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Chapter 499 499 The Writer and the Emperor 9

In the summer and autumn of the eighth year of the Apocalypse, Shaanxi sweet potatoes and corn harvested, the good news reached the capital, the emperor raised his eyebrows, the ministers were silent for a moment, bowed to the ground, and congratulated the emperor on great joy.

The emperor was naturally overjoyed, these two crops do not know how many lives can be saved, once implemented, the hungry people in Shaanxi and Henan will be reduced, and he will not be afraid of the chaos in the world, and the displaced people will rise everywhere.

You must know that the Ming Dynasty did not die in the Manchu Dynasty, but in Li Zicheng.

However, the Manchus have become powerful, and they can no longer be ignored - in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi died, and Huang Taiji ascended the throne as Khan. In May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji personally led a large army to invade the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army won a great victory in the Battle of Ningjin, which narrowly blocked Huang Taiji's southward footsteps.

In the eighth year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji allied with the Mongols, swept the world and annexed the heart of the Eight Desolations, and the Ming court reprimanded the ambitions of the Tartar chieftains, but in addition to defense, there was no power to counterattack.

The only good news this year was the harvest of sweet potatoes and corn, two life-saving grains, and the emperor could not wait any longer, and ordered that it be promoted in Shaanxi, Henan and other places immediately next year in preparation for the year of hunger.

The other piece of good news is that the princess is pregnant.

Since the death of the crown prince, the sound of children frolicking in the Forbidden City is no longer heard, the emperor is in good health, and even pulls the queen to practice the art of strengthening the body, but there is no effect, from the queen to the concubines, there is no news.

The queen intended to choose another beauty for the emperor to give birth to an heir, but the emperor stopped him: "Where can I indulge in beauty in the current situation? ”

The queen wants to wear her eyes every day, only hoping that she or her concubine will be pregnant, but the good news has not come for a long time, but she believes that the good news comes from the palace first.

The emperor already had a plan in his heart: he was afraid that he would not survive.

Reasoning, the Emperor of the Apocalypse should have died in August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and the soul of Puxiang Zhenren came from the afterlife, reversing his fate, but he could not reverse the fortune of his descendants.

In history, none of the emperors of the Apocalypse lived to adulthood, and no one in the palace was pregnant after June of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, but I am afraid that this is still the case.

Since the emperor is not born, he should pass the heirs from the clan, and all the vassals are watching with their eyes, where can the emperor allow them to covet the throne, and he can't wait to gouge out all their eyeballs one by one.

Believing that the princess was pregnant, the emperor breathed a sigh of relief: if nothing else, this baby should be the later Prince Cihong, he is unwilling to give the throne to others, to this Prince Cihong, even if the fertilizer does not flow into the fields of outsiders.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, Princess Xin gave birth to dragon and phoenix twins, and the emperor gave her the name, the male name Cihong, and the female name Miao.

Then the emperor looked for his younger brother and cried: "At my age, my knees are so desolate that people are frightening......"

King Xin loved his brother very much, and when he saw him crying like this, he panicked: "Why do you say such things as the imperial brother, our brother, my son is your son, you think the palace is desolate, I will bring more Cihong into the palace, and you will be on your knees." ”

The emperor wiped away his tears: "Don't be so troublesome, fifth brother, you can succeed Cihong and me as the crown prince." ”

King Xin was taken aback: "Brother Huang, you are still young, why bother, why ......?"

King Xin couldn't go on, he was a father for the first time, and he hurt a pair of newborn girls to the bones, that is, he wanted the stars and moon in the sky, and he could also think of picking them. If someone wants to snatch a child, he wants to bite that person to death.

It's his emperor's eldest brother who is talking now, the emperor has become more mature and stable in the past two years, but he cried without regard for face, his eyes and nose were red, and he couldn't bear to see King Xin for a while.

He was so bad that he almost nodded his head, so he remembered that the child was born to the princess, and if it was given to the royal brother, wouldn't it cost the princess her life?

King Xin stubbornly said: "Mother and son cannot be separated by nature, and the imperial brother allows me to discuss with the princess." ”

Since the emperor had the intention of succeeding Cihong as the crown prince, he could not ask the woman to interrupt the mercy, and as soon as the king left the palace, he quickly sought out the queen and told her that he was going to do so.

The queen was surprised and delighted: "It would be great if you could raise Cihong to be the crown prince, but where can the fifth brother and fifth brother and sister be willing to give up?"

The emperor said: "I just cried with my fifth brother, you find your fifth brother and sister to cry." ”

Queen: "......" The emperor is stable and capable, but sometimes this is out of tune, and it is more powerful than before.

After thinking about it, the queen wanted to ensure the stability of the Ming Dynasty and make the emperor's knees not empty, so she really had to start from Princess Xin, so she really drove the palace and cried fiercely at the Zhou family.

When Prince Huaichong was in the womb that day, the queen stroked her stomach every day and imagined how happy and heroic he should be when he grew up, who knew that she was killed by Ke and Wei, Prince Huaichong was born as a stillborn, she didn't even hear the cry of the child, and she suffered from the separation of mother and son.

Cihong and Yu Jiao were both born very well, with white and chubby smiling faces like silver plates, and the queen fell in love with them at a glance, holding them in her arms and refusing to let go. The nurse wanted to take the two children to feed the milk, and the queen's eyes were glued to them, so she just followed them, and she couldn't even take care of the princess.

King Xin came back early and told Princess Xin about the emperor's plan, but Princess Xin seemed to have stripped out her heart and liver, where would she give the child out? Who knew that the queen's sister-in-law chased after the house, and when she thought of Prince Huaichong, she burst into tears, and cried so much that Princess Xin was also uncomfortable.

Princess Rixin was able to stand out from the show girls and become the princess, thanks to the queen's blue eyes, and the princess also trusted the queen very much after marriage, and the two got along very well.

With such affection, Princess Xin fell into the same dilemma as King Xin, one is the flesh and blood of the blood, the other is the brother and sister-in-law who are affectionate and righteous, plus the stability of the country, on the righteousness and patriarchy, they should give up these two children, they are still young, and they can always be reborn.

But the dragon and phoenix twins were conceived and born by Princess Xin in October, and the mother and son were connected, and asking her to give her two children to the emperor was tantamount to taking away her heart and liver.

Princess Xin felt sorry for the queen, but no matter how distressed she was, she couldn't send her children out, the queen and Princess Xin cried against each other, and in the end, the queen couldn't bear it first, so she had to go back to the palace first.

However, Princess Xin didn't know that King Xin had already made up his mind.

The dragon and phoenix fetus are only full moon, and the king of Xin sent them into the palace, and the emperor was overjoyed, and immediately prepared for the ceremony of canonizing the prince with the Ministry of Rites, and gave the title of Changping to the concubine, and sent it to the middle palace to raise.

Princess Xin was heartbroken, the only time in her life that she was disrespectful to her husband and slapped King Xin. She couldn't believe that there was such a ruthless husband in the world, and it was not enough to send her son out, even her daughter was sent out!

The king of the letter was beaten and scolded, and the emperor's eldest brother cried like that in front of him, he wanted to be loyal to the monarch and filial piety, so he had to send the two children out, and his heart hurt so much?

Princess Xin was angry and sad, the child had been sent to the Forbidden City, the prince and princess were canonized, and it was too late for her to regret it, so she had to be angry with King Xin.

The king swore an oath that from now on he would never have another child, and that the princess's children would be treated as if they were his heart and would never be given to others again.

In order to relieve the pain, Princess Xin soon became pregnant with another child, despite the fact that her body had not yet recovered.

The emperor was ashamed, and often called their husbands and wives into the palace to raise the dragon and phoenix fetus together, which slightly relieved the pain of King Xin and Princess Xin.

In the summer of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian hit the Donglin forces hard, and at the same time, he was also impeached, Qingliu's revenge was menacing, and the nine thousand years old were majestic for many years, and finally couldn't stop this offensive and begged the emperor to save him.

The emperor had promised to save Wei Zhongxian's life, so he was stripped of his position as the eunuch in charge of the seal and sent to the central capital to guard the tomb.

Wei Zhongxian never imagined that his brother, who was brought up with one hand, would treat him so ruthlessly, and as soon as he arrived in Zhongdu, he hanged himself with a rope and understood his life.

When the emperor heard the news, he sighed and ordered Wei Zhongxian to be buried.

If it was the Emperor of the Apocalypse in the past, he would not have treated Wei Zhongxian like this, but now the soul contained in the shell of the emperor is half of Puxiang's real person. Tianqi regards Wei Zhongxian as his big companion, but Puxiang sees him as a chess piece.

Puxiang jumped from a writer to the supreme emperor in the world, and the arbitrary and unsentimental side of his personality was gradually revealed, so that the queen could still get some warmth from him.

That day, Puxiang was thinking about it, wanting to starve himself to death, but Wei Zhongxian tried every means to save his life, and the first thought after the emperor woke up was: This is what you asked for.

As soon as Wei Zhongxian died, the eunuchs dispersed, and Donglin was also hit hard at this time, and the emperor took the opportunity to win the hearts of the people, and there was a trend of "all the talents in the world entered my world".

In August of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, King Fu raised the anti-flag, claiming to be orthodox, and falsely claimed that Emperor Shenzong left an edict on that day to order King Fu to ascend the throne.

King Fu co-opted a large number of clans who refused to work, take imperial examinations, and do business, and the rebels approached Jingshi, and at this time, the emperor had very few available troops, so he had to rush to the battle.

In October, Huang Taiji bypassed the Ningjin defense line, borrowed Mongolia to break through the Great Wall, and reached the city of Beijing.

The rebels with pigtails of money flaunted their might under the city of Beijing, and the emperor was under attack at this time, and the situation was more severe than that of the Jiashen Revolution in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

The emperor suddenly realized that he relied on his knowledge of history, but he ignored the changes of time, and others were not the shadow puppets on the stage, he had changed, would others follow the original path?

It was his impatience that caused the situation to deteriorate to this point.

Fortunately, the emperor has not completely lost confidence, and unlike Chongzhen, who has been trained for seventeen years, there is still a glimmer of hope in his heart.

The emperor immediately arranged for the empress and King Xin's family to flee, and ordered them to go to Nanjing first, and then keep Shandong.

The emperor said to King Xin: "Cihong is young, if I am martyred, you will ascend the throne, and you will still take Cihong as the crown prince." Fifth brother, this world will be entrusted to you!"

Who knew that King Xin shook his head and said, "I won't go." ”

The emperor was furious: "If you don't leave, we will all die here, will the great rivers and mountains be given to Fu Yi or a Tartar?"

King Xin said: "The minister has been favored by the emperor for many years, if he turns his back on the Son of Heaven and flees for his life, he will have no face to see his ancestors and ancestors." The royal brother arranged for the princess to flee with the prince and the princess, and the minister followed the royal brother, if the enemy army approached, the minister would be martyred first, and then it would be the turn of the imperial brother!"