Daming: I help my wife be the empress

It has been more than a month since Aunt Zhu controlled Nanjing City in April.

Because the style of the imperial guards is much better than that of the previous officers and soldiers, they have been recognized and supported by the people of Nanjing.

Coupled with the assistance of the Garrison Army and the Gongtun Army later, the control of the Imperial Guard Army has penetrated into the streets and alleys of Nanjing City.

In addition, there were two royal envoys, Lu Chuan and Wang Yan, as a breakthrough point, and it was learned from other people that the fake prince Hongguang was finally handed over to Feng Kezong, the former Jinyiwei accomplice.

So before dark, the officers and men of the Imperial Guard found the house where Feng Kezong and the fake prince were hiding.

But when the final news was reported to Auntie Zhu, it made her frown.

"Wang Zhiming was killed by Feng Kezong? Then Feng Kezong committed suicide?"

"Yes." Liu Wenxiu knelt on one knee, lowered her head, "I am not doing my job well, and I am willing to accept the punishment."

Both the first town and the second town of the imperial guards sent people to search the city, and it was the second town that encountered this incident, so Liu Wenxiu came to report to Auntie Zhu immediately after learning about it.

Auntie Zhu suspected that there was something wrong with it, so she said, "I will discuss your crimes later, first bring the corpse of the fake prince Wang Zhiming to this palace."

Although it has been confirmed that what Lu Chuan and Wang Yan said is a fake prince, she has to see it with her own eyes before she is reconciled.

Hao Guangming could understand Aimee Zhu's complicated feelings for the brothers, so he said, "Are you worried that the people below will kill the real crown prince, and then replace him with other corpses, pretending to be Wang Zhiming?"

"Yes." Auntie Zhu nodded, she was indeed worried.

Now she is not a novice who doesn't understand anything, so she knows very well that for her subordinates, no matter whether it is a fake prince or a real prince, they should not appear before she ascends the throne.

After all, if she really returned to the crown prince, wouldn't these officials and the army who followed her be the target of the crown prince's attack after he succeeds to the throne?

Even if the crown prince is magnanimous and doesn't attack them, he will definitely not give them the same treatment as the current royal army.

What's more, there is already a phenomenon of fanatical worship of Aimee Zhu in the army.

What these people can do is definitely beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

"Among Nanjing officials, some have met Zhu Cihong in recent years, and some went to meet the fake prince Wang Zhiming in March.

You can use these people to identify the body, not too many, three or four people are enough.

After all, you are not trying to make the world believe in something, but mainly to reassure yourself. "

After hearing Hao Guangming's suggestion, Auntie Zhu felt much more at ease, and immediately ordered someone to do it.

Zhu Yousong caused a lot of trouble in March because of a "prince case", and the Manchu court was not peaceful, mainly because some people involved the matter in party struggles to attack political opponents.

There may even be some people who have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty secretly, or those who want to surrender to the Qing Dynasty are contributing to the flames, so that Zhu Yousong knew that Wang Zhiming was a fake prince, but he was not able to kill him.

Of course, there are also a few people who are loyal to Daming among them, hoping to keep the "fake prince" for further identification, so as not to kill them by mistake, such as Huang Degong.

It can even be said that during the Hongguang Dynasty, Huang Degong's memorials were the main reason why Zhu Yousong did not kill Wang Zhiming.

Now that Aimee Zhu controls Nanjing, the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party no longer exist, it's just that there are some people who don't want to recognize her as an empress, and some people with ulterior motives are making trouble.

The power of these people is negligible, and they cannot influence Zhu Yuxi's handling of this matter from the outside.

So, soon the "fake prince" and Feng Kezong's body were brought in front of Aimee Zhu.

At the same time, four officials who had met Zhu Cihong and Wang Zhiming also came.

Aunt Zhu went up to have a look and found that the "false prince" was indeed not Zhu Cihong, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

Afterwards, the four officials also reported to Zhu Yuxi one after another that the deceased was indeed Wang Zhiming, who had previously pretended to be the prince.

As for the other corpse, it was indeed Feng Kezong.

Aimee Zhu also asked several people to be brought in for an autopsy, and it was proved that Wang Zhi was definitely killed by Feng Kezong, and Feng Kezong had indeed committed suicide.

At this point, Aimee Zhu is basically relieved of her losses.

First of all, the possibility of Zhu Cihong being involved in this incident was basically ruled out—if those people with different intentions really found Zhu Cihong, there was no need to use such tortuous tricks, just let Zhu Cihong appear in public in Nanjing City.

Secondly, even if this incident is a conspiracy by people with ulterior motives, the people involved and the scope are very small. Except for the main messenger behind the scenes, most of the real participants are the two royal envoys and Feng Kezong.

This means that even if she thoroughly investigates the matter after she ascends the throne, too many people will not be involved.

Thinking about it, with her current ability and prestige, even if Zhu Cihong really appeared, it might not be able to prevent her from succeeding as empress, let alone a mere fake prince?
If she guessed correctly, then Lu Chuan, Wang Yan, and Feng Kezong probably had their hands in their hands for a long time, so they would take the risk of doing such a stupid thing.

But whether they are active or forced, since they did it, they are not worthy of sympathy.

"Hehe, Lu Chuan and Wang Yan are really not good things. In later generations, they followed Zhao Zhilong and Zhu Guobi to the Qing Dynasty when the city of Nanjing was broken. They even quickly gained the trust of the Qing Dynasty and were quickly promoted."

Aunt Zhu did not speak, but ordered to go back to the palace.

While waiting for the arrest of Wang Zhiming and Feng Kezong, she has already followed Huang Daozhou, Lu Jiude and others to understand all the specific links of tomorrow's enthronement ceremony.

There must be some important matters that she needs to deal with today.

She hastened to deal with it, so she can go back to the old house in Zhulin to rest, because tomorrow she will wake up earlier than usual...
May 25.

The streets and alleys of Nanjing City are decorated with lanterns and festoons.

If the people have the conditions, they will buy a few firecrackers to set off, and if the conditions are not good, they will also get some red paper stickers to show the celebration.

Because all the people in Nanjing know that today is the day when Princess Kunxing, the supervisor of the country, Zhu Yuxi ascended the throne as emperor.

If we say that in the past, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was just a high-ranking and unreachable term to the people, and they didn't care much about who it was.

Then most of the people are happy for Aimee Zhu to succeed to the throne as emperor.

Because Aimee Zhu has done a lot of practical things for the people during the more than a month when she took control of Nanjing, so that the people have actually gained some benefits.

First of all, the law and order situation in Nanjing has been greatly improved. The rich and powerful princes who oppressed the good people, the gangsters on the street, the evil officials and the officers and soldiers who wanted to eat cards have all disappeared.

Especially those Beijing camp officers and soldiers who bowed their knees in front of the powerful and lords, who were slaves and slaves, and in turn oppressed the poor people, were either beheaded, exiled, or dismissed as civilians.

The rest were transformed into garrison troops and industrial garrison troops to maintain law and order in Nanjing together with the imperial guards, and even cleaned up the garbage in Nanjing's streets and alleys once, giving Nanjing a new look.

In addition, the Yangjiyuan, Louzeyuan, and Huimin Pharmacy in Nanjing were either re-established or rectified, and their functions were restored one after another, bringing a lot of convenience to the common people.

At the same time, a fixed porridge point was established outside Nanjing City, so that the refugees who had previously gathered near Nanjing City were basically properly resettled.

In Nanjing today, it is not an exaggeration to say that Vientiane is renewed.

People knew in their hearts that this was all because Auntie Zhu took control of Nanjing City.

Therefore, for Aimee Zhu, the vast majority of people in Nanjing support and love her from the bottom of their hearts—after experiencing the chaos and darkness of the late Ming Dynasty, the people know better about the hard-won life of peace and happiness, and cherish it even more.

Chen Bangyan, who has lived in Nanjing for more than half a year, feels a lot about the changes in the city in just over a month.

In the spring of this year, after he contributed tens of thousands of words to the puppet emperor's "Zhongxing Political Leaders" to no avail, although he was hit hard, he was not reconciled inside.

So he stayed in Nanjing, and under the introduction of a friend, he became a private tutor for a large family.

Unexpectedly, within a few months, I witnessed an unprecedented "coup".

Earlier, Chen Bangyan was quite worried when he suddenly heard that a princess Jian Guo led an army to control Nanjing City.

As a scholar of Confucianism, he, like most scholars, felt that it was not a good thing for a woman to be a regency, and it was likely that Daming would be completely plunged into chaos, with no hope of rejuvenation.

However, the various changes that have taken place in Nanjing City since then undoubtedly show that he was wrong.

When the news came back that Princess Jianguo and Yangzhou had defeated hundreds of thousands of Qing captives, and the whole city of Nanjing fell into carnival, Chen Bangyan completely changed his mind.

He felt that perhaps this Princess Jian Guo could really lead Daming to rejuvenate!
In the past month, he has been looking for an opportunity to get into the sight of Princess Jianguo or her main officials and generals, and to be appointed, but he has never found an opportunity.

However, seeing the defeat of the Qing captives and the improvement of national affairs, he was not as eager to become an official as before.

Knowing that today is the day of great joy for the princess to become the empress, he asked the master's family for leave and went to the street to watch.

The master's family was also planning to go to the street to participate in the celebration of the grand ceremony, so naturally they were willing to give the leave.

Several main streets in the city have been semi-blocked by the army - it is said that in order to celebrate today's main hall, a military parade will be held in the imperial city and in front of the Meridian Gate.

The troops participating in the military parade will come out of the barracks in the northwest corner of Nanjing City, pass through several main streets in the city, and head to the imperial city.

All the armies under Princess Jian Guo will participate.

When Chen Bangyan came near a main street, he found that the street was already full of people, crowded.

After finally finding a place that was easy to watch, he couldn't help looking towards the direction of the imperial city, thinking: at this moment, the first empress of Ming Dynasty should be leading all the civil and military officials to sacrifice to heaven and earth, right?