Chapter 485: In the Palace
When Liang Hao subdued Chen Yuanyuan, Li Zicheng led his army, and he had already come to Juyong Pass, Emperor Chongzhen asked Tang Tong and the eunuch Du Zhizhi to guard Juyong Pass, but he didn't expect Tang Tong to go out of the city and fight with Li Zicheng, but the eunuch of the prison army surrendered to Li Zicheng, causing Tang Tong to suffer from the enemy on his back, and finally surrendered to Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng's army was like a bamboo, all the way to Xizhimen, Li Zicheng wanted to negotiate peace with Chongzhen, but was refused, Li Zicheng was furious, and directly began to attack the capital.
Originally, those ministers who insisted on coexisting with the capital knew that Li Zicheng's army was coming, and they fled the palace one after another, wanting to protect themselves by surrendering Li Zicheng after Li Zicheng attacked and entered the city for the sake of interests.
Now in the palace, Emperor Chongzhen learned that Li Zicheng's army had attacked Xizhimen, and it was impossible for the guards in the capital to hold it, and the ministers couldn't count on it, so they all fled for their lives.
But Emperor Chongzhen is an upright person, never grovelling, for the face of his ancestors, he thought of suicide, and his ancestors lived and died together.
However, before he was temporary, he had to let his women and daughters be buried together, in order not to let the women of the Ming Dynasty be insulted.
At this time, he was like a walking corpse, and came to the queen's bedroom, Kunning Palace, and the queen Zhou saw Chongzhen like this, knew that something was wrong, and shouted.
"Your Majesty......?"
"It's over, it's all over, the army of thieves has come to the city, our Daming country has gone, I want to be thrifty all my life, I want to let Daming return to the prosperous world, but I didn't expect it to fall to this point, I'm sorry for the ancestors and ancestors......!"
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen burst into tears, and Empress Zhou saw that His Majesty, who had never shed tears, was born crying bitterly, and her heart was also sad from her heart, and she also hid her face and cried.
Even the eunuch who followed beside him, Wang Chengen was in tears.
"Wang Chengen, pass the decree, let the prince and princess, and the harem concubines all come here, and I have something to announce. ”
After crying for a while, Emperor Chongzhen knew that time was running out, and hurriedly explained to his most loyal Wang Chengen.
"Yes, Your Majesty, the old slave is going!"
Wang Chengen heard Emperor Chongzhen's words, wiped his tears with his sleeve, and then led the two little eunuchs down.
It didn't take long for a group of men and women to come to the front of Kunning Palace and stand in a row, including three princes, two princesses, and the rest were concubines.
These concubines are all beautiful, but now they also know the situation in Daming, and they all have sad faces and sad faces.
The two princesses, one is six years old and the other is fourteen or fifteen years old, it is Princess Changping and Princess Zhaoren, Princess Changping is as beautiful as a fairy, and Princess Zhaoren is smart and cute, but they are silent at this time.
Now that Liang Hao has arrived, it has triggered a butterfly effect, which has changed from the original work, and Princess Changping and Yuan Chengzhi have nothing to do with it.
At this time, Liang Hao came to the palace by himself, and everyone else was sent outside the city by him, and looking at Chongzhen's actions, he knew what he was going to do.
In later generations, there are many people who think that Chongzhen is very cruel and even kills his own daughter, but Liang Hao doesn't think so, he does this, but he loves his daughter too much, he doesn't want to see his daughter tortured to death as a princess of the dead country after his death.
On the contrary, this is the best relief, from a historical point of view, the princesses of all dynasties and generations have not ended well, such as the Han Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, and so on!
"Come on, take the three princes out of the palace and protect them. Chongzhen instructed the few remaining guards.
"Your Majesty......!" These guards knew that the general trend was gone, but they were still loyal to Da Ming, and when they heard Chongzhen's words, they knelt down one after another.
"Father...... Emperor!"
The three princes, seeing this, of course knew what was going on, so they knelt down directly and cried.
"Hurry up, do you also want to resist and disobey the order?......!" Chongzhen hurriedly waved his hand and asked them to take the three of them away, and then turned around, unable to bear to look directly.
"Yes, Your Majesty......!"
A group of guards, hearing Emperor Chongzhen's words, could only take the order in the end, and with the three princes, they quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Now that the country is dying, I can't do anything, I am ready to die to apologize to my ancestors and ancestors, and you will kill yourself as my concubines and queens!"
"Your Majesty......!" all the women, whether they were queens or concubines, all had red eyes, looking at Chongzhen, they didn't want to die, but when they saw Chongzhen's cold eyes, they didn't dare to speak, and finally the queen sighed and walked to her palace first.
The other imperial concubines were the same, walking towards their palace with tears, and committing suicide with equipment, although they didn't want to die, but it was impossible, even if they didn't do it themselves, they believed that Chongzhen would send someone to do it, it was better to commit suicide and die a decent death.
"Emperor, you shouldn't have been born in the emperor's family! In order not to let you be humiliated, my father can only send you away first, you can rest assured, I will accompany you immediately. ”
Chongzhen watched his concubines retreat, and directly pulled out the sword in his hand, first pointing at Princess Changping.
"Ah......h
"Father, don't ......!"
Seeing her father pointing a sword at herself and her sister, the six-year-old Princess Zhaoren screamed in fright and cried, and Princess Changping directly held her sister in her arms and shook her head with a pleading face.
Liang Hao couldn't stand it anymore when he saw this, and said directly: "The husband forced his wife to death, and then killed his daughter with his own hands, is there anything more cruel in the world?"
Liang Hao's voice, like an echo, sounded throughout the palace, and the concubines and queens who were about to commit suicide stopped.
"Who's the escort!"
At this time, hearing the voice that suddenly appeared in everyone's ears, everyone was startled, there were two guards left around Chongzhen, and some of the eunuchs were left, and they all protected Chongzhen in the center and looked around.
They thought that Li Zicheng's men had already entered the palace, so they were so frightened that their whole bodies trembled and cold sweat broke out.
"Hahaha! They are all people who are ready to die, what else is there to be afraid of, to scare you like this, this seat still thinks that you have put life and death out of the way! It seems that this seat looks down on you. ”
Liang Hao laughed, like a fairy in the air, falling downward, everyone heard the laughter, they all looked up at the sky, and saw Liang Hao flying down from the sky, they opened their mouths in shock, and they couldn't believe that all this was true.
(End of chapter)