Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 340
How to deal with it?

"Fu Wang is meritorious!"

Yang Chao made it clear.

"Your Majesty died, the crown prince disappeared, King Fu supervised the country is a mature and prudent act, and the stability of Jiangnan depends entirely on King Fu!"

Yang Chao added again.

Came to Huai'an quietly, and Lu Jiude, who met Yang Chao, immediately became grateful.

It can be said that Fu Wang was able to supervise the country. It can be said that he planned it alone. If Fu Wang did not die well, he, the eunuch, would definitely have no good results.

"I don't know what His Royal Highness wants King Fu to do?"

Lu Jiude is very smart. He didn't ask the prince for questioning, but directly asked Yang Chao. It was as if the civil servants in Nanjing were arguing with each other, and he had already gone to the generals Huang Degong and Gao Jie. He knew very well what to say at this time. It was Yang Chao who converted the numbers.

Yang Chao was not polite to him either: "Of course King Fu can no longer supervise the country."

Lu Jiude hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness Fu has no intention of supervising the country. He just puts the overall situation at the top of the list. Now that the crown prince has returned to the throne, His Royal Highness should supervise the country."

Yang Chao nodded and said, "King Fu is coming to welcome you!"

Let Fu Wang come to welcome you!

At this time, there were still many people waiting and watching, because they were tied to King Fu, and if King Fu did not make a statement, they could not make a statement. If King Fu came to greet him, it would be a statement.

Lu Jiude gritted his teeth, since King Fu intends to surrender, there is no need to put on airs, just come to greet him, keep his attitude to the lowest, and it is good to have a good death in the end.

"Then civil and military officials?"

Lu Jiude asked again, he was looking at how Yang Chao would treat civil and military officials.

Yang Chao said: "All officials should not move lightly when they are in their positions."

Lu Jiude was completely relieved. Yang Chao was planning to acquiesce to the current situation and not to play purge anymore. If the civil and military followers of King Fu could not move, King Fu would naturally not move, and so would Lu Jiude.

Lu Jiude had been in charge of the army for a long time, and he planned to plot Han Zanzhou's guarding eunuch position, but now it seems that he can't move, but it's not a bad idea to seek a Bingbi eunuch, after all, the crown prince went south without a single eunuch with him.

So he also planned to fight for himself: "Our family intends to assist His Highness the Crown Prince, do you have the honor?"

Yang Chao smiled and said, "How does Eunuch Lu want to help?"

Lu Jiude said: "Our family is willing to be a small official next to His Highness."

Yang Chao nodded: "It just so happens that His Royal Highness lacks a eunuch holding a pen, and I think Eunuch Lu is very suitable."

Lu Jiude hurriedly said: "Our family thank His Highness for not giving up, and thank you Lord Yang for your support."

Yang Chao said: "Elder Lao Lu, let His Royal Highness Fu cross the river as soon as possible, the prince will leave immediately, arrive in Guazhou within ten days, and arrive at Longjiang Pass within fifteen days. King Fu must accompany him across the river, and all the civil and military officials Just meet and drive at Longjiang Pass!"

Lu Jiude responded: "Our family obeys orders."

Afterwards, Lu Jiude visited the crown prince again, wept bitterly at the crown prince's feet, and told the late emperor's misfortune, wishing he could go with the late emperor, the crown prince comforted him, and he was relieved. Guaranteed not to be careful in the end, and then went down to the south to operate steadily.

Yang Chao felt relieved at this time, the general situation has been settled!
This operation finally received results. Although it failed to save Chongzhen and the Ming Dynasty, it was not a complete failure to stabilize Nanming first.

Stability maintenance comes first.

Lu Jiude returned to Nanjing soon. The old eunuch really worked hard. He rode a fast horse, braver than civil servants, galloped all the way, and returned to Nanjing in only three days. After conveying the prince's attitude, he not only let Fu Wang is relieved, and those civil servants who follow Fu Wang are also relieved.

The Donglin Party feels that they have won a complete victory, and that King Fu will not be the emperor, so they feel at ease, and they are not afraid that King Fu will settle accounts after autumn.

Now what they were thinking about was how to get the most power from the crown prince, so they crossed the river one by one. Although Yang Chao let all the civil and military officials stay at Longjiang Pass, some wanted to take a shortcut and couldn't wait to go north.

Among them, Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, was the most active.

At the end of May, Qian Qianyi greeted him in Yangzhou. After paying a visit to the Crown Prince, he paid a private visit to Yang Chao.

He held a sumptuous banquet and brought his concubine Kou Baimen to accompany him. During the banquet, Kou Baimen was asked to sit beside Yang Chao, and she was asked to sing a song to cheer him up, and he was asked to pour wine for Yang Chao. Kou Baimen sat a little far away. After a while, he glared and scolded, and asked Kou Baimen to sit next to Yang Chao.

It could be seen that Kou Baimen was not happy, and after drinking and eating, he left Yang Chao to rest. Yang Chao excused that he was busy with military affairs, and Qian Qianyi immediately hinted that his concubine could accompany Yang Chao, which made Yang Chao feel cold. I dare not accept it anymore.

Qian Qianyi's character is just like this, Yang Chao knows it, but he didn't expect it to be so bad that he could even sell his own woman, which is beyond the bottom line. Fortunately, he broke up Liu Rushi by accident. and him, otherwise he might make Liu Rushi come out to laugh.

What Yang Chao didn't know was that in the original history, in order to seek an official position, Qian Qianyi actually asked Liu Rushi to come out to accompany his guests, and it was Ruan Dacheng who was extremely despised by Liu Rushi and others.

Qian Qianyi is not a good person, but his literary talents are excellent. Yang Chao has read some of his articles, and his writing is very powerful.

"The towers and boats are raging in the sun and the three rivers are rushing, and the stone horses are whistling in the nine regions." "Wandering souls in the black water cry on the grassland, and war ghosts in the white mountains cry to the beard." "The ditch is filled with karst meat, and the beard hangs on the pole, how can it fly away."

The so-called poetry is born from the heart, who can write such majestic poems, who would believe that he would be a traitor without integrity?

But people are complicated, and Wang Jingwei also wrote a strong line of "leading into one, living up to the boy's head".

Maybe when he wrote poems, he was really full of stamina, but when he was threatened with death, he couldn't muster the courage to resist. Maybe before he accepted the test, he himself believed that he was a loyal minister. Read a hypocritical literati who can deceive even his own heart.

Yang Chao doesn't want to comment on Qian Qianyi's character. He doesn't care about personal morality. Politics is something that good people can't handle. Yang Chao doesn't think he is a bad person, but sometimes political struggles It was unbearable for him. For example, when he was in Zhejiang, he felt very disgusted when he saw tens of thousands of ordinary people fighting between wealthy families and civil officials.

As for a truly pure person, how can he treat these dirty things and let him play around? The so-called traitorous officials should be even more treacherous. It is very passable.

But what really made Yang Chao willing to associate with Qian Qianyi was not his poems and songs, let alone his concubine Kou Baimen, but his status. This old man is the leader of the Donglin Party. It is bound to fail to get around the Donglin Party, and if you don't have a good relationship with the Donglin Party, you may have to fall into endless party disputes. People like the Donglin Party are really not afraid of death when they fight.

What Yang Chao wants is stability, so he refuses to fight. If he really wants to suppress these people, he must be in power to stabilize the situation, and even wait until the day when the Northern Expedition succeeds and the world is unified again.

What's more, the Donglin Party is still firmly supporting the Prince faction. Supporting the Prince means supporting Yang Chao, and there is no reason to drive away the allies.

But when Qian Qianyi came to see him, it was obvious that he wanted to become an official again, but could Yang Chao really use him?

Can you really not use him?

If you can't be an official as the leader of the Donglin Party, I am afraid that the Donglin Party will still not quit, and I am afraid that there will still be fights in the court. In Yang Chao's view, the fight is meaningless, even to the extreme. One faction in the court was thoroughly cleaned, and only one faction remained. As long as there was no infighting, Li Zicheng might not be able to enter Beijing.

Now the Nanjing cabinet is basically controlled by people from Donglin. There are only a very few people who are not from the Donglin Party, such as Ma Shiying who guards Fengyang, and some are neutrals like Shi Kefa, but most of these neutrals also sympathize with Donglin. Not to mention the Donglin Party members, who consider themselves gentlemen, have little ability and have failed in political struggles one after another, but they have a good reputation and control public opinion.

So Yang Chao actually already had a plan in mind. Since he was willing to go to Qian Qianyi's banquet, he actually made a plan to use Qian Qianyi in the future. Yang Chao didn't need to come forward at all, as long as he didn't object, people from Donglin would speak up for him, and the crown prince would just follow suit and agree.

Yang Chao just lost a favor in vain.

On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month, the crown prince arrived in Guazhou, and King Fu greeted him as promised.

Like Lu Jiude, he lay down at the prince's feet and wept bitterly, expressing his nostalgia for the former emperor and waiting for the flowers that the crown prince waited for to wither. Publicly emphasizing the merits of Fu Wang in front of everyone, he took up the heavy responsibility of supervising the country when the dragons in the south of the Yangtze River were leaderless, and made great contributions to the country.

The crown prince's public expression made Fu Wang Zhu Yousong completely relieved, and followed the prince's side step by step.

There is already a dragon boat prepared by Nanjing waiting in Guazhou. To be honest, this boat was not originally prepared for the prince, but was prepared by civil servants to go to Guangxi to pick up King Gui. As a result, King Fu and the warlords took the lead, so the boat was useless. Used it for the crown prince.

The ship sailed directly to Longjiang Pass, and the crown prince told the six ministries and cabinet officials who greeted him again that all the ministers had meritorious service, and they all stayed in their original positions, so that they could continue to fulfill their duties.

He reiterated time and time again that he would not disturb the officialdom, reassuring the officials, and the crown prince's name of benevolence and righteousness was also publicized.

Some officials even praised it on the spot, and suggested that the Crown Prince pardon the world to show benevolence and righteousness.

Yang Chao denied this on the spot, just kidding, grasping that most of the people in the prison are villains, why should the emperor ascend the throne, marry a wife, and have a child, so these villains should be released to celebrate.

In particular, many murderers can be released because of this incident. Yang Chao does not agree with the amnesty under the ancient law.

For example, certain homicides that are indeed justifiable can be forgiven, such as Yang Zhi's beheading of Niu Er, the emperor can give a special amnesty, but this special is definitely not to celebrate the royal celebration, but because of the popular will.

(End of this chapter)