I heard that Li Zicheng rebelled in northern Shaanxi with the slogan of "Juntian is exempt from endowment", and returned to Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, who had rebelled as early as the Apocalypse, and became his subordinate general, which was already August of the second year of Chongzhen after Zhu Youzhen succeeded to the throne for two years.

Although this came a few years earlier than he expected, who did not know much about this history, Jiang Shu did not react much. In any case, what should come will come, sooner or later, there will be no escape.

And less than two months after this internal worry came, there was an external trouble-

In October of the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led hundreds of thousands of troops, detoured to Mongolia, avoided Yuan Chonghuan's heavy defense area, broke through Daankou on the 27th, captured Zunhua and Santun camp in early November, and went straight to Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, he would take such a step, Yuan Chonghuan heard the news and hurriedly sent troops to stop him halfway, but it was too late, and the Huang Taiji army had already marched to the outskirts of Beijing, preparing to attack the city of Beijing.

In desperation, he adopted the strategy of his subordinates and ordered 500 artillery men to sneak quietly to the garrison of the Huang Taiji military camp and attack on all sides at a distance of more than a mile from the military camp.

In this way, the enemy army was in chaos and withdrew in a hurry, and the siege of the capital was relieved.

The traitorous eunuch Wei Zhongxian has been removed, Jiang Shu originally thought that Yuan Chonghuan, who had made great contributions this time, would definitely be rewarded, but he didn't want to, the reward had not gone down, and rumors spread in Beijing for a while, saying that the Huang Taiji detour into Beijing this time was completely introduced by him, and that there must be some conspiracy inside.

Although Zhu Youzhen has the intention to be a good emperor who works hard, he is more suspicious, and after hearing this, he will inevitably be suspicious.

At this time, a eunuch surnamed Yang, who was captured by the Jin soldiers, fled back from the enemy camp and entered the palace to tell him that Yuan Chonghuan had made a secret agreement with Huang Taiji to betray the Ming Dynasty.

He woke up in the middle of the night one night and heard this "secret" from the whispered conversation outside by two Jurchen soldiers guarding him.

The conversation between the two Jurchen soldiers at that time was like this:

A Jurchen soldier said: "Today, we are retreating from the battle, it is completely the intention of the Great Khan, do you know? ”

Another asked, "How did you know?" ”

The one replied: "Just now I saw the Great Khan riding alone towards the Ming camp, and two people from the Ming camp also rode over and talked with the Great Khan for a long time before going back. I heard that those two people were sent by General Yuan Chonghuan Yuan, and he already had a secret agreement with the Great Khan, and he saw that the big thing was about to become a ......"

After listening to that conversation, he was extremely angry in his heart, and took advantage of the two Jurchen soldiers not paying attention, secretly escaped, went straight to the capital, and reported the matter to Zhu Youzhen.

How did Zhu Youzhen know that the conversation between the two Jurchen soldiers was deliberately arranged by Huang Taiji, and it was his counter-plot, so he believed it to be true, and immediately ordered Yuan Chonghuan to be arrested and imprisoned.

This was in prison for several months, and finally in August of the third year of Chongzhen, he was escorted to the vegetable market for the crime of "plotting treason and defrauding the king", and Ling Chi was executed.

And the people of the capital, because they didn't know the truth, really did something for him to collaborate with the enemy and treason, hated him to the core, and vied with each other to eat the flesh cut from him.

——The tragic situation is no different from Jiang Shu's fate when he knew it for a long time but didn't expect it to come so early.

Less than a month after he was executed, Empress Dowager Zheng, who had lived in the deep palace for a long time, died of illness.

When she was buried, Jiang Shu and Zhu Changxun did not go back to see her off, because under the nourishment of the pampered life brought by the status of Prince Fu, Qin Sangzhong's body had obviously become blessed, and there was a big difference between him and Zhu Changxun, who had almost not changed his figure, so it was easy for people to see the flaws.

They took the twenty-year-old Hua'er quietly to Yinquan Mountain on the outskirts of Beijing to worship after a year, and when they left after the worship, they made a decision: from now on, they will no longer set foot in the capital, no longer care about anything in the court, and no longer have the slightest contact with Qin Sangzhong, who is now the king of Fu......