"Could it be that Ji Qingwen, this kid, has the skill of unpredictable prophets, and he has long guessed that there will be a situation where the army will go out but cannot enter the city to rest, so he asked the emperor in advance for this will?"

This thought flashed through Yuan Chonghuan's mind, and then dissipated - he had been fighting on the battlefield for more than ten years, and he had long since disbelieved in this kind of strange and chaotic thing.

In short, Ji Qingwen has this will in his hand, so in the whole world, except for the emperor himself, no one dares to stop him from entering the Beijing Division.

Therefore, although Yuan Chonghuan was a little unconvinced in his heart, he could only pin his hopes on Ji Qingwen that he could enter the Beijing Division and meet the emperor in person.

Therefore, he tried his best to pretend to be respectful, returned the holy decree to Ji Qingwen, and said in his mouth: "Lord Ji can be favored by the emperor like this, this governor ...... Yuan is really admired. Since Lord Ji was able to enter the city to meet the saint, then he bothered the lord to ask the emperor to say how to resist the emperor, and the minister was reporting to the saint on an important matter. ”

Seeing the sincere expression on Yuan Chonghuan's face, Ji Qingwen immediately agreed, and led the army to enter the Jingshi City from the slowly opening Guangqu Gate, and watched the Guangqu Gate sink and close again.

Jingshi was originally a military fortress used to guard the north and suppress the Mongols and Jurchens at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and was guarded by Zhu Di, the fourth son of Emperor Taizu, who was the best at fighting.

After Zhu Di succeeded in the battle of Jingjing and snatched the throne from his nephew Zhu Yunwen, he remembered the emptiness of the north, so he tried his best to move the capital of the Ming Dynasty from Nanjing in the south to Beijing in the north - since then Beijing has also been customary and renamed "Jingshi".

After Zhu Di moved the capital, he built a lot of construction, firstly, to demonstrate the national strength of Yongle Shengshi; second, in order to match the identity of the Ninety-Five Supreme; The third is to deter allies and enemies. Therefore, a Beijing city was built to be more solid and majestic, forming a complete defense system.

Therefore, after Ji Qingwen's department entered the Guangqu Gate, it only came to the outer city of Jingshi, and it was necessary to go through Chongwen Gate, Xuanwu Gate, and Zhengyang Gate before entering the inner city of Jingshi.

And the original purpose of the construction of this outer city was to defend against foreign enemies.

Therefore, in the face of the large-scale invasion of the Manchurian elite, the people who originally lived in the outer city of Beijing were all moved to the inner city, and the entire outer city became a large military camp.

And this huge military camp is obviously not taken care of by knowledgeable people, and it looks noisy and chaotic, which makes Chen Wenzhao, who has been trained in martial arts and martial arts, shake his head and sigh uncontrollably.

However, now is not the time to complain.

Ji Qingwen knew that now that the hearts of the people in the capital were fluctuating, the emperor Taiji outside the city was eyeing him, and the soldiers and horses under Yuan Chonghuan were not allowed to enter the city, it was time for 100,000 people to be in a hurry.

Therefore, he left Chen Wenzhao, Li Yan, Huang Degong, Xiao Duozi and the whole army's 500 township brave regiments to rest in the outer city, and he and Li Yuanyin went into the inner city to meet Emperor Chongzhen.

Ji Qingwen had the emperor's handwritten decree in his hand, personally carried the sword of the Son of Heaven given by Chongzhen, accompanied by the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and had entered the outer city, so naturally it didn't take much effort to enter the inner city of the capital through the tightly guarded Chongwen Gate.

The inner city is also noisy.

The people who had come to the city to escape the war blocked the originally spacious Imperial City Street with a small path, and the streets were full of people, sitting, and standing, and their faces were full of worry and sadness, their ears were full of children's crying and howling, and the turbid air was full of anxiety.

Although there are also soldiers patrolling and guarding the city, the worries in their hearts are no lighter than ordinary people, and when they are ordered to patrol the city, it is just a formality, and there is no change in the order of the inner city.

In this way, under Li Yuanyin's opening, Ji Qingwen covered his mouth and nose through the eyes of countless people, and finally came to the gate of the Forbidden City.

The customs and defense of the Forbidden City are naturally stricter, and after verifying the identities of Ji Qingwen and Li Yuanyin, the report to the palace was completed, and then the two were let in.

As usual, those who enter the palace, except for the brocade guards and those with the emperor's permission, are not allowed to bring weapons into the palace, but Ji Qingwen is wearing the "Sword of the Son of Heaven", and the eunuch in charge of the inspection naturally did not dare to confiscate it at will, so he let him carry the sword into the palace.

Naturally, there were no crying people in the Forbidden City, and there were not many soldiers patrolling around, but they were still firmly shrouded in an inexplicable and inexplicable tense atmosphere.

Ji Qingwen and Li Yuanyin were so suppressed by this atmosphere that they didn't even dare to grow a mouthful, so they came all the way to the gate of Qianqing Palace under the leadership of the palace steward and eunuch.

After kneeling down and reporting his name, Emperor Chongzhen asked Ji Qingwen to come into the house to speak, and Li Yuanyin waited outside the palace gate as usual.

Ji Qingwen entered the palace, and saw that there were more than 100 officials in the Qianqing Palace, in addition to the bachelor Han Kuang he knew, the university scholar Wen Tiren, the university scholar Zhou Yanru, the military department secretary Wang Qia, the household department secretary Bi Ziyan, the Ministry of Rites squire Xu Guangqi, the Jinyi Wei commander Luo Yangxing and other high-ranking officials, there were also many small Beijing officials wearing five-grade and six-grade uniforms - together with Liu Ruozai, who Ji Qingwen participated in the examination in the same year and won the high school championship, was also among them.

These officials crowded the originally spacious palace one after another, which was somewhat similar to the noisy situation in the inner and outer cities of the capital division.

Emperor Chongzhen sat in front of the hall, raised his hand to beckon Ji Qingwen in front of him, and asked him about the situation outside the city.

Ji Qingwen answered truthfully without a few words, and was interrupted by Emperor Chongzhen: "Wait, it's too sulky in this palace." Come on, I want to drive outside the door, and everything will be discussed outside the Qianqing Palace. ”

After listening to Emperor Chongzhen's words, the eunuchs and officials got busy, moving things, vacating places, and taking honor guards.

Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair and saw that Ji Qingwen was already standing at the end of the civil official team in order of rank, so he stretched out his hand to beckon him to his side and said, "Ji Aiqing, you came to talk to me, you are far away, I can't hear clearly." ”

So Ji Qingwen took a few steps forward, and then continued to introduce the situation outside the city on the topic of the Qianqing Palace.

He talked about it for a quarter of an hour, and finally explained to the emperor and the ministers in detail about the situation of Yuan Chonghuan's fight with Huang Taiji in the past few days, the possible use of troops by Huang Taiji, and Yuan Chonghuan's response methods.

Emperor Chongzhen listened attentively, and after Ji Qingwen finished speaking, he sighed and said: "Since I succeeded to the throne, I have been eating day and night, but I didn't expect that there would be a situation where the Manchurian Tatars invaded the Guannai and plundered the Beijing Division. Alas! I am ashamed of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty and the people of Kyushu...... I'm guilty! With that, he bowed deeply to the south.

The emperor sinned himself like this, and his subordinates naturally couldn't stand, and the civil and military officials who were all over the courtyard immediately knelt on the ground, echoing words such as "the minister is guilty" and "the minister is guilty".

Emperor Chongzhen stood up straight, looked at the dozens or hundreds of officials prostrate in front of him, and suddenly said viciously: "If you say these few words that are not painful, will it be okay?" In my opinion, all the officials in the DPRK and China can be killed! ”

The eleventh month of the lunar calendar is the coldest time of the year, and the weather is even more cold in the capital, and a cold wind blows, which makes people shiver from the cold, and the muscles and bones up and down the body are as cold as needle.

And what is colder than this cold wind is the few reprimands of Emperor Chongzhen, who listened to the civil and military officials, none of them dared to answer smoothly, and the atmosphere was suddenly solemn as if it was solidified.

Ji Qingwen, the only one who can still speak here, hurriedly advised: "Your Majesty, these officials have done something wrong or badly, and the emperor can naturally punish them." But now is not the time to do such a thing. Now that Huang Taiji is outside the city, only by driving him away or eliminating him first, can we have time to distinguish everyone's merits and losses. ”

Chongzhen nodded slightly: "There is still some truth in this." If you have any countermeasures in mind to deal with the enemy, let's talk about them here! ”

Ji Qingwen saw that there were senior first- and second-grade high-ranking officials all around, as well as a few hereditary military generals, who were not in the limelight and talking nonsense, so he pushed the boat down the river and said: "What countermeasures does the minister have?" However, Yuan Chonghuan's supervisor outside the city must have a good strategy to retreat from the enemy, why don't you let him in and talk? ”

Chongzhen listened to this suggestion, and suddenly became so angry that his face was bruised, and he scolded: "Hmph! Yuan Chonghuan, I don't want to see him! If he hadn't killed Mao Wenlong without authorization, how could Huang Taiji have no worries and go south to his heart's content? After he was ordered to lead the army south to enter the customs, he followed the Manchurian Tartars all the way, not daring to confront them head-on, which only increased the arrogance of the Tartars. The situation has reached such a situation, I see that seventy percent of the blame is on Yuan Chonghuan! ”

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