In the eighth year of Chongzhen, the people of the capital can be described as having ups and downs.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year is approaching, Nanzhili came with the news that the thieves came back and conquered the central capital Fengyang Mansion, and even the emperor's ancestral tomb was dug up, and the emperor also issued the "Guilty Edict", the entire capital can be described as cloudy, and everyone is like a big stone in their hearts, extremely depressed.

It wasn't until the day of the New Year's Festival that news came from the northwest that Zhang Bin, the governor of the five provinces, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, broke the main force of the thieves, and the thieves seemed to be about to be exterminated.

On the second day of the first month, Datong Town was in an emergency, more than 100,000 Jiannu troops took advantage of the emptiness of Shanxi's troops, and broke into the pass from Yanghekou in one fell swoop, in less than half a month, Datong Town had most of the city fall into the hands of Jiannu, the capital was almost under martial law, and this New Year's Festival was simply impossible.

However, the festival is about to end, and there is news from Datong Town, Zhang Bin, the governor of the five provinces, led the army to come back to help, and Jiannu fled in despair, only a few days, Jiannu ran away, and the crisis in Datong Town was lifted!

Now, the people of the capital can finally celebrate unbridledly, this New Year's Festival seems to have been postponed for more than 20 days, to the twentieth day of the first month, the whole capital is lit up again, and it becomes very lively.

At this time, Chongzhen was also quite happy, the thief chief Gao Yingxiang had been escorted into Beijing, and the thieves had been beaten by Zhang Bin and fled in all directions, and he couldn't set off any wind and waves for a while, and Jiannu was also scared away by Zhang Bin, everything was developing in a good direction, and Daming seemed to be promising again.

Just as he was about to pay tribute to the ancestral temple and show the world that the thief chief Gao Yingxiang Ling Chi would be executed, Wen Tiren, the head of the cabinet, suddenly ran over and asked to see him.

During this time, Wen Tiren seemed to have disappeared, especially when the Fengyang Mansion in the central capital was captured by thieves, Chongzhen didn't seem to have seen Wen Tiren, he was busy with sinners and sinners, and he was busy organizing an army to exterminate the thieves, and he had no time to summon Wen Tiren, which is understandable, the problem Wen Tiren, you are the head of the cabinet, there is such a big thing in the imperial court, you actually ignore it, don't offer a plan, and don't even help Chongzhen share a little worry, and directly play missing, this is what it means!

Chongzhen didn't care much about it, because he was happy at the moment.

Wen Tiren will also pick time, he knows that Chongzhen will not care about some trivial things when he is happy, so he deliberately chose this time to ask to see Chongzhen, please him, show his face, and prove that he is still there, the first assistant of the cabinet, and more importantly, he wants to bury a thorn in Chongzhen's heart, so that Chongzhen will continue to be suspicious of Zhang Bin!

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some people are sad, Zhang Bin suppressed the thieves and drove away the Jiannu, most of the people in the capital were happy, but Wen Tiren and his henchmen did not belong to this part, they belonged to the part of sorrow.

The reason is very simple, because Zhang Bin is not all the way with them.

If these feats were made by Hong Chengchou, they would naturally be very happy, the problem, these feats were made by Zhang Bin, they would not be happy, in their hearts, the interests of the Ming Dynasty are secondary, and their own interests are the most important.

Zhang Bin returned to the court with a big victory like this, and Chongzhen is likely to continue to favor him "regardless of his previous suspicions", so that there is another person in the court who is enough to compete with them, or rather, a strength that is enough to compete with them, how can they control the court and do whatever they want!

Therefore, Wen Tiren must find a way to make Chongzhen continue to be suspicious of Zhang Bin, even if he doesn't get Zhang Bin off, he must not be reused by Chongzhen, so that he can't influence them to control the court.

Of course, Wen Tiren will not be stupid to arrange Zhang Bin as soon as he comes up, Chongzhen is happy because of Zhang Bin's exploits at this time, as soon as you come up, Zhang Bin is not right, that is not right, Chongzhen will listen to you.

He didn't mention it at all at the beginning, and after the monarch and ministers saw the courtesy, he began to tout it, and tried to "plant" all the credit for this period of time on Chongzhen, and Chongzhen was stunned, making Chongzhen think that the reason why Zhang Bin was able to suppress the thieves and drive away the Jiannu was because of the emperor's wisdom and martial arts, not how capable Zhang Bin was.

Not to mention, Chongzhen loves to listen to this, he is indeed in order to suppress the thieves, drive away the slaves, forget to sleep and eat, and exhaust himself, Wen Tiren is very right!

Wen Tiren had been secretly paying attention to Chongzhen's expression, and when Chongzhen's tail was getting higher and higher, he suddenly said solemnly: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks there is something very strange, I don't know if to say it?" ”

Chongzhen didn't know what the plan was, as soon as he saw Wen Tiren's solemn expression, he immediately couldn't help but be curious: "Oh, what's the matter, you say." ”

Wen Tiren hesitated for a moment, and then squirmed: "Your Majesty, Weichen feels that there is something strange about Datong Town." ”

Chongzhen's curiosity was successfully aroused, and he couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?" ”

Wen Tiren said seriously: "Your Majesty, didn't you find out, as soon as Zhang Bin came, Huang Taiji ran away, and even, Zhang Bin didn't spend a single soldier, Huang Taiji fled from the wind, is Huang Taiji so afraid of Zhang Bin?" Impossible! They're just acting, it's fake! ”

Chongzhen couldn't help but be more curious, he subconsciously blurted out: "Acting? Why do they act? ”

"Hey, hey, fooled." Wen Tiren smiled in his heart, but on the surface, he pretended to be frightened and said: "Your Majesty, do you think, Zhang Bin has 90,000 elites under him at this time, if nothing happens, will the emperor let him lead the army to the vicinity of the capital?" At this time, Jiannu didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and actually helped him lead the army to the vicinity of the capital, what would happen if he led the army into Beijing? Your Majesty, Weichen has the courage to remind you that Dong Zhuo's rebellion cannot be forgotten! ”

Chongzhen was stunned when he heard this, of course he knew that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo led the Western Liang Army into Beijing, authoritarian power to bring disaster to the country, abolished the Han Emperor, and pinched Emperor Xian in his own hands.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder.

Will Zhang Bin do this?

Judging from his consistent performance, he shouldn't be like this, but he is not afraid of 10,000, just in case, what if he wants to learn from Dong Zhuo, learn from Cao Cao, and coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes!

This kind of thing must not be allowed to happen, Chongzhen frowned and pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "Well, I know, you go down first." ”

Wen Tiren saw his expression, smiled smugly in his heart, and then respectfully withdrew.

Soon, Chongzhen issued an order to order Zhang Bin to send the Shanxi border soldiers back to Xuanfu Town and Datong Town, and send Shanxi Tunwei back to Taiyuan Mansion, which were respectively handed over to Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, and Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi

At the same time, he also ordered Sun Chuanting to lead 30,000 Qin troops back to Shaanxi to prevent the resurgence of the rebels, and ordered the Qi family army to stay in Datong Town to garrison, and the Tianxiong army to go to Xuanfu Town to garrison to prevent Jiannu from entering the customs from Shanxi again.

This means that Zhang Bin will return to Beijing alone with his bare ass!

Zhang Bin was really stunned for a while when he received Chongzhen's will, what does Chongzhen mean by this, dismiss all the people, don't you have to fight this battle? The anti-thieves have not been completely wiped out, and Jiannu is even more unharmed, is that all?

He really didn't understand what Chongzhen meant, but he soon received a secret letter from Cao Huachun, it turned out that Wen Tiren personally went out and yin him in front of Chongzhen!

Zhang Bin is really angry, this treacherous villain, he only has to fight for power and profit in his heart, completely ignoring the danger of the country, he knows that this kind of person has completely lost the bottom line, and the death of the Ming Dynasty does not have much impact on them, if the Ming Dynasty dies, he will definitely go to be a traitor, and when the time comes, he will still enjoy endless glory and wealth!

Gelding, look for death, right!

Is it tolerable or unbearable!

He really can't bear Wen Tiren anymore, dog, do you think that you can be invincible in the world by learning Wei Zhongxian's shamelessness? If you want to die, you will be fulfilled!

He originally wanted to let Chongzhen see through the true face of Wen Tiren, a treacherous villain, through formal means, but now, he found that Chongzhen's brain couldn't play with Wen Tiren at all, and if he wanted Chongzhen to see through Wen Tiren himself, it was simply a dream, and he couldn't say it, he had to help him.

Zhang Bin was angry, but he didn't mess up, he completely according to Chongzhen's will, dismissed his 90,000 troops to the designated area, and then, he silently rushed back to the capital with a few personal guards.

It stands to reason that even if the emperor doesn't pick up a court minister like him who has made great contributions to Beijing, no matter how he says, he should send a court minister of the same level to win people's hearts, but Chongzhen was angry with Zhang Bin again because of Wen Tiren's slander, knowing that he was going to return to Beijing in the next two days, he turned a blind eye!

Zhang Bin came back quietly, of course, this time it was not he who deliberately concealed it, he came back openly, but no one paid attention to him!

This kind of treatment is simply a humiliation for the heroes, Chongzhen didn't realize that he had completely lost Zhang Bin's heart by doing so, he thought that the emperor was really the true son of heaven, everyone had to act according to his will, he didn't want to think about it, if this was the case, how could his father and brother die in vain, he himself was so diligent, why is Daming still in diversion!

Zhang Bin was naturally so angry that he gritted his teeth, and that night he summoned Zhang Cha, Li Dingguo and others who rushed back to the capital in advance, and Sun Biao, Zhao Xing and other cronies who had stayed in the capital to hold a meeting, and ordered them to closely monitor Wen Tiren and investigate everything Wen Tiren did.

Early the next morning, at three o'clock in the ugly hour, Zhang Bin walked out of the mansion with a personal entourage as usual, and walked slowly and leisurely to the left gate of Chang'an, he didn't have any special feelings, but the officials who saw him were all surprised.

He came back so silently, the emperor, he didn't say anything at all, what's going on?

So, something strange happened.

At the beginning, Zhang Bin was suspicious of Chongzhen, and he was stripped of a position of real power, and served as Zhan Shi of the Zhan Mansion, specifically responsible for teaching the prince, and the courtiers avoided him, which is understandable.

However, at this time, Zhang Bin fought thousands of miles, and the anti-thieves who fought died down, so frightened that Jiannu fled from the wind, and the courtiers were still afraid of him, and even, walked all the way, until the noon gate, there was no one to greet him!

What kind of world is this, what kind of court is this?

Just as Zhang Bin was standing there alone, sighing at the cold of the world, a voice behind him suddenly said in surprise: "My lord, are you back?" ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he looked back and saw that it was his subordinate, Kong Zhenyun, the young Zhan Shifu of Zhan Shifu.

This old man is not bad, he is a rare upright official in the court today, Zhang Bin has a very good impression of him, everyone has taken the initiative to say hello, Zhang Bin naturally will not refuse people thousands of miles away, he smiled and nodded: "Yes, I just came back yesterday." ”

When Kong Zhenyun heard this, he sincerely admired: "The adult led the army to fight thousands of miles, suppressed the thieves, and retreated from the Jiannu, his subordinates really admired, but unfortunately his subordinates were only shallow in learning, and they didn't know anything about the art of war. ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Master Kong is modest, this leading troops to fight is just a small learning, how can it be compared to Master Kong's talent, and the splendid article has been handed down." ”

Kong Zhenyun hurriedly arched his hand and said: "My lord, you are really tormenting your subordinates, what splendid articles have been handed down, how can your subordinates have that ability." ”

They were chatting hotly, when a hearty voice suddenly came from behind: "Hey, my lord, you're really back!" ”

Zhang Bin didn't look back and knew that the person who came was another of his subordinates, Champion Lang Wen Zhenmeng.

He was really a little stunned about this upright rectum, forget it, don't talk to him about business, this guy is really scary if he wants to be stubborn.

Zhang Bin simply quipped: "What's the matter, Wen Qi, you're not welcome?" ”

Wen Zhenmeng was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed and said, "My lord, you are laughing, your subordinates are looking forward to your return day and night." ”

Zhang Bin diverted the topic and said: "During this time, how is the prince's studies, have you taken turns to teach?" ”

When Kong Zhenyun heard this, he honestly arched his hand and said: "How dare we slack off on what the adults have explained, rest assured, Brother Wen Qi and I have not pulled down for a day, the prince has already memorized the "Thousand Character Text", if the adults don't come back, we all want to write to ask you, do you want to start teaching the Four Books and the Five Classics." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he nodded with satisfaction: "Well, very good, I'll go to check the prince's studies today, if it's okay, start teaching the prince the four books and five classics, do you have any good suggestions?" ”

When it comes to the Four Books and Five Classics, Wen Zhenmeng and Kong Zhenyun are very energetic, they are specialized in studying this, and if they want to talk about suggestions, they can't finish it in those days and nights.

The three of them chatted as if no one was around, not caring about the surprised eyes of the other courtiers at all, until the drum sounded at noon, Zhang Bin took the lead in walking to the train of Zhan Shifu, as for the military department, Zhang Bin was too lazy to go, according to Chongzhen's meaning, he was afraid that he would not be able to do it, he simply did not know that he was the secretary of the military department, and he did not go to the leader of the train of the military department at all.

At the beginning, Chongzhen didn't notice that Zhang Bin had come back, and when he played the right thing, he inadvertently looked up and saw Zhang Bin standing in front of the train in Zhan Shifu, and suddenly felt extremely embarrassed.

However, he did not regret it, he thought that he had done nothing wrong, the "Dong Zhuo Rebellion" was not a joke, and it was absolutely necessary for him to take precautions.

He was even thinking about how to give Zhang Bin the position of secretary of the military department!