Liandao, the only place to transport southern money and grain to Dadu by the Mongolian Yuan, was built here in the Ming Dynasty, and was under the jurisdiction of Huai'an Guard.

Chen Tingyang's navy was stationed on Liandao. Since the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, he has been in Liandao for two years. His navy now has 216 large and large sea boats, more than 100 artillery pieces, more than 1,000 firearms, and more than 4,800 sailors.

In his official document to Lu Zhenfei of Caoyuan last year, Chen Tingyang said that he could transport hundreds of thousands of stones of grain from the north at one time, and asked Lu Zhenfei and Nan to support him in expanding the navy, raising 20,000 people to concise it, and transporting money and grain to the capital, and retreating to the river and practice war.

Because the canal in Shandong in the north was attacked by the rebels, the canal transport was interrupted from time to time, Lu Zhenfei intended to transport sea. However, the situation was developing too fast, and the sudden riot of the farmers who carried the river not only made the Huaiyang area "thieves", but Lu Zhenfei himself also became a prisoner, and there was no way to talk about shipping money and grain to Beijing.

On the southern capital, Donglin recommended Zheng Hongkui as the general Caojiang. Zheng's troops had several warships, so they would definitely not support Chen Tingyang's expansion of the army in Haizhou.

Now, the Nandao Navy, who is not concerned about the South, has become an ally of the Huai Army, and the money and grain supply are provided by the Huai Army. It is also called the Donghai Navy in the Huai Army. If there is any relationship with the Ming Dynasty, it may be that the Ming army is still under the banner of the Ming army.

Among the navy officers and soldiers, except for hundreds of old Huai soldiers from Dongjiang Town, most of them were Huai people recruited by Chen Tingyang on the coast of Huaiyang in the past two years. Most of them were Haizhou and Yancheng.

Because it is mostly because of the Huai army, Chen Tingyang's army did not have much resistance to the Huai army. Perhaps the generals were still loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but the lower-level officers and soldiers had no good impression of the Ming Dynasty, because they were always bullied by "officials and soldiers".

The one who bullied the Shen tribe was Yao Wenchang, the general of Liu Zeqing.

When the news of Yao Wenchang's beheading reached Liandao, all the navy officers and soldiers were excited, saying that Yao's thief deserved the crime.

Chen Tingyang was a person who kept his promises. He had an agreement with the Huai Army Governor Lu Wenzong, and the second town of the Huai Army entered Haizhou. In addition, the Lu Governor Lu attached great importance to the navy and happily expressed his full support for the expansion of the navy, so he wanted silver and people to give people. Therefore, even though he knew that blocking the Haizhou area would make it impossible for Jiangnan to know the real situation in the north, Chen Tingyang still implemented this order.

However, because the officers and soldiers of the East China Sea Navy still wore Ming army uniforms and used the Ming army's banner, the intercepted Ming Dynasty officials thought they were just intercepted by the officers and soldiers, but they did not know that they had just left the "guillotine mouth" and fell into the "triad mouth".

Lu Si gave Zuo Pan An, Chen Tingyang's secret order did not mean to kill these fleeing officials, because Lu Si was sure of the integrity of these officials.

It is understandable that both Chinese people and Chinese regimes change dynasties.

But if you kneel down to the alien race in Manzhou as traitors, you must not.

In fact, there were not many officials fleeing south through the sea route, only 20%. About 50% of the Ming Dynasty officials who followed Li Zicheng to the west, and the remaining 30% went from Henan and Shandong to south.

After all, not everyone can withstand the bumps at sea.

The day after the Qing army entered Beijing, a large number of Ming Dynasty officials began to flee to Beijing. For this reason, Dorgon, the regent of Manchuria, issued an edict saying, "I saw that officials went south recently and endured the bandits, but went on to Qingming Festival for a long time, which I don't understand."

After the order was issued, the former commander of the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Luo Yangxing, who was now the governor of Tianjin, tried to retain these officials from the south, but the results were very little.

The reason why Dorgon did not order the forced detention of these Ming Dynasty officials fleeing south was entirely because he was completely politically considering it and did not want the Qing Dynasty who had just seized Beijing to leave a bad impression on the Ming Dynasty officials and gentry.

Chen Tingyang placed all the detained officials in the Liandao Naval Camp, and specially set up barracks for these people to live in, and all the food and drinks were provided by the Naval Administration. Except for not allowing them to go out of the Naval Administration Camp, everything else was free.

More than a hundred officials of all sizes gathered together, and I don’t know when I could set off south. There was no problem with eating and drinking, so I started discussing the current situation.

At the beginning, officials discussed the various things about the Shun Army occupying the capital and entering Manchuria. They asked each other about the latest news they knew. Gradually, no one cared about the dynamics of the Shun Army and the Qing Army, but they all joined a big debate.

The focus of the debate is who becomes the emperor.

The Nandu side must immediately support a new emperor and compete with Manzhou and Dashun. This is a consensus among all officials.

But officials have not reached an agreement on who to support the emperor and there are many different opinions.

There are generally several views: one is to establish a state of supervision, and wait for the third son of the late emperor to escape and choose one person;

The second is to support the rest of the descendants of the Shenzong as emperors;

The third is to support the virtuous and virtuous king as the emperor.

The three views have their own advantages, so they have their own supporters.

After about half a month of discussion, the first of the three views was abandoned because no one thought that Li Zicheng and Manzhou would spare the three sons of the late emperor.

As a result, new ideas were formed and new factions were formed.

Two big factions and two small factions.

The big faction is to support the blessing and Lu, while the small faction is to support the Tang and Gui.

The reason why the blessing and Lu became a major faction was that the blessing and the pride of the vassal state were the first in the order of the blessing and the pride of the Lu family was the first in the vassal state.

The reason why the Tang vas and Gui vas each have supporters is that the Tang vassal is like Taizu, and Gui vassal is also a descendant of the Shenzong.

Overall, the Fu School has the upper hand, and the main members of this school are Shuji Shi Zhou Zhong and Zhao Shijin, a member of the Ministry of Works.

Zhou Zhong's uncle Zhou Yingqiu and Zhou Weiqi were both members of the rebellious case set in the early years of Chongzhen, namely the eunuch party, and the main members of the "eunuch party" were members of the three parties who were attacked by Donglin that year.

Therefore, Zhou Zhong must support Donglin's "mortal enemy" Fufan as the emperor, which is very likely to reverse the "reverse case".

Zhao Shijin was hired by Dashun's Ministry of Personnel, but he resigned and was imprisoned in Liu Zongmin's military camp. He was released on the eighth day of April and left Beijing five days later and was intercepted in Haizhou.

In terms of political stance, Zhao was neither the eunuch party nor the Donglin, and supporting the support of Fufan was out of public opinion.

The same public opinion supported the support of the blessings was also supported by the clerk of the late emperor. This person was criticized by many officials as the culprit of killing the late emperor.

At the beginning of the year, the late emperor had the idea of ​​moving south. The cabinet ministers Chen Yan and Wei Zaode opposed it. They instructed Guang Shiheng to fiercely advise and firmly advocate that the late emperor stick to Beijing, which led to the late emperor's death.

After the city of Beijing was broken, Guang Shiheng surrendered to Dashun and was retained as the military officer. More than half of the officials from Liandao surrendered to Li Zicheng, so it was nothing, but Shiheng led to the death of the late emperor and was scolded for being scolded.

Those who supported Lu were Tanhualang, who ranked third in the first place in the palace examination last year, and Chen Mingxia, a famous scholar in the society. This man got married into a famous scholar and became a scholar.

Ten days before the break of Beijing City, Chen Mingxia suggested convening Shandong charity to rescue the capital. On the day the capital fell, Chen Shanghang failed to commit suicide and was later recommended to join Dashun Hongwenguan as a bachelor's degree.

In addition to Chen Mingxia, there are also Chen Jingsong, Gao Douxian, and Yu Yunzhong who support the support of Lu. They are almost either from Donglin Fushe, or have a relationship with Donglin Fushe.

The reasons for opposing blessings are not to be clarified.

Just after breakfast that day, a group of officials came to the camp again habitually and sat cross-legged according to their respective camps, and prepared to start the daily debate.

It’s really day after day, no one can convince anyone.

They were also very idle, but it seemed that they had nothing else to do except this.

The first batch of officials who were intercepted were almost a month old. They argued every day, but the rules were formed and someone presided over the presidency.

The person in charge was Zhu Yiyan, a royal family member. This guy was very unlucky. After entering Beijing, Shunjun pretended to be a beggar and begged in Beijing. Then he crawled out of the sewer in the capital before he was able to escape.

Just as Zhu Yiyan was about to speak a few words, a team of soldiers on vests suddenly rushed into the camp with a carriage.
Chapter completed!