I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 406: Amnesty under Heaven: Overthinking

Chapter 406

Li Xin asked to see Lu Xiangsheng under the banner of Cheng Shijie. Lu Xiangsheng was not too surprised. In fact, due to the delay in the news, Cheng Shijie led Ning Haijun to annihilate the Qing army, and Song Xiance killed Dorgon, Duoduo, and Aji. Ge, Daishan, Yue Tuo and others, Huang Taiji, Jierharang, Hauge and others were killed by rocket launchers.

Lu Xiangsheng did not receive any of this news. He thought that Cheng Shijie needed his cooperation in the decisive battle with Jiannu. After all, Lu Xiangsheng was now commanding the remnants of the Northern Expedition. Especially after joining Lei Shisheng's troops, the entire army There are more than 5 troops.

It's just that Lu Xiangsheng's army has almost exhausted its ammunition and has become an almost pure cold weapon era army. However, these more than [-] cold weapon era troops also have a certain combat effectiveness.

Li Xin waited outside the camp for less than a quarter of an hour. An officer from the Tianxiong Army came to Li Xin and said: "The Champion, please come over!"

Li Xin immediately took off his knife and revolver and handed them to the Tianxiong Army officer.

The Tianxiong Army officer shook his head and said: "No need!"

Li Xin came to Lu Xiangsheng's Chinese army tent and found that there were twenty or thirty generals in the tent. However, these generals seemed like refugees. Without exception, they were all thin and out of shape. It was obvious that they had suffered a lot.

"Meet the champion!"

Seeing Li Xin coming, Lu Xiangsheng asked: "How is the situation in Guan Nei now?"

Li Xin did not hesitate, and immediately told Lu Xiangsheng what had happened during this period. First, the Northern Expedition army fell into Jiannu's trick and defeated Sanshen Mountain. Then, under the leadership of Huang Taiji, Jiannu divided his troops into two groups. Led by Gun, he attacked Taiyuan from Shanxi.

Along the way, Huang Taiji led the way, with the Guan Ning Army as the forerunner. Almost the entire Yongping Prefecture, Shuntian Prefecture, and Baoding Prefecture surrendered. Huang Taiji entered Beijing and sent troops south to Zhending Prefecture, preparing to fight with Dole Dorgon's troops joined forces, and Dorgon's troops passed through Jingxing and entered Beizhili.

At this time, the Ning Navy was mobilized and a hundred thousand troops went north. They first attacked western Liaoning and occupied the entire western Liaoning except Shanhaiguan. Although the Ning Navy's naval forces were divided into two groups, one attacked the Funing Guard and the other attacked the Tianjin Guard...

After more than half an hour of Li Xin's narration, the generals under Lu Xiangsheng realized that the Qing army, including Huang Taiji, had been completely wiped out by Ning Haijun. The generals were overjoyed and yelled excitedly.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Li Xin and frowned slightly: "Do you have more important things?"

"Is Your Majesty okay?"

"His Majesty is in good health, but his temper is getting worse!"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled bitterly and said: "You have been shouting about counterattacking Jiannu all day long. You are here for His Majesty, right? Say what you think directly. I am not used to going around..."

"only……"

"Go back!"

All the generals resigned one after another.

At this time, only Li Chongzhen and Lei Shisheng, under Lu Xiangsheng's command, and Li Xin were left in the big tent.

Li Xin still didn't speak.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "They are all my most trusted generals. If you have anything to say, you can just say it!"

Li Xin was silent for a moment, but decided to get straight to the point: "It's like this. After the fall of Beijing, the country was leaderless and the prince was young. Therefore, in order to stabilize the morale of the army and the people, the Liaodong Management Committee discussed with the Empress, and the Empress issued an edict and conferred the title. Our commander-in-chief has a regent. As the regent overseeing the country, he will lead the army in the Northern Expedition..."

Lu Xiangsheng knew the temper of Emperor Chongzhen very well. He killed Zhu Chunchen, the commander-in-chief of the three armies, because he seized the army on the battlefield. Emperor Chongzhen has always been at odds with Lu Xiangsheng. Now he is still wary of Lu Xiangsheng everywhere, especially after Gao Jie and Chen Guodong came to Emperor Chongzhen. Lu Xiangsheng is even more honest.

The current Emperor Chongzhen dislikes Lu Xiangsheng very much. Seeing Lu Xiangsheng's whole yin and yang eccentricity and the unrealistic connotation of Lu Xiangsheng, he said whether Lu Xiangsheng will be Cao Cao or Wang Mang. If he wants to be Cao Cao, he'd better kill the king in advance, otherwise he won't have a chance. , now Cheng Shijie has sent people to his side.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie, the King of Guangping, was canonized by Emperor Chongzhen himself, but the regent was canonized by Empress Zhou, so the trouble will be even greater.

Lu Xiangsheng's expression changed slightly: "This is troublesome... Your Majesty is still alive, but Queen Zhou canonizes Prince Guangping as regent. This is an overstep... It's a big taboo for ministers!"

Li Xin said dumbfounded: "The regent only supervises the country and governs the world on behalf of the emperor, and has not yet officially ascended the throne. However, after he took over the power, a series of policies and guidelines were steady and effective, and he could be used according to his talents. He indeed had the qualifications to lead the Ming Dynasty, and both the army and the people of the Ming Dynasty Extremely satisfied with him..."

Lu Xiangsheng was silent for a long time: "You mean, even if His Majesty returns to Beijing now, the people will not accept him anymore, right?"

Li Xin said frankly: "Yes."

Lu Xiangsheng's eyes became extremely sharp: "Then what do you want? Regicide?"

Li Xin smiled bitterly and cupped his hands: "I don't dare, I don't dare to have such an idea, because I know that both my marshal and the champion miss their old friendship. Although your majesty has made a big mistake, he has the kindness to help you with common sense. , you will not allow others to hurt him. Besides, my commander-in-chief also promised the queen that he will never hurt your majesty!"

Lu Xiangsheng calmed down a little, and asked, "Then what are you going to do?"

Li Xin lowered his voice and said: "We can't let him return to Beijing. The Ming Dynasty has just been hit hard and is in chaos, and the chaos will continue to ferment!"

"how can that be?"

Li Xin smiled bitterly and said: "After Huang Taiji captured Beijing, King Zhu Yihai of Lu was proclaimed emperor by Nanjing. King Zhu Cunji of Qin, with the support of Li Zicheng, proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an. Now Nanjing is actively expanding its army. It is said that the army is approaching More than [-], Li Zicheng's troops even captured Hexi and controlled Guanzhong. If Qin Liangyu, the old general of Qin, had not blocked Li Zicheng's way to Sichuan, even Sichuan might not have been spared. In addition to King Lu, there is no one else in the world More than a dozen emperors..."

Lu Xiangsheng also understood the crisis Li Xin mentioned. Once Emperor Chongzhen returned to Beijing, it would undoubtedly add fuel to the fire, and maybe he would be killed again!Li Xin continued: "So, no matter what, we cannot let him return to Beijing. It is best not to let anyone know that he is still alive!"

Lu Xiangsheng focused his eyes: "You mean..."

Although Li Xin's voice was low, his words were clear: "Create false news that he died of illness, then secretly send him to a place where no one knows him, give him a manor, let the queen and several concubines Concubine, there are several children accompanying him, who are well fed and fed, but he is not allowed to have contact with the outside world... This is the only way, there is no other way!"

Lu Xiangsheng's complexion changed continuously, and finally he sighed deeply.

Although Lu Xiangsheng reluctantly agreed with Li Xin's opinion, the problem was that Chen Guodong did not agree. He knew that last time Li Xin, Meng En and others wanted to force Cheng Shijie to borrow Huang Taiji's knife to kill people and trap Cheng Shijie in an unjust place. Now they proposed again Such a bad idea.

Chen Guodong did not make a decision, but immediately asked someone to notify Cheng Shijie. However, a few days later, he did not receive any news from Cheng Shijie. No news is just news.

Chen Guodong seemed to think that Cheng Shijie had agreed to Li Xin's plan. He announced that Emperor Chongzhen suddenly suffered from a strange illness and was bedridden and coughing up blood.

While taking Emperor Chongzhen directly to Liaodong via Funingwei, the place with the best medical conditions in the world is actually Liaodong. After Emperor Chongzhen arrived in Jinzhou, Liaodong, Empress Zhou and Zhu Cixiang went to meet Emperor Chongzhen at the same time. At this time, The news was then released to the public.

The whole country was shocked to hear that Emperor Chongzhen was critically ill.

……

On the other side, when Cheng Shijie led all the civil and military officials to the Forbidden City, he saw that nearly half of the palaces in the Forbidden City had been turned into ruins, the carved beams and painted buildings were reduced to ashes, the vermilion pillars were blackened by the fire and even burst, and the roofs of almost all buildings collapsed. The red bricks and blue tiles turned into piles of rubble. As for the rockeries, rocks, and exotic flowers and plants in the Imperial Garden, they were also wiped out by the fire, especially those precious flowers and trees, which were burned until only some blackened tree stumps were left...

Cheng Shijie said angrily: "Huang Taiji is so damn cruel! If I can't get something, I would rather destroy it than let me get it."

Wen Tiren wanted to explain that this catastrophe had nothing to do with Huang Taiji, but he did not open his mouth because this catastrophe was clearly caused by the Qing army and Guan Ning army fighting Ning Haijun in the Forbidden City in order to capture Queen Zhou. It would be unreasonable to deny Huang Taiji's responsibility.

Wang Yingxiong looked at Fan Wencheng and didn't explain. Naturally, he himself couldn't explain.

Sun Zhili didn't know Cheng Shijie's kindness, so he said cautiously: "If special funds are allocated, it can be restored to its original appearance in up to half a year..."

Before Sun Zhiman could finish speaking, Cheng Shijie said: "Don't keep it!"

"Keep it?"

Sun Zhili looked puzzled: "How can the majesty of the empire be reflected when the majestic imperial palace was burned to this state without any repairs?"

"Why does the majesty of the Ming Empire need to be reflected in a palace?"

Cheng Shijie said with a serious face: "I want to keep these ruins. Not only will I keep them, but I will also erect a stone tablet and engrave an inscription on it to warn future generations. Because an emperor was impatient and greedy for power and listened to slander, he caused a catastrophe. Even my wife and children were burned alive; I want to tell future generations that a king must not be willful and willful, alienate the virtuous, and must not pretend to understand important matters of the country, otherwise the end will be much more tragic than this time!"

Sun Zhiwan was a little speechless. Cheng Shijie was too cruel. He kept this palace full of ruins. This was a slap in the face of Emperor Chongzhen. If this palace had been kept, then the dirt on Emperor Chongzhen would always be there.If it gets dark like this...

In fact, Cheng Shijie's purpose of leaving this ruin is to warn future generations, just like the Old Summer Palace. When mentioning the Old Summer Palace, the garden of ten thousand gardens, no one will not think of the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Eight-Power Allied Forces.

The city of Beijing changed hands again and it didn't seem to cause any ripples. Even if there were any ripples, it would be drowned out by the steady flow of food being shipped to the streets for distribution.

The common people are actually very easy to serve. As long as they can eat better and have more money, they will be very satisfied.Cheng Shijie had a good understanding of the people's thoughts. He who shaved his head was not guilty and opened granaries to release grain. With these two orders, he easily controlled the city of Beijing.

As for what to do after the distribution of grain to the Beijing Army is finished... It's easy to handle. Just transfer it from the south. It's a joke. This is called having food in hand and not panicking.

The common people in Beijing also found that Ning Haijun soldiers were easy to get along with. Not to mention breaking into private houses and robbing women, even if they wanted to borrow some firewood from them, they would politely wait outside the door and pay the price for what they bought. Giving money was so polite that they were not used to it.

During the day, these soldiers were busy transporting food and distributing it door to door. At night, they returned to the dilapidated camp. After dinner, those who should patrol went out to patrol, and those who did not need to patrol lay on the wall of the courtyard, admiring the scenery of Beijing. night view.

After a great chaos, the prosperity of Beijing city has been reduced to nine out of ten, but these simple soldiers are still fascinated by it. Looking here at night, the heads on the wall are quite scary.

At first, the common people were afraid of these soldiers who could even take down slaves, but they soon realized that they actually had nothing to fear. Later, they saw that they lived in shabby barracks, distributing food everywhere during the day, and at night They still have to patrol, and the only food they eat is canned biscuits or salted beans to fill their stomachs. They all feel that these soldiers are working too hard.

Some relatively wealthy people got ingredients to make fragrant hot soup and delivered it to them personally, but they didn't dare to accept it. They said there was an order from above to take the people's things and they would be punished by military law. It was really speechless.

As for those civil and military officials, they are enjoying the warm hospitality of cockroaches, rats and mosquitoes in prison.Wen Tiren, Wang Yingxiong, Chen Xinjia, Qian Qianyi... these are all big figures who would cause a big earthquake in the officialdom or in the literary world. They all have huge wealth, rich clothes and fine food, and they respond to hundreds of calls. What kind of scenery is that?
Now he is imprisoned in a prison, surrounded by insects and ants, with disheveled hair and a frightened expression. He is as embarrassed as he wants.

As for those nobles who gathered together to seek refuge, they were packed into cells one after another. The whole prison was gloomy and there were constant cries. Normally, if the scholar-officials asked the emperor to be thrown into prison, no matter whether they did it right or not, a large number of scholars would jump. He got up to plead for his life and scolded the emperor.

In the end, the emperor would obediently release him. Not only did he not suffer any loss, but he also gained a reputation for nothing, which was better than being beaten with a royal cane. But now no one thinks that going to jail is a good thing. Seeing that almost the entire center All the officials gathered in the prison, and everyone felt a chill running down their spines!
Some people still imagine that the scholars from Jiangnan will rise up to plead for themselves, but those who know the inside story know that there is no hope, because the gang of scholars from Jiangnan who always like to challenge the limits of death have already established a new king to fight against Cheng Shijie. No matter how generous Cheng Shijie is, We can't tolerate such provocation. With the military power of Ning Navy, the grass in front of those guys' graves next year will be as high as three or four feet. How do you expect them to save lives?Go ahead and dream!
Now they just want to know what Cheng Shijie plans to do with them!

If Cheng Shijie chooses an auspicious day to ascend the throne, he will definitely offer amnesty to the world, and they can successfully come out. Therefore, the civil and military officials in the prison are not worried at all.

They believe that imprisonment is only temporary. After all, Cheng Shijie can still use them. No matter who is the emperor, they are the pillars of the country that govern the world.

It's a pity that they have overthought it. Cheng Shijie is now flipping through his notebook and settling accounts with them. They all have to pay for everything they have done.

(End of this chapter)