Zhu Youjian stood in a very dilapidated small temple in the south of the capital, with his hands tied.

Today is actually an important day. Today Li Zhi will announce the final deal with Zhu Youjian and the Ming Dynasty. Of course, at the same time, Li Zhi will also announce the establishment of a new regime to rule the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youjian does not know that Li Zhi

What kind of dynasty will be established in the end? Li Zhi always does some incredible things.

Li Zhi is a star that descended to earth. Zhu Youjian used to think that this was a rumor that confused people. But after experiencing the decisive battle in Tianjin, Zhu Youjian also believed in this matter.

If Li Zhi had not descended from the stars, how could he have destroyed the Ming Dynasty so overwhelmingly and turned Zhu Youjian into a subjugated king?

Zhu Youjian had already accepted the demise of the Ming Dynasty. At this critical time, he had no mood swings. He felt that his whole world had turned gray, like the ruins of a prosperous palace.

, no force can restore it to its original state.

Zhong Feng was responsible for Zhu Youjian's guarding work. Zhong Feng attached great importance to this matter and increased his manpower. Specifically, the people guarding Zhu Youjian were three companies of Huben Army soldiers, and there were a lot of them - after all, Zhu Youjian was

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty has a bearing on the hearts and minds of the people in the world and cannot make any mistakes.

Moreover, it was not only Zhu Youjian who was imprisoned with Zhu Youjian, but also twenty-seven members of the royal family, including Zhu Youjian's wife and children.

The small temple was originally an earth temple. It was not very spacious. It probably only had an endless room. At this time, there were more than 20 people crowded in, which seemed very crowded. Zhu Youjian's family members had very depressed faces and sat listlessly in the room.

inside.

Some timid girls and concubines were crying secretly in the corner, as if they were afraid of being beheaded.

They are obviously not optimistic about the future situation.

The relationship between the Ming Dynasty royal family and Li Zhi is now very bad. Zhu Youjian branded Li Zhi as a traitor, and Li Zhi led the Huben army into the capital. If Zhu Youjian is willing to surrender to Li Zhi, then things may turn around.

.However, the actual situation is that Zhu Youjian was unwilling to make any concessions to Li Zhi from beginning to end. No matter how he looked at it, Li Zhi would not let go of the Ming Dynasty's royal family.

Zhu Youjian's children all felt that this time was a disaster, and they fell listlessly in the temple, unable to cheer up.

Zhu Youjian was also not optimistic about the situation. Although his suicide in Meishan was stopped by Han Jinxin, in Zhu Youjian's view, it was Li Zhi who wanted to kill him in an upright manner. If he allowed himself to commit suicide, then Zhu Youjian would

Being in charge of the inspection means martyrdom for the country, and his reputation is very good. If you have a good reputation, it will weaken Li Zhi's reputation.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian felt that the reason why Li Zhi prevented him from committing suicide was just to prepare for his execution in a public trial. He labeled Li Zhi as a traitor, and if he succeeded, he would kill Li Zhi. Zhu Youjian did not believe that Li Zhi would not do what he did.

Counterattack, now that Li Zhi has won, maybe his wife and children will not be spared.

Zhu Youjian looked through the dilapidated temple wall and the three Tiger Army soldiers standing on the temple wall in the direction of the Forbidden City in the distance, and sighed.

In fact, there are still some "righteous men" who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty trying to rescue Zhu Youjian these days. The Ming Dynasty ruled China for more than two hundred years, and it is impossible that there are no loyal people at all. Even if Li Zhi can give ordinary people a good life,

But those who lived a prosperous life in the Ming Dynasty are destined to be miserable in the new dynasty.

In the past few days, many people have gathered outside the temple wall, trying to support Zhu Youjian inside the temple. At the beginning, their purpose was to create pressure on the Huben Army guarding the royal members, or to create pressure on Li Zhi, so that

Li Zhi knew that there were still many people in the world who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and hoped that this would prevent Li Zhi from beheading Zhu Youjian.

However, their efforts were ruthlessly dispersed by the Huben Army. The original strength of only one company was increased to three companies, and the experienced deputy battalion commander Zhang Yu was assigned to manage these three companies. The soldiers of the three companies fired directly into the sky.

Guns were used to scare off the old and young who tried to make noise near the Tutu Temple.

Since yesterday, the area around Tutu Temple has been quiet.

Zhu Youjian moved his hands tied in the rope and found that his hands were numb. He looked at the deputy battalion commander Zhang Yu standing in the middle of the ruined temple and found that Zhang Yu was also looking at him. But this Tiger Ben

The junior military officers had no feelings for the Emperor of Heaven at all. They knew that Zhu Youjian would be injured if his hands were tied like this, but they were not prepared to come up and untie Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian sighed and looked at the temple wall numbly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Zhang Yu snorted coldly.

Suddenly, there was a shouting outside the temple.

Zhang Yu was stunned and looked to the west.

The shouting was not like an ordinary sound, but like a group of people moving together. The shouting was urgent and obviously had a clear goal. Listening to the sound, there were at least hundreds or thousands of people. If Zhang Yu heard it correctly,

This group of people rushed straight from the street outside the Tutu Temple and went straight to the Tutu Temple where Zhu Youjian was.

Who is this person? Dare to rush around and shout like this on the roads of the capital after the Huben army took control of the capital?

Zhang Yu frowned, glanced at Zhu Youjian coldly, and snorted coldly.

"When I woke up this morning, I felt that my hands were bleeding rapidly. I guess I am going to kill someone today."

Hearing Zhang Yu's words, Zhu Youjian's face shuddered. A few days ago, he was the master of this empire, controlling the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people at any time. However, today, the little deputy battalion commander of the Tiger Army can...

He is domineering in front of others and does not take himself as the emperor seriously at all.

However, Zhu Youjian actually didn't expect much from those shouts. Zhu Youjian was already in an extremely desperate state at this time. He did not believe that anyone could defeat Li Zhi and rescue him by force.

Zhang Yu stood in the yard for a while, and then he saw a soldier who was observing at the sentry post on the roof ran off his post and ran into the courtyard of the ruined temple. The soldier saluted Zhang Yu with a standard Tiger and Ben Army military salute and said loudly: "Report Deputy

Battalion Commander, there is a large group of people in front of us charging this way with sticks and swords."

Zhang Yu sneered and asked: "How many people? What equipment?"

The soldier replied loudly: "About eight or nine hundred people, without armor, holding sticks and ordinary swords in their hands, with no offensive power. However, they ran very resolutely and seemed to be very determined."

Zhang Yu laughed out loud and said, "Okay, there is someone who will rob the prison."

Zhang Yu looked at Zhu Youjian and said with a smile: "The emperor of Ming Dynasty is an emperor after all, and he has some supporters after all."

However, Zhang Yu's smile flashed away. He waved his hand and said coldly: "Set up a machine gun!"

Several company commanders shouted the order and went down to deliver it. After a while, the four Gatling guns hidden in the gatehouse were brought out and placed behind the entrance of the ruined temple, aiming at the street in front.

The crowd rushing from a distance was getting closer and closer, and their shouts were getting louder and louder, frightening the pedestrians and ordinary people near the ruined temple. Such noisy shouts like the sound of running water were obviously a large group of people, and they came with bad intentions.

Everyone around knew that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was imprisoned in the Tutu Temple, so they subconsciously fled the street.

Especially after they saw the Tiger Army setting up Gatling guns at the gate of the ruined temple, they were even more frightened and did not dare to stay for long, so they all left this place of right and wrong.

Even some lonely scholars outside the temple wall who wanted to support Zhu Youjian gave up the idea of ​​wandering near the ruined temple and hurried to the south and north one by one.

Soon, the street in front of the ruined temple became empty, with nothing except the closed courtyard doors and shop doors.

Zhu Youjian looked at the four Gatling guns, his face turned white.

Although the fighting situation in Wuqing, Baodi and other places had not yet reached Zhu Youjian's ears. Because Wang Chengen rushed to the Forbidden City just after the battle, the capital fell into chaos. Zhu Youjian had no idea that Gatling machine guns were in Tianjin.

I have never understood the huge role played in the decisive battle by this kind of weapon that transcends the times. But Zhu Youjian has military common sense after all. These densely packed gun barrels are integrated into a bunch, and as soon as the extremely complex and exquisite firearms are laid out, Zhu Youjian

You will understand that this is definitely a big killer.

Looking at the confident look of Zhang Yu, deputy battalion commander of the Huben Army, Zhu Youjian was even more afraid of the power of this weapon.

The large group of people in front were obviously here for him. If Zhang Yu used such a powerful weapon to deal with hundreds of people rushing towards him, what would be the result?

Zhu Youjian closed his eyes helplessly.

The shouts got closer and closer, and gradually, the group of people rushed to the street in front of the ruined temple. Zhang Yu finally saw the person clearly.

It was a group of young and old people composed of Confucian scholars.

There were old and young people coming, there were many old Confucians with white hair, and there were also many young and energetic Confucian scholars. These people all wore round collars, and most of them wore square scarves or Confucian scarves on their heads. Most of them were obviously rich.

Some people, even those from powerful families, are all dressed in brocade, and the material for a set of round collars costs more than ten taels of silver. There are also some people who appear to be scholars from poor families, and their round collars are made of cotton and even patched.

However, they have all read Confucian classics for more than ten years or even decades, and they have all bet their whole lives on the Ming Dynasty's national policy of governing the country with Confucianism. After Li Zhi entered the capital, they all lost all their futures and lost everything.

everything.

They were holding long knives and swords in their hands, and some of them were holding sticks. They all stared with eyes filled with indignation, and they had the momentum to risk their lives.

For the Ming Dynasty, the group of Confucian scholars, scholars and civil servants was actually a group of people that Zhu Youjian hated very much. These people were greedy and tyrannical based on their privileges, destroying the order of the empire everywhere. It was precisely because these people did not pay land taxes,

Moreover, Zhu Youjian's Ming Empire was so fragile in front of the Tatars and bandits and had to rely on Li Zhi in the end.

Finally led to the rise of Li Zhi.

However, for the Ming Empire, especially for the Ming Empire that perished because of Li Zhi, these people were also the most loyal people. Because once Li Zhi came to power, all the Confucian classics and sage Wei Yan that these people had studied for a lifetime were gone.

If used, these people will lose all their financial resources and their family's ability to make ends meet.

So at this moment, those who came to rescue Zhu Youjian were not the defeated soldiers of the new army that Zhu Youjian relied on, nor the common people that Zhu Youjian tried to take care of through several reforms, but these Confucian scholars and gentry who were about to lose everything.

There are many dignitaries in the capital, including not only 200,000 but also 100,000 Confucian scholars and gentry. Most of these 100,000 people chose silence in the face of Li Zhi's powerful force, and would rather have everything taken away by Li Zhi than resist. But no matter which group

There are people who are not afraid of death, but there are more or less problems. In the end, nearly a thousand people stood up and rushed to the Tutu Temple to fight Li Zhi's Tiger Army.

The eight or nine hundred people rushed to the 200 meters in front of the Tu Tu Temple, only to find that the Tu Tu Temple was on high alert. The soldiers of the Tiger Army had already set up their rifles and pointed them at the wall of the small Tu Tu Temple.

Holding at least a hundred rifles.

Even more terrifying, at the entrance of the Earth Temple were four weapons they had never seen before, which seemed very powerful.

The scholars and gentry looked at each other for a while and stopped.

These remnants of the empire did not seem to be well-organized. They stopped outside the Earth Temple for a long time before reluctantly choosing one person to speak. A man wearing a Confucian scarf held up a sword in his hand and walked towards the crowd under the gaze of everyone.

He took a step forward and shouted loudly to Zhang Yu who was standing at the door of the temple:

"Traitor! Let the emperor go!"

This shouting and cursing of the people immediately aroused a resonance, and hundreds of people roared in unison: "Tianjin rebels! Do you want to kill the king?"

"Traitor, how dare you buy into the people's hearts and commit acts of rebellion?"

"Let the emperor go! Go back to Tianjin!"
To be continued...