Chapter 113 Oolong
Looking at the gray-haired and thin man lying under his feet, Xiao Tianjian's heart was full of mixed feelings. This man was Zhu Youjian, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who had ruled the country for 14 years.
In later history, the evaluation of this person is very controversial, but the vast majority of people have a sympathetic attitude towards him. They feel that the death of the Ming Dynasty is not all the fault of Chongzhen. What's more, it is more that his former emperors have tossed away the spirit of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, when it comes to him, Chongzhen has also I'm powerless to return to heaven.
Whether from rumors or in fact, Chongzhen can be said to be the most diligent emperor of the Ming Dynasty. No emperor is more diligent than him. Almost every day he gets up before dawn and begins to prepare for the early morning. He has to read the medals every day until very late. What's more valuable is that he has been sticking to this kind of life for more than ten years. The law of life, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, he can already be said to have exhausted his strength, and it can be said that he is not a diligent emperor.
However, Xiao Tianjian does not think that Chongzhen is a good emperor. Although he is very capable and diligent, he holds the power of the world. Not only has he not been able to revive the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, but it has caused chaos in the world. At this point, Chongzhen is not a capable person.
In Xiao Tianjian's view, the biggest reason why Chongzhen failed is that he was born in the palace since he was a child and did not have the opportunity to go to the people to understand the people's feelings. Although he works very hard, he does not know how to save the country. In addition, he is stubborn, irritable, and has a good face. More He built a car behind closed doors in the palace and didn't know the sufferings of the people at all, so that although he worked very hard, he was doing more useless work, and even repeatedly doing stupid things, which led to his end today.
When looking at Chongzhen's body lying on the ground, Xiao Tianjian suddenly felt that he was very pitiful. Although he was born in the royal family, he had never been relaxed. He tried his best to revive his country all day long, and even didn't have time to enjoy his superior life, but in the end he still fell like this. Field.
Turning his head and look at the eunuch next to him who was relieved from the tree by his men. This person is Wang Cheng'en, Chongzhen's close servant. Poor in this era, although history has been changed by his Xiao Tianjian, it has not changed the fate of the master and servant. In the end, both of them still chose to hang themselves on the coal mountain. .
The only change is that they died three years earlier than the original history, and the place of hanging was also changed from the eastern foot of the coal mountain to the northern foot of the coal mountain.
Looking at this once superior man, and now lying silently at his feet, Xiao Tianjian took a deep breath. Such an ending may be the best ending. Although Chongzhen can't be called a good emperor, in any case, as the emperor, he finally fulfilled the promise of the emperor to defend the country. In fact, it's not that he didn't have a chance to escape. When Xiao Tianjian led his troops to the north, Chongzhen had enough time to leave Beijing. Whether by sea or land, he was likely to successfully escape to the south.
But he didn't do this in the end. Even if the army of the Dazhong army pressed the border and the Jiannu army went south to knock, the man lying under his feet did not choose to abandon his capital and escape from here in the end! But as his ancestor Zhu Di said, he fulfilled the promise of the emperor to guard the country.
No matter what he missed, now he has repaid it with his life. Xiao Tianjian slowly squatted down and stretched out his hand to tidied up his hair for the man who had been his enemy for eight years. Under the light of the lights, he was thin and pale. On his face, Chongzhen's eyes were not completely closed, and a crack was slightly opened, and because of hanging, his mouth was also slightly open, as if he was still shouting and full of unwillingness.
Xiao Tianjian carefully looked at Chongzhen's face, and finally reached out and gently closed his eyes. He stood up and said to Lu Xiangsheng, who came to hear the news, "Mr. Lu! Whether he is a wise king or not, we must admit that he has tried his best for his country! Now he has chosen to leave in this unyielding way, and I also deeply admire him! It's up to you to bury him! With the emperor's etiquette, bury him in the tomb of Tian Guifei!"
After Lu Xiangsheng came over, he looked at the bodies of Chongzhen and Wang Cheng'en lying on the ground. His heart was full of mixed feelings. Lu Xiangsheng used to be an official of the Ming Dynasty, and he was a minister of the Ministry of War. With such an official position, Chongzhen could not be said to have a kindness to him, but in the end, he still chose to betray him, although However, he was not directly involved in too many things against the Ming court, but after all, he still followed Xiao Tianjian and invaded Beijing. In the eyes of many people, he was still a traitor thief. Chong Zhenxian's death by suicide now made him quite uncomfortable. He couldn't help crying. I almost knelt on the ground.
But at this time, he was no longer an official of the Ming Dynasty, but turned into an official of the Dazhong Dynasty. Xiao Tianjian and many soldiers were here again. Even if he had the intention to kneel down and worship Emperor Chongzhen and give him a ride, he felt that it was not appropriate. Finally, he bowed his head and suppressed his tears, so he did not kneel down!
Xiao Tianjian also saw Lu Xiangsheng's dilemma, so he gently reached out and patted Lu Xiangsheng on the shoulder and said, "If you want to kneel and see him off, it's okay to kneel down!" Xiao thinks he still has such a temperament!"
Lu Xiangsheng's heart was immediately moved. He is now very clear about what kind of person Xiao Tianjian is. This man is frank. Although he rebelled, he does not want to seek personal gain everywhere. He is also quite lenient to his subordinates. Although sometimes he is a little violent, it is also aimed at one. Some corrupt officials and evil people! It's also the time only for Jiannu Taranzi! After following Xiao Tianjian for so many years, of course, he knew what Xiao Tianjian wanted to do. In fact, he just wanted to overthrow the Ming Dynasty and return the Han nation to a peaceful world after unifying the world. He wanted to open up territory for the Han nation and eliminate those external troubles!
Now Xiao Tianjian doesn't even mind that he knelt down to the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It can be seen that he is so broad-minded, so Lu Xiangsheng immediately knelt down and thanked Xiao Tianjian.
Xiao Tianjian waved his hand and said, "That's all! It's up to you to bury him! On his funeral day, if the old minister of Daming wants to be buried, it can also be arranged! Everything is up to you!
And this Wang Cheng'en, poor Chongzhen has been in charge of the world for 14 years, but in the end, there is only such a Wang Cheng'en by his side. Poor! Thinking about the battle of Yashan, hundreds of thousands of military and civilian officials accompanied Song Duanzong to the sea and died. Think about those officials and scholars now! What a lament!
If Wang Cheng'en can be so loyal, don't treat him lightly. Prepare a good coffin, bury him next to Chongzhen's cemetery, and let him stay with Chongzhen forever!"
After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng unconsciously felt a burst of shame. He knew that Xiao Tianjian was not a satire on him, but against the officials of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty was in decline, there are now hundreds of officials in Beijing. At this time of the national disaster of the Ming Dynasty, these people chose to fight against the Ming Dynasty except for a few. In the middle army, the rest of the people hid back home together, so that when Chongzhen was decapitated, there was only such a Wang Chengen around him!
Compared with the temperament of the scholars in the Song Dynasty, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty are really... No wonder the emperor mocks these scholars of the Ming Dynasty so much. The death of the Ming Dynasty actually died in this group of the most shameless scholars!
Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but be stunned on the spot, but Xiao Tianjian returned to the Forbidden City with Yu Linwei after arranging the aftermath of Chongzhen.
At this time, the skylight in the east has begun to turn white. When Xiao Tianjian returned to the Forbidden City again, a golden light suddenly fell on the capital from the east, shining the whole towering Forbidden City more brilliantly.
Returning to this palace, Xiao Tianjian's depressed feeling last night fell with the sun and suddenly swept away. When he walked to the Qianqing Gate, the place where the emperor often went to listen to politics in the morning, Xiao Tianjian glanced around and suddenly remembered Caesar's conquest of Egypt. After that, the short and loud words he said when he reported the victory to his Roman friend: I came, I saw, I conquered!
Now that he has finally conquered the capital of Daming, so what else can stop him from leading this great nation to revitalize again?
But just as Xiao Tianjian looked at the magnificence of the Forbidden City bathed in the morning sun, Lu Xiangsheng came over.
"The Holy God! Weichen has inquired about Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the palace. Cao Huachun said that Tian Guifei was still alive in the fashion of the city's destruction yesterday. The emperor ordered Weichen to bury Chongzhen in Tian Guifei's tomb. I don't know who Tian Guifei Tian is referring to? Lu Xiangsheng asked Xiao Tianjian with a confused face.
Xiao Tianjian opened his mouth wide: "Ah? %¥#..." This time it's exposed!
Xiao Tianjian only knew that after the death of Chongzhen in history, Li Zicheng ordered people to open Tian Guifei's tomb and bury Chongzhen and Empress Zhou, who committed suicide, in the tomb of Tian Guifei, but how did he know when Tian Guifei died? Hearing Lu Xiangsheng's question, he knew that at least before yesterday morning, Tian Guifei was still alive. Although Liu Yao had told him that Tian Guifei was killed in her palace by Chongzhen's own hands yesterday, Xiao Tianjian did not care about this matter at that time, and he was still in a confused state. The memory made Lu Xiangsheng bury Chongzhen in Tian Guifei's tomb, which was so embothed! This is likely to expose his identity as a traveler. It's really hard to justify himself!
"Uh... have I ever said that? Why don't I remember? Mr. Lu must have made a mistake! What I mean is to choose a place to bury Chongzhen! Mr. Lu can arrange this by himself! In addition, the Empress Zhou and his dead concubines should also be buried together! Let Chongzhen not be too lonely! ..." Xiao Tianjian couldn't justify himself, so he simply began to play a scoundrel and denied that he had said this.
After listening to this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but doubt whether he had heard it wrong, so he quickly nodded and said yes. He shook his head and retreated to arrange Chongzhen's funeral. Anyway, this is a small matter, and no one pursued this matter. In this way, Xiao Tianjian was fooled through.
Looking at Lu Xiangsheng's back, Xiao Tianjian secretly wiped a sweat. He seemed to be careful in the future. Now this historical process has already been stirred up by him into a pot of porridge. He can't predict what will happen in the future, so it is necessary for him to ask about this kind of thing in the future. After all, now Now he is the supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan. Jun Wu's joke is not a joke, otherwise it is likely to affect his reputation!
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