Zhang Kai's evaluation of Shi Kefa is so much beyond my expectations, "Master, can you tell me in detail!" Thinking that the gap between Shi Kefa I knew and Shi Kefa that Zhang Kai said was so big, this aroused my curiosity.

Zhang Kai sighed, "Because the three sons of the late emperor were captured by Li Zicheng and failed to escape from Beijing, without a direct heir to the throne, the ministers, nobles, and generals who were respectful in Nanjing and the people had a conspiracy to support which vassal king.

In terms of bloodline, the sons and grandsons of the late emperor's grandfather, the emperor, Zhu Changrun, King Hui, Zhu Changying, and the sons of the brothers of Emperor Shenzong were Lu, Zhu Changchang?

According to the concept of orderly old and young, we should naturally consider the emperor, King Gui and King Hui first. The emperors of Fu, Gui and Hui are in priority, because: First, the Fufan (i.e., the old Fufan (Zhu Changxun) is the eldest; Second, the two vassals of Gui and Hui are one generation higher than the previous emperor, and it is not as suitable as the emperor citing brothers and successors; Third, the two vassals of Gui and Hui fled to Guangxi in the 16th year of Chongzhen when Zhang Xianzhong entered Hunan, which was far away from Nanjing, but the emperor was near Huai'an, and the emperor occupied a clear advantageous position in terms of renxu and geography.

However, some backbone figures in the Donglin-fushe played a bad role in the issue of inheriting the throne. In fact, knowledgeable people all advocated that the emperor would be succeeded by the throne, such as Lu Zhenfei, Liu Cheng, Li Qing, Zhang Zhengchen, and Jinshi Zheng Yuanxun, etc., also held the same attitude.

Some of the Donglin Party members in Jiangnan gentry started from narrow personal gain and strongly opposed the emperor's succession. The reason was that the emperor's grandmother was Concubine Zheng, who was favored by Shenzong. From Wanli to the Tianqi court, the sensational cases such as demonic books, attacks, and palace transfers on the issue of crown prince were all related to Concubine Zheng. Moreover, it was precisely because of the struggle of the Donglin Party that Shenzong and Concubine Zheng's plan to make King Fu the crown prince turned into vain. Therefore, they were worried that once the emperor ascended the throne and revisited the old cases, they would lose their power in politics.

Qian Qianyi, the Minister of Rites, was regarded as the leader of the Donglin Party. He rushed from his original hometown of Changshu twice to Nanjing, lobbying everywhere in the name of establishing a wise man, and proposed to welcome Lu Wang Zhu Chang. Those who supported Qian Qianyi were Lu Daqi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Gao Hongtu, the Minister of the Right Censor Zhang Shenyan, the Secretary of the Zhanshifu Jiang Yueguang and others. The Chief Minister of the Nanjing Minister of War, who once had an important position, was a figure who was inclined to the Donglin Party.

He was concerned about supporting the emperor, but he also believed that the descendants of Shenzong should be welcomed according to the order of ethics. As a real power figure, Shi Kefa was in a dilemma. He was a favorite student of Zuo Guangdou, a Donglin Party member. Naturally, he had doubts about supporting the emperor's successor, but he was worried that the sacrifice of his relatives would cause greater tribute. After repeated consideration, he secretly decided to go to Pukou to discuss with the governor of Fengyang Ma Shiying to select one of the King of Gui and the Emperor.

Shi, the result of Ma and Mi Shang was to be close to each other, but Gui could only be. The next day, Shi Kefa personally wrote a letter to senior officials in Nanjing to explain the policy: What is the one who welcomes Gui? For blessings and Hui had a legacy, he was to leave and establish Gui. Lu Fan imitated the ancient military marshal system and temporarily controlled the troops. The officials and gentry in Nanjing were quite satisfied with this compromise plan, so the Nanjing Ministry of Rites prepared to take the chariot and Dharma objects to welcome the King of Gui.

At this critical moment, Ma Shiying returned to Fengyang from Pukou and suddenly received a report from General Gao Jie, Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo decided to support the emperor. General Gao Jie and Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo cooperated to support him. Liu Zeqing was always cunning and first joined Lu Yi, but his troops could not match the three generals, so he had to follow the opinions of Gao Jie and others. Gao Jie, Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo actively participated in supporting the emperor in order to win the merits of decision-making and enhance his political status.

The reason why Shi Kefa went to Pukou to discuss with Ma Shiying was because Ma Shiying, as the governor of Fengyang, directly controlled Gao, Huang, Liu and other generals to gain support from the army. Unexpectedly, the business accident happened. Ma Shiying saw that all his generals were surrendering to the emperor. If he followed the agreement reached with Shi Kefa, he would be eliminated and eliminated. The power of his power made him unable to care about his loyalty and seized the opportunity to express his loyalty to the emperor.

Shi Kefa was still in the dark and continued to write a letter to Ma Shiyingshen saying that the emperor was greedy, lust, drunk, unfilial, abused, and did not study, and interfered with Si Qi. Since Ma Shiying had changed his original intention and joined the ranks of supporting the emperor, Shi Kefa's letter was equivalent to directly criticizing the emperor who was about to ascend the throne and handing over the hilt of power to Ma Shiying.

Ma Shiying immediately wrote a letter to the Nanjing garrison eunuch Han Zanzhou in the name of the Governor of Fengyang and the Three Towns. When the ministers in Nanjing were invited by Han Zanzhou to circulate Ma Shiying's letters, although many people were shocked, they had no military power. The plan of Li Gui and Li Lu was still alive and lost their support, so they had to agree against their will. Qian Qianyi, the main plan of supporting Lu King Zhu Chang?, was quite typical. The attitude of the Donglin Party Leader was like this, and other people who had originally followed Lu could also be imagined.

At the end of April, the emperor's succession was a foregone conclusion. Due to the great influence of supporting the Dingzheng Dynasty, the Donglin Party members in the Yangtze River were in the court and had great power in the opposition. The backbone members among them advocated abandoning their direct descendants of Shenzong and supporting the Sun Lu Wang Zhu Chang of the Emperor in the name of establishing wise men. Their real intention was to exclude the emperor to ensure the political manipulation of the Donglin-Fushe Party members during the Chongzhen period. Especially if the Lu King was welcomed by a far-reaching Zong branch, Qian Qianyi and others would definitely make a fortune if they had the decisive contribution. Shi Kefa, who was once at the center of power, was indecisive and conceived a compromise plan to support the King of Gui, thinking that the two vassals of Gui and Fu were both the direct branches of Shenzong, and using Gui to resist Fu Fu could satisfy the Donglin Party members' wish to oppose the Fu Fu. He also took this plan to personally go to Pukou to discuss with Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang who had actual military power, and thought that the matter was perfect.

As a result, the situation changed suddenly. No matter whether he advocated supporting the Shenzong lineage, in the eyes of the emperor, he was always an important figure who opposed his yellow robe. As for the situation at that time, the candidates for the throne, Gui and Hui Er, were far away from Nanjing, and the Fu and Lu were close to Huai'an. Since Shi Kefa advocated the establishment in accordance with the order of ethics, he should make a quick decision and bring the emperor in trouble to Nanjing to continue the throne. In this way, the emperor will definitely look at him with admiration, and Ma Shiying has no opportunity to take advantage of it.

Shi Kefa knew that as long as the emperor was in a down-and-out position, he would be satisfied with the wealth and honor of the world. Under such a mediocre leader who was completely opposite to the former emperor of Chacha, the great affairs of the court would inevitably fall into Shi Kefa's hands and things could be done very well.

But Shi Kefa had some idea, and his fatal weakness was that he lacked talent and strategy. He always wanted to deal with it everywhere and was in line with everything, and finally he ended up going against his wishes.

In terms of adapting to the situation, Shi Kefa was obviously not a match for Ma Shiying. When Shi Kefa was embraced by Lu in Nanjing and the supporters of all factions was in a dilemma, he specially invited Ma Shiying to discuss disputes in Pukou and talked about his own compromises in all aspects. Ma Shiying believed that this was an important opportunity for him to participate in the decision. After reaching an agreement with Shi Kefa, he invited officials from various yamen in Nanjing to Pukou to announce this decision in person, so as to show that he was the second person to participate in the decision to welcome the King of Gui. Unexpectedly, the Six Ministers of Nanjing and other ministers believed that the Governor of Fengyang was just a senior local bureaucrat and had no right to convene a meeting of the imperial ministers.

Ma Shiying returned to Fengyang and learned that Gao Jie and Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo had decided to support the emperor. He was shocked at first. However, after all, he had been in the ups and downs of officialdom and was sophisticated that it was impossible to stop the emperor from becoming an emperor. With generals as the backing of troops, the shortcomings were that there was a lack of a minister. Ma Shiying immediately turned to join Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and others in front of the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum and became the first civil minister to decide the strategy.

In order to obtain the position of chief senior secretary in the Southern Ming court, he seized Shi Kefa's letters that the emperor could not be established in order to support King Gui as a handle, and he also raised the voices of Donglin Party members in Nanjing and other places supporting Lu, leading troops to escort the emperor straight to Pukou. This move was really powerful. Shi Kefa, the highest civil servant in Nanjing, knew that he had been deceived, and the letters attacking the emperor fell in Ma Shiying's hands, with black and white words, and could not speak. He had no other choice except to silently follow the emperor from Pukou to Nanjing on a boat to Nanjing as a supervisor.

Qian Qianyi and Lu Daqi were certainly the mastermind of supporting Lu Wang, but Shi Kefa, who once had the power to make decisions, was wandering on such major issues and did not decisively decide to support the emperor, causing the emperor to seek help from the general. From then on, he should bear the main responsibility for the power being dismissed from Ma Shiying."

I listened to Zhang Kai's story in a daze, but I didn't expect that Shi Kefa was such a person, and there were several ministers who thought they could discuss major issues. It turned out that they were not optimistic about Zhu Yousong's former person!

Zhang Kai paused, "Emperor, Ma Shiying is now in power. The emperor only has the best strategy to obtain military power by secretly decree Zuo Liangyu and other generals. As for the Donglin Fushe Party members, it is a great threat to the imperial power. You should be more careful when using it, like Qian Qianyi and others, it is better not to use it."

I know the explicit statement of power in the gun, but can I really gain military power? "Master, can the generals of the three routes listen to me?"

"The emperor doesn't know that although the generals of the three routes have some celebrations, this is more conducive to the emperor's balance. Zuo Liangyu now has tens of thousands of troops stationed in Wuchang, with countless warships, and strong troops among all the generals. In addition to some contact with the Donglin Party members, he is still relatively loyal to the court. Gao Jie is a dull person, but he has no doubt about his loyalty to the emperor; Huang Degong is the same, and he is good at fighting. These three old slaves have been observing for a long time. As long as the emperor can entrust with important tasks, these three will obey the emperor's orders." Zhang Kai said very confidently.

I took a deep breath and said, "Just do what the general manager said, and the general manager will write the edict!" I can't let me write traditional Chinese characters! Actually, I still have an idea in my heart. It's right to have a gun out of power, but the gun must be held in my own hands! The first step in front of me is Zuo Liangyu and the other three. After I can master a certain level of strength, I must do the matter with the gun.

It was not long before Zhang Kai wrote the edict, and I took the jade seal and put it on a large seal. Zhang Kai hid three edicts in my body, "Your Majesty, I will have to come back for a month. I have another word to say to the emperor."

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