Chapter 1 Did the ancestors appear?
March 28, the tenth year of Chongzhen.

The spring equinox has long passed and Qingming Festival is coming soon.

But the cold winter in Beijing is far from over. The deepest part of the snow is above the knees. Although the snow in the palace has been cleared away, there is still a thin layer of ice on the ground.

Outside the Qianqing Palace, the eunuchs and palace maids walked extremely carefully.

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian did not sleep all night and was furious. He had already beaten to death several ignorant young eunuchs.

I heard that some time ago, the rebel Zhang Xianzhong led his army out of Qianshan and successively captured Taihu, Qizhou and Huangzhou. The day before yesterday, the Ming army fought with Zhang Xianzhong in Taihu and was defeated again, losing more than 40 soldiers. More than Ming generals including Pan Keda were killed in the battle.

Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of the victory to capture several cities including Hezhou, Hanshan, and Liuhe.

Zhu Youjian gritted his teeth and looked at the memorials scattered all over the floor, grief-stricken, "Is God going to end the fortune of my Ming Dynasty?"

Ever since he ascended the throne, every step he took was like walking on thin ice, but the situation continued to deteriorate.

The disasters in the middle and abdomen continued. Droughts, locust plagues, floods... never stopped. What was even more terrifying was the plague. Since the sixth year of Chongzhen, there had been a large-scale outbreak of plague in the north, leaving nine out of ten houses empty.

Since last year, more than 100,000 people have died from the plague in Beijing alone. The plague was so severe that basically everyone infected died the next day. The northern part of the Ming Dynasty was basically in a state of collapse.

Since the Battle of Sarhu, the Later Jin Dynasty has continuously invaded Liaodong, occupied large tracts of Ming land, and pressed forward step by step.

After twenty years of famine in the northwest, refugees continued to rise up in rebellion.

The southwest has never been stable since the Tu'an Rebellion in the first year of the Tianqi reign and the war that lasted for nearly ten years.

For a long time, he looked at the red glow of the charcoal fire, his eyes tearing up: "Since I ascended the throne, I have worked hard to govern the country, eradicated the eunuch party, appointed virtuous people and used capable people, and practiced frugality and loved the people. Why did it end up like this?
If God can send down blessings to save the Ming Dynasty from disaster, I am willing to be a farmer and till the fields. "

……

……

Two hours ago,

In Xiangyang Prefecture, a young man in casual clothes was hurriedly carried back to the palace by servants.

"Quick, rub it with snow."

"If the prince cannot be saved, none of you who are with him will be able to enter the grave in one piece."

"It was the prince who insisted on driving us away."

"If the prince tells you to go, you go. If he tells you to die, why don't you die?"

After rubbing for half an hour, the young man finally let out a long sigh of relief.

"The prince has woken up."

All the busy people couldn't help but sit down on the ground exhausted, with happy looks on their faces.

The person who was rescued was Zhu Changgan, the legitimate son of Zhu Yiming, Prince Xiang of the Ming Dynasty.

That’s right, his father was Zhu Yiming, whose family of 43 was killed when the peasant rebel Zhang Xianzhong attacked Xiangyang City four years later.

Last night he went out to drink and have fun with others. He got drunk and went to the toilet, where he fell into a ditch. This morning, the servants went to the brothel upstairs to look for him, and they found him. After checking his nose, they found that he was still breathing, so he was saved.

but,

The Zhu Changgan of today is no longer the original Zhu Changgan, but a soul that traveled through time from later generations.

I stayed like this, wrapped in the quilt, until dusk, when I finally understood my situation.

The tenth year of Chongzhen?

I actually became a vassal of the Ming Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty?

Doesn’t that mean I don’t have many years to live?

In my previous life, I had just graduated from college and had not yet started working when I died of a terminal illness.

I was thinking about traveling through the trilogy!

Cooking, plagiarizing, rebelling...doing something good.

But the Ming Dynasty would not give him this time, and the Ming Dynasty's vassal states were about to enter a tragic world.

Soon, peasant armies such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong will sweep across most of the Ming Dynasty.
Basically, each vassal king was killed one by one.

The most impressive thing was that after Li Zicheng's rebel army captured Fenzhou, 1400 members of the royal family were massacred in two princely mansions alone.

This made him feel extremely depressed and he sat up suddenly.

suddenly,

"You have entered the tenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty. Activate the communication function with Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty."

"Activate the function of exchanging bodies with Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. Each exchange lasts for six hours, and there is a six-hour cool-down period after the exchange."

"Main quest: Save the Ming Dynasty, extend the Ming Dynasty for 50 years, and return to modern society with a reward of 50 million yuan; extend the Ming Dynasty for 5 years, return to modern society with a reward of 100 years, and return to modern society with a reward of 10 billion yuan, and so on."

"Free gift pack for newbies: video of the fall of the Ming Dynasty" As a time traveler, he knew very well what this meant.

Without much hesitation, he directly activated the call function with Emperor Chongzhen.

"Please wait, we are searching for Chongzhen."

"Found it, do you want to start the call?"

"Turn on!"

……

In the Qianqing Palace,

Emperor Chongzhen, who had been sitting there for a whole day and night, stared at the map of the Ming Dynasty with bloodshot eyes, looking like a madman, muttering to himself.

"Your Majesty, you haven't eaten for a day. If this continues, your body will not be able to bear it." Queen Zhou had black hair and jade-like skin, and was a beauty in her prime. Her eyebrows were curved, and her eyes were like clear water. Although she was dressed in plain clothes, she was extremely beautiful.

At this moment, she looked distressed and brought over a bowl of porridge.

"go out!"

Chongzhen didn't even look at him, and said coldly, "The Ming Dynasty is about to fall. Will I die if I eat one day less?"

Queen Zhou's eyes instantly turned red, she lowered her head, and dug her nails into her palms, leaving traces of blood.

After Chongzhen finished scolding Queen Zhou, he ignored her and realized that it had darkened without him noticing. A feeling of sorrow and desolation came over him.

"How cruel to me!"

At this moment,
Suddenly, a mechanical sound rang in my ears.

"Zhu Changgan requests to speak to you, please answer."

Ok?
Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, and looked at Empress Zhou who was walking out with tears in her eyes, "Empress, did you hear anyone talking?"

"I didn't hear anyone speak."

Chongzhen frowned. Could it be that he didn’t eat and was hallucinating?
It seems that we should ask the imperial physician to come and take a look.

"Zhu Changgan requests to speak to you, please answer. If you do not answer the next time, it will be considered inconvenient to answer and will be automatically converted to a message."

Chongzhen's eyes widened and his Adam's apple rolled, "Queen, haven't you heard it yet? That voice appeared again."

"I really didn't hear it." Empress Zhou looked at Chongzhen in surprise. She didn't care about being sad. She came up to support him and said, "Your Majesty, you must have been exhausted from worrying about state affairs these days."

"Zhu Changgan requests to speak to you, please answer."

"Gulp!" Chongzhen swallowed hard, a thin layer of sweat on his forehead. He picked up the inkstone from the ground, held it in his hand, and looked around. "Who? Who are you?"

Shock,

stunned,

fear……

For a moment, all kinds of complicated emotions made him overwhelmed.

But when I looked around, there was no one else.

The scene before her eyes was so fantastic that it could appear directly in her mind. Even though it was so close, the queen could not hear anything at all.

Before Chongzhen could react, another voice was heard.

"Automatically converted to a message."

After a few seconds, the mechanical voice turned into a human voice:

"Is it Emperor Chongzhen? I am Zhu Changgan. According to seniority, I am your uncle."

"To be precise, I am from the future, and I traveled here from 400 years in the future. If Your Majesty wants to save the Ming Dynasty, let's talk. I will call you again after an incense stick."

Save the Ming Dynasty?
The ancestors appeared?
Chongzhen was nervous and asked all the guards to protect him. "Big friend, you stand in front of me."

Chongzhen was still worried, so he asked Wang Chengen, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department, to get closer.

The time of one stick of incense is coming soon.

Sure enough, the mechanical voice appeared again.

"Zhu Changgan requests to speak to you, please answer the call."

This time, Chongzhen finally chose to answer the call.

Although he didn't know exactly what this was, he heard the words "save the Ming Dynasty" from the other party very clearly.

……

(End of this chapter)