Forbidden city.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Lian looked at the figure in the mirror in a daze.

He probably crossed with a rope, and he felt uncomfortable from the moment his memories flooded in. Looking at the dragon robe on his body and the winged crown on his head, there was no source of sadness, and his eyes were full of despair.

"God plays with me, I finally crossed once, and I actually crossed into Chongzhen!"

Who is Chongzhen?

The king of the dead country of the Ming Dynasty!

He is also a representative of the kings of the past dynasties, the harder he works, the more he will lose the country.

Rigid and self-serving, fickle and suspicious character flaws, coupled with ignorance of the emperor's art, he personally sent Daming to the crematorium.

What's even more tragic is that today is March 10 of the 17th year of Chongzhen.

Seven days later, Li Zicheng attacked the outer city.

Nine days later, Li Zicheng attacked the inner city of Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself on the coal mountain...

Subsequently, Wu Sangui surrendered, Jiannu entered the customs, and Li Zicheng was defeated.

The history of the next three hundred years is not only a shame for the old Zhu family, but also a disaster for the entire China.

Jiannu, who had gained a firm foothold in Beijing, went all the way to the south, Jiading Santu, and Yangzhou for ten days......

Thousands of corpses, thousands of miles of blood...

This is a crossing, it is clearly a disaster experience coupon!

Zhu Lian looked at the rope in his hand: "Or... Hanged now? ”

No, no, no, it's better to die than to live.

But.

What can he do if he doesn't commit suicide?

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was already on the verge of death, the court was corrupt, the army had no fighting spirit, there were thieves inside, there were slaves outside, natural disasters continued, and man-made disasters continued.

Chongzhen spent seventeen years without being able to change the fate of Da Ming, what can he change?

With this question, Zhu Lian closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

I don't know how long later, a eunuch in a red python robe trotted in from outside the main hall and fell to his knees with a thud: "Emperor, something is wrong." ”

Chongzhen slowly opened his eyes.

The middle-aged eunuch in front of him is called Wang Chengen, and there is only one word different from Wu Chengen, who wrote Journey to the West. He is the eunuch of the celebrant and one of Chongzhen's most trusted people.

In history, after Chongzhen hanged himself, he lowered Chongzhen's body from the tree, and committed suicide after tidying up his clothes.

Loyalty!

"Don't panic, speak." Chongzhen hid the rope he brought with him when he crossed and asked lightly.

That rope can always alert him, and he can't throw it.

Wang Chengen's face was pale, and his voice trembled and said, "Yes, Emperor." ”

"There are three... Three things. ”

"Xuanfu sent a six-hundred-mile urgent Tang report, and the thieves broke through Xuanfu late yesterday night and went straight to Beijing. The chief soldier Wang Chengyin surrendered to the enemy; Governor Zhu Zhifeng, and the superintendent Du Xun hanged themselves. ”

Wang Chengen paused for a moment, and seeing that the emperor did not have any expression, he continued: "Dingxi Bo Tang Tong was ordered to be the king of Qin, and Du Zhizhi, the eunuch of the supervising army, was waiting for the order outside the palace. ”

"Feng Yuanyang, the governor of Tianjin, sent a secret letter."

With that, Wang Chengen knelt on the ground and held the letter above his head with both hands.

Chongzhen didn't pick up the secret letter immediately, but frowned and pondered.

Of these three things, there is a bad thing, a good thing, and a bad thing.

The bad thing is that after the loss of Xuanfu (Xuanhua), Li Zicheng's obstacle to entering Beijing was only one Juyong Pass.

The garrison of Juyong Pass is less than 2,000, and it will definitely not be able to hold it.

The good thing is the secret letter of the governor of Tianjin, he is proficient in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and he already knows the content of the secret letter, and then opens the envelope and glances at it.

The content is indeed indistinguishable from history.

[Your Majesty, the thieves are in the realm today, the strength of the Beijing division is weak, and there is nothing to be afraid of. The minister prepared 100 sea ships, led a thousand people, arrived in Tongzhou, and waited for the saint to drive to the south. 】

Feng Yuanyang was afraid that the Jingshi would not be able to hold it, so he prepared more than 100 sea ships and asked Chongzhen to go to Yingtianfu.

As for Tang Tong's order to King Qin, it is neither good nor bad.

As early as the beginning of March, Chongzhen urgently transferred Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, Wang Yongji, the governor of Jiliao, Tang Tong, the commander-in-chief of Changping, and Liu Zeqing, the commander-in-chief of Shandong, to join the division of defending Beijing, and called on the bureaucrats in Beijing to donate money.

Among these people in Chongzhen, Wu Sangui and Wang Yongji were all the way, and they rushed back from Liaodong with 300,000 soldiers and civilians, and only arrived in the Yutian area, 100 kilometers away from Beijing, on 22 March, and there was no time to rescue them.

Tang Tong came quickly and surrendered quickly. As soon as Li Zicheng arrived at Juyong Pass, Du Zhizhi, the eunuch of the supervising army, asked people to open the city gate. Tang Tong saw that the general trend was gone, so he no longer resisted, and all 8,000 people under his command surrendered.

Liu Zeqing is even more ruthless and refuses to obey the edict!

Chongzhen casually threw the secret letter to Wang Chengen, looked at the most trusted eunuch in front of him, and asked slowly: "Feng Yuanyang asked me to move to Yingtianfu, what do you think?" ”

"The slave didn't dare to say it."

"Forgive your innocence!"

"Yes!" Wang Chengen swallowed his saliva, "The slave thinks that this is the best policy!" ”

"Why?"

"The slave maid is now receiving the post of Admiral of the Nine Gates, and after meeting with Governor Li Guojiao this morning, I learned that there are 80,000 people registered in the three major battalions of the capital, some of whom have been transferred to fight the thieves, and some of them have eaten empty salaries, and there are less than 30,000 people available now, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled."

"Jingshi, I probably can't hold it!" Wang Chengen relied on his courage and told the truth.

"Instead of sticking to Beijing, it is better to move to Yingtianfu, as long as the emperor is here, our Daming is still the same Daming."

Cold sweat broke out on Wang Chengen's forehead.

He didn't dare to say that he was killed in normal times, but now the situation is different, the thieves are coming, and it will be too late if he doesn't leave.

He knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, "Slave, dare to ask the emperor to move south according to Feng Yuanyang's strategy!" ”

Chongzhen shook his head slightly, "I can't go." ”

"Emperor!" Wang Chengen was so anxious that he almost cried.

Chongzhen did not doubt Wang Chengen's loyalty, he shook his head and said: "The capital is full of Li Zicheng's meticulous work, once the news of the southward move comes out, there will be no war and chaos. At that time, he only needs to send an elite cavalry to march to the starry night in Shandong, which can be intercepted by land, or he can go to sea to cut off my way south. When the time comes, I will have no escape, no way to defend. ”

Wang Chengen's head began to sweat, and he realized how ignorant and reckless his actions were just now.

"Even if I can successfully reach Yingtianfu, it is equivalent to giving up Beijing to the thieves. Wu Sangui has a slave in the north and a thief in the south, he... Can it not be lowered? ”

"The Guan Ning Army is the last elite of my Ming Dynasty, I... I don't want to give it away. ”

Chongzhen didn't want to explain more, but Wang Chengen didn't have enough of the overall situation and needed to be cultivated to become his arm.

Wang Chengen wiped the sweat from his forehead and said hesitantly: "But ......"

I didn't dare to say the second half of the sentence.

He didn't dare to say it and couldn't say that the emperor was the body of the Son of Heaven, and nothing would happen to him.

Chongzhen closed his eyes and thought for a while.

The water at the end of the Ming Dynasty was too deep.

There were Jiannu in the northeast, the Mongols in the north, Zhang Xianzhong in the southwest, and the western part and the Central Plains were turned upside down by Li Zicheng's peasant army. Land annexation is serious, the state treasury is empty, the civilian-bureaucratic clique is infighting among parties, and corruption in military salaries is emerging one after another.

Coupled with the reduced grain production caused by the severe cold of the Xiaoice period, drought and plague were rife everywhere.

What to do?

After a long time, he slowly opened his eyes.

Now that you have traveled to this world, there must be a way to change history.

No, history has changed.

Chongzhen in history did not receive this secret letter, because of his capricious and suspicious character, no one in the civil and military officials was willing to convey this secret letter to Chongzhen. After all, if Li Zicheng's people were discovered on the way to escape, Feng Yuanyang and the people who conveyed the secret would be executed for the crime of collaborating with the enemy.

One week!

On March 17, Li Zicheng captured Guangning Gate, and even if the king of heaven came and Lao Tzu came, he would not be able to reverse the situation.

God gave a week to change the fate of Chongzhen and Daming.

He stood up and commanded: "Wang Chengen, I said, you remember!" ”