The sunset stained the western sky red.

Chongzhen ascended the Wumen Tower.

In addition to Wang Chengen, the chief administrator of the Ouchi, Yang Wanli of the Jinyi Guard and 100 Jinyi Guards, Wang Jiayan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Jin Xuan, the squire of the Ministry of War, and Gong Yonggu, the old concubine, also came to the city.

At this time, the outside of the noon gate was already full of old ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and there were kneeling everywhere on the moat bridge and on the moat.

There were hundreds of people.

At this time, these old civil and military ministers kneeling are not only those old ministers who agreed with Li Zicheng on the 10th to worship Chongzhen's body.

In history, after these dozens of ministers and relatives got the news of Chongzhen's self-hanging, they also committed suicide and martyrdom.

Now there is a huge lineup of old ministers kneeling outside the noon gate, and they have come to kneel in several waves.

The first wave was, of course, Liu Wenbing, the Marquis of Xinle, and his younger brother Liu Wenyao, the governor of the capital, Yang Chongshan, the Marquis of Zhangwu, Zhang Qingzhen, the Marquis of Hui'an, Zhou Jing, the guard of the East Palace, and the seven honorable relatives of Xuancheng Bowei Shichun, as well as Fan Jingwen, a scholar of Dongge University, Ni Yuanlu, a scholar of the Hubu and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and Li Banghua, the secretary of the Zuodu Yushi of the Jiabing and Soldiers' Department, these ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

It had been more than three hours since they had fallen to their knees in the morning and in the afternoon. Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua are both sixty or seventy-year-old men, veterans of the Four Dynasties, because they have been kneeling for too long, their knees are already sore, they are no longer kneeling, and they are now lying on the ground.

Later, Ming ministers joined the ranks of kneeling in the city.

There are Taichang Siqing Wu Linzheng, the military department to the matter of Guang Shiheng, Zuo Zhongyun Li Mingrui, the cabinet scholar is Chen Yin, and so on.

It is worth mentioning that this scholar Chen Yin, he and Wei Zaode, the secretary of the military department, originally surrendered to Dashun and asked Li Zicheng to reuse them.

But Li Zicheng asked Liu Zongmin to ask them for silver for help, and the two regretted it a little, and they were reluctant to be locked up.

Liu Zongmin used a clamping stick, Wei Zaode was tortured to death, and Chen Yin took the initiative to hand over 400,000 taels of silver to be released.

Now that his intestines are repentant, it's better to be Ming!

Follow Li Zicheng, this is fatal!

Like Chen Yin, who first betrayed Daming and turned to Dashun, and was not tortured to death by Liu Zongmin, and now he is in turn to Daming and kneeling here.

Because the imperial palace and the imperial city have been fighting for more than ten days, these old ministers of the Ming Dynasty are neither blind nor deaf, and the feat of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty has been spread, and Li Zicheng's people and horses are deflated everywhere, and now they have been driven out of the imperial city.

Those who surrendered and stayed at home waiting to be reused, and those who closed their doors to avoid disaster and watched the situation in the house and then made a decision are now out.

Among the army kneeling in the city, the most conspicuous are the two national abbots. Zhou Guozhang and Tian Guozhang lost the two princes, and they kept crying and kneeling for two hours.

"The emperor has arrived—" Wang Chengen shouted at the top of the city in a sharp and thin voice.

Wang Chengen, who has martial arts, shouted more forcefully than before, and his voice was very penetrating, and he didn't need anyone to help shout, city

These people have been kneeling for so long, just waiting for the emperor to summon them.

At this time, when I saw the emperor appear in the city, I hurriedly kowtowed to the city, and there was a mountain calling long live, "Your Majesty...... Ministers see Your Majesty, long live long live long live......

There are also those who cry and pray, "Your Majesty's ministers are guilty...... Your Majesty asks for the punishment of the crimes of the ministers, etc., ......"

Chongzhen looked at them expressionlessly until his voice gradually subsided.

"Well, since you are unwilling to abandon the Ming Dynasty, I will not abandon you either. It's just that from now on, all of your official positions and titles will be pushed to the end regardless of the size of the ranks, retain your official status, and continue to serve the Ming Dynasty. What do you think?"

At a critical time, you betrayed Daming, half-heartedly, and now I finally have some family background, and you still want to come to Daming to continue to be an official, but there is no door!

Give you the identity of a cadre, and follow me to play the trick!

This is already a blessing to you.

If you are willing, I will let you in, if you are unwilling, you will continue to kneel if you are willing to kneel, and if you are not willing to kneel, you will go to your new master of Dashun.

For these old ministers of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how big or small they are, and no matter what relatives they have with the imperial court, Chongzhen gave them a one-size-fits-all approach!

These civil and military officials around Chongzhen at the head of the city also praised Chongzhen's one-size-fits-all approach, and they despised these guys who saw the wind and steered the rudder and faced Qin and Twilight.

"Your Majesty Mingjian, we are willing to follow Your Majesty to the death, and we have nothing to ask for fame and fortune." The first wave of kneeling ministers of the Ming Festival first kowtowed.

They are willing to die for Daming, of course they don't care about these fame and fortune.

If this matter reached Li Yan's ears, he would be mad.

Li Yan threw an olive branch to these people, tried his best, risked being blamed by King Chuang, and made them surrender to Dashun, but they were asserted and refused, and they swore to the death.

And now they have knelt for a day, willing to lose all their official positions, even if everything starts from scratch, they must also be focused on Daming and look forward to Chongzhen.

In such a comparison, the gap is too big!

Then the two princes kowtowed upwards to thank them, and if they lost the two princes and did not kill them, they already felt that the emperor's grace was mighty.

Where do you dare to talk to Your Majesty about conditions?

Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen