Qian Qianyi was startled and turned around and saw that it was an old acquaintance Qu Shisi. Qu Shisi once served as Qian Qianyi's student, and now he is the Chief of Yingtian Prefecture, and is about to serve as the Right Censor and Governor of Jiangxi.

"Qi Tian, ​​you scared me to death!" Qian Qianyi said.

"Teacher, the student is just joking. The teacher didn't say that he would go home to deal with some trivial matters, why did he return to Beijing now? Your Majesty has been ascending the throne for more than a month." Qu Shixi asked.

Qian Qianyi quickly grabbed Qu Shixi: "Qi Tian, ​​whisper, this is not a place to talk, let's find a place to talk."

After returning to Qian Qianyi's mansion in Nanjing, Qian Qianyi asked Qu Shixi: "Qi Tian, ​​do you think Chongzhen and Hongguang, that emperor is my orthodox Ming Dynasty?"

"Of course it was Chongzhen. Although the students strongly opposed Hongguang ascended the throne, the nobles in the court who held heavy troops supported him, and the students were powerless. But the teachers, the students heard that King Fu ascended the throne, did the teachers not object?" Qu Shixi asked.

Qian Qianyi was quite thick-skinned. When asked about the pain, he did not blush. Instead, he said arrogantly: "At the time when Ma Shiying held heavy troops, I had to leave a life to deal with the treacherous. A real man should be able to bend and stretch, and he should not sacrifice his life in vain."

"The teacher endured humiliation, which is admirable!" Qu Shixi asked again, "Teacher, the student heard that the orthodox emperor's army had crossed the river and was about to arrive in Nanjing soon?"

"That's right, this time I returned to Nanjing, I came to Beijing by an order to order all the righteous men from Nanjing to abandon the secrets and turn to the light. When the imperial army was at the city, they raised the flag of uprising, set things right, and responded to the orthodox."

Qu Shixi was overjoyed: "What the teacher said is that the students had long been waiting for the arrival of the imperial army! There were also scholars such as Chen Wozi, Fang Mizhi, Sun Jin, Sun Kexian (Fang Yizhi's brother-in-law Sun Lin). They also secretly recruited righteous men and waited for the imperial army to arrive and open the city gate to respond to the army."

"That's great!" Qian Qianyi nodded while stroking his beard, "Without a righteous man like Chen Wozi, Fang Mizhi, why worry about the army not breaking Nanjing?"

Qu Shixi said indignantly: "Since King Fu ascended the throne and became a pseudo-emperor, he drank and had fun all day long, and lived and died in drunkenness. Although Emperor Chongzhen harmed the gentry of Jiangbei, those people in Jiangbei deserved the crime!"

After Chongzhen left Beijing, he harmed many gentry, but what happened to those northern gentry Kantong Lin Party? The main source of economic resources of the Donglin Party was industry and commerce, and the income from land rent accounted for a small number. What's more, Li Guodong developed a new comprehensive farm in Jiangnan, mainly planting mulberry trees and tea trees, providing new looms, opening textile workshops, building Songjiang New Port, and opening Jiangnan Donglin Silver House. How many benefits did all this bring to the Donglin Party?

Li Guodong's series of money-making methods have made the Donglin Party profit a lot, and they have long looked down on the income from land rent. Chongzhen only harmed the traditional land gentry, that is, the landlord class. The current Donglin Party has transformed into an emerging bourgeoisie under the transformation of Li Guodong.

Although Chen Mingxia and Chen Zhilin were also Donglin Party, these two people had long been despised by the treason and surrendered to the enemy, and it was natural for them to be confiscated. As for the salt merchants in both Huaihe River, it was a crime to be confiscated and exterminated. Although the Hui merchants and Huai merchants suffered heavy economic losses, after Chongzhen destroyed the Shani merchants, Hui merchants and Huai merchants lost a strong competitor, which was a good thing for them.

The demise of the Shanxi merchants will also be a good thing for the Donglin Party in the future. The Shanxi merchants' money house is the biggest competitor of the Donglin Silver House in Jiangnan.

Since the establishment of the Donglin Yinzhou City in Jiangnan, Jiangnan gentry, who owned the Lin Yinzhou City shareholder, can be said to have lie on the bed every day, and silver rolled in. Shanxi merchants were jealous and imitated the Donglin Yinzhou City, and joined forces to build a Shanxi Yinzhou City, becoming a favorable competitor of the Donglin Yinzhou City, and stole a lot of business from the Donglin Yinzhou City.

Now that the Shanxi merchants have collapsed, the Shanxi merchant silver cases in Yangzhou, Huai'an and Zhenjiang have been copied by Jinyiwei. Although the Shanxi merchant silver cases in Songjiang and Hangzhou have not been copied yet, everyone knows that the Shanxi merchant silver cases in Songjiang and Hangzhou can't jump for a few days. After the Shanxi merchant silver cases were destroyed, the Jiangnan Donglin silver cases will have no rivals since then, and become the world's dominant silver cases.

"Master, Mr. Wozi and the others are here." The door outside walked in and reported.

"Let them in."

Chen Zilong, Fang Yizhi, Sun Jin, Sun Lin, Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Mingzhen walked into Qian Qianyi's mansion. Among these six people, except Chen Zilong, the other five were tall and big, and looked powerful. Except for Zhang Mingzhen who was a simple martial artist, Fang Yizhi, Sun Jin, Sun Lin and Zhang Huangyan were both civil and military. They were scholars, but they could drive strong bows and practice good martial arts.

Hearing that the door outside closed the door, Qian Qianyi asked, "Mr. Wozi, all the righteous men, the imperial army is about to arrive in Nanjing. This time I returned to Beijing, I am preparing to welcome the imperial army into Beijing. Everyone knows that the city of Nanjing is as solid as a rock, and if it is a strong attack, it will probably be difficult to break through in a few months! Zuo Liangyu, who is upstream, is ready to move. If the royal army is deeply trapped in the city of Nanjing, once Zuo Liangyu leads his army south, the emperor and the royal army will be in danger."

Chen Zilong said: "Mr. Muzhai, the students and Fang Mizhi, Zhang Cangshui and other famous scholars have gathered 182 righteous men. As soon as the imperial army arrives, they will immediately open the city to welcome the army."

"Wu Zi, Wu Wei Bo, I have a silence. Now I am Duke of Chu. Hey, I am old and I am confused. Duke of Chu asks me to tell you that when the imperial army arrives, you will hide in the city first. When the imperial army reaches the night, the imperial army will issue a secret code. At that time, open the treasure gate and lead the army into the capital." Qian Qianyi said.

"Okay, the students follow the arrangements of Muzhai Gong."

In the cabinet room located in the imperial city, the chief assistant Ma Shiying was convening a confidant to discuss matters. Those attending the meeting were Grand Secretary Wang Duo, Minister of War Ruan Dacheng, Duke Xin Guo Zhao Zhilong, Duke Huguo Liu Kongzhao, eunuch Lu Jiude, and eunuch Han Zanzhou, who were all iron-core supporters of King Fu ascending the throne, and grasshoppers on a rope.

"Where is Your Majesty?" asked Ma Shiying.

Lu Jiude sighed helplessly: "Your Majesty drank too much yesterday and is still sleeping."

"When is it that I still have drunkenness and dreams all day long?" Ma Shiying lamented.

Zhao Zhilong said: "Ma Xiangye, the four towns in Jiangbei have collapsed, Liu Zeqing was killed, Liu Liangzuo was defeated, Gao Jie escaped in the battle, Huang Degong rebelled. Zhao was also defeated in the Yangtze River, and the foolish lord crossed the river south and arrived in Zhenjiang. The bandit army will arrive in Nanjing soon."

"What are you afraid of!" Liu Kongzhao, the Duke of the National Guard, said, "Our army can recruit the people of Nanjing to be strong for the people, and can obtain hundreds of thousands of troops!! Although the bandit army has 100,000, most of them are naval troops, and only 50,000 mainland troops. After deducting the auxiliary soldiers, how many soldiers can fight? I'm afraid it won't exceed 30,000!"

"The four towns in Jiangbei, the 300,000 troops collapsed." Zhao Zhilong wiped his sweat with his sleeves.

"I can only blame the four towns in Jiangbei for being too incompetent!" Liu Kongzhao sneered. He was a descendant of Liu Bowen and was respected by Ma Shiying as a figure of Zhuge Liang. "Although the bandit army wins, the troops are too few! My Nanjing city is sufficient food and grass, and there are many people in the city, and there are also a strong city. What can the bandit army use to destroy Nanjing? As long as we drag it for a month, the general of the purge to go east along the river, the Qing Kingdom in the north will lead a large army south! At that time, can the foolish lords resist the joint attack between the Ming and Qing dynasties?"

Ma Shiying laughed: "The Duke of Protecting the Country is really my dynasty, Zhuge Kongming!"

"As long as you work together, you will be able to defend Nanjing and wait for the pacified general and the Qing army to move south, the bandit army will inevitably be defeated." Ruan Dacheng said.
Chapter completed!