according to the order to recruit soldiers on the spot, Chen Cao's father-in-law, Cao Gang helped Weng Shijie and Dahewei to command Weng Linzhi suddenly attacked, nearly 200,000 Cao Gang rebelled, and Dahewei attacked Zhu Chunchen's camp together, the two sides fought a big battle outside Gaoyou City, Zhu Chunchen was defeated, and retreated to Gaoyou to station.

Weng Shijie and Weng Linzhi led more than 200,000 people to besiege Gaoyou for three days, and they couldn't break the city, so they took hundreds of thousands of Cao Gang families to Yangzhou together.

When Pang Zhihuan was holding Yangzhou, he joined forces with Weng Linzhili who arrived to open Yangzhou City, and after a sweep, hundreds of thousands of people crossed the Yangtze River and arrived outside Nanjing.

Because of the rebellion of the Cao Gang and the Liangwei in the north of Nanzhili, the Cao transportation was interrupted, and the grain from the south could no longer be transported to the north.

The price of grain in the entire north rose wildly within a few days, and for a time the price of grain was as expensive as silver, and Shandong, which was connected to the southern Zhili, suffered a disaster.

Returning to Nanjing, Chen Cao is infinitely emotional, there are too many familiar places and memories in Nanjing, especially on both sides of the Qinhuai River, in order to realize his wishes, so that he himself rebuilt a 'Qinhuai River' in Shanghai, named 'Night Shanghai'.

Although Chen Cao became the king of Songjiang County, he actually did not have any power in Zhu Yousong's court, as the first person with a foreign surname to be crowned alive, the county kings of the Ming Dynasty were posthumously crowned, which is also the main reason to avoid foreign surnames from interfering in power.

However, Chen Cao didn't care about any specific power at all, even if he was holding the false position of the governor of the five armies, but his focus was still on running his own territory.

And Chen Cao is still stationed in Xiaolingwei's garrison with his hundreds of thousands of troops, and he is not worried that Zhang Gaoping will attack him, because his hundreds of thousands of people are all elite warriors, and there are two rifle divisions, he does not think that Zhang Gaoping has the ability to destroy his hundreds of thousands of people.

"Brother Pu, don't come unharmed..."

Chen Cao picked up his wine glass and personally toasted Pu Xiang with a glass of wine: "Being able to recognize the situation, I thought you wouldn't agree to my request." ”

Pu Xiang still can't forget the two guys who climbed up from the Qinhuai River, they were frozen and purple, but they still climbed over the wall into his mansion and handed Chen Cao's secret letter to himself.

It was this letter of persuasion that Pu Xiang chose to follow Chen Caoming, but what he never expected was that Mu Qilin, who stayed in the mansion of the Duke of Qianguo, would actually participate in it.

"If Brother Mu hadn't rushed over that day, maybe I would have been killed by Feng Kelie's men in the corner tower, and the county king wouldn't have seen me."

Mu Qilin took a glass and drank with Pu Xiang, without saying a word.

Chen Cao's conditions for him are very tempting, and it is easy to say that he rebelled with him, but once he is defeated, it will be the end of the death of the clan, if it were not for Zhang Gaoping's army to break through Yuejiangmen and Chen Cao to capture Xu Hongji, he Mu Qilin would never choose to completely embark on Chen Cao's boat.

The ship of separation leads to the Yellow Spring, but if the captain is capable of reaching the sky, it is also the Yellow Spring that leads to the rich.

Yes, Mu Qilin chose the latter and cooperated with Chen Cao, naturally, Chen Cao's condition for him was that after the matter was completed, the title of Duke of Qianguo would be given to Mu Qilin.

The three of them drank wine, Chen Cao sent the two out of the camp, and then Huang Chunyao entered the tent: "Lord Wang, according to the plan, 100,000 of the 200,000 captives have been sent to Zhang Gaoping, and the remaining 100,000 people have all been escorted back to Songjiang to repair roads." ”

"Yunsheng, sit," After the two sat down, Chen Cao picked up a leg of mutton: "When do you think the time is ripe?" ”

"At present, the grain route in the north has been completely interrupted, and the Chongzhen Imperial Court can only obtain grain from Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi and other places, but the population of Jingshi is millions, and those grains are a drop in the bucket..."

Huang Chunyao secretly laughed when he saw Chen Cao gnawing on a leg of mutton, and suddenly woke up: "Lord Wang, could it be you..."

"Haha..."Chen Cao put down the leg of mutton and said with a smile: "That's right, at present, we don't have to worry about the soldiers' use of grain hoarding, and even the old grain from three years ago is in Shanghai, and I have decided to wait until the new grain in Jiaozhi and other places in the spring is shipped, and then sell all this batch of grain to the merchants in the north, so that we can get huge profits." ”

"Gold and silver?"

"No, now we mint our own coins, gold and silver are no longer important things, what I want is coal from Shanxi..."