Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 11
After five days.

On the fourth day of March in the 17th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youjian summoned the ministers again.

It was also the last time in the 17th year of Chongzhen that the officials were summoned in the Palace of Qianqing in the capital.

The news of the fall of Ningwuguan has reached the capital, and Zhou Boming, the son of Zhou Yuji, was executed by Li Zicheng.

Zhu Youjian knew that he couldn't wait any longer and had to leave the capital within a day or two!
This court meeting is not a big deal.

It is mainly to understand the final preparations for the southward relocation.

The first person to stand up and play a role was Wu Mengming, the commander of Jinyiwei who was in charge of raiding the house.

"Your Majesty, Wei Zaode's family has confiscated more than 15 taels of silver and silver!
The former military department gave Zhongguang Shiheng's family 3 taels of cash!
The family of Li Guozhen, the former uncle of Xiangcheng, got 64 taels of cash in cash!
The family of Zhu Chunchen, the former Duke of Cheng, got 83 taels of cash in cash!
The family of Zhang Jinshen, former Shangshu of the Ministry of War, had 42 taels of cash in cash!

The property of former Jiading Hou Zhou Kui’s family was confiscated, totaling 52 taels of cash!

Dou Ding's family, former censor of Zuoqian capital, has a total cash of 24 taels!

The family of Zhang Yin, former director of ceremonies, Bingbi, has a total cash of 11 taels!

Wang Dehua's family has 36 taels of silver in front of the former director of ceremonies!

The former Li Ke gave 8 taels of cash to Zhong Shimin in cash!
……

The total cash is 430 million!The total value of all kinds of antique jade articles should be more than 1000 million taels! "

After Wu Mengming finished speaking, he presented the account books as thick as city wall bricks.

All the ministers were shocked when they heard this!
"Okay, I begged them to donate money to support Xiangyin, and everyone was crying poor, but I didn't expect each of them to be rich. It can be seen that these treacherous officials are all huge greedy, don't you think so!"

The officials were silent, feeling quite sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

However, Zhu Youjian asked again: "Could it be that you are all secretly rich like them? What you said in the court that day was also deceiving me!"

How could the officials dare to admit that they had cried poorly in front of Zhu Youjian at the beginning, so they naturally hurriedly said that they really had nothing to do.

Zhu Youjian didn't expose them either.

After all, officials all over the world are like this, but he, the emperor, has to rely on their support, so Zhu Youjian knows that he can't do too much, so as not to completely offend the entire gentry group.

What's more, more than 400 million taels plus the 30 tax money handed over by Dang Chongya is enough for him to train troops south and maintain his rule.

These extremely rich officials might as well raise them first, and it will not be too late to slaughter them when the time comes.

Next, there is the memorial of Fan Jingwen and Wu Sheng.

The two didn't work day and night for five consecutive days, and they finally completed the preparations for moving south.

Zhu Youjian decisively decided to leave the capital tomorrow, the fifth day of March!
In order to maintain the order of the withdrawal from the capital, Zhu Youjian specially ordered Wang Chengen's Dongchang and Wu Mengming's Jinyiwei to guard the pass from Donghuamen to Qihuamen.

On the afternoon of the fourth day of the lunar new year, the entire street was strictly sealed off, and no officials or civilians were allowed to enter or leave at will.

Although it was evacuated from the capital on the fifth day of March.

However, important military supplies, equipment, money and food, such as the Military Weapons Bureau, the Military Battle Bureau, the Gunpowder Bureau, the Armor Factory, and the Wang Gong Factory under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry and the Internal Government Supervision Bureau, began to evacuate out of the city in the afternoon of the fourth day.

Admiral He Xin's [-] troops from the Beijing Battalion, the Second Guards Army, were responsible for the escort.

Although the Beijing camp is weak due to slack training, it is naturally no problem to be a transport team.

However, in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the [-] officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp.

Zhu Youjian still ordered to pay five taels of silver to each of the [-] officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp, which can be regarded as a replacement for some of the military salaries owed to the Beijing camp by the imperial court for several years.

The First Army of the Guards under Zhou Yuji issued a reward of ten taels of silver to each of them in recognition of their hard work in saving the king.

After all, from a certain point of view, it was they who abandoned their families and followed Zhou Yuji to the capital, which gave them a chance to make a comeback, so they had to reward them.

These days, the officers and soldiers don't have much socialist ideology, as long as they spend a lot of money, they can win the morale of the army and mobilize their enthusiasm.

Therefore, now that Zhu Youjian has money and is willing to spend it, the officers and soldiers under him are more active than before.

Early the next day.

The sky has just turned white.

The gate of Donghuamen opened wide.

Ning Wu Bo Zhou Yuji personally led [-] infantry to guard the street from Donghuamen to Qihuamen.

Zhu Youjian also got up early to meet with important officials such as Fan Jingwen, Wu Lu, and Li Banghua, and prepared to withdraw southward.

"Your Majesty, everything has been prepared, and who should stay in the capital?"

Fan Jingwen asked.

At the same time, Li Banghua also stood up and suggested: "With such a mighty momentum, I dare to suggest that your Majesty may retreat south in the name of the prince, so as to deceive the burglars and spies in the city."

"There is no need to send people to stay behind. Now that the capital is empty, why bother killing people, and there is no need to retreat south in the name of the crown prince. I just want to tell the world that I am not dead, and Ming is not dead!"

Zhu Youjian said so, and the officials had to obey orders.

In fact, Zhu Youjian also knew that there must be Li Zicheng's spies in the city, and it was impossible for him to hide his southward retreat from the intruders.

Perhaps it is better to use the name of the prince to paralyze Li Zicheng.

But now the enemy is not only Li Zicheng, but also Jiannu, and warlords such as Wu Sangui who may rebel.

If he goes south in the name of the prince, he will definitely give them an excuse, deliberately saying that the emperor himself has died in the capital, and taking the opportunity to cause chaos.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian felt that he had to withdraw southward with great fanfare.

Tell the world that the emperor is still alive!

For this, it will alarm Li Zicheng's troops, and may even make Li Zicheng give up attacking the capital and lead the main force to chase him.

Zhu Youjian was not worried.

Most of the current Li Zicheng's main force is still stranded in Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places. His main force to attack the capital has fought all the way, and has lost countless money and food. It is impossible not to go and sit in the Forbidden City.

What's more, through the understanding of the original history, Li Zicheng is not Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Jian slaves compete for the world.

Of course, if Li Zicheng really had the foresight, he would directly pursue him without the city of Beijing.

Zhu Youjian didn't think there was anything to be afraid of. As long as he left Beijing, he could flee at will, and as long as he was the emperor, the officials and people of the Ming Dynasty who controlled most of the land would have the backbone to resist Li Zicheng. department.

Before leaving, Zhu Youjian also asked the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, Wu San, to write a letter of appeal to the people and post it all over the capital.

In order to express the helplessness of the emperor who had to leave the capital and abandon the people in the north, he also expressed that after the army withdrew, the gates of the outer city of the capital would be opened directly, and the people could choose to stay or leave.

Not only that, in order to further express the emperor's love for the people.

Zhu Youjian also asked Wu Raw to write a letter to Li Zicheng, admonishing Li Zicheng not to slaughter soldiers and people, otherwise the gods and gods would be wrathful, and said that if Li Zicheng could rein in the precipice and tie himself to the imperial court, he might save his life and so on. .

Not only the people in the capital and Li Zicheng, Zhu Youjian also ordered someone to pass the news to Wu Sangui, and he was named Ping Xibo, and guarded Shanhaiguan, and he was not allowed to surrender Jiannu and Li Zicheng, so that the Japanese army would attack the north and implement the effect of a north-south attack .

Zhu Youjian was not sure whether Wu Sangui would listen, but as the emperor, he still had to make a statement when he should.

However, Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui's father, and Chen Yuanyuan, Wu Sangui's concubine, had already been ordered by Zhu Youjian to withdraw southward together, and told Wu Sangui that he could not bear the suffering of the family members of heroes.

As long as Wu Sangui dared to surrender to the Manchu Qing and become a traitor, Zhu Youjian would not mind killing his father to sacrifice the flag, nor would he occupy Chen Yuanyuan to calm the anger in his heart!
Wait until the third quarter of Mao.

Wang Chengen first led [-] Dongchang fanzi to march in front on horseback.

Immediately afterwards, there was a yellow-covered cart pulled by six horses.

This is the chariot of the emperor.

However, in order to deceive the spies of the Dashun Army in the city, Zhu Youjian himself was not in the car.

At this time, he was only pretending to be a prisoner in Dongchang, and followed behind Wang Chengen.

The princes, princesses and concubines followed closely behind in five carts, protected by Mrs. Liu's [-] women's army.

Together with the princes, daughters and concubines, there are thousands of maids and eunuchs who are willing to follow the emperor.

They were all on foot, but Zhu Youxiao was also kind enough to ask Fan Jingwen to allocate three carts to load their personal belongings.

The next ones are the officials and scholars who are willing to accompany them.

Because of the lack of means of transportation, first- and second-rank officials and veterans over the age of seventy were allowed to ride horses.

The rest of the officials, whether civil or military, could only walk.

Wu Mengming led Jinyiwei to adjourn, and was also responsible for maintaining order and protecting officials and scholars.

Zhou Yuji's three thousand cavalry guarded the left and right to ensure safety.

Following at the end were ten thousand infantrymen from the First Guards Army.

(End of this chapter)