Chang'an Imperial Palace.

"Even you are in the same party as Yang Qing?"

Zhu Cihong said with an angry face.

Obviously, His Majesty the Emperor is still too young to know how to control his emotions, but this is actually not surprising, the person he can really count on is actually his father's henchman......

He really has no one to count on.

To put it bluntly, he and Donglin Qunxian are purely using each other, even if he is young, he knows what kind of virtue these Wenchen are, he needs Donglin Qunxian's support to return to Nanjing, and the latter needs him to go back to deal with Yang Qing, so the two sides formed an alliance. But to say that he believes that the latter has any loyalty, it can be said that it is completely nonsense, he can fall to this day, the Ming Dynasty can almost collapse, at least in his opinion, these civil officials have to bear the main responsibility.

If they weren't loyal to his father, how could they really be loyal to him?

As for those warlords......

They were all wolves, and they all wanted to eat his flesh.

It's just that there is a hungry tiger now, and this hungry tiger can't eat enough for him alone, and in the end, he must eat these hungry wolves together.

That's why they got closer to him.

To put it bluntly, they just want to push him in front and let him entangle with this hungry tiger, and then they take the opportunity to sharpen their minions, all these people want is for him to delay Yang Qing's time, as for whether he was skinned and dismantled by Yang Qing in the end, these people are.

Only Wang Chengen.

Only this father's henchman can be relied on.

However, now Wang Chengen persuaded him to either continue to stay in Chang'an, bear the name of the emperor, and spend the rest of his life peacefully in this palace. Either listen to Yang Qing after arriving in Nanjing, don't care about things outside the palace, tell Yang Qing what you want, ask for money, women, new palaces, in short, you can ask for anything, but you can't ask for power. He can enjoy himself to his heart's content, he really has to stuff three thousand beauties in the future, he doesn't like the palace is no problem if he asks Yang Qing to build a palace for him, we are not afraid of spending money now.

But don't fight with Yang Qing for power.

This is undoubtedly a basin of cold water on the head for the emperor, who has just turned 20 years old and is full of pride and ambition.

Even Wang Chengen didn't help him!

So who else in this world will really help him?

"Your Majesty, the slave is born as the first emperor's person, and death is also the ghost of the first emperor, the first emperor is gone, Your Majesty is the master of the slave and maid, at this moment, Your Majesty will not hesitate to kill the slave and the slave, and the slave and the maid should continue to serve when the first emperor dies.

But why do slaves and maids survive in the world?

It is because His Majesty, the three kings and the two princesses are still there, the slave and the maid dare not die, and there will be no one to serve Your Majesty when the slave and maid die. ”

Wang Chengen cried and said.

"Then why don't you help me?"

Zhu Cihong's face softened a little, and then said.

"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty has experienced changes in Beijing, and now it is no longer the Ming Dynasty of the past, not only is it divided and divided, but even the people's hearts are no longer towards the Zhu family, and even if there is no Yang Qing, even this country is no longer the first emperor or even the Zhu family.

If there is no Yang Qing on the Haihe River, the first emperor will die at the hands of thieves, if there is no Yang Qing in the Shanhai Pass, no matter who wins Jiannu and Li Zicheng, the first emperor is a dead end, when the first emperor dies, if there is no Yang Qing, the successor is King Fu. In order to fight for the throne for His Majesty, the blood flowed in front of the noon gate, and then Li Zicheng's army went south, if there was no Yang Qing, then His Majesty thought that Li Zicheng could let you cross the Yangtze River? Whether he usurps the throne or not, His Majesty will not stay anymore when he is already an adult, wouldn't it be better to control it if he let you accidentally fall into the river and then change to a smaller one?

Today's Daming is Yang Qingzheng.

His Majesty's throne and even His Majesty's life were fought for by him, and he did dictate the military and politics and wanted to use His Majesty as a puppet, but without him, His Majesty would not even be a puppet.

How can His Majesty fight with him?

At this time, the military and civilians in the south did not recognize His Majesty at all.

They only recognize Yang Qing!

If Yang Qing usurps the throne, the soldiers and civilians in the south will only cheer for him, and no one will think about Daming, Daming didn't give them everything today, and their days of abundant food and clothing were all given by Yang Qing. Don't say it's Your Majesty at this moment, even if the first emperor is still there, he can't stop him, but fortunately, he has a deep affection for the princess, and if there is a princess in him, he won't do this, so Your Majesty can rest assured.

In that case, why not live an easier life?

The first emperor worked diligently all his life, and he almost never smiled a few times, worked hard day and night on state affairs, and couldn't sleep comfortably if he couldn't eat or sleep, but what was the result? Not only is the Ming Dynasty more and more chaotic, but even his life is almost lost in the chaotic army, and now there is a genius like Yang Qing to govern the country and make the Ming Dynasty prosperous, which is already a blessing for the society, in this case, why don't Your Majesty end up idle? ”

Wang Chengen said.

"Why can't I master my country?"

Zhu Cihong said with some irritation.

"But the country has long been in the hands of Yang Qing, Your Majesty has no soldiers, no generals, no territory and no subjects, some are just a virtual number, and no one cares about this virtual number for a long time. You can't fight with him at all, since you can't fight, then why fight, if Yang Qing has a bad heart for Your Majesty, then the old slave will follow Your Majesty as soon as he dies, but with the princess here, we don't need to worry about this at all, then the old slave naturally can't sit back and watch His Majesty jump into the fire pit. ”

Wang Chengen said.

"How come I have no subjects? Qian Qianyi: Aren't those ministers of mine? Zhu Zhiyu, aren't those people my people? How come I don't have a general? Zhang Xianzhong, Jin Shenghuan, and even King Gui, which one is not an elite general? ”

Zhu Cihong said angrily.

"Your Majesty, they're just paying lip service."

Wang Chengen said helplessly.

"Yang Qing has a very apt evaluation of Qian Qianyi, even if he goes to commit suicide, he will give up because the water is too cold, if he really wants to press the knife on their necks, they can shout long live to anyone, don't take their boasted loyalty seriously. The gentry behind Zhu Zhiyu really hated Yang Qing, but it was one thing to hate him, and it was another thing to fight with him with his life, it didn't matter if they were idle and scolded him for a few words, it was okay for them to openly scold Yang Qing in the newspaper, and they did often do this.

But that's because they know that Yang Qing doesn't care about such trivial things.

They don't have to be afraid.

But if they do, they'll back down immediately.

Because then it will really hit the ground.

Yang Qing did take stock of the land they had usurped, but it wasn't a big deal, because they had more that was originally their own. Yang Qing did want them to release the slaves, but they could be hired, and the slaves and maids did no longer belong to them, but they could be paid to work for them. Yang Qing does collect their taxes, but the land tax rate of our Ming Dynasty is nothing more than that, even if they pay the tax, they still keep the most share, not to mention that because of official problems, in fact, many gentry can still escape.

You see, Yang Qingdu left room for them.

But when they die, there is nothing.

Last year, they gathered tens of thousands of people to make trouble in the Huizhou incident, and then clashed with the militia and killed more than 100 people, and everyone immediately died down, and even Yang Qing's slave release order issued immediately because of this did not let them take any more practical action.

The fugitive slave who caused the conflict had been released in self-defense.

This is the true gentry.

Do you believe that they can work hard for you and Yang Qing, but you might as well believe that the pig will go up the tree.

They didn't want to fight hard with Yang Qing, they all had beautiful wives and concubines, how could they give up? They just want to use you as a gunman, they can cheer you on, they can encourage you in the back, and they can even hand you a knife from behind, but if Yang Qing's knife falls, they will not hesitate to push you forward, and then run to the side and say that it's all your fault and they have nothing to do. ”

He went on to say.

After speaking, he looked at Zhu Cihong's gaze, which was obviously a little out of control.

"As for King Gui, those people ......"

He sighed and said, "Dolgon has been beaten to the point of begging for mercy, do you think they can be stronger than Dolgon?" Yang Qing has more than 400,000 elite troops, who can shake it? If he doesn't fight these people, they will burn high incense, and dare to take the initiative to provoke him? As far as Jin Shenghuan's rabble is concerned, even the Huguang militia may not be able to beat it.

Most of the militia in Huguang was originally reorganized by the subordinates of Ma Jinzhong and others.

It's not like they haven't fought with Jin Shenghuan.

What's more, even if they succeed, how can they be better than Yang Qing and you? Yang Qing always has a rope around his neck, and this rope is in the hands of the princess, even if he wants to be unfavorable to you, the princess only needs to pull the rope and he will stop. But they don't have a rope around their necks, and if they want to kill you, there will be no obstacle behind them, even if King Gui is in power. ”

"I'm the Son of Heaven, isn't that enough!"

Zhu Cihong stood up and roared as if he had collapsed.

"Your Majesty, do you know how the first emperor died?"

Wang Chengen said pityingly.

"What do you mean?"

Zhu Cihong was stunned.

"Do you think the first emperor really accidentally fell into the water? Do you think the first emperor really died in an accident? He was dragged down by the underwater assassins, he died in a murder, and he was murdered by the nobles of Nanking because the reform of the guard had touched the interests of the nobles of Nanjing. You see, this is still the first emperor, this is still those who share weal and woe with the country and the Ming Dynasty, just because they want to take back the official land they occupied, they have already dared to murder a son of heaven for nearly twenty years. By the way, the slave maid said again, the first emperor was the third emperor of our Ming Dynasty to fall into the water and die. ”

Wang Chengen said.

Zhu Cihong was dumbfounded.

He really didn't know this, in fact, Yang Qing had never made public the cause of Chongzhen's death, this kind of thing can't be made public, just know it, and it shouldn't even be investigated publicly.

The emperor cannot be murdered.

Even death must be an accident.

Otherwise, it will be a big involvement, and it will involve a problem of face, but as long as the object of suspicion is identified, it will be okay to find another reason to kill it in the future. Therefore, except for a very small number of people in the Ming Dynasty, what can be known about the cause of Chongzhen's death is that he accidentally fell into the water and contracted the disease and died.

Including Zhu Cihong here.

To put it bluntly, he is reading in a closed environment and being trapped in his own world, and he doesn't know the word Son of Heaven realistically, and he is directly stunned when he hears this very impactful news at this moment!

He then slumped into his seat.

"Your Majesty, the Son of Heaven is really useless!"

Wang Chengen said sincerely.