Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 318

To be honest, Zhao Bing was still soft-hearted when he was willing to go to the court this time. The little emperor entrusted the "world" to himself. He could not just watch and let the court collapse.?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

In addition, Zhao Bing knew that the situation faced by the Song Dynasty at this time was very similar to that of the Southern Ming regime after the demise of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Chongzhen was on the Coal Mountain, but the Ming Dynasty was different from Song Dynasty. The princes were kept in their own yards, and they were kept in the wild. Hearing that Chongzhen died, the vassal kings scattered across the country and the south immediately became alive. The kings led their respective forces to fight for leadership and killed each other in the dark.

During this period, in order to please the generals in charge of guns, the vassal kings of the Southern Ming Dynasty began to delegate power, especially delegating financial power to the army, allowing them to collect military pay at their own garrisons, which directly caused the central government's control over the army to become increasingly weak, and formed a large number of local separatist warlords. For their own interests, the warlords attacked each other and resisted the Qing army's southward advance. The situation of the four additional towns in Jianghuai was particularly prominent. They were erratic about the central government's decision-making. The central commissioner Shi Kefa shouted "kill the heads of the four towns and hung them on the national gates", which shows how bad the situation was at that time.

The army had almost no loyalty and sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty, and became a private bargaining chip for the warlords. Finally, Zuo Liangyu, who came down from the north, headed south to the rich Jiangnan and led the most fierce battle between the warlords. The last bit of the spirit of the Ming Dynasty was exhausted. After that, the Qing army seized the opportunity of exhaustion of the Southern Ming army and fought in the Southern Ming Dynasty. Along the way, the Southern Ming army and the peasant army surrendered to make a living. After all, the Southern Ming army had no sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty at that time. Under such circumstances, the two troops of different backgrounds chose to serve as the ones who would feed the food, and became a leader who was willing to be a pawn of the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing army from Henan to Pingjiang, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, and from Shaanxi to Sichuan, the Qing army heading south was like a flat ground, and the resistance it encountered was almost negligible. The Qing army also increased exponentially like a snowball, with tens of thousands of cavalry entering the pass, and there were a million troops in just two years. After the Qing army killed King Fu, King Lu, King Tang, and King Tang one after another. The Nanming, which had originally had a million troops, collapsed and collapsed. Without the natural danger of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, the wealth source of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the grains of Huguang, and the Nanming court in Sichuan, there was no chance of a complete turnaround. The only bloodline of the Ming Dynasty was left in Guangxi, the only lineage of King Gui in Guangxi was only struggle, struggle, struggle!

Thinking about the 'learning of the past', Zhao Bing felt that since this was the case, he would rather control his destiny. At the moment, everyone stared at each other like a black-eyed chicken, of course they could not act without action, but it did not mean that there was no chance in the future. At this moment, these people in the court have not formed a new pattern after Chen Yizhong left, and these people have persisted until now, which means that they are not all speculators, at least they still have the emperor in their hearts, hoping to revive the Song Dynasty.

For example, Zeng Yuanzi, who regarded himself as an enemy, did not go abroad like Chen Yizhong when he was defeated in Leizhou, nor did he surrender to Mongolia like he abandoned his king in Lin'an. He knew that he might be punished and still went to Weizhou Island to look for the court, which shows that he was still a little honest. Although Zhang Shijie, who was not in harmony with him, had a little slight mind and a little stupid mind, his loyalty to the Song Dynasty had not changed. He always led troops to fight in the east and west, maintaining *******.

Of course, this is also a big gamble. The bet is the national destiny of the Song Dynasty and its own life. However, Zhao Bing must endure it at the moment. Tolerate their exclusion and resistance to themselves, tolerate them regarding themselves as nothing, to hide their "bold temper" and their "ability" to see the future, to see them make mistakes, and to wait for the opportunity to come...

After calculation, the Imperial Heaven Supervision believed that five days later was an auspicious day and the throne ceremony could be performed. Everyone had no objection, so they planned to hold the ceremony on the second day of the fifth month, and ordered the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Works to prepare immediately. But this also means that Zhao Bing would guard the emperor's brother for five days first. Although he did not need to burn incense and paper at all times, he would kneel in front of the spirit. He also had to live in the side hall, Xiaoyi Suzhai, burn incense at all times, and lead the ministers to worship. Now that he could not leave the palace, he ordered the guards waiting outside the palace to be stationed, and no orders were allowed to enter and leave without authorization, while he moved into the side hall.

Thinking about this palace, it was a wasteland two months ago, and then he rushed to build dozens of palaces, and there were no one here, so the conditions were naturally not good. However, he had slept on the construction site and did not feel that it was. Fortunately, the house was spacious enough, with curtains separated into two, with tables, chairs, couches and living utensils. But Wang De did not allow His Highness to use it, but ordered a set to be brought from the boat. Not only did the food and drinks be prepared by the chef in the mansion, and after he could send the guards to the gate of the palace, he personally handed them to the small yellow gate where he was attending, and he would give them to His Highness to eat.

"There is no need to be so cautious, right?" Zhao Bing realized that crying was also a very physically consuming job. He had been hungry for a long time, but Wang De still waited for half an hour to let himself eat after tasting it. This made him very upset and licked his lips and said.

"Your Highness, before leaving, Fushou repeatedly reminded that all the things in the palace are not allowed to be used, and all the food and drinks must be from the mansion, and they must be tasted by others before they can be used. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, he will chop my head with his own hands without the Queen Mother's order." Wang De said with a smile.

"If you want to harm me, there are many ways to do it. Ni Liang was blocked outside the palace. Now, as long as you send a dead soldier to rush in, can we just stop him?" Zhao Bing stared at the food box and said with a smile.

"Your Highness, since we moved here, Jiang Dutong is outside the door. Anyone who wants to rush in must pass his level first." Wang De pointed outside the door and said softly.

"Oh, let me prepare another meal on the boat and hand it over to Jiang Dutong tomorrow." Zhao Bing looked out the window and saw that there was indeed someone flashing and said with a chuckling.

"Your Highness, I've written it down." Wang De nodded, and estimated that the time was about to be over. He brought the food in the food box and put it on the table.

"Oh, if he doesn't catch a spy next time, he will starve him for three days first, and then put such a good dish in front of him to see if he can do it!" Zhao Bing saw that there were only four vegetarian dishes on the table, but they were very exquisitely cooked. He picked up the chopsticks and said while eating.

"Your Highness, eat slowly, you must have half left!" Wang De hurriedly stopped him when he saw His Highness pretending to be CD again.

"This... why is this?" Zhao Bing was stunned when he heard this and asked in confusion.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next