Zhu Cihong, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, is quite uneasy these days, and is more anxious.

This period of time can be said to be the most severe test of his life, life and death, success and failure, all in one thought.

Because he has experienced too much in the past two months, as the prince of the Ming Dynasty and the prince of a country, he has experienced more than 270 years of unprecedented great changes in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming dynasty fell apart, the favored ministers of the court surrendered to the thieves one after another, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and generals who defended the city and even the eunuchs in the palace also suffered the betrayal of the collapse.

In the blink of an eye, the thieves came to the city, his father became a murderer, the two queen mothers were given to death, the imperial sisters Princess Changping and Princess Zhaoren died and were disabled, his two brothers were missing, the thieves seized Beijing, his wife was separated, and the family was ruined.

The crown prince at that time, Zhu Cihong, felt that the sky was about to fall.

Although his father later rescued him from the tiger's mouth and taught him martial arts, so that he had the courage of Lu Bu, he let him kill the enemy on the battlefield and charge into battle.

His father, the Emperor, suddenly handed over this mess to him and asked him to imprison a country or a city, which was too heavy a burden on the shoulders of a 15-year-old boy.

Although it was only a royal palace and an imperial city, although when his father left, he was only imprisoned for a short month.

But this is also a heavy burden, and it is by no means something that a 15-year-old can afford to jump. The imperial city and palace city, military and political affairs, family and country affairs, thousands of horses and thousands of troops, thousands of things, made him turn around.

Even though he is assisted by civil and military ministers such as Wang Jiayan, Jin Xuan, Gong Yonggu and Fan Jingwen, many things require him, the crown prince, to make decisions, which makes him anxious.

In his spare time, he practiced the 64-way overlord halberd taught to him by Chongzhen to pass the time.

His father Chongzhen is his only backbone, and he looks forward to his father moving back to the court as soon as possible so as to unload the burden of thousands of catties.

But from one month to two months, Chongzhen still did not return to Beijing.

During this period, he sent people to investigate the battle situation in Shanhaiguan, and the outside was surrounded by 100,000 heavy thieves.

Soon the news of the Shanhaiguan battlefield reached the capital, Chongzhen strategized, from scratch with more than 23,000 soldiers and horses, and later defeated the thieves and Dolgon, becoming the final winner of the battle of Shanhaiguan.

Zhu Cihong was very happy to hear the news, but he didn't dare to spread the news, because when his father left the capital, he was traveling in micro-clothes, and he was required to keep it strictly confidential, and only a few of them in the capital knew the inside story.

But soon something he couldn't tolerate.

Li Zicheng led the Dashun army back from the defeat of Shanhaiguan, and he actually wanted to ascend the throne and claim the emperor under his nose.

Provocation!

This is definitely a naked provocation to Da Ming and his father.

15-year-old Zhu Cihong was full of enthusiasm, and he planned to take 5,000 soldiers and horses out of the city, killing the thieves and turning over on his back alone, but he was persuaded by hundreds of civil and military officials, and he didn't dare to make decisions on his own, he was really afraid of being tricked.

How to explain to my father if I lost the city? How to start my father's cultivation for so many years and the teaching of 100,000 taels of silver? Zhu Cihong had no choice but to hold on.

After Li Zicheng ascended the throne, he fled like lightning.

Zhu Cihong was overjoyed and immediately took over the outer and inner cities.

Of course, it was difficult for 5,000 soldiers and horses to defend such a large city, but under the advice of the secretary of the military department and the attendants of the military department, Wang Jiayan and Jin Xuan, they adopted a focused defense.

Of course, the outer city is the focus, and the royal palace is the focus.

As for the inner city and the imperial city, it is the second priority, with 5,000 men and horses, 3,000 men and horses to guard the outer city, 1,000 men to guard the imperial palace, and the remaining 1,000 men to guard the inner city and the imperial city.

Such a focused division of labor also took over the entire capital.

At this moment, they suddenly received a report that the Ming army and the Manchu Qing were fighting in the Gyeonggi area.

Zhu Cihong's tiger strength came up again, and he planned to open the city to send troops to meet the Ming army.

But once again, he was persuaded by the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, so rashly sent out of the army, fell into the enemy's plan to lure the enemy, and lost the capital, how could he get it?

Li Zicheng ascended the throne like lightning, and withdrew like lightning, the Manchu Qing Dynasty came, and the Ming army came again, how many mysteries are hidden in this? In the chaos of war, who is the thief and who is the army?

In the absence of a holy decree, it is better for His Highness to hold the capital, wait and see what happens, and wait for the decree.

In other words, without Chongzhen's will, he, the prince, can only operate in the capital, and it is difficult to move an inch out of the capital.

At every turn, he puts his family and country first, and the consequences of losing the capital are unimaginable. Zhu Cihong had no choice but to stay in the city honestly and be his prince of the prison country.

On this day, someone suddenly came to report that his father and emperor came to the city with men and horses.

Zhu Cihong was overjoyed and couldn't believe it was true.

Not only he, the prince, couldn't believe it, but even Wang Jiayan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Jin Xuan, the squire of the Ministry of War, Gong Yonggu, the old concubine, and Fan Jingwen, the old minister of the former dynasty, couldn't believe that this was true.

The crown prince took these civil and military forces, accompanied by his henchman eunuch Wang Sheng, and immediately climbed to the top of the outer city to watch the reality and reality.

Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen