Zhu Cihong was reborn in this stormy era, and is about to witness this tragic era of singing and crying.

In the north, there are Jiannu knocking passes, and in the south, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other rogues swept the Central Plains.

Born in troubled times and knowing the ending, Zhu Cihong originally wanted to use the knowledge of later generations to display his ambitions, guide the country, and change all this, but the result was very realistic.

Even as the crown prince, in the past seven years, he has hardly made any achievements that have changed history, at most he has written various planning books in the palace, engaged in small inventions and creations.

He is too young, even if he behaves like a prodigy, he can't break through this feudal cage, and the crown prince can't leave the palace easily.

Zhu Cihong had found a few opportunities to make a lot of suggestions to Chongzhen, but because of his small words, Chongzhen did not take his words to heart.

The only thing that Chongzhen adopted was that Zhu Cihong suggested that the Beijing camp be rectified and an army with strong combat effectiveness should be trained.

Because in the eighth year of Chongzhen, the 72 battalions of the 13 families of the peasant army captured Fengyang, the central capital, after the Xingyang Conference, dug the imperial tomb of the old Zhu family, killed more than 60 town guards and thousands of officers and soldiers left behind, and also set up the banner of "Gu Yuan Zhenlong Emperor" to celebrate the victory, and the arrogance was very arrogant.

The fall of Fengyang, the central capital, made Chongzhen very angry, and felt that it was necessary for the Ming Dynasty to have a brave and warlike army, and to listen to the tune at any time in the capital, so he adopted Zhu Cihong's suggestion by the way.

As a result, to Zhu Cihong's disappointment, Chongzhen did not hand over the formation and command of the army to him, but ordered Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, to integrate the four guards of Tengxiang.

Cao Huachun is an old man in Chongzhen's mansion or Xinwangshi, and his position is still above Wang Chengen, and he is deeply trusted by Chongzhen.

Zhu Cihong was helpless, in the final analysis, he was too young, everyone treated him as a child, and it was useless to be the crown prince.

It wasn't until he left the cabinet at the age of six to study that Zhu Cihong was officially recognized as the crown prince and had many rights.

Out of the cabinet to study, he admitted that the status of the prince originated from Emperor Jiajing, the old immortal who took strong pills believed in Taoism, believed in the legend that the two dragons could not meet, and once refused to see his son and the prince.

Perhaps afraid that the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty was illiterate, the old immortal let his eldest son Zhu Zaigao go out of the pavilion to study, and according to the unique prince education system of the Ming Dynasty, since then, out of the pavilion to study, that is, to recognize the identity of the prince has become the nominal ancestral system.

Seeing that Zhu Cihong was silent in a daze, the little eunuch led by one had to kneel down and begged bitterly: "Master, come down, it's dangerous above." ”

Zhu Cihong sighed lightly, and gently threw the telescope in his hand at the eunuch below, and then he skillfully supported the glazed tiles, and his feet were on the big red palace wall like an ape descending a tree, and he stood firmly on the ground in a few breaths.

He waved his hand and said, "Get up, Wu Daban, why do you nag like this every time, disturbing people's leisure." ”

This Wu Daban's original name was Wu Zhong, almost twenty years old, he was Zhu Cihong's companion and the chief eunuch of Zhongcui Palace, and he was responsible for taking care of Zhu Cihong's life on weekdays.

As his name suggests, Wu Zhong is loyal to Zhu Cihong, although he is not very old, he knows very well that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is his future.

In the future, His Royal Highness will ascend to the Great Treasure, and he will be the same as Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen and other bigwigs, ranking first among eunuchs and going to the pinnacle of life.

"The slave and maid don't want to disturb the master, but they are worried that if the officials know about the master's move, they will inevitably have to admonish the emperor." The little eunuch Wu Zhong said softly.

"This palace is still afraid that this gang of mouth cannons will not succeed?" Zhu Cihong snorted lightly.

Thinking of these Donglin Party, which would only use the name of satirizing the government and commenting on officials, but doing to shield the landlords and fight for the profits of the rich businessmen, Zhu Cihong became angry from his heart.

Although these people usually shout the slogan of honesty and honesty, revitalizing the rule of officials, and eliminating maladministration, in essence, they have become the spokesmen of the big landlords and big businessmen's interest groups, and they have tried their best to obstruct the act of collecting funds for disaster relief.

Historically, the direct cause of the demise of the Ming Dynasty was the defeat of those key battles, and some people attribute the failure of these battles to Chongzhen's blind command.

Actually? Which one was not because it dragged on for too long and the court had no money to fight, so Chongzhen ordered the front line to be quickly resolved under the repeated requests of the civil officials?

The tax was not collected, there was no money to fight, which led to the defeat of the war, and then threw the pot to the emperor, the Donglin Party really slipped away to take off.

The commercial tax was not allowed to be collected, and the tax was blindly imposed on the peasants, which made the peasants, who had already suffered a catastrophic famine, even more miserable, and finally gathered people to rebel under the leadership of some leading irons.

The peasants rebelled, the court put down the rebellion, the counterinsurgency spent money, there was no money to collect taxes, and then the agricultural taxes were collected, and they were about to starve to death, and the peasants rebelled.......

After this set of dead loops, how can Daming withstand the toss?

This is one of the reasons why Zhu Cihong hates the Donglin Party, and at the same time, he is not afraid of some officials making small reports.

According to the ancestral system of the eldest son of Da Ming Yan inheriting the throne, coupled with the deep affection between Chongzhen and Empress Zhou, his status as the crown prince can be said to be unshakable.

The Wanli Emperor of that year dreamed of abolishing the elder and the young, but he never got his wish. As long as Zhu Cihong doesn't hold the fire gun against Chongzhen's head, who can abolish him?

Just as he was thinking, a eunuch in a red robe walked into Zhongcui Palace with small steps, and said sharply: "Your Highness, the emperor has summoned you to the Qianqing Palace." ”

"Got it." Zhu Cihong nodded.

Entering the inner room, under the service of the two young palace maids, Zhu Cihong changed into a red dragon-patterned civilian clothes.

Zhu Cihong shook the hem of his robe, and said to Wu Zhong: "Wu Daban, tell the War Bureau, let them hurry up to make a batch of telescopes, and study it if they have nothing to do, don't sit there every day and wait for death." ”

"Yes!" Wu Zhong hurriedly responded, and stretched out his hand to support Zhu Cihong, stepping over the half-foot-high threshold.

It has been ten years since the telescope was introduced to the Ming Dynasty, and two years ago, the first telescope to observe the celestial phenomena in the Ming Dynasty was successfully made, and Emperor Chongzhen also came to inspect it with great interest, becoming the first emperor to observe the astronomical scene with a telescope.

However, no one thought at all that the Ming army that assigned the telescopes to the important towns of the nine sides would not be collected at night and used to detect the enemy's situation.

"Xu Sheng!" Zhu Cihong shouted outside the courtyard.

Suddenly, a tall palace guard with a silver hammer in his hand came and quickly appeared in front of Zhu Cihong, holding his head high: "Xu Sheng is here!" ”

"Together with Wu Daban, go to Qianqing Palace with the main palace." Zhu Cihong patted Xu Sheng's broad arm and said.

He wanted to pat Xu Sheng's shoulder, but the other party was too tall to reach at all.

Xu Sheng was personally selected by Zhu Cihong from the Han generals compiled by the Jinyi Guard, and after several years of training, he had long been loyal to himself, and the palace maids and eunuchs of the entire Zhongcui Palace were loyal to Zhu Cihong.

A traverser, a person in his thirties with a combined number of two lifetimes, has the identity of a crown prince, if even these people can't handle it, how is it different from a pig?

Zhu Cihong took his personal guards Xu Sheng and Wu Zhong to the Qianqing Palace with the little eunuch who passed the decree.

He did not ride the prince's guard of honor, but on foot, a habit he has had since childhood.

According to his thoughts, if you want to survive in the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it must be indispensable to go out and toss in the future.

So Zhu Cihong has already had a plan, and he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, he doesn't want to be like the future King Fu, who is fat and can't run, and was finally caught and cooked by Li Zicheng's peasant army.

After several years of training, although Zhu Cihong is only seven years old, his body looks a lot stronger, and his height is close to one meter four.

Originally, Zhu Cihong's behavior in the palace was supervised by the mother-in-law of the palace discipline, and when he was exercising, a mean mother-in-law in the palace said that he was 'out of line', and he talked for a long time, like a Tang monk.

Zhu Cihong couldn't stand being annoyed, jumped up with a big mouth, and said sharply: "Do you want to learn from the Hakka family?" ”

The Hakka family is the nurse of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and Wei Zhongxian is a nominal husband and wife, the two of them are cholera court, after Chongzhen ascended the throne, the Hakka family was first whipped to death in the Huanyi Bureau, and then she was executed to death.

The disciplining mother-in-law was stunned on the spot, thinking of the tragic fate of the Hakka family, as if she remembered it vividly, her legs trembled a little, and she didn't dare to say anything more.

Later, the matter came to Chongzhen, and Chongzhen personally interrogated and asked Zhu Cihong why he did such a disrespectful thing.

Zhu Cihong said directly: "Back then, Taizu and Chengzu, Wen Ke Anbang ruled the world, and martial arts could ride horses to determine the world, as the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I should follow the example of my ancestors, why can't I practice martial arts?" ”

Chongzhen was very surprised by such an answer, and instead of punishing him, he also rewarded and encouraged him.