Chapter 107: The Emperor is Dead

Xia Wanchun chewed a white sugar lotus root in his mouth, and the card he bit clicked.

Zhu Yujiao was sweating profusely, glaring at Xia Wanchun countless times, but there was no way to stop him from continuing to make noise.

Nearly 700 people hid in the cave of the hidden soldiers, watching Li Chuang's thieves rush towards the city like meteors.

Just outside the cave, there were more than 300 elite thieves with strong bodies, and on the gray coats they were wearing, there was a huge word written on them.

The thieves with this word on their chests and backs are generally the elite of the Dashun army, and they are also the personal guards of various generals.

Xia Wanchun took out another piece of sugar root from his sleeve, and when he was about to put it in his mouth, he saw Zhu Yujiao looking at him pleadingly, so he handed the sugar root to Zhu Yuanjiao and said: "

It's very good, it's hard to snatch something from the mouths of my two junior brothers. ”

Zhu Yujiao watched in horror as the carnival shouting thieves passed in front of her like a tide, where did she dare to make a sound, behind her, were her younger brothers and sisters, mother, and some delicate palace ladies and eunuchs, once discovered by the thieves, she didn't dare to imagine what kind of consequences would happen.

"Things have gone a little wrong, our people are a little late, so we can't let you out of the city in advance, but ah, it doesn't matter now, we'll leave after the thieves have entered the city and started looting.

Fifteen miles outside the city, someone will answer, and then you will go directly to Lantian to see my master. ”

Zhu Yujiao looked at Xia Wanchun angrily and didn't say a word, not only did she close her mouth tightly, everyone in the cave was the same, even the youngest Princess Zhaoren hid her head in the arms of her mother Concubine Yuan, and it was quiet like a sculpture.

As for the three men, the crown prince, the king of Yong, and the king of Ding, they sweated like pulp, and the king of Yong even urinated out, and it was a large piece of the ground.

Everyone waited in the cave for two hours, and the soldiers and horses coming in from outside the city were a little thin.

Xia Wanchun stood at the door of the Tibetan Soldier Cave and beckoned to a king of Chuang: "Where are our carriages and horses?" ”

The sturdy man pouted and said, "Wait a little longer, and when all the thieves are immersed in the joy of burning and looting, we will leave." ”

Xia Wanchun said in surprise: "Huh? You're not the one who broke into the king? ”

The sturdy man smiled: "Naturally not, it's just that I was ordered to work under Hao Shaoqi." ”

"Where's Hao Shaoqi?"

"Went to the palace, and all their generals went to the palace."

Xia Wanchun said: "Get the carriage and horses, and we'll leave now." ”

Seeing that Xia Wanchun insisted on leaving, the sturdy man agreed, and after a while, he brought nearly two hundred carriages.

It can be seen that Zhu Yujiao did not study in Yushan Academy, these people are very orderly when they get into the carriage, as long as the carriage comes, they will go up naturally, and they do not need to be commanded.

After the people from the Lantian Secret Spy Division got into the carriage and acted as coachmen and left the capital, Xia Wanchun changed into a very ordinary shirt, chewing sugar lotus root, and swaggered into the crowd cheering for the king to enter the capital.

That's right, when Li Hongji's army was far away in the sky, the people in this city called Li Hongji - Liukou!

When Li Hongji's army arrived in Baoding, the people in this city called Li Hongji - thief!

After Li Hongji's army surrounded the capital, the people in this city called Li Hongji - Righteous Army!

Now, they are eating pot pulp and laying down the incense case, welcoming King Chuang, celebrating King Chuang's overthrow of the corrupt Ming Dynasty, and fighting for a bright sky for everyone.

It's strange to say.

The weather on March 18 of the year of Jiashen was clear and clear.

The wind and sand that would have permeated the entire spring have stopped completely today.

Because he wanted to send Zhu Yujiao out, Xia Wanchun did not see Li Hongji, who rode into Beijing on horseback, to accept the cheers of the people, and followed the crowd to the palace, only to see that the palace gate was closed, and only a few tattered flags fluttered in the sunset.

Li Hongji was a very polite person, and he also did not rush into the palace, but sent several eunuchs to enter the palace with ladders, apparently to go to the emperor to give the final order.

Xia Wanchun saw very clearly that many people who followed Li Hongji were officials of the Ming Dynasty......

He didn't want to see the flattering faces of this group of people, so he squeezed out of the front crowd and returned to the place where he lived in the capital.

At this time, Han Lingshan still did not come back.

He couldn't help but be a little worried, after all, Li Hongji had already surrounded the palace, and he didn't know how Han Lingshan would come out of the palace by then.

Three waves of people were sent out in a row to investigate, but there was no response until dark.

At dawn, Xia Wanchun really couldn't sit still, so he was going to go to Hao Shaoqi in person to ask if something had happened to Han Lingshan.

Just as he was about to go out, Han Lingshan walked in from outside with a cold wind.

"What about the Emperor?"

"Killed himself."

After saying this, Han Lingshan seemed to have completely lost the strength to speak, dropped the box on his back, and fell straight down on the brocade couch and began to sleep.

Xia Wanchun opened the box and saw an edict and a bunch of boxes with seals.

He did not read the edict, but skillfully opened the seal box, admiring the seals carved from the best jade in the world one by one.

The emperor died, and for Xia Wanchun - an era was over.

A man in black pushed open the door and looked at Xia Wanchun.

Xia Wanchun said without raising his head: "The emperor is dead." ”

The man in black quickly left the room, and after a short period of effort, there was a wolf smoke rising up from the tower of Deshengmen in the capital.

Soon, a puff of wolf smoke rose on the horizon, and if a person could soar high in the sky like a goshawk, then he would see wolf smoke rising from the ground, and pillars of smoke would start from the capital and go straight to Xi'an.

Li Dingguo couldn't help but look up to the sky and howl when he saw the wolf smoke rising, he understood that from today on, all the chains bound to his body would be removed, and from this moment on, the Lantian Imperial Court was the only master of the Ming land.

From Miyun to the capital, it was only two hundred miles away, and the whole army rushed to the bottom of the capital, two days was enough.

Zhang Guofeng let out a sigh of relief from the wolf smoke, and said to Li Dingguo: "We want to take the capital before Yunyang." ”

Li Dingguo rubbed his bald head and said with a smile: "Yun Bald is still in Shandong, he can't be faster than us." ”

Zhang Guofeng shook his head and said: "You forgot that Yun Yang can do anything in order to grab credit, and in order to go down to Texas, he ordered the artillery to melt the city and bomb a good city into ruins."

Because of this, his army is advancing extremely fast, so be careful that he strikes first. ”

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Li Hongji's 460,000 troops are basically all in the capital, you say, in which direction will he flee?" ”

Zhang Guofeng said: "He has only one direction to go, and only this one direction can avoid the coercion of my Lantian." ”

Li Dingguo laughed and said: "Shanhaiguan! I hope Li Hongji can take Shanhaiguan. ”

Amid Li Dingguo's laughter, the wolf smoke continued to spread to the northwest.

When Yun Zhao saw the wolf smoke, it was already the afternoon of March 19.

When the wolf smoke appeared in his eyes, the giant bell of Yushan Academy began to ring wildly.

All the officials above the rank of chief in Yushan were frantically gathering in Xiang Yunzhao's big study.

Even the old scholars in the Yushan Academy, who did not leave the academy easily, took ox carts down the Yushan Mountain one after another.

When they gathered in the big study, they didn't see Yun Zhao's shadow.

Yun Zhao was not there, and everyone went to Zhang Guozhu's Prime Minister's Mansion again, and similarly, Zhang Guozhu was not there.

The secretary was asked, but no one knew where the two men had gone with the guards.

Yun Zhao toe off a branch full of elm money from an elm tree, took a handful of elm money from it and put it in his mouth, and then handed the branch to Zhang Guozhu.

Zhang Guozhu picked a green elm coin, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly: "This year's elm money is particularly delicious." ”

Yun Zhao smiled: "Yes, it's just that spring came a little late. ”

Zhang Guozhu said: "The leap year is just a process of self-correction of astrological errors, and next year, there will be no such problem." ”

"Emperor Chongzhen is dead......"

Yun Zhao didn't have any happy expression on his face when he said this, as if he was recounting a fact.

Zhang Guozhu casually threw the branch into the stream and sighed: "Early death and early superlife, early death and early end of pain, I think, he may not want to live for a long time." I only hope it wasn't Han Lingshan who killed him. ”

Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "I gave Han Lingshan the last permission, if Chongzhen doesn't want to die, he can live, it seems that Chongzhen still chose to be martyred." ”

Zhang Guozhu kicked away a stone that was in the way with his foot, and rubbed his face with his hand and said: "The burden falls on us, in the future, the world is not well governed, no one will say that it is Emperor Chongzhen's bad, only that we are incompetent."

In the future, in the event of a natural disaster, no one will say that Chongzhen's virtue is at a loss, only that it is our Lantian who makes the heavens angry and resentful.

In the future, if we can't give the people a good life and good order, when the world is in turmoil again, all the murderous weapons we have developed will only make more people die in our world. ”

Yun Zhao looked at Zhang Guozhu and said, "We are different, except for us, no one in the Ming Dynasty is qualified to rule our world." Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong, and Dolgon, who had just won power, did not succeed. ”

Zhang Guozhu looked at Yun Zhao in surprise and said, "Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong is just that, how can there be any matter of Dolgon?" ”

Yun Zhao sneered and said, "If there is no Lantian for me, the one who takes the Great Heaven must be Dorgon." ”

Zhang Guozhu looked at Yun Zhao's serious face again and said, "One million Jianzhou people can rule my Daming?" ”

Yun Zhao squatted in the stream and sank his hot hand in the water, and said lightly: "It is more than enough to rule a nation whose backbone has been broken, and one million people are enough. ”

Zhang Guozhu didn't know why Bai Yunzhao said these bad things on such an important day today, so he listened to Yun Zhao continue.

"The reason why I will return power to the people is that I want them to stand up and be human beings, and in this world, backbone is the foundation that can really make a country stand up completely.

A person, you can't grow flesh first, you must grow muscles and bones first, only when the muscles and bones are strong, we will have enough courage to face the world and divide this beautiful earth with the wild people of the West! ”

Chapter III

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