"Go to Jiangnan?" Wu Xiaomei was stunned, "Is my father at home willing to go to Jiangnan? And my brother Sangui?"

"Ling Zun is worried about his family business in the capital and is unwilling to go there. I have a way to persuade him to leave. As for your brother Sangui, you still need to stay in Shanhaiguan to prevent Jiannu and cannot go there." Zhao Peng replied.

Wu Xiaomei asked worriedly: "But the capital was in the hands of thieves, with Jiannu in the north and bandits in the south. Shanhaiguan became an isolated city. What should Brother Sangui do? Both the north and the south are occupied by the enemy. Can he defend an isolated city?"

"You brother Sangui has three ways to go. One is to surrender the thief and station the Shanhaiguan for Dashun to resist the Jiannu; the second is to continue to be loyal to our Ming Dynasty and resist the Jiannu; the third is to surrender to the Jiannu. Although the thief is not well-known, it will be my Chinese people in the end. Continue to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, with little righteousness and loyalty to the sun and the moon. Although it is an isolated city, Shanhaiguan is the most powerful pass in the world. One man should be the pass and ten thousand men cannot open. The Ming Dynasty has a fleet that can transport food and grass to Shanhaiguan. If you stick to it, no one can conquer it! Although surrendering to Jiannu can survive, it is a bad reputation for thousands of years. In the end, you will inevitably be cooked by Jiannu's rabbit and dead dog! The three roads depend on how your brother goes." Zhao Peng replied.

In the imperial prison of the former Jinyiweibei Town Fushishiyamen in the capital, a middle-aged man with disheveled hair and blood was tied to a pillar, and his ten fingers were dripping blood drop by drop. This guy was Chen Yan, who had blocked Chongzhen's southern hunt. It was because of this person that the Chongzhen king died in the country, otherwise Chongzhen would have arrived in Nanjing long ago.

Therefore, Chen Yan is the culprit who really killed Chongzhen. Originally, Chen Yan could have run away by himself before the siege of the army, but his family property was too much, with a total value of more than five million taels of silver! His family was big and it was difficult to move, so he had to separate the car and load it slowly. As a result, before the loading of the car was completed, he was blocked in the city by Li Zicheng's army. Now he couldn't even escape.

Standing opposite Chen Yan, Liu Zongmin with a ferocious face, he was playing with a stick in his hand and looked at Chen Yan with a smile: "Old Master Chen, you have come to this day, and you are responsible for your own efforts! You have blocked the advanced emperor from the south and caused the advanced emperor to die. What should you blame!"

"No sin!" Chen Yan quipped loudly, "If I hadn't stopped the foolish monarch from going south, how could the king ascend the throne to the emperor now? I have made great contributions to the advance, so the general should not treat me like this!"

Liu Zongmin laughed: "Your Majesty hates you who are unfaithful and unfair and sell your masters for honor the most!"

Chen Yan argued: "No, I am not staying in the city to accompany the ancestors?"

"Stay stay in the city to accompany the predecessor? Hahaha! I don't even want it!" Liu Zongmin laughed, "For his own selfish interests, he stopped the Emperor Ming from going south, but he spoke righteously in the court! He killed the predecessor, and surrendered to our army in a blink of an eye, and even persuaded him to enter the army! I have never seen such a shameless person! Mr. Chen, you are afraid that his family has too much wealth and cannot move away, so he was blocked by our army in the city?"

When Chongzhen saw that the situation was not good, he thought about Nanshou, but was blocked by Chen Yan's righteous words in the court. Chen Yan said that the emperor was the ancestral system left by Chengzu. How could the emperor leave behind the capital and run away? If there was an emperor guarding the country, the soldiers would definitely resist the enemy with all their might, and the ministers would serve His Majesty with death. In this way, Chongzhen was stopped by Chen Yan.

Chen Yan spoke passionately and showed a strong and strong look. As soon as Li Zicheng entered the capital, Chen Yan turned around and surrendered to Li Zicheng, and shamelessly made a confession.

After reading the memorials and edicts left in the Forbidden City, Li Zicheng learned that Chen Yan was the culprit who blocked Chongzhen's southward journey. He also saw that Chen Yan, who claimed to be willing to serve Chongzhen with his death, actually gave him a convincing letter. Li Zicheng, who was disgusted, asked Liu Zongmin to train this person.

In fact, Li Zicheng knew very well that Chen Yan stopped Chongzhen from going south because of his own. Chen Yan's family and property were all in the north. If he only took away the silver, then the real estate of the fields, shops and other real estate would fall into Li Zicheng's hands. Chen Yan, who was reluctant to let go of his family property, stopped Chongzhen, resulting in the tragedy of Chongzhen's death in the country.

The king's death to the country was the worst result of that year, which made Hong Chengchou just use the excuse of the Qing army avenging Chongzhen to go south, which also led to the launch of a dark era of nearly three hundred years in China. It can be said that all this was caused by Chen Yan's own selfish interests!

If it weren't for Chen Yan's obstruction and Chongzhen succeeded in hunting south, the Qing army would have lost the excuse to avenge Chongzhen, and Wu Sangui had no reason to open Shanhaiguan. Even if the Qing army finally broke through Shanhaiguan and entered the pass, it would have to face fierce resistance from the northern landlords' armed forces. The difficulty of going south to Jiangnan would greatly increase. Maybe Chongzhen would have created a Southern Ming like the Southern Song Dynasty. As long as China persisted for more than a hundred years, the Han people who entered the industrial era could eventually defeat the Qing army, and there would be no century of humiliation after the Opium War.

After Li Zicheng attacked the capital, Chen Yan not only surrendered to Li Zicheng in order to save his life, but also when Li Zicheng proposed to help with the money, Chen Yan took the initiative to hand over 50,000 taels of silver.

"Old Chen Ge was willing to hand over 50,000 taels of silver, and the amount of silver in his hand must be countless, right? In fact, you could have run away long ago. It is said that he couldn't take it away because he had too much money, so he stayed in the capital, right?" Liu Zongmin played with a stick and looked at Chen Yan with a smile.

Chen Yan was speechless. It seemed that he would never have passed this level without bleeding, but he really felt sorry for the money. This was the family business that he had worked hard to earn more than 5 million taels of silver. Now he was going to be slaughtered by Li Zicheng as a fat pig. He was really unwilling to accept it.

Bleeding is inevitable, but I still have to find a way to reduce bleeding. Chen Yan was thinking secretly in his heart, and suddenly he had a plan, so he said to Liu Zongmin: "General Liu, the villain knows that there is a stunning woman in the capital and is willing to offer it to the general! If the general promises, I hope the general will give the favor to the villain some coffin books."

"A stunning woman?" Liu Zongmin smiled, "The Chief Minister Wei has presented all his daughter to this general. I don't like it yet. After using it, I will reward my brothers! What kind of stunning woman do you have?"

"This woman will definitely satisfy the general! The general doesn't know that this woman is Chen Yuanyuan, a famous concubine in Qinhuai, Jiangnan. If the general sees this woman's beauty with his own eyes, he will definitely make the general linger." Chen Yan said shamelessly.

After all, Chen Yuanyuan is still very famous. The Qinhuai singer back then was equivalent to a big star worth hundreds of millions in the future. When Liu Zongmin heard Chen Yuanyuan's name, his eyes lit up: "Tell me quickly, where is Chen Yuanyuan?"

"If General Liu is willing to let the villain go a long way and leave more coffin books for the villain, the villain will definitely inform you." Chen Yan said.

Liu Zongmin thought to himself: Since this guy said that Chen Yuanyuan was in the capital, it would be better to cheat him first and lure him to tell him whereabouts. This general went to take Chen Yuanyuan and then torture him. Thinking of this, Liu Zongmin smiled and said, "If Master Chen tells Chen Yuanyuan whereabouts, when this general gets a beauty, he will come back and let you go home!"

Chen Yan was overjoyed and said, "General Liu, Chen Yuanyuan's son Wu Sangui, the son of Wu Xiang, the governor of the Beijing camp, only the general needs to take people to the Wu Mansion and ask. The general can ask Wu Xiang to hand over Chen Yuanyuan."

Liu Zongmin shook his head repeatedly and said, "Is it not right? Your Majesty always recruited Wu Sangui, the general of Shanhaiguan. If you rob Sangui of this time, you may have ruined Your Majesty's plan. As the saying goes, the hatred of robbing your wife and killing your father is irreconcilable."

Chen Yan changed into a flattering smile and said, "The general doesn't know what it means. The concubine is different from his wife. It is Cao Mengde who takes his wife away, and it is despised. But the concubine is different. I can give it to others at will. Back then, Su Shi gave his beloved concubine to his friend, but he also made a good story. If Wu Sangui surrendered His Majesty, it would be understandable to give his beloved concubine to the general."
Chapter completed!