In 1605 AD, the thirty-third year of Wanli of Mingshenzong, the prince Zhu Changluo was happy to have a son, Emperor Shenzong Longyan Dayue, although he did not like this good wine prince Zhu Changluo, but the father relied on the son of the noble, and finally canonized the prince Zhu Changluo as the prince, and personally gave the name of the emperor's grandson Zhu Youxiao, amnesty to the world.

Emperor Shenzong especially doted on this eldest grandson, and often undertook his knees and pampered him in every way; After the death of the crown princess Zhu Youxiao's mother, Emperor Shenzong remembered that the imperial grandson Zhu Youxiao was young, and asked the crown prince Zhu Changluo's chosen servant Zheng to raise the imperial grandson.

In the forty-eighth year of Wanli, Mingshenzong died, and the Emperor of Mingshenzong Wanli and the Empress of Xiaoduanxian were buried in Dingling; In the same year, the crown prince Zhu Changluo succeeded to Mingguangzong; Because Zheng Xuan's service to raise the emperor's grandson Zhu Youxiao was favored by the school, Guangzong Zhu Changluo named her the imperial concubine;

However, the Zheng family regarded themselves as having worked hard to raise the emperor's eldest grandson, and if it weren't for the first emperor Shenzong's spoiling of the emperor's eldest grandson, Zhu Youxiao, there would be no crown prince to make it, and it would be impossible to succeed to the throne, so they instigated Guangzong to establish himself as the queen and want his mother to honor the world.

Guangzong prevaricated on the grounds that Emperor Daxing's funeral had not been completed; Soon, Zhu Changluo fell ill, and Concubine Zheng Guifei instructed Cui Wensheng to enter the emperor as a eunuch in charge of the imperial pharmacy. Day and night, Zhu Changluo had diarrhea dozens of times, his body was extremely weak and in a state of exhaustion.

Guangzong Zhu Changluo summoned thirteen people, including the British public Zhang Weixian and the first assistant of the cabinet, Fang Congzhe, into the palace to support the crown prince Zhu Youxiao, which was quite a sign of entrustment, and ordered the eunuch Cui Wensheng to be expelled from the palace.

Li Kezhuo, the Cheng of Honglu Temple, presented the elixir to Zhu Changluo of Guangzong, who knows, the effect of the medicine is too strong, and after Guangzong takes it, his eyes bulg, his mouth spits blood, and he dies violently; As a result, Zhu Changluo, who succeeded to the throne for only 29 days, suddenly died at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

When Guangzong died, the Zheng family lived in the Qianqing Palace, and at the instigation of the eunuchs, they wanted to take the opportunity to listen to the government.

When Sun Ru, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, learned the inside story, he lobbied the important ministers of the court and the queen mother and concubines of the two palaces; So the courtiers Liu Yixie, Zhou Jiamo, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other ministers went up and asked Zheng to move to another palace; The palace transfer case broke out, and a power struggle for the court began.

The eunuch Wang An welcomed the emperor's eldest son Zhu Youxiao to the throne, but the Zheng family sent eunuchs to stop him, and asked people to call Zhu Youxiao back several times, and he was not allowed to go to the Wenhua Palace; In the end, Zhu Youxiao ascended to the throne with the support of the ministers, changed the name of the year to Taichang, and the following year was Tianqi and Ming Xizong.

After Xizong succeeded to the throne, he arrested Li Rubai, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and ordered Yuan Yingtai, the squire of the Liaodong Governor's Army, to replace Xiong Tingbi in Liaodong military affairs.

At the beginning of politics, Ming Xizong named the nursing mother Hakka as the holy lady, which was quite tolerant, and the Donglin Party was worried that the Hakka would interfere in politics, and suggested that the Hakka family should be driven out of the palace as usual; The Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian plotted to counterattack the Donglin party, and for a while, they were in power and power, and the factory guards were rampant.

Wei Zhongxian's original name was Li Jinzhong, when he was young, because of his gambling habits, his family business was ruined, and he was desperate, so he angrily self-palace, and was elected to the palace during the Wanli period. Soon attached to the eunuch Wei Dynasty, seeing that Wei Zhongxian was clever, he accepted him as a righteous son, and Li Jinzhong changed his name to Wei Zhongxian.

Through the recommendation of the Wei Dynasty, he entered the great eunuch Wang Anmen, and since then he has been like a fish in water; Wang An was deeply appreciated by the emperor because of his meritorious service in supporting the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and he had great authority in the palace for a while.

At the same time, Wei Zhongxian befriended the Hakka family, and the two became a pair of food, and the Hakka loved Wei Zhongxian's rhetoric, so he was tired of the old Wei Dynasty; He successively helped Wei Zhongxian defeat the Wei Dynasty, and after the death of Wang An, the chief eunuch of the eunuch, he became the most powerful eunuch in the palace.

After Xizong succeeded to the throne, the Donglin Party was in charge of the cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the six ministries. Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong, Sun Chengzong, Yuan Keli and many other upright people held important positions in the court, and traitorous ministers such as Fang Congzhe have been gradually squeezed out, and the official system is a little clearer; With the assistance of the Donglin Party, Zhu Youxiao quickly promoted Yuan Chonghuan.

In March of the first year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi led the army to capture Shenyang, and the Ming generals You Shigong and He Shixian were killed in battle; The chief military officers Chen Ce, Tong Zhonghua, Qi Jin, and Zhang Mingshi went to aid the Liaodong war, and fought with the Houjin army in the Hunhe River, but the whole army was annihilated; After that, Nurhachi captured Liaoyang, an important town in eastern Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, and Yuan Yingtai committed suicide.

After Nurhachi captured Liaoyang, Xizong once again enabled Xiong Tingbi, and served as the secretary of the military department and the right deputy capital of the imperial history, passing through Liaodong. In August, he was promoted to General Mao Wenlong as deputy chief soldier and ordered his platoon to send troops to guard Zhenjiang.

In the first month of the second year of the Apocalypse, the Houjin army captured Xiping Fort, the deputy general of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Yigui, was killed, Liu Qu, the chief officer of the Zhenwu Battalion, and Qi Bingzhong fought with the Houjin army at Pingyang Bridge but died in the end, Wang Huazhen and Xiong Tingbi withdrew into the pass, and Yuan Keli was the governor of the imperial history of the right capital Denglai Zan Li military affairs.

In August, Xi Zong's fifth brother Zhu Youzhen, who was eleven years old at the time, was named the king of Xin, and posthumously named Zhu Youzhen's biological mother Liu Xuanzhi as Concubine Liu Xian. Zhu Youzhen's biological mother, Liu Xuanzhi, not only nominally became the concubine of Mingguangzong, but also was named Concubine Xian.

After sealing Zhu by the letter queen, the emperor selected 100 forbidden soldiers for him to protect the Xin Wangfu, and allocated 3,000 stones of grain and 10,000 taels of silver to the Xinwang Mansion every year, and sealed 1,000 acres of fertile land.

The former Hui King Zhu Changrun was rewarded to King Xin in the capital mansion, and Xizong's care can be described as meticulous; At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also issued an edict to rehabilitate Zhang Juzheng, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, record the heirs of Fang Xiaoru, give preferential treatment to the fathers, and give funerals and nicknames.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian was in charge of Dongchang, and there was an irreconcilable contradiction between the Donglin Party in the limelight.

In June of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Yang Lian, the left deputy capital of Yushi, impeached Wei Zhongxian for 24 major crimes, and the Donglin Party took the opportunity to unite the ministers of the DPRK and China to discuss Wei Zhongxian's crimes, and Wei Zhongxian borrowed the power of the eunuch party to balance the Donglin Party; Emperor Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, ignored it in order to balance the power of the courtiers, and the emperor believed that although Wei Zhongxian was obsessed with power, he did not usurp the imperial power in general, and was always attached to the emperor's side, and what he did should be a matter of loyalty to the monarch.

The Donglin Party members are different, fighting for power and profit in the court, making the emperor more and more on the verge of losing control, thinking about it, and finally, cutting off the official positions of the Donglin Party members such as Chen Yuting, the deputy capital Yushi Yang Lian, and the Yushi Zuo Guangdou.

The emperor borrowed the hand of Wei Zhongxian to balance the court situation and stabilize the party struggle in the court, so Wei Zhongxian was appreciated and trusted by the emperor, and officials from all over the country set up a shrine for him in order to curry favor with Wei Zhongxian;

At the same time, the Hakka family raised quite attractive palace maids in the harem and dedicated them to the emperor; wants to emulate Lü Buwei and do strange things to seize power.

In the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the Later Jin Manchurians gradually became stronger, Nurhachi led the army to capture Lushun, in March, Wang Wenyan was tried and convicted and imprisoned, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Yuan Huazhong, Wei Dazhong, Zhou Chaorui, Gu Dazhang and other ministers were arrested and imprisoned, and Shangshu Zhao Nanxing and others were dismissed; Soon, Yang Lian and others died in prison one after another.

In May, he sent a letter to Yang in the matter, requesting that the three cases of "Attack Case", "Red Pill Case" and "Palace Removal Case" be compiled into a book, and Emperor Zhu Youxiao approved it.

Soon, Dongchang pursued the three Jingcha in the Xinhai year, Ding Si year, and Guihai year in the Wanli period, which led to the dismissal of Shangshu Li Sancai, Gu Xiancheng and others, and the imperial court ordered the destruction of the Donglin Party lecture academies in various places.

Xiong Tingbi, who was defeated in Liaodong, had a good personal relationship with the six gentlemen of Donglin, and Wei Zhongxian ordered Dongchang to cooperate with Jinyi Wei to investigate and deal with Xiong Tingbi. In the end, Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen were both executed, and the head was passed on to the nine sides.

Gao Di, the secretary of the military department, served as the governor of Jiliao, and Sun Chengzong soon returned to his hometown, and then Gao Di was afraid to fight, and ordered the defenders of the cities outside the pass to dismantle the defensive facilities and withdraw into the pass. As a result, the castles in Jinzhou, Youtun and Da and Xiao Linghe were abandoned; Only Yuan Chonghuan swore to guard Ningyuan.

In the same year, Zhu Youzhen, the king of Xin, was fourteen years old, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse ordered the Ministry of Rites to select concubines for Zhu Youzhen, the Ministry of Rites in accordance with the imperial court etiquette system, recruited candidates from 100 cities and 100 counties, and finally selected Zhou Huimin, the daughter of Zhou Kui in Suzhou, as the quasi-concubine of King Xin, and held a big wedding after King Xin became an adult.

In the first month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi led the Houjin army to attack Ningyuan, and the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty, Man Gui, and Yuan Chonghuan, who participated in the politics of Ningqiandao, stuck to Ningyuan.

Yuan Chonghuan was not afraid of danger, convened the generals to discuss the battle, and decided to take the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness, organizing the whole city to defend the city together, and the red-clothed cannon defeated Nurhachi, known as the "Ningyuan Great Victory" in history••••••