How did you, a prisoner on death row, become an important weapon of the country? Yecheng Gao Weiming

"Hey, Master Xu, the food we brought is already cold, aren't you going to take a bite?"

In a secluded cell.

The great eunuch Wang Chengen squatted down and looked at the old man in front of him.

The old man's surname is Xu, his given name is Guangqi, and his courtesy name is Zixian. He is sixty-five years old this year, but he brazenly rebelled in Tianshou Mountain.

After being caught on the spot, he was taken to prison and tortured, but he still refused to admit his guilt. Why bother?

"Haha, Wang Chengen, this is a decapitation meal. Are you going to send Xu on his way today?"

Xu Guangqi leaned against the wall of the cell, speaking weakly, but his eyes were still bright.

Wang Chengen shook his head helplessly.

"Why is it a meal without a head, Mr. Xu!"

"After His Majesty ascends the throne, he will use you again and let you join the cabinet to assist in government affairs!"

Ok?

Xu Guangqi's face showed a surprised look, and then he smiled.

"Haha, how is that possible?"

"I participated in the rebellion and committed the crime of treason. It is impossible for the emperor not to punish my nine clans. How can he reuse me?"

"Have you... finally admitted to committing the crime of treason?"

Wang Chengen looked over with bright eyes.

Xu Guangqi was stunned, sighed and stopped talking.

"Master Xu!"

Wang Chengen did not want to dwell too much on this topic and continued.

"Our family came here this time to persuade you according to His Majesty's instructions."

"As long as you nod, our family will immediately take you out of the prison and restore your official status."

"I will even let you serve as a bachelor in Wenyuan Pavilion, as a minister of the Ministry of Rites, and as a second assistant in the cabinet."

"Are you going to agree or not?"

boom!

Xu Guangqi's head was about to explode and he looked at Wang Chengen in disbelief.

why?

Why did Zhu Youjian forgive me for committing such a serious crime and asked me to serve as Minister of Rites and Second Assistant to the Cabinet?

Wang Chengen seemed to see Xu Guangqi's doubts and sighed to explain.

"Master Xu, His Majesty cares about your talent after all!"

"You are the best in the fields of military law, arithmetic, agriculture, astronomy and other fields!"

"Your Majesty has thought about it again and again, and decided to give you another chance to serve the Ming Dynasty by granting amnesty to the whole country."

"Allegiance?"

Xu Guangqi sneered.

"I think the emperor still can't let go of Taibao Feng's things!"

"He wants to know how to forge new blunderbuss, new cannons!"

"He wants to build roads in Kyoto and open hospitals to treat patients."

"He would rather want me to help him expel the slaves and revive the Ming Dynasty?"

When Wang Chengen saw that the other party had revealed Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts straight away, he simply did not hide it.

"Yes! Mr. Xu, what else? Otherwise, why do you think His Majesty still spares your life?"

"Although Feng Lixin is dead and Huangling Town is gone! But His Majesty cares about those things very much."

"The Holy One knows that those things are all in your head. Only you can help the Holy One thrive in the prosperous world."

"Master Xu, think about the Manchus of the Xu family in your Songjiang Mansion, and think about your wife, children, and children. Why are you still hesitating?"

Xu Guangqi shook his head and sneered.

"Haha, now that I have decided to rebel, I have already put all those worries behind me."

"Wang Cheng'en, please go. Go back and report to your Holy Master that he will be killed or beheaded. Xu will do as he pleases."

"you……"

Wang Chengen was really anxious.

You old man, why are you so stubborn?

He had no choice but to speak again: "Master Xu, don't you care about your life or death, your family's life or death, or even the life and death of your disciple Sun Yuanhua?"

"You are on your deathbed and you won't live for a few more years! But Sun Yuanhua is a tall man, but he is only in his early forties!"

"Are you also going to watch him die?"

Xu Guangqi was startled for a moment and turned his head slightly.

"It's useless to talk more! Prince, we have already put life and death at risk. It is absolutely impossible for you to ask me to assist Zhu Youjian!"

When Wang Chengen heard this, his brows knitted into a knot, and he had no choice but to resort to the last resort.

"Master Xu!"

"If you don't care about anyone's life or death, then don't blame His Majesty for flooding the Tianshou Mountain air raid shelter and drowning those 100,000 people!"

After saying that, Wang Chengen snorted coldly, turned around and walked away.

Xu Guangqi could no longer sit still.

He stood up suddenly, dragging his handcuffs and shackles, and grabbed Wang Chengen's sleeves.

"Prince! What do you mean! What do you mean?"

On the day of the rebellion, the people of Huangling Town who were hidden in the air-raid shelter were still there?

More than twenty days have passed in a blink of an eye, how is it possible?

Seeing that this trick really worked, Wang Chengen turned around and sneered.

"Master Xu, are you in a hurry?"

"Haha, your traitor Wen Qi had already revealed the location of the air-raid shelter that day."

"Your Majesty was going to let them go and fend for themselves!"

"But Wen Qi came up with an idea, saying that most of the 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the air-raid shelter are members of the mausoleum guarding army."

"Now that all the soldiers guarding the mausoleum have died in battle, they must be dissatisfied. It would be better to just pour water and drown them all to avoid future troubles!"

It involved the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, but Wang Chengen said it with ease.

Xu Guangqi is going crazy.

"Wen Qi! It's you again, Wen Qi! You bastard, you son of a bitch! How many more people are you going to kill!"

To be able to make the always gentle Xu Guangqi curse such curse words shows the anger in the old man's heart.

"Haha, Mr. Xu, our family is asking you one last time, whether it is for the sake of those 100,000 soldiers and civilians or for your nine Xu clans. Are you willing to leave with our family?"

Wang Chengen stared at Xu Guangqi.

Xu Guangqi seemed to have been drained of all his strength and lowered his head deeply.

"I...will."

"Hahahaha!"

Wang Chengen laughed loudly and helped Xu Guangqi up.

"Master Xu, no...Shang Shu Xu, you are truly aware of current affairs and a hero!"

Xu Guangqi only felt ashamed and angry.

He could only murmur: "Eunuch Wang, my apprentice Yuan Hua..."

"Haha, Xu Shangshu, I don't need to worry about you, he has his own arrangements."

……

After a cup of tea.

Sun Yuanhua sat in another cell, eyes wide.

Because he saw the eunuch Wang Chengen leading his mentor Xu Guangqi outside the imperial prison.

Sun Yuanhua dragged his bruised body and stood up excitedly.

"Teacher? Master? Where are you going? Are you going to be executed? Wang Chengen, you evil thief, where are you taking my master?"

Wang Chengen sneered and didn't bother to say anything, while Xu Guangqi behind him was too ashamed to look directly at his apprentice.

Sun Yuanhua became more and more furious, but it was of no avail and could only watch them leave the prison.

Just when he was about to curse loudly.

A figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

The other person is also in his forties and has a long life, but the look of perseverance on his face cannot be concealed at all.

After Sun Yuanhua saw this person, his breathing stopped for a while.

"You...Yuan...Yuan..."

"Hey……"

The middle-aged scribe looked at Sun Yuanhua and sighed.

"Yuanhua, let's go! Follow me to Liaodong, let's..."

"Making great achievements!"

Sun Yuanhua stayed where he was, unable to say another word.

……

It was still early in the morning, when the sun was about to rise.

Song Mansion, Fengxin County, Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province.

Song Yingsheng opened the door and was startled when he saw his younger brother Song Yingxingku sitting in the courtyard of his home.

The other party was covered in dew, and it was obvious that he had sat there all night and never returned to the house.

"Chang Geng, why...why didn't you go back to your room to sleep?"

Song Yingxing finally raised his head when he heard his brother calling.

His face was full of tears, he crumpled the newspaper in his hand and threw it on the ground.

He raised his head, facing the rising sun, and smiled.

"It's okay! It's okay...Brother, I've decided!"

Song Yingsheng didn't know what he meant and subconsciously asked: "What was decided?"

"Decided to risk my life to write the encyclopedia of our Ming Dynasty!"

"Write something unique to Huangling Town in Tianshou Mountain..."

"Heaven created something!"

The rising sun hit Song Yingxing's face, reflecting his extremely determined face.

……

Maoshan, Jurong, Jiangsu.

At the top of the mountain, the sun jumped out of the clouds and rose.

A new day has completely arrived.

A traveler with ragged clothes and a tired look came out of the cave, looked up at the dazzling sun, and smiled.

What a beautiful morning!

What a century-old fame, what eternal hegemony, what eternal fame!

Compared with this early morning sunshine, what is it?

He carried a cane and continued to walk forward, ignoring the swelling and pain in his feet.

At the same time, he sang a song taught to him by a friend and floated in the mountains.

"What's the use of heaven and earth, not a quilt!"

'What's the use of wind and moon, if you can't eat or drink..."

"..."

"What's the use of having me, if I can't laugh..."

"What's the point of destroying me? It won't reduce my arrogance..."

"You can wear mango shoes and bamboo hats for a thousand years, and you can travel across the sky in one day..."

"Hahahaha! Sir, wait for Xu, wait for Xu to complete your entrustment..."

The travelers disappear between the mountains and the vast years.

……

It's still this early morning.

After the sun rises high.

The Forbidden City once again sounded magnificent vocal music.

A young yet majestic voice resounded throughout the world.

"The late emperor suddenly collapsed and returned to the Five Elements!"

"I follow the orders of Emperor Daxing and enter the Fengzong Temple!"

"Civil and military ministers at home and abroad, as well as senior soldiers and civilians, combined their words to urge us to advance, and we will do so again and again. I refuse to accept my words, but I would like to tell heaven and earth at this time..."

"The throne of emperor!"

The young emperor finally successfully entered the stage of history.

Perhaps, Zhu Youjian doesn't know yet at this moment.

He would be the last Han emperor.

He will also be the last Han monarch.

He personally ended the magnificent history of more than 200 years of Han rule in China.

After him, China will fall into another three hundred years of darkness.

The death knell of the Ming Dynasty’s fall.

On this day, it officially rings!