Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 421 Peace Talk
With a dark face, Zhu Changyuan dragged Liu Rushi for a few steps and dragged her out from the beach, then took off his coat and put it on her body with distress, and said: "You are now my Zhu Changyuan's woman, please be a man in the future. Start with me in advance, not that Ming Dynasty!"

"I can't do it!" Liu Rushi replied very bluntly.

Zhu Changyuan snorted coldly, and said: "I am the clan of the Ming Dynasty, a descendant of Emperor Chengzu. The Ming Dynasty is a hundred times more important to me than you. What are you fussing about?"

"Zhu asks himself that he is worthy of the people of the world, worthy of the cultivation of his ancestors, and dare not say that he has made great achievements in Huaxia, and he has repeatedly solved the difficulties of the court. However, Chongzhen treats me like this, and let this king drink wine and poison!"

Zhu Changyuan said the crackling of his hands here, and said, "I'm being extremely kind to him by turning a blind eye instead of adding insult to injury?"

Zhu Changyuan talked a lot, but Liu Rushi didn't seem to listen at all, looked at Zhu Changyuan contemptuously with his head tilted, and said: "Is this what you just said is bigger than the country? "

"Sit down first, and I'll tell you later!" Zhu Changyuan pulled Liu Rushi to the side of a big rock, forced her body onto the rock, picked up her wet little feet, and the place where he touched her was icy cold.

Carefully wiped off the cold water from Liu Rushi's feet, and then carefully pressed her feet against his stomach to keep warm, saying: "It's too cold here, you shouldn't come here on your own willful."

"Why are you so stubborn?" Zhu Changyuan asked a little angrily and pityingly.

Liu Rushi naturally felt warm, looked at Zhu Changyuan blankly, answered irrelevant questions, and said, "I had no father or mother since I was a child. Fortunately, Mama Xu took me in. I have been living in Goulan since then, doing art for a living. I live in poverty, but I have savings. Donate everything to the soldiers who fought in Liaodong."

"Although I am a little girl, I have been well versed in the ways of Confucius and Mencius since I was a child, and I dare not forget my family and country! That Zhu Changyuan back then showed me the hope of Ming Dynasty's rejuvenation, and I was once insane! But today, your officialdom is getting better and better. Big, but the conscience is getting smaller and smaller. Just now you asked why you are so stubborn, there is no other, because I am Liu Rushi, the mistake is not so, how can you get my perfect body?"

Zhu Changyuan was silent, lowered his head and put his hands on her little feet, a little bit of warmth.

Liu Rushi suddenly felt that what he said just now was a bit serious, and sighed, instead of continuing to talk, he asked: "My lord hasn't told me about the thing in your heart that is bigger than the country!"

"What you never forget in your heart is the country, but don't forget that besides the country, there is the world!" Zhu Changyuan still lowered his head, and said softly while pinching Liu Rushi's feet.

Liu Rushi snorted coldly, and said, "I knew that, since you have the world in your heart, I naturally have nothing to say."

"You're wrong again!" Zhu Changyuan took a deep breath, looked up at her white and even pale face solemnly, and said, "The world I'm talking about is different from what you're talking about!"

"In today's Ming Empire, the powerful and evil gentry forcibly encircle the land, the concentration of wealth is increasing, the common people live without a fixed place, and countless farmers are bankrupt all over the world. Do you know the reason?"

Liu Rushi shook her head, how could she think so far?

Zhu Changyuan said: "At the final stage of each dynasty, the power of landlords and bureaucrats has expanded again and again, and they forcibly bought land. By the way, let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about Qian Qianyi, who you all know. Do you know how many people are in his family? Land? Wang Ranming, a big businessman in Huizhou Prefecture, has innumerable properties in his family!"

"There is also Gu Changzuo of Songjiang Mansion, who owns one-third of the land of Songjiang Mansion!" Zhu Changyuan sighed, showing a compassionate expression: "The land of the Henan landlord Kang's family is even more jaw-dropping. Footsteps in Shandong, across [-] consecutive counties in Henan! If these big landlords are good people, the people below will still have a way to survive, but unfortunately, most people's hearts are dark."

"Do you think that the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty were only caused by the famine? No, the bigger reason is that farmers have less and less land, while landlords and big businessmen have more and more land. The people have no way of living, so they revolted!"

Seeing Liu Rushi's bewildered face, Zhu Changyuan continued: "It was I who defeated Li Zicheng today, saved the emperor, and saved the Ming Dynasty, but the people in the lower class have no way of living, and they will come again! There are Li Xianzhong, Zhang Zicheng, Wang Zicheng, Zhao Zicheng."

"People's lives are miserable, when will it end?"

"Do you have a solution?" Liu Rushi tilted his head and asked, the expression on his face became kinder.

Zhu Changyuan nodded, and said four words: Break the back and stand up!

Liu Rushi resumed his previous expression, and said: "After all, King Yanming still wants to be the Ninth Five!" He coldly pulled his jade feet out of Zhu Changyuan's arms, and said: "Give me a boat, I will If you want to leave, please forgive me that the little girl is not as exquisite as the prince, and cannot accept the subjugation of the country!"

"Are you really going?" Zhu Changyuan stood up with a gloomy and calm expression.

"If one day you help the world in your mouth, come find me again!"

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For the past two days, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about government affairs every day. He just went to Queen Zhou's Kunning Palace to eat and drink with the queen, and had a good time with the crown prince, enjoying the little family happiness.

On this day, Chongzhen rose up and wrote a word on a huge piece of paper with a pen as large as rafters, and said to Zhou Kui who was ordered to enter the palace: "How about this word of mine?"

Zhou Kui hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty's words, penetrating into wood three points, have reached perfection!"

Chongzhen chuckled, and was very pleased with the flattery of the old father-in-law. He pointed to the words he had just written, and said to Wang Chengen: "Put this word away, and let Cao Huachun go to Sun Moon Island and bring it to King Yanming. After he comes, he will naturally understand what I mean!"

Zhou Kui's heart trembled, and he was about to speak, but was stopped by Chongzhen's wave of his hand, and said: "Master Qing, don't say too much, this is what I mean! Also, don't go out and say it to the courtiers outside. "

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Even though he was Queen Zhou's father, Zhou Kui had no choice but to salute his son-in-law!
Chongzhen took the prince's hand, put his hand in Zhou Kui's, and said to the prince: "Brother Lang, do you know who this is?"

Naturally, Zhu Cihong knew, and cupped his hands towards Zhou Kui, saying: "Greetings, Grandpa!" It was full of folk etiquette.

Zhou Kui was startled, and said, "Why is His Royal Highness doing this?"

Chongzhen said: "My lord, Brother Lang has been entrusted to you from today onwards. I want you to take him away from the capital. If the Ming Dynasty perishes, please be a commoner!"

"Your Majesty!" Zhou Kui fell to his knees, tugging on Emperor Chongzhen's dragon robe, and wept bitterly.

The prince couldn't help crying too.

"Go, the empress will go too!" Chongzhen stretched out his hand to pull Zhou Kui up, and with a pale face smiled, he said: "In the future, I will hide my name and don't ask for fame, but I hope that the blood of the ancestors will last forever!"

Empress Zhou bowed to her father and said, "Father Wanwang treats my child well!"

Zhou Kui said, "The queen won't follow me?"

The queen got up, stood behind Chongzhen and said: "Your Majesty is determined to stay in the capital to deal with the thieves, and my concubines dare not stay away."

"Mother's queen, mother's queen, father's emperor, and son-in-law are unwilling to leave, son-in-law is willing to fight with the thieves!" Zhu Cihong is only a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child now, so he doesn't know what the situation is.

Chongzhen said angrily: "Let's go!"

Zhou Kui quickly pulled the prince and left in a hurry.

Along with the prince, there were two other sons of Emperor Chongzhen: Zhu Cizhen and Zhu Cijiong.

The queen watched her two sons (Zhu Cizhen Tian Guifei) leave with their father, weeping and tearing her heart.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was sad, he could only hold his sadness in his heart and could not release it.After a pause, he said to Wang Chengen: "Let's go, follow me to the platform."

Although during this period of time he had handed over all the military and state affairs to the ministers, he was completely relaxed.However, today's matter really needs him to go out and deal with it personally, and none of those foreign ministers dared to make up their minds.

Li Zicheng was willing to reconcile, but the conditions for the reconciliation were very harsh: crack the soil to seal the king, give him the two provinces of Shaanxi and Shanxi, and at the same time, he also needs 200 million taels of silver as military pay.

"What's your opinion?" Chongzhen looked at the officials and asked.

"Your Majesty!" Zhongyun Li Mingrui knelt down on the ground, and after saying three words, he kowtowed until his head was bleeding, and then said: "Your Majesty should imitate Gou Jian's example, and promise the bandits first." The condition is to persuade him to move south to the capital after leaving the capital, so that he can still sit in the south of the Yangtze River, and in the future, the country will become rich and the people strong, and then plan to go north.”

"Disaster for the country!" Guang Shiheng yelled at the incident, and then knelt down as well, but he did not kowtow, but directly said: "Your Majesty, when the country is in trouble, we must unite as one to defend against foreign enemies! Now the armies of Wu Sangui from Shanhaiguan and Zuo Liangyu from Nanjing have set off and will reach King Qin in the capital in a few days. Li Mingrui's vain attempts to say this are words of subjugation!"

"Your Majesty!" Li Mingrui said in pain, "Now that the bandits are powerful and the people in the city are in panic, I'm afraid that the capital will be captured by the bandits while King Qin's division is still on the way."

"Lord Li is serious!" Cabinet minister Wei Zaode said in a toneless tone: "The capital's defenses are strong, and Huang Taiji's 20 troops have never conquered them. Why should Li Chuang and the mob be afraid?"

"What Master Wei said is very true!" The cabinet minister Chen Yan also came out and said: "Li Chuang's army is indeed a mob. It has gathered millions of people since the beginning of Shaanxi, and now it has lost more than half when it reaches the capital. This is where the fighting power is evident.”

"Shut up!" Before Chen Yan finished speaking, Li Banghua stepped forward and cursed: "Chen Yan, when Li Chuang was frustrated in Taiyuan, the courtiers repeatedly wrote to Wu Sangui for support. Only you and the other two objected. If not, why would Li Chuang As for being able to go to the capital?"

"The minister deserves death!" Chen Yan knelt down and kowtowed to Chongzhen. This matter was an indisputable fact, and he could not refute it.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Chen Yan who was kneeling on the ground, picked up a postscript on the table and threw it down, saying: "You old man, you deserve to die! Get out of the hall!"

(End of this chapter)