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However, the outcome of the matter still did not change, Wei Zaode, Guang Shiheng, Jiang Fengyuan, and the first assistant Xue Guoguan did not agree to the land reparations.

Emperor Chongzhen sighed and said, "Whenever there is a major military matter, I always ask your opinions, but who has asked my opinion?" ”

The ministers were silent.

Chongzhen said again: "I regret not listening to Jiantai's words!" ”

Li Jiantai suggested that the imperial court move south before Li Zicheng arrived at Xuanfu, and Emperor Chongzhen seemed to intend to move, but one was persuaded by the ministers, and the other was that he did not expect that the two important military towns of Xuanfu Datong would fall so quickly, so it led to the situation that it was too late to move the capital even if he wanted to.

"Your Majesty!" There was a servant of the ministry kneeling on the ground, and said with tears streaming down his face: "It's not that the ministers don't agree to Li Chuang's request, and it's not that the ministers don't understand the king's heart, but the court really can't take out two million taels of silver!" ”

If the silver can be taken out, there will be no situation where the army has no pay for silver.

"Alas!" Emperor Chongzhen sighed heavily and said, "The sky is going to kill me!" ”

After listening to the emperor's words, the ministers wiped their tears and wept.

Thus, the first negotiation between the imperial court and Li Zicheng came to an end.

However, this was not the last chance, because Li Zicheng didn't want to attack Jingshi at all, so after receiving the news that the imperial court refused to negotiate peace, he thought about it very awkwardly for a long time, and strangely lowered his conditions: two million taels of silver to one million taels!

Then, an envoy was sent to Jingshi to negotiate with Chongzhen.

This time, Chongzhen ordered Gao Qiqian to quietly bring the envoy to the side hall to meet him personally, and asked Li Zicheng's situation and his requirements one by one, and in the end, there was still a sigh.

Still no money!

The imperial court can't even take out a million taels of silver!

For the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen, the last chance to survive was finally shattered.

"Gao Qiqian, you personally send this envoy out of the city, don't be discovered by the foreign ministers!" Chongzhen waved his hand and asked the eunuch to go out with the messenger.

After Li Zicheng was rejected by Chongzhen again. It's starting to get tangled again.

Is this special Jingshi fighting or not fighting?

If you fight, there are 30,000 people defending the city on the opposite side, and hundreds of cannons on the city can't be captured in half a year; But if you don't fight. Just go back to Shaanxi? Don't have a name yet?

"Or, we don't want silver, as long as Chongzhen Lao'er gives him a title, let's leave?" Li Zicheng looked at his little friend Liu Zongmin.

Liu Zongmin said: "Big brother, I'm here, just hit a stick!" ”

Li Zicheng said: "What are you doing with that effort? ”

Liu Zongmin said: "If you don't fight, you won't be happy!" ”

The stall where the two discussed. A small soldier came in and said a few words in Li Zicheng's ear, which shocked him at the time and asked, "Really?" ”

The soldier said, "Yes." ”

Liu Zongmin looked at Li Zicheng suspiciously.

Li Zicheng said: "Heaven helps the widow, someone in the city has surrendered, saying that as long as we attack, he will help open the Yongding Gate!" ”

Liu Zongmin said happily: "It's so better, the eldest brother has the hope of sitting on the world." ”

However, Li Zicheng became entangled again and said, "What if someone cheats us?" ”

Liu Zongmin said: "Big brother might as well use the method of Datong and Xuanfu to send 20,000 people to attack first!" Even if 20,000 people die, we won't lose much! ”

Thereupon. Li Zicheng used Liu Zongmin's suggestion to send 20,000 people to attack Yongdingmen.

As a result, not only surprised Li Zicheng, but also made Emperor Chongzhen instantly dumbfounded.

This gate, which was not entered by Ye Xian, Huang Taiji, and Dolgon when they sharpened their heads and wanted to enter, was easily captured by Li Zicheng's 20,000 troops, and it was the kind of bloodless attack.

The outer city of Beijing was captured, and the entire Beijing division was panicked!

Now only the gates of the Forbidden City are closed, and the defenders of the city are no more than 5,000 people.

Li Zicheng rode a high-headed horse, laughed all the way into the outer city of Jingshi, and said to Niu Jinxing and Liu Zongmin: "Before, a Taiyuan town let the widow ********. I didn't expect these cities to be so vulnerable! ”

"This is all the king, you are wise!" Niu Jinxing took the opportunity to pat himself on the back and said: "Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, now that the king has won the hearts of the people, the king should follow the example of Liu Bang, the Taizu of the Han Dynasty." There is no offense in the third chapter of the law, and the world is the king! ”

Li Zicheng said: "This is as it should be, Zong Min, you will give the order in a while!" ”

Liu Zongmin was stunned for a moment, and then said: "King, our soldiers are still hungry." If I don't slaughter a few rich families to raise military salaries, I'm afraid that my brothers will change. ”

Li Zicheng was in a dilemma, looked at Niu Jinxing and then at Liu Zongmin, and said, "Forget it, let's sum it up first, how can we capture the inner city." ”

In winter, on the sixth day of November, Li Zicheng's army fell into the outer city of Beijing.

On the seventh day of the first day of November, the inner city was attacked, and at noon, the high dived open the door and landed, and the thieves trapped the inner city!

After the door was opened, the only 5,000 troops and Li Zicheng's army fought to the death at the door.

Emperor Chongzhen sat on the throne with a lifeless face, motionless!

"Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen took his hand, shook it twice, and said, "Your Majesty, the thieves have broken the city, go quickly!" ”

Chongzhen shook his head and said, "The city is broken, where else can I go?" ”

Suddenly he thought of something, and said, "Not good, Queen!" Let's go, go to Kunning Palace! He took Wang Chengen all the way to Kunning Palace in a panic, but saw that Queen Zhou had already been martyred.

A palace in Nuoda turned out to be empty, and the palace maids and eunuchs didn't know where they had gone? Only Princess Zhaoren, who was nearly five years old, and Princess Changping, who was seventeen years old, wept beside the queen.

"Queen!" Chongzhen spit out a mouthful of blood, and his heart was like a knife.

After a few heavy breaths, he took out his saber from his waist, looked at his two daughters, tears fell, and said: "For my father, I can't stand you, I hope that I will be an ordinary person in the next life, and I will not be born in the emperor's family!" ”

With his eyes closed, he stabbed Princess Changping first with a sword.

Princess Changping was shocked, her body rolled on the spot involuntarily, but she didn't dodge her father's sword, she only felt a cold in the crook of her left arm, and when she looked back, she saw that half of her arm had been cut off.

"Father, father!" After saying two words, he passed out.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Save the princess's life! Wang Chengen looked at the princess and his heart was like a knife, kneeling on the ground and grabbing the emperor's dragon robe, and pulling hard.

"It is better to die at my hands than to fall into the hands of thieves!" Chongzhen's tears fell one by one. Said: "I have one more responsibility on my body, so I will carry another heavy burden for my children!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and poked forward, and a sword pierced into the body of Princess Zhaoren, who was only five years old.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen's voice was almost inaudible. An unbearable depression took him breathless.

At this moment, there was a commotion outside.

The emperor took a few breaths and said, "I don't want to fall into the hands of thieves, I am the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven has his own way of death!" With that, he threw his sword on the ground. Crazy and ran outside.

Wang Chengen hurriedly ran to keep up.

Then, the panicked little eunuch in the palace also ran after seeing the emperor.

Chongzhen stopped and said to a little eunuch: "You, you, you go to Ciqing Palace, tell Empress Zhang, just say that the thief is guilty of Jingshi, let her, let her cut herself!" ”

After speaking. Tearing off a piece of cloth on his body, he bit his finger and wrote a few words to the eunuch, saying, "Go quickly!" ”。

"Let's go!" Chongzhen said a word to the twenty or thirty eunuchs around him, and then led them straight to the front hall, and rang the bell in the front hall to summon a hundred officials, but after waiting for two quarters of an hour, no one came, Chongzhen hated it and said: "The ministers are mistaken, the monarch is dead, and the world is two hundred and seventy-three years." Once it is abandoned, it is all mistaken by traitors, so that it is so. ”

Seeing Li Zicheng's army in the distance, he sighed. said: "How I hope that those people outside the city at this moment are not the people of the traitor Li Chuang, but the army of King Yanming!" ”

"Zhu Changyuan, the world is in danger, and the Ming Dynasty is about to die, so you just hide and don't show up?" Chongzhen laughed like crazy. Then he said: "If you don't show up, you think you can hide, you are wrong!" ”

glanced at the eunuch and said, "Come with me!" ”

Returning to the side hall of the platform, he wrote more than a dozen identical holy decrees in a row, stamped the emperor's jade seal, and said to those little eunuchs: "One letter for each person, take it to Jiangnan to announce it to the world, and spread it to the four seas!" ”

The little eunuchs took each of the dozen or so decrees and dispersed.

When Wang Chengen was writing the holy decree in Chongzhen, he secretly glanced at it, and his body trembled after reading it.

After sitting in the hall for a while, Chongzhen said to Wang Chengen: "You go, prepare a white silk for me!" ”

Wang Chengen cried when he heard this, and said: "Now that Jiangnan is still there, but the world is safe, why doesn't Your Majesty cross to the south?" ”

Chongzhen shook his head and didn't say much.

Wang Chengen went out and brought white silk not long after, but not one but two.

Chongzhen smiled bitterly and said: "You are just a eunuch, why bother like this, even if you are a thief and break the Jingshi, I will not kill you!" ”

Wang Chengen said: "The minister started from the subterranean mansion and served His Majesty for many years. As he spoke, he began to weep bitterly.

The sound of killing outside shook the sky, Wang Chengen immediately stopped crying, stretched out his head to look out of the door, and said, "It's not good, the thief has entered the Forbidden City!" ”

Chongzhen grabbed the white silk in front of him, walked back when he went out, and said, "I don't want to fall into the hands of thieves." ”

Wang Chengen also took a white silk and followed closely behind.

The two of them were chased by the pursuers behind for a long time, and one of the shoes on Emperor Chongzhen's left foot ran off, and finally came to the eastern foot of Jingshan Mountain, crying bitterly.

Then, with his fingers dipped in blood, he wrote on his dark blue coat: Since I ascended the throne for thirteen years, although I have bowed down to the bandits and been angry, all the ministers have mistakenly become obedient, causing the rebels to approach the Jingshi. When I died, I saw my ancestors in the ground without a face, and I took off my crown and covered my face with my hair. Let the thief divide the corpse, and don't hurt a single person.

After writing, he asked Wang Chengen to help tie the white silk, and stood on tiptoe to put the white cloth around his neck.

Wang Chengen exchanged tears and knelt on the ground: "Send Your Majesty!" ”

After speaking, he also hung himself beside the emperor.

Chongzhen's breathing became more and more rapid, and his eyes became more and more blurred, as if he saw a black spot suddenly flying out of the front hall and going straight to the sky.

Is this my delusion?

The emperor left such a last thought, die!

Da Ming, due to the arrival of Zhu Changyuan, was four years ahead of schedule in the historical trajectory, and died! (To be continued.) )