Outside the Qianqing Palace, a group of eunuchs and maids were far away, but they could still hear the roar of the Emperor of Heaven, making everyone panic and uneasy.

Zhu Cixiang once again bowed and saluted and said: "My son's request this time is for the sake of the emperor and his duties. If the father is unwilling to listen, there is nothing I can do. The father can leave the palace incognito and visit various places in Zhili." What does the Ming Dynasty look like now?"

Chongzhen was very angry. When he heard this suggestion, he suddenly had some thoughts in his heart. Since he ascended the throne, he had only left the palace during major events such as annual sacrifices to the Ancestral Temple. He had never left the imperial city, let alone the capital. When he was King Xin, he never left the capital.

In Chongzhen's impression, the scene in the capital still stayed in the Tianqi period. What is it like now?

While he was distracted in his reverie, he heard Zhu Cixiang suddenly sigh and said: "Father, my son and I often have the same dream in Zhongdu."

Dreaming? It’s the dream of becoming the emperor after the Xuanwu Gate Revolution, right?

Chongzhen was a little confused, but did not ask.

Zhu Cihong said: "My son dreamed that in the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng invaded Beijing and the Ming Dynasty fell."

Chongzhen sneered and said: "Li Zicheng has been defeated long ago. Even his wife and children were captured. How could he invade Beijing?"

Zhu Cixiang ignored him and continued: "After Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops entered the capital, the emperor's father ordered his mother, queen, and all the concubines to hang themselves. He personally killed several imperial sisters with his sword, and sent people to send his sons, third and fourth brothers out of the palace. After the arrangements were made, my father and Wang Chengen walked into Long Live Mountain and hanged themselves on an old crooked neck tree."

Chongzhen's body shook violently, and he shouted: "You... you are a traitor!"

Wang Chengen, who was "dozing off" while standing there, was frightened and suddenly said, "Your Highness, be careful what you say!"

At this time, Chongzhen was so angry that he wanted to draw his sword and kill the traitor, but he suddenly had an idea. If he really became the king of subjugation, this would be a good solution. He would rather commit suicide than be a prisoner. Suit your own temperament!

"After my father hanged himself, all the officials in the capital, dressed in prison uniforms, knelt down in front of the Meridian Gate and presented congratulations to Li Zicheng, asking him to proclaim himself emperor."

Zhu Cixiang ignored the livid Chongzhen and continued: "However, the traitor Li was unscrupulous and roasted the princes and ministers in the capital, and got a total of 70 million taels of silver."

"What nonsense! How can the minister in Beijing have 70 million taels of silver?"

Zhu Cixiang would not ask him to make a list and discuss the topic of whose family was rich, and then continued: "Wu Sangui surrendered to Jiannu, opened Shanhaiguan, and let 200,000 Eight Banners troops enter, and Li Chuang fought fiercely with him in Shanhaiguan. A few days.”

Chongzhen sneered: "You won't tell me that Li Zicheng defeated Jiannu in one battle and unified the world, right?"

Zhu Cixiang shook his head and said: "Li Chuang was defeated miserably, returned to the capital, and then fled to Shaanxi. He was finally defeated by Jian Nu, and was killed on the way to escape. The capital fell into the hands of Jian Nu, who went all the way south and took over the Ming Dynasty."

Chongzhen was horrified, and then slapped the dragon case and shouted: "What nonsense! The ancestors of Liaodong lived a long life, and the Wu family had been favored by the emperor. How could they open Shanhaiguan and let the Donglu enter? What did the Donglu do to gain the Ming Dynasty! How dare you speak such a ridiculous dream in front of me?"

Zhu Cixiang sighed: "Yeah, who would have expected that after the Ming Dynasty struggled for so many years, the final winner would be the Tatars from the north. It's really unpredictable..."

Zhu Cixiang's face showed grief and indignation, and he said: "After the Tatars entered the customs, they massacred dozens of cities, forced the people of the Ming Dynasty to shave their heads, and left their hair but not their hair, and burned millions of people in our Ming Dynasty.

Cultural classics, tampering with history, ignorant of the people, and turning them into slaves of the Qing Dynasty!"

Even though Zhu Cixiang was talking nonsense, Chongzhen also felt a chill running down his spine. Walking in this way was no different from the Mongolian Yuan, and even more cruel than the Mongolian Yuan. It simply broke the backbone of the Han people!

After being frightened for a while, Chongzhen suddenly said coldly: "I know that you are very good at making up stories. As for your political vision, it is really average. What do you want to tell me through this story full of loopholes?"

Zhu Cixi knew that he didn't believe it. In this era, no one would believe these words. The development of history did not follow the routine at all, and the history of the late Ming Dynasty was even more tortuous.

Huang Taiji, Lin Danhan, Dorgon, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Zheng Zhilong and even Zuo Liangyu were all qualified to achieve hegemony and change dynasties. However, for various reasons, Li Zicheng destroyed the Ming Dynasty and allowed the six-year-old Shunzhi to take over the Central Plains and win the title.

Got peaches.

Zhu Cixiang said: "I just want to remind my father that Li Zicheng is a scourge and must be guarded against. Shaanxi and Henan are the hardest-hit areas where refugees are born, and governance must be stepped up, especially on corruption issues. The court should punish officials in the two provinces."

A major purge, the abolition of the guard system and the re-establishment of farming and recruiting troops. Only when the people live and work in peace and contentment can there be no civil unrest and the Ming Dynasty can be passed down from generation to generation."

Chongzhen snorted coldly and said: "Purge thousands of officials in two provinces? I really didn't expect that your methods at such a young age would be so ruthless. Not to mention the effect, do you know how many people will be involved during this period?"

Zhu Cixiang said loudly: "If my father is not willing to offend them, I am willing to inspect Shaanxi and Henan on behalf of Heaven and kill him with his head rolling!"

Chongzhen said angrily: "If being a king means killing blindly, how is it different from a tyrant? If you really want to save the Ming Dynasty, transfer your people out of the imperial city and become your prince!"

During the dispute, Zhu Cixi hated the way he talked about him the most. He frowned and said: "There is an old saying: If you establish the emperor as the world, you don't establish the world as the emperor; if you establish the king as the country, you don't establish the country as the king.

Also; when officials are appointed as officials, they are not appointed as officials. Why is my father obsessed with imperial power and subverting the priorities?"

Did you teach your father such a lesson? Chongzhen was so angry that he jumped up on the spot and started looking for a sword everywhere...

Wang Chengen knelt down in front of Zhu Cixiang with a bang, kowtowed heavily several times, and cried loudly: "Your Highness, I beg you, please don't make the emperor angry!"

Zhu Cixi also felt that there was no point in continuing the conversation. We had almost said everything, and we both knew what both parties meant. It just depended on how much we could accept.

He said: "I am sorry that I cannot move the Yongwei camp away from the imperial city. I need to be able to protect myself. I will retire."

After saying that, Zhu Cixi walked away in a hurry, and even quickened his pace, fearing that there would be a sword flying behind him...

To put it bluntly, Zhu Cixiang killed corrupt officials to make money, and at the same time regained the prestige of the court in the hardest-hit areas of Shaanxi and Henan. In this way, he could not only use dirty money to provide disaster relief, but also give Li Zicheng no place to show off his skills, and the refugee problem would be solved.

Chongzhen was unwilling to do this. He was worried about the revenge of the scholars. The great ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang is a living example. He killed so many corrupt officials in batches. Hundreds of people were recruited for the imperial examination every three years.

After becoming an official, he basically killed them all within a few years and used various cruel tortures to deal with them.

It was this holy act of eliminating harm for the people that aroused the resentment of many scholars. Many people secretly wrote books to discredit Zhu Yuanzhang, saying that he was a tyrant.

The people at that time may not have believed it, but as it has been passed down from generation to generation, most people have begun to believe it, which is equivalent to saying that the Jinyiwei has harmed the country and the people.

The Jinyiwei mainly targets officials of third rank and above, so how can it harm the country and the people? Both the country and the people here are forcibly represented by officials.

Chongzhen not only loved face, but also loved his reputation. Although he hated corruption, he did not dare to deal with it excessively. This was also something that most emperors knew about corruption but were unwilling to do.
Chapter completed!