Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 557 Chen Mingxia Was Humiliated by a Beggar
Chen Mingxia covered her face.

At this moment, he couldn't figure out why his Majesty was so persistent on this question?
As a mature king, don't you care about how to cultivate new political forces to check and balance old political forces?
Even the Tartars know this.

Otherwise, Dorgon would not have directly promoted him to the right servant of the Ministry of Officials, or even promoted a large number of Han officials, in order to resist the Manchu nobles who were against Dorgon.

And Chongzhen, who is more familiar to me, shouldn't be ignorant of this truth.

"Yes! My minister is a traitor!"

But Chen Mingxia still has to choose to answer Zhu Youjian's question head-on, and also has to admit that he is a traitor who surrendered.

When Chen Mingxia said this, his voice was extremely low, and he also lowered his head.

"You know it's embarrassing, so I'm sorry to say it, Chen Mingxia."

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian sneered and sat back down again.

At this time, Chen Mingxia felt that he could not let His Majesty only remember that he was a traitor, but he still wanted to explain, so he raised his head again: "Your Majesty, it is a helpless move for a humble minister to surrender, even though he is a traitor. ".

"Don't explain to me!"

Zhu Youjian didn't let Chen Mingxia speak, but just smiled and said, "It's fine if you admit it, I'll ask you again, who are you?"

"Return to Your Majesty, my humble minister Chen Mingxia!"

Snapped!
Zhu Youjian slapped Chen Mingxia's face with the memorial in his hand: "You are not an official of my Ming Dynasty, what qualifications do you have to be a minister? Have you forgotten who you are so quickly? Didn't I ask you to report your name!"

"Weichen, I, I am a traitor!"

Chen Mingxia is not stupid, and now he can naturally guess what Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian wants him to answer.

But when Chen Mingxia answered again that he was a traitor, his voice was even softer. He felt very uncomfortable, and he didn't understand why His Majesty insisted on catching him to surrender.

"It seems that you tend to forget who you are. Now that Beijing has just been recovered, everything is complicated, and I don't have much time to chat with you."

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he turned to Zhang Mengxi and said: "Before judging him, take him to Yongding Gate to kneel, and send a guard to follow him, just the military officer of the guard who he offended, As long as every person comes in from Yongding Gate, whether it is an official or a commoner, Chen Mingxia has to kowtow and salute once, and shout "I, Chen Mingxia, is a traitor". What the hell are you!"

As soon as Zhu Youjian made this decree, Chen Mingxia was like five thunderbolts. He didn't want to admit that he was a traitor, but now he was forced to admit that he was a traitor in front of His Majesty. People who entered the city kowtowed that they were traitors, and even civilians had to kneel. This kind of humiliation made him feel worse than killing him.

"Your Majesty, my humble servant, I am also a well-learned man, your hand-picked Tan Hua Lang, you let me kneel down to those vulgar people like this, you are making my life worse than death!"

Chen Mingxia cried loudly.

"I just want to make your life worse than death. In my eyes, you are not as good as them! There are many learned people, but you, Chen Mingxia, are the most typical one. !"

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he tossed his sleeves and left the Qianqing Palace.

……

Chen Mingxia was dragged to Qianqing Palace crying.

He never thought it would end like this.

He didn't understand, he didn't understand how the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was different from the regent of the Qing Dynasty.

He felt that he, the Emperor Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty, was not that wise, so he couldn't help but cursed secretly: "You foolish emperor, sooner or later you will regret your actions today!"

No matter how disappointed and resentful Chen Mingxia was towards Zhu Youjian in his heart, at this moment he could only accept the punishment of coming to Yongding Gate to kowtow to every scholar and citizen of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the city of Beijing has been closed and only progress is allowed and no exit is allowed, many scholars and civilians still enter Beijing every day. After all, many Han people in the suburbs of Beijing today were originally from Beijing, and were later forcibly driven out of Beijing by the Tartars. , became the coated minion of the Bannermen.

If you want to say that in this era, whoever hates Jianlu the most is naturally the Han people in these capitals. After all, they are the most robbed and persecuted by the banner people.

Now that Zhang Mengxi has become the governor of Daming Shuntian Prefecture, even if he has issued a Jun Order, the houses, shops, fields and other industries of the common people in Beijing will be returned to the private properties occupied by the banner people according to the old archives of the Ministry of Households and the official evidence of each workshop.

Therefore, Han people living in the shantytowns outside the city or living in the suburbs of Beijing returned to the city one after another.

Coupled with the fact that more and more officers, soldiers and officials of the Ming Dynasty Guards entered the capital one after another, so these days, there are quite a few people entering the city at the Yongding Gate in the entire Beijing city.

At this moment, Chen Mingxia was forcibly asked to change into the second-rank court clothes of the Qing Dynasty, her braids were also forcibly tied, and she knelt at the gate of the city.

However, at first, Chen Mingxia was still a little resistant and didn't want to kneel.

But the military officer of the Guards who guarded him was naturally unrestrained, and beat Chen Mingxia severely with a whip, until Chen Mingxia's flesh was bruised.

After all, Chen Mingxia was a literati, and he couldn't bear such pain. When he saw an old man leading a donkey entering the city, he hurriedly kowtowed: "I, Chen Mingxia, am a traitor!"

The old man was terrified. Seeing that Chen Mingxia was still wearing an official uniform, although it was a Manchu court uniform, after all, he had been ruled by the Manchu government for six years, so the old man instinctively wanted to kneel down.

"Old man, don't kneel. He is kowtowing for you. Now this is the capital of Daming. He is not an official. He is a traitor who acts as a running dog for the Tartars. His Majesty's will, he is a traitor who harms the people. I want to kowtow to every Ming citizen who enters the city."

At this time, the military officer of the Guards stopped the old man and explained.

"Is that so, can the little one spit on him?" The old man asked suddenly.

"Okay, he's worse than you holding that beast, let alone spitting, you can just shit on his head."

When the military officer of the Guards said this, the guards officers and soldiers guarding the city couldn't help but gritted their teeth and gritted their lips. If it weren't for the strict discipline of the Guards, they would all want to squat on the ground and laugh.

"Deserved!"

Because of this, the old man spat at Chen Mingxia.

Chen Mingxia began to cry while wiping his sleeves: "It's an insult to the gentleman, it's an insult to the gentleman!"

At this time, a beggar also came over, and he didn't leave anymore, he stood in front of Chen Mingxia: "Han thief, hurry up and kowtow!"

Chen Mingxia looked at the beggar wanting to cry without tears, he never thought that the commoner old man whom he would never look at would spit on him, and now even the beggar is waiting for him to kowtow to him.

But he still had to knock, or he would have to be whipped again.

But at this time, Chen Mingxia saw that the beggar didn't leave after kowtowing, but untied his stick in front of him: "Mr. Jun, did you just say that he is no different from a beast? I also want to humiliate this beast." , I don’t know if it’s okay or not?”

(End of this chapter)