Chapter 516: The Emperor's End (6)
"Your Majesty, what is Changping's crime, that this is the case?!"
A breathy voice came from outside, resounding throughout the hall, Emperor Chongzhen stabbed at Princess Xiao Changping's sword, and the whole person stumbled a few steps before he could stand.
This voice is not unfamiliar, it's just that the owner of the voice can't be here and now!
Chongzhen turned his head and looked at the entrance of the main hall. Sure enough, the vaguely familiar person appeared in front of his eyes.
Tension!
It turned out to be him!
Chongzhen looked at Zhang Li in disbelief, and his whole body trembled violently, as if he couldn't believe that Zhang Li was actually here.
Zhang Li was followed by a team of guards, and the person at the head was the wind spirit. Feng Ling, who has not appeared for a long time, has been operating in secret, he is the general head of the intelligence department of Tuanshan Fort in the seven northern provinces, and the place where he usually operates is the Jingshi.
Zhang Zhang didn't care about Chongzhen, but turned his head to Feng Ling and said, "You take someone to guard the palace gate, and resist one or two for the time being, my side will soon withdraw from the Taiye Pool." ”
To the northwest of the Forbidden City is the Taiye Pool, from which Zhang Li entered the palace. In normal times, there are also many guards in Taiye Pool, and if you want to enter the palace gate, you have to go through a lot of curfews, but now everything is in chaos, and the soldiers guarding the gate have run away.
Feng Ling nodded in agreement, walked out quickly, and hurried towards the palace gate with a team of about 100 people.
There were only more than ten guards around Zhang Li, but all of them who remained were masters, and they quickly controlled the entire Changping Palace.
Chongzhen's mood gradually calmed down, he didn't say a word, only looked at Zhang Li coldly. Zhang Li glanced at him. instructed the guards beside him: "Take Princess Changping out of the palace, well--let the idle people go out." I would like to say a few words to Your Majesty. ”
The guards promised loudly and took Princess Changping, Wang Chengen and others out of the palace. Chongzhen didn't say anything to stop it. Still staring at Zhang Li coldly, but his body kept shaking, revealing the true state of his heart.
There were no others in the Zhaoren Palace, and the guards of the Tuanshan Army also withdrew from the hall, leaving only Zhang Zhang and Chongzhen.
Zhang Zhang walked up to Chongzhen, bowed, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, you can't do anything about internal affairs, please follow me to Liaodong." ”
Emperor Chongzhen stared at the tension with his eyes. It seems to want to see through his heart. After a while, Chongzhen sighed faintly and asked, "Do you want to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes?" ”
Zhang Li smiled and shook his head gently. He had long expected Chongzhen to have such a reaction, and said unhurriedly: "Coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes and princes? Does Your Majesty think that the princes will listen to Your Majesty? ”
Chongzhen's face darkened, his lips moved, but he never spoke.
Yes, Sensei said that Emperor Li Ziyuan of Dashun was a rebel from the beginning. Let's just say that Wu Sangui and other so-called "princes" with heavy troops in their hands, how could they ever think that they would listen to Chongzhen's orders?
When he was in Tianjin Wei, Zhang Zhang had already received the news that Wu Sangui took advantage of the opportunity of Li Zicheng's army to march north to force the Beijing division. Under the banner of suppressing thieves, he has gone straight to Huguang and went south.
Wu Sangui has obviously realized that there is some oil and water in the wood north of the Ming Dynasty. Let Li Zicheng, the Manchu Tartars, and the Tuanshan Army go to the death, and his father-in-law Wu naturally wants to go down to the south of the Yangtze River. The rich South is the best choice.
Previously, Chongzhen was not sitting still in the capital, and he also gave Wu Sangui and many local officials in Huguang, Jiangnan and even Sichuan. It's a pity that the one who came to Beijing Qinwang was a person.
Chongzhen said that the tension "coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes", this statement is not tenable at all - the Son of Heaven no longer has any prestige, obviously Wu Sangui and others are more than 108,000 miles worse than those "princes" who were still willing to listen to the holy decree of the Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms!
A huge sense of frustration surged over Chongzhen's heart, and he, who had always been arrogant, couldn't find any reason to refute Zhang Li's words. He sighed and sat down on the Huanghuali chair beside him, his chest rising and falling.
Zhang Li's brows furrowed, and he said a little anxiously: "It's urgent, Your Majesty will go to Liaodong with me, but I can save my life without worry, and I hope Your Majesty will make a quick decision!" ”
Emperor Chongzhen glanced at Zhang Li, and a few words popped out of his mouth faintly: "Do you want to perform that Zen ceremony?" ”
Zhang Zhang felt a little emotion in his heart, this emperor was really suspicious, and at this moment, he was still asking this and that, for fear of eating him. However, although Chongzhen is the king of the fallen country, he is a hundred times stronger than Pu Yi - even Pu Yi can die well, if Chongzhen can't die well, wouldn't he be ashamed of history?
In Zhang Li's heart, Emperor Chongzhen is the most tragic emperor in thousands of years, and there is no one.
He may have such and such problems, after all, no one is perfect, and no one is perfect, and this is not the point. No matter who is on the throne of the emperor, it is impossible to become a "moral model......
Thinking of this, Zhang Zhang shook his head again and said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty can spend the rest of his life in Liaodong, and one day he can see my magnificent Huaxia rejuvenated and strong, this must be a very good thing." ”
Chongzhen's eyes lit up, and his gaze at Zhang Li became deeper. The expression on his face changed several times, and finally he sighed faintly, and said in a firm tone: "I am not Liu Chan after all, and I can't be that Anle Gong." ”
Zhang Zhang was about to persuade again, but an anxious voice came from outside the hall: "My lord, the thief army has entered the Forbidden City, and the palace gate can't be defended at all, so it can only be delayed for a ......while."
Zhang Zhang was also anxious when he heard this, he took such a big risk to come to Jingshi, just to take Emperor Chongzhen away. In any case, he did not sin unto death.
Just when Zhang Zhang was about to order the wind spirit to forcibly take Chongzhen away, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to realize something, and suddenly took out a pill from his sleeve and put it in his mouth quickly, so fast that Zhang Li didn't have time to stop it!
"Your Majesty, why are you doing this?! - "Zhang Zhang exclaimed, he didn't expect that Chongzhen would have such a firm will to die!
All the previous contempt for Chongzhen has disappeared at this moment.
In the historical environment of the late Ming Dynasty, due to his lack of ability and extreme personality, he was certainly not a so-called "Ming Jun". However, in the face of the imminent collapse of the building, Chongzhen was not afraid of death at all, and he used his own way to bury this two-hundred-and-seven-year-old empire!
Zhang Li couldn't help but be in awe, only to feel a sour nose and tears in his eyes.
Emperor Chongzhen coughed violently, and finally coughed up a mouthful of black blood, and he used all his strength to say his last words: "Zhang Li, I ask myself if I have never treated you badly." I hope you treat the people of Daming well...... Well, take good care of Changping ......" (To be continued.) )