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Chapter 499 The Writer and the Emperor 9
In the summer and autumn of the eighth year of the Apocalypse, sweet potatoes and corn were harvested in Shaanxi. The good news spread to the capital.

The emperor was naturally overjoyed. I don't know how many lives these two crops can save. Once they are implemented and the number of hungry people in Shaanxi and Henan decreases, they will not be afraid of chaos in the world and refugees everywhere.

You must know that Ming Dynasty did not perish in the Qing dynasty, but in Li Zicheng.

However, the Manchus have become powerful, and they can no longer be ignored-Nurhachi died in the sixth year of the apocalypse, and Huang Taiji ascended the throne as Khan.In May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji personally led an army to invade the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army won a great victory in the Battle of Ningjin, which almost prevented Huang Taiji from going south.

In the eighth year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji made an alliance with Mongolia, and his heart to sweep the world and annex the wilderness was clearly revealed. The Ming court denounced the wolfish ambitions of the Tartar chieftains, but apart from defense, they had no counterattack power.

The only good news this year is the bumper harvest of life-saving food such as sweet potatoes and corn. The emperor couldn't wait any longer and ordered that it be promoted in Shaanxi, Henan and other places next year to prepare for the year of famine.

Another piece of good news is that Princess Xin is pregnant.

Since the death of Prince Xianhuai, there has been no sound of children playing in the Forbidden City. The emperor is in good health, and even dragged the empress to practice physical fitness techniques, but it didn't work. From the empress to the concubines, there was no news.

The empress intends to choose beauties for the emperor again, so as to give birth to an heir. The emperor stopped him and said: "How can I indulge in beauty in the current situation? Even if I want to accept beauties, I have to wait until the world is peaceful."

The queen waits and sees every day, only hoping that she or her concubine will be pregnant, but the good news is delayed, but the good news comes first from the palace.

The emperor already had a calculation in his heart: I'm afraid he won't be born.

Theoretically, Emperor Tianqi should have passed away in August of the seventh year of Tianqi, and the soul of Daoist Puxiang came from the later generations to reverse his fate, but not his descendants.

In history, none of the heirs of Emperor Tianqi lived to adulthood, and no one in the palace became pregnant after the sixth year of Tianqi, and I am afraid that this will still be the case.

Since the emperor can't have children, he should adopt the heirs from the clan. All the vassals are watching eagerly. How can the emperor allow them to covet the throne, and he can't wait to dig out all their eyeballs.

Concubine Xin was pregnant, and the emperor heaved a sigh of relief: If there were no accidents, this child should be the future Prince Cihong. He was not willing to give the throne to others, but to this Prince Cihong, even if the fat did not flow to outsiders. stop.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, Princess Xin gave birth to twins, dragon and phoenix, who were named by the emperor's imperial pen.

Then the emperor cried to his younger brother: "At my age, my son is so desolate..."

The king of Xin respected and loved his elder brother very much. Seeing him crying like this, he immediately panicked: "Brother Huang, why bother to say such things, we brothers, my son is your son. You think the palace is desolate, so I will bring Cihong into the palace. Cheng Huan is at your knees."

The emperor wiped away his tears: "It doesn't need to be so troublesome, fifth brother, you can make Cihong my adoptive prince."

King Xin was taken aback: "Brother Huang, you are still young, why, why..."

King Xin couldn't go on. He was a new father, and he hurt a pair of newborn girls to the bone. Even if he wanted the stars and moons in the sky, he could find a way to pick them off.If someone wanted to snatch the child, he wished he could kill that person.

However, it was his eldest brother the emperor who was talking now. The emperor had become more mature and stable in the past two years, but he didn't care about face when he cried, his eyes and nose were red, and Xin Wang couldn't bear it.

He was so strange that he almost nodded his head in response, so he remembered that the child was born by the princess, if it was given to the emperor brother, wouldn't it be the princess' life?
King Xin bit his head and said: "Mother and child are inseparable by nature, and the emperor allows me to discuss with the princess."

Since the emperor intends to adopt Ci Hong as the crown prince, he cannot be interrupted by the woman's compassion. As soon as the king leaves the palace, he will quickly find the queen and tell her his intentions.

The queen was both surprised and delighted: "It would be great if I could raise Cihong to be the crown prince, but how could the fifth younger brother and younger siblings be willing to let him?"

The emperor said: "I just cried with my fifth brother, you can cry with my fifth brother and sister."

Empress: "..." The emperor is stable and capable, but sometimes he is out of tune, and he is more powerful than before.

After thinking about it, the queen thought that if she wanted to protect the stability of the Ming Dynasty and keep the emperor's knees from being empty, she really had to start with Princess Xin, so she really drove to Prince Xin's mansion and cried hard at the Zhou family.

When Prince Huaichong was in her womb, the queen stroked her belly every day and imagined how happy and heroic he would be when he grew up. Who knew that she was murdered by Ke and Wei, and Prince Huaichong gave birth to a stillborn child. She even cried for the baby. He didn't even hear a sound, and he suffered from the separation of Yin and Yang from mother and child.

Both Cihong and Aimee were born very well, their white and fat smiling faces were like silver plates, the queen fell in love at first sight, and she held her in her arms and refused to let go.The nurse was going to take the two children to feed the milk, the queen's eyes were glued to them, she just followed them, and even Princess Xin didn't care about it.

King Xin came back early and told Princess Xin about the emperor's plan, Princess Xin seemed to have cut out her heart, how could she give up the child?Unexpectedly, the queen's sister-in-law chased after her, and when she thought of Prince Huaichong, her eyes were full of tears, crying so much that Princess Xin felt uncomfortable too.

Back then, Princess Xin was able to stand out from all the beautiful girls and become a princess, thanks to the queen's favor. After marriage, the princess also trusted the queen very much, and the two sisters-in-law got along very well.

With such affection, Concubine Xin fell into the same dilemma as King Xin. On the one hand, there are blood-related flesh and blood, and on the other hand, there are brothers and sisters-in-law who are deeply affectionate and loyal, and the country is stable. In terms of righteousness and patriarchal clan, they should all give up These two children are, they are still young, and they can always be born again.

But the dragon and phoenix twins were conceived by Concubine Xin in October, and the mother and child are connected. Asking her to give the two children to the empress is tantamount to taking away her heart.

Concubine Xin loves the Queen very much, but no matter how much she feels sorry for her, she can't send her children out. The Queen and Concubine Xin's concubines cried to each other, but in the end, the Queen couldn't bear it and had to go back to the palace first.

However, Princess Xin didn't know that King Xin had already made up her mind.

The twins were just full moon, and King Xin sent them to the palace. The emperor was overjoyed, and immediately prepared the ceremony for the canonization of the prince by the Ministry of Rites.

Concubine Xin was heartbroken, and it was the only time in her life that she disrespected her husband and slapped King Xin across the face.She couldn't believe that there was such a cruel husband in the world, it wasn't enough to send her son away, even her daughter!

The king believed in beating and scolding, and the elder brother of the emperor cried like that in front of him. He wanted to be loyal and filial to the king, so he had to send the two children out, and his heart was in great pain?

Concubine Xin was angry and sad, the child had been sent to the Forbidden City, and the prince and princess were all canonized. She regretted it and it was too late, so she had to vent her anger with King Xin.

King Xin swears and swears that he will never have another child from now on. The child born to Princess Xin will be regarded as his heart, no matter the child or daughter, and will never be given to others.

In order to relieve the pain, Princess Xin soon conceived another child regardless of her physical recovery.

The emperor felt ashamed, and often called their husband and wife into the palace to raise the twins together, which relieved the pain of King Xin and Princess Xin a little.

In the summer of the Ninth Year of Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian severely damaged the forces of Donglin, and at the same time he was impeached. Qingliu's revenge came fiercely. After nine thousand years of majesty, he finally couldn't stop the offensive and begged the emperor to save him.

The emperor had promised to save Wei Zhongxian's life, so he deprived him of the post of eunuch in charge of rites and seals, and sent him to the central capital to guard the mausoleum.

Wei Zhongxian never imagined that his elder brother, whom he brought up with one hand, would treat him so unfeelingly. As soon as he arrived in Zhongdu, he hanged himself with a rope and knew his life.

When the emperor heard the news, he sighed and ordered Wei Zhongxian to be buried alive.

If Emperor Tianqi used to be, he would definitely not treat Wei Zhongxian like this, but now the soul contained in the emperor's shell is half as much as the real Puxiang.Tianqi regards Wei Zhongxian as a big companion, but Puxiang regards him as a pawn.

Puxiang has leapt from a writer to the supreme emperor in the world, and the assertive and ruthless side of his temperament is gradually revealed, and only the empress can still get some warmth from him.

That day Puxiang was thinking about starving himself to death, but Wei Zhongxian tried every means to save his life. After the emperor woke up, his first thought was: You asked for this.

After Wei Zhongxian's death, the eunuchs dispersed, Donglin was also hit hard at this time, the emperor took the opportunity to win people's hearts, and there was a tendency of "all the talents in the world are in my pocket".

In August of the ninth year of Apocalypse, King Fu raised the flag of rebellion, claiming to be orthodox, and lied that Emperor Shenzong left a will to order King Fu to ascend the throne, and Guangmiao tampered with the edict.

King Fu recruited a large number of clans who were unwilling to work, take imperial examinations, and do business, and the rebels approached the capital. At this time, the emperor had very few troops available, so he had to rush to fight.

In October, Huang Taiji bypassed the Ningjin line of defense, borrowed from Mongolia to break through the Great Wall, and reached directly under the city of Beijing.

The rebels with pigtails of money are showing off their power in the city of Beijing. The emperor is facing enemies at this time, and the situation is more severe than that of the 17th year of Chongzhen.

The emperor suddenly realized that he relied on his knowledge of history, but ignored the changes of the times. Others are not shadow puppets on the stage. He has changed. Will others continue to perform in the same way?

After all, he lost his impatience and caused the situation to deteriorate to this point.

Fortunately, the emperor has not completely lost confidence. Unlike Chongzhen, who has been honed for 17 years, he still has a glimmer of hope in his heart.

The emperor immediately arranged for the empress and Wang Xin's family to flee, ordering them to go to Nanjing first, and then keep Shandong.

The emperor said to Wang Xin: "Cihong is young, if I die for my country, you will ascend the throne, and Cihong will still be the crown prince. Fifth brother, the world will be entrusted to you!"

Unexpectedly, King Xin shook his head and said, "I won't go."

The emperor was frightened and angry: "If you don't leave, we will all die here. Will the great rivers and mountains be handed over to Fu Ni or a Tartar?"

Xin Wang said: "I have been favored by the emperor for many years. If I betray the emperor and run for my own life, I will have no face to see my ancestors in the spring. The emperor arranges for the princess to take the prince and princess to flee. The minister follows the emperor. If the enemy approaches, The minister died for the country first, and then it was the turn of the emperor!"

(End of this chapter)