When Wu Sangui was in Luoyang and discussing countermeasures, Zhao Ming, the regent of the Ming Dynasty, had already returned to Nanjing and began to deal with his affairs.Zhao Ming entered Nanjing surrounded by hundreds of officials.The recovery of Beijing, the suppression of the clan rebellion, and the defeat of the Zhou army that invaded the territory raised Zhao Ming's prestige to the top.However, no matter how high Zhao Ming's prestige is, he is only a regent, and after returning to Nanjing, he still has to salute Zhu Youlang and report state affairs to the emperor.This made Zhao Ming, the regent who held great power, feel quite uncomfortable.At present, as long as the emperor is in Nanjing for a day, nominally, Zhao Ming is not the controller of Nanjing.For this reason, soon after Zhao Ming returned to Nanjing, he immediately hinted at his subordinates to write a letter and suggested that the capital should be returned to Beijing.Now that Beijing has been recovered, does the Ming Dynasty need to return to the old capital?
On this issue, after the rebellion of the clan in Nanjing was put down, many ministers in the court and the central government discussed the matter in private.Zhao Ming originally thought that there should be many people in the government and the opposition who opposed the return of the capital.After all, it means that the political center of the Ming Dynasty will return to Beijing, and Jiangnan will be far away from the political center, and it will have to provide hundreds of thousands of stone rice and various materials for the imperial court every year to maintain the imperial court in Beijing.The ministers of the central government and the local gentry should oppose the relocation of the capital, as they did during the Chengzu dynasty.However, the result was unexpected by Zhao Ming, and the vast majority of voices were in favor of it.This made Zhao Ming not quite understandable, and later after the staff woke up, he figured out what was going on.In recent years, the central government has gradually become stronger, and Zhao Ming's speech is also arbitrary, and a strong central government will inevitably have tight control over the local area, which will restrict the freedom of the local wealthy.With the development of commerce in Jiangnan, many huge wealthy people appeared, and these people hoped to influence the imperial court and control the policies of the imperial court on the one hand, but on the other hand, they did not want to be suppressed by the imperial court and be overmanaged by the imperial court.Then for them, it would be better for the imperial court to move back to Beijing, and they would influence the imperial court by funding officials to remotely control in the south.In this way, the emperor is far away, and the local government can't suppress them, they are at ease, and when the court makes decisions, they can make decisions that are beneficial to them through the officials they support.In addition, the imperial court is still capital, and Cao Yun can be engaged again, and as we all know, the government does not toss, does not engage in engineering, how can officials and businessmen make money.Once this luck is restored, I don't know how much benefit it will reap.Zhao Ming understood that the gentry and merchants in Jiangnan still wanted to return to the era of the Donglin Party.Although the era when the Donglin Party controlled the government, the entire Ming Dynasty was in a predicament, but for the Jiangnan gentry and merchants, they were actually extremely nourishing.Zhao Ming wanted to understand this, so he naturally wanted to send them a sentence, "Think beautifully." ”The gentry of the Ming Dynasty lost the feelings of the ancestors and became egoists, and Zhao Ming felt that he should pay attention to it and strengthen ideological education.In Zhao Ming's view, there is no strong enemy in the north of the Ming Dynasty now, and Beijing is actually not suitable for cooperating with the capital, while in the maritime era, Nanjing is actually more suitable as the capital.The reason why Zhao Ming instructed his henchmen to write a letter and suggested returning the capital was not that Zhao Ming wanted to go to Beijing, but that he wanted to get Zhu Youlang to Beijing, while the imperial court stayed in Nanjing.In this way, the emperor was completely marginalized, and Zhao Ming was the only one in the entire city of Nanjing.In mid-December, Zhao Ming did not let Zhu Youlang spend the New Year in Nanjing, claiming that the Nanjing palace was unsuitable for living after being burned by Zhu Yihai, and the Beijing palace remained intact, and promised to give Zhu Youlang an extra 200,000 yuan of pocket money every year to choose a concubine for him, so he asked people to escort Zhu Youlang back to Beijing, while Zhao Ming stayed in Nanjing with the Ming court on the grounds that the court affairs were complicated.The result disappointed those who were already excited.I thought that the imperial court moved back to Beijing and could start a big family life without scruples, but I didn't want the emperor to leave, but the regent stayed.Seeing off Zhu Youlang, Zhao Ming immediately felt relaxed and began to prepare for a good year.On the occasion of Zhao Ming's happy preparations for the New Year of 1661, thousands of miles away in Dongzhou, the Xincheng Domain ushered in the biggest crisis since landing in Dongzhou.At the beginning of last year, the New City Domain, under the attack of the Spanish and natives, had to abandon the gold mines and retreat north.Zhang Yida led more than 3,000 people to the north for more than 1,000 miles to a bay, and then rebuilt the camp.It's probably around Vancouver, and further north is not suitable for survival.The people of the Xincheng Clan thought that by escaping here and staying away from the Spaniards, they could temporarily avoid the crisis, but they didn't want the Spaniards to continue to the north and track their tracks.If they were discovered by the Spaniards again, not only would the new city domain be destroyed, but the Ming Dynasty's plan to conquer Dongzhou would also suffer a devastating blow, and Zhao Ming's plan to turn the Pacific Ocean into an inland lake and build a barrier against the invasion of Western civilization on the west coast of the Americas was aborted.At this time, in a forest not far from the Xincheng Domain's camp, Ruan Jin squatted on the ground and examined the two corpses.The corpse was wearing a cuirass, an iron helmet, and a musket by his side, clearly a Spanish soldier."
You killed?"
Ruan Jin looked at the three men beside him and asked in a deep voice.A man nodded, licked his lips and said, "No way, if you don't kill them, the camp will definitely be discovered by them again." ”Ruan Jin's face was gloomy, they had already abandoned the gold mine and moved north for more than a thousand miles, not wanting the Spaniards to be in hot pursuit.Now the Spanish soldiers, searching here, means that the Spaniards may have obtained some traces of them, and once they find them, the Spaniards will definitely attack in a big way."
Clean up the body, take the things, follow me back to the camp, and report to the city lord."
Ruan Jin commanded in a deep voice.Several people hurriedly pulled out the armor and clothes of the Spaniards, buried the corpses, and then disappeared into the jungle with muskets.Not far away, two Spanish warships, anchored in the bay.On the beach, Spanish soldiers lit fires and were cooking food, roasting corn and sweet potatoes.By this time, it was getting dark, and the Spanish soldiers sent out to search for them returned to the beach one after another, but two of them never returned."
Your Excellency, Walkbre and Baird haven't come back yet!"
An officer said to the captain.The captain frowned slightly when he heard this, took out the map, and asked, "These two fools, which area are you searching for?"
”"Your Excellency is this area!"
The officer said, pointing to the map.The captain immediately said to the soldiers next to him: "Fox, you go and take a look in the woods in the northeast." ”Several Spanish soldiers could only complain and get up and walk into the woods.When it was getting dark, a group of people came out of the woods and said to the captain: "Your Excellency, they have not been found!
”The captain's gloomy face revealed a hint of surprise, "Brig, you return with the Saint X, I think I found the camp of the Chinese." ”(ask for a commuter pass, recommend, subscribe) ()