Zhu Shengli accompanied Deng Wang Zhu Yujian to safely bring back Zhu Shengchen, the king of Tongcheng. Also present were Wang Qisheng, the former doctor of the Ministry of War, and Jin Gongyu, the commander-in-chief of the army.
Zhu Yihai was very polite to them, but Zhu Shengchun was actually very nervous and uneasy along the way. Although King Deng, an elder of the clan, repeatedly said how wise the prison country was, he was always uneasy. After all, he had already established an imperial system in Huzhou, especially
It is also unpopular with the people.
I was afraid that I would be deceived by good words and then beheaded with a knife.
"Previously, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Ding Kuichu, reported that Zhu Hengjia, the king of Jingjiang, had raised an army in Guilin to cause trouble. He pretended to supervise the country and attacked the governor. However, he was put down in seven days. Guangxi counselor Chen Bangfu led troops to escort a group of his people to the north. The ministers who stayed behind voted for it.
I have proposed, please kill him. I have thought about it over and over, and I have concluded that we are all descendants of Emperor Taizu Gao. I also said before that, the king who restored the two capitals first, the King of Jingjiang made the mistake of sending troops to fight internally."
Zhu Hengjia, the king of Jingjiang, who raised an army to supervise the country but was defeated and captured in seven days, was a credit to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and the general of Guangxi, Chen Bangfu. Zhu Yihai actually wanted to kill such a person, and killing a few of them would serve as a warning to the monkeys, but in the end he decided not to kill him.
It’s not that his surname is Zhu and he is from the old Zhu family, but he still wants to maintain the banner of unity and resistance. If he can’t even tolerate the people from the old Zhu family, then the Qing Dynasty who broke into the camp, complied with the camp, or even surrendered.
It is difficult for the generals of the Green Camp to truly believe Zhu Yihai's words of unity.
Zhu Hengjia, who not only supervised the country, but also spearheaded the civil war, spared him. The invading army who once invaded Beijing and forced Chongzhen to death, and Zhang Xianzhong Daxi, who once invaded Fengyang, the capital of China, and dug up the ancestral graves of the old Zhu family.
Army, they can rest assured.
From another perspective, people like Zhu Hengjia actually pose no threat to Zhu Yihai. He has already rebelled once and was defeated so badly, so even if he wants to rebel again, no one will follow him.
Therefore, it doesn't matter whether you kill this kind of person or not. If you don't kill them, they can still have some effect. It's better to keep them as waste and use them.
Of course, as long as you don't kill, you can avoid the death penalty, but you can't escape the living crime.
He had already sent an order to Shaoxing to punish the red. Jingjiang King Zhu Hengjia was deposed as a commoner and imprisoned in Taizhou. Zhu Yihai did not take advantage of the situation to abolish the vassal of Jingjiang King. Instead, he established Zhu Hengjia, Zhu Xiangjia's cousin, as the new Jingjiang King.
king.
The conferment of the new King of Jingjiang is quite particular. This was originally a public case in the Jingjiang Palace. The tenth King of Jingjiang, Zhu Rensheng, was the grandfather of Zhu Hengjia and Zhu Hengshen.
Zhu Rensheng had two sons, the eldest son Zhu Luxiang and the second son Zhu Luhu. However, the eldest son Lu Xiang died before his father. Then for some unknown reason, Zhu Rensheng did not make the eldest son of the eldest son, the eldest grandson Hengxin, his grandson, but the second son.
As the crown prince, it is said that because the eldest grandson was too young, it was agreed that the second son would first inherit the title of king. In the future, the second son would make his eldest grandson Hengxin the crown prince and pass it on to his eldest grandson.
Later, after Zhu Rensheng's death, Zhu Luhu succeeded in inheriting the title of King of Jingjiang, but he did not appoint his eldest nephew as the crown prince as agreed, but instead appointed his own son Hengjia as the crown prince. This was exactly the same as when Liu Kongzhao and his family borrowed the title.
Anyway, from Wanli to Tianqi and then to the Chongzhen Dynasty, Zhu Hengxuan fought a lawsuit with his uncle and cousin for many years for the throne. This case was well known to the world. Zhu Hengjia and his father did not even recognize Zhu Hengshen's identity. In the end, although Zhu Hengjia won the battle
There was a lawsuit, but Chongzhen only awarded him the title of General Zhenguo, and the throne of Jingjiang Prince still belonged to Zhu Hengjia.
When Zhu Luhu died, Zhu Hengjia succeeded to the throne. At the succession ceremony, Zhu Hengxin was caught on the spot on the grounds that he was late and put into a forbidden room. From the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, he was locked up for eleven years until he failed to rebel.
Only then was he released.
So now Zhu Yihai directly named Zhu Hengxin the fourteenth generation King of Jingjiang, and decreed that the King of Jingjiang be transferred to Pingxiang Prefecture, Guangxi, to guard Zhennanguan.
After Zhu Hengjia's rebellion, Zhu Yihai's treatment of the entire Jingjiang clan was to depose Zhu Hengjia first, depose him as a commoner, and imprison him under a high wall for life.
Then he re-examined the case of the fight for the title and changed it to Zhu Hengxin as the qualified heir. In fact, it deposed both Zhu Hengjia and his father, Zhu Luhu, from the throne. Not only Zhu Hengjia was deposed, but his father Zhu Luhu was also deposed. Even if he died, he would also be deprived of the title. No.
admit.
Similarly, after Zhu Hengxun was established, he moved the seal to Nanguan of Pingxiang Guarding Town in the far edge of Guangxi. At the same time, he cleaned up the Jingjiang Prince's Mansion and sorted out all the problems that the Jingjiang Prince had occupied over the years, such as fields, etc., and dealt with them as they should.
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This also shocked the clan.
At this time, Zhu Yihai's status as the supervisor of the country can be said to be stable, but there are still many clans emerging from various places, not to mention Zhu Hengjia, the king of Jingjiang who has been deposed, and Zhu Shengchen, the king of Tongcheng who was newly ordered to abdicate and return to the vassal.
There is still a King of Yiyang in Chongming, and now it is about to end. But after all, it once claimed to have 200,000 troops, and with the response of Sanwu, it was almost able to compete with the King of Lu in eastern Zhejiang.
In addition, there are still many reports from various places.
For example, there was a King of Yiyang in eastern Zhejiang, who claimed to have obtained the order of Empress Dowager Cixi to supervise the country. He privately appointed county magistrates in Longyou, Chuzhou, Suichang, Chuzhou and other places, and openly claimed to supervise the country.
According to the investigation by Zhang Guowei and others, this Yiyang King claimed to have been ordered by Cixi, and was recommended by Fang Guoan, the governor of Dexun, as a prisoner of the country. This Empress Dowager Cixi refers to the Empress Dowager Zou, the mother of Emperor Hongguang, who was captured after the fall of Hangzhou and committed suicide on her way north.
So this is obviously a pretense. The real truth is that he has the private support of General Fang Guoan who is stationed in Yanzhou. The reason why Fang Guoan dared to act like this is actually because he was on the front line of Qiantang River competing with various armies for pay.
They even directly rob the local government treasury of money and food, withhold taxes, and even increase tax collection without permission.
This incident aroused Zhu Yihai's dissatisfaction, and he directly ordered Zhang Guowei and others to deal with it strictly. Not only did Fang Guoan have his military quota reassigned, but he also took away his right to levy pay and collect taxes. The supervisor, governor, soldiers, preparations, and grain stations were specially responsible for verifying him.
Soldiers, rations and pay.
Although Zhu Yihai also made Fang Guoan count and his nephew deputy general, this incident still aroused great dissatisfaction from Fang Guoan. He believed that he had the largest number of regular troops under the Lu Jianguo court and was also the most capable general, so
He should have the highest rank, military salary, and even title and official position.
He thought that Zhu Yihai was much better than him when he was given to Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen, so he was very dissatisfied.
Zhu Yihai forbade him to cut taxes, send salaries and recruit troops, so he secretly encouraged a Yiyang king to supervise the country, set up a separate court in the Yanzhou prefecture of Jinhua, Quzhou, granted official positions privately, and even recruited soldiers.
But who this King of Yiyang is is still unclear, because both the Liao kings of the Ming Dynasty and the Zhou kings Yiyi had granted the title of Yiyang king and Yiyang country. The Liao king of Yiyang was granted the title of Jingzhou Fucheng, and there were no sub-states except it during the Wanli period.
King Ze of Yiyang of the Zhou Dynasty was granted a title in the city of Kaifeng, Henan. During the Jiajing period, he had no sons and was exterminated.
Some people suspect that this Yiyang King is actually from the line of King Yi who vassed Fuzhou in Jiangxi Province, and some people say that he is from the line of King Liao. Anyway, the current situation is turbulent. A certain descendant of the clan pretends to be King Yiyang, but in fact there are two kings of Yiyang.
They were all exterminated long ago.
Zhu Yihai also thought that this man was just a swindler. Fang Guoan may not be clear about it, but he just used him to cause trouble and wanted to use it as a bargaining chip to obtain what he needed.
Of course, Zhu Yihai could not agree. Fang Guoan's behavior only made him add another crime to Zhu Yihai's notebook blacklist.
In addition, in Huai'an Prefecture in the north of the Yangtze River, King Xingchang used Yuntai Mountain as his base to contact the volunteers in Shuyang, Haizhou and other places in the surrounding areas to resist the Qing Dynasty.
There are also Ruian King Zhu Yilu, Ruichang King Zhu Yi and Luan King etc. who are active around Nanjing.
In addition, Lu Xiangguan, the younger brother of the former Governor-General of Xuan Dynasty, Lu Xiangsheng, from Zhongshushe, also raised troops in Maoshan, south of Yingtian Mansion and west of Taihu Lake, and appointed Zhu Shengli, the clan leader, as the superintendent...
There are seven or eight people from various places reported by the elders in the left-behind cabinet who are called supervisors, and even more are called generals and governors. The most powerful one is of course King Yiyang of Chongming. In addition, King Jingjiang, who claims to be supervisor and then starts internal strife,
Of course, there were also people such as King Ruichang who fought against the Qing Dynasty in enemy-occupied areas.
Among these people were King Jingjiang who had been captured, King Tongcheng who had briefly called the emperor and voluntarily abdicated and returned to the vassal after the defeat, as well as the former King of Nanyang and now King of Deng Zhu Yujian who refused to be supported by the Zheng family to supervise the country, and
The king of Yiyang, Zhu Chaoyang, is already dying.
In fact, these people are no longer the real threats to Zhu Yihai.
It can even be said that he has now passed the time to compete for the title of supervisor and emperor, because just having a name is useless. Zhu Yihai has basically won the recognition and support of the remaining people of the Ming Dynasty.
As long as he is not defeated by the Tatars, no one in Lao Zhu's family can challenge his leadership position. He has proven himself with his own actions and has good strength. He was the former minister of the DPRK and the Central Government and the chief of the local feudal lord.
The officials basically all recognized him.
Unless Zhu Yihai falls down one day, other people may step up and compete for position.
The king of Jingjiang, Zhu Hengjia and Zhu Yihai, who claimed to be in charge of the country and provoked a civil war, was demoted to a commoner and sentenced to life-long house arrest. Zhu Yujian, who gave up the power of supervising the country and supported Zhu Yihai, was named a prince and made a general who conquered the captives and commanded the governor's office of the Chinese army.
He also granted mercy to King Tongcheng who abdicated and returned to the feudal vassal, and was awarded the rank of General Pinglu and the Commander-in-Chief of the Right Army.
Regarding the unidentified King of Yiyang in eastern Zhejiang, Zhu Yihai sent Zhejiang governors and generals to jointly suppress and suppress him, and further strengthened the constraints and pressure of the other party's national security to never allow him to blackmail the imperial court.
Among those around Nanjing and Jiangbei, Zhu Yihai was more tolerant. Even if he was called a prisoner, he would not blame him. He sent envoys to tell them the situation here, and then granted them the title of general and command of the governor's office, allowing them to serve on the front line.
Continue to lead the war of resistance and wait for the arrival of Zhu Yihai's Northern Expeditionary Army.
King Tongcheng was comforted by Zhu Yihai, but he still felt a little uneasy. It was not until Zhu Yihai left that he breathed a sigh of relief.
"What should I do next?" Zhu Shengchun, the king of Tongcheng who had been emperor in Huzhou for a few days, asked Zhu Yujian, the king of Deng.
"You can stay and help with military affairs, or you can go back to Tokyo and Shaoxing."
"But I don't understand military affairs." Zhu Shengchun said.
"Then you can write, calculate, and draw, right? You help manage the Food and Rating Headquarters."
"Ah?" Zhu Shengchun felt that he was the king of the city, how could he do such chores as a military scribe?
The gray-haired Prince of Deng, Zhu Yujian, said naturally, "There are tens of thousands of troops in the Northern Expeditionary Army, and everyone performs his or her own duties. Only in this way can we continue to win. Everyone can use their talents and work together. Okay, you can
Think about it slowly first, I have to go to the grain station to do some work first, and the pay day is coming soon, so I can't delay this matter at all."
Zhu Shengchen watched in bewilderment as the gray-haired Prince Deng went to help at the grain station. Shouldn't he, a majestic prince, also stay in the army and do these chores?
After thinking about it, he still opened his legs and followed in the direction of King Deng Zhu Yujian. He planned to follow King Deng first to familiarize himself with the situation in the Northern Expedition.
Prince Deng is an elder of the royal family, so there is nothing wrong with following him.
