On February 26th, Taiyuan fell, and on March 13th, the exhausted messenger sucked the same breathless Pegasus and passed the bad news to the capital.

Although this is no longer the first big city in the Ming Empire that fell, it still shocked the entire court. Taiyuan is the core of Shanxi Town. The losses here mark the Ming Dynasty's loss of another province, and the nine sides are broken apart, and there is not much territory in the court that is blocking the rebellion army.

In the Palace of Peaceful Heart, the atmosphere was so stagnant that it was suffocating. Emperor Chongzhen no longer had the intention to hold a grand court meeting again. He only gathered more than 30 important officials in the palace. He also realized that he could never talk too much to hinder his efficiency. Now the Ming Dynasty cannot delay it!

However, this core circle of power did not make Emperor Chongzhen feel any difference. His face turned pale, and he couldn't stop roaring in the crowd like a furious lion.

"Taiyuan fell! Shanxi was lost! King Jin was robbed! Do you have nothing to teach me?"

Just like a group of students who were taken to the teaching office without doing homework, the pillars of the court looked down at the tip of their shoes, as if they were looking at the focus as if they had discovered gravity. No one dared to have such a slight contact with the emperor.

Let Chongzhen roar!

He was also yelling that he was tired, his eyes were red, and he walked in front of him with a trembling heart in Chen Yan's heart, but it was extraordinary. This time, Chongzhen still couldn't get angry and asked hoarsely.

"Criminal Grand Secretary, how to deal with the current situation, please teach me!"

Beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down from their foreheads, lowering their heads and holding their fists, but Chen Yan still remained silent.

He understood that Chongzhen wanted him to say the most was to transfer Guanning troops into the guard! But he just didn't dare to say it!

What if the emperor shirks responsibility?

"As long as the sir speaks, I will follow you! Is the sir just silent?"

Finally, he could no longer hold back his anger and suddenly grabbed his crane patch. Chongzhen roared in anger. For a moment, he was shocked. With a short circuit in his brain, Chen Yan simply turned his legs and thrust his legs and knelt on the ground, constantly kowtowing.

"Your Majesty forgive me! The old minister is old and deaf, I beg you to let the old minister retire!"

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be stunned. He never expected that Chen Yan would react like this. Is this the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty? Is this the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty?

The money and food for life were finally available, but the one who saved his life in the Ming Dynasty was actually the cabinet that restricted Huangquan! In any case, Chen Yan and Zhang Jinyan refused to leave the cabinet and issued this order to mobilize troops. It was so sad that they were heartbroken. After staggering for two steps, Emperor Chongzhen didn't say anything else, and walked back shakingly. While walking, he waved his hand dullly, signaling a group of ministers.

You can get out! Get home and wait for death!

But at this moment, a powerful voice finally sounded among the ministers who had been silent.

"Your Majesty, please move the capital!"

Turning back in surprise, Chongzhen saw Zhongyun Li Mingrui, who was on a mission to Dongjiang, suddenly walked to the middle of the queue. Under the eyes of the ministers who were equally surprised, he knocked his head wearing a black hat to the ground.

"Your Majesty, now the north is falling and thieves are rising everywhere! God does not bless you, and there are famines everywhere, and the court is in danger of subversion! However, our Taizu of the dynasty has raised an army in the south of the Yangtze River and south of the Huai River. The people are peaceful and the people support you! There is sufficient taxation, which can be a place to settle down! In order to protect the country's foundation of our Ming Dynasty, I would like to ask Your Majesty to visit Nanjing!"

The voice was sad, indignant and generous, but it was like a ray of light that swept away the haze in Emperor Chongzhen's heart. But history took such a sudden turn. Before Chongzhen could speak, Chen Yan, who was kneeling on the ground and pretending to be mute, kowtowed fiercely.

"Your Majesty, you must not!"

"The land of our ancestors cannot be abandoned, let alone the capital! Once your Majesty leaves, he will be infamous forever!"

"His Majesty!"

Chen Yan's disciple, Shin-Cheng, was even more like a hungry wolf, and pointed at Li Mingrui's nose and scolded him.

"Li Mingrui's words are evil! Please behead him immediately!"

Moving the capital? It sounds nice! Your Majesty, you slapped your butt and slipped away. It is impossible for the capital to be empty! The one who stayed in the capital to face Li Chuang's million-strong army was not the one who was unlucky to us, the important officials in the cabinet, were they?

If you want to run away, there is no way! If you want to die, everyone will die together! With a loud bang, there were more than 30 important ministers in the cabinet, nineteen of them knelt down, and followed Guang Shiheng and kowtowed heavily.

"Your Majesty! The capital cannot be abandoned!"

"The land of our ancestors must not be lost!"

"Moving southward is contrary to the ancestral teachings!"

Li Mingrui is really a loyal minister. Under the astonishing pressure from so many important officials, he looked up and roared in anger.

"The Song Dynasty moved south and had to maintain its foundation for 150 years! We moved east and south and protected our fire seeds in China for more than 100 years! If you are eating your own fortune, you can't share your worries. Do you still have to block our Ming Dynasty's life?"

Li Mingrui's words also reached Chongzhen's heart. His face was also gloomy. He also turned his eyes coldly on Chen Yan and the others, and spoke angrily.

"When has it been! You are still in conflict with the cliques. It is your fault for the court to be able to do what you are today!"

"Light time! I should have been killed when I stop moving south, but now I am using someone to send you a dog head! You can retreat!"

"Li Mingrui, go back and get a detailed note. I want to read it!"

Emperor Chongzhen made a tough decision, and Li Mingrui kowtowed suddenly with great excitement.

"I obey the order!"

The haze came from Chen Yan, Wei Zaode, Li Jiantai and others' pupils, and they looked at each other a few times, and the sinister and uncontrollable expressions were revealed to each other.

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In the 17th year of Chongzhen, this was unprecedentedly efficient. After the discussion in the afternoon, Li Mingrui took out the charter in the evening. For example, how to mobilize the protection of the Beijing camp, first go to sea from Tianjin to Shandong, stationed in the Linqing Palace, and then how to go to the Huai River. At the same time, it also issued reception orders like officials in Jiangnan.

It was not sleeping all night again, and Emperor Chongzhen was also very excited and followed the adviser to move south and prepare. However, before his excitement had passed, the officials in the court gave him another blow, and hit him hard, starry-eyed.

Early in the morning, the roaring noise started to ring. I couldn't bear it. Chen Yan was shameless and called someone!

The civil servants of Daming, who were increasingly strife in the party, did not disappoint him, regardless of whether it was a life-saving strategy! When they heard that they were moving south and wanted to abandon the capital, all these scholars and corrupt scholars were in a panic. They also seduced and led the imperial students and scholars. For a moment, tens of thousands of people came to the palace gate to kneel together, shouting slogans and protesting.

"Protect my country! Fight to the end!"

"Li Mingrui's words confuse the public. Please kill him!"

"Kill this treacherous minister!"

This indignation was filled with righteous indignation, and when Li Zicheng had not entered the capital in history, a group of guys would have surrendered, and then turned his head and knelt down and licked the Qing army entering the north, he really thought that the Ming Dynasty had so many loyal ministers!

The vast majority of the business management and nobles are rooted in the capital. Their industries, wealth, and land are all gathered in the capital and Hebei. The court can run away, but these things cannot be moved away. Who is willing to do it? In history, there is a case between overseas Chinese and local residents. They have gone to Jiangnan to live under the roof to see people's eyes? There is no way! The excited officials of the Mingting Court were so excited that they almost broke into the palace gate.

On the eve of the fall of the empire, the trouble started again, wasting precious time for self-rescue in the internal strife. The officials who forced the palace to kneel until the afternoon of the next day, they were dispersed by the Jinyiwei. A few days ago, more than 30 important officials were once again taken to the Warm Heart Hall by Emperor Chongzhen.

Li Mingrui paid the price for his loyalty. For more than a day, he was beaten up by those dissatisfied ministers. Now his face was covered in bruises and almost lost his life. On the other end, although he lowered his head and looked at his shoes, Chen Yan and Wei Zaode could obviously feel proud.

Now that things have happened, it is impossible to move south! Even if Chongzhen is the emperor, he has to follow all officials. No one supports him to go south. The farthest trip since childhood was when Emperor Chongzhen, who went out of the palace to Changping to worship his ancestors, traveled south?

His eyes were gloomy as if he wanted to choose someone to eat. He stared at the ministers in front of him viciously. After a long time, the emperor asked lazily.

"What do you guys have to do about the current affairs?"

"Your Majesty, the obstruction of the ministers' affairs of moving south has become a vain. However, I have a plan, I hope your majesty will agree!"

This time, it was Li Banghua, the censor of the Zuodu, who stood up and bowed heavily in court.

"I believe that before the thieves arrived in the capital, the cabinet would support the prince to go south and take charge of Nanjing to protect our Ming Dynasty!"

Chen Yan couldn't help but curl up slightly, but at the same second, Emperor Chongzhen's face turned completely cold.

You will protect the crown prince to Nanjing and proclaim me to the emperor. I will defend the capital to the death? Chongzhen was not unaware of the fate of Song Huizong Song Qinzong after the Jingkang shame of the Northern Song Dynasty. What's more, he has hated the civil officials in front of him to the core! He led the country to let them escape? It's impossible!

The most ruthless imperial family! As for whether this can give the prince a way out, Chongzhen never thought about it.

However, this time, the emperor was not furious and just waved his hand lightly.

"I have managed the world for more than ten years, but it is useless. What has the prince done in his family like this? Gentlemen should study the countermeasures of war and defense as soon as possible, and there is no need to talk about the rest!"

Once again, the way to move south was strangled to death by Chongzhen and the ministers below! The light in Chen Yan's pupils suddenly became dark and could not suppress his emotions. Li Mingrui hit the ground with a heavy punch. Li Banghua retreated in disgrace. Can he countermeasure? The entire Yangxin Palace was as quiet as an ancient tomb, and no one could say anything.
Chapter completed!