The Shang family is finished like this!
The most regrettable thing is that she, Shang Shuying, may also die together!
Until she escaped from Xiao Andemen in southwest Nanjing, Shang Shuying still couldn't believe what happened today. The 40,000-strong army that Geng Jingzhong had finally gathered was overwhelmed, crushed, and completely crushed by countless national warriors and people 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 Li Fuchen was added, the 40,000 troops gathered by Geng Jingzhong would be completely collapsed in just one day. But when the people of Nanjing who were supposed to stay out of the matter and let the victors slaughter them turned into state officials and citizens, and were then organized to participate in the battle, Geng Jingzhong's faction really had no chance of winning.
Originally, the two sides may be evenly matched, and even if there is a stronger one, it is still slightly stronger. However, when hundreds of thousands of people and soldiers from Nanjing joined the battle and firmly stood against Geng Jingzhong, the balance of power between the two sides immediately changed dramatically. The Sanzhongtang side immediately had an overwhelming advantage, and Geng Jingzhong's group immediately became the target of being crushed!
But how did all this happen?
In fact, when the Qing soldiers raided Nanming, they encountered fierce resistance from local militiamen in many places. On several occasions, there were quite a few local militiamen and they were able to hold on to the city for a long time. Shang Shuying had heard these things from the adults in Pingnan Prince's Palace since she was a child. Later, she knew even more when she became the Dowager in charge of Xushun Duke's Palace. But in those stories, the power of the people is not decisive. No matter how tenacious they resist, there is only one final result, that is, the city is destroyed and massacred!
But this rule was broken in Nanjing. No, it was actually broken when Wang Datou led the Guangdong Township Army!
But how did all this happen? How come the Han people, who could not defeat the Qing army twenty or thirty years ago, turned into the wolf-like tigers of the Guangdong Township Army, the Huaixi Red Scarf, the Liangjiang Tuanlian and the Nanjing people?
What's the problem?
Although Shang Shuying could find these questions, she couldn't figure out the answers.
All she can think of now is to escape quickly. As long as she can escape from the jurisdiction of Yingtian Mansion and enter the territory of Taiping Mansion, she can escape and ascend to heaven. Maybe she can also collect some of the embers of the Shang family and pass through Prince Kang Jieshu together. Jiangxi under control fled to Wu Sangui's territory. Although the relationship between Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi was not very good, it would not harm her life. And Wu Sangui must also want to find out what is true and false in Nanjing, right? Although Shang Shuying herself said so, she had finally experienced the Nanjing Guozhong, the Liangjiang League, and the rise of the Huaixi Red Scarf, and all the past events emerged in her mind one by one.
I must not admit that this country under the rule of the small court in Nanjing is really evil! Supervising the country and appointing the king is fictitious, and the two kings and three central halls below do not seem to be very real. There are many state officials and people below who want to discuss government affairs.
But how do these politicians discuss matters and how do they govern the country? Is it reliable?
Dozens of Shang's servants surrounded Shang Shuying. After leaving the outer city of Nanjing, they fled westward under the cover of night. Shang Shuying was thinking about her thoughts while running. She was a little confused along the way, relying on an old servant to hold the reins for her.
Suddenly, she vaguely heard a crisp gunshot!
At this time, she finally woke up from her thoughts, and suddenly she heard an urgent voice shouting in her ear: "Gege, there is someone fighting behind us. I don't know whether it is the fourth master or the twelfth master."
"What?" Shang Shuying hurriedly reined in her horse, looked back, and found that a few miles behind her, in the night, there were tiny fireballs dotted with stars, and there were always hundreds of them! These torches did not rush towards him quickly, but seemed to circle in place. There were also gunshots, shouts, screams and the neighing of war horses.
Obviously, someone is fighting in the night!
"Gege, do we want to help?" Another servant asked Shang Shuying.
Shang Shuying looked at the flickering firelight in the dark night, shook her head, wiped her tears, "If we can't help, let's leave quickly! Let my fourth brother or twelfth brother resist for a while! "
"Okay, Princess, let's go quickly!" the old servant said, "This is not far from the Taiping Mansion boundary. Let's work harder and we will definitely escape before dawn tomorrow!"
At the same time, Geng Jiadong Wang's army and Yue Le's Su Song's army were mixed together. Under the cover of night, they stumbled forward on an official road leading to Danyang County, Zhenjiang Prefecture, southeast of Yingtian Mansion and next to Tangshan.
Because they ran in a hurry, they took nothing with them except their weapons and some dry food. Not to mention the lanterns and torches they needed to walk at night, they even lost the Geng family army’s wives, children, and children. The army was defeated to such an extent. Naturally, the morale of the army was greatly shaken. People kept running away along the way, and the number of people in the team became smaller and smaller!
The pursuers sent by Liu Jinzhong were still hanging at the rear of the army. Although these pursuers knew the principle of not covering up the enemy, they still sent small groups of elite soldiers to attack the rear opponents of Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le! Every time they were tail-attacked, Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le's men and horses ran wildly. In order to run faster, many soldiers threw things while running. Muskets, bows and arrows, swords, spears, and armor were thrown everywhere!
After the defeat, Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le did not care about arranging the palace army, and no one was willing to be the palace army. Everyone just covered their heads and ran for their lives!
They fled all the way, and Liu Jinzhong's soldiers chased them all the way until midnight. They stopped chasing. Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le's troops could also take a breath, but they still didn't dare to stop. The whole army was just confused. Fleeing to the southeast, I don’t know where the end point of the escape is?
"Why did we lose? How did we lose and lose so completely? Didn't it mean that the emperor's clone was in trouble? Why did I lose?"
It was Geng Jingzhong who asked this question. He still can't figure it out. He obviously had destiny, so why did he lose?
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty. This prophecy related to the ownership of the world is not only 'the emperor's clone has ears', but also 'the eighteen sons rule the world' and 'Qing Tian is dead, Zhou Tian should be established'."
"Your Majesty, don't be discouraged. Although we have suffered a setback this time, we still have a lot of territory. We can still compete with the Ming Kingdom for strength."
Those who encouraged Geng Jingzhong were his two dog-headed military advisors, Yu Renying and Li Daoren.
These two military advisors were quite loyal, and they did not leave Geng Jingzhong. I guess even if they left, no one would want him!
So they still had to do their best to help Geng Jingzhong conquer the world. What if they could hold on to some territory? Anyway, Geng Jingzhong’s requirement is to be the emperor. There is no requirement for how much territory he needs to be the emperor!
Can't a county call itself the emperor? Moreover, Geng Jingzhong was just a clone of the Emperor. Wouldn’t it be good to have a mansion to satisfy his cravings?
"Dong Wang, we seem to have lost the hearts of the people this time!" Yue Le is obviously more sober than Geng Jingzhong, "He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world. It seems that Prince Zhu San has won the hearts of the people!"
"It's nothing!" Geng Jingzhong shook his head, "It's clearly Wang Datou, Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, and Wang Fuzhi, a group of former Qing Dynasty scholars who were not tortured to death by your Aixinjueluo family's literary inquisition, who came up with "Tian Xia Da Gong Lun" " and "Chinese Land Acquisition System" confuse people's hearts."
"What is the early dynasty?" Yue Le was not happy, "The Qing Dynasty is still there! Those few slanderous scholars can only be regarded as the previous dynasty at most. King Dong, I think we should return to the Qing Dynasty! Now Jiangxi's outstanding scholars are still there In the fight against the Ming Dynasty, we will join forces with him, one in the east and one in the west, to attack the pseudo-Ming Dynasty from both ends."
"No!" Geng Jingzhong immediately objected, "I have to be the emperor!"
"Be the emperor? You still want to be the emperor?" Yue Le didn't know what to say, "Dong Wang, you're already like this, why don't you give up?"
"Huh," Geng Jingzhong said, "I have already lost so much. I must be an emperor. If I don't do it, it would be a huge loss!"
Yue Le thought that this was right. If he was caught by the Ming army when he was not an emperor, he would definitely die. If he was caught as an emperor, he would still die. Anyway, if he dies, why can't he just be an emperor? When I become an emperor, I am willing to die. Maybe we can also leave a record of "Geng Taizu" in history, which would be so worth it.
"Then King Dong," Yue Le asked again, "where do you plan to become emperor?"
"I will definitely not be the emperor of Nanjing." Geng Jingzhong did not ask the two fortune tellers and began to think about it himself, "There is heaven above, and there is King An of Suhang and Hangzhou below. 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 travel. Maybe the Ming army will come to destroy the country before you even ascend the throne!"
"That's fine," Geng Jingzhong nodded, "Then go to Hangzhou. Maybe we can join Zeng Yangxing's army. What is the name of this country?"
It seems that he is serious about becoming the emperor, and even at this point, he refuses to give up his ideal.
"The name of the country." Yu Renying, Geng Jingzhong's military advisor, said, "King Dong, you have been named the East King of the Ming Dynasty and the King of Jingnan of the Qing Dynasty. Your country's name will be either Dong or Jing."
"Eastern Dynasty, Jing Dynasty" Geng Jingzhong pondered for a while, "Emperor Taizu Wu of the East! Emperor Taizu Wu of Jing seems to be good for both. I don't think about it anymore. Let's wait until we get to Hangzhou to draw lots!"
Draw lots to determine the country name. There is no one left!
December 29th, the forty-seventh day of Chongzhen reign in the Ming Dynasty.
The Imperial City of Nanjing has been hastily cleaned up. The dense corpses in the original Dongwang Mansion have been collected as much as possible and moved to a place with poor Feng Shui for burial outside Chaoyang Gate - outside Chaoyang Gate is Zijin. Mountain, that is where Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum and Sun Quan’s Tomb are located. Can the feng shui of that place be bad? You must take a good look at it, and don't bury it in the emperor's treasure cave for future generations.
However, the body could be dragged out and buried, but the traces of the previous fierce battle, including the dense bullet holes on the outer wall of the East Palace, and the smoke-scorched buildings everywhere in the Forbidden City, could not be removed for the time being.
And these traces of the battle, as well as the extremely excited red-clothed people inside and outside the original Dongwang Mansion and now the current King Ding, clearly told the princes and generals of the new Ming Dynasty, This country not only belongs to them, but also to millions of Chinese people!
It was these people who defended the city when Yue Le besieged Nanjing, and defended the new country when Geng Jingzhong rebelled!
In these two battles that determined the life and death of the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese and the country's warriors were the decisive force. If it were not for these Chinese people in Nanjing and from Huaidong and Huaixi who contributed money and lives to fight Yue Le's Qing army and Geng Jingzhong's rebels, even if the New Ming Dynasty still existed, it would not be what it is now. It will become a sign in the hands of the big warlord. Use it when you need it, and throw it away when you don't.
But now, after relying on the power of Chinese people and scholars to defeat Yue Le's Qing soldiers and Geng Jingzhong's Dongwang Army, the New Ming Dynasty has transformed from a signboard into a powerful regime that can divide the world with the Northern Qing Dynasty and Wu Zhou!
Of course, the current New Ming Dynasty regime has just begun to falter and is far from being stable. Don't talk about anything else, just talk about the state and political system of this new country, everyone is not too sure about it.
This is not because the countrymen and scholars below are incompetent. Even the great scholars in the Fuming Conference are still arguing that the new Ming Dynasty in the future will definitely have a false king! But if the king is imaginary, the minister cannot be imaginary! Everyone is vain, who cares?
So who cares?
Some people suggested that we could establish the truth and let the prime minister take charge!
But the problem is, with this approach, the prime minister seems to have too much power, and he may seek to usurp the throne! Isn’t this going back to the old path of “the world is for the benefit of one family”?
Some people also suggested that vassal politics could be implemented, with the general taking charge of the central government by recording ministerial affairs, while the local areas would be partially established as Fangzhen, ruled by the vassal king or Jiedushi, and some would be directly governed by the general shogunate.
But this method seems to be a Western Zhou feudal system that bypasses the Emperor of Zhou! This is not a way to achieve long-term peace and stability. Sooner or later, the ceremony will be ruined!
Some people also proposed to let the National People's Congress discuss government affairs and elect the prime minister, and then the prime minister would be responsible to the National People's Congress. At the local level, provinces and towns should be implemented in parallel. In principle, it is relatively close to the capital and easy to manage. The place where you can't come here is Fangzhen.
This method seems to give too much power to the people and officials of the country. It is hard to say how it will develop in the future.
But the current situation in Nanjing is obvious. Chinese people and scholars are already heroes of the country. Is it possible not to discuss major national affairs with them?
In addition, since this group of countrymen and scholars are heroes of the country, they may not be able to feed them just with the power to discuss politics, right? Are there any other benefits that need to be given?
Now Li Fuchen, Li Zhongshan and his son, and the Northern King Liu Jinzhong are all chasing the enemy outside with their troops and have not yet returned to Nanjing. Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao were busy dealing with the aftermath. So at the moment, he was discussing the state affairs with the excited Prince Zhu in the main hall of Xinding Palace, including Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, Zhu Shunshui, Lu Liangliu, and Qu Dajun, the leading figures in the reformist and Fuming conferences.
Oh, this Third Prince Zhu was actually a reformist figure. When he was in Guangdong, he once discussed with the Confucian scholars what should be done after the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty? At that time, he was focused on being Emperor Xian, and his mentality was similar to that of Geng Jingzhong now, and he would die if he got too much.
But now, he has reached the point where his heart is not enough.
Emperor Xian became emperor quickly. How long can he be? Can it be passed on to children and grandchildren? Is there any chance that the three points will be clear?
If he governs from the top down to the point where the three points are unified and the one is clear, then he cannot be called "Xian Emperor". If everything is unified, how can he still be "Xian Emperor"? So what should we call him if we don't call him Emperor Xian? Emperor Mingguang? It doesn’t seem like it! Not that vigorous.
"Your Majesty, you should be the original emperor!" Huang Zongxi didn't know what he was thinking, but he actually came up with this name.
The primitive emperor sounds like the emperor of primitive people, not very advanced!
I still have Yuanshi Tianzun! Prince Zhu was not very satisfied in his heart, and he had to ask humbly: "Mr. Lizhou, how come I am the original emperor?"
"The origin of the original emperor," Huang Zongxi said, "the first emperor of the first emperor is the beginning of the emperor who monopolizes power, and you are the beginning of the original emperor who rules from the top down, so it is good to call him the original emperor. It is better to use the title of next year's reign. 'Original'."
As soon as Huang Zongxi's statement came out, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, Zhu Shunshui, Lu Liangliu, and Qu Dajun all thought it was good.
The First Emperor initiated an imperial system, and although Prince Zhu San was also an emperor, his implementation was indeed not an imperial system, so it was called "original", which meant a beginning that could be equivalent to Qin Shihuang's proclaiming emperor, which is also very reasonable.
"It's primitive as long as it's primitive." Prince Zhu San thought: I will have to ask Wang Datou later for his opinion.
Thinking of this, he asked again: "In the future, when I become the original emperor, I will rule from the top. Who will be in charge of the world's major affairs?"
Of course, we are in charge of all the major events in the world!
Of course the great scholars wanted to say something!
This has also been the ideal of the scholar-official class throughout the ages. They want to help the emperor govern the country!
But it would be too straightforward not to say this now.
"National affairs should be discussed by the National People's Congress," Huang Zongxi said. "This method is a bit like the republican administration implemented in the Western Zhou Dynasty after King Zhou Li was driven away by the people. So what we in the Ming Dynasty will implement in the future is the republican law!"
The original emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the future Republic, no, the original emperor, frowned a little when he heard the word "republic". I don't know why, he just didn't like it.
Just as he was about to speak out to object, he suddenly heard Li Zhongshan's voice coming from outside the hall: "I think the Republic is good. The Ming Dynasty will be a republic in the future!"
The Third Prince Zhu looked up and saw Li Zhongshan, Li Fuchen, Li Jiqing and his son walking in wearing armors. Among them, Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan each carried a bloody head in their hands! I don’t know who is so unlucky?
Zhu San asked: "King Nan, King Ying, who did you kill? Is there Shang Shuying?"
Li Zhongshan laughed and said: "That girl ran away, but her two brothers didn't run away. They asked me and my father to be killed!"
(End of chapter)
