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This is the tradition of this country, and it is also the place where the country of the Ming Dynasty is talked about.

There were faint kings in the Ming Dynasty, but the kings of the Ming Dynasty did not have a bad race.

Chongzhen made a decision, although he was unwilling, but he still decided like this.

Life is dramatic, life is ironic.

The ministers who clamored for Chongzhen not to compromise with the rogue, and the ministers who let King Chongzhen die, actually gave up their temperance one after another.

The cabinet ministers couldn't come up with ideas, they didn't even say a few words and didn't say anything, and the cronies who defended the city, the secretary of the military department and the servant of the official department, did not resist at all, and all opened the city gate and surrendered.

On the same day, the outer city fell, and the next day, the inner city fell.

Chongzhen roared angrily: "The ministers misunderstood me. ”

There is another sentence: "It is Wenchen that everyone can kill." ”

Facts have proved that these two sentences are very correct, and the literati festival at the end of the Ming Dynasty is really not good.

On the evening of the 18th, Emperor Chongzhen and his personal eunuch Wang Chengen climbed the coal mountain (also known as Wanshou Mountain, now Jingshan, Beijing), looking at the sky-high beacon fire outside the city and in the area of Changyi Gate, just sighing and wandering speechlessly.

Li Zicheng's army invaded Beijing, the eunuch Wang Lian urgently told the emperor, Chongzhen drank in the palace and sighed: "Bitter my people!" ”

The eunuch Zhang Yin persuaded the emperor to surrender and was stabbed to death with a sword.

Emperor Chongzhen ordered people to send the crown prince, Yongwang, and Dingwang to the homes of Xun Qi Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, and wrote an edict after returning to the palace, ordering Zhu Chunchen, the prince of Chengguo, to lead the army and assist the prince Zhu Cihong.

He also ordered Queen Zhou, Yuan Guifei and her three sons to enter the palace, briefly told her sons a few words, and ordered the eunuchs to send them to their relatives' houses to avoid hiding.

He cried again and said to Queen Zhou: "You are the mother of the country, and you deserve to be martyred." ”

Empress Zhou also cried and said: "The concubine has followed you for 18 years, Your Majesty has not heard a word of the concubine, so that today, now Your Majesty orders the concubine to die, how dare the concubine not die?" After speaking, he hanged himself and died.

Emperor Chongzhen turned to Yuan Guifei and said, "You can also go with the queen!"

Yuan Guifei cried goodbye and hanged herself, and Emperor Chongzhen summoned the 15-year-old Princess Changping again, and said with tears: "Why did you want to be born into the emperor's family!" After saying that, he covered her face with his left sleeve, pulled out a knife with his right hand and slashed her left arm, and then slashed her right shoulder, and she passed out.

At the same time, he also stabbed to death his six-year-old daughter, Princess Zhaoren.

Emperor Chongzhen hacked several concubines to death, and ordered the left and right to urge Empress Yi'an Zhang to commit suicide.

In the early morning of the 19th, Li Zicheng's rebel army entered Beijing from the Changyi Gate, and then Emperor Chongzhen rode out of Donghua Gate with a three-eyed gun in his hand, was blocked by random arrows, and then ran to Qihua Gate (Chaoyang Gate), Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, closed the door, and then turned to Anding Gate, the defenders here have been scattered, the gate is deeply locked, and the eunuch can not split it with a sharp axe, at dawn on March 19, the fire broke out everywhere, returned to the palace, and the outside of the city was already a fire.

At this time, the sky will be bright, Emperor Chongzhen rang the bell in the front hall to convene a hundred officials, but no one came, Emperor Chongzhen said: "The ministers are mistaken, the monarch is dead, the world of two hundred and seventy-seven years, once abandoned, it is all mistaken by the traitors, so that this." ”

He looked at Wang Chengen next to him and said, "I didn't expect that in the end, only you would accompany me." ”

At this time, Zuo Lengchan walked in.

He looked at Chongzhen quietly like this, and saw that he was not very old, but he was already full of gray hair and crow's feet.

For some reason, he looked at Chongzhen and really felt that the other party was a great person.

"It's the left division."

This is Chongzhen's name for Zuo Lengchan to express his respect.

"Did Zuo Shi already expect this day?"

Chongzhen asked.

Wang Chengen next to him also looked at Zuo Lengchan curiously, because Zuo Lengchan had been rumored to be a fairy-like figure.

Zuo Lengchan nodded.

Chongzhen said: "What do you think future generations will say about me?" The King of the Dead? ”

Zuo Lengzen said: "Your Majesty should be rated as "filial piety". ”

Chongzhen said: "What a "filial piety". ”

But this is not what Chongzhen wants, what he wants is Zhongxing Daming.

Chongzhen said: "What is Master Zuo doing here?" ”

Zuo Lengchan said: "I'll send you." ”

He paused and said: "Actually, Your Majesty may not have the possibility of making a comeback, and there is still hope for Your Majesty to move the capital to Nanjing." ”

What Zuo Lengchan said is the truth, the reason why the ****** of the Southern Ming Dynasty in later generations was defeated was because there was no too strong emperor, and there was no fighting in the nest.

If Chongzhen can move the capital to Nanjing, will Wu Shangui dare to oppose it? Can wild boar skins still enter the customs?

This is also where Zuo Lengchan admired Chongzhen, even if the form reached such a bad point, he did not recall Wu Shangui's army.

Zuo Lengchan said confidently: "If Your Majesty wants to go, even if there are thousands of troops, you can keep Your Majesty safe." ”

Wang Chengen only felt that Zuo Lengchan's words were very domineering, and couldn't help but look at Zuo Lengchan a few more times.

Chongzhen hesitated for a moment.

But soon he shook his head: "It is my responsibility to reach this point in the Ming Dynasty, and I am responsible for myself." ”

Zuo Lengchan sighed: "Since Your Majesty has decided, then I won't say anything anymore, I give Your Majesty a promise, I will ensure that the descendants of the Zhu family will not be extinct." ”

After Chongzhen's death, his descendants were not very good and almost extinct.

In the Kangxi period, the third prince of Zhu was also corrected, although he was powerless, he was already an old farmer, and said that he would not rebel, but he was still brutally killed by Kangxi.

Chongzhen nodded gratefully: "Thank you!" ”

Then he took Wang Chengen to Jingshan and walked to his final destination.

Zuo Lengchan looked at his back, and only felt that he was so sad and so majestic.

"There has been no such emperor since."

Thinking of Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and comparing Chongzhen, you will find that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is really enough.

Chongzhen walked to a crooked neck tree, and he said the last words of his life: "The ministers are mistakenly destroyed, I die, I have no face to see my ancestors, go to the crown to cover the face, let the thief divide the body, do not hurt the people." ”

Chongzhen died, a generation of emperors died quietly, and there was only one eunuch named Wang Chengen who accompanied him to die, and only Zuo Lengchan witnessed all this.

At this moment, Zuo Lengchan understood why Chongzhen committed suicide, instead of running to Nanjing as a deserter.

Chongzhen's death is not cowardice, but an attitude, a responsible attitude.

In fact, the so-called dynasty is similar to the company unit, if something happens to the unit, the leader must be responsible, demoted, deducted wages, dismissed, and of course, including suicide.

Chongzhen decided to commit suicide, and he intended to express his views in this way:

1. No compromise.

2. Never be a prisoner.

3. Dignity is so.

Chongzhen's death marks the end of an era, and the country is truly moving towards the most tragic era, ushering in the end of the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued.) )