Under the eaves corridor, the soldiers with guns walked back and forth, vigilantly guarding the brain center of the north of the river, and the moonlight was silently sprinkled between the pavilions and corridors of the government office, and the moonlight only showed a little bit of late autumn coolness.

The orange light reflected from the paper window into the corridor, showing that the candles lit in the room were very bright, although he was used to the dim lights of this era, but every night Zhu Mingzhong would always order someone to light more candles to make the room brighter.

Occasionally, Zhu Mingzhong will cast his eyes on the candlestick, looking at the finger-thick white wax, Jianghuai has always been one of the main producers of ash insects, so the price of insect white ash and candles made of it is quite cheap, each hundred catties of insect white ash is worth less than one or two silver, and for Zhu Mingzhong, he naturally will not risk sacrificing his eyesight in order to save a few pennies, and a few less waxes.

“…… After the strategy, the lower officials thought that in terms of the current situation, the strategy would welcome the imperial court back to Nanjing. For me, it's not necessarily a good thing! ”

Qian Lei's words finally took Zhu Mingzhong's eyes back from the flickering candlelight on the candlestick, he looked at Qian Lei and did not speak immediately.

Since the plan of "welcoming back the holy car" was decided, the whole Jiangbei began to implement this plan in an orderly manner, and the timber stores of Qingjiang are making every effort to collect oak trees and elm trees along the Huanghuai River to build warships with them, after all, the timber from North Korea does not know when it will arrive. But the urgent need for shipbuilding simply could not wait, and now the Qinghe shipyard has begun to build warships out of elm.

Even the navy has begun to learn Western-style mast operation, of course, the drill ship is equipped with Western-style sail lines on the Chinese hull, and only after the warship is built, it will go to sea for training. All these efforts have been made for one point - "welcoming back the holy car".

The reason why Zhu Mingzhong agreed to this plan was because "welcoming back the holy car" was beneficial to Jiangbei.

"Oh, why is that?"

Looking at Qian Lei, Zhu Mingzhong asked rhetorically.

"After a slight envoy, with the emperor's constraints, it is naturally impossible for the Zheng family to have the same as in the past, like a small court to dictate Jiangnan, but correspondingly, at that time, there is a very likely conflict between the imperial court and the Yanping Palace, once the conflict is formed, if the Zheng family supports the new monarch, won't it make me fall into the internal trouble of the Tanglu dispute again?"

Qian Lei's words made Zhu Mingzhong's brows suddenly lock, and he immediately thought of the lesson of the demise of the Southern Ming Dynasty, in fact, the so-called small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty in history perished precisely because of the continuous infighting. Even after experiencing the lesson of the fall of Jiangnan caused by Hongguang's internal strife, and then blindly uniting to make the revival of the Ming Dynasty a good situation, the internal strife of the Southern Ming court began again.

Even the Yongli regime was also prosperous in unity and defeated in internal strife. In the time of the collapse of the country and the inability to unite, is it not inevitable to perish?

If Yongli and the imperial court returned to Nanjing, with Zheng Chenggong's temper, how could he possibly endure the suppression of the imperial court? At that time, if someone suggests that he should set up a new king, then infighting is inevitable......

"Bingqi, in fact, I don't worry about this matter, it's just ......"

After a moment of silence, Zhu Mingzhong sighed,

"If you don't welcome back the holy car, how can you logically leave Zheng Zili?"

Compared with "welcoming back the holy car", Zhu Mingzhong's real intention is to "leave Zheng Zili", as for Yongli...... To a certain extent, he prefers to regard it as a banner against the Qing Dynasty, and the king of the Ming Dynasty does not necessarily have to be him.

People always have selfish intentions, maybe Zhu Mingzhong never thought of being the emperor himself, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't consider his own interests, after all, Yongli is not the only one, and it is not necessarily the best choice.

"Of course, the holy car must be welcomed, after all, if you don't welcome back the holy car, how can Jinglu stand on its own with the merit of welcoming the driver?"

As Zhu Mingzhong's confidant, unlike others, Qian Lei, who was demoted, is not as loyal to the Ming Dynasty as others, from the very beginning, he positioned himself as a "lord and vassal", not a "Ming official", and because of this, Qian Lei has always considered the "interests of the lord", and even now, the reason why he put forward this suggestion is also based on the "interests of the lord", as for "avoiding internal strife" is just a pretext.

"Bingqi, but you said before that it is not a good thing to welcome back to Nanjing, but you must welcome it, is it difficult to welcome it to Qinghe?"

Welcome to Qinghe?

For no reason, Zhu Mingzhong's mind came up with a sentence to "coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes", if the court is in Qinghe, then wouldn't he have a chance to be Cao Cao?

It seems that this is also a good choice!

"If you welcome the Son of Heaven to Qinghe, I am afraid that the conflict with Nanjing will be inevitable! After all, Nanjing will never tolerate Jinglu's mastery of the imperial court, and when the time comes, if Prince Zheng asks the saint to drive back to Nanjing, how should Jinglu deal with himself? ”

Qian Lei's analysis made Zhu Mingzhong nod slightly.

"Indeed, compared to Qinghe, Nanjing is the capital of the country. But if we can't welcome him back to Nanjing, how can Zheng Chenggong welcome him back to Nanjing? ”

mentioned the contradiction in Qian Lei's words, Zhu Mingzhong did not let him explain, because the answer is very clear to everyone, the Son of Heaven can be "respected", and naturally he can also be "coerced".

Perhaps Zheng Chenggong was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but his subordinates were not necessarily so, in history, after Zheng Chenggong's death, the news of Yongli for Wu Sangui's strangulation reached Xiamen, Zhang Huangyan wrote to Zhu Yihai, asking Zhu Yihai to "fight for Minhai Xun Town, speed up the tuba, in order to seek orthodoxy", but because Zheng Jing did not support and did not succeed. After Zheng Chenggong's death, Zhu Yihai was left unworshipped for a while, and suddenly died of illness in Kinmen a few months later.

It is known whether there is a conspiracy to be paid during this period, but after Zheng Chenggong's death, except for a few Ming ministers, the civil and military generals under the Yanping Palace's ministers just let the Yanping Palace's Mansion carry the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Chenggong, whose personality is already easily influenced by his henchmen, will be how he should deal with himself when the time comes, if he "coerces" the Son of Heaven? When the time comes, will the court issue an order, from or without?

"This chaotic fate is also, Guangdong does not obey the edict!"

Hundreds of years later, Li Hongzhang dared to say this, relying on his strength and status. If the same words come from your own mouth, I am afraid that it will become a clear proof of rebellion and thieves.

"Bingqi, in your opinion, you can't welcome either Nanjing or Qinghe, so if we welcome back the Holy Driver, where will we welcome it?"