The emperor's daughter Changping

Outside Ningshou Palace, Cheng Qingzhu walked back and forth restlessly. Ever since he knew the news of the princess returning to the palace, he had been waiting outside Ningshou Palace. The emperor tried his best to persuade him, but the emperor seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief and did not intend to execute him.

But the most important thing right now is that Cao Huachun, the chief eunuch, has colluded with a group of bureaucrats and is asking the emperor to borrow troops from the Manchus in the palace of health preservation. The princess must be notified as soon as possible about this matter. Perhaps she is the only one who can stop the emperor's decision, but the princess is too late The delay in waking up is really worrying.

Cheng Qingzhu was about to ask someone to inquire, only to see Aying, the maid beside the princess, hurried out and said: "My lord, the princess is awake, please go in and talk!"

Cheng Qingzhu hurriedly followed her into the Ningshou Palace. At this time, Ah Jiu had already woken up and adjusted her appearance. Because she was serving the empress dowager, she was dressed in plain white court attire, and was being supported by Jin Ju. Cheng Qingzhu hurriedly wanted to salute, but Was exempted by Ah Jiu.

Ah Jiu asked him to sit down, and asked him weakly: "Master Cheng, I heard that Ah Ying said that you have something important to talk to me about!"

Cheng Qingzhu said: "Just as the princess wanted to report, Cao Huachun colluded with a group of bureaucrats and asked the emperor to borrow [-] troops from the Qing Dynasty to deal with the trespasser Li Zicheng. The emperor is already hesitating!"

"What!" Ah Jiu was shocked and stood up.

Cheng Qingzhu hurriedly knelt down and begged: "Princess, please go and persuade the emperor quickly, Manchurians are wolf ambitions, so don't let them enter Shanhaiguan!"

"Get up quickly, I will follow you!"

Outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, it was heavily guarded and surrounded, and An Jianqing personally guarded it. As soon as Ah Jiu and Cheng Qingzhu came to the door, he stopped them from moving forward.

"An Jianqing, you are so courageous, you dare to stop the princess' fight!" Cheng Qingzhu said angrily, anyway, he used to be the chief guard of the palace, but An Jianqing didn't give him any face. Time and time again to block his way.

"My servant is guarding here by the order of the emperor. No matter who it is, no one is allowed to enter without the order of the emperor. Please forgive me, princess!" Unmoved, An Jianqing bent over and said to Ah Jiu.

"You..." Cheng Qingzhu looked at him, too angry to speak.

"Lord An, I know you are loyal to your father and Daming, but this matter is of great importance. I must stop my father, and please let me in!" Ah Jiu signaled Cheng Qingzhu not to get excited, and said to An Jianqing .

"I'm sure you know what's going on inside. We must not allow the enemy to succeed in this matter, otherwise our Ming Dynasty will be in danger. Mr. An has been loyal to the emperor and loved him, so I don't think he wants to see such consequences!" She saw An Jianqing With some emotion on his face, he continued.

"This..." An Jianqing was a little hesitant. He was misunderstood by his wife and children all his life, and everyone betrayed him. Now, someone finally said that he was loyal to the emperor and serving the country.

"Don't worry, no matter what happens, all the consequences will be borne by me!" Chang Ping said.

An Jianqing didn't speak any more, and turned slightly to let the two of them in.

The gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation was slowly opened, An Jianqing watched silently, hoping the princess was right, he thought so.

The emperor's fate is difficult, right and wrong, such issues are never what he should consider.

As soon as the gate of the Health Preservation Hall was opened, everyone couldn't help but look back. Ah Jiu approached Chongzhen directly, and saw that the leaders were Cao Huachun, Hong Chengchou and others, so he saluted and said: "My son, please see my father!"

"Changping?" Emperor Chongzhen was taken aback for a moment, and then said angrily: "Presumptuous! Who allowed you to come in?"

"Father, calm down, it's my son who wants to come in!" Ah Jiu knelt down hurriedly.

"You have just returned to the palace, and if you don't go to keep filial piety for the queen mother, why do you come here?" Chongzhen said angrily.

"Father, I heard that you want to borrow soldiers from the Qing Dynasty. I think this is inappropriate. Please think again, Father!"

"Your Royal Highness!" It was Cao Huachun who walked in, crying: "You don't know, in recent months, there have been bandits all over the place, and the robbers have taken several cities and cities of my Ming Dynasty. The trespassers are strong and powerful, and they continue to recapture the rogues from all over the place. If things go on like this, if we don’t use troops to get rid of them, it will be difficult for our Ming Dynasty to be preserved!”

"Then you can't borrow soldiers from the Manchu Qing!" Ah Jiu said in a deep voice, and then said to Chongzhen: "Father, the so-called rogues are actually just some common people. Natural disasters, man-made disasters, corrupt officials and officials make them have nothing to eat They will rebel. As long as the father and emperor open warehouses to relieve disasters, I believe that the rogues will eventually become ordinary people! The Manchurian Tartars are different. They invaded my country and captured my people as slaves. They are tyrannical and cruel by nature. Entry!"

"Then the princess wants to see my Daming country being captured step by step by intruders?" Cao Huachun chuckled.

"Princess, don't forget that when you swore with Master Cheng to disintegrate the gangs in the Jianghu and prevent them from joining the bandit army, but now? Not only did they not suffer any casualties, but they even formed a seven-province martial arts alliance. Help the intruder."

"You..." Ah Jiu was annoyed, this Cao Huachun was really cunning.

"That's enough!" Chongzhen said, he sat down a little tiredly, did not look at the two people who were arguing, and said weakly: "You all go down, we will talk about the borrowing of soldiers later!"

"Your Majesty!" Cao Huachun and Hong Chengchou and others behind him hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please think twice!"

"Get out! I told you all to get out, did you hear me?" Chongzhen was furious, picked up the memorial on the desk and smashed it down, Cao Huachun and others had to retreat and remove it.

"Ah Jiu, why don't you leave?" After a long time, Emperor Chongzhen opened his eyes and saw that there was only Ah Jiu standing in the empty hall.

"I want to stay with my father!" I haven't seen you for a few months, but my father seems to have changed a lot, and his temper seems to have turned bad again.

"It's better to be my daughter, look, look at those ministers in the court, they are all against me openly and secretly!" Chongzhen walked down the steps and crossed to Ah Jiu.

"Father, don't be sad, it's all because of my son's fault, my son's incompetence, and failed to get rid of the power of the intruder..." His voice was choked in his throat, and Ah Jiu couldn't continue.

"Don't cry, you are my most beautiful princess, how ugly it is to cry!" Emperor Chongzhen raised his hand and gently wiped away the tears from Ah Jiu's face, and said in a hoarse voice.

"Father!" As he said this, Ah Jiu couldn't bear it anymore, threw herself into his arms, and cried out loud.

However, Cao Huachun, since he came out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, went back to his residence and changed into casual clothes to leave the palace quietly. He dodged all the way, as if to avoid something, and came to a courtyard, and said a few words in the ear of the gatekeeper, After a while, someone invited him in.

The courtyard turned around, and the man led him until he came to a pavilion before stopping. The pavilion was covered by light gauze, but there was a melodious piano sound coming from inside.

Cao Huachun stopped, bowed his waist and saluted, "Little man Cao Huachun, see Your Highness Prince Rui!"

"Come in!" the voice of the piano stopped, and the people inside said.

Only now did Cao Huachun go in, and Prince Rui withdrew the maid playing the piano, looked at the scenery on one side, turned his back to Cao Huachun and said, "How is the matter going?"

Cao Huachun said: "Prince Rui, please forgive me, originally everything went smoothly, Chongzhen was already hesitating, who knew that at this time Princess Changping broke in and disrupted our plan!"

"Princess Changping?" Prince Rui read silently, and said again: "I forgot about her!"

"My lord, what should we do next?" Cao Huachun asked.

"Hmph!" The man chuckled and said, "Since that's the case, I have another plan here!"

"My lord wants to..." Cao Huachun stepped forward to listen to the man's plan.