It's April now, and the flower-filled Jinling City is still as gorgeous as a thousand purples and reds.

Emperor Zhu Youzhen, who had taken off his winter clothes and changed into spring clothes, woke up in a crowded couch.

Oh, I saw that there were already mottled shadows on the wall, and suddenly I heard the sound of birds outside the window.

The remnants of red stained the green windows, and the Zhumen added new moss.

The spring breeze and the south bank of the Green River, although it is the time when the climate of the Xiaoice River is raging, but in this sunny spring, you can also feel the rejuvenation of the earth, lush and green.

A fringed skirt drifted into the hall like a spring breeze.

Walking in the front is Jiao'e Chen Yuanyuan, who has been with Zhu Youzhen since he moved south.

These days, Chen Yuanyuan doesn't know how many times His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youzhen stayed up alone in the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace to deal with government affairs and took a nap here.

Even with her, she had to stay up here, and as soon as she saw Zhu Youzhen wake up, she immediately took the palace eunuch below to serve Zhu Youzhen to wash and change clothes.

Zhu Youzhen rubbed his worried eyes and couldn't help stretching.

Looking at the beauty of the spring light room outside the palace, he thought of the Qing army going south at this time, and also thought of the emperor's pleasure.

At present, it is still unknown whether the country can survive.

According to the original historical process of development, half of the country owned by itself will be gradually occupied by the Qing army in the next two or three months, and then Yangzhou 10th, Jiading Three Massacres, Nanjing Fall, Hangzhou Fall.

Millions of Li Shu did in vain the white bones buried before the prosperity of the chaff, the Jiangnan of saffron and green jade has become the hell of Shura, even if it is a lupine scarf, the talented and beautiful woman can only be blood-stained peach blossoms, and see high-rise buildings collapse, or throw into wells, or hide in the mountains to be a wild man, or go to the black hair on the head, and continue a coin rat tail to be a new dynasty Shunmin.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, as a person who may still be just a doomed emperor.

There are only two options before him:

One is to take the opportunity to get drunk and dream of death, sleep as many beauties as you can, eat as many delicacies as you can, collect as many belongings as you can, and then find a way to escape all the way west.

One choice is naturally to do your best, do everything you can, unite all forces, be more diligent than before, work harder than before, and use all the manpower, material and financial resources under your control now to have a decisive battle with the Qing army.

Zhu Youzhen chose the latter, and from the very beginning, he chose not to back down and not to get by.

His only confidence was that he knew the course of history, and as a latecomer, he knew some remedies that were unknown to this era.

But Zhu Youzhen also didn't know if he could succeed in changing history, he had never had the experience of changing the situation in the world, at least in later generations, he never showed any extraordinary political talent.

And now, he can only do his best to do a good job as an emperor, and do his part for the Han family and the Han dynasty.

Liu Zeyu, Liu Liangzuo, Donglin Dang, Zuo Liangyu and Chuang Jun are not the most powerful enemies of this era, and they, like their own Ming Empire, will be ruthlessly abandoned in their original history.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen defeated or subdued them, and he had a certain degree of self-confidence.

But Zhu Youzhen knew that the Qing army was the most formidable enemy he had to face in this era.

Whether he can defeat the Qing army, the darling of history, Zhu Youzhen's heart is actually bottomless, although he is full of confidence in the courtiers and Guanghua Daily.

Today's so-called Manchu Empire is not only a Manchu military aristocracy, but also a group of Han Chinese bureaucrats and warlords combined with Manchu tribal aristocracy.

This group includes all the forces in the north, such as the Eight Banners, the Mongolian tribes, the military aristocracy of Liaodong, and the military aristocracy of the border army and the nine towns of the border army and the Jin merchants.

And if nothing else, his side will reach a superficial cooperation with the pirate group in the south on the basis of unifying the gentry and the landlords in the south and the invasion army, and form a southern group symbolized by the Ming Empire.

Although this group has a commodity economy that symbolizes economic and social progress, various academic ideas that represent the latest ideological civilization of the Han people, and an army composed of common people and gentry, it is also mixed with various corrupt factors left over from various empires.

In a way.

Zhu Youzhen is now standing on the cusp of a historical separation.

At this time, the dispute between the Ming and the Manchu Qing was not a simple change of dynasty.

It is whether the regional local society of the Oriental civilization, that is, the Eastern society, can end the long era of small-scale peasant economy at the end of the seventeenth century, and no longer interpret history by the change of dynasties, but completely reborn from the small-scale peasant economy, and derive the era of elite governance with industrial civilization and its supporting.

The Ming Dynasty, like the Song Dynasty, was no longer a simple small-scale peasant economic empire after hundreds of years of development.

Especially now, when the smallholder peasant economy is beginning to collapse because of land annexation, the commodity economy is becoming more and more developed.

At this time, if there were no external forces, such an empire would be nirvana on its own.

Within the Empire, the new class powers will completely defeat the stubborn old powers, thus completing a metamorphosis of the Empire.

In this process of metamorphosis, there may still be emperors, even emperors with power, or there may not be emperors, but in any case, he is an inevitable change in the transformation of the human mode of production from family production to workshop and factory production.

It is impossible for the Ming Empire to withstand such a torrent.

After all, in many of the wealthy areas of the empire, there were already large numbers of craftsmen or workers and merchants, who were not dependent on land.

Of course, there is another situation, that is, after the intervention of foreign forces, especially the intervention of foreign backward forces, such a tribal regime as the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as a serf regime, has already made tremendous progress in the era of yeoman farmers, and it is impossible for him to further open up his mind, economy, and even system.

Once such a serf regime is in control of the world, the best thing to do is to solve the contradiction between man and land through a large number of massacres in the early stage; Then persuade the peasants to suppress the merchants, let the empire continue to restore to the peak era of the small peasant economy, and create a peaceful and prosperous era that was tired of the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, and finally entered the era of the collapse of the small peasant economy, the developed commodity economy, the corruption of the physique, and the cycle of incompatibility between the stubborn old and the new forces.

Of course, the original historical development was when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered this small peasant economy, which was about to be ruined, and the empire was about to be reborn, was intervened by Western forces, which in vain destroyed the national self-confidence and wealth accumulated in China for thousands of years, and in the end, it was only the new internal forces that gave this society a new life.