Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 439 Cutting Trees
"I will follow you to the death!"

Below, Xiong Wencan and everyone shouted again in unison.

Zhu Changyuan snorted coldly, and said: "It's not necessary to follow the left and right. It's better for you to settle down to your own duties. Don't disappoint the widow's painstaking efforts!"

He raised his feet and went down, looked at Dorgon, paused slightly, and said: "Time is running out, Prince Rui should come back to the capital with me, and take your people away by the way."

Zhu Changyuan came out of the main hall, followed by Polu, Guo Cheng, Wang Wu and others, followed by Li Hao, the prince of North Korea, and then Xiong Wencan and Li Xin.

Not long after leaving the gate of the main hall, I bumped into Xiang Wang Zhu Yifan head-on!
Zhu Changyuan glanced at the 40-year-old King Xiang with a big belly, and secretly thought that this guy just happened to be passing by, and he should be waiting here for me.

Sure enough, seeing Zhu Changyuan coming out, Zhu Yifan put on a smiling face, walked quickly towards Zhu Changyuan, and said: "King Yanming, I have been waiting for a long time!"

"Oh, you can't do it, Uncle Wang please hurry up!"

In terms of seniority, Zhu Yifan was a generation older than himself, and he did not dare to be Zhu Changyuan's big gift, because now they are both vassal kings of the former Ming Dynasty, and they are completely equal in rank.

It's just that Zhu Changyuan is powerful and Zhu Yifan has no strength.

"Don't dare dare!" Zhu Changyuan cupped his hands, took out a yellow scroll from his arms, handed it to Zhu Changyuan respectfully, and said: "The Ming Dynasty is dead, the world is full of disputes, and the ancestors are in danger. Now we can turn the tide and reshape the scroll." The king of the Ming Dynasty must be the king, and I have the courage to persuade the king of Yanming to enter the ninety-five position!"

Zhu Changyuan looked calm, took the scroll from Zhu Yifan and opened it, it turned out to be a persuasion watch, with a slight smile on his face.

"Forget it, I am very pleased that the emperor has such a heart!" After speaking, he returned the persuasion table to Zhu Yifan, and said: "However, I am afraid that I will not be able to convince the public because of my lack of virtue and kindness. Let's discuss this matter later."

Zhu Changyuan felt like a bright mirror in his heart, this Xiang Wang Zhu Yifan must not be worried about state affairs and persuaded him to advance, but wanted to keep his own glory and wealth, and wanted to claim credit in front of him to gain political benefits.

For this kind of small fish and shrimp, it is better to win than defeat, so Zhu Changyuan thought for a while and said: "King Xiang is worried about state affairs and I am moved, and I have nothing, so I will give you a watch as a commendation!"

After speaking, he took off the watch from his wrist and handed it to Zhu Yifan, saying: "This watch has been with me for many years. Although the gift is light, the blood and friendship between you and me are more important than Mount Tai."

Zhu Yifan took the watch tremblingly, the excitement in his heart was indescribable.

Although he looks ugly, and although he is a bit disregarding morals, he made the right bet, and his future will be even brighter. He believes that as long as Zhu Changyuan does not fail, he will always sit on the seat of King Xiang.

Everyone could see clearly that although Zhu Changyuan rejected Zhu Yifan's persuasion, he rewarded Zhu Yifan with something. Although the thing was insignificant, it was of great significance.

This meant that he wanted to be the emperor, but because of some things, he could not directly ascend to the throne.

Luo Rucai walked at the end of the team, and murmured to Mu Tianbo, "Before we also persuaded the prince to become the emperor, why didn't the prince pay attention to it, but when King Xiang said it, he treated him like this?"

Mu Tianbo said: "The throne is no different than others. If you want to ascend the throne, you must first get the support of the clan kings, and then you can get the support of the people."

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Zhu Changyuan dismissed the princes from all walks of life that day, and then led his officials such as Li Xin, Po Lu, Guo Cheng, Wang Wu, and Dorgon and Duoduo, all the way north, heading straight for the capital.

"My lord!" Not long after departure, Li Xin cupped his hands and said to Zhu Changyuan: "Just now General Cheng Bujing called. The [-] troops he led have already arrived at Baoding Mansion. They didn't go any further, but stationed there!"

"Ok!"

Zhu Changyuan nodded in satisfaction.

In order to ensure that this trip to the north went smoothly without any accidents, Zhu Changyuan arranged in advance to transfer all the [-] troops in the hands of Nanyang Cheng Bujing to the north, in order to fear that Dorgon and Duoduo would break their promise and separate the capital.

Of course, the possibility of this is extremely slim!But Zhu Changyuan had to guard against it.

After crossing the Han River, Zhu Changyuan distributed a thousand-mile horse to everyone including Dorgon and Duoduo, and said: "Everyone, this horse can travel thousands of miles a day without any effort. This place is two thousand miles away from the capital, and it takes three days. Yea!"

After finishing speaking, with a sound of "drive!", he took the lead and rushed out on horseback.

The rest followed closely.

"Drive!" Everyone waved the whips in their hands, and the speed of the horses under their crotches was getting faster and faster. There was wind in their ears, and their tails were raised high and thrown behind them.

It was the first time for Duo Duo and Dorgon to ride this kind of war horse, and they were amazed at the speed and endurance of the horse.

"Brother Wang!" Duo Duo took a deep look at Dorgon, unable to hide the fear in his eyes.

Dorgon seemed to know what his younger brother was going to say, so he quickly stopped him and said, "Fifth brother, concentrate on riding the horse and don't talk. You see, others have already surpassed us by a lot!"

"Drive!" Dorgon slapped the horse's ass, and the horse galloped away, crossing mountains and crossing mountains, stepping on rivers when encountering water, the speed did not decrease all the way, and it was close to the modern train.

A group of people did not stop, and arrived at Baoding Mansion two days later.

When I arrived at the Baodi Mansion, I learned that Fulin and Haoge had emptied all the soldiers in the capital and stationed in Changping County not far away, and I made a gesture early on that I gave up Beijing.

Zhu Changyuan chuckled, looked at Dorgon, and knew that this guy must have called Hauge or Fulin, otherwise it would be impossible for the capital to get the news so quickly.

Since the alliance of princes, Zhu Changyuan unblocked the ten mobile phones that were given to Dorgon before, allowing them to talk freely.

"My lord!" Cheng Bujing knelt in front of Zhu Changyuan in military uniform, and said, "The last general, Cheng Bujing, is stationing 5 troops from his headquarters in Baoding. Please give me instructions!"

Cheng Bujing was originally a relatively large bandit leader in the vicinity of Xiangyang Mansion, relying on his own resourceful wife, he got all the way to where he is today.

Zhu Changyuan patted Cheng Bujing on the shoulder, and said: "Get up, there are no instructions, since you have come with an army, these 5 people should temporarily protect the safety of the capital, let's go, follow me to the capital!"

Zhu Changyuan rode in front, and Cheng Bujing's army came behind him, and hurriedly walked towards the capital.

Walking outside the Yongding Gate in the south of Beijing, I found that there was a group of defenders on the city wall, and these defenders were basically in Ming Dynasty attire.

Those who don't know may think that Chongzhen was resurrected and took the army to occupy Beijing.

"Come here, come, King Yanming is here, open the door!"

Hearing a shout from a general above, the Yongding Gate was slowly opened, and then Zhu Changyuan saw a strange scene.

All civil and military officials, dressed in bright and bright official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, walked up to Zhu Changyuan's horse in a neat line, knelt down on the ground at the same time, and shouted to Zhu Changyuan in unison: "Long live King Yanming! Long live King Yanming!"

Zhu Changyuan rode on the horse, looked past all the officials and stayed on the Yongding Gate, ignored those officials who were lying on the ground, and said with a cold snort: "The big capital, such a fortified city, can be broken in a day?"

The officials below were stunned for a while, then looked at each other, blushing to the neck.

This can be regarded as Zhu Changyuan's ridicule for these courtiers.

"Gao Qiqian, eunuchs messing up the country, if he hadn't dedicated the city to the thieves, how could the capital be destroyed in one day?" Some people started shouting below.

Only then did Zhu Changyuan withdraw his gaze, and slowly looked at the courtiers kneeling in front of him.

Jiang Fengyuan, Wei Zaode, Xue Guoguan, Zhang Sizhi, Li Jiantai, Guang Shiheng, Guang Shiheng, Chen Yan, Zhang Guoji, Shang Zhouzuo, Li Shichun, Li Mingrui, Xu Hongji and other officials, as well as eunuchs headed by Wang Zhixin.

"Where is Gao Qiqian?" Zhu Changyuan opened his mouth and asked.

The voice is very soft, but it makes people shudder, Youruo has Tianxian in his mouth!
"I have been taken to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice by the minister!" said Liu Zhifeng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

Zhu Changyuan looked at the ministers in front of him again, with a look of disdain on his face.

Emperor Chongzhen was responsible for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, but these courtiers also had to bear a great deal of responsibility.When the country was in peril, the imperial court had no military pay and could not conscript soldiers to fight, so that even Emperor Chongzhen wore patched clothes.

But these ministers, all of whom said they were loyal to the country, had more money in their pockets than the emperor, and they didn't even get a cent out of it.

According to historical records, when Li Zicheng besieged Beijing, Wei Zaode, a cabinet scholar, had a chance to escape, but his family property was too large to be transported out, and he was reluctant to run away. In the end, all his family property became Liu Zongmin's military salary.

The saddest thing in the world is this.

"Scratch it!" Zhu Changyuan said softly, and then said to the officials: "Everyone has worked hard, get up, and follow me to the place where Emperor Lie died."

Disgusting as these officials are, this is not the time to blame them either.At this critical juncture, Zhu Changyuan doesn't want to pursue anyone for anything, anyway, there will be plenty of time to settle accounts slowly in the future.

"Yes!" Liu Zhifeng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, responded.

Zhu Changyuan got off his horse and helped the leaders Xue Guoguan and Zhang Sizhi up with his own hands, saying: "You are all ministers of my great Ming, pillars of the country, follow me to Jingshan."

Baiguan just got up, bowed to Zhu Changyuan again and again, followed him on foot, and walked towards Jingshan at the back of the palace.

When they got to the crooked-neck tree at the eastern foot of Jingdong, all the ministers embraced and wept, saying that this was the place where Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself.

"Ah!" Zhu Changyuan sighed sincerely, did not comment on the merits and demerits of Emperor Chongzhen, but said to the minister next to him: "Wang Chengen is a heartfelt slave."

Not long after, an eunuch presented Zhu Changyuan with the blue robe left by Emperor Chongzhen when he died.Zhu Changyuan frowned slightly as he looked at the dried blood stains on it.

"Forget it!" Pointing to the crooked neck tree, he said to the eunuch: "This tree kills the emperor, unknown, cut it down!"

(End of this chapter)