"You witch!"

This is the third sentence Chongzhen said after he was awakened by a nightmare, and after only sleeping for two or three hours, it turned out to be a change in the sky, which he definitely didn't think of before going to sleep.

He has been the emperor for seventeen years, and he will not know that he will master the entire capital, but he will not be killed until he is killed.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not live much, and the years when Zhu Youzhen was the emperor was not short, the emperor of more than ten years, this profession can be regarded as a senior experience, but what is experienced today is unprecedented.

When he was awakened by a nightmare, Chongzhen felt that something was wrong, this is the intuition of a senior professional, and it is also a hint given to him by the dawn of the sky, although he slept late, but in the past he got up early, and the eunuchs who served him personally did not dare not wake him up.

"What about Wang Chengen?"

"The emperor is angry, and the prince will be here soon."

Looking at the slightly strange eunuchs, yes, there are no palace maids, only eunuchs, this is because the palace maids have been arranged to settle in the harem, and there are still many people in the harem who have no eyesight, and now they need to settle down.

Coup! Chongzhen understands the current situation very well, looking at the attitude of the eunuch in front of him who is neither soft nor hard, his heart is already angry, but he was pressed down by throwing it, he can't think of why this coup d'état happened now?

Everything is foreshadowed, not isolated, and the same is true of coups d'état; The palace is heavily guarded, and now is not the time when he has just ascended the throne, he is in trouble both internally and externally, and the prince has not reached the age of cultivating power, so it is said that there should be no coup d'état!

Wang Chengen climbed in front of Zhu Youzhen with a rolling belt, and was about to say that at this time, Chongzhen kicked him, Wang Chengen did not dodge or dodge, this is the basic quality of a domestic slave.

However, Chongzhen's kick did not kick down, but froze, and an extremely gentle wind blew, blowing Chongzhen, and directly blowing him to the chair.

Sorcery?

Chongzhen didn't have time to hesitate, at this time, Yang Yi, who was dressed in military uniform, had already walked in, saw Chongzhen, bowed his hand as a salute, and then said casually: "Father, the palace dreams of the Xuannu preaching, and today I have come to clean up my Daming Jiangshan Sheji, and I have offended, my father Haihan." ”

Zhu Youzhen shouted the word "demon girl" to this strange daughter as a comment, it is said that the Holy Son of Heaven is supported by a hundred spirits, and all laws are not violated, but now Yang Yi easily waved his hand to restrain him, this scene is very shocking.

"Queen Mother, Imperial Brother, please take care of your father and the emperor for one or two ......"

At this time, being held hostage by several palace maids, Queen Zhou and the crown prince Zhu Cihong were "caught" together, Yang Yi waved his hand lightly, and those who should retreat retreated, Wang Chengen was ordered to arrange the court, and he had not yet killed all those courtiers.

"I regret that I shouldn't have moved south sooner......"

Yang Yi did not shy away from giving orders in front of Chongzhen, coming and going, at least occupying the palace, Chongzhen looked at Yang Yi and was about to go to the court, he didn't know what means Yang Yi used, but at this time he sighed.

At this time, Yang Yi turned around and sneered and said, "It's too late!" ”

"What's too late?" Seeing Yang Yi stop, Chongzhen was slightly stunned, his voice was extremely small, and the crown prince Zhu Cihong and Queen Zhou next to him could not be heard clearly.

"Naturally, it's a matter of moving south!" Yang Yi looked at Chongzhen, but he also sighed in his heart, it is extremely difficult to let the emperor abandon the capital, there is only one emperor in history, but Chongzhen does not have the courage.

"How could it be too late?" Zhu Youzhen spoke, but his heart sank.

"Juyong Pass has been lost!"

"How can it be ......" Zhu Youzhen's voice trembled a little, "Tangtong has thousands of soldiers and horses, and there were originally some defenders on Juyong Pass; And it's dangerous, as long as you work hard to stick to it, the thieves can't break it at all. ”

Seeing that Chongzhen still had some illusions, Yang Yi said directly: "Tang Tongdu's rank has been switched off and lowered to a thief!" The lost Tang Bao of Juyong Pass should be there in a while, and tomorrow the rebel army will be outside the Beijing Division, and then, the Beijing Division will fall! ”

"This, this, this ......" Zhu Youzhen heard this, and the whole person was trembling at this time, "How is this possible?" How is this possible? ”

However, he knew very well in his heart that Yang Yi was not deceiving him, this was definitely possible! Datong has fallen, Xuanfu has fallen, what else can't be lowered in Juyongguan?

And the most terrible thing is that the imperial court can't come up with enough silver taels to recruit troops and reward soldiers to defend the capital; The military system of the Ming Dynasty has long existed in name only, and for more than 200 years, the land of the guards has gone. The upper strata of the military households became landlords, and the lower strata became tenants, and it was impossible for them to afford military service.

So now, the imperial court has to spend money to fight, and without money, there will be no soldiers...... Even if there are still a lot of young people in Beijing, they will not be used by the imperial court!

Yang Yi unceremoniously continued to sprinkle salt on Zhu Youzhen's wound at this time, "Father, whether Juyong Pass will descend will be known in a while; As soon as this Juyong Pass is lost, it is time to surround the capital, whether this capital can be defended, you have been the emperor for more than ten years, and you must know better than this palace. ”

"I still have the Liaodong Iron Cavalry!" Zhu Youzhen was only hit once, and immediately recovered, and said with a strong heart, "As long as Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry arrives, the Jingshi will be safe and sound, and when the time comes, you demon ......."

Yang Yi snorted and directly interrupted Zhu Youzhen's words: "Father is still counting on Wu Sangui?" This palace knows that when my father summoned Wu Xiang a few days ago, what did Liaodong say? Millions! If the father could come up with one million, Wu Sangui's army of 30,000 should have arrived a long time ago.

My father had already decreed to abandon Ning Yuan ten days ago, right? This will to summon Wu Sangui to lead his troops into the guard should have arrived a long time ago! It can't be slower than the rebels, right?

Since my father has no money, don't expect those people in Liaodong to come and fight hard! Even if he doesn't want the money himself, the family members below him have to take the money! ”

It's a bit unbelievable to say, now the capital of the Ming Dynasty is obviously in danger, but there are no decent defenders in the city, and the reinforcements from outside can't arrive for a while, and Li Zicheng's army is about to come to the city!

At this time, everyone knows that it's not good, Chongzhen is not in a hurry as the emperor? It's better to be cowardly; Bianjing also resisted for a long time, although in the end it was still a Jing Kang shame.

After Yang Yi sneered a few times, he left the hall and assigned someone to take strict care of him, at this time, Chongzhen was no longer of much use.

The war of annihilation is coming, what etiquette is there at this time, or the supremacy of force, and now, Yang Yi has controlled more than 2,000 eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, in addition to more than 1,000 guards in the outer palace and hundreds of sons in Dongchang.

This point doesn't seem to be many, but it doesn't occupy much of Yang Yi's mental strength, this number is expanded by ten times, and it is not a burden on Yang Yi.

"Commander Luo, summoned by the emperor."

Jin Yiwei commanded the envoy, this is the next target, the early dynasty has begun, but it was dragged by Wang Chengen, and at this time the courtiers were summoned, and they didn't know what they were facing.

Luo Yangxing didn't know either, but he sensed that something was wrong with his professional sense of smell, but at this time, facing the cold eyes of Wang Chengen in the court, he was also taken in.

……

was summoned and led into the hall, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard, who had stood for a long time, was a little uncomfortable at this time.

The emperor's throne is placed in the magnificent Huangji Gate Gatehouse, the gatehouse has three steps before and after, and the white marble railings are surrounded on both sides of the steps, looking at the majesty and magnificence.

On both sides and behind the emperor's throne stood the celebrant and internal officials, the courtiers were directly in front of the emperor's throne, and the nearest to the emperor were several cabinet scholars, and a Han general with a helmet stood under the pillar in front of the emperor's right. Farther away, there are hundreds of civil and military officials, divided into two shifts, and the number is very large.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, was a workaholic, and liked to monopolize power, and was afraid of being blinded by the courtiers, so he wanted to see as many courtiers as possible and listen to more reports, so the scale of the early dynasty of the Ming Dynasty was also unprecedented - due to the large number of people, so the hall could not stay, only to listen to the government at the imperial gate of the imperial gate, the emperor and a few important ministers can stay under the gatehouse, that is to say, the rest of the courtiers have to wait outside, if you meet a lazy emperor who does not fall in love with the early dynasty, everyone will be a little better, If you want to meet an emperor like Chongzhen who can't go back to the court twice a day, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will get used to it one by one!

The morning pilgrimage starts very early, and it starts at 5 a.m. and usually lasts until noon! That's six or seven hours!

Moreover, the officials of the previous dynasty did not live in the palace, and they had to rush to the palace from all over the inner city of Beijing...... That is, I get up at 3 o'clock in the morning and go to work at 5 o'clock, and there are no weekends.

Every day at three o'clock in the morning, go to court at five o'clock, stand all morning, and have to do office work after standing, and the emperor is still a moody master, maybe when he will be arrested by Jinyiwei, and he is worried all day long...... It's not easy to do this kind of work!

And today, everyone is even more panicked, because the palace gate is closed at this time, and the emperor is summoning them one by one, yes, one by one.

In fact, everyone knows that the life of the Ming Dynasty is not easy, but what situation it has really reached, in fact, no one can say clearly, they always think that they can mix for a while, and they have to get by.

I also know where the problem is now, in fact, there is no money! It's the same as ordinary people, it's good to have money, and it's bad to have nothing; Now that the Ming Dynasty has no money, the treasury is empty, and the inner treasury is also empty.

A month ago, when Wu Xiang offered Emperor Chongzhen one million taels on behalf of Liaodong, Chongzhen replied to him: "The treasury has 70,000 gold, and all the gold, silver, and other things will be searched to make up 200,000 ears." ”

Now another month has passed, and it still costs a lot to arrange the war guard, if it were not for the mobilization of hundreds of officials and people to donate military salaries, the Ming Dynasty would have been unable to maintain it for a long time.

Then again, most of the Ming officials in Beijing were not wealthy; Later, Li Zicheng went to Beijing to torture and plunder, and obtained tens of millions of taels, of which only one-tenth was scraped from officials, that is, several million.

Although this number seems to be a lot, how many officials are there in Beijing? With so many talents scraping out millions, how many can there be on average?

Moreover, the three respects and bad rules that are always said have not become a common practice in the Ming Dynasty, even if there are local officials who pay tribute, they will only give money to the Beijing officials who have a close relationship with them, and they will not get everyone to have.

Of course, there are still rich people in the capital, and Xungui and some of the big eunuchs are rich!

The nobles are not a generation of nobles, but generations of nobles, and it is normal to accumulate a family business over time; In addition, the official positions held by the nobles are usually military attachés, who can manage the capital and the guards, can embezzle land in the early years, and can deduct military salaries in the later period.

And the big eunuchs have the royal family and the vassal king to "eat", the Huangzhuang Huangdian is also managed by the eunuchs, in the early years, there were also mine supervisors and weaving bureaus to fish, and now there are opportunities to supervise the army to make money from the military salary, so the big eunuchs are more or less a little rich.

As for the internal money...... In the Wanli period, it was quite abundant, but in the year of Tianqi Chongzhen, he began to continue to send money to pave military expenses, and now it has long been empty.

Yang Yi took over the first step is also to make money, rewards and punishments are clear, and it is not just a punishment without a reward, but a reward requires money, where does this money come from?

Needless to say, eunuchs, everyone knows who has money and who doesn't, what should have been revealed last night has been revealed, and now those Dongchang fans are looking for a plan according to the map!

And the courtiers and nobles can't use such a cruel means, in fact, Yang Yi doesn't have time to distinguish one by one, and directly sends a task, from anywhere, one person can hand over five million taels, otherwise he will be replaced.

Of course, the consequences are like this, Luo Yangxing looked at the miserable appearance of the dignified scholar at this time, and only he knew what it was like in his heart.

"Obey the order!"

He tried it and found that he couldn't bear it, and with the example given to him by the dignified Shousuke, he naturally knew what to choose.

Of course, the first thing to do is to summon the brocade guards into the palace, let Yang Yi arrange them properly, and then send them out.

Yang Yi was not in a hurry, and waited for a team of Jinyi guards to accept the defense of the Nine Gates before starting the next step.

Now there is no need to be too nervous, after tens of thousands of people spread out in the capital, there are not many, but after indirectly controlling 100,000 people, the entire capital is already like an iron bucket.

Food, grass and armament are sufficient, internal worries are being eliminated one by one, the crying sound that resounded everywhere is nothing, curfews, smoking and other means are implemented one by one, and the entire capital is only one day, and it has turned into a state of full mobilization that is rare in the feudal era.

All the grain stores were expropriated, and what they tried to block in vain was just a few more wails, the means were very cruel, with Yang Yi's deployment, the state of the entire capital changed, and Li Zicheng didn't know what he was going to face.

It's like trying to defraud and seize the Ming Dynasty Kyoto back then, but under the leadership of Yu Qian, the entire capital is united, and there is only a way to escape.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty was mourned, but it was even worse than today's situation.