Chapter 664: The Capital

When Li Zhi walked to the Guangqu Gate, the east gate of the outer city of the capital, he saw the people of the capital crowded with the city walls and gates. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The people of the capital crowded every inch of space on both sides of the road, but gave way to a wide road in the middle. They looked at Li Zhi, the Duke of Jinguo, with eyes full of awe, because what Li Zhi did this time was really too big -- the Tartars who had plagued the Ming Dynasty for nearly 30 years, and the Tartars who made the hundreds of thousands of border troops of the Ming Dynasty helpless, were exterminated by the Duke of Jinguo in one day.

Although the news has been in the capital for a month, the people of the capital are still in shock.

In the past ten years, the Tatars have entered Gyeonggi three times to plunder, and several times Chen soldiers have forced the Beijing suburbs to impose martial law. The people still remember the scene when the Qing army entered a no-man's land in Gyeonggi in the spring of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, attacking the city. At that time, I don't know how many houses were broken and how many people died, and Gyeonggi could only see the cities that had been robbed clean, and the villages that had been burned to black. The Son of Heaven ordered the soldiers and horses of the world to be the king of Qin, but none of the soldiers and horses of the king of Qin dared to challenge the power of the Qing soldiers, and finally Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the world's soldiers and horses, died in battle.

The scene of the tragic ravages of Gyeonggi in the twelfth year of Chongzhen is still in front of us, but just six years later, the situation has completely reversed. The Duke of Jin Guogong fought against the Taqing with his own strength, waved his army north, and destroyed the Tatar Qing at one time. The people of the Ming Dynasty no longer have to live under the fear of the Tartars.

It is true that there are many children of officials and gentry in the capital. The children of these officials and gentry were extremely influential in the capital. They hated Li Zhi, spared no effort to slander Li Zhi, and incited the people's hatred for Li Zhi. However, the incitement and hatred of the children of the official gentry in the face of the hatred of the family and the country of the Tartars are self-evident.

When he heard that Li Zhi had recaptured Shenyang and recovered his homeland in Liaodong and was named the general of the expedition to the north by the Son of Heaven, the people of the capital had already rejoiced and rushed to tell each other. The fact of recovering his homeland made the children of the gentry seem very powerless to slander Li Zhi.

And when the army of the Duke of Jin captured Alchuka in the far north and completely destroyed the Jianzhou Jurchens, the people of the capital fell into a carnival. The Tartar who had entered the fortress countless times and plundered several times and approached the capital several times was wiped out! Since then, the territory of the Ming Dynasty has expanded to Alchuka in the far north, and the Ming Dynasty is no longer afraid of the northern captives!

Which hero who does not worship the frontier? No matter what the children of the official gentry say, they can't stop the people from singing Li Zhi's praises.

The people waited for a month, and finally waited for the general Li Zhijing to enter the Peking Expedition.

Li Zhi arrived in the capital in the afternoon. Li Zhi didn't know that the people outside the Guangqu Gate had been waiting here since the morning. The people who came late had no place, so they waited on the road farther away from the city gate, and finally the people who came to see Li Zhi were spread five miles outside the city gate.

The crowds on both sides of the road were crowded with black and overwhelming areas. But when the people really saw Li Zhi, they all quieted down. In front of this hero who wiped out Hu Lu, the people no longer crowded and pushed, no longer made loud noises, and bowed down to Li Zhizuo one by one to express their reverence.

Where Li Zhi's guard of honor was, the people on both sides bowed down one by one, making way for Li Zhi's cavalry to advance.

However, when the prison cart where Dolgon was imprisoned passed by the people, it caused a stir.

Dressed in mud-stained Manchu dragon robes, Dolgon sat dejectedly in a prison cart with his hands tied.

It was the first time the people had seen the emperor of the Manchu Dynasty, and he was still tied up. The people couldn't help but be filled with pride. How powerful am I? No matter what Yidi is, although it is far away, it will be punished! None of the northern captives who dared to invade my Ming Dynasty had a good end!

When the prisoner cart passed, the people became excited, and one by one they squeezed forward on tiptoe, trying to see Dolgon clearly inside the prisoner cart.

When the excited people saw Dolgon's appearance clearly, they were ecstatic. Dolgon's tall, thin figure seemed to prove the strength of the Tatar Qing and the greatness of the expedition of the Duke of Jin.

The Tatars ravaged Gyeonggi three times, and some of the people in the capital had relatives who had been plundered by the Tatars outside the gates, and they knew that their blood revenge had been avenged, and they couldn't help but have tears in their eyes. Those relatives were taken away by the Tartars and used as clothed slaves, unable to eat enough in summer and not warm in winter, and even inferior to livestock, and were often tortured to death by the Tartars for several years. Today, the Duke of Jin Guo arrested these despicable Tartar emperors and avenged the blood of the people, what a happy event?

In the midst of the silence and ecstasy, a child of eight or nine years old suddenly picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at Dolgon in the prisoner's car.

Dolgon shook as he was hit in the shoulder by a rock, and looked feebly at the child who had smashed him.

Seeing Dorgon's weak appearance, the cavalry watching Dolgon's captivity laughed. Seeing the prisoners laughing, the people suddenly relaxed, and finally couldn't help it, and laughed.

I don't know which people took the lead, and the people of the capital began to wave their fists and shout:

"Jin Guogong!"

"Jin Guogong!"

"Jin Guogong!"

Amid the thunderous cheers of the people, Li Zhi entered the capital from Guangqu Gate with a guard of honor. The road was already crowded with people on both sides, and the paths on both sides and the roofs of houses were full of people. The people were excited when they saw Li Zhi's guard of honor, and even more excited when they saw Dolgon, who was locked in a prisoner's car in an imperial robe.

Along the way, the people raised their arms one by one and shouted:

"Jin Guogong!"

"Jin Guogong!"

The people waved their arms at Li Zhi and the soldiers, and the scene was so enthusiastic that the cavalry who followed behind Li Zhi were so excited that their faces were flushed. They wanted to wave their hands at the cheering people, but when they saw the appearance of the grandfather in front of them lifting his weight, they didn't dare to make extra movements.

Amid the tsunami-like cheers of the people, Li Zhi passed through the Zhengyang Gate and the Lizheng Gate and entered the imperial city.

As soon as he entered the imperial city, Li Zhi was suddenly surprised to find that on both sides of the road, there were thousands of civil and military officials in the capital.

It was probably the Son of Heaven who issued a holy decree to let all the civil and military officials go to both sides of the road in the imperial city to greet the triumphant Li Zhi.

The nobles and military attaches in the capital admire Li Zhi very much, everyone is leading the troops, who has ever seen Li Zhi play such a fierce role? These nobles and military attaches really obeyed Li Zhi, and they stood on both sides of the road and looked at Li Zhi on the horse with wide eyes, as if they wanted to understand why Li Zhi was so fierce.

The civil officials were very reluctant, they were wearing the crown clothes of the court, but they had straight faces, as if they were doing something helpless.

However, at this time, Li Zhi's credit was too great, and the Son of Heaven issued a strict decree, and the civil officials had to come out to greet him.

Lu Jiude, the supervisor of the Beijing camp, waited at the main gate of Li with a few little eunuchs, and when he saw Li Zhi, he smiled and said, "Our family is here to lead the way for the general again!" ”

He looked Li Zhi up and down a few times, and said with a smile: "The general's expedition is hard, and he has lost some weight than the last time I saw it!" ”

Lu Jiude can be the supervisor of the Beijing camp army, and he is also a celebrity around the Son of Heaven, Li Zhi bowed to him and said with a smile: "There is Father-in-law Lao!" ”

Lu Jiude laughed and waved his hand at a eunuch beside him. The eunuch raised his hammer and struck it a small bronze bell.

The bell is melodious and spreads far away.

The civil and military officials on both sides of the road heard the bell and saluted in the direction of Li Zhi. Li Zhi raised his eyes and looked over, only to see pieces of "Liang Guan" hats with black backgrounds.