In the second year of Chongzhen, May 11.

Wang Chengen, who was hurrying in the middle of the night, panicked and got lost on the grassland, until he met Wang Zewai's sentinel who brought them back to the right path.

As a result, he returned to the capital two days late.

Beijing, in Chongzhen's study.

"Why did you come back alone? What about Wang Zezhi? Chongzhen looked at the embarrassed Wang Chengen and asked puzzled.

Wang Chengen escaped death from Wang Zezhi's hands, he was afraid in his heart, he didn't dare to defend himself, just knelt on the ground, bowed his head and said nothing.

"Hmph, I knew you couldn't do it.

Haven't you heard how the ministers impeached Wang Zezhi today?

Now that you have returned empty-handed and have not arrested Wang Zezhi, I can't bring him to justice quickly, and if this continues, my prestige will inevitably be destroyed by Wang Zezhi. ”

"The emperor is angry, take care of the dragon's body."

"At the beginning, Wang Zezhi was a little thief, I promoted him, but now it's good, he supports the army and respects himself, bullying the king, I believe in the wrong person, and my heart is broken by him."

Speaking of this, Chongzhen kicked Wang Chengen fiercely, as if he was blaming him for speaking for Wang Zezhi.

"Your Majesty, to tell the truth, this king is self-respecting and deceitful, and the crime of bullying the king is really unclear, isn't he also for the emperor's country."

"Huh?!" Chongzhen listened to Wang Chengen's words, and stared at him unhappily.

"Your Majesty, if you think about it carefully, Wang Zezhi's recovery of the Hetao and the pacification of the Outer Mongolian tribes are an extraordinary feat of opening up the territory and expanding the territory.

Once he is arrested and imprisoned, the morale of the army will be unstable.

All the general soldiers will be afraid, for fear of ending up with Wang Zeyi.

In this way, the generals inside and outside the country will definitely panic, and I am afraid that the emperor will have no one to use at that time.

Please ask the emperor, think twice, think twice, think twice before acting. ”

"You dog, so daring, I'm going to kill you." Wang Chengen didn't follow Chongzhen's intentions, Chongzhen was directly annoyed and angry, and pulled out the sword of the Son of Heaven in the study to kill him.

Wang Chengen didn't say a word, closed his eyes and stretched his neck, waiting for Chongzhen to start.

Chongzhen rested his sword on his neck, his hands trembling with anger.

"Your Majesty, if you want to kill the minister, the minister has nothing to say, the king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die.

Before he died, the minister still had to say it, this king Zezhi, recovering the Hetao and pacifying the Outer Mongolian tribes, it can be seen that his talent is really rare.

Now that the emperor suddenly arrested him and imprisoned him for the crime of supporting the army and deceiving the king, this is not only a disaster for Wang Zezhi himself, but also a disaster for the emperor's country.

The minister asked the emperor, make a prudent decision, and think twice before acting. ”

After Wang Chengen finished speaking, he slammed his head on the ground, knelt on the ground and did not get up again.

He waited for Chongzhen to cut off his head.

"Wang Zezhi's private beheading of the squires in Datong Mansion is ironclad evidence, I didn't wronged him, right?

He opened a private market, he didn't ask the court, he didn't ask me, I didn't wronged him, right?

Hmph, he gave Bu Lost Rabbit and his son to me, and he named a new Shunyi king by himself, so bold and reckless, no one in his eyes, I didn't wronged him, right? ”

Chongzhen pressed the sword on the back of Wang Chengen's neck and said angrily.

"Your Majesty, the arrest of Wang Ze is a matter of the overall situation, and the emperor should be cautious."

Wang Chengen put his heart horizontally and vertically to death, and simply let it out.

"Bang~", the sword in Chongzhen's hand fell to the ground, he shook his body weakly, and sat on the chair in the study.

Chongzhen knew that what Wang Chengen said was the truth.

The facts are in front of him, and he can't help but admit it.

"Wang Chengen, all the people you brought with you are broken?"

"Yes."

"Wang Zezhi didn't kill you?"

"Nope."

"He didn't rebel either?"

"No, but he has a word for me to bring to the emperor."

"Oh? I want to hear what he said. ”

"He asked the emperor, do you want to be Song Gaozong?"

"Presumptuous! Darn! He... What qualifications does he have as a thief to compete with Yue Fei? Unexpectedly... He even compared me to Song Gaozong, is he saying that I killed Zhongliang in vain?

Outrageous! How unreasonable! ”

Chongzhen heard this sentence and stomped back and forth in the study angrily.

"Wang Chengen, you can run again."

"What is the emperor's will?"

"Now it's not that I want to arrest him and put him in prison, it's the ministers in the court who are impeaching him, and even if I suppress them, the ministers are still unconvinced.

I hope that Wang Zezhi will admit his sins and write a begging memo in my own handwriting, so that I can make it public and appease the courtiers so as to stabilize the government, so that these ministers will not quarrel in the court all day long for Wang Zezhi. ”

Wang Chengen raised his head, his face was embarrassed, and he was embarrassed: "Your Majesty, this matter... It's hard. ”

"I know it's difficult, don't you have a personal relationship with Wang Zezhi? Since he didn't kill you, you can definitely handle this matter, go ahead and do it. ”

Chongzhen glanced at Wang Chengen and said lightly.

"You have to tell him that if he confesses his guilt, I will forgive his sins, why don't you? You want to resist the decree. Chongzhen saw Wang Chengen kneeling on the ground in embarrassment, without saying a word, his face changed, and he asked sharply.

"The minister doesn't dare, the minister obeys."

Wang Chengen received the order and prepared to run again.

"Your Majesty, there is something I don't know whether to talk about or not."

"You say."

Wang Zezhi said that his sentinel detective found that the Liaodong Emperor Taiji, on the east bank of the Lamulun River, gathered a total of more than 100,000 troops from the Horqin, Aohan, Naiman, Khalkha, Karaqin, and Chahar departments, and was about to arrive outside Xuanfu and Datong Pass.

I don't know if it's true or not. ”

"What?" Chongzhen heard Huang Taiji's information, his hairs stood on end, and Wang Chengen trembled with a scream.

"Someone, call me from the military department."

"Yes."

The little eunuch in the palace received the decree and passed it on to the king.

"You wait here, wait for Wang Qia." After Chongzhen finished speaking, he brushed his sleeves and went to a secret room to find the secret spy he had personally cultivated.

This secret spy is beyond the Jinyi Guard, is not in the Beijing Division, and is directly under his jurisdiction.

Hundreds of officials monitored for him, including Jinyiwei and Wang Chengen, were all under the surveillance of these people.

After a while, the king of the military department arrived, he looked at Wang Chengen who was kneeling in the study, and asked him what was the situation.

Wang Chengen blinked and motioned for him not to ask anything.

Wang Qia understood, and knelt in the study without saying a word.

Not long after he knelt down, Chongzhen returned.

"Wang Qia."

"The minister is here."

"I ask you, where is Huang Taiji at this time?"

"As far as the minister knows, Huang Taiji is fighting with the Chahar Department of the Tiger Squatting Rabbit, this..."Wang Qia secretly glanced at Wang Chengen, Wang Chengen looked at his nose, and his nose was expressionless.

"What else? Say. Chongzhen stopped talking when he heard Wang Qia speak, and he was immediately unhappy.

"Huang Taiji sent an envoy to ask for the Chahar tribe, the Tumut tribe, and the Ordos tribesmen who fled into our border pass, and in addition to asking for a reward for the city rewards of the Outer Mongolian tribes, the reward is satin, tea, salt, etc., more than 10,000 pieces, if not, he will wave 100,000 troops to the Beijing Division."

"Bastard! This is robbery, this is robbery, this is a threat, how can it be justified, how can it be justified. Chongzhen angrily flipped all the folds on the desk to the ground, and before he was angry, he slapped the table hard.

As a result, the table was fine, and his hand was beaten and hurt.

"Spread my will, order the king..."Chongzhen paused for a moment and calmed down.

He was originally going to send Wang Zezhi, but he thought about it for a while.

If Wang Zezhi gets credit again, and the official is first-class, he will really not be able to deal with Wang Zezhi at that time.

"Order Wang Qia to rectify the border passes, in case the situation in Liaodong changes, the envoys sent by Huang Taiji are cut, and they will not give a penny of the city reward they want."

Chongzhen couldn't do anything with Wang Zezhi, so he sprinkled his anger on Huang Taiji's head.

"Why don't you go to the military department to do things, what are you doing here?" Chongzhen said angrily to Wang Qia.

"Obey." Wang Qia received the order and went back to the military department to make arrangements.

"Wang Chengen, pass on my message, Wang Zezhi's hard work is high, and Liaodong will not bother him to worry about it.

In the matter of Liaodong, I made my own arrangements, so that he could cooperate with Yang He, the governor of the five provinces, to guard the Hetao and not let the Shaanxi thieves escape to the outside of the Saiwai. ”

"Yes." Wang Chengen knelt on the ground, his back was already soaked, and he got the will at this moment, so he withdrew from the study without saying a word.