Chapter 127 (9) A complete break with the scholar-bureaucrats

Speaking of Wei Zhongxian, this person is also famous in history. Wei Zhongxian can be called the chief culprit in the Ming Dynasty. He was a murderer in the Ming Xizong era, and he was named nine thousand years old. Officials everywhere must worship him as a godfather. Xiong Chengbi, the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty, died tragically at the hands of Wei Zhongxian. If Yuan Chonghuan hadn't "Correct your mistakes when you are in a hurry", and if you worship Wei Zhongxian as your godfather, you will have no chance to live into the Chongzhen era. In short, Wei Zhongxian is a person who is dedicated to torturing and killing Qingliu people, and his career is to bring disaster to the country and the people.It was because of him that Nuoda's Ming Dynasty was hollowed out from the inside, causing anger and resentment, rebellions broke out everywhere, and the Qing Dynasty outside the pass knocked on the pass frequently, falling into an irreparable peril.

After Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, Wei Zhongxian announced a lot of crimes. Wei Zhongxian was frightened and hanged himself. It has been seventeen years since this incident, why did Chongzhen suddenly think of rehabilitating him, even when Beijing was about to fall into Li Zicheng's hands, he did not hesitate to put aside his business and hold a state funeral for Wei Zhongxian? This is because Chongzhen felt that the officials could not be fooled by killing him, and refused to be a scapegoat, so he thought that if Wei Zhongxian was there, there must be a way to kill this group of scholar-bureaucrats.

Rehabilitation for Wei Zhongxian marked the complete break between Emperor Chongzhen and the scholar-bureaucrats. When Li Zicheng happily came to Beijing, the defenders in Beijing were all under the command of eunuchs. The eunuch leaders discovered that an old acquaintance had come down from the city. Du Xun, the eunuch and supervisor of Xuanfu. Shouted from the tower: Lao Du, didn't you surrender to Li Zicheng? Du Xun replied: Yes, I came to Beijing this time to persuade Chongzhen to surrender. The eunuch on the tower was overjoyed: Then we will throw a rope down and pull you up.

After Du Xun entered the city, he hurried into the palace to find Chongzhen: Your Majesty, have you eaten yet? Chongzhen was furious when he saw it: Du Xun, haven't you already become a thief?What face do you have to see me? Du Xun said with a smile: "The two countries are at war, if you don't kill them, you are in big trouble, Your Majesty. Now you have only one way, disband the Ming puppet government immediately... Before I finished speaking, I saw Chongzhen jumping up with a sword, Du Xun Xun's tone changed sharply: Hahaha, Your Majesty, the rogue Li Zicheng and the others love to talk like this, and they are used to it. Your Majesty, I came to the city this time to rescue Your Majesty.

What kind of rescue method?Chongzhen asked excitedly.Like all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, he believed in no one but eunuchs. I heard Du Xun say: "Your Majesty, let's do this. I pretended to go to the city to persuade Your Majesty to surrender to the thief. In fact, I was thinking about Your Majesty. I will visit and visit Your Majesty. When I go back later, I will tell Li Zicheng, There are still 100,000 elite soldiers in the city waiting in full battle. When Li Zicheng heard this, he would definitely be scared to death and turn around and run away. Du Xun's words are definitely a simple IQ test. If Emperor Chongzhen's IQ is slightly higher than that of the mentally retarded, he will sneer with disdain.

But Chong Zhen's IQ was significantly lower than anyone expected.Hearing Du Xun's words, he immediately said: "Okay, this plan is good, Du Xun, if you can make Thief Li quit despite difficulties, I will definitely reward you a lot." The slave doesn't expect anything in return, all the slave wants is to spoil His Majesty.After Du Xun was fooling around, he turned around and left the city. It was a thrilling experience to walk through the life and death gate without incident. Before leaving, Du Xun also conveyed Li Zicheng's request for peace talks to Chong Zhen. Li Zicheng's request is surprisingly low: as long as Emperor Chongzhen agrees to cede the territory in the northwest to Li Zicheng, and make Li Zi king, and allocate another one million silver, Li Zicheng will kowtow to Chongzhen, shouting long live and retreating. .

Could this be true? it is true. The worship of royal power has lasted for thousands of years, and this fear has been deeply rooted in the genes of the people.When the emperor is mentioned, everyone changes color, even if he is as bold as Li Zicheng, there is no exception. At this time, Li Zicheng, although he was forcing the city of Beijing, did not have much confidence to face Chongzhen.He even longed in his heart that Emperor Chongzhen would agree to him, and he was willing to wipe out the bandits in the country and resist the Qing soldiers outside the pass for the sake of Chongzhen. At this time, Chongzhen's correct choice was to immediately send a cronies out of the city to negotiate with Li Zicheng.

But Chongzhen didn't. Chong Zhen's immediate thought was: Who should we put this responsibility on?How about University Scholar Wei Zaode? Immediately call Wei Zaode and discuss with him. When Old Wei heard this, he almost cursed. This Chongzhen's brain is absolutely abnormal.At the juncture of life and death, what he was thinking about was not the matter itself, but thinking about harming others.Oh, my old Wei agreed to this matter, and it succeeded. It was you who were so wise and mighty, and it was defeated. Annoyed, Old Wei shut up and didn't say a word. Why doesn't he say a word?

Because he was waiting for Chongzhen to issue an order and take on this responsibility himself. But Chongzhen would rather die than give up his bad intentions of entrapping others. Seeing that Lao Wei would not be fooled by beating him to death, he became furious and threw Lao Wei out.