After retiring from the dynasty, Li Ruhua and Huang Kezhang went out of the palace together.

Li Ruhua, whose name is Maofu, is a native of Suizhou (now Sui County, Henan). The Ming Dynasty Wanli eight years of Jinshi. Awarded the Yanzhou magistrate. In the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), he was sick and asked to resign and return to his hometown, but he was approved to add the crown prince and Taibao. Soon died of illness, Zhen Gongmin. "History of the Ming Dynasty" recorded: "Lian Da Qinsen, the establishment of the dynasty without a party", "The proposal of exclusive endowment is not able to be held, and it leads to waste in all directions, and internal and external strife." ”

Huang Kezhang (1550-1634), known as Shaofu and Zhongmei, was a minister of the Ming Dynasty. The folk call it the "Yellow Five Divisions". A native of Meilin, Jinjiang, Fujian Province (now Meilin Village, Yongning Town, Shishi City).

In 1619, he and Taining Hou Li Liangbi presided over the Beijing camp Rong Zheng, and invited dozens of craftsmen from Nanzhilu and Fujian to cast cannons in Beijing, and in 1620 cast 3,000 catties, 2,000 catties, 36 cannons of 1,000 catties, and 12 cannons of Furang for the purpose of aiding Liao.

Li Ruhua and Huang Kezhang are rare upright and capable ministers who are not neutral and neutral, but unfortunately they are both over 60 years old.

Huang Kezhang: "Maofu, today, what does the emperor mean?" ”

"Shaofu, I don't believe you didn't see it, why did the emperor name Yang Lian, Yao Zongwen, and Huang Jiashan to answer today?"

Huang Kezhang nodded: "The three of them, they have good opinions, impeachment of trivial matters leads to big disputes, and the abolition of things lasts for a long time, and they fight for a good name, and they are disliked by the saints!" ”

Li Ruhua: "Good! ”

What does this mean? Today, the emperor named the three people who asked the right people, and they usually like to talk about things.

Whether it is a matter inside the palace or outside the palace, it is a small matter to trigger a big attack from both political enemies and delay the handling of the court's business.

And they like to fight for fame very much, and they lack the overall situation, so the emperor doesn't like them very much.

Then Li Ruhua replied yes, that's right!

Huang Kezhang: "The emperor's layout of Liaodong and his attitude towards the courtiers can be seen that the emperor is not like a person who has never read.

But it's not the kind of person who reads poetry and books a lot, it seems that he was suddenly instilled with some knowledge, although it is still a little jerky, but in the handling of big things, it can be said that it hits the point! ”

Li Ruhua: "The emperor may have met a master, but the master is a dragon who sees the head but does not see the end, although the emperor is young, but what are we doing when we are sixteen or seventeen years old?" ”

Huang Kezhang said quietly: "At that time, I studied poetry and books with my classmates, studied the holy words and holy meanings, often talked loudly, and was full of spirit, and often felt that I was the pillar of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Li Ruhua: "Yes, I heard Qi Shaobao's poem at that time: I don't want to wait for it, I hope the sea will be peaceful!" ”

"At that time, it was my heart that ignited ambition and pride, and the heart of serving the country and the people.

At that time, we were like now, and now the emperor.

We've been in the middle of it for so long, Brother Shawf, is your blood still hot? ”

Huang Kezhang said solemnly: "Mo Dao is full of mulberry and elm, and the sky is full of xiashang!" ”

Li Ruhua: "Then let's help the emperor on a journey before we die, maybe what he wants to do is the dream we have never forgotten!" ”

The two of them laughed, as if they were suddenly young!

The next day, Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youxiao privately summoned the honorable British Duke Zhang Weixian, Chengguo Zhu Chuncheng, and Taining waited for Li Liangbi.

After the three of them saluted, they sat quietly on the side, and after yesterday's court meeting, the three of them no longer dared to continue to despise the 16-year-old little emperor.

Now the emperor has troops to rely on, tens of thousands of guards in the imperial horse prison, and tens of thousands of Youyang soldiers in Tongzhou Qin Liangyu's Shenji battalion.

Not to mention that the emperor still has Dongchang and Jinyiwei in his hands.

Zhu Youxiao: "I had a dream a few days ago, more than 20 years later, the peasant rebel army captured the capital, but within three months, the Jurchen Tartars on the eastern side of Liaodong broke through the Shanhai Pass, defeated the peasant rebel army, and occupied our Forbidden City!" ”

"What does this portend, you say?"

As soon as the three of them heard it, the dream you said was too scary, how can we answer it?

Could it be that we say that Da Ming is really going to end? Or, such a dream will never appear, and our honorable nobles will immediately bring elite soldiers to destroy the Liaodong Tartars?

Zhu Youxiao: "I don't know if you remember, how did you get the title on your head?" ”

"It is to follow Emperor Hongwu, fight Zhang Shicheng, destroy Chen Youliang, thousands of troops and horses waved the Northern Expedition, threw their heads and spilled blood, swept Mengyuan to the south and north of the desert, what a heroic spirit this is!"

"If your ancestors come back from the dead and see your current situation, our nobles in Beijing have become a flock of sheep, how heartache and sadness will it be, and the blood they shed is not in vain?"

"Could it be that the Ming Dynasty is over, and the dynasty has changed, and it has nothing to do with you?"

"If that's what you think, then I have nothing to say! On the day of my death, even if no one is by my side, I will definitely die in Donghuamen, and be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies!"

The three of them knelt on the ground: "The crime of the subordinate deserves death!" Ministers don't want to be ministers of the country! I hope the emperor will give Xungui a chance! Emperor! ”

Zhu Youxiao looked at the three of them and was silent for a long time.

said in his heart that Li Xiaolan's method was quite good.

When Li Xiaofeng and Li Xiaolan traveled back to 1620, he once asked them a question.

What should be done with the honorable nobles of the Ming Dynasty now?

At that time, Li Xiaofeng meant to arrest them and raid their homes, but her sister disagreed.

Here's what she said at the time:

"The emperor's knife is only the most threatening when it hangs over his head, anyway, he wants to make them feel that the knife will fall down at any time, but if they listen to the emperor's words and become a new person, they will also have a chance to escape!"

"You have to tell them about the tragic reality of the Ming Dynasty after the fall of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and then give them the memory of the founding generals of the Ming Dynasty.

How did they sacrifice their lives for the country and the people, and they threw their heads and spilled their blood to win the supreme glorious titles of the princess, the uncle, and the other generations that have been passed down for more than ten generations! ”

"Finally, say openly and honestly, the emperor wants to reform and revitalize the Ming Dynasty, do they support you?

If they were ashamed and burst into tears by what you said at that time, then you can tell your plan and let each of the upstarts send their sons to the Tongzhou military camp for training and transformation, it doesn't matter if they succeed or not, as long as they become protons, and then force them to sign and draw! ”

"In a few days, they will come to their senses, and it will be too late to regret it!"

Now, Xiao Zhu, touching his chin that has not yet grown a beard, he has a plan in his heart, how much do he want to pit them?

Among them, it should be a faction and a faction! Yes, that's it, Li Xiaolan has said a long time ago, politics is to make more alliances and fewer enemies!

So Zhu Youxiao handed the plan he had written a long time ago to the three nobles and asked them to sign and draw their fingerprints!

So the three people who were still crying bitterly signed this unequal agreement in a daze!