The civil and military officials of the eunuch party and the Chu party in the main hall of the Chenshi Palace, after listening to the platitudes of Prince Mingfu, privately praised him for being young and promising, and he may be a wise and martial person in the future, so they all agreed to support him as the prison state.

In fact, these people were all co-opted by the governor of Ming Fengyang and several interests, and there were also several dead soldiers lurking around the hall, once there were ministers in the palace who objected? Then in the next second, he will be directly decapitated for the crime of contempt for the vassal king and disturbing the court.

In such a good situation where no one objected, Governor Ming Fengyang took the opportunity to take the lead and said, "His Royal Highness Prince Fu Shengming, the ministers welcome His Royal Highness Prince Fu, and sit on the throne of the prison country!" ”

The rows of ministers under the stage also knelt down and shouted, "Ministers and others greet His Royal Highness Prince Fu, and sit on the throne of the prison country!" ”

The sound was loud and spread from inside the temple to outside the temple.

At this moment, the ministers of the Donglin Party, who were waiting anxiously outside the main hall, began to discuss: "What do you say this eunuch party and Chu party are going to play?" It's been almost half an hour, and we can't even see the face of His Royal Highness Prince Fu, but the hall is crowded with ministers who won't let me wait to enter! ”

But at this moment, an echo gradually came from inside the hall, and after hearing it, the ministers outside the hall couldn't help but be surprised, "What? Without asking this question, the final decision will let His Royal Highness Prince Fu supervise the country? It seems that it has been delayed for so long before, and it has been in vain! ”

The Ming Nan Zhili Military Department Shangshu who reacted: Shi Kefa, when he heard the echo from the courtiers in the palace, he was shocked!

Immediately, in order to save their lives, some of the ministers of the Donglin Party had to kneel down and respond: "Ministers and others welcome His Royal Highness Prince Fu and sit in the position of prison country." ”

When the ministers of the Donglin Party knelt down softly, the Shangshu of the Ming Nan Zhili Military Department only hesitated for three seconds, and then knelt down and congratulated His Royal Highness the Prince to inherit the throne with the civil and military officials.

Then Ming Taichang Siqing: Ruan Dacheng, stood up and made an important request, "His Royal Highness Prince Qiqifu, since you want to ascend the throne of the prison country, why don't you ask Qin Tianjian to come out and count a hexagram to see when it is best to supervise the country and ascend the throne?" ”

This move was also agreed by the ministers, so that Ming Nan who was standing in the palace was directly under the Qin Heavenly Supervisor: Xu Fengyan, stepped forward to let people carry the wheel ball of the sun, moon and stars "Gold Inlaid Pearl Celestial Globe", and took out Sinan to start divination.

I saw that Ming Nan Zhili Qin Tianjian closed his eyes, pinched with his hands while turning in a circle, and chanted a spell in his mouth, and everyone in the hall looked at him with wide eyes.

Soon the ritual ended, but Ming Nan Zhili Qin Tianjian had a not very pleasant expression on his face? Like something is going on?

Everyone was curious and just about to get closer, but they were suppressed by Governor Ming Fengyang who was standing in front! He reassured his ministers not to be in a hurry, and asked about the results of the divination?

Ming Nan, who slowly opened his eyes, replied with his hands in a clasped hand, "Oh, His Royal Highness Prince Fu is blessed with Qitian!" Tomorrow you can welcome into the Imperial City Prison State, as for the enthronement? The minister thought that the middle of this month was the time when the purple microstar rose, which was suitable for the enthronement and coronation. ”

When Prince Mingfu in the main hall of the palace heard this, he immediately pointed at him and said, "Okay, then according to what Qin Tianjian said, the ministers have no opinion, right?" So decide! ”

All the ministers in the palace bowed their heads and bowed, and after bidding farewell to Prince Mingfu, the officials of the Chu Party and the Eunuch faction began to walk outside the palace.

This made the Donglin Party ministers who were waiting outside the hall feel a little strange? Seeing this red court dress and Chiluo reward officials walking out, Ming Nan Zhili Hanlin Academy: Jiang Riguang, couldn't help but stand up and stop a person, and asked, "I don't know what happened in the hall?" Why did your colleagues come out? Is it that His Royal Highness Prince Fu does not want to see you? ”

The three ministers who came over chimed in: "Definitely! His Royal Highness Prince Fu has asked Qin Tianjian to divinate tomorrow, ascend the throne of the prison country tomorrow, and ascend the throne in the middle of the year, everyone go and prepare for the ceremony! ”

Knowing this not only surprised the bachelor of Mingnan Zhili Hanlin Academy! Even the Shangshu of the Ming Nan Zhili Military Department also felt that this move was done by the Chu Party and the Eunuch Party, and it seemed that it was impossible to delay the time to prevent Prince Fu from ascending the throne!

However, the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy of Mingnan Zhili scolded and wanted to talk to the eunuch party and the Chu party, why didn't they let them interfere in politics? However, the perceptive Ming Nan Zhili Military Department Shangshu looked around and found that all the original guards had been replaced? Therefore, he motioned with his eyes to let the bachelor of Mingnan Zhili Hanlin Academy leave first, and then make the next step.

This scene happened to be seen by the governor of Ming Fengyang: Ma Shiying, who walked out of the steps of the main hall, and Gao Hongtu, the secretary of the household department of Ming Nanzhili, who saw the dejected appearance of the ministers of the Donglin Party, and it can be regarded as a blow to their opponents.

At the same time, the Ningyuanwei Ming Army and the Shanhaiwei garrison, which were divided into two routes on the Beizhili side, were close to the outer city and inner city areas of the Gyeonggi area, and appeared near Andingmen, Deseungmen, Gwangqumen, and Dongbianmen respectively.

Basically, half of the palaces in the imperial city and the outer areas of the Forbidden City in the capital were burned by fire, and some of the palaces were either intact or destroyed!

In a fire that burned the palace where wolf smoke had risen, it was no longer clear which hall it was, and the beams and wood were burned into charcoal, and only the black walls remained.

A slight tremor in the ruins pressed by the door panels? Every now and then there are shouts? After searching for the survivors, the Dashun Jinyi Guards (the former commander of the 26th Guard of the Ming Dynasty) discovered the movement, and immediately asked the three Jinyi guards to turn over the door panel.

At the moment when the door panel was opened, it could be seen that the head was crushed and bleeding, and the last sentence of the eunuch was "Help, save me!" ”

Immediately died on the spot, the search personnel and the soldiers and horses of the five cities of Dashun and Gyeonggi who were in charge of protecting the safety of Gyeonggi: Lu Youwei, seeing that Gyeonggi was spoiled like this by the evacuated Dashun Emperor, he was a little unbearable! When he heard Jin Yiwei's death report again, he was really desperate.

I didn't expect the once prosperous capital to become like this? And he has witnessed the epidemic outside the city, plus the people who were killed and burned in the palace, if he is not dealt with as soon as possible, I am afraid that a new epidemic will be triggered?

The officials of the former Ming Dynasty each saluted and packed up their things, preparing to go out of the palace to flee with their families who were not killed, so there was chaos in the palace! Everywhere you look, people are running away or screaming on their last legs.

At this moment, the general soldier of the Mingning Yuanwei who was riding a silver-white armored Liaodong war horse walked to the gate of Guangqu in the inner city, and behind him there were tens of thousands of war horses ready to cross the moat and enter the inner city.

But the impression on them here is very bad! Is the water in the moat very dark? Seems to have something on it? And there is no one guarding the city gates? There were just two or three creeps standing on top of the walls walking back and forth.

For the battle-hardened generals like the Ming Ning Yuan Guard, they are just some good words for the dead ghosts who will obediently open the city gate, so he sent the Ming Ning Yuan Wei Forward Battalion Commander: Mo Wenwu, rode to the moat bridge, and shouted to the city wall, "Hey! The people on the city walls listened to the city to open the city quickly to meet my commander, otherwise the place would be reduced to ashes in a moment. ”

The soldiers of the Liukou garrison felt that they were greatly oppressed, and had no choice but to run to the highest responsible officer in the fortress, the head of the Dashun Tiger and Leopard Battalion: Liao Jinchang, report the news and see what he said?

Unexpectedly, when the two soldiers came to the fortress, they found that the head of the department was drunk! couldn't wake up at all, so in desperation, he had to temporarily decide to open the city gate to welcome the Ming army into the city.

After seeing the Guangqu Gate open, Guan Ning Tieqi rushed in quickly without hesitation, and the rest of the gates were also taken by Ning Yuanwei's Ming Army and Shanhaiwei garrison and attacked the city.

According to the confession of the captured rogue soldiers, there are still many officials in the palace who have not escaped, as well as a small number of palace guards and palace maids, and when they enter the Chengtianmen and enter the imperial city, all they see are scattered items left behind after being looted, as well as pavilions and pavilions that have been burned by fire!

Even some of the palaces have obvious signs of being blown up by shells, and there is hardly anyone in the palace?

What made the general guards of Mingning Yuanwei most curious was that many palace doors were actually closed? Could it be that someone didn't run away? In order to find out the situation, he ordered people to open the palace door to find out the truth.

Unexpectedly, the palace door was strong and couldn't be opened at all! And it seems to be locked inside? This immediately aroused his great attention, and immediately sent Guan Ning Tieqi to dismount and climb over the wall with flying claws, and by the way to search for the surviving personnel.

However, when Guan Ning Tieqi climbed over the wall and entered the house, he found the palace maids, eunuchs and some officials hiding in the secret passages and dark rooms in the palace, and took them all to meet the general soldiers of the Ming Ning Yuanwei.

Looking at the officials in the original Gyeonggi area, the general soldiers of the Mingning Yuanwei were in tears, and they were directly ready to help them up, but they all knelt down and cried, "Lord Wu, you are here!" Gyeonggi is over, our Daming is over! Since His Majesty was forced to death by the Li thief, the capital was occupied by the Liukou, at first it was a good thing, but after all the Manchu civil and military were arrested, tortured, and pursued, and refused to pay the silver, the two were even more beaten to death in the Beizhen Fusi Prison. ”

After hearing the official's crying, the general soldier of the Ming Ning Yuanwei clenched his fists and asked, "Your Majesty, where is the body now?" ”

At this time, the Jinyi Guards of Fusi in the north and south towns, who were searched for and survived by the Shanhaiwei garrison, led him to the tomb of the former Mingtian Emperor and concubine to meet the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Before leaving, in order not to let everyone know that he had shaved his hair, he put on a square scarf to wrap his head to prevent goofs when he changed his auspicious clothes, and asked the headquarters Guanning Iron Cavalry, Ningyuan Wei Ming Army and some Shanhaiwei garrisons to tie white cloth around their waists and heads to mourn the emperor.

In order to show that he was still loyal to the Ming Empire, he just put on incense at the time of the sacrifice and cried while burning paper, and said in pain, "Your Majesty, the minister is late to save you and let you die unjustly!" What a sin! Damn it. ”

As he spoke, he kept buttoning his head to the ground, causing the Ming soldiers who followed behind him to also buckle their heads.

This made some former Ming officials and eunuchs hurriedly help them up when they saw this, and persuaded them, "Lord Wu, don't be too sad, now that the emperor has left, you are needed to revitalize the Ming Dynasty!" When you immediately find the crown prince or the three kings, let them take the throne. ”

After listening to the persuasion, the general soldier of the Ming Ning Yuanwei wiped away his tears, slowly got up and asked, "When the general fought with the Liukou army in a stone battle, he saw His Royal Highness the crown prince and the three princes, but when the Liukou retreated south, our army chased all the way, and has not seen any trace!" Have you ever seen Liukou withdraw from the capital with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the three Royal Highnesses? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a man wearing armor and holding a stick, rummaging around for something, came this way, and when he saw that there were many people worshipping here? And there were also a large number of troops standing, immediately turning around and throwing down sticks and running quickly.

But it was still discovered by the soldiers standing around, and three Ning Yuan Wei Ming soldiers shouted a few words loudly, "Stop!" ”

But the soldier in the armor is so Ken! Or did he run back vigorously, so that Ning Yuanwei Mingjun, who was chasing, realized that something was wrong? Thought; Could it be that there is an army of rogues nearby?

With this question, some Ming Jun couldn't help it, raised his gun and glanced at it a few times, and then pulled the trigger (bang, bang, bang!). Just one of them hit the opponent in the leg, causing him to fall to the ground and struggle! The Ming army chasing behind him ran over and grabbed him.