In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, March 16.

The time has passed noon, and Zhu Youzhen, the son of the great tomorrow, is still listening to politics in the building-style Huangji Gate gatehouse. The early dynasty of the Ming Dynasty was not carried out in the main hall, but in the Huangji Gate, which was called the Imperial Gate to listen to the government. His Majesty's throne is placed in the magnificent Huangji Gate Gatehouse, which has three steps before and after, and the white marble railings are surrounded on both sides of the steps, looking majestic and magnificent.

On both sides and behind the emperor's throne stood the celebrant and internal officials, the courtiers were directly in front of the emperor's throne, and the nearest to the emperor were several cabinet scholars, and a Han general with a helmet stood under the pillar in front of the emperor's right. Farther away, there are hundreds of civil and military officials, divided into two shifts, and the number is very large.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, was a workaholic, and he liked to monopolize power, he was afraid of being deceived by his courtiers. So I wanted to see as many courtiers as possible and listen to more reports. Therefore, the scale of the early dynasty of the Ming Dynasty is also unprecedented-because of the large number of people, so the main hall can not stay, only in the Huangji Gate (called Fengtianmen in the early days) to engage in the imperial gate to listen to the government, the emperor and a few important ministers can stay under the gatehouse. Most of the officials are "outdoor workers", not to mention the wind and rain, just basking in the sun is enough. If you meet a lazy emperor who doesn't fall in love with the early dynasty, everyone will be a little better, but if you meet an emperor like Chongzhen who can't go to the early dynasty twice a day, then the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will be black and black...... It's not dark, it's tanned!

In addition to sunbathing, there is also tiredness. The morning pilgrimage is very early, and it has to start as soon as the hour arrives, that is, at five o'clock in the morning. It usually lasts until noon! That's six or seven hours!

Moreover, the officials of the previous dynasty did not live in the palace, and they had to rush to the palace from all over the inner city of Beijing...... That is, getting up at three o'clock in the morning, going to work at five o'clock, or working outdoors, and basking in the sun until noon.

Where is this to be the leader of the country! It's clearly a sanitation worker sweeping the streets!

Therefore, it is rare to see a Beijing official like a white-faced scholar in Beijing, and some must be new, and most of the Beijing officials are swarthy faces like old peasants.

In addition to black, there is also thinness! Every day at three o'clock in the morning, go to court at five o'clock, stand all morning, and have to do office work after standing, and the emperor is still a moody master, maybe when he will be arrested by Jinyiwei, and he is worried all day long...... It's not easy to get fat in such a job!

However, more people does not mean high efficiency, although hundreds of Beijing officials came today, they have been standing outside the Huangji Gate since dawn, until now the sun is in the heart of the head, and there is no way to come up with a strategy to retreat from the enemy.

In fact, there is no money! It's good to have money, but it's not good to have money.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has no money, the treasury is empty, and the inner treasury is also empty.

When Wu Xiang offered Emperor Chongzhen a million taels in February, Chongzhen replied to him: "The treasury has 70,000 gold, and all the gold, silver, and other things will be searched to make up 200,000 ears." ”

Now that almost a month has passed, it has cost a lot of money to arrange the war guard, and if it were not for the mobilization of hundreds of officials and the people to donate military salaries, it would have been impossible to maintain it for a long time.

But the officials are also poor, and they can't donate much.

Just look at their appearance, they are all black and thin, and their clothes are all faded, who believes that they are rich?

But then again, most of the Ming officials in Beijing were not wealthy. Later, Li Zicheng went to Beijing to torture and plunder, and obtained tens of millions of taels, of which only one-tenth was scraped from officials, that is, several million. I look like a lot, but how many officials are there in Beijing? With so many talents scratching out millions, how many can there be on average? And corruption and bribery can't be average, only fat is greedy for ink, but Qingshui Yamen is always the majority.

For example, where are those gentlemen of Zhu Cihong greedy? Collect money for Zhu Cihong's make-up class? Is there such a thing?

Moreover, the three respects and bad rules did not become a common practice in the Ming Dynasty, even if there were local officials who paid tribute, they only gave money to the Beijing officials who had a close relationship with them, and they would not get the rain and dew evenly wet.

Of course, there are still rich people in Beijing. Xungui and some of the big eunuchs are rich!

Most of the nobles are not a generation of nobles, but generations of nobles, and it is normal for them to accumulate family business over time. In addition, the official positions held by the nobles are usually military attachés, who can manage the capital and the capital guards, can embezzle land in the early years, and can deduct military salaries in the later period.

And the big eunuchs have the royal family and the vassal king to "eat", the Huangzhuang Huangdian is also managed by the eunuchs, in the early years, there were also mine supervisors and weaving bureaus to fish, and now there are opportunities to supervise the army to make money from the military salary, so the big eunuchs are more or less a little rich.

As for the internal money...... In the Wanli years, it was quite abundant, but in the Apocalypse and Chongzhen years, they began to continue to send money to pave the way for military expenses. It's long been empty now, and 30 million taels of clouds is simply illogical nonsense. How responsible are the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, and how much money they can make, so that they can save 30 million taels for Emperor Chongzhen? When they are all Zheng Zhilong, the richest man in the Ming Dynasty?

However, even if Emperor Chongzhen knew that his civil officials had not embezzled much money, he still hated it in his heart.

Because these civil officials had no way to make money, nor had they able to retreat from the enemy, and they also prevented him, the emperor, from moving the capital...... That's a terrible thing!

Li Zicheng has already broken through the Juyong Pass, and he is about to go outside Beijing, and it will be too late if he doesn't move the capital to Nanxing.

By the way, moving the capital to Nanxing is not the same as fleeing in the wilderness.

Moving the capital to Nanxing is a major policy of the state, which must be decreed by the emperor, drafted by the cabinet, and approved by the emperor, and then can be jointly arranged and implemented by the six ministries and the governor of Shuntian, Tianjin, Denglai, and Caoyun.

This is the collective migration of the Ming center, in the process of migration, the function of the center will not be interrupted, and the authority will not decline too much.

And it's simple to run away, leave tonight, take your wife and children, and go straight to Tianjin under the elite escort of the Beijing camp - this is a matter of one sentence, Wang Chengen must have arranged everything, and he can escape at any time......

Thinking of the loyal and reliable Wang Chengen, Emperor Chongzhen felt a lot more relieved, he would not stand up and wait for death in a daze. Otherwise, he wouldn't let Wang Chengen lead the internal and external military camps, and he would not be able to fight, so what else could he do except arrange for escape?

However, the matter of fleeing in the wilderness is too prestigious, and it will also make Daming fall into a leaderless situation for a period of time.

It is impossible to bring a large central team with you because you are deserted, and you can't take too many troops with you. In this way, the imperial court will fall into the predicament of having no officials and no soldiers, and may be held hostage by warlords and ministers with ill intentions.

So now is the last time to move the capital to Nanyuki......

Thinking of this, Chongzhen sighed: "Yesterday I received a report from Tang, Juyong Pass has fallen, and Liukou is about to arrive outside the Jingshi Ministers. ”

Where's the best solution?

Either flee or surrender, can these two strategies be freely spoken? If you want to say it, you can say it yourself, and we promise not to object this time.

The officials outside the Fengtian Gate were all stunned and did not say a word......

The disappointment in Chongzhen's heart! Why is there no courtier who can stand up and say "move the capital"?

Stand up, I promise not to settle accounts after the fall!

It's a pity that everyone can't feel the voice of Emperor Chongzhen, and no one stands up to speak.

In fact, since March 13, no one has spoken in the morning. Because the day before, Li Zicheng's army had arrived at Huailaiwei, and all the mouths of the Great Wall in the northwest of Beijing were under the front of the rebel army. The rebel army will break through at any time!

Therefore, from the thirteenth, the courtiers were waiting for Emperor Chongzhen's edict to move the capital to Nanxing.

But the problem is that Emperor Chongzhen just doesn't open Chrysostom!

And no one in the hundred officials dared to carry such a black cauldron. So between the monarchs and ministers, they are boiling with big eyes and small eyes!

To this day, Emperor Chongzhen can still hold his breath!

Seriously, the courtiers couldn't help but admire Chongzhen's qi cultivation kung fu in their hearts, this is the Son of Heaven, Mount Tai collapsed and his face remained unchanged.

Just as everyone was thinking of this, Li Jizhou, the bureau director of the Donggong Dian Pharmacy, suddenly stumbled over, and shouted: "Emperor, Emperor, something is wrong......