After Emperor Chongzhen heard such a categorical answer, he stared at Xu Ping: "You are very courageous, you are really not afraid of death, and I have fulfilled you." ”

When he answered just now, Xu Ping estimated that most of them would completely anger the desperate Emperor Ming.

"Someone's coming."

As Emperor Chongzhen shouted, several eunuchs ran over and pointed their knives and guns at Xu Ping, ready to fork him down.

"The minister didn't dare to avoid the axe," Xu Ping stood up and made a final persuasion with a fearless face: "What the prince said is true, Your Majesty has done his best, and there is no regret." This is the mandate of heaven, the Ming Dynasty has been exhausted, I hope that Your Majesty will think twice, not for the glory of a family and a surname, so that the world will be miserable, and the descendants of Your Majesty can also enjoy wealth and prosperity. ”

The middle-aged man shook his head and said: "This world is not my world, but the world of Emperor Taizu Gao, whether it is the mandate of heaven and manpower, I must defend it if I can defend it, and I must defend it if I can't keep it." As for my descendants, since they were born in the Zhu family, they have to sacrifice for the cause of their ancestors. ”

Xu Ping sighed softly, and planned to retreat with the eunuchs.

"Xu Ping, you are one of the few people who dare to tell me the truth," the middle-aged man suddenly drank Xu Ping: "Do you have any last wishes, I may be able to promise you." ”

Xu Ping laughed: "If Your Majesty can put the common people first, even if the minister is in Jiuquan, there will be no regrets." My lord has come to the city and will open a peaceful world, what will the minister's last wish be? ”

"Don't you have anything to say to your family?"

Xu Ping shook his head, he no longer had relatives in this world: "There is no one who can't let go." ”

"It turned out to be a poor man." Chongzhen's heart suddenly surged such a thought: "No wonder you are so bold. ”

Wang Chengen hid behind Xu Ping and cast anxious glances at Chongzhen.

Chongzhen knew that Wang Chengen was worried that killing Xu Ping would lead to King Shun's revenge, but compared to the Daming Sheji, which was about to overthrow, Chongzhen didn't care much about the safety of his family.

"Killing Xu Ping is the same as not allowing the Shun army to retreat," Chongzhen hated most in his heart at this time was already those courtiers at both ends of the first rat, and now his heart was not clear to Wang Chengen: "Xu Ping has made great contributions to Li Chuang, and he is so bold and young, killing him Li Chuang will definitely feel distressed and will definitely take revenge." If this Jingshi really can't hold it, when Li Chuang enters the city, he will most likely be angry with those dog officials under me, hating them for not saving Xu Ping. Killing these traitors for glory can be regarded as avenging me. ”

Chongzhen didn't plan to kill the hundred officials by himself, because he still had a glimmer of hope, worried that killing people by himself would cause the Jingshi guards to suddenly collapse: "And if I do it, maybe I will be ranked with Zhao Gou in the future, and there will be some ignorant sour Confucians who say something: If you don't kill Wei Zaode, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not be destroyed." ”

"Pull it out, decapitate it, and hang your head in the gate." Chongzhen gave a short shout, and gave Xu Ping a final sneer: "I can't keep the inheritance of my ancestors, I can die." ”

Xu Ping didn't worry about his corpse, and when the Jingshi was broken, King Shun and his old ministry would naturally do this kind of thing, but Chongzhen's last words reminded him.

"The minister has another please."

Chongzhen frowned slightly, waved his hand and signaled the eunuchs who crossed Xu Ping to slow down.

Xu Ping took out the jade pendant from his arms and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "This thing is the ancestral heirloom of the minister, dare to ask Your Majesty to tie it to the head of the minister." ”

"To wait for your henchmen to bury it with your head?" Chongzhen sneered lightly, looking at Wang Chengen, who took the jade pendant from Xu Ping's hand and presented it to Chongzhen.

Xu Ping didn't plan to tell the origin of the jade pendant, but Chongzhen casually glanced at the jade pendant, and asked coldly: "This seems to be a forbidden thing, how did it get into your hands?" ”

Xu Ping heard the other party's skeptical tone, and only briefly recounted the origin of the jade pendant.

"It's a pity that after being loyal, why should you be a thief?" Chongzhen commented disdainfully, and threw the jade pendant on the table beside him: "Okay, I promised you." Then Chongzhen instructed: "Give him food first, for the sake of his grandfather, I won't let him be a starving ghost." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xu Ping bowed and exited the pavilion.

After Xu Ping walked away, Chongzhen's face became more and more gloomy, he only left Wang Chengen by his side, and then gently lifted the jade pendant and showed it to this henchman eunuch who had followed him since he was in the vassal king's palace.

The inexplicable Wang Chengen looked at the jade pendant carefully, and suddenly his knees weakened, and he fell to the ground, and big, large beads of sweat poured out from his forehead: "The minister deserves death!" ”

"Go and find out, who is the so-called uncle in his mouth? Go now! Chongzhen shouted.

……

Xu Ping gulped and gulped down the food given by Emperor Chongzhen, and finally drank all the wine in the cup, raised his head and said to the eunuchs who were watching around: "A few fathers-in-law will lead the way." ”

However, the eunuch did not take Xu Ping to behead him, but took him to a side hall behind the imperial garden and locked him up, Xu Ping was a little impatient and asked what was going on. The guarded eunuchs did not answer but continued to stand guard around the hall vigilantly, in fact, even their leader didn't know what was going on, just now Wang Chengen hurriedly ran to explain that he would lock up and not kill first, and wait for the will of the Lord of Long Life.

waited until the afternoon, and another eunuch brought lunch to Xu Ping, but he still did not say a word to his questioning and did not give any answer.

……

At this time, in the imperial garden, Wang Chengen knelt alone in front of Emperor Chongzhen, and he brought back a piece of paper, on which was the approximate appearance of his uncle depicted by Xu Ping's neighbors, as well as age, height, accent and other information.

"Minister, minister thinks, it seems to be Mrs. Fengsheng......" Wang Chengen said hesitantly, if there are outsiders, they will definitely be surprised, because before the public, Wang Chengen, a Wei rebel henchman like the Hakka family, has always been called by his name.

"The butler." Chongzhen impatiently interrupted Wang Chengen, when he was in the hidden mansion, King Xin often saw him next to the Hakka son, General Zhenguo, and Tianqi liked this person very much and gave him some rewards.

"I exchanged the two nieces of the Hakka clan for the two pregnant palace people of my imperial brother, so there should be two people, why is there only one?" Chongzhen muttered to himself.

"It may be another unfortunate mother......"

"There should be two pieces of wear, and this is the female pendant I gave to Concubine Li, the princess is pregnant first, and she should be born one to two months earlier than Concubine Li." Chongzhen touched the pendant, and his face became a little miserable: "Is it really the destiny of heaven that does not save my great ming?" Even the prince will ***! ”

"Long live," Wang Chengen suddenly shouted: "Long live, long live!" ”

"Needless to say, he may not believe it, and if he does, he has no soldiers in his hands, what can he do?" Chongzhen secretly instructed Wang Chengen to let the two palace people go, and no third person in the forbidden area knew about it, and he didn't want to send someone to track the whereabouts of the two palace people, because once this matter was exposed, Chongzhen felt that it was not a good thing for Daming Sheji, so the fewer people who knew, the better: "My imperial nephew is a capable person, hey, one day this world will be Emperor Gao." ”

"Hooray!" Wang Chengen was still screaming and yelling in a hurry.

"You don't have to persuade him anymore, just like the imperial nephew said, rebellion will not retreat, I can't be greedy, if I ruin him......" Emperor Chongzhen repeated again: "The imperial nephew is a capable person, he will get the world, besides, if the imperial brother can ...... If you don't do it so early, this world should have been his. ”

……

Wei Zaode and other hundred officials waited outside the Forbidden City until dusk, and they were already anxious like ants on a hot pot.

"It was General Xu himself who wanted to go in, and we didn't listen to it." Many people have this thought in their hearts, wondering if they will be able to escape that catastrophe when King Shun is angry with thunder in the future.

Just when everyone was panicking, Wang Chengen escorted Xu Ping out with a group of pure soldiers, and the latter didn't know why Chongzhen changed his mind and let him go.

Wang Chengen issued a decree and ordered Xu Ping to be imprisoned.

After hearing this holy decree, all the officials of the Ming Dynasty breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the person did not die, they could find a way, they were full of joy and shouted long live, and they were greatly relieved to go home.

After putting Xu Ping in prison, Wang Chengen came back to return to Chongzhen.

"When is Banzai going to tell Chitose his identity?"

"I have to think about it," Chongzhen knew that if Beijing City was broken, then he would only have one chance to persuade Xu Ping, but if Beijing City was not broken, then there was no need to let Xu Ping know about it: "A thief may not be able to break the city, I can't be reckless." Chongzhen thought about it, and said to Wang Chengen: "Call the prince." ”

"Yes."

……

After entering the Imperial Prison, Xu Ping immediately found that the Jinyi Guards here were also in awe of him, and the commander of the Jinyi Guards in charge of the Imperial Prison was surnamed Chen, who was about thirty years old and not much older than himself. After Xu Ping arrived at the Imperial Prison, the commander politely came to see him once, and that meeting was not like a meeting between the warden and the prisoner, but a meeting with the chief by his subordinates.

In the next three days, the Shun army outside the city continued to attack the city gate, but there was no progress in size, and each of their attacks was repelled by the defenders of Beijing, but the commander of the Jinyi Guard became more polite to Xu Ping, and also came to have a relationship with him, saying that his ancestor had also stayed in Huang Hou's army, and was the deputy envoy of the Changsheng Island Prison Supervisor, since Xu Ping was a disciple of Huang Shi, then the commander of the Jinyi Guard of the Imperial Prison thought that the two of them should be similar to the relationship between world friends or close to the same disciple brothers.

……

On the second day of March,

The Shun army outside the city had not attacked for two days, and the defenders were still vigilant but slightly relieved.

Suddenly, the positions of the Shun army outside the city suddenly rejoiced, and the shouts of hundreds of thousands of soldiers were like thunder, one after another, and this sudden change surprised the defenders. Many of the Ming soldiers who had changed the guard and rested were sleepy behind the wall, and they were also awakened by the cheers outside the city, jumping up and asking each other in panic about what was going on.

After resting for two days at Juyong Pass, Li Zicheng, the king of Shun, marched with the main force of the Shun army along the road of Tangtong to the Beijing Division, and he arrived on the outskirts of the Beijing Division early this morning with the Guards, the Armor and the West First Third Battalion. Immediately Li Zicheng inspected the former Ming Jing camp troops outside the Changyi Gate under the support of more than 10,000 elite Shun troops, and after learning that King Shun had finally arrived, these officers and soldiers who had just become the Great Shun Army rushed to greet King Shun on a red horse, and let out a throat-tearing cry, lest they could not fully express their loyalty to Dashun and their wholehearted support for King Shun.

Li Guojiao and other generals, who had been annoyed by the futility of their efforts, also hurriedly left everything in their hands and rushed to see King Shun, Tang Tong seemed much calmer than these people who had never seen King Shun, and he ordered his troops and horses to hold their positions to guard against a possible counterattack by the Ming army, and to remain on guard until King Shun sent a messenger to announce his audience.

……

"These rats are really incompetent."

Two days later, the women's battalion of the Shun army also arrived with the rear guard battalion, Yue Mu found an opportunity to run to meet his sweetheart, and laughed in front of Miss Liu without scruples: "More than 100,000 troops, even a small Changyi Gate can't be taken for a long time. It still depends on us, the king ordered a three-day rest and then a general attack, to see that our guard battalion will break through the Beijing division tomorrow and capture the faint king. ”

"Why don't you let them go ahead?" Miss Liu was quite dissatisfied with King Shun's arrangement, and she saw the layers of Shun army camps on the outskirts: "We have more than 100,000 troops, why do we have to fight in your guard battalion every time?" Is there only one battalion of you, the king? ”

"Why drag it out?" Yue Mu said disapprerovingly: "More than 100,000 troops are drinking wind and dew in the suburbs, but they let the faint monarch and the dog officials stay in the city to enjoy the happiness, and people know that those Ming Kou are useless. Although the Beijing camp has surrendered to Dashun, in the mouth of the Shun army's descendants, they are still called the Ming army: "People who don't understand still think that our Dashun can't help this little Beijing." ”

Although Miss Liu was still dissatisfied in her heart, she no longer spoke.

"Fortunately, the general is still safe and sound," Yue Mu said happily: "The faint monarch also understands that there is no sun, and he doesn't dare to do anything to the general, I heard that the general entered Beijing at that time, but it really frightened me, okay, when we break through Beijing tomorrow, we will be able to rescue the general." ”

……

The news of King Shun's arrival also stirred up huge waves in the city, and after dinner today, Xu Ping saw that the commander of the imperial prison's brocade guard, Chen, came to his cell again.

Commander Chen was draped all over his body, and the other brocade guards behind him were all wearing helmets and swords.

"General!" Commander Chen was covered in armor, and still insisted on giving a big salute to Xu Parallel: "I have discussed with the brothers here, if the emperor wants to be unfavorable to the general, we will fight for this life, and we must protect the general thoroughly." ”

Commander Chen has ordered the prison to be guarded, the prison door is closed, and many Jinyi guards have climbed the wall to prepare to defend it, if anyone wants to kill Xu Ping or bring Xu Ping into the ban, the Jinyi guards of the Imperial Prison will never agree.

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