Chongzhen nodded and said in a remorseful tone, "Yes! I have always regretted being too soft on the civilian clique! It's too accommodating to them, if only it could be tough! It's good that I can stick to it when I use the country's relatives to open the knife like before! Alas! But is it any use to regret it now? ”

Zhang Biwu also kept sighing: "Yes! Your Majesty, if you had the iron-blooded means at the beginning, how could you have today's results? Alas! ”

Chongzhen shook his head with a wry smile, is it useful to regret it?

Zhang Biwu said in a helpless tone: "The emperor is too face-saving!" Things in the world are often like this, the more you want to save face, the more faceless you will be! If you want to save face, you have to learn how to lose face first! Like Liu Bang, a hooligan, what he did was a scoundrel and shameless, but he established the Han Dynasty, and later generations also spoke highly of him! Liu Bei was shameless once, seized the Shu land of Liu Zhang, the same room, established Shu Han, and divided it for decades! ”

"I want to go down in history, but I will inevitably be infamous behind me! If you do it with the means of an overlord, with shamelessness, regardless of the evaluation of future generations, maybe you will win praise, become a generation of Ming Jun, and be able to prosper the Ming Dynasty! ”

"No matter how well you do a thing, someone will scold you behind your back! Those who do great things must have the courage and pride to not be afraid of being scolded by others! Who's behind no one's back? No matter how good this thing is, it will be said! Always care about what others say, then it's not you! If you always care about what others say, you can't do anything! ”

"Take on the things in front of you, what do you think about the name after you? What you do in this life is worthy of your heart, but you can do it! There is one thing that can benefit the masses, many people. However, it inevitably harms the interests of the few. And you yourself will be infamous for eternity. Notoriety in the annals, but so what? Do! Right! Be brave and do it! ”

Chongzhen looked at Zhang Biwu, he never thought that Zhang Biwu would have such an idea, and he really underestimated Zhang Biwu! These are what Chongzhen is most afraid of, he just cares too much about reputation!

Zhang Biwu said: "Your Majesty, the great heroes who have become great things since ancient times have the courage to be sinners through the ages!" See through the name of benevolence and righteousness through the ages, but make this life heroic! That's enough! ”

Chongzhen looked up to the sky, and he smiled bitterly. said: "Guoxiong, in fact, I have been thinking that when the thieves had not yet arrived in Beijing, they persuaded me to move south, and even the queen broke the regulations that could not interfere in politics to persuade me to move south. I also thought about moving south, but I cared too much about my reputation and wanted to get the civil officials to agree, but the civil officials did not agree, so I gave up. Later, when it was time to escape from Beijing, I could have made up my mind. But I don't care about the comments of future generations! ”

"Make peace with the East and buy time to eliminate the thieves. And then recuperate, just like the early Han Dynasty's policy of tolerance towards the Xiongnu is correct! But I am afraid of the infamy of future generations, and I am afraid of the opinions of the world, and I have once again let the correct opinions go down the drain! Alas! I'm just too face-saving! ”

Chongzhen looked at Zhang Biwu and asked, "You're right!" If I didn't want to be so face-saving, maybe it would have been! Daming is really ZTE! Emperor Wu of Zhou abolished the Buddha and scolded him, but later generations praised him as a famous monarch. Li Shimin killed his brother and forced his father to abdicate, and he is also a famous monarch through the ages! Alas! I was wrong! The more you want to get something, the more you can't get it! The more you want face, the more embarrassed you will be! Ha Lu Ha! ”

Chongzhen looked up to the sky and smiled bitterly and said, "Guoxiong, you are so right! Wouldn't it be nice if I had told me earlier? I wouldn't have come this far! Money? That's right! If I had asked hundreds of officials and imperial relatives to donate salaries, and I had continued to be iron-blooded and violent, then I would have been able to get a lot of military salaries from these greedy imperial relatives and hundreds of officials, and with money, my Ming army would not be vulnerable! I can build a mighty army! Set the tartar outside, and calm the thief inside! ”

Zhang Biwu said: "Your Majesty, there are actually many people who want to say something to you, but you don't talk to them!" Isn't it the same including the Nine Elders? In the end, he had to be forced to die rather than be caught and imprisoned by Tiqi and beheaded in the city! The emperor is right! If you are not afraid of what others will think, you will be surprised if you insist on forcing hundreds of officials and relatives of the emperor to donate their salaries! ”

"Because Li Zicheng will force the salaries of hundreds of officials and relatives of the emperor, the money they get will be many times that of the state treasury! The net worth of a big royal relative can get a year's worth of taxes! The emperor actually has a lot of money around him, so you don't have to worry about having no money to raise soldiers at all! It's a pity, your majesty, you can't see the huge amount of money that Li Zicheng sent Liu Zongmin to force hundreds of officials! ”

Chongzhen smiled bitterly, on the eve of the death of the country, his cousin Liu Wenbing and brother-in-law Gong Yonggu came to the palace to see him, and once said that they wanted to persuade Chongzhen to move south, but they were afraid! And I'm afraid that it doesn't conform to the rules set by the Ming Dynasty! That's why I didn't come to persuade me! Besides, the old ministers in the court were also afraid, so they didn't dare to speak to me.

When Chongzhen regretted not listening to people, he heard Zhang Biwu say that hundreds of officials and relatives of the emperor had so much money, he really couldn't imagine it! And when Chongzhen used to ask the emperor's relatives and hundreds of officials for salaries, they were all fighting against him, he was angry, the country was so good to them, but when the country was in trouble, they abandoned the country! I am reluctant to donate even a little money, I don't know that there is a country to have their glory and wealth! It's annoying!

Now think about it, regret not being at the beginning! If you do this, don't blame me for being ruthless! Oh, yes! How about killing a few more? Alas! It's so merciful, I didn't use the overlord means, and I was iron-blooded! In addition to being benevolent, a monarch must also have overlord means and iron wrists! In this regard, Chongzhen admitted defeat and felt that he was not a Ming Jun.

Zhang Biwu continued: "As an emperor, you are supreme and have unlimited power. But you have forced the ministers of Zhongxing, the ministers who govern the country and the world, to death, defeat, defeat, surrender, kill, kill! Isn't there a responsibility? ”

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but speak up, and said: "Your Majesty, you only think about victory, and you don't understand the situation on the battlefield in the palace, you command arbitrarily, and you can't give the generals full command, how can they win?" If you are in too much of a hurry, your pace will be chaotic. ”

"The monarch, as the head of a hundred ministers, is the heart! When the heart is confused, the hands and feet will naturally be at a loss, and they will also be chaotic! The monarchs and ministers are different, the pace is different, often the hand to the east, but the hand to the west, if the top and bottom are inconsistent, how can the court without unity break the strong enemy? You have been urging the war, so that Hong Chengchou wanted to defend but caused a defeat in Songjin, Sun Chuanting wanted to defend Henan to trap and kill the thieves but was defeated in Henan, but lost Guanzhong......"

Chongzhen motioned to Lu Xiangsheng to stop talking, he saw that Wang Chengen was looking anxiously, and there was a fire rising in the city.

Chongzhen knew that his cousin's whole family committed suicide, and there were also old ministers surnamed Li, they were all loyal to themselves, they said that they wanted the whole family to self-immolate to martyrdom, and now they have done it.

Wang Chengen heard a shout of killing, and it was very clear, he wanted to speak to Chongzhen. But Chongzhen signaled to him, and Wang Chengen stopped talking.

Chongzhen said: "Zhang Biwu, I'm running out of time!" I just want to ask you, do you think Li Zicheng can sit firmly? ”

Zhang Biwu shook his head and said: "Li Zicheng can't sit on the throne, and the country will let the Tartars rob it!" ”

Chongzhen was shocked: "What? Tartars robbed the country? Chongzhen couldn't believe it, he said, "No, it won't?" I'd rather be Li Zicheng sitting on the country than a Tartar sitting on the country! Chongzhen looked very excited!

Zhang Biwu responded: "Yes! That's right! Tartar wolf ambitions, they will do it! They knew that after the city of Beijing was broken, they would raise a whole country to invade and occupy Beijing, and they would quickly move the capital and conquer the whole country! This is a dream that has been formulated since Nurhachi's time, and even Huang Taiji is continuing this dream! At the very least, they must reach the situation where they occupied half of North China during the Jin Dynasty! ”

Chongzhen looked at Zhang Biwu, he knew that Zhang Biwu was not joking, what he said was all true, Chongzhen thought about it again, and broke out in a cold sweat, what Zhang Biwu said is very likely!

Don't take it lightly! He tore off his clothes, then bit his fingers, and wrote the edict of blood.

"Whoever drives out the Tartars and protects my Han family can be the lord of the world on behalf of my Ming Dynasty! Chongzhen's masterpiece! March 19, 17th year of Chongzhen. "Chongzhen wrote a blood edict! Chongzhen gave the blood edict to Zhang Biwu.

Zhang Biwu took the blood edict and looked at Chongzhen in disbelief, Chongzhen said sharply: "Guoxiong, catch it!" This is trust between men! I'll give you the whole country! I believe in you, you will make our Han family still the same! ”

Chongzhen did not explicitly let Zhang Biwu get the Ming Dynasty, the reason for this is that the first is that people in the world will not believe that it is Chongzhen's blood edict, which is not good for Zhang Biwu. And if Zhang Biwu can't complete the expulsion of the Tartars and restore my Han family, it will be a joke for him to let Jiangshan give Zhang Biwu. Therefore, Chongzhen's blood edict is written like this, no problem.

"Ahh Lu Xiangsheng and Wang Chengen both looked at Chongzhen and Zhang Biwu with wide eyes! Now Chongzhen wants to pay Zhang Biwu in full! Is this Zen Rang?

Zhang Biwu took over the blood edict, even if there was Chongzhen's dying blood edict, can the people of the world believe him? When Chongzhen was alive, his holy decree was often violated by people, and now that people are dead, it is difficult for people to obey it convincingly, but the effect is still very great, and it can't be underestimated.

Chongzhen turned to Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Lu Aiqing, you can testify!" Lu Xiangsheng nodded in agreement.

Chongzhen sighed again and said, "It's a pity! My jade seal is not there, if it is, it will be stamped! The world will know the Tao, and no one will doubt its authenticity! (To be continued......)