Looking at Shen Yichen's determined gaze, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu felt his heart beat for some reason.

So he turned his back and said, "Cheng Jing, then you can accompany Shen Qing to Nangong." ”

"The slave obeys."

Cheng Jing bowed to Zhu Qiyu, he knew that he was going to Nangong together to play a supervisory role, ensuring that the Emperor Zhu Qizhen died in Shen Yichen's "hands".

After receiving the order, Cheng Jing turned around and said to Shen Yichen: "Shen Ge Lao, please." ”

"Minister, retire!"

After Shen Yichen spit out these three words, he resolutely turned around and walked out of the imperial study to achieve the real act of killing the king!

Nangong is located in the southeast corner of the Forbidden City, the east garden of the imperial city, not far away, said to be close to the specifications of the Forbidden City, also a few miles away.

After leaving the Chengtian Gate, Shen Yichen and Cheng Jing rode in the same carriage, even if he had already made a decision in his heart, the expression on Shen Yichen's face was still full of solemnity at this moment, after all, he has now understood a truth, the direction of history will not go completely according to his plan.

Perhaps feeling the tension of Shen Yichen's emotions, Cheng Jing said softly: "Elder Shen Ge, our family always remembers that on the day you returned from the Liaodong class, you also rode in the same carriage like this. ”

"You said that you eat the king's fortune, be loyal to the king, and bear the king's worries, since there are no two days in the sky and no two lords in the country, then there is only one king left, and now it's time to fulfill your promise."

Listening to Cheng Jing's words, a wry smile appeared on the corner of Shen Yichen's mouth, indeed his thoughts from beginning to end were to let Emperor Jingtai kill his brother to prevent future troubles and avoid the changes in Nangong in history.

It's just that who would have thought that he would become the executioner of the king's killer?

"Yes, you have to admit what you have said, thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace."

Cheng Jing heard the self-deprecation in Shen Yichen's words, so he shook his head and replied: "Shen Ge Lao, you also said something in the end, which is called fairness and freedom in the hearts of the people. ”

"The edict of the Son of Heaven has to be obeyed, and as a royal servant, our family is not qualified to judge the right and wrong of the definition. But Zeng Hanlin's past told me that Shen Zhongtang, your temperament is from the Tao and not from the king, even if you suffer from the accusations of thousands of people, as long as you can abide by your heart, the world will give you justice. ”

From the change in title, Shen Yichen knew that Cheng Jing was telling the truth. Although he has now become a eunuch, the literati integrity in his bones is indelible after all.

Cheng Jing admired Shen Yichen very much, and knew that he was a loyal and good man who really supported Sheji, but the imperial power was destined to be unchallenged and violated. Even if Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu is not a one-man king, he still can't accept any existence that is out of control.

The only thing Cheng Jing can do now is to hope that Shen Yichen can figure this out and don't change his original intention of taking the world as his own responsibility!

Shen Yichen didn't understand this truth, he nodded with a wry smile and said: "Father-in-law Xie Cheng gave a word, no matter what happens to the cabinet, he will still not forget his promise on the bank of the Zhenjiang River, and forget his original intention of being an official." ”

After saying that, Shen Yichen turned his gaze to the car window, not wanting to say more.

The carriage pressed the bluestone road, "creaking" to the Nangong, compared with the palace gate where only a few guards were stationed before, the current Nangong is simply surrounded by the brocade guards and the forbidden army like an iron bucket, and even the trees in the courtyard have been cut down, which can be described as difficult to fly.

The concubines who used to be used for Zhu Qizhen's pleasure are now also forbidden to enter, and there are only a few eunuchs and palace maids left in the huge palace, and the emperor has become a complete loner.

After the guards verified their identities, they opened the palace door, Shen Yichen, Cheng Jing and others walked in, and at this time, Zhu Qizhen sat on the main seat in the main hall with his hair scattered, and he could not see the slightest shadow of being an emperor on his body.

If it weren't for the dragon robe, I'm afraid it would not be much different from the homeless man on the street, after this scene came into Shen Yichen's eyes, he suddenly had an indescribable feeling, and his heart could be described as full of mixed feelings.

After all, I have witnessed Zhu Qizhen's high-spirited appearance, listened to his ambition to make the country prosperous, and felt his ambition to expand the territory. Time has passed, and Zhu Qizhen has been completely deprived of his spirit, as if he has become a living walking corpse.

Looking at Shen Yichen walking step by step from the courtyard, Zhu Qizhen, whose eyes were blank, seemed to have a ray of light in his eyes, but he quickly returned to a decadent appearance.

"Chen Shen Yichen, I have seen the emperor."

Even if the other party has lost his status and authority, Shen Yichen still did not take the opportunity to step on his feet, and maintained the etiquette that he should have as a courtier. Cheng Jing, who was standing next to him at the same time, also respectfully saluted Zhu Qizhen and gave the former emperor basic courtesy.

"Why, did you come here to take my life?"

Zhu Qizhen asked Shen Yichen in a contemptuous tone, from the moment he failed to seize the door, he already knew that his next fate was nothing more than a matter of time.

Put yourself in your shoes, if you succeed in restoring and ascending the throne, then you will not give Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, a way to live, the emperor is destined not to have sibling affection!

Feeling Zhu Qizhen's contempt, Shen Yichen only smiled, without the slightest wave in his heart, let alone any dissatisfaction and anger.

He still replied calmly: "Emperor, the current saint is the king of the time, Wen Taowu is not inferior to you, under his control, the Ming Dynasty will be able to restore the peak national strength, complete the crusade against the Mongol Tatars, and finally reach peace in the four seas." ”

"For the sake of the sect, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and for the sake of the common people, there can only be one emperor in the world!"

Hearing Shen Yichen calmly admit his purpose, Zhu Qizhen, who was lying limply on the chair, sat up reluctantly, and then laughed wantonly.

"Hahaha, the Lord of Time?"

"Shen Yichen, did you use the previous flattery on King Yu?"

"It's just a pity that the traitor who betrays the lord and seeks glory has no good end after all, and the king sent you to kill the king, which means that he thinks you are a disloyal and unrighteous rebel and thief without a king and a father!"

"Even if I run out of energy today, Shen Yichen, you thief who kills the king, will be spurned by everyone, and there will be no good end!"

Zhu Qizhen cursed wildly, venting the resentment and anger in his heart, and at the same time a hint of revenge. No matter how he lost his teacher and humiliated the country, as long as the Ming Dynasty did not die, he was destined to have the identity of a monarch's father, even if King Yu ascended the throne as the emperor, he could not be deprived of it.

Shen Yichen, a thief, was ordered to kill the king, and his next fate was doomed, and he will be nailed to the pillar of shame in the history books forever!

This curse made Cheng Jing and the others who followed up with Canghuo Tou look unusually ugly. Cheng Jing was worried that Shen Yichen was afraid of his reputation before and after, so he chose to resist the decree and refuse to kill the king, so he told him a lot of heartfelt words.

Now the words of Emperor Zhu Qizhen undoubtedly make the consequences clear, and empathy is indeed difficult to bear.

As for Canghuo's first and other personal guards, they couldn't understand that Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu sent Shen Yichen to kill the monarch, and the political balance and compromise behind it were simply that they felt worthless for the proprietor.

Obviously, he has paid so much for the society and the people, but in the end, he has to bear the infamy of killing the king, is it so difficult to be a good official?

Heaven is unfair!

Compared with the worries and anger of Cheng Jing and Canghuo and others, Shen Yichen looked as usual, as if Zhu Qizhen's heart-wrenching words did not affect him in the slightest.

I saw him step forward, until he stood in front of the Emperor Zhu Qizhen, looking at the other party with a condescending attitude, and then he spoke: "Emperor, as the saying goes, the coffin is closed, and what kind of evaluation the minister will get from the people in the world will not be concluded until at least a hundred years later." ”

"But there is one thing that the minister can be sure of now, that is, he will not regret everything he has done, there will be some people in this world who will stand up and sacrifice, if all of them are for a good reputation, it will be a shame in life!"

After that, Shen Yichen slowly retreated in Zhu Qizhen's surprised eyes, and then bowed down and said: "The emperor star is heavy and majestic, and the emperor is invited to drink this cup of wine, and he will be safe in the sky." ”

After Shen Yichen's words fell, Wang Neng behind him immediately came to the Emperor Zhu Qizhen with a glass of wine.

Looking at the wine in front of him, the contempt on Zhu Qizhen's face quickly turned into horror. After all, he is not as tough as he thought, and it is his nature to be greedy for life and afraid of death in his bones, otherwise he would not have made a move that has been stinking for thousands of years.

After all, there are so many kings who have died in the past dynasties, and it is unique to be reduced to Zhu Qizhen as a leading party.

"I am the true dragon son of heaven, who dares to take my life, I don't drink, I don't drink!"

The sharp screams resounded through the Nangong Palace, and no one expected that at the last moment of his life, the Emperor Zhu Qizhen would behave so weakly and cowardly, trampling on the last trace of the emperor's honor to the extreme.

For the appearance of this scene, Shen Yichen had expected it, there was no poisonous wine that sealed the throat with blood in ancient times, and the normal execution process was to drink the wine and then strangle it with white silk on the road.

Since Emperor Zhu Qizhen was unwilling to be decent, Shen Yichen had no choice but to use Bai Aya in advance to help him be decent.

"The emperor, the minister said that as the emperor, you must be responsible for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in the Ming Dynasty, for the people who died in the Jiubian family, and for the stability of the country and the mountains in the future."

"No one can be exempt from consequences, not even the emperor."

"Today is the consequences and responsibilities that you should bear."

Accompanied by Shen Yichen's incomparably cold words, Canghuo Tou and Zheng Xiang stepped forward with white silk and wrapped it around Zhu Qizhen's neck. With the strength of several of them, it only took a dozen seconds for the former Ming monarch to be gone, announcing the end of an era.

"It's the emperor!"

At the same time, Cheng Jing shouted, and everyone inside and outside the Nangong knelt down to pay a big salute to Zhu Qizhen, in order to pay homage to the ceremonial ceremony of the king's death, and the surface work still had to be done in place.

However, at this moment at the palace gate, a woman leaned against the door panel and staggered towards the body of Zhu Qizhen in the main hall of the South Palace. After seeing clearly who the identity of the person who came, Cheng Jing's face changed for a moment, and he reprimanded the guards who were guarding: "Empress Taishang is sick and weak, how can she be touched by coming here?" ”

"It was brought by Hongu."

Another crisp voice sounded from outside the palace gate, and the figure of Emperor Jingtai and Empress Wang appeared in everyone's sight.

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Cheng Jing was a little dumbfounded at this time, he never expected that Queen Wang, who lived in the harem, would lead Queen Taishang Qian to the South Palace, no wonder the Jinyi guards and the guards stationed at the palace gate did not dare to stop it. After all, unlike the nominal Empress Taishang Honor, the Empress of the Dynasty has the authority of the real mother's world, and she can't afford to offend.

Empress Wang looked at it from the perspective of later generations, and was simply an outlier among women in the feudal era, as the queen's mother, but she did not marry her husband, and Yi Chu was unwilling to support Zhu Qiyu in this kind of family and country affairs, so that she angered the emperor and was deposed.

She is full of sympathy for her sister-in-law, Queen Qian, and often takes care of her safety, and the two have formed a deep sisterhood.

In history, after the restoration of Zhu Qizhen of Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, Empress Wang was demoted to Princess Yu, and it stands to reason that she should be in the identity of a political enemy and steal her life, and forbear everywhere to avoid being liquidated and retaliated by the emperor continues.

But Queen Wang has a strong personality, and when Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong asked for a jade Linglong brought out of the palace, she said angrily: "Seven years of heaven, I can't bear these few pieces of jade!" ”

You must know that Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu at that time had been abolished and became a taboo that no one dared to mention in the Tianshun Dynasty, but Empress Wang still bluntly said that her husband had been the Son of Heaven for seven years, and this courage was probably not lost to Xu Mei. Later, he threw Yu Linglong into the well and resolutely refused to return it.

Resolute and paranoid, with benevolence in mind, may be the best portrayal of Queen Wang's character.

Cheng Jing and Shen Yichen knew Empress Wang's temperament, so they didn't continue to reprimand the guards, and at the same time, in the face of Zhu Qizhen's mourning behavior of Queen Qian, Shen Yichen did not order to stop it, which could be regarded as a farewell to her husband for the last time for this woman with a tragic fate.

The cry of grief resounded throughout the South Palace, Queen Qian did not expect that she was looking forward to it day and night, and her husband, who had returned from Mobei, died in the palace of the Ming Dynasty. If she can choose again, I'm afraid that Queen Qian would rather her husband live well in Mobei, at least so that she still has a thought.

may be older, seeing Queen Qian's grief-stricken cry, Cheng Jing couldn't help wiping his tears, and then arched his hand towards Shen Yichen and said, "Old Shen Ge, our family will go back to the palace first to resume their lives and say goodbye." ”

"Cheng's father-in-law walks slowly."

Shen Yichen returned the salute and politely sent Cheng Jing outside the palace gate.

When he returned to Nangong again, there was a picture that shocked Shen Yichen, Queen Qian did not continue to hold the body of Emperor Zhu Qizhen and cry bitterly, but staggered in front of him and knelt down directly.

This scene made Shen Yichen stunned for two seconds, and then hurriedly knelt down to Queen Qian, knowing that he had been charged with killing the king, and then passed it out to bear the bow of Queen Taishang, it was not a chaotic minister, I am afraid that all the chaotic ministers would have to sit on the chaotic ministers.

After all, from beginning to end, no one can abolish Zhu Qizhen's imperial title, and theoretically he is still respected as the king of the Ming Dynasty no matter before or after his death!