The Forbidden City, the palace of the Ming Dynasty, was built during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty.

The Forbidden City covers an area of more than 720,000 square meters, with a total of more than 9,000 palaces, all of which are wooden structures, yellow glazed tile roofs, blue and white stone bases, and decorated with brilliant paintings. These palaces are arranged along a north-south central axis and spread out to both sides, straight from north to south, symmetrical to left and right. This central axis not only runs through the Forbidden City, but also reaches the Yongding Gate in the south, the Drum Tower and the Bell Tower in the north, runs through the whole city, the spirit is magnificent, the planning is strict, and it is extremely spectacular.

Among the many palaces, the most famous are the three major halls.

These three major halls, namely the Fengtian Palace, the Huagai Palace, and the Body Palace.

Fengtian Temple is in charge of the inner court temple sacrifice, and then it is the meeting office. The other two halls are used for court discussions and court ceremonies. The emperor resides in the Ganqing Palace, and the Empress Dowager resides in the Cishou Palace and the Ciqing Palace. and Taizu's first month in white clothes and white tiger palace. Sejong repairs the West Garden, there is Okhee Palace. Wu Zong repaired the leopard room.

The study in the Ganqing Palace.

Emperor Chongzhen, a twenty-eight-year-old young man, had a round face, medium height, and a beard. He was indignant, pointing to several courtiers in front of him and scolding: "Tell me, tell me, how do you govern the country? Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the two rebels in the northwest, made trouble, and asked for money and food, and I gave money and food. As a result, there has been no thief yet. ”

"On the Manchu side, I want money and grain for money and grain, and policy for policy, I just hope you will fight better. As a result, every year is a loss. This year is even more nonsense, first the Manchu army, bypassing the guards of the border pass, directly rushed to my mountain, went to the east province, broke through Ji, Nancheng and other cities, and took away more than 200,000 people, and other kinds of property, even more countless. ”

Then, when there was a locust plague, the Manchu Qing sent troops over to attack the cities under my command and rob the food and property of the people under Teng. ”

"What did the Manchus treat my country for? Treat it as a fat sheep that can attack and rob at any time?"

"What did the Manchus think of me again?"

Chongzhen scolded angrily, this young emperor is a rather contradictory emperor.

Emperors are roughly divided into two types, one is the Ming monarch and the other is the faint monarch.

However, Emperor Chongzhen is not one of them.

He is very diligent, and every day before dawn, he begins to deal with national affairs, and he has to watch everything in detail.

He is very frugal, the clothes he usually wears, and even the soldiers are replenished, he has no requirements for food, and a meal is usually a few dishes.

He is not lustful at all, he is just a queen and a few concubines, and he usually doesn't stay with the concubines much, and he has no interest in the draft.

All his energy is spent on one thing, that is, to save the Ming Dynasty, this edifice that will collapse, from this point of view, he is definitely a good emperor.

However, after all, he did not have the education to be a real emperor, and he did not know anything about how to be an emperor.

For example, when he came to power, he directly beheaded Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian's reputation is quite bad, but it is because he has offended the literati, and it is not difficult to think that his reputation is not bad. Wei Zhongxian's greatest function as a 9,000-year-old is to help the emperor deter hundreds of officials and help the emperor collect taxes. Without Wei Zhongxian, there is no one to restrain the hundred officials.

When Wei Zhongxian was there, the tea tax in Zhejiang and Jiang alone could collect 200,000 taels of silver. And as soon as he died, the tea tax paid by Zhejiang and Jiang was only twelve taels. That's right, it's not 120,000 taels, it's not 12,000 taels of silver, it's not 1,200 taels of silver, it's 120,000 taels of silver, it's 120,000 taels of silver, it's 12,000 taels of silver, it's not 12,000 taels of silver, it's not 12,000 taels of silver

Chongzhen's killing of Wei Zhongxian can be said to be the first big mistake he made.

Then, Emperor Chongzhen's own personality also had many flaws. If you want to describe it, it is: suspicious and observant, so rigid and still angry. Ren Cha is harsh and unkind, and Shang Qi is hurried.

Chongzhen's personality is impulsive, too eager to change the status quo, the apocalypse originally left a large number of important ministers, but many problems accumulate and are difficult to oppose, and Chongzhen's principle is that as long as something goes wrong, he will be replaced immediately, or even imprisoned and punished. As a result, the emperor did not trust the minister, the minister did not trust the emperor, and he trembled even when he took office, and did not dare to let go.

Take Wang Qia and Chen Xinjia, the ministers of the Chongzhen Dynasty, as examples. Houjin hit the city of Beijing, some people say that Jiajing killed Ding Rukui, the secretary of the military department, and the enemy retreated, so Chongzhen locked up Wang Qia and prepared to kill. Later, Chongzhen sent Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, to secretly negotiate peace, but the news leaked, which made Chongzhen very faceless, so he killed Chen Xinjia. Chongzhen once had 14 military department Shangshu did not end well, and 54 cabinets were changed, which is rare in ancient and modern times, and it is simply a dead country.

Therefore, Chongzhen is a sad emperor.

He is a typical hard worker, but he lacks talent and cannot be an emperor of a good emperor.

If it is placed in peacetime, it does not matter.

But when it was at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was really difficult.

And many ministers who were scolded by him could only bow their heads silently. They didn't dare to refute it, and if they got such a boss, if they dared to refute, maybe they would refute it.

The more Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, the more angry he became: "In the past 12 years since I took office, I have been diligent and diligent, and I have food and clothing, but the ministers misunderstood me. ”

At this moment, Xue Guoguan, the current temporary first assistant, ran in directly: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, there is a war report at the border pass." ”

Emperor Chongzhen frowned, and said angrily: "Which city has been breached? What is the use of the soldiers I raised with so much silver, facing the Qing soldiers, I can't fight at all." As soon as they encountered the Qing soldiers, they were defeated. ”

"No, no, Your Majesty, this is good news, good news. Xue Guoguan hurriedly shouted.

Several ministers who were being scolded next to him couldn't help but be surprised. Good news? It was actually good news? In the past, when facing the Qing Manchu army, I don't know how many years before the good news could be transmitted.

Chongzhen was originally angry, but when he heard the word good news, he couldn't help but be anxious, and directly snatched the fold from Xue Guoguan's hand, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, but his face changed suddenly, and he threw the fold directly on the ground of the study of the Ganqing Palace: "Hehe, this Gao Yongming, what is going on, treat me as a fool? What's the result, he produced a peerless fierce general He Xuan, with one enemy of three hundred, defeated the entire Qing soldiers of Niulu, is this treating me as a fool?"

"Three hundred against one, hehe. ”

The ministers who were originally being scolded couldn't help but look at Xue Guoguan in surprise when they heard this. This Xue Shoufu, who is temporarily in office, is not a fool. This kind of battle report, which was obviously mixed with countless amounts of water, was also handed over? When he met Emperor Chongzhen, wouldn't he be killed? Xue Shoufu, the first assistant, is estimated to be the end of the day.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister also thought that this excerpt was completely untrustworthy. Xue Guoguan said in a deep voice: "However, in the back, Gao Yongming said that he personally tried this general banner called He Xuan, saying that this person has a thousand catties of great strength, and he lifted a table weighing fifty catties and seven big men together. ”

"Moreover, this He Zongqi is the one who killed eight Qing soldiers alone last time. ”

"Perhaps, there are some strange people in this world. ”

Weichen didn't dare to judge the truth of this matter, so he handed it over to His Majesty and asked His Majesty to take a look. "No matter what the result is, he Xue Guoguan has pushed the responsibility away, and if there is a problem, it is also Gao Yongming's problem.

Chongzhen's face sank like water, and he was thinking about the authenticity of this matter.

It stands to reason that this thing can't be true, a dozen or three hundred, no matter how you think about it.

However, if the following people want to fake, they should not do so. More than a hundred real Tartar heads, how can it be a great feat, is it necessary to fake it again?