The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 122
The Ming Dynasty implemented the system of two capitals and thirteen provinces.

And thirteen provinces and north and south Zhili.

There are many dynasties in history with accompanying capitals, but there has never been a formal accompanying capital like Nanjing City in Ming Dynasty.

As the accompanying capital of Ming Dynasty, Nanjing, it can be said that as long as there are yamen in Beijing, there are yamen in Nanjing.

There is only one emperor and one cabinet. It can be said that as soon as the emperor comes, even if he is alone, Nanjing City can immediately become the administrative center of the empire.

However, with such good conditions, the Nanming in history is not as good as the Eastern Jin and Southern Song who rushed to the south.

The reason is nothing more than that the internal struggle is too serious, and there are more rhetorical people than pragmatic people.

At this moment, the city of Nanjing is already boiling. From the pier to the city gate, and then to the palace, there are crowds on both sides of the street, and the second floor along the street is already full of roofs.

There were many people crossing the river to meet them, but more people could choose to stay in the city, especially some scholars occupied the second floor almost early.

Apparently, these people also understood that the people who could really see the queen mother and imperial concubine were the bigwigs when they crossed the river, so they all chose to occupy a good position in advance by the street that they had to pass.

Regarding the imperial concubine, the Jiangnan literati's views are actually very contradictory.

I feel that His Majesty canonized an anti-thief woman as a noble concubine and let her lead the army.

But it happened that such a woman, whom everyone could not accept, defeated Jian Nu, saved Daming, and swept away the decades of decadence of Daming.

So compared to Zhang Yan, Jiangnan scholars are more curious about this red lady.

They all want to take this opportunity to have a glimpse of this legendary concubine, and to see if she has three heads and six arms.

"Look, here we come..."

"My God! Could it be that the female general riding a tall horse and wearing silver armor is a noble concubine?"

"This imperial concubine is really different. She is not like ordinary women. She did not take a carriage and chose to enter the city on horseback."

As Hong Niangzi rode Chasing Cloud and stepped into Nanjing City under the guard of a group of female soldiers and soldiers, the common people and scholars along the street suddenly became agitated, and there was a lot of exclamation for a while, apparently they did not expect that the imperial concubine would Will ride into town.

Although it caused a commotion, no one dared to charge, because it was not Nanjing soldiers and horses who maintained order along the street.

It was the [-] soldiers of the Chinese army who were like wolves and tigers. The powerful aura made the people of Nanjing, who had been at peace for a long time, tremble in their hearts just by taking a look at it.

Seeing the commotion of the people along the street, and the scholars and ladies on the second floor looking out, Hong Niangzi also looked left and right, secretly startled.

She didn't expect that Jiangnan is so rich and prosperous, almost everyone wears brocade clothes, and there are restaurants and shops along the streets. The bustling and bustling level is not comparable to that in Beijing.

Zhang Yan in the carriage also couldn't help but lift a corner of the curtain, secretly looking at the rumored most affluent city of Nanjing.

"Sister Liu, Sister Dong, look quickly, it's Sister Yuanyuan, I saw Sister Yuanyuan, she's in the carriage..."

"what?"

"Sister Xiangjun, did you read that correctly? Why did Yuanyuan appear in the team?"

Beside the windows on the second floor of a restaurant, a group of women in gorgeous dresses were also secretly looking at the passing team like everyone else. One of the petite women pointed at a carriage and suddenly exclaimed, All the other women looked over.

"It's really round..."

"How did she come to Nanjing with the imperial concubine and the dowager?"

The girls looked at Chen Yuanyuan who opened a corner of the curtain in the carriage below, and they were pleasantly surprised.

"Sister Yuanyuan, I'm Xiangjun..."

"Sister Xiangjun, shut up!"

When Li Xiangjun saw the carriage driving downstairs, he couldn't help but waved at Chen Yuanyuan and shouted, while Liu Rushi who was beside him was so frightened that he quickly covered her mouth.

Chen Yuanyuan also found Li Xiangjun and the others. She was also surprised and opened her mouth to respond, but seeing that the people along the street were all looking this way, she had to smile and put down the curtains.

The red lady not far in front was also attracted and turned her head to take a look. Suddenly, Liu Rushi and the girls trembled in fright, and subconsciously took a step back.

"Sister Xiangjun, you were too reckless just now, if you offend the imperial concubine and the queen mother..."

Dong Xiaowan patted her chest with lingering fear on her face, the faces of the other women were also slightly pale, Li Xiangjun lowered his head in self-blame.

Recalling the look in the eyes of the imperial concubine just now, everyone was really a little scared.

Indeed, if it wasn't Hong Niang who just saw that they were just a group of women who seemed to know Chen Yuanyuan, she might have used it to make an example of others.

As the team arrived at the palace, the people on the street began to disperse, but they still talked about it happily.

The scholars and literati upstairs began to talk, some commented on the red lady and the army, and some analyzed the real intention of the empress dowager and imperial concubine going south this time.

However, the [-] troops responsible for maintaining order have begun to take over the city defense of Nanjing City, mainly taking over the docks and various city gates.

Li Dakai took the remaining 1 people and stationed outside the city.

Inside Fengtian Temple.

Zhang Yan sat at the head, the red lady held a sword hilt and stood beside her in a military uniform, while the nobles and nobles knelt on the ground and listened to the imperial edict read out.

The content of the decree is very long.

The first is to let Zhang Yan handle all the government affairs of the southern provinces on behalf of the emperor, and then report them to the capital in a unified manner, and then let the red lady control all the soldiers, horses, money and food in the southern provinces.

Finally, Qian Qianyi was appointed as the second assistant of the cabinet, Hou Xun was the minister of the household department, Shi Kefa was promoted from the minister of the Nanjing Ministry of War to the minister of the Ministry of war, and Ma Shiying took over the post of minister of the Nanjing Ministry of war.

In addition, many senior officials who were dismissed from the Chongzhen Dynasty were reinstated.

Obviously Zhu Cilang wanted to get them all to the capital, and didn't want to keep them in Jiangnan to cause trouble.

The people kneeling on the ground were overjoyed and secretly shocked at the same time.

Where did the empress dowager and imperial concubine come to worship their ancestors?

The two together are like an emperor.

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

After the imperial decree was read out, everyone thanked them and got up, such as Qian Qianyi, Hou Xun and others all looked excited, and Shi Kefa was also a little excited.

Especially Qian Qianyi, although he is only the second assistant, what is Wei Zaode in front of him?
Once he arrives in the capital, the position of chief assistant must belong to him.

"Where is King Fu?" The red lady ignored the excited civil servants, but sneered.

"I don't know what's the matter with the imperial concubine?"

Fu Wang, who was standing in the first row, suddenly shuddered, stood up anxiously and asked.

For this red lady, he already had a shadow of fear in his heart.

At the beginning, she was the one who led the rebels into Luoyang City first, rushed into the palace, arrested her father, hung him on a tree and beat him half to death. Later, I heard that his father was boiled and eaten by them. He ran so fast that he was almost caught by the red lady.

Everyone didn't know that Hong Niangzi and Fu Wang still had such a Liangzi, and they were also very surprised to see his pale face and sweat on his forehead.

How can I say that King Fu has not ascended the throne after all, and he is the uncle of the little emperor, so he won't kill him no matter what, so he wouldn't be so scared, right?

"You are much thinner than your father. You were the one who left Fu Wang and ran over the wall wearing the servant's clothes, right? I said why does it look familiar?"

"No...it's not me. Your Majesty is absolutely wrong. Xiao Wang has already left the city." King Fu quickly waved his hand, but he didn't know that this red lady wanted to ruin his reputation first, and then deal with him.

"Hmph, I still want to quibble. In order to escape for your life, you not only left your father alone and ignored him, but also stepped on him to climb over the wall. You are no better than a beast. What should you do?"

The red lady came to the hall and stared at him.

Seeing that his scandal was exposed, Fu Wang fell to the ground.

Seeing his appearance, everyone didn't know that Hong Niangzi was telling the truth, and immediately began to discuss in a low voice, seeming to be contemptuous of King Fu.

"You're talking nonsense, you're framing..."

"Emperor's sister-in-law, you have to be the master for my younger brother! My younger brother escaped from Luoyang after a narrow escape, and these past few years have been in exile..."

When Fu Wang saw the expressions of the people around him, he immediately knew that only Zhang Yan could save him, so he quickly got up and rushed forward, plopping down on his knees and begging.

"Hey, get up first!"

Sure enough, Zhang Yan wanted to think about family affection, thinking of the Fan Wang of Daming, there are not many left now, her heart suddenly softened, and she said slowly.

"Auntie, I didn't wrong him. He did use his father as a stepping stone and ran away over the wall."

"Cough cough!"

Seeing that she insisted on holding on to this matter, Zhang Yan could only cough lightly.

Whether it's true or not, it's the old Zhu's face that's lost after all, so even if you want to clean up King Fu, you can't use this excuse.

The officials obviously didn't want to interfere in the affairs of the old Zhu's family, and they all watched the show with their eyes and nose.

"Okay, let's not mention this matter for now, King Fu, I ask you, as the king of Fan, what crime should you be responsible for leaving Fandi without authorization?"

"Isn't this king forced to flee Luoyang by your group of rebels... by those rebels?"

Fu Wang also became more stubborn, he knew that as long as he didn't get caught by the red lady, he would never dare to touch himself, after all, he was an elder anyway.

"Then why did you come to Nanjing? Could it be that King Fu wanted to rebel?" Hong Niangzi asked again.

"At that time, there were rebels all over the place. Where else can I go if I don't come to Nanjing?"

"Okay, even if you have no place to run and hide in Nanjing, then I will ask you again, why do you want to live in the palace?" The red lady sneered.

"This... When this king escaped from Luoyang, he was penniless and had no place to live in Nanjing. He lived in an old house for a while. Even if the old man knew about it, he wouldn't say anything?" Fu Wang thought for a while and insisted, Even Taizu was moved out.

"Okay! I want to see how long you can quibble. Even if you have no place to live, are penniless, and live in the palace, His Majesty thinks that you are an elder, and you are homeless, and don't care about you, but you Why do you want to sit on the dragon chair?"

As the red lady said, she came to the dragon chair and touched the armrest. Seeing his face flushed, she said, "Don't say you're just curious, and don't say you haven't sat on it before..."

After speaking, he made a gesture, and several eunuchs were brought up.

"Has King Fu ever sat on this dragon chair?"

"Returning to your mother's words, His Royal Highness Fu Wang has indeed sat and slept on it. The old slave persuaded him to do this, which is treasonous, but he not only refused to listen, but also reprimanded the old slave, and said not to mention a mere dragon chair. , this palace, the whole world will be his soon."

Lu Jiude, the eunuch in charge of Nanjing, said emphatically.

"Old man, you spitting blood, when did this king say that?"

"Fu Wang, do you have nothing to say now?"

"Come here, King Fu is plotting something wrong, take it immediately and send it to the capital!"

The red lady was impatient, she snorted coldly, and the soldiers outside the door rushed in immediately and dragged King Fu down.

"Sister-in-law, help me..."

Fu Wang yelled at Zhang Yan.

It's a pity that Zhang Yan didn't speak again this time.

(End of this chapter)