Volume III Prologue: The Grievances and Hatreds of the Apocalypse

Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, Datian, Interpretation Dao, Dunxiao, Duyou, Zhangwen, Xiangwu, Jingmu, Zhuang Qin, Emperor Yi, the first son of Emperor Guangzongzhen, was born on November 14 in the 33rd year of Wanli, and his mother said: Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager Wang.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse can be said to be a very unlucky emperor, since he was born, he has been very unlucky.

His grandfather, Emperor Wanli of Mingshenzong, favored Zheng Guifei, the biological mother of King Fu, and did not like his grandmother Concubine Wang Gong, so he wanted to abolish the elder and young, and made King Fu the crown prince, which caused the famous national capital dispute of the Wanli Dynasty.

Although his father Zhu Changluo was finally named the crown prince, he has not been treated well by his grandfather, and there was even a rare incident where Zheng Guifei instructed someone to break into the Ciqing Palace where the prince lived, and beat the prince Zhu Changluo with a stick, which was the famous attack case in the late Ming Dynasty.

His father had such a miserable life, and his life as the imperial grandson was naturally not easy, and what was even more unfortunate was that his mother Wang Xuanzhi was not treated well by his father Zhu Changluo, and in the end she was even beaten and humiliated to death by his father's favorite concubine Li Xuanzhi!

His suffering is not over yet, and what is especially tragic is that he was also designated by the Mingshen Sect to be raised by Li Xuanzhi, the enemy who killed his mother!

The miserable life of his childhood and adolescence can be imagined, which made him particularly dependent on his nurse Hakka, because the whole palace was good to him.

The miserable childhood and adolescence have finally passed, and his father Mingguangzong has also succeeded to the throne, and he has also become the crown prince, and it seems that happy days are about to begin.

However, unlucky, his father only succeeded to the throne for a month, and was first given a laxative by Zheng Guifei and the Zhejiang Party, which made him half dead, and then a red pill went down, directly killing him, which was the famous red pill case in the late Ming Dynasty.

His father died, and he, an ignorant boy who was only fifteen years old, was about to succeed to the throne as emperor, and it seemed that he had finally survived it.

It's a pity that as soon as his father died, Li Xuanzhi colluded with Concubine Zheng Guifei and moved to the Qianqing Palace, pinching him in his hands, wanting to listen to the government!

Fortunately, at this time, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others from the Donglin Party stepped forward and urged the ministers to break into the Qianqing Palace to rescue him and ascend the throne, and drove Li Xuanzhi out of the Qianqing Palace, which was the famous palace transfer case in the late Ming Dynasty.

After he succeeded to the throne, he was grateful for the support of the Donglin Party, and promoted Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong and other heroes from Conglong, many upright people also held important positions in the court, and traitorous ministers such as Fang Congzhe were gradually squeezed out.

Then, at the suggestion of the Donglin Party, he quickly promoted Sun Chengzong, Yuan Keli, Yuan Chonghuan and others to garrison the front line of Liaodong to resist the Houjin attack.

In the early years of the Apocalypse, it can be said that all the people are in the Ying Dynasty, the inside and outside are united, the officials are clear and clear, and all the waste is waiting to be revived, and the Ming Dynasty is gradually revealing the posture of Zhongxing, and he is very likely to become a master of Zhongxing.

However, at this time, an inconspicuous eunuch seized the opportunity and quickly rose up, and finally, gained his trust, and used his trust to gradually control the power of the court, and the Ming Dynasty, which was originally expected to prosper, fell into the abyss again.

This eunuch is Wei Zhongxian, he was originally just an illiterate marketman who was helpless, because he was good at gambling, he couldn't afford to pay off his gambling debts, so he castrated himself and mixed into the palace.

He first introduced his benefactor Wei Dynasty into the palace, worshiped under the great eunuch Wang An at that time, deceived Wang An's trust, and then used Wang An's trust to rob the fake wife Ke who was eating against the Wei Dynasty, and banished the Wei Dynasty to Fengyang, and then, he used the grace of the Ke family in front of the Apocalypse to overthrow the great eunuch Wang An, kill him, and have been in charge of the palace alone!

The Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian were gentle and considerate to him, caring, and also gave him advice and assisted in the government, so the apocalypse naturally obeyed them and trusted them well.

However, it is precisely because he trusts the Hakka and Wei Zhongxian too much that the Donglin Party has an opinion, of course, this opinion is not a competition for favor or anything, mainly because of the countless bloody lessons of the past dynasties, the women's temple interferes in politics, and the world will be chaotic!

As a result, the Donglin Party suggested that the Apocalypse drive the Hakka out of the palace as usual.

As a result, the Hakka clan and Wei Zhongxian were in cahoots and began to fight back against the Donglin party.

At this time, Tianqi made a choice, he, chosen, continued to trust the Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian!

The feudal dynasty is like this, with the emperor's trust, there is everything, in the end, it is natural that Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family won, the Donglin party was almost killed by him, and the Donglin Academy was also destroyed by him, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were replaced by his godson, godson and other eunuch backbones.

Is it right or wrong for the apocalypse to do this?

Let's see how he and his family are doing.

The first is the harem, and the lord of the harem is not the gentle and virtuous queen Zhang Yan, but his nurse Keshi.

The Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian were in cahoots, dominating the harem, bullying the queen, abusing and killing the concubines, and acting arbitrarily and absormatist.

Concubine Yu Zhang was disobedient and pregnant, and the Hakka killed her.

Concubine Cheng Li was disobedient, and the Hakka family dismissed her title.

Feng Guiren, who chose to serve the Zhao family and other disobedient concubines, were all tortured and killed.

Queen Zhang was pregnant, and the Hakka family put the abortion pill into the meal and gave it to her, directly leaving the unborn crown prince stillborn!

In short, being the queen and concubine of the Apocalypse is simply a kind of sadness, not to mention that they have no due treatment, and they have to be careful about their own lives every day.

Then said that his descendants, there is really nothing to say about this, there are a total of three princes of the Apocalypse, and all of them died inexplicably.

Then he said that he himself, went to play with Wei Zhongxian's Ke clan, unfortunately fell into the water, and then, Wei Zhongxian's confidant Huo Weihua offered the immortal medicine spirit dew drink, and he swelled to death after eating!

Apocalypse's life ended so inexplicably, so what did he leave behind?

History is in turmoil at this time, leaving behind mostly hearsay.

However, most of the rumors are not his, but the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian, no way, once the apocalypse, the world only knows that he is nine thousand years old, but he doesn't know that there is an emperor, and his sense of existence as an emperor is really not as strong as Wei Zhongxian.

It is rumored that Grandpa Wei is very powerful to foreign enemies, Grandpa Wei is in Japan, and Houjin can't raise his head after the Ming Dynasty!

What about the facts?

In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the Ming army was defeated in Salhu, losing Fushunwei and Tielingwei, until the end of the Wanli Dynasty, Houjin never advanced an inch.

The two small places of Fushunwei and Tielingwei probably account for less than one percent of the area of Liaodong, and here is even if the Wanli Dynasty lost one percent of the land in Liaodong.

Apocalypse, a total of seven years, the Ming Dynasty lost Shenyang Zhongwei, Dingliao front, back, middle, left guard, Dingliao right guard, Haizhou Wei, Gaizhou Wei, Fuzhou Wei, Jinzhou Wei, Guangning middle, left, right guard, Yizhou Wei, Guangning right Tunwei, Guangning Houtun Wei, Guangning middle, left Tunwei, etc., a total of more than eighty percent of the place!

Chongzhen Dynasty, a total of seventeen years, until Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in the coal mountain, the Ming Dynasty guarded the Shanhaiguan, and the Houjin Dynasty occupied a total of Ning Yuanwei, accounting for less than one percent of the land in the entire Liaodong!

This is the Houjin that Gonggong Wei beat can't raise his head, but in fact, the Apocalypse lost more than eighty percent of the land in Liaodong in one dynasty, and the two dynasties of Wanli and Chongzhen together lost less than twenty percent of the land!

At this time, some people must say that Ning Yuan and Ning Jin have won a great victory, is this the credit of Wei Zhongxian?

The Guanningjin defense line was built by Sun Chengzong, and Wei Zhongxian took him off and replaced him with an unknown eunuch Gaodi!

Houjin called, Gao Di was so frightened that he retreated directly to Shanhaiguan, Yuan Chonghuan disobeyed the order and did not retreat, and then achieved the great victory of Ningyuan and Ningjin.

What does Yuan Chonghuan have to do with Wei Zhongxian, he was promoted by Hou Sui, a member of the Donglin Party, and then he was reused by Sun Chengzong, a member of the Donglin Party, of course, he knew that Duke Wei was powerful, so he built an ancestral hall for Duke Wei.

However, does Gonggong Wei appreciate it?

After the victory, Gonggong Wei promoted Yuan Chonghuan to a small level, and his nephews and nephews didn't even know where the battlefield was, but they were promoted to knighthood because of their military exploits, so angry that Yuan Chonghuan resigned directly and returned to his hometown.

There's no way, who called him cultivated by the Donglin Party, and if he built the Ancestral Hall, Gonggong Wei wouldn't reuse him!

Of course, the Apocalypse Dynasty also had a famous Battle of Penghu, in which the Ming Naval Division defeated the Dutch Navy under the leadership of Governor Nan Juyi.

Does this have anything to do with Wei Zhongxian? What is the ending of the hero Nan Juyi?

Because Nan Juyi did not mention Gonggong Wei when he recounted his merits, Gonggong Wei directly ordered Huang Chenghao to impeach Nan Juyi and cut Nan Juyi's nationality!

There was also a major war in the Apocalypse Dynasty, that is, the rebellion of Xuan Chongming and An Bangyan in the southwest.

This battle, originally fought well, Donglin in Japan, there was no problem with logistics, luxury Chongming was quickly defeated, Yungui and Huguang Governor Cai Fuyi personally led the army, seven battles, annihilated nearly 10,000 enemies, and An Bangyan beat the head of the rat, seeing victory in sight.

However, Gonggong Wei was powerful, he wiped out all the Donglin party members in the court, and then arrested them one by one and killed them happily!

Now it's okay, no one cares about the affairs of the southwest, and if there is no military salary, it doesn't matter, and even food and grass are not given.

As a result, the soldiers fled without pay and food, and the fierce general Lu Qin was defeated and killed himself, and Cai Fuyi was directly masturbated by Wei Zhongxian.

After the problem is over, Wei Zhongxian doesn't care about the war in the southwest, and he doesn't send people again, nor does he organize a counteroffensive, so he just let it go!

Cai Fuyi ignored the disease, with the idea of "a breath is still alive, how can the monarch and his father be worried", he still led the army to fight, broke dozens of villages in two battles, killed more than 3,000 rebels, and finally died of illness in the army.

The war in the southwest, Wei Zhongxian just left it alone, until June of the first year of Chongzhen, the imperial court used Zhu Xieyuan as the secretary of the military department, the governor of Yun, Gui, Sichuan, Hu, Guangxi military affairs and Guizhou governor, after a year of hard fighting, finally put down the rebellion of An Bangyan and extravagant Chongming!

This is the heroic and good fighting of Wei Gonggong, he is a meritorious hero, he is really good at stealing military merits, against the enemy, I'm sorry, he has never faced a foreign enemy!

It is rumored that Gonggong Wei collects taxes very much, and Daming's taxes depend on Gonggong Wei, without Gonggong Wei, Chongzhen will have no money.

For this, let's look at the specific data first.

During the Apocalypse, the highest tax year was the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and with the Liaoyu, the total annual tax revenue was 587,420 taels;

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the salary was increased to one and a half cents, and the annual tax totaled 7,488,298 taels;

Chongzhen ten years, plus the salary, the annual tax total 10,811,360 taels;

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, with the addition of training, the annual tax totaled more than 17 million taels.

It can be seen that the Chongzhen Dynasty is not unable to collect taxes, why there is no money, not only depends on income, but also on expenditure.

During the Apocalypse, the most expensive thing was a post-payment fund, and the most expenditure in a year reached more than 4 million taels.

During the Chongzhen period, it was necessary to fight Houjin, suppress the peasant uprising, and provide disaster relief, and the largest expenditure was in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, and more than 19 million taels were spent a year.

More than 4 million taels against 19 million taels, the year when the Chongzhen Dynasty spent the most was more than 15 million taels more than the year when the Tianqi Dynasty spent the most, nearly five times the expenditure, which is the reason why the Chongzhen Dynasty has no money.

The Apocalypse Dynasty is not full of treasury, according to the "History of the Ming Dynasty" Bi Ziyan biography records, Wei Zhongxian group was cleared, Bi Ziyan was called to worship the Ministry of Shangshu, when Bi Ziyan arrived, the Ming treasury had already been embezzled and squandered by Wei Zhongxian, the country's annual deficit amounted to more than 1.3 million taels of silver, and the finance almost collapsed!

So what did the apocalypse leave behind?

Except for the Manchu eunuchs, there seems to be nothing else.

Wei Zhongxian's relatives have a total of 17 people, including Wei Zhongxian's nephew, Wei Liangqing, the prince of Ningguo, the prince Taibao, Dong'anhou, Wei Liangdong, Wei Zhongxian's nephew, the prince's young master, Anpingbo, Wei Pengyi, and so on.

Wei Zhongxian's godson, godgrandson and eunuch backbone, there are countless of them.

Young Master, Prince and Prince, University Scholar, and Cabinet First Assistant Gu Bingqian

The crown prince and the prince, the secretary of the ministry, and the scholar of the Jianji Palace, Wei Guangwei

Prince Taibao, Hubu Shangshu, Wuyingdian University scholar Feng Quan

Cui Chengxiu, the left governor of the Imperial Court of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the secretary of the military department;

Zhou Yingqiu, the secretary of the ministry;

Huo Weihua, the secretary of the military department;

Wu Chunfu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry;

Pan Ruzhen, the secretary of the Criminal Department;

Xu Dahua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry;

Bingbu Shangshu Tian Yoshi;

Yan Mingtai, the secretary of the military department;

Zhang Ruitu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites;

Wang Shaohui, the secretary of the ministry;

Hubu Shangshu Guo Yunhou;

Jinyiwei commanded the left capital to supervise Tian Ergeng

Jinyi Wei commanded Xu Xianchun

Jin Yi Wei is Yang Huan

Wait, wait, there are several Shangshu in the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Households, which seems to be a bit ridiculous, Wei Zhongxian is going to be so messy, no one can do anything.

If you want to say that this apocalypse is the time of Chongzhen's friendship, it can be said:

The apocalypse ended, Donglin was martyred, and the grievances and hatreds were not over.

At the beginning of Chongzhen, the eunuch party was in the dynasty, and there were constant internal and external troubles.

What should Emperor Chongzhen do in the face of this mess?

Apocalypse said to him that he was right, "My brother should be Yao Shun." ”

Yes, this mess left by my brother, without Yao Shun's ability, I'm afraid you won't be able to clean it up!