Jishe was born in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with only six members, known as the Six Sons of Jishe. After Hongguang, Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi joined the Lu Jianguo Dynasty and organized the resistance against the Qing Dynasty in southern Zhili. However, with their martyrs, Jishe dispersed

, Xu Fuyuan, one of the six sons, went south to join Zheng Chenggong, and rebuilt several societies in Zhongzuo, which were later called overseas societies.

There are also six people in the Overseas Clubs, namely Xu Fuyuan, Zhang Huangyan, Lu Ruoteng, Shen Quanqi, Cao Conglong and Chen Guanglu. Chen Kai has a very good relationship with the five people in the Overseas Clubs except Zhang Huangyan, and is even called the Overseas Clubs by many people.

One of the seven sons. In addition, his two administrative deputies in Guangdong, Wang Jiang and Cao Conglong, are also from Zhejiang and have served in the Lu Jian Dynasty. He can know that he was the chief assistant of the Lu Jian Dynasty.

Zhang Guowei’s background is not surprising.

As for local issues, although Chen Kai debuted the latest, his qualifications as a local official are second only to Guo Zhiqi, far more than the other three. But since Chen Kai can persuade Guo Zhiqi, it is obvious that the latter has already understood

He knows the way here, but he lacks the methods and courage to solve the problem, but Chen Kai has it.

"When facing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Han people and all the people oppressed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty have the possibility of becoming my allies; when facing the feudal imperial power, the feudal towns and the Confucian scholar class are my comrades in the same trench.

"If one day I need to go to war with the feudal lord or the Confucian scholar class, who can help me?"

Such an idea suddenly popped into his mind, and Chen Kai immediately put it down. The Manchu Qing Dynasty and the feudal imperial power are still alive and kicking. If that day comes, it will be a long time ago. At least there is no need to think too much now.

"Jingcheng." When he spoke again, Qian Qianyi's voice was obviously hoarse, and what he said was not beyond Cheng's expectation: "Reform is of great importance."

Since ancient times, reformers have rarely had a good ending, and even if they have a good ending, they will often bring disaster to their descendants. Let’s not talk about the past, we will only talk about the Ming Dynasty, and the best evidence of this is the ransacking of Zhang Juzheng’s house after his death.

Qian Qianyi is indeed still the same Qian Qianyi, and the weak side of his character cannot be easily concealed even with the blessing of being the chief minister of the wartime cabinet. Seeing this, Chen Kai smiled with emotion and said: "The reform

Therefore, it will be difficult for those who reform the law to have a happy ending, and in the final analysis, it will harm those with vested interests. Now, we are just adapting to reality."

"But your Majesty..."

As soon as these three words were spoken, Qian Qianyi suddenly woke up. What the wartime cabinet was for, he already knew from the moment he saw the letter written by Chen Kai to Zheng Chenggong in Shaoxing.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty divided the power of adjudicating state affairs into three parts, which were in the hands of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, the Cabinet and the Sixth Section. These three parties formed a tripartite force, and the feudal rights of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty were as stable as Mount Tai. Chen Kai asked Li Dingguo for a request

Only after Huang Yue did the cabinet have the two powers of voting and approving at the same time. If the six subjects were decided by the wartime cabinet instead of being recommended by the advisory bureau, then it would no longer be just a group of emperors who faced the imperial power.

Secretary, but bureaucratic centralization of three powers into one!

That was an existence even more terrifying than the Prime Minister, who was feared by all the emperors of the dynasties. As expected, just when he was so shocked by what he was thinking at this moment that he could hardly breathe, Chen Kai's next words confirmed what he had just thought.

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"The Book of Changes says: The Yellow Emperor, Yao, and Shun hung down their clothes and governed the world. Since we are called the wise ministers of the world by the people of the time, we naturally want to serve as kings Yao and Shun."

Nakedly linking the behavior of rebellious ministers and traitors who restrained the imperial power with Confucian classics, Chen Kai said with peace of mind. Even Qian Qianyi, who was hesitant before, felt a sense of granted. This is the real

Confucianism, to be precise, it is the Confucianism of the sub-sage Mencius. From "the people are the most important, the country is second, the king is the least" to "the king treats his ministers like dirt, and his ministers regard the king as a bandit" to "the person who destroys thieves"

It is said that one husband has been punished by Zhou, but he has not heard of regicide." Mencius's thoughts and remarks made Ming Taizu more than a thousand years later extremely frightened, and he bluntly said, "I would rather be spared today!"

There was an irreconcilable contradiction between Mencius' people-centered thought and the demands of the feudal imperial power. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had become the biggest vested interest of the feudal imperial power at that time, naturally wanted to invite Mencius out of the Confucian Temple.

However, the Confucian scholar-bureaucrat class used the theory of astrology to express their opposition, and Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to invite Mencius back again. Were they just objecting to an ancient man's position in the Confucian Temple? Obviously not, they were safeguarding Mencius's people.

This thought maintains the status of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty.

The struggle between civil rights and imperial power has never stopped for more than a thousand years. It is nothing more than that as representatives of the "people" in the feudal era-the "gentry" embodied by the Confucian scholar class can learn more from the struggle than the ordinary people.

Earlier, you will get more benefits. This is actually normal in any era. Just like all people are born equal, there will always be some people who are more equal than others.

Qian Qianyi originally thought that the wartime cabinet was composed of civilian officials, and the vassal towns took the opportunity of Yongli's abandonment of the country to steal the emperor's right to approve the red in order to seek a greater say for the cabinet in government affairs. Unexpectedly, Chen Kai actually wanted to do more than that.

This guy obviously wants to completely institutionalize the "Republic of Zhouzhao" in the Ming Dynasty, and he wants to completely turn the Emperor of Ming Dynasty into a clay puppet enshrined in the "Da Ming Temple" in one step!

"What a rebel!"

After such slander, Qian Qianyi couldn't help but laugh at himself. He characterized Chen Kai as a rebel. Among them, Zheng Chenggong and the Fujian vassal behind him, Li Dingguo and the Jin vassal behind him, and the Kuidong Ming army, who among them were not rebels?

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When the imperial power that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty took away became almost all the civil servants who were still fighting bloody battles for the Ming Empire, the vassal towns were afraid of waiting for the day when the Ming Dynasty was revived.

It is possible that the rogue bandits who once served other Ming Dynasty clans and the civil servants and generals who had great achievements in shaking the emperor would be eradicated one by one. Then there is no need for the emperor's privileges to continue to exist!

When he looked at everyone again, Guo Zhiqi, needless to say, was the bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion who persuaded Chen Kai earlier than others. Naturally, there was nothing surprising about the attitude here. And he looked at Wen Yuange again.

An Zhi and Zhang Huangyan, these two people are exactly the same as Guo Zhiqi.

When he turned to Chen Kai again, his stubborn and aloof look was still the same as before. Qian Qianyi remembered clearly that his friends who were lurking in the southeast with him and working for the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty all admired Chen Kai's military strategies and world governance.

He is highly respected, but while praising him, there is also regret or ridicule for that ridiculous child-sheng's fame. But now it seems that this guy is the real Confucian - while others are still thinking about the slightly ambiguous part of the classics.

While the debate between the two chapters continued, Chen Kai was already putting Ya Sheng's ideas into practice.

"It's easy to tell but hard to do, but I've won a lot of victories."

The future chief minister of the wartime cabinet stood up, straightened his clothes solemnly, and then bowed deeply. Next, Wen Anzhi, Guo Zhiqi, and Zhang Huangyan did the same.

Seeing this, Chen Kai accepted it frankly, and then stood up and returned the greetings one by one. This is their respect for the pioneers who put Confucianism into practice, and their respect for Chen Kai's pursuit of class interests for the Confucian scholar class.

Admire.

"The Guo family in Jieyang is a rich local family. When they were expelled by Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru and returned to their hometown, they were still invited by the local magistrate and Donglin Party leader Feng Yuanbiao to compile the county annals;"

"The Wen family of Yiling is a bureaucratic family. Wen Anzhi's father, Wen Guozhen, once served as the magistrate of Yazhou. There is also a saying that Wen An's descendants were descendants of Duke Xin of Luling, who became the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty.

, the great national hero Wen Tianxiang;" (Note)

"The Goryeo Zhang family in Yin County is a family of bureaucrats for generations. Their distant ancestors can be traced back to Zhang Zhibai, the prime minister of Song Renzong. The Zhang family fled Goryeo during the Yuan Dynasty and returned to Yin County in the early Ming Dynasty. In order to distinguish it from other Zhang families, it was called Goryeo Zhang.

Although his family was in decline by the end of the Ming Dynasty, his father Zhang Guizhang was still ranked as the fifth-ranking member of the Ministry of Justice, Wai Lang, which shows that his heritage is still there."

"As for the Haiyu Qian family, let alone a truly famous family."

Chen Kai didn't think it was surprising that these civil servants from aristocratic families could fill the wartime cabinet. He only selected these people based on their performance in history, their current status, and the forces behind them.

Moreover, the imperial examination is indeed fairer than the earlier talent selection system, but things in the world are always relative. Children of aristocratic families can obtain more resources than children of ordinary people's families, but there is still no way to obtain them.

They came out to compare, so the vast majority of those who succeeded in the imperial examination were also children of this type of family.

In fact, such probability issues are essentially the same in any era and any society. Children are protected and supported by their families, and the prosperity of the family requires continuous efforts of several generations. They are mutually reinforcing.

If it were someone else, Chen Kai might have to figure out whether his intentions are more public-minded or more selfish. But history has already screened these people for him. No matter whether they support him at the moment or not, they are all

It was based on the principle of annihilating the Manchu Qing Dynasty and reviving the Ming Dynasty, and used it as a yardstick to measure right and wrong. As for being able to further restrain the imperial power while reviving the Ming Dynasty, that was just an addition to the above.

"At that time, Guo Gebu told me that the leader of the Ming Dynasty's resurgence should be the current emperor. I deeply believe this, and so does His Highness the King of Fujian."

"Yes, I am the only cousin of Emperor Lie who is still alive. According to the law of inheritance, where father dies and son succeeds, brother succeeds to brother, it should be like this."

He nodded to Guo Zhiqi, who also responded. Then, Chen Kai turned to Qian Qianyi and said: "In the future, when the Ming Dynasty is revived, the emperor can travel in peace and prosperity, and enjoy a life of wealth and honor."

The Qian family was already extremely wealthy at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the most important income sources was sea trade. Otherwise, Zheng Zhilong, who was only the chief military officer at the time, would not have had the dignity to send his son to be the Minister of Rites.

, Qian Qianyi, the leader of Southeast Wenzong, was his teacher.

Qian Qianyi didn't know much about the situation of Emperor Zhengde, but he had some guesses about the suspicious aspects of Emperor Tianqi's death. At this time, Chen Kai made it clear that he was asking Qian Qian

Yi was shocked in his heart, but he didn't show any signs of it on his face: "It actually makes sense. The wartime cabinet should ensure that this generation and the descendants of this generation will enjoy wealth and glory forever."

"Since the wartime cabinet can ensure the well-being of the present emperor and his descendants, we should also preserve the historical status and treatment during his lifetime of the late emperor, Emperor Shaowu, and His Royal Highness King Lu, who was also from a distant clan clan."

At this point, Chen Kai had already looked at Zhang Huangyan. Through history, he knew very well that the situation of the Minister of War and Zheng Chenggong were similar. They were both nominally loyal to Yongli, but in fact they had their own loyalties in their hearts. The difference was nothing more than that.

One is Longwu and the other is Lu Jianguo.

It's just that Longwu has passed away long ago, but Lu Jianguo is still alive and well. However, the sequelae of the Tang-Lu war are still there. Although Zheng Chenggong took in King Lu, he did not like him; while Zhang Huangyan continued to provide money every year.

, while fearing that Zheng Chenggong was taboo and "did not dare to visit him for ten years." However, as soon as the news of the defeat of Yongli in history came, he immediately went to Zheng Chenggong, hoping that Zheng Chenggong could accept King Lu as his orthodoxy, but he still did not get it.

Zheng Chenggong’s support.

Based on Chen Kai's understanding of Zheng Chenggong, whether through historical materials or personal contact, Zheng Chenggong can accept any member of the Ming Dynasty clan to ascend the throne, but he cannot accept the king of Lu, Zhu Yihai. This is a matter of principle, just like the Chuangying system and the Western

It is reasonable for the Ming army in the battalion department to worry that the Ming Dynasty will revive in the future, and the emperor may settle their old accounts of digging ancestral graves, killing clan members, and forcing Chongzhen to death.

During this period, Chen Kai had already made an agreement with Guo Zhiqi and Wen Anzhi on the unshakable principle of Yongli's legitimacy, so he would never support King Lu. Unless the Burmese side was bold enough to kill the Emperor and the Crown Prince himself, but is this possible?

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It should be noted that even the disaster of Curse Water was caused by Wu Sangui's army invading Burma and forcing the Burmese king to hand over Yongli. Now that the Ming Dynasty has almost retaken half of the south of the Yangtze River, let alone Li Dingguo's victory over Mopan Mountain, the Burmese side is afraid that

He may not even have the guts to treat him lightly, let alone commit murder.

In fact, Zhang Huangyan had already expected such a day when he received Zheng Chenggong's invitation to return to Shaoxing - even if Yongli abandoned the country, Chen Kai still regarded him as his leader. Not only did Li Dingguo strongly support it, but even Zheng Chenggong made it clear that he would

Anyone who dares to jump out at this moment will be the enemy of the war cabinet and the vassal towns like them. Ninety-nine percent of these words were said to King Lu Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yihai's biggest supporter, that is, he listened!

Now, Chen Kai made it clear that the wartime cabinet would protect King Lu's historical status and honor during his lifetime, and no other cabinet minister raised even the slightest question. There is naturally an element of Chen Kai bundling King Lu and Longwu.

, but the result is what he has really been looking forward to seeing for this period of time.

"The lower official is willing to hand over the military power of the former Dingxi Marquis." At this point, Zhang Huangyan paused: "To the wartime cabinet."

Zhang Huangyan was still worried that the wartime cabinet could not ensure the safety of King Lu, but in Chen Kai's view, Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Mingzhen had misunderstood the matter from the beginning - what Zheng Chenggong cared about was not the thousands of soldiers. Historically, Zheng Chenggong had ten armies.

Tens of thousands, and now he has more than 200,000 powerful soldiers, and only a few thousand soldiers are brave. Even the food and wages have to be allocated by Zheng Chenggong, so what does it matter. What Zheng Chenggong cares about is that there are supporters of King Lu who will use these soldiers and horses.

The possibility of helping him come back to life is the possibility of King Lu turning around, rather than the military power itself. However, Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Mingzhen believe that these military powers should be used to prevent Zheng Chenggong from doing anything to King Lu...

"I can explain this to His Highness the King of Fujian. I hope that when the letter arrives, His Highness the King of Min and His Highness the King of Lu will be able to sleep peacefully."

Negotiating with Zhang Huangyan to urge him to hand over military power was something Chen Kai had thought about earlier. He believed that Zheng Chenggong also wanted him to do what he had never been able to do. To this end, Zheng Chenggong also wrote a letter

Zhong mentioned in great detail that some Confucian scholars from Jiangsu and Zhejiang persuaded him not to violate the ancestral system.
To be continued...