The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 623 "A disservice"

"It's absolutely impossible!"

Huang Daozhou learned that the queen mother came to his house, and originally wanted to continue hiding, but he didn't see that the queen mother had the intention to leave after the ugly.In desperation, he had no choice but to show up, but he was shocked to hear that the Queen Mother said that the emperor would abdicate, and his whole body was shocked immediately.

He knelt down on the ground, paused and said: "The position of the monarch is related to the safety and prosperity of the world, so don't move lightly, please take back the order of the Queen Mother!
"The old minister must try to make the Holy Majesty return safely, and it must not be because of temporary difficulties..."

Empress Dowager Zeng sighed heavily, and interrupted him: "Old Huang Ge, do you think there is any other way to keep Yuan'er's life safe?"

"Yes, there must be a way!" Huang Daozhou raised his head and was stunned for a while, but couldn't continue, so he could only mutter, "Let the old minister think again, think again..."

Seeing that the Empress Dowager was determined to bring up the matter of abdication again, he hurriedly said: "Reporting to the Empress Dowager, it is a matter of Daming Sheji, how can a veteran make a decision alone... Or, first invite the Lu Ge Department and the Yang Ge Department. Come, let the ministers discuss it together."

He thought about finding more people to persuade the Queen Mother together, so that someone could persuade her and help him share some pressure.

The Empress Dowager Zeng nodded, "That's fine." The emperor's abdication is not something she can decide on by herself, and it will have to be discussed with the court sooner or later. "It's just that every moment of delay, the danger of the emperor will increase At the minute, I also ask Mr. Huang Ge to summon all the adults as soon as possible, and I will wait in Yongshou Palace."

"The old minister would like to obey Yi's order."

Before the sky was bright, Huang Daozhou took Lu Zhenfei, Yang Tinglin, He Kai and other cabinet scholars, as well as a total of 28 core officials of the imperial court, including the imperial censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Du Geshizhong, and the chief and deputy chief officials of the Seven Ministries. Rush to the Forbidden City.

Although it was not yet time to open the palace gate, according to the order of the Empress Dowager Zeng, the left side of the Shenwu Gate was pushed open by the forbidden army, and the eunuch led the courtiers to the Yongshou Palace.

"That's all I want to say." The Empress Dowager Zeng looked at the important ministers kneeling on the ground in the room, and said eagerly, "I also ask all my lords to make a decision as soon as possible, so that Yuan'er can get out of trouble as soon as possible."

Huang Daozhou winked at Lu Zhenfei and the others, and bowed down together, "The Holy Lord's body belongs to the world, you can't..."

Unexpectedly, Yang Tinglin said in a louder voice: "My lord, on behalf of the people of the world, I would like to thank the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven for their righteousness!"

Huang Daozhou and the others were all taken aback.

Yang Tinglin continued to speak loudly: "The captives in the north and east are watching, and there are tens of thousands of people like wolves and tigers, ready to invade south at any time. If there is another war within the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese people will kill each other, but the captives will benefit. They are really relatives." Hurry up, haters!

"The Empress Dowager is sympathetic to the people all over the world, caring about the century-old society of the Ming Dynasty, giving up the position of the emperor alone, so that all the people can live, and expelling all the captives to restore the country is the most righteous thing! The merit will last forever!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Zunbin, Minister of Household Affairs, Song Yingxing, Minister of Industry, Xu Erlu, Minister of Rites, Hong Si, Minister of Xuanbu and others immediately bowed down and responded: "I feel that the Empress Dowager and the Son of Heaven are righteous!"

Afterwards, college student Guo Weijing and several other officials who had some relationship with the Empress Dowager looked at each other. Although they were reluctant, they had received the orders from the Empress Dowager just now at the gate of the palace, so they had to follow them and said: "The Empress Dowager is righteous, and the world appreciates it!"

Huang Daozhou didn't expect that the reinforcements he brought in would be "a disservice". Before he could react, he saw the Empress Dowager Zeng standing up, "Since all the adults think it is feasible, then this matter is settled. The edict of abdication and other specific matters I would also like to ask Mr. Huang Ge and everyone to deal with it, and it is best to announce it to the world before tomorrow!"

"Can……"

Huang Daozhou wanted to say something more, but Yang Tinglin took the lead and knelt down and shouted: "I will obey the Queen Mother's order!"

……

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, thirty or forty miles south of Dantu.

"Master, Danyang is not far ahead." A Jianlu officer in blue cotton armor and a hollow filigree tassel gun on his helmet bowed his hands to Ai Songgu, "We can only take less than 3000 people, so deep I'm afraid..."

"Haha! What are you afraid of?" Ai Songgu laughed and pointed his horsewhip to the south, "Not only Danyang, but I will continue to go south. Jintan and Liyang are allowed to come and go."

He turned his head and said to the officer: "His Royal Highness Prince Yu said that the Nanman is busy fighting with each other at this time, and has no time to take care of us. Do you think we have met the slightest resistance along the way since we crossed the river?"

His officers suddenly realized, recalling the few villages and towns they plundered along the way, they did not even see the hair of the Ming army, and said happily at the moment: "Master, when Danyang is captured, will the army have to 'repair'?"

"Haha, are you thinking of snatching some women again?" Ai Songgu waved his hand "magnanimously", "Send me an order that after taking Danyang, Dasuo in the city will not seal the sword for two days!"

"Thank you, master!"

He had seen the secret report sent by Zhebuku—that is, the "kuzhe" who conspired with Meng Zhengfa—before he crossed the south of the Yangtze River. In the past few days, Huguang should have openly confronted the Nanming court. Spend time attacking and looting in the south of the Yangtze River. If you are lucky, it is not impossible to take down important cities such as Wuxi and even Suzhou.

The next day, Ai Songgu led his troops to the city of Danyang, and when he looked up, there were only a few banners scattered on the top of the city, and no patrolling soldiers could be seen.

He immediately smiled coldly, thinking that he would have a good time in the city tonight, so he waved his whip to the general, "Guolin, send an order to attack the city. By the way, let everyone save arrows and bullets." , we will attack Liyang in a few days.”

"Whoo!"

Guolin'a led the order to gallop away.Immediately, two thousand five or six hundred Qing troops spread out, not even leaving the reserve team behind, and rushed towards Danyang City shouting together.

Until they rushed to about a hundred steps away from the city, they suddenly heard the sound of a cannon in the city, and black holes appeared on the city wall.

The captive soldiers did not have time to stop, and rushed forward for a while, and suddenly there was a burst of firecrackers on the top of the city.Thousands of mini bombs were fired at a high speed, and because of the condescending position, the power was [-]% greater than usual.

The Qing army originally thought they were here to squeeze persimmons, and they didn't even prepare the siege equipment such as curtain carts. A bloody mist suddenly rose in the battle formation, and the shouts of killing abruptly turned into screams of killing pigs.

Ai Songgu saw from a distance that his army had been killed by the city's first volley and killed 400 people, and the offensive stopped immediately. His eyelids twitched, and three words immediately popped up in his heart-there is an ambush!

He hastily ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, but he saw a blood-soaked horse galloping forward, two or three hundred steps away from the central army, and shouted loudly: "Southern Army! There are a large number of Southern Army on the north side!"

Ai Songgu had previously thought that the Ming army was confined to the Huguang area, so he didn't even send out any horses.Almost following the alarming soldier, a group of cavalry in shiny steel armor lined up in two neat wedge formations was rolling towards them with an unstoppable momentum.

(End of this chapter)