The next day, Chongzhen held a rare court meeting, and listened to the people below report to him about the arrangements of King Qin, but at this time, all Chongzhen's thoughts ran to the matter of recruiting the Beijing camp, and he didn't pay attention to all the things that the ministers said, and he didn't listen to them at all.

So, while the ministers lamented, they still felt lucky, although the emperor still went to the court against everyone's wishes, but also according to everyone's thoughts, made a human-shaped stamp, if it has been so harmonious. Everyone can do what they should do, you can stamp whatever you want, everyone is harmonious, a harmony, then the world is really harmonious.

This early dynasty ended in harmony.

Chongzhen returned to his imperial study and dealt with some of the things at hand, but he felt that there was always one less person around him, and he was very unaccustomed to it, and only after looking left and right did he remember that Wang Chengen, who was waiting by his side in the past, did not see it today, which still made him a little uncomfortable, so he frowned and asked the little eunuch beside him: "Where is Wang Daban, why didn't he come today?" ”

As a result, the little eunuch fell to his knees and reported to Chongzhen in a choked voice: "Long live Lord Qiyu, today, you went to the morning court, and we haven't had a chance to report to you, Wang Daban has hanged himself on the coal mountain this morning." After saying that, he cried suppressedly.

The teacup that Chongzhen was holding fell to the ground and fell apart.

Wang Chengen is dead? Or hanged yourself? How can this be? Why is this the case?

Chongzhen kept asking in his heart, and his whole heart felt empty and uncomfortable.

After a long time, Chongzhen asked with difficulty: "Where is Wang Daban's body now?" ”

The little eunuch replied in a choked voice, "It's still under the tree in the coal mountain, everyone, everyone—" and then he whimpered and cried.

Wang Chengen among these eunuchs, his popularity is not bad, the good reason is that although he is greedy for money and miserliness, he climbs up from a low level, and he is not particularly mean to the low little eunuchs, the little palace maid is not particularly mean, at least after taking over the internal affairs of the Forbidden City, he began to improve some treatment, especially, he usually takes care of these eunuchs and palace maids around Chongzhen, every time Chongzhen is angry, Wang Chengen can turn a corner and plead for everyone, so that although everyone is trembling in the face of this emperor who is getting worse and worse, but there is no worry about their lives.

Now that Wang Chengen is gone, everyone's umbrella is gone, and I don't know who the next eunuch in charge will be, what kind of character it will be for everyone, whether it is a blessing or a curse.

Chongzhen sat there in a daze, unable to figure out why Wang Chengen hanged himself, was it really for his kicking and beating yesterday?

When I was a child, when I was lonely, when I had nowhere to vent my troubles, didn't I kick him like this?

However, at that time, when he kicked and beat him, he was all smiling and pretending to dodge left and right, and pretending not to dodge, and then let his snow-white eunuch robe be full of his own small footprints, and then he had to beg for mercy with a smile, until he was tired of kicking and beating in a hurry, just like the farmer's father, he picked himself up, or simply put it on his neck, and he held his head and walked happily to the palace, he was the happiest at this time, always humming a little song from his hometown, babbling, and not understanding, And when he asked curiously, he would answer with a smile: "Your Highness will be a prince in the future, and you must be dignified and decent, where can you listen to our hometown slang?" His Royal Highness wants to learn serious knowledge, and he wants to have a great career. ”

When the sister-in-law scolded herself for being greedy for playing, it was still this Wang Chengen, who knelt there, took everything on herself, pumped her mouth violently, and sometimes bleeds from her nostrils.

And every time he told him not to be like this, he would say: "Your Highness is playful, and you do say that you are wrong, how can you do this?" ”

And every time Wei Zhongxian made things difficult for himself in every way, he bent his waist like a shrimp, and he only accepted this grievance.

Every time he clenched his fists and wanted to resist, he always hugged himself and told himself: "Your Highness will have a great future in the future, just endure and pass this hurdle." ”

Every night in the cold palace, when he wakes up alone, his face always appears in front of him, wiping the cold sweat on his head, and sometimes he wonders, doesn't he sleep?

He stumbled over with him like this, and finally as he wished, he finally had a great chance and became the king of this old empire, and he also became the third person of the Ming Dynasty, but why did he hang himself so suddenly?

"Swing and let the king see Wang Daban." After a long time, Chongzhen grievingly commanded.

Wang Chengen was lying quietly under an old crooked neck tree, his originally pale face was even paler, and his face had been smiling happily, but at this time, it was full of misery.

Chongzhen was puzzled, standing under the crooked neck tree of the coal mountain, Chongzhen carefully looked at the tree, old and decayed, in the summer of ten thousand trees, it was so out of place, it made people feel a kind of gloomy.

But the more this is the case, it seems to have a kind of magic, but it deeply attracts Chongzhen's attention, so that he is not willing to take his eyes off, just staring at it blankly.

"This may be fate, this is the fate of Wang Daban." Looked away from the tree with difficulty, and suddenly thought in his heart for no reason: "This is the fate of Wang Daban, and will it be my fate in the future?" The more I thought about it, the more my mind could not leave, so I couldn't help but look at the old tree again, it was still so gloomy, and there was a feeling of seduction.

"After burying Wang Daban, inquire about who else is in his family, the man enters the Beijing camp to be a thousand hereditary generals, and the woman is rewarded with more wealth."

At this time, a steward eunuch whispered, "Did you cut down this tree?" ”

Chongzhen was taken aback, but shook his head: "Keep it." Then he ran away, leaving Wang Chengen's body and the tree.

Wang Chengen died, as in history, hanged on the crooked neck tree of Coal Mountain, the place where his fate ended, but this was because of his loyalty, but also because of his disappointment and powerlessness.

Wang Chengen is indeed stingy, greedy but incompetent, but his greed is stingy, all for this emperor Chongzhen who he sees as his son, but what Chongzhen did completely disappointed him, no, he was desperate. In his opinion, Chongzhen is killing himself and is hopeless.

When a person loses the best spiritual sustenance, what kind of love is there in life? So, he chose death.

Wang Chengen's death did not change Chongzhen's anything, he was not sad enough for a while, and after ordering a thick burial, he continued to recruit troops and horses, and train his army.

And Cao Huachun, who was directly responsible for this matter, began to recruit young people of imperial age to join the army near the capital.

(End of chapter)