Chapter 6: Li Taixian's Choice

Li Hongfei on Wang Chengen's back had woken up halfway early, and when he woke up, he found that all this was not a dream, and the reason why he continued to pretend to be dizzy was because Li Hongfei needed to calm down and think about how to go after that. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Committing suicide again, this is unrealistic, it's one thing to be afraid of death, in case you can't go back after committing suicide, but really burp, wouldn't it be a big loss?

As for taking advantage of the fact that there were only three people at the moment, killing Chongzhen, and going to Li Zicheng to ask for merit and reward, this idea came up, and he vetoed it.

Li Zicheng's army has no future at all, and most of the generals under him are greedy for military exploits, and his only bargaining chip now is Chongzhen, if he is intercepted by these generals, let alone seeing Li Zicheng receive the reward, it is a blessing that he is not beheaded.

Defecting to the future ruler Dolgon, that is even more unrealistic, the living Chongzhen is far less valuable than the dead in the eyes of Dolgon, and Li Hongfei is not familiar with the Ming Dynasty, if he wants to kill Chongzhen and take the body out of Shanhaiguan, it is even more difficult than ascending to the sky.

The most important thing is that he, a young man of the 21st century, asked him to kill a chicken, and he was willing to grit his teeth and close his eyes, and he would do it, but the murder was ...... If you lend him a few more guts, he won't dare.

"Forget it, take one step at a time, at least this Emperor Chongzhen now regards me as an immortal, if I can successfully bring him to Nanming, maybe I can do something at that time, the most unfortunate is to get out of the current danger, cheat a sum of money, find a small place to live in seclusion, and live a free life." Li Hongfei secretly calculated.

The so-called rather than the head of the chicken, not the tail of the phoenix, with his current status, whether he goes to Li Zicheng's army or defects to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, not only has to risk killing his head, but also the benefits he obtains are very limited.

But with Chongzhen, maybe there will be a day to emerge, maybe it is really like what is discussed in those online forums, Chongzhen is immortal, and the Ming Dynasty is immortal.

After all, the Southern Ming Dynasty was not orthodox and fragmented, until 1683, when the Qing army Shi Lang conquered Taiwan, Zhu Shugui committed suicide, and the Southern Ming Dynasty, which had been confronted for 40 years, was completely destroyed.

After all, Emperor Chongzhen is orthodox in the Ming Dynasty, and with him integrating the armies of Qinwang from all walks of life in the south, maybe he can really unite the armies of all walks of life in the south like the Southern Song Dynasty and rule by dividing the river with the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Don't look at the invincibility of the Manchu Eight Banner Army, it is only in the northern plains, if it is in the water network area south of the Yangtze River, the huge cavalry group cannot be used at all, plus the naval fleet in Zheng Chenggong's hand, which can confront the Dutch, whether the Manchus can cross the river is two words. (Note 1)

When Li Hongfei made up his mind, Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen had already come to the Shouhuang Palace, and the person holding a torch on duty in front of the hall also found the light on Zhu Youzhen's hand and walked towards this side.

"The last general, Jinyi Weidu, commanded the kingdom to knock on the emperor!" The visitor found that it was Emperor Chongzhen, and quickly knelt down on one knee and saluted.

"Get up, why are you two here?" Zhu Youzhen said strangely.

"Back to Your Majesty, the last general has arranged for the rest of the Jinyi guards to guard the east gate, and the Shouhuang Palace can no longer stay for a long time, and please ask Your Majesty to go out of the city as soon as possible, patrol Fengrun, and review Pingxibo's Liaodong Iron Cavalry." Wang Guoxing replied.

The ancients were particular, although they were fleeing for their lives, but in order to take care of the emperor's feelings, they were stunned to say that the escape was a hunting patrol, and Wang Chengen's driving before, the same is true, even the rescue soldiers were said to be a review of the troops in a high-sounding manner, and Li Hongfei, who secretly pretended to be dizzy, almost held his breath in his stomach.

Zhu Youzhen didn't talk nonsense after listening, the most important thing now is to leave here first, and then whether to go south or east, and wait for the "Shangxian" to wake up, and then discuss it.

The Shouhuang Palace is a place for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to stop his soul, store the remains and worship his ancestors, and it is also called the "God Palace".

The hall is located in the northeast of Jingshan, from the Shouhuang Palace continue to the east about 500 meters is the Donghua Gate, because this place belongs to the imperial mausoleum, there is not much strategic value, so the Donghua Gate is still in the hands of the Ming Jinyi Guard.

However, it is precisely because it has little strategic value, so in addition to the four brocade guards under Wang Guoxing, there are only more than ten old eunuchs guarding the imperial tomb who guard the Donghua Gate.

Most of these old eunuchs are old and frail, and they can't serve their masters, so it's good to be able to guard the mausoleum of the emperor here and spend the rest of their lives in peace.

Looking at the old and weak soldiers in front of him, Zhu Youzhen didn't want to comment too much, but just sighed, and then said to Wang Guoxing: "Guoxing, let all the Jinyi guards go with me, and the rest of the people will continue to stay at Donghua Gate, if the army of thieves comes........ You can surrender. ”

Let these old eunuchs go with them, it is a burden, anyway, since Li Zicheng entered Beijing, countless ministers have surrendered, and they don't care about these old eunuchs.

When the old eunuchs heard this, although they all knelt and kowtowed, none of them spoke.

In this case, no one asked to share the hardships with the emperor, and no one was stupid enough to thank the lord Longen, after all, the emperor could say such a thing as surrender, but he would not dare to say it when he was a eunuch.

Due to the urgency of time, Zhu Youzhen could only briefly explain, and then followed Wang Guoxing to leave from Donghua Gate, and the entourage, including Li Hongfei, who pretended to be dizzy, was only nine people in total.

"Your Majesty, who is on the back of the prince? Now we need to travel lightly and take a wounded man with us, I'm afraid it will slow down the march! Not long after leaving Donghua Gate, Wang Guoxing finally couldn't bear it anymore and raised the doubts in his heart.

"This person is an immortal family, whoever loses it, don't lose him!" Zhu Youzhen looked serious.

His meaning is obvious, even if Wang Guoxing dies in battle, he can't let Li Hong fly out of any errands.

"It's ....... The last general commands! Wang Guoxing hesitated, and then agreed.

For immortals, Wang Guoxing still maintains a sense of awe, but this guy in front of him who is going to die or not is not an immortal no matter how you look at it, how can there be such a weak immortal?

However, the emperor has spoken, and as a courtier, he can't refute it immediately, saying that the emperor is not a good man.

Wang Guoxing can only accept it now, and secretly make up his mind that when the emperor settles down, he must find out the details of this person, and then expose the true face of the other party in a dignified manner.

The duty of Jinyiwei is to investigate and eradicate the unstable factors around the saint, and now in extraordinary times, Wang Guoxing can only follow Zhu Youzhen's wishes, but if Li Hongfei is still looking for death and life like Guan Miaoting before, it is estimated that his neck will have to have close contact with the embroidered spring knife in Wang Guoxing's hand.

"Forget it, Shangxian is unconscious, this place is not far from Fan's mansion, let's go to Fan's scholar's house to rest first, and by the way, find Lang Zhong to take a look for Shangxian." Zhu Youzhen knew that Wang Guoxing was in a dilemma, and it was really inconvenient to travel like this, so he simply went to the university scholar's mansion to take refuge for a while, and then made plans after Li Hongfei woke up.

What's more, Zhu Youzhen tossed earlier, and the dragon robe on his body had been torn out several times, although the guards didn't dare to say anything, but as an emperor, his own image must still be paid attention to.

However, Zhu Youzhen didn't expect that his temporary change of route happened to avoid Li Zicheng's pursuit...........

It turned out that not long after Zhu Youzhen and his entourage left Donghua Gate, Li Zicheng's vanguard troops arrived at the Shouhuang Palace, and the old eunuchs who stayed behind also surrendered obediently, and even in order to save their lives, they directly confessed Zhu Youzhen's escape route.

If it weren't for Zhu Youzhen's temporary change of route, it is estimated that it would not be long before Li Zicheng would catch up, and it would be hard to say whether he could escape with only six Jinyi guards.

Note 1: Regarding Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, it was in 1661 AD, and Zheng Chenggong really led the army independently, in 1645 (one year after Chongzhen hanged the coal mountain), because the protagonist does not know this, so it is taken for granted that Zheng Chenggong now has an army in his hands that can confront the Dutch.