After arranging these, Chongzhen felt tired, reclining on the dragon chair, recalling the scenes since he ascended the throne.

Before the emperor's brother Emperor Tianqi died, he took his hand and said: My brother should be Yao Shun.

For this sentence, for the sake of the Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty, he first removed Wei Zhongxian to gather power, but after killing the dead eunuch, he came out to fight for the party, and then there was the invasion of Houjin and Yuan Chonghuan.

When Huang Taiji finished tossing, he wanted to lie down and try his courage, endure a few years to do a good job in domestic economic construction, and then go to recover the great rivers and mountains, but there was a natural disaster, and so many people jumped out to rebel.

Disaster relief, pacification, sending troops to encircle and suppress, all means have been used, extinguishing one stubble after another of thieves, but jumping out of more ruthless thieves, and then deploying troops to suppress, running away, surrendering and surrendering, ready to be extinguished in one go, Jiannu entered the customs again......

In the past 16 years, this matter of the south and the north has tossed the Ming Dynasty into a bad shape, and he has also tossed himself enough, only sleeping four or five hours a day, getting up before dawn and going to the court, either quarreling with the officials, or watching the officials quarrel.

From time to time, there is a burst of bad news or something, what is the urgency of the Liaodong border pass! The Central Plains Rogues are coming! The local officials have been killed! The royal ancestral grave has been dug up! Shaanxi is famine again! There is another locust plague in Henan! The Great Plague is coming!

Over the years, I have done my best, gone all out, day and night, day and night, diligent, hard-working, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get a perfect ending, but let the thieves come to the city of Beijing.

Chongzhen laughed at himself, feeling an indescribable loneliness in his heart.

Suddenly, his originally sloppy eyes gradually became sharp, and he remembered the scene of the quarrel with the crown prince Zhu Cihong five years ago.

The prince once said that he had a dream that Li Zicheng would lead hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Beijing, and he forced the queen and concubines to hang themselves in despair, and also killed the princess with his own hands, and finally walked into the Long Live Mountain and hanged himself on a crooked neck tree.

Chongzhen gradually sat up straight, and a wave of fear came to his heart, at that time, he didn't care, how could Li Zicheng, who had lost his family's dog, make a comeback?

Now, doesn't it all seem to be happening? Li Zicheng has become the emperor, what else is impossible? With the current state of the officials in Beijing, can this Beijing division really hold on?

Chongzhen's original self-confidence gradually collapsed, he summoned Zhang Shize again, and after a few words of secret explanation, he quickly walked to Kunning Palace, where the queen lived......

Even if they are in the deep palace, everyone knows that the thieves are about to come to the city, and people are panicked everywhere in the palace, only Queen Zhou's heart is as calm as water, and she plays the piano quietly in the palace.

Looking at her husband with an abnormal face, Queen Zhou asked softly: "Your Majesty, your face is not good, what happened?" ”

Looking at the virtuous queen and the quiet and elegant environment around her, Chongzhen's frightened heart gradually calmed down, and she rarely showed a smile and said, "Empress, how many years have you not been back to Suzhou?" ”

"It has been eighteen years since the concubine married into the Xinwang Mansion and has never returned to her hometown Suzhou."

"Do you miss your hometown?"

Empress Zhou recalled: "I think, the concubine misses the small bridge and flowing water in her hometown, and misses the old mansion of the Zhou family....."

Chongzhen nodded and said, "Okay, I order you, take the four children of Yongwang, Dingwang, Kunxing, and Zhaoren to go south immediately, go to Nanjing and Suzhou to live for a while, and come back in the spring next year." ”

Empress Zhou was surprised: "Your Majesty, why did you say such a thing? ”

Chongzhen held her hand and said, "I just want you to make this wish, let you go back to your hometown to see, and go to Nanjing to see the prince by the way." ”

"Your Majesty, tell me the truth, is Jingshi unable to hold on?" Empress Zhou stared at him and said seriously.

Chongzhen sighed and said: "The thieves are about to besiege the city, and the city will be broken in three days, and the capital will soon become a lonely city and a battlefield, I don't know how long it will be defended." ”

Empress Zhou's eyes gradually dimmed, and she asked softly, "Your Majesty, what about you?" What do you do? ”

Chongzhen smiled lightly and said, "I naturally want to live and die with Jingshi. ”

Queen Zhou hugged him violently, and tears welled up: "The concubine is not going anywhere, the concubine wants to be with His Majesty, life and death together." ”

Chongzhen patted her on the back and said in an unobtrusive tone, "I want you to go south immediately!" ”

"Never!"

Chongzhen slapped the strings with one palm and shouted in a low voice: "Go quickly!" ”

Empress Zhou's body trembled, and she cried: "The concubine said, where Your Majesty is, where the concubine is, the concubine is there, and the concubine wants to live and die with Your Majesty!" ”

Chongzhen hugged Queen Zhou, like an ordinary husband, and whispered in her ear: "Obedient, you and the imperial sister-in-law will go south with Cijiong and Yujiao, I have prepared the people and horses, and I will leave tonight!" ”

Queen Zhou cried like rain, and the people of Kunning Palace were also sad and weeping.

Emperor Chongzhen slowly pushed the Dao away and sighed, "Go ahead." ”

Thinking of the safety of her two children, Queen Zhou had no choice but to respond, he said in his heart: "The thieves are coming, this palace is the first in the middle palace, I can't leave Your Majesty, but I have to go, if the city is unfortunately broken, Your Majesty is not thoughtful, I will not live alone......"

That night, Empress Zhou, Empress Zhang, Concubine Yuan Guifei, King Ding Zhu Cijiong, Princess Kunxing, and Princess Zhaoren rushed south in a carriage under the escort of 500 elite horsemen from the Shenshu camp.

Seeing off Empress Zhou, Chongzhen summoned Fang Yizhi, the reviewer of the Hanlin Academy, overnight, and said bluntly: "I know that your father and son are both princes, and I appreciate your knowledge to make you the teacher of King Ding and King Yong." ”

Fang Yizhi hurriedly said: "The minister is panicked. ”

Chongzhen didn't want to talk nonsense, and said directly: "You also know the situation of Jingshi, and I am not sure if I can hold it, I summoned you today to let you take Yongwang Cizhi to the south, and leave immediately!" ”

Fang Yizhi was shocked, and immediately bowed to the order, he never imagined that the emperor at this time could recognize the situation so soberly.

Chongzhen continued: "Remember, when you arrive in Nanjing, you tell the prince that if something happens to me, please treat King Yong and King Ding kindly. ”

Fang Yizhi's body shook violently, and he bowed down again: "The minister's decree must be conveyed to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince word for word!" ”

After arranging everything, Chongzhen suddenly felt a lot easier, among the several concubines, except for King Yong's biological mother Tian Guifei who died of illness in Chongzhen's fifteenth year, the rest were all sent away, even if the thieves broke the city, he was not afraid.

Next, it's time to let it go!

......

In the early morning of the first day of August in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, outside the Zhimen of the west of Beijing.

Above the plains, the fog was shining, and the defenders at the head of Jingshi City faintly felt that the ground trembled a little, and they tried their best to look, and suddenly a sea of people appeared in front of them.

In front of them was a dense team of horses, behind them was a boundless infantry team, they wore red tasseled felt hats, wearing yellow uniforms, and each of them had the word "Shun" on it.

The thief is dressed in yellow armor, if the yellow clouds cover the wilderness, the yellow clothes and armor are endless, countless banners hunt and flutter, layer upon layer, like a forest like a wild spear, and like a locust that covers the sky and the sun, vowing to swallow everything in the world.

On the upper floor of Xizhimen City, Zhang Shize looked at the boundless military array, trembled slightly in his heart, and muttered: "The thieves are here, so many ......"

He was excited, and suddenly shouted: "Order, the artillery battalion is ready, and when the thieves enter the Erli range, the Hongyi heavy artillery will be bombarded immediately!" ”

The heralds beside him hurriedly led the order.

There are dozens of Hongyi cannons at the battlements of the city walls in the capital division, as well as hundreds of cannons of various sizes, and almost half of the cannons of the Shenji battalion have been transferred.

As the alarm bell sounded loudly and the order was issued, the artillery began to turn everywhere, adjusting the angle, and the black muzzles of the guns poked out of the window, ready to bombard at any time.

The army of thieves was still roaring, and they were getting closer and closer, and the rumbling advance thundered like thunder, knocking down on the hearts of the soldiers at the head of the city.

Within the range of the Shun army's entry into Erli, only a huge cannon sound was heard, and a large puff of thick white smoke rose from a battlement, followed by a thunderous artillery roar.

In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen's Zhu pen trembled, and he turned his head sharply to look in the direction of Xizhimen.

The guards of the gates, the Chinese military officials of Beijing, the noble eunuchs, and the merchants and ordinary people all looked at Xizhimen together, and the tense atmosphere spread throughout the Jingshi, and everyone had different thoughts.

But they all know very well that a big event has happened that will go down in history!

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