After leaving the capital, Chongzhen sat in a carriage and sedan chair. He was like a wealthy businessman returning home in glory. He spent money to hire more than a dozen guards and left the capital in a mighty manner.

Emperor Chongzhen was particularly curious about everything outside the city. The city was deep in the spring, and the country was still there before it was broken.

However, what is presented to Chongzhen is a different world. At least, it is different from what he imagined.

Outside the city is almost depressed, with sparsely populated and broken everywhere. There are no tall buildings with carved beams and painted buildings, no clean and tidy bluestone streets, and no merchants and vendors from all over the world.

The low thatched huts, the houses of a few households, and the coarse linen clothes, and the people who look a little dirty.

The people's eyes were dull, and they looked at the group of luxuriously dressed men and traveling in sedan chairs with curiosity.

Chongzhen's pomp was like a wealthy businessman returning home in glory. Such people with status and status cannot be afforded by ordinary people.

Therefore, all the people seen along the way were hiding.

Emperor Chongzhen in the carriage became a little overjoyed, which was different from what he imagined. He thought that the tour in a condom was to be able to communicate with the people in a cordial manner, ask about their daily life, ask whether there were bullies or bullies, and ask whether there was happiness in life.

Then, the people answered enthusiastically. Without bandits and natural disasters, the people's lives became more and more prosperous. Thank the court for their gratitude. Both sides spent a happy atmosphere.

This was Chongzhen’s imagination. The fact is that when the people saw his carriage, they hid far away like they were hiding from the plague.

Ordinary people are all coarse cloth and linen clothes, silk and satin worn by high-ranking officials and scholars and scholars wear robes. These are all symbols of status.

The people have always been respectful to those who have noble identities and themselves. The main reason is that they are just naughty and cannot afford to provoke them.

Therefore, based on the logic that it is better to have less than more things, they try not to provoke these superiors. Even if these people humiliate themselves, they can only endure it.

This was just less than half a day after leaving the capital. Compared with the prosperous capital, the outside world was simply two completely different worlds.

Even if it was not very prosperous outside the suburbs of Beijing, it would not be so ruined. The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and Emperor Chongzhen saw with his own eyes that there were ruins left by war everywhere.

Rebirth in the ruins and rebuild your own home. The prosperity of the Ming Dynasty for more than 270 years was ruthlessly destroyed by war and disasters.

The wooden restaurant was burned, with scattered bricks and tiles on the ground and burned charred beams showing the prosperity of the place.

The collapsed thatched hut, the broken blue brick courtyard, the trembling crows on the branches, and the capital was desolate.

They came to a small town where the remaining residents were less than one-tenth of the previous one. The only place in the town called a restaurant was a thatched house made of mud.

Zhu Cixuan rode his horse in front of him, and they stopped to rest in this place called the town.

"Where is the place ahead?" Emperor Chongzhen finally couldn't help asking.

Wang Chengen, who was standing beside him, replied: "If you go back to the emperor, this is Ande Town. We have already left the capital for eighty miles."

"Eighty miles, well, I understand." Chongzhen pondered for a moment, and then stopped talking.

"Hey, store owner, let's take a break here for a while and leave immediately. If you have any good wine and meat, come up quickly." Zhu Cixuan was familiar with the road, turned over and got off the horse and greeted the store owner.

The store owner immediately nodded and bowed: "Please please in the customer's office. The store has neglected everyone, please forgive me."

Zhu Cixuan touched it casually, took out a piece of silver from his arms and threw it over: "Stop talking nonsense, if I'm here, go and prepare."

The shopkeeper turned his head and looked at Chongzhen's carriage, and became more respectful: "The guest official is waiting for a moment, and the villain will prepare now."

Zhu Cilang is familiar with the world and is commonplace for such things. He is a dignified prince, wandering around the market. I don’t know if it is a good or a bad thing.

Chongzhen in the carriage looked at all this quietly and could see that Chongzhen was actually very pleased.

Wang Chengen, who was serving him, observed his expression and said hurriedly: "Master, the young master has been in the world for a long time and is much better than a servant."

Chongzhen said "yes" and still didn't say anything. In fact, his heart was filled with relief. His son was indeed much better than himself.

Zhu Cilang has grown into an adult, no longer worried Chongzhen everywhere like before. Now, it seems that his son has become his own support. Emperor Chongzhen even feels that he will feel inexplicably at ease with his son.

In fact, it is not just Emperor Chongzhen who thinks so, but everyone who follows Zhu Cixuan thinks so. The prince is a person who can compete with Zhuge Liang, and nothing is difficult in the hands of the prince.

When they were following Zhu Cixuan to fight, the soldiers of the 12th Regiment Battalion heard that the prince was coming. Even if they encountered any dangerous situation, they would secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

This is also the reason why the soldiers of the 12th Regiment Battalion followed him so wholeheartedly. Zhu Cilang quickly made arrangements, and Wang Chengen helped Emperor Chongzhen get off the carriage.

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but frown in such a dilapidated restaurant. However, within a radius of dozens of miles, I was afraid that there would be no other restaurants. Even if there were, it might not be better than this one.

Sure enough, Zhu Cixuan said, "Dad, this restaurant is still here, so let's have lunch here."

Emperor Chongzhen had already given up a little: "Are we no longer staying here after dinner?"

The road ahead is long, and those who know what it looks like in front of you. If it is not as good as this one, when I stayed that night, Chongzhen didn't want to sleep on the Datong Bed.

Zhu Cilang shook his head: "It's important to hurry up. We have to leave after dinner. We are walking too slowly along the way."

Too slow? Chongzhen was slightly stunned. He felt that the speed of travel was fast enough. The carriage had not stopped since he left Beijing. The bumpy road made Emperor Chongzhen very unhappy. He wanted to take a rest here and it would not be too late to set off tomorrow.

Who knew that my son said he was walking too slowly. How could he go fast? Is it okay to fly with wings?

Little did they know that it was too slow for Zhu Cilang. When he went north to Liaodong, rescue was like putting out a fire, and that was not stopping day and night.

Although it is not as exaggerated as the legendary Chinese and Japanese traveling thousands of miles a day and eight hundred at night, Zhu Cilang was almost exhausted from marching in a hurry. Now this kind of traveling like a mountain and water is nothing more than a pediatric department for Zhu Cilang.
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