Chapter 196: The Death of Emperor Chongzhen (Part 1)
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Empress Zhou, who was thinking about how to commit suicide, and Wang Chengen, who was thinking about leaving, turned their heads in the direction of the noise, and saw a dozen people who looked like guards running in from outside the hall. Logically speaking, without the order of Emperor Chongzhen, guards could not enter the residence of the empress and the imperial concubine, so the eunuchs and palace maids standing outside the hall wanted to stop these dozen people, but each of them was carrying a knife and rushed in like a ferocious monster.
"How dare you! This is a forbidden area in the palace. Do you think you can come here?" A eunuch shouted bravely, but he was kicked to the ground by the newcomer. He walked into the hall without stopping. The guard in the lead was about thirty years old, with a smart and capable face. Wang Chengen knew him at first glance.
The man was called Wang Dahui, a fellow villager of Wang Chengen. When he came to Wang Chengen for refuge, he asked Wang Chengen for help. Of course, Wang Chengen also got a lot of money from Wang Dahui. Because of Wang Chengen's care, Wang Dahui was promoted to the position of commander after joining the guards. Originally, in Wang Chengen's feeling, accompanying a fellow villager and clan member would be of some benefit to him, but now it seems that Wang Dahui came here with a ferocious look, and it is obvious that he has no good intentions.
"Wang Dahui, you, what are you doing?" Wang Chengen looked at Wang Dahui and his men, shaking with anger. The city outside was broken and the Ming Dynasty was about to perish, but these ungrateful guys came here at this time, obviously wanting to take advantage of the situation. How could Wang Chengen not be angry? He even forgot about following Emperor Chongzhen for a moment.
"I'm sorry, Eunuch Wang. I'm here on the orders of King Tang to stop the emperor from committing suicide. I hope it's not too late." Wang Dahui bowed to Wang Chengen. Wang Chengen was really his fellow villager, but before Wang Dahui came to join Wang Chengen, he was already a spy under Tang Tong. After training, he was stationed in the capital by Tang Tong's intelligence agency. Taking advantage of the relationship of being Wang Chengen's fellow villager, he used money to pave the way for him to become a spy lurking in the palace.
At the same time as Wang Dahui, he sneaked into the palace. There were more than twenty people in the guard team. These people themselves had good martial arts skills, otherwise they would not have been able to enter the palace guard team. You must know that although the guards in the palace are not all masters as described in the novel, they are also very strong in personal combat power. Without certain abilities, you can't get along in the guard team. This time, before Tang Tong's army broke through the city wall of the capital, it had already given orders to those spies lurking in the capital. One was to incite the wealthy families in the capital who wanted to surrender to cooperate with Tang Tong when he attacked the city, and the other was to protect the palace and prevent Emperor Chongzhen from burning the palace in anger.
Of course, there is one less important request, which is to save the family of Emperor Chongzhen as much as possible, not to let Emperor Chongzhen kill the two princesses, and not to let Emperor Chongzhen, Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang of Emperor Tianqi commit suicide. Tang Tong does not want that under his changes, the family of Emperor Chongzhen, who was extremely tragic in history, will still have a tragic ending. As a person with advanced thinking for three hundred years, Tang Tong believes that the survival of Emperor Chongzhen's family will not have much impact on himself.
Pushed by himself, the wheel of history has completely changed, and those ideological changes in history have also been advanced because of him. Tang Tong believes that as long as he is given another twenty years, after the new generation has grown up, the influence of Emperor Chongzhen will completely disappear. What's more, Tang Tong has spared no effort in cracking down on the landlords all the way. As the representative of the landlord class, Emperor Chongzhen has gradually lost the foundation of this class. Most of the landlords are finished, and there are no people or money. Even if there are those with bad intentions, they can't make a difference.
Man proposes, God disposes. For some things, Tang Tong believed that it was enough to just do his best. As for whether he could save the family of Emperor Chongzhen, Tang Tong did not care too much. However, since his order had come down, Wang Dahui and his men must of course do their best to complete it. Tang Tong could relax the standards in his mind, but they, the staff members, could not be careless at all. Therefore, when Tang Tong started to attack the city, Wang Dahui gathered his men and began to take control of the entire palace. Of course, they could not do it with the few people they had.
However, after Wang Dashan and his men were placed in the team of guards, they all had some official positions, and the group of people under their command were generally under their control. Wang Dahui and his men took advantage of the panic and first controlled the periphery of the palace. This palace is known as the Forbidden City, and it occupies a very large area. With the men under the control of Wang Dahui and his men, it is impossible to completely guard all the important roads of the palace. However, at this time, Tang Tong's army had already broken through the city wall of the capital. Wang Dahui and his men did not need to control it for too long. As long as they did not let anyone destroy this place before the army reached the palace, it would be fine. After Wang Dahui and his men controlled the main places in the palace, they brought a dozen people to rescue Emperor Chongzhen and his family. This was not an easy task.
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