After waiting for a while, Emperor Chongzhen wiped away the tears from his face with his sleeve. He reached out to help Queen Zhou up and forced a smile, "Don't you just die at most? At least, Feng'er and the others have left the capital. Let him worry about the future! I am really tired, don't think about it anymore, don't think about it anymore."

After hearing what Emperor Chongzhen said, Empress Zhou's tears fell like pearls. "Emperor!" After saying these two words, she could no longer say anything.

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head helplessly and wiped away the tears from her face. Then he turned to Zhou Xian and said, "Zhou Xian, say it! What do you want me to do?"

Zhou Xian sighed silently in his heart. Emperor Chongzhen has always been an intelligent person. He understood some things more than anyone else, and there was no need for others to say more. But his indecisiveness, his suspicion, and this complicated and chaotic world in the late Ming Dynasty ended up hurting him. As he said, he was not a king of a country that was destroyed, but encountered a country that was destroyed. "If Your Majesty does not want to leave the capital, please write an edict to preach the emperor to the crown prince."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "Wang Cheng'en, the pen and ink serve."

Several people returned to the room, Emperor Chongzhen wrote a decree to pass on the throne, covered it with a jade seal, and handed it to Zhou Xian, "Is there any more?"

Zhou Xian said: "Please write two more edicts. One of them was named Wu Sangui as a marquis and issued an order to lead his troops south to Tianjin to resist the rebels. The other one gave Zuo Liangyu, and also named him as a marquis, and asked him to lead his troops to Nanjing to assist the prince."

Emperor Chongzhen immediately said angrily: "You have asked me to grant a marquis who has been deeply favored by the country but has sat down on the capital?"

Zhou Xian nodded, "Your Majesty, this is what's happening now. We are considering the future, not the past."

Emperor Chongzhen held the brush and hesitated for a long time. Finally, he picked up the brush and wrote two other edicts. He named Wu Sangui as the Marquis of Pingxi and Zuo Liangyu as the Lord of Zhongyong. "Is there any more?"

Zhou Xian shook his head, "Weichen has no other request."

Emperor Chongzhen looked at him, remained silent for a long time, picked up his pen and wrote it up again. Then he covered the jade seal and handed it to Zhou Xian, saying, "A person who sits and watches the fall of the capital can be granted a marquis. If you don't give you a marquis, the people in the world will laugh at me as stingy. As for you and Yu'er, the queen once mentioned to me. At that time, I was not in the mood to consider this matter because of the war, but now I agree. You must protect Yu'er and Yu'er well and not let them suffer any harm."

Zhou Xian knelt down and kowtowed three times to Emperor Chongzhen, "I thank Your Majesty for yourselves." He stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I will leave a team of soldiers at the Meridian Gate until the third update. If you change your mind, they will escort you to my place."

Emperor Chongzhen sighed, "No need, take it away!" He took the jade seal from Wang Chengen and handed it to Zhou Xian with his sword, "bring it to Xian."

Zhou Xian frowned and stepped forward to catch it. He hesitated for a moment and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "If this is the case, can you ask Your Majesty to issue another imperial edict?"

Emperor Chongzhen said strangely: "What is it?"

Zhou Xian said: "Please ask the emperor to attack from all sides to recruit warriors to sneak attack the rebel army out of the city, and to gain opportunities and time for me to escape."

Zhou Xian came out of Kunning Palace and led his troops to leave. When he met Hou Fangyu and Li Yulan, he said, "General Li, you stay in the palace and follow the orders of the emperor. If the thief really attacks the city, you can make your own choices. No one can blame you. Chaozong, leave with me."

Seeing Zhou Xian leave like a wind, Li Yulan was a little stunned and didn't quite understand Zhou Xian's meaning. He thought for a while, walked towards Kunning Palace, and found Emperor Chongzhen first.

When he arrived at Fang Yizhi's gate, Zhou Xian got off his horse and knocked on the door, and handed him the imperial edict of Emperor Chongzhen. "The emperor has decided to die for his country. You can clean up now and leave the city with me." After that, he left two soldiers and stepped on the horse and left, completely ignored Fang Yizhi who was kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly.

Zhou Xian rode his horse to the north city wall and met with Li Guozhen. He summoned Liu Wenbing, Wen Yao and Ye Tongzhou, and some generals from other sects to show them the imperial edict of Emperor Chongzhen. "So far, the capital has been guarding for two days, with nearly 20,000 soldiers killed and killed, and it is no longer enough to fight again. The emperor has issued an edict. At the fourth update, all nine gates have been opened, so that the soldiers can fight out of the city and find a way out."

Liu Wenbing said in a lost voice: "Isn't this running away?"

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "It's to escape. But whether you can escape depends on your own fate. To be honest, when the thief just sieges the prince out of the city. Now the priest issued an edict to let the prince succeed to the throne. If you can escape, go to Shandong to find the prince to meet with you."

Li Guozhen suddenly asked, "Where is that lord!"

Zhou Xian said: "I'm still in the palace, he doesn't want to leave." As he said that, he turned to Liu Wenbing and Wen Yao and said: "Brother Liu, Governor Wen, you two blocked the city gate, and the north is the main force of the treacherous forces. You two can lead your troops to the nearby Xizhimen and Dongzhimen respectively, and break out of the city from there. But there is a problem. The mobilization should be transferred slowly to prevent the treacherous people from finding that the situation is wrong. As for those who do not want to leave the capital, let them disperse themselves, and there will be too many people out anyway."

Wen Yao said, "What about our family?" When the prince fled, they felt that the Ming Dynasty was not a destruction, and they wanted to escape from the city and continue to be royal relatives. So they began to consider their own way of retreat.

Zhou Xian frowned and said, "What do you want to do? You decide for yourself. I just tell you that at the fourth update, the drum sounded at the drum tower, and it was when the nine gates opened. You can do it yourself."

Seeing that everyone's faces looked ugly, Zhou Xian stopped talking and hugged them and said, "Time is urgent, everyone is gone! Make some preparations in advance, it is best to bring a small number of elite soldiers to escape."

Zhou Xian left Fang Jing and Ye Tongzhou, and he turned to Ye Tongzhou and said, "Deputy General Ye, the direction of Xizhimen where your army is is too close to the riot army, so it is difficult to escape. If you are willing, I can take you out of another city gate." Ye Tongzhou guarded Xizhimen and performed outstandingly, and Zhou Xian wanted to take him away.

Ye Tongzhou thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I won't leave. I will lead my troops to attack to buy some time for the Supervisor to leave the city. Even if I can't defeat the thief, I will kill him more."
Chapter completed!