Last time, it was mentioned that Emperor Chongzhen and his concubines decided to transfer a huge amount of money to the treasury, so they asked the eunuch "Wang Gonggong" to call "Hubu Shangshu" Li Qiyuan to receive it.

"Princess, wait a minute, please go in with the old man and drink a cup of tea to quench your thirst and moisten your throat, and leave when I call the adjutant of the agency and a group of subordinates."

"Well, well, well, soon, sooner, sooner rather than later. The miscellaneous family is still waiting to go back to their lives! While following "Old Man Li" into the office to ask for water to drink, Wang Gonggong looked around in front and back, left and back, and saw that there was nothing else in the government except office utensils, so he knew that "Old Man Li" was really not like some officials who talked about pomp.

In fact, a lot of things have already happened in another time and space. For example, after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they joined forces with Wu Sangui to defeat Li Zicheng. However, in the early days of the Qing Dynasty, its feelings towards the Ming Dynasty were complicated. On the one hand, because the Ming Dynasty was the enemy of the Qing Dynasty, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty must be resolutely suppressed.

On the other hand, the Qing rulers did not want to establish the Ming Dynasty as an opposite, after all, they belonged to the minority and did not have an advantage in numbers. But in order to alleviate the contradictions, they had to preach that the Manchu Qing Dynasty had the world to come from Li Zicheng, not Chongzhen, and that the purpose of the Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs was to avenge the Ming Dynasty.

Based on this logic, after Dolgon entered the customs, he buried Emperor Chongzhen, recruited the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, and appointed a large number of former ministers of the Ming Dynasty as local officials, although the "regent" Dolgon issued a shaving order to "keep the head without hair, keep the hair without the head" and carry out the "Yangzhou Ten Days Massacre" to stabilize the situation.

After Dolgon's death, Emperor Shunzhi took charge of the government. And Shunzhi praised Emperor Chongzhen vigorously, saying that he was a Ming monarch who worked hard, saying that he hanged the coal mountain as a "martyrdom", calmly and righteously, and also shaped Emperor Chongzhen into a sad last king, directly based on Chongzhen's "sleeve robe blood book" before his death.

At the same time, the Qing Dynasty also preached that the Ming Dynasty had fallen, and that it was Li Zicheng's rebellion, not the "Great Qing", so it successfully transferred the contradiction to Li Zicheng, who was already dead. Just after the image of Emperor Chongzhen was beautified by the Qing Dynasty, the people around the fallen monarch were also beautified.

Among them, there was an old eunuch, who was called a "loyal martyr" by Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, and he also erected a monument for him to engrave a biography and gave him the nickname "Zhong".

This old eunuch is Wang Chengen, a close confidant eunuch next to Chongzhen, that is, the person who was ordered to go to the "Shangshutai" to invite the "Hubu Shangshu" to enter the palace just now.

Wang Chengen was originally a small eunuch in the palace, and he had been doing dirty work in the palace for a long time, because his family was poor, uneducated, and did not have much cultural knowledge, let alone any earth-shattering career. After entering the palace, he worked as an errand under the great eunuch Cao Huachun.

Wang Chengen's development has a great deal of chance. In fact, the eunuchs want to make a career, and chance accounts for most of the factors, such as Feng Bao, such as Wei Zhongxian, all because of a chance to meet the prince and gain the trust of the prince, and when the prince grows up, he inherits the throne, and the eunuchs who have been with the prince for more than ten years will soon soar, because the young emperor does not want to be bound by the "officialdom" and "court situation".

Wang Chengen's career is also like this. When Emperor Chongzhen was young, he once stumbled and fell into a pond. When the little eunuch beside him saw it, he panicked and shouted, but no one dared to rush into the water to save the prince. Only Wang Chengen, when he saw that the little prince had fallen into the water, he jumped into the water and tried his best to protect the little master. Therefore, after the little prince was rescued, he naturally had a good impression of this brave eunuch, and he was very close to him from then on.

After the little prince grew up, he successfully inherited the throne and became the emperor, that is, "Emperor Chongzhen". Chongzhen trusted Wang Chengen very much and continued to promote him, and finally made him a "eunuch of ceremonies and eunuchs". Of course, this is also because Emperor Chongzhen does not want the "Donglin Party" to dominate and continue to control the government.

Wang Chengen was grateful to Emperor Chongzhen for his support, so he was loyal to Emperor Chongzhen. In the late period of Chongzhen's reign, the court was in turmoil, and Emperor Chongzhen's life was very sad, because he not only had to think about resisting foreign enemies every day, but also fought openly and secretly with the ministers around him to fight for more initiative.

Wang Chengen stayed by his side and relieved his sorrows. Later, the peasant rebel army, led by Li Zicheng, entered Beijing. The people around Chongzhen were scattered, and Chongzhen couldn't even find anyone to lead troops to the city gate to resist. Wang Chengen said to Chongzhen that he would lead his troops to the city tower to resist the peasant army.

Chongzhen was very relieved to see that Wang Chengen was still by his side, and took the initiative to ask to resist. However, the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny, because at this time, the Qinwang army in various parts of the Ming Dynasty either mutinied, or Yang Fengyin did not come to the rescue, and tens of thousands of Jinyi guards alone could not resist Li Zicheng's army at all.

As a result, the city of Beijing was quickly breached by hundreds of thousands of peasant troops, and Li Zicheng also led an army to attack the imperial palace. On the morning of March 19 in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Emperor Chongzhen, who was in high spirits, felt that his time was short. However, the eunuch Wang Chengen still accompanied the emperor.

Chongzhen was listless and walked straight towards the coal mountain. The attendant eunuch Wang Chengen also followed him all the time, and when he walked to a crooked old locust tree under the "Zhou Appreciation Pavilion" on the mountainside, Emperor Chongzhen finally made up his mind and no longer held on, so he decisively used a period of white practice, hung himself, and ended his life.

That crooked neck tree is the end of the life of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen. And Wang Chengen cried, didn't go away, and hung himself on the begonia tree next to him with Chongzhen. At noon that day, Li Zicheng's army attacked the palace. Li Zicheng ordered to search for Chongzhen, but the entire palace was searched and nothing was found.

Li Zicheng also issued an order, and those who offered the head of Emperor Chongzhen would be rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold and named "earl"; If anyone dares to hide Emperor Chongzhen, they will be wiped out immediately! However, the order was issued to no avail, but later Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty insisted that Li Zicheng killed Chongzhen.

It was three days before the soldiers found the bodies of Chongzhen and Wang Chengen on the coal mountain. In order to establish the image of the Qing Dynasty as a defender of traditional morality, Shunzhi portrayed Wang Chengen as a loyal eunuch and praised him: "That is, how can the loyal ministers and martyrs of the ancient times be added? He also ordered the proclamation of his deeds so that "those who are faithful may be persuaded and those who are disloyal may be admonished." The rulers of the early Qing Dynasty were really well-intentioned in order to stabilize their rule and resolve contradictions!

After another quarter of an hour, Li Qiyuan, the "head of the household", with the help of his subordinates, and the old eunuch "Wang Gonggong" finally rushed to the "Qianqing Palace" out of breath, and originally planned to go in and shout "long live" to Emperor Chongzhen, but when he saw the piles of "golden mountains" in the main hall, he was dumbfounded.

"Uh...... This...... How can there be so much gold? After being stunned for a while, everyone hurriedly came to the front without squinting under the reminder of "Wang Gonggong", bowed to Emperor Chongzhen, and bowed three times and bowed nine times: "The old minister Li Qiyuan and his subordinate officials, knock to see the emperor!" Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

"Li Aiqing is flat! Everyone, love Qing Ping! Emperor Chongzhen nodded to the "prince", signaling that he had done a good job, and that he would be rewarded afterwards and let him come back.

"The old minister is brave, I don't know what the emperor called the old minister?" Li Shangshu actually knew for a long time that the emperor suddenly made a large windfall to deal with.

"Haha, Li Aiqing and all Aiqing came just in time!" Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou nodded to each other and said: "These money are worth a total of 3.5 million taels of silver, which is used by the National Teacher to fund me to train the new army. ”

"I see! The emperor is really blessed! After Li Laoshangshu slapped a sycophant, he immediately put into work and said: "Please also ask the emperor and all the ladies later, and the old minister will personally check and return the huge amount of money to the public as soon as possible, in case the court needs it urgently!" Then he turned to the crowd and said, "Work, be careful!" ”

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