After Zhou Yanru and Zhang Fengyi left, there was silence in the Qianqing Palace.

Chongzhen originally wanted to ask Sun Chengzong for the blame, but now he can't vent his anger.

Such a good opportunity, Qiu Hejia dared to slack off, missed the opportunity, and should be killed a hundred times!

The great cause of Pingliao is so bad, others may just be a little pity, or even unconscious, but only Chongzhen's anger is difficult to suppress, and it is difficult to suppress anger.

I don't know how long it took, but the Qianqing Palace suddenly erupted with Chongzhen's roar and the sound of various things smashing.

Li Zhong stood outside the door, listening to the movement inside, he was shocked, and immediately summoned the eunuch in charge, and said in a low voice: "Dismiss the people around you, don't get close, if anyone says a word nonsense, our family will chop him up and feed the fish!" ”

Li Zhong is quite valued in front of Chongzhen because of his cautious words and deeds, and he has already stabilized the second chair of the great eunuch, so naturally no one dares to be careless about his words.

The surroundings of the Qianqing Palace were quickly emptied, and only Li Zhong stood in front of the stairs, holding his hands, and his face was expressionless, as if he couldn't hear anything.

It was getting dark, Wang Chengen came in from outside, listened to the incessant cursing inside, his face did not move, he came to Li Zhong, and said in a low voice: "What's wrong?" ”

Li Zhong was very in awe of this inconspicuous eunuch under Zhou Zheng's order, and after such a long time, this person who has been sitting firmly in the first position in the palace has made Li Zhong very vigilant and has been keeping his distance quietly.

Listening to his words, Li Zhong leaned in and said in a low voice: "Qiu Hejia has ruined the great cause of Pingliao of the Long Live Lord, and the Long Live Lord is angry, don't go in." ”

Wang Chengen is not inconspicuous, it does not mean that he does not know the situation of the court, he sighed lightly in his heart, and advised: "When the Lord of Long Live calms down, you go and invite the queen mother to come over." ”

Li Zhong understood, and said in a low voice: "Hmm." Qiu Hejia, I plan to arrest him in Dongchang Prison as soon as he enters Beijing, what do you think? ”

Wang Chengen has never been involved in political affairs, frowned when he heard this, paused for a moment, looked at Li Zhong and said: "Ministers do not plan political affairs, this is the iron law of Taizu." ”

Li Zhongmeng felt that Wang Chengen's words meant something, suppressed the panic in his heart, and said with an impassive expression: "Then hand it over to the Criminal Department." ”

Wang Chengen glanced at him again, and turned to leave as usual.

Li Zhong looked at his back, his face solemn.

He has always been cautious, he has not seen Zhou Zheng for a long time, and the correspondence is encrypted by letter, it is impossible for anyone to know his relationship with Zhou Zheng.

'He shouldn't know, it's just that there are flaws that make him suspicious......

Li Zhong was very uneasy in his heart, it was taboo for the inner prison to collude with the foreign ministers, especially the one in the palace, if he knew that Li Zhong would die without a whole body.

It seems that we have to find a chance to discuss it with Zhou. Li Zhongqiang calmed down and said secretly in his heart.

Although Li Zhong has been in the palace for many years, there has been no movement, that is, it is only under Zhou Zheng's arrangement that he has today, and when he encounters something, he instinctively thinks of Zhou Zheng.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, December 11.

The generals of Liaodong arranged the affairs of Liaodong and began to enter Beijing one after another to receive rewards.

Unlike Sun Chengzong, Man Gui, Zhou Zheng and others, Qiu Hejia, the governor of Liaodong, was escorted back to Beijing in a prisoner car.

Qiu Hejia stood on the prisoner car, looking unwilling and puzzled.

It stands to reason that this matter should not develop like this, even if Sun Chengzong's influence is greater than his, but the things he listed are enough to make the court suspicious, even if Sun Chengzong is not guilty, he will never be imprisoned.

Where did he think that if he just caused Zhou Zheng some trouble, Zhou Zheng could still tolerate it, but he dragged his feet at such a critical moment, and Zhou Zheng was doomed to die as soon as he learned about it!

Zhou Zheng did not go with Sun Chengzong and others, but returned to Tianjin with the rest of his team to settle down.

He went to Liaodong as Sun Chengzong's 'temporary secondment', and now he wants to return to the station.

Before arriving in Tianjin Wei, Zhou Fang, Kou Huaiyi and Liu Liuzhe, Yao Tongshun and others gathered in Tianjin Wei to wait.

The news of Liaodong's victory has long spread all over the world, and I don't know how many people are cheering for Zhou Zheng.

Zhou Zheng sat down in Tianjin's Wei Guanya, and Zhou Fang and the others couldn't wait to come in.

Zhou Fang stepped forward, looked at Zhou Zheng, and said with concern: "You have nothing to do, right?" ”

Zhou Zheng suffered a lot of injuries, but he didn't hurt the point, and said with a smile: "It's okay, just raise it." Sit down. ”

Zhou Fang and the others sat down at this time, still looking at Zhou Zheng.

Liu Liuzhen knew that Zhou Zheng didn't like polite greetings, so he said directly: "Second young master, I have prepared all the money and food you want me to prepare, and put it in Zhou's ticket number, with a total of 200,000 taels of money and grain." ”

Cao Bianjiao was also present, standing beside Zhou Zheng, listening and smiling secretly.

They suffered a lot of losses in this battle, and they needed to reward and pay their soldiers, which was a large expense. If you count on the imperial court, then you don't have to count on it. There is only Zhou Zheng, 200,000, and if he says to take it out, he will really take it out.

Zhou Zheng nodded lightly and said, "Well, business matters, you will become the shopkeeper with the six ruts, and the Shangguan shopkeeper will carefully do a good job of the year-end summary and next year's plan." In terms of government affairs, all prefectures and counties should do a good job as soon as possible and hand it over to Yao Tongshun to show me. The army, Cao Bianjiao, He Kegang, Zhang Cunren, the three of you do a good job carefully, especially the pension and subsidy, you must not be stingy, if someone dares to deduct from it, don't blame me for not being emotional. ”

He Kegang and Zhang Cunren were originally Zu Dashou's deputy generals, Zu Dashou was imprisoned, and the two of them took the initiative to apply to follow Zhou Zheng.

Zhou Zheng's voice fell, and the three of them hurriedly raised their hands and said in a deep voice: "The last general will take the order." ”

Zhou Zheng looked around, saw so many people, he couldn't say anything like this, and explained a few words in a dignified manner, and said: "You have also worked hard, take a rest first, and let's eat together in the evening." ”

Everyone naturally had something to say, knowing that this meant 'chatting privately', they all stood up and retired.

It was Zhou Fang who stayed, not as calm as he was just now, his brows furrowed, and he stopped talking.

Zhou Zheng was injured and tired all the way, looking at Zhou Fang's expression, he said curiously: "Big brother, what happened?" ”

Zhou Fang looked at Zhou Zheng and said, "You should know a little about Governor Chen's mansion, right?" Lately, they've been saying you're going to be transferred, and he's testing me, as if he's trying to get us away. ”

Chen Governor's Mansion, that is, Chen Wuyong, the original Governor of Hejian Mansion, was made by Zhou Zheng to Yongping Mansion. Hearing that Zhou was about to be transferred, An couldn't help it.

Zhou Zhengdao: "It's okay, I'll find a way to send him away." ”

Zhou Fang hummed casually, and the expression on his face did not change much.

Zhou Zheng's heart moved slightly, and said, "What happened?" ”

Zhou Fang looked at Zhou Zheng, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I received a letter from my father, saying that the imperial court intends to recruit him into the cabinet. ”

Zhou Zheng was stunned, and then frowned thoughtfully.

The imperial court wants to recruit Daddy Zhou, it should be out of a kind of 'compensation', after all, Zhou Zheng has made great achievements but is about to resign, the court is short of people, Zhou Qingli is easy to be thought of.