The six-dimensional pictures of emperors of all dynasties were exposed, and the ancestors panicked

Chapter 673 Chongzhen: Migrate south? Minister: No!
On the canopy.

Changan.

Lanterns and colorful decorations were put on, and the atmosphere was full of joy.

Poor people in patched clothes mingled with soldiers in armor.

Everyone in the city was smiling.

The scene advances to the palace.

Li Zicheng was wearing a dragon robe and sitting on a golden chair.

Everyone worshipped and cheered.

……

In December of the 16th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng issued a manifesto, saying, "Since ancient times, the rise and fall of emperors has been foreshadowed by the people's hearts. Alas, in your Ming Dynasty, the great number has come to an end. The harsh punishments and heavy taxes have made the people unable to bear it."

On the first day of the first lunar month in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Li Zicheng established a country in Xi'an and proclaimed himself emperor. He named the country Dashun, changed Xi'an to Xijing, established the reign of Yongchang, used the Qinwang Hall as his palace, and posthumously honored Li Jiqian, who was named King of Xia by the Khitan during the Northern Song Dynasty, as Taizu.

[He also held a grand banquet in the Palace of the Prince of Qin for the wealthy and powerful people in Xi'an City, and gave them gold and silver utensils from the Palace of the Prince of Qin as rewards, and then said:
"My army has approached Beijing, but the army is short of money. You are all either officials or powerful people. You have piles of gold and silver. You must give them to help with military supplies."

[Soldiers stood around the house, their weapons shining coldly in the sunlight.]

[Prime Minister Niu Jinxing announced that those who had served as Nine Ministers would pay 50,000 silver, Zhongcheng 30,000, Jiansi 10,000, and County Magistrate 5,000.]

[With the gold and silver in hand and everything arranged, Li Zicheng began to renovate Xi'an City and hold an imperial examination to recruit scholars.]

[On the second day of the second month, they crossed the Yellow River and captured Fenzhou and other places.]

[On the fifth day, we attacked Taiyuan, and the city surrendered in three days.]

[On the 16th, Xinzhou surrendered.]

[On the first day of March, Li Zicheng captured Ningwu Pass (Xinzhou, Shanxi) and Datong General Jiang Ge and Xuanfu General Wang Chengyin surrendered.]

[On the 11th, the rebel army arrived in Xuanfu, and the whole city celebrated.]

……

Great Qin.

Ying Zheng had no expression on his face.

The last time the so-called "rebel army" was so unstoppable.

It was the gangster opposite him.

Liu Bang hid behind Meng Tian.

He will choose a shield.

Meng Tian felt the emperor's glare and wanted to kill Liu Bang.

……

Big man.

"This is because victory went to one's head."

Liu Bang knocked on the table, expressing his strong disapproval of Li Zicheng's approach.

"The overall situation is not settled yet, Liaodong is not pacified yet."

"It's too early to claim the throne now."

Lu Zhi smoothed her sleeves and said calmly:
"Maybe his men can't wait any longer."

……

Tang Dynasty and Emperor Gaozu's period
Li Yuan's brows were twisted into a knot.

"You are in Chang'an, honoring Li Jiqian, who was named King of Xia by the Khitans during the Northern Song Dynasty, as the Taizu?"

"What brain?"

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin didn't understand either.

How do you calculate this legal principle?

Not to mention that they are all separatist regimes, but all of them are separatist regimes in non-Central Plains regions.

If you don't dare to acknowledge the Great Tang as your ancestor, why not grit your teeth and acknowledge the Later Tang as your ancestor?

Their father can recognize me as his father, what are you afraid of?
The pattern isn't big enough.

……

Song Zhenzong period
Zhao Heng was very angry!
"You peasant! Do you still look down on the Song Dynasty?!"

"Why do you look down on our Song Dynasty?"

"My Great Song! ... Great Song..."

As the saying goes, a poor man has little ambition, and a thin horse has long hair.

If you are beaten, you must stand at attention.

Although the Ming Dynasty was not a good country in the later period, it was still able to fight in the early and middle periods.

The people around him were completely subdued after being beaten.

The Song Dynasty... in some ways is also quite capable...

Well, if you can survive three hundred years of taking turns to beating, isn't that a skill?
……

Ming Dynasty Yongle Period
"Ugh……"

Zhu Di sighed.

If we had known this would happen, we would have not moved the capital to Beijing.

There would also not be Zhu Qizhen’s Tumu Incident, Zhu Houcong’s Gengxu Incident, Zhu Youjian’s... three sieges of Beijing!
"Now, the only option is to move the capital."

Zhu Gaochi pursed his lips, glanced at Empress Xu who was whispering to Zhu Zhanji, and gritted his teeth and said:
"Dad, I don't think Zhu Youjian will move the capital."

Zhu Di waved his hands weakly and said:

"This is not the time to be aggressive."

"Give up half of the country and let Li Zicheng and the Liaodong Jurchens fight it out."

"The ancestral foundation can still be preserved. As long as the land of Jiangnan is there, there is still a chance to start all over again."

A bitter smile appeared on Zhu Gaochi's fat face.

"But Dad, do you think he will bring this up?"

Zhu Di looked at him strangely.

"Are you hungry and confused?"

"Can the emperor take the initiative to propose moving south? That would make him Song Gaozong."

Zhu Gaochi smiled and sighed:

"Yes, so the minister has to bring this up."

"The question is, will any minister take the initiative to raise it?"

"If he mentions it, he will become the target of public criticism. Can the emperor protect him?"

Zhu Di felt that Zhu Youjian's character...

It must be a case of getting rid of the donkey after it has done its job!

“…Fuck…”

……

[On the first day of March, Chongzhen summoned Zhang Guowei, the Minister of War, Shi Kecheng, the Scholar of the Imperial Academy, Zhu Changzhi, the Jinshi, and Zhang Xun, the student of Chenzhou, to discuss government.]

【Zhang Yu proposed to ask the crown prince to govern Nanjing. To no avail.】

[On the second day of the first lunar month, Grand Secretary Li Jiantai requested to move south, and was willing to let the crown prince go first.]

[Emperor Chongzhen asked the ministers again, saying that Li Jiantai suggested moving south, but the king died for the country, so what should he do? ]

【Grand Secretary Fan Jingwen, Left Censor-in-Chief Li Banghua, and Junior Secretary Xiang Yu petitioned to follow the Crown Prince to lead the army to Jiangnan, but Guang Shiheng, the Military Affairs Department’s Attendant, loudly rebuked the ministers for wanting to emulate Tang Suzong and establish themselves as emperor. Fan Jingwen and the others dared not speak out any more.】

[Emperor Chongzhen asked about the strategy of war and defense again. All the ministers were silent. Chongzhen sighed that I am not the king who will destroy the country, but all the ministers are the ministers who will destroy the country. ]

[After that, whenever another minister proposed moving south, Chongzhen would always say he would defend the capital to the death.]

……

Tang Xuanzong Period
Li Longji sat cross-legged on the couch, sneering:

"Really, such vicious and heartbreaking words."

By supporting the prince and gaining merit in his enthronement, one can not only maintain wealth and status, but also reach the safe south of the Yangtze River.

This is almost like saying, "Do you want the emperor to die alone in Beijing for the sake of the country?"
Li Mi put his hands behind his back and sighed to the sky.

"A country is not a country, a king is not a king, and a minister is not a minister."

……

[This was not the first time Chongzhen wanted to move south.]

[After the Battle of Songjin, Emperor Chongzhen secretly discussed the matter of moving south with his Prime Minister Zhou Yanru, and told Zhou Yanru not to leak the news.]

[After hearing the news, Empress Zhang of Emperor Tianqi asked Empress Zhou of Emperor Chongzhen: "Zhou Yanru has misled the emperor's uncle. The ancestral temple and mausoleum are here, where should we move them to?" The plan to move south was shelved.]

[In the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng had already led his army into Shanxi. Chongzhen secretly summoned Li Mingrui, Li Banghua, and Lu Daqi to discuss the southward migration.]

[Li Mingrui very frankly requested to move south, "Those in power are confused, but those who are on the sidelines can see clearly. The emperor can make a decision internally and judge the current situation externally. There is no delay for a moment."]

[The emperor was asked not to consult with his ministers and to make decisions on his own.]

Chongzhen said: "I have wanted to do this for a long time, but because no one supports me, I have delayed it until now. Your intention is the same as mine, but the ministers outside do not agree. What can I do? This matter is important, so you should keep it secret and do not disclose it lightly. If you disclose it, you will be punished."

……

Great Sui.

Yang Jian slammed the table in anger!
"You mean this guy!"

What Emperor Chongzhen meant was to tell Li Mingrui that he had wanted to move the capital for a long time, but had delayed it until now because no one supported it.

His idea was the same as Li Mingrui's, but what if the ministers disagreed?
This was a big deal, so Chongzhen asked Li Mingrui to keep it secret and not let it out, otherwise he would be punished.

Dugu Jialuo was not surprised and said:

"He can be arbitrary, but he is greedy for fame."

"Just like a usurper who has to resign the throne three times."

Yang Jian's angry face froze.

The scolding is so harsh!
Dugu Jialuo propped up his face and said boredly:

"Small people are afraid of punishment, and big people are afraid of history. Zhu Youjian is no exception."

"The emperor guards the country's gates."

"I couldn't keep anything in the past, but I still have to save my face in the end."...

{Fuck... this is exactly the same as the situation when Chen Xinjia negotiated peace with the Qing army!}

{Chen Xinjia was the one who instigated the peace talks, but the news of the peace talks leaked out, so Chongzhen killed Chen Xinjia and then told the ministers that Chen Xinjia had done the peace talks behind his back, in order to shirk responsibility.}
{This man knew that staying in Beijing would lead to his own death, and he wanted to move south very much, but he did not want to be blamed, so he wanted to push the responsibility of moving south onto his subordinates, onto the people who had made the suggestion.}
{And he didn't even cover up the minister who took the blame, and just threw him away after using him as a rag... Who can follow that?}
{This reminds me of the Korean national drink Xiyue, which withheld soldiers' meal expenses one foot, and then wanted the soldiers to impose martial law in the entire city, thinking that they were the only general.}
{If it can't be compared, how can it be compared?}

{Before the incident, every soldier received a huge bonus for ten years. I ate meat and you ate meat too! You drank shit soup.}
{After the incident, yes, I spent all the 200 billion.}
{When good things happen, he thinks of you, but when things go wrong, he takes the blame himself! Who wouldn't want to work for a boss like this?}

{Now, you understand the value of Liu Bang.}
……

Big man.

Liu Bang scratched his belly and grinned:

"hey-hey……"

"It seems that the people in charge of future generations are not very good at being human beings."

"You should be happy to meet such an open-minded leader like Naigong!"

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"Not even one appears in a hundred years! Hahahahahaha!"

Lu Zhi sat aside with disgust.

……

[Emperor Chongzhen asked in detail about the specific method of moving south. Li Mingrui suggested that they could pretend to go to Qufu for pilgrimage, and then rush south. Within 20 days, they could cross the Yellow River and the Huai River and reach the safe border of Huai'an.]

……

{Wait a minute! The Yellow River and the Huai River are two rivers! How did you get to Huai'an?}

{Forgot? The Yellow River was regulated during the Hongzhi period? In the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River did not flow into the Bohai Sea from present-day Shandong, but took over the waterway of the middle and lower reaches of the Huai River and flowed into the Yellow Sea from northern Jiangsu, so the Yellow River and the Huai River were one.}
……

[Due to Emperor Chongzhen's hesitation, the plan to move south was delayed again and again until Li Zicheng conquered Shanxi and was about to march to the gates of Beijing.]

[Li Banghua and Li Mingrui submitted another memorial, proposing another plan for the migration to the south, that is, the crown prince went to Nanjing and the emperor guarded Beijing. In this way, at least after Beijing was captured, there would be an undisputed legitimate heir in a safe area, so as to avoid the situation of the Ming Dynasty being leaderless.]

……

On the canopy.

Li Zicheng led his troops southward from Shanxi, heading straight for the capital.

Chongzhen, who was in the capital, was wavering, sometimes going down, sometimes returning to his original position.

And in the Jianghuai area.

"Liu Liangzuo", "Liu Zeqing", "Huang Degong" and "Gao Jie" were stationed in the Yangtze and Huaihe River basins, and the four places were collectively known as the "Jianghuai Four Towns".

"Zuo Liangyu" was stationed in the Wuchang area.

There was a number written on the heads of the five people: "400,000 troops"

Then he just stood there motionlessly watching Chongzhen swaying.

……

[Because there were no extra troops to escort the prince south, new soldiers had to be recruited, and recruiting new soldiers cost money.]

[Without sufficient funds, not only will we be unable to recruit new soldiers, but we will also be unable to reward our soldiers on the way south, which is bound to cause a lot of trouble.]

【Li Mingrui proposed that because the national treasury was tight, the expenses should be paid from the emperor's inner treasury.】

【But Emperor Chongzhen insisted that the Ministry of Revenue should list a special expenditure item. 】

[Li Mingrui believed that if the remaining reserves in the national treasury were used, the northern defense line would be fatally damaged, and if the Beijing city defense troops or border defense troops were withdrawn, it would be tantamount to abandoning the north and the Central Plains, and the journey south would be tantamount to running away.]

【Li Mingrui asked the emperor to consider the ancestral temple and the country and make a decision quickly instead of digging a well when thirsty. Emperor Chongzhen did not make up his mind in the end.】

[This plan was ultimately not implemented.]

……

{You bastard...don't be so mean at this time! Just pay the money!}

{The prerequisite for paying is to have money to pay... Chongzhen's pockets are cleaner than his face, what can he use to pay.}
{This matter was actually deadlocked. Chongzhen knew that these people had a lot of money from corruption, so he asked the Ministry of Revenue to pay, but the national treasury actually had no money.}
{The "Annals of Jiashen" described the empty treasury at that time: "The new treasury only has more than 2,300 gold. The old treasury only has more than 1,000 gold in storage for the confiscated assets of the Shi family, such as gold belts, rhinoceros cups, and clothes. Yuan told me that this item has been approved for the construction of a tomb for the princess of Gong's family, and it should be released as soon as he brings the letter of claim. In addition, there are only 600 taels of silver from the Jinyiwei for the lieutenant of Ghana, and 300 taels of silver from the Baoyuan Bureau, which are stored in the office for the purpose of defending the city."}
{Mad, even with all the land grabbing, the national treasury can't even raise 100,000 taels of silver.}
{As for Chongzhen himself, he had to sell off the gold and silver vessels in the palace, and even pawned the copper kettles in the main hall to pay for the army. In the end, he even sold off medicinal herbs such as ginseng.}
{There is no money, not even in the inner treasury, not even in the national treasury!}
{Where's the money?}
{Zhou Kui: Yes, what about the money? !}

{Li Zicheng: Yes, money.}
……

Eastern Jin Dynasty and Emperor Ming Dynasty
Sima Shao scratched his head with his pen.

"It was possible for Emperor Chongzhen to move to Nanjing smoothly and rely on the natural barriers of the Yellow River, Huai River and Yangtze River to resist, which was a way out."

"but……"

Whether the destiny of the Ming Dynasty can be saved remains unknown.

Because this person has too many personality flaws.

This is not something that can be solved with money.

……

[As Li Zicheng approached Beijing day by day, Li Mingrui publicly petitioned to move south. This time he changed the wording, saying that the emperor would "personally lead the expedition" and leave the crown prince to guard Beijing.]

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Song Dynasty Xiaozong Period
Zhao Shen's face suddenly darkened.

The emperor should have led the army in person to the north to attack the Qing army, or to the west to attack Li Zicheng. Why did he lead the army in person to the south?
You are implying something about the Song Dynasty again!
Northern Hunt and the like...how could the situation be the same!

……

【However, this time it was firmly opposed by Prime Minister Chen Yan. 】

【Chen Yan disclosed Li Mingrui's memorial to Guang Shiheng, the military official, and asked him to publicly oppose it.】

【So, Guang Shiheng said that the migration to the south was a heresy, and that the people's hearts could not be appeased without killing Li Mingrui. 】

[Li Mingrui was warned by the emperor and could not defend himself, so he could not say like Chen Xinjia that the emperor also agreed with the idea of ​​moving south.]

[Chongzhen had some conscience this time and did not kill Li Mingrui like Chen Xinjia, but he still did not dare to make public his intention to move south, so the plan of moving south was shelved again. ]

[On February 27, the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Banghua and Li Mingrui proposed two plans for migration to the south.]

[Li Banghua proposed that the crown prince move south and the emperor stay behind, while Li Mingrui proposed that the emperor move south and the crown prince stay behind.]

Unexpectedly, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly changed his attitude and publicly declared that it was with great difficulty that our ancestors established the capital in Beijing. Now that Li Zicheng and other "bandits" have come, how can we be worthy of our ancestors and the people if we throw away the ancestral foundation so easily? 】

[If he ran away alone, what would happen to the ancestral temples and the state? What would happen to the twelve tombs? What would happen to the people of the capital?]

[If all else fails, as a monarch, dying for the country is also justice.]

[After Chongzhen said this, some ministers proposed that the crown prince go to Nanjing to supervise the army, but this was also opposed.]

[Chongzhen said, "I have been managing the country for more than ten years, but I still can't help it. What can my brother (the crown prince) do?"

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Great Yuan·Shizu Period
Kublai sneered.

"You can't do anything right, but you talk so tough."

"If you die, everything will be over. Who will clean up this mess?"

"The country is dead... Jin Aizong is the one who is dead!"

"I tried my best but was powerless to save the situation. In the end, I placed my hope on Emperor Jin and died for my country when the city was destroyed!"

"As for you..."

"I'm just afraid of being scolded, afraid of being accused of running away, afraid of being infamous forever."

The ministers in the tent remained silent.

After seeing so many emperors, everyone had a deeper understanding of Chongzhen's actions.

He needed the ministers to make a request as a whole country, and he needed everyone to kneel on the ground again and again to beg him to move south.

He will be "forced" to agree.

In this way, the migration to the south was forced by everyone, and the crime of migration to the south or escape can be pinned on the heads of the ministers.

But will the ministers agree?
Given Chongzhen's personality, how could anyone agree to this?

Yuan Chonghuan, Sun Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng, and Sun Chuanting.

Their examples are there.

Who can trust the emperor? Who dares to trust the emperor?
……

Ming dynasty.

"Bang!" A loud bang!
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious!

"Trash! A bunch of trash!"

"Drag and stomp! You'll never amount to anything!"

"Pedant and cowardly!"

"If you want to accommodate me, I will accommodate you. If you don't accommodate me, I will beat you!"

"A bunch of killers! They all deserve to die! They all deserve to die!"

The furious emperor was filled with murderous intent, except for the queen who was as unmoved as a rock.

The rest of the servants all knelt on the ground and trembled.

"All right."

As soon as the word "gentle" was uttered, the heavy stones in the servants' hearts instantly fell to the ground.

Empress Ma held Zhu Yuanzhang's arm, patted his back, and whispered:

"The emperor dies for the country."

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed angrily.

"The emperor dies for the country... what a great emperor dies for the country."

"Sucking the blood of the people, bringing disaster to the country!"

"You speak in high-sounding terms, but you can't even save your own life!"

"He's dying for the country? Why should he die for the country?"

"Although the Ming Dynasty left by Tianqi is not a renaissance, it is definitely not on the decline!"

"What has he done!"

"He will die for the country! Why? Why? He can't die!"

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed his sword at the sky, his hair and beard standing on end, and shouted angrily:

"You stay alive! Stay alive!"

"You help me cure Daming! Cure Daming!"

……

(End of this chapter)