1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 502 Throbbing (Part [-])

On the eighth day of March (April 17) in the 1644th year of Chongzhen (4), Li Zicheng's army came to Xuanfu, the supervisor Du Xun and the general Wang Chengyin surrendered, the governor Zhu Zhifeng committed suicide, and the city fell.Emperor Chongzhen once again issued an imperial edict, in which the words were even more painful, and announced that the additional money and food levied on the common people and the increased taxes on the merchants would be abolished.At the same time, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong Wu Sangui, the governor of Jiliao Wang Yongji, the commander-in-chief of Changping Tang Tong, and the commander-in-chief Liu Zeqing of Shandong were urgently dispatched to Weijing City, and called on officials in Beijing to donate money.

On March 4th (April 17th), Tang Tong, the commander-in-chief of Changping, arrived in Beijing with 4000 officers and soldiers.

Liu Zeqing, the general soldier in Shandong, lied about his illness at the beginning, and after receiving a silver reward from the imperial court, he led his troops to loot in the Linqing area, and then withdrew to the original place.

On March 4th (April 21st), when Li Zicheng's army arrived at Juyongguan, Du Zhizhi, the supervising army eunuch, and Tang Tong, the chief soldier, surrendered without a fight. At the same time, Liu Fangliang led the South Route Army. , The guerrilla Xie Sufu surrendered, and the bachelor Li Jiantai surrendered in Baoding.

On March 4 (April 22), Li Zicheng's troops crossed Changping and arrived at Shahe.

And on this day, Huang Zijia, Qi's envoy to Daming, and his party, surrounded by hundreds of escorts from the hired bodyguards, took more than a hundred vehicles, left Guangqumen, and headed east.

Looking back at the majestic and towering city walls of Beijing, Huang Zijia sighed slightly.A few days ago, after bribing the great eunuch Cao Huachun, he had the opportunity to say goodbye to Chongzhen, and tried to persuade him to leave Beijing for refuge.

During the short exchange of two quarters of an hour, Chongzhen's face was serious, his expression was haggard, his eyes were a little wandering, and he didn't say a word for a while.

In desperation, Huang Zijia urged Chongzhen to go out of Tianjin and go to the south of the Yangtze River by boat, so as to avoid the sharp edge of the bandit army.

Chongzhen was stunned, pondered for a long time, then shook his head lightly, sighed softly and said: "The matter is urgent, the king died in Sheji, why did he escape to the south of the Yangtze River? It only adds to the laughter!"

Huang Zijia persuaded again, only by staying alive, can there be a chance of reversal. The important affairs of the country are tied to the emperor, and life and death should not be taken lightly.

Chongzhen was silent, and showed his eyes to Wei Zaode, the first assistant of the Dongge University scholar, but saw that he closed his eyes and said nothing, and then showed his eyes to Fang Yuegong, the right deputy capital censor and Dongge University scholar Fang Yuegong, who was also silent.

Emperor Chongzhen sighed slightly, shook his head and said, the envoys of Qi Fan need not say much, they can pack up and go by themselves.

Huang Zijia asked again if the royal family and nobles could be evacuated to Tianjin with the emissary convoy first, and then transferred to Nanjing to prevent any changes.

Hearing the words, Chongzhen thought for a long time, waved his hand to push everyone away, turned and left.

Huang Zijia didn't say much anymore. Immediately after leaving the palace, he organized the evacuation of all the people still in Beijing. The hundreds of craftsmen obtained by the eunuchs left the capital in batches and went to Tianjin.

On March [-]th, when he heard that Li Zicheng's army had arrived in Changping, Huang Zijia drove the convoy away from the capital without further delay.

On March 4th (April 22nd), Li Guozhen, governor of the Beijing camp, led the three major battalions of Beijing soldiers to meet Li Zicheng's army outside the city, and was defeated. Guozhen fled into the city.

On March 4 (April 23), Li Zicheng sent Du Xun, the eunuch who had surrendered in Changping, into the city to have secret talks with Emperor Chongzhen.According to the agreement, Chuang would force the crowd to divide the northwestern area into the king and reward the army with millions, and then retreat to Henan... After Chuang was entrusted with the title, he would like to suppress bandits for the imperial court, especially to help suppress the Liao Fan with strong troops.But not according to imperial edict and audience.Chongzhen summoned Wei Zaode, the first assistant, to discuss. Wei Zaode feared to follow Chen Xinjia's footsteps, bowed his head and said nothing, Chongzhen angrily denounced him.

On March [-]th, the envoy convoy of the State of Qi joined the [-] marines in Wuqing and continued to Tianjin, killing several bandits on the way.

On the afternoon of March [-], Li Zicheng's army saw that negotiations with Chongzhen failed, so the whole army attacked the city.Li Zicheng's army attacked Xizhi, Pingze and Desheng gates with flying ladders, and the defenders either fled or surrendered.In the afternoon, Cao Huachun opened Zhangyi Gate, and Li Zicheng's army entered Beijing.The eunuch Wang Lian urgently told the emperor, and Chongzhen drank in the palace and sighed: "It's hard for my people!" The eunuch Zhang Yin persuaded the emperor to surrender, but was stabbed to death with a sword.Afterwards, Chongzhen forced Empress Zhou to commit suicide, and all the other concubines died.

However, the entire palace was in a state of panic, and no one noticed that the five Chongzhen children, including Prince Zhu Cihong, Prince Ding Zhu Cijiong, Prince Yong Zhu Cixuan, Princess Changping Zhu Yuxi, and Princess Zhaoren Zhu Yuxuan, were not in the palace and were missing.

On March [-]th, the envoy convoy of the State of Qi met Qin Wang Xinjun near Zuowei, Tianjin. Zhu Shirui, who was newly promoted as a lieutenant general, ordered the convoy of envoys of the State of Qi to be conscripted to supply the army. The Marine Corps then confronted it with guns. And the trend.

The new army guerrilla Jiang Yongrui (promoted for his meritorious service in attacking the DPRK) urged both sides to stop fighting and retreat, and not to hurt themselves.

The officers and soldiers of the new army searched the convoy's cargo and found that they were all ancient books and artifacts of the past dynasties. The gold, silver, cloth and grain were not found among them.

When leaving, Huang Zijia told Jiang Yongrui, a guerrilla in the new army, that it might be too late to go to the capital to serve the king.

When Jiang Yongrui heard the words, he nodded in agreement and led the new army to the capital.

On March [-], Li Zicheng's army broke through the inner city of Beijing and then attacked the imperial palace.Chongzhen and the eunuch Wang Chengen boarded the Shouhuang Pavilion on Meishan Mountain, overlooking the palace, a sea of ​​flames, Li Zicheng's army had entered the palace, robbed property, killed court ladies and eunuchs, the solemn and solemn Forbidden City in the past has become a hell on earth, Chongzhen hid his face and cried bitterly, He took off his yellow robe, and wrote a will on the lapel of his clothes: "I have scorned the virtues of Liang, and I will blame the heavens, causing the rebels to go straight to the capital, and all the ministers misunderstood me. When I die, I will see my ancestors without a face, and I will go to the crown. Cover the face with hair, let the thieves split, and not hurt a single person."

After finishing writing, Chongzhen covered his face with messy hair and hanged himself from a tree with a crooked neck next to Shouhuang Pavilion. His attendant eunuch Wang Chengen also hanged himself to death.

On March 21, the convoy of the Qi State Mission finally arrived at Tianjin Youwei, but was shocked to find that all the officers and soldiers in the guard had fled, and their whereabouts were unknown.

When they arrived at the wharf, more than [-] ships from Changshan Island had been waiting here for several days.It took two days to ship all the more than [-] volumes of classics and countless ancient artifacts collected from the Zhongyuan Pavilion and the Pavilion of the Ministry of Rites in Beijing.

On the evening of March 23, the ships left Tianjin one after another and headed southeast.

"Sir, why did you see my Da Mingqin Wang Xinjun blocking the convoy on the way, and didn't let us come forward to repel them?" A fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy asked Huang Zijia calmly.

"At the beginning of March, the emperor summoned several towns of soldiers and horses to enter Jingqin King, and the new army stationed in Tianjin must have received such orders." Huang Zijia looked at the young man in front of him with some sympathy, and said softly: "But the commander of the new army Why did Zhu Shirui delay until the [-]th before setting off from Tianjin to aid the capital?"

"...This thief already has a different heart!" The young man thought for a moment, then said with a livid face.

"Da Ming is fine, so naturally no one has any objections." Huang Zijia sighed lightly and said, "But at this point, they just don't want to die for Daming."

"My father... Daddy, what will happen?" The boy's face showed a look of sadness.

"The king is dead!"

"...Where does sir want to take me?"

"Do you trust us?" Huang Zijia asked suddenly, "I'm curious, why did your father... why did you trust us Qi so easily, and entrusted you to us to take you away?"

"The state of Qi is the heart of China, and the Han people have the same origin." The young man's face was a little unnatural.

"Aren't you worried that our country of Qi will sell you to Li Zicheng as a commodity, or sell you to Jiannu?"

"If that's the case, your Qi mission will not leave the capital." The young man said with a straight face.

"Hehe..." Huang Zijia smiled, "Unexpectedly, at the last moment, your father didn't take you under the protection of the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, but handed you over to us, a small foreign country who came to make a pilgrimage from afar."

"Where are we going?" the boy asked again.

"Go to Changshan Island first, and then look at the evolution of the world's situation." Huang Zijia said: "If Jiangnan is reliable, we will send you to Nanjing!"

"Will your Qi Congress help us Daming?" The young man breathed a sigh of relief.

"We will help you, but our own strength is limited. Therefore, if Daming wants to save himself, he can only rely on you!" Huang Zijia said: "However, before I came to Daming, my king of Qi once said a conclusion that Jiangnan Shilin and the remaining military towns are not enough! Oh, and there is another saying, internal fighting is expert, external fighting is layman!"

"...Huh?" The young man stared blankly, looking at Huang Zijia inexplicably.

"By the way, my great king also said that brothers fight against the wall and defend against their insults from the outside. The snails and corners are in dispute, and only profit is the thing. Our Han family must pay attention to the defense of Huayi after all. If the internal fighting continues, the mainland of China may be destroyed again. Falling into the misfortune of the Yuan Dynasty, the smell is everywhere." Huang Zijia said seriously: "In the future, if you really rule the south of the Yangtze River and inherit the Ming Dynasty, you must not be careless."

The young man looked at Huang Zijia fixedly, quite dissatisfied with the warning words of the King of Qi that he mentioned.Now that the bandits have been trapped in the capital, and the emperor's father died in Sheji, this is the enmity of the Ming Dynasty, and even more so, the hatred of the family.In this way, how can we cooperate with thieves to fight against "foreign aggression"! ?

If it succeeds to Nanjing, the first task must be to reorganize the rivers and mountains, then kill the thieves, and finally reshape the Great Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)