The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 885 Ding Yi's Death
On the day of the execution, the streets of the capital were empty for thousands of people, and countless people came to watch with the old and the young.

There was a cordon 50 meters away from the gallows, and the inner and outer three floors were densely packed, and many people were crying in the crowd.

Most of these people were from Lushun, and they were very unwilling to make this decision by the emperor.

At around [-]:[-] am, Empress Ruan Wenyan arrived at the scene.

She was dressed in plain clothes and her face was pale. When Ding Ye with disheveled hair was pushed out, Ruan Wenyan cried bitterly while hugging her son.

The crying at the scene became louder and louder, and more people began to cry, and soon it became louder and louder, and countless people were begging for mercy.

Someone tried to rush forward to the cordon, but the soldiers blocked it fiercely, which almost caused a conflict.

The execution officer saw that something was wrong and ordered an early execution.

Someone immediately separated the queen and Ding Ye, and put a hood on Ding Ye.

Amid the queen's cries, Ding Ye was sent to the gallows with a plop, his body suspended in the air.

The queen rushed forward like crazy, but was stopped by several court ladies and officials. Finally, Ruan Wenyan couldn't take it anymore. She suddenly turned her head and bumped into a wooden pillar next to her, wanting to commit suicide.

Fortunately, the eunuchs and maids around here competed with each other, hugged her one after another, dragged her, and finally pulled her down.

The crowd of onlookers included Liu Renhai's family members.

At this time, a family member laughed loudly: "The emperor is wise, he governs the country by law, he is indeed a wise emperor through the ages—"

"I'm a grass nun girl." An unknown commoner in the crowd rushed forward with a roar.

Then a large number of people rushed up.

There was a sudden chaos at the scene, and someone immediately screamed, but it was a commoner who bit the Liu family's family members hard on the neck.

"Killer!" Someone screamed at the scene, but it became more and more chaotic, and more people rushed up.

There were screams in the arena, and many people surrounded Liu's family to attack, and it seemed that some people were carrying short knives.

The soldiers did not dare to rush forward, and they all wanted to protect the execution platform.

Seeing that something was wrong, the executioner ordered Ding Ye's body to be put down immediately and sent to the palace.

"Help." Someone from the family members of the Liu family called for help.

Suddenly someone shouted: "Run."

As the family members of the Liu family fled in all directions, the people behind gave way one after another.

"Don't run." Some soldiers rushed over to arrest people at this moment, but the people who gave way blocked one after another.

Afterwards, it was found at the scene that almost all eight members of Liu's family were killed, and some were bitten to death, which was horrible.

But none of the murderers were caught, because there were too many people who shot, and then they all fled.

There were at least 1 people at the scene that day, and there were no surveillance cameras. How can we arrest people?

After the incident, the imperial court went around and asked the people in the capital, did you see the murderer?Who is it?
In the end, there was no clue. Even if someone was identified, they would not admit it at all afterwards.

I'm at home, did you catch me killing someone on the spot?I also said that Ma Shiying killed him, did I say that Ma Shiying was Ma Shiying?

The case finally fell through.

The murder case of Ding Ye, the eldest son of the emperor in the eighth year of Rende is definitely the most earth-shattering event since the founding of Daqian. There are more than a dozen civil and military officials who were punished for covering up Ding Ye.

The two founding earls were removed from their titles, and the whole family was sent overseas.
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On the day Ding Ye was hanged, Empress Ruan Wenyan faintly woke up from a coma.

Just now at the execution ground, she tried to commit suicide by committing suicide but failed, and was dragged down. When she saw Ding Ye struggling to death on the gallows, she fainted immediately.

When she woke up, she was already in a room that didn't look like a palace.

She was wondering, suddenly, squeak, the door opened, and a person walked in.

A closer look turned out to be Ding Yi.

Ding Ye's accident was only more than a month old, and Ding Yi's hair was already covered with gray hair.

Before Ding Ye's accident, Ding Yi was very strong, without a single gray hair.

When Ruan Wenyan saw the white-haired Ding Yi, her heart ached, and tears rolled out uncontrollably, but the next moment, endless anger and regret welled up in her heart.

"What are the emperor waiting for, how about giving the concubine a white silk, do you think the concubine will survive?"

With her son dead, Ruan Wenyan's life no longer has any meaning.

Ding Yi didn't say anything, and slowly moved to the left.

A figure walked out behind him, crying, "Mother."

Ruan Wenyan's body trembled, and she looked up to see who was not her son Ding Ye.

For a split second, she thought she was dreaming and couldn't believe it.

Until Ding Ye rushed over and knelt down in front of her, the mother and son hugged each other and cried loudly at the same time.

After Ding Yi's children grew up, Jin Yiwei kept asking Jin Yiwei to look for people similar to them all over the country.

Later generations of heads of state also like to find substitutes, because they are afraid of being assassinated.

Ding Yi didn't find a substitute for himself, he was just thinking that someday, these people might be used.

Jin Yiwei also quickly found someone similar to Ding Ye, and then he has been silently watching him.

This guy was unlucky enough to beat someone while drinking and was found guilty.

Jin Yiwei took advantage of the situation and was imprisoned in Jin Yiwei's prison.

It's only been closed for two years, and something happened to Ding Ye.

In fact, they had two plans in the end. Zhao Li from the Ministry of Health said that before the execution, Ding Ye would be given anesthesia to anesthetize him, and then put down the noose in advance. As long as the timing is good, he will not die.

But Lu Chao and Zhao Dashan think that this is risky, what if the timing is not right and they are really hanged?
And this way even the executioner has to deal with it, the more people know about it, the easier it is to go wrong.

In the end they chose to use a double.

It was good for the queen not to go, but the queen had to go to the scene to see it, and she cried bitterly. Fortunately, they made the stand-in dumb, and the stand-in was disheveled at the time, and the queen was flustered, so she didn't take a closer look, otherwise something would really go wrong.

Fortunately, it succeeded in the end, and Ding Yi saved his son.

But Ding Ye can no longer stay in Dagan.

"Ye'er is going to Tai O. I plan to let him go to North America in the future. He may never come back. Wen Yan, I hope you can forgive me—" Ding Yi said, turning around, he didn't want to Willing to shed tears in front of my son.

There is no father in the world who is really willing to kill his son.

But once such a thing is brought to light, Ding Yi's decades of hard work will be reduced to ashes.

The Dagan Empire may also collapse suddenly.

For a moment, he may understand why certain reforms in later generations are so difficult.

Because too many interest groups, including relatives and family members, are unwilling to give up such privileges.

In the past, he had always firmly believed that his reform would be successful. Since what happened to Ding Ye and he rescued Ding Ye, Ding Yi has been faintly aware that he may fail in the end.

Ding Ye had a conversation with his mother, and turned his head to see his father's back.

Ding Yi turned his back to him, but he could feel his father's sadness, and then looked at Ding Yi's gray hair, which was produced in the past month, and Ding Ye understood how much his father valued him. Own.

"Father." Ding Ye seemed to have matured a lot all of a sudden. He knelt behind Ding Yi and sobbed: "My child is wrong."

Ding Yi turned around and gently stroked his head: "In the future, you must think twice before doing things."

"Some mistakes can be remedied, but some mistakes may never be remedied."

Ding Ye cried bitterly and hugged Ding Yi's leg, regretting too late.

He was very impulsive that day, killing people and reporting his name, just wanted to see his father, do you want the king under the law, or do you want a son.

Now that I think about it, it's really stupid.

I don't know how many people have been hurt by my impulsiveness.

"In the future, if your parents are not by your side, you can only rely on yourself, stop being impulsive, and take good care of your family and Xiaohua."

"No matter where you will be in the future, you must always remember that you are my people, Chinese Han people."

"The child must remember what his father taught him to repent."

At the end, Ding Ye got up, backed up, knelt down again in front of his parents, kowtowed heavily, and cried: "The child is unworthy and cannot serve his parents. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry—"

May [-], Tianjin Port.

Xiang Huailai, Cao Bianjiao, and Ding Ye stood side by side on the bow of a huge new-type third-tier battleship.

The three of them looked in Dagan's direction with complicated eyes.

Xiang Huailai couldn't help but think of the first time he saw Ding Yi in Phi Island, and now decades have passed.

"What are you looking at?" Cao Bianjiao yelled, "I heard that there is silver everywhere in Mexico, let's go and get it back."

The three of them looked at each other, and suddenly knelt down in the direction of Daqian capital at the same time.

"The Emperor's Sheng'an." Xiang Huailai cried out to the three of them.

Xiang Huailai and Cao Bianjiao were on their way to Tai O.

The Ministry of War checked the roster of soldiers and horses in Tai O, and all those who had been with Xiang Huailai and Cao Bianjiao were transferred away.

Fortunately, there are Guangxi, Guangdong, Dayuan, and most of Fujian's soldiers and horses. Although they have been rotated, they have not been rotated to the soldiers and horses that have followed Xiang Huailai and Cao Bianjiao.

After the three arrived in Tai O, they changed their names to Xiang Wentian, Cao Feifei and Ding Li respectively.

At this time, although Dagan had been established for eight years, the king was under the law, and the coverage of Dagan's code was still mainly in Dagan's country, and the officials also brought it to a certain point.

Farther away, Luzon, Tai O, Singapore, Malaysia, Annan, etc. are similar to the previous Ming Dynasty. It is impossible for these places to have any king under the law for the time being.

When the three arrived, they started from the middle level. Three years later, Ding Li became the governor, and Xiang Wentian and Cao Feifei became the local generals.

In the ninth year of Rende, Dagan defeated the coalition forces of the Toungoo Dynasty and the Mughal Empire in the final battle. Although the coalition army had 40 troops, at this time Dagan was equipped with half of the rifled guns and replaced half of the rifled steel guns. gun.

The equipment of the two sides was not at the same level at all, and the coalition forces were crushed and defeated.

The soldiers and horses of the Mughal Empire retreated across the board, and Toungoo was destroyed.

The defeat of the Mughal Empire and the demise of Taungoo finally attracted the attention of the Safavid Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

After discussion, the two empires decided to join hands with the Mughal Empire to fight against the great forces from the East.

But Dagan was the same as before. After defeating Toungoo, he was not in a hurry to attack west again.

The Mongols also laid down a larger territory, but in the end it turned into ashes.

Ding Yi is gradually nibbling away, step by step, and steadily advance.

Ten years of benevolence, 20 people immigrated to Southeast Asia.

In the 11th year of Rende, Dagan immigrated 40 people to Southeast Asia.

For the local resistance forces, they brandished butcher knives, and then destroyed their writing to teach Chinese and Chinese characters.

In the 12th year of Rende, Dagan had breech-loading rifles and breech-loading rifles, which basically reached the equipment power of later generations in the 19th century, two centuries ahead of the world.

In the 12th year of Rende, Dagan's first railroad was opened to traffic, from the capital to Tianjin Port.

In the 12th year of Rende, [-] troops invaded the Mughal Empire.

The Mughal Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Safavid Empire, the three most powerful empires in Eurasia at that time, joined forces at the same time.

But the 50 coalition forces were broken in World War I.

In the 13th year of Rende, Dagan had a steamship, which could carry out large-scale voyages across the Pacific Ocean. When going to Europe, there is no need to go around the Cape of Good Hope, and at the same time, it can conquer North and South America.

In the 13th year of Rende, the Mughal Empire perished, and 50 immigrants immigrated.

In the 15th year of Rende, the Ottoman Empire fell, and 50 people emigrated.

In the 18th year of Rende, the Safavid Empire perished and 100 million people emigrated.

Dry people are like locusts, every time they capture a country, they immigrate in large numbers.

Fear is felt across Asia and Europe.

In the 19th year of Rende, the population of Dagan exceeded [-] million.

It took only 800 years from Rende's 19 million in three years to breaking through 16 million in [-] years.

In the 20th year of Rende, the imperial court ordered that private individuals be allowed to colonize overseas, and the occupied territories should be owned by private individuals.

In the 22nd year of Rende, Dagan had telegrams and trains all over the country.

In the 30th year of Rende, Dagan has electric lights.
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Time flies, time is gone.

"My lord, my lord." The soft low voice slowly awakened Ding Yi.

He opened his eyes and saw a man with white hair standing in front of him.

The man smiled gently, squeezing many wrinkles on his face.

"Zhong Xian, are you this old?" Ding Yi grinned.

"The emperor is still so young." Zhong Xian laughed along with him, his eyes were a little red.

Ding Yi casually saw his hands, haggard and wrinkled, so he was old too.

"Your Majesty, all the ministers are here." Zhong Xian whispered.

Ding Yi raised his head slowly, and found himself sitting in the Huangji Hall.

Just fell asleep when it was supposed to be going up.

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty below, many of them looked at him with concern, and some seemed to disagree.

Today is the 35th year of Rendeok (1680).

Ding Yi was already 70 years old, and the veterans in the court retreated and died, like Zhang Jing, Zhao Dashan, Li Zhongyi and other old brothers who were older than him died one after another.

"I fell asleep? Ashamed, ashamed." Ding Yi tried to stand up, but it seemed a little difficult, Zhong Xian hurried forward and helped him.

But Zhong Xian is also old, and the two supported each other to get up.

There will be someone talking next, it should be the chief assistant Ma Xi (the youngest son of former cabinet minister Ma Shiying.)
Now it is mainly the cabinet's work to do, and the emperor is fine if he does not go to court, so Ding Yi fell asleep, and the lower officials are still discussing matters.

Seeing Ding Yi standing up, the officials below stopped one after another. They had a little argument just now, and seemed to be arguing about something.

"Your Majesty." Someone from the courtiers shouted.

Ding Yi raised his eyes and looked, but there was no former veteran.

All the former cabinet members retired and died.

Some people can't think of their names for a moment, it seems a little dementia.

"I have a few words to say." Ding Yi said slowly.

The officials quickly looked at him intently.

"I am getting old and my memory is not good. According to the Dagan Code, I should abdicate at the age of 70."

Many of the ministers showed joy on their faces.

The Dagan Code stated that Emperor Dagan would abdicate at the age of 70, but Ding Yi was the founding emperor. At the age of 70, he still kept silent, and the ministers did not dare to ask.

"The emperor is holy." Ma Xi hurriedly called out at this moment.

But Dagan has never established a prince, who will succeed him?

"The candidate for the new emperor is in this hall."

"Come here, take the ladder."

It turns out that Ding Yi learned from the Qing Dynasty and put the imperial edict behind the plaque in the main hall long ago.

Everyone took down the edict and opened it in public.

"The second son of the emperor, Ding Xiang, has a precious character, and he deeply bows to me—"

In the 35th year of Rende, Ding Yi was passed on to Ding Xiang, the second son of the emperor. At this time, Ding Xiang was also 47 years old, and the power of the emperor was greatly reduced.

After giving up the throne, Ding Yi moved out of the palace and went directly to the officials.

The governor-general is Zhang Ding, the eldest son of Zhang Jing, who prepared a mountain villa for Ding Yi to support him.

There are not many concubines of Ding Yi, and almost all of them have died in recent years.

Apart from Zhong Xian, there was only one old lady in the palace, who was Su Yue, the former chief female official.

Suyue, who was about 60 years old, was taking care of Ding Yi by a senior official, and the Emperor Daqian was extremely depressed.

Sometimes, Ding Yi sat in the yard at night, looking at the moon in the sky, wondering if he regretted his choice.

Proclamation of the new emperor's reign.

In the second year of Xuanwen (1682), Ding Yi's health was not very good.

On this day, the governor Zhang Ding received a secret telegram from the capital, and his face was very solemn.

He hurried to Ding Yi's residence to meet Ding Yi.

Unexpectedly, Zhong Xian said that Ding Yi was in poor health and needed to rest.

Zhang Ding looked at Ding Yi, hesitated to speak, then thought for a while, then suddenly knelt down and kowtowed, ready to leave.

"Zhang Ding." Ding Yi slowly opened his eyes.

"The minister is here." Zhang Ding hurried forward.

"What do you want to say, just say it." Ding Yi said with a smile: "If you don't say it, I'm afraid there will be no chance."

Zhong Xian, who was also gray-haired, quickly signaled him with his eyes to stop talking.

Zhang Ding stood quietly for a while, and said in a low voice: "Call from the capital, it seems that someone behind the scenes sent Liu Renhai to deal with the eldest son of the emperor and his wife, because Liu Renhai knew that he was the eldest son of the emperor, so he did it on purpose."

The room was quiet, and the expression on Ding Yi's face became distorted.

Zhang Ding handed over a telegram carefully.

Zhong Xian handed over to Ding Yi.

Ding Yi opened it with trembling hands, looked carefully, and finally closed his eyes tightly, taking a deep breath.

The tears at this moment could not stop flowing out.

He finally knew what it meant to be powerless.

After more than ten seconds, Ding Yi opened his eyes suddenly, as if the light was shining all over him, his whole spirit was different.

"The decree is drafted, the officials are alone overseas, the surroundings are complicated, and the cabinet is proposed, and the governor will be replaced every ten years."

"Zhang Ding, come forward, I will have a few words with you."

Ding Yi had just stepped down at this time, and he was still a bit majestic, and he was still too emperor. He directly drafted the decree, breaking the original overseas governor who changed every four years.

As for whether the cabinet gives face or not, it depends on how much influence he has.

After that, Ding Yi's health went from bad to worse.

In the autumn of the third year of Xuanwen (1683), Ding Yi finally couldn't stand it anymore.

When he was dying, he suddenly heard Zhong Xian and Su Yue calling him.

Ding Yi trembled and opened his eyes.

I saw a row of people kneeling in front of the bed, some men and some women.

"Quickly, call grandpa, grandpa—" Ding Ye and He Xiaohua patted the children around them.

There were more than a dozen men and women. Ding Ye gave birth to three sons and a daughter, and the sons and daughters gave birth to children.

"Grandpa. Grandpa." The children shouted.

Ding Ye knelt in front of Ding Yi's bed, father and son held hands, tears streaming down uncontrollably.

"Cao (Bianjiao) passed away last year, and Xiang (Xiang Huailai) wanted to come and see his father, but my son didn't let him come because he was old and weak."

Ding Ye cried: "Great Mexico Province (Mexico) has been completely owned by me, and the natives of North America (where M is located) are still resisting."

"The children are very obedient, they can also speak Chinese and know Chinese characters."

"The child remembers his father's teachings, rule the country with the law, and the king is under the law."

"Father, don't worry, in the future, all the sun and moon in North and South America will be our Han soil."

"Okay, okay, okay——" Ding Yi said a few good words in succession, as if he had exhausted all his strength, and then he was completely speechless, just kept crying.

Then I saw my juniors one by one.

After a while, he felt very tired, his eyes began to darken, and then many images flashed in his mind, all the things he had experienced, dancing in his mind like watching a lantern on a horse.

The first handful of sand in Daxing Fort, on the way out of Daxing Fort, on the day of entering Xu Dabao.

In the past, these memories have long been slowly forgotten, but now they are exceptionally clear.

Zhao Dashan, Zhang Jing, Li Zhongyi, Seong Fei, all the faces reappeared in his mind one by one, many of them were still young.

He even saw Songjiang Xu's soft and boneless figure, and heard the delicate rhythm in his ears.

"So I'm going to do it, and it will last forever—" Ding Yi thought in his heart.

Following his last thought, there was darkness before his eyes, and his whole body and consciousness seemed to sink into an endless abyss.

(End of this chapter)