Chapter 494: The True Identity of Emperor Chongzhen
As soon as he mentioned this, Mu Mu immediately showed an admiring look: "Master, you are really good at predicting things. As expected, Wang Chengen did not rest immediately after returning to his own room. Instead, he took out the account books of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I don't know what happened.
Check something."
"And the letter you gave him before, he probably copied it himself and checked it all the time." Mu Xi added.
Lin Chong sighed: "What else can I check? Of course I want to check how much private money I have, young master. When I was in the capital, I never bothered to open my own shop. Of course, all sources of income came from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He
I want to use this to roughly calculate how much cash I can get."
Mu Xi frowned: "Why did he want to check this?"
"It's hard to tell. Maybe he wants to help me, or maybe he wants to harm me." Lin Chong shrugged.
"How do you say this? How can the same thing help you and hurt you at the same time?" Mu Mu found it difficult to understand this contradictory statement.
"I'll explain this to you when I have time. I can't tell you right now, and it's useless to say it. But through today's incident, I did learn something new." Lin Chong touched his chin and sighed.
"I originally thought that Emperor Chongzhen just hid in Zheng Chenggong's team by mistake, but I didn't expect that this man was so capable."
"You mean he not only hid in the Zheng Family Army, but also..." Mu Xi looked complicated.
Lin Chong nodded: "It's very possible that he is Zheng Chenggong!"
"Why do you say that?" The sudden female voice startled Lin Chong. He almost jumped out of bed in fright.
After seeing clearly who the visitor was, he patted his chest with lingering fear and complained: "Didn't you say that you went out for something? Why did you come back in the middle of the night? Besides, could you make some noise in advance when you come back in the middle of the night? You are here all of a sudden.
Do you know that talking can scare people to death!"
Yuan Qingfang just ran back from somewhere and was covered in chills. Lin Chong was only wearing a single piece of clothing, and the cold air brought in made her shiver.
Yuan Qingfang leaned against the table with her sword in her arms, poured herself a cup of tea and drank it in one gulp: "You will never do anything bad in your life, and you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. Why are you so scared?"
Lin Chong never argued with her on this kind of issue: "Yes, I just did something wrong and made a special trip to wait for you, a beautiful girl to come to my door."
Mu Xi and Mu Mu had long been accustomed to their young master's behavior of showing affection anytime and anywhere regardless of the occasion. They turned their heads elsewhere in unison and pretended not to hear anything.
Lin Chong coughed slightly to show that he did not mean to torture the dog: "Okay, let's talk about our business. But there is one thing that makes me uneasy. Don't you claim that the defense here is so good that even a fly can't hide it from you?
Eyes? Now you two come and go at will. I am really worried about my own life safety."
Mu Mu shook his hands and explained: "If we rely solely on the imperial guards outside, the defense is indeed not enough, but we have already asked the Shadow Cavalry Guards to take turns guarding here. Mainly because they all know Madam, so they did not stop her."
"With the few people under your command, even if they find me, they probably won't be able to hold me off for even a quarter of an hour."
Mu Xi was confident: "A quarter of an hour is enough. As long as I can hold you off for a quarter of an hour, I will have other ways to subdue you."
Yuan Qingfang seemed to be aroused with great interest: "Oh? How about pulling it out next time and trying it?" She really wanted to see if this kid could cure her.
Mumu refused with a grimace: "There's no need for it. You can satisfy your curiosity by trying it this time, but then we will suffer heavy losses."
"I won't actually kill you, so what do you have to lose?"
"If they don't try their best, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold you back for a quarter of an hour, but if they try their best, they will definitely be seriously injured. So many people are injured at the same time, which is of course a big loss for us!" Mu Mu held his little head high.
refute.
Yuan Qingfang surrendered: "Okay, okay, let's not try anymore. What did you just say? Go on. I happen to want to hear it too."
Lin Chong actually didn't know what to say. He was not completely sure of his thoughts. After all, Zheng Chenggong did exist in history. He and Emperor Chongzhen could indeed be regarded as figures from the same period. But these two people
What kind of intersection will there be?
"I have suspected before that maybe Zheng Chenggong is the real emperor, but I am not completely sure now. Even if he is not, then the emperor must be a person of great status there." Lin Chong affirmed, at least he can directly
Influenced Zheng Chenggong's decision.
"Where did you learn this?" Yuan Qingfang knew nothing about what happened before, so she still didn't understand the situation before her.
"Today I asked Wang Cheng'en to negotiate with the Zheng Jiajun outside the city about cooperating to retreat from the enemy. When he came back, he told me that the progress was going very smoothly. Later I saw the detailed list he gave me, and the things he actually promised to give me were better than mine.
The letter I gave him originally promised more than half of what I promised, why do you think this is?"
"I didn't realize that Manager Wang is quite capable. Did he reduce the amount of things he wanted to give?"
Lin Chong shook his head: "He is not that capable, and the contract they negotiated contained many promised fiefs. These were not what I had agreed upon before, and I don't believe Wang Chengen has the guts to make his own decisions."
Yuan Qingfang understood now: "So what you mean is that the so-called contract they negotiated was actually made by Wang Chengen and the real emperor. It was precisely because the two had a consensus that they could complete it so quickly.
Decision, or is it that Wang Chengen is completely taking orders from others?"
Lin Chong nodded: "So even if this person is not Zheng Chenggong, at least he is someone who can have a great influence on him. The influence is so great that he can directly talk to the envoys sent by the imperial court on his behalf."
In fact, Lin Chong also considered another possibility, that is, Emperor Chongzhen had confessed his identity to them a long time ago, so of course Zheng Chenggong respected him very much and was willing to come to Nanjing to help him regain his throne, no matter which possibility it was.
, there is no doubt that Emperor Chongzhen is in front of us now.
"When he left, I deliberately added an additional condition below. In fact, it was just a vague statement, that is, if the work is completed, I must personally invite them to the palace to celebrate together."
The real Emperor Chongzhen will definitely come by then, and no matter what doubts he has, they will be solved by then, this is what Lin Chong thought.