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Chapter 500 The Writer and the Emperor 10
The emperor has always known that King Xin respects and loves him, but he always has some doubts about King Xin—after all, he has the destiny of the Son of Heaven.

Since ancient times, the Tian family has little family affection, no matter how close the brothers are, they will inevitably kill each other for the supreme position. The emperor really doesn't believe that the king has no idea at all.

Even if King Lingxin flees and ascends the throne after his death, as far as the emperor is concerned, it is nothing more than obeying the fate.He escaped death, but never escaped his own changes. He guarded against refugees, but he failed to guard against King Fu. In the end, it was still a tragic battle.

But he didn't expect that King Xin was really a silly boy with solid eyes!

People say that a friend in adversity sees a friend, and on weekdays, believe in the king more respectfully and care about him. He is the Son of Heaven, and that's what he should be.But at this moment, everyone was going out of the palace to flee for their lives, but he was stupid enough to stay and die with him. The emperor's nose was sore and his eyes were hot. From this moment on, he truly regarded King Xin as his brother again.

Tian Qi doted on King Xinxin, but Pu Xiang snorted. It was only now that the emperor realized that it was not without reason that Tian Qi loved this innocent little fifth brother so much.

The emperor secretly swore in his heart that if he was lucky enough to survive this time, he would protect King Xin's life in peace and joy, and never let him suffer the painful and desperate life of Emperor Chongzhen again.

If the king doesn't leave, the queen won't leave either. She married the emperor at a young age. Up to now, she once resented the emperor because of Ci Zhao's death, and the husband and wife also supported each other.

When the Hakka family was sent out of the Forbidden City and Wei Zhongxian was dispatched to guard the mausoleum in the central capital, the queen was determined to dedicate all her loyalty to the emperor, manage the court, and assist him in saving Ming Dynasty from peril.

Before the emperor opened his mouth to persuade, the queen said: "The husband and wife are enemies, there is no reason for staying in the capital for a long time, and the concubine escapes alone."

The queen is decisive by nature, and once she made up her mind, even the emperor would not be able to speak against her, so the only confidants of the husband and wife and brother ordered the concubine Xin and the prince and princess to be taken out of the Forbidden City by the secret road, all the way to Nanjing.

There is another set of six departments in Nanjing. Although they are only used to provide for the elderly of officials, they are all old ministers who have struggled in the officialdom. As long as the concubine Xin can go to Nanjing, once the city of Beijing is destroyed, the old ministers will naturally enshrine the imperial edict and support the benevolent government. Ascending to the throne, the heavy burdens of the world will all fall on the babies under one year old.

Concubine Xin fled the capital in a panic. She was already pregnant with Liujia. On the way, she induced fetal gas, and finally gave birth to her second son, Cixuan, in December of the ninth year of Tianqi. Almost cried to death.

Concubine Xin looked weak, but she actually had some strength in her temper. She almost died of heartache, but at the same time, she insisted on arriving in Nanjing and summoned all the officials in Nanjing to protect the prince and wait for the news from the capital.

The capital city has been under siege for three months. In the heavy snow, the people split open the door panels to make a fire, and even the roots of the old willow trees were chewed and eaten raw.

The defenders of the capital suffered heavy casualties under the siege of the Jin soldiers. Seeing that the capital was about to be lost, the emperor himself climbed up the city wall to defend against the enemy. King Xin followed around and braved arrows and stones to protect the emperor.

The emperor planned to die, and was thinking of leaving a shocking death in the history books, but when the city gate was almost breached, a group of young eunuchs unexpectedly killed a group of strange soldiers.

It turned out that the emperor ordered people to train a group of young eunuchs in Xiyuan, but he never thought about where to put them. He only selected some of the older ones to serve as officials of the Rites and Horses, and the rest were still placed in the palace to wait for orders. .

The city of Beijing is in danger, the emperor believes in the king's ambition to die, the queen thinks of these eunuch boys and sends them to the battlefield.It was these young eunuchs who made up in time and repelled several attacks by the Tartars.

The other group of teenagers were the young Jinyiwei who were trained by the emperor. They were more powerful, and they attacked the enemy camp at night and set fire to it, which seriously injured the vitality of the Jin soldiers.

From October of the ninth year of the Apocalypse to the first month of the tenth year of the Apocalypse, the capital was besieged for four months. The soldiers and civilians were killed and injured countless times. The entire capital was almost smashed into pieces. Even so, the emperor was not dead, defeated, or fled, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted. .

People in later generations often ridiculed Daming that "the emperor guards the gate of the country, and the king dies for the country". It must be known that the son of heaven is really guarding the gate of the country, and the king really wants to die for the country. There is no lie.

In the first month, Guan Ning cavalry finally got through the defense line of the Houjin army and rushed to help the capital.

At this time, the supplies of the Houjin army were exhausted, and the rear was attacked by the Ming army, so they had to withdraw their troops.The Guanning iron cavalry was divided into two groups, one to pursue the Qing army, and the other to go south and north to Zhili to guard against the Fu rebel army.

The Houjin army retreated and robbed. The places they passed were like locusts crossing the border, and no grass grew.

The capital was besieged for four months, and King Fu's rebels were also attacking Beizhili. Fortunately, the Fufan rebels were far inferior to Houjin, and the local officials in Beizhili resisted desperately, and finally waited to call in reinforcements from King Qin.

In June of the tenth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Changxun, the King of Fu, died in a fit of rage, and the Fu Fan rebels retreated southward in a hurry.

In August of the tenth year of Apocalypse, Princess Xin returned to Beijing with Prince Cihong and Princess Changping who were already one and a half years old. Her heart was broken with the death of Cixuan until Song Haonian was found 30 years later. Only when you come back can you finally achieve consummation.

In the winter of the 13th year of Apocalypse, the rebel army of Fufan was completely defeated. The king of Fu Zhu Yousong fled to Japan and was captured in the East China Sea. The rest of the rebellious princes either committed suicide or were captured.

This war, which lasted for several years, shattered the most affluent place in Ming Dynasty. Until 30 years later, when Song Haonian walked in the city of Beijing, he could still see the scars on the city wall. It was the emperor who deliberately left people behind as his Scars and shame, reminding him to live and eat to strengthen himself.

As the saying goes, what can't be broken can't be built, and the emperor can rebuild the shattered empire more smoothly than before.

The imperial court had no money, but the Fufan rebels had money, and they copied it one by one. The emperor got the title of "the emperor who copied the family and killed the emperor", but the treasury made a lot of money.

Money and food were needed to rebuild the capital and restore the order in the north. Originally, the war left a large number of people homeless, but the emperor started the reconstruction in time.

After the war, the emperor's prestige reached its peak. No matter how much civil and military officials looked down on this carpenter-obsessed emperor, they had to admit that he was indeed the most remarkable emperor of Ming Dynasty.

The emperor took advantage of the situation and promoted many reforms in one fell swoop. The method of training soldiers is wrong, change it; the method of selecting officials is wrong, change it; emphasize agriculture and suppress business, change it;

The war with Houjin was still going on. When the Fufan rebellion was quelled, dozens of young generals stood out, and they could be used in Liaodong.

The emperor straightened out his internal affairs on one side, and withstood the Liaodong attack on the other side.In the 14th year of the Apocalypse, the White Lotus Sect took advantage of the locust plague in the northwest to cause rebellion. The emperor transferred Yuan Chonghuan to quell the rebellion, and Mao Wenlong ruled Liaodong.

In the 15th year of Apocalypse, Huang Taiji changed Jurchen to Manchuria, and submitted the letter of credence to Emperor Apocalypse for peace.The emperor smiled contemptuously and said, "You barbarian lord, how dare you show me the letter of state? Your father and slave, Hachi, followed Li Chengliang and his son, begging for mercy. Li Chengliang didn't notice for a while, and even raised a wolf as a dog, which caused his own disaster." Now that our soldiers are coming to Hetuala, you should go to the country, take off your hair and armor, and kneel down to welcome the army in Kaicheng, so as to save the lives of your family."

The person who came to present the letter of credence was Azige, Huang Taiji’s younger brother, who had been terrified by the panic of the Ming army. He was immediately fascinated by the magnificence of the Forbidden City—to tell you the truth, the city of Hetuala The Khan Palace here is at best equivalent to a larger country landlord's house.

Azig returned to Hetuala and tried his best to persuade Huang Taiji to surrender.The Mongolian allied forces had already surrendered to Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army divided into three groups, pressing on from Liaodong, Mongolia and the sea.

Most of the Manchurians descended to the Ming Dynasty, and small groups scattered to the white mountains and black waters, vowing to be irreconcilable with the Ming army.Until many years later, Li Qingsong and others still wanted to go to Liaodong to practice, and used this small group of Manchuria as a sharpening stone for Jinyiwei.

The world is at peace again, but the emperor's ambition is not going to subside. Jianshui sails to Nanyang to seize Australia.In the beginning, the Daming Navy was suppressed and beaten, let alone such a powerful enemy as the Armada, even a random fleet can cause the Daming Navy to suffer heavy losses.

But the people of Ming Dynasty have always had one advantage, those who are not as good as others, just learn it.In ten years or so, the Daming navy has been able to sail unimpeded in the world's seas, no matter the navy of other countries or the bandits, they dare not take it lightly.

The land expanded to the north of Mongolia, and after several encounters with the Principality of Moscow, it took Baikal as the boundary and divided and ruled.

Changed the luck of the Ming Dynasty, changed the system of selecting officials through the imperial examination, and the emperor still wanted to change people's hearts. He really wanted to make the Ming Dynasty stand on the top of the world, run schools, build a hero's temple, and even spread songs about the emperor's personal conquest by theater troupes all over the world.

After Zhu Cixuan was found, the emperor asked him about the situation of the people, and Zhu Cixuan replied that the country is prosperous and the country is peaceful and the people are safe.

The emperor looked back and thought, he seemed to have taken a certain script of the male protagonist of Shuangwen. This life has been magnificent, and he has done everything that should be done, but he forgot to open the harem—the conscience of heaven and earth, he is a harem writer!
In the past two years, it's not that there have been no newcomers in the harem, most of them are from North Korea and other countries, and the little girl is like a fresh flower. In the second year of the emperor, all countries don't need to pay tribute: waste.

The emperor complained to the queen: "Do you think I don't like to enjoy beauty? But I have been busy fighting wars and governing the country these years, so busy that I don't have time to relax and enjoy it. Now I finally have leisure, but I don't have that kind of leisure. Hey, looking at those little girls, it's just boring."

The queen smiled: "Since that's the case, Wanzai should mess around with our burnt papers."

After all, the husband and wife looked at each other for a while, both couldn't help laughing.

Suddenly there was a rumor from outside the palace that Dao Taisun and Zhen brought the prince of Huaijun to ask for an audience, and before the words fell, Ruzhen's loud voice came: "Grandfather, we are here to listen to your war story again!"

He Zhen said: "Brother Zhen, please keep your voice down, my ears are buzzing."

Ruzhen was very nervous: "Brother, your ears are so delicate, what will you do when you go back to the military parade? I'll ask someone to sew you earplugs."

He Zhen: "...No need!"

The emperor laughed loudly and let the two younger ones in: "Where did we talk yesterday?"

The two children were full of admiration, their eyes sparkling, and they said in unison: "Battle of Tianshan!"

(End of this chapter)