The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 47
The next day.

Before dawn, a group of civil and military dignitaries hurriedly came to Chengtian's gate to wait, either by car or sedan chair.

As the gate slowly opened, everyone lined up in two rows and began to file in in order.

All the way through the Duanmen, Meridian Gate, into the palace city, until the Huangji Gate before stopping for a while, until the auspicious time is approaching, then continue to move towards the Huangji Hall.

When I came to the main hall, I saw Zhu Cihong who had already been sitting on the dragon chair, and there was no one else around. Everyone looked at each other silently, all with genuine expressions.

"Long live my emperor! Long live!"

"Everyone is flat!"

Zhu Cihong's tone was flat, and he glanced at the officials in the hall, his face twitched involuntarily, and there were ten thousand muddy horses galloping in his heart.

who is it?Who leaked the news?

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Everyone seemed to feel the astonishment and anger in Zhu Cihong's heart, and when they got up, there was a hint of smug smirk on their faces.

It looks like saying: Your Majesty, ginger is still old and spicy!

"Chen Yan, why didn't Wei Chaode, Zhang Jinyan and others come?"

"Your Majesty, Elder Wei Ge, Zhang Shangshu and others suddenly suffered from serious illnesses last night, and they are still bedridden. I hope Your Majesty will be furious!" Chen Yan hurriedly replied.

"Oh? It's such a coincidence that all the more than a dozen ministers suddenly fell ill?" Zhu Cihong stared at him intently.

"Returning to Your Majesty, it is indeed strange. I guess the plague may have recurred last year."

"Really!"

"Mr. Dingguo, Wei Zaode and the others may have contracted the plague and were bedridden. That's why they didn't come. Could it be that Duke Ying and others also contracted the plague?"

Zhu Cihong ignored Chen Yan, but looked at Ding Guogong and others on the other side, because Xungui also only came halfway.

"Your Majesty, the Duke of England and the others did indeed suffer from a serious illness and were bedridden. Presumably they must have contracted the plague. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me!"

Duke Ding also hurried out, saying without blushing.

After Ding Guogong finished speaking, the hall fell silent, and everyone did not dare to look at His Majesty's cannibalistic face, and all lowered their heads in unison.

After a long while, the Minister of Rites came out and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the auspicious time has come, I wonder if the Supreme Emperor...?"

"Hehe, coincidentally, the Supreme Emperor also suffered from a serious illness last night, and the cause cannot be found. Now it seems that most of them are infected with the epidemic. Since all the ministers and the Supreme Emperor have fallen ill, this grand ceremony can only be held on another day."

"Disperse!"

Zhu Cihong's complexion changed for a while, he suddenly chuckled, got up and left straight away after speaking.

He has come to his senses, in terms of conspiracy and tricks, he is not in the same order as these ancient scholars.

To put it bluntly, it is estimated that his buttocks are raised and he wants to shit and pee, which can be clearly figured out by these old things.

At his level, he might be able to bully Li Zicheng and his fellows.

"His Majesty…"

Everyone was not reconciled, and finally saw His Majesty, so naturally they had to have a good talk.

But at this time, the side doors on both sides were opened, and hundreds of Jinyiwei big Han generals rushed in.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, secretly thinking that the little emperor had no good intentions and tricked them here to kill them all. Fortunately, they were well prepared, otherwise they might all end up here today.

Liu Xiyin smiled sideways: "Didn't you hear that His Majesty just said that the court was over? Don't you want our family to invite you to Dongchang for tea?"

"Humph!"

Everyone walked away one after another, with extremely ugly expressions on their faces.

at the same time.

In the Kunning Palace, the two empress dowagers were equally pale with anger, and Chongzhen was even trembling with anger.

Wang Chengen on the side screamed: "Li Ruolian, you are presumptuous, what do you want?"

Li Ruolian ignored Wang Cheng'en, and clasped his fists at Chongzhen: "Back to the Supreme Emperor, the two queen mothers, I obey your Majesty's decree, please the Supreme Emperor to rest in Kunning Palace today, and don't take half a step."

"Bold, are you planning to rebel?"

"Get out of here!"

Seeing him blocking the door with Jin Yiwei, Chongzhen immediately shouted loudly and was about to force his way out.

"Your Majesty, please don't embarrass me!" Li Ruo quickly drew out his waist knife, murderous intent appeared in his eyes.

"stop!"

"Fifth brother, you'd better go back first, and sister-in-law and sister Wan'er go to persuade Hong'er well."

Zhang Yan shouted hastily, and took a step forward to hold Chongzhen who was already furious.

"Humph!"

"Fifth brother" made Chongzhen calm down a lot in an instant. He stared at Li Ruolian firmly, then turned back with a flick of his sleeves.

Both women breathed a sigh of relief.

They can naturally see that this Li Ruolian has now become a loyal loyalist of Lang'er, and it is very likely that he will make decisions without authorization and kill Chongzhen recklessly.

"Li Ruolian, Your Majesty didn't say to imprison us in Kunning Palace!"

Zhang Yan said coldly, her pretty face was covered with frost.

Empress Zhou is more sad to be cheated by her son.

"Back to the Queen Mother, this is not true."

Li Ruolian stepped aside.

If it weren't for the rumors that His Majesty killed the king and father, he really wanted to kill the Supreme Emperor just now, and then committed suicide to repay His Majesty's great kindness.

"Sister, go."

Thinking that they were worried about Zhu Cihong's safety and future, but he coaxed them into a circle, Zhang Yan was also annoyed for a while, and then helped the distraught Queen Zhou to kill the Qianqing Palace.

The two women fought all the way to Qianqing Palace, but were stopped by Fan Xian and the eunuchs.

"Two Queen Mothers, Your Majesty has an order, and no one will be seen today."

"Get out of the way for Aijia."

Zhang Yan yelled angrily, and rushed in with Empress Zhou, obviously thinking that Zhu Cihong was hiding from them.

Fan Xian and a group of eunuchs also complained unbearably, they wanted to stop them, but they didn't dare to do it, so they had to let them break in.

"Fan Xian, where is Your Majesty? Where did you go?"

The two female generals searched Qianqing Palace all over but couldn't find them, so they became anxious and stared at Fan Xian.

"Queen Mother, you should spare your slaves!" Fan Xian knelt on the ground wanting to cry.

"Say it quickly! Otherwise, Aijia will kill you now!"

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty has left the palace."

After all, Fan Xian was just a 19-year-old eunuch, who couldn't stand Zhang Yan's intimidation, and finally whispered tremblingly.

"what?"

Both women turned pale with fright, they couldn't care less about being angry, Empress Zhou immediately asked.

At this time, Zhu Cilang had already dressed up as a brocade guard, and under the guard of more than a dozen brocade guards, he quietly left the city and headed towards Changping County.

Obviously want to give it a go and make a final struggle.

Zhu Cihong was led by a Jin Yiwei with superb riding skills, galloping all the way, and killed him to the city after more than an hour.

"Go shout!"

Zhu Cihong was completely shaken, and took a long rest before recovering.

"It's Your Majesty!"

A Jin Yiwei replied.

Then he shouted loudly towards the wall.

"Listen to the rebels inside, His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty has arrived, and quickly asked Li Yan and the red lady to come out and kneel to meet the emperor!"

"what?"

Hearing the ghost screaming outside, the rebels on the wall immediately exploded.

After a while, the gate of the city was opened, and more than a dozen riders galloped out, led by Hong Niangzi.

When Zhu Cihong saw the red lady's filial attire, she was so frightened that she almost turned around and fled.

Secretly, it's over.

He came here for whatever he was really afraid of. The reason why he didn't come to surrender himself in the first place, but sent Fan Xian, was because he was worried that it would be self-defeating.

Although he was so nervous that he was going to die, he also knew that it was too late to say anything now, so he could only calm down.

(End of this chapter)