Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

In fact, in essence, Gao Jie, Zuo Liangyu and other military generals formed their vassal regimes not because they made any contribution to recovering the "lost land" for the Ming Dynasty, but because they contributed to Zhu Yousong's personal "policy".As far as Hongguang is concerned, it is also necessary to rely on their military strength to subdue the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River; these generals also count on their merits, and the emperor was established by my generation. , And then hijack the court.

Therefore, for such an army, not to mention carrying out the Northern Expedition to regain lost ground, it will be even more difficult to protect itself in Nanming.

Hongguang, the Nanming court, was supported and controlled by military generals, and the emperor and civil officials could never control military generals.Military generals are not rewarded and punished for their contributions to the country, but by coercing the court to increase officials and promote them. Once the situation is unfavorable, they will turn against each other to preserve their own wealth.

All in all, at the beginning of the founding of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the foundation was not laid well. As a key figure, Shi Kefa did not make a decisive decision to welcome Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, and used imperial power to stabilize the overall situation and clean up the remnants. This is a major mistake; In the face of the emperor's danger, he hurriedly sent people to call the town general to support him, and awarded him the name of "Ding Ce".Since then, the military generals have been dictatorship, and the country is no longer a country.

However, there are many contradictions between the warlords, who are brave to fight privately and are timid in public battles; civil servants either rely on a certain warlord as their backer, or are helpless. , the land was lost.

In addition, the internal fighting among civil servants has intensified.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, party struggle had become the "main theme" of government affairs.It runs through the political life of the entire imperial court after Wanli and lasted until Nanming.During the 17 years of Chongzhen's reign, party struggles were basically limited to officials and gentry in court and in opposition; with the establishment of Hongguang Dynasty.Warlord forces intervened, and courtiers often used military as their backing, making party struggles more complicated and acute.In a certain sense it can be said.Party struggle was an important reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Since the establishment of the Hongguang Dynasty, there have been disputes between Lifu and Lilu. In essence, it is a struggle between different interest groups for the monopoly position of the new regime.

After Hongguang ascended the throne, the whole country was actually in a state of fragmentation. The Daping, Dashun, and even Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi regimes all faced the problem of winning talents for their own use, and the Hongguang regime was no exception.

In terms of striving for talents, Shi Kefa is relatively sober.When he drafted the imperial edict to supervise the country, the original draft used the words "removing the frontier (referring to the loss of the area under his control during his tenure), rebellion, plan, and private use are not allowed" in the original draft. He believed that "the corruption of state affairs is very .Talent collection should be broad, but it is not possible to still follow the example of the past", delete this sentence.But when it was officially released a day or two later, even Shi Kefa didn't know what was going on.Still issued as it is.

To know.There are only a handful of experienced officials in the country now, so at this time, we should follow the "only talents" formulated by Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period to win over talents, and the minor problems of those talents should be put aside for the time being.

However, Nanming's approach immediately turned away these flawed but capable officials and pushed them to the side of the hostile forces.

However, a group of officials concentrated near Nanjing, a gathering place of talents in Jiangsu and Zhejiang (most of them are Donglin-fushe people) had a wishful plan: on the one hand, take advantage of the fall of the northern capital.Except for a very small number of "death festivals", almost all courtiers surrendered to the Dashun and Daping regimes and became "following thieves and false officials"; official.This can pave the way for self-control of all key points from the center to the localities.

Due to historical reasons, these Donglin-Fushe officials worried that Fu Wang Zhu Yousong's accession to the throne might overturn the case and make him lose political power.However, Zhu Yousong had no choice but to rely on the support of the generals to ascend to the throne of God, thus forming a situation where the generals were conferred with no merit and domineering.The remote control of the government by the military generals caused a major setback to the plot of the Donglin-Passists to monopolize the government. This was originally a bitter fruit they planted themselves.

However, Donglin, who has always claimed to be a clean stream, the backbone of Fushe, never admits that he is selfish, but concentrates his firepower on Ruan Dacheng and others who came back later. Leaving hand in hand, all the little ones entered the court gracefully.Of course, people like Ruan Dacheng are actually on the same level as Donglin-Fushe officials in terms of party struggle.It's just a comparison of who is worse.

In fact, when Hongguang was first established, most of the ministers were honest and gentlemen in the eyes of Donglin-Fushe people.But this situation did not last long, and Jiang Yueguang, Gao Hongtu, Zhang Shenyan, Liu Zongzhou and others were pushed out of the court one after another.But this is not the result of people like Ruan Dacheng overturning the case, it is entirely the result of officials fighting each other for power and profit.

Of course, there is another reason: those ministers who returned home from their official duties did not expect the Taiping Army to go south quickly.They thought that they could live a life of country gentlemen in their hometown or a place of residence (such as Zhang Shenyan) gracefully, and wait for the situation in the court to improve before making a comeback.Leave a backhand who retreats to advance.However, these ministers once again miscalculated.

As a result, in the imperial court, the contradictions among the ministers intensified, and protracted verbal battles were carried out every day, but they ignored state affairs.Some people of insight also feel that the national crisis is at stake and they should abandon their sect views.But such helpful suggestions were immediately submerged in the memorials of mutual criticism.As a result, the Hongguang court has been surviving in the infighting between ministers and warlords, making its debut in the infighting, lingering in the infighting, and not knowing whether it will fall apart in the infighting.

So when Wu Shigong finished reading these "Intelligence Summary", he was determined, and the small court of Nanming in the south had nothing to fear.

Although the current Nanming army is still very strong, Zuo Liangyu has nearly 20 soldiers and horses; Huang Degong has 5000 troops; Gao Jie has 3000 troops, but he has nearly [-] mules and horses; Liu Liangzuo has more than [-] horses , and some southern local troops.

However, the 10,000+ troops and local armed forces arranged by the Daping Army in the south are enough to resist their attack.Besides, the strategic focus of the current Daping Dynasty is not on the Hongguang Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty, but on the side of the Qing army in the north.

After rushing to the capital at that time, the Runing Army also organized chasing troops to chase the Qing army who had left the pass.Because there were not many cavalry and they were busy stabilizing the situation near the capital, in the end the Runing Army did not catch up with the Qing army's large group of troops, and only more than 1 Han people were rescued. (To be continued..)