It was late at night.

"Imperial sister-in-law, I and Yue'er will go back to Kunning Palace first, you can rest early."

Chongzhen looked at Zhang Yan and promised: "With me, the rebels can't come in, and the Ming Dynasty can't die." ”

Then, surrounded by a group of palace lights, he pulled Zhou Yue away.

The moonlight is like water, pouring on the white marble corridor of the Forbidden City.

In the darkness of the night, only unhurried footsteps were heard.

"Yue'er, it's dark and the road is slippery, do you want to be a husband and take you back to the palace?"

"What do you mean by being silly here?"

"Huh? Your Majesty can see the concubine? ”

"Yue'er's face is like a bright moon, dazzling, how can you not see it? So do you want me to take you back? ”

After a long time, there was a sound in the darkness, and a string of laughter was heard, and it was gone.

……

As soon as the sky was bright, Chongzhen suddenly sat up from the dragon bed, revealing a strong body that had begun to emerge.

Then he seemed to think of something, and immediately stepped into bed lightly, and covered Zhou Yue, who was sleeping on the side, with a thin brocade quilt.

"This quilt is too thin, Yue'er may be cold when she covers it, and when the siege is resolved, hurry up and make a duck down quilt to cover her."

Chongzhen stretched his waist, and his body suddenly made a sound of bones ringing, and he unexpectedly found that this Li Cunxiao's force template was still slowly changing his physique!

"I was crazy until midnight last night, and I woke up so early today, and I didn't feel tired, I just felt hungry!" Chongzhen exclaimed.

"Terrifying!"

Chongzhen himself put on a moon-white robe, and walked out of the inner room lightly and walked to the middle hall of Kunning Palace.

"Your Majesty, according to the etiquette," Zhou Yue's personal female officer, Lin Female Officer, who was kicked out of the inner room by Chongzhen last night, leaned over cautiously and said, "The slave is going to call the queen to get up and serve......

Chongzhen waved his hand, not paying attention to this old rule at all.

He said softly, "I already served last night, let her sleep more today." You go in and guard her in a moment, and move a little softer. ”

"The slave takes the command."

"Also," Chongzhen took a sip of tea and urged, "Hurry up for breakfast." ”

“……”

"Yes."

A quarter of an hour later, Chongzhen finally had breakfast.

On the side, Li Chengfang stood and served with dark circles under his eyes.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps.

After a while, I saw Wang Chengen with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, and hurriedly trotted over.

"Your Majesty!"

Wang Chengen came in a panic, but saw Chongzhen drinking porridge unhurriedly, and Li Chengfang on the side ......

Wang Chengen and Li Chengfang glanced at each other, and their eyes stayed on each other's dark circles for a moment.

Communication and greetings are done in the eyes.

"What's wrong? You're so flustered, it must not be in the city. Let me think about it, is Li Zicheng besieging the city? ”

Chongzhen scooped a spoonful of lean porridge.

"No, Your Majesty, it's Li Zicheng's thief......"

Wang Chengen suddenly got stuck, watching Chongzhen drink porridge calmly, the expression on his face was almost uncontrollable.

My majesty, the thieves are besieging the city, and you guessed it, you can still be so calm and eat so deliciously?

This porridge......

Is it really that good?

"Put this matter aside, Wang Daban, I explained to you yesterday, how about copying your home?"

Chongzhen sandwiched a chopstick, a crispy cucumber in sauce.

Wang Chengen bowed, and then glanced at Li Chengfang, according to the old practice, even Li Chengfang could not observe.

Li Chengfang was about to retire, but saw Chongzhen waving his hand and said: "It's okay, now there are only a few loyal ministers around me, don't be taboo, just say it." ”

Li Chengfang, who was standing on the side, had a glint in his eyes, he looked at Chongzhen gratefully, and lowered his head silently.

"Your Majesty, yesterday afternoon, the old slave took a thousand soldiers and asked for Ji according to the map," Wang Chengen took out the book of traitors collected by Dongchang and presented it, and continued.

"The seventeen people investigated are all ministers of the humerus, and the seven families still have correspondence with the thieves or thieves, and the eleven people have already prepared gold and silver treasures for the thieves! The personnel include the secretary of the household department, Ji Shi Wei Xuelian, and the secretary of the department, Wu Eryi......"

"A total of 7,800,000 taels of gold and silver were confiscated......"

Chongzhen flipped through the booklet at a glance and listened to Wang Chengen's narration, even though he had been prepared, he was still angry.

I couldn't help but sneer twice.

"I really deserve to be the minister of my Ming Dynasty, the pillar of the country, the upright and clear stream! Well done, really good ......"

Wang Chengen reciprocated, his face full of resentment.

A few months ago, His Majesty personally borrowed money from these ministers to defend against the enemy, these bastards wanted to die or live, and hundreds of important ministers of the court made up hundreds of thousands of taels in half a month, and then they cried bitterly and bluntly said that there was no money.

Now only the property of more than a dozen rebel ministers has been confiscated, and all kinds of gold, silver and jade add up to eight million.

"These rice worms!"

Chongzhen got up and said, "Two big companions, I am going to defend against the enemy at this moment, and at the same time, I have a task entrusted to you, and I ......will come here with my ears."

With that, the two of them stepped back in turn and did as they were told.

Chongzhen summoned the chamberlain and served himself in battle armor.

And he took his hand, and his eyes seemed to pass through the palace wall, and he saw the inner city in the distance.

"The world is in turmoil, the world is upside down, there are rebels pressing the border, and the state affairs are difficult, I don't have the heart to play party fighting with this group of goods."

"Use extraordinary methods in extraordinary times, this court only needs one voice."

"The general trend of the world, the vast soup, cannot be used by me......"

Chongzhen laughed.

"Let's all go down and accompany the royal brother to do carpentry."

……

Chongzhen led the five hundred Xuanjia army, set off from the imperial city, rode his horse and whipped, and hurried to the downstairs of Zhengyangmen City.

The 1,000 Xuanjia troops he left in the imperial city yesterday were sent by him to the city gate as the forbidden army in the imperial city recovered its function.

Good steel should be used on the blade!

Chongzhen strode and stood on the city tower, and under his excellent eyesight, the movements of a large number of rebels in front of Zhengyang Gate were unobstructed.

"Your Majesty!"

The governor of Beijing, Li Guozhen, the governor of Xiangcheng, bowed and bowed, and then said.

"At this moment, the sky has just dawned, and it is the time when people are most likely to get sleepy, and the thieves are besieging the city and attacking the city in a small area at this moment, with evil intentions!"

Then, Li Guozhen was full of admiration and was full of convincing Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, the army you secretly trained, the Qingzhou soldiers and the Xuanjia army, are really one of the strongest in a hundred!" Far from being comparable to the forbidden army in our Beijing camp! ”

He looked at the Qingzhou soldiers who were still standing upright in the cold wind above the city tower, and the awe of Chongzhen in his heart became stronger and stronger.

"You get what you pay for!"

Chongzhen said in his heart, and then asked, "What is the situation of the Nine Gates of the Inner City now?" ”

Li Guozhen is the governor of Beijing, and the security work of the inner city is his responsibility, but fortunately, although this person is not good at military affairs, he is diligent and diligent, and he is also a noble class, so Chongzhen is quite at ease with him.