Chapter 136: Chongzhen died
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"
Yang Qing roared loudly on the galloping war horse.
The soldiers guarding in front of the Zhengyang Gate in front drove the pedestrians aside as quickly as possible, and everyone silently watched the figure of Zhongyongbo pass by like the wind, and in a blink of an eye, they entered the Daming Gate, which was also open.
Chongzhen is seriously ill.
Yang Qing got the news of Chongzhen's fall into the water in Yuanzhou four days ago, and it was already the fourth day at that time, and then he handed over the task of attacking Changsha to Wang Zhiren, and then rode a stagecoach day and night, relying on his strong physique to gallop more than 1,000 miles back to Nanjing. But in the Taiping Mansion met the eunuch sent by Lao Wang to wait for him, and knew the news that Chongzhen was seriously ill, although it was already spring at this time, but a person who had never swam fell into the lake in the cold spring, and choked on a lung full of bacterial sewage, although the rescue was fast, but a serious lung disease was indispensable.
What's more, Chongzhen's physique was already weak because of the lack of exercise all year round.
It's just the reason for this overboard......
"Well, I said why is the reaction to the new deal so bland! It turns out that I've been holding back my big move for a long time! ”
Yang Qing, who was running wildly along the royal street, thought to himself.
Indeed, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the nobles of Nanjing reacted too calmly to the new policy, especially the latter was simply unresponsive, you must know that most of the land around Nanjing was in the hands of several hereditary nobles, including the Xu family, especially they encroached on the official land of the guard, and many of the guards in Nanjing became their peasants.
Chongzhen doesn't just collect taxes.
And the warp realm!
Re-measure the land in various places and then register it against the information of the household department, and check it with the official fields belonging to the original Nanjing guards, who encroached on how much will come out immediately, even if there is no follow-up punishment just to return these lands to the hands of the emperor, it will be a heavy loss for them, not to mention that they still have to pay taxes, and the punishment must be there, but they have no reaction, and even those ordinary land owners at least made a fuque.
This is inherently abnormal.
There was still Zuo Liangyu's hope before, they were all waiting for Zuo Liangyu to succeed in secession, and then forced Chongzhen to take back the new deal, after all, if Zuo Liangyu fought for the exemption of the new deal for the three provinces of Huguang and Guangzhou, then Chongzhen had no reason to only implement the new deal in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but now that Zuo Liangyu has failed, then they have to do it themselves.
Of course, this is just Yang Qing's inference.
He galloped directly into the Chengtian Gate, which was also open, and then ended the gate, and the noon gate galloped all the way and met Han Zanzhou at the noon gate......
"How is the emperor?"
Yang Qing asked as he walked.
Han Zanzhou shook his head solemnly.
He is directly responsible for this matter, because Yang Qing is outside the main house, Yang Qing is responsible for dealing with the courtiers and military leaders in various places for Chongzhen outside, and he is responsible for Chongzhen's safety in Nanjing, especially the various systems of the Nanjing Imperial Palace are under his control, Wang Chengen is only responsible for being the emperor's secretary general, and this includes Xuanwu Lake, where the database is supervised by Tai.
Yang Qing didn't ask any more.
Soon he arrived at the Qianqing Palace, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he was hugged by Princess Kunxing who came out of the house crying.
"Princess, let go first, I'll go see Your Majesty!"
Yang Qing said.
Princess Kunxing wiped her tears and let go of her hand.
After Yang Qing entered, Chongzhen's bedside, including the imperial doctor, everyone hurriedly got out of the way, at this time the emperor was still in a coma with a high fever, and after Yang Qing checked the pulse, he looked at the things that coughed up and urinated and knew that it was basically no fun, this is the failure of the internal organs of the whole body caused by the septic infection of the lung infection entering the bloodstream, and in modern times, doctors have to be careful to deal with things, in this era when even sepsis is difficult to solve, what does he take to solve this ultimate upgraded version of sepsis?
He glanced at Zhang Yan very simply and glanced at her.
Zhang Yan's expression changed.
"Let's all go down, a bunch of useless things, send the princess back to rest, just have Uncle Zhong Yong here!"
Zhang Yan posed as a mother and said.
Those imperial doctors hurriedly left, Princess Kunxing was also taken away by several palace maids, and only Yang Qing was left in the whole room, she, Yuan Guifei, Wang Chengen and Han Zanzhou, this is basically the core figure in the palace, as for Shi Kefa and other foreign ministers, they are all waiting outside the palace, including those nobles in Nanjing are also waiting outside at this time.
"It's really useless?"
Zhang Yan asked with a solemn face.
"Your Royal Highness, Your Majesty is the dirty water into the lungs after causing lung disease, sepsis into the blood of the whole body, and then carried by the blood to almost all organs, if the minister can be a day or two earlier, maybe it can be saved, but at this time there is no power to return to the sky......"
Yang Qing said.
At this moment, Chongzhen on the bed suddenly coughed violently, and then went into shock in an exclamation.
Yang Qing hurriedly pounced on it and tossed it for a while.
His Majesty the Emperor finally began to gasp again.
"It's hard to say next time!"
Yang Qing wiped the cold sweat on his head and said.
"I knew, I knew that something would happen, you were still too anxious, the first emperor just asked Wei Zhongxian to do things too quickly, and the result was also overboard, and now Your Majesty is asking you to do things too quickly, and the result is also like this, the rabbit is anxious and bites! Those people are so easy to deal with! ”
Zhang Yan said.
"Your Highness, if you don't do this, you will die!"
Yang Qing said cautiously.
"Can you wake up Your Majesty?"
Zhang Yan said with a long sigh.
"Do your best!"
Yang Qing said.
"Xuanshi Kefa, Wei Guogong!"
Zhang Yan then said.
Han Zanzhou immediately went out to announce the two of them, Yang Qing continued to be busy with Chongzhen, fortunately, his medical skills were still guaranteed, and he couldn't cure Chongzhen just because he didn't have the right medicine, but it was no problem to let His Majesty the Emperor return to the light, under his series of operations, Chongzhen, who was originally unconscious, actually opened his eyes, and even his sanity was much more sober, and at this time Shi Kefa and Xu Hongji also arrived.
Chongzhen looked at Yang Qing with an inquiring gaze.
Yang Qing shook his head slowly.
His Majesty the Emperor smiled wryly.
"I don't want to die in Beijing, but I'm going to die in Nanjing!"
He said weakly.
"Your Majesty is relieved, Your Majesty is just a minor illness."
Xu Hongji said cautiously.
"You all go out first, I want to say a few words to Uncle Zhong Yong alone."
Chongzhen said.
Zhang Yan waved everyone away, and then she also went out with Yuan Guifei.
"What do you want to do after I die?"
Chongzhen said very directly.
"Why did Your Majesty say that?"
Yang Qing said.
"It's all come to this point, what are you and my monarchs and ministers pretending to be?"
Chongzhen said angrily.
"Your Majesty, you have a crown prince!"
Yang Qing said.
"The prince is in the north!"
Chongzhen said.
"But isn't the northern capital the land of the Ming Dynasty? Isn't King Qin a minister of the Ming Dynasty? Isn't the prince the prince of the Ming Dynasty? No matter what the current situation is, you are the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you have set up the crown prince, and the prince is still alive and has not been abolished, so once His Majesty succeeds to the throne of Prince Bintian is a matter of course, the minister is the minister of His Majesty, and by the grace of His Majesty's knowledge, the minister only allows His Majesty's descendants to be the emperor, if someone wants to take away His Majesty's country, the minister is the first to refuse. ”
Yang Qing said.
Indeed, Chongzhen has a crown prince, which no one can change, and it is also natural for the emperor to succeed to the throne after the death of the prince.
"But the prince is in the north!"
Chongzhen said.
What he meant was that Li Zicheng would not let people go.
This is also certain, Li Zicheng will happily support the crown prince to succeed to the throne in Beijing, and then coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, under the banner of the new monarch to force Jiangnan to submit, whoever dares not to listen is to resist the decree, the stick of the king of Qin has long been hungry and thirsty, and those who conspired to kill Chongzhen obviously forgot this.
Or maybe they have something else to do.
"He is the crown prince no matter where he is, but if the prince does not want to come to Nanjing, then His Majesty can choose a person to exercise power in Nanjing, and the minister has several alternatives. First of all, follow Beijing's example of setting up the Nanjing Left-behind Division to govern the south, and let Shi Kefa stay behind, now it is no problem to see his loyalty, of course, the ministers will not dare to guarantee it in the future. Then it is to choose a clan, for example, King Fu can also be, but the minister does not dare to guarantee whether he will simply call himself the emperor, in fact, the minister thinks that he will definitely do this, fortunately, this country is still the descendants of Taizu. Third, let Empress Yi'an act as a supervisor in Nanjing, and the emperor is in the north, and it is okay for her to supervise Nanjing in a similar capacity as the empress dowager. There is also an alternative for the fourth minister, His Majesty will abolish the ancestral system of the horse and the horse shall not interfere in politics by holy decree, marry Princess Kunxing to me, and then let her replace her brother in the prison of Nanjing, the minister will repay the holy grace, and the minister swears to the sky that he will sweep the north and welcome the prince back to Nanjing. ”
Yang Qing said shamelessly.
"Are you pushing me?"
Chongzhen said angrily.
"Your Majesty, the minister and the princess are in love, and if you want to make sure that the future emperor is still your descendant, then you have to marry her to me!"
Yang Qing said.
"Do you think I won't dare kill you?"
Chongzhen said.
But there's nothing special about his expression.
"You can run! And the minister can elope with the princess, you should know that the princess will not refuse to elope with me.
She is a woman, she can't be the emperor, and you also know her character, so in the end you have to return it to her brother, Your Majesty, you should know that no one betrays the princess, you let the princess replace her brother in Nanjing, although there is no precedent for this kind of thing, but everyone knows that the princess doesn't understand anything, those ministers are conducive to doing their own thing, and they will definitely reluctantly accept it, and then the minister can be for Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I wipe, don't die at this time! ”
Yang Qing screamed and pounced.
Obviously, he talked too much nonsense, and just when he imagined that he would get his beloved princess, Chongzhen had slowly closed his eyes.
In his exclamation, Zhang Yan and the others hurriedly poured in.
Everyone rushed to the bed, watching Yang Qing's busyness on Chongzhen, but after all, everything was in vain, Chongzhen, who should have hanged himself on the coal mountain more than a year ago in history, finally swallowed his last breath on his hospital bed in Nanjing Qianqing Palace.
Yang Qing had no choice but to sigh.
"Who will succeed His Majesty?"
Xu Hongji grabbed him and couldn't wait to ask.
"Doesn't Daming have a prince? Who else does Wei Guogong want to be the emperor? ”
Yang Qingyi scolded rhetorically.
"Too, Prince?!"
Everyone was stunned.