Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 418
The general officers of the Xuanfu and the general officers of Datong surrendered at the same time, presenting a surrender form to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng was happy, Zhu Changyuan was angry and happy, and Chongzhen was going crazy.

"Shameless Lizi!" Chongzhen yelled, threw the melodies sent by the local newspaper in front of the imperial steps, and stood up suddenly, only feeling dizzy, and a mouthful of blood spewed out of his mouth.

"Your Majesty!" All the officials and a group of eunuchs rushed forward and supported the emperor.

Chongzhen closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, trying to calm himself down so that he would not be so angry, and then he recovered in one breath and did not pass out directly.

"Hoo, hoo!" Panting heavily for a while, he opened his eyes slightly, feeling disturbed by the light of his loving mother outside, and said to Wang Cheng'en, "Take a cloth curtain and cover the window."

Wang Chengen went out and ordered the little eunuch to take out many cloth curtains to cover the windows.

"Jiang Yu, Jiang Yu!" Chongzhen read a few words silently, shook his head, and said, "The Jiang family has been my Ming generals for generations, and they have received countless favors from the country. His brother Jiang Rang was the general soldier of Yulin, and his younger brother Jiang Xuan He is the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi Yanghe, why is Jiang Yu so unscrupulous and unrighteous, such a person, he is ashamed to be a son and minister!"

The more Chongzhen talked, the more excited he became, and he almost vomited blood again, and the officials hurried forward to comfort him.

Li Jiantai, Minister of the Ministry of War, fell to his knees and said, "It's all my fault. I'm useless. Your Majesty don't blame others. If you want to blame, blame me. I'm willing to be killed!"

It turned out that Li Jiantai led his army to crusade before Li Zicheng attacked Taiyuan. Emperor Chongzhen personally poured wine for him at the top of the city and saw him off.

The ridiculous thing is that shortly after this guy left the city, his soldiers ran away for three thousand, and after walking less than a hundred miles, there were only 500 soldiers left.When he walked all the way south to Guangzong County, Hebei, the county magistrate who guarded the city refused to let him enter the city for three days in a row. The guy became so angry that he ordered 500 of his men to attack the city.

After the city was broken, all the squires who resisted him were killed, and even the local county magistrate was whipped.

Good guy, go out to fight the thieves, but first take down one of your own cities. This Li Dashangshu is worthy of being the Minister of the Ministry of War, and 500 people can attack the city.

Fortunately, later Chongzhen thought that there was a reason for his incident, so he was not overly harsh and allowed him to continue to be an official.

"You are not wrong, it is all my fault!" Chongzhen comforted Li Jiantai in turn, and then said disheartenedly: "I don't want to be the king of subjugation, but now everything in the country is subjugation. I really wish I could die on the battlefield in order to repay my ancestors and the people, but unfortunately, I will not rest in peace when I die."

"Your Majesty!" Jiang Fengyuan knelt down on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, Son of Heaven, why did you make any mistakes? This is all the fault of all my ministers."

Liu Zunxian moved his bloated body and knelt down in the middle, saying: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the bandits are still in Datong now, even if we hit the capital, we are not without chance of winning. When Emperor Jingtai was there, he also went straight to the front and led Tens of thousands of people attacked the capital, didn't we also stop it?"

"Yes, Your Majesty! The capital city is high and the river is deep, and there are tens of thousands of garrisons. Back then, Huang Taiji led 20 people and couldn't defeat them, let alone trespassers?" Xue Guoguan, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, stood up at this time.

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, and said: "That's natural. As long as the person who attacked the city is not King Yanming, it doesn't matter if the capital guards for half a year." Speaking of this, he thought of Zhu Changyuan again, sighed slightly, and said sadly: "This It's all my fault, if King Yanming had been there at that time, he would have established Liaodong on his own, so who in the world would dare to act so rashly?"

"His Majesty!"

The officials knelt down and exchanged tears with each other.

Although everyone knew that Zhu Changyuan was not dead, but what if he knew?For the sake of the emperor's face, it is impossible to bring Zhu Changyuan back.

"Get up!" Chongzhen waved his hand to signal the officials to get up, took out a memorial to Xue Guoguan, a scholar of the cabinet, and said: "Xue Aiqing take a look at Jiantai's memorial."

Xue Guoguan took the memorandum from Chongzhen, opened his eyes and looked carefully, his body trembled suddenly, his eyes couldn't help but glanced in the direction of Li Jiantai, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and said: "Master Li suggested moving the imperial capital to Jinling in the south?"

Li Jiantai said: "Now that the bandits are powerful, why don't we give up this land in the north of the Yangtze River and let Jianlu and the bandits die, and then we try to regain the Central Plains, why not?"

Xue Guoguan remained silent!
In fact, deep down in his heart, he also agreed with Li Jiantai's suggestion. If the imperial capital was moved from the capital to Jinling, he could still linger like the Southern Song Dynasty. Maybe the Ming Dynasty's Guozuo could last for another 200 years.

However, although this is a way to preserve the ancestral temple of Guozuo Sheji, it is also a shame.You must know that the tombs of the old Zhu family's emperors are all in Beijing. If Li Zicheng forced him to flee, what would the people of the world think?

"I also know that there are merits in this move, but!" Chongzhen sighed, slowly stood up from the bed in the side hall, and got down to the middle of the main hall with Wang Chengen's support, and continued: "It's just that I can't bear to be in the heart of the original people, the ancestral temple. ! If the monarch dies in the country, how will I go!"

The officials bowed their heads and bowed, hugging each other and weeping.

"Cough, cough, cough!" Chongzhen coughed a few times, and Wang Chengen behind him sent silk to wipe the corners of his mouth.After feeding him another bowl of ginseng soup, the emperor's pale complexion slightly improved.

"Get up." Chongzhen waved his hand, looked at the dark light in the room, put his hand in Wang Chenen's, and said, "Help me out for a walk, I feel that the weather is getting colder and colder in the past few days. Come on!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen helped him to go out slowly, and said, "In more than ten days, it will be the winter solstice!"

The sky outside the hall was gray, and when the cold wind blew, pieces of small snowflakes fell from the oppressive sky. It looked soft like cotton wool, but accompanied by the cold north, it made people shudder.

The maid came out from the side hall, took out a bright yellow cloak and put it on the emperor.

Chongzhen looked at the sky, and asked Wang Chengen beside him: "I remember, the first time I met Zhu Changyuan was on a snowy day, after he came back from the land of Jingxiang."

"That was the first time His Majesty summoned Zhu Changyuan!" Wang Chengen hurriedly answered.

The first time the emperor and Zhu Changyuan met was during the talent test in front of the imperial court, so the meeting with Zhu Changyuan when he came back from Jingxiang should be the second time between the two.

"Hehe, I remember it wrong." Chongzhen sighed and looked at the sky: "Uncle Yu Daming has extraordinary achievements in the world. I don't know how the history books will comment on me after thousands of years?"

Wang Cheng'en said: "Your Majesty, the Holy Son of Heaven, is also the master of Ming Dynasty Zhongxing!"

Chongzhen shook his head, ignored the big eunuch beside him, but turned his eyes to the sky again, his complexion was strikingly similar to the gloom of the sky.

The world is vast, only this corner!
I don't know how long it took before an eunuch from the Huangmen ran over and reported, "Your Majesty, urgent report!"

Chongzhen didn't turn his head, he just waved his hands.

Wang Chengen asked the prince on behalf of the prince, and said, "What did you play?"

The little eunuch said: "Just received the battle report, the leader of the bandits, Li Zicheng, raised an army of 50, and entered the Xuanfu from Datong. The whole journey was like a broken bamboo, and all the cities and towns of Daming were destroyed."

Chongzhen said in a low voice: "I'm afraid that all the cities will be surrendered! If everyone is like Zhou Yuji, even Li Zicheng has an army of one million, how can he break through four towns in a row?"

The little eunuch didn't dare to take the emperor's words, and didn't know what to do.

Wang Chengen asked again: "What else is there to play?" He raised his head and said: "Li Zicheng, the thief, raised 50 troops. He has come all the way, and now the soldiers have arrived in Changping!"

Chongzhen's body trembled slightly, Wang Chengen almost sat down on the ground when he heard this.

Where is Changping and how far is it from Beijing?Many people may not know much about it, but from a modern point of view, Changping is just a district of Beijing.

"Your Majesty!" Not long after Xiao Huangmen finished speaking, another eunuch ran over, fell to his knees with a plop, and said, "Dongge Grand Scholar, Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, Zuodu Censor Li Banghua, please see me."

Chongzhen replied: "No."

After a while, Li Banghua asked someone to send the memorial.

Chongzhen opened the memorial and looked at it, sighed while watching, got up and walked around the corridor for several times with Wang Chengen's support, and finally couldn't decide to pay attention.

Wang Chengen was worried about Chongzhen, and asked, "What is your Majesty worried about?"

Chongzhen said: "Li Banghua played, telling me to stick to the gate of the country, and at the same time imitating the story of Emperor Chengzu, let the prince go to the southern capital to supervise the country. I am doubtful, and I don't know whether to let him go."

After hearing this, Wang Chengen couldn't come up with any constructive suggestions, so Chongzhen went back to the side hall to discuss with the officials.

Zhongyun Li Mingrui said in a letter: "Your Majesty, instead of sticking to the imperial capital and letting the prince go to the southern country to supervise the country, it is better to just move the capital to the south. There is no war in the south, and relying on the benefits of the Yangtze River, you can make plans in the future!"

When Guang Shiheng came out, he first talked about the three cardinal principles and five constant principles for a long time, and then rolled up his sleeves and said, "Those who said that they moved to the south are all traitors of the country, and they are ruining the great Ming Dynasty."

Chongzhen slapped the table and said: "Stop arguing, I have made up my mind, stick to the capital, and don't mention the Prince Nandu Jianguo!" After saying that, he walked away.

Wang Chengen followed closely to the left and asked Emperor Chongzhen, "Why didn't your majesty consider Li Mingrui, Li Banghua and Li Jiantai's suggestions? The veterans also feel that the capital is at stake and cannot be refused!"

Chongzhen Yangtian sighed, and said: "It's because I don't want to move south, it's the ministers in the cabinet, they want to be a model for the ages, they want to be modest, they just want to bind the country and help them leave their names in history!"

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Thirty miles outside the city, Li Zicheng raised an army of 50. After a fierce hand-to-hand fight in Changping, he led his entire army to the outer city of Beijing.

In the outer city, they encountered fierce resistance from the Beijing camp, but after all, there were too few people in the Beijing camp, how could they stop Li Zicheng's footsteps.After he easily cleaned up all the soldiers of Ming Dynasty, he immediately stood outside Yongding Gate, looking at this majestic and tall city, his heart was shocked for the first time.

(End of this chapter)