After this incident, Zhu Hongsan found himself excluded from the ruling class of this era. For the first time, I deeply realized the helplessness of why Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to kill the ministers back then, because these ministers who had embarked on a career through fame never took the emperor in their eyes. thinks that your emperor is a fool, you and we are not all the way at all, the emperor will honestly give birth to children in the palace, and just play with crickets. Is the difficult task of governing the country something that a fool can do if you can't read a single word?

Of course, the founding emperor had the courage and skill to suppress them, and by the middle of the dynasty, some weak emperors came to power, such as Zhu Youzhu and so on, and they were controlled by ministers. Some people with strong resistance, such as Emperor Zhengde, were detained in a pile of basins, and the Wanli Emperor, who was passive and slacking off, was even rated as the Emperor of the Ages.

The emperor couldn't help it, because the cultural tradition was in the hands of these scholars. Zhu Hongsan thought of Zhu Youxiang, the Hongguang Emperor in the future, in fact, this guy is still okay, not to mention whether his ability is strong or not, his attitude is still good. Every day, he listens to the government and cares about national affairs. In this way, after his death, he was recorded by intellectuals in the history of the Ming Dynasty as killing two virgins in one night. Playing two people to death in one night. Zhu Hongsan thought that he was so fierce in his previous life, not to mention the two of them, neither of them played to death. I often can't get out of bed for half a day when I am played.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan sighed, it is easy to fight the world, but it is too difficult to govern the world. You can still hold it when you're there, but you don't have to be when you're dead. So the selection of the heir becomes a big deal. Zhu Yuanzhang made a big mistake, and was fooled by intellectuals into becoming orthodox and set up the Xiaobai Emperor Zhu Yunwen.

Looking at the door of the house, Zhu Hongsan smiled in his heart: "I think too much, and now there are no descendants?" I just want an heir. Let's wait until I have ten or eight sons. ”

Zhu Hongsan was very happy after figuring it out, and said to Zhu Hongyi: "Big brother, you can eat here tonight." ”

Zhu Hongyi said: "No, I'll go home tonight to see my father." ”

Zhu Hongsan watched Zhu Hongyi go away, pushed open the door and shouted: "Ma Xiaofang, come quickly, I want to have ten or eight sons with you." ”

Ma Xiaofang opened the door and scolded: "What crazy are you talking about? ”

Zhu Hongyi laughed, picked up Ma Xiaofang and said, "I'll be born tonight." Haha"

Ma Xiaofang blushed: "Let me down, you haven't gone to your mother's place to say goodbye." ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded with a smile and put down Ma Xiaofang. Let's go and say hello to my mother.

When he entered his mother's house, he saw his mother's face becoming more and more gray, and Zhu Hongsan was very worried.

Mother Zhao Chunhua said: "Son, have you gone to see your uncle? ”

Zhu Hongsan replied: "No, the child is going to go tomorrow." ”

Mother nodded and said, "In the past, your two uncles were not good to your father, but after all, they are a family, so don't have a part." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Don't worry, my mother will go with me to see my uncle after she recovers." By the way, the dog said that he was afraid that his father would be embarrassed. He wants to ask me to move his household registration to our house. Then modified Zhu. I don't know what my mother means? ”

The mother said, "Dogan is a poor child. Originally, I was going to watch him get married and have children. Looks like I can't wait. But our family is a clan, can this be done? ”

Zhu Hongsan dared to say that the Ming Dynasty would be over in a few years, but the clan was beheaded one by one. In order to comfort the old lady, she said: "Mother rest assured, since the mother agreed, the child will go to someone to handle it, and it can be done better, and if it can't be done, think of other ways." ”

Mother nodded. Zhu Hongsan saw that his mother was very tired, helped his mother cover the quilt, and then withdrew.

When he returned to his house, he said to Ma Xiaofang: "Mother is in very bad health. ”

Ma Xiaofang also sighed and said: "The weather is getting colder and colder, and it hurts the elderly a lot. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded, nodded and said, "Xiaofang, you start preparing for the future, I see that my mother has been in the past few months." ”

Ma Xiaofang said: "Is it possible? I look okay. ”

Zhu Hongsan shook his head. said: "Prepare, in case you are in a hurry, it will not look good." ”

Ma Xiaofang nodded.

said such a dull thing, naturally the two of them were not in the mood to make love, so they packed up and went to sleep.

On the fifth day of October, Zhu Hongyi came to Zhu Hongsan early in the morning and said that his father was no longer good and wanted to see Zhu Hongsan for the last time.

Zhu Hongsan hurriedly rushed to his uncle's house, and when he entered the door, he saw that everyone had arrived, and his little cousin Zhao Mancang knelt on the side. Uncle Zhao Mingda's eyes lit up when he saw Zhu Hongsan coming in, Zhu Hongsan stepped forward and grabbed his uncle's hand and asked, "Uncle, there is anything else to explain." ”

Zhao Mingda was speechless and pointed at Zhu Hongyi. Zhu Hongsan naturally understood, and said: "Uncle, don't worry, I won't be hungry cousin if I have a bite to eat." Zhao Mingda shook his head, pointed at Zhu Hongsan and then at Zhu Hongyi. Zhu Hongsan said clearly: "Uncle, I have recognized my cousin as my eldest brother, his name is Zhu Hongyi, and I will let him enter the ancestral grave of the Zhu family in the future." ”

Zhao Mingda smiled and said that he had already understood everything on his mind, so he was relieved.

Looking at the crying Zhao family around him, Zhu Hongsan slowly retreated. Zhu Hongsan experienced the death of a loved one for the first time in this era. Zhu Hongsan used to feel that he didn't have much to do with this era, but today he found that he still couldn't be hard-hearted.

The tenth day of October. Zhu Hongsan's mother died of illness. This is a huge blow to Zhu Hongsan. If the death of the eldest uncle allows him to discover his tender side. The death of his mother, Zhao Chunhua, made him discover his vulnerable side. Zhu Hongsan lay in front of his mother's hungry spirit like a child and cried.

He thought of his mother's concern and anger at the Ma family when he first crossed the head when he was broken by Ma Xiaofang, thought of his mother who refined white sugar and looked at him with relief, and thought of his mother's sadness that I couldn't be born in an ordinary family in front of He County's order.

Zhu Hongsan found that in the past, people in this era were regarded as tools and numbers for playing games. When he killed nine people, he didn't shake his hands, and he didn't have any self-blame at all for framing Zhu Youcai's whole family for being killed. But today, seeing his mother leave, Zhu Hongsan really found that he was in a real world, and he would cry and be sad.

On October 17, I finished dealing with my mother's affairs. Zhu Hongsan said to Ma Xiaofang that he would move, and the whole family would move to the farm, and he would leave this sad place. Watch the courtyard door locked. Zhu Hongsan silently said to himself, my warmth, my weakness, and my childhood are buried here. After that, I will make steel, I will make flames, and I will melt everything that stands in my way.

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Chongzhen's seven years finally left, and Chongzhen's eight years finally came. The last fig leaf of the Ming Dynasty has finally been lifted.

Fengyang is the place of "Longxing" of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, he built a mausoleum for his parents, expanded the Longxing Temple where he was a monk in his youth, and built Fengyang City according to the specifications of Nanjing, and designated it as the central capital.

Therefore, Fengyang had specific political significance for the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, Fengyang Mansion is also the northern gateway of Nanjing, if Fengyang is lost, the door of Nanjing will be opened, and it will be threatened by the army. If there is a problem in Nanjing, it will be difficult to keep the tax area and half of the country in the southeast, and the gas of the Ming Dynasty will be about the same. Therefore, the Fengyang area, no matter from any aspect, should not make any mistakes.

Unfortunately, it was said by Zhu Hongsan, a crow's mouth. The peasant army chose the Fengyang area, where the imperial court defense was relatively weak, as the main direction of attack. The targets of the peasant army's attack were Fengyang and other prefectures in the northwest of Nanzhili.

On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the Lantern Festival, Fengyang City is still a song and dance. The vanguard of the peasant army, about 3,000 people, disguised as merchants and coachmen, quietly infiltrated Fengyang City. Murder and arson in the city, followed by a great army.

At that time, Fengyang had no city walls, and there was no danger to defend. Although there were thousands of soldiers and horses in the city, there was no way to organize resistance. Left behind by Zhu Guoxiang and commanded Yuan Ruizheng to die in a hurry. King Sweeping and King Taiping entered the government office, caught the prefect Yan Rongxuan, who was wearing prison clothes and mixing among the prisoners, and beat him to death with a stick. Six civilian officials, including Dai Wenying, the magistrate, and 40 military attaches were also executed. It is said that tens of thousands of people were killed.

Perhaps it was the peasant army that had been hunted down and killed for so many years and suffered a lot, so they vented their anger to Fengyang to take revenge on Emperor Chongzhen and the imperial court. They ruined the mausoleum of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's parents, that is, the imperial mausoleum, beyond recognition. They set fire to the imperial mausoleum, the hall of enjoyment and the 300,000 pine trees in the mausoleum area, killed more than 60 eunuchs guarding the mausoleum, and let away more than 100 people who were imprisoned in the high walls of the mausoleum (Zhu Hong's three words: See, why did the young master dare to do it before, because he would run away if he caught Fengyang. ）。

Longxing Temple was also set on fire. For a time, the fire inside and outside Fengyang City soared into the sky, illuminating hundreds of miles away.

The news of the fall of Fengyang reached the imperial court, and there was a panic. After receiving the report of defeat, Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the military department, was so shocked that he almost couldn't stand and fainted to the ground. After Emperor Chongzhen received the news of the fall of Zhongdu and the burning of the imperial tomb, he was overwhelmed with grief. Fengyang was burned, and someone must take the blame.

Our Emperor Chongzhen will not admit his mistakes, only you ministers are not bullshit, or you let my ancestral graves burn. Yang Yipeng, the governor of Caoyun and Fengyang, was beheaded and abandoned the city, and the Fengyang patrol pressed Wu Zhenying to fill the army and garrison the border. Yang Ze, the eunuch guarding the tomb, knew that he was guilty of a deep sin, and committed suicide in fear of sin.

The Battle of Fengyang was not even twenty in terms of scale in the peasant war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the peasant army was only more than 200,000. There are only tens of thousands of people on the front-line battlefield. The Fengyang garrison is also a few thousand people. But the impact of the light is absolutely huge. The Battle of Fengyang should be regarded as a turning point in the peasant war at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Until then, the Peasant Army had been fighting on the go, and its area of operations was limited to the northern part of SX and HN. However, after the Battle of Fengyang, the peasant army completely blossomed, and SC Hanzhong, Huguang 1, SD Xuzhou, and SX all became the main battlefields of the peasant army. In addition, after the Battle of Fengyang, some unambitious intellectuals also began to pay attention to these mud-legged rogues in their eyes. They all thought about whether they were going to change the dynasty? But fortunately, Li Zicheng, the post man, didn't know the unlucky idea put forward by the sour Xiucai, and played the unlucky banner of not paying food when the king came.

Of course, this powerful weapon also brought Li Zicheng a large amount of support from landless peasants in the early stage. However, it completely pushed the ruling class, the scholars, and the landlord clique to the opposite side. What do you eat without food? Of course you stupid old nine.

The results of the Battle of Fengyang reached Huguang before the first month. Of course, Zhu Hongsan has to say something on the surface. The ancestral grave was burned and fasted for three days. In fact, in the past three days, he hid in the blacksmith shop and the iron bull to make the final push on the casting of the hand * grenade shell.

Three days later, Ma Xiaofang told himself that the county ordered Feng to use it to find him, and Ma Xiaofang wanted to go back to his parents' house. Niece Ma Ruyan is getting married. Zhu Hongsan thought that it should be Ma Ruyan and the rolling mine who were going to get married. He muttered in his mouth: "What's so good about rolling mines?" ”

Ma Xiaofang said: "What did you say? ”

Zhu Hongsan hurriedly said: "I said that my wife is so beautiful." ”

Ma Xiaofang smiled: "Dead, come here." ”

"What for?"

"You haven't paid your rations for the past three days?"

"I've been fighting for three days, and I really don't have the strength."

"The old lady doesn't care, the old lady wants to have a baby."

After a while, Ma Xiaofang opened the door and left satisfied. Zhu Hongsan looked at Ma Xiaofang, who was satisfied. scolded secretly: "Life is hard, it's all because the master had to find long legs at that time." Long legs are cool, but who can stand it five or six times a day. ”