Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 574 Let's surrender to Zhao Wen

During the past few days, Liu Wenzhong and other officials discussed in detail about Zhao Wen's ascension to the throne, and the whole Xuan Town became extremely busy.

Zhao Wen sat in the middle of the study with his son Zhao Mingyu in his arms.

"Your name is written like this!" Zhao Wen took a brush and wrote Zhao Mingyu's name on the rice paper on the desk.

"Daddy, is this my name?" Zhao Mingyu looked at the name written by Zhao Wen's hands, his smiling face was full of joy.

"This is your name, come on, try to write it yourself!" Zhao Wen handed the brush in his hand to Zhao Mingyu and said encouragingly.

Zhao Mingyu took the brush from Zhao Wen. Because he didn't know how to hold a brush, he didn't hold the brush properly for a long time.

Zhao Wen watched Zhao Mingyu fiddling with the brush in his hand non-stop, and helped him hold the brush with a smile.

With the help of Zhao Wen, Zhao Mingyu finally took the brush in his hand.

"Come on, look at what I wrote, write slowly, don't worry!"

Zhao Wen looked at Zhao Mingyu's hand holding the brush and encouraged him.

Zhao Mingyu took the brush and began to write on the rice paper tremblingly.

Because he had never written it before, the strokes written by Zhao Mingyu were twisted and slanted, but generally it could be seen that it was a Zhao character.

After Zhao Mingyu finished writing Zhao characters, he wanted to try to write inscriptions.

"Let's write the character Zhao first, and don't write other characters first." Zhao Wen took the character Zhao written by Zhao Mingyu in his hand, and said with a smile: "Haha, not bad, not bad, at least it can be seen that it is a character Zhao."

"Daddy, my writing is not good-looking!" Zhao Mingyu looked at the handwriting he had written, and then at the handwriting written by Zhao Wen, and said with a frustrated face.

"Why doesn't it look good? I said it looks good!" Zhao Wen said, putting down the rice paper in his hand, "Come on, I will hold your hand and lead you to write!"

As Zhao Wen said, he held Zhao Mingyu's hand and led Zhao Mingyu to write on the rice paper.

"Yes, be steady. Don't rush, take your time. There is no rush for writing, take your time!" Zhao Wen took Zhao Mingyu and slowly wrote Zhao Mingyu's name on the rice paper.

At this moment, Liu Wenzhong walked towards the study.

Because the door of the study room was open, Liu Wenzhong saw Zhao Wen holding Zhao Mingyu in his arms and holding Zhao Mingyu's right hand while writing.

Looking at this scene, Liu Wenzhong thought to himself: "Master Zongbing attaches so much importance to the eldest son, it seems that the position of the eldest son is secure!"

The guard standing at the door looked at Liu Wenzhong who was coming, hurried into the study, and informed Zhao Wen of Liu Wenzhong's arrival.

Zhao Wen let go of Zhao Mingyu's right hand and looked outside the study.

Liu Wenzhong hurried into the study and saluted Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen waved his hand and pointed to the stool in front of the desk, "Sit down!"

Liu Wenzhong thanked him, and then sat opposite Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen put Zhao Mingyu in his arms on the ground, "Go out and play!"

Zhao Mingyu slipped from Zhao Wen's arms and ran out in a hurry.

Liu Wenzhong looked at Zhao Mingyu who ran out, and smiled slightly: "After the new year, the eldest son will be three years old, and he should be able to read and write!"

"Let's not talk about this, let's start learning to read after the third birthday." Zhao Wen took his eyes back from Zhao Mingyu and looked at Liu Wenzhong, "What's the matter?"

Liu Wenzhong took out a booklet from his pocket and placed it on the desk in front of Zhao Wen.

"My lord, this is the enthronement matter that we have discussed in the past few days, please take a look at it!" Liu Wenzhong looked at Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen picked up the booklet from the table and flipped through it.

The first page of the brochure shows the place of enthronement and the construction of the palace.

The location of the General Military Mansion is the center of Xuanzhen Town, so Liu Wenzhong planned to expand the General Military Mansion.

Because there are some residential buildings around the General Military Mansion, Liu Wenzhong planned to demolish these residential buildings.

The number of these dwellings is not very large, more government offices.

Zhao Wen looked at the first item in the brochure, and said, "During the demolition, we must pay enough compensation. As for the expanded palace, it doesn't need to be particularly large, just about the same.

Xuanzhen is not suitable for building a capital, so there is no need to build the palace to a large size. "

"My lord said that our standard is to build half of the imperial palace in the capital.

The Forbidden City covers an area of ​​more than 1000 mu, with a length of more than 200 Zhang from east to west and more than 300 Zhang from north to south.

After the expansion of the General Military Mansion, three halls will be built like the Imperial Palace in the capital.Other specifications are roughly the same as those of the Imperial Palace in Beijing. "Liu Wenzhong looked at Zhao Wen and spoke in detail.

The Imperial Palace in Beijing covers an area of ​​about 960 mu, with a length of 1000 meters from north to south, nearly 750 meters, and a length of [-] meters from east to west.

The palace wall is ten meters high, and there is a moat 53 meters wide outside the city.

Calculated according to half of the imperial palace in the capital, the length of the General Military Mansion after the expansion is about 400 meters from north to south, and more than 300 meters from east to west.

Although this scale is not comparable to the imperial palace in the capital, it is also a large-scale building complex here in Xuanzhen.

With the development of Xuanzhen, the land in Xuanzhen has also become expensive.

Especially in the center of Xuanzhen Town, the price of land is astonishingly high.

Therefore, when demolishing other people's houses, they must be compensated adequately.

Zhao Wen continued to flip through the booklet. After a long time, Zhao Wen put the booklet in his hand on the table.

"Generally there is no problem, just follow the contents of the brochure." Zhao Wen pointed to the brochure on the table and said to Liu Wenzhong.

"The expansion should be completed within two months. I wonder when your lord will ascend the throne?" Liu Wenzhong looked at Zhao Wen.

"If you are enthroned, it should be at the end of June or early July. By then, Shaanxi and Henan should have been taken by us. The time for enthronement should be after taking Shaanxi and Henan!" Zhao Wen said.

"Then listen to the adults!" Liu Wenzhong clasped his fists at Zhao Wen, picked up the booklet on the table, and walked outside.

As the news of Zhao Wen's ascension to the throne spread farther and farther, in mid-January, Chongzhen, who was far away in the capital, also got the news.

Chongzhen was sitting in the imperial study, holding a newspaper from Xuanzhen in his hand.

The date on the newspaper was exactly half a month ago, and the headline on the front page was that Zhao Wen was about to ascend the throne.

Chongzhen looked at the newspaper in his hand, his face twisted to the extreme.

"Bastard, bastard, shameless, extremely shameless, extremely shameless!" Chongzhen slammed the newspaper in his hand on the table, burning with anger.

"You bastard, Zhao Wen's thieves have no eyes on the king. You didn't say anything about causing trouble before, but now you still want to become emperor? What a bastard, what a bastard!" Chongzhen slapped the table, shouting and cursing furiously.

The eunuchs and maids in the imperial study looked at Chongzhen like this, so frightened that they all knelt on the ground, not daring to speak.

The imperial palace in the late Ming Dynasty was like a rag sack, almost unable to conceal any news.

That afternoon, what happened in the palace spread throughout the capital.

Before that, there were already rumors in the capital that Zhao Wen ascended the throne as emperor, but some officials still didn't quite believe it.

But after the news from the palace came out, these officials who didn't believe it had to believe this fact.

The atmosphere in the entire capital was extremely weird, especially those nobles. They stayed in their homes, closed their doors tightly, and never stepped out.

In the secret room of the British government, the British Duke Zhang Zhiji and Cheng Guogong Zhu Chunchen sat on both sides of a table.

The British official Zhang Zhiji looked at Zhu Chunchen with a solemn expression.

"The news came from the palace today that His Majesty dropped three teacups, a teapot, two brush washers, and an inkstone!" Duke Ying was sitting opposite Duke Cheng, tapping slowly on the table with his right hand.

There were only the two of them in the secret room. After the Englishman finished speaking, Cheng Guogong did not answer, and the atmosphere in the secret room was extremely weird.

After a long time, Duke Cheng let out a sigh of relief, and looked at Duke Ying with a worried face, "What shall we do now?"

British official Zhang Zhiji asked, "What do you think we should do now?"

"I think? Is it still necessary? Don't you know Zhao Wen's strength? Can his strength be compared to the imperial court? Don't look at the fact that Zhao Wen only has two places in Xuanzhen and Shanxi, but as long as Zhao Wen If Wen is willing, he can take down the entire Ming Dynasty at any time.

Although I don't know how many soldiers and horses there are in Xuanzhen, but their weapons alone are not something the court can contend with. Now that Zhao Wen has ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he will definitely attack the court with a big drum.At that time, I don't need to say the result!

We nobles have been passed down for more than 200 years. If Zhao Wen invaded the capital, we would definitely be ransacked by Zhao Wen's thieves. At that time, we will be sinners, and we will ruin the foundation of our ancestors! "As soon as Cheng Guogong Zhu Chunchen said this, his face collapsed.

Zhu Chunchen is a well-known incompetent trash, who knows nothing and can't do anything, so he can only eat and wait to die.

"You are right, once the imperial court is destroyed, we will definitely not be able to run away!" Zhang Zhiji also said worriedly. "My main family plus collaterals have about a thousand people, plus servants and maids, etc., there are almost tens of thousands of people.

If Zhao Wen's bandits enter the city, will Zhao Wen's bandits let us go? "Zhang Zhiji's face was full of worry, but he was only worried about his own family property.

"Why don't we rely on Zhao Wen?" Zhu Chunchen's face suddenly darkened, and he looked at Zhang Zhiji gloomyly.

"What? Going to the enemy?" Zhang Zhi was very surprised, and he looked at Zhu Chunchen in surprise.

"That's right, it's surrendering to the enemy!" Zhu Chunchen said firmly.

Zhang Zhiji couldn't believe it and asked: "Are you crazy? This is surrender to the enemy. If the court finds out, we will be doomed!"

"Hmph, what are you afraid of? The current imperial court is a ship that is about to sink. For more than 200 years, our two families have contributed a lot to Daming.

Now that the ship of Daming is about to sink, is it possible that we have to accompany this ship to sink together?Besides, as long as we handle it properly, how could the imperial court know? "Zhu Chunchen looked at Zhang Zhiji with disdain.

It is not surprising that Zhu Chunchen can say such words. This person is a famous traitor in history.

In history, in the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng led troops and horses to attack the capital. When Li Zicheng attacked the city, Chongzhen asked Zhu Chunchen to lead the army in the court to resist Li Zicheng.

But this Zhu Chunchen didn't want to defend the city at all. When Li Zicheng attacked the city, the city wall he defended was the part of the city wall where Qihuamen was located.

When he saw the strength of the rebel soldiers, he felt that he could not stop Li Zicheng, so he surrendered the city.

After the surrender, this person played Li Zicheng together with Chen Yan, the old cabinet minister, and persuaded Li Zicheng to ascend the throne.

When Li Zicheng first entered the city, he was able to act normally, but after staying for a few days, his nature as a thief was fully exposed.

When Li Zicheng allowed his subordinates to burn, kill and loot in the capital, Zhu Chunchen and Chen Yan were punished by Liu Zongmin for "chasing wages".

After Zhu Chunchen's death, Liu Zongmin took all his family property away.

As for Zhang Zhiji, he is average in history. Although he is a British prince, he lived a short life and burped when he was ten years old in Chongzhen. Therefore, if he wanted to betray the country, he had no chance to betray the country.

Although his son Zhang Shize is also an idiot, he is much better than Zhu Chunchen. When Li Zicheng attacked the city, he led his troops to defend the city wall, and finally died on the city wall.

"This matter is too important. Allow me to think about it for a few days. This matter is of great importance. Once the matter is revealed, it will be a matter of losing one's head." Zhang Zhiji looked at Zhu Chunchen worriedly.

Zhang Zhiji said: "I am dissatisfied with you, my family had some disputes with Zhao Wen before.

Back then my house was ransacked by a gang of robbers. Although the origin of this gang is unknown, I can guess the origin of this gang.

Back then, my son borrowed money from Daming Bank and failed to repay it. It didn’t take long for my house to be ransacked by a group of robbers.

Needless to say, this group of people must be the backer of Daming Bank, and I don't tell you who owns Daming Bank. "

"How could this be? When I asked you about this before, why didn't you tell me this?" Zhu Chunchen looked at Zhang Zhiji in horror.

When Zhao Wen led troops to rob Zhang Zhiji's mansion, Zhu Chunchen also knew about it.At that time, Zhu Chunchen asked about this matter specifically, but Zhang Zhiji only explained this matter to Zhu Chunchen in an ambiguous manner, and kept silent about more details.

"If this kind of thing happened to you, can you tell others? Okay, let's not talk about it, I will ask you, even if you want to take refuge in Zhao Wen, why do you think Zhao Wen can accept your refuge? Even if Wen doesn't have your support, he can take down the entire Ming Dynasty, and it doesn't make any sense to Zhao Wen whether you join him or not, what if he doesn't accept it, what will we do then?" Zhang Zhiji said.

When Zhu Chunchen heard this, his expression suddenly turned ugly.

What Zhang Zhiji said is correct, why should Zhao Wen accept his refuge?What benefits can Zhao Wen bring by relying on Zhao Wen?
If it were me, I wouldn't accept other people's support in this kind of thing.

However, if he could not take refuge in Zhao Wen and followed the court, once Zhao Wen's army came under pressure, people like himself would be completely finished. At that time, even if he wanted to take refuge in him, he would have no chance.

Zhu Chunchen looked at Zhang Zhiji, "I don't know how to answer what you said, but it's better than waiting here to die, right? If Zhao Wen is really overwhelming, it will be too late to do anything!"

"Then let me ask you, how do you contact Zhao Wen? What do you use to contact Zhao Wen? Could it be that you still sent someone to deliver a letter to Zhao Wen?"

"Besides this method, do you think there is any other way?"

　I don't know what's going on these few days, my throat is very sore, I feel very uncomfortable, I still have nausea and nausea, and my head is still a little confused. I can only update one chapter today. Please forgive me! ! !

　　
　
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