Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 1 Dad, let’s rebel

When Lu Mou woke up, he felt his head hurt as if it was going to explode. Countless inexplicable memories of other people flooded into his mind, so unbelievable, yet so real.

Wasn't he frustrated at work, framed by his colleagues, and ended up in a hospital bed, unable to afford medical bills, and died of loneliness and depression? It's obviously still alive. And there is also the broken memory of Zhu Cijiong, who lives in the capital, called Shishi.

No, he traveled through time. But in his mind, the memory of the third day of March in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign made him horrified.

For those of you who want to die, you traveled back to the first half of the month before the Ming Dynasty fell. The city of Beijing was about to be captured by Li Zicheng's bandits in the blink of an eye. Then there was the implementation by Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, where everyone was tortured and forced to chase money and pay; then there were countless dead Manchus entering the customs.

No, I can't just come back to life and then die in the chaos of war.

Once you come back to life, you can no longer die. Strive and not die.

In a blink of an eye, I saw that the room where I was lying was luxurious and noble, filled with antique furnishings. Yes, he is a wealthy and well-off family.

There is hope, but now I seem to be only thirteen, what can I do?
  But it doesn't matter. In my memory, I have a father, a mother, and older sisters.

Just when I thought of this, a middle-aged man with a gray complexion and black eyes stretched his head over: "Your Majesty, are you okay?"

What Huang'er Bai'er is, this is my father.

Without saying a word, he grabbed the father who had appeared in front of him for no reason and shouted anxiously: "Dad, it's not good, it's the third day of March in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty. In more than half a month, the rogue Li Zicheng captured the capital. , the Ming Dynasty will be dead, and Chongzhen will be hanged. Dad, let’s sell our property quickly, grab the bucket and run away.”

The middle-aged man immediately changed his color and yelled: "What nonsense are you talking about? How can you abandon your ancestors so easily? Even if you hang yourself to death, you will respect the instructions of your ancestors and not be the person who will be ridiculed by future generations."

Unexpectedly, this cheap dad of mine was still a die-hard loyalist to Ming Dynasty.

"Don't hang yourself. Since dad doesn't want to run away, we, father and son, should immediately sell off our property, recruit troops to rebel against Chongzhen, and side with the great revolutionaries."

The middle-aged man immediately roared angrily: "You traitor, you traitor. I am Chongzhen, are you going to rebel against me?"

Lu Mou was stunned at the time.

At this time, a young man raised his head and shouted: "Third brother Cijiong, don't talk nonsense, shut up now."

Third brother, Zhu Cijiong, yes, Zhu Cijiong is me.

So the father in front of me is Chongzhen? This half-grown child is his elder brother, Prince Zhu Cixi?
  Are you proposing a rebellion with your own emperor? Whose rebellion?

Then Zhu Cijiong rolled his eyes, squeaked, and passed out again.

I can't do it without fainting to death. Now Chongzhen has been forced by ministers and state affairs to change his temperament. He is extremely violent and kills people when he says he wants to.

What's wrong with this body of his being his biological son? There is no family affection in the Tian family.

Pretend to be unconscious and live a little longer.

While in coma, he heard his father Chongzhen roaring: "When he wakes up, I will beat this rebellious son to death."

Wait until you wake up and then beat him to death. Who said there is no family affection in the Tian family? Isn’t this why he is reluctant to kill himself?

Well, he didn't really want to kill himself, his life was safe.

Then I heard the prince brother Zhu Cixi plead for mercy: "Father, please calm down. The third brother is usually naughty and never means what he says. I just dug out a bird's nest in the imperial garden and fell down and was comatose for seven days and seven nights. It was a sequelae of a serious illness. It was purely unintentional. I hope my father will forgive me."

Brothers and friends are respectful to each other, yes, my brother also begged for mercy.

The old son and grandson are the lifeblood of the old man. Zhu Cijiong is now regarded as Chongzhen's old son. Therefore, although he said he wanted to beat or kill him, in fact he still loved him so much that he couldn't do it.

As a result, his anger returned, and Chongzhen snorted, borrowed the donkey from the slope, and said nothing.

The room fell into silence. Lu Mou, now Zhu Laosan, quietly opened his eyes a crack and carefully observed the situation.

Chongzhen and the prince did not leave, but still looked at him with concern.

After a long time, the prince spoke cautiously: "Father, although the third brother is talking nonsense, what he said, asking father to leave the capital and go to Nanjing to reorganize the country, is still correct."

This is a sober and rational person.

The Ming Dynasty also had a second court in Nanjing and a complete set of court staff. The original setting was to prepare a spare tire for an urgent need when the emperor was guarding the country. Yongle also knew that, after all, it was not appropriate to always put the emperor on the front line and be in danger of being killed by the enemy at any time. It was safe to leave a way out.

But at this time, Lu Mou also knew that his brother's words were in vain for his cheap father, Chongzhen, who wanted to save face and suffer.

Because for the sake of Emperor Yongle's words that the emperor should guard the country and the king die in the country, he could never take the initiative to run away to Nanjing.

In fact, the emperor and his ministers had argued about moving the capital to Nanjing as early as half a year ago.

At that time, Chongzhen also wanted to run away, but due to the instructions of his ancestors, he could not say it. So he summoned a minister and asked the minister to propose it, and then he agreed to it. Then I don't have to bear the reputation of violating the ancestral precepts and being cowardly and afraid of death.

The minister agreed at that time and proposed to move the capital at the court meeting the next day.

But after leaving the palace, he regretted it because he thought of Chongzhen, who was famous for shirking responsibility and looking for others to take the blame.

Several of his former colleagues quietly negotiated peace with the Manchus in accordance with Chongzhen's wishes. As a result, the matter was exposed, and Chongzhen let the unlucky guy named Chen Xinjia take the blame. Killed for the crime of negotiating peace without permission.

If he puts forward this proposal and encounters fierce opposition from his ministers, then the emperor will definitely take the blame and kill himself without hesitation to show his firm determination to defend the country.

This can't be done. So the minister shut his mouth tightly on the second day. Even if Chongzhen tried to make insinuations, he would not speak.

In the end, Chongzhen was forced to panic and called his name directly, hoping that he would follow what was discussed last night.

As a result, the minister knelt down and shouted: "I firmly oppose moving the capital and vow to live or die with Beijing."

The matter went cold in the blink of an eye.

Now that it has reached this point, Chongzhen will not agree to the prince's suggestion for the sake of face.

At this time, the prince Zhu Cixi, seeing that his father was still hesitant, knelt down with a grunt: "Although my father goes to Nanjing to reorganize the country, my son, as the prince's supervisor, will sit in the capital and complete the ancestral teachings on my father's behalf. My son will take my place." Father, guard the country and die in the country."

When he heard this, Lu Mou almost jumped up.

Have you ever spoken like that? If you say this, doesn't it mean that you have blocked Chongzhen's retreat? Your son defended the country in place of the king and died in the country. If it is not said that father and son are connected, then if word spreads, where will Chongzhen's old face be put? What will the people of the world think of this emperor?
  Now, with Chongzhen's headstrong and face-saving character, even if he wanted to run away with the bucket, he couldn't.

Sure enough, Chongzhen gasped and roared: "Shut up, I'm not dead yet, I have my share of responsibilities. Do I need you, a child with a yellow mouth, to take my responsibility? Then how will you fall into me?" How far will it go to become a father? Forget about moving the capital."

When Lu Mou heard this, he was furious.

Okay, okay, if you don't leave, then let my prince brother go. Let him sit in Nanjing, which is the legitimate orthodoxy. After the fall of the north, there will be a power vacuum in Jiangnan for a while, causing the struggle for orthodoxy. , a few bastard princes of the Ming Dynasty had internal strife, ruining the perfect opportunity to restore the Ming Dynasty while the Manchu Qing Dynasty was still unsteady and determined.

Sure enough, Chongzhen said: "Father will not leave, but you take your two brothers and sister and immediately leave the capital and go to the south of the Yangtze River to take charge in Nanjing."

Hearing this arrangement, Lu Mou couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and cheered loudly in his heart: This is right. In this way, his brothers will not be sold to Li Zicheng at a high price by his grandfather, the head of the country Zhou Kui. . In the end, in a huge rout, I was secretly killed by the Qing army prisoners. I am a dead man, and I don't want to die again.

So I shouted in my heart: "Brother, promise, promise."

As a result, I heard my brother kneeling on the ground saying impassionedly: "Since my father has decided not to leave, I will not leave either. Let me follow my father and bury our ancestors together."

Okay, I totally sucked this to death.

You can't pretend anymore, otherwise you'll be dead. So Lu Mou suddenly opened his eyes, got up, and loudly suggested to Prince Chongzhen: "Since the father and the prince are so determined, why do they always say death? We, father and son, are of one mind and activate the summoning skills. Gather the surrounding armies to fight to the death."

Hearing such a proposal from his third son who had woken up again, Chongzhen was not excited, but rather depressed: "It's useless. The Guan Ning cavalry closest to here proposed a departure fee of 30 taels to my father before he would return. There is no military rescue, and we will definitely not come."

Lu Mou felt completely sad for Chongzhen. As an emperor, he mobilizes his ministers to the point of bargaining, how can he be so miserable?

"Then give it to him."

"But Father, I have no money."

Lu Mou staggered and almost fainted. Now Chongzhen is so messed up that he doesn't even have the money to save his life. It's so sad.

In the end, in order to save his own life, Lu Mou gritted his teeth and said: "Three hundred thousand taels of silver, right? I have a way."

(End of this chapter)