Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

What's even more frightening is that due to a series of bad actions by the new emperor, the current Nanming court is also in the process of falling apart.

When the city of Beijing was captured and the news of Emperor Chongzhen's death spread to Nanjing, Shi Kefa, Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, became the head of civil servants without hesitation.The most urgent task at this time is of course Li Xinjun.

But next, the Qing army and Guan Ning's iron cavalry served King Lu as "Qing Jun's side"; Li Zicheng's Dashun Army was defeated in Yutian; the Runing Army went north to Qin Wang, regained the capital and rescued the prince;This series of dazzling news made the ministers in Nanjing dizzy. By the time everything was settled, more than a month had passed.

However, during the period of more than a month, around Lixinjun, those ministers also restored the "excellent tradition" of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, and began to go into battle shirtless and engaged in a fierce party struggle.

According to the close blood relationship with Emperor Chongzhen, Fu Wang Zhu Yousong was the natural candidate for the new emperor.However, Qian Qianyi and other officials and gentry who were keen on the opinion of Donglin's sect gathered together to support King Lu.Of course, the real intention of these Donglin Party members was to exclude King Fu in order to ensure the political control of the Donglin-Fushe Party members during the Chongzhen period. Qian Yi and others have the merit of "determining a strategy" and they will definitely be able to make a fortune.

As a powerful figure, Shi Kefa is in a dilemma. He is the favorite student of Zuo Guangdou, a member of the Donglin Party.

In the end, Shi Kefa personally wrote a letter to the senior officials in Nanjing to explain his decision-making opinions: "Who welcomes Guangxi? There is a will for blessings and benefits. It is to give up and establish Gui. His Lu Fan imitated the system of the ancient Marshal Marshal and temporarily borrowed the unified system." Soldiers and horses." The officials and gentry in Nanjing were quite satisfied with this compromise plan, and the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing prepared to go to Guangxi to meet King Gui with the ritual objects.

But at this moment, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.Lu Jiude, the eunuch guarding Nanjing, secretly colluded with Gao Jie, Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo, the commander-in-chief, and decided to support Zhu Yousong, the king of fortune.

Because Lu Jiude served in the palace for the old Fu Wang Zhu Changxun in the last year of Wanli.So after Zhu Yousong's behind-the-scenes planning, Lu Jiude started a joint vertical and horizontal lobbying without hesitation.

The active participation of Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and others in supporting the establishment is obviously to gain "contribution to the decision-making" and to enhance their political status.

As for those ministers of the Donglin Party who originally disapproved of King Lifu, most of them immediately responded to the wind and rushed to express their allegiance to King Fu Zhu Yousong for their own rights.However, Shi Kefa was still kept in the dark, and continued to write letters saying that Zhu Yousong's "greed, prostitution, alcoholism, unfilial piety, child abuse, non-study, and interfering with the law" were seven reasons why he could not stand.

But when the Nanjing ministers were invited to the home by Lu Jiude.Although many people were shocked when Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and others' letters of loyalty were circulated, they had no military power.Li Gui and Li Lu's plan was stillborn, and they had no choice but to agree against their will.

In this establishment of a new monarch, Shi Kefa is absolutely continuous.Resist the chaos.As a pro-Donglin party civil servant.His approach in this way is the reason for some sectarianism.But the more important reason is that Shi Kefa has a fatal weakness in his character.He lacks great talent and general strategy, and always wants to deal with everything, all directions are appropriate, but he didn't expect that things backfired in the end.

But it was Shi Kefa who really had the decision-making power at one time, but he hesitated on such a major issue, and did not decisively decide to support King Fu, which caused Zhu Yousong to turn to the town general for help.Since then, the power of the small imperial court in Nanming has fallen, and Shi Kefa should bear the main responsibility.

Fu Wang Zhu Yousong first took office as supervisor.He immediately presided over the meeting of the courtiers, and first elected a number of cabinet scholars.As a result, he appointed Shi Kefa, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, as a scholar of Dongge University and Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites to work in the cabinet.Soon after, Jiang Yueguang, the former Zhan Shifu of Zhan Shifu, was appointed as the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, and Wang Duo, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, joined the cabinet to work in the cabinet.Taking Zhang Shenyan as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Liu Zongzhou was called as the Censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and other officials of the Yamen also made arrangements successively.

Moreover, according to the intention of Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, Zhang Shenyan and others, Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, tried to let "gentlemen" occupy the key points as much as possible, so that the court would have a new look at the beginning of its establishment.At first, they were able to get their wish in arranging important court officials.However, this situation soon changed.

The contest for the power of the imperial court began with Shoufu.According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing was the head of the hundred officials who lived in the capital. When the Hongguang court was first established, Shi Kefa became the natural chief scholar.But on the issue of decision-making, Shi Kefa's performance at both ends of the song did not gain Zhu Yousong's trust. Therefore, some people, including Xungui, immediately turned with the wind.For example: Wei Guogong Xu Hongji and others originally believed that Shi Kefa was nothing more than heaven and man, "the power is shifted slightly, and the stone will rise with it";

So, in the end, Shi Kefa, who couldn't bear the pressure, asked Huaiyang, the supervisor, for the reason that Jiangbei could not do without important ministers and supervisors.And Zhu Yousong also approved Shi Kefa as the supervisor.

It is true that Shi Kefa is relatively honest and upright as an official, but if he thinks that he can protect Jiangzuo and restore the Central Plains by staying in the court, then he will overestimate Shi Kefa's political vision and courage, and he will not understand the Nanming brewing. When the country was founded, Shi Kefa was restrained by the backbone members of the Donglin Party and had already made a big mistake.

Shi Kefa's impossibility to gain the trust of the new emperor is secondary. The real key lies in Zhu Yousong, who should inherit the throne according to the order of ethics. This caused the military generals who had no achievements to be recorded one by one to claim to be the heroes of the strategy.

However, Shi Kefa, who once held the power to support the establishment, failed to seize this fleeting opportunity to decide the safety and security of the country. The success of making decisions fell into the hands of warlords. Supervising divisions abroad can't change the situation that generals are threatening the court and have no intention of making progress.

Shi Kefa suffered from the bitter fruit of himself and was forced to give up his position as chief assistant to cross the river. It just proved that his decision was wrong, and the opportunity was lost and irreversible.A group of scholar-bureaucrats leaning towards the Donglin Party yelled "Qin Hui is inside, Li Gang is outside", and the country will fail, but it is too late.

Therefore, for those in power, they must not make mistakes on key issues at critical moments, otherwise they will make mistakes every step of the way.And Shi Kefa and Hong Guangchao also entered into the wind and rain. (To be continued..)