At the end of the Ming Dynasty, I freely traveled through Yangshen

Chapter 4 The Immortal Guiding the Way
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"Send them all away. Governor Wang and I have something to discuss. I'll go guard the door and don't let anyone disturb us."

In the Duanjing Hall of Duanben Palace, Zhu Cixiang dispersed all the maids and servants in the East Palace with a wave of his hand. Suddenly, only Zhu Cixiang and the Governor Wang sent by Emperor Chongzhen were left in the room.

The candlelight in the room flickered, looking a little drowsy. Zhu Cixiang was sitting behind the desk, and opposite the desk, a man with a loyal face wearing a red python robe stood here, looking at Zhu Cixiang with a smile.

This person is the admiral of Dongchang, the chief internal and external military camp and the admiral of Jiumen Emperor Chongzhen's Wang Banban, Wang Cheng'en.

Regarding Wang Cheng'en, Zhu Cihong and later generations' historical references are very objective, that is, loyalty.

Wang Cheng'en even accompanied Emperor Chongzhen to hang himself in Meishan. He was still not loyal. If a slave can accompany the emperor on his last journey, then he is an absolute confidant who is extremely loyal.

But loyalty is one thing, and whether trouble will happen is another. Historically, Emperor Chongzhen tried to escape before the city of Beijing was besieged, but refused to issue an order to move the capital. This slave didn't even know how to do it. Does the master plan a way out?

They all managed to serve as the internal and external military camp and serve as the admiral of the nine gates. However, when King Chuang attacked Beijing, he was forced to open the city and surrender, leaving him with nowhere to run.

If Wei Zhongxian, Wang Chengen's senior leader, were to replace him, he would still be unable to defeat the bandits and slaves, but he would not sit back and wait for death. He would have asked the emperor to tour the south long ago, ushering in the Southern Song Dynasty version of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

So in just a moment, Zhu Cihong labeled Wang Chengen as an honest man and unusable, and looked at Wang Chengen with eyes full of care.

However, although it is not suitable for large-scale use, it may not be suitable for large-scale use at present, but it is still possible for small-scale use. If you want to leave here within two months and reach Nanjing Jiangnan Yiyi, it is obviously impossible without the help of this person. .

As for defending Beijing City against Li Zicheng, Zhu Cixiang didn't think about it, because although Beijing City is a fortified city, in history, Beijing was rebelled by internal people and opened the city gates to surrender, so there was not much fighting at all. Although Zhu Cixiang still had a chance to return Without receiving it, there may be infinite possibilities in the future, but now he still has no way to make all ordinary people in the capital brave and not afraid of death.

In the dim light, Wang Chengen continued to smile and did not see clearly the different expressions in Zhu Cixiang's eyes. However, he did not disturb Zhu Cixiang's thinking and waited quietly.

After waiting for a long time, the atmosphere in the air became a little silent and strange.

And when the atmosphere at the scene was a bit weird, Wang Chengen chose to start the conversation first.

"Master Chitose, I heard Dr. Zeng say on the way here that the dreams you had this whole day and night were not due to a physical illness, but were probably a dream from heaven. Is that right?"

correct!That's it, Zhu Cixiang suddenly understood. He instantly knew how to lay out the next things, because he had just obtained some information before eating.

As a person who traveled through time in the 21st century and also had adventures, Zhu Cixi felt that this moment was unprecedentedly swollen. Looking at Wang Chengen, who had a temperament similar to that of Fan Wei and had two words of honesty written across his face, he had only one idea , that is to make him limp and then sell him a crutch.

Yes, first he cheated, and then he sold him. Thinking of this, Zhu Cixiang's eyes changed when he looked at Wang Chengen, as if he was looking at an innocent old virgin who was about to board a pirate ship.

"There seems to be a hint of it, such as dreams entrusted by heavenly beings."

Possessed by a magic stick, Zhu Cixiang's words are not so satisfactory, because talking about this kind of strange power and chaos is just the beginning. This is just an excuse for Wang Chengen to find something to say. If he tells the matter now, what will happen? Some people will believe it, so next he has to tell the truth, and tell the truth. This is professionalism.

"Oh?" "What kind of auspiciousness did Qiansui Master dream about?" Seeing that Zhu Cixi didn't finish his words, Wang Cheng'en took the opportunity to continue. As the eunuch Bingbi, the eunuch of the ceremony, he was not a fool. , my heart is clear.

"It's not as simple as auspiciousness." Zhu Cixiang waved his hand, with a look of fascination on his face, "In my dream, I entered the great world, which is the legendary fairyland."

"It turned out to be a dream of entering the fairyland?" Wang Chengen lost interest immediately when he heard the words, but on the surface he was still as curious as before. Although he was a little disdainful, he still said, "It seems that Lord Qiantui thinks that the world is complicated and the affairs of the Ming Dynasty are corrupt. , Let’s think about it every day and dream about it every night.”

Wang Chengen was not stupid. After hearing that it was such an illusory thing as the so-called fairy world, he felt a little boring. First of all, it was the Ming Dynasty, not the Song Dynasty, and there was no Lin Lingsu in the Ming Dynasty, nor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.

We must know that although Taoism is highly respected in the Ming Dynasty, Taoist alchemists' ascension to the immortal world and other strange powers and chaos of gods have slowly faded out of the center of power of the imperial court as early as the Jiajing Dynasty.

Talking about these ghosts and gods in the Chongzhen Dynasty is simply asking for death. The current emperor is an orthodox Confucian emperor, how can he tolerate these things.

He just thought that the prince had been under too much pressure recently, so he chose to escape in his dream, and made up a fictional fairy world.

But there is a saying that he should accompany the prince to study, so even if he is not interested in listening anymore, Wang Chengen still has to pretend to be interested and cannot refute the prince's face, otherwise he will be in trouble.

"I think it's the same, I think about it every day and dream about it at night." Zhu Cixiang also nodded, not noticing the countless thoughts passing through Wang Chengen's mind at this moment, and continued, "However, after entering the immortal world, I actually got the immortal The guidance of the immortals may give us a way."

"Is the immortal pointing the way?" Wang Cheng'en was a little confused and felt that the prince had more to say, so he continued, "May I ask the prince, what road are the immortals in the immortal world pointing to?"

"The immortals in the fairy world pointed us to a bright path, a path that allowed us, and even the entire Ming Dynasty, to survive."

Zhu Cixiang's eyes suddenly became solemn, as if he was looking at the fairy world that seemed to exist and not exist in the void, "The immortal said that there are no immortal dynasties in the human world, but there are immortal divine dynasties in the fairy world. The human dynasties must be overcome. Only through many catastrophes can we have the opportunity to be reborn and become an immortal divine dynasty. Now, what our Ming Dynasty is trying to overcome is the catastrophe from a human dynasty to an immortal dynasty. If we can survive it, the Ming Dynasty will have another few hundred years of national destiny. In the history of Qing Dynasty, all the things in the past have become similar to the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties, but there has been no change of dynasties, and immortality has a period of time. However, if we cannot survive this disaster, our Ming Dynasty and countless Han people will have to turn into ashes. "

"Divine Dynasty? Immortality?"

"Anything like that?"

Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Cixi with surprise and confusion. He didn't expect that the prince in front of him would actually connect the national destiny of the country with the so-called immortal dynasty. Is this a fool's errand?
However, there is no immortal dynasty in the world. The Zhou Dynasty, the longest in history, was only 800 years old, and these [-] years are not immortal.

But Wang Chengen quickly realized that this prince did not seem to be a confused person, and there must be a deep meaning in this.

He thought about it carefully and realized immediately that it was indeed time to distinguish between Northern Ming and Southern Ming, or Eastern Ming and Xi Ming.

After the Battle of Zhuxian Town in the 15th year of Chongzhen, the military governor Hou Xun once persuaded Emperor Chongzhen to abandon the Central Plains and retreat to Nanjing based on Jiangshan Sheji, hoping to one day counterattack the North.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen's reign, Emperor Chongzhen himself had privately discussed the feasibility of moving south with Zhou Yanru, his reinstated chief minister. Similarly, in June of that year, when Emperor Chongzhen urged Sun Chuanting to go out to Tongguan to fight Li Zicheng, Queen Zhou also proposed moving the capital.

　The saved manuscript talks about entering the world of Yangshen.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)