Chapter 40: The Eighth Year of Chongzhen
After this incident, Zhu Hongsan found that he was excluded from the ruling class of this era. For the first time, he deeply realized why Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to kill ministers, because these ministers who went on a career through fame and fortune never took the emperor seriously. He thought that your emperor was a fool, you and us were not the same as each other. Emperor, just give birth to children in the palace and play with crickets. Is this difficult thing about governing the country possible?
Of course, the founding emperors had the courage and skills to suppress them. In the middle of the dynasty, some weak emperors came to power, such as Zhu Youzhang, were controlled by ministers. Some of the strong resistance like Emperor Zhengde were detained with a bunch of shit, and the passive and lazy Emperor Wanli was even named the tyrant monarch of the ages.
The emperor had no choice, because the cultural tradition was in the hands of these scholars. Zhu Hongsan thought of the future Emperor Hongguang Zhu Yousong. In fact, this guy was still okay. He was not only capable but also had a good attitude. He went to court every day to listen to politics and care about national affairs. After his death, the intellectuals recorded that two virgins were killed overnight in one night. He played two people to death in one night. Zhu Hongsan thought of his previous life so fiercely that he didn't even talk about them. He often couldn't get up for a long time.
Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan sighed. Conquering the world is simple and governing the world is too difficult. He could still suppress it when he was there, but it was not certain after his death. Therefore, the selection of heirs became a big deal. Zhu Yuanzhang made a big mistake and was deceived by intellectuals and appointed the orthodox emperor Zhu Yunwen.
Seeing that he arrived at the door of the house, Zhu Hongsan smiled in his heart, "I've thought too much. Now there are no descendants? I just want to inherit the family. Let's talk about it when I have ten or eight sons in the future."
Zhu Hongsan was very happy after thinking it through and said to Zhu Hongyi: "Brother, you can eat here tonight."
Zhu Hongyi said: "No, I'll go home to see my dad tonight."
Zhu Hongsan looked at Zhu Hongyi going away, pushed open the door and shouted, "Ma Xiaofang, come quickly, I want to have ten or eight sons with you."
Ma Xiaofang opened the door and cursed: "What crazy words do you say?"
Zhu Hongyi laughed, picked up Ma Xiaofang and said, "I'll be born tonight."
Ma Xiaofang blushed: "Let me down, you haven't paid any respect to your mother yet."
Zhu Hongsan nodded with a smile, put down Ma Xiaofang. Go and pay tribute to his mother first.
When he entered his mother's house and saw that his mother's face became more and more decayed, Zhu Hongsan was very worried.
Mother Zhao Chunhua said, "Son, have you gone to see your uncle?"
Zhu Hongsan replied: "No, the child is ready to go tomorrow."
The mother nodded and said, "In the past, your two uncles were not good to your father, but after all, they are a family, so don't be separated."
Zhu Hongsan said, "Don't worry, my mother will go with me to see my uncle after she has recovered. By the way, Goudan said she was afraid that his father would make things difficult for her. She wanted me to move his household registration to our house. Then she would modify Zhu. I don't know what my mother meant?"
The mother said, "Goudan is a pitiful child. I was going to watch him get married and have children. It seems that I can't wait. But our family is a royal family, can this be done?"
Zhu Hongsan dared to say that the Ming Dynasty would be over in a few years, but the royal family were all beheaded one by one. In order to comfort me, he said, "Don't worry, since the mother promised, the child would go to someone to handle it. It would be better if he could do it. If he could do it, he would think of other solutions."
The mother nodded. Seeing that her mother was very tired, Zhu Hongsan covered her quilt and then stepped out.
When he returned to his room, he said to Ma Xiaofang, "My mother is in a bad health."
Ma Xiaofang also sighed and said, "The weather is getting colder and colder, which will cause great harm to older people."
Zhu Hongsan nodded, nodded and said, "Xiaofang, you should start preparing for your funeral. I think my mother has been there for the past few months."
Ma Xiaofang said, "Can you do? I think it's okay."
Zhu Hongsan shook his head and said, "Prepare, if you are busy and not good-looking when you come."
Ma Xiaofang nodded.
After saying such a dull thing, the two of them naturally didn't feel intimate and cleaned up and went to bed.
On the fifth day of the 10th month, Zhu Hongyi came to Zhu Hongsan early in the morning and said that his father was not good enough and he wanted to meet Zhu Hongsan for the last time.
Zhu Hongsan hurried to his uncle's house. When he entered the door, he saw that everyone had arrived. His little cousin Zhao Mancang knelt on the side. When his uncle Zhao Mingda saw Zhu Hongsan coming in, his eyes lit up. Zhu Hongsan stepped forward and grabbed his uncle's hand and asked, "Uncle, I have nothing to say about it."
Zhao Mingda could no longer speak, and pointed at Zhu Hongyi. Zhu Hongsan naturally understood and said, "Don't worry, my uncle, if I have my mistress, I won't be hungry if I eat it in one bite." Zhao Mingda shook his head, pointed at Zhu Hongsan and pointed at Zhu Hongyi. Zhu Hongsan clearly said, "Uncle, I have recognized my cousin as my elder brother. His name is Zhu Hongyi. I will let him enter the Zhu family's ancestral tomb in the future."
Zhao Mingda smiled and said that he had already understood everything he had, so he could get rid of it.
Looking at the Zhao family crying around him, Zhu Hongsan slowly retreated. Zhu Hongsan experienced the death of his relatives for the first time in this era. Zhu Hongsan used to feel that he had no big connection with this era, but today he found that he still couldn't be honest.
On the tenth day of October, Zhu Hongsan's mother died of illness. This was a huge blow to Zhu Hongsan. If his uncle's death made him discover his tender side, his mother Zhao Chunhua's death made him discover his fragile side. Zhu Hongsan lay in front of his mother's hungry spirit position like a child and cried moaning.
He thought of his mother's concern and anger at the Ma family when he was just traveling through time, and his mother's care and anger at the Ma family. He thought of his mother's refining sugar and looking at her comforting eyes. He thought of his mother's sadness in front of County Magistrate He and his mother's sorrow for not being born in an ordinary family.
Zhu Hongsan discovered that in the past, he regarded all the people of this era as tools and numbers for playing games. When he killed nine people, his hands didn't shake, and he framed Zhu Youcai's family and his family were killed without any self-blame. But today, when Zhu Hongsan saw his mother leave, he really found that he was in a real world, he would cry and he would be sad.
On October 17th, after dealing with my mother's affairs, Zhu Hongsan told Ma Xiaofang that the whole family moved to the farm and that he would leave this sad place. Looking at the lock of the yard door, Zhu Hongsan silently said to himself that there is my warmth, my weakness, and my childhood. From now on, I will be made of steel, flames, and melt everything that is blocking me.
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The seventh year of Chongzhen finally left, and the eighth year of Chongzhen finally arrived. The last layer of fig leaf of the Ming Dynasty was finally unveiled.
Fengyang was the place where the Ming Dynasty was "Dragon Rise", which was the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, he built a large-scale construction here, built a tomb for his parents, expanded the Longxing Temple, which he served as a monk in his youth, and built Fengyang City according to the specifications of Nanjing, and designated it as the Zhongdu.
Therefore, Fengyang has a specific political significance to the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, Fengyang Prefecture is also the northern gateway of Nanjing. If Fengyang is lost, the Nanjing gateway will be opened and it will be threatened by the military. If there is a problem in Nanjing, then the southeast taxes will be heavily distributed and half of the country will be difficult to keep, and the Ming Dynasty will be almost the same. Therefore, no matter from any aspect, there should be no mistakes in the Fengyang area.
Unfortunately, Zhu Hongsan, the crow, was said to be right. The peasant army selected Fengyang area, which had a weak defense in the imperial court, as the main attack direction. The peasant army's targets were Fengyang and other prefectures in the northwest of Nanzhili.
On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, on the Lantern Festival, there was still a sing and dancing in Fengyang City. The vanguard of the peasant army was about 3,000 people disguised as merchants and coachmen, and sneaked into Fengyang City. They killed and set fire in the city, and the army then arrived.
At that time, Fengyang had no city walls and had no danger to defend. Although there were thousands of soldiers in the city, they could not organize resistance at all. The Prime Minister of Zhu, commanded Yuan Ruizheng to die in a hurry. The King of Sweeping the floor and the King of Taiping rushed into the office, captured Yan Rongxuan, the prefect who was wearing prison clothes and mingled among the prisoners, and beat him to death with a stick. Six civil servants, including the Promoter Dai Wenying and forty military officers, were also executed. It is said that tens of thousands of people were killed.
Perhaps the peasant army has been hunted for so many years and suffered a lot, so they vented their anger to Fengyang in revenge on Emperor Chongzhen and the court. They ruined the tomb of the parents of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the imperial tomb, to an unrecognizable face. They set fire to the imperial tomb, the Enjoy Hall and the 300,000 Pansai in the Mausoleum, killed more than 60 eunuchs guarding the tomb, and let more than 100 people in the Mausoleum detained in the high walls of the Mausoleum (Zhu Hongsanyu: Did you see that, why did you dare to do it before? Because you would run away if you catch Fengyang.).
Longxing Temple was also lit up with a fire. For a moment, fire inside and outside Fengyang City soared into the sky, illuminating a hundred miles away.
The news of Fengyang's fall was panicked when the court spread. After receiving the defeat, Zhang Fengyi, the Minister of War, was shocked and almost couldn't stand up and fainted. Emperor Chongzhen was heartbroken after receiving the news that the fall of Zhongdu and the imperial tomb was burned, and he was heartbroken. When Fengyang was burned, someone would always take the blame.
Our Emperor Chongzhen will not admit his mistakes by himself. Only you are the ministers who are bullshit, but you have let my ancestral tombs burn. Yang Yipeng, the censor of the Cao Transportation Transportation and the governor of Fengyang, was beheaded and abandoned the market. The Fengyang inspector Wu Zhenying was exiled to guard the border. Yang Ze, the eunuch who guarded the tomb, knew that he was guilty and committed suicide for fear of his crime.
The Battle of Fengyang was not even twenty in the size of the peasant war in the late Ming Dynasty. There were only more than 200,000 peasant troops on one side. There were only tens of thousands of people on the front-line battlefield. There were also thousands of troops defending the city of Fengyang. However, the impact of the Zhaocheng was absolutely huge. The Battle of Fengyang should be considered a turning point in the peasant war in the late Ming Dynasty.
Before this, the peasant army was just wandering around and fighting, and the combat areas were only in the northern areas of SX and HN. However, after the Battle of Fengyang, the peasant army was completely blossoming, and Hanzhong, Huguang, Xuzhou and SX all became the main battlefields of the peasant army. In addition, after the Battle of Fengyang, some unsuccessful intellectuals also began to pay attention to the mud-legged bandits in their eyes. They all thought about whether the dynasty would change? Fortunately, Li Zicheng, the postman, did not know the unlucky idea proposed by the sour scholar, and took the banner of unlucky that the king of corruption would not pay food.
Of course, this powerful weapon also brought a large number of landless farmers to Li Zicheng in the early stage. However, it completely pushed the ruling scholar-and-landlord group to the opposite side. What should I eat without paying food? Of course, you guys are stupid and stinky.
The result of the Fengyang Battle was spread to Huguang before the first month of the year. Of course, Zhu Hongsan had to make some statements on the surface. The ancestral tomb was burned and fasted for three days. In fact, he hid in the blacksmith shop and iron cow for the final research on the casting grenade shell.
Three days later, Ma Xiaofang told her county magistrate Feng Ziyi to find him, and Ma Xiaofang was going back to her parents' home. Her niece Ma Ruyan was going to get married. Zhu Hongsan thought that it must be Ma Ruyan and the mine were going to get married. He muttered, "What's the best place to roll mines?"
Ma Xiaofang said: "What did you say?"
Zhu Hongsan hurriedly said, "I said my wife is so beautiful."
Ma Xiaofang smiled and said, "Let's die, come here."
"What are you doing?"
"You haven't paid the public food in the past three days?"
"I've been fighting for three days and I really have no strength."
"I don't care, I'm going to have a baby."
Chapter completed!