Li Zicheng with the capture of Kaifeng Yu Yong, led the troops to the north, along the way the Ming officers and soldiers fled, no one dared to resist, with the breaking of one state capital, more displaced people joined Li Zicheng's team, the momentum of the team is even greater. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Emperor Chongzhen in the city of Beijing was grief-stricken when he first heard that King Fu was made into a "Fu Lu Banquet", and once again ran to the Taimiao Temple to cry to his ancestors, he was sad for the death of King Fu, and also cried for his own fate. Will his fathers and fathers bless him no more? Is the Ming Dynasty's qi really exhausted?

Emperor Chongzhen's appeal to his dead ancestors naturally had no effect, and in the end he had to face the crisis himself.

At this time, the civil and military forces of the Ming and Manchu dynasties not only failed to provide useful advice to the emperor, but wasted precious time in mutual disputes.

Originally, it was proposed that the emperor leave Beijing in the name of pro-conquest, and then take a detour to Jiangnan, where there was still a large territory and many troops, and there was a war against the thieves in Jiangnan, but many righteous and awe-inspiring courtiers refuted this action to let the emperor escape. They emphasized that the ancestor of the old Zhu family set the capital of Beijing to guard the country, so how could the emperor escape without a fight and leave infamy.

These people are not afraid of death, the main thing is that they are reluctant to give up their large industries in Beijing, and at the same time believe that the strong city of Beijing cannot be broken even by the Houjin people, and those thieves with broken copper and iron will not be able to attack the city. After a long time, hunger can also starve the thief away. In this case, they don't mind acting impassioned, and pretending to be extremely righteous.

There are also people who propose to transfer the Guanning army guarding Shanhaiguan back to Qinwang, this proposal is not much objection, but in the end it was stranded because of a money word, the Guanning army in Shanhaiguan has consumed most of the military expenses of the imperial court for many years, but there are few results against Houjin, and they have been turned into their own private army by the generals. Seeing that the capital was in danger, what they were thinking about was not how to protect their families and defend the country, but how to get more silver in this crisis. And Emperor Chongzhen happened to be short of silver, so the emperor's order was transmitted to the outside of the pass, but the rescue soldiers did not move for a long time, and there were several twists and turns urging for food.

Some of them even discussed privately that the emperor could go straight to Shandong to join Zhang Chu, and then take a boat to Jiangnan. This kind of thinking can only be said in private, it is impossible for the Ming Emperor to defect to a rebel. As for spending money to invite Zhang Chu to quell the thief, everyone didn't bother to think about it, because no one thought that the imperial court could still come up with money.

At the critical moment in Beijing, there was a person who wanted to go to the capital to save Emperor Chongzhen, and he was Wang Chengen, a eunuch in the security army. Wang Chengen was very depressed when Zhang Chu turned against the court before, and he didn't know where he would go. He was ready to leave the security army and return to Beijing, but fortunately, at this time Zhang Chu took the emperor's money to attack Shenyang, Wang Chengen stayed, this can be regarded as doing things for the emperor, Wang Chengen comforted himself, Wang Chengen showed extraordinary courage in the battle to attack Shenyang, everyone has regarded him as a young general in the security army, thus forgetting his identity as a eunuch.

Wang Chengen himself could not forget the emperor in the palace, and when he heard that Li Zicheng had marched into Beijing, Wang Chengen found Zhang Chu and asked for permission to return to Beijing.

Zhang Chu couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, is this really human fate, does Wang Chengen really want to rush back and hang himself with Emperor Chongzhen?

Zhang Chu had no way to stop all this, so he had to agree that Wang Chengen would return to Jingshi, and gave him the contact information of the Statistics Bureau in Jingshi, in case there was anything to help them with.

Wang Chengen, who said goodbye to Zhang Chu, hurried back to Beijing, but when he wanted to see the emperor, he was turned away. Cao Huachun was arrested and sent to Zhang Chu, and no one in the harem was willing to report the news of Wang Chengen's return to Beijing to the emperor.

It didn't take long for Li Zicheng's troops to descend on the city and besiege the city of Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen lost the last chance to escape.

The tragic siege battle that people imagined did not happen, the officers and soldiers defending the city opened the city gate and let the righteous army enter the city, Li Zicheng's army commander went straight into the siege of the Forbidden City, but the eunuchs of the palace showed their loyalty to Emperor Chongzhen at this time, took up arms to defend the palace desperately, and prepared to buy time for Emperor Chongzhen to escape, and at this time Emperor Chongzhen had been disillusioned and gave up the plan to escape.

Chongzhen's queen Zhou stood firmly with her husband when the country was ruined and her family died, and hanged herself in the palace.

Emperor Chongzhen held back tears and began to arrange what happened after his death, he ordered Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, to take the crown prince Zhu Cihong to his house to hide, and ordered the eunuch to take his other two sons to flee to his relatives' house. Everyone took the order and left in a hurry with the princes, and at this time the palace was in chaos, when Emperor Chongzhen wanted to find the seven-year-old Kunxing princess Zhu Yujiao, the princess did not know where to go.

Emperor Chongzhen searched around with a sword, and he couldn't imagine what kind of humiliation a princess would be subjected to. He wanted to leave this world with the princess, but the shouting and killing outside was getting closer and closer, and Emperor Chongzhen knew that there was not much time left for him. Unwilling to be captured and humiliated, he walked alone to the coal hill north of the palace and hanged himself on a tree with a crooked neck.

Wang Chengen has been anxiously waiting outside the palace, hoping to help Emperor Chongzhen, but there is never a chance, when Li Zicheng's team surrounded the capital, Wang Chengen knew that he could not do anything with his own strength, so he had to contact the personnel of the Statistics Bureau lurking in Beijing in the way that Zhang Chu gave him. Just as they were discussing how to enter the palace, the city of Beijing was breached. Wang Chengen was shocked, and now Emperor Chongzhen's life and death are unknown, which makes Wang Chengen very distressed, and he decided to go to the palace no matter what. Because of Zhang Chu's order to protect Wang Chengen, the people of the Bureau of Statistics did not hesitate to ask to accompany him.

At this time, the streets of Beijing were in chaos, and it was not so easy to enter the palace, but fortunately, the people of the Bureau of Statistics were used to those sneaky things, and their eyes turned to their hearts, and they took Wang Chengen to kill a few Li Zicheng's people in a remote place, and then put on their clothes and rushed to the palace with Li Zicheng's people. This journey did not arouse the suspicion of others.

When I entered the palace, I saw eunuchs killed in battle and palace maids who committed suicide everywhere, and the blood was flowing on the ground of the blue bricks and had not yet coagulated. Li Zicheng's people searched everywhere in the palace for valuable things and palace maids who did not die.

Wang Chengen felt a chill when he looked at this scene, if he hadn't gone to Zhang Chujun, he would probably be a corpse lying on the ground now. His own life and death are trivial matters, where did the emperor go? (To be continued.) )