Emperor Chongzhen definitely didn't want to die.

Whether it is from personal instinct or from the survival of Daming, he is not willing to die.

Therefore, in later generations, he was killed by his ministers, and he was also harmed by his own indecision.

The current Emperor Chongzhen has "moving south" in his mind.

Zhang Kou asked Li Mingrui a series of questions, most of which focused on the security issue in the middle of the way, that is, where to mobilize the receiving troops. Because he couldn't go south alone.

At that time, the main force of the Ming army was only the Guanning army outside the country, and it was also fighting against the Qing army on the eastern front, and the imperial court had no army at hand, so Li Mingrui proposed to secretly send some Korean and Chinese officials to recruit new soldiers from the Gyeonggi area.

"Money and food!"

The two big characters in the invisible made Emperor Chongzhen breathless.

Recruiting recruits requires a lot of money, and where does this money come from?

The move of the imperial court to the south is a very expensive thing, and it is not easy to squeeze out money and grain from it?

Emperor Chongzhen really has no silver in his hands. There are only a few hundred thousand taels of silver in the inner bank. If this silver belongs to an individual, it is naturally rich, but if it belongs to the emperor, then the emperor is a man who asks for food called Hanako.

Therefore, this money and grain naturally has to be shown by the household department. However, the household department did not have much money and food, and now that it was not the summer harvest season, it was already beyond its strength to support the expenses of the armies in various places.

Emperor Chongzhen can only take this matter to the court to discuss, but once the matter of moving south is made public, what awaits him will really be the solution? Instead of the endless arguments and sparrings of officials from both the North and the South?

When Zheng Zhilong arrived at Zhifu Island by boat, the wave of 'southward migration' brewed by Emperor Chongzhen had disappeared. What surged up in the capital was the debate over whether Wu Sangui's army of Ningyuan should withdraw to Shanhaiguan and resist Li Zicheng.

Zheng Zhilong was dumbfounded when he saw the letter sent by Zheng Zhiguan, he really didn't know that such a good show had been staged in Yanjing City in the last years of Chongzhen.

"Chen Yan, Wei Zaode...... and Empress Yi'an, the carpenter emperor, "The ancestral temple is here, where to move?" ”

What a cruel sentence.

Reading these three people who performed prominently in the southward migration incident and added a piece of loess to the Ming Dynasty, he sighed very much in his heart.

"Zhang's women's Taoist family is not enough to make big things. Chen Yan and Wei Zaode are both cabinet ministers, don't you know that the northern capital is dead? ”

Zheng Sen has obviously accumulated a lot of anger in the past few days, and he can't say some words to others, but he has no scruples in front of Zheng Zhilong.

Although the main force of the thief army intended to capture Taiyuan Mansion, the 100,000 horses led by the thief general Liu Fangliang, as a partial division, crossed the Yellow River and marched to the south of Jinnan by the main force, chasing Gao Jie on the one hand, and occupying the provinces, prefectures, and counties in southern Jinnan on the other. Seeing that the momentum will continue to the east, cross the Taihang Mountain, enter the Huaiqing area of the Central Plains, and then go north from Anyang to threaten Jifu. ……”

"Chen Fuyong, the chief soldier of the Central Plains, has already surrendered Li Zicheng, and relying on the thousands of remnants of Hong Jingluo, who are struggling to survive in Kaifeng and Guide, can he still keep the huge Central Plains? Can you still hold Liu Fangliang back?

If the latter goes north, only the easternmost part of the entire North Zhili will be connected to Qilu. The northern capital is a lonely city, a dead land. If you continue to hold on, there is only one way to die. "Zheng Sen can see this truth clearly, can't the princes in the court see it?

"When the top priority is to be arbitrary, how can the emperor be so gentle?"

Zheng Sen was very dissatisfied with the "ancestral temple" mentioned by Empress Yi'an. It's the same as if you don't move the capital, your ancestral temple can be preserved?

The Ming Dynasty is really going to end, not only the imperial mausoleum in Gyeonggi will fall into the hands of the enemy, but even the Taizu Mausoleum in Fengyang, the central capital and Jinling, will not be able to be saved.

Look at Li Zicheng, who abandoned his family and business early, is the ancestral grave of the old Li family not the same as being picked up? Now that it has been rebuilt, as long as Li Zicheng can really sit firmly in the country, there will be more glory waiting for them.

Zheng Sen feels that this matter is a bit of a "loss of land, loss of people, loss of people and land; The feeling of saving people and losing land, and gaining all people's land', is really not indecisive, and the emperor should come up with his own words.

It's a pity that he didn't see anything from Emperor Chongzhen.

"Many people understand what you said, but if you understand it, no one is willing to do it."

"My father has heard people say that in the adult world, there is no right or wrong, only the pros and cons. Children are the ones who distinguish between right and wrong. ”

"Although this statement is biased, it also tells some truth." Zheng Zhilong said to Zheng Sen soothingly. Although the latter is no longer the same as Emperor Chongzhen of Daming and Chongzhen, he still has a kind of anger when he looks at the appearance of Jingshi.

"Leaving Queen Yi'an alone, I only said that Chen Yan and Wei Zaode, both of whom are cabinet ministers, and their knowledge is naturally not weak. However, the two of them expressed their opposition to the southward migration, which was unwilling to take responsibility. There are two points of responsibility, one is the accountability of the emperor, and the other is the accountability of Qingshi. ”

"If they propose to move south, and if something happens along the way, it goes without saying that it will not end well. And even if Bi'an succeeds, Emperor Chongzhen may kill them to thank the people of the world and make them take the responsibility of discarding the ancestral temple. Chen Xinjia was ordered to negotiate peace, but the market was tragically abandoned, which is not a lesson from the past. Further on, there is an example of Yu Zhongsu Gong (Yu Qian), which must not be overlooked. Not to mention the long history. Zheng Zhilong pondered as he spoke. The six important ministers and cabinet ministers are all old foxes, and they are afraid that they dare not stand up and take the initiative to take responsibility because they know the character of Emperor Chongzhen.

These words have what he has seen and heard in his previous life, and he has also grown up after crossing over.

"The second is that I am afraid that the emperor will stay in the northern capital and become a substitute ghost. Even if the imperial court moves south, the northern capital can't just abandon it, right? Where is the border army of the North like this? "When Song Huizong ran, he left a new emperor, and when Emperor Yuan Shun ran, he left a Huai King Timur Buhua and Zhongshu Zuo Prime Minister Qingtong. If this Emperor Chongzhen escapes, if he doesn't leave the crown prince, he will also leave a cabinet scholar, right?

None of them wanted to be a substitute for the dead.

"The third is that he is unwilling to give up his own interests, which is important to people like Wei Zaode, and Chen Yan is a person from Sichuan and Shu. Most of the court officials who supported the move south were southern officials, and Jiang Dejing was criticized for this. Most of the interests of officials in the south are not in the north, so they will support the move to the south; Most of the opponents are officials from the north, and they are reluctant to move south, and they do not want to easily give up the large number of good land and beautiful houses they occupy. What's more, even if Li Zicheng takes over the world, someone must govern the world, right? Even if the Ming Dynasty is destroyed, they can still get an errand in the new dynasty, just like the Kong clan, which makes them weigh in their hearts whether it is worth being loyal to the dying Ming Dynasty. ”

"In the end, there are some lower-level speech officials, who are troubled by the idea of fighting for fame, such as Guang Shiheng and the like." One jumped very happily in the southward migration incident. Angry rhetoric - without cutting the wisdom of the people, can not correct the hearts of the people, but can not put forward any constructive opinions, purely in the name of admonishment.

Zheng Zhilong is a hundred disdainful of the Ming Dynasty's officials, and the imperial history is very necessary, but "rumors", there is no need to bear the backlash of impeachment, and the degree of "freedom" is really overflowing.

And the 'freedom' without restrictions can only eat itself. Guang Shiheng is one of the representatives!

But these people occupy a very important weight in the political system of the Ming Dynasty, and as long as Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts have not changed abruptly, it is impossible not to pay attention to the weight of these officials.

"And, of course, our Emperor. He didn't dare to act arbitrarily, the biggest reason probably was that he was afraid of bearing the infamy of discarding the Zongmiao Society, right? "There is a precedent that Yu Qian and others set up a king after being captured by Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, refused to move the capital, and turned the situation into peace, Chongzhen was worried that he would be criticized by future generations after giving up the capital easily, so he hesitated.

"That lord is suspicious, stubborn, and self-serving, and he is known to be extremely harsh to ministers. He decides to do something, often showing great determination at the beginning, becoming discouraged when he encounters setbacks and going from one extreme to the other. It's just that people have a good face......"

In a word, Emperor Chongzhen just wanted to go, but he was embarrassed to go, and wanted the ministers to write a book to give a step. However, people's hearts are scattered, and some people are stunned and unwilling to give this step. Emperor Chongzhen could only die to save face and suffer the crime.

Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but diss Emperor Chongzhen a few words in the end. But what he said also makes sense, doesn't it?

In other words, he scolded the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty plus the emperor, which made the evil anger in Zheng Sen's heart that had been held for many days come out.

"Don't talk about this, the biggest delay now is to rectify the carriages, horses, and salaries, and enter the Weijing Division!"

Zheng Zhilong did not need to lead the whole army into Beijing by land, the army would be divided into two, and one part would remain in Denglai, and when the sea ice melted in late February and early March, they would naturally be able to reach Jinmen by boat.

"The carriages, horses, and people I ordered you to prepare are all in place?"