Wu Nag raised his head and looked at the smiling young man opposite, he couldn't help but have a surge of anger in his chest, so he sneered at Chongzhen without thinking: "In this way, I accepted Your Majesty's trial of me, and let Your Majesty execute me by law, but I have to thank Your Majesty?" ”

Lian Shanxiang, who was standing on Chongzhen's left side, looked nervously at Wu Nag on the other side, unlike the others the emperor had seen, this veteran had come out of the sea of corpses and blood, although he was unarmed now, but God knows if he would come up and fight hard if he was provoked.

For Lian Shanxiang, in this situation, even if Chongzhen hurts a hair, he can't afford to be responsible. Therefore, seeing Wu Nag staring at Chongzhen in an unkind tone, he suddenly bent forward, arched his body, and looked ready to go, ready to stop Wu Nag's possible follow-up moves.

Zhu Youzhen continued as if he didn't notice anything: "How can there be no reason for immortality in a hundred years of life, whether it is a king or a beggar, no matter how majestic or insignificant it was in life, after all, it is not to be buried under a pile of loess.

So I don't think death is a big deal. Wugu Mountain has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and when you go to the battlefield, didn't you think that there would be a time when you couldn't go home? Therefore, I feel that you will not be a person who is afraid of death in Wugushan.

The reason why you want to see me is not because you want me to live, but because you want to ask me for a reason. I've given you such a good reason now, shouldn't you thank me? ”

Wu Nag looked at Chongzhen with wide eyes, and found that although the young man had a smile on his face, there was no emotion in his eyes. His heart suddenly tightened, knowing that Chongzhen was telling him the truth, and the young man opposite really wanted him to die, not to intimidate him.

This discovery made Wu Nag very cold, his originally red eyes began to gradually become innocent, and after his mood calmed down, he was finally able to calmly rethink.

Wu Nag drank the glass of wine that Chongzhen poured for him in one gulp, and then let out a long breath and said: "Then dare to ask Your Majesty, if it weren't for giving me this reason, with Your Majesty's true thoughts in your heart, would I have to die?" ”

Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hand and subconsciously knocked on the table, and then said: "To be honest, I don't really care about your life or death. What I care about is that if you live, what harm will it do to my Ming; If you die, what good will it do me to Ming?

I thought about it for a long time, and realized that it was better for you to die than to live, so I had to ask you to go on my way. But rest assured, I will hang you, so that you can keep your corpse whole, and your corpse will not be insulted.

As for your captured son, after your death will collect your body and return to Shenyang together. If you have any other requirements, you might as well put them forward now, and I will definitely satisfy you if I can meet them. ”

Hearing Chongzhen arrange his future affairs so calmly, Wu Nag couldn't help but be embarrassed, he was silent for a moment before saying: "Your Majesty, how can you do it to this extent, with my current situation, what is the importance of admitting guilt or not, as long as Your Majesty gives an order, my head can fall to the ground in an instant." ”

Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hand and raised the wine jug, signaling Wu Nag to hand over the empty cup, as if talking to a friend, he said while pouring wine: "Because what I want to execute is Wu Nag, the sinner who split the rebellion of the Ming Dynasty and slaughtered the Ming civilians and captives; Instead of killing a Houjin warrior who rebelled against the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty. So, do you understand? ”

Wu Nag looked at the beeswax-colored wine in the wine glass, and suddenly laughed, Zhu Youzhen looked at him a little strangely, and was thinking in his heart, whether Wu Nag wanted to pretend to be crazy and stupid.

But he saw that Wu Nag seemed to say to himself: "It's really like." ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at him with a frown and said, "What is really like?" ”

Wu Nag looked up at Chongzhen and said seriously: "Your Majesty is really similar to the Heavenly Mandate Khan." ”

Zhu Youzhen was a little stunned, and subconsciously said, "How is it possible?" I've seen Nurhachi's portrait, how can I be like him. ”

Wu Nag shook his head and said, "No, I'm not talking about appearance, but about the means by which His Majesty acts. When the Khan captured Shenyang, he summoned the mainland merchants in Shenyang to attend the meeting, and wrote down the seven hatreds to be brought back by these mainland merchants. ”

Zhu Youzhen frowned, he was not interested in having anything to do with Nurhachi, so he changed the topic and said, "So now, do you still have any unfulfilled wishes?" ”

Wu Nag was silent for a moment and then said, "With the territory of the Ming Dynasty and the talent of His Majesty, it is unknown that Liaodong may be restored in the future. I only ask Your Majesty for one thing, and if there is indeed such a day, I will ask Your Majesty to take care of the foreign minister's family for one or two. ”

Zhu Youjian raised his wine glass and gestured, then drank it in one gulp, and then said: "I promise you, then you enjoy it slowly, I got up first..."

Zhu Youzhen walked out of the water pavilion, looked back, and found that Wu Nag's shoulders seemed to be drooping, and at this moment, he no longer had the bearing of a general in the army.

Zhu Youzhen, who retracted his gaze, stepped out of the water pavilion without saying a word, and gradually disappeared in the darkness under the guidance of two guards with lanterns.

On December 25, in the large camp left behind by the Jin army in the north of Zunhua City, the wooden wall near the city gate had been completely demolished, and the shallow trench outside the camp had also been filled in, and it had become an empty wasteland again.

The high platform built by the Houjin army in the camp to watch the battle, after the Ming army was renovated, became a memorial site for Zunhua and the Houjin entry of the Houjin and the Ming army's dead soldiers and civilians.

Early that morning, tens of thousands of Zunhua soldiers and civilians tied their heads with strips of white cloth and stood solemnly in front of the altar, waiting to pay tribute to the soldiers, relatives and friends who died in the war, and the township party.

In the whimper of the brass horn, Zhu Youzhen, who was dressed in a plain robe and no crown, slowly ascended the high platform from the stairs on the right side of the altar under the gaze of everyone.

Then in the loud shouts of the ceremonial officer, he completed the various ceremonies to commemorate the fallen soldiers and civilians step by step, and finally read the memorial text written by Mao Yuanyi at a glance.

At this solemn and grand memorial ceremony, the soldiers and civilians in the audience were extremely quiet, and only when Chongzhen began to recite the sacrificial text, the audience began to faintly cry.

At first, only one or two people who had lost their families were crying, and then the grief began to spread, not only ordinary people, but also soldiers who had lost their comrades.

“… Woohoo mourning, Fu Wei is still feasting, sacrifice my martyrs. Zhu Youzhen finished reading the last sentence and did not end the ceremony.

The purpose of paying tribute to the soldiers and civilians who died in these wars is to let these civilians and soldiers remember the sacrifices of the martyrs and strengthen their determination to fight against foreign enemies, not to let them grieve the death of their families, relatives, friends, and comrades, and thus lose the courage to fight against foreign enemies.

Zhu Youzhen accepted the memorial message, glanced at the soldiers and civilians in the audience, and then continued to speak: "Today we are here to pay tribute to those martyrs who sacrificed for the country, not to pity ourselves in front of the martyrs and make a posture of a loser.

We are here to commemorate them to let them know that we know what they want to protect with their lives. And we will carry on their legacy, hold high their banner, and continue to protect what they want to protect, so that their blood will not be shed in vain, which is what they want to see in the Heavenly Spirit. ”

As the Emperor's words spread through the crowd, the grief-stricken people began to turn their attention back to the Emperor who was giving a speech on stage.

Zhu Youzhen slowly paced back and forth on the stage, and continued while thinking: "Whether it is our army or our people, when we hold our weapons and rush towards those Houjin troops who invaded us, we have only one thought, that is, to defend our home and country.

There will be no objection to defending the family with your own life, because even animals know how to protect their young, let alone us as a human being?

But to defend the country with their own lives, many people may retreat. Because they don't feel that it is a matter of course to defend the country with their precious lives, which is why when the Houjin army invades by detour, the Ming soldiers and civilians guarding the pass of the Great Wall will easily surrender to the Houjin army.

So these soldiers and civilians who surrendered to Jin are too shameful and despicable compared to our heroic martyrs who sacrificed for the country? ”

Immediately, the family members of the martyrs in the audience responded to Chongzhen in a loud voice, "Shameful, these shameless people who surrendered should be severely punished..."

The family's voice was immediately supported by many people, and Zhu Youzhen listened attentively for a while before pressing his hands on the ground, making the soldiers and civilians in the audience quiet again.

"Yes, they are indeed shameful and despicable. But I have been reflecting on why they surrendered so easily to the Houjin army.

I thought about it for a long time, and finally I got something. I thought that they were the only way to surrender to the Houjin army without shame and without scruples. That's because they don't know what a country is, and they don't know what kind of action is to really defend their families.

So what kind of country is Daming? Is it worth our lives to defend her? I thought that this was my fault, the fault of the imperial court, and the fault of all the people of the Ming Dynasty. Because we have never defined what kind of country our motherland Daming should be.

If we can't figure out what Da Ming is, we don't have the right to ask those who don't agree with Da Ming to defend her with their lives.

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I thought that if I could not let the people and the army understand what the motherland they were defending, then the greatest responsibility lay with me. Therefore, I decided to pardon those soldiers and civilians who surrendered to the Later Jin, but did not include those who took the initiative to lead the Later Jin army to brutalize the Ming people.

And today, I will also make it clear to you Heroic Spirits and you what the Ming is and why we need to defend her with our lives. And I swear that I will defend her as you do, and will never betray her..."