Wang Chengen explained: "It is the five powerful generals under the thieves, all of whom are in the realm of kings, guarding the four gates of the Beijing Division. ”

At the moment when Wang Jian was worried about the road, Zhou Zhutou said: "He has always been good friends with the old grandson who guards the north city gate, and his daughter was originally the concubine of Zhou Shilang of the household department who defected to the enemy, and it is said that she was given to Liu Zongmin, one of the five generals, so it must not be difficult to mix a few road guides." ”

Wang Jian knew the secret passage to the outside of the city, but he couldn't bring so many people into the palace, and the road guide was still useful to him, at least everyone would go out of the city secretly in batches would be much smoother.

"Your Majesty, now that the thief is strong and I am weak, I should return to the south immediately, disguise myself along the way to hide people's eyes and ears, and wait for the holy driver to come to Nanjing, and call on the loyal and righteous people of the whole country, the division of the king of diligence, and work hard to make the Northern Expedition." Shen Sihai Road in the appearance of a merchant.

"What Brother Shen said is very true, but now that the capital is broken, if His Majesty's whereabouts are unknown, I am afraid that the six Shangshu of Nanjing will follow Yu Qian and Shaobao, and before we arrive in Nanjing City, we will elect the successor monarch as soon as possible, how will it be good then?" Confucius Meng Dao dressed as a literati. This Confucian master Meng has been studying poetry since he was a child, and he was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of 22, but the name was not chosen well. Confucius Master Meng---- originally meant that I, Confucius, respected Mencius as a teacher, but it was misinterpreted as a saint who dedescended to the sub-sage, father and son, monarch and minister, this is a crime! So he was ostracized by the readers, and went to the eunuchs who disgusted the readers, and became the minions of the East Factory.

"That's a big rebellion!! Abdicate and self-cut to thank the world! Shen Sihai said indignantly.

"Self-cut? Hmph, when the day comes, when our emperor comes to Nanjing, he may end up like Emperor Yingzong of this dynasty! Confucius Meng said: "Your Majesty, according to your humble position, you should find an elite Qinwang and return to Nanjing with great fanfare!" There are three advantages: one is to enable the army of the king of Qin along the way to exterminate the thieves, the second is to deter the kings of the south from vain artifacts, and the third can also deter many local forces in the south from making mistakes. ”

Wang Jian nodded frequently, this person still has some level: As the saying goes, the tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, even if I, the single commander, escaped back to Nanjing, I don't know what will happen.

"Your Majesty, you can send a messenger to Nanjing as soon as possible, so that there will be no accidents!" Confucius Meng said again.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to do my job." A factory guard dressed as a civilian, named Shao Xianwen, was eager to make meritorious contributions, and hurriedly recommended himself, and when he saw the disdainful eyes from his colleagues, he suddenly realized that he had committed a big taboo: everyone didn't speak, so you jumped out and rushed to escape from the imperial capital. He had difficulty distinguishing his mouth, so he had to stand aside with his head stiff and wait for the emperor to speak.

Wang Jian quietly glanced at Chen Qi'er beside her, in fact, she wanted her to go. Everyone knows that this is a beautiful difference, not to mention that Nanjing City will be regarded as an envoy of the Son of Heaven, and it will be served with good food and drink, and it will be of great benefit just to leave this place of life and death.

Chen Qi'er felt his gaze, but she was unmoved. He turned his head to look at the concubine next to him, and the concubine also bit her lower lip and shook her head at him with a resolute face, with tears in her eyes, as if begging me not to drive her away.

Because Wang Jian couldn't use a brush, let alone traditional characters, he had to immediately ask Chen Qi'er to draft an edict to appease the six ministries of Nanjing and hand it to Shao Xianwen, and let him go with another Taibao surnamed Fan in Dongchang and set off together.

"Then, where did the teacher come from?" Wang Jian asked again.

"Your Majesty, the uncle and brother of the concubine are stationed in Tianjinwei, and there are more than 4,000 people in the three guards." Ma thought for a while.

"What the mother said is that I think we still have a strong team." Confucius Meng Dao.

"Oh?" Wang Jian inherited Chongzhen's memory, but since Li Zicheng broke through Tongguan and hit the city of Beijing, he has issued a bunch of messy edicts of King Qin, the most hateful thing is that Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, did not move on the grounds that he broke his leg while riding a horse, and more of them were sunk into the sea, where did he come from?

Seeing that Wang Jian was puzzled, Confucius Meng replied, "Guanning Iron Cavalry!" Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Ningyuan, and Gao Di, the general army of Shanhai, had more than 40,000 people. ”

Wang Jian was surprised: I have never heard the name Gao Di, but Wu Sangui is like thunder! Is there really such a person, that is to say, there is also Chen Yuanyuan? What did the first beauty in the late Ming Dynasty look like? Wang Jian couldn't help but be curious.

"Your Majesty? Emperor? Seeing that Wang Jian was in a daze, Confucius Meng did not approve, and asked repeatedly.

"Well, you go on." Wang Jian was a little self-deprecating: Just this point, just listening to a name conquered me.

"Yes, Your Majesty, it is reported that Wu Sangui has been ordered to enter the King of Guanqin and arrive at Yongping City in a few days. I believe that the news that the capital division has been broken will reach there soon, and in order to prevent accidents, I must arrive before then. ”

Wang Chengen thought about it for a while, and said, "Your Majesty, the old slave still has something to report." ”

"What?"

"After breaking through the city, the thieves captured more than 100 officials of all sizes in the six divisions of the Beijing Division, and asked their families to pay a lot of money to ransom them. Only did not commit any offense against Wu Zongbing's family, but just sent people to surround him, and wanted to recruit Wu Zongbing, so it was better to recruit Wu Zongbing to take a salary and rescue Wu's family and take it with him. ”

Wang Jian is right when he thinks about it, people who take refuge always have to bring gifts, and the reason of being disgusted with empty hands remains unchanged through the ages, with Wu Xiang and Wu Yingxiong's grandson, the possibility of subduing Wu Sangui is even higher.

In the next three days, Wang Jian stayed in the secret room and listened to the concubine explain all kinds of martial arts knowledge, and his skills increased rapidly, at least it was not a problem to single out three or five gangsters. And Wang Chengen seized the time to contact the old department, these Dongchang eagle claws were doing things in secret, and they were extremely loyal, except for the few hidden ones on the line, most of them replied to the message, waiting for the next move.

Three days later, night fell quickly, and the city of Beijing, which had been tormented by the military disaster for three days, was quickly restored to calm because of Li Zicheng's curfew.

In the Tianchun Garden next to the Tieshi Hutong in the east of Beijing.

In a very small room on the second floor of Tianchun Garden, next door is the Wu Mansion, and under the window is the back door of the Wu Mansion. Wang Jian leaned back in a wide chair with Huanghuali and Ma and Wu Chengen standing next to her.

"Your Majesty, according to the intelligence, this evening, the thieves dispatched good hands to surround the Wu Mansion, led by the original Dongchang Admiral Cao Huachun." Wu Chengen said.

"Whose garden is this?" Wang Jian pointed downstairs and asked. At this time, the maids downstairs were crying and welcoming an old man into the house, and the old man looked a little familiar.

"Your Majesty, it's Zhou Kui, the national abbot!" Wu Chengen said cautiously.

According to Chongzhen's memory, on the day the city of Jingshi was broken, he killed the queen and his children so that they would not be defiled!

Wang Jian couldn't help but feel guilty when he saw his "old father-in-law" looking miserable.

Wang Jian said sadly: "Is there a way to protect his family?" ”

Seeing that Wang Chengen wanted to speak and stopped, he seemed to be very dissatisfied with Zhou Kui, so he asked again: "What?" I remember the donation of silver on the eve of the destruction of the city, I asked him to donate 10,000 yuan, because of the poverty of the family, his old man took the lead in donating 3,000 taels of silver. ”

Hearing Wang Jian mention the donation, Wang Chengen said with a look of resentment: "Your Majesty, you were deceived by this old horseman, the three thousand taels were given to him by the queen mother, and the queen mother gave him a total of five thousand, let him take the lead in donating the salary, but he also deducted two thousand taels privately!" ”

"What?!" Wang Jian looked horrified, this is too exaggerated, when the capital was in danger, he actually didn't pay any money, he didn't pay a penny, and he earned two thousand!

Wang Chengen didn't vomit or be unhappy, and continued: "Your Majesty, after the thief broke through the city, he was arrested, tortured, and copied out countless rare treasures. ”

"It's... This..."Wang Jian was shocked beyond measure, and he didn't know whether he was angry or ridiculous: what was angry was that this old guy was guarding a huge sum of more than 700,000 yuan, and he was still greedy for a small donation of silver, and the absurd thing is that this is too much, and once the capital is broken, his silver will not run away with long legs, and it is not all in Li Zicheng's pocket.

"Hmph, there will be ministers when the country is about to die!" The concubine also said angrily on the side.

"As the ruler of the country, he doesn't want to serve the country loyally, but is corrupt and perverts the law, he really deserves to die! Well, I'll teach him a lesson! Wang Jian thought in his heart and said, "Li Wanshan, Yang Wei." ”

"Humble duty!" Two of the thirteen eagles responded, one of these two people is a fast catcher, a lay disciple of Shaolin in Henan, and the other is a turtle duke, who looks like a thief and has mouse eyes, and is very clever and cunning.

"You two go and set fire to this garden, the bigger the fire, the better! The others will go down with me and ride the fire to save people!" The two took the order and left.

After a while, the fire in the Tianchun Garden was soaring, the maids and slaves were all strung around, and the fire spread quickly to the Wu Mansion by the wind, and everyone in the Wu Mansion saw that the fire next door was about to burn over, and the rebel leader who guarded the Wu Mansion immediately commanded his men to fetch water to put out the fire, and the Wu Mansion was suddenly in chaos.

Soon a group of people escaped from the inner courtyard of the Wu Mansion, and they were all gathered in the courtyard, among which there was an elder holding a child, who was Wu Xiang and Wu Yingxiong's grandson. A part of the peasant army went to the next door to put out the fire, and Cao Huachun was leading the remaining more than a dozen people to guard.

Wang Jian jumped into the backyard and shouted: "Up." Suddenly, more than a dozen figures rushed out from all corners of the Wu Mansion and killed the guards in the courtyard.

Wang Jian slashed at Cao Huachun and shouted: "Cao Lao thief is not going to die quickly!" ”

"The Emperor's !!" Cao Huachun exclaimed, and when he saw that the person who came turned out to be Wang Jian, he was immediately startled, and it was rumored that the dead person suddenly appeared in front of him, and he was the Son of Heaven again, and he was shocked that the force of the original ten layers immediately dropped to less than one layer, coupled with Wang Jian's indiscriminate slashing and killing, he was killed in a hurry for a while.