Chapter 40: Peace Talks

Zhu Changyuan had a dark face, pulled Liu Ru and dragged her out of the sea with a few quick steps, and then took off his coat and put it on her body in distress, and said: "You are now my Zhu Changyuan's woman, please start from me in advance to be a person in the future, not the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"I can't do it!" Liu Ru's answer was unusually blunt. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhu Changyuan snorted coldly and said: "I am a descendant of the Ming Dynasty, a descendant of Emperor Chengzu, the Ming Dynasty is a hundred times more important to me than you, what are you talking about?" ”

"Zhu asked himself to be worthy of the people of the world, worthy of the cultivation of his ancestors, and he didn't dare to say that Gonggai Huaxia had indeed repeatedly solved the difficulties of the imperial court, and Chongzhen treated me like this, so that the king could drink wine!"

Zhu Changyuan said that there was a crackling sound in his hand here, and said: "I turned a blind eye instead of falling into the well, I was already extremely kind to him?" ”

Zhu Changyuan said a lot of long-winded words, Liu Ru didn't seem to listen at all, tilted his head and looked at Zhu Changyuan with contempt, and said, "This is what you just said is bigger than the country?" ”

"You sit down first, and I'll tell you!" Zhu Changyuan pulled Liu Ru to the side of a big stone, forcibly pressed her body against the stone, picked up her wet little feet, and the tentacles were cold.

Carefully wiped the cold water off her feet for Liu Ru, and then carefully put her feet against her stomach to keep warm, and said, "It's too cold here, you shouldn't run here alone." ”

"Why are you so stubborn?" Zhu Changyuan asked a little angrily and with a little pity.

Liu Ru was naturally warm in her heart, looked at Zhu Changyuan in a daze, answered the question, and said: "I have no father or mother since I was a child, but I was fortunate to be taken in by Mother Xu. ”

"I am a little woman. But since childhood, he has been well versed in the way of Confucius and Mencius, and his family and country dare not forget it! The Zhu Changyuan back then made me see the hope of Daming Zhongxing, and I was crazy for a while! But today. Your official position is getting bigger and bigger, but your conscience is getting smaller and smaller. Just now you asked why you are so stubborn, there is no other, because I am Liu Rushi, and the mistake is not so. How can you get my perfect body? ”

Zhu Changyuan was silent, lowered his head and put his hand on her little feet, a little warm.

Liu Ru suddenly felt that what he said just now was a little heavy, sighed, and did not continue to speak, but asked: "The prince hasn't told me yet, the thing in your heart that is bigger than the country!" ”

"What you can't forget in your heart is the country, but don't forget, in addition to the country, there is also the world!" Zhu Changyuan still lowered his head. He said softly while pinching Liu Ru's feet.

Liu Ru snorted coldly and said, "I know that since you have the world in mind, I naturally have nothing to say." ”

"You're wrong again!" Zhu Changyuan took a deep breath, raised his head and solemnly looked at her white and even pale face, and said, "The world I am talking about is different from what you say!" ”

"In today's Ming Empire, the powerful and inferior gentry forcibly encircled the land, the concentration of wealth is becoming increasingly intensified, and the common people have no fixed residence. There are countless bankrupts in the world, do you know what the reason is? ”

Liu Ru shook her head, how could she think so far-reaching?

Zhu Changyuan said: "In the final stage of each dynasty, the power of the landlords and bureaucrats has expanded again and again. They forcibly bought the land. By the way, if nothing else, let's just say that Qian Qianyi you all know, do you know how much land he has in his house? Wang Ranming, a big businessman in Huizhou Mansion, has uncountable property in his family! ”

"There is also Gu Changzuo of Songjiang Mansion, one person owns one-third of the land of Songjiang Mansion!" Zhu Changyuan sighed. showed a compassionate expression: "The land of the Kang family, the big landlord in Henan, is even more jaw-dropping, with his head resting on Shanxi and his feet stepping on Shandong, spanning 18 counties in Henan!" If these big landlords are all good people, the small people below still have some way to live, but unfortunately, most people's hearts are black. ”

"Do you think that the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty are just because of the famine? No, the bigger reason is that there is less and less land in the hands of the peasants, and more and more land is in the hands of the landlords and big merchants, and the people have no way to make a living, so they rise up! ”

Looking at Liu Rus at a loss, Zhu Changyuan continued: "It was I who defeated Li Zicheng today, saved the emperor, and saved the Ming Dynasty, but the people in the lower classes have nothing to do, they will come again!" Even if Li Zicheng is dead, there are still Li Xianzhong, Zhang Zicheng, Wang Zicheng, and Zhao Zicheng. ”

"When will the end of the bleak life of the people?"

"Do you have a way?" Liu Ru tilted his head and asked, the expression on his face unconsciously kinder.

Zhu Changyuan nodded and said four words: Stand after breaking!

Liu Ru returned to his previous expression and said, "Speaking of which, King Yanming still wants the ninety-five position!" He coldly pulled the jade foot out of Zhu Changyuan's arms, and said: "Give me a boat, I want to leave, forgive the little woman is not as delicate as the prince, and she can't accept the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species!" ”

"Are you really leaving?" Zhu Changyuan stood up, his face gloomy and calm.

"If one day you help the world in your mouth, go to me again!"

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In the past two days, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about government affairs every day, but only went to Queen Zhou's Kunning Palace to eat and drink with the queen, laughing happily with the crown prince, and enjoying the little family fun.

On this day, Chongzhen rose up, wrote a word on a huge piece of paper with a large pen like a rafter, and said to Zhou Kui, who was edicted into the palace: "How about this word of mine?" ”

Zhou Kui hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty's words, three points into the wood, have been perfected!" ”

Chongzhen sneered, and was quite useful for the flattery of his old father-in-law, pointed to the words that had just been written, and said to Wang Chengen: "Put away this word of mine, let Cao Huachun go to Sun Moon Island, and bring it to King Yanming, after he comes, he will naturally understand what I mean!" ”

Zhou Kui's heart trembled, and he was about to speak, but Chongzhen waved his hand to stop him, and said, "Don't say too much, this is what I mean!" Also, don't go out and say to the courtiers who are outside the other side. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Although he is the father of Queen Zhou, Zhou Kui also has to bow to his son-in-law!

Chongzhen took the prince's hand, put his hand in Zhou Kui's hand, and said to the prince: "Brother Hong, do you know who this is?" ”

Zhu Cihong naturally knew, arched his hand towards Zhou Kui, and said, "Meet my grandfather!" "With full folk etiquette.

Zhou Kui was shocked and said, "Why is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince like this?" ”

Chongzhen said: "Lord Guozhang, Brother Hong'er will be entrusted to you from today, I want you to take him out of the capital, if the Ming Dynasty dies, be a good commoner!" ”

"Your Majesty!" Zhou Kui knelt on the ground, pulling Emperor Chongzhen's dragon robe, and actually cried bitterly.

The prince couldn't help crying.

"Go, the queen too!" Chongzhen stretched out his hand to pull Zhou Kui up, smiled with a pale face, and said: "In the future, I will be incognito, not to be heard, but to ask for the ancestral bloodline to continue, and it will be sustainable for thousands of years!" ”

Empress Zhou bowed to her father and fell to the ground: "I hope my father will be kind to my child!" ”

Zhou Kui said: "The queen doesn't go with me?" ”

The queen got up, stood behind Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty is determined to stay in Beijing and deal with the thieves, and the concubines dare not stay away." ”

"The queen mother, the queen mother, the father and the emperor, and the sons are unwilling to leave, and the sons are willing to follow the left and right to fight with the thieves!" Zhu Cihong is only a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child now, where does he know what the situation is.

Chongzhen said angrily: "Go!" ”

Zhou Kui hurriedly pulled the prince and left in a hurry.

Along with the crown prince left, there were two other sons of Emperor Chongzhen: Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cijiong.

The queen watched her two sons (Zhu Ci Zhitian Guifei) leave with their father, crying and tearing her heart.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was sad, he could only hold his sadness in his heart and could not release it. After a pause, he said to Wang Chengen: "Let's go, follow me to the platform." ”

Although during this period of time, all the major military affairs were handed over to the ministers, and he was completely relaxed. However, today's matter really needs him to go out and deal with it personally, and none of those ministers dare to take up ideas.

Li Zicheng was willing to reconcile, but the conditions for reconciliation were very harsh: he was crowned the king of the soil, and while giving him the two provinces of Shaanxi and Shanxi, he also had to pay two million taels of silver as a military salary.

"What do you think?" Chongzhen looked at the ministers and asked.

"Death to the court!" Zhongyun Li Mingrui knelt on the ground, and after saying three words, he began to kowtow until his head broke and the blood flowed, and then said: "Your Majesty should follow the example of Gou Jian and taste the courage, first agree to the conditions of the thief army, and persuade him to leave the capital of the capital and move south to the south, so that he can still sit on the land south of the Yangtze River, and then go north in the future when the country is rich and the people are strong." ”

"Woe to the country!" scolded Shiheng in the middle of the matter, and then knelt on the ground as well, but he did not kowtow, but said directly: "Your Majesty, when this country is in trouble, we must unite as one to resist foreign enemies!" Now the army of Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan and Zuo Liangyu of Nanjing has set off, and it will be possible to reach the capital King Qin in a few days. Li Mingrui's vain attempt to say this is the words of the country! ”

"Your Majesty!" Li Mingrui was in pain and said: "Now that the thieves are strong, the people in the city are panicking, and the ministers are afraid that King Qin's army is still on the way, and the capital will be captured by the thief army." ”

"Lord Li is serious!" The cabinet minister Wei Zaode said in a non-yin and non-yang manner: "The defense of the city of Beijing is strong, and the 200,000 troops led by Huang Taiji have not been conquered. ”

"What Lord Wei said is extremely true!" Chen Yan, the cabinet minister, also came out and said: "Li Chuang's army is indeed a rabble, from the beginning of Shaanxi has gathered millions of people, and now it has lost more than half of its army when it reaches Beijing, and the combat effectiveness of his army can be seen from this. ”

"Shut up!" Without waiting for Chen Yan to finish speaking, Li Banghua stepped forward and scolded: "Chen Yanpifu, Li Chuang was frustrated in Taiyuan at the beginning, and the courtiers repeatedly sent letters to transfer Wu Sangui to support, only you and the other two objected, if it weren't for this, how could Li Chuang be able to go to Beijing?" ”

"The sin of the minister deserves death!" Chen Yan knelt down and kowtowed to Chongzhen, this matter is an indisputable fact, and he can't refute it.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Chen Yan who was kneeling on the ground, picked up a book on the table and threw it down, and said, "You old horseman, you are innocent of death!" Get out of the hall! (To be continued.) )