Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 422 Death

Chen Yan was scolded out of the hall by Chongzhen.

However, the outcome of the matter remained unchanged. Wei Zaode, Guang Shiheng, Jiang Fengyuan, and Chief Assistant Xue Guoguan all agreed to cede land and pay compensation.

Emperor Chongzhen sighed with emotion, and said: "I always ask the ministers for your opinions on important military and state affairs, but who has ever asked for my opinions?"

The officials were silent.

Chongzhen said again: "I regret not listening to Jiantai's words!"

Li Jiantai suggested that the imperial court move south when Li Zicheng had not yet arrived in Xuanfu. At that time, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to intend to move, but one was persuaded by his officials, and the other was that he did not expect that the two important military towns of Xuanfu and Datong fell so quickly, which led to the Now even if you want to move the capital, it is too late.

"Your Majesty!" A servant of the Ministry of Officials knelt on the ground below, and said in tears: "It's not that the ministers did not agree to Li Chuang's request, nor that the ministers did not understand the king's heart, but that the court really couldn't come up with something. Two million taels of silver!"

If the money can be taken out, there will be no such situation in the army that there is no money.

"Ah!" Emperor Chongzhen sighed heavily, and said, "Heaven is going to kill me!"

After listening to the emperor's words, the officials wiped away their tears and cried.

Thus, the first negotiation between the imperial court and Li Zicheng came to an end.

However, this is not the last chance, because Li Zicheng didn't want to attack the capital at all, so after receiving the news that the imperial court refused the peace talks, he thought for a long time awkwardly, and strangely lowered his conditions: 200 million The taels of silver dropped to 100 million taels!
Then, send envoys into the capital to negotiate with Chongzhen.

This time, Chongzhen ordered Gao Qiqian to quietly take the envoy to the side hall to meet him personally, and asked about Li Zicheng's situation and his requirements one by one. In the end, he still sighed.

Still no money!

The imperial court couldn't even come up with 100 million taels of silver!

For the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen, the last chance to survive was finally shattered.

"Gao Qiqian, you personally send this envoy out of the city, don't let the foreign ministers find out!" Chongzhen waved his hand and asked the eunuch to take the envoy out.

After Li Zicheng was rejected by Chongzhen again, he began to struggle again.

What the hell is the capital going to fight or not to fight?
If we fight, there will be 3 people guarding the city on the opposite side, and hundreds of cannons on the city will not be able to take it down for half a year; but if we don't fight, just go back to Shaanxi?Not named yet?

"How about, we don't want any money, and we can leave as long as the old man Chongzhen gives us a title?" Li Zicheng looked at his little friend Liu Zongmin.

Liu Zongmin said: "Brother, everyone is here, so let's hit it with a stick!"

Li Zicheng said: "What are you doing so hard?"

Liu Zongmin said: "If you don't fight, you won't be happy!"

At the stall where the two were discussing, a soldier came in and said a few words in Li Zicheng's ear, which shocked him at the time and asked, "Really?"

Xiaobing said: "Yes."

Liu Zongmin looked at Li Zicheng suspiciously.

Li Zicheng said: "God help me, someone in the city surrendered and said that as long as we attack, he will help open Yongding Gate!"

Liu Zongmin said happily: "This is even better, and there is hope for the elder brother to sit on the world."

However, Li Zicheng became entangled again, and said, "What if someone tricked us?"

Liu Zongmin said: "Brother might as well use Datong and Xuanfu's method, first send 2 people to attack and try! Even if 2 people die, we will not lose much!"

Therefore, Li Zicheng used Liu Zongmin's suggestion to send 2 people to attack Yongdingmen.

As a result, not only Li Zicheng was taken aback, but Emperor Chongzhen was instantly dumbfounded.

This city gate, which Yexian, Huang Taiji, and Dorgon sharpened their heads and tried to get in, was easily captured by Li Zicheng's [-] troops, and it was still the kind of capture without bloodshed.

The outer city of Beijing was captured, and the entire capital was panicked!
Now only the gate of the Forbidden City is closed, and there are no more than 5000 defenders on the city.

Li Zicheng rode a tall horse, laughed and walked all the way into the outer city of the capital, and said to Niu Jinxing and Liu Zongmin: "Earlier, a town of Taiyuan was destroyed by widows, but I didn't expect the cities behind to be so vulnerable! "

"This is your great king!" Niu Jinxing took the opportunity to flatter and said, "He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world. Now that the king has won the hearts of the people, the king should follow the example of Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and make no mistakes in the three chapters of the agreement. The world is your king. !"

Li Zicheng said: "This is as it should be, Zong Min, you will pass the order later!"

Liu Zongmin was taken aback, and then said: "Your Majesty, our soldiers are still hungry. If we don't slaughter a few rich and powerful families to raise military pay, I'm afraid that brothers will change."

Li Zicheng was in a dilemma, looked at Niu Jinxing and then at Liu Zongmin, and said, "Forget it, let's sum it up first, let's talk about how we can capture the inner city."

In winter, on the sixth day of November, Li Zicheng's army fell into the outer city of the capital.

On the seventh day of November, the inner city was attacked. At noon, Gao Qiqian opened the gate and descended, and the thieves trapped the inner city!
After the door was opened, only [-] troops fought desperately with Li Zicheng's army at the door.

Emperor Chongzhen sat on the throne with a lifeless face, motionless!
"Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen took his hand, shook it twice, and said, "Your Majesty, the bandits broke through the city, let's go!"

Chongzhen shook his head and said, "The city is broken, where else can we go?"

Suddenly thought of something, said: "Not good, empress! Let's go, go to Kunning Palace!" He took Wang Chengen all the way to Kunning Palace in a panic, but saw that Queen Zhou had already died for his country.

Nuo Da's palace is actually empty, and the maids and eunuchs don't know where they went?Only Princess Zhaoren, who was nearly five years old, and Princess Changping, who was 17 years old, were crying beside the queen.

"Queen!" Chongzhen spat out a mouthful of blood, his heart pierced like a knife.

He took a few heavy breaths, pulled out the sword from his waist, looked at his two daughters, tears fell, and said, "I'm sorry for you as a father, but I hope to be an ordinary citizen in my next life, don't give birth In the emperor's house!"

With eyes closed, he stabbed Princess Changping with the sword first.

Princess Changping was shocked, she rolled on the spot involuntarily, but she didn't dodge her father's sword, she felt a chill in the crook of her left arm, and when she looked back, half of her arm was cut off.

"Father, father emperor!" After saying two words, he passed out.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Save the princess' life!" Wang Chengen was heartbroken when he saw the princess, knelt on the ground, grabbed the emperor's dragon robe, and tugged hard.

"Rather than falling into the hands of thieves, it is better to die in my hands!" Chongzhen burst into tears, and said: "I have been guilty of many crimes, so I will bear another burden for my children!" A sword pierced into the body of the five-year-old Princess Zhaoren who was frightened.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen's voice was almost inaudible, and an unbearable depression made him breathless.

At this moment, there was a commotion outside.

The emperor took a few breaths and said: "I don't want to fall into the hands of thieves, I am the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven has his own way of death!" After speaking, he threw the sword on the ground and ran outside madly.

Wang Chengen quickly ran to keep up.

Then, the panicked little eunuch in the palace ran after seeing the emperor.

Chongzhen stopped and said to a young eunuch: "You, you, you go to Ciqing Palace and tell Empress Zhang that the thief has committed a crime in the capital. Let her, let her kill herself!"

After speaking, he tore off a piece of cloth from his body, bit his finger and wrote a few words to the eunuch, saying: "Go!".

"Go!" Chongzhen said to the twenty or thirty eunuchs around him, and then led them straight to the front hall, where the bell rang to summon all the officials, but after waiting for a quarter of an hour, no one came. Hate, said: "All the ministers misunderstood me, the monarch died in the country, and once the world in 270 and three years was abandoned, it was all the mistakes of the treacherous ministers, so that's the case."

Seeing Li Zicheng's army in the distance, he sighed and said, "How I hope that those people outside the city at this moment are not the rebel Li Chuang's people, but the Jingnan army of King Yanming!"

"Zhu Changyuan, the world is in peril, and the Ming Dynasty is about to fall, so you just hide and don't show your face?" Chongzhen laughed like crazy, and then said: "You think you can hide without showing your face, you are wrong!"

Glancing at the eunuch, he said, "All follow me!"

Back at the side hall on the platform, he wrote more than a dozen identical imperial edicts, stamped the emperor's jade seal, and said to the little eunuchs: "One letter per person, take it to the south of the Yangtze River and announce it to the world, and spread it all over the world!"

The little eunuchs took away more than a dozen imperial edicts, and then dispersed.

When Wang Chengen was writing the imperial decree in Chongzhen, he secretly glanced at it, and his body trembled after reading it.

Sitting in the hall for a while, Chongzhen said to Wang Chengen: "Go, prepare a white silk for me!"

Wang Chengen burst into tears when he heard this, and said: "Now that the south of the Yangtze River is still there, the world can be safe. Why don't your majesty go south?"

Chongzhen shook his head and didn't say much.

Wang Chengen went out, and not long after, he brought white silk, but not one but two.

Chongzhen smiled wryly, and said: "You are just an eunuch, why bother, even if the thieves break the capital, they will not kill you!"

Wang Cheng'en said: "The minister has served His Majesty for many years since he was in Qiandi. When His Majesty was young, he even peed on the minister..." As he spoke, he burst into tears.

The sound of killing was loud outside, Wang Chengen immediately stopped crying, stretched his head to look outside the door, and said, "No, the thief has already entered the Forbidden City!"

Chongzhen grabbed the white silk in front of him, walked back when he went out, and said, "I don't want to fall into the hands of thieves."

Wang Chengen also took a white silk, and followed closely behind.

The two, one in front of the other, were chased by the pursuers for a long time, and one of the shoes on Emperor Chongzhen's left foot ran away. They finally came to the eastern foot of Jingdong, crying bitterly.

Then, dipping his fingers in blood, he wrote on his dark blue coat: I have been on the throne for 13 years, although I am humble and virtuous, and the gods are angry, but all the ministers misunderstood me, causing the rebels to go straight to the capital.When I die, I see my ancestors in the ground without a face, and I remove the crown to cover my face with hair.Let the thieves split my corpse, and don't hurt one of the people.

After finishing writing, he asked Wang Chengen to help tie up the white silk, and tiptoed to put the white cloth around his neck.

Wang Chengen burst into tears and knelt down on the ground: "I will send you off to Your Majesty!"

After finishing speaking, he hung himself by the emperor's side.

Chongzhen's breathing became more and more rapid, and his eyes became more and more blurred. In a blur, he seemed to see a black spot flying out of the front hall and straight up to the sky.

Is this my illusion?
The emperor left such a last thought, death!
Daming, due to the arrival of Zhu Changyuan, was fully advanced four years in history, and died!
(End of this chapter)