If the top ten tragic figures were selected at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Donglin boss Qian Qianyi should be able to rank first.

Qian Qianyi was born in a wealthy family and had a good family background. In addition, Lao Qian was indeed very smart and had a good academic performance. At a young age, he became a sensational figure in the Nanzhili area. Lao Qian did not disappoint everyone's expectations. When he was twenty-eight years old, he was still a Jinshi. Lao Qian naturally entered the Hanlin Academy and became an editor, that is, a senior bachelor's preparatory class. If Lao Qian was a person like Zhang Juzheng, he would have been low-key for more than ten years, accumulated strength and became famous all the time. However, Lao Qian had intelligence and no political talent. A young Jinshi who had just entered the industry dared to get involved in the party struggles. In the end, he was framed by Zhou Yanru and was still in prison for a while. After he was out of prison, he could not be the official, so he could only return to Nanzhili in shame and devote himself to the mountains and rivers.

If it were in peacetime, people like Lao Qian would have been ordinary for a lifetime, and after their death, they would be a famous poet or writer in history books, etc. However, Lao Qian was lucky enough to encounter a dynasty change every hundreds of years. After the emperor was hanged in the 17th year of Chongzhen, Lao Qian once again ushered in a turning point in his fate.

Qian Qianyi wanted to support King Lu when the Donglin Party was without a soldier, but was slapped in the face by Ma Shiying and other eunuchs. If Qian Qianyi was a backbone figure, you could not become an official and then live in seclusion in your hometown in Changshu. However, Lao Qian was still very fame and fame, and what he wanted most in his life was to enter the cabinet. So after Emperor Hongguang ascended the throne, Qian Qianyi came out of the mountain to become the Minister of Rites.

If Qian Qianyi was a figure, now that the country was in danger, he should stand up to bridge the division between the Donglin Party and the eunuch Party, contact his disciples and old friends, and start preparing for the Northern Expedition. However, Lao Qian was still an indecisive master. After being inspired by several friends, he caused three major cases in the Southern Ming Dynasty. Finally, Hou Fangyu was asked to persuade Zuo Liangyu and prepare to clear the emperor.

In fact, without Zuo Liangyu's interference, the Southern Ming Dynasty could have fought with the Qing army going south in Xuzhou. Not to mention whether it could win, it would at least give the court some preparation time. However, in order to deal with Zuo Liangyu, Ma Shiying had no choice but to mobilize the four towns in Jiangbei to deploy defenses along the Yangtze River to prevent Zuo Liangyu, resulting in the strong city of Yangzhou being taken down in one day.

After Yangzhou was captured, Emperor Hongguang and Ma Shiying fled. Qian Qianyi had no choice but to kneel outside the city to welcome the Qing army into the city in heavy rain. At this time, we can also defend Qian Qianyi, saying that he sacrificed his reputation to protect them for the lives of millions of people in Nanjing. However, the next thing "the water is too cold" and "itting scalp" completely made Qian Qianyi a laughing stock at the time. Until then, Qian Qianyi was only in a personal moral loss, but from the beginning of his acceptance of the Qing Dynasty's recruitment, Qian Qianyi was forever assigned to the traitor party.

In terms of family and country justice, Qian Qianyi was far inferior to his concubine Liu Rushi. Although Liu Rushi had a bad background, he could stand up in times of crisis, sell his family property to support the rebel army, and persuade Qian Qianyi to contact his disciples and former officials to support the anti-Qing cause. This insight is much stronger than Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi came to Beijing with hope, thinking that he could give a Grand Secretary with his reputation as a boss Donglin. However, he thought that the Qing Dynasty only needed Qian Qianyi's reputation, so he only gave him the title of Minister of Rites, so he asked him to edit books. Seeing this ending, Qian Qianyi regretted coming to join the Qing Dynasty. After staying for less than half a year, he resigned from his post and returned to his hometown in Changshu due to his poor health.

At this time, Qian Qianyi was already sixty-four years old and was in his sixties. He was about to return to his hometown and lived in seclusion. However, after returning home, he saw that his wives, concubines and children were not around, and the family was moved empty. The family left behind said that it was the son-in-law who came to take the old lady's family to Guangdong.

Qian Qianyi hated his cheap son-in-law, King Chu, and had already issued a notice to sever his relationship with his daughter. When his eldest wife and a few concubines ignored him, he jumped into the bastard King Chu, Qian Qian was so angry that he sneered and cursed.

When Liu Rushi heard about it, he felt a move. This was an opportunity. Now there are only two emperors in the south. Liu Rushi, who made up his mind, tried his best to persuade Qian Qianyi to go to Guangdong.

Qian Qianyi is actually a scholar with no idea. He is a little afraid of death, a little bit absent from the officialdom, and a little bit glossy. He was very opposed to this at the beginning when Liu Rushi said this. At that time, when Hongguang gave the marriage, he had already cut off his relationship with his daughter. Now he is so embarrassed to go to the son-in-law? But Liu Rushi's words dispelled his concerns, that is, with his prestige, identity and status, he is likely to enter the cabinet in Guangdong.

Entering the cabinet was Qian Qianyi's lifelong resentment, but fate was joking with him. He was always on the verge of entering the cabinet. During the Chongzhen period, he was one step away from the Hongguang period, and he thought he could enter the cabinet when he went to Beijing, but he didn't expect that the Qing Dynasty had no feelings for him. Qian Qianyi started to move when he heard Liu Ru say this. The King of Chu was not inferior to orthodox, and the Donglin Party he represented controlled public opinion and could build momentum for the King of Chu. I believe that the bastard King of Chu could know his use, and it would be natural to enter the cabinet when it was time to enter the cabinet. Qian Qianyi, who had made up his mind, immediately took Liu Rushi to Guangzhou and defected to his bastard son-in-law Zhu Hongsan.

However, when he arrived in Guangzhou, Qian Qianyi was disappointed. The quota of the cabinet of the Shenwu regime in Guangzhou was full, and he still had his place there. However, Zhu Hongsan was still good to Qian Qianyi. After all, he was his father-in-law. He built a separate house for Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi in Beicheng, so he didn't have to go to Dongcheng to meet his original wife (Zhu Hongsanyu: Actually, I want to play with Liu Rushi more conveniently!).

Qian Qianyi settled in Guangzhou like this, but his appointment was delayed. Because Qian Qianyi had already had a quarrel with his daughter about Liu Rushi, and he proposed to sever his relationship with his daughter, but now he is going to beg for his daughter with his shamelessness. Even Qian Qianyi cannot do it, but Qian Qianyi has no choice but to ask for an old acquaintance Chen Zizhuang.

Chen Zizhuang was a Qingliu back then, and Tianran had a common language with the Donglin Party and other shit-makers. He had a few friends with Qian Qianyi when he was in Nanjing. Of course, Qian Qianyi was at the peak of his time, and he could see the little Chen Zizhuang there, but now he is under someone else's roof, and he has no choice but to come to ask for an official position.

What Qian Qianyi didn't expect was that Chen Zizhuang met him enthusiastically and patted his chest to speak for him in front of the emperor. As expected, the order for the resumption came down a few days later and ordered Qian Qianyi to serve as the chief military aircraft of the newly established Military Affairs Office. At first, Qian Qianyi did not like this small fifth-rank official position at all, but after work, he found that the importance of this position was simply a copy of the Silijian. Qian Qianyi, who was valued, was very grateful to Chen Zizhuang and used his rights to help the Guangdong delegation several times when the Huguang faction and the Guangdong faction fought for power.

This period was the honeymoon period between Qian Qianyi and Guangdong School, but what Chen Zizhuang didn't know was that tigers always had to grow up. As Qian Qianyi gained a foothold in Guangdong, he began to have requirements for a higher position.

When Qian Qianyi took advantage of his privilege to control military operations and knew that Jin Shenghuan from Jiangxi had hope, Qian Qianyi keenly grasped that this was his opportunity to enter the cabinet. Qian Qianyi immediately wrote a letter to his friend Jiang Yueguang, asking him to promote Jin Shenghuan's anyway.

Although the success of the Jiangxi incident was not all due to Jiang Yueguang, Jiang Yueguang did play an important role here, so when the good news came to Guangdong, Qian Qianyi's status also rose, and even in the officialdom, there were calls for Qian Qianyi to enter the cabinet.

At this time, Chen Zizhuang discovered that Qian Qianyi, who was a bullshit a year ago, had grown to the point of threatening him, so Huang Yingxiu came forward to suppress Qian Qianyi.

However, Chen Zizhuang still overestimated Qian Qianyi's moral level. When Lao Qian found that he and the Guangdong faction had become enemies from friends, he went directly to find the Guangdong faction's mortal enemy Huguang faction to help. The condition for Huguang faction Ma Mingyuan was to knock down Chen Zizhuang and then take Ma Mingyuan to take over. Naturally, Huguang faction had to arrange for Qian Qianyi to enter the cabinet.

What Qian Qianyi didn't know was that he was also used by Ma Mingyuan. Ma Mingyuan and Emperor Zhu Hongsan had been with each other for more than 20 years. When Zhu Hongsan was seventy or eight years old, he knew the methods of this bastard emperor, so Ma Mingyuan could still guess what Zhu Hongsan wanted to do next.

Now Jiangxi and Fujian have both returned to Emperor Shenwu, and the Qing army in Huguang has retreated to Wuchang, which is a great opportunity to counterattack Nanjing. In addition, the combat effectiveness of the Guangdong New Army, it is likely to be successful in restoring Nanjing. Guangzhou is very prosperous and wealthy, but its political status is far less important than Nanjing. It can be seen from the simple imperial palace built by Emperor Shenwu Zhu Hongsan in Guangzhou City that the emperor did not plan to stay here in Guangzhou for a long time.

But after returning to Nanjing, it was the base camp of the Donglin Party. Although the Donglin Party has been destroyed due to war in the north, its foundation is still there. If you want to gain a foothold in Nanzhili, you must win over the Donglin Party. At this time, Qian Qianyi, who is the boss of Donglin, will be used.

Ma Mingyuan estimated that even if he didn't help, the emperor would be likely to let Qian Qianyi enter the cabinet after a while. So why not do it without going with the flow? So when Qian Qianyi found Ma Mingyuan to work together to deal with the Guangdong faction, Ma Mingyuan patted his chest and promised that as long as he became the chief prime minister, Qian Qianyi would enter the cabinet.
Chapter completed!