Chapter 128: Two Small Imperial Courts
Originally, after Xiao Tianjian captured Beijing City and forced Chongzhen to death, and after capturing Chongzhen's three princes, he made a comedy about the crown prince Zhu Cihong's Zen throne, announcing the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and issued an edict ordering the provinces in the south that had not yet been subjugated to immediately give up being enemies of the Dazhong Dynasty and accept the rule of the Dazhong Dynasty.
Xiao Tianjian took stock of Zhu Cihong's Zen throne, after history came to this point, he has been equal to controlling most of China, and through these years of non-stop conquest, he first took Nanzhili, conquered Nanjing City, and then waved his army to the north and launched the final blow to the Ming Dynasty.
And pinching his fingers, he first caught King Fu in Luoyang, and at the same time also caught Zhu Youxiang, the little Fu King who had been supported by the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing, so in this new history, Zhu Youxiang, the Hongguang Emperor, must not appear again.
In addition, when he went south to attack Nanzhili, when he was defeating Fengyang Mansion, he accidentally found Zhu Yujian, the Tang King who was demoted to a commoner by Chongzhen and imprisoned in the city of Fengyang Mansion, in Fengyang Mansion.
Speaking of this Tang King Zhu Yujian, it is really a bit of a story, when Chongzhen was in the ninth year, because the peasant army was flourishing all over the country, and the imperial court was against the government everywhere, and Jiannu Chongzhen entered the customs in the ninth year, threatening the safety of the Beijing Division, Chongzhen ordered the soldiers and horses of the world to enter the guard, this Tang King actually wanted to borrow troops from the imperial court and lead the troops to beg for thieves, but Chongzhen was worried that the vassal king would support the army and be self-respecting, and the decree was not allowed, but this Tang King Zhu Yujian actually took out the money himself, recruited thousands of soldiers and horses in Nanyang, and went all the way to the Beijing Division.
As a result, the Tang King was defeated by the mutant army on the way, and he didn't even get to the Jingshi, so he was demoted to a commoner by Chongzhen's decree and escorted to Fengyang Mansion and imprisoned.
You must know that the Ming Dynasty since the Yan King Zhu Di had more nephew Zhu Yunwen in the world, the vassal kings in various places were strictly controlled, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty never allowed the vassal kings to have military power, for fear that the vassal kings would become a scourge for their own military self-respect, so although the vassal kings were all rich, they were confined in one city after another, and were guarded by the local government, with a lofty status but no real power.
Tang King Zhu Yujian this time according to the purchase of soldiers and horses to enter the guard, although the original intention is very good, is to help Chongzhen, but it violated the law of the Ming Dynasty, in order to avoid such a situation, Chongzhen in order to set an example, immediately issued an order to demote Zhu Yujian to the common people, escorted to Fengyang Mansion imprisoned.
Unexpectedly, when Xiao Tianjian captured Fengyang Mansion, he unexpectedly captured this Tang King Zhu Yujian in the prison of the Zongren Mansion in Fengyang Mansion.
You must know that Zhu Yujian is also the Longwu Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty in history, Xiao Tianjian didn't know the whereabouts of this Longwu Emperor, but he didn't expect to step on the iron shoes and find nowhere to find them, so he took the sheep and sent the possible Longwu Emperor in the future to Yangcheng, Shanxi Province to be imprisoned.
In addition, Xiao Tianjian counted with his fingers, except for Li Zicheng who is entrenched in Shaanxi, but he can't become a big weapon, Zhang Xianzhong, who used to be very happy in history, is now honestly holding it in the palm of his hand, and Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, who once insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty in the Yunnan-Guizhou area in history, are now serving in his Dazhong Army, so in addition to Zheng Zhilong, there are basically not many forces in the Ming Dynasty in the south that can compete with his Dazhong Dynasty.
He has been very curious during this time, after he destroyed the Ming Dynasty, there will be a Southern Ming regime, although he dealt with various things in the north, but he has been paying attention to the development of the situation in the south, and ordered Li Jinde and Fu Deming and others who stayed in Nanjing to constantly send eloquent envoys to the southern provinces to persuade those Ming officials in the southern provinces to surrender to the Great Middle Kingdom.
Judging from the news that came back from the preliminary feedback some time ago, since the south learned the news that Emperor Chongzhen had hanged himself, he was already completely messed up, and later heard that the crown prince Zhu Cihong and the two princes had fallen into the hands of the Dazhong Army, and Zhu Cihong was still under Xiao Tianjian's "coercion", as the prince of the Ming Dynasty, announced the end of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, and gave Xiao Tianjian the throne, let Xiao Tianjian rule the world! What's even more infuriating is that the three princes and the two princesses still recognized the thief as their father and became Xiao Tianjian's righteous son and daughter.
As a result, the officials of the Ming Dynasty in the southern provinces suddenly mourned, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty in many places agreed to the request of the envoys of the Dazhong Dynasty who went to persuade them to surrender, announced that they would accept the rule of the Dazhong Dynasty, and surrendered to the Dazhong Dynasty.
In a short period of time, the entire territory of Jiangxi basically surrendered to the Great Middle and Korean Dynasty in more than a month, and the various departments sitting in Nanjing also sent receiving officers to various parts of Jiangxi to accept the surrender at the fastest speed, and Shi Ran, who stayed in the south of the town, also immediately sent troops to the south to take over the defense of Jiangxi, and accepted the surrender of the local Ming army, and reorganized these Ming troops.
In the middle of August, all parts of southern Zhejiang also announced the surrender of the Great Middle Army, and was quickly taken over by the Nanjing Ministries and the Great Chinese Army, and then the governor of Guizhou, who was close to Sichuan and Huguang, also announced the surrender of the Great Middle Korea, according to the prior division, Luo Rucai immediately led his troops into Guizhou and accepted the surrender of Guizhou, and the Nanjing Ministries also immediately sent receiving officers to Guizhou.
Xiao Tianjian originally thought that if this continued, he should soon be able to solve the problem of the southern provinces, and the situation could be said to be very good, just waiting for the four provinces of Guangzhou, Yunnan, and Fujian to also announce their surrender, and after Li Zicheng was solved in the next step, he would be able to dominate the world and free up his energy to restore the domestic economy while raising troops and horses to go north, and make every effort to solve the big trouble of building slaves.
But what Xiao Tianjian didn't expect was that at this time, there was still trouble in the south, so that Xiao Tianjian couldn't care about the decisive battle with Li Zicheng in Shaanxi, and ordered Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao to be fully responsible for the elimination of Li Zicheng's Dashun army, and temporarily handed over the affairs in the north to Lu Xiangsheng and Luo Li and others, and immediately began to go south and rushed to Nanjing.
The reason why Xiao Tianjian suddenly put down the matter of purging Li Zicheng and went south quickly was actually very simple, that is, in August, the southern provinces learned that the Beijing division was conquered by the Dazhong army, and the Ming Chongzhen Emperor had been martyred, and the crown prince Zhu Cihong announced that the Zen position was given to Xiao Tianjian, declaring that he would never seek to ascend to the world from now on, and also announced the end of the Ming Dynasty.
When the officials and troops of the southern provinces heard this, they immediately became in chaos, and Jiangxi, Guizhou, Zhejiang, and other provinces, which were close to the areas controlled by the Dazhong Army, immediately gave up continuing to be enemies of the Dazhong and North Koreas, and announced their surrender to the Dazhong and North Koreas in Nanjing.
Originally, Xiao Tianjian thought that the affairs in the south should be relatively easy to solve, and the historical Southern Ming court would probably not appear again, but what Xiao Tianjian did not expect was that in the end, things did not develop as he expected.
Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan provinces did not give up resistance as easily as he imagined and submitted to the rule of the Dazhong Dynasty, on the contrary, after the initial panic, the south still got the Southern Ming Dynasty under the recommendation of the old officials of the Ming Dynasty, and inherited the mantle of the Ming Dynasty with the heirs of the Zhu royal family, and announced that they would continue to confront the Dazhong Dynasty.
However, what Xiao Tianjian didn't expect was that what was very different from history was that there were two emperors in the south at the same time this time.
With a letter from Fu Deming and Li Jinde, who were temporarily presiding over government affairs in Nanjing, Xiao Tianjian learned in Beijing that first Zhai Shiqi, the governor of Guangxi, Ding Kuichu, a university scholar, and Zhu Zhijian, the governor of Liangguang, supported Zhu Youlang, the grandson of Mingshenzong, as emperor in Zhaoqing Mansion, Guangdong, changed the Yongli Dynasty, and declared that he would inherit the Ming Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
What is ridiculous is that at the same time that Zhu Youlang was proclaimed emperor in Zhaoqing Mansion, Zhang Kentang, the governor of Fujian, and Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, helped Zhu Yulu, the younger brother of Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, out of Zhangzhou Mansion in Zhangzhou Mansion, and changed his name to Shaowu.
This time, the south will be lively! In the small southern provinces, there were two emperors at the same time, whether it was Zhu Youlang, who claimed to be the Emperor of Yongli, or Zhu Yulu, who claimed to be the Emperor of Shaowu, both claimed that they could inherit the unification and were the legitimate Ming Emperors, and both parties did not recognize each other's legitimacy because of their own interests.
So the two newly enthroned new emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty, after ascending the throne, each formed a team, set up a full set of officials, and established their small courts.
After the establishment of these two small imperial courts, they did not immediately gather troops to the north to launch an attack on the Dazhong control area, or prepare for defense, on the contrary, in order to compete for this position, the two sides mobilized their troops and horses with each other and began to attack each other.
This time the Dazhong Dynasty was confused, whether it was Fu Deming or Li Jinde, or Niu Jinxing and other important ministers of the Dazhong Dynasty, they all looked at each other for this, and they couldn't cry or laugh about it.
So the ministers headed by Fu Deming hurriedly wrote this incident into a concert, and sent someone to send it to Beijing for 800 miles in an urgent manner, and Xiao Tianjian learned the news in Beijing.
This matter is not a trivial matter, Xiao Tianjian is most worried about not Li Zicheng's problem, speaking of which Li Zicheng is very happy in Shaanxi, claiming to have 400,000 soldiers, but Xiao Tianjian has learned from Tian Jianxiu what Li Zicheng's 400,000 Dashun army is, so the first town army and the second town army cooperated to enter Shaanxi to attack Li Zicheng's Dashun army, with its current strength and quality, it is not a problem to kill the Dashun army.
But Xiao Tianjian is most worried about the problems of the southern provinces, you must know that after the Qing soldiers entered the customs in history, the Southern Ming Dynasty persisted in the south for a long time, especially in Yunnan, Guangxi, Fujian There are many mountains and forests, and there are quite a lot of ethnic minorities, it is not easy to exterminate them.
Especially the Zheng group, although their land combat effectiveness is not strong, but they control the sea route of the sea, and the sailors under their command are quite powerful, once Fujian is not guaranteed, they can also retreat to Taiwan, in history, the Qing Dynasty recovered Taiwan, it was already a matter of 23 years of Kangxi, and it was more than 40 years later!
More than 40 years! Xiao Tianjian himself is not confident that he can live to that time, these more than 40 years for China, how precious more than 40 years, and after more than 40 years, the world has long been divided up by Western countries, China will enter the sea at that time, and the cucumber vegetables will be cold!
(These days, in order to prepare a new book, I have insomnia and headaches, and sometimes I want to simply write fantasy, writing history is too tiring!) Thankless and thankless if you are careless, but if you think about it, you are reluctant to read! Today, I would like to thank Feng Mu Chunjiang's old friends for their rewards, which made a good start for this month! Thank you! )