"The weather in Jiangnan is really interesting. It was sunny just now, but it changes as soon as it changes!"
As Li Jiantai spoke, he sat down opposite Qian Qianyi. He knew that this person was the scholar from the southeast. If Li Jiantai and other scholars from the north wanted to persuade the southern capital to abandon the northern puppets and support the new emperor, they had to persuade Qian Qianyi.
Donglin Party members led by Qianyi.
Su Guansheng was also sitting on the boat with Li Jiantai and Qian Qianyi. In addition to them, they also included Xia Wanchun, a young man with a well-known literary name in Suzhou.
Xia Wanchun was Chen Zilong's student, and he finally heard the news about his teacher from Li Jiantai and Su Guansheng. Of course, for various reasons, Li Jiantai concealed the news that Chen Zilong had defected to the Dashun Army in Xuzhou, and only told Xia Wanchun that Chen Zilong and
Zhang Jiayu lurks in the capital, intending to do something grand.
Xia Wanchun was very talented. Although he was very young, under the influence of his father Xia Yunyi, he was a rare person who was loyal and respected honor. He was already extremely dissatisfied and indignant about the Northern puppet court's surrender to the Eastern captives. He learned this from Li Jiantai
After learning that Donglu had killed Emperor Chongzhen, occupied a large number of private houses in Beijing, and massacred loyal ministers and righteous men, he became even more indignant.
Xia Wanchun was inspired by his teacher Chen Zilong's brave action of lurking in the enemy's camp in the capital, and his heart was filled with enthusiasm to expel the barbarians.
There are many young scholars like him in the south of the Yangtze River. Since Li Jiantai, Su Guansheng, Gao Qiqian, and Liu Zeqing came to the north, these young scholars have jointly signed letters one after another, asking the officials in the southern capital to choose one from King Lu and King Fu to support them.
After establishing herself as the emperor, she launched an expedition to the north and expelled the imperial court.
However, after Lu Fan and Fu Fan learned the news that Emperor Chongzhen was dead, they did not dare to follow Li Jiantai's suggestion and proclaim themselves emperor in Nandu.
First, because King Lu and King Fu each had their supporters, and both sides were wary of each other. No one had an absolute advantage. No matter who proclaimed himself emperor, he would be strongly opposed by the other;
The second reason is that the Dashun Army controls the upper reaches of Huguang and the Xubo area. Compared with the Qing army far away in Youyan, it is obvious that the "Chuangtei" at hand is the primary enemy of Nandu. The small court of Nandu is still eager to adopt
The diplomatic strategy of "diplomacy far away and attack close" combined with the Qing army's flanking attack to "break through the rebellion". Under such a situation, they did not dare to anger the Qing army by rashly proclaiming emperor.
On behalf of the Jiangnan scholars, Qian Qianyi repeatedly ignored Li Jiantai's request. Xia Wanchun, who had been standing in the boat, finally couldn't bear it and couldn't listen anymore.
He walked outside the cabin and bumped into Qian Qianyi's student. Zheng Sen, the son of Fujian Commander Zheng Zhilong, was also watching the rain outside the cabin.
Zheng Sen is from Fujian. He has seen the magnificence of the sea, but he has not often seen the wonders of the Yangtze River: from the vast sky to the vast river surface, billions of silver pillars connect the water and the sky. It is suddenly unclear.
Is the water falling from the sky or spraying out from the center of the river? In the distance, the sun has not completely disappeared, but is slowly showing its face from the dark clouds. A pillar of sunlight shines on the rain curtain, twinkling like a pearl.
Zheng Sen sighed in admiration and turned around. There was still a pop, pop, pop above his head, which was the sound of raindrops falling on the boat awning.
"Cun Gu, I was reminiscing about some old things, but I didn't pay attention to the weather. The summer rain in Jiangnan is heavier than that in Fujian. The rain scene is also more impressive than in Fujian." He explained to Xia Wanchun.
Xia Wanchun said: "I think my dear friend is completely deaf to the rain outside the boat and is focused on his own affairs. What are you thinking about?"
Zheng Sen laughed and said: "To be honest, I am still thinking about the Qiluo incident in Qinhuai River!"
Xia Wanchun didn't take it seriously: "Brother Damu, the situation in the ship is very anxious, Qian Zongbo is unwilling to participate in the decision-making in every possible way... Without the support of the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, Li Yuanfu and other ministers from the north have no foothold in the southern capital, and I am afraid they will not be able to become a leader.
Qian Zongbo is my dear brother’s teacher, can’t Brother Damu say a few words about it?”
Zheng Sen frowned and said: "Isn't Master Qian's intention unique to him? Liu Jishan and Huanglizhou all have the same intention! The scholars in the south of the Yangtze River all respect King Lu, but the governor of Feng, Ma Shiying, Huaifu Lu Zhenfei and other people in the north of the Yangtze River all like King Fu.
Everyone in Su Chang's party thought that Ma Shiying wanted to establish Fu Di because he wanted to overturn the situation in Donglin, so they tried their best to stop him. Master Qian thought that if he couldn't establish King Lu, it would be better to support him without making a decision."
Xia Wanchun heard this and said indignantly: "This is all a plan to harm the country! A mediocre person cannot join in the conspiracy!"
Zheng Sen did not comment, but he had other thoughts in his mind. He thought that he should return to Nanjing as soon as possible to discuss the matter with his uncle Zheng Hongkui. No matter whether the officials in Nandu wanted to support a certain emperor in the end, or whether they wanted to
Whoever supports King Fu or King Lu, the Zheng family should not miss this opportunity to turn the tide.
The water system in the south of the Yangtze River extends in all directions. From the river to the canal, you can go directly to Suzhou; from the small river in the south to the Taihu Lake, you can also go to Suzhou.
The boat continued to move forward slowly in the river, sometimes passing through some towns. Rows of houses, stone and wooden bridges of different shapes, and women washing clothes, washing vegetables, and washing rice by the river all gave way to the north.
The ministers felt that it was different from the north. Li Jiantai couldn't help but think of the famous saying "A house with a small bridge and flowing water".
Most of the time, small rivers flow through green farmland. Rice and cotton grow very well on both sides of the river, which is in sharp contrast to the bare land that Li Jiantai often sees in Beizhili.
Everyone along the river felt that the situation was more optimistic. Su Guansheng bluntly said that with the prosperity of Jiangnan, as long as the ministers support Prince Fu and proclaim themselves emperor, it is not impossible to revive the Ming Dynasty.
Only Liu Zeqing remained silent. When they left Dengzhou, Xu Du handed over 500 Shun Army sergeants to Liu Zeqing in the name of the Shandong Officials and Gentlemen Armed Forces, as capital for Liu Zeqing to establish himself after he went to Nandu.
Liu Zeqing took Su Guansheng's ship and followed others to the north of the Yangtze River, and then went south from Huainan to Nanjing. Along the way, he took the opportunity to use these 500 soldiers of the Shun Army as the backbone to recruit troops and continue to expand the army. At this time, there were thousands of them.
Liu Zeqing believed that although Jiangnan was rich, its military strength was far inferior to that of the Qing and Shun armies. And from what he saw in Shandong, the wheat seedlings in the fields under the Dashun army also grew very well, and the economic situation was not necessarily inferior to that of Nandu. What's more, Nandu
The gentry were all extremely wealthy, and the situation where the officials were rich but the country was poor did not surprise Liu Zeqing.
This game ended in an unhappy ending between Li Jiantai and Qian Qianyi. The opinions of the gentry ministers from the north headed by Li Jiantai and the gentlemen from the south of the Yangtze River headed by Qian Qianyi, Liu Zongzhou, and Huang Zongxi were very different.
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First of all, both Ma Shiying's party and Donglin's party in Jiangnan opposed proclaiming emperor and angered Beiting.
Secondly, the officials and gentry from the north all wanted King Fu to proclaim himself emperor, which made the Donglin Party members feel very threatened. The reason was that King Fu’s grandmother was Concubine Zheng, who was favored by Shenzong. From Wanli to Tianqi, the imperial court was surrounded by the issue of the crown prince.
The unfolding sensational cases such as "Demon Book", "Strike", and "Relocation of the Palace" are all related to Concubine Zheng. Moreover, due to the efforts of the Donglin Party members, Shenzong and Concubine Zheng hoped to establish the old Prince Fu as the crown prince.
It turned into nothing.
Therefore, they worried that once Zhu Yousong ascended the throne and reopened the old case, they would lose political power.
At dusk on the second day, the boat sailed into Taihu Lake. Liu Zeqing had never been to Dongting Lake or Poyang, so Taihu Lake was the largest lake he had ever seen in his life. The endless blue waves, the green islands reflected in the lake, the reeds and willows on the banks. The undulating distant mountains in the middle and the white sand gulls flying up and down in the gorgeous sunset all made him feel like he was in an intoxicating landscape scroll.
And around the officials from the north, large and small fishing boats were sailing back, and long and graceful songs were heard from some boats. They could not understand the lyrics, but they all thought these fishing songs were very pleasant, just like the ones in the dusk. The scenery on the lake blends seamlessly into one.
The dusk was getting heavier. The surrounding fishing boats had all gone away, and the lake was silent. Their boat also began to swing toward the shore. Under the leadership of Qian Qianyi, everyone was going to visit Suzhou for a while.
Liu Zeqing found an opportunity. He approached Gao Qiqian and said: "The ministers in Jinling are singing and dancing to make peace. This kind of scenery of green mountains and towers outside the mountains is probably not good for the great cause of ZTE."
Gao Qiqian looked at Liu Zeqing's expression and finally laughed: "What are we going to do outside Liu Zhentai?"
Liu Zeqing said bluntly: "Since Jiangnan is not possible, we can simply unite Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang in the north of the Yangtze River, and Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Huaiyang, go south? How about that?"
Gao Qiqian whispered: "Instead of sharing the merits of Jiangbei, we should do it ourselves!"
Liu Zeqing wondered: "Prince Fu is supported by the governor of Jiangbei, and Prince Lu is supported by scholars from Jiangnan. We don't even have a clan, how can we make a decision?"
Gao Qiqian said gloomily: "Since the traffic between the north and the south has been cut off, Fengyang's high wall has become nothing. Many feudal kings have fled from Fengyang's front line to take refuge in Jiangnan. Jiangnan is now a three-legged toad and it is difficult to find it. There are two-legged feudal clans everywhere."