The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival.
With a new year and a new beginning, the entire Ming Dynasty was filled with joy, and everyone was celebrating the rebirth of the Ming Empire.
Of course, except for Peking, the former imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty.
This place has been under siege for three months.
The city was filled with gloom and gloom.
Inside the Jinluan Hall.
The little emperor Fulin sat on the throne with a look of fear.
Below, the newly appointed regent Hauge and the general Obai also looked very unhappy.
Because there were two boxes placed in front of them at the moment.
The box has been opened, and inside it is the former regent Dorgon and the head of Duduo.
Before, Hauge hated Dorgon and wanted to kill him quickly, but now he really hopes that his uncle can come back to life and help his good nephew.
He is too difficult.
"What should I do?" Fulin's childish voice sounded in the hall.
"The only solution for now is to surrender!" Hauge was silent for a while, and finally spoke with a heavy sigh.
After the death of Dorgon, the 200,000 troops sent to attack Shengjing and Shenyang were wiped out. Outside, Xu Da led 300,000 troops to surround the city of Peiping.
Although they still have 30,000 elite troops, 10,000 of whom are cavalry, they are now besieged in the city of Peiping, like trapped animals with no way out.
Moreover, the food and grass in Beiping City can only last for half a month.
If you don't surrender, there is no chance of survival.
"Prince Regent, think twice!"
"If the regent can trust the general, the general is willing to lead troops to protect the regent and his majesty when they break out." Obai said in a sonorous voice.
"Where to break out?" Fulin asked.
"this……."
"That...!" Obai's face turned red.
With all the old homes gone, the only possible way to go was North Korea. Dorgon also proved that this way was impassable with the lives of 30,000 elite soldiers.
Mongolia, on the other hand, had already submitted a surrender order to the Ming Empire two months ago.
"Even so, we don't have to surrender!"
"The walls of Beiping City are tall, and there are so many two-legged sheep here. When we run out of food, we will eat the two-legged sheep. They have 300,000 people and we are using them to see who can consume more energy than the other!" Obai A cruel look on his face.
Fulin naturally knew what a two-legged sheep was, and he couldn't help but feel nauseated when he thought of such a picture.
"But death is inevitable after all!"
Hauge looked at the two silent rows of civil servants and generals below, and thought silently in his heart.
He doesn't want to die.
He knew that these people also didn't want to die.
If he doesn't surrender now, I'm afraid it won't be long before someone takes his head and goes to the camp outside the city to claim credit.
So he just hesitated a little and made his decision.
"Pfft!" He pulled out a knife and cut off Obai's head first.
"Although Obai is a loyal minister, for the sake of his own life, I can only borrow his head."
"Obai, in the next life you will work as a coward for my Aixinjueluo family!" Hauge thought silently.
"This person disrespects the Ming Dynasty and tries to create conflicts between our people and the Ming Dynasty. He should be killed!"
Hauge held a knife in his hand, with a murderous look on his face.
Under the eyes of astonishment, Hauge turned his head and looked at Xiang Fulin calmly: "Your Majesty, now let me open the four doors, and let's welcome the envoys from the Kingdom of Heaven into the city!"
Fulin: "……."
Zheng Sen is married.
Zhu Yuanzhang fulfilled his promise and asked him to marry Princess Changping, the daughter of Emperor Chongzhen, and named him Zheng Chenggong.
Zheng Chenggong has been staying in Nanjing for the past two years. Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately made him familiar with government affairs and even controlled most of the military power in the capital.
Although some civil servants wrote a letter saying that this was not in line with the ancestral system and would lead to the misfortune of foreign relatives interfering with power.
But Zhu Yuanzhang ignored him and continued to act arbitrarily.
Zheng Chenggong was helping Zhu Yuanzhang handle government affairs when he received the news that the Manchu Qing regime in Beijing had surrendered.
He read the secret report sent by Jin Yiwei, glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang who was sitting next to him and was concentrating on reading, and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, how should we deal with Emperor Shunzhi and Regent Hauge of the Qing Dynasty?"
"It's just some small things, you can make the decision, don't ask us!"
Zhu Yuanzhang continued reading without raising his head.
The hall became quiet again.
Finally, Zheng Chenggong couldn't bear it anymore.
"Your Majesty, are you leaving?" he asked.
"Did you see it?" Zhu Yuanzhang put away the "Compendium of Materia Medica" in his hand and said with a smile.
"In the past two days, Xu Da, Xu Shuai, Li Wenzhong, General Li, Tang and General Tang have all returned one after another. Even the old soldiers you left in the army have been gradually drawn out. I am not blind."
"good!"
"Better than your cheap father-in-law." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and patted Zheng Chenggong on the shoulder.
However, he did not answer Zheng Chenggong directly, but asked: "Are you ready for the maritime navigation and ship operation experience and technical manuals, the water pattern characteristics of the southeastern coast, as well as the charts of many sea areas in Southeast Asia and the East Ocean, and the distribution of islands that we asked you to prepare?"
"Ready!" Zheng Chenggong hurriedly found a thick stack of books written by sailors, crew members, and even red-haired ghosts at sea, and sent them to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Yes, these things are of great use to us. When we go back to the early Ming Dynasty, we will also pay attention to it and develop maritime affairs."
"We finally understand that compared with the Manchu and Qing dynasties, the Western barbarians on the sea are a serious problem for the Ming Dynasty."
"If we don't pay attention to it, in time it will definitely endanger the entire Ming Dynasty."
"It's a pity that we don't have enough time. If we are allowed to develop here for a few more years and build our invincible fleet, we can really confront these barbarians on the sea."
"But you are also a capable person, and you have experience in sailing and fighting on the sea. I think you can definitely help us achieve it in this world, right?"
"Your Majesty really wants to leave?"
"The Ming Empire has just begun to look like a renaissance, and it cannot do without you!" Zheng Chenggong became a little anxious.
"Haha, if we don't leave, in order to consolidate the power of the Ming Empire, I'm afraid we will start killing people again, and the first one to be stabbed may be your Zheng family, aren't you afraid?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a half-smile but not a smile.
Zheng Chenggong, who was full of reluctance, was stunned when he heard this, and his face instantly turned red.
"No need to rush to say anything!"
"These are just jokes. We are really leaving, so we won't move the Zheng family."
"Be your consort well and manage this country for us!"
"As for your father-in-law, Emperor Chongzhen, you can take care of it yourself...!"
Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be in a good mood, with his hands behind his back and humming a tune. Behind him, Zhu Di and Mao Xiang each held a stack of books and walked out of the hall together.
"Your Majesty...!" Zheng Chenggong shouted again.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not look back and waved his hand towards him.
"gone!"
"See you again in the future, little one!"
A door of light appeared, and the three figures stepped into the door and disappeared completely.
For a moment, Zheng Chenggong really wanted to follow Zhu Yuanzhang's footsteps regardless.
But in the end he stopped.
After all, this is his root and his true hometown.