The matter of Princess Kunxing was over. Zhang Biwu finally looked at Coal Mountain from afar. Next, he was going to Coal Mountain to meet Chongzhen and Wang Chengen for the last time... Lu Xiangsheng should have been in Coal Mountain. After all, when Zhang Biwu and Lu Xiangsheng met, Zhang Biwu agreed with Lu Xiangsheng that everyone would meet in Coal Mountain.

Without further ado, Lu Xiangsheng was already waiting in Coal Mountain. When he saw Zhang Biwu, he went up Coal Mountain with Zhang Biwu. Before them, Chongzhen had already gone up Coal Mountain.

Coal Mountain is the highest place in Yanjing City during the Ming Dynasty. It was built by the Emperor Wanyan Yong, the ancestor of the Jin Dynasty, built the Taining Palace in the northeast of Zhongdu City. He once piled up some soil here to form a mound. In the Yuan Dynasty, Jingshan was surrounded into the imperial city and became part of the imperial palace.

In the Ming Dynasty, when Yanjing built the imperial palace, coal was piled here, so it was called "Coal Mountain". When Yanjing City was expanded, all the garbage in the demolished city walls and other buildings were transported to pile it up in Coal Mountain, and the Coal Mountain was piled up.

Since its location is exactly on the central axis of the city and a barrier to the north of the palace, Feng Shui warriors called it "Zhenshan". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many fruit trees were planted in the garden and raised animals such as deer and cranes. Therefore, the foot of the mountain was once called Baiguoyuan, and the foot of the mountain was once called "Wansuishan".

Now Chongzhen is resting under a tree not far from a small pavilion facing the Shouhuang Palace. This is a locust tree with its neck tilted. If it were in the past, the emperor would never have been allowed to sit under the locust tree. Because the locust tree is a ghost tree, it is easy to hide ghosts, and it is afraid that it will hit the Holy Lord and bring ominousness.

As long as Chongzhen stood up and stretched out his hand, he could get the tree, because the age of this tree was only decades, and it is said to be a tree planted in the late Wanli period.

The small pavilion fell to the pavilion because Li Zicheng's cannon entered the palace and blew up the pavilion. This pavilion was used for a break when Chongzhen and his concubines went out for a walk. It was not very big and had no official name. Because the north of the pavilion was the Shouhuang Hall, people also called it the Shouhuang Pavilion.

But the pavilion is too small and inconspicuous. People outside the palace do not know it, and few people in the palace know it! Therefore, people think that there was no Shouhuang Pavilion in the Ming Dynasty, but they don’t know that the Shouhuang Pavilion mentioned refers to a small pavilion facing the Shouhuang Palace on Coal Mountain.

"It's a change of things!" Chongzhen looked at the destroyed pavilion, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly. It was not until tonight that he realized that he had ordered the firing of artillery to attack Li Zicheng near Yanjing City. The people on the city were afraid that if they caused harm to the rebel army, they would be retaliated when the city of Yanjing City was broken. People were very resistant to the firing order, but they had to obey the order. What should we do?

Therefore, under the command, their countermeasure was to fire empty cannons, which could not hurt the rebels at all. The rebels understood the painstaking efforts of the people in the city, and they also fired empty cannons. This time, both defending the city and siege reached a consensus, but they just understood each other.

The destroyed Shouhuangting Pavilion was destroyed by the actual cannons fired by the rebels at the beginning.

After Chongzhen heard Wang Chengen say this, he shook his head in pain and sat decadently.

Chongzhen just now thought that Zhang Biwu would rescue his son, but when he thought about how he would be loyal to you when he treated Zhang Biwu like this and repeatedly wanted to harm him, how could he be loyal to you? Will he help the young lord restore the country? This is a very stupid idea! And if the prince and the two kings are really entrusted to Zhang Biwu, in the future, Zhang Biwu's strength will become Dong Zhuo or Wang Mang, or Cao ** and Song Taizu! Maybe he will even lose his life in his son!

Instead of doing this, it is better to let Zhang Biwu serve his son directly as a minister, and let Zhang Biwu treat his son by giving alms or by the strong protecting the weak! The prince and the two kings can survive!

Chongzhen thought of this and knew that he had to do this! He could die for his country, but his son did not have to die for his country like him. Chongzhen was indeed a qualified father.

At this time, the rapid footsteps were getting more and more urgent, and it was Lu Xiangsheng and Zhang Biwu who came.

Chongzhen was shocked when he saw Lu Xiangsheng! Lu Xiangsheng was not dead! There were rumors before that Lu Xiangsheng was not dead, but Zhang Biwu saved him. Chongzhen still didn't believe it! But now he saw it with his own eyes, and you have to believe it if you don't believe it!

"Emperor!" Lu Xiangsheng knelt down with tears in his eyes and saluted Chongzhen.

Chongzhen looked at Lu Xiangsheng for a moment and didn't know what to say. Lu Xiangsheng also saw Chongzhen with white hair. He was surprised at first. Chongzhen was in his prime, so why did he have gorgeous hair? Lu Xiangsheng felt very uncomfortable. He didn't look like a person who was only 34 years old? He was simply an old man!

Chongzhen smiled and said, "Jiandou, you are still alive, I am so happy! I am so happy!" Lu Xiangsheng kowtowed: "Your Majesty, I am incompetent! I cannot be loyal to the emperor, nor can I make the Ming Dynasty safe!"

Chongzhen asked: "Jiandou, since you are not dead in Jiazhuang, Julu, why don't you come to see me? There are no capable ministers in the court. If you come back, I will definitely use you! With you here, the Ming Dynasty will not fall into such a field!"

Zhang Biwu spoke out: "Your Majesty, if Lu Xiangsheng really came to see you, would you say Lu Xiangsheng still be alive? His head would have been separated long ago! You are suspicious and you dare not take responsibility. Whenever you fail or be criticized, you always find someone to take responsibility! At this time, what you think of is to let Lu Xiangsheng take responsibility, and Yang Sichang, who is good at harming others and taking credit for credit, love you deeply. How could you let Lu Xiangsheng go?"

Chongzhen didn't speak out after hearing this. He looked at Zhang Biwu. If Zhang Biwu had criticized him like this before, he would have asked someone to kill Zhang Biwu Lingchi. But now he is a king of a country that has no such ability. On the contrary, he asked Zhang Biwu to protect his son! Even if he felt very uncomfortable after hearing this, he still had to endure it.

Zhang Biwu had to say something: "Your Majesty, I have nothing to you. I have always been there to concentrate on fighting against the Qing Dynasty, but you have repeatedly wanted to kill me. Who can still be loyal to you? And every minister is afraid of your suspicion, so they dare not try their best to help you!"

"Haha! Do you know?" Chongzhen looked at Zhang Biwu and said, "What era was the first time I experienced? It was an era when eunuchs caused trouble. When Wei Zhongxian was in a state of care, I had to be careful. If there was a slight mistake, I would be in a loss of people's head! Others think that I was good at being the King of Trustees, but I didn't know that I was walking on thin ice. Until I ascended the throne, my situation was not good! The same is true! I always feel that countless knives were stabbing me! Sitting on the dragon throne, my ** feels burned by fire and roasted on the fire pit. It's really hard and difficult for me!"

"I have thought about it carefully every time I use a person, but when Wei Zhongxian was in power, who had no shit on him? The person without shit had been removed by Wei Zhongxian! I started to choose carefully, but every time it disappointed me!"

Chongzhen became more and more excited as he spoke: "Do you know what era I am in? It is an era of hypocritical times in which even evil bad people speak benevolence, righteousness and morality. On the one hand, despicable behavior is disgusting, but on the other hand, the saints talk endlessly."

"The decay of the officialdom is very abominable, but I feel suffocated, weak and crazy. Those hateful civil servants keep saying that they are tragic for the king and father, and they will never refuse! But in the end? They all betrayed me, all for themselves! What kind of mind can I have to believe in people?"

Chongzhen asked Zhang Biwu sternly, "Zhang Biwu! Tell me! Who can I believe in! Who do I believe in? If you were to be this emperor, you would be the same as me!"

When Zhang Biwu saw Chongzhen's excited look, he did not want to argue with him, not to mention that he expressed deep sympathy for Chongzhen's situation.

Zhang Biwu didn't say anything, but looked at Chongzhen excitedly yelling: "Every civil servant can be killed!" This is the hatred in Chongzhen's heart! If there were no restrictions from the civil servant group over the years, how could he have reached this point?

Chongzhen opened his arms and shouted at the heavens: "Every civil servants can be killed! Most of my government affairs are harmed by these civil servants! Civil servants are ruining the country! I am not a king who has destroyed the country, but everything is a sign of a destruction of the country! All ministers of the country are destruction of the country! Every move of my actions has been misinterpreted by them, and the policies cannot be implemented at all!"

"Every time I allocate funds to provide relief to the people, most of them have enough money, causing more chaos! For the rioters, whether they are pacified or suppressed, they misinterpreted me and could not implement it well, causing the world to become corrupt! Civil officials disobeyed their slanderous words and kept their loyalty, but actually hiding evil intentions! They were all for their own sake and putting the country in dire straits. But what about military generals? They were arrogant and unruly and could not be dispatched! I am a lonely man!"

Chongzhen cried and said, "Actually, I envy my brother so much. Although he has only been the emperor for seven years, at least he still has Wei Zhongxian, Keshi, and Empress Zhang who can trust him. What else can I have to trust? I can only be the emperor for seventeen years in anger, worry, doubt, and confusion. After seventeen years of painful days, the country is in turmoil and turmoil, and it is difficult to support it, but I have to support it!"

Chongzhen shouted: "Do you know? I have been having a dream these days. I dreamed that an emperor had a disheveled hair, with his shoes on his feet, and no shoes on his feet! Later, I dreamed that Taizu was crying at me, constantly crying! He kept sighing, but he didn't mean to blame me! Taizu also knew that my country was not my fault! This was all God's will!"

When Chongzhen said this, he felt comforted. Although his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang's heroic spirit could understand him, he felt ashamed to go downstairs to meet the second ancestors of the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!