How could it be such a simple thing to save the Ming Dynasty? Zhu Cilang is too idealistic, but now the country is in danger, and the feathered edicts are endless. If you want to save the Ming Dynasty, many things are still contrary to your wishes.

Even when the Ming Dynasty was in a critical situation, the people were still the first priority. The people of my Zhu family were proud and would rather break than bend. The Ming Dynasty was destroyed than implicate the innocent people.

Even Chongzhen said when he was dying: Let the thief split my body and do not hurt the people alone.

Chongzhen may not have become a good emperor, but he still has compassion for the people. The ruthless actions of those bandits were outrageous.

Zhang Xianzhong committed tyranny in Sichuan and other places, and massacred countless cities, almost killing the Sichuan people. However, the so-called strict discipline Li Zicheng, wherever he was slaughtered in Wuguan, "every family is broken; the clan in clothes is uneasy, and even if there are five punishments, the dead are everywhere." After he conquered Yanshi, the victims were mostly ordinary people.

Whenever these bandits arrived at a place, they first captured and killed the royal family. From the 14th to the 17th year of Chongzhen, dozens of noble princes including Fu, Tang, Chong, Min, Dai, Shu, and Chu were killed by the peasant army. As for the princes and generals, countless people were killed.

In this way, millions of royal families of the Ming Dynasty were brutally exterminated. For example, in Shanxi, the peasant army killed more than 300 people of the Xihe King clan in Pingyang, and in Taiyuan, they killed more than 400 middle and high-level royal families of the Jin King clan in Taiyuan, and then captured more than 1,000 middle and lower clan members, while in Datong, they killed more than 4,000 royal families of the Dai King and his ranks.

According to statistics, in only one place in Shanxi, Li Zicheng killed more than 10,000 descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang, and Shanxi was only a microcosm. Where Li Zicheng's army passed, almost no one survived the Ming Dynasty royal family. When conquering Luoyang, King Fu Zhu Changxun was cut alive and mixed with deer blood in the wine, called "Fulu Wine", and was drinking happily.

In Xiangyang, Zhang Xianzhong captured King Xiang Zhu Yiming. Although Zhu Yiming knelt down to beg for life, Zhang Xianzhong did not let his family go. Zhang Xianzhong conquered Wuchang, captured King Chu Zhu Huakui, and sank him alive in the West Lake. Nearly a thousand palaces and pavilions of King Chu were burned. Zhang Xianzhong captured Changde, and the royal family of King Rong was killed. He conquered Chongqing and killed King Shu Zhu Changhao and his family...

Zhu Cilang will not be ruthless about these bandits.

In the thousands of years of history of our China, no king who lost his country can be as diligent as Chongzhen, nor can any king who lost his country loves the people as much as Chongzhen. This diligent emperor got up at six o'clock every day and went to court in the morning, often dealing with government affairs all night, sometimes even staying until three o'clock in the middle of the night, and sleeping only four hours a day on average. In history, such diligent emperors were generally wise rulers and could create a prosperous dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty was still in the hands of Chongzhen.

This means that the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the revelation, rather than the fall of the Chongzhen, is not unreasonable. What Chongzhen takes in his hands is just a mess that is difficult to return. It is not easy for him to continue his country's destiny for 17 years.

Zhu Cixuan now knows very well that he is following in his father's footsteps. All he does now only continued the time when the Ming Dynasty fell, and did not support the building to fall.

Only then did the Ming Dynasty really rescued itself when the three armies were rectified, the Tartar abducted, the civil strife was quelled, and the people were alive and the national treasury was full.

These five items have not been realized yet. Two million taels of silver are just the beginning, and the disaster in Shanxi and Henan has long been urgent.

Li Huiwen, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, almost saved his life. Finally convinced Zhu Cixuan, he decided to give up the two million taels of silver and use it for disaster relief first.

The imperial physicians from the Imperial Hospital came soon. They gave Li Tiewen acupuncture, and Li Tiewen's expression calmed down a little.

Zhu Cixuan quietly pulled an imperial physician aside and asked in a low voice: "Doctor Sun, how is Mr. Li's illness?"

The imperial physician's surname is Sun, and his medical skills are quite exquisite. When Zhu Cilang asked, he shook his head helplessly: "Oh, Your Highness, I'm not to hide it from you. This, Lord Li is afraid that there will be no more time."

Zhu Cilang was shocked: "What's going on!"

"Your Highness, Lord Li is injured in lung heat and fluid, liver and kidney deficiency, and blood stasis in the body. This disease is already deep into the internal organs, and I am afraid there is not much time to survive."

"Just, can't I prescribe some medicine? Lord Li, how long does he have?"

Doctor Sun sighed again: "The drug is only to improve the symptoms. Even if it is controlled, it will only take two or three years."

Zhu Cixuan and Doctor Sun whispered, and Li Weiwen, who was sitting behind him, said in a deep voice: "Your Highness does not need to hide from the old ministers. Old, the old minister knows that there is not much time left. The old minister asks for your affairs."

Zhu Cilang hurriedly turned his head, walked over and asked Li Dai with a smile, "Mr. Li, don't worry, I will definitely search for famous doctors all over the world, and will eventually cure Mr. Li's disease."

"Your Highness is very righteous, the old minister is very frightened. The old minister knows that there is not much time left for the rest of the day, so I ask your prince to wait for the old minister to make a comment. The old minister is willing to go to Shanxi and Henan to provide disaster relief."

Zhu Cilang was even more shocked. He supported Li Wei and asked: "Mr. Li is inconvenient, so how can he work hard to go to the disaster area to provide disaster relief? My father will assign someone else to do this, so Lord Li will stay in the capital to take care of his illness."

Li Daiwen shook his head: "Your Highness doesn't know that the court's disaster relief money and food will not be saved when they arrive at the local area. Officials at all levels are corruption and deducted, and the old minister is really worried. The old minister is willing to go to the disaster area, but he really doesn't want the disaster relief money and food. Cough, really, cough... I really don't want the disaster relief money and food to fall into the hands of those corrupt officials again. I'd like to ask, and I want your superiors, cough, cough..."

While talking, Li Dawen coughed violently, and Zhu Cixuan patted his back: "Don't worry, Lord Li, the court will assign a clean official to go there. You should stay in the capital to take care of your illness, so don't worry about anything else. The palace promises that all these two million taels of silver will be sent to the disaster area for disaster relief."

Li Daiwen slowly raised his hand and shook his head: "Your Highness, you don't have to persuade him anymore. The old minister knows that these three camps are related to the defense of the capital. However, the disaster victims, the disaster victims must be saved. The old minister asks you for something, and asks you for long live in front of Long Live. Please, please, long live, cough, reward the old minister."

After saying that, Li Daiwen coughed again. Zhu Cilang nodded: "Don't worry, Lord Li, Lord Li does his best for the court, and even if he wants any reward, he should be. As long as Lord Li speaks, he will cover it with me."
Chapter completed!