The new emperor who moved his capital to Taiyuan was named "Guiyun".

Taken from Ban Gu's "Dian Yin" of the Han Dynasty: "Follow the orthodoxy of heaven, and return to destiny after being restrained."

"Guiyun" refers to the destiny that comes at the right time. It means that the emperor came to the throne according to the destiny of heaven and was not a false emperor who conspired to usurp the throne. If the Ming Dynasty had not already had an orthodox emperor, it is estimated that the group of merchants in Shanxi would have directly used " orthodox " as their reign name.

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The new emperor who was welcomed into Beijing and enthroned was given the reign title "Zhaode".

Taken from Liu Xiang's "Shuo Yuan" in the Han Dynasty: "Heaven has shown virtue, and the treasure tripod has arrived." It also contains the meaning of being blessed by heaven.

When the monarchs and ministers of the central court heard that an emperor had emerged from Shanxi, they immediately issued an edict to inform the world, denouncing the Shanxi court as a rebellious and rebellious person, and called on the officials and militiamen of the country to jointly attack him.

Before the official dispatch of troops, fierce party disputes broke out between North Korea and China.

Officials from Shanxi's wealthy families were imprisoned for "colluding with the puppet emperor", and officials in coastal areas took complete control of government affairs.

There were also some officials from Shanxi Province who were very fast and ran away to Taiyuan, where they simply became officials in the Taiyuan court.

Emperor Zhaode issued an imperial edict to summon a large army to King Qin, but he actually wanted to send troops to conquer Shanxi.

The border troops in the entire Songliao Basin just pretended that they had not received the edict. The land there was vast, sparsely populated, and fertile. The Little Ice Age had gradually passed, and the Songliao soldiers and civilians were completely self-sufficient. Even without the imperial exploitation, they could survive.

As the situation became more moist, both the commander-in-chief and the commander-in-chief chose to stay put, with the excuse of being prepared for the invasion of Mongolia from the north.

In the entire Northeast region, there were three major battalions when Wang Yuan was in power. As the court's actual control area expanded, it has now been expanded to six major battalions. Due to the chaos in the previous two decades, the six major battalions in the Northeast were divided into three forces. One occupied Liaoning, the other occupied Liaoning.

One occupied Taining (Jilin), and the other occupied the northern part of former Korea (between the Yalu River and Qingchuan River).

The first two forces attacked each other, both wanting to devour the other, while the last force only wanted to protect itself. Neither of them wanted to help the court fight, but they did not dare to refuse, and asked for a million taels of silver in departure fees.

Only Huang Zongde, the commander-in-chief of Shandong Province, is a truly loyal man!

Huang Zongde led 30,000 regiments to train an army. He did not pay a penny from the court and went to Beijing at his own expense to obey the emperor's orders.

Emperor Zhaode, Longyan Dayue, promoted Huang Zongde to the right commander-in-chief of the rear army, was crowned with three heroes, and was given a bullfight uniform. He also ordered Wang Xian, the left minister of the Ministry of War, to be given the seal of commander-in-chief of the governor, and to lead Huang Zongde to conquer Shanxi.

The Wang family and the Huang family join forces again.

It's just that Wang Yuan teamed up with Huang Chongde to do business, while Wang Xian teamed up with Huang Zongde to eliminate rebellion.

The two men took 10,000 Xiyuan's new army, 30,000 Shandong regiment training, and 50,000 civilians from the capital, and marched towards Shanxi in a mighty manner.

The Returned Emperor of Taiyuan was simply pushed to the top, but now that he has been put on a yellow robe, he can only bite the bullet and carry on. Hearing that Beijing has sent troops, the Returned Emperor also organized an army to resist, and declared that he would fight to the east to conquer the puppet emperor and possess the north.

There are more than 20,000 frontier troops, half of whom are musketeers, and tens of thousands of Shanxi regiment soldiers and civilians.

The two sides started fighting near Daizhou. Huang Zongde's Shandong regiment was rich and equipped with a large number of new muskets and artillery. At first, the Shanxi army almost collapsed.

At the critical moment, Xiyuan's new army, who was responsible for coordinating the break-up, inexplicably fled without fighting. Wang Xian and Huang Zongde were cut off from their food routes.

As a civilian governor, Wang Xian vowed not to surrender and fought hard to death.

Huang Zongde fought his way out of the siege and returned to Beijing with only a few thousand remnant soldiers and all his artillery and baggage missing.

Huang Zongde angrily rebuked the generals of the Xiyuan New Army, but officials from the Southern Department retaliated, saying that he was afraid of the enemy and did not advance, which led to the loss of troops. However, the generals of the Xiyuan New Army acted decisively and preserved the effective strength of the imperial officers and soldiers.

Huang Zongde was almost imprisoned for this, so he returned to Shandong full of anger and never ignored the central government's orders again.

This is a battle between Shandong (plus Tianjin) merchant groups and Jiangsu and Zhejiang merchant groups. The competition between the two sides in the textile industry has lasted for hundreds of years.

Wang Xian, who sacrificed his life for the country, had a close relationship with Huang Zongde, so instead of receiving additional posthumous honors, he was convicted of armchair warfare and improper command, and was not held accountable because he was already dead.

The Wang family members were furious and most of them chose to resign.

One team returned to Tianjin to form a regiment, control Tianjin's railways, river ports and seaports, and directly cut off Beijing's water transportation routes.

One group went to Huguang to fully support Wang Yuanzhen.

One group went to Guizhou to support Wang Ben's expansion of strength. Wang Ben was a descendant of Wang Yuan's eldest brother Wang Meng.

The officials of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Group in the DPRK were dumbfounded. Since the water transportation route was cut off, the price of food in the entire capital skyrocketed. They had to make a compromise and hand over the position of Minister of War to the Wang family officials who stayed in the DPRK.

The first year of Guiyun, or the first year of Zhaode.

Emperor Guiyun once again marched eastward, fighting all the way to the outside of Beijing. Wang Yuan's old residence in the west of the city was occupied.

The Grand Marshal of the Shanxi Imperial Court issued an order: "Grand Master Wang is a saint and must not be insulted or damaged."

He also "invited" many of the Wang family's children in the house to the gates of Beijing, and asked Wang Gao, who was responsible for guarding the south outer city of Beijing, to surrender. He also promised to promote Wang Gao to the rank of Second Assistant to the Cabinet and the title of Grand Master.

Wang Gao had no expression on his face and ordered: "Fire!"

The cannon on the city tower adjusted its angle and fired at many descendants of the Wang family, killing Wang Gao's own grandson with one cannon.

Both armies were inexplicably frightened. The Beijing defenders were filled with indignation and their morale was greatly boosted. The Shanxi army, frightened by Wang Gao's loyalty and remembering Wang Yuan's reputation as a sage, actually chose to besiege rather than attack, and even took all Wang's descendants captive to Taiyuan.

, serving him with good wine and meat every day.

The city of Beijing is so strong that even with huge cannons, it would take several months to fight.

The Shanxi army besieged the city for half a year, and the city was full of starving people. The Tianjin Wang family finally led troops to rescue them. The siege party was out of food and grass, and looted everything around Beijing, and finally chose to withdraw in despair.

Taking advantage of his great achievements in defending Beijing, Wang Gao began to purge the cabinet and the six ministries. He hurriedly ordered the well-known Nanjing Minister of Rites Jin Fang to return to Beijing and quickly served as the chief minister of the cabinet. He also purged the nobles who had performed poorly during the defense of the city and transferred their

The land was distributed to the refugees and tenants, and the Wang family's money and land in Beijing were used to distribute it to the officers and soldiers of Xiyuan to supplement their military pay.

The imperial court in Beijing was levying light corvees and low taxes in the Gyeonggi area, and the Wang family in Tianjin was also willing to increase commercial taxes, which finally gave the central government a lifeline.

The returning court in Shanxi was controlled by Shanxi merchants to comprehensively clean up the bandits in Shanxi and ensure the industrial and commercial environment within its jurisdiction. They ignored the ruined Shaanxi and sent troops to attack Henan. Because Shanxi was short of food, Henan must be occupied

Only then can blood be restored.

The local warlords in Henan rose up to resist, but they were no match for the northern frontier troops. The Shanxi court quickly occupied the entire territory of Henan.

In the third year of Zhaode's reign.

Seeing that Northern Zhili was improving and Wang Gao, who had overwhelming power, was suddenly trapped and imprisoned by the emperor, it was Emperor Zhaode who wanted to consolidate power and did not want to be a puppet manipulated by others.

Wang Gao was filled with grief and anger. Although the emperor did not dare to kill him, he only forced him to hand over his power. However, Wang Gao was extremely strong-willed and committed suicide in prison, leaving a last words written in blood: "The great Ming Dynasty, the country will not be a country. The descendants of the Wang family are ashamed of their ancestors."

, I hope the heroes of the world can rebuild the world!"

Jin Fang, the chief minister of the cabinet who was also under house arrest, heard the news of Wang Gao's death. He swallowed coal and committed suicide that night, leaving a letter in blood: "Life cannot save the country, but death may awaken people's hearts. I will go to hell with An Lei Gong (Wang Gao)."

Go."

Emperor Zhaode was dumbfounded. He really didn't dare to kill Wang Gao. This... why did this happen?

Emperor Zhaode ordered Wang Gao and Jin Fang to be buried lavishly. People inside and outside the capital were devastated. The emperor gained great power but had a lot of headaches.

Wang Ao, the leader of the Wang family in Tianjin, angrily spread the word to the world and shouted the slogan "Kill the tyrant". He first cut off water transportation, and then led the Tianjin regiment to attack Beijing. The officers and soldiers in the capital who had been deprived of their food and wages took the initiative to open the city and surrender, and the people of Beijing directly invaded.

Imperial Palace, looted the Forbidden City, and hanged Emperor Zhaode on the Meridian Gate Tower.

Although Wang Ao occupied the capital, he was soon at a loss and his subordinates began to quarrel.

One faction shouted to support Wang Ao as emperor, another faction shouted to welcome the Emperor of Taiyuan, and the other faction shouted to choose another clan to ascend the throne.

Wang Ao represented the interests of merchants in Tianjin and Shandong, and was an absolute vested interest. He could not make up his mind to become king on his own, he just wanted to continue the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and finally chose to serve the Emperor of Taiyuan.

The response from Shanxi was nonsense.

Emperor Guiyun wanted to go to Beijing, but Shanxi merchants refused to let him go, because after going to Beijing, the government would definitely be controlled by the Wang family.

Emperor Guiyun was forced to write an edict, saying that the imperial court had already moved the capital and asked Wang Ao to serve as an official in Taiyuan.

Some of the generals in the northern border towns supported Shanxi merchants, and some wanted to go to the colorful world of Beijing. The descendants of the Wang family who were taken captive to Taiyuan took the opportunity to encourage the generals to mutiny, with the slogan "Qing Jun, welcome the emperor back."

The mutiny was suppressed, more than thirty Wang descendants were killed, and the rest took advantage of the chaos to flee Shanxi.

Shanxi merchants then launched a purge, which led to the rebellion of the border troops who captured Henan. The general Zheng Yue (a descendant of Wu Jinshi Zheng Hu) proclaimed himself the king of Henan.

When Wang Gao learned that more than thirty people of his own clan had been massacred, he completely fell out with the Shanxi court. He no longer had any hope in the clan and proclaimed himself the governor of Zhili. He worked hard to manage Beizhili, where his bones were exposed in the wild.

After these events, the authority of the Ming royal family was reduced to the extreme. No one took the emperor seriously anymore, but no one dared to take the lead in proclaiming the emperor. Instead, there were a bunch of local "vassal kings" and vassal towns in the last years of the dynasty.

The separatist regime was formally formed.

The southern coast is the most interesting.

Emperor Zhaode was hanged by the people in Beijing, Emperor Guiyun was controlled by Shanxi merchants, and officials and merchants in Southern Zhili no longer recognized the northern regime.

Huizhou merchants and Jianghuai merchants established another clan as emperor and changed the Yuan Dynasty to "Daxing". The situation of two emperors coexisting once again appeared.

However, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong were unwilling to listen to Nanjing's orders and actually created the joint autonomy of the three provinces. They set up a joint parliament of the three provinces, which also consisted of provincial councils, prefecture councils, and state and county councils. Officials at all levels must listen to the opinions of the councils.

Otherwise no decree can be issued.

After Wang Yuanzhen occupied Huguang and Jiangxi, a large number of Wang family members, members of the Datong Society, and members of the Physics Society came to apply, which can be said to be a wealth of talents.

Moreover, because Wang Yuanzhen forcibly divided the land, most of the talents who were willing to join him came from the small landowners, farmers and petty bourgeoisie.

Wang Yuanzhen was temporarily unable to expand to the southeastern coast, and he did not have the strength to attack Guangdong. While carrying out land reform within his jurisdiction, he sent troops to attack Guangxi.

The local forces in Guangxi need to face the military front of the "Puppet Dai Viet Kingdom", and the troops are mainly stationed on the southern border.

Wang Yuanzhen was unstoppable in Guangxi, and the Guangxi soldiers returned home urgently, and the "Puppet Dayue Kingdom" took the opportunity to invade. The gentry and merchants of Guangxi, fearing that their territory would be divided by Wang Yuanzhen, actually chose to surrender to the "Puppet Dayue Kingdom".

The Jishi faction in Guangxi was furious, and launched a peasant uprising in tandem, killing officials and rebelling, and conquering prefectures and counties. In just one year, more than 100,000 peasant troops surrendered to Wang Yuanzhen with the land of the three prefectures.

When Wang Yuanzhen led the army to fight in Guangxi, the Jiaozhi Han people suddenly sent envoys to contact him.

When Jiaozhi was established as a province, the local big families had been purged, and a large number of Han immigrants were sent. The degree of land annexation there was actually not very serious. On the contrary, the surviving prominent families of the old Annan Dynasty owned the most land, and the Han people mainly occupied it.
To be continued...