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Chapter 743 The next candidate for Emperor Daxi

In the Western Army camp, Wang Zhaoling, the left prime minister of Daxi, was in charge of Wu Jishan, the Minister of Rites, to conquer Xi'an, and to adopt the old system of the Ming Dynasty to ascend the throne or use the system of Chengdu when the founding of the country.

The two had a different view. Wang Zhaoling, who was born in the Juren, was quite aware of the rebellion of some peasants, insisting that they should follow the rules of the founding of Chengdu, because those rules were set forth in Long Live. He also said that all the rules of the Ming Dynasty in the past should be abolished, and any Ming Dynasty officials who came to surrender should try not to appoint them as much as possible to show the difference between the Western Western and the Ming Dynasty.

In some aspects, Wang Zhaoling's wording is very intense.

Wu Jishan, the Minister of Rites, was the former magistrate of Chengdu in the Ming Dynasty, but he was from Taicang, Nanzhili. There were many foreign priests in the southern Zhili area. He was influenced by Xu Guangqi and Li Zhizao and other scholars who worshipped Western scholars. The gentry in Jiangnan generally had a good impression of Western scholars and priests.

Wu Jishan was also influenced, so when he was the magistrate of Chengdu, An Wensi was quite friendly to the Li Lisi who had fled to Chengdu to preach.

Because the two priests had Western faces and were the foreign monk scriptures, the local Taoists in Chengdu hated them very much, so they gathered thousands of people by bribing the eunuchs of the Shu Palace to threaten the government to expel the two foreign monks. Finally, Wu Jishan helped to show the letter from Zhuo Wang in Beijing to the King of Shu, which calmed the matter.

After the Western Army captured Chengdu, the inspector Liu Zhibo was shot to death, and the Huayang magistrate Shen Yunzuo was killed. Wu Jishan, who was supposed to die with these two friends, saw that the Western Army had good military discipline and released prisoners, recruited residents, and recruited six officials from the villages to serve as six ministries to manage prefectures and counties. He also saw that Zhang Xianzhong had great ambitions and surrendered happily and became the Minister of Rites of the Daxi regime.

In addition to helping to formulate the Daxi etiquette system and preside over etiquette affairs, the post of office also constantly recommended talents to Zhang Xianzhong and Lilisi. An Wensi was given the attention of Zhang Xianzhong and was appointed as the national teacher of Tianxue under his recommendation.

But Wu Jishan had many ideas about the development of the city of Chang'an, which were different from Wang Zhaoling.

He believed that if the Daxi could defeat Dashun, it would be a true unification of the north. In this way, it would no longer be as extreme as before, and would also give positive recognition to the Ming Dynasty, and try to win over the former Ming officials and gentry and the landlord class. The treasury should not have the idea of ​​these landlords and gentry as soon as the national treasury had no money, and even protect the land of these landlords and gentry, thereby gaining the hearts of northern gentry scholars, thus laying the foundation for unifying China and realizing the dynasty replacement of "replace the Ming Dynasty in the west".

The Chinese have always valued the etiquette system since ancient times, so Wu Jishan insisted that Chang'an customization should be based on Ming system as the core and only made some adjustments.

After the ritual system is determined, the other policies will definitely be affected. In this way, Daxi can openly inherit the Zhu Ming legal system and become another dynasty recognized by official history in Chinese history.

After all, Wu said that, it was actually just a sentence - "Although Daxi is a country built by peasants' mud legs, it is necessary to rely on gentry and scholars to truly govern the country."

Hu Mo, the Minister of Personnel, was a student of Guangji. In the Ming Dynasty, he failed the imperial examinations many times, and was very disappointed with Zhu Ming. Therefore, he and Wang Zhaoling were always insisted on completely denying the Ming Dynasty in the Daxi regime. Therefore, after hearing the dispute between Wang and Wu, he immediately stated clearly that Daxi must never repeat Zhu Ming's old path. After unifying the whole country in the future, he should also implement new policies and remove old problems, so as not to give landlords and gentry too much opportunities to participate in the government affairs.

The general meaning is that in the future, the imperial examinations in Daxi will not be allowed to participate in the descendants of former Ming officials or even the descendants of landlords. More children from poor families should be allowed to become officials in Daxi, and the court will also allocate a lot of money to support poor children to study.

This will prevent the children of former Ming officials and descendants of landlords from taking power through the imperial examinations, overturning the verdict for their ancestors, and even completely denying the positiveness of the Western Rebel Army overthrowing the corrupt Ming Dynasty.

As Wu Jishan advocated, what are the thousands of farmers who shed blood and sacrificed for the establishment of the West?

The hard-working country was handed over to the descendants of landlords and gentry who exploited peasants. Why did the mud-legged men take the initiative to rebel Zhu Ming? Isn’t it better to continue to be starved ghosts?

Of course, Wu Jishan continued to stick to his own opinions. In order to win the world for all dynasties, which king did not actively win over the gentry. If he really wanted to move the previous extreme policies to the entire north, so that the northern landlords and gentry and scholars were irreconcilable with the West, how could Daxi become a new dynasty that took over the Ming Dynasty?

Wang Zhaoling was so angry that he was told by Wu Jishan. He angrily slapped the table and said, "You are a minister of Rites. From me, you are not the minister of Rites in Daxi. You are clearly the magistrate of Chengdu in the Ming Dynasty in the past!"

"Long live in Sichuan and killed more than 5,000 scholars. Outsiders say that Long live has killed more, but I think it is less. If you can have one more, Wu Shangshu, that would be just right." Hu Mo also said coldly.

"Wu Shangshu sent his family out of Chengdu, but later became an official in our West and then recovered people. He was very wise."

Wang Zhaoling's words were sarcastic. Although he was deeply trusted by Zhang Xianzhong, he was not very popular among the Western Army. The reason was that he spoke harshly, was fierce, and did not know how to be smooth as an official.

The Western Army killed thousands of scholars who were against the Western Army in Sichuan and were his idea. Someone could not dissuade him at that time. Wang Yan said, "Are you afraid that no one will become a civil servant these days?"

"What are you talking about? Just talk about the matter, why did you attack me!"

Wu Jishan is also angry, but others are not afraid of Wang Zhaoling, and he is now facing tit-for-tat. Wang Zhaoling is even more angry. Today, he must refute Wu Jishan very much, otherwise he will really make this person slandered in Long Live, and what kind of Western devils are used, and what kind of Zhu Ming slaves are used, and the flag of the West will change its color!

Just as he was about to rebuke, a scream came from afar outside the tent, and then he heard the sound of urgent hooves. The originally quiet camp was like an iron pot that was boiling in an instant.

Wang Zhaoling was shocked and didn't know what happened. He was about to ask someone to see what happened. Many people heard the screams of people: "Shunjun is here, Shunjun is here!"

"What?!"

Wang Zhaoling was shocked and rushed outside the tent. The scene outside only caused the left prime minister of the West to tremble.

In the sight, the camp was in chaos. Many soldiers were running around in a hurry, but in the distance, countless cavalrymen rode into the camp, knocked over countless camp tents, and killed countless generals and schoolmen.

"What happened?...ah!...this..."

When Wu Jishan ran out, he didn't know if he was too frightened or really fell, but he fell down and his left face was worn out.

"Prime Minister, it's broken, it's broken!"

The Minister of Personnel Hu Mo was at a loss and could not say a word when he looked at the chaos in front of him.

The Imperial Camp, the Prime Minister, and the officials of the six ministries were also shocked. Some were screaming in groups, and some were running around like soldiers. Only a few of them could remain calm and run to the Prime Minister.

"What a panic!"

Wang Zhaoling kicked a panicked lieutenant to the ground with one kick. He was running towards him with a familiar figure, but it was Wang Cheng, a confidant eunuch beside Long Sui, who quickly met him and asked, "Long Sui where is it!"

"Master, long live the whole life, no more, let Shunjun be killed, blown to death..."

Eunuch Wang, who finally saved his life and ran back to the camp, was already scared at this time. He didn't know where General Liu Wenxiu, the Funan Army, had gone, so he subconsciously ran here because Prime Minister Wang was here!

"What!"

The news brought by Wang Cheng made Wang Zhaoling, Hu Mo, Wu Jishan and the officials stunned, but Wang Zhaoling, who first reacted, suddenly rushed towards the imperial horse given to him by the Emperor of Daxi. After getting on the horse, he saw Hu Mo, Wang Cheng and others were still stupid, and they couldn't help but curse: "Do you want to stay here and ask someone to cut their heads!"

When everyone heard this, they woke up and went to find horses for horses and things for things.

"Stop taking things, leave!"

Seeing that Hu Mo was still thinking about taking his seal from the Minister of Personnel, Wang Zhaoling was so anxious that he pulled Hu Mo over and asked his followers to bring the horses to help the Minister of the Secretary of the People.

Eunuch Wang was also quick to tell that when he saw Prime Minister Wang and the others were leaving, he quickly found a masterless horse and took it over.

"drive!"

Wang Zhaoling whipped the horse, and at this time, the left prime minister of Daxi Province had nothing but his regular clothes.

Hu Mo was about to ride a horse, but suddenly asked, "Prime Minister, where are we going?"

"Go to Fengxiang quickly, I really can't meet with the East and West Mansions!" Wu Jishan shouted.

Although I am dead, there is still a large army in the West, and the East and West governments. As long as the court meets with the two governments, there is still something to do.

But Wang Zhaoling ignored Wu Jishan, ran towards the eunuch Wang Cheng, and shouted to the other officials: "Everyone, please leave Guyuan!"

"Go to Guyuan?!"

Wu Jishan was stunned when he heard this. The eldest prince of the East Mansion was in Yan'an, and the second prince of the West Mansion was in Shanxi. Wang Zhaoling did not take all the officials to meet with the East Mansions. What was he doing when he went to Guyuan?

Hu Mo was puzzled at first, but he quickly understood what Wang Zhaoling meant.

Long live the West, but Empress Yang is there. At this critical moment, of course, he went to Guyuan to join Queen Yang to stabilize his position, and then commanded the East and West governments in the name of Empress Yang to counterattack the Shun Army.

Wang Zhaoling was exactly this plan. He had no good relationship with Sun Kewang of the East Mansion and Li Dingguo of the West Mansion, but he had a good relationship with the third prince Ainengqi. Now he was gone. Could this army of hundreds of thousands of people in the West be without a leader?

Therefore, who can become the next emperor of the Great West is only in the thought of Empress Yang!

"Go, go quickly!"

Wang Zhaoling rode his horse and ran westward among the chaotic army, and did not forget to hold the eunuch Wang Cheng. Although this man was an eunuch, the will of Long Live could be settled on this person, and he could not be told to obey others.

In the distance, more and more Shun army cavalry broke into the Western Army camp, with deafening shouts everywhere. Shun army cavalry kept rushing into the depths of the Western Army camp in a group manner, and the sound of hooves came close to the ground like summer thunder.

After knocking down several four-run soldiers one after another, Wang Zhaoling and his party successfully rushed out of the camp. He immediately turned his head and looked back and saw a cavalry rushing towards the imperial tent before his death.
Chapter completed!
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