That's how the Shang family is over!

The most regrettable thing is that she Shang Shuying is afraid that she will also be finished together!

Until she escaped from Xiao'andemen, southwest of Nanjing, Shang Shuying still couldn't believe what happened today. Geng Jingzhong's 40,000-strong army, which had been gathered with great difficulty, was overwhelmed, destroyed, and completely crushed by the countless soldiers and countrymen who emerged from all over the city of Nanjing.

If the opponents this time were only Li Zhongshan, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua, even if there was one more Li Fuchen, the 40,000 army gathered by Geng Jingzhong could completely collapse in just one day. However, when the people of Nanjing, who should have stayed out of the matter and allowed the victors to slaughter, turned into national soldiers and countrymen, and then were organized to participate in the battle, Geng Jingzhong's faction really had no chance of winning.

Originally, the two sides may be evenly matched, even if there is a stronger one, that is, it is slightly stronger. However, when more than 100,000 Chinese and soldiers in Nanjing joined the battle and resolutely stood on the opposite side of Geng Jingzhong, the balance of power between the two sides immediately changed dramatically. Sanzhongtang's side immediately had an overwhelming advantage, and Geng Jingzhong's faction immediately became the target of being crushed!

But how did all this happen?

In fact, in the process of sweeping the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Qing soldiers also encountered fierce resistance from the local militia in many places, and there were several times when the local militia was quite large, and they could carry it for a long time when they held the city. Shang Shuying heard these things from the adults in the Pingnan Mansion when she was a child, and later became the lady in charge of the Xushun Mansion, and she knew even more. But in those stories, the power of the people is not decisive, no matter how stubborn they resist, there is only one end result, which is the destruction of the city and the slaughter!

But this law is in Nanjing. No, in fact, it was broken from the beginning when Wang Datou pulled up the Guangdong Township Army!

But how did all this happen? Twenty or thirty years ago, how did the Han people, who could not defeat the Qing Dynasty Heavenly Soldiers, become the wolf-like Guangdong Township Army, the Huaixi Red Turban, the Liangjiang Regiment Training, and the Nanjing People's Army?

What's the problem?

Although Shang Shuying could find these questions, she couldn't think of answers.

All she can think of now is to flee quickly, as long as she can escape from the jurisdiction of Yingtianfu and enter the territory of Taiping Mansion, she will be able to escape from Ascension, and maybe she can also pick up a little embers of the Shang family, and escape through Jiangxi under the control of Prince Kang Jieshu to Wu Sangui's territory together. Although the relationship between Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi is not very good, it will not harm her life after all. And Wu Sangui must also want to figure out the reality of Nanjing, right? Although Shang Shuying herself also said why, she finally experienced the rise of the Nanjing Guozhong, the Liangjiang League Training, and the Huaixi Red Turban, and the past events that came to her mind one by one.

It must not be admitted that this country under the rule of the small court of Nanjing is really evil enough! The king of the prison country is false, and the following two kings and three middle halls do not seem to be very real, and there are many scholars and people who want to discuss politics.

But how to discuss this politician and how to govern the country, can it be reliable?

Dozens of family members of the Shang family surrounded Shang Shuying, and after leaving the outer city of Nanjing, they fled all the way west under the cover of night. Shang Shuying was thinking about her thoughts while running, and she was a bit of a gangster along the way, relying on an old man to hold the reins for her.

Suddenly, she faintly heard a crisp gunshot!

At this time, she finally woke up from her thoughts, and suddenly heard an eager voice shouting in her ear: "Gege, there are people fighting behind us, I don't know if it's the fourth master or the twelfth master."

"What?" Shang Shuying hurriedly reined in the war horse, looked back, and found that a few miles behind him, in the night, there were all small fire balls, there were always hundreds! The torches did not rush towards them, but circled in place, and the sound of gunfire, shouts, screams, and the neighing of horses was heard.

Clearly, there is a fight in the night!

"Gege, should we go and help?" Another family member asked Shang Shuying.

Shang Shuying looked at the constantly shaking firelight in the night, but still shook her head and wiped a handful of tears, "I can't help to go, let's go quickly!" Let my fourth brother or twelfth brother resist for a while! ”

"Okay, Gege, let's go quickly!" The old man said, "This is not far from the Taiping Mansion boundary, let's work hard, we will definitely be able to escape before dawn tomorrow!" ”

At the same time, Geng Jiadong's Wang Jun of the brigade and Yue Le's Su Songjun were mixed together, and under the cover of night, they stumbled forward on an official road leading to Danyang County, Zhenjiang Prefecture, southeast of Yingtianfu, next to Tangshan.

Because they ran in a hurry, they didn't bring anything except the weapons and some dry food they carried, not to mention the lanterns and torches that they needed to use when walking at night, and even Geng Jiajun's wife and children were lost. The defeat of the army to such an extent naturally greatly shaken the morale of the army, and people kept fleeing along the way, and the number of people in the team was getting smaller and smaller!

And the rear of the army is still hanging Liu Jinzhong's chasing soldiers, although these pursuers know the truth that the poor should not be hidden, but they still continue to send small groups of elite soldiers to attack Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le's rear pairs! Every time they were tail-attacked, Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le's men and horses were running wildly, and in order to run faster, many soldiers and generals also threw things while running. What muskets, bows and arrows, swords and spears, armor. Lost all the way!

The army has been defeated so far, Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le can't care about arranging the palace army, and no one is willing to be this palace army, everyone just covers their heads and runs for their lives!

They fled all the way, Liu Jinzhong's soldiers chased all the way, and they chased until the second half of the night, before they stopped the pursuit, Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le's troops could also take a breath, but they still didn't dare to stop, the whole army just fled to the southeast in a daze, and they didn't know where the end of the escape was?

"Why did you lose? How did we lose and lose so completely? Didn't you say that the Son of Heaven was on fire? How did I lose? ”

It was Geng Jingzhong who raised this question, he couldn't figure it out until now, he obviously had a destiny, why did he lose?

"Great, king. This proverb related to the belonging of the world is not only 'the son of heaven is ear-fired', but also 'the eighteen sons are the lord of the world' and 'Qingtian is dead, Zhou Tian should stand'. ”

"King, don't be discouraged, although we have suffered setbacks this time, there are still a lot of turf, and we can still compete with the Ming Kingdom."

Cheering Geng Jingzhong up were his two dog-headed military advisors, Yu Renying and Li Daoren.

These two military advisors are quite loyal, and they didn't leave Geng Jingzhong, and it is estimated that no one wants them even if they leave!

So they still have to do their best to help Geng Jingzhong fight the world, what if they can keep a little territory? Anyway, Geng Jingzhong's request is to be the emperor. This emperor doesn't stipulate how much territory he wants!

Can't there be a county that calls itself the Son of Heaven? And Geng Jingzhong is just a doppelganger of the Son of Heaven, can't he be addicted to a house?

"King Dong, we seem to have lost in people's hearts this time!" Yue Le is obviously more sober than Geng Jingzhong, "Those who win the hearts of the people win the hearts of the world, and this person's hearts seem to have been won by the third prince of Zhu!" ”

"Nothing!" Geng Jingzhong shook his head, "It's clear that Wang Datou, Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, and Wang Fuzhi didn't give you the words of the Xinjue Luo family, and the former Qing Dynasty sour Confucianism made something "The Great Treatise on the World" and "The Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" to confuse people's hearts."

"What do you mean by the early dynasty?" Yue Le was not happy, "The Qing Dynasty is still there!" Those sour Confucians can only be regarded as the former dynasty at most. Dongwang. I think let's go back to the Qing Dynasty! Now Jiangxi's Jieshu is still fighting against the Ming Dynasty, let's join forces with him, one in the east and one in the west, and attack this pseudo-Ming Dynasty at both ends. ”

"No way!" Geng Jingzhong immediately objected, "I have to be the emperor!" ”

"To be an emperor? You're still going to be an emperor? Yue Le didn't know what to say, "King Dong, you're like this, why don't you give up?" ”

"Hmph," Geng Jingzhong said, "This king has lost so much, he must be the emperor, if he is not right, it will be too much of a loss!" ”

Yue Le thought about it, this is also right, if the emperor is caught by the Ming army, he will definitely die, and if he is caught by the emperor, he will still die. If you die, why don't you just be an emperor? When he returned to the emperor, he was willing to die. Maybe he can leave a record of "Geng Taizu" in history, which is too worthwhile.

"Then the King of the East," Yue Le asked again, "where are you going to be emperor?" ”

"The Emperor of Nanjing must not be able to be the emperor," Geng Jingzhong didn't ask the two fortune tellers, and began to ponder for himself, "There is heaven above, and there is the king of Suzhou and Hangzhou, do you think it is better for me to be the emperor of Suzhou or the emperor of Hangzhou?" ”

This is the state emperor!

Yue Le thought about it seriously and said, "Let's go to Hangzhou!" Suzhou is too close to Nanjing, and the road is easy to walk, maybe you haven't ascended the throne yet, and the Ming army will come to destroy the country! ”

"It's okay," Geng Jingzhong nodded, "Then go to Hangzhou, maybe you can join up with Zeng Yang's army, what's the name of this country?" ”

It seems that he is serious about being an emperor, and at this point, he is not willing to give up his ideals.

"Country name." Geng Jingzhong's military advisor Yu Renying said, "King of the East, you have been named the King of the East of the Ming Dynasty, and you have also been named the King of Jingnan of the Qing Dynasty, and your country name is either East or Jing."

"Eastern Dynasty, Jing Dynasty" Geng Jingzhong pondered for a moment, "Emperor Wu of Eastern Taizu!" Emperor Jing Taizu Wu seems to be both good. I don't want to, wait until I get to Hangzhou! ”

Catch the lot to determine the country number. There's no one left!

December 29, the forty-seventh year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.

Inside the Imperial City of Nanjing, it has been hastily cleaned up, and the dense corpses in the original Dongwang Mansion have been collected as much as possible and moved to a place with poor feng shui outside Chaoyang Gate to bury - outside Chaoyang Gate is the Purple Mountain, which is where the Ming Tomb and Sun Quan's tomb are located, can the feng shui of that place be poor? You must take a good look, and don't bury yourself in the treasure cave of a descendant who will return to the emperor.

However, the corpse could be dragged out and buried, but the traces of the previous fierce fighting, including the dense bullet holes on the outer wall of the Dongwang Mansion, and the buildings that had been burned by smoke and fire everywhere in the Forbidden City, could not be removed for a while.

And the traces of these battles, as well as those swaggering around the original Dongwang Mansion, and now inside and outside the Dingwang, the red-clothed people who are extremely excited all clearly tell the princes and generals of the new Ming Dynasty that this country not only belongs to them, but also to thousands of people!

It was these people who defended the city when Yue Le besieged Nanjing, and defended the new country when Geng Jingzhong was in rebellion!

In these two battles that decided the life and death of the Ming Dynasty, the countrymen and the soldiers were the decisive forces. If it weren't for these people in Nanjing and from Huaidong and Huaixi who gave money and orders to fight against Yue Le's Qing army and Geng Jingzhong's rebels, even if the new Ming Dynasty still existed, it would not be the way it is now, but would have become a signboard in the hands of the big warlords, who could use it and throw it away if they didn't need it.

But now, after relying on the strength of the countrymen and warriors to defeat Yue Le's Qing soldiers and Geng Jingzhong's Dongwang army, the new Ming Dynasty has changed from a signboard to a powerful regime that is enough to compete with the Northern Qing Dynasty and Wu Zhou!

Of course, the current new Ming regime has just been propped up, and it is far from being stable. If nothing else, just talk about the state and political system of this new country, everyone is not too spectrum in their hearts.

It's not that the countrymen and scholars below have no score, and even the Confucians in the Restoration Conference are still arguing - it is certain that the new Ming Dynasty will engage in hypocrisy in the future! But the king is empty, and the minister can't be empty! Everyone is empty, who cares?

So who's in charge?

Someone suggested that the reality could be done and let the prime minister take power!

But the problem is that with such a method, the prime minister seems to have too much power, and if he doesn't do it well, he will seek to usurp the throne! Isn't this going on the old road of "the world is for the selfishness of the family"?

It was also suggested that the politics of the feudal shogunate could be practiced, with the Shogun Lu Shangshu in charge of the center, and the local government should be partially governed by the feudal lord or the Setsudo envoy, and partly under the direct jurisdiction of the Shogunate.

But this method seems to be a Western Zhou feudalism that has hollowed out Zhou Tianzi! This is not a way to achieve long-term peace and stability, sooner or later, the etiquette will collapse!

There are also people who propose that the National People's Congress should discuss politics and elect the prime minister, and then the prime minister will be responsible to the National People's Congress, and that the province and the town should be implemented in parallel at the local level, and in principle, it is relatively close to the capital division, and the place that is easy to manage will be set up as a province, and the place where the distance is too far to manage.

It seems that this method will make the power of the countrymen and scholars too great, and it is really hard to say what it will develop into in the future.

But at present, the situation in Nanjing is clear, the people and soldiers of the country seem to be the heroes of the country, can it be done without discussing major national affairs with them?

In addition, since these countrymen and scholars are meritorious heroes of the country, I am afraid that just one power to discuss politics will not be enough, right? Do you have to give some other benefits?

Now Li Fuchen, Li Yat-sen's father and son, and Liu Jinzhong, the king of the north, have all led troops to pursue the enemy outside, and have not yet returned to Nanjing. And Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao were busy cleaning up the aftermath. Therefore, at this time, he was discussing the country with the third prince Zhu who was in excitement in the palace of Xinding Palace, and it was Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, Zhu Shunshui, Lu Liangliu, Qu Dajun, these leading figures in the reform faction and the restoration of vision.

Oh, this third prince Zhu is actually also a figure of the Restoration, when he was in Guangdong, he also talked to the Confucians about what to do after the anti-Qing restoration of the Ming Dynasty? Then. He is a dedicated emperor, and his mentality is similar to that of Geng Jingzhong now, and he will die if he is addicted.

And now, he has also reached the time when people's hearts are insufficient.

How long can you be the emperor if he becomes an emperor soon? Can it be passed on to grandchildren? Is there a chance that the three points will be clear?

If he hangs down and rules to the point of three points and one clear, then he can't be called "dedicated to the emperor", all are unified, how can he still be "dedicated to the emperor"? So what should you call if you don't call the emperor? Emperor Mingguang Wu? It doesn't look like it! Not so violent.

"Great King, you should be the primordial emperor!" Huang Zongxi didn't know what to think, so he actually came up with this name.

The primitive emperor sounds like the emperor of the primitive people, not very advanced!

I'm still the Origin Heavenly Venerable! The third prince of Zhu was not very satisfied, and he had to ask humbly: "Mr. Lizhou, why am I the primordial emperor?" ”

"The original of the original monarch," Huang Zongxi said, "the first emperor of the first emperor is the beginning of the emperor who has the sole power, and you are the beginning of the original monarch who ruled vertically, so it is still good to call the original emperor." It's better to use 'original' for next year's era name. ”

As soon as Huang Zongxi's statement came out, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, Zhu Shunshui, Lu Liangliu, and Qu Dajun all felt good.

The first emperor opened up the imperial system, and although the third prince of Zhu was also the emperor, he did not implement the imperial system, so it is called "primitive", which means that a beginning that can be equated with Qin Shihuang being called emperor, which is also very reasonable.

"Primitive is primitive." The third prince Zhu thought to himself: I have to ask Wang Datou and listen to his opinion when I go back.

Thinking of this, he asked again: "Then in the future, when the widow becomes the primitive emperor, he will rule the arch. Who cares about the world's major affairs? ”

Of course, we are in charge of the world's major affairs!

Of course, a few Confucians want to say something!

This is also the ideal of the class of scholars throughout the ages, they want to help the emperor govern the country!

But that's not too straightforward now.

"Major national affairs should be discussed by the National Assembly," Huang Zongxi said, "This method is a bit like the republican administration implemented in the Western Zhou Dynasty after the king of Zhou Li was driven away by the people." Therefore, what we will implement in the future is the law of the republic! ”

The future of the Republic of the Ming Primordial Tianzun, no, it was the primitive emperor who heard the word "republic", and he frowned a little, I don't know why, I just don't like it.

As soon as he wanted to open his mouth to object, he suddenly heard Li Yat-sen's voice from outside the main hall: "I think the republic is good. The Ming Dynasty will be a republic in the future! ”

When the third prince looked up, he saw Li Zhongshan, Li Fuchen, Li Jiqing, father and son wearing armor and walked in. Head! I don't know who is so unlucky?

Zhu San asked, "King Nan, King Ying, who did you kill?" Is there any Shang Shuying? ”

Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "That girl ran away, but her two brothers didn't run away, and they all asked me and my father to be slaughtered!" ”

(End of chapter)