In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, on the night of March 16th, in the west of the capital city of the Ming Dynasty, in Jeju Wei Hutong.

The five men in black jumped over the wall, their movements were agile, and it was obvious at a glance that they were very skilled and had extraordinary origins.

Soon, the back door of the residence of Chen Yan, the former chief minister of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty and the great scholar of Jianji Palace, was quietly opened from the inside.

Dozens of men in black who had been waiting outside for a long time suddenly emerged from the darkness. They followed closely behind a tall man in black, holding sharp knives, and swarmed in.

As the back door was re-closed, more than a dozen servants of Chen's residence were quickly eliminated by the men in black who entered the residence. The whole process was smooth and smooth, with almost no decent resistance, let alone any sound.

Even the maids and women in the mansion were also controlled.

The once-favorite number one favorite of Emperor Chongzhen was now being tied to a pillar in the Chen Mansion Hall with five-flowered flowers. Even though his mouth was stuffed with a piece of cloth, he was still screaming "Uh-huh-huh-huh".

The leading man in black slowly walked into the hall. Behind him were still followed by a dozen men in black, with an aggressive attitude.

When Chen Yan saw this, his Adam's apple trembled and he swallowed so nervously that his whole body even started to tremble.

After Zhou Shixian approached, he winked at the man next to him. The man immediately understood and went forward to remove the cotton cloth stuffed in Chen Yan's mouth.

"Spare your life, hero, spare your life..." As soon as the rag was taken out of Chen Yan's mouth, he quickly begged for mercy, as if this would save him from death.

Zhou Shixian knew that such corrupt officials and court bugs were the most afraid of death, the weakest, and the most spineless. He looked coldly at the tearful begging for mercy of the powerful man in front of him, without any fluctuation in his heart.

"Master Chen, you are really good at hiding the money so tightly that I can't find it no matter how hard I look for it!"

Zhou Shixian stared at the other party and said grimly: "If you want to survive, tell me honestly where the remaining hundreds of thousands of taels of silver went. Otherwise, I will definitely make your life worse than death."

Of course Zhou Shixian knew that the greedy old man in front of him had more than one hundred thousand taels of silver in his family. The state leader Zhou Kui, the eunuch Wang Zhixin, and the former chief minister of the cabinet Chen Yan were all the people who were tortured by Liu Zongmin for hundreds of thousands of taels of stolen silver in history.

Huge greed.

As a retired military officer and a deep history enthusiast, due to an accident, Zhou Shixian, who traveled from the 21st century, not only studied many historical and military books in depth, but also liked to read various historical online novels. He has a deep understanding of the late Ming Dynasty.

This period of history can be described as a treasure trove.

Therefore, Zhou Shixian, who was accustomed to reading historical time travel novels, naturally accepted the reality that he had traveled to the late Ming Dynasty.

It's just that it was actually worn on the body of Zhou Shixian, the consort of the Ming Dynasty with the same name and the same name in the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. This is a bit too much! Does God want to be buried with the Zhu family?

Fortunately, Zhou Shixian came from a family of officials. His father was once the Shaoqing of Taipu Temple and managed the horse affairs throughout the Ming Dynasty. After all, he was a fourth-rank official and a genuine "Bi Ma Wen".

As for Zhou Shixian himself, he was a member of the Sixth Rank Jin Yi Wei Hundred Households. He was a well-known and modest son in the capital who was excellent in both morals and learning, both in civil and military affairs.

Although the power of Jinyiwei during the Chongzhen period was much less than before, the remaining power still existed. Coupled with the sudden arrival of Chuang Wang Li Zicheng's army, the capital had been in chaos for more than two months. Zhou Shixian also took advantage of these two months of chaos to

He has gathered a large number of capable people at the bottom of the city.

After all, he is now a first-class Prince Consort, with a title between marquis and earl. In today's Ming Dynasty, there are not many people who can match his title.

As for the actual sixth-grade Jinyiwei Baihu, they have not yet resigned due to the turbulent situation, so Zhou Shixian can legitimately mobilize the Jinyiwei under his command.

Of course, if you ask Zhou Shixian what else he should be thankful for, it should be that the original owner has such a good skin. Being selected as the consort, his appearance is naturally extremely outstanding. If it is left to future generations, it means that he can rely on his face to make a living.

Lord.

As for the famous Princess Kunxing, she was famous for her intelligence, beauty, and charming looks. It was a pity that she was jealous of her beauty, which made her fall in love with such an unreliable father.

After a few days of familiarity, Zhou Shixian's IQ regained the high ground, and he soon began to use the historical knowledge learned by later generations, the Zhou family's personal connections, and the abilities he had honed over many years as a soldier to find a way to survive in desperate situations.

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At that time, it was less than two months before the capital city was defeated. Zhou Shixian knew that after the plague and Li Jiantai's Western Expedition, it was impossible to hold on to the city, so he turned his attention to breaking out.

It would be easy if he just wanted to go alone and live alone. With his official position and family wealth, no one would know when he would take a few loyal men with him and leave quietly.

As for the bloody turmoil in the next twenty years, what does it have to do with him going to Nanyang?

But at this time when the life and death of the nation was at stake, if he did nothing, I'm afraid he would be sorry for his status as a soldier, and even more so for his Chinese descendants.

Both of these are inseparable from him. Not to mention, as a man who grew up under the red flag, how could Zhou Shixian lose his backbone and blindly escape? It is even less possible for him to grovel, shave his head and become a slave of the Tatars?

This is an era of subjugation and genocide, and the land is full of fishy smells. China has sunk for three hundred years. The country is weak and the people are stupid. The Chinese civilization has also lost its glory and has been unable to breathe for a long time. It has even been subjugated by Asians derived from itself.

Civilized island country bullying.

The Tenth Day in Yangzhou, the Three Massacres in Jiading, the Eighty-one Days in Jiangyin, the Massacre in Kunshan, the Massacre in Nanchang, the Massacre in Xiangtan, the Massacre in Datong, the Massacre in Guangzhou... There were more than 1,300 counties in the Ming Dynasty, as recorded in local chronicles.

According to records, more than a thousand people were massacred in the city, and more than 30 million people of the Ming Dynasty died at the hands of Manchu and Tatar executioners!

Therefore, what Zhou Shixian has done now and what happened tonight is the robbery. Zhou Shixian not only wants to leave by himself, but also takes Emperor Chongzhen with him and the few remaining loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Because he wanted to resist the Qing Dynasty, expel the Tartars, restore the country, and bring peace and prosperity to the people of the world!

"Hero, I really don't have any money left at home." Chen Yan was still crying, with runny nose and tears. The most powerful of these moral gentlemen of the Ming Dynasty was acting.

If Zhou Shixian hadn't known how the other party behaved after being tortured by Liu Zongmin, he might have believed the old man's lies just by looking at him like that.

"Oh, is it really gone?" Zhou Shixian suddenly became kind-hearted, and then winked at the cronies beside him, and said in a gentle tone:

"Untie Mr. Chen. Take out your right hand. Tie them together like this. If you strike with a knife, you may kill Mr. Chen directly."

Chen Yan already had a smile on his face, but when he heard this, his eyes widened in fright.

He looked at the masked man in black in front of him in disbelief, but he could not remember when exactly he had offended someone, and how this person knew that there was other money hidden in his home.

Let's say that Chen Yan originally saw that the situation was not good and had already resigned from Emperor Chongzhen in the first month of the year. He should have left the capital and escaped from danger.

However, he had too much property at home, the current situation was chaotic, and the post roads were unsafe, so he couldn't transport them all at once, so he couldn't make the trip.

If Zhou Shixian was not clear about the virtues of this miser, he would not dare to say that he was a history buff.

For this kind of person, he knows that the other person will not tell the truth without being harsh or bloody.

This money was originally looted from the people of the Ming Dynasty. It was dirty money gained from corruption and bribery. Zhou Shixian just wanted to take it back and use it to save the country.

However, before Chen Yan could think more, the rope that was originally tied to his body was untied. Chen Yan had already been frightened to the point that his legs were weak. At this time, his whole body collapsed on the ground, and his lips were on the ground.

Trembling constantly.

But Zhou Shixian ignored him and directly had someone lift him up. After pulling out his right hand, he tied it back to the pillar and then pulled out the fine Xiuchun knife from his waist.

"You... you, you are the Jin Yiwei..." Chen Yan looked at Zhou Shixian who was walking towards him with his sword drawn, and suddenly realized, and then his aura suddenly changed, and his official authority also changed.

The son came out, and he was indeed a civil servant of the Ming Dynasty who was good at fighting internally but incompetent at fighting externally.

"You guys are so brave. You dare to break into my home and tie me up. Do you still have the law in your eyes? Let me listen to you all. Today's matter ends here.

I will not pursue the case. Otherwise...otherwise, I will never spare you."

Although Chen Yan was incompetent, he still had some common sense. He knew that these Jin Yiwei acted like this without Chongzhen's order.

Perhaps it was because he was used to being arrogant, but now that he was in a desperate situation, and the other party was from the imperial court, his last straw was the long-defunct official authority.

After hearing what the other party said, Zhou Shixian suddenly felt hateful and funny. Now that this old guy is about to die, he still wants to use his power to bully others, even the Jin Yiwei wants to bully him. It is simply ridiculous.

You must know that these civil servants must bear a large share of the responsibility for the decline of the Ming Dynasty to this point.

Not only in the court, but also in the army.

If they hadn't never taken the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty seriously, called them "Qiu Ba", and watched them starve to death, die of cold, and be greedy for weapons and armor, military pay and food and grass, how could the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have fought repeatedly?

Repeated defeats?

"Hmph!" Zhou Shixian snorted coldly, then pulled off his black mask, and then slashed Chen Yan's arm with a knife: "You bitch, I'm the consort!"

"Ah!!!" A scream resounded through the hall of Chen Mansion, and a trail of blood splashed to the ground with a splash.

In this world, if you want to survive and win, you have to be ruthless and decisive. Zhou Shixian understands these principles and will never be hesitant or soft-hearted in doing things.
Chapter completed!