May 25, 17th year of Chongzhen.

Everything was arranged, and Wang Jian's army began to enter the city.

In the city of Jinan, the civil and military officials who got the news appeared more than 20 miles away from the city gate early, and they were waiting to welcome the holy driver. There are still countless people on both sides of the official road who are watching the excitement, filling the inside and outside of the city, and the water is impassable.

Dressed in white clothes and white armor, Ma Concubines were the first to appear outside the east gate of Jinan City, followed by Wang Jian's iconic huge yellow carriage.

Wang Jian looked at this ancient city from a distance through the car window, the city wall of Jinan City is towering into the sky, the momentum is magnificent, the previous city wall of Luanzhou is compared with it, it is a small mound.

No wonder when Zhu Dijing was martyred, he didn't fight for more than three months. Wang Jian said secretly.

With such high walls and thick walls, he was confident that he could also block the Manchu iron cavalry.

In the afterglow of the sunset, Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, has slowly regained its vitality after several years since the last Dolgon raid.

Yao'er entered the palace with her sister Qi'er when she was young, she was just a little palace maid in the Wuying Palace, and she had always stayed in the palace, how could she have seen such a majestic city wall, even she couldn't help but sigh: "If there is no war, how good it would be." ”

Wang Jian smiled: "If there was no war, you wouldn't be able to see such a majestic city wall." ”

Yao'er said innocently: "The slave would rather not see these city walls, if there are no city walls in the whole world, then the world will be peaceful!" ”

Wang Jian was stunned: A world without walls? I'm afraid that only the world I live in is like that. Just like Iraq, Syria and other countries in later generations, they are also full of wars, and the people who live there, even if they have a thick wall like Jinan City, I am afraid they will not be able to protect their safety.

It is said that politicians start wars, generals win wars, and what about the people? They only deserve to die in war!

Under the afterglow of the sunset, Wang Jian stood outside the gate of the majestic Jinan City, and couldn't help but sigh: No wonder when Zhu Dijing was martyred, he didn't fight for more than three months, he escaped all the way, and finally had a place to stay.

"Your Majesty! Zheng Yuqiao, the prefect of Jinan Prefecture, asks to see! Wang Chengen led a few people to the front of Wang Jian's yellow carriage.

Wang Jian retracted his thoughts, nodded and said, "Bring it up." ”

It didn't take long for Wang Chengen to lead a middle-aged man in his fifties over. The man was kind and approachable, and he kept smiling and nodding to the people around him all the way, until he came to Wang Jian, he restrained his smile and became respectful.

Zheng Yuqiao first gave Wang Chengen a bow, and then knelt down in front of Wang Jian and kowtowed: "Jinan prefect Zheng Yuqiao, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

There is not much difference between this Zheng Yuqiao and Chongzhen's memory, with a slender beard on his chin, he does not look old at all, but he is very energetic, and his sharp eyes invisibly show the master's shrewdness and sophistication.

Wang Jian motioned for Zheng Yuqiao to get up, he held the emperor's shelf, and said cheekily: "I am tired of staying in Beijing, and I want to go out of the palace to hunt. ”

Generally speaking, there are two situations for the Son of Heaven to go out of Beijing, one is active, called patrol, such as Kangxi's southern tour, Qin Shihuang's eastern tour, and the other is forced, called hunting, which means hunting, to put it bluntly, it is to find an excuse to take refuge.

Zheng Yuqiao is very sophisticated, he did not show a trace of contempt for seeing through the cowhide, but respectfully agreed: "Back to the emperor, Jinan is a historical ancient city, with countless scenic spots, and it is a place surrounded by mountains, with countless jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains, it is a good place for outing and hunting. ”

Chen Yuanyuan, who was on the side, listened to the business nonsense of the two of them, and felt very interesting, and she couldn't help laughing: It is really stinky and shameless for cultural people to line up with sycophants, and they are stunned to praise a dead monarch who fled the capital into a holy monarch Shang Tang who is loved by the people.

Chen Yuanyuan has always been chic and free, and never cares about the occasion and Wang Jian's face.

And Wang Jian didn't read much, and he didn't know that Zheng Yuqiao's last sentence came from Mencius, so he didn't know why Chen Yuanyuan laughed, but Zheng Yuqiao was seduced by Chen Yuanyuan's smile of all kinds of style, and almost lost his soul, fantasizing about taking another concubine when he went home.

Zheng Yuqiao is the prefect of Jinan, and he naturally reads countless women, and he didn't expect that one day his concentration would be so poor, nearly half a hundred years old, and he actually had the idea of taking a concubine: What a bewitching demon girl, no wonder I ended up like this now!

He secretly made up his mind that even if the emperor blamed him, for the interests of the Donglin Party and for the century-old foundation of the Ming Dynasty, he must find a way to get rid of Chen Yuanyuan.

Wang Jian didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, and seeing that he was fascinated by Chen Yuanyuan just now, he said unhappily: "Cough, I asked you to tell me about the specific situation of Jinan Mansion, if it's irrelevant, don't say it." ”

Zheng Yuqiao hurriedly took out an account book from his pocket, looked at it and said, "Your Majesty, there are four states and twenty-six counties in Jinan Prefecture. The three states in the north, namely Dezhou, Wuding Prefecture and Binzhou, either fell to the enemy or were rampant with thieves, all out of control, and now I can effectively control the place, only more than ten counties around Jinan City and Tai'an Prefecture in the south. ”

Wang Chengen said: "Lord Zheng, in the future, the emperor will live in Jinan City for a long time, and you must obey the emperor's arrangement." ”

Zheng Yuqiao arched his hand and said: "I understand that the civil and military officials of Jinan Mansion, large and small, must follow the emperor's will." ”

Wang Chengen nodded, and asked again: "Then the emperor's palace can be arranged?" ”

"Don't worry, the prince has already personally sorted out a quiet courtyard for the emperor and the ladies to rest."

Wang Jian is not a rich second generation, and he is not so particular. He didn't have any requirements for accommodation, as long as he had a bed, he could sleep. If you have to say that there is a request, then it is better to have a beautiful woman.

He asked, "My palace won't disturb the people, right?" ”

"Your Majesty, the courtyard was originally Weichen's, Weichen heard that the emperor was coming, and he specially sorted it out in person, if the emperor saw it, it was also the honor of Weichen to live comfortably with the ladies."

Since it is Zheng Yuqiao's garden, Wang Jian is also at ease. It seems that Zheng Yuqiao can be regarded as a good official, and he did not use his emperor's name to rob the people's fields.

Wang Jian said happily: "That's good, you will be my governor of Shandong in the Ming Dynasty in the future, are you satisfied?" ”

Zheng Yuqiao didn't expect that he would exchange a house for a Shandong governor, so he quickly knelt down and said, "Thank the emperor for the reward!" ”

"Don't be in a hurry to thank you, I have an important thing for you to do, I have brought tens of thousands of troops, these people want food and shelter, you choose some skilled craftsmen from the people of Jinan City, go to the outskirts of the city to build some houses, so as to settle my accompanying army."

Zheng Yuqiao pondered for a moment, frowned, and said: "Your Majesty, these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses need at least more than 20,000 rooms, even if the people of the whole city are mobilized to work day and night, they can't be built in a few months." ”

"Who told you to recruit the people?"

Zheng Yuqiao was a little confused, and he didn't let the people be recruited, so how could this house be built?

Wang Jian said: "Later, my concubine will mobilize her soldiers to build a house, and you only need to let your skilled craftsmen guide them on the side." The most important thing at the moment is to give my army a house to live in, do you remember? ”

Zheng Yuqiao glanced curiously at the heroic female general next to him: Niangniang has become the general who commands the army, which is really strange. However, he thought about it, in the hundreds of years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was driven out of Beijing, and he let himself encounter it. When he thought about it, he didn't think it was unusual.

Wang Chengen saw him in a daze and reminded: "Lord Zheng, can you hear the emperor's words clearly?" ”

Zheng Yuqiao hurriedly said: "Yes... Yes, Weichen must obey Niangniang's orders. ”