Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

At this time, he was in the Yilun Hall of the Imperial College.

"Gao Banban, are you okay?"

It is rare for Chongzhen to show concern for Gao Qiqian.

"Long live, this old slave is fine." Gao Qiqian was so grateful that he wanted to cry, "It's just that my chest hurts."

Fu Shan who was standing next to him said to Chongzhen: "My lord, Eunuch Gao is not seriously injured, the crossbow used by the assassin is quite powerful, but Eunuch Gao was wearing chain mail and put a wooden board on his chest, so he was only injured. "

"It's fine." Chongzhen smiled, and then said to Gao Qiqian, "Gao Banban, you must be fine, and I will continue to point at you to block arrows for me in the future."

"It is the blessing of this old slave to be able to block arrows from Long Live Lord."

Gao Qiqian smiled like a flower on his face, and he was already cursing in his heart, Chongzhen, you are not a human being, I Gao Qiqian really suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck, and I was your slave.

"Gao Banban, are you scolding me?" Chongzhen's face collapsed.

"Ah, I don't have it, I don't dare, I'm wronged." Gao Qi's hidden soul was frightened, and he quickly thought in his heart that the Lord Long Live is a rare Ming Jun, a sage, a benevolent king, and it is me who can be a slave to the Lord Long Live The blessing of high diving.

"This makes sense." Chongzhen turned his anger into joy, and immediately turned his head to look at the dark sky outside Yilun Hall, as if he could see Li Ruolian's mansion at the foot of Fuzhou Mountain, so he should come to him, right?
……

"Luo Yangzhi? Is it you? So it was you who stabbed him!"

Staring at Luo Yangzhi, Li Ruolian's eyes almost burst into flames.

Before coming to see Li Ruolian, Luo Yangzhi was actually a little worried.

But seeing Li Ruolian's reaction, Luo Yangzhi heaved a sigh of relief.

The reason is very simple, if Li Ruolian really wanted to arrest him, he would definitely not react like this.

"Commander Li, why are you looking at me with such eyes?" Luo Yangzhi said with a smile, "No matter what, you and I have worked together once, so there must be some love."

"Damn." Li Ruolian said with a dark face, "If you still have a little bit of love for your old colleagues, you won't do such treasonous things like assassination, Luo Yangzhi, you made us miserable!"

Speaking of this meal, he added: "Hundreds of brothers have lost their jobs because of you!"

"Commander Li, you really went to the wrong temple to burn the wrong incense." Luo Yangzhi said, "It was Emperor Chongzhen who cut the Jin Yiwei, and he was the one who made you lose your jobs, and made you suffer eighty court battles." It is also Chongzhen, not me!"

"Full of nonsense." Li Ruolian said angrily, "If it weren't for you, how could the Holy Majesty abolish the Jinyiwei?"

"Li Ruolian, Li Ruolian, you are such an elm-headed person." Luo Yangzhi said, "Can't you see it now? Chongzhen has actually disliked our Jinyiwei for a long time. Since the dog emperor came to the throne, the number of secret investigations by our Jinyiwei It was cut again and again, and the cost was reduced again and again, and in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the brothers could hardly even eat, so you still insist that it was because of assassination that Jin Yiwei was dismissed?"

Li Ruolian immediately fell silent, as if he was persuaded.

"Nothing to say?" Luo Yangzhi snorted, "Li Ruolian, you should think about yourself. Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about your brothers, right?" …

"What do you want to do?" Li Ruolian turned over and wanted to sit up.

As a result, he accidentally touched the wound on his buttocks, and suddenly he groaned in pain.

"Don't get excited, why are you so excited?" Luo Yangzhi waved his hands and said, "At this point, are you still thinking of being loyal to Daming, a dog emperor like Chongzhen?"

Li Ruolian said: "For three hundred years, the imperial court has supported scholars, and they have never been sorry for us."

"It's a bunch of nonsense." Luo Yangzhi said with a dark face, "Jiashen's national calamity, the thieves broke the capital, the emperor Chongzhen slapped his ass and ran away, but threw all the people in the city and the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty to the thieves. Has he been in charge of our lives? How many people do you know died of being tortured by thieves? How dare you say that he didn’t let us down?”

After a moment of silence, Li Ruolian asked, "Is my wife and children okay?"

"It's all good." Luo Yangzhi said, "The emperor's father and regent Dorgon is an unprecedented benevolent monarch. Although he was a barbarian who ruled the Central Plains, his actions were many times better than that of the Han people like Chongzhen. , My Qing soldiers have done nothing to the people in the capital and the family members of the old Ming officials, and my sister-in-law and several nephews and nieces are all safe."

"It's fine." Li Ruolian shed tears as she said that, she was really happy now.

Luo Yangzhi said again: "Chongzhen, a dog emperor, is not even worthy of carrying shoes for the emperor's father and regent. It is the general trend for the Qing Dynasty to replace the Ming Dynasty. Brother, you should also think about it for yourself, your wife, and your nephews and nieces."

Li Ruolian sighed: "I might still believe what you said last year, but not now."

After a short pause, Li Ruolian said again: "Brother Luo, you will not forget the battle of Xuzhou so soon, right?"

"Well, I admit that Chongzhen is a dog emperor who is quite good at using troops." Luo Yangzhi nodded and said, "But brother should also be able to see that the Ming Dynasty is supported by Chongzhen alone. If Chongzhen dies, Daming will immediately fall apart. , fell into the quagmire of party struggle again, so that there will be no obstacles to the Qing Dynasty's unification of the world."

"You still want to assassinate him?" Li Ruolian shook his head and said, "I advise you to give up on this, you have no chance."

"It depends on human effort." Luo Yangzhi said in a deep voice, "I don't believe that Chongzhen has really achieved the body of a saint. As long as you can help me with all your strength, brother, you will be able to kill this dog emperor."

"It can't be killed." Li Ruolian sighed.

"Because you don't even know where Chongzhen lives."

"You don't even know if what you see is Chongzhen's real body?"

Speaking of this meal, Li Ruolian said again: "Chongzhen's cunning is far beyond your imagination."

"What do you mean?" Luo Yangzhi said, "Could it be that the person sitting in the carriage yesterday evening was not Chongzhen?"

"What Chongzhen, that's Gao Qiqian!" Li Ruolian sneered, "The real Chongzhen was wearing a mountain armor at that time, and Qiao dressed up as Yi Ding and followed beside the carriage."

"Ah?" Luo Yangzhi said with a dark face, "This guy is really cunning!"

"So, I advise you not to worry about it." Li Ruolian said, "Unless you can find a way to buy Prince Qin's son, otherwise you can't be sure whether what you see is the real Chongzhen, how can you assassinate him?" …

"Buy Prince Qin's son?" Luo Yangzhi's expression suddenly collapsed.

He only brought a mere few hundred taels of silver, what would he use to bribe Prince Qin?
Li Ruolian sighed, and said, "We can't stay in Nanjing any longer. If Brother Luo misses our old friendship, please introduce us, so that we can go back to Beijing to ask for a meal, and reunite with our wife and children by the way."

"It's no problem." Luo Yangzhi patted his chest and said, "It's on my little brother."

……

A few days later in Prince Rui's Mansion in Beijing.

Tang Ruowang is showing Dorgon a flintlock gun he just supervised.

"Tang Qing, this is what you call a flintlock gun that is not afraid of rain and fog?" Dorgon looked at the flintlock gun carefully, "It doesn't look much different from the Lumi gun."

Tang Ruowang said: "Please take another Lumi gun for comparison."

Dorgon immediately ordered Cao Eryu to bring a Lumi gun, and handed the flintlock gun to Hou Fangyu.

Tang Ruowang told Hou Fangyu the steps of loading and firing the flintlock. Hou Fangyu quickly memorized the key points, and tried to fire a gun, which fired smoothly.

Next, the two servants competed in front of Dorgon.

As a result of the match, it was true that Hou Fangyu's shooting speed was slightly faster, but it was not as fast as Tang Ruowang said. He fired at most two shots per minute.

But Cao Eryu could only fire one shot.

Tang Ruowang said: "The more skilled you are, the faster you can play."

"Very good." Dorgon nodded and said again, "You said you are not afraid of rain and fog?"

Tang Ruowang asked Hou Fangyu and Cao Eryu to load the bombs first, and then asked someone to pour water on them. After the water was poured, they asked Hou Fangyu and Cao Eryu to fire, but Hou Fangyu was the only one who fired.

Seeing this, Dorgon finally became interested, and said joyfully, "Are you really not afraid of rain and fog?"

Tang Ruowang pointed to the flint ignition mechanism and said: "Father and Regent, please look at this. The flintlock does not rely on the match to fire, but relies on the impact of the flint and the anvil to ignite, and the priming room is also sealed before firing. The chamber was only exposed after being struck by flint and turned upside down, so that the rain and fog could not wet the gunpowder inside."

"Wonderful." Dorgon said happily, "immediately ask someone to make ten thousand, no, thirty thousand!"

While talking, another Baoyi came in and reported: "Master, the prince, the grand master, the governor of the left and the governor of Tianjin and other military affairs, Luo Yangxing, request an audience."

Luo Yangxing's official title looks extremely bluffing, but it is actually useless because he is a Han official.

After Dorgon came to power in Beijing, many Ming Dynasty officials who surrendered were restored to their original positions. They still held official positions in the Ming Dynasty, but they had no real power, and the real power was in the hands of Manchu officials.

"Luo Yangxing?" Dorgon frowned, "He's not in Tianjin, what's he doing back here?"

Bao Yi said: "It is said that there is news from Nanjing, but I don't know exactly what happened."

"Nanjing?" Dorgon remembered that Luo Yangxing had sent someone to Nanjing to assassinate Chongzhen, nodded and said, "Then let him come in."

"Hey." Bao Yi took the order and left.

After a while, Luo Yangxing walked in quickly, and when he came to Dorgon, he slapped his sleeves, knelt down and said: "My minister, Luo Yangxing, kowtow to the emperor's father and the regent."

"Get up." Dorgon said solemnly, "What's the matter?"

Luo Yangxing said: "A few months ago, I sent a team of killers to sneak into Nanjing to assassinate Chongzhen. Unfortunately, they failed. However, this trip was not without success. At least one of Chongzhen's cronies was instigated. This person knows a lot of Nanming's secrets."

"Oh really?" Dorgon became interested, "Where is this person?"

Luo Yangxing said: "On the way to Beijing."