Please ask me to be the emperor

Taicang Chongming, the waves are rolling.

It is said that Zheng Zhilong's navy had just sailed away from here, and not long after, another fleet came from the north.

The two leading ships were huge, with three sails and five masts.

There are dense shooting holes on both sides of it, and the black holes of the muzzles are looming, making people frightened to look at them.

The Chongming people had just been attacked and plundered by Zheng Zhilong and his men. The city walls were damaged and the soldiers were lost. How could they dare to fight again?

After getting the other party's promise not to massacre the city, he happily opened the door and welcomed the fleet in.

"Where is King Shun?" Not long after, a young general asked as he got off the giant ship.

"King Shun Shun?" Magistrate Chongming was stunned when he heard this, and then he realized that the person who came was actually a "Shun Shun"!

When did the "Shun Thief" have such a strong and tall warship?

Nazhixian was puzzled and quickly replied: "The pirate ship docked here before. According to a few words, I heard that His Highness King Shun was once surrounded by Gu Yuan. Later, with the help of God, he defeated it in one fell swoop. It has been three years since then." Four days!”

"Oh?" Zhao Lizi was shocked when he heard this. He couldn't help but discuss with Zhao Liangdong, the commander-in-chief of Tianjin, and quickly sent his soldiers to contact Zhang Shun.

When the soldier rushed to Gu Yuan with the letter, he learned that Zhang Shun had led his troops to Suzhou.

So he hurried to Suzhou and learned that Zhang Shun had gone to Songjiang.

The envoy had no choice but to change horses and head to Songjiang.

By the time he arrived at Songjiang, it was getting late.

There were rebel soldiers outside Songjiang City checking people coming in and out and cleaning up traces of battles. The soldier quickly stepped forward to reveal his identity, and then he was brought to Zhang Shun.

At this time, Zhang Shun had not slept for three days and two nights, and was sitting there taking a nap. Hearing that another messenger was coming from the north, he couldn't help but cheer up and meet this person.

"Your Highness, please give me a good meal!" The soldier was also an old man in the rebel army. He complained jokingly when he saw Zhang Shun, and then handed over the letter.

"Thank you for your hard work, please sit there and rest for a while!" Zhang Shun said politely, and asked Dong Xiaowan to serve tea and snacks before opening the letter.

"Oh?" We haven't exchanged letters for a long time. Zhang Shun never expected that so many things would happen.

One was a group of "former ministers" headed by Zhang Zhifa who finally showed their fox tail and were dealt with by Zhang Shenyan and others.

The other is that Geng Zhongming and Zhao Lizi finally captured Fuzhou, Liu Zhiyuan died, and the rest of the army surrendered.

The last one, Zhang Sanbai, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu and others worked hard for a whole winter and finally captured Shenyang, the last important town of Houjin.

"Okay, very good!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but patted his thigh and laughed excitedly.

"Let me go, let me go!" At this moment, there was a shout outside the window.

"What's going on?" Zhang Shun frowned, pushed the door open and asked loudly.

"Your Highness, we have captured two of Shen Youlong's staff!" the soldier who was escorting the two scholars responded quickly.

"Oh? What do you call them?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but ask after seeing the extraordinary bearing of these two people.

"Master Chen Zilong!"

"Master Xia Yunyi!"

"If you want to kill or behead him, it's up to you!" Unexpectedly, the two men replied very forcefully.

"Oh, where is Shen Youlong?" Zhang Shun frowned, ignored them, and asked the soldiers instead.

"He, he committed suicide!" the soldiers reported.

"Oh, dead?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but shook his head regretfully, and sighed, "This is actually 'normally talking about one's feelings, but dying in danger to repay the king!'"

"Bitch thief, how dare you insult Shen Junmen!" Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi were furious when they heard this and couldn't help but cursed loudly.

"You are so bold, you dare to insult King Shun." Upon seeing this, the left and right men stepped forward and found a piece of rag to block their mouths.

"It's better to block than to open up!" Unexpectedly, Zhang Shun waved his hand to the soldiers, then smiled at Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi, "Isn't what I said wrong?"

"You, below, have taken away the people's fat and anointed people, and above, you have bullied the king's conscience. Do you think you can atone for your sins with just one death?"

"Nonsense, nonsense, the dignified King Shun is so unreasonable?" Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi were not convinced at all, but sneered.

"Is this king so unreasonable?" Zhang Shun sneered, "Then I'll tell you some truth!"

"Jiangnan is the most prosperous country in the world. Not only does it not pay business taxes, but it also repeatedly disrupts the government and resists the law, so that the country's finances are in dire straits. What's going on?"

"There are numerous scholars from the south of the Yangtze River. They should be the first in the world, but unexpectedly they form cliques, join the party and attack those who are different. They do not take state affairs as the priority, so that the party struggle becomes more and more fierce. What's wrong?"

"The great clan in the south of the Yangtze River is the richest in the world. They live in gardens and courtyards. Wherever they go, they are cheered and supported. They keep hundreds and thousands of slaves, and they can beat, scold, and humiliate them at will. How many of them?"

"You resist taxes to cut off the imperial court's financial resources; you keep slaves to cut off the imperial court's military sources; and you fight between factions to disrupt the imperial government."

"It has caused great harm to the country and its people. It has caused more and more unfaithful kings and traitorous ministers, and created slaves and homeless people. However, one by one they have built themselves into the backbone of the country and talked about loyalty. Isn't it ridiculous?"

"You, you." Zhang Shun's words left Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi speechless for a long time.

However, Zhang Shun did not let them go and continued to question: "Where were you when the slaves invaded and Liaodong was massacred when you kept claiming to be loyal?"

"Thousands of miles away from the red land in the northwest, the refugees have no way to make a living. They have no choice but to rise up. Where are you?"

"The world is in danger of overthrowing again, the soldiers and the people are in danger of fighting, the sea is boiling, and thieves are everywhere. Where are you?"

"This king rose up from Mengjin, prayed for the people, restrained the tigers and leopards at home, and rejected the wolves outside. The world gained food and followed him. In just four or five years, he conquered the capital, defeated the Tartars, shocked the world, and gradually became peaceful in all directions. Then How dare you call yourself a hero and talk about loyalty?"

"You are just like a dog, and you don't think about serving the country or the people. How can you say that you can't stand up and talk about your heart in peacetime, but die to repay the king in times of danger?"

Zhang Shun felt something in his heart, and his momentum was like a rainbow. With these words, Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi looked dull and mumbling.

Although most of the Jiangnan scholars are said to be "thick-skinned" and "have no love for you", there are still some "thin-skinned" people, such as Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi.

In particular, Xia Yunyi, in his "Survival Record", took the initiative to abandon "sectarian opinions" and more objectively recorded "the rise and fall of the country, the advancement and retreat of the virtuous and traitors, the beginning and end of the bandits, and the origin of soldiers and food."

Even Ma Shiying, who was reviled by Donglin Party members and others, received a relatively objective evaluation in his book, so much so that he was derogatorily called the "Unsurvivable Record" by many Donglin Party and Fushe people.

Not to mention what happened to Zhang Shun, let's say that the two men were put into prison by the soldiers and kept silent for a long time.

Suddenly, Xia Yunyi said: "Among the people, are we really wrong?"

"Yuan Gong, what do you mean?" Chen Zilong frowned and asked, "Could it be that you are really confused by this thief?"

"Although it's just a one-sided statement, it hits home!" Xia Yunyi shook his head and pointed out the key point.

"That's right!" Chen Zilong hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but sigh, "It's the court's fault that he was born with such a great talent, but the country cannot use it!"

"I'm afraid. I'm afraid I can't afford it!" Unexpectedly, Xia Yunyi shook his head when he heard this and said with a bitter smile.

"How can a person like His Highness be able to survive the imperial examination and endure beatings and scoldings?"

Whether he was taking the imperial examination or advancing through military service, with Zhang Shun's ability, how could he waste his time in it?

I'm afraid Zhang Shun can afford to wait, but Ming cannot afford to wait either!

Thinking of this, Xia Yunyi suddenly spoke and shouted outside: "I want to see King Shun, I want to see King Shun!"

"Brother Xia, you..." Chen Zilong couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this. Where is the integrity he promised?

"It's time to end this boring war!" Unexpectedly, Xia Yunyi shook his head and said, "When people are sick, they seek a good doctor; when a country is sick, they seek a good prime minister."

"Now that King Shun is a doctor, it is the right time to take medicine when he gets the symptoms. How can he doubt it?"