After Xu Ping approached, Chongzhen pointed to a stool that had been prepared not far from him: "Sit." ”

This order made Xu Ping hesitate for a moment, and when he was thinking about whether to resign, he heard Wang Chengen's voice from behind: "This is the rule of the Lantai duet, no matter who is summoned, you must sit down and talk to the Long Live Lord." ”

"Yes." Since this is the case, Xu Ping no longer hesitated, and sat down beside Chongzhen generously.

"Lord, do you have anything to say to me?"

"Your Majesty," Xu Ping immediately spit out the words that he had long been familiar with: "My lord Shun Wang, I implore Your Majesty to follow the story of Yao Shun and give him the position of emperor." If Your Majesty is willing to renounce the honor of ten thousand vehicles, my lord is willing to give it to him in a feudal domain. ”

Xu Ping felt that things were going more smoothly than he imagined, these days he had seen all kinds of ugliness of the Ming courtiers, Xu Ping also knew the fall of the Ming Dynasty, no matter the virtuous and foolish, there was no doubt at all: "Although Your Majesty retreated to the domain, the blood of the Zhu family is not extinguished, and the prince is hereditary." In the end, His Majesty will be able to set up the banner of the Son of Heaven and not kneel when he sees the edict. ”

Xu Ping waited hopefully for the other party's response, if Emperor Chongzhen agreed to Li Zicheng's conditions, then the world could pass on the decision, even if the heart of the Ming Dynasty, raising troops against Dashun again would not be a righteous loyal minister, but an out-and-out rebellion.

There was no joy or anger on the face of the man in front of him, and Xu Ping heard another peaceful question: "What domain?" ”

After hearing this question, Xu Ping hesitated slightly, and the middle-aged man stared at him, knowing that it would be difficult to win people's trust if he didn't know if he said it at this time, Xu Ping replied honestly: "King Song." ”

King Wu cut down and took Prince Yin as the king of Song. This name was given by Niu Jinxing, and the intention was to show the world that Dashun had won the country, which was a kind of self-flaunting for Dashun, and for Da Mingzi, Xu Ping certainly knew the derogatory meaning contained in it.

Fortunately, Xu Ping didn't see the joy and anger on the face of the man in front of him, the other party just nodded slightly, and there was no change in expression. This made Xu Ping feel a little lucky: "Maybe Emperor Ming doesn't know this allusion?" But thinking about it again, Xu Ping felt that the possibility that the other party didn't know was too small, but thinking about it like this, it seemed that the possibility of the other party accepting the proposal became greater.

"I heard that you can also be a king of the northwest."

The question asked by Chongzhen made Xu Ping a little unsure of what to say, and after a while, he nodded lightly: "Your Majesty clearly sees it, but since Your Majesty ascended to the Imperial Palace, he has overcharged the traitorous ministers on the left and right, and the King of Shun is willing to follow Yihuo and eliminate the evils for His Majesty, I don't know if Your Majesty is allowed." ”

Today is the first time, Xu Ping noticed that a trace of almost imperceptible pain flashed in the eyes of the man opposite, this condition was also proposed by Niu Jinxing, if Emperor Chongzhen was unwilling to abdicate immediately, he felt that Li Zicheng could be the regent for a few years. In this way, it can be regarded as taking care of Chongzhen's face a little, and after King Shun coerced the princes of Heaven and sat down in a secure position, then let Chongzhen or Chongzhen's son Chan Rang discuss again.

For Li Zicheng, it is of course the best to be the king of Zhou Wu, but if the situation is complicated, in order to let Li Shun's regime take over the world as little as possible, then Li Zicheng is not unable to consider becoming the king of Zhou Wen.

"Do you have any ancestral heirlooms?" Chongzhen suddenly asked a very strange question.

"Yes." Although he didn't know why, Xu Ping replied immediately.

"What is it?"

"A piece of jade pendant."

"What do you do with ancestral things?" Chongzhen asked, and without waiting for Xu Ping to answer, he preemptively said: "I guess, you will definitely hide it carefully when you have been fighting in the south and the north over the years, and hide it tightly close to your body, for fear that it will be lost, and you will take it out and look at it carefully during the New Year's holidays, and your heart is full of reverence and cherishment." Even though you have hidden this jade pendant well, you will check it again every day before going to bed, and when you find that it is indeed not lost but is still intact, you will still breathe a sigh of relief, and you will only be able to lie down when you are sure that the ancestral object is still safe and sound......"

The middle-aged man in front of him seemed to have suddenly lost the reserve of the emperor, and spoke excitedly, Xu listened quietly, the man did not look at himself when he spoke, it was not like asking himself a question at all, but he was narrating some of his own past by himself, Xu Ping seemed to even see a glimmer of tears in the man's eyes.

"Am I right?" Chongzhen, who had finished his tirade, seemed to have lost his temper, and his tone returned to the peace and majesty he had just now.

"Your Majesty said yes." Xu Ping nodded, he has indeed been hiding the ancestral jade pendant by his side all these years, this is the only thing that Xu Ping can entrust his feelings for the ancestors he has never met, Xu Ping also thought that if he unfortunately died in battle, his subordinates could also let themselves be buried with the things of their ancestors.

"I am incompetent, I am to blame, and I am treacherous, so that the sea is boiling." The middle-aged man's tone began to hurry again, and Xu Ping noticed that the other party's robe feet that had never moved at all, and they were also trembling slightly: "There is a crime in the world, and the sin is in me, and I am in my body!" ”

When the man spoke, Xu Ping heard Wang Chengen's wheezing voice behind him, and it became rapid and heavy.

"It's all my sins!" The man emphasized again, stared at Xu Ping's eyes, and said word by word: "I will never shirk my faults, my lord's subordinates, and I will bear their grudges." ”

I don't know what kind of behavior Wang Chengen has behind him, Xu Ping only saw the middle-aged man raise a hand and signal to the person behind him, while raising his hand, the man continued: "But my emperor, young and virtuous, is not at all like me who is stupid and cruel. ”

"Your Majesty......" Xu Ping could probably guess what Emperor Chongzhen was going to say, and when he saw that the other party stopped talking, he wanted to explain.

"I'm not done yet!" The middle-aged man just took a breath, and did not intend to stop giving Xu Ping a chance to answer whether he agreed or not: "I will judge myself to thank the people of the world, and I am willing to crown the lord as the king, hereditary replacement, and grant it to the northwest region, how about it?" Give my emperor a few years," the middle-aged man's accent hadn't changed much from just now, but the majesty inside had been mixed with some pleading: "The lord is right, I don't know the ability of people, and the court is a traitor, so let King Shun assist my emperor to eliminate the evils of the Ming Revolution." ”

Xu Ping was speechless, and Chongzhen added another sentence: "The lord retreats to Shanxi, and I will judge myself to the world and the people, and I will not break my word!" ”

Since ancient times, it has been difficult to die alone, and on the way from Shanxi to Beijing, Xu Ping feels more and more that he is not carrying out a task of death or life. The emperors of the past dynasties are clothed and fed, and they are not afraid of death, but they are groups of people who want to live forever and worship the Buddha all day long, not to mention that Xu Ping has regarded Chongzhen as the king of the dead country, and none of the kings of the dead country since ancient times are determined and have a strong personality - such a character is generally the founder of the country and the lord of Zhongxing.

Therefore, Xu Ping did not expect that he would face such a conversation and problem at all, and before entering the Imperial Garden today, he even optimistically thought that the war would end in a few hours, or even half an hour.

"You don't have any jokes," the man reiterated when he saw that Xu Ping was slow to speak, "I can tell the world." At this moment, Chongzhen's hand was still raised in the air, and he had been maintaining a posture since just now, reminding Wang Chengen behind Xu Ping.

"Your Majesty." Xu Ping shook his head slowly, he understood what the man said, and he had no doubt that the other party's feelings were sincere, but at the moment, it was impossible for the Shun army to retreat. The soldiers were approaching the city and approaching the edge of the trench, and the Ming court had no room for bargaining, not to mention, Xu Ping had begun to recover from the shock, and he began to suspect that the other party was using a delaying tactic.

"Don't say it!" The man on the other side seemed to have guessed Xu Ping's answer, and he broke off: "Xu Ping, you are not the master, you go back and ask the master, and tell the master what I said to the master." ”

Xu Ping closed his mouth, although the middle-aged man opposite was the culprit of the world's boiling, causing hundreds of millions of people to die, but suddenly, Xu Ping felt some sympathy for this man.

"I will let you out of the city at once, and you will go to the lord at once, and let him answer me!"

The other party's speed of speech became faster and faster, and he gradually lost that imperial momentum.

If he was just an ordinary envoy, Xu Ping should indeed go back and ask Li Zicheng to answer Chongzhen's question, but he was the highest-ranking general in Dashun and had participated in all the most confidential discussions in Dashun's upper echelons. Therefore, Xu Ping knew very well what would be the answer to Chongzhen's unreasonable request Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing, even if it was Xu Ping himself, if there was a messenger to bring back such a request, he would also scoff at it.

But this was also the first time in a few days that Xu Ping suddenly realized that his life was in great danger again, the kind of danger that he had gradually forgotten these days and began to stop believing in.

Although the middle-aged man on the opposite side still had a happy and angry expression, his cuffs began to tremble slightly like the feet of his robe.

"Maybe you should agree to come down first and get out of the city safely? Anyway, I'm not lying, although I know that I will be ridiculed, but I will also repeat Emperor Ming's words to the king. Xu Ping pondered in his heart, and with this thought, Xu Ping was no longer engrossed in Chongzhen's expression, but couldn't help but want to look around at his current situation with his spare eyes.

When Xu Ping's gaze swept to the arm that the man was holding high, he saw that after the majestic and solemn dragon robe hung down, the underwear exposed on the man's forearm was covered with patches, and the man's arm was also covered with frostbite and scars.

After noticing Xu Ping's gaze, the middle-aged man's face suddenly turned red, and he suddenly withdrew his arm, and forcefully pulled the dragon robe back to his wrist, covering the rags under the dragon robe.

"Your Majesty, the ministers have heard that the emperor is thin and the world is fat." Xu Ping looked at the man opposite in disbelief, he had been accustomed to seeing the arrogance and lasciviousness of the Ming Dynasty officials for several years, and he had received so much gold, silver and jewelry along the way, even Emperor Chongzhen would not be surprised to meet him on a golden chair: "Is this Your Majesty's clothes?" Your Majesty is wearing such ragged clothes, how can the world still be so poor? ”

Losing Chongzhen's controlling gestures, he could no longer hold on to Wang Chengen's howl, he threw himself on the ground, and said in tears: "Long live Lord hasn't made new clothes for ten years, and these patches are all sewn by the queen mother herself...... Long Live Lord works day and night, but he is reluctant to light a charcoal fire to keep warm on a cold night, and chilblains cannot delay Long Live Lord to correct the recital, it has always been the matter of the day that is finished on the same day...... Even if he is sick, he has never missed the court, and he has never been late for decades...... How can this be the case? Who knows? God knows! ”

Wang Chengen's words didn't sound like a lie, and with the demeanor of the person opposite, Xu Ping couldn't believe that the other party was acting to deceive himself. It's just that the suffering of the people in the world is what Xu Ping has seen with his own eyes, and the disintegration of the Ming court and the separation of monarchs and ministers from morality are even more true.

"Could these things have happened under the rule of a Dao Ming Jun?"

"But if what the prince said is true, then what is the middle-aged man on the other side who is not a rare Taoist monarch in the ages?"

Many thoughts came one after another, and Xu Ping was suddenly confused.

Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, corruption was rampant, the people were not able to make a living, since the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Donglin Dynasty, and even the national important codes such as the imperial examination were under the fraudulent control of the Fushe. It is difficult for Xu Ping to imagine how an emperor who has personally experienced it can be ignorant of this or powerless to reverse it, if he really wants what Wang Chengen said, then how can Emperor Chongzhen be deceived? It's like, in a den of bandits who do all kinds of evil, their mountain king is a sage, how is this possible?

But if this is really the case, the other party is not a stupid and greedy emperor who indulges in pleasure, then if Xu Ping makes an answer that dissatisfies the other party, his fate can be imagined.

Seeing that Xu Ping's face changed a few times, the middle-aged man opposite suddenly said in an aggravated tone: "The ancestors are in the wind and rain in the world, once lost, I have no face to see the ancestors underground, if General Xu refuses to agree to persuade me to persuade the lord, do you really dare not kill you?" ”

"This is probably Emperor Ming's last bit of fantasy, and the drowning person is the last straw to hold tightly, although he himself knows that this is just futile when he is sober." Xu Ping understood that the person on the other side had begun to lose the ability to think, and he hesitated whether there was any point in continuing to preserve this illusion for the other party.

"General Xu," Wang Chengen pleaded behind his back: "Our family is willing to go with General Xu to see King Shun, the people who mislead the world are those ministers, not long live." ”

"Xu Ping, if you don't promise me today, don't want to get out of here alive." The middle-aged man lost some of the emperor's reserve again, and issued a **naked threat: "As long as the lord agrees, my head can also be given to him." ”

Chongzhen didn't know that digging up the graves of Li Zicheng's parents was a shallow and useless trip, and there were many things similar to the loss of the royal system, but as long as he could keep the social status of his ancestors, even if it was a boring behavior, as long as it seemed that there was a little possibility, he couldn't help but do it: "The division of the lord, I can set up the ancestral teachings of the family law, so that it will not be easy for future generations to live forever." ”

Xu Ping knew that the other party could say this kind of thing, which was already a rare confidence, and it was not much more important than Li Zicheng's trust in himself, but it was too ridiculous.

"The minister does not dare to deceive Your Majesty," Xu Ping said: "What Your Majesty said will never come true." ”

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