Chapter 14 Chapter 1 Shi Kefa's Mistakes

To answer the above question, we have to talk about Shi Kefa, a hero for thousands of years.Shi Kefa is a rare hero in the history of the Chinese nation, as famous as Wen Tianxiang in the Southern Song Dynasty.He defended Yangzhou alone against the Qing army, and he was righteous for thousands of years. His deeds are still in our textbooks to educate our children.The formation of the Nanming Empire centered on Shi Kefa.When Li Zicheng's rogue troops invaded Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself on Meishan Mountain. At this time, the power of the empire had moved south to Nanjing, the accompanying capital.Nanjing was the first capital of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Later, when Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to Beijing, but there were all ministers in Nanjing, so it was called the accompanying capital and was the second capital.

In this second capital, the most powerful person is Shi Kefa, who is the minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing. How many people does he have under his command?850,000 people!How many Qing soldiers entered the customs?Only 170,000 people.Absolutely incomparable in quantity.However, due to the lack of news at the time, no one knew what happened in Beijing.In fact, Li Zicheng had already entered Beijing at this time, forced Emperor Chongzhen to death, and was looting the capital.Because of lack of information, Shi Kefa didn't know what happened in Nanjing. He only knew that the war there was fierce, so Shi Kefa launched a vigorous fundraising campaign in Nanjing.

But why solicit donations?What is the purpose of the donation?Shi Kefa himself didn't know, anyway, he felt that he had to do something to save the country.He has realized that the country is going to perish.When the fundraising ended, Shi Kefa got the news that the empire had perished. The saddest thing is that Emperor Chongzhen was afraid that after his children left the imperial city, he would ascend the throne and compete with him for the throne in the future, so he grabbed the princes before he died and was not allowed to leave, which led to the complete destruction of Ming Chongzhen, and the princes became Li Zicheng. captive.At this time, Nanjing must consider establishing a new emperor.

At that time, there were two candidates, and the first candidate was Xiao Fu Wang.Who is this little Fu Wang?We talked about an old Fu Wang earlier, saying that the old Fu Wang was the son of Concubine Zheng. At that time, Concubine Zheng tried her best to persuade the emperor to let her son succeed her, but failed.Later, this poor old King Fu fell into the hands of Li Zicheng, who was cooked and eaten by Li Zicheng after drinking his blood. Now this little King Fu fled to Nanjing. In addition to Xiao Fu Wang, he also has an uncle, which means that the emperor of the Nanming Empire is chosen among these two, and Shi Kefa has the final say on who will be the emperor.Let's compare these two people again, Xiao Fu Wang has seven characteristics.Which seven characteristics?

First, disrespecting the father; second, not being filial to the mother; third, not respecting and loving the brothers; in addition, there are alcoholism, greed, lust, and bloodthirsty, so they are also called the seven great pains.In other words, he is a coward who does not have a climate.As for his uncle, although he has many problems, he is by no means so bad. If you were Shi Kefa, who would you choose to be emperor among these two people? But when Shi Kefa made a choice, he made a very strange choice.What choice?He hides.Why did he hide?If you check the history books, you will find that whenever major national events happen, Shi Kefa will leave.On such a big matter as the selection of the emperor, Shi Kefa did not speak and hid, but one of his subordinates, the governor of Fengyang, Ma Shiying, jumped out.

Ma Shiying pondered: This little Fu Wang has a lot of bad deeds and is notorious. It is impossible for him to be the emperor. I want to support him to be the emperor. Then he will be grateful to me and I will be in a favorable position. Location. So Ma Shiying took a knife aggressively and forced the ministers to agree to King Xiaofu's ascension to the throne. Only Shi Kefa could restrain Ma Shiying during this process, but Shi Kefa just didn't show up.Why didn't Shi Kefa show up?Because he is a gentleman with a noble temperament, he is unwilling to compete with this villain.But precisely because he is a gentleman, he can be bullied.When Shi Kefa hid, King Fu came to the forefront of history, so what was the first order given by King Fu?No one would have guessed that his first order was: the soldiers of the three armies put down their weapons and go catch frogs for me.why?I want to configure aphrodisiacs, and I want to be lucky to beauties.

Such an empire, such a center of power, cannot fill the void left after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.Next, Ma Shiying expelled all the important and famous ministers in the court, and in the process, Shi Kefa could stop it with just one word, but Shi Kefa never spoke.When all the famous and virtuous officials were punished, the last one left was Shi Kefa.Later Shi Kefa was also driven to Yangzhou, so he died in Yangzhou instead of Nanjing.When Shi Kefa died in Yangzhou City, Nanjing City had to surrender without him leading troops to resist.With Shi Kefa's ability, he can only die for the country, but he has no ability to save the country.Because he is a virtuous minister, he is not a power animal.The aforementioned Nurhachi, who killed his son and blamed his younger brother, is the most typical power animal. Only a power animal can create a power empire and a power core.

So when the Ming Dynasty collapsed, we saw the history of Nanming with blood and tears in his eyes.Kong Shangren has a book dedicated to lamenting this era.When the Qing soldiers and Wu Sangui's Liao soldiers crossed the river, Jiangnan was singing and dancing, and there was no intention of resistance, and the Qing soldiers were allowed to enter the land of no one.