Chapter 2: Chongzhen's Death

As a large passenger ship with complete facilities, the Ping'an is equipped with four Millennium Falcon-class small transport ships, with a load of about 200 tons, which can place some seats and occasionally transport some people, but the biggest function is to transport some goods at ordinary times, and when it is emergency, it is also a lifeboat that is convenient for passengers to abandon ship and run away, economical, durable, convenient and solid, making the Millennium Falcon-class small spacecraft the best choice for short-range interstellar travel.

Not to mention the fact that the people who entered and exited the Ping'an, how to explain, frightened, frustrated, accepted, and accidentally traveled to ancient times, in this era, Li Xiangqian's mother country is at the lowest ebb in history, it can be said that it is the prelude to a great diving of civilization, and this diving will not be until 1949, when the chaos will be set right and a normal upward period will be re-embarked.

On April 25, 1644, the highest point of the Forbidden City, Coal Mountain, stood here, Emperor Chongzhen took a few eunuchs to talk about it for the last time, watching what was happening outside the city and outside the palace: watching his dynasty fall.

The army of King Qin will not come, the last bit of blood of the Guanning army, tens of thousands of cavalry, is under the leadership of Pingxi Bo Wu Sangui, can reach Shanhaiguan, and the reinforcements in the south are basically controlled by the army of thieves after controlling many cities in Henan and Shandong, announced that they are cut off, even the lifeline of the imperial capital, four million stone of grain per year, has been transported half-heartedly many years ago, and after the New Year of this year, Li Zicheng began the eastern expedition to the imperial capital, since the oath of the army, even these half-hearted Cao Yun volume, is also completely cut off, The imperial capital could only rely on grain stocks and the grain transported by those grain merchants to survive, and everywhere, even the six Shangshu of Nanjing, and the rich places of Nanzhili, were already disheartened by the imperial court and refused to pay taxes.

In this case, the imperial court and even the New Year, the money for the new clothes for the emperor's brother's wife, Empress Zhang, could not be taken out, so she could only spend a desolate New Year.

Originally, the Ming Dynasty still had the opportunity to move the capital to Nanjing, and survived his life, but no one was willing to take risks politically, and they would only fight infighting, which finally caused this result.

As for what benevolence, righteousness and morality, naturally everything is closed, the eunuch Du Zhizhi of the supervising army, the chief soldier Tang Tong surrendered without a fight, opened the gate of Juyong Pass, only two days later, the eunuch who defended the city took the lead in opening the Guangning Gate on the west side of the outer city, and the army entered the outer city, today, that is, on the 19th day of the third month of the lunar calendar, on April 25, 1644, Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, took the initiative to open the Zhengyang Gate and introduced the army into the inner city.

And Chongzhen, it was on the coal mountain that he saw all this and saw the demise of his dynasty.

At the age of 18, just the age of a high school graduate, he inherited a devastated and chaotic country, the court was torn apart, whether it was the eunuch party or the Donglin party, it was the mind of profiting for himself, greater than the mind of serving the country, the treasury of the court was empty, relying on Zhang Juzheng's whip method to accumulate silver taels, which were squandered, and the landlords relied on the opportunity of the government to lose control over the locality, completely controlled the locality, and completely apportioned the taxes of the imperial court to the poorest people. However, they can use many excuses to exempt all of them from taxation, so that the financial order of the country is completely damaged, and any attempt to improve the fair taxation system will be attacked by the scholars supported by these landlords.

As a result, Liaodong fought a war and collected taxes, forcing the common people who were taken away from the last grain of grain to fight a bigger battle and levy more taxes in the Guannai......

Chongzhen rubbed his eyes, which were already crying, looked up at the sky, and shouted: "The ministers inside and outside misunderstood me!" Mistake me. ”

In the sky, a star appeared, and it was coming to the city at a speed that was neither fast nor slow, and in the absence of satellite navigation and the guidance of the coordinates of the tarmac, relying on manual driving, it was hoping to come to the city as soon as possible.

Chongzhen didn't see these things, he knew that he had lost his court, and at this time there were no ministers willing to follow him and make ideas for him, so he rode on a horse, wanted to escape from the city, and wanted to find a relative's mansion to temporarily hide, but everywhere he went, he was closed, so he had to turn back to the palace, forced the queen to hang, and cut off the arm of the fifteen-year-old princess with his own hands, and then accompanied by Wang Chengen, he came to the coal mountain north of the Forbidden City, hanged himself, and martyred with him, only one eunuch Wang Chengen.

Before hanging, he wept and wrote the following words on his robe: "In the seventeenth year since I ascended the throne, although I bowed down to the throne and was angry, all the ministers were mistaken, and the rebels and thieves approached the capital directly. When I died, I saw my ancestors in the ground without a face, and I took off my crown and covered my face with my hair. Let the thief divide the corpse, and don't hurt a single person. ”

After that, Chongzhen kept coming in his ears, the cheers of the soldiers who broke into the army, deafening, and came out in unison, the more desperate he felt in his heart, and the more he didn't want to live in the world anymore, so according to the plan, let Wang Chengen serve himself one last time: help himself hang the rope for hanging, and then find a stone, step on it, kick it away, and then hang himself.

And at this time, the Millennium Falcon had already reached the sky above the coal mountain.

Wang Chengen knelt on the ground, witnessing the death of the emperor he was loyal to, he could only kowtow and cry on the spot, and then he stood up tremblingly, and walked to the position where Chongzhen was hanging, and arranged one for himself, and then hung himself on it.

The Ming Dynasty raised scholars for 300 years, and in the end there was no so-called scholar to accompany the emperor to martyrdom, and in the end, there was only one eunuch who was slandered and attacked by countless scholars, he didn't know what human rights, he didn't know what freedom and harmony, but at least he did what he usually said: loyalty.

He hung himself on a white silk, his eyes just looking to the sky.

God, look at it, Da Ming, he is about to die.

The white silk around his neck was finally tightened, but the last consciousness was still there, he saw a huge object in the sky, which was slowly coming, was it here to take him to heaven, was he a person like him who was still so lucky, or was it because he followed the emperor?

Thinking of this, the only martyr who followed the emperor's side actually smiled a little more.

Li Xiangqian was still late.

In any case, in an era when the technology of automatic driving has basically been matured, without the help of satellite navigation technology, he can only switch to manual driving, which is a little unaccustomed, but fortunately, the army he served in is still considered to be the middle level of the first-class army, and there is a fixed training program, that is, to train soldiers, under extreme conditions, especially the loss of satellite guidance, it is also one of the training projects, otherwise, an astronaut from an ordinary professional class has really never seen this situation.

When Li Xiangqian flew over the imperial capital, he was actually busy with several things, he had to listen to the main spaceship from the headphones, the captain's explanations and lectures to the passengers, and constantly judge whether the air in this time and space was harmful to the human body through the equipment on the Millennium Falcon, and he also had to constantly judge the location according to the photos taken, he didn't have any predetermined goals, just wanted to find and confirm something.

It should be ancient times, Li Xiangqian kept scrolling in front of his eyes to take photos under the film, the imperial capital of this time, there was indeed a huge Forbidden City, and in his eyes, there was no trace of modernization, he also saw traces of large-scale crowd movement, but what he was most concerned about, the location of the palace, but there were also many unusual images: scattered fleeing crowds, carrying burdens, or a few people carrying boxes, leaving in a hurry, traces of anarchy could be seen everywhere.

He originally wanted to park the spaceship in some secluded place, take advantage of no one to find out, and then find a way to grab his tongue and find out what year and dynasty this year is first, but the more he went later, the facts became clearer, and the goal was clearer, and his goal gradually changed from going to the imperial capital to going to the Forbidden City, and finally, he locked on a person in a robe, who was about to hang himself, if he remembered correctly, this would be&......

When he was wearing a space suit and holding a pacemaker in his hand, when he was in mid-air before, he had noticed the hanging behavior of these two people, but the Millennium Falcon was not equipped with any amplification equipment, so it could not be stopped by shouting.

Cardiac shock, which can be used in an emergency, for syncope, sudden death, etc., to give first aid, turn on, adjust the degree of Celsius, and then shock.

After the two hanged people were rescued by him, they began to be treated, once, twice, three times, and later he had forgotten how many times he had been shocked, in order to save time, after treating one person, he would immediately give the other person an electric shock, as a sign of fairness.

It's useless, Li Xiangqian gasped, because of caution, although the spacesuit he was wearing could isolate physical contact and purify the air, it was still very stuffy, and after thinking about it for a while, he finally confirmed: People, can't be saved.

Li Xiangqian looked at the handwriting on one of the deceased people, this should be a desperate book, the handwriting is not very neat, considering that this person has now hanged himself, this is understandable.

Please the greatness of Chinese cultural inheritance, Li Xiangqian, as an ordinary person, can also simply read his words, traditional and simplified characters are a family, and the meaning of these words is also simple and clear: I have failed, I have lost my dynasty, the blame is on me, please don't punish my people, what is coming at me, it is better to divide my body with a knife.

This is a true emperor.

There is no need to investigate the background of this era, Li Xiangqian can already confirm that this era is the era when the Ming Dynasty died in Li Zicheng.

Li Xiangqian sighed, So, what should I do next?

There was still a lot of information in his ears, and the content of the meeting on the Ping'an was still coming, listening to some words, Li Xiangqian's expression gradually became confused, a little angry, and then, his expression became firm.

A moment later, the Millennium Falcon rose from the ground, leaving only a faint shadow, noticed by the few people who looked up at the sky.

Li Zicheng was on the horse, and seemed to see it, but he only saw a line across the sky, maybe it was just a flying bird? At this time, he was in high spirits, so naturally he would not notice such a small celestial phenomenon.

"Enter the city, give the order, the army will be victorious, each will have a reward, dare to condone the raiders, and there will be no mercy."

At this time, Li Zicheng didn't know what the big truth was, he just followed the customary habits of thousands of years, and those legendary Ming monarchs asked themselves to do these things, which may be the accumulation brought about by the thousand-year-old inheritance of China, any post office courier has the energy to manage an empire!

However, history has changed a little here, Li Xiangqian turned back, glanced at the two closed boxes behind him, pressed a button, and said: "Crew Li Xiangqian, please speak." ”