Listening to the courtiers below cursing and cursing, Zhengde didn't take it seriously!
Even though he heard that these ministers wanted to murder him more than twenty years ago, he remained unmoved!
If he knew about this before, he would definitely be furious and start a big purge in the court, but now, there is no need!
Because he had no intention of letting these courtiers in front of him live!
They all want to be buried with Ming Dynasty and his integrity!
So Emperor Zhengde didn't show any emotion at all, he just looked at the ministers in front of him quietly!
The guards have already brought the poisonous wine that had been prepared long ago, one cup after another, neatly placed on the plate!
At this time, some of the ministers were still yelling and cursing, some wanted to escape secretly, and some were shouting loudly, trying to get the soldiers outside to come in and save them.
But all this is in vain, Emperor Zhengde has already made preparations for today, and all arrangements are perfect!
If he wins this battle, then everything will be easy. He will pretend that he has never prepared for the poisoned wine. But if he loses, then today's scene must happen.
He, Zhengde, will never allow these ministers to continue to live!
The Ming Dynasty is over, and his Zhengde will become the king of the country. Then these ministers, as ministers of the Ming Dynasty, must also be buried with him!
Someone tried to escape, but was stopped by the guards. Then, with a look from Emperor Zhengde, the guards forcefully opened the mouths of the ministers who were trying to escape, and poured a full amount of poisonous wine into their mouths.
Go down.
Then the second, the third...
At this time, Xia Yan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, came out of the queue with a slightly trembling body and picked up a glass of poisonous wine from the plate in front of him. His hands were trembling, and his pale face told everyone that he was dissatisfied with the glass in front of him.
Poisonous Wine was extremely frightened, but he still picked up the poisonous wine and tried hard to steady his hand to prevent the poisonous wine from spilling!
He looked up at Emperor Zhengde, and then said: "I thank you, Lord, for your kindness!"
The emperor’s rewards and punishments are all gifts!
Even if it means death, they still have to say thank you to the Lord for His grace!
After saying that, Xia Yan gritted his teeth and drank the poisonous wine in his hand!
The poisonous wine had gone down his throat. Xia Yan looked up at Zhengde again. It seemed as if he had already drank and death was coming, so Xia Yan let go, threw the wine glass in his hand, and laughed loudly: "Haha,
Haha, I never thought that I, Xia Yan, would end up like this after spending my whole life in court. I regret it! I hate it!"
What does Xia Yan regret? What does he hate?
No one knows. Maybe he is regretting why he entered the official career in the first place. Maybe he is regretting that he did not try his best in the drowning incident decades ago. Maybe he is regretting that he refused several times in the following years.
The palace change plan proposed by others!
After saying this, Xia Yan was so poisonous that he collapsed to the ground, foaming at the mouth!
Emperor Zhengde's expression remained unchanged and he looked at the remaining ministers quietly!
Emperor Zhengde didn't need to speak, but everyone knew what he meant, and it was nothing more than the next one!
Immediately, many of the courtiers below became even more crazy. Some were filled with grief and anger. In despair, they imitated Xia Yan and drank the poisoned wine directly. Others were unwilling to die. They studied hard for ten years.
They were able to become officials, and they struggled for decades before becoming important officials in the court and enjoying the glory and wealth. They were unwilling to just become a dead soul under the poisoned wine.
They want to escape with their lives!
But the guards around him were the closest confidants of Emperor Zhengde. It was so easy for these ministers to escape!
So they were stopped one by one, and then they were force-fed poisonous wine one after another!
Cabinet ministers, six ministers, ministers, princes and counts, one after another, either on their own or were given poisoned wine, and then fell to the ground foaming at the mouth!
In just a few minutes, there was no longer a single living minister in front of Zhengde!
At this time, Emperor Zhengde continued to look around, surrounded by his direct bodyguards. Although those guards were extremely loyal, but now that they saw Emperor Zhengde falling on them, they couldn't help but feel fear.
However, Zhengde said: "You are all my humerus, and many of you have been watched by me personally. You regard me as your king and father, and I regard you as my sons and nephews. Go ahead and take my legacy with you."
Let’s each go to Sichuan and assist King Jing!”
After hundreds of guards listened, although many of them showed hesitation, they still gritted their teeth and got on their horses and left. The edict they brought with them was the edict of succession, announcing that the third prince, King Jing, was the new emperor.
As for the prince in the capital, everyone knows that he has been abandoned by Emperor Zhengde long ago!
After watching hundreds of guards leave, Emperor Zhengde looked at the people left around him. Only a group of eunuchs were left. As for the officials and generals here, they had all been poisoned to death by him!
At this time, Emperor Zhengde sat down again and issued his last military order: "Order the entire army to retreat. Alas, as many as you can escape!"
But Emperor Zhengde himself did not move. Several eunuchs came over and knelt down. One of them cried:
"Long live, let's go. Even though we are defeated today, we can still go to Sichuan and the northwest, and we can still make a comeback after lying down for several years!"
Emperor Zhengde shook his head: "I am old and can no longer walk!"
Then he stretched out his hand: "Wine!"
The eunuch next to him hesitated for a while, you looked at me, I looked at you, and finally Emperor Zhengde snorted: "Do you really want me to be captured alive?"
As he spoke, he pointed to the front. The central Ming army in front had been completely defeated. Even the left wing, which had not fought directly before, was attacked by the Tang army. Because of Zhengde's final retreat order, the entire army was completely defeated.
The troops are now running backwards, and behind them are countless Tang troops chasing them!
This place is not far from the front line, only a few hundred meters away. If the Tang army really wants to come over, it will only take a few minutes!
At this time, the eunuch started to pour wine, but it was not one cup, but more than ten cups!
Zhengde directly picked up one of the cups, and then the eunuchs also consciously picked up one cup each!
Zhengde did not speak any more, but drank a glass of wine directly, and said after drinking: "Good wine!"
After drinking this cup, he poured it twice himself and continued drinking, one cup, two cups, three cups...
He continues to drink!
When Zhengde was drinking, the eunuch beside him said: "Long live the drink, the old slave is here too!"
Immediately, they also drank up the poisonous wine. Although the eunuchs behind them had different expressions, some sighed, some panicked, they did not refuse the poisonous wine in their hands like the previous ministers.
Now, there is nothing to stop them. Emperor Zhengde did not even ask them to drink poisonous wine, but they know very well that as eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, they are more dependent on the Zhu family royal family of the Ming Dynasty than the nobles, or in other words, they are more dependent on the people in front of them.
This is the Zhengde Emperor.
Emperor Zhengde committed suicide. Even if they were able to escape from the battlefield and survive, could they survive the days of being frightened and, more importantly, losing their power?
Seeing the eunuchs around him drinking poisonous wine one after another, Emperor Zhengde showed a wry smile, and then said: "Compared to them, you are more like ministers of the Ming Dynasty, not just domestic slaves of my royal family!"
After saying that, Emperor Zhengde showed a look of pain on his face. He tried hard not to fall down. He wanted to sit down!
He is the Ming Emperor. Even if he dies, he will die sitting on the dragon throne!
In the end, he slumped down on the dragon chair and stopped breathing completely, but his eyes were wide open. He seemed to be looking ahead at the corpse of Mingchen who was poisoned by him, and he seemed to be looking ahead like the ebbing sea water.
The fleeing army seems to be looking towards the sky again!
He will never die with his eyes in peace!
About ten minutes later, a Guards cavalry team chasing the defeated Ming army arrived at the hilltop. Then they saw a mountain of corpses, and the clothes on these corpses were clearly from the Ming Dynasty.
Important civil and military officials.
How is this going?
The Guards Cavalry in front of me, but I don’t know what happened here ten minutes ago!
But what happened was no longer important. What was important was that they saw a large number of corpses of Ming army ministers, and more importantly, they saw Emperor Zhengde who was still sitting on the dragon throne!
Emperor Zhengde was wearing a yellow dragon robe, which couldn't be easier to identify. Although the cavalry were a little worried that this might just be a stand-in, they still came over quickly and did not flip it over. They just took a closer look, but they still couldn't be sure that this was him.
The corpse of Zhengde himself.
Because they have never seen Zhengde himself, to tell whether this person is the real corpse of Zhengde, they can only wait for someone to come later. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many people who were demoted from the previous Ming Dynasty, and they all saw Zhengde with their own eyes.
, enough to distinguish the true from the false.
After Li Xuan learned that Emperor Zhengde and a group of ministers from the Ming Dynasty had committed suicide, he was a little surprised. Damn, your bones are so hard, and you are committing mass suicide!
But later, they captured a few prisoners. After questioning, they learned that it was Emperor Zhengde who poisoned a group of ministers with wine and then committed suicide. This surprised Li Xuan even more. Damn, this Emperor Zhengde was really perverted.
It doesn't matter if he dies, he has to kill all the ministers first and then commit suicide.
This reminded him of Cheng Hongan in the Battle of Hengyang. That man also poisoned his subordinates first and then committed suicide!
Obviously, Emperor Zhengde still learned from Cheng Hongan. Otherwise, even if he wanted to kill ministers, he would not use the method of poisoning and drinking. He would cut them cleanly with one knife, one at a time.
But Li Xuan was only slightly surprised by the deaths of the Ming Dynasty monarchs and ministers. This matter is now of no importance to him!
The important thing is, regardless of whether Zhengde dies or not, he won the battle of Anping Town, and he won it neatly!
Today, it is enough to declare that the Tang Dynasty unified the world and became the only central dynasty in China!
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