My timeless tavern

Chapter 554 Yuan Chonghuan's Loss of Soul
With everyone's comfort, Yuan Chonghuan gradually calmed down.

The flesh and blood on his body had grown back, and the new skin was even more delicate than before, adding a bit of elegance to his appearance.

Zhu Youjian, who was watching from afar, swallowed his saliva inexplicably, then quickly looked away, wondering which unlucky guy was this to be so lucky to come to the tavern.

Seeing that his mentality had returned to normal, Hua Tuo and Sun Simiao moved away.

The two were earlier talking about the treatment of some difficult and complicated diseases, and were still thinking about the old topics.

Zhu Bajie, the master of the Lotus Lantern, saw Sun Wukong who had just arrived at the tavern, waved his hand and walked over.

Only Xu Xian and Yu Huatian were left at the table.

There is also the newcomer Yuan Chonghuan.

"I haven't asked for your name yet," Lin Pingzhi asked.

He was genuinely curious.

This person seems to have nothing of his own and is most likely a civil official or military general in history.

After entering the tavern, he read the history of China and knew that there were many unlucky people who were cut into pieces, but those who were qualified to come to the tavern...

Suddenly seeing Xu Fugui and Xu Lingjun, and thinking of his own mediocre martial arts before coming to the tavern, he shook his head secretly, thinking that one should not underestimate the people in the world.

Maybe this is really some unknown unlucky person.

Xu Xian and others also looked over.

They all now know that, except for a few people, the world history of most of the tavern's guests has the same or similar trajectory.

This person may not be an unknown person.

Yuan Chonghuan took a deep breath, clasped his hands and said, "I am Yuan Chonghuan."

"Yuan Chonghuan?" Ding Xiu was surprised.

He had just taken the initiative to recruit Yuan Chonghuan from his own world some time ago, so he was naturally familiar with him.

This person's talent may not be as great as Yu Qian, Wang Shouren and others, but looking at the current Ming Dynasty, he is also a rare talent.

He was too bold, killed military generals without authorization, and secretly communicated with the Later Jin Dynasty, which made him hated by Emperor Chongzhen and led to his tragic end.

In Ding Xiu's world, Yuan Chonghuan had just been employed by Chongzhen. When he initially tried to recruit him, he was rejected verbally. He even claimed that he wanted to serve the king. It was the video in the tablet that Ding Xiu sent that convinced him.

The Ming Dynasty was in danger, but Emperor Chongzhen still executed his generals on the battlefield and killed important officials in such a brutal way. Even Ding Xiu, a wandering man, thought he was extremely stupid.

It is no wonder that so many Guanning troops surrendered to the Qing Dynasty later.

"So it's Brother Yuan." His expression became much more friendly, and he said with a smile, "We are all family!"

Yuan Chonghuan was a little puzzled.

He already knew Ding Xiu's identity, but he had never heard of this person before. How could he become one of his own?

Could it be that this person is an officer in the Guanning Army under his command?
Yu Huatian smiled and said, “Brother Yuan will know soon.”

He looked at the other person with a smile and recounted Ding Xiu's origins.

Yuan Chonghuan was shocked when he learned that Ding Xiu came from a similar world as him and had killed Zhu Youjian from that world.

He never expected that the person in front of him would be so bold!
Ding Xiu looked at him and shook his head, "What's that? Brother Yu has Emperor Chenghua as his godson, and the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty is almost his biological son!"

Yuan Chonghuan was stunned and couldn't help asking, "Who is Brother Yu?"

"Before coming to the tavern, I was the head of the East Factory." Yu Huatian smiled.

Yuan Chonghuan was stunned and subconsciously looked towards his crotch.

"Older than you." Yu Huatian glanced at him and said lightly.

Yuan Chonghuan was embarrassed and quickly explained: "I didn't... I didn't mean anything else."

Yu Huatian smiled, her face as beautiful as a peach, and said, "I used to be poor, so I had no choice but to work in the palace. This is not something that is difficult to talk about."

"Brother Yu is open-minded and a true gentleman!" Yuan Chonghuan praised.

He looked at Lin Pingzhi again. This man was also quite handsome. Could it be...

Lin Pingzhi felt an inexplicable chill in his crotch, and he clamped his legs together and said, "I am just a man of the world."

"He is also the lover of the Queen of the Ming Dynasty." Ding Xiu said with a mischievous wink.

Lin Pingzhi blushed a little, but didn't explain.

This was what his father said when he was drunk in the pub a few days ago, scolding him for being a rebellious son and not loving a good young wife.

Lin Pingzhi felt very aggrieved.

How could he not like a beautiful girl?

But he was full of ambition and wanted to assist the emperor in doing great things, so he didn't want to think about matters between men and women too early.

But the queen was too caring, how could he resist?

"I admire you." Yuan Chonghuan had a complicated expression.

He began to understand why they called themselves "their own people".

It turns out that these people are traitors who usurped the Ming Dynasty!
He couldn't help but look at Xu Xian, wondering if the other party had cheated on some Ming Dynasty emperor again.

Seeing him looking at him, Xu Xian smiled bitterly.

Before Xu Xian could speak, Yu Huatian said with a smile: "Brother Xu is not an ordinary person like us, he is an immortal."

Xu Xian shook his head and said, "I am not an immortal at all. I am just an ordinary scholar."

"How can there be a scholar as talented as you..." Ding Xiu flattered.

After listening to what several people said, Yuan Chonghuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He now feels grateful for having survived the disaster.

He naturally hated Zhu Youjian, who had him cut into pieces, but at this time he could not put himself in the role of a traitor.

Speaking of which, he had been lucky enough to get such an incredible opportunity, but he had not yet thought about what to do next.

But someone thought about it for him.

After praising Xu Xian for a while, Ding Xiu turned the topic to Yuan Chonghuan and said, "Brother Yuan, since you are in the tavern, what are your plans for the future?"

In the future?

Yuan Chonghuan subconsciously thought of the execution ground, and those crazy shouts and laughter seemed to reach his ears again.

His face turned pale.

Lin Pingzhi said quickly: "With the cup of Thunder God Gene Wine that Brother Xu gave you, you are now a god on earth. Even thousands of troops cannot do anything to you. It will be much easier for you to do anything you want in the future."

Thor gene wine?
God among men?

Yuan Chonghuan seemed to understand but not quite.

The previous few people had not mentioned this matter, and Yuan Chonghuan himself had no time to think about it in detail.

Yu Huatian explained a few things to him and told him to give it a try.

As he thought, blinding thunder surrounded his body. Feeling the increasingly powerful force in his body, as if one punch could shatter a city wall, Yuan Chonghuan finally realized what was happening to him.

"Your condition was not optimistic at first. In order to help you recover quickly, Brother Xu bought..." Ding Xiu said.

"What kind of wine is so amazing?" Yuan Chonghuan murmured.

Ding Xiu pointed and said, "Look."

Yuan Chonghuan looked in the direction of his finger.

His mind was quickly absorbed in the wine list.

The dazzling variety of fine wines made his breathing become heavy.

Only then did he realize what he had gained, and why these people would put themselves above the emperor and make fun of him like a tortoise.

After a long while, he reluctantly turned his eyes away from the wine list. "What is the time-space coin?" Yuan Chonghuan asked.

Yu Huatian introduced it to him and also explained the exchange method of space-time coins and gold.

Yuan Chonghuan had a complicated expression. He bowed to Xu Xian earnestly and said, "Brother Xu, give me some time and I will definitely return it to you."

Xu Xian waved his hand: "It's just a mere 100,000 Spacetime Coins, you don't need to care about it, and that glass of wine was given to you by me, how can I repay it?"

Yuan Chonghuan's eyes were red.

The punishment of slow slicing almost brought his self-esteem to the dust. He thought that he was ridiculed and despised by the whole world, but unexpectedly his luck turned around in the tavern and he met someone who was so kind to him.

"I..." His voice trembled and he didn't know what to say.

"Everyone who can come to the tavern is a friend," Ding Xiu comforted him, "If you really feel bad for me, Brother Yuan, there will always be a chance to repay you in the future."

"Yes, maybe one day I will have to ask you for help." Xu Xian said with a smile.

One hundred thousand time and space coins is not a small amount for him, but it is not too precious either.

Any of the treasures from the Antarctic Immortal are probably worth far more than this.

He was ready to make a fortune from the Antarctic Immortal.

So he didn't take it seriously at this time.

Yuan Chonghuan took a deep breath and suppressed the emotion in his heart.

After two seconds of calming down, he said in a deep voice, "Brother Xu has given me a new life. If you need me to do anything in the future, I will go through fire and water for you!"

"You're too kind." Xu Xian said with a smile.

Ding Xiu changed the subject and asked, "Brother Yuan, what are your plans for the future?"

He thought that since he was an experienced person, he could pass on some experience to Yuan Chonghuan.

Under the gaze of several people, Yuan Chonghuan was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "When I return this time, I will go back to my hometown to do business and try to earn more gold."

He was completely disappointed with both Emperor Chongzhen and the cheering people.

Now he no longer has the ambition to achieve great things, he just wants to go back to be with his family. After earning enough gold, he will exchange it for time and space coins to buy a method of cultivation and become a hermit practicing Buddhism.

After seeing the effects of the Thor's Gene Wine and seeing his own rejuvenated appearance reflected in the light-reflecting walls, he realized that he had plenty of time to slowly manage these things.

"Are you going to let that dog emperor go?" Ding Xiu frowned.

……

After Yuan Chonghuan revealed his identity, many people in the tavern began to look strange.

Especially the few people who sat at the same table with Zhu Youjian.

Except for Fusu, who had just arrived at the tavern, even Daenerys knew about the conflict between Zhu Youjian and Yuan Chonghuan.

Zhu Youjian's expression was extremely ugly.

Even though he had guessed it before, he didn't expect this guy to actually show up in the tavern.

But he did not think there was anything wrong in executing Yuan Chonghuan.

Allowing the Tartars to attack the gates of Beijing was only one of the reasons why he wanted to get rid of them, but it was not the main reason.

The real reason that made him decide to kill the other party was party strife.

The Donglin Party was so powerful that it had seriously affected the situation in the court and threatened his imperial power.

If those people are not suppressed, will the Ming Dynasty belong to the Zhu family or the Donglin Party?
Yuan Chonghuan was nominated by them. Relying on the support of the Donglin Party, he was arrogant and domineering, and had no respect for his king or his father!

Killing Mao Wenlong without authorization and communicating with the Later Jin...

All these touched his reverse scale.

While being imprisoned, the Guanning Army refused to send troops without Yuan Chonghuan's handwritten order, which completely angered him.

How to deter the Donglin Party members if Yuan Chonghuan is not executed?
How will the civil and military officials leading the troops outside react?

If everyone follows his example, will the Ming Dynasty still be named Zhu?

Zhu Youjian felt that the only thing he had done inappropriately was that the punishment was too severe, which caused criticism from his ministers and made the officers and soldiers in Liaodong alienated from him.

He spent a lot of energy to regain the hearts of the troops.

No matter what, his Ming Dynasty would never tolerate Yuan Chonghuan!
In his opinion, Yuan Chonghuan must have hated him to the core.

But what does the other party mean now?
Could it be that he realized his mistake and was too embarrassed to seek revenge on "himself"?
Zhu Youjian even felt a little regretful.

Thinking carefully, what Yuan Chonghuan did was indeed for the Ming Dynasty. There is no general in the world who can win every battle. In addition, Huang Taiji is really difficult to deal with. According to the original historical trajectory of the Ming Dynasty, after Yuan Chonghuan, there are few people in the Ming Dynasty who can match him...

……

"How can we let go of a dying man?" Yuan Chonghuan said calmly.

Zhu Youjian's thoughts were suddenly disrupted.

He ignored the strange looks from his classmates and glared at them fiercely.

"Such a traitor, and I felt that I had wronged him just now!" Zhu Youjian thought to himself.

Yuan Chonghuan noticed his gaze, looked at him strangely, but did not take it seriously.

He didn't know Zhu Youjian's identity yet.

Lin Pingzhi clapped his hands and praised: "As a man in this world, you should be happy to repay kindness and revenge. Kill that kind of person with a single blow!"

He now makes decisions in the palace, and everyone in the court is scrambling to curry his favor, but his gangster habits have not changed.

Yu Huatian and others also nodded.

From a rational point of view, it would be better to keep Chongzhen, but they could not demand that Yuan Chonghuan stop.

If it were them, even if they were in the wrong, they would definitely retaliate by being cut into pieces if they were sentenced to such a severe punishment.

Yuan Chonghuan looked at the expressions of the others and realized that they had misunderstood him. He shook his head and said, "Why should I do anything? The Ming Dynasty will perish. He won't live long."

"I will watch him react by watching the country fall!"

Several people were slightly startled before they came to their senses.

"Brother Yuan has a good eye. He can see this!" Ding Xiu said.

"Zhu Youjian is stubborn, impatient, suspicious, indecisive, and eager for quick success... If he were a little lazier, the Ming Dynasty might have survived longer. The more diligent he is, the faster the Ming Dynasty will perish!" Yuan Chonghuan said coldly.

"Then according to Brother Yuan's opinion, what should he do?" Xu Xian became interested in Jian Zheng.

"The situation in Liaodong is chaotic, but it can only be regarded as a chronic disease, not a fatal injury!" Yuan Chonghuan said, "The chaos in the Ming Dynasty is internal. We should stabilize the situation in Liaodong as quickly as possible and at the lowest cost, sort out internal affairs, reduce taxes and levies, and provide disaster relief to the people..."

He talked nonstop for a while, and suddenly remembered that several people had said that things from ancient times to the present were no secrets in the tavern, so he asked, "Did the Ming Dynasty fall at the hands of Zhu Youjian?"

"That's right!" Lin Pingzhi said.

"It was the Qing Dynasty that replaced it," Yu Huatian said, with a half-smile, "It was Huang Taiji of Liaodong who changed the name of the Later Jin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty."

"Him?!" Yuan Chonghuan was shocked.

He was well aware of the strength of the Later Jin, but it also had many fatal flaws, and its internal strife was even more serious than that of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he always felt that although the Tartars were strong, it was not surprising.

Now it seems that I guessed wrong?
If it were the Tartars who destroyed the Ming Dynasty, then wouldn't his insistence on peace be a huge mistake, tantamount to treason?

Lin Pingzhi looked at his distraught appearance and shook his head, saying, "If we talk about the main cause of the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, it must be Li Zicheng..."

He recounted the story of how the Dashun Army led by Li Zicheng captured Beijing.

Yuan Chonghuan's expression improved a little, but he still found it hard to accept.

His face looked ugly and he felt very aggrieved.

Is it wrong for me to be so self-righteous in negotiating peace?
The people’s curse is correct. Am I a sinner of the Ming Dynasty?

(End of this chapter)