Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 292 What kind of country is this new Ming Dynasty? (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
This is the end of the Shang family!
The most regrettable thing is that she, Shang Shuying, might also die with her!
Until she escaped from Xiao'an Demen in the southwest of Nanjing, Shang Shuying still couldn't believe what happened today.The [-] army that Geng Jingzhong managed to gather with great difficulty was overwhelmed, crushed, and completely smashed by countless national scholars and Chinese 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 with the addition of Li Fuchen, the [-] army assembled by Geng Jingzhong could completely collapse in just one day.But when the people in Nanjing who should have stayed out of the matter and let the victors slaughter them turned into soldiers and people of the country, 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, it is slightly stronger.However, when 10,000+ Chinese nationals and national scholars from Nanjing joined the battle and stood resolutely on the opposite side of 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 faction immediately became the target of being crushed!

But how did all this happen?

In fact, when the Qing soldiers swept Nanming, they also encountered fierce resistance from local militias in many places. There were quite a few local militias, and they could hold on to the city for a long time.Shang Shuying had heard these things from the adults in the Pingnan Palace since she was a child, and she knew more after she became the wife in charge of Duke Xushun's Mansion.But in those stories, the power of the people is not decisive. No matter how tenaciously they resist, there is only one final result, that is, the city is destroyed and slaughtered!

But this rule was broken in Nanjing. No, in fact, it was broken since Wang Datou pulled up the Guangdong Township Army!

But how did all this happen?Twenty or thirty years ago, the Han people who couldn't beat the Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty at all, became the wolves and tigers of the Guangdong Township Army, the Huaixi Red Scarf, the Liangjiang Tuanlian, and the people of Nanjing?
Where is the problem?

Although Shang Shuying could find these questions, she couldn't think of an answer no matter what.

All she can think of now is to escape as soon as possible. As long as she can escape from Yingtian Mansion's jurisdiction and enter Taiping Mansion's territory, she will be able to escape from Shengtian, and maybe she can pick up a little bit of Shang family's ashes, and escape together to Wu Sangui's territory through Jiangxi under the control of Prince Kang Jieshu.Although the relationship between Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi is not very good, it will not kill her after all.And Wu Sangui must also want to figure out the real situation in Nanjing, right?Although Shang Shuying herself said the reason, after all, she experienced the past events of Nanjing Guozhong, Liangjiang Tuanlian, and the rise of Huaixi Red Scarf, and they all came to her mind one by one.

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

But how do the politicians talk about it, how does the country govern, is it reliable?

Dozens of servants from Qi Shang's family surrounded Shang Shuying, and fled westward under the cover of night after leaving the outer city of Nanjing.Shang Shuying was thinking about things while running, and she was a little muddled along the way, relying on an old man to hold the reins for her.

Suddenly, she vaguely heard a crisp gunshot!

Now she finally woke up from her own thoughts, and immediately 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 quickly reined in her horse, looked back, and found that a few miles behind her, in the night, there were dots of small fireballs, there were always hundreds of them!These torches did not rush towards him quickly, but circled in circles in place, and there were gunshots, shouts, screams, and the neighing of war horses.

Obviously, someone is fighting in the night!

"Gege, should we help?" Another servant asked Shang Shuying.

Shang Shuying looked at the flickering flames in the dark night, but shook her head and wiped her tears, "I can't help you, let's go quickly! Let my fourth or twelfth brother resist for a while!"

"Okay, Ge Ge, let's go quickly!" said the old man, "This place is not far from the Taiping Mansion boundary, let's work harder, and we will be able to escape before dawn tomorrow!"

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

Because they ran in a hurry, they didn't bring anything except their weapons and some dry food, not to mention the lanterns and torches they needed to walk at night, and even the wives and children of Geng's army. The army was defeated to such an extent, and the morale of the army was naturally greatly shaken.
At the rear of the army were the pursuers sent by Liu Jinzhong. Although these pursuers knew the truth that the poor should not hide, they still sent small groups of elite soldiers to attack Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le's rear opponents!Every time they were hit by the tail, Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le's troops ran wildly. In order to run faster, many soldiers threw things while running.What muskets, bows and arrows, knives and spears, armor... lost all the way!
With the defeat so far, Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le couldn't care less about arranging the army, and no one is willing to be the army, so everyone just ran for their lives with their heads covered!
They fled all the way, Liu Jinzhong's soldiers chased them all the way, and they didn't stop chasing until midnight. Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le's troops could breathe a little, but they still didn't dare to stop.

"Why did we lose? How did we lose and lose so completely? Didn't you say that the emperor was slapped in the face? 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, so why did he lose?
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty. This prophecy related to the ownership of the world is not only 'the son of heaven is divided into ears', but also '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 setbacks this time, we still have a lot of territory. We can still compete with the Ming Dynasty for supremacy."

Those who encouraged Geng Jingzhong were his two dog-headed military advisers Yu Renying and Li Daoren.

These two military advisers are quite loyal, and they didn't leave Geng Jingzhong, and even if they did, no one would want them!
So they still have to do their best to help Geng Jingzhong conquer the world, what if they can keep some territory?Anyway, Geng Jingzhong's request is to be the emperor. There is no requirement for how much land to be the emperor!

Can't a county claim to be the Son of Heaven?Besides, Geng Jingzhong is just a clone of the emperor, wouldn't it be enough to set up a mansion for fun?

"Dong Wang, we seem to have lost in the hearts of the people this time!" Yue Le was obviously more sober than Geng Jingzhong, "Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, it seems that the third prince Zhu has won the hearts of the people!"

"Nothing!" Geng Jingzhong shook his head. "It is clear that Wang Datou, Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, and Wang Fuzhi, the former Qing Dynasty sour scholars who did not give you the Aixinjueluo family's literary prison to death, made "Tianxia Dagonglun" and "Tianchao Tianmu System" to confuse people's hearts."

"What is the early dynasty?" Yue Le was displeased. "The Qing Dynasty is still there! Those few sour scholars can only be regarded as the former dynasty at best. Eastern kings. I think we should return to the Qing Dynasty! Now that Jiangxi's Jieshu is still fighting against the Ming Dynasty, we will join forces with him, one in the east and one in the west, and attack the pseudo-Ming Dynasty from both ends."

"No!" Geng Jingzhong immediately objected, "I must be emperor!"

"Being the emperor? You still want to be the emperor?" Yue Le didn't know what to say, "Dongwang, you are already like this, why don't you give up?"

"Hmph," Geng Jingzhong said, "I have paid so much for this king, I must be the emperor, it would be too bad if I don't!"

Yue Le was right when he thought about it. If he was not an emperor, he would definitely die if he was caught by the Ming army. If he became an emperor, he would still die if he was caught. After all, if he died, why would he be addicted to being an emperor?When I become the emperor, I am willing to die.Maybe we can still leave a record of "Geng Taizu" in history, that would be too worthwhile.

"Then Dongwang," Yue Le asked again, "Where do you plan to become emperor?"

"Nanjing Emperor will definitely not be able to be the emperor anymore," Geng Jingzhong didn't ask the two fortune tellers, and began to ponder by himself, "There is heaven above, and King An of Suzhou and Hangzhou below. Do you think it would be 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 the Ming army will come to destroy the country before you ascend the throne!"

"Alright," 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 being an emperor, and at this point, he still refuses to give up his ideal.

"National title." Yu Renying, Geng Jingzhong's military advisor, said, "Eastern King, you have been granted the title of Eastern King of the Ming Dynasty and King of Jingnan of the Qing Dynasty. Your country title is either Dong or Jing."

"Eastern Dynasty, Jing Dynasty" Geng Jingzhong pondered for a moment, "Emperor Wu, Taizu of the East! Emperor Wu, Taizu of Jing seems to be both good. Don't think about it, let's draw lots when we get to Hangzhou!"

Draw lots to determine the number of the country. This is no one!
December 47th, 29th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty.

The Nanjing imperial city has been tidied up hastily. The dense corpses in the original East Prince’s Mansion have been collected as much as possible and moved outside Chaoyang Gate to find a place with poor geomantic omen for burial—outside Chaoyang Gate is Zijin Mountain, which is where Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum and Sun Quan’s Tomb are located. Can the geomantic omen of that place be bad?You must take a good look at it, and don't bury it in a treasure cave that will return to the emperor for future generations.

However, the corpse 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 Prince's Mansion, and the smoke-burnt buildings everywhere in the Forbidden City, could not be removed for a while.

And the traces of these battles, as well as those people running around swaggeringly in the original East Palace, inside and outside the current King Ding, and the extremely excited red-clothed people all clearly told the princes and generals of the new Ming Dynasty that this country not only belongs to them, but also to thousands of Chinese people!
It was these Chinese 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 national scholars were the decisive forces.If there were no people in Nanjing and those from Huaidong and Huaixi who gave money and life to fight against Yue Le's Qing army and Geng Jingzhong's rebel army, even if there was a new Ming Dynasty, it would not be what it is now, but would become a signboard in the hands of the great warlords.

But now, after defeating Yue Le's Qing soldiers and Geng Jingzhong's Eastern King's army relying on the strength of the people and scholars of the country, New Daming has changed from a signboard to a powerful regime that can divide the world with Northern Qing and Wu Zhou!

Of course, the current new Ming regime has just started to falter, and it 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.

It’s not that the people and scholars of the country are out of control, even the great Confucianists in the Fuming Conference are still arguing about it—the future new Ming Dynasty will definitely be the king of Xu!But the king is vain, the minister can't be vain!Everyone is false, who cares?
So who cares?
Some people suggested that the truth can be established and the prime minister be in charge!
But the problem is, with such an approach, the prime minister seems to have too much power, and he might try to usurp the throne!Isn't this on the old road of "the world is for the private interests of the family"?
Others suggested that the politics of the vassals could be carried out, and the central government should be controlled by the generals who recorded the affairs of the ministers, while some localities would be set up as square towns, ruled by the vassal kings or Jiedushi, and some by the generals directly under the shogunate.

But this method seems to be a Western Zhou feudalism that emptied Zhou Tianzi!This is not a way of long-term peace and stability. Sooner or later, the ceremony will collapse and the joy will be ruined!
Some people also suggested that the National People's Congress should discuss the state affairs and select the prime minister, and then the prime minister should be responsible to the National People's Congress. In principle, the provinces and towns should be paralleled.

This method seems to give too much power to the people and scholars of the country. It is hard to say what will happen in the future.

But the current situation in Nanjing is obvious. The people and scholars of the country seem to be the heroes of the country. Is it okay not to discuss the country's affairs with them?
In addition, since this group of people and scholars are the heroes of the country, I am afraid that the power to discuss politics is not enough, right?Do you have to give some other benefits?

Now Li Fuchen, Li Zhongshan and his son, and the Northern King Liu Jinzhong are all leading troops outside to chase the enemy, and have not yet returned to Nanjing.But Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao were busy with the aftermath.So at the moment, in the main hall of the Xinding Palace, discussing the country with the excited third prince Zhu, it is Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, Zhu Shunshui, Lu Liangliu, Qu Dajun, the leading figures in the Reformation and Fuming Conference.

Oh, this third prince Zhu is actually a figure of the Reformation School. When he was in Guangdong, he also talked with the great Confucians about what to do after the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty?At that time, he was focused on being the emperor, and his mentality was similar to that of Geng Jingzhong now, and he would die after enjoying himself.

And now, it's time for him to lose his mind.

Emperor Xian will soon be on the throne, how long can he be?Can it be passed on to offspring?Is there a chance for a three-pointer?
If he has been governed until the three points are unified, then he can no longer be called "Xiandi", since they are all unified, why is he still "Xiandi"?So what should be called if you don't call Xiandi?Emperor Mingguang?It doesn't seem like it!Not so raw.

"My lord, you should be the original emperor!" Huang Zongxi didn't know what to think, but he came up with this name.

The original emperor sounds like the emperor of primitive people, not very advanced!
I return Yuanshi Tianzun!The third prince Zhu was not very satisfied, and he had to ask humbly: "Mr. Lizhou, why am I the original emperor?"

"Yuanjun's Yuan," Huang Zongxi said, "Shishihuang's Shihuangdi is the beginning of the emperor who monopolizes power, and you are the beginning of the Yuanjun who ruled from the throne, so it is not bad to call Yuanjun Emperor. Why don't you use 'Yuanyuan' for next year's year name."

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 established the imperial system, and although the third prince Zhu was also the emperor, he did not implement the imperial system, so it is called "primitive", which means a beginning that can be equated with Qin Shihuang's proclaiming emperor, which is also very reasonable.

"Original is original." The third prince Zhu thought to himself: I have to ask Wang Datou later to hear his opinion.

Thinking of this, he asked again: "Then the widow will become the original emperor in the future, and he will rule over him. Who cares about the world's major affairs?"

Of course we are in charge of major affairs in the world!
Of course the great Confucians wanted to say something!
This is also the ideal of the scholar-bureaucrat class throughout the ages, they just want to help the emperor govern the country!
But it's not too straightforward to say this now.

"National affairs should be jointly 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 of the country. So what we will implement in the Ming Dynasty in the future is the law of republic!"

The Yuanyuan Tianzun of Ming Dynasty, no, the Yuanyuan Emperor frowned a little when he heard the word "Republic". I don't know why, but he just didn't like it.

Just as he was about to speak up to object, he suddenly heard Li Zhongshan's voice from outside the main hall: "I think the Republic is not bad. Ming Dynasty will be the country of the Republic in the future!"

Third Prince Zhu looked up, and saw Li Zhongshan, Li Fuchen, Li Jiqing and his father and son walking in wearing armor. Among them, Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan each held a bloody head!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 said with a smile: "That girl ran away, but her two elder brothers didn't. They told me and my father to be slaughtered!"

(End of this chapter)