Great time travel

Chapter 168
In the middle of the night on the [-]th day of February in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Nanzhili, the city of Chizhou on the banks of the Yangtze River

In the main room of the back house of the prefect’s yamen in Chizhou, several white-bearded old doctors gathered around a Babu bed with bright yellow curtains, tossing around with various gadgets for a long time, and after discussing with each other, they finally had to Sighing, he turned around and knelt down in front of a haggard lady, and reported in a deep voice, "...Please forgive me, Your Majesty, Your Majesty is now terminally ill, and the medicine is useless. Please... take care of the funeral as soon as possible." !"

After hearing the diagnoses of these famous local doctors, Empress Zhou Yufeng, Concubine Tian Gui and other court ladies under the oil lamp, as well as the princes and daughters who were hugged by them, burst into tears in unison.And the few courtiers and generals who stood waiting outside the door also had sad expressions and heavy hearts.

——The Nanjing War lasted for more than a month in late autumn last year. For both warring parties, it was a thrilling gamble.Not only did the Qing emperor Huang Taiji exhaust himself physically and mentally, but he also exhausted the time-traveling version of the Chongzhen emperor Zhu Youjian.

Especially when Emperor Chongzhen was still a loser.

The painstaking efforts for more than a year suddenly came to naught, and all the elite soldiers and generals who were finally raised were lost in one day-such a heavy psychological blow, coupled with the injuries and rain when fleeing from the battlefield, made Emperor Chongzhen The body, which was not considered healthy, immediately collapsed quickly.

Because of the heavy pressure, this time-travel version of Emperor Chongzhen had already overdrawn his time.

——You know, this time-travel version of Emperor Chongzhen woke up from a serious illness in the Forbidden City in Beijing at the beginning, and his body was naturally weak.Then, before he could recuperate, the rapidly deteriorating battle situation forced him to stand up and try to arrange the escape under the pressure of the court's civil and military forces.Along the way, this time-travel version of Emperor Chongzhen not only couldn't eat well and sleep well, but also faced all kinds of open and dark arrows, guarding against the long-distance pursuit and killing of local officials and rogue bandits with ulterior motives. Overdrawn badly.

Therefore, in just over a year, he fell ill once in Taiyuan, Luoyang and Wuchang respectively. After three consecutive serious illnesses, his health was already very bad.In the later period of the Nanjing War, this His Majesty was already lingering on the sick bed, with some minor problems in the throat, stomach, heart, legs and feet one after another.Afterwards, the Ming army was defeated in Nanjing, and Yu Jia fled in a hurry. He was injured on the road and bled profusely, then caught a cold in the rain. Chizhou finally fell headlong.

Fortunately, after the Qing army pursued to Wuhu in the Taiping Mansion and defeated Lu Xiangsheng's broken troops, they retreated and returned. ****Have a breather.

However, bad news from all sides continued to come.First, Lu Xiangsheng died in Wuhu, which not only made Emperor Chongzhen lose his loyal ministers, but also left him with no more soldiers to use.Then, the various rogues who poured into Huguang began to break out small-scale internal strife at the end of the year because of the uneven distribution of spoils.Zhang Xianzhong, who was entrenched in Wuchang, took down the Huguang provincial government, and the gold and silver women had the most harvest, but his fighting skills were not as good as Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui and others, so he worried that he would be the target of public criticism, so he set fire to Wuchang and sent his army eastward along the river. , Straight into Jiangxi, the Ming army along the way was unstoppable.The family members of the royal family and ministers who were originally stranded in Jiujiang had to board a boat and flee collectively under the leadership of Wen Tiren, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and came to Chizhou Mansion to join Emperor Chongzhen.Zhang Xianzhong took Jiujiang lightly, and then besieged Nanchang on a large scale, seeing that Jiangxi province was about to fall.

This series of heavy mental blows made Emperor Chongzhen's body no longer overwhelmed, and finally collapsed completely, and he didn't even have the strength to get out of bed.Even the reunion with Queen Zhou, Concubine Tian and other family members did not make his extremely weak body recover.At the beginning of February, Emperor Chongzhen's condition further deteriorated sharply, and he was already in a coma, unable to drink water or rice.Even looking for famous doctors everywhere, the medicine is still in vain.

——No way, the medical technology of this era is only at such an unreliable level, even a cold can kill a person.

At this moment, perhaps because of the reflection of the light, the mind of the time-traveled Emperor Chongzhen became a little clearer.

Looking back on my experience in this time and space for more than a year, I really regret it.

——Traveling back to ancient times to be an emperor, the protagonist, who seems to have infinite glory, was treated at the beginning, but in fact, it was a near-death situation from the very beginning!

When he took over the hot throne, the city of Beijing was already doomed to fall, and the loyalty of all civil and military officials was also very suspicious.After finally escaping from Beijing, he was about to move to Nanjing to clean up the mess, when the Donglin Party's rebellion against the emperor gave him another fatal blow.

At this point, the disintegration of the Ming Empire has become an imminent crisis.And the successive emergence of various traverser forces, and the drastic changes they caused to the historical process.It also made this aging and decaying Ming Empire face a major change that had not been seen in thousands of years.

This is no longer a burden that requires a virtuous person, but a superman.

No matter how awesome the traveler is, if he encounters such a group of demons dancing wildly and grotesquely, his claws will be numb.

But he still didn't give up, but bit the bullet and worked hard to solve this crisis, wanting to save this old empire that belonged to him-for a modern young man who was just an ordinary citizen before crossing, the exhaustion and confusion in it And difficult, really indescribable.

Regrettably, he failed in the end, and was crushed by this failure both mind and body.

The dream of reviving the empire has been completely shattered, leaving only a precarious and desperate crisis.

Before dying, Empress Zhou Yufeng came to ask how to arrange the funeral, but the Emperor Chongzhen, who was lying on the bed, just stared at the curtain beside the bed, and left the last sentence in a weak voice: "...I came to this world, what have I accomplished!"

Among the people present, no one heard the implication of these words.

——After saying the last words, Emperor Chongzhen collapsed and fell into a coma again.Even if I wake up for a moment by chance, I can't speak.Relying on the treatment and rescue of famous local doctors, he barely survived for another two days, and finally passed away in the early morning of February [-]th.

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The successive deaths of Emperor Chongzhen of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji, and Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian, heralded the end of an era.

From then on, the unified Chinese Empire no longer existed, and the vast land of the Central Plains completely entered the turbulent and chaotic world where the heroes competed for the throne.

Therefore, all kinds of bad news that came one after another did not come to an end with the death of Emperor Chongzhen.

On February [-], the same day that Emperor Chongzhen died, Zhang Xianzhong's "thief army" conquered Nanchang, and the entire province of Jiangxi basically collapsed.The next day, another group of bandits captured Anqing Mansion in Jiangbei.As for the Chizhou Mansion where Yujia was stationed, there were also thieves flocking at this time, and the remaining officers and soldiers broke up and fled one after another.

After the death of Emperor Chongzhen, Empress Zhou and the chief assistant of the cabinet, Wen Tiren, immediately led all the civil and military officials to support the six-year-old crown prince Zhu Cihong in Chizhou and proclaimed himself emperor.Empress Zhou was naturally promoted to empress dowager, and Wen Tiren took advantage of the opportunity to become the Minister of Gu Ming who assisted the young emperor.In order to show the new emperor's filial piety to his deceased father, Zhu Cihong followed the old practice when Emperor Tianqi passed away and continued to use the reign name of Chongzhen this year, and will discuss the matter of changing the Yuan Dynasty next year.

However, even though the new emperor came to the throne, there was not a single trace of the new emperor's new atmosphere, but it was full of the haze of impending disaster.

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen's exiled government has lost control of Huguang and Jiangxi, and is trapped in a corner of Chizhou.The once mighty tens of thousands of troops, after many defeats, have less than 2000 people left, and they are like frightened birds from top to bottom.Even Chizhou, where Yujia is currently stationed, is wrapped in the sphere of influence of the Qing army and the rogue bandits, and the terrain is flat and there is no danger to defend. It is really not a place to stay for a long time.

Therefore, Wen Tiren, the chief assistant who actually presided over the exile government, soon reported to the Queen Mother that they had to move again.

"...Qizou Empress Dowager, Your Majesty, Huguang and Jiangxi have fallen, and Chizhou is surrounded by enemies. Not only is there no danger to defend, but also no way to raise money and food. If the imperial court continues to stay here, it is tantamount to sitting and waiting for death. Although the Ming Dynasty still has Sichuan and Hunan in the southwest It is a land of several provinces, but the road to the west has been blocked by the rogues, if we force our way to the west with the current number of people, it is tantamount to throwing ourselves into a trap and sending all the nobles of the heavenly family to the hands of those brutal rogues."

Wen Tiren, whose face was also extremely haggard, said to the panic-stricken Queen Mother Zhou and the little emperor, "...For the present plan, the only way to move the imperial court to Huizhou, where there are thousands of elite soldiers from the Western Zhejiang General Army to escort them , and Huizhou is surrounded by mountains and far away from the Yangtze River waterway, so it is easier to defend than Chizhou. Moreover, Huizhou merchants are famous all over the world, and it is easy to raise taxes, money and food... In addition, the minister is from Huzhou, and the clan has some contacts in Zhejiang. Huizhou is tight Being close to Zhejiang, maybe I can try to get some support from my hometown to keep the imperial court safe..."

"...can only keep the imperial court safe for a while?" Zhou Yufeng, who had just been promoted from empress to empress dowager, asked while wiping tears, "...Although Aijia doesn't know geography, he has seen maps recently. There are still enemies on all sides, how will the court deploy in the future?"

"...In the future? Who knows? The old minister can't think about it so much anymore! Let's focus on the present for now, let's live it day by day!"

Wen Tiren smiled sadly, "...Empress Dowager, forgive me for speaking bluntly, now that the world is falling apart, I don't know if there is any future for me!"

On February [-]th, the seventh year of Chongzhen, at the insistence of Wen Tiren, the chief assistant, the young emperor Zhu Cihong and the Empress Dowager Zhou took the Emperor Chongzhen's Zi Palace (that is, the coffin) and drove away from Chizhou to Huizhou, which is located in the deep mountains of southern Anhui ( Huangshan City in later generations), preparing to join Wang Dou, the Zhexi General Soldier stationed here.

At the same time, the Jiangnan Donglin party members, who were relieved temporarily due to the internal division of the Qing army, also started their activities again...