After the soldiers and horses were arranged, Prince Mingfu, who was wearing a scarf and a garment, sat on the couch in the sedan chair under the leadership of the chief guard of the honor guard of the Prince Mingfu's mansion, and walked in the direction of Wuying Palace.

But unexpectedly, he didn't let the guards carry the sedan chair into the Wuying Palace? Instead, he humbly got off the sedan chair and walked down, saying that he didn't bring anyone from the palace, how could he abandon his wife and concubine and enter the palace alone? And prepare to go to Zhejiang Chengxuan to take refuge in the political department.

This move was quite unusual, and the ministers who passed by saw Prince Fu's palanquin and were a little surprised when they heard His Royal Highness Prince Fu's speech! Some ministers who were afraid of miscalculations knelt down and urged him not to leave Yingtianfu, after all, as long as he left, Prince Minglu Min: Zhu Changshu, he was bound to gain power and ascend the throne, so that the Donglin party faction would be happy.

Of course, this is also what Governor Ming Fengyang does not want to see, how can it become a bubble after so much hard preparation? Moreover, the guard of honor of Prince Mingfu's mansion beside him also hoped that His Royal Highness Prince Fu would ascend the throne, so he also dissuaded: "If His Royal Highness Prince Fu has doubts, he will be willing to take the princess into the palace." ”

As soon as these words came out, Prince Mingfu immediately fell silent!

At this time, there were Ming Nanzhili supervising the imperial history: Guo Weijing, Ming Chengchengbo: Liu Kongzhao, Ming Sili eunuch Bingbi eunuch: Han Zanzhou, and a group of people came over to salute His Royal Highness Prince Fu, and welcomed him into the imperial city to worship the "filial piety tomb" of His Majesty Emperor Hongwu Gao, the emperor of Ming Taizu, and the "Dongling" of Emperor Xiaokang: Zhu Biao, the crown prince of Ming Yiwen.

Prince Mingfu took the lead in riding a horse in front, from the Sanshan Gate to the east out of the imperial city to the east of the imperial city first into the temple to worship the Ming Tomb of filial piety, dismounted and went inside to burn incense and kowtow to worship His Majesty Emperor Taizu Gao, and secretly made a wish to pray for his smooth accession to the throne, revenge for his father and eradication of the Liukou army.

After that, he went to Donglin to worship Emperor Xiaokang, the crown prince of Ming Yiwen, as a wise move to show the ministers that he can take on a great responsibility, and after worshipping, he entered the imperial city through the Chaoyang Gate and entered the Donghua Gate, and the first hall was out from the Xihua Gate.

After walking around, Prince Mingfu felt that the imperial city of Nanjing City in Yingtianfu was still relatively magnificent, compared to the former Henan Chengxuan Political Division, Prince Fu's Mansion in Luoyang County, Henan Prefecture, it was very gorgeous and atmospheric, especially the palace of the garrison in Nanjing City was even more noble.

This made Prince Mingfu couldn't help but order, "King Lone, now he is about to be a prisoner, but he still doesn't have his own dormitory, I'm afraid it's especially inappropriate to live in a post station all day?" ”

Governor Ming Fengyang, who didn't understand what he meant, made his own decision, and proposed: "Why don't Your Highness come and live in the official mansion!" I would like to vacate the upper room for His Royal Highness Prince Fu as a sleeping hall. ”

However, he said nonchalantly, "The heart of the Governor, the heart of the lonely king has been understood!" But the lonely king thinks that this garrison is good, so it is better to be the palace of the lonely king! ”

Knowing that His Royal Highness Prince Fu likes to garrison the mansion, the civil and military officials naturally did not dare to stop it, so they had to silently agree and order His Royal Highness Prince Fu to stay in the dormitory.

On the other side, Emperor Da Shun, who had prepared his luggage, changed into a white cloak, and he came to the drum tower on the left and right doors of the outer court to look into the distance, and his face couldn't help but show a trace of sadness.

This scene happened to be discovered by Prime Minister Dashun, so he came over to salute and asked, "Minister, see Your Majesty, I don't know what Your Majesty is worried about here?" ”

Seeing that it was the prime minister who came, Emperor Dashun was going to tell him what was on his mind, and he said, "Juming! It's not a secret, since the stone battle was withdrawn, the military strength has not been damaged! The Gyeonggi garrison has either become a ruffian hooligan, or it has fallen into depravity due to the ravages of the epidemic! I am afraid that such an army alone will not be able to resist the attack of Wu Sangui Guanning Iron Cavalry, and at present, the army of Jizhou Town is the last barrier of our Dashun in the north, and once it is destroyed, Jinggi will have no danger to defend! ”

The prime minister of Dashun, who understood what Emperor Dashun was thinking in his heart, immediately made a request?

That is to move the capital to Xijing, after all, this is the idea of Emperor Dashun, including the vast majority of the soldiers of the Shun army, after all, no matter how good the Jinggi area of Beizhili is, it is not as good as their own hometown Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Division, and Emperor Dashun has been thinking about Xijing since the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, and has wanted to go back many times.

Now that this was put forward by his confidants, Emperor Dashun was naturally very moved, but he could not openly agree to move the capital to Xijing, because doing so would undoubtedly give up Beizhili and flee from Gyeonggi, which would not only bring disadvantages to the Dashun regime! will also leave himself with infamy through the ages.

So Emperor Dashun thought about it backwards, he thought that if he went to Xijing to rectify military affairs, he took the opportunity to clean up Xiyi (Heshuote Mongolia) After all, the Mongols of Heshuote had invaded Xiningwei, the capital of Shaanxi, before he reported it, and now he just used this as a reason to go out to fight.

In order to prevent the ministers of the court and China from opposing this plan, Emperor Dashun hurriedly asked the Dashun Jinyi Guards to convene a meeting of civil and military officials from all over Gyeonggi to discuss the matter.

At noon, the officials of Gyeonggi changed into their court clothes and entered the noon gate of the Forbidden City, and just about to go to the left and right gates, they were killed by the Dashun Nanbei Town, Fu Si, Jinyi Wei, Zuo Du Governor: Luo Yangxing, stopped and asked the ministers to move to the Wuying Palace?

Because Emperor Dashun wanted to announce the westward move here, the reason why he sent the former Ming Jinyi Wei Zuo Du Governor who surrendered was to continue to deter the courtiers and issue a symbol of his emperor's power.

The officials also knew that Li Thief was giving them a horse, so they honestly went to Wuying Hall to wait.

After a pillar of incense, the former Ming surrender officials in the Gyeonggi area, as well as the surrender officials from all over the country and the military generals of the Dashun Empire arrived, the Dashun Emperor came to the stage to speak as he wished, he sat on the dragon chair and coughed twice first, and said: "I watched the sky last night and found that the purple microstar fell!" Yu Wangdao is unknown, the emperor's throne is unstable, and I heard that there are Tatar Tumert people in the west who have invaded Xiningwei, the capital of Shaanxi, so I plan to send troops to teach this group of Yidi a lesson. ”

However, this sentence is undoubtedly an attempt to shift positions, and the civil and military officials have also seen it, and the chief standing Prime Minister Dashun looked around and found that there was no minister to object?

Only then did he dare to step forward and propose, "Your Majesty, since Yi Di is so arrogant and does not take my Heavenly Empire in his eyes, then why doesn't Your Majesty personally drive the expedition and calm the war to show the majesty of our Dynasty?" ”

The ministers were a little surprised when they heard this! Even the civil ministers and military generals of Dashun thought that this move was not for His Majesty to move west?

Moreover, although the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied the Central Plains, its strength was not stable at all, once it moved west, wouldn't it give the former Ming officials and the literati who revived the Ming Dynasty, and even Wu Sangui, who chased and killed him?

However, at present, the soldiers of the Shun army in the Gyeonggi area have to be disciplined for their poor military discipline! Otherwise, it will not be good to provoke a mutiny after a long time! In addition, the epidemic is rampant in Gyeonggi, and the best control is to transfer it directly, after all, they are all bandits and bandits, and few people are literate and understand etiquette, so there are relatively few people who oppose it on the part of Dashun Wenchen and military generals.

Only the general of the right battalion of Dashun: Li Yan, the military division of Dashun: Song Xiance, the secretary of the Dashun Ministry of Shangshu: Yu Shangyou, and others stood up and protested, "Your Majesty, Yidi's invasion of Xining is a big matter, and the problem of the imperial conquest is big, first of all, the emperor must first establish a prison country or the crown prince, and Your Majesty ......." ”

Before he finished speaking, Emperor Dashun was a little annoyed! He slapped the case directly, got up and scolded: "Presumptuous! I am the master of my country, and if I don't solve the invasion of Yidi today, he will be captured and detained, so won't I have to bow down and be a minister? ”

However, the protesting courtiers who did not hear Emperor Dashun's intentions still spoke, "But Your Majesty..." ”

This time he was directly sealed by Emperor Dashun! He waved his sleeves and said, "Aiqing, you don't need to say much! It's not like I'm not coming back from this expedition. ”

It just so happened that the Marquis of Dashun Ru, who was injured, also proposed: "This is very good, Bugu is just going to meet Na Xiyi." ”

Saying that, he held back the pain and raised his arm, in fact, everyone knew that he was going to take refuge, after all, Wu Sangui was the first to chase and kill him when he went south, who let Liu Ruhou rob someone's concubine Chen Yuanyuan!

In addition, the officials of the former Ming Dynasty also saw the motive for the evacuation of the Liukou, so they did not speak, and they all wished that the Liukou would evacuate early, because the previous torture and pursuit of wages caused a storm in the city, which made the former Ming officials particularly unfriendly to the Dashun court.

Seeing that the ministers on both sides had no opinions, Emperor Dashun also spoke happily, and he ordered the governor of Dashun and the Shangshu of the Dashun military department to open the way in front, and then the princes and counts took the middle wings of each battalion, and he himself prepared to leave the Forbidden City immediately.

In order not to make the former Ming officials suspicious, he just left a few sesame mung bean-sized, inconspicuous officials as the garrison of the Dashun Empire to stay in Gyeonggi, as for the troops, almost all of them were withdrawn, leaving only some of the old and weak remnants of the three major battalions of the original Ming Jing Army! With the 26th Guard of the pro-army commanding the embassy division, the garrison.

After everything was ready, Emperor Dashun changed into his armor cloak again, mounted his war horse, took one last look at the magnificent palace of the Forbidden City, and asked the soldiers to bring their own queens into the carriage.

Before leaving, he couldn't help but sigh that life is not so short, and he came and went in a hurry! On the 42nd day of the dragon throne in Beijing, he was about to leave before he was hot, and he was very reluctant but had to go, because the Guanning Iron Cavalry could attack the capital at any time.

At this time, a soldier came to report to Emperor Dashun, "Your Majesty, our army has finished loading food and equipment, and the generals of each battalion have also set off with their soldiers. 37 million ingots, 10 million gold ingots, and 500 taels of gold were found in the old treasury, and the inscription Yongle should have been left by the former Ming officials? Some of the jewels have not yet been registered! However, for the sake of convenience, the household has cast a bronze statue and escorted it to the car. ”

Knowing that so many silver taels of jewelry were found in this torture and pursuit, Emperor Dashun was really shocked, he thought; If the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty could have this property, I am afraid that he would be defeated by the Ming army if he could not reach the capital, let alone enter the Forbidden City and ascend the throne! I'm afraid that Beizhili can't see it?

Now that he is leaving, a thought suddenly flashed in his heart?

That is, he wants to bring all the prosperous palaces in the capital to Xijing City, after all, these are all his at the moment, but how can such a big palace be said to be moved away? So for the sake of your own selfishness, don't want to keep this sentence for others who can't keep it, and kill the capital!

He was so desperate that he ordered the soldiers to use the artillery battalion as the rear team to load all the shells left in the stone battle into the muzzle of the guns before leaving.

After his royal drive out of the capital, the artillery battalions of the Shun army lined up one mile away from the Guangning Gate in the outer city, and set up 35 red-coated cannons, and the muzzles of the guns were unanimously facing the direction of the capital.

Under the order of the flag waver, all the Shunjun artillerymen put down their torches and ignited the fuse, and the solid cannonballs of black iron like boiling hot iron exploded one after another on the walls of the palace gates of the four cities of Gyeonggi.

The soldiers defending the city are at a loss? The three battalions of the Beijing Army, the 26th Guard Commander of the Pro-Army and the former Ming officials who stayed behind were so panicked that they ran to a safe place to take refuge after hearing the sound of artillery fire, and dozens of people were killed by shells in the chaos!