Huang Zide waited for another two days, and the food in the army became more and more tight. And the intelligence also shows that Wu Changbo in Shanhaiguan seems to have begun to move again. Huang Zide understood that if he ran out of food under the city of Beijing, in such a situation, if Wu Changbo suddenly came over, his situation would be very bad.

"Do you want to send another letter? Lower the requirements a little more? Liu Jiexuan asked.

"That's not going to work." Huang Zide shook his head, "If we lower our requirements, they will think that we must have a problem and can't take Beijing City, so that's why it's like this." And then they will not agree to our request even more. Even if you want to send a letter in, you can only ask for more. ”

"And what if they haven't reacted yet?" Liu Jiexuan asked.

"Then wait another day, and after a day, we'll go into the city and take it ourselves." Huang Zide sighed.

Huang Zide's men came to the city wall again and shot a letter with a bow and arrow. The city was full of officers and soldiers, but in the face of the "thieves" who ran all the way to the bottom of the city, no one fired a shot or opened fire. Obviously, the morale of the officers and soldiers defending the city was very questionable.

After the letter was delivered, it was also like a stone in the sea. Within the allotted day, the court did not respond in any way, as if it had never happened. It's just that in the early days of Emperor Chongde's reign, many officials did not arrive.

On this night, Emperor Chongde was still studying how to repel the thief army and defend the city, but he saw Wang Chengen running in a panic and said, "Your Majesty, something is wrong. The Thieves ...... The thieves have broken through the outer city! ”

"What?" Emperor Chongde was taken aback, he knew that the thief army was besieging the city, and the thief army defeated the official army outside the city, which he also knew, but the Jingshi City was high and deep, how could the thieves break the outer city overnight?

"Hooray...... The slave maid heard that ......," Wang Chengen said.

"Heard of what? Say it! Emperor Chongde stomped his feet.

"The slave and maid heard...... It was Wang Dehua who let people open the door of Desheng, and the ...... who let the thieves in," Wang Chengen said.

"I see...... No wonder...... No wonder ......" Emperor Chongde sighed, turned around and walked towards the palace. Wang Chengen hurriedly followed and said, "Long live the lord, wait for the slave maid......

……

Early the next morning, Huang Zide rode a tall horse and had just entered the Desheng Gate. Beside him, Liu Jiexuan was already a large group of cavalrymen with bright armor. A group of people dressed as eunuchs were kneeling there to greet them.

"Who is Wang Dehua?" Huang Zide stopped his horse and asked.

Wang Dehua hurriedly raised his head and replied in a panic: "The slave is Wang Dehua." ”

Huang Zide stared at him for a moment, and then said, "You are also Emperor Chongde's henchman." Now it is good to be able to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. Do you know where Emperor Chongde and how many other princes are? ”

"The slave maid was here at Deshengmen last night, not in the palace." Wang Dehua hurriedly replied, "The slave maid heard that there was chaos in the palace last night, but I don't know where the Chongde Emperor fled to. ”

Huang Zide asked again: "When Emperor Chongde escaped, there should have been ministers to follow, right?" Who followed him? ”

"There are a total of seven eunuchs, one of whom is sick and recuperating in his hometown, and there are six others. Five of them, following the slaves and maidservants, greeted the holy chariot here. There is also a Wang Chengen, he has always been the personal attendant of the Chongde Emperor, quite favored, today and the future to welcome the holy car, I heard that he escaped from the palace with the Chongzhen Emperor before dawn. ”

When Huang Zide heard this, he didn't ask Wang Dehua, but raised his head and said, "Get ahead." ”

Then he looked down at Wang Dehua and the officials kneeling beside him, and said: "Now the internal and external courtiers who have come to surrender, those who have positions are behind them, and those who are not in charge of duties are going home and waiting for their fate!" ”

If you want to enter the Forbidden City as soon as possible, the nearest way is to enter the Imperial City by Di'an Gate, and then enter the Forbidden City through the Xuanwu Gate. But the new monarch can not go through the back door, the second can not go to the side door, must take the imperial city to the south of the gate, that is, the Jokhang Gate, from the Desheng Gate to the Jokhang Gate through the route, is Niu Juming Hui Yuanru and a group of ministers agreed. Along the way, there are soldiers stationed at short distances, and the atmosphere is solemn, but it is too late to pave the road with yellow sand.

Huang Zide was followed by the civil and military officials and the imperial camp pro-army, and walked south after entering the Desheng Gate, and then went east from the Xidan archway and turned onto West Chang'an Street. Everywhere you go, it's unusually quiet; On both sides of the street, every family closes the door, and puts an incense case outside the door, and there is a yellow tablet on the case, which reads "Long live the Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, long live". There is yellow or red paper pasted on the door, and the word "Shunmin" is written on it.

After walking on West Chang'an Street for a while, Huang Zide suddenly stopped his horse again, asked for a carved bow and three feather arrows from a general who was escorting him, and said softly:

"Pull out the arrowheads!"

The guard quickly drew the arrowhead and presented it to him with both hands. Unhurriedly, he drew his bow, fired three arrows at his back, and then said a few words. But because he was now an emperor, he couldn't shout like he used to do on the battlefield in the wilderness, so what he said could only be heard by the civil and military generals who were close by. But he didn't have to worry, and immediately a proclamator who had been trained in Xi'an came out of the queue, and in the blink of an eye, he compiled his oracle into a four-word rhyme in the center of the street, and announced in a sonorous voice like a bronze bell:

"Long live the purpose, the army and the people obey it. When the soldiers enter the city, the people should not be alarmed. Every family opens their doors and continues to make a living. The officers and men of the three armies returned to the barracks. Harassing the people will not be tolerated! ”

The group continued to move forward and arrived in front of the Chengtian Gate.

According to Hui Yuanru's suggestion, Huang Zide wanted to follow the example of King Wu of Zhou here, and shoot an arrow at the palace gate of the old emperor to remove the ominous. (When King Wu of Zhou was fighting, he shot three arrows at Lutai.) Huang Zide stopped his horse here, and the general who escorted him handed over his bow and arrows. Huang Zide pulled out his bow, aimed at the plaque of Chengtianmen, and shot an arrow towards the plaque.

The arrow snapped and landed on the plaque. Everyone took a closer look, but saw that the arrow was shooting under the word "heaven" in the four words "Gate of Heaven". The soldiers around are a mountain shouting long live.

Hui Yuanru on the side was already old, his eyes were not very good, he heard the shot from the voice, but he didn't know where he shot, so he asked Huang Wandao next to him: "Where did Your Majesty shoot?" ”

When Huang Guo heard this, he replied with his hand: "Your Majesty shot a little below and above the heavenly character of the 'Gate of Inheriting Heaven'. ”

When Hui Yuanru heard this, he clapped his hands and laughed: "Shoot well, shoot well!" Auspicious from the sky, auspicious from the sky! Your Majesty shot an arrow under the word Tian, this is a signal from heaven, Your Majesty deserves the world! ”

Hui Yuanru was already more than eighty years old at this time, but this sentence was shouted extremely loudly. Almost everyone around Huang Zide heard it. When everyone heard this, they all felt that what Hui Yuanru said made sense, so they shouted long live together. For a while, the shouts of "long live" swept away in all directions like the tide of the sea.

Huang Zide heard Hui Yuanru's words, and his heart was also overjoyed. Originally, he entered the Jingshi, which actually went against the strategy originally formulated by him and the Xuanyi Daoist. Strategically, it's easy to get caught up in the flanking forces of the Tartars and the remnants. But now, Hui Yuanru's words have greatly dispelled his concerns, and he also feels that this is a great auspicious omen, perhaps, he has fought all the way until he conquers the world, which is the will of heaven.

Thinking of this, Huang Zide glanced at Hui Yuanru, and then laughed "hahaha", and then he said to Hui Yuanru: "Lao Pingzhang, please enter the palace with me." ”

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Entering the palace, Huang Zide went all the way to the Qianqing Palace, and saw that the furnishings in the palace were actually quite simple, so he sighed: "Emperor Chongde collected so many taxes that everyone couldn't live. I thought that he had scavenged so much money, and that this life should be extravagant, if not for the wine pond meat forest. Later, I successively broke through some big cities and captured some of the vassal kings of Dazhao. These vassal kings, those days were indeed luxurious. Especially King Fu. At that time, the military advisor saw it and sighed, and wrote a poem, saying: 'The blood of a thousand families is the golden bottle of sake, and the jade plate is the ointment of the people. When the candle tears fall, people cry, and the song is high and the complaint is high. At that time, I thought, the vassal kings are so extravagant, and it is not enough to be the son of heaven...... Looking at Emperor Chongde's dormitory now, it is far inferior to those vassal kings, and even inferior to some officials. From this point of view, Emperor Chongde himself may not be a bad person, but it is a pity that he can't control the people around him. We need to take this as a warning. ”

The surrounding ministers all said yes together.

Huang Zide stayed in the Qianqing Palace that night, and he slept exceptionally peacefully this night. The next morning, when he awoke to the sound of birdsong, a maid came to help him get up and dress.

Huang Zide got dressed, and a palace maid told him that Huang Guo had just come to tell him, but he didn't dare to disturb him because he hadn't woken up yet.

After hearing this, Huang Zide immediately left the dormitory, and with the attendants of the palace maids, he came to the Xinuan Pavilion of the Wuying Palace. Then Huang Guo was called in. He glanced at the palace ladies standing on the left and right, and everyone withdrew in awe.

"What, have you found Emperor Chongde?" Huang Zide asked.

Huang Guo hurriedly returned: "Emperor Qiqi, the whereabouts of Emperor Chongde are still unknown, but the crown prince and the other two princes have been found. ”

"Found it? Where did you find it? Huang Zide hurriedly asked.

Huang Guo replied: "When the city was broken, Emperor Chongde asked the eunuchs to take them to hide in the house of the national ruler Zhou Kui. Later, we posted a notice, and Zhou Kui didn't dare to shelter his grandchildren, so he handed them over. ”

Huang Zide listened and sighed: "Zhou Kui, this guy is really not a thing!" Well, where are the crown prince and those two princes now? ”