The imperial city is divided into two parts: the imperial palace and the ministries, of which the office space such as the six courtyards and eight ministries only accounts for one-third of the imperial city, and the eunuchs cannot leave the palace without any tasks. So Laixi sent Zhang Xiaowu to the gate of the palace, Zhang Xiaowu said goodbye to him, and then he came to the imperial city ministry. It was late at night, and although he could leave the palace, he had nowhere to go in the middle of the night, so he had to return to the treasury of the military department, but fortunately, there was still a bed in the warehouse, and he fell asleep on the bed.

At dawn the next day, Zhang Xiaowu heard a voice outside, and Wu Di came to knock on the door and informed the emperor that he was about to go to the early dynasty. The emperor's early court began at seven o'clock, and the imperial city was so large that the courtiers had to come to the ministries and courtyards before that and write on the court cards the news that needed to be reported today. Some ministers live far away, so they can only get up earlier, and the emperor is also hard, even if the morning food is in a hurry.

After Zhang Xiaowu was dressed, he was ready to participate in his first early dynasty, and Wu Di introduced that because he was a royal guard, he stood behind the emperor when he went to court. This guard with a sword in front of the emperor is not something that ordinary people can serve, it belongs to the emperor's personal guard, and it is also the only person in the court who is allowed to carry a sword.

"So, Emperor Dade absolutely believes in me?" Zhang Xiaowu thought to himself in his heart, and was full of gratitude to Emperor Dade.

Wu Di handed over some pastries and told him to eat them so as not to wait for a while to get hungry, and said that the other ministers' morning food was either eaten on the road or was being eaten. Zhang Xiaowu looked from afar, and sure enough, he saw some ministers eating, but the ministers ate very elegantly, covering their faces with their sleeves, and wiping their hands and mouths with handkerchiefs after eating.

When there was still a quarter of an hour before the early dynasty of Chenshi, Zhang Xiaowu was about to enter the Zhengde Hall with Wu Di first, when suddenly an envoy rushed into the imperial city and shouted: "Urgent!" Urgent! Urgent! ”

The hundred officials hurriedly went to the court, Zhang Xiaowu also hurriedly followed the hundred officials into the palace, Gou Delu saw that he came so late, and immediately said with a bitter face: "My General Zhang, why didn't you come earlier, our family thought you had overslept." Hurry up, stand on the right back side of Your Majesty, do you carry a blade? ”

"This ...... No. ”

"Is that still a guard with a sword in front of you? Fortunately, our family has prepared a sword, this is the emperor's sword, and it is also the sword of Shangfang, which is worn by you. Gou Delu handed a sword to Zhang Xiaowu, who stood behind Emperor Dade with the sword of Shang Fang.

Seeing this, Emperor Dade nodded, and then frowned and looked at the chaotic hundred officials and the envoy who was in a hurry.

After the ministers saw Zhang Xiaowu, they speculated about the identity of this person, such a strange face, I am afraid that it is the ghost general Zhang Xiaowu who was punished by the emperor for three days. There are many legends about Zhang Xiaowu, so everyone looked at Zhang Xiaowu, and Zhang Xiaowu was very helpless, feeling that he had stolen the limelight from the emperor. The ministers speculated, but there was a well-informed person who passed on the matter of Zhang Xiaowu serving as a guard with a sword in front of the palace to others, and everyone was surprised in their hearts, and secretly said that this son had a promising future.

The messenger is the post envoy of the Longdu Mansion of the Ministry of War, if it is not an emergency military situation, it will not send an emergency report, according to the rules of the process, the post guards of the world will hand over the folds to the imperial study, and then the imperial study will be interpreted and distributed to the ministries. And today, before the early dynasty began, the envoy came to report the emergency military situation, so all the ministers looked at the envoy one after another.

"What's the urgency?" The Emperor finally spoke.

Only then did the envoy dare to say: "Back to Your Majesty, Jiangnan Emergency!" The Suzaku army was defeated and retreated to Yangzhou, the king of Nanyang County was martyred in Luyang City, and after the Jiangnan rebels occupied Yuezhou, Jiangzhou, the rebel leader Wang Deyue established himself as the emperor to establish the state of Wu, and the puppet Wu army was now waving his army to attack the land of Hangzhou. ”

"What?!"

As soon as the words came out, the Manchu Dynasty was shocked.

The ministers always thought that the Jiangnan Rebellion was just a small pain in scabies, but they didn't think that the Jiangnan Rebellion actually established a country, and in the history of the Holy Han Dynasty, there had never been a rebel army to establish a country. Everyone just thought that the Jiangnan rebellion would be like the rebellion that had occurred in the empire, and the final result would be to put down the rebellion, and then kill a group of people, and then the Shi clan immediately used various connections to grab fertile land in Jiangnan, forcing the people of Jiangnan to become tenants of the Shi clan. Who would have thought that this time in the Jiangnan rebellion, the rebels would actually establish themselves as kings and establish their own country.

The ministers did not have the intention of fighting for power at this time, after all, everyone was fighting for power, but it was just an internal distribution of interests, but when it came to the foundation of the empire, the officials of the Holy Han Empire still knew far more than the Donglin Party of the Ming Dynasty. The Donglin Party can even sacrifice the empire for the sake of party interests, and can betray the nation for the sake of family interests, and in the face of the emperor, they scold the emperor and speak righteously, turn their heads and surrender when the Qing army enters the customs, and beg to be an official in the new dynasty, which shows the shamelessness and obscenity of the Donglin Party.

No matter how much the officials of the Holy Han argued, they never thought of destroying the country, and in the face of the rise of another country in the Central Plains, everyone invariably thought of protecting the empire and protecting their own interests.

Everyone looked at Emperor Dade and wanted to hear the emperor's opinion and let the emperor come up with ideas. And Emperor Dade was also shocked by this news at this time, he couldn't accept it for a while, he was diligent in government and loved the people, lived with the people, treated the soldiers well, and even couldn't bear to kill the rebel soldiers, how could such a betrayal of the founding of the country happen.

Emperor Dade glanced at the hundred officials helplessly, and saw that Dushanbo did not appear, and Zhang Kuan, the prime minister of Zuo, was not there, I don't know why these two people did not appear in the early dynasty, so he could only look at Wang Cheng.

However, Wang Cheng is good at internal affairs, but he is not good at dealing with foreign affairs, such military affairs are generally Zhang Kuan and Du Shanbo are in charge, he can only quickly bow his head, pretend to be an ostrich and stick his head into the sand.

"Alas......" Emperor Dade sighed, now he can only make his own decision, he sighed: "The rebels are in turmoil, and the king of Nanyang County commits suicide, this is a major matter of the country, so there is no need to talk about internal affairs today." ”

The imperial official King Jin immediately loudly passed the emperor's words to the hundred officials, and the hundred officials also knew that the internal affairs could be postponed, but the military affairs were the top priority and could not be postponed, and they all said in unison: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live!" ”

King Jin suddenly said, "Do you have any suggestions?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu stood behind Emperor Dade, and suddenly felt that this King of Jin could be so reckless, because King Jin is now just a royal official, just the emperor's microphone, how can he cross the emperor to ask the minister without authorization, especially his identity, he is the King of Jin, and he should be more careful.

But after all, the king of Jin is young, during this time by some officials and the children of nobles in Beijing as the first son of the Beijing division, and some people even lightly said that the emperor is ill, even if the prince ascends the throne in the future, he also needs the king of Jin to assist the world, and even said that the prince is too young, maybe the ministers will serve him as the emperor. So the King of Jin was frivolous at his feet, and his heart fluttered, and even at this moment he didn't feel that he was reckless, and was looking at the hundred officials excitedly, as if these people would be his courtiers in the future.