Nanjing Imperial City, Fengtianmen.

As one of the three major halls of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, the restoration project of the Fengtian Temple (in fact, it is another one) is still going on slowly, but the Fengtian Gate in front of the Fengtian Palace has been repaired, and the tall gatehouse stands on the towering stone platform, which looks magnificent and solemn from a distance, and is very a little bit of heavenly style.

This place is not just a gate, but a place where the ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang held the imperial gate to listen to the government!

Even before dawn, thousands of civil and military officials were taken out of the bed and held a meeting on the square in front of Fengtian Gate - wind, rain and sun...... Alas, it's an outdoor job, it's really hard!

And the high-ranking Son of Heaven is still a moody murderer, and he will give his life at any time if he becomes an official.

For the first time in his life, Emperor Chongzhen is sitting in the place where his ancestors once sat for people to visit - he has no power now, and naturally he has nothing to listen to, and he has nothing to do with the noon dynasty on weekdays. It's just that when the big court meeting is held on the first and fifteenth days of the new year, he has to be taken out and placed in a conspicuous place, so that everyone can see that the son of tomorrow is still there, and the prince of Fujun is still very filial.

Everyone saw Chongzhen, and then bowed again, and the eunuch shouted again: "There is a book, but there is no book!" ”

Then, of course, it's okay, now that the prince is regent, what's the matter with the faint king? Just go back and be angry with the concubines, Prince Zhu......

Today is June 15, the eighteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, a good day! It is a good day for the Fengtian Gate to be opened again......

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen ignored the hot weather, put on a full set of Son of Heaven's regular clothes, sat high on the throne under the Fengtianmen Gate, and looked at the one or two hundred listless courtiers below, and his heart was full of emotion!

Back then, Emperor Taizu Gao was sitting here commanding the world, Weijia Hai, and looking at all directions...... Now it's your turn to sit here!

"Father, let the emperor sit in the place you are sitting now." Zhu Cihong sat beside Emperor Chongzhen, looking at his cheap father, who was neither yin nor yang, came to such a sentence......

"Let's, let the emperor sit here too?" After saying this, Chongzhen's face suddenly turned ugly.

Let the emperor be the unlucky guy of Emperor Jianwen, cut a feudal domain and cut out a disaster, let Yan King Zhu Di give "Jing difficulty", and the last fire burned Fengtian Temple and Fengtianmen, I don't know what to do......

Emperor Chongzhen, who was angry with his filial son Zhu Cihong, didn't dare to attack, but just gave Huang Dabao, the eunuch who was the master of ceremonies.

Huang Dabao bowed down and walked to the front of the throne, and then opened his throat and shouted: "There is a book to start playing, and there is no book to retreat to the court......"

Now the eunuch is mainly in charge of this matter, in addition to roaring, he also manages all kinds of chores of the Great Dynasty and the Wuchao, such as who comes and who doesn't, who is on time and who is late, who asks for leave and who is absent from the court. Oh, and you have to take care of the food! Early in the morning, the Chaoguan had breakfast, and built a canteen inside the right gate and the left gate of Chang'an, serving a free royal breakfast - flatbread, fritters, soybean milk porridge, salted duck eggs......

If it's lunch, then you have to take care of lunch!

Usually two tables are set up in the Wenhua Palace, and a group of senior guards and important ministers such as Hanlin and Zhu Cihong eat together, which is also something that the celebrant is in charge of.

In addition, the places such as Fengtianmen, Wenhua Palace, and Kenan Hall are also under the responsibility of the celebrant to clean and repair. The eunuchs, court maids, and servants who worked there were also under the supervision of the celebrants.

By the way, there are male servants in the Ming Palace now!

Although Zhu Cihong did not abolish the eunuch system, he also began to strictly control the number of eunuchs - this does not mean that Prince Zhu does not believe in eunuchs, but he knows that the role of eunuchs has nothing to do with the number of eunuchs.

There were many eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty and few eunuchs in the Song Dynasty, but how many eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty could be compared with Qin Han, Li Xian, and Tong Guan? Zheng He maybe, but Zhu Cihong really can't think of it?

Therefore, Zhu Cihong's eunuch route is few and fine...... Eunuchs must be educated, capable of civil and martial arts, and be officials. The coolies in the palace can be used as servants, as long as they are controlled and not allowed to enter the specified harem area, there will be no problem.

In short, Huang Dabao, the "big man", is now a bureaucratic eunuch.

Today, he just routinely shouted "There is a book to start playing, there is no book to retreat from the dynasty", and after shouting, he wanted to shout "retreat from the dynasty".

But at this moment, someone actually came out of the class to play!

The person who came out of the class was a military attaché, who was Zhu Cihong's confidant, Li Yan, the commander of the Generalissimo's Commanding Guard.

After kowtowing, Li Yan said loudly: "Long live my emperor, the commander of the military commander of the Generalissimo's Mansion has made Li Yan, the governor of Keqi County, the governor of the left capital, have a book to play!" ”

Got Ben? Emperor Chongzhen couldn't believe his ears!

How many days have you retreated from the dynasty without capital, what day is it today? There is actually a ...... What is this? It won't be to ask Ben Mingjun to abdicate and let the traitor, right?

Thinking of this, Chongzhen immediately became nervous: "What is Li Qing's business?" Come on? ”

Li Yan said: "Long live Qi Song, the Generalissimo's Mansion has received an urgent report of 600 li from the Central Capital Left-behind Division: Tartar Fa Qiu Bel Haoge personally commanded an army of 100,000 and came to attack Fengyang Mansion. Its vanguard Shang Kexi and Bai Guangen's more than 20,000 people have captured Yimen Town in Bozhou on June 14! ”

What the? Fa Qiu Belle came to Fengyang Mansion? Emperor Chongzhen took a breath, whose Qiu is he going to send? Could it be the imperial mausoleum of Fengyang Mansion (the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang's parents)?

"Father, ......" Zhu Cihong's voice interrupted Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts, Chongzhen turned his head to look at his son, only to see the sorrow on the face of this rebel son, is he worried that the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum may be excavated? No, he is a rebel and will not worry about the ancestral mausoleum!

"Emperor," Emperor Chongzhen asked with a frown, "the Tartar Hair Chubel is here with a large number of soldiers, how are you going to respond?" ”

Zhu Cihong said: "Haoge is known as Fa Chubeile in the north, and the soldiers and horses under his command are the most ferocious, and wherever they pass, they not only burn and loot, but also like to dig graves and take the wealth of the dead. This time he will bring 100,000 troops south, and he will not only slaughter the people of Jianghuai, but also dig up graves...... The Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum must be a place coveted by Haoge. He didn't necessarily do it for the burial objects in the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, but to dig up the dragon vein of my Daming! ”

If Haoge heard this, he would probably be so angry that he scolded Zhu Cihong for being treacherous! It is not unjust to say that Hauge burns and loots, and he has indeed done a lot of this kind of thing. But Hair Hill or something, Hauge really hasn't done it.

Maybe someone under him has made a fortune from the dead, but he is a dignified prince of the Qing Dynasty, how could he do it himself?

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen is a Ming monarch who is easily deceived, and when he heard Zhu Cihong say this, he took it seriously, and hurriedly asked: "How is this good?" ”

"Father," Zhu Cihong said with a straight face, "You have already lost the ancestral mausoleum of Tianshou Mountain in Shuntianfu, no matter what, you can't let the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum fall again......"

The Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum has already fallen once...... It was Gao Yingxiang who took Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to do it together, digging the bottom up!

Zhu Cihong shook his head: "If the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum falls again, your father will be too unfilial......

"You ......" Chongzhen's face turned red, but he gritted his teeth and didn't attack.

This thing is unreasonable for him, so many ancestral graves are about to be dug up...... How did this emperor be? You still don't step down?

Just because he always loses his ancestral grave, I am afraid that his future nickname will not even be "Ming Huizong", and he can only be a "Ming Rebel Sect" - a rebel!

"Father," Zhu Cihong said, "Why don't we father and son go to Jiangbei together to defend the ancestral mausoleum!" ”

"Together?" Emperor Chongzhen always felt that his son had no good intentions, but it was difficult to refuse.

Now it's time to defend the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, if he doesn't go, it will be unfilial! Can an unfilial son be the emperor? Definitely not! So he had to give way to Zhu Cihong, the recognized first filial son of the Ming Dynasty......

"Brother Chun," Chongzhen pondered, "are you sure of victory?" ”

"Yes!" Zhu Cihong nodded heavily, "With the sons and daughters here, the ancestral mausoleum will never fall again!" ”

Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief, "Then, let's go out together!" ”

"Father," Zhu Cihong of course wanted to strike while the iron was hot, and hurriedly said, "Without further ado, let's set off tomorrow!" ”

"Ming, tomorrow?" Emperor Chongzhen was taken aback, "It's too fast, isn't it?" ”

"The soldiers are fast!" Zhu Cihong said, "It's too late, the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum will be dug up by the Dongyu!" ”

"Then, what about Nanjing?" Emperor Chongzhen asked, "Who can sit in charge?" ”

"Nanjing should be handed over to Wei Shoufu and Wu Shangshu to stay behind," Zhu Cihong paused, "In addition, you can also let Wang Zhiren, the squire of the military department, be reappointed to Ying Tianfu, and let Xiaolingwei command Zhang Dingbian to supervise the Beijing camp, so that nothing goes wrong!" ”

Wang Zhiren is the brother of the great eunuch Wang Zhixin, who is now an imperial merchant and runs the industry of Shanghai commercial port for Zhu Cihong.

And Wang Zhiren was reappointed as the military commander after Li Yan was reappointed as the military commander, and he was appointed as the head of the military department in charge of the military tun division - that is, the original military tun guard, and now it is classified into the military department.

Wang Zhiren and Zhang Dingbian are both Zhu Cihong's henchmen, and the two of them control the defense of Yingtianfu, that is, Nanjing City, plus the first assistant Wei Zaode and the military department Shangshu Wu Xiang, Nanjing is foolproof.

Of course, the premise of "foolproof" is that Zhu Cihong must take Chongzhen away!

Otherwise, Chongzhen will make a fuss, how will Wu Xiang, Wei Zaode, Wang Zhiren, and Zhang Dingbian start? Did you really kill the emperor?