When the soldiers of Shun Army found Chongzhen, they also found the suicide note he left, which read: Since the seventeenth year of my ascension to the throne, although I have been poor in virtue and have been angry with the heavens, all the ministers have misled me and caused the traitor to go straight to the capital. I died and saw my ancestors without a face, so I would go to the crown to cover my face. Let the thieves split my body and do not hurt the people alone.

Zhu Cilang slowly woke up and saw Li Zicheng sitting in front of him, and scolded: "Rebel! You are just as my father's order!"

Li Zicheng handed Chongzhen's suicide note to Zhu Cilang and said slowly: "Your Highness, it's not that I am willing to rebel and force your father to death, but that the Ming officials deceived the superiors and concealed the subordinates, causing the people to live in poverty and the people to have no way to survive. Do you think we will wait for death if we don't rebel? Since they don't give us a way to live, we have to drag them to death together! Your Highness, please remember that it's not my Li Zicheng who killed your father, but the court! Seeing that your father left his suicide note, all civil officials in the world can be killed! Please see how I avenge your father!"

"If the officials in the world had not been for the position of being a corpse, deceiving the superiors and subordinates to bully the people, you would not have been a vicious person, and my father would not have ended like this." Zhu Cilang sighed.

Li Zicheng smiled and paused: "Please rest assured, Your Highness, the prince, I will definitely bury your father with the rituals of the king, and I will not make things difficult for you and the three brothers! The princes in the court repeatedly advised me to submit their letters, hoping that I will ascend the throne to the throne. After I ascend the throne, I will confer the three brothers as kings."

The news that Chongzhen had passed away spread like snowflakes throughout the city, and naturally it also spread to Gao Wencai's home.

"Your Highness the Princess has not recovered from his serious injury. I hope you can help me and don't let the princess know about this." Zhao Peng explained this to the masters and servants in Gao Wencai's family.

Zhao Peng walked towards Princess Kunxing's room. The maid outside also knew that this guy was interested in the princess, and His Highness did not seem to be disgusted with this guy, so they just had a blessing and let Zhao Peng into the house.

When she walked into the house, Fei Zhen'e, who was serving Princess Kunxing on the edge of her sickbed, knew what was going on in her heart. Although the princess had already betrothed to Zhou Shixian, with the Zhou family's previous attitude, Fei Zhen'e thought that Zhou Shixian was not worthy of the princess at all, and the man in front of her was interested in the princess. This person not only saved the princess, but also planned to escort the prince south. If the prince could ascend the throne in Nanjing, this person would definitely have at least one Jinyiwei commander. She secretly looked at Zhao Peng and felt that this guy was still quite handsome.

Thinking that when the princess marry this guy, she must have been dowrying to the Zhao family, Fei Zhen'e's face turned red. She lowered her head and blushed and said softly: "General Zhao, Your Highness of the Princess has something to say to you, I will retreat first."

Zhao Peng walked to Princess Kunxing's sickbed and bowed. The princess had woken up and looked at him with beautiful eyes. When Princess Kunxing found that Zhao Peng was also looking at him, she subconsciously avoided Zhao Peng's gaze, her face turned red like a piece of red silk cloth, and she whispered in a voice that was so light that only she could hear: "General Zhao doesn't have to be too polite, please sit down and talk slowly."

"Thank you Princess!" After Zhao Peng saluted, he sat down on a stool beside the sickbed.

"General Zhao, will there be news about my father in the past two days?" Princess Kunxing asked anxiously.

Princess Kunxing's serious injury has not healed. Zhao Peng was worried that she would not be able to bear the news when she heard the news, so he naturally did not dare to tell her the news that Chongzhen had passed away. Of course, the emperor's death could not be hidden in the end, but it was not possible to say it at this time. In a few days, I will tell her when the princess's injury has almost healed.

Zhao Peng shook his head and made up a lie to comfort Princess Kunxing: "There is no news about the emperor. Maybe the thief has not been found yet. Maybe the emperor has escaped from the capital."

"Impossible!" Princess Kunxing shook her head, "How can my father escape from the capital among thousands of troops? Unless I disguise myself as a disguise. I know my father's temper best. He is very proud of his face and would rather die than disguise himself as a civilian to escape."

The other way around is that I know my daughter, and this sentence is the same. Of course, Princess Kunxing knows her father's bad temper. It is impossible for her to disguise herself as she is impossible. Chongzhen could not hold back that face. If he could take down that old face, then could he be stopped by Chen Yan and other groups of people and could not go to Nanjing? She had already left the court and ran away by himself. So, she had a premonition that her father had already encountered an unexpected situation.

Zhao Peng, who is aware of the history of half a bucket of water, also knew Chongzhen a little, but he still comforted Princess Kunxing: "Princess, please rest assured, the emperor will definitely not be in trouble. If there is any news, I will tell Your Highness the Princess as soon as possible."

"Is there any news about my prince brother?" Princess Kunxing asked again.

"I am not good at doing things and have not yet found out whereabouts of the prince. But please rest assured that the thief will not hurt the prince. In a few days, I will surrender and enter the camp to find out whereabouts of the prince." Zhao Peng replied.

Princess Kunxing whispered: "General Zhao is so loyal, and my mother is grateful. But the general pretended to surrender and sneaked into the thief camp to find out the news, and he had to pay attention to his safety. If there was anything wrong with the general, who could escort my mother to Nanjing?"

Zhao Peng felt a warm feeling in his heart: Princess Kunxing has already begun to care about her safety. It seems that there is hope for becoming the prince consort of the Ming Dynasty.

After leaving the princess' room, Zhao Peng suddenly thought of something very important: he was angry with the beauty! There was a key figure who was almost forgotten by himself! Wu Sangui! It is said that it was because Liu Zongmin forced Chen Yuanyuan that Wu Sangui opened Shanhaiguan and let the Qing army enter the pass. It seemed that he had to stop such a thing from happening. Even if Wu Sangui did not surrender to Li Zicheng, he could not surrender to the Qing Dynasty! If Wu Sangui insisted on Shanhaiguan and neither surrendered to the Shun army nor surrendered to the Qing army, then with the Ming Dynasty's maritime transportation capabilities, the safety of the Shanhaiguan enclave could be guaranteed.

As long as the Qing army was blocked outside Shanhaiguan, it would be impossible to invade the south on a large scale. Although the Qing army could bypass Shanhaiguan in the past, it was just a robbery and ran away. Without the access to Shanhaiguan, the Qing army could not stay in the pass for a long time.

In fact, Zhao Peng was also wrong. In fact, even if Chen Yuanyuan was not involved, Wu Sangui would open Shanhaiguan and let the Qing army enter the pass. Because Wu Sangui's idea was not Wu Sangui alone, the initiator was a civil servant named Wang Yongji. In fact, the bad idea of ​​Jilu Pingko was a decision made by the entire civil servant gentry group for its own interests.

The literati and gentry didn't care whether the Han people were sitting on the dragon throne or the barbarians. Compared to Dashun's rule, they would rather let the Qing rulers enter the pass to rule them because Li Zicheng wanted to equalize their fields, while the Qing rulers would not divide their land. Do not underestimate the lower limits of these civil servants and gentry. For their own vested interests, they could do anything. Not to mention colluding with foreign rulers to deal with the peasant army, they could do all the regicide! The emperors of the Ming Dynasty had a tradition of falling into the water.

Officials who are both civil servants and gentry groups will die miserably if they offend their interests. For example, Jia Sidao of the Southern Song Dynasty offended the civil servants and gentry groups because of a public land law. Therefore, he not only died of misfortune, but also was slandered as the biggest treacherous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!