"It's over, how can it be over, cluck!" Emperor Chongzhen suddenly burst out laughing, and he couldn't stop laughing, so much so that fine sweat continued to seep out of his forehead. (Marshmallow offers Txt free download)

Wang Chengen knelt on the ground, looked at the emperor in surprise, and couldn't say a word.

After a long time, Chongzhen stopped, gasping and shouting: "Since I ascended the throne, I have been close to the virtuous ministers and far villains, punished the eunuchs, cut the factory guards, boycotted the business tax, and the grace is all over the grass, trees, insects and fish, even if Taizu and Chengzu have not been able to do it, I have done it, am I not the first Ming Jun in the past and present?" The homeless people are in turmoil, it is just because of Li Zicheng's encouragement, as long as I edict this crime, the thieves will definitely know my hard work, and they will naturally change their evil ways and return to the right

。 ”

Speaking of this, Chongzhen clenched his fists excitedly: "Wang Chengen, you only need to shoot this edict out of the city, then Li Zicheng will naturally be captured alive by his subordinates and sacrificed to me." You say, how should I punish Li Zicheng? No need to ask, in fact, no need to ask. Isn't the high thief Yingxiang sentenced to a Ling Chi, I will never forgive, never forgive! ”

His teeth creaked: "Wang Chengen, I can't wait to see this scene, you old slave don't hurry up to issue an edict, do you want to spoil my good deeds?" ”

Wang Chengen was surprised when he saw the emperor who had fallen into madness, but his heart was sour. He didn't cry, only kowtowed, stood up, and said in a low voice: "Long live the lord, the slave will go and announce the decree." Your Majesty has been working hard these days, and I haven't seen the queen and princesses for half a month, and they also miss Your Majesty very much, and they want to talk to you. Hooray, you better go and meet them. ”

Yes, the entire city of Beijing has been surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops, not to mention recruiting thieves at this time, even if it is a breakthrough, it is a pipe dream.

Depending on the situation, at most the city of Beijing will fall in the evening, and it may be time for Your Majesty to say goodbye to his family.

In fact, what is going on with the defense of Beijing City, I am afraid that Long Live Lord himself also understands it in his heart.

On March 16, Changping was broken by the thief army, the twelve tombs were burned, and the north of the capital was in no danger to defend, Emperor Chongzhen was already in chaos, and he felt that the limit had come. For the ferocious Li Zicheng, he can't think of any way.

Then, there is only one way to escape.

As a result, Emperor Chongzhen and his ministers thought about moving the capital to Nanjing.

Emperor Chongzhen meant that he would go to Nanjing in the name of pro-conquest first, and let the crown prince stay in Beijing to supervise the country. Of course, this kind of thing can't be ordered by him personally, otherwise he will be a deserter like this, and he will lose face when he says it. Why did the ministers have to play a solid request, and they refused to go three times, making a look of indesperation.

But the problem came, the emperor fled, which was an unprecedented shame and humiliation in the Ming Dynasty, which was a political incorrectness in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. If anyone mentions this matter in the future, the person who first advocated moving the capital to Nanjing will inevitably be scolded by the world as a traitor. If something happens in Beijing, some people will say that the reason why Beijing fell was because the emperor moved south, so that the people in the city were lost, and no one could afford this crime

。

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty did not have other skills, but the experience of political struggle was extremely rich, and when something happened, the first thing they thought about was how to get themselves out first, so the cabinet elders led by Chen Yan, a university scholar, refused to take this responsibility and remained silent.

Many ministers opposed this proposal, and some people proposed that Chongzhen should simply stay in Beijing and send the prince to Nanjing to supervise the country first.

This is actually the best of both worlds for everyone, so that the court ministers can not only rush to Nanjing with the crown prince, but also escape from the dangerous city of Beijing, without bearing any political responsibility.

This is simply the unity of the people, and Emperor Chongzhen immediately took a breath of cold air. He is not a stupid person, not only is he not stupid, but he is very shrewd, how can he not know what the ministers think: the six yamen all went to Nanjing with the prince to supervise the country, and he would not become a bare-bones commander, once Beijing could not hold it, if he went south, he was afraid that he would be taken by the prince and the ministers.

Then he said: "The ancestors worked hard and fought a hundred battles, settled on this land, and the thieves went away, why are they the recipients of the city of the squires and the people?" How can you thank the wrecked ministers for the offended? And I go alone, such as the temple community? What are the twelve mausoleums? What are the millions of living beings in Beijing? ”

Chongzhen was even more furious at everyone letting the prince go south to supervise the country, and scolded: "I have been running the world for more than ten years, and it is still so poor, what can the child's family do?" ”

Okay, let's stay in Beijing together!

The reason why he did not leave the capital was that Chongzhen still had illusions about the situation, and his fantasies were pinned on Guan Ningjun, Wu Sangui and Liu Zeqing.

Before Li Zicheng entered the Gyeonggi region, the imperial court also discussed the transfer of Wu Sangui from Shanhaiguan and Liu Zeqing's troops from Shandong, King Qin. These are probably the only two remaining military forces of the Ming Dynasty in the north, but unfortunately, neither of the two roads came to the capital.

First of all, the Guanning army on Wu Sangui's side of Shanhaiguan seems to have a lot of numbers, but the total number of troops that can fight is only about 10,000, and half of these more than 10,000 have to be put in Guanzhong to defend Jiannu. If the remaining 5,000 men and horses were to Beijing, compared to Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops, they would be like fireflies to Haoyue. Of course, Wu Sangui refused to come to die, deliberately pretending to be deaf and dumb, and ignored it at all.

Of course, this is related to the fact that Emperor Chongzhen did not directly issue an order, he directly asked the ministers to make a decision after consultation, and it is estimated that he does not want to take responsibility: once the Wu Department is transferred to Beijing, if Jiannu comes, who will bear the responsibility for the loss of Shanhaiguan?

He kicked the ball to the ministers, and the ministers kicked the ball back, and all the ministers resolutely opposed the transfer of Wu Sangui, and did not want to bear the responsibility of losing Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan once the Guanning army entered Beijing

。 Otherwise, even if the capital is defended in the future, and Shanhaiguan is lost, Emperor Chongzhen will find a scapegoat, won't we become the second Chen Xinjia again? Back then, Chen Xinjia got the emperor's secret decree and the Jiannu peace agreement, and after the matter was exposed, the emperor refused to admit it, and directly pushed Chen Xinjia to the forefront. The past can be learned, so we should not be the wronged leader.

As for the hooligan Liu Zeqing in Shandong, he simply pretended to break his leg while riding a horse and refused to send troops.

These two lines of soldiers and horses waited for the left and left, and the right waited for the left, and the result was that he and the hundred officials were surrounded in the capital.

"Go, go!" Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand impatiently at Wang Chengen: "I still have military affairs to deal with, where can I have time to meet them?" ”

"It's Your Majesty, the old slave has gone." Wang Chengen saw that he had persuaded the emperor, and turned around with tears.

Sending Wang Chengen away, Emperor Chongzhen sat down in front of the imperial case again, picked up the pen, and wanted to do something. But after holding the pen up for a long time, he suddenly found sadly that he really didn't seem to have anything to do.

In the past year, the important military affairs of the imperial court are war except for war, but this kind of thing, no matter what you do, is of no use. The world is like a slowly falling edifice, which can't hold up or stop it.

You can only watch as it collapses bit by bit, and anything that tries to get in your way will be crushed to dust.

"What the hell is all this...... How did it start, how did it start......"

There was still a deathly silence in the palace, and Emperor Chongzhen let out a groan of pain and grabbed his hair with his hands.

It all started with the fall of Guanzhong.

On the first day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, a thief, officially ascended the throne and became the emperor in Xi'an, with the country name Dashun, changed to Yuan Yongchang, changed Xi'an to Chang'an, and called Xijing. Take the palace of the king of Qin as the palace, increase the old hall as nine, to the emperor system, and overhaul the city of Xi'an at the same time.

A mud leg, also vainly called the emperor's name. It is estimated that Li Thief also has no heart, and even pretends that he is a descendant of Li Yuanhao, the lord of Western Xia in the Song Dynasty...... Li Thief actually recognized the barbarian as his ancestor, and he still had to be shameless?

After years of war, Guanzhong has been dilapidated. Moreover, Li Thief bought people's hearts in the future, and ordered the people of Guanzhong to be exempted from taxes for three years. Hundreds of thousands of troops hoarded Guanzhong to eat and drink, and they must find a way out

。

So, on the eighth day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng led the main force from Xi'an to start the eastward expedition and enter Shanxi. The general Tian Jianxiu stayed in Xi'an.

At this time, the Shanxi Ming army could no longer organize any effective resistance, and it can be said that it was about to collapse.

As soon as the army of thieves crossed the Yellow River, they rushed straight to Pingyang Mansion. On the 23rd day of the first month, Li Zicheng arrived at the city of Pingyang Mansion and subdued Zhang Linran to surrender directly. The king of Xihe and more than 300 clans in the city were slaughtered by Li Zicheng.

After Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin took Pingyang without blood, they immediately went north to attack Taiyuan.

Taiyuan is the jurisdiction of Taiyuan Town, an important border town, in the early years of Chongzhen, there were 100,000 military households, more than 30,000 border troops, and at least two battalions of elite soldiers. But after more than ten years of attrition, there is not a single soldier. As a result, this Sanjin Xiongcheng fell in an instant.

On the 8th day of the first month of February, the soldiers of the standard battalion of the governor of Taiyuan Shanxi opened the city and surrendered, the governor Jiang Maode committed suicide, the political envoy Zhao Jianji was captured, and the king of Jin was captured.

On 16 February, Li Zicheng attacked Ningwu, and finally killed the general soldier Zhou Yuji and captured the important military town of Ningwu.

Ningwu Zhou Yuji was the only fighting force from Shanxi to Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhou Yuji was also the only fierce general who could fight at that time.

After this battle, Li Zicheng's road to Beijing was smooth, and he did not encounter any decent resistance at all.

On the first day of the first month of March, Li Zicheng resisted Datong, Jiang Xiang, the general soldier of Datong, surrendered, Zhu Chuan's family was killed, and Wei Jingyuan, the governor of Datong, committed suicide. Datong Town, one of the nine important towns, also fell.

On the sixth day of the first month of March, Li Zicheng arrived at Xuanfu, and the general soldier Wang Chengyin opened the door and surrendered without firing an arrow, and the governor Zhu Zhifeng committed suicide.

On March 15, Li Zicheng arrived at Juyong Pass, and the guard general Tang Tong and the eunuch Du Zhizhi surrendered, and the northern gate of the capital was opened.

Just the day before yesterday, Li Zicheng was killed under the city of Beijing.

At the same time that Li Zicheng's main force entered Beijing along the line of Shaanxi-Shanxi ---Juyong Pass, he also sent another partial division, led by Liu Fangfangliang, and after crossing the Yellow River, he plundered all the way east along the north bank of the Yellow River, linking Huaiqing Mansion, Weihui Mansion, and Zhangde Mansion in Henan, and then attacking Gyeonggi, and then Lianke Daimyo, Hejian, and Baoding, and Li Zicheng joined under the city of Beijing. Liu Fangliang's army also did not encounter any resistance, and everywhere it passed, officials and troops from all over the country opened the city gates and surrendered

。

As soon as the two armies arrived, the whole of Beijing was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of thieves like buckets. At this time, neither the prince nor Chongzhen could go to Nanjing.

"This time the thief army fought so smoothly, it can be said that the soldiers are not bloody, and it is decided, have I already lost people's hearts?" Raising the pen, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly became a little sober, the sickly flush on his face subsided, and his heart was cold: "Even the hundreds of officials in the court and the central government are afraid that they will all know that this capital will definitely fall, and they will have different aspirations...... Yes, yes, these brutes, they must think so......"

At the end of the day, Emperor Chongzhen still participated in the early dynasty as usual. But after the bell rang, there was not a single figure in sight.

"Did they all run away...... Or are you already waiting at home to welcome your new king? ”

"All people are not trustworthy, they are traitors!" Throwing the pen on the ground fiercely, Chongzhen shouted violently: "Rebel thieves, chaotic ministers and thieves, where are the Jinyi pro-army, where is the East Investigation Factory, take them all down to me!" ”

The cry echoed through the empty temple.

At this time, Chongzhen suddenly woke up, didn't the factory guard be laid off as early as Chongzhen a year?

Looking back now, over the years, without the eyes and ears of the factory guard, I knew almost nothing about the outside world. Whatever the civil officials say, it is what it is, and it has become an ornament in the palace.

Suddenly, last night's dream came back to me.

In front of him was Wei Zhongxian's pale and malnourished face: "Chongzhen Xiao'er, you also have today." Giggles, what's the matter, left our house, this Ming Dynasty is over, haha, happy, happy! Chongzhen Xiaoer, do you think that if you remove all the factory guards, you will be able to be a generation of Mingjun? Joke, the talented Grandpa Cheng was Mingjun, don't you have to use Ji Gang, don't you also use Zheng He, is it possible that you can compare to Grandpa Cheng? Those of us who are slaves and maids are actually the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven, and the servants of the royal family. When it comes to loyalty, who else can compare to our family? Leaving us, the Son of Heaven is deaf and blind, Chongzhen, in the past ten years, you have been deceived by foreign officials, right? Haha, the Apocalypse handed over this flower to you, but in the end you made it like this, wait for you to see his old man, see how you explain. Haha, come on, the Apocalypse is waiting for you, and our family is also waiting for you! ”

I also remembered the situation when the factory guards were cut off, and the eunuchs in the east factory cried bitterly.

On that day, more than 40 people from the commander of Dongchang, the head of thousands of households, and the head of 100 households knelt in front of him, and only knocked his forehead to blood: "Long live Lord, my Long Live Lord, the slave and maid are fiercely loyal to you, and you can learn from it every day."

。 If the Lord doesn't believe us, just drive out the slaves and maids. But Long Live Lord can't leave this yamen, and leave a little blood for the East Detective Factory!?

Just kidding, how high-spirited I was back then, how could I listen to it. only sneered loudly and said, a group of eunuch villains, also talking about loyalty? Do villains have the word loyalty in their chests, and do you really think you are gentlemen? It's ridiculous that the lobby of Dongchang, which is full of loyal ministers' blood, actually hangs a portrait of Yue Fei and Yue Wumu, you traitors are also worthy?

Yes, it all started with the elimination of factory guards!

……

The memory went back to when he was still the king of letters, one day, when he entered the palace to see the Emperor of the Apocalypse. Chongzhen was a hot-blooded young man back then, and he gave advice to the imperial brother about the Donglin case.

It was noon on a spring day, the sun was shining, and Chongzhen still remembered the situation vividly.

When the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who had always been cynical, heard Chongzhen's words, he suddenly turned his head to look at him, with a wry smile on his face: "King Xin, you are still too young!" Could it be that eunuchs must be bad people, and civil officials must be good people? In this way, it is simple. Unfortunately, the world is complicated. The bad guys and the good guys are just a minority, and more are ordinary people. Ordinary people, saints once said that human nature is inherently good, and some people say that at the beginning of man, nature is inherently evil. In fact, good and evil are only in a thought, and for the middle and foreign officials, the more important interest is the butt. What kind of thing will happen to the position where the ass sits, this is their duty. ”

"For a son of heaven, you can't trust anyone, and you can't have preconceived bad feelings towards someone. The Son of Heaven, adhering to the will of Heaven to govern the world, and those who govern the world, use gentlemen and villains, and learn to use ordinary people. ”

"No matter how gentleman or villain, if you only use one of them, it is not a good thing for the world."

"As a king, you can do nothing, but you must know how to check and balance."

"It's the star on the top disk!"

……

At this time, Chongzhen suddenly understood this deeply.

"I'm not as good as the imperial brother!"

"I call myself Mingjun in vain, but I can't even compare with the emperor's brother, let alone Taizu and Chengzu

。 Hundreds of officials mistakenly die, hundreds of officials mistakenly die! ”

Sitting there weakly, Chongzhen fell into a stupor.

The entire Forbidden City seemed to be empty now, and only the sound of artillery could be heard faintly.

I don't know how long it took, but the sun in the sky gradually turned west, and the sunset reflected the red sky.

The wind was strong, and the faint smell of gunsmoke filled the palace.

Chongzhen actually sat in the imperial study for an afternoon, and until now, he still hasn't come up with any way.

At this moment, suddenly, there was a tidal noise in the distance.

Although the voice was not loud, it was overwhelming.

"Long live the lord, long live the lord." Wang Chengen ran over with a pale face, and the sweat on his body had completely soaked the palace clothes.

Chongzhen's heart froze, and he forced a smile: "What are you doing in such a hurry, this old slave, my holy decree has already been promulgated, how is the morale of the soldiers?" At this point, his eyes were full of anticipation.

Wang Chengen didn't cry this time, only shook his head: "There's no way to give it away, it's been half a month since I've seen the queen mother and the princess Chitose, let's go see them first!" ”

Chongzhen suddenly screamed hysterically, and kicked Wang Chengen in the chest: "You old slave, I told you to issue an edict, you can't do such a thing, aren't you afraid that I will deal with your crime of bullying the king and punish you for the nine clans?" ”

Wang Chengen was kicked in the heart, and his face turned even paler: "Long live the lord, the outer city of Beijing has fallen." Now, more than 100,000 thieves have poured into the city and are burning everywhere. The enemy striker is attacking the Daming Gate and the Xuanwu Gate, and it will fall in an hour at most. Long live Lord, you still have to meet the queen mother, it's too late. ”

At this time, Wang Chengen's face was calm.

Yes, it's time for Your Majesty to say goodbye to his family.

"What!" Chongzhen screamed and rushed out of the study, looking intently to the south.

In the sunset, the southern sky was completely filled with smoke and fire.

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