Southwest of Nanjing City, outside the Great Victory Pass, in the long pavilion.

"The minister Geng Jingzhong, knock to see the third prince of Dingwang, the king Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose."

Geng Jingzhong, the alternate king of the East, finally gave his subordinates to the alternate Ming Xiandi who was sitting in the long pavilion.

In fact, it is not the first time that the two of them have met, before Geng Jingzhong made up his mind to support Emperor Ming and become Geng Cheng's prime minister, he had seen Zhu Cijiong on Gulangyu Island, a small island on the edge of Xiamen Island. Also present at that time were Zheng Jing, Wang of Yanping, Liu Jinzhong of Chaozhou Town, and Chen Yonghua of Hailu Aid Town. However, Geng Jingzhong did not give a big salute to the third prince Zhu this time, and both sides made a flat salute.

After all, at that time, the third prince of Zhu had no capital at all, but he just had a name, and this title was not very real.

After completing the "interview" with the third prince of Zhu, Geng Jingzhong felt that this was very suitable to be a puppet, so he decided to take the risk!

But he never thought that this Third Prince Zhu would enter Jiangning faster than himself! And this candidate Emperor Ming Xian's big backer behind is obviously not only Geng Jingzhong!

Lu Sanhao, who launched the Jiangning Incident and robbed most of Jiangning for the Third Prince Zhu, voted to the Qing Dynasty from Wu Sangui, and now he has turned around and supported the Third Prince Zhu in Jiangning, needless to say, he also knows that this guy must be Wu Sangui's person!

And Wang Fuchen's son Wang Zhongxiao actually appeared in Nanjing!

It's coming so fast, plus that third prince Zhu seems to have been hiding in Guangdong before! Obviously, Wang Fuchen is also the boss behind the third prince of Zhu!

Not to mention Zheng Jing of Dayuan Island, his family has always been under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, and he must also be one of the men behind the third prince of Zhu.

As for Li Zicheng. It stands to reason that he can't be a supporter of the third prince of Zhu, but who knows? After all, Wuchang has never admitted that there is Li Zicheng, and it is Li Fengtian, Li Laishun, and Liu Yihu who are in charge there.

Since Li Zicheng "does not exist", why didn't Wuchang come to Nanjing to intervene?

Behind the third prince of Zhu actually stood Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng, Wang Fuchen, Zheng Jing, and Liu Jinzhong, so many big guys, Geng Jingzhong, the alternate prime minister Geng, how dare not bow down?

Seeing Geng Jingzhong's deferential attitude, Zhu Cijiong held back the joy in his heart and said in a voice that couldn't hear joy and anger: "Get up, sit down." ”

Geng Jingzhong immediately got up, and there was already a brocade pier next to him, and he sat down full.

Geng Jingzhong sat down after worshipping, and then it was Liu Jinzhong's turn to worship alone, and Zhu Cijiong also gave him a seat. After that, the generals of Geng, Liu, Shang and other departments who came to visit did not worship one by one, but arranged shifts outside the pavilion according to the size and worshipped together, and after worshipping, they were not given seats, so they were allowed to stand outside the pavilion.

Then, the third prince of Zhu passed down another edict and invited Lu Sanhao, Wang Zhongxiao, Chen Yonghua, Huang Baijia, Jing Chuan, Zheng Desheng and others into the Changting Pavilion together. However, these six temporary Shangshu did not have seats, and they all stood on both sides.

In this way, the third prince of Zhu sits facing south, Geng Jingzhong and Liu Jinzhong sit facing north, and the six temporary Shangshu stand on both sides.

And this pattern also reflects the power structure of Nanjing today, or the comparison of forces of all parties.

Geng Jingzhong and Liu Jinzhong ranked first and second in this part of Nanjing, and they both want to be princes, one is the king of the east and the other is very promising!

Among the six Shangshu, Wang Zhongxiao and Huang Baijia are the representatives of Wang Fuchen, the alternate Southern Wang, Lu Sanhao is Wu Sangui's person, Chen Yonghua is Zheng Jing's person, Zheng Desheng is the person sent by Yang Qilong to Zhu Cijiong's side, and Jingchuan is Lu Sanhao's person - he is the same as Wang Zhongxiao, in fact, he occupies a seat, and when all aspects of the discussion of the new court of the Ming Dynasty come out, the seats of these two Shangshu still have to be given up.

According to Wang Zhongxiao's thoughts, the new court of the Ming Dynasty should be a combination of seven or six shares. Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao and his son are one family, Wu Sangui is one family, Li Zicheng is one family, Geng Jingzhong is one family, Liu Jinzhong is also one family, and Zheng Jing is of course still a family. There is also a Yang Qilong, he has been getting along with Yuwang Fuquan recently, and I don't know if he is willing to come to Nanjing?

Naturally, these six or seven families had to be represented in Nanjing, and these representatives could be six scholars, scholars, or simply ministers of parliament. It's all the same anyway!

After all, the current Nanjing Imperial Court is a signboard, and the territory is only five counties of Yingtian, so no matter what ministers do, they will also take care of the affairs of these five counties, and put it in other places, which is the level of the master.

Although there are only five counties and they are not necessarily obedient, Zhu Cijiong is very content - the house he lives in now turned out to be the Governor's Yamen where Duolong, the governor of Liangguang, lived! Although it is not as good as the Forbidden City where he lived when he was a child, it is also the second largest house he has ever lived in. The main thing is that the house is still his own!

While living in a big house in the center of Nanjing, the number of his wives has also increased by a breakthrough He had a wife Hu before, and after being discovered by Wang Zhongxiao, Chen Yonghua, and Yang Qilong, Yang Qilong gave him one of his sisters, Yang Ziyun, as a side room, which is now a wife and a concubine, and life has nourished a lot.

But compared to "Offering the Emperor", it is still far behind, and the Emperor is also the emperor if he "dedicates", and there are ten wives, which is not much, right?

And this small goal has now been exceeded!

When the third prince of Zhu lived in the governor's yamen of Duolong, Duolong's concubines didn't have time to escape, they were all packed and taken over by him, and they were all beauties!

Most of them are the beauties of Jiangnan, Jiangbei and Jiangxi that Duolong received in Liangjiang after becoming the governor of Liangjiang, and there are two Dongying beauties and Gaoli beauties that Chen Yonghua touched for him, and there is also a Portuguese beauty from Macau who is filial and filial to Wang Zhong. That's called a beautiful woman like a cloud! Back then, the third prince Zhu and his father Chongzhen's harem were not so colorful, but now they all belong to the third prince Zhu, can he be dissatisfied?

A long-cherished wish for many years, once achieved!

This house and the beauties are already top-notch, not to mention the food. Nanjing was already a land of abundant resources, and the Jiangning Incident was not much of a big fight, it was almost a peaceful takeover, and the Qing court was now unable to blockade Nanjing. So Zhu Cijiong is now truly enjoying the joy of offering the emperor!

But can the current happiness last?

Thinking of this, the third prince of Zhu finally frowned, and said to Geng Jingzhong and Liu Jinzhong: "King Geng, Liu Zhen, I heard that the Tartar court is about to set up four major battalions in Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Jiangdong, and Jiangxi to trap Jinling, and Jinling has a hundred industries to be prospered, and there are few soldiers, not to mention dealing with the four big battalions, even the Eight Banners soldiers and the Eight Banners family members entrenched in the imperial city have not been able to eradicate them in one fell swoop, so they can only besiege them first. I don't know what is the best way to break the game?

In addition, the fact that a lonely family can re-enter Jinling is also the result of the public promotion of anti-Qing heroes from all sides. So this matter of restoring the Ming Dynasty, thinking about it alone, should the heroes of all parties hold a meeting to restore the Ming Dynasty and discuss how to restore the Ming? How to extinguish Qing? How can the world be stable for a long time? Alone. How should I be a ruler who rules vertically? ”

Of course, what he said was true, he now knows the "joy of offering the emperor", and what he wants is of course to serve this emperor for a long time as for the real power or something, he just wants it now, and it is impossible to get it!

Wang Zhongxiao listened to the words of the third prince of Zhu, who was "willing to dedicate himself to the emperor", and sighed a little in his heart: This will not be the beginning of the constitutional system of the Ming monarch, right?

An Emperor Ming Xian, who was pushed out as a signboard and had no real power at all, faced with a group of ill-intentioned "prime ministers" at the bottom, can get a hypocrite who is nominal and enjoys wealth and dignity, where is there anything not satisfied?

If you don't want to be a L-constitution, you have to weigh whether you have that strength?

This is probably how the L-constitution hypocrisy of Western countries started, right?

But a successful L-constitution system is not what it is now, it is almost as chaotic as the Holy Roman Empire!

Thinking of this, Wang Zhongxiao coughed and was the first to speak, "King, the minister feels that it is extremely necessary to convene a conference to restore visionXunzi once said: Water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize a boat!" The prosperity of the former Ming Dynasty lies in the carrying boat of the water, and the defeat of the former Ming Dynasty is in the overturning of the water. And now that the boat of the Ming Dynasty is revived, it must be supported by the water, and it must be good at the buoyancy of the water. And to achieve the love of water, the best way to use the power of water is probably to be single-minded! And if you want to be single-minded, the boat and the water should be discussed, so that we can share the wind and rain and overcome the difficulties together!

Therefore, this meeting of the restoration of vision must not only be opened, but also open often, and it must be held all the time, even if the restoration of vision is successful in the future, the boat of the Ming Dynasty must always listen to the suggestions of the water of the people!

Only in this way will the water of all people always carry the boat of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Zhu Cijiong has long known the meaning of Wang Zhongxiao's faction - strictly speaking, he himself is also a member of this faction! Of course, I know the set of "original monarch" and "original minister".

And he is also very much in favor!

Because he knows very well that he is two pounds. Only by becoming the "original monarch" can you always be the emperor!

And the loss of the emperor, in Zhu Cijiong's view, is that he has not been able to become the "original monarch".

Therefore, the original face of the third prince Zhu without joy and anger immediately became rich, showing an extremely satisfied smile, and the big guy knew at a glance that the third prince had no ambitions and was a puppet master!

When Geng Jingzhong came from the Taiping Mansion, he also discussed the situation in Nanjing with his advisers and Liu Jinzhong - of course he wanted to usurp the throne! Otherwise, what else would he toss? Isn't it fragrant to lie flat and be a vassal king in Fujian?

And there seem to be three enemies standing in his way before he usurped the throne, the first is of course Wu Sangui!

Peers are enemies!

What does Wu Sangui think, and there are still people who don't understand? He also wants to be an emperor!

And the hatred between the emperor-candidates, that's really a red fruit!

The second one who stands in the way of Geng Jingzhong's progress is, of course, Kangxi!

Kangxi is already an emperor, and of course he doesn't want more and more emperors in the world.

And the third prince of Zhu is ranked third in Geng Jingzhong's "blacklist", and when he survives Wu Sangui and collapses Kangxi, he will usurp the throne.

But right now, it's not bad to have a vision restoration conference.

This conference sounds like it can limit the power of the third prince of Zhu, the "emperor"—in fact, it is also the protection of the third prince of Zhu, but Geng Jingzhong will not understand.

Geng Jingzhong, who thought he had figured out the key to it, also nodded and said: "What His Royal Highness King Ding said is extremely true, Shikai, what you said is also reasonable, Daming has indeed lost the world, although there are many reasons for this loss of the world, but it also includes the loss of morality!" ”

When he said this, he suddenly felt that something was not quite right, could the courtiers say that the emperor's family was immoral in front of the emperor?

It seems that this should be said until the time of the usurpation of the throne, right?

"Yes, yes, what King Geng said is extremely true!" The third prince of Zhu nodded again and again, "My family has been sitting in the world for a long time, and I have forgotten the truth that water can carry a boat and can also overturn a boat, and even forgot what water is and what is a boat, which is indeed immoral!" If my family wants to revive the Ming Dynasty, and then take the Ming boat, we should hold a meeting and strive for the support of the water in the world! If everyone supports it, then I will get on the boat, and if the water of the world supports others, then let others get on the boat. ”

Others?

Wu Sangui?

That's not going to work

Except for Lu Yifeng of Wu Sangui's system, and everyone else is so thoughtful!

Wu Sangui has the strength, but the prestige of serving the public. He didn't!

Moreover, once Wu Sangui becomes the emperor, he will not be the original monarch, but the real monarch who is in power, everyone has to listen to him, and if he doesn't do it, he will kill the heroes to eradicate the hidden dangers.

In comparison, the third prince of Zhu is much better. He wants to kill, but his strength doesn't allow it!

"Someone else? When others got on the boat, I, Liu Jinzhong, was the first to refuse! Liu Jinzhong immediately said, "Your Majesty, only His Royal Highness King Ding can be the emperor!" ”

"Yes!" Chen Yonghua then said, "The emperor can only be the third prince!" ”

These two, especially Chen Yonghua and Zheng Jing he represents, are definitely the hardcore loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty - of course, iron or iron is relative, compared to Wang Fuchen, Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng, Geng Jingzhong, and even Liu Jinzhong, Zheng Jing still needs to doubt the loyalty of the Ming Dynasty?

Therefore, the signboard of Zhongming, the Zheng family must be held high!

After all, Liu Jinzhong was born in the Yongwei Battalion, and he and Prince Zhu San are also old acquaintances, so of course they have to rely on Zhu San now!

"Dingwang," Zheng Desheng sent by Yang Qilong also said, "You are not the emperor, who else can be?" I think you'd better ascend the throne first, and then hold the Restoration of Sight Conference! ”

Yang Qilong's sister-in-law is Yang Guifei - Yang Guifei must have it, I don't know which one it is?

So of course he is in favor of the third prince Zhu being the emperor!

After all, Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng are not around them, and there are no plus-size beauties surnamed Yang.

"It's still going to be open!" Zhu Cijiong said with a smile, "If all the heroes in the world support Li Zicheng, then the king is also willing to do things in the north." ”

Lu Sanhao took over the topic and said: "Wang, King Geng, Liu Zongzhen, then how about we officially invite the people of the West King, the Guangdong Wang Army, the Huguang Li family, and the Zheng family of Dayuan Island to come to Nanjing?" ”

It is said that the conference of the heroes of the world to restore vision is actually a "meeting to elect emperors". Those who are qualified to mix in are all big warlords!

"Add another Manchu!" Wang Zhongxiao suddenly interjected at this time, "Although Kangxi will definitely not send someone here, we should still invite it. After all, the Great Tomorrow also includes Nuer Gandusi and Monan Mongolia! ”

In addition, Korea, Ryukyu, and Annam can also send people over to invite them, and if they are willing to admit that they are vassals of the Ming Dynasty, they should also send people over. ”

"Korea, the Ryukyus, and Annam are all right," Chen Yonghua said, "who will the Manchurians send?" If our people go, won't Kangxi be arrested and killed? ”

That's for sure! A group of anti-thieves held a meeting to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and asked Kangxi to send someone to participate in it, so it's no wonder if Kangxi is angry!

"Pearl!" Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "Mingzhu is the descendant of Jin Taiji, the chief of the Yehe Tribe, and Jin Taiji is a martyr of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

After Jintaiji was beaten to death by Nurhachi, the Wanli Emperor felt that he was loyal, even if he was a loyal martyr. Therefore, Mingzhu did send him to send a heroic post to Emperor Kangxi after the Ming Dynasty was loyal to the martyrs, which was also a justifiable reason to release him.

Wang Zhongxiao still respects his teacher very much, and he doesn't want to kill the "famous minister" who is not enough to succeed and has more than enough failures. If it is Yue Le, Raita, Feiyangu, and Mang Yitu that are caught, then they can't be released.

"That's fine!" The third prince of Zhu also knew Mingzhu, nodded and said, "Just let Mingzhu go. Let's discuss the matter of this restoration conference first! ”

As he spoke, he frowned again, "Now there is still a piece of Nanjing City that has not been captured, and there are only a few thousand people on hand, so I can only barely surround them, and it is not a solution." King Geng, Liu Zhen, can you send some troops to help the lonely family take care of them?

In addition, Jiangpu and Liuhe in Jiangbei have not yet been recovered, who can send troops to Jiangbei? ”

(End of chapter)