The south gate of the imperial city is the Daming Gate, and the central axis from the Daming Gate to the north is the Chengtian Gate and the Noon Gate, and the Noon Gate is the main gate of the Forbidden City.

On both sides of the wide street from Daming Gate to Chengtianmen (Tiananmen), there are the most core yamen of the Ming Dynasty, including the Six Ministries, the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, the Hanlin Yuan, the Zongren Mansion, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the Jinyi Guard, the General Administration and so on.

Most of the important Beijing officials of the Ming Dynasty worked in this area, and the cabinet was located in the Wenyuan Pavilion in the Forbidden City, which was only a few dozen meters away from the Emperor's Wenhua Palace.

On the Chengtian Gate, a guerrilla general of the Beijing camp made a routine inspection as usual, he glanced around casually, nodded secretly, and prepared to go to the duty room to eat the packed Dezhuang hot pot to refresh himself.

Suddenly, he heard the faint sound of the clash of iron armor when the army was marching, and the general frowned, wondering in his heart, how could there be an army transfer in the heavy land of Chengtianmen? Even if the Shenji Battalion and the Yongwei Battalion are transferred, they can only go through the other three gates, and it is impossible to go through the Daming Gate and the Chengtian Gate.

The guerrilla general stretched out his head from the tower to look to the sides, and when he looked to the right, the whole person froze for a moment.

In the imperial city station, tens of thousands of armor soldiers in the Yongwei battalion wore armor and walked neatly through the edge of the Taiye Pool, enclosing the imperial city on the first line of Chengtianmen.

Huang Degong rode out with a black face, raised his horsewhip and shouted to the defenders of Chengtianmen: "Hurry up and open the door for Lao Tzu!" ”

"Hussar General! What are you doing here? The guerrilla general was frightened, his face turning pale.

Huang De said loudly: "Lao Tzu went to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to get people, don't fucking nonsense, open the door quickly, if you don't open the door within ten breaths, Lao Tzu will use the Hongyi cannon to blast it open in person!" ”

When the guerrilla general saw the formation downstairs in the city, he didn't dare to carry it, and squeezed out a smile on his face that was more ugly than crying, and said, "Open the door!" ”

Huang Degong took the lead and rushed straight into the city gate, and a large number of soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion followed closely with muskets in their hands and trotted closely behind, entering the Chengtian Gate.

After all the troops of the Yongwei Battalion entered the Chengtian Gate, the general and the eunuch who had already been frightened on the ground glanced at each other, and both found the fear in each other's eyes.

The wide area from the Chengtian Gate to the Noon Gate was lined with dense soldiers, all dressed in armor and expressionless, and everyone was angry in their hearts.

The official office of the Metropolitan Procuratorate near the Chengtian Gate has been surrounded by water, and a large number of armor soldiers are holding muskets with black holes against the gate of the official office.

The guards in front of the official office had already run into the compound of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in fright, and the imperial historian and some small officials in the courtyard were even more frightened and hid in the house.

Huang Degong personally led the troops into the compound of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, put a heavy coffin in the compound of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and said loudly: "The surname is Tang!" Lie in for Lao Tzu! ”

In the back office of the Imperial Procuratorate, a large hall was filled with imperial historians with lunch, and they were noisy and chatting about the victory above today's court meeting.

Several imperial historians were impassionedly showing off their eloquence, and they couldn't even stop him from eating.

Tang Shiji was surrounded by everyone in the middle, became the core of this table, the impeachment of the crown prince, he as the boss rushed to the forefront, the words were sharp and shocking, although he was finally demoted, but the status of the imperial historians is still extremely high.

A thirty-year-old, fair-skinned, round-faced imperial historian lamented: "Lord Tang is upright, selfless, outspoken, and upholds the rules of the imperial court, but he was murdered by the crown prince and demoted, which is really unfair!" ”

All the imperial historians nodded their heads, showing grief and indignation, as if they were being hunted down and punished.

Tang Shiji put down the dishes and chopsticks, pressed his hand, and in the admiring eyes of some imperial historians, he took a sip of tea first, and then said: "Sacrificing oneself for righteousness is the glory of our imperial history!" Our generation has read the books of the sages, and we must not easily give in and bow our heads! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the teacup had not been put down, only to hear a chaotic sound from the front yard, and another loud shout: "The surname is Tang!" Lie in for Lao Tzu! ”

"Lie in? Where to lie? Tang Shiji was curious, I don't know which rough person who doesn't know what to do dares to make trouble in the Metropolitan Procuratorate!

"It's really a bad day in the world these days, and anyone dares to run to the Ducha Yuan to be presumptuous!"

Tang Shiji was not in the mood to eat, so he led a group of imperial historians to the front yard, but when they just came out of the arch of the front yard, their eyes were straight!

I saw that the front yard of the Metropolitan Procuratorate had been surrounded by a large number of soldiers armed with firearms, they were violent, everyone had gloomy faces, as if they were here to seek revenge, and there was a coffin in the middle of the compound.......

Tang Shiji said in a deep voice with a proud face: "You guys are really daring! Dare to besiege the capital procuratorate, is it to rebel! ”

Huang Degong pointed at Tang Shiji and said coldly: "Chasing the wind and catching shadows, framing the crown prince, slandering the loyal army, such a traitorous minister, Lao Tzu will kill you today!" ”

After saying a few words, all the imperial historians' faces changed greatly, and they ran to the Imperial Inspectorate to kill the imperial history? Isn't this a rebellion? This Huang Degong is so arrogant!

The corners of Tang Shiji's mouth twitched slightly, and said: "Huang Degong, although the official has been demoted, the formalities have not yet been completed, and now he is still one of the Seven Qings, if you dare to kill me, you will rebel!" Your Majesty will punish your nine clans! ”

"You don't have to go through the formalities, Lao Tzu will do it for you!" Huang Degong strode forward and grabbed Tang Shiji's collar, dragged him over, and then kicked the lid of the coffin open and pressed him directly in.

Several soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion carried the coffin lid and slammed it up, so frightened that Tang Shiji rolled his eyes and fainted.

"General, what should you do with this surnamed Tang? Do you need to pull him to the Loyal Soul Temple and let him kowtow to his sacrificed brothers? "A thousand general managers of the Yongwei battalion asked.

"Just kowtow and you're done?" Huang Degong said angrily: "Buried it directly!" Bury this! ”

In the courtyard of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the imperial historians of the Zuodu were buried alive on the spot, and the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were so frightened that they retreated one after another, terrified, this Huang Degong was completely crazy!

Seeing these imperial histories cowardly to death one by one, Huang Degong shouted angrily, and asked people to arrest all the people who seconded Tang Shiji in the main hall.

Huang Degong looked at the imperial history who was paralyzed on the ground one by one, and sneered: "Aren't you quite able to speak?" Come! Continue to tell Lao Tzu how the Yongwei Battalion rebelled? ”

Seeing that the coffin containing Tang Shiji was about to go into the pit, where did these imperial histories still have the image of righteous words on weekdays, they were so frightened that they knelt directly, and two of them even fainted directly.

Huang Degong took the horsewhip and whipped it fiercely at this group of imperial historians, and scolded at the same time: "Usually you don't even dare to kill a chicken!" I can only catch the wind and catch the shadows, and I will participate in this and that! What is the use of the dynasty raising you? Kill them all! ”

Sun Yingyuan hurriedly stopped him and said in a low voice, "It's almost done." ”

Among the six surrounding official offices, officials of all sizes were talking about it, they were first frightened, and then they denounced Huang Degong and other military generals for their arrogance, and they actually dared to enter the Chengtianmen and surround the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which was simply a serious provocation to the imperial court.

Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was anxious to follow the ants on the hot pot, such a big thing happened to him as soon as he took office in the Ministry of War, just now, the officials of the Ministry of War that he sent to discuss with Huang Degong were driven back.

Yang Sichang had no choice but to ignore Huang Degong, he had already heard of the fierceness of the Yongwei Battalion, and he didn't dare to act rashly, and he really didn't know what to do for a while.

Jiang Fengyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, came to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and met Huang Degong in person, he frowned and said: "Everyone knows that His Royal Highness and the Yongwei Battalion have grievances, and they don't believe the words of Tang Shiji, a shameless man, how can the general act like this?" Isn't this a trap for injustice? ”

Huang Degong had a lot of respect for the crown prince's teacher, and when he saw that he had some truth in speaking, he was polite to him, but he refused to let Tang Shiji go.

This secretary of the Ministry of Rites talked about his decades of experience in politics, talked about a big truth, and nagged that he wanted to influence Huang Degong for a long time.

Seeing this, Sun Yingyuan couldn't help but say: "Lord Jiang, this Tang Shiji must not be able to let go, the other imperial historians are good to say, I will tie them up and escort them to the noon gate, so that Your Majesty can decide?" ”

"Can't let it go? Killed? ”

Jiang Fengyuan saw that he couldn't move the two of them, and he didn't ask more, so he had to sigh and return to the Ministry of Rites.

This mess, let Your Majesty deal with it himself, who let him not give an explanation first, now it's okay, let people come to the door to ask for an explanation in person.