These days, the Yu family army has blocked all contacts between the palace and the outside world, and only sends people to supply some food and vegetables to the palace every day, but it does not embarrass the people in the palace too much, but no one is allowed to leave the palace or enter the palace, and inform him of the situation in the city, which makes Chongzhen unable to understand that the situation inside and outside the city has reached that point.

But listening to the voices coming from all directions in the city, he could still guess that the Jingshi was gradually being controlled by the Yu family's army, and the chaos in the city was gradually suppressed.

In the first few days, he could still hear the sound of some firecrackers coming from all over the city from time to time, but in the past few days, Jingshi has gradually quieted down, and it is difficult to hear the sound of popping beans anymore.

Just when Chongzhen was anxious to know the situation outside the palace, a eunuch hurriedly walked into his bedroom and reported to him: "Qi Shengshang, Cao Huachun asks to see!" ”

Chongzhen stood up suddenly, it turned out that he thought that so many days had passed, even if Cao Huachun was not dead, it was estimated that he should have escaped from the Beijing Division, or he was captured by the Yu family army, with Cao Huachun's status in the imperial court, Yu Xiaotian would not let him go lightly, but he didn't expect Cao Huachun to be alive, and he was in the Beijing Division, and even returned to the palace today, this time Chongzhen immediately became excited, and hurriedly shouted: "Announce that he is coming to see ......."

Cao Huachun actually fell into the hands of the Yu family army a few days ago, originally Cao Huachun had every chance to escape from the Beijing division, on the day of the city break, Cao Huachun was in Zhengyangmen to sit in the town, after the Yu family army entered the city, he also tried to transfer troops and send generals, trying to drive the family army out of the Beijing division again, but the result was that the officers and troops he sent soon failed, and he also lost the ability to control the Beijing camp.

Cao Huachun later ran to the area of Fuchengmen, tried to gather the rout, continued to confront the Yu family army, and tried to attack the palace side to rescue Chongzhen from the palace, but at this time, these soldiers and generals of the Beijing camp had already lost their fighting spirit, and no one listened to his greetings at all and helped him to fight against the Yu family army.

In the end, Cao Huachun only collected hundreds of so-called righteous people, and launched a counterattack against the palace with these loyal righteous soldiers, but the result was obvious, his counterattack like this Cheng dù did not have any effect at all, and these hundreds of rabble were killed on the spot, and the rest were immediately scattered.

Cao Huachun was escorted and fled back to Fuchengmen, he had the opportunity to escape from the Beijing Division, but Cao Huachun thought that he was deeply favored by the emperor, and it was not a loyal act to leave so much, so he finally gave up escaping, first hiding, and then after the Yu family army controlled the entire Beijing Division, he walked out of the hiding place by himself, took the initiative to find the Yu family general, reported his identity, and asked to see Yu Xiaotian.

When he learned that the old eunuch in front of him was Cao Huachun, the Yu family soldiers who were in charge at that time were taken aback, but he didn't expect this old eunuch to jump out and surrender by himself, so he quickly reported the news to Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian was also taken aback, and felt a little strange, it stands to reason that Cao Huachun has a lot of opportunities to escape from Beijing, but why didn't he leave, but when Jingshi was closed, he came out and asked to see him?

So Yu Xiaotian ordered Cao Huachun to be brought to the front, and met this famous eunuch in the late Ming Dynasty in history, and there are literati records in the history of Cao Huachun, saying that when Li Zicheng attacked the capital, it was Cao Huachun who opened the door to welcome the thief and welcomed Li Zicheng into the capital.

But Cao Huachun did not open the door in history, this matter is an unsolved case, and later Cao Huachun also defended himself, saying that he was not in Beijing at that time, and he could not talk about opening the door to welcome thieves.

On the whole, it is very likely that those literati deliberately smeared Cao Huachun later, and the credibility is not very high, and Yu Xiaotian has never met Cao Huachun on time, judging from the detailed feedback he arranged in Beijing, Cao Huachun is relatively loyal among the eunuchs, and there are basically not many bad deeds at all.

Moreover, after Chongzhen ascended the throne, he overthrew Wei Zhongxian's party, Cao Huachun befriended the Donglin party, and did a lot of good things for many Donglin party officials who were framed by the Wei party, but he didn't expect that after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party and many scholars would be so smeared against him, which shows the shamelessness of the scholars at that time.

So this time, although Cao Huachun, as the overseer of the Beijing Division, led the army to resist the Yu family army, but after Yu Xiaotian attacked the Beijing Division, he did not order the search for Cao Huachun, and he did not let Cao Huachun's house and relatives in the Beijing Division be moved, just because Cao Huachun is a good person, and there are not many bad deeds at all.

But he didn't expect that at this time, Cao Huachun would actually take the initiative to come out and ask to see him, so he had another layer of good impression of Cao Huachun.

After Cao Huachun saw Yu Xiaotian, he knelt on the ground and begged Yu Xiaotian to treat the current saint well and not harm Emperor Chongzhen, and expressed his willingness to return to the palace to continue to serve Emperor Chongzhen.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian personally stepped forward to help him up, and ordered someone to give him a seat, and it was a good explanation, insisting that he entered Beijing this time for the sake of the Qing monarch, and did not have half the intention of harming the current saint, although the saint treated him unfairly with Yu Xiaotian, but these things were all listened to the slander of those traitors, and the fault was not in the saint today.

As for Cao Huachun's desire to return to the palace to serve Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian also agreed at that time, and asked Cao Huachun to stay and serve him well, treat him with delicious food and drink, and let him freshen up and change into new clothes, and then sent him to the palace.

However, before sending Cao Huachun into the palace, Yu Xiaotian took Cao Huachun to his temporary residence, and talked with Cao Huachun for more than two hours behind closed doors.

After Cao Huachun had a secret conversation with Yu Xiaotian, he was sent to Donghua Gate, where the palace gate was opened, and Cao Huachun entered the palace.

When Chongzhen saw Cao Huachun, Cao Huachun immediately knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, saying that he was guilty, as an overseer, but he was not able to stop the Yu family army from attacking the Beijing Division, and he was not able to rescue Chongzhen and the princes and concubines from the palace in the chaos of the army, so that Chongzhen fell into the imperial city and was trapped in the imperial city, please punish Chongzhen.

Chongzhen originally hated Cao Huachun, and he had high hopes for Cao Huachun and Gao Qiqian, hoping that the two of them would cooperate to prevent the rebels from attacking the capital, but in the end they betrayed his trust, and in the end they still lost the Jingshi, and even he, the emperor, was blocked in the palace and became a trapped beast.

Before Cao Huachun didn't come back, he had repeatedly named and scolded Cao Huachun and Gao Qiqian, claiming that he would punish these two people one day, but when he saw Cao Huachun coming back today, he couldn't do anything about it.

Chongzhen angrily reprimanded Cao Huachun with a dark face, and then asked Cao Huachun how he returned to the palace, so Cao Huachun told Chongzhen about the fall of the entire Jingshi, and how he took the initiative to come out of hiding and asked to see Yu Xiaotian, and finally how Yu Xiaotian was sent back to the palace.

When Chongzhen learned that Cao Huachun took the initiative to give up escaping from the capital, insisted on staying in the capital, and took the initiative to risk death to show up to see Yu Xiaotian to intercede for him, he was also quite emotional, and there were really not many loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and only Cao Huachun, Wang Dehua, Wang Chengen, these old eunuchs who followed him were still loyal to him, since Cao Huachun would rather die than flee the capital, so how could he bear to punish him?

So Chongzhen waved his hand to make Cao Huachun stand up, and then Chongzhen hurriedly asked about the situation of the Jingshi outside the palace city now.

Gao Qiqian also told Chongzhen what he had seen and heard outside these days, and after listening to Gao Qiqian's evaluation of the family army, Chongzhen closed his eyes and sighed.

He really couldn't imagine how Yu Xiaotian governed the army, not only could he create such a good fighting hero, but also the rebel generals under his command could still be so obedient and disciplined, and the discipline of the official army and military discipline collapsed, he knew it for a long time, but because the world is in chaos now, it is the time to employ people, so even if he hears that some generals do not repair military discipline and come to the army, they often just turn a blind eye, as long as the generals are still useful, he will generally not move them.

So this also leads to the current Ming army, and the military discipline is very corrupt, but he didn't expect that the military discipline of the Beijing camp at the foot of the Son of Heaven has also collapsed to such a point, and it is just that the officials and soldiers are not good at fighting, but after the defeat of the army, they actually did so many evil deeds in the Jingshi City, which is really deserving of death.

Originally, the people in the capital had a sympathetic attitude towards the rebels, but now that the rebels have invaded the city, the defenders are so virtuous that the prestige of the imperial court has fallen to the bottom.

Now the rebels control the Jingshi, although the whole city is still under martial law, but it rarely disturbs the people, compared with those officials and soldiers whose military discipline has collapsed, the judgment is high, and what is more terrifying is that they are playing the banner of the Qing monarch's side, and they can get the support of the people, so if it continues, who will put the court in their eyes?

Thinking of this, Chongzhen couldn't help but sigh again, knowing that I was afraid that this time Daming would really have to go back to Xiaotian.

In addition, Gao Qiqian also brought a very important news, that is, Shandong reinforcements under the leadership of Yan Jizu, although they came very quickly and entered Tongzhou City, but before the soldiers of the family army, they were defeated in a battle, and even Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, was captured on the spot and became a prisoner of Yu Xiaotian.

Now the Shandong army has fled back to Shandong, most of them have become soldiers and bandits, and they have plagued the people everywhere, so that many local governments and counties in Shandong and even townships have recruited villagers to protect themselves, but it is these genuine officers and soldiers who are guarding against them.