Zhu Cihong felt that with these selfish courtiers, it was almost inevitable that Beijing would be attacked by Li Zicheng. Zhu Cihong walked back and forth, anxious, Zhu Cihong didn't want to sit still like this, and wanted to try to persuade Emperor Chongzhen to move the capital to Nanjing, but he knew that it was absolutely impossible, because in history, there were courtiers who persuaded Emperor Chongzhen to move the capital more than once, and even the queen opened his mouth once, but Emperor Chongzhen was beaten to death.

Since the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, pay attention to the Son of Heaven Imperial Gate, even in the orthodox years, Emperor Yingzong was captured, and the army of the Tile Thorn came to the city, and the capital was not moved. Moreover, during the Chongzhen period, the city of Beijing was besieged more than once, and Emperor Chongzhen never thought of moving the capital, even many courtiers thought the same way, in the end, no one could have predicted that Li Zicheng's peasant army would be able to break through the city of Beijing.

Although Zhu Cihong is the crown prince, if he really wants to persuade Emperor Chongzhen to move the capital, he will be considered cowardly, if Emperor Chongzhen is angry and deposes him as the crown prince, or locks him up, then he will not have a chance to escape?

Zhu Cihong didn't dare to try it easily, and another three days passed.

What is unexpected is that after the slaughter of Ningwuguan, the general soldiers of Datong and Xuanfu were frightened and surrendered without resistance, causing Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of thieves to quickly come to Beijing before they could react.

"Bastard, I'm going to punish them nine clans!" Chongzhen roared angrily.

At this time, the city of Beijing was completely chaotic, and at this time the city of Beijing was only worthy of 100,000 troops, and except for a few years ago from the border pass to form the Imperial Forest Army a little combat power, most of the others are simply living in the capital all the year round The old soldiers, simply not enough to resist Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops, Beijing City is in danger, Emperor Chongzhen ordered the whole country to enter the king of Jingqin, but only a few people responded, and less than one of the ten people who arrived in Beijing.

"Your Majesty, move the capital!" In the face of such a critical moment, some courtiers suggested that Emperor Chongzhen move the capital.

"No, I will never move the capital, I swear to live and die with the capital!" Emperor Chongzhen still refused to move the capital, and he would rather die than bear the infamy of escaping.

The courtiers couldn't, and at this time, Zhu Cihong couldn't sit still.

"Father, my son heard that Li Zicheng has come to the city!" Zhu Cihong came to the imperial study, and Emperor Chongzhen's eyes were blood-red at this time, and he hadn't slept for three days.

"How do you know?" Emperor Chongzhen looked directly at Zhu Cihong and asked.

"As the crown prince, Erchen should understand the situation in the world." Zhu Cihong said and knelt down: "Father, the capital is no longer defendable, move the capital." When he arrived in Nanjing, with the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River and the moat of the Yangtze River, he would definitely be able to break the thief army by reorganizing the army and horses. ”

"Even you say so, is my Ming Dynasty really hopeless?" Emperor Chongzhen looked a little decadent.

Zhu Cihong couldn't bear to say in his heart: "Father, the Ming Dynasty is not helpless, it's just that the Qing captives in the north have been committing crimes every year, involving too many elites of the imperial court, and Li Zicheng has internal chaos, plus at the end of last year, the Qing captives have broken the Great Wall for the fourth time, and plundered Hebei and Shandong as if they were in a no-man's land. Think about the time when Li Zicheng's army entered the Xuanfu a few days ago, the people of the Xuanfu actually welcomed the people and burned incense, like a festival, how sad this is, the people in the north have been disappointed in my Daming, and the people are not in the heart of the emperor! ”

Chongzhen glared at Zhu Cihong angrily: "Bold! As the prince of the Ming Dynasty, you are so disappointed that you are talking like this, do you think that Li Zicheng is more popular with the people than me? ”

"Father, that's the case, Li Zicheng is good at demagoguery, the people don't know his nature, it's not strange, but look at his order to slaughter Xuanfu, you can know that he really regards the people as grass, not a benevolent and righteous person, if he can really occupy the capital, he will inevitably reveal his bloodthirsty nature, and the army will be a disaster, and then the people will definitely return to the Ming Dynasty again, recover the north without wasting their efforts, and the Qing captives can also be pacified." Zhu Cihong eagerly argued.

"That's it! I don't believe in such words, I'm disappointed in you, go down! Chongzhen's face was pale, and he looked at Zhu Cihong coldly, the power of the emperor was awe-inspiring, and the temperature in the air seemed to have dropped a lot.

Zhu Cihong inhaled, cold sweat flowed, and he didn't speak.

After Zhu Cihong left, Emperor Chongzhen looked up at the void, and said to Wang Chengen for a long time: "Chengen, the prince just said that the people of Xuanfu burned incense and welcomed thieves, is it true?" ”

Wang Chengen was silent for a moment, and said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, it is not Your Majesty's fault that the people have been deceived. "Wang Chengen is now a eunuch in front of the imperial court, and he has connections in Dongchang and Jinyiwei, so he naturally knew about these things for a long time, but he was afraid of irritating the emperor, so he never dared to say it.

"Hehe--, it's really like this, the people's hearts have been lost!" Emperor Chongzhen laughed miserably, with tears in his eyes, no matter what, it was his fault that he lost the hearts of the people.

"It's not Your Majesty's fault, Your Majesty take care of the dragon body!" Wang Chengen also shed tears.

Wang Chengen is an old man beside Emperor Chongzhen, who has been with Emperor Chongzhen for decades, and almost grew up with Emperor Chongzhen, so he knows too well the bitterness in Emperor Chongzhen's heart. Emperor Chongzhen worked hard for seventeen years and couldn't sleep day and night, but in the end it turned out to be such a result.

Zhu Cihong returned to the East Palace, very disappointed, it seems that history is no longer avoidable. Today is the 13th of March, and the city of Beijing was breached in the early morning of the 19th.

"Zhao Dequan, you asked the commander of the East Palace guards to come to see me." Zhu Cihong commanded.

"Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince." Zhao Dequan is the consul and eunuch of the East Palace, and has followed Zhu Cihong for ten years, and is the person Zhu Cihong can trust the most.

Watching Zhao Dequan go out, Zhu Cihong had to sigh, no wonder so many eunuchs were favored in history, cholera in the world, it turned out that they were the closest people to the emperor, and sometimes, the emperor really didn't know who to believe except them.

After a while, the commander of the East Palace guards brought it.

"The last general will see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"General Zhang is exempt."

Zhu Cihong looked at this person carefully, in his memory, his name was Zhang Kuishan, he was seven feet tall, his martial arts were good, he was meticulous in his work, and he should be a loyal person. If he wants to escape to Nanjing City safely when the city of Beijing is broken, he must be escorted by some loyal people, and this Zhang Kuishan should be able to be counted as one.

"General Zhang, how many guards do I have in the East Palace?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, there were originally 3,000 guards in the East Palace, and His Majesty transferred half of them to defend the city, and now there are 1,500 people." Zhang Kuishan replied expressionlessly.

"General Zhang, this prince asks you, if the capital is breached, can you and 1,500 guards have the ability to protect this prince from the city to Nanjing?" Zhu Cihong paused and got straight to the point.

Zhang Kuishan was slightly stunned, could it be that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has lost confidence in defending the city?

"The last will never give up!" Zhang Kuishan took a deep breath and said.

"Okay, you go down and prepare first, don't mess around there for the next few days, and be ready to listen to the orders of this prince at all times." Zhu Cihong said solemnly.

Zhu Cihong had to trust Zhang Kuishan, at least in his memory, Zhu Cihong in history was not betrayed by the guards of the East Palace, which shows that the guards of the East Palace are still in the Ming Dynasty.