Shang Yi led his army from Chongwenmen to the inner city of Beijing, leaving a battalion of troops to guard Chongwenmen, and then said to Chen Yang: "Chen Tongzhi, it may be difficult for Beijing to survive tonight. I will be with the princess now. After entering the palace, we picked up the emperor, and we left the city overnight. You all have family members in Beijing. Go back and get ready to move your family. We will gather at the Suzaimen Gate. If our family lives in the outer city, we will meet at Guangqumen Gate. Remember not to delay time too much. After we come out of the palace, we should follow the hour of the middle and leave immediately. Those who have not arrived will not wait."
Chen Yang nodded, turned around and said to the others: "You all heard it, hurry up and go home to clean up." As Chen Yang said that, he also turned around and rushed to the house. In a short while, the Jinyiwei dispersed, only Zhao Congfu and Four or five people have not left yet. Their home is either not in Beijing or there is no one at home, so they don’t have to go back. Zhao Congfu said, “Princess, General Shang, I will accompany you into the palace.”
Shang Yi nodded and said, "Okay, princess, let's enter the palace now."
Because the inner city has not been broken yet, Zhu Mai was very calm. After hearing Shang Yi's words, he nodded and said, "Let's go, let's go into the palace."
The group rushed to the palace again. Although the inner city had not been broken, the chaos in the city was no less than the outer city. There were fire and candles all the way, and the defeated generals were defeated and looting everywhere. From time to time, you can see the officers and soldiers for When robbing money and goods, women fight, swords and swords add up, and dead bodies are everywhere. Shang Yi couldn't help but sigh, why don't you fight against the Dashun Army with this spirit?
Zhu Ma saw that the city was in chaos and did not know what was going on in the palace, so his heart that had just been relieved couldn't help but hang up again. The group came to the Donghua Gate of the palace, and at this time they saw that the gate was empty and the guard palace guarding the gate was guarding the gate. The prison had already escaped and disappeared. When he saw the deserted area in the palace, Zhu Mai felt something was wrong in her heart and shouted: "Father." She hurriedly ran to the palace."
At this time, Shang Yi certainly guessed what the scene would be like in the palace, because although the various historical materials in later generations were similar, they all explained them very clearly, so he had to sigh softly. He ordered the other soldiers to wait at the gate of the palace, and he only brought Wu Hansheng and two reconnaissance platoons to the palace with Zhu Mi.
After entering the palace, he saw a group of eunuchs running out in a hurry. Shang Yi immediately ordered and grabbed a few. The eunuchs were so scared that they shouted: "Good man, good man, good man, good man."
Zhu Meiyu grabbed one and asked anxiously: "Where is the father now."
At this time, several eunuchs recognized it as Zhu Mai, and someone said, "Report to the princess, the emperor summoned the queen and Concubine Yuan in the Ganqing Palace, and ordered the prince and King Yong to leave the palace and go to Zhou Guohou. Later, the queen went to the palace to join the queen. He cried with Concubine Yuan, and then the emperor also came out. At this moment, he was very sorry that he was either in the West Palace or in Kunning Palace."
Zhu Meiyu nodded and said, "Let's go to the West Palace first." The West Palace is Yuan Fei's place and is close to this place, so Zhu Meiyu took Shang Yi and others to the West Palace first, and saw that the palace was deserted and there was no palace maid and eunuch. In the darkness of the candlelight, a female corpse in the palace was lying on the ground, and blood was flowing all over the ground.
Zhu Mai screamed and said, "It's Empress Yuan, why did she die..." I suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly ran out of the palace again, shouting, "Mother, Mother, you can't..."
Shang Yi had no choice but to smile bitterly and followed with everyone.
After a while, Zhu Mai came to the Kunning Palace of Queen Zhou. Before entering the palace gate, she saw the candlelight in the palace shaking, and there were vaguely many figures among them. At this time, the voice of Queen Zhou said, "I am waiting for the emperor." In the past 18 years, the emperor was willing to listen to my words, so why did he come to this land today? He had to die with His Majesty and have no regrets. I left first and waited for the emperor on the road to the underworld. ”
Zhu Mai was screaming, ran into the palace quickly, and said loudly, "My mother, you can't..." His words stopped silently, and Empress Zhou had already kicked down the bench, and her whole person was already hanging in the air, while Chongzhen At this time, holding the sword, he was about to chop at a little girl in the palace dress next to him. The little girl seemed to be frightened and sat on the ground blankly without moving. But Zhu Mei screamed, " Father, stop."
But at this time, Chongzhen's sword fell down and it was too late to stop. At this moment, a cold light flashed, and with a "defying", the sword in Chongzhen's hand was shot down by a flying short sword. It turned out that Shang Yi was When Qianjun fired, he threw out a saber, shot down Chongzhen's sword, and saved the little girl.
Zhu Mai Shi hurried over, hugged the little girl, looked at Chongzhen, and said, "Father, don't kill Mojie." It turned out that the little girl was the biological daughter of Queen Zhou, Princess Zhaoren Zhu Mai Shi, who is only eleven years old this year. She and Zhu Mai grew up together, so although they were not born to the same mother, they had a good relationship. Zhu Maijie was shocked by Queen Zhou and Chongzhen just now. When she saw Zhu Mai, she came back to her senses and said loudly. He started crying.
When Chongzhen saw this, he couldn't help but sigh and couldn't do anything. After this delay, when Shang Yi ordered people to rescue Empress Zhou, it was too late and Empress Zhou was already dead.
Chongzhen turned his head and saw Shang Yi, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, saying, "Shang Yi? You are here. I have always treated the ministers well, but now no one can follow him like Cheng Ji during the Jingnan period in the previous dynasty. I left, but I didn't expect you to arrive in Beijing from thousands of miles away. Even if I die, I feel at ease."
Although Shang Yi did not have much affection for Chongzhen, he felt quite unbearable when he saw that he was at a dead end, so he did not refute his words, "He has always treated his ministers well" and did not show the etiquette of the monarch and ministers to Chongzhen. He just said: "Emperor, the capital is hard to be safe. Please follow the emperor to leave Beijing immediately and go south to Jinling to restore the country."
Chongzhen smiled miserably and said, "To restore the country? I have worked hard for more than ten years, but it is not good enough. After the southward transition, how can I talk about restoring the country? Besides, can I still have the face to go south?"
Although Zhu Mai was comforting her sister, she kept listening to Shang Yi and Chongzhen's conversation. After Chongzhen said this, she couldn't help but say again: "Father, please come with us."
Chongzhen waved his head and said to Shang Yi: "Shang Yi, I know that Princess Kunxing has always been in love with you. Now I will take the initiative to marry you both. I hope you can treat her well in the future. I will die. It's time to rest in peace."
In fact, Shang Yi also knew that Chongzhen would not leave. After all, to his point, death was a relief for him. Now Chongzhen probably had this mentality. He was just talking in a symbolic way, so he didn't. He advised him more, just said: "Please rest assured, your Majesty, I will take care of Princess Kunxing for life."
Zhu Mai looked at the two of them blankly, not expecting that her dream would be realized under such circumstances, but her heart was blank, neither happy nor sad, but she just hugged her sister and said nothing. At this time, Princess Zhaoren was in the end He was young and overly frightened and fell asleep.
At this time, Chongzhen said again: "One hour ago, I ordered the prince, King Yong, and King Ding to go to the Zhou Dynasty's mansion. You go and find them, escort the prince south to Nanjing to succeed the throne, and continue the Ming Dynasty. I hope that In the future, you will do your best to assist the Left Prince in order to restore the country and not give me the hope."
Shang Yi said: "Your Majesty's order, I must respect the order. But now the situation is in chaos. I am afraid that the crown prince may not be able to get to the Zhou Dynasty's palace. I want to ask Your Majesty to issue an edict. If you don't see the crown prince, please ask the ministers in Nanjing. The clan vassals were established as emperors, and the Ming Dynasty was continued, and then the country was restored in an attempt to restore the country."
Chongzhen thought about it, nodded, got up, picked up his sword, inserted it into the scabbard, and said, "You come with me."
After that, Chongzhen took everyone away from Kunning Palace and came to Ganqing Palace. He sat down after a desk, pulled a pen and wrote a few lines of words on a piece of paper, and then took his jade seal and stamped it. , handed it to Shang Yi, and said, "You can take this to the officials in Nanjing."
Shang Yi took it and saw it read: "I have adopted the virtue of good deeds and inherited the great throne, and renewed my intentions with the world, and used them to return the oldest ancestors. For 17 years, how can I rely on the use of others and become a captive. The rampant enemy has risen, and the country is uneasy. Alas. Because of the loss of the country and no face, he dared not finally sleep. He ordered the prince to cross south to succeed the throne. If the prince does not cross, he will establish a vassal as the emperor, work hard to govern and restore it. The country comforts my heart in the spring." There is another small line of words below, which says: I specially ordered Shang Yi to go south with his edict to report to all officials in Nanjing.
Just as Shang Yi was reading this edict, Chongzhen wrote another edict and handed it to Shang Yi, saying, "This is the edict to marry you and Princess Kunxing, please put it away."
Shang Yi took the edict and put it away. Chongzhen waved his hand again and said, "Go, go." As he said that, he handed the sword just now to Zhu Mai, and said, "This is Yufeng left by Emperor Taizu. The sword, now it will be passed to you.”
Shang Yi said "huh" and saw that the sword was more than four feet long. It was cast with a gold handle. The swallowing mouth was a phoenix-shaped figure. There was a night light bead that emitted a dark light on both sides of the guards, which looked gorgeous. Extremely. It looks very familiar.
Chongzhen glanced at Shang Yi and said, "You have recognized it too. My mother knows about this sword. Let her tell you in the future." After that, he threw the sword next to Zhu My mother and left the Ganqing Palace. He didn't know. Where to go.
Zhu Mai put down her beauties and said, "Father."
He got up and was about to chase him out, but Shang Yi grabbed him and said, "Princess, let the emperor go, haven't you seen it yet? Concubine Yuan died and the queen died, how could the emperor be alone? Where? Let the emperor go by himself.”
Zhu Ma's body trembled. Unexpectedly, he went through so much trouble to invite Shang Yi back to Beijing, but he still ended up like this. His adoptive mother died before him, and his father was determined to make a decision. He couldn't help but feel sad and could not care about it. There were others present, and they rushed into Shang Yi's arms and started crying.
Shang Yi hugged her shoulder and said, "Princess, it's not the time to cry now. The thief army is about to break through the city, and we still have to find the prince now."
Zhu Mai remembered Chongzhen's instructions, then stood up from Shang Yi's arms, wiped his tears, and said, "Let's go, let's go to Zhou's mansion."