Chapter 7 Mid-Autumn Moon (Fourth)

August 15th, this day is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival for Chinese people and a day of reunion. In the fifth year of Chongzhen, people later recalled that although the moon was very round and bright that night, it was covered with a layer of blood-red color. Later historians also called this day the "blood moon".

That night, many wives lost their husbands and many mothers lost their sons. They did not die on the battlefield of fighting against the enemy country, but fell under the sword of their own people.

The bloody political struggle is often no less than war, and there are even more people who die.

Zhu Yousong was immersed in the joy of being about to succeed. After tonight, he was the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty. He would even become the supreme existence afterwards. Just when he was having endless dreams, he found that he was tied up and sent to someone. There were many subordinates who swore allegiance to him, including several uncle Wang who sent him to assist him.

When he saw the true face of the man, a strong fire of hatred erupted in Zhu Yousong's eyes. He angrily wanted to break away from the control of the soldiers who escorted him, and roared: "Zuo Liangyu, you betrayed the Lone King, you traitor!"

Zuo Liangyu smiled at the sky, without any offense. He smiled and walked to Zhu Yousong and said disdainfully: "Just because of an ignorant child like you, I, Zuo Liangyu, deserve to betray me, is a huge joke!"

"Zuo Liangyu, the Gu Wang asked himself that he was not bad to you, why did you do this?" Zhu Yousong gradually calmed down.

Seeing that Zhu Yousong was able to calm down quickly when he saw that he was able to calm down quickly, Zuo Liangyu couldn't help but feel a little admiration and smiled and said, "The position of the Three Dukes is of a very powerful minister and has a huge power, but that is too illusory. Zuo has always liked to take one step at a time. It is certainly everyone's dream to climb to the sky, but if he falls down, he will die without a place to bury him."

Zhu Yousong said hatefully: "Do you think that if you capture the Lone King now, you can let the person in the Forbidden City believe you, and you can get what you want?"

"You are worried about this little prince." Zuo Liangyu smiled and waved, "Take the little prince down and take good care of him."

"Zuo Liangyu, you will regret it, you will regret it..." Zhu Yousong was picked up by two strong soldiers and stolen, still shouting loudly at Zuo Liangyu.

"How is Deputy Commander He?" After Zhu Yousong was taken away, Zuo Liangyu did not feel relaxed. This time, the civil strife was very involved. If you were not careful, it would lead to a huge disaster. Zhu Yousong was just a scapegoat who was pushed to the front desk. The real culprit was the princes hiding behind the scenes.

If these princes dared to commit such a big thing, it had something to do with Emperor Zhu Yinglong himself. It was precisely because Zhu Yinglong did not kill King Fu and King Shu that these princes mistakenly thought that the emperor did not dare to attack the royal family, for fear of being guilty of being unfilial and traumatizing brothers and sisters. Because of this, they all believed that even if the matter failed, Zhu Yousong was still in front of him. The people they sent to assist Zhu Yousong had already quietly left the palace, which means that the behavior of these people had nothing to do with them. They lived in seclusion behind the scenes and could still seek self-protection. It was seamless.

Of course, they were not afraid that Zhu Yousong would bite them to save their lives, because there was no evidence, even if Zhu Yousong's testimony, they would not be able to do anything to them. So when He Renlong sent to arrest these princes, there was basically no resistance, and even said there was no nervousness, so he was taken out of the royal palace.

But those gentry and famous families who participated in this matter were not so lucky. Although there were occasional wars in the world, they would soon silence. These people who gathered to prepare for the uprising were rampant in the village. If they really had to fight, they would be the opponents of elite soldiers in a hundred battles. All of them would be defeated in one blow, and birds and beasts flew away. Zuo Liangyu was determined to make a great contribution to atone for his sins, so he was not ruthless in the beginning. In addition, Zuo Liangyu's army was a refugee. Although he could fight, his military discipline was not very good. So the attack was slightly expanded. In addition, Zuo Liangyu's military order "Whoever resists will be killed," so he was chopped down in the night. There were tens of thousands of people who were in vain to save his life. Zuo Liangyu was suddenly with Hong Chengchou and gave him a nickname "Zuo Yanwang".

There were as many as 187 gentry, celebrities and prominent families arrested that night. Most of them owned a large amount of land, at least hundreds of hectares, and the largest number was tens of thousands of hectares. If the implementation of the implementation of "spending acres to work together with the gentry and paying grain", these people would at least provide taxes of millions of dragon yuan to the court every year. In this way, even if the court did not have a huge piggy bank of maritime trade, the various infrastructure projects planned now could be maintained.

After later historians studied this history, they all had an incomprehensible doubt. The emperor represented the highest interests of the landlords and the gentry class. But why did he seek benefits for the ordinary people from the perspective of ordinary people? Many of his reforms were contrary to the social background and customs at that time, contradictory, and even advanced. How did these wonderful ideas come from? Could it be that he was really the true emperor sent by God?

He also bloody suppressed the resistance of the gentry class, which seems unreasonable now. As an emperor, he should know that the strength of the gentry class is, and it is everywhere in the entire country and society, with a huge influence. He dared to attack the gentry class in this way, and the emperor who finally won the victory is the first in the history of the Chinese nation.

Later, historians came to a conclusion that this was a historical event that could only occur in a specific historical period, because if Emperor Chongzhen had not had the revival of Emperor Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty would have to collapse in less than twenty years, that is, history was in a period of alternation between old and new. Although the contradictions in the Ming Dynasty were temporarily calmed down, the fundamental contradictions were not alleviated or resolved. The land issue was still a huge problem facing the rulers. If the gentry continued to annex the land, then they would sooner or later embark on the road of destruction. Of course, this was an era of alternation between the new gentry and the old gentry, and land and survival were the most fundamental social contradictions. Letting more right people have more right land is equivalent to giving them the conditions for survival. This is the greatest and most powerful magic weapon for the winners in this bloody change.

The power of the gentry was impossible to be completely eliminated. In this bloody change, the power of the gentry was weakened. They forced the land and wealth in their hands to exchange for conditions for survival. Apart from some stubborn ones, most of them were not brutally killed. Although compared with the bloody suppression in the change, a relatively gentle method was adopted after the change, forcing the gentry to bow their heads in the face of the powerful imperial power, and the imperial power was also given new historical significance. If the imperial power was compared to a ship, the gentry was the quarry, and the people were the water. There was no meaning without the ship, and the ship was not able to move. Therefore, the relationship between these three was complementary and indispensable.

For a moment, the civil unrest that had been in full force for nearly two months suddenly stopped on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival in August. The next day, people went to the street to see that in addition to the air, they could also smell a faint smell of blood. The thick clouds in the sky seemed to be gone, the sky became bluer, and the grass became greener. They stood up and flourished, although it was the Mid-Autumn Festival.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival night, Zhu Yinglong, as the emperor, also stayed up all night, but what he was worried about was not whether Zuo Liangyu and Mu Tianbo's actions could be successful. Even if they succeed, he would not be able to receive the news immediately. After all, this is the era that has not even used the telegrams, let alone the telegrams and phone calls. Therefore, it will take two days to get accurate news at the earliest. The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival naturally requires fun with the king and the ministers, but what he never expected was that Zhang Yan would give birth at this time.

Zhu Yinglong, who received the news, ended the reunion banquet in grass and took Li Qing to Xiaohonglou.

The midwife was already taken to the Red Mansion a few days ago and was on standby at any time. When Zhu Yinglong and Li Qing arrived, the midwife had already devoted themselves to the intense work. When Li Qing, an experienced female imperial physician, also joined in. Zhu Yinglong was a man, so naturally he could not enter the delivery room. He could only stay outside and walked back and forth anxiously. His nervousness was no less than that of Zhang Yan who had a child inside.

Zhang Yan was pregnant with her second child. In the third year of Tianqi, Zhang Yan was pregnant. Although she didn't know whether it was a man or a woman, she was secretly framed by Keshi and Wei Zhongxian and miscarriage and lost her fertility. After Li Qing was carefully treated, she was able to recover her fertility. However, she could only have one child. After one child, the chance of getting pregnant again will be slim. Therefore, this child is particularly important to Zhang Yan and Zhu Yinglong. It is strange that Zhu Yinglong is so nervous that his heart is raised to his throat.

"Amitabha, Amitabha..." Zhu Yinglong moved all the gods and Buddhas in the sky, hoping that Zhang Yan could give birth smoothly and the mother and son (daughter) were safe!

It was God who heard his prayer, or his sincere heart moved God, and the sound of a baby's loud cry came from the delivery room.

"It's been born, the lady has given birth to a young man!" Da Yu'er, who was only looking at, rushed out of the delivery room and shouted at Zhu Yinglong with surprise.

Zhu Yinglong immediately felt like sitting in the clouds, standing stupidly at the door, not knowing that he should do this next action.

When he reacted, he rushed into the delivery room. When he saw Zhang Yan, who was pale, covered in sweat, but had a faint mother-like smile on his face, Zhu Yinglong sat next to her excitedly, held Zhang Yan's pretty face, kissed her suddenly, and said repeatedly: "Yan'er, thank you, thank you!"

"Your Majesty, Sister Yan has just experienced childbirth and is weak. You can't do this!" Li Qing held the newly born baby and glared at Zhu Yinglong angrily.

Seeing the baby in Li Qing's arms, Zhu Yinglong suddenly felt a mysterious and mysterious feeling of father and son connecting his heart, and hurriedly said, "This is my son, come, give me a hug."

Zhu Yinglong carefully took the baby from Li Qing's hand, slowly reported him to his arms, and then gently sent it to Zhang Yan and said, "Yan'er, look, this is our son, look, how beautiful!"

"It's cute, how can you describe a boy as beautiful?" Zhang Yan said happily.

"Yes, yes, it's cute, not beautiful." But I don't know that Zhu Yinglong was wrong, or something else. As soon as the sentence was finished, the child started crying.

Zhu Yinglong and Zhang Yan quickly coaxed him, but it just didn't work.

There was really no way, Zhu Yinglong pretended to be angry and said, "Our baby son is both beautiful and cute, right?"

A miracle happened. As soon as this sentence was finished, Xiao Budian stopped crying immediately and even grinned, which immediately made everyone in the room laugh, while Zhu Yinglong and Zhang Yan, as his parents, were both amused and crying.
Chapter completed!