Chapter 3 Think about the way out
The three hundred years after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it can be said to be the darkest period of the Chinese nation. In order to maintain the rule of the Manchus, the Qing emperors of all dynasties spared no effort to suppress the Han culture, flourished, burned various technological works, and imprisoned the use of firearms... and caused the Chinese civilization to retreat for hundreds of years. However, almost all such emperors were named as diligent work. Such diligence was a misfortune of Chinese civilization, so that by the 21st century, Chinese civilization still lag behind Western civilization.
Wang Fu was also an angry young man when he was in school. When he read this history, he often sighed and wished he could have been born three hundred years earlier to save the fortune of the entire nation. However, if he wanted to face the butcher knife of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Fu really had no courage. This is also a common problem among modern people. He always said more and did less.
"What should I do?" Wang Fu had various thoughts in his mind. As far as he knew, the Hongguang Dynasty was very short, only more than a year later, and Emperor Hongguang also fell into the hands of the Qing Dynasty. In the end, it was not known whether it was Lingchi or directly slashing. If it was Lingchi, it would be fine. If it was Lingchi, Wang Fu shivered.
"Oh my God, I am Wang Fu, not King Fu. Please let me wear it back." Wang Fu sighed in his heart, and his face was filled with sadness.
"Emperor, Emperor." Tian Cheng saw that the emperor's expression was wrong and thought to himself that the emperor still hated Qian Qianyi. Qian Qianyi was the leader of the Donglin Party. In March this year, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Coal Mountain. After the news came out in April, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty from all over the country were undoubtedly bolt from the blue. Nanjing, as the capital at that time, suddenly became important and replaced Beijing as the center of the remnant Ming Dynasty.
The country cannot be without a king for a day, but who will be appointed as the king? There was a lot of dispute at the beginning. As the parent-child of Wanli, Fu King is closest to Nanjing and the oldest. He should naturally succeed the throne in terms of bloodline and all aspects. However, the Donglin Party was afraid that King Fu would be the emperor and empress, which would start a dispute over the establishment of the elder King Fu, which would be detrimental to the Donglin Party. He introduced that King Lu and King Fu competed for the throne. Shi Kefa, Qian Qianyi and others even listed the reasons why King Fu was not established, and scolded the King Fu, who had not yet ascended the throne.
Later, the Donglin Party members eventually failed. Qian Qianyi, the big boss of the Donglin Party, immediately relied on King Fu and successfully won the position of Minister of Rites. However, it is unlikely that the emperor would have no grudges in his heart.
Tian Cheng's call pulled Wang Fu back from his wrongedness and asked a little confusedly: "What's the matter?"
"Emperor, Mr. Qian Ge is asking for a meeting." Tian Cheng replied again, feeling strange in his heart. Today, the emperor was obviously feeling lost. Could it be that he was dissatisfied with the mother and daughter last night, but it was not right. He just rewarded them and looked at the emperor's forehead again. It was broken. It was not that the emperor's head had been smashed.
"If you don't see me, I won't see anyone." Although Wang Fu did not hold a grudge against Qian Qianyi in supporting matters as Tian Cheng guessed, he just had no good feelings for people like Qian Qianyi, so he didn't have the heart to see him at this time.
"Yes, I obey the order."
"Eunuch Tian, how about it? The emperor wants to summon me?" Seeing Tian Cheng coming out, Qian Qianyi quickly greeted him with a happy expression.
Tian Cheng shook his head and said, "Mr. Qian, I'm very sorry. The emperor will not see anyone today."
When Qian Qianyi heard that the emperor did not see him, he looked disappointed. He knew that he had been in the wrong team before in supporting him, so he doubled his remedies these days. As a cabinet minister, he had no idea of his own, and he always followed the emperor's intentions in everything. He often went to the palace to greet his worries, hoping to repair his relationship with the emperor. If Hongguang was a diligent emperor, Qian Qianyi's artificiality might have achieved good results. However, as soon as Hongguang ascended the throne, he only cared about food, drink and fun, and entrusted all his political affairs to the chief minister Ma Shiying. Qian Qianyi was just as charming as he threw his eyes to the blind man. Hongguang hated this old man who frequently disturbed his fun even more.
"Eunuch Tian, the emperor hasn't gotten up yet?" Qian Qianyi asked tentatively.
Tian Cheng's face sank: "Old Master Qian, the emperor has already stood up, but the emperor doesn't want to see you, so our family can do nothing."
Tian Cheng is an old man from the Fu Palace. Before Luoyang was captured by Li Zicheng's army, the old King Fu Palace was too fat to climb over the wall, and ended up falling into the hands of the thieves. It is said that he was made into Fulu Soup and let the thieves share the food. He and several guards escorted the Prince of Fu escaped and suffered a lot to reach Jianghuai. Now that Fu Palace has become the emperor, these old people from the Fu Palace have also risen with the water. However, less than a month after the emperor ascended the throne, he immediately became addicted to wine and sex. In order to reward the four towns in Jiangbei, which had made contributions, the new dynasty was established.
The servants from all over the country began to suck bones and marrow at Jiangnan and sent various imperial grains, which caused dissatisfaction among the people. In addition, the Donglin Party members were unwilling to fail and fueled the fire among the people, making the emperor's reputation extremely poor. Everyone dared not say that the emperor was not the case, but just pointed the finger at the chief assistant Ma Shiying and the old people in the Fu Palace. They all said that the emperor was surrounded by treacherous villains, so Tian Cheng and others were very sensitive to things that harmed the emperor's reputation. It was almost the hour. If the emperor had not yet stood up, wouldn't it be said that the emperor was lazy?
Qian Qianyi also realized that what he asked was wrong, but as the noble minister of the cabinet, he couldn't help but apologize to Tian Cheng, so he had to say embarrassedly: "I am reckless. Eunuch Tian, please inform the emperor again, and say that I have great news to report to the emperor."
Tian Cheng felt aroused his heart: "Good news, what good news?"
The king and father died, and a million thieves might go south at any time. However, the inner emperor only cares about food, drinks and entertainment, and gives all the political affairs to the ministers. The four towns in Jiangbei rely on their achievements to become arrogant soldiers and defend their generals. They only know how to ask for property from the court and poison the place. The small court now needs good news.
Qian Qianyi hesitated for a moment. After receiving the news, he immediately entered the palace quickly. He originally wanted to take the lead and please the emperor, but he didn't expect that as a minister, he could not even see the emperor. He could only say: "I received the news that April Chuang Ni left Beijing and led the people to fight Pingxi Bo Wu Sangui on a stone. Pingxi Bo took advantage of the Qing people to defeat Zhuni, and all the elites led by Zhuni lost. Now Zhuni has left Beijing and fled north, so there is no worries in Jiangnan."
Good news, for most people in Jiangnan, Li Zicheng's defeat in the joint efforts of Wu Sangui and the Qing people was definitely great news. After the Dashun Army captured Beijing, people in the world thought that the destiny was in smooth sailing, and officials from all over the country rushed to surrender to the Dashun Dynasty. The Dashun Army was like a snowball rolling bigger and bigger. In one day, the Dashun Dynasty's strength became stronger. Facing the millions of troops of the Dashun Dynasty, this newly established small court in the Southern Ming Dynasty was like an egg laid by an iron hammer. One day the hammer fell, the shell would break the egg stream.
Now that the Dashun Army was defeated by Wu Sangui and the Qing army, it was like a big snowball hitting the rock. Not only was the original big snowball weakened, but it could no longer roll. The subjects in the world must have to wait and see for a while. The small court of Hongguang Dynasty was no longer an egg laid by a hammer, but had broken out of the shell and temporarily escaped from the dangerous place.
"Master Qian Ge, wait a moment, our family will report to the emperor immediately." Tian Cheng was also excited when he heard this. Tian Cheng had a grudge against the thief. If he hadn't escaped quickly, he and the emperor would have fallen into the hands of the thief. Maybe now there are no bones left. He believes that the emperor would be extremely happy to hear this.
Wang Fu paced back and forth in the bedroom, his face gritted his teeth for a while, and then panicked. Since he knew his current identity, Wang Fu felt like a trapped beast that fell into a trap. He felt that since God had let him come to this place, he gave him a chance to change the land of China for three hundred years, and gave him the identity of an emperor, he should take responsibility and stop this catastrophe of conquering civilization with barbarity. At the same time, he felt that this was a joke by God. With his strength in his hands, he wanted to stop the progress of history and would only accompany his life in vain.
"Escape." A thought suddenly arose in Wang Fu's mind. As a modern person, he knew that he would die and stay. That was a fool's behavior. Wang Fu's selfish thoughts still prevailed. As for where to escape, it is definitely unsafe in the mainland. At present, he can only go to Nanyang. As long as he has tens of thousands of troops in his hand, he will still be a prince when he goes to Nanyang. If Nanyang is not safe, then Australia and North America can also...
"Emperor, Your Majesty, good news, good news." Tian Cheng strode in and interrupted Wang Fu's thoughts.
After thinking about a way out, Wang Fu was no longer as panicked as he was at the beginning. When he heard Tian Cheng say there was good news, he couldn't help but ask: "What good news?"
"I was defeated, defeated." Tian Cheng said breathlessly, telling the news he had just obtained from Qian Qianyi.
"A piece of stone?" Wang Fu murmured to himself. The news was mixed for Wang Fu. What was worried was that Li Zicheng was indeed a crushing defeat as expected. What was happy was that since the news of Li Zicheng's great defeat had just arrived, he should have just as soon as he ascended the throne, and it was almost a year before the Qing army went south to capture Nanjing.
“What day is it now?”
"Go back to the emperor, it is the fourth day of the sixth lunar month of the first year of Hongguang." Seeing that the emperor was not excited as expected, Tian Cheng was stunned when he asked about the day. However, he still replied truthfully.
"The fourth day of the sixth month." Wang Fu was excited when he heard this. Perhaps things were not as bad as he expected. As long as he experienced the governance of the Southern Ming Dynasty, perhaps there would be a turning point in the Southern Ming Dynasty, at least it would not be destroyed by the Qing Dynasty in just one year.
"I understand, you go down. By the way, I want to approve the memorandum. Take all the memorandums."
Chapter completed!