On the night of March 14th, the 17th year of Chongzhen's reign in the Ming Dynasty, there were still four and a half days before the fall of the Ming Dynasty in the history books!
The sky above the Xiaoling Mausoleum where Emperor Gao, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, was buried in Nanjing, the remaining capital. After nightfall, somehow, a long roar appeared out of thin air!
At this moment, in the Imperial City of Beijing, in Duanben Palace, a cry of surprise suddenly sounded.
"Ouch... Ancestor, you can't do this!"
Zhu Yaofei opened his eyes again, looked around, and then pinched his ears like a self-abuse. Then there was a roar!
The reason for his roar was that he had been cheated, hard! The person who tricked him is very powerful, his name is Zhu Yuanzhang!
That's right, it's Zhu Yuanzhang, the tall emperor of the Ming Dynasty who was as tall as a tree in the wind, wise and mighty, kind-faced and ruthless, killed without blinking an eye, and deceived people into disowning them!
As a financial big dog with some small achievements in the financial circle of the magic city in the 21st century, and nicknamed "Pig Wants to Fly", Director Zhu Yaofei was actually tricked by a Ming Dynasty emperor who had been dead for hundreds of years. Okay, this thing sounds a bit bizarre.
However, for Mr. Zhu, who is a "pig trying to fly" in the financial circle, he has seen a lot of bizarre things, such as "scallops worth hundreds of millions of dollars ran away", "pigs worth billions of people starved to death" and so on in listed companies. Which year hasn't a lot of legendary stories been revealed? Therefore, his ability to withstand and analyze bizarre events has been developed long ago.
He is a certified Level 3 Chartered Financial Analyst! He is still the kind of high-level talent who is particularly good at thinking, analyzing, and bragging... Moreover, he is also a descendant of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty!
Before being tricked by his ancestors, Mr. Zhu was still very proud of his "noble bloodline". Zhu Yaofei, who was born in a farming family in Gaoguansha County, Hunan Province (not Changsha City), and his family all consider themselves descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The memorial tablet of Emperor Gao, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, has always been enshrined in the ancestral hall of my hometown.
And Zhu Yaofei has kowtowed to his ancestors to pray for blessings since he was a child. Of course, ancestors should bless their descendants, right? Only when everyone is awesome together can we be really awesome.
I don't know whether he inherited the excellent genes of his ancestors or whether his ancestors were really blessing him. Anyway, Zhu Yaofei basically asked for the same thing. He also developed a good habit of asking his ancestors for blessings whenever big things happen.
Not long ago, Zhu Yaofei got into another big deal. If he gets it done, he will have complete financial freedom. If he gets it wrong, he might be "supervised" by the China Securities Regulatory Commission. A lifelong ban from the securities market will also apply. light.
So he no longer worshiped his ancestors at the ancestral hall in his hometown, but went directly to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing to worship!
In front of the brick wall of the Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty, he bowed three times to his ancestors for blessing, and also made a great wish - as long as he developed, and with the permission of the country, he would rebuild the tombs of his ancestors.
Then he was tricked by his ancestors, and his soul changed into a new body!
Changed into the body of an ancient Ming Dynasty man who was qualified to rebuild Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral tomb... This is really risky to make a wish, so be careful when praying!
In this way, everything Zhu Yaofei and Mr. Zhu had worked hard for for half of his life, as well as his parents, friends, wife, and children, all disappeared.
Instead, there is a memory of fifteen years of life, a very unlucky name, and a desperate window of time.
The very unlucky name is Zhu Cixiang, and it belongs to the young body occupied by Zhu Yaofei's soul.
As a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yaofei certainly knew that Zhu Cihong was the eldest son of Emperor Chongzhen, and his posthumous title was Prince Xianmin.
And now is the time, it seems to be the 13th of March in the 17th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, but I don’t know if it is the 14th!
If history does not change, this "junk stock" of the Ming Dynasty will be delisted in just four or five days.
The chairman of the "Da Ming Company", Prince Zhu's father, Emperor Chongzhen, will hang himself, and Prince Zhu's mother, Queen Zhou, will also commit suicide and die for the country.
Prince Zhu himself, who became an orphan, would become a prisoner of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, and disappeared after a battle over a stone... Xu died in the rebellion, Xu was killed by Dorgon's order, and he may have become a monk somewhere in Guangdong. .
In short, it’s not a good ending!
"Is this Zhu Cihong? How is it possible..." Zhu Yaofei took a deep breath and said to himself, "But it is definitely not a dream. Maybe he is crazy? It would be bad if he is crazy. I still have The big deal hasn’t been done yet! If I’m not crazy yet, then he’ll be even worse..."
There was a squeak.
The door opened, and Zhu Yaofei turned around to see a middle-aged man wearing a blue robe, a double-arched gauze hat, and a fat face like a dough ball, walking in hurriedly.
When the man saw that Zhu Yaofei had sat up, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Master Qiansui, you are finally awake. You have been sleeping so hard for almost a day and a night. You can't even wake up... The emperor and The empress was so worried that she asked Dr. Zeng to come and see her several times. The empress and Zhang also came to see her in person, not long after she left.
By the way, Mr. Qiansui, you still keep calling me "ancestor". You must be dreaming about Taizu Emperor Gao, right? "
In Zhu Yaofei's memory, this "dough-faced" person was named Huang Dabao, nicknamed Eunuch Dabao, and was Zhu Cixiang's accompanying eunuch.
"Oh, I slept all day and all night..." Only then did Zhu Yaofei realize that the lights in the room were dim and it was obviously already night. He was suddenly startled, "Today is... is it March 10?"
"Returning to my lord, today is March 14th."
Zhu Yaofei asked again: "Is it March 14th in the 17th year of Chongzhen?"
"That's right, it's March 14th in the 17th year of Chongzhen."
"It's still night..." Zhu Yaofei glanced at the dark door and took a breath again, "Not counting tonight, there are only four and a half days left!"
"Four and a half days?" Huang Dabao was puzzled, "Why are there only four and a half days left?"
Zhu Yaofei looked at this silly eunuch and actually thought of joking. He suddenly smiled and said: "In four and a half days, Ming Dynasty will be suspended from listing! Do you understand what suspension of listing is?"
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Qianqing Palace, Dongnuan Pavilion.
Emperor Chongzhen, who has ascended the throne for seventeen years, wears a Yishan crown, a coiled collar and narrow sleeves, and sits on a dragon chair. Although the night was dark now, Emperor Chongzhen did not feel sleepy at all and did not dare to fall asleep.
Because just this afternoon, a newspaper was sent from Juyongguan, saying that the vanguard of the rebel army had arrived to the north of Badaling!
On the first day of March, the rebel army had just captured Ningwuguan in Daizhou. Zhou Yuji, the general guarding Ningwuguan, blocked the rebels for more than ten days with only 3,000 defenders.
Emperor Chongzhen was still very confident when he received the news that Ningwuguan had been lost. After all, Ningwuguan is still thousands of miles away from Beijing, and there are two important towns in Datong and Xuanhua blocking it. Those are two of the nine important towns. The gates are strong and there are many defenders. They are more reliable than Ningwuguan. If Chuangni had to fight them one by one, they wouldn't be able to reach Beijing even if they spent all their money.
But today is only March 14th, and only thirteen days have passed since the fall of Ningwuguan. The rebellious army has already reached the north of Badaling after marching seven to eight hundred miles to the two important towns of Datong and Xuanhua.
Now the thirty-three-year-old Da Mingzi was completely dumbfounded!
"Your Majesty, the matter is urgent. If I don't go to Nanzhong's house, I'm afraid I'll regret it..." The speaker was a beautiful woman wearing plain armor, plain make-up like jade, and some light crow's feet at the corners of her eyes. Her voice was hoarse and anxious, and she seemed frightened by the menacing intrusion.
This beautiful woman was none other than Empress Zhou, the wife of Emperor Chongzhen, and the biological mother of Zhu Cixiang, whose body was possessed by Zhu Yaofei's soul. She spent the whole day in the Prince's Duanben Palace, guarding Zhu Cixiang who was "sleeping for a long time" and listening to his nonsense about "our ancestors can't do this". It wasn't until the evening that he was called by Emperor Chongzhen to go to Qianqing Palace to sleep.
It was said that he was sleeping with him, but in fact it was because the mentally and physically exhausted Emperor Chongzhen needed the comfort of his married wife.
After listening to his wife's words, Chongzhen sighed, feeling a chill on his neck, and said: "This matter has been discussed many times, but no one has praised it, so it has been delayed until now. Now that Chuangtei has reached the end of the road, if we discuss it again Moving south, I'm afraid that when the soldiers at Juyong Pass hear the news, they will be like Xuanda."
Xuanhua and Datong have tens of thousands of troops and strong cities to rely on. Of course, they cannot be wiped out by the rebel army in more than ten days. But now that the counterattack is so rapid, there is only one reasonable explanation.
That is to say, all the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in the important town of Xuanda have become thieves!
Chongzhen glanced at his wife and saw that her eyes were red and swollen. He knew that she had secretly cried. His heart was sad and her eyes were moist. He didn't want to cry in front of his wife, so he changed the subject and said, "Is Brother Chun feeling better?"
Brother Chun is the nickname of Prince Zhu Cixiang. Zhu Cixiang has always been in good health and has never been sick. Today, he couldn't sleep for a long time and couldn't wake up, which made Emperor Chongzhen very worried. But now that the national crisis was looming, he really couldn't take care of it, so he asked Queen Zhou to take care of it.
"I asked Divine Doctor Zeng to see me and he said that Brother Chun is not sick." Queen Zhou said, "I just don't wake up... maybe, maybe my ancestors are dreaming."
"Ancestors asked for a dream? That's nonsense!" Emperor Chongzhen shook his head, "How did this great doctor Zeng become an immortal?"
Empress Zhou sighed and said: "It would be great if it was really our ancestor who entrusted us with a dream. Now the world can only be pacified with the help of our ancestors."
Emperor Chongzhen was silent and didn't know what he was thinking.
At this moment, the door of Dongnuan Pavilion was suddenly pushed open, and a eunuch in red robe and arched hat with a loyal face, about fifty years old, walked quickly. When he saw Chongzhen, he bent down and saluted, with a trace of expression on his face. He was overjoyed and said, "Long live my lord, Li Jizhou from the Donggongdian Pharmacy came to report that I'm awake."
When she heard that her son had woken up, Queen Zhou, who was sitting down, immediately stood up and said to Chongzhen: "Long live, I'll go and have a look."
Chongzhen asked: "What should I say? Have you let Dr. Zeng see you?"
"Replying to Master Long Live, Qiu Zhizhong said that he has been examined by Dr. Zeng. He is fine and is having a meal now."
Chongzhen said to Queen Zhou, "Then there's no need to go. You're tired too. Take a rest early." Then he said to the old eunuch, "Wang Banban, go check on me. If there's anything, come and report it right away." .”
