After the competition with Gao Jie, whether it is Ma Shiying, Donglin Party, or many military generals, they all saw the strong combat power of the Merchant Army, so their attitude towards Shang Yi changed greatly, and Gao Jie's arrogance also restrained a lot. The other three generals were even more respectful when they met Shang Yi.
Although some Donglin Party members have begun to seriously think about Wu Qi's suggestions and can use Shang Yi's power to restrain Ma Shiying, they are considering accepting Shang Yi to join the Donglin Party, such as Shi Kefa, who holds this view .But there are still some Donglin Party’s hard-working parties who have not changed their attitude towards Shang Yi, believing that Shang Yi is just a military general, and in essence there is no difference between them and the four generals of Jianghuai, so they cannot be trusted and are not qualified to join the Donglin Party. Qian Qianyi is the expression of this faction. However, within the Donglin Party, two of the three bigwigs support the view of United Shang Yi, so they temporarily overwhelmed Qian Qianyi's side.
However, from the surface, Shang Yi is still a member of the Donglin Party camp, so Ma Shiying also realized that Shang Yi is his biggest threat. However, Ma Shiying's top priority now is Zhu Yousong's throne ceremony, and he is busy customizing clothes and repairing There is no time to deal with Shang Yi's affairs in the work of stage, ceremony, ceremonies, etc.
Of course, Shang Yi would not pay attention to these things. In fact, he had no interest in joining the Donglin Party at all. Although the Donglin Party has certain progressive significance in some aspects, in its essence, the Donglin Party is actually a self-righteous person. , the old Confucian group that is unreconstructive, they regard themselves as noble, like simple talk, and regard themselves as moral, and the standard of dealing with the world is morality. They not only show off their moral character, but also use this set of standards to deal with people, which leads to political operations. I will never let anyone who does not meet their moral standards. I do not understand the truth that water will be clear and there is no fish. I do not know that in the political field, the importance of flexibility has led to many who could have conquered united. The power pushed to the other side of the opponent.
Moreover, in the early days of the founding of the Donglin Party, although it was still a bit pedantic and persistent, on the whole, most members were able to adhere to their moral integrity and belief in dealing with people and their faith in serving the country and the public. Only in the Wanli period was there the dispute over the establishment of the crown prince, the forced resignation of the palace when Apocalypse ascended the throne, and the "Six Lords" who were later killed by Wei Zhongxian.
Since Chongzhen ascended the throne, Wei Zhongxian was defeated, and the Donglin Party restored its name, the situation has changed greatly. The Donglin Party is also filled with a large number of speculators. Only a very small number of people can truly uphold morality. In politics, the Donglin Party is also using any means to fight for power and profit. As for the common people and differences, it is a matter of distorting black and white and creating something out of nothing. There are many things that ignore national interests.
But on the other hand, the political operation methods of the Donglin Party are indeed somewhat unsatisfactory. Not only are they far from reaching the level of the great battle between Yan Song, Xu Jie, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng back then, but even Wei Zhongxian of the same era, Wen Tiren, Zhou Yanru and others are not comparable. They know the reason and do not care about the profit. The only ability is to desperately impeach and impeach, and they completely rely on the emperor's awakening and attitude. They are purely lucky and bet The emperor's psychology is good or bad.
This was fully reflected in the struggle with Wei Zhongxian. At that time, the Donglin Party members completely ignored Emperor Tianqi and were actually just an ignorant young man who was keen on carpentry. In fact, they had already become Wei Zhongxian's puppet and were still blindly distracted. Wei Zhongxian, as for his memorials that were not in the hands of the emperor, and the imperial edicts sent from the palace represent the emperor or Wei Zhongxian, he would ignore them.
What is even more ridiculous is that the Emperor Tianqi, who favored Wei Zhongxian and appointed Wei Zhongxian to kill the Donglin Party, was the one who tried his best to be promoted to the throne. I'm afraid I didn't expect that the one who was supported by me was my gravedigger.
Therefore, in later generations, there was also a saying that "the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by internal affairs, but it was actually destroyed by Donglin." However, Shang Yi thought this statement was not reliable, and it was not that it was ruling the Donglin Party, but that it was really overestimated. The energy of the Donglin Party. Although the Donglin Party made a rumor in the decades of the late Ming Dynasty, there were many ministers, as if they had been in control of the political situation, but the time when the Donglin Party was really in charge of the government, In fact, it only lasted for five or six years, and it was split into three or four periods.
In another time and space, for a long time, the Nanjing court in the Southern Ming Dynasty was blamed for the demise of Ma Shiying, believing that Ma Shiying was in power and excluded the Donglin Party, which led to the Nanjing court for only a short year. Time, but in reality, the Donglin Party has to pay the main responsibility for the short life of the Nanjing court. Therefore, it is more correct to say that the Nanjing court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was broken by the Donglin Party.
When the Donglin Party first supported the new king, it made serious mistakes because of its selfishness and short-sightedness, which made Ma Shiying and the four generals of Jianghuai achieve the support. However, the Donglin Party was unwilling to admit its failure. Since the establishment of the Nanjing court, not only did not put forward many useful suggestions or do many useful work and housing. Instead, they were confronting Ma Shiying everywhere. They firmly opposed everything Ma Shiying's proposals, and denied everything Ma Shiying supported, regardless of everything Whether it is good or bad, whether it is right or wrong, is completely opposed for the sake of opposition. As a result, the already limited power of the Nanjing Dynasty was also consumed in this useless internal struggle.
Therefore, when Shang Yi came to this era, he always stayed away from the Donglin Party. Now he neither wanted to participate in the internal struggle in Nanjing nor wanted to have a relationship with the Donglin Party. The reason he chose to cooperate with Wu Di was because Wu Di was this At that time, there were only a few people in the Donglin Party who were clear-headed and knew how to deal with things. Shang Yi repeatedly stated that he was working with Wu Qi personally, but it had nothing to do with the entire Donglin Party.
Of course, the Donglin Party has no time to deal with Shang Yi now. They are all focusing on the important matter of Zhu Yousong's ascension to the throne. Of course, what they really care about is their status and power in the new court. Because Zhu Yousong's ascension to the throne was a foregone conclusion, then Just put as many people in the court as possible, and it is also a remedy for him to put in the cabinet to take charge of the government. But Ma Shiying naturally would not give up his rights, although he supported Zhu Yousong to succeed the throne The chief hero, but if he cannot join the cabinet, everything will become a cloud.
The cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty was first established during the Yongle period and was officially formed during the Xuande period. It was not until the Zhengde period that it gradually matured and improved. Therefore, although there were two emperors who had not been in charge of the dynasty for more than 20 years in the Ming Dynasty, there was still no The cabinet played a considerable role in chaos. There was no fixed number of candidates for the cabinet. At most, there were seven people, and at least one, but for most of the time after Zhengde, it was generally between four and five people. , and a new round of fierce quarrels began around the candidates for cabinet members in the New Dynasties.
This time, when he supported Zhu Yousong as emperor, Li Zhanzhi stole the sincerity Liu Kongzhao. After Shi Kefa announced the recommendation of the cabinet garrison, Liu Kongzhao first stepped out and actually recommended himself to join the cabinet. Suddenly, Shi Kefa was amused and laughed and cried, so he had to say, "There is no precedent for me to enter the cabinet to do business."
Liu Kongzhao Ma continued: "I can't do it, what's wrong with Ma Yaocao Ma Shiying's name?" In fact, Liu Kongzhao also knew that he would definitely not be able to enter the cabinet. Self-recommendation is just a cover. The key is to recommend Ma Shiying to enter the cabinet. Come on, my status in Ma Shiying's heart will be very different.
Everyone saw that he had introduced Ma Shiying, but they were afraid of Ma Shiying's power, and Liu Kongzhao's re-issues, so they had to make a decision. Then the Donglin Party hurriedly launched and introduced Shi Kefa, Wu Sai, Jiang Riguang and Wang Duo. The five cabinet members decided on the celebrity candidates.
On May 15th of Chongzhen, Zhu Yousong officially succeeded to the throne in Wuying Hall and changed his reign to Hongguang. The next year is the first year of Hongguang.
Shi Kefa was appointed as the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, Minister of Rites, Chief Cabinet, and Prince Taibao; Ma Shiying was appointed as the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, Minister of War, Governor of Fengyang, Censor of the Right Censor, and Second Auxiliary of the Cabinet; Wu Qing was appointed as the Grand Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, The left censor and the Grand Secretary of the East Pavilion; the Zhanshi Mansion Secretary Jiang Yueguang was the left minister of the Ministry of Rites. He was also the Grand Secretary of the East Pavilion with the former Nanjing Shang of Rites Wang Duo, and the three of them also joined the directors of the cabinet.
At the same time, Zhang Shenyan was appointed as the Minister of Personnel, Liu Zongzhou was appointed as the left censor of the Censorate, Gao Hongtu was appointed as the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and was promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Li Zhan Taichang Shaoqing, Guo Wei was appointed as the Minister of the Yingtian Prefecture, and Xu Shilin was appointed as the left minister of the Censorate. The Censor, Zhang Guowei, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War, were also appointed as the agent of Rong Zheng, Huang Daozhou, He Kai, Zhang Youyu, Wang Xinyi, He Yingrui, Gao Zhuo, Jie Xuelong, He Shishou, Huang Zongxi and others. They were also activated.
In the inner court, although Wang Dehua did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty like another time and space, in the Hongguang Dynasty, he also relied on Shang Yi to receive the jade seal of the will and still served as the eunuch in the Sili Supervisor, and still achieved the hat trick in this position Of course, he might have the chance to come and take four cities in a row. Another important position in the inner court, the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor, Lu Jiude, who made great contributions in Zhu Yansong's ascension to the throne, was appointed. At the same time, he also held the responsibility of the Jinyiwei. Chen Yang, Liu Zhiyong, Zhao Congfu and other Jinyiwei personnel were all restored to their posts, and each of them was awarded the title of Void.
Another important inner court official, Han Zanzhou, the eunuch in Nanjing, was squeezed out of Nanjing because he had no position and replaced Zheng Jinggao as the eunuch in Jiangsu.
Overall, the Donglin Party and the Ma Party have basically achieved their goals. The Donglin Party not only has won the most valuable position as the chief minister of the cabinet, but also occupied three seats in five cabinet members. At the same time, nearly half of the North Korean central government are important. His official positions were also occupied by the Donglin Party, and he could be regarded as the largest force in the Hongguang court.
However, although Ma Shiying did not get the position of chief minister of the cabinet, he also got his wish and was the second assistant of the cabinet, which laid a good foundation for seizing power in the future.