In the era of the supremacy of imperial power, there was a problem in the government, it was the disloyalty of the courtiers, the peace of the world, and the sage of the Son of Heaven. Chongzhen has at least two major advantages compared to other emperors, the first is to be diligent in government, to go to court on time, to review and fold until late at night every day, even if it is the New Year's Festival, people in their twenties and thirties are like little old men. The second point is simplicity, unlike other emperors, he has many hobbies of burning money, he doesn't like luxury, he doesn't even covet beauty, and he can't make a few new clothes all year round, and even wear patches. The strength of diligence and thrift can't even be compared to Zhang Ke.

If you want to replace this ascetic emperor, it is not easy, especially if you want to pay as little price as possible, Zhang Ke can only choose to splash dirty water and break everyone's illusions about Chongzhen.

Cao Huachun was locked in a cell, the room was clean and tidy, with a comfortable bed, a product, and nothing was missing. For the prisoners, it was simply a heavenly treatment. But Cao Huachun didn't have the slightest idea of gratitude, and from the cell next door, a terrible cry came.

It's like being in a slaughterhouse, and the voice is full of despair and fear, heartbreaking, and painful to the extreme! And what is even more infuriating is that every time a torture instrument is used, the other side will shout loudly so that he can hear it clearly.

"Father-in-law Cao, it's time for the soldering iron!"

After saying a word, I heard: "Ah! "The screams are beyond the limits of human beings, and you can imagine how painful the other party is. Cao Huachun clenched his fists hard, his nails digging deep into his flesh, and drops of blood flowed down his palms.

In the next room, his son was being tortured. More precisely, nephew!

Cao Huachun entered the palace as a eunuch in his early years, and he has been obscure, and finally waited for Chongzhen to ascend the throne. He turned over and rose to the position of the palm print of the Imperial Horse Supervisor. After taking power, Cao Huachun immediately ordered the search for his family.

After more than a year of searching, he finally found the original Cao family, his parents had already died of famine, and the eldest brother was conscripted as a civil husband, and he also died five years ago. Only Cao Huachun was left with two nephews in their early twenties.

As the last hope of the Cao family, Cao Huachun is absolutely fond of his two nephews, and he asks Chongzhen for advice. canonized the two nephews as commanders, to put it bluntly, they are officials who only take money and don't work.

He took out a large sum of silver to rebuild the old house in Tianjin and rebuild the grave of his parents. He also ordered the bones of his eldest brother to be found. even killed the officials who requisitioned and killed the eldest brother at the beginning.

According to Cao Huachun's design, one of the two nephews passed to his name, and the other was left to the eldest brother to inherit the lineage, and the two brothers of the Cao family have descendants.

The design cannot but be said to be perfect, but after Zhang Ke raised his troops, the garrison of Tianjin immediately blocked the road to and from him, and his two nephews were trapped in Tianjin. He never imagined that he would meet his nephew again. It turned out to be such a scene.

Across the wall, two nephews are being tortured. Cao Huachun's heart was like a knife, he was sent out of the capital, and he was ready to die, even if it was a knife and axe, a thousand knives, this old eunuch who was used to seeing life and death would not care, he let it go!

But he never imagined that Zhang Ke would treat him with good food, drink and hospitality, but he would take his nephew to do it, which was simply not a son of man, not a son of man!

Cao Huachun's heart was poked by screams, and he ran to the wall, punching the soles of his feet hard, and roaring hysterically.

Reaching out his hands, he clamed at the wall as if to penetrate it, and a bright red liquid flowed down his nails. Cao Huachun was tireless and didn't care about the pain, and after a while, the wall was a dark red.

He didn't have any strength in him, and sat limply in the corner, tears crackling down.

"Why bother!" A sigh sounded outside the cell door, Zhang Ke asked the cell door to be opened, he slowly walked in, and glanced at Cao Huachun, who was paralyzed on the ground.

"Gonggong Cao, Wen is dead, Wu is fighting to the death, then he is talking about the courtiers, why do you have to hold on to the death as a eunuch?"

Cao Huachun rolled his eyelids, panted, and sneered: "Zhang Ke, a chaotic thief!" Our family fell into your hands, there is only death, why bother to harm your family, it is not a hero, villain, full villain! ”

When the guard behind Zhang Ke heard this, he pulled out his saber and pointed it at Cao Huachun.

"How about this king, it's not that Gonggong Cao can put his beak, but Gonggong Cao, you, this king didn't want to arrest you, but Chongzhen sent you to my hands, you must know his purpose very well, right?"

Cao Huachun snorted in his nose and said angrily: "Zhang Ke, what do you want to say?" Our family tells you that even if you lose your head and shed blood, our family will not help you slander the emperor. ”

"What a hard backbone." Zhang Ke couldn't help but smile and said: "Gonggong Cao, don't forget, the two nephews are in the hands of this king, are you willing to give up their lives?" ”

The scarred heart was stabbed again, and Cao Huachun's body shook and he almost fell to the ground. He covered his chest hard, barely holding on, and smiled contemptuously: "Our family is just a castration, and we let the East King use such a means to deal with it, shouldn't our family be happy?" ”

Suddenly, Cao Huachun's eyes became sharp, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Our family can have today, all thanks to the gift of the emperor, this cheap life has long been the emperor's, and it is undesirable for our family to die for the emperor." Even if you threaten our family with someone, our family will not do anything for you. ”

When the old eunuch said in the end, he had a beard, and he couldn't wait to eat Zhang Ke.

"I really didn't expect that Chongzhen sold you, and you can still be so loyal to him, it seems that Chongzhen is not too much of a failure."

Cao Huachun snorted coldly, obviously disdainful of answering such a rebellious question.

Sun Jiawen stood behind Zhang Ke, looking angry, and said: "Lord Wang, the eunuch is stubborn, and she has been cut into slices by her humble position, see if he dares to pout!" ”

Cao Huachun's body shook, and he slowly closed his eyes, looking like he was being killed, and he was not afraid.

"What a man." Zhang Ke said: "Pass my order, stop the punishment of Cao's two nephews, and ask the military doctor to treat them." Bring Grandpa Cao out. ”

Someone couldn't help but say that they threw Cao Huachun into the sack. Carrying a sack followed closely behind Zhang Ke. Out of the cell, Zhang Ke found a temporary military camp, and he was promoted to the throne in the Chinese military tent. Cao Huachun was arranged in a small tent next to him, and there were soldiers guarding him.

It didn't take much time for the sound of footsteps outside, one after the other, and two people walked in. All of them are dressed as civil officials, and the ones in front are in their early fifties and are not tall. Energetic. The person in the back was tall and quite majestic, and he saw Zhang Ke. They all rushed to their knees.

"Minister Qian Qianyi (Ruan Dacheng) visits the prince, Chitose Chitose!"

Zhang Ke glanced at the two kneeling people, Qian Qianyi was not as dignified as ** when he died. The phrase "the water is too cold" has become a laughing stock for the ages. Surrendering to the Manchus and betraying the country to seek glory is even more shameless.

As for Ruan Dacheng, he was born in Donglin, betrayed Donglin, assisted Nanming, and betrayed Nanming. A villain full of red gold.

These two guys who can be ranked in the top ten of the shameless list at the end of the Ming Dynasty knelt in front of Zhang Ke. It's a little weird, but it's reasonable.

Both of them were losers in the political struggle. They were all dormant in the south, and Zhang Ke's troops besieged the capital, and they unexpectedly ran to the army, wanting to serve His Majesty the future emperor.

"Two gentlemen, please."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

The two men got up from the ground and stood aside obediently.

"Two gentlemen, this king has heard of something and wants to ask the two gentlemen to teach you."

"Don't dare, the prince just has to say it, I know everything and say everything." Qian Qianyi said first.

"Okay, a few days ago, someone said to King Gu that it shouldn't just be on the side of Qingjun, because Your Majesty is not a traitor around him, but Your Majesty himself is a villain who killed his brother and seized the throne, King Gu doesn't know whether it's true or not, and asks the two gentlemen to advise."

Killing a brother to seize the throne? Chongzhen killed the apocalypse, although Chongzhen wished that his brother was hanging, but he was just a vassal king, did he have the ability to reach out to the inner court? Being able to avoid Wei Zhongxian's eyeliner and attack the apocalypse doesn't sound like it's true.

Qian Qianyi was still hesitating, but Ruan Dacheng was blessed to the heart, and hurriedly said: "What the prince said is reasonable, everyone in the world says that the first emperor died at the hands of the Hakka family, let me ask the Hakka family is the nurse of the first emperor, and she is extremely noble, how can you assassinate the first emperor's motive?" Especially when I heard that the Hakka family got some elixir from outside the palace, they offered to the first emperor, and the first emperor died. Where did this elixir come from? Today's emperor may not be able to clear his involvement. ”

"What an emperor!"

Qian Qianyi shouted angrily: "Killing the king and killing his brother, the crime is monstrous, it is difficult to write, such a sinner has ruled the Ming Dynasty for many years, the minister thinks that it is really the shame of my Ming Dynasty, the prince raised an army, eradicated the traitors, Kuang Zheng Sheji, it was that time!" Lord Shengming! ”

There is a saying, history is a little girl who dresses up, obviously Zhang Ke has the right to dress up history, he wants to hit Chongzhen's image, someone will definitely jump out.

This is not Qian Qianyi and Ruan Dacheng have already competed. One said that he had heard about it, the other said that he had suddenly realized, one said that he wanted to avenge the first emperor, and the other said that the emperor should be replaced. sings and harmonizes, which is even better than lip-synch.

In the tent next to him, Cao Huachun heard it clearly, the corners of his eyes cracked, and blood mixed with tears flowed down. He really wanted to cry, how could there be such a shameless person in the world?

They are not science and mind on weekdays, disciples of Confucius and Mencius, and their mouths are full of benevolence, righteousness, morality, poetry, books, etiquette and righteousness. The unsightly people turned out to be filthy and filthy, and they all filled their stomachs. It's a pity that a human skin is draped on their bodies, one by one, ungrateful, and shameless!

Cao Huachun struggled to rush into the big tent and questioned the two people face to face, but the soldiers on the side held him firmly, and the chew in his mouth was not allowed to take it off, and he could only hear Cao Huachun whining, and his neck and face were purple.

"The two gentlemen are aware of everything, and the lonely king hangs the people to fight crimes, and they need the help of two such famous ministers, and I ask you to find out Chongzhen's sins as soon as possible, so as to decide how to deal with them."

"Yes!"

The two of them happily accepted the order, and they could help Zhang Ke kill Chongzhen, they were from the dragon heroes, and they had real credit, and it was not without opportunities to enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister in the future.

With excitement, the two of them immediately asked for orders and went down to write articles, completely unaware of the sneer on the corner of Zhang Ke's mouth.

After taking them down, Sun Jiawen asked Cao Huachun to be dragged up, and the old eunuch was hit hard at this time. He kept muttering to himself, saying, "Shameless, shameless!" ”

"Hehe, Gonggong Cao, Wenchen is shameless, you have seen a lot, and this king doesn't want to talk nonsense. What you don't want to do, they can't ask for. This king finally asks you, do you want to continue to be loyal to Chongzhen, or do you want to fight back? ”

Now, is there a choice? Cao Huachun didn't want to compare himself with those two of them, even a literati who prided on his reputation could do so, what else could he not do as an old eunuch.

"Lord Wang, the old slave will obey the arrangement."

Cao Huachun, together with Ruan Dacheng and Qian Qianyi, made a strong iron triangle, three villains, two with outstanding writing, one has a bad stomach, and the other has a deep understanding of Chongzhen, and the palace secrets are at his fingertips.

The three of them were together, and they quickly made up a lot of jokes. not only pushed the death of the apocalypse to Chongzhen, but also exposed that there were 20 million taels of silver in the money, and Chongzhen was wearing patched clothes, which was just a coy gesture to deceive the people of the world. even took out Empress Zhang, saying that Chongzhen is like a dog, and birds and beasts are not as good as ......

All this, when the paragraph was written, was immediately printed in thousands of copies, sent to the capital through merchants, and soon spread to the streets and alleys, everywhere.

Without the baptism of the information age, people are still relatively naïve, and in the face of overwhelming news, there is always something true in it!

There are more people who have long been dissatisfied with today's imperial court, and after seeing these things, they immediately pointed the finger at Chongzhen, and publicized it everywhere.

The morale of the army, the people, and the morale of the people gradually collapsed in the midst of this incessant bombardment.

Compared with artillery fire, the offensive of public opinion cannot see the smoke of gunpowder, but the lethality is even more amazing.

On the third day of the start of the public opinion offensive, in the middle of the night, a basket was tied down from the tall capital wall, and a person sat in it, and after reaching the ground, he immediately ran to Zhang Ke's camp.

The man didn't go far before he was arrested by the secret sentinel, searched his body, and found a secret letter and a map of the city's defenses. Under inquiry, he quickly recruited people, and it turned out that he was under the secret order of Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, to go out of the city to report the truth in the city of His Royal Highness the East King.

The news reached Zhang Ke's tent, where he was playing chess with Du Qing. Crackling, two people kill you and me, and it's a lot of fun.

"Lord Qiqi, Chen Xinjia's envoy is here."

Zhang Ke listened to it in his ears, just smiled and nodded, "The first one is coming, and the second one is not far away." Haha, eat your 'cannon'. Du Qing's eyes widened, and he searched all over the chessboard.

"Lord Wang, when did your 'car' come?"

"It's already here, you admit defeat as soon as possible!"

"I think you're cheating, let's keep coming!"

……

Gradually, the night was quieter, the two of them had already reached the seventh game, Du Qing had five notes on his face, and Zhang Ke also had two on his face, they were playing soundly, but the news from outside kept coming.

Some people sent special envoys, and some put letters in caravans to take them out of the city, in short, the eight immortals crossed the sea, each showing its ability.

One night, more than a dozen officers sent Zhang Ke a document of surrender, willing to act as an internal response to welcome the army into the city! (To be continued......)