Last time, I talked about urging the carpenter to cast the "doppelganger spell" of "parasitic foreign objects", successfully copied Emperor Chongzhen and his concubines, and sent the "fakes" back to the original place.

"Borrowing money? This one...... A great idea indeed! "Fake" Emperor Chongzhen suddenly felt that this might be a good opportunity for "extortion", after all, if you want to complete the post-disaster reconstruction of the entire Beijing city as soon as possible, at least countless sums of money will have to be spent, not to mention the casualty compensation of many court officials and government servants.

Just when Zhu Youxiao and the girls were discussing how to face the next various problems, some people who did not die in the surrounding area came here one after another, most of them were some people who were engaged in outdoor activities such as government officials, after all, when the palace and the office were struck and collapsed by lightning, there were many deaths and injuries indoors.

Of course, in addition to the official miscellaneous servants, the most surviving ones are the "Jinyi Guard" and the "City Defense Forbidden Army", after all, they are responsible for maintaining law and order in the capital outdoors. In contrast, more than half of the high-ranking officials and nobles who lived in the mansions and the officials at all levels who handled official affairs in their respective offices were killed or injured, which was unexpected.

"Your Majesty! Emperor! The emperor ......", "villain/micro-minister/slave and maid have seen the emperor!" "Long live my emperor, long live, long live! And they staggered and bowed down.

"Uh...... Let's all be flat. "———— "Emperor Xie!" Long live the Emperor! Chitose Niang! When everyone saw that the concubine was present, they hurried to give a salute.

Seeing that more and more survivors flocked to the scene after getting the news, the fake "Emperor Chongzhen" decided to appease the people first, and then let these lightly injured people take care of the seriously injured, and he also ordered the concubines to come forward to visit everyone, pretending to comfort the injured people, and promised to take care of everyone as much as possible.

In this way, with the passage of time, more and more survivors rushed from all directions to meet Emperor Chongzhen at the ruins of the "Qianqing Palace", after all, this is the place where the emperors of the Ming Empire lived and handled government affairs. An hour later, surviving officials arrived. Half a day later, everyone who could come came.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" Whether it is a first-class member of the imperial court or a small nine-grade sesame official, as long as he does not die of natural disasters at the beginning during his stay in the capital, even if his arms and legs are broken, he must scramble to bow down to the emperor Lao Tzu, and everyone understands the mystery!

"Your Majesty! Whining...... The old minister meets the emperor! "Your Majesty, this natural disaster has destroyed my Ming foundation? "Emperor Qiqi, this place is already in ruins, why don't you move to another place and live in a palace that is still intact?" "Although many of the officials who came, they were not fatal, but they were only palpitating.

Seeing that noon has passed, the sun will set in another hour, and dusk is approaching. At this time, the fake "Emperor Chongzhen" was surrounded by the concubines who were dirty and exposed in the spring, so he found a "good position" on the ruins, and shouted: "Everyone present, if you don't die, there will be a blessing!" Attaboy! “

"Your Majesty, the Emperor is blessed with heaven!" "Wechen thank the emperor!" "The villain is set to serve the emperor! The liver and brain are smeared on the ground, and then it is gone! The crowd responded.

"Haha, all of you Aiqing are exempt, get up." Emperor Chongzhen laughed loudly. Although he is currently embarrassed, he is the king of a country after all, and he not only holds power, army, wealth and the lifeblood of the entire Ming Dynasty in his hands, but also has the greatest reliance, that is, the future "old man" - "national teacher" carpenter.

"Wechen waited to thank the emperor!" Everyone is secretly happy in their hearts at this moment, after all, under the "natural disaster", everyone in the world is an ant, whether you are a high-ranking official or a prince, you have to die, even if you don't die, you have to take off a layer of skin after being seriously injured, just when you are the leftovers of your own death are promoted to become rich!

"Haha, you Aiqing is the mainstay of my Ming Dynasty, and now he has a useful body, just to fill the corresponding vacancy." Zhu Youzhen didn't want to waste time, so he got straight to the point and said: "Do you think that I should devote all my national strength to rebuild Beijing City to continue to be the national capital?" Or should the capital be moved to Nanjing immediately? ”

"Uh...... This one...... The ministers thought that the emperor should rebuild the city of Beijing! "No, no, no, it will cost a lot to rebuild Beijing, and it will take too long, so it is better to move the capital to Nanjing immediately!" "You can't move the capital to Nanjing, because the feng shui pattern of Nanjing City is far less grand than Beijing's meteorology, so the six dynasties of Nanjing are all short-lived!" ”

After all, if the emperor Laozi stayed to rebuild the city of Beijing, then he would not only be able to take the lead and find ways to occupy an important official position in the "three provinces and six departments", but also his family, relatives and friends, and students could also get enough benefits in the reconstruction work, but there would be nothing at all when he moved south!

After all, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Anhui are the traditional sphere of influence of the "Donglin Party." In addition, this has caused a bad influence by attracting people from all over the world to "fight against differences with the party."

The officials who insisted that "Nanjing Feng Shui" was far inferior to "Beijing Feng Shui" in order to cater to the heart of Emperor Lao Tzu, after all, Nanjing was the best, but that was the place where Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang passed on the throne to the "Imperial Grandson" Zhu Yunwen, but Chengzu Zhu Di did not respect his father's order and snatched the throne of his nephew, so he moved the capital to Beijing!

And Zhu Youzhen, as a direct descendant of Zhu Di's lineage, definitely didn't want to quarrel with the descendants of the Zhu family of the "Zhu Yunwen" lineage, so he hesitated.

In fact, when history happened in another time and space, Emperor Chongzhen had the idea of moving the capital to Nanjing, firstly, to avoid the Houjin regime established by the Jurchens in the northeast, and secondly, to avoid the peasant rebels from the northwest who wanted to "reform their own lives", but in the end they were persuaded to stay.

In another time and space, if from the perspective of later historians, if the "butterfly effect" occurred because of the "Apocalypse Big Bang", when it caused the rapid demise of the Ming Dynasty, then if Emperor Chongzhen did not choose to hang himself on the coal mountain, but chose to move the capital to Nanjing, Jiangsu Province in advance, in fact, he could really have a glimmer of life.

Of course, this statement is only considered purely from the later historical development, because from the perspective of the entire development history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, if Emperor Chongzhen was still there at that time, there was still the possibility of the Ming Dynasty holding the south, but the Southern Ming bureaucratic system was very strong and could empty the imperial power!

If you want to explain the cause and effect of this incident and make a prediction, you have to review first, how did the last monarch of the Ming Dynasty, "Emperor Chongzhen", be forced to commit suicide step by step? And in the more than ten years since Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide, what happened in the whole world? That's the key.

In 1642, with the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty fighting for life and death, after the defeat in the "Battle of Songjin", all the territory outside the Shanhai Pass was basically occupied by the Later Jin. Since then, the Ming Dynasty has no power to fight back in the face of the Houjin attack, so it can only be passively beaten and stick to Shanhaiguan.

In addition, the defeat of this battle also directly led to the loss of a large part of the elite army of the Ming Dynasty. And this part of the loss of elite military strength directly led to the Ming Dynasty, after which it was difficult to suppress the internal peasant army uprising, so that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and other local bandits coerced the people to make trouble.

Before this year, the central government of the Ming Dynasty was still capable of eliminating a large number of peasant rebels, and even forced Li Zicheng to flee back to the deep mountains and old forests. But after this year, it became very difficult for the Ming Dynasty to defeat the main force of the peasant army on the battlefield head-on, because after the defeat of Liaodong, its strength was greatly damaged.

The defeat in the war is only a symptom. The real core reason is that the rule of the Ming Dynasty government at that time was rotten to the bone. Not only is corruption rampant among officials at all levels, and party disputes are serious, but the state finances are even more overwhelmed, and even the front-line troops cannot be paid.

In addition, at that time, the plague was raging in the whole of North China, mainly "pimple disease", that is, "bubonic plague", which later developed into "pneumonic plague", and it was very serious. According to the estimation of later historians, due to the plague during the Chongzhen period, the population of the entire North China decreased by at least nearly 10 million!

You must know that the total population of the entire Ming Dynasty at that time did not exceed 100 million, and the loss of nearly 10 million people was even more terrifying after being directly put in North China! It is normal for the plague to directly cause ten rooms and nine emptiness and the death of the whole family, and even worse, the entire village can only rot in the open air when they die.

In short, cold waves, droughts, locust plagues, plagues, floods, land annexation, peasant uprisings, banditry, local divisions, corruption among officials, financial difficulties, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was eyeing the outside of the Guanguan...... After these problems erupt at the same time, no matter how thick the Ming Dynasty's family background is, it is destined to be unbearable!

In the face of the concentrated emergence of problems, Emperor Chongzhen did not think of a way. Unlike the fallen kings of other dynasties, Emperor Chongzhen is actually not mediocre, at least when saving the dynasty from falling, Emperor Chongzhen did his best, but his qi has been exhausted, so what can he do? Only resign to fate.

Emperor Chongzhen knew very well that if these problems were dealt with at the same time, no matter how powerful the Ming Dynasty was, even if the ancestor Zhu Chongba, the "Hongwu Emperor", regained from the ground, he would be powerless, because the Chinese feudal dynasty could not jump out of the "three-hundred-year cycle law", and the Ming Dynasty was destined to be dragged down next!

Therefore, when the "Battle of Songjin" ended, the Ming Dynasty was overwhelmed, and Emperor Chongzhen also thought about whether he could negotiate peace with the Manchus first to reduce the overall burden of the Ming Dynasty? If you really can't move the capital to Nanjing, first solve the internal contradictions, improve the financial situation, and then deal with the Manchus?

However, just when Emperor Chongzhen just showed this meaning, he was opposed by the officials of the Manchu Dynasty, after all, under the baptism of "Song and Ming Dynasty Science", the bureaucratic system of the Song and Ming dynasties was very strong, and even in special circumstances, there was a tendency to empty the imperial power, forcing the emperor Lao Tzu to think more.

So there was no way, in the end, Emperor Chongzhen could only agree to continue the war, first with the Manchu Qing to the end, and then free up his hands to resolve the peasant uprising, after all, according to the "Song Ming Dynasty", the harm of "brothers on the wall" is not as good as "luring wolves into the house", only after "respecting the king", can the "disaster Xiao Wall" be resolved.

But in this way, the Ming Dynasty is destined to be completely dragged down, and there will be no chance of a turnaround! Sure enough, with the development of history, in the next two years, Li Zicheng led the army all the way to attack the city and seize the land, and the territory became bigger and bigger. Two years later, Li Zicheng led the peasant army and fought directly under the city of Beijing.

When Li Zicheng, the leader of the bandits, led his army to Beijing, he actually did not think about occupying Beijing, because in his opinion, Beijing's city defense was strong, and it was difficult to attack it with the ability of the peasant army alone.

Therefore, after arriving in Beijing, Li Zicheng first proposed that Emperor Chongzhen should crown him as the "King of Dashun" and divide the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo region to him as a "fief", and then he could lead the army to fight the Manchu Tartars outside the pass, after all, Li Zicheng also worked as a "postman" of the "post station" of the Ming Dynasty before becoming a "bandit leader".

Li Zicheng's proposal is of course with ulterior motives, but from the perspective of saving the rule of the Ming Dynasty, it is actually the last chance, after all, why not use the power of others to achieve his own goals? What's more, this is a good opportunity to "sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight", which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

But unfortunately, when Li Zicheng made this request, the vast majority of officials in the Ming Dynasty still disagreed, and strongly demanded that Emperor Chongzhen resolutely resist Li Zicheng. But when Li Zicheng really began to prepare for the siege, there was already a plague in Beijing, and the army was extremely weak and doomed to failure.

In the end, the officials of the Ming Dynasty saw that the situation was not good, so they simply opened the city gate directly, so that Li Zicheng did not have a bloody sword, and drove straight into the city of Beijing.

After learning of this, Emperor Chongzhen could only sigh "The ministers are mistaken", and then hanged himself. However, before he died, Emperor Chongzhen bit his finger and wrote a blood book on the cuff, "The people are not guilty, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty can be punished!" I didn't think that this would whitewash the identity of the successor, the Manchu Dynasty.

This is the "infallibility" of history, that is to say, from the moment when Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, the Ming Dynasty, as a national regime that dominated the world at that time, was completely dead, because it could not escape the historical cycle law of "three hundred years of collapse" of the Chinese feudal dynasty, and the key was the defect of the system.

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