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These days, the Yu Jiajun has blocked all connections between the palace and the outside world, and only sends people to supply some food and vegetables to the palace every day. It does not embarrass the people in the palace too much, but no one is allowed to leave or enter the palace.

He was informed of the situation, which made it impossible for Chongzhen to understand that the situation inside and outside the city had reached that point.

But by listening to the sounds coming from all directions in the city, he could still guess that the capital was gradually being controlled by the Yu family army, and the chaos in the city was gradually suppressed.

In the first few days, he could still hear the sound of some firecrackers coming from various places in the city from time to time, but in the past few days, the capital has gradually become quiet, and it is difficult to hear the sound of firecrackers like exploding beans.

Just when Chongzhen was eager to understand the situation outside the palace, a eunuch quickly walked into his palace and reported to him: "Your Majesty, Cao Huachun asks for an audience!"

Chongzhen stood up immediately. It turned out that he thought that after so many days, even if Cao Huachun was not dead, he probably fled the capital or was captured by the Yu family army. With Cao Huachun's status in the court, Yu Xiao

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He would never let him go easily, but he didn't expect that Cao Huachun was still alive and in the capital, and even returned to the palace today. This time Chongzhen immediately became excited and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and announce that he is here to see..."

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In fact, Cao Huachun had fallen into the hands of the Yu Jiajun a few days ago. Originally, Cao Huachun had every chance to escape from the capital. On the day the city was broken, Cao Huachun was sitting at Zhengyang Gate. After the Yu Jiajun invaded the city, he

He also tried every means to deploy troops and generals in an attempt to drive the generals out of the capital again, but as a result, the officers and troops he sent soon failed one after another, which also caused him to lose his ability to control the capital camp.

Cao Huachun later ran to the Fuchengmen area, trying to collect the defeated troops, continue to confront the Yu family army, and tried to attack the palace to rescue Chongzhen from the palace. However, by this time, the soldiers in the Beijing camp had already lost their fighting spirit.

No one listened to his call and helped him fight against Yu Jiajun.

In the end, Cao Huachun only gathered hundreds of so-called righteous men, and led these loyal righteous men to launch a counterattack against the palace. However, the result was obvious that his counterattack of this level had no effect at all. These hundreds of rabble-rousers were killed on the spot.

A piece of them were killed, and the rest immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

Cao Huachun was protected and fled back to Fuchengmen. He originally had a chance to escape from the capital, but Cao Huachun believed that he was deeply favored by the emperor and it was not an act of loyalty to leave like this, so he finally gave up on escaping and hid first.

Later, after the Yu Jiajun took control of the entire capital, he walked out of his hiding place, took the initiative to find the Yu Jiajun soldiers, reported his identity, and asked to see Yu Xiaotian.

When he learned that the old eunuch in front of him was Cao Huachun, the general in charge of the Yu family army was shocked. He did not expect that the old eunuch would jump out and surrender on his own, so he quickly reported the news to

Yu Xiaotian and Yu Xiaotian were also surprised and felt that it was a bit strange. Logically speaking, Cao Huachun had a lot of opportunities to escape from the capital, but why did he not leave, but when the capital was behind closed doors and asked for help, he came out and asked for help.

See him?

So Yu Xiaotian ordered Cao Huachun to be brought to him, and met the famous eunuch of the late Ming Dynasty. There are literary records about Cao Huachun in history, saying that when Li Zicheng attacked the capital, it was Cao Huachun who opened the door to welcome the thieves and welcomed Li Zicheng in.

of the capital.

But whether Cao Huachun opened the door in history is an unsolved case. Later, Cao Huachun went to court to defend himself, saying that he was not in the capital at all at that time, and there was no way he could open the door to welcome the thieves.

On the whole, it is very likely that the literati later deliberately discredited Cao Huachun, and the credibility is not very high. Although Yu Xiaotian has never met Cao Huachun, he regularly provided detailed feedback on Cao Huachun's arrangements in the capital.

Judging from the situation, Cao Huachun is considered a relatively loyal person among the eunuchs, and basically does not have many bad deeds to speak of.

Moreover, after Chongzhen ascended the throne, he overthrew Wei Zhongxian's party. Cao Huachun made good friends with the Donglin Party members and vindicated many Donglin Party officials who had been framed by the Wei Party. He did a lot of good deeds, but he did not expect that in the Ming Dynasty,

After his fall, the Donglin Party and many scholars would slander him like this, which shows how shameless the scholars at that time were.

So this time, although Cao Huachun, as the governor of the capital, led his army to resist the Yu family army, after Yu Xiaotian invaded the capital, he did not order the search for Cao Huachun, and did not let anyone touch Cao Huachun's house and relatives in the capital.

Because Cao Huachun is a pretty good person and doesn't have many bad deeds to speak of.

But he didn't expect that at this time, Cao Huachun would take the initiative to come out and ask to see him, so he felt more favorable to Cao Huachun.

After Cao Huachun saw Yu Xiaotian, he knelt down and begged Yu Xiaotian to treat the current emperor well and not to harm Emperor Chongzhen, and expressed his willingness to return to the palace and continue to serve Emperor Chongzhen.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian personally stepped forward to help him up, and ordered someone to give him a seat. He also gave a good explanation, insisting that he came to the capital this time just for the sake of the emperor, and had no intention of harming the current emperor.

Although His Majesty's treatment of Yu Xiaotian was unfair, these things were all caused by listening to the slanderous words of those treacherous people, and the fault did not lie with His Majesty.

As for Cao Huachun's desire to return to the palace to serve Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian agreed immediately, and asked people to take Cao Huachun there to take good care of him. He treated him with delicious food and drinks, and asked him to freshen up and put on new clothes.

clothes, and then sent them to the palace.

However, before sending Cao Huachun to the palace, Yu Xiaotian took Cao Huachun to his temporary residence and had a confidential conversation with Cao Huachun behind closed doors for more than two hours. What he said specifically was unknown to others.

After Cao Huachun had a secret talk with Yu Xiaotian, he was sent to Donghua Gate, where he called the palace gate open and Cao Huachun entered the palace.

When Chongzhen saw Cao Huachun, Cao Huachun immediately knelt on the ground and cried bitterly. He confessed his guilt. As a governor, he failed to stop the Yu family's army from attacking the capital, and he also failed to fight among the rebels.

He rescued Chongzhen and the princes and concubines from the palace, causing Chongzhen to be trapped in the imperial city. Please punish Chongzhen.

Chongzhen originally had hatred for Cao Huachun. He had high hopes for both Cao Huachun and Gao Qiqian, hoping that the two of them would cooperate to prevent the rebels from attacking the capital. However, in the end they betrayed his trust.

The capital was lost, and even he, the emperor, was trapped in the palace and became a caged beast.

Before Cao Huachun came back, he had repeatedly named and cursed Cao Huachun and Gao Qiqian, claiming that one day they would be punished. However, when he saw Cao Huachun come back today, he was a little unable to take action.

Chongzhen scolded Cao Huachun with a dark face, and then asked how Cao Huachun returned to the palace. Cao Huachun then narrated the entire fall of the capital to Chongzhen, and how he came out of hiding on his own initiative.

I asked to see Yu Xiaotian, but was finally sent back to the palace by Yu Xiaotian.

When Chongzhen learned that Cao Huachun had voluntarily given up escaping from the capital, insisted on staying in the capital, and took the initiative to risk his life to show up to see Yu Xiaotian to intercede for him, he was quite emotional, thinking that there really weren't many loyal ministers in the Ming Dynasty.

, only Cao Huachun, Wang Dehua, Wang Chengen and other old eunuchs who followed him were loyal to him. Since Cao Huachun would rather die than escape from the capital, how could he bear to punish him?

So Chongzhen waved his hand and asked Cao Huachun to stand up. Then Chongzhen quickly asked about the situation of the capital outside the palace.

Gao Qiqian also told Chongzhen exactly what he had seen and heard outside these days. After listening to Gao Qiqian's evaluation of the family army, Chongzhen closed his eyes and sighed.

He really couldn't imagine how Yu Xiaotian managed the army. Not only was he able to create an army that was so good at fighting, but the rebel soldiers under his command were also able to be so obedient and disciplined. The discipline of the army and the army was broken. He was

He has known about it for a long time, but because the world is in chaos now, it is the time to recruit people, so even if he hears that some generals do not maintain military discipline and engage in random acts, he often just turns a blind eye, as long as the generals are still useful.

, he usually won’t touch them.

Therefore, this also resulted in the current military discipline of the Ming army being very corrupt, but he did not expect that the military discipline of the Beijing camp at the foot of the emperor had also collapsed to such an extent. It was just that the officers and soldiers were not good at fighting, but after their defeat,

To actually commit so many evil deeds in the capital city, this is really deserving of death.

Originally, the people in the capital had a sympathetic attitude towards the rebels. Now that the rebels have invaded the city, the defending officers and soldiers are so virtuous, which has brought the court's reputation to the bottom.

Now that the rebels have taken control of the capital, although the whole city is still under martial law, they rarely disturb the people. Compared with the officers and soldiers with broken military discipline, they are making judgments. What is even more frightening is that they are using the banner of the Qing Dynasty.

If we can gain the support of the common people, if this continues, who will take the imperial court seriously?

When Chongzhen thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh again, knowing that this time the Ming Dynasty would really have to be left to Xiaotian.

In addition, Gao Qiqian also brought a very important news, that is, although the Shandong reinforcements, led by Yan Jizu, arrived very quickly and entered Tongzhou City, they were defeated in a single battle before the Yu family army.

Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, was also captured on the spot and became Yu Xiaotian's prisoner.

The whole of Shandong is now in chaos. The governor fell into the hands of the rebels, causing Shandong to lose its unified control. Now Shandong's troops have fled back to Shandong, and most of them have become bandits, causing harm to the people everywhere, so that many people in Shandong have

Local prefectures, counties and even villages and towns recruited village warriors to protect themselves, but the ones they were defending were these genuine officers and soldiers.

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