Chapter Ninety-six: My Home
Li Hongji's cavalry has appeared in Daxing County, one of the two counties in Fukuo.
As a result, people from surrounding counties and counties have moved closer to the capital, and some wealthy people from other places are willing to pay everything to enter the capital to take refuge. In their hearts, the capital should be the safest place in the entire Ming Dynasty.
In fact, they are wrong.
All the rich people in the capital were leaving the city...
Soon, ten days passed.
The Sitianjian Star Observation Observatory, which had been blocked by Mu Tiantao, was reopened. However, the stargazing instruments on the high platform were gone.
The observatory was bare, and even the blue brick floor was intact, as if those precious instruments had never stood here.
Mu Tiantao didn’t know where Xia Wanchun had taken those things.
He didn’t want to ask. He only knew that if these things fell into Lan Tian’s hands, they would definitely play their intended role. If they were left to Li Hongji, they would probably be melted into copper and eventually used. Cast into cheap copper coins.
For Xia Wanchun, Mu Tiantao only felt grateful, without any resentment!
Really, not at all!
There are many things that only people with high IQs can understand. Many people who are good to you in this world are not really good to you, and some people who exploit and exploit you are really thinking about you. .
Prince Mu’s Mansion is the remnant of the Ming Dynasty!
In the eyes of Lantian people, this is what it looks like. It is impossible for a family that is separated from the country to completely unseal the Ming Dynasty brand on itself.
If Prince Mu’s Mansion wants to stand tall in the world, it must do this and act like it is the same as the Ming Dynasty.
This is a concrete manifestation of a person or a family's precious loyalty.
A betrayer can never be truly regarded as one of his own. Now that the Mu Palace has reached its current state, choosing to be loyal to Chongzhen can not only give an explanation to one's ancestors, but also give an explanation to the world.
The future world belongs to Lantian. This situation is already very clear. Both Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Guizhou, who is in Yunnan, and Mu Tiantao, who is in the capital, have understood it a long time ago.
This is why Mu Tianbo sent his smartest brother to Yushan Academy.
For a large family, the relationship between the enemy and ourselves can never be very clear. It is normal for a family to be divided into several camps.
This is also the reason why Yun Zhao does not like to use children from big families. An impure person cannot do pure things.
Xia Wanchun knew that the master actually really liked Mu Tiantao, and since he was a talent cultivated by the academy, he had a natural affinity with this person.
Since the master asked him to come to the capital, Mu Tiantao’s solution fell on Xia Wanchun.
In other words, Mu Tiantao's life and death depended on Xia Wanchun's thoughts.
He wants Mu Tiantao to be his partner, but before he can become a partner, he must erase the shadow of the big family in him.
If you want to obliterate the background of Mu Tiantao’s big family, you must first obliterate Prince Mu’s Mansion!
There are two ways to obliterate Prince Mu's Mansion. One is to obliterate mentally, and the other is to obliterate physically.
Obviously, Xia Wanchun chose to mentally obliterate Prince Mu’s Mansion!
It is not difficult to do this. As long as Lantian's land policy, slave emancipation policy, and household division policy are implemented in the Mu Palace, the huge Mu Palace will fall apart.
The Mu Palace may still have some influence in the first few years, but as the local representatives of Yunnan are gradually elected, they will be slowly forgotten by people, and they will no longer have the energy to make any waves. .
This is a way to deal with Prince Mu’s Mansion.
For Mu Tiantao himself, it is what Xia Wanchun said - hardships and hardships make you successful.
He is not a child of Lantian, nor a child of Guanzhong, nor even a child of ordinary people. In Yushan Academy, he is the most dazzling outlier.
If such a person wants to completely integrate into the Lantian system, he must make a cruel separation from his old class.
When he came to the capital, he started to separate himself from the noble class. This was the first thing Mu Tiantao did.
He did a great job for this.
Every ingot of more than two million taels of silver given to Emperor Chongzhen was stained with blood. Every drop of blood on the silver could reflect the nobles’ respect for Mu Tiantao and Mu Tiantao. The hatred of the royal family.
Mu Tiantao's extortion in the capital will definitely become a difficult historical episode, existing in the history books. Completely cutting off the escape route is the most important purpose of Mu Tiantao's coming to Beijing.
Fighting for Emperor Chongzhen until the last moment was Mu Tiantao's persistence, and marrying Zhu Aina was the last thing Mu Tiantao could do for the old Ming Dynasty.
The Chongzhen period was a time when everyone was working hard for their own survival.
Those who don’t work hard - die!
Mu Tiantao took his only three hundred cavalry out of the city.
The purpose is to eliminate Li Hongji's roving troops.
He did this job very well. Every day he could catch the robbers from outside the city and drag them back to the capital with their war horses.
As a result, there were lively scenes of executing criminals every day in Caishikou.
The emperor showed no mercy to these prisoners. As long as they were the prisoners reported by Mu Tiantao, their final fate would be - cut to pieces!
The scene of the beheading was very strange. Some people cheered, some were silent, and some looked unclear.
Mu Tiantao put himself in the position of a worker, going out of the city every day to look for the intruders and their spies, and caught themHe reported it to the emperor and then continued out of the city.
While he was working tirelessly to fight against the intruders, his official position was constantly increasing. From a guerrilla general, he soon became a general.
Mu Tiantao believed that once the intruders came to the city, he should be able to become the youngest general officer of the Ming Dynasty.
Today, Mu Tiantao returned from outside the city and fell exhausted on the brocade couch. The blood-stained armor made the brocade couch a mess.
Looking at Mu Tiantao who was sleeping soundly, Zhu Yuyao walked out from behind the curtain and put her little hand on Mu Tiantao's cold face.
The face that many women in Yushan Academy fell in love with back then is now covered with fine bloodshot threads, cracks have appeared in some places, and the white and slender hands have become rough. The back of my hand was red and swollen, all caused by the cold wind.
Zhu Aona brought warm water and gently wiped Mu Tiantao's face with a handkerchief dipped in water.
As soon as the handkerchief touched his face, Mu Tiantao opened his big black and white eyes, smiled and said to Zhu Yuyao: "It doesn't matter."
Zhu Yuyao continued stubbornly. Wiping Mu Tiantao's face, the sadness on his face disappeared and became very gentle.
"I heard that you have been teaching Prince Cixi, Prince Ding, Cijiong, and Prince Yong how to ride horses these days?"
Zhu Ailao whispered: "I not only taught them how to ride horses, but also taught them how to ride horses." I also took them to the market in the city to learn how to spend money and live like ordinary people. I even sent some close friends to Guanzhong with some money and food to buy some real estate and shops for them.
Brother, if the capital cannot be defended, just tell me and I will send someone to send them away."
"Why go to Guanzhong?"
Zhu Yuyao said: "They need to surrender to the King of Qin in the name of Zhu's children."
Mu Tiantao hesitated and said: "Believe me, these things you do must be under the supervision of the Lantian Secret Intelligence Department. "
Zhu Yuluo shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter. Until now, he, Yun Zhao, is willing to admit that he is a traitor to the Ming Dynasty. He only says that he is the successor of the Ming Dynasty. Since he is the successor, he needs to protect the Ming Dynasty. It shouldn't be too difficult to become the prince of the imperial court."
Mu Tiantao pondered for a moment and said: "This is not appropriate..."
Zhu Ailao shook his head and said: "It is appropriate. If you say this. Among all the rebel kings in the world, only Yun Zhao has the slightest pity for my father.
There are many people in this world who sell themselves to others for glory, Ci Xing, Ci Jiong, Ci. The three of them do not have the ability to stand on their own, nor do they have the ambition to conquer the world like you. If they follow others and hide their names, the ambitious ones will rebel in their name, and the greedy ones will betray the three of them. For a good price, those who are greedy for power will even regard the three of them as stepping stones to enter the officialdom. No matter what, the end will be very bad."
Mu Tiantao whispered: "Yun Zhao has already. Proclaimed emperor."
Zhu Auao shook her head and said: "Yun Zhao is an extremely cunning, extremely fierce, and extremely arrogant person. He not only wants to become an emperor, his goal is to become an emperor throughout the ages!
The whole world is like a huge chessboard to him. My father, Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong, Huang Taiji, and all the anti-kings in the world are just pawns on his chessboard.
Now, under his operation, this game of chess has gradually become his world.
This kind of person hates only a few enemies in his life, and will never tarnish his reputation because of three ordinary people: Ci Xun, Ci Jiong, and Ci Zheng.
So, the three of them went to Guanzhong and took the initiative to accept Yun Zhao's surveillance, so that they had a way to survive.
You may live a very ordinary life, but you can definitely survive. "
Mu Tiantao sat up and looked at Zhu Yu'a seriously and said: "Who gave you the idea? ”
Zhu Yuyao sighed and said, “I’m pretty useless, right?” ”
Mu Tiantao raised his hand and touched Zhu Yu’s face and said, “You can’t come up with such a sophisticated idea.” "
Zhu Ayao lowered his head and said: "Eunuch Cao! "
Mu Tiantao nodded and said: "It should be Cao Huachun. ”
“Eunuch Cao also suggested to my father that before the intruders arrived in the capital, he was willing to take my father, the queen and his mother in disguise and escape from the capital to go to the south to see if there was any chance of survival.
I was rejected by my father.
To this day, my father still stubbornly believes that he will defeat the intruders in the capital. "
Mu Tiantao sighed and said: "Even if His Majesty blocked the intruders, Yun Zhao's 200,000 troops are about to arrive. When Li Dingguo and Yun Yang's army arrive at the city, no matter whether it is the intruders, , or we are vulnerable in front of them.
Princess, you have seen the Lantian soldiers. You know what they look like. They are an invincible army made of steel and gunpowder. Wherever they go, no one can stop them. Obstacles to progress will eventually turn into powder!
A suspicious blush appeared on Zhu Yuluo's little face. She leaned her head on Mu Tiantao's chest and said, "My father said that the capital is his home and he doesn't want to go anywhere." go. ”