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When Qin Mu was worshipping Emperor Chongzhen in Changsha, in Huai'an, Jiangsu, three unlucky children who fled south to Huai'an in panic could finally take a breath, and an official named Du Guangshao in Huai'an City vacated a garden for them to live temporarily.

One of these three unlucky guys is called Zhu Changshu, one is called Zhu Yousong, and the other is called Zhu Ciyao. At this moment, the three unlucky people didn't know the news that Jingshi was broken and Chongzhen hanged himself.

Huai'an is quite safe now, because there are two very good officials here, and they are still loyal to the Ming Dynasty, one is Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Caoyun and the governor of Huaiyang, and the other is Wang Xie, the governor of Huai'an.

Especially Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Caoyun, he did not insult his rather imposing name.

Cao Yun Governor Lu Zhenfei is known for his integrity and bravery, and he also led the local army to defend against rebels, when Chongzhen patrolled Fujian in six years, the pirate Liu Xiang colluded with Hongyi to invade Fujian, he had sent guerrillas Zheng Zhilong, Huang Binqing and other big break Liu Xiang, with these experiences, Lu Zhenfei is also very experienced in military affairs.

Beginning in February this year, Li Zicheng broke through Shanxi, and the soldiers pointed to Henan, and Lu Zhenfei felt that the situation was urgent, so he began to actively organize regiments in Huai'an to train the township soldiers, and organized tens of thousands of township soldiers in two months. He also sent his officials to divide the river to defend the river and defend the Dashun army from moving south.

Under Lu Zhenfei's vigorous management, Huai'an has become the safest place in the Lianghuai area, and has become the preferred refuge for bureaucrats and aristocrats who have fled from the north.

Zhu Changshu, Zhu Yousong, and Zhu Ciyao, the three uncles and nephews who fell into distress, were also warmly received by Governor Lu, and they were placed together in a separate courtyard of the official Du Guangshao's house.

Zhu Cijiao was the son of Zhu Youjiao, the king of Chong, who was captured and killed when the Dashun army broke through Runing in November of the 15th year of Chongzhen. Zhu Cihui also has a big brother named Zhu Cihui, who was also killed by Li Zicheng in Miyang.

In this way, King Chong's hat should fall on Zhu Zi's head, but the world has been too chaotic in the past two years, he has been fleeing for his life, and Chongzhen himself is also difficult to protect, when will there be time to canonize him.

Here is the focus on Zhu Changshu and Zhu Yousong's uncle and nephew. Including the three generations of their ancestors, it is necessary to sort it out, because this is related to the next battle for the throne in Nanjing, and the reasons for the battle for the throne are closely related to their grandparents.

Zhu Yousong is the current King of Fu, and his grandfather is Zhu Yijun, the Emperor of Wanli.

Emperor Wanli is a person who can often bring surprises to people, his mother and Zhang Juzheng married the queen for him, and selected nine concubines "to serve the emperor", but he found a unique way to explore the romance:

One day, Emperor Wanli went to visit his mother in Cining Palace, and by chance met a palace maid surnamed Wang. It is said that the palace maid's little hands are very lubricated, and the Wanli Emperor accelerated the hormone secretion when he touched it, so he pushed it down on the spot

Although this palace maid is also surnamed Wang, she is just the opposite of Queen Wang, who has poor fertility, and she is pregnant with one shot.

However, Emperor Wanli later regretted this stealing incident and wanted to cover it up, but in the end, the matter did not hide from the Empress Dowager Cisheng, who was bent on holding her grandson. At the urging of the Queen Mother, in June of the tenth year of Wanli. This palace maid, who was pregnant with the flesh and blood of the Wanli Emperor, was canonized as Concubine Gong.

Two months after the canonization, Concubine Gong Wang really gave birth to a baby boy, which was the eldest son of Emperor Wanli - Zhu Changluo.

Emperor Wanli's attitude towards Concubine Gong did not change because of the birth of the emperor's eldest son, on the contrary, he hated this emperor's eldest son very much. Because Zhu Changluo is the most powerful "human witness" of the stain on his life.

Later, Emperor Wanli fell in love with a woman surnamed Zheng (one of the nine concubines chosen by Zhang Juzheng and the Empress Dowager), she was the later Zheng Guifei, Zheng Guifei did not disappoint Emperor Wanli and gave birth to a daughter first. It is for Princess Jingle to regenerate the third son of the emperor, Zhu Changxun.

is the so-called love house and Wu, because Wanli is deeply infatuated with Concubine Zheng. For this son, I also love it to the bones.

Later, the ministers planned to appoint the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo, as the prince.

Wanli intends to set up a third son, Zhu Changxun.

As a result, the case of "fighting for the country's roots" was triggered. As a result, the emperor and his ministers were in a stalemate for fifteen years. Zuihou's fight for the country was pushed to a climax by the famous "Attack Case",

In the attack case, the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo, was attacked in the palace, but was unharmed. This is very likely to be a bitter trick, but it succeeded in forcing the Wanli Emperor to make concessions, and in the end the blessed king Zhu Changxun could only take countless treasures and his son Zhu Yousong to Luoyang to take up the domain, this year Zhu Yousong's child just turned eight years old.

But it doesn't end there. Zhu Yousong They went to Luoyang, but his grandmother was still in the palace in the capital, after the death of Emperor Wanli, in two successive battles for the throne, his grandmother played an important role in it, and led to the other two strange cases of the Ming Dynasty: the Red Pill case and the palace transfer case.

In the first two of the three major suspicious cases of the late Ming Dynasty, the main force of Party A was Zhu Yousong's grandmother Zheng Guifei, and the main force of Party B was the minister headed by the Donglin Party.

The result of the attack case was to put the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo on the throne of the crown prince, and the blessed king Zhu Changxun reluctantly went to Luoyang to take up the throne.

The red pill case is that Zhu Changluo, who had just ascended the throne for a month, was seriously ill, and Li Kezhuo, the Cheng of Honglu Temple, offered red pills. Zhu Changluo died after taking it. The Donglin Party suspected that Zheng Guifei instigated the poisoning, and immediately launched a series of actions to track down the culprit. During this period, party strife and personal enmity were mixed in, and there were many people who died in a row, and Concubine Zheng was forced to live in a lonely cold palace in the Forbidden City.

It can be said that these three major doubts laid the main factors for Nanming's demise.

These three strange cases originally had nothing to do with Zhu Yousong's classmates, but Li Zicheng came, captured Luoyang first, and boiled his Laozi Zhu Changxun's meat and venison in the same pot, and named it "Fulu Banquet".

Zhu Yousong escaped by hiding in Luoyang Anguo Temple, and after Li Zicheng's army retreated, Zhu Yousong, who escaped from Luoyang City, fled all the way, first fled to Huaiqing.

His life in exile gave him a deep experience of the geography of mountains and rivers, and he was able to make a more rational judgment on the situation at that time.

When Zhu Yousong was in Huaiqing, he once gave a song to Emperor Chongzhen, suggesting that his cousin should pay attention to the defense of the Yellow River to prevent the Liukou from threatening the eastern barrier of the Beijing Division.

can give such a note to the court, it can be seen that Zhu Yousong is not a simple idiot waste.

In May of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Yousong was officially canonized as King Fu, but because Luoyang was still occupied by rebels, he had to stay in Huaiqing.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, that is, in January this year, the Dashun army led by Liu Fangliang marched eastward along the Yellow River and approached Huaiqing, Zhu Yousong had to continue to live in exile, running all the way to Weihui, where he found a relative, his cousin Zhu Changshu, King of Lu.

This Lu King Zhu Changshu is the nephew of the Wanli Emperor, his father is called Zhu Yihua, is the only half-brother of the Wanli Emperor, canonized as the King of Lu at the age of four, and the seventeenth year of Wanli is in Henan Weihui Mansion. After the death of King Lu, he was succeeded by his son Zhu Changshu.

One of the two is the grandson of Emperor Wanli and the other is his nephew. It's very close, but it's a pity that King Lu couldn't provide a refuge for poor Zhu Yousong, because Liu Fangliang chased Wei Hui all the way.

There was no way, so the two of them had to flee south together.

At this time, Li Zicheng swept Shanxi, Liu Fangliang's partial division swept Henan, and surrounded the Beijing division, and the uncle and nephew fled on the way to meet the king of Zhou in Kaifeng, and Zhu Cijiao, the son of King Chong of Runing.

Sigh a few relocated and drifting, meet everywhere and say that the Forbidden City is prosperous, and the hometown has fallen.

Hurry up, I heard that even Xuzhou was occupied by the rebels.

When the wind and rain were shaky, several descendants of the Zhu family hugged together to take warmth, and fled south by boat together, several people were shocked and anxious, on the boat that fled south, the king of Zhou was so frightened and tired that he went west, and the body has not been buried yet.

The remaining Zhu Yousong and his uncle and nephew fled to Huai'an, but fortunately, Governor Lu Zhenfei was a good example, so they had a hot meal at Du Guangshao's house, and the three of them had been running for a long time, tired and afraid, and planned to rest in Huai'an for a few more days;

As a result, on March 28, the news of the destruction of the city of Beijing and the death of the emperor suddenly came, although these news were hearsay, and no one dared to confirm whether these news were true or false, anyway, the rumors in the city were all over the sky.

For the three floating dragon sons and phoenix grandchildren, this is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue, everyone knows that the dynasty has always been overthrown by force, and the worst end is the original dragon son and phoenix grandson;

No matter how high-ranking the officials are, they can surrender, but they, the royal relatives, don't even have a chance to surrender, and if they are caught, they will either be beheaded immediately or imprisoned to death.

When the three dragon sons and phoenix grandchildren received the news in Huai'an, their first reaction was to cry loudly, crying more sadly than when their respective fathers died, because of the death of their fathers, there was no fiefdom, and the emperor of Beijing was in charge of the rice, and even the emperor of Beijing was dead, who would take care of the rice?

The three of them cried heartbreakingly, tears and rain, endless tears of family and country, endless rice and bowl sorrow, exhausted the East China Sea, and it was difficult to wash away the worries at this time.

After crying, the three of them remembered that the emperor is gone, and he can stand again, Beijing is gone, and Nanjing, the difference between the Ming Dynasty and the previous dynasties is that it has always retained a complete set of leadership teams in Nanjing, the capital of Liudu, and even the eunuchs of the Si Li Bingbi should be complete, as long as an emperor is established, according to common sense, the institutions of the entire empire can resume normal operation.

The question is this emperor, who will be the emperor? The Jingshi was broken, and Chongzhen's family was estimated to be in a catastrophe.

Zhu Changshu and Zhu Ciyao's eyes suddenly focused on Zhu Yousong, without him, after excluding Chongzhen's sons, they were close by blood, King Fu, King Gui, and King Hui became the first choice.

King Gui and King Hui are far away in southern Xinjiang, and at this critical moment when the country is ruined, it is unlikely that they will have to wait for King Gui and King Hui, who are located in remote areas, to come and set up a new king.

Zhu Yousong, the blessed king, has just fled to Huai'an, Nanjing, and compared with Zhu Youlang, who is far away in Guangxi, Huai'an is nearly ten times closer to Nanjing.

Suddenly, the gray-faced Zhu Yousong became the first choice of the new emperor, but things are not so simple

(To be continued......)