Chapter 110: The Forbidden City
Queen Zhou and Yuan Guifei were surprised and delighted, and quickly stood up and knelt down to greet Chongzhen, Chongzhen strode into the palace, looked down at the two concubines he loved, and couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart, reached out and personally helped the two of them up, held their hands tightly, and didn't know what to say for a long time.
Empress Zhou and Yuan Guifei also saw the urgency of the situation from Chongzhen's face, Chongzhen came here at this time, and the sound of guns and shouts of killing was sounding everywhere outside the palace, they knew that this Ming Dynasty was completely finished, and then looked at Chongzhen's expression, and knew that there was no room for recovery.
After the three of them looked at each other, Chongzhen ordered Wang Chengen to bring wine, poured a few glasses of wine, drank several times with Queen Zhou and Yuan Guifei, and then suddenly dropped the exquisite wine glass, and cried to Queen Zhou and Yuan Guifei: "I am really incompetent, and the huge Ming Dynasty is buried in my hands like this!" You have been with me for so many years, I have not been able to give you anything, and now that the thief army has entered the city, these glasses of wine today are the farewell wine of our husband and wife! You are my women, you should know what to do at this time! I can only repay you in the next life! ”
After saying that, Chongzhen suddenly burst into tears, Queen Zhou and Yuan Guifei both cried bitterly, women like them are actually tragic, any last queen and princess, the end is very miserable, they are Chongzhen's women, although they used to be beautiful, but when it came to this time, they could not choose their own fate, so they had no choice but to kneel down and thank Chongzhen.
After a while, Wang Chengen asked people to send Bai Aya, and after Empress Zhou and Yuan Guifei each received Bai Silk, they cried and went to the harem to find a place to hang Bai Silk......
Chongzhen couldn't bear to look at it, and took Wang Chengen to walk in the harem, and several concubines he saw along the way also committed suicide following Queen Zhou's example, but some concubines were unwilling to commit suicide, Chongzhen was furious and immediately drew his sword and killed several concubines, and finally broke into the Qixiang Palace where Tian Guifei lived.
Tian Guifei In the original history, when Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, she had died of illness in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and was buried in Jinping Mountain, and her tomb later became the destination of Chongzhen and Empress Zhou, who committed suicide.
But in the current new history shaped by Xiao Tianjian, Tian Guifei is not dead, so as Chongzhen's favorite concubine, Chongzhen also thought of Tian Guifei, so he carried a bloody sword and took Wang Chengen to the Qixiang Palace where Tian Guifei lived.
Tian Guifei was so frightened that she cried loudly when she saw Chongzhen with a murderous face, Chongzhen was also very uncomfortable in her heart, and cried with her, and then ordered Tian Guifei to also learn from Queen Zhou and Yuan Guifei to commit suicide, as soon as she heard that Chongzhen wanted her to commit suicide, Tian Guifei was immediately frightened, stood up and shook her head backwards and said: "No! No! No! The concubine doesn't want to die! The concubine's son is still young, and the concubine doesn't want to die! ”
Chongzhen looked at Concubine Tian who wanted to avoid him with tears in his eyes, and cried: "Who made you my woman?" The thief army has entered Beijing, and the palace is about to enter, how can I let you fall into the hands of the thieves and be humiliated by them? It's only my incompetence that I can't even keep my woman! You'd better cut it yourself! ”
Tian Guifei shook her head and said, "No! I don't! I don't want to die, why? Why is your Daming finished, and I want to follow you to bury Daming? I'm not dead! ”
Saying that Tian Guifei turned her head and wanted to escape, Chongzhen didn't expect that his beloved Tian Guifei would refuse to commit suicide like Queen Zhou and Yuan Guifei at this time, and said such heartless words, so he suddenly became angry, seeing Tian Guifei carrying the corner of her skirt and wanting to escape from the palace, so she turned her heart sideways, took three steps and made two steps to run up, lifted her sword and stabbed Tian Guifei in the back from behind.
Tian Guifei, who was about to escape, only felt a pain in her heart, her body suddenly shook up, she stopped her steps, and when she looked down, she saw her full chest, revealing the tip of a sword, which was stained with blood, and instantly felt a pain in her heart, and spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Your Majesty! …… You are so ruthless......" Tian Guifei struggled to say a word, and then fell to the ground softly.
Chongzhen looked down at the corpse of Tian Guifei who was killed by him, he didn't know what to say, he looked down at the sword in his hand that was stained with the blood of his own woman, and suddenly threw the sword on the ground with a bang, turned his head with tears on his face, and asked Wang Chengen: "Is I really too ruthless?" ”
Wang Chengen watched Chongzhen frantically give his queen and concubines to death, kill those who were killed, although he couldn't bear it in his heart, but he also knew that Chongzhen wanted to save face, although Daming was tossed and destroyed by him, but he regarded his women as forbidden and would never allow others to touch them, so he would kill his women so frantically, for people with strong self-esteem like him, and selfish people, what can he say?
So Wang Chengen knelt down and replied helplessly: "Who made them holy women?" It's fate, too! ……”
At this time, Chongzhen suddenly thought that he still had two daughters, Princess Changping and Princess Zhaoren, although he secretly sent the crown prince and two sons out of Beijing in advance, but he did not send Princess Changping and Princess Zhaoren away, in his opinion, his daughter could not fall into the hands of thieves, so he wanted to take Wang Chengen to find the two princesses and kill them too.
But at this time, some eunuchs and palace maids exclaimed: "The thief army has entered the palace!" Run! ……”
Chongzhen's face changed suddenly, and he heard noisy shouts at the Noon Gate, Donghua Gate, and Xihua Gate in front of the Forbidden City, and even heard the sound of firecrackers, so he knew that the Dazhong Army had entered the palace, and at this point, if he didn't leave, he would be captured alive.
Chongzhen gritted his teeth, and he didn't care about killing Princess Changping and Princess Zhaoren anymore, so he took Wang Chengen and began to run towards the Imperial Garden, wanting to run out of the Forbidden City from the Shenwu Gate.
Liu Yaoben rode on horseback, and rushed into the Forbidden City from Chengtianmen first, although the Forbidden City was a palace, but the guards in the palace had already run clean, and only some eunuchs and palace maids were left, and they had not yet escaped from the Forbidden City, so they were completely blocked in the Forbidden City.
"Deliver the oracle! No one in the Forbidden City is allowed to escape! Capture Zhu by the inspection alive! But the armies must keep in mind the military regulations! Whoever enters the palace and steals or robs and rapes will be killed immediately! Did you hear it? Liu Yaoben looked up at the tall and majestic and splendid Forbidden City, and couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, thinking that he was an orphan, when did he dare to think that he would one day be able to enter this Forbidden City!
If Xiao Tianjian hadn't taken him in, I'm afraid I wouldn't have known where he would have starved to death, but now Xiao Tianjian has trained him to become one of the most important generals in the Dazhong Army, and let him lead the Guards Division whose status is second only to Yu Linwei, which shows his cultivation and trust.
Today, he was entrusted with the task of capturing the Forbidden City, and this trust alone moved Liu Yaoben, so as soon as Liu Yaoben led the army into the city, he immediately ordered two battalions of generals, and he didn't care about anything, so he rushed straight towards the Forbidden City, think about it, if he can catch the Ming Emperor Chongzhen, it will be a great credit! In addition, there are Chongzhen's three sons, if they can be caught together, then for him, I am afraid it will be the first in the world!
Therefore, after Liu Yaoben entered Beijing, he rushed to the Forbidden City non-stop, and only encountered a very small number of resistance from the Ming army along the way, but under their soldiers, the small number of Ming troops who resisted were immediately killed, and they could not delay them for long.
And after entering the city gate, the little eunuch immediately led the way for them, so they didn't even have to worry about going the wrong way, so they quickly entered the Forbidden City.
Xiao Tianjian originally wanted to directly lead his troops into the Forbidden City, but considering that the situation in the Beijing division was still very complicated, his generals all stopped him from entering the capital first, for fear that he would have a little accident, so Xiao Tianjian had no choice but to let Liu Yaoben replace him and enter the Forbidden City first to arrest Chongzhen.
History has progressed to this point, even Xiao Tianjian himself is not clear, what kind of decision Chongzhen will make, will it be like Li Zicheng entered Beijing in the past, run to the coal mountain and hang himself, and since the matter has come to this, Chongzhen is very important to him, whether he lives or dies, he must be found as soon as possible, only by finding Chongzhen, whether he lives or dies, can the official fall of the Ming Dynasty be announced, so the first priority of the Dazhong army to enter the city is to control the Forbidden City, and find Chongzhen first.
However, Xiao Tianjian was visited in the Forbidden City in later generations, although when he visited the Forbidden City, there were no valuable things, and the valuable cultural relics had basically been collected, plus at the end of the Qing Dynasty, many valuable things in the palace were either snatched away by the powers, or were snatched away by warlords, and fell to the people, and when Lao Jiang ran to Taiwan, he took away a lot, although later after the establishment of the Celestial Empire, he tried his best to collect some, but compared to all the original things in the real Forbidden City, Too much less.
Although there is no Qing Dynasty in this era to dominate Beijing, the Forbidden City does not have more than 200 years of accumulation of the Qing Dynasty, and there may not be as many things as there are in the Forbidden City before the end of the Qing Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty has been more than 200 years, from Zhu Di to Beijing, it has been more than 200 years now, and for more than 200 years, the Ming Emperor must have not scavenged, so in the Forbidden City, he dares to guarantee that it must be extremely luxurious, even if Chongzhen is thrifty, there must be a lot of treasures in the palace, Although these things are accumulated by the Ming Dynasty over the years and belong to the common people, after all, these things are national treasures created by the wisdom of countless Chinese skilled craftsmen, at least for the newly established Dazhong Dynasty, it is of great significance.
There is also Chongzhen's internal money, there is a lot of controversy about Chongzhen's internal money in history, some people say that after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, a large number of gold and silver treasures were copied from Chongzhen's internal money, and some people say that Chongzhen's internal money, there was not much silver in the late Ming Dynasty, so Xiao Tianjian wanted to determine whether this Chongzhen was a miser, or a more reasonable emperor.
Therefore, when Xiao Tianjian ordered Liu Yaoben to attack the Forbidden City, he made it very clear to Liu Yaoben that after he led his troops into the palace, he must strictly restrain his soldiers and generals, and must not steal and steal smuggling, so that those national treasures will be scattered.
Although the discipline of the Dazhong Army is strict, Xiao Tianjian has been very strict with his generals for so many years, and there are basically not many violations of discipline among the generals, but human nature is not something that can be completely controlled by discipline alone.
Under normal circumstances, the generals can probably be strict with themselves, but once they enter the Forbidden City, which is extremely luxurious and full of jewels, no one dares to guarantee that everyone can still be dazzled and can continue to stay sober, plus the palace is full of beauties, and the soldiers and generals are all at the age of blood and strength, once they see those warblers, Yanyan, flowery palace maids and concubines, I really dare not guarantee that each of them can still maintain their sanity.
Therefore, Xiao Tianjian gave Liu Yaoben a preventive injection before he entered the city, so that he had to restrain his subordinates and not come after entering the palace.
After Liu Yaoben agreed, he took the two elite battalions under his command to break through the city gate, and then rushed all the way to the Forbidden City.
When they heard Liu Yaoben's shouting order, the two battalions of the big and middle generals immediately shouted in unison: "Obey the order......" and then immediately under the guidance of those eunuchs who surrendered, like a whirlwind, they were involved in every corner of the huge Forbidden City.