Emperor Chongzhen saw Empress Zhou return to his Kunning Palace, and then asked the attendants to pass a decree to the concubines and Empress Dowager Yi'an, ordering them to commit suicide and not to damage the national body of the emperor's grandfather. Then he commanded: Tell the master. The so-called "master" is his three sons - the crown prince Zhu Cijiong, the king of Ding, Zhu Cijiong, and the king of Yong, Zhu Cijiong.

The three sons came, and Chongzhen asked the palace maid to fetch the old clothes, personally changed them into them, tied the clothes and belts, and warned them: "You are the prince and the prince today, after the city is broken, you will be a small people, so each of you can escape!"

You don't have to be nostalgic for me, I must die for Sheji, otherwise I won't have the face to see my ancestors underground. You must be cautious, if you meet someone who is an official, the old one will call the master, and the young one will call the minister. If you meet a commoner, the old one calls Daddy, and the young one calls Brother; The literati are called gentlemen, and the soldiers are called chiefs.

Then confess: If you don't die, don't forget to avenge your parents in the future, and don't forget my warning today. ”

This is Chongzhen's deathbed entrustment to his son as a father, but the prince, who grew up in the deep palace and did not understand the secular feelings of the outside world, how to settle down in this troubled era.

The father-son affection revealed infinite emotion, and finally broke out at the parting, howling loudly: "Why are the three of you unfortunate to be born in the emperor's family!" After that, he cried without hesitation, and the attendants on the left and right were moved by the scene of parting from life and death.

Zhu Hongsan outside the window pursed his lips and said in his heart: "Emperor, do you think it's so easy to do?" Since you have done this position, you have to dedicate something, and what you can't let the country be peaceful is the life of your whole family. Chongzhen has been the emperor for seventeen years, and this reason is still unclear? ”

Seeing that Chongzhen in the house asked the crown prince Zhu Cihong to bring the jade seal, and the other two sons were led out by six little eunuchs to flee for their lives. Zhu Hongsan's heart moved, although he knew that this prince would not be able to go to the south, but he was not afraid of 10,000.

Only a dead prince is a good prince. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan glanced at Zhu Hongyi. Zhu Hongyi asked, "Dead and alive?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "If it is dead, the jade seal will be broken." Zhu Hongyi nodded and followed the prince and the others down.

Zhu Hongsan knew that this matter had to be done secretly, but now after all, it was a murder of the king, and leaking this matter would make him very passive. Zhu Hongsan only believes in Zhu Hongyi now, so only Zhu Hongyi can handle this matter.

Watching Zhu Hongyi go down, Zhu Hongsan stretched his eyes to the window again to see what Chongzhen would do next.

Chongzhen watched the eunuch take his three sons out of the palace, stayed for a while, and saw his two daughters. Especially the eldest daughter, Princess Kunyi, thought of this daughter and watched her grow from a baby to a slim girl.

Chongzhen couldn't help but reach out and touch his daughter's soft hair, thinking of the fate of those princesses who died in the history books, Chongzhen really couldn't bear to let his two daughters fall into the hands of the enemy and let the enemy humiliate him.

But he couldn't bear to ask her to commit suicide, so Zhu Youzhen had to do it himself and end her life. Chongzhen cried and said: "You must go to an ordinary family to be reincarnated in the future and live an ordinary life!" After speaking, he took out his sword and stabbed Princess Zhaoren to death, and then swung his sword and slashed at Princess Kunyi.

Princess Kunyi was shocked when she saw her father kill her sister and slash at herself. Blocking Chongzhen's sword with his hand, his arm was broken off by his elbow, and Princess Kunyi was in pain and passed out.

Zhu Hongsan outside the window could have saved Princess Kunyi, but he thought about it and didn't do anything. Because this beast thought that he had never played with the disabled, maybe this Kunyi princess Zhu Yujiao could have a different kind of fun without her hands.

Chongzhen saw his two daughters lying in a pool of blood, and rushed out of the Qianqing Palace with a sword in a frenzy. Chongzhen came to the Kunning Palace at the back, saw that Queen Zhou and several concubines were dead, laughed three times, and said, "Okay! Good!! Good!!! ”

Chongzhen came out of Kunning Palace and rushed to Nangong, ordered the palace maid to mobilize the Empress Dowager Yi'an Zhang to hang herself, and left in a hurry.

Empress Dowager Zhang did not know the situation in the outside world and did not hang herself. In the early morning of the next day, the palace maid was noisy and panicked. Zhang knew that something bad was wrong, so he committed suicide by hanging himself. The maid rescued her and sent her to a side room to rest.

A few hours later, Zhang hanged himself in the side room. The vanguard of the peasant army entered the palace and cut the ropes, and the Zhang family gradually woke up. At this time, Li Yan, the general of the peasant army, came in, he had always admired the queen mother, and ordered the soldiers not to insult her. That night, Zhang calmly hanged himself. Later, the Manchu pigtails buried her in the Deling Mausoleum of Xizong.

At this time, Zhu Hongsan saw that there was no one in the Qianqing Palace, so he opened the door and went in, and took out a tourniquet to bandage Zhu Yujiao to stop the bleeding. When she was bandaging, Zhu Yujiao woke up from the pain and saw a young man bandaging his severed arm.

Without her arm, Zhu Yujiao cried bitterly, and Zhu Hongsan comforted: "Your Royal Highness the Princess, don't cry, I'll save you from the palace." ”

Only then did Zhu Yujiao see that such a man was the stupid guard who was drooling in the South China Sea a few days ago, and not only asked, "Aren't you the guard?" Why didn't you run? ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "I was shocked when I saw the princess that day, and after seeing the city of Beijing, I led a group of brothers into the palace to protect the princess out of the palace. ”

Zhu Yujiao didn't expect this man to show her love openly, so she couldn't help blushing and said, "But I have been promised by my father to the Zhou family." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "But Zhou Xian, the son of the Zhou family? ”

Zhu Yujiao said: "It's him." "Zhu Yujiao had secretly seen her husband before, and she looked very good that week. Zhu Yujiao, who has never seen the world, is also very satisfied with this husband.

Zhu Hongsan saw Zhu Yujiao so jealous, and said: "The princess doesn't know, it was Zhou Xian who opened the city gate and let Li Chuang enter the city, and this Zhou Xian also said that he wanted to give the princess to Li Chuang as the eighteenth concubine." ”

Zhu Yujiao has lived under the wing of her parents for fifteen years, and knowing Zhu Hongsan's sinister intentions, she heard Zhu Hongsan put all the basins on Zhou Xian's head, and couldn't help asking, "How can he be like this?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "If you want to be a big official, your royal family is no longer good, he Zhou Xian took refuge in Li Chuang, and naturally there is a lot of money and beauty." ”

Zhu Yujiao asked, "Then where are you going to take me?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already left the palace to go to Nanjing, I will take you to Nanjing as well, and then let the prince marry the two of us?" ”

Zhu Yujiao's face flushed, and she peeked at the young man in front of her, although her appearance was average, but she was very manly (Zhu Hongsan said, nonsense, my brother is also a small warlord now, not a chess piece, but a chess player). It's not bad to marry him. Thinking of this, Zhu Yujiao nodded slightly.

Zhu Hong was overjoyed, called a few people from outside the door, and said, "You go and catch a few palace maids, take them and the princess to Donghua Gate and wait for me." ”

This is Zhu Hongyi also back, seeing Zhu Hongyi covered in blood, Zhu Hongsan asked, "How is the eldest brother?" ”

Zhu Hongyi said: "It's all solved." ”

Zhu Hong's three joys, the first step is completed, and the next step is to see if Chongzhen is really going to hang himself.

Zhu Hongsan asked Wang Jinbao to take fifty people to escort Zhu Yujiao to Donghua Gate. He and Zhu Hongyi led the last fifty people through the Imperial Garden and Shenwu Gate to the coal mountain.

As soon as Zhu Hongsan and his entourage arrived at Coal Mountain, they saw Chongzhen and Wang Chengen, the old eunuch, who had lost their souls and walked out of Xuanwu Gate and came to Coal Mountain.

Zhu Hongsan ordered the others to hide, and took Zhu Hongyi and Qian Lide to follow Chongzhen from afar.

Chongzhen, accompanied by the eunuch Wang Chengen, came to the coal mountain, and hanged himself under a big tree near the Shouxing Pavilion, and Wang Chengen was then also hanged and buried. The two of them hung each other in the dark and cold night sky, and finally said goodbye to the chaotic world forever.

Seeing that the two were already dead when they were not struggling, Zhu Hongsan came to the two of them, looked at Chongzhen who was hanged, and hanged himself face-to-face with Wang Chengen.

Chongzhen covered his eyes with his hair, and wore a blue robe, a white jacket, and white silk pants, with shoes and socks falling off on one foot, and silk socks and red double-soled shoes on the other. There is a line of words written on the sleeve: "Because of the loss of the country, I have no face to see my ancestors in the sky, and I dare not finally go to bed." ”

Zhu Hongsan sighed and said, "Qian Fatty, write down the time of Chongzhen's death." The Ming Dynasty is dead, no, it is the death of the former Dynasty, and I will be the master of this splendid country in the future. ”

Hearing Zhu Hongsan say this, Qian Lide trembled with excitement, knelt down and said, "King, now is a good time for us to play the banner of reviving the Ming Dynasty." The ministers asked the lord to return to Guangdong immediately, that is, to the throne of the emperor. ”

Zhu Hongsan scolded with a smile: "You rich and fat man want to be an official, you want to go crazy." Now is not the time, I am waiting for a few years, but the preliminary preparations for returning to Guangdong will begin. ”

Zhu Hongsan looked up at the slightly pale sky, looking at the corpses of Chongzhen and the others floating in the wind, and said the famous sentence: "My journey is the sea of stars." ”