Forbidden City, inside the Imperial Study.

Emperor Chongzhen sat behind the imperial case with a somewhat sluggish expression, and his heart was already in despair.

He had just received an urgent report, Zhou Yuji was martyred, Jiang Xiang of Datong surrendered, and Tang Tong, who he had high hopes for, also surrendered.

In this way, it will lead to the loss of Juyong Pass, Beijing will lose the last line of defense, and it is inevitable that the thieves will come to the city.

Chongzhen stood up, barefoot with his hair draped, walking in the center of the study, desperate in his heart, only feeling that the world was dark.

Jiang Xiang, Tang Tong, Wu Sangui, this is his last reliance, now Jiang Xiang and Tang Tong surrendered without a single shot, Xuanda and Jiliao's border army, half of them are traitorous thieves, who else can they count on?

The will of Zuo Liangyu and the other ministers had already been spread, but there was no news from the south.

The foundation of the Ming Dynasty for 270 years!

Is that the end of it?

I have been working hard for 17 years, and I will actually be the king of the dead country?

Am I a faint king?

The country that I took over from the hands of the imperial brother is not like this, and I have reigned for seventeen years, and I have not changed the Ming Dynasty for the better, but have gone to the abyss step by step.

Chongzhen couldn't help but have a slight suspicion of himself, but he quickly rejected the idea.

How could I be a faint king?

I am diligent and not slack, I review and fold until late at night, I rest for only two hours, I am diligent and thrifty, I only wear coarse cotton robes, I can't eat four dishes and one soup, I don't covet women, there are only a few concubines in the palace, how can I be a faint king?

Throughout history, is there such a faint king?

Chongzhen's eyes were full of bloodshots, and the whole person fell into despair, but I worked so hard and diligently, why did the world become more and more chaotic, and finally reached the point of destroying the country.

In the last moments of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen subconsciously realized that he might have a problem.

Governing the country is not diligent, and it is not that you can govern well with more efforts, and if you make a mistake in strategy and blind command, it will only become more chaotic.

However, he didn't want to admit in his heart that he had worked hard for seventeen years, and he was of no use to Daming.

When the apocalypse left, Da Ming was not bad, seventeen years was not short, and he had time to change.

"Your Majesty, the Wei Pavilion Department and the Chen Pavilion Department have arrived!" Wang Chengen walked in and saw Chongzhen's appearance, and his heart was sour.

Chen Yan and Wei Zaode were the last first and second assistants of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

In a province of Shanxi, the Ming court thought that it would be able to hold on to the army for at least half a year, but it didn't want to lose all the three Jin in more than a month.

After Li Jiantai took away 20,000 Beijing battalions, Beijing's defense was already very empty, and Chongzhen already had the intention of transferring Wu Sangui back to defense.

A few days ago, he hinted to Chen Yan that the cabinet issued an order to transfer Wu Sangui back to defense, about Ning Tieqi, and the Ming Dynasty could still fight, but Chen Yan didn't write it.

Today, Chongzhen received an excerpt from Wu Sangui and asked if it was time to go back, so Chongzhen called the two of them.

At this time, Chen Yan and Wei Zaode stood in the study and whispered, and after a while, Chongzhen, who had changed his clothes, walked in and sat down, and he couldn't see Fang Cai's appearance on his body.

The two immediately shut up and stopped talking, knelt on the ground, and pouted their buttocks.

"Two gentlemen, I asked you to give an order to transfer the Ning army back to the defense of the Beijing Division, but you don't speak. Today, General Wu folded up and asked, the cabinet can give an order! ”

After Chongzhen finished speaking, the two of them still pouted their buttocks and didn't say a word.

This is the minister of the Ming Dynasty, this is my courtier, for a while, Chongzhen was going to be mad by the two, but at this time, the minister of the Manchu Dynasty was opposed to him, and he could no longer find a courtier who could replace the two.

"Do you have any opinion on this discussion, gentlemen?" Chongzhen was already almost pleading, "As long as the two gentlemen speak, I will immediately make an order to do it~"

Chongzhen waited for a long time, hoping that the two would be able to speak, even if they knew each other, this would at least prove that the two were still on his side, but the hall was still silent, only Chongzhen's heavy breathing......

Suddenly, Chongzhen stood up violently and kicked the desk in front of him, "Get out, get out of my ......"

Wei Zaode and Chen Yan hurriedly bowed down and exited the study, but when they got outside, they straightened their waists and shook their official robes.

Wei Zaode said: "Can you write?"

"Can't write!" Chen Yan waved his hand and whispered as he walked out.

"Why?" Wei Zaode followed.

Chen Yan stopped, looked at him, and sneered, "Wei Gebu, think about it, if the Qing troops come in afterwards and the north is lost, it is because of the decision we made, transfer Wu Sangui back to defense!" ”

After hearing this, Wei Zaode couldn't help but nod heavily, "Yes, that's the case!" ”

Chen Yan looked back at the palace, "If you want to tune it, he tunes it himself, we must not write, otherwise it will definitely be us who will land in the end, so we must not write." ”

……

In the imperial study, Chongzhen swept the table full of folds to the ground, and said in his mouth, "I am not the king of the dead country, the ministers are all the ministers of the dead country, and they are all the ministers of the dead country~~~"

"Pity my ancestors' foundation for more than 270 years, completely destroyed by my hands, what face do I have to see my ancestors in the ground~"

Chongzhen's voice trembled, as if he was crazy, and he muttered in his mouth, "The dynasty has been raising soldiers for three hundred years, and when I am dying today, no one helps me, all the ministers can be killed, they can be killed~"

The eunuchs in the study, seeing Chongzhen's appearance, couldn't help but feel extremely sad in their hearts.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." At this time, Wang Chengen came to the imperial study with a panicked face, "The soldiers and horses of the thieves have appeared on the outskirts of Beijing." ”

Yes! Chongzhen's heart was shocked, the whole person suddenly quieted down, and he suddenly walked back and sat in a daze, a little lost in his soul.

The thieves have come to the city, is Daming really going to finish?

"Okay, if you don't want to write, then I'll give the order!" Chongzhen stood up suddenly, "Go and ask someone to transfer Wu Sangui back." ”

Chongzhen really doesn't want to take responsibility, he has been demanding himself as a virtuous monarch, and a virtuous monarch cannot make big mistakes.

It's just that he didn't take responsibility like this, thinking about his name, but the courtiers worked but couldn't please him, and in the end, he had to make the monarch and the ministers centrifuge.

In fact, what he did, diligent, thrifty, and not good at women, completely met the requirements of Confucianism for virtuous monarchs, but what he learned was only the appearance, without the teaching of the previous emperor, the masters did not teach him the real imperial art, but wanted to shape him into a Ming monarch described in the book.

But in fact, there are only some superficial things recorded in the books, but politics is actually dark, dirty, and ruthless things, and Chongzhen has not learned anything that these books will not teach.

At this time, he couldn't care about the consequences of Wu Sangui's defense, because even if the result was bad, it would not be worse than now.

It's just that at this time, the situation has become clear, will Wu Sangui still come?

Chongzhen couldn't care so much, he suddenly stood up and left the imperial study.

(End of chapter)