The comment that Emperor Longwu Zhu Youjian was praised as a talented person by the supporters was a bit exaggerated.

Just think about it, under the constraints of Taizu, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have curbed the royal family and vassal kings to become officials.

From this we can see how great Zhu Youjian, who has no experience in governing, can be?

Besides, if you really have great talent and strategy, you will not tear your face with Zhu Yihai.

Obviously, if Fujian and Shaoxing have a pair of water, they will benefit from each other, and if they are divided, they will harm from each other.

If you can’t even recognize this, how can you start with a brilliant strategy?

However, one thing is certain that Zhu Youjian does have great ambitions and wants to turn the tide and restore the country.

Unfortunately, great ambitions require strong talents to match them, otherwise there will be an idiom called great talent and talent.

This is to be honest. In general, it is generally said that the heart is higher than the sky and the life is thinner than paper.

Zhu Youjian did issue many edicts, and most of them were good policies that benefited the people.

For example, he proposed the policy of eliminating party struggles and "using the polity to the state affairs since Wanli". He also "personally" wrote three articles "Guansu" "gentry", "ruling government" and "scholars", calling on officials in the court to abandon the disputes between the door and work together to restore the Ming Dynasty.

The day after he ascended the throne, he issued an edict to appease all the ministers, and the edict did not investigate any officials who had participated in the party dispute in the past.

For example, he issued an edict to rectify the administration of officials and severely punish corruption, stipulating that "small greed will be spoiled, and big greed will be killed."

For example, when he heard that the military and civilians who were forced to shave their heads by the Qing court were often killed by the Ming army, he issued a special edict saying that "if you have a job, you will be a guest, but if you don't, you will be a refugee", and it is strictly forbidden to commit slaughter indiscriminately.

There are many more. Although most of these are based on the advice of Huang Daozhou and others, rather than from Zhu Youjian himself, it is already very good to be good at accepting advice as an emperor.

Unfortunately, these decrees often cannot leave the palace gate.

The implementation of government decrees requires first local cooperation.

Zhu Youjian was supported for more than a year. Before ascending the throne, he annoyed Chongzhen because the vassal king led troops into the capital, and issued an edict to scold him. He was sentenced to seven years in prison. Where did such a person get the foundation?

Although everyone supported him, this was just a puppet that he supported for his own interests. No one really respected Zhu Youjian's edict.

Originally, as long as Zhu Youjian was addicted to wine and sex like Emperor Hongguang, everyone would be at peace and consider it to be a tablet.

Unfortunately, with the idea of ​​this tablet, he actually wanted to recover the lost territory and learn from Wu's battle for the Northern Expedition.

Now, these supporters can't sit still.

Especially the Zheng Zhilong brothers, the purpose of supporting Zhu Youjian was to establish a flag and establish a force so that they could bargain with the Qing court in the future, so how could they have the desire to revive the Northern Expedition?

It was only ten days after Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, but he issued an edict to kill Ma Dechang, an envoy sent by the Qing Dynasty to recruit surrender, indicating that he was irreconcilable in the Qing Dynasty.

Didn’t this cut off the connection between the Zheng Zhilong brothers and the Qing court?

How could the Zheng Zhilong brothers not regard Zhu Youjian as a thorn in his eyes and a thorn in his flesh?

Zhu Youjian also proposed to change the direction of the court's governance from "puffing the bandits" (suppressing peasant uprisings) to "immunity" (anti-Qing), and appointed Jin Sheng, Yang Tinglin, He Tengjiao and others to accommodate the remaining troops of Li Zicheng's peasant army. He repeatedly planned to send troops to the north, but were blocked by the Zheng brothers, which became empty talk.

That's not all, Zhu Youjian also has to take the imperial guards in person.

This is a joke. The Zheng brothers wanted to be Cao Cao and took the emperor to command the princes. The emperor personally led the army to fight. Who did they take?

There is no doubt that the Zheng brothers must stop them.

But the Zheng brothers did not expect that the remaining troops of the peasant army, who had always been looked down upon by them, showed extraordinary combat effectiveness when they joined forces with the Ming army to resist the Qing army.

They blocked the 100,000 Qing troops heading south on the battlefield in Jiangxi.

The situation was very good. Emperor Longwu, who was unwilling to waste his time, finally decided to lead the army to escape the manipulation of the Zheng brothers.

He also proposed a grand strategy for the situation at that time.

The core of the strategy is to personally lead the army and enter the Jiangxi area where the Ming and Qing dynasties were fiercely fighting, connecting He Tengjiao, Hunan in the west, controlling Zheng Zhilong, Fujian in the east, and relying on Guangdong to control the overall situation.

If you succeed in Jiangxi, you will use the troops of Shaoxing Prefecture in eastern Zhejiang to restrain the Qing army, and then order He Tengjiao's troops to leave Hubei, go east to the Yangtze River, and sweep across the south of the Yangtze River.

Look, it's really amazing and feasible.

The question is, which one can Zhu Youjian command?

But he was immersed in his own imagination and left Fuzhou passionately at the end of last year. Ten days later, he arrived in Jianning and began to prepare to move westward into Ganzhou.

The old minister Huang Daozhou advised Zhu Youjian not to fight in person. He saw that the Zheng family was still in control of the army and the troops were cowardly watching. After Huang Daozhou, who was over 60 years old, had no choice but to make another move, that is, to ask for help from the Qingtai Dynasty.

This advice was adopted by Zhu Youjian. In Zhu Youjian's opinion, no matter who is in charge of the Qingtai Dynasty, it is his nephew, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren (according to the genealogy, Zhu Youjian was the ancestor of Emperor Hongguang), and it was their duty to ask the Qingtai Dynasty to come to support him.

Poor Zhu Youjian personally led the army, but he really did.

Less than 10,000 people followed him westward.

These people are not the main troops assigned by the Zheng brothers.

Instead, Huang Daozhou and others spent all their money and raised 20,000 taels of silver to raise, and many of them were joined by local charity officials.

When Huang Daozhou and Zhu Youjian were crying, Zhu Youjian had nothing to give, and only gave Huang Daozhou a blank letter of appointment.

In Zhu Youjian's view, his edicts would be everywhere, and all the subjects would worship him.

But in fact, it is just a piece of waste paper. Needless to say, it is in Yingtian Mansion. Even in Fujian, no one takes it seriously.

Huang Daozhou repeatedly told Zhu Youjian, "It is better to compete with the king and his ministers than to sit and wait for the death. I am a minister and take the lead in the way as an example for the ministers. However, your Majesty must not be too hasty when he goes there. After the old minister seeks reinforcements, he will join forces to fight with Jianlu."

But Zhu Youjian's blood was already swollen at this time, and his mind was full of the Holy Lord, who was invincible, recovered the lost territory, and revived the Ming Dynasty.

How could he really care about Huang Daozhou’s advice?

But, can we really defeat the Qing army so easily?

Obviously it is impossible. The Zheng brothers were too lazy to object, and they used only one move to control Zhu Youjian!

That is, cut off troops and food!

At the right time, it was Duoduo who led his troops south to defend Hangzhou. The Qing army in Hangzhou reinforced Jiangxi. The situation on the battlefield in Jiangxi was instantly reversed, and the Ming army and the peasant army coalition were defeated in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Youjian, who had not yet entered Jiangxi, was defeated before he could hear the wind. He beat his chest and stamped his feet, and while he looked up to the sky, he shouted, "God's will is not a crime of war." He ordered his return.

At this time, the Qing army invaded Fujian.

Li Chengdong from the West Road went to Jianyang from Cheng'an to Jianyang and advanced to Jianning.
Chapter completed!