Ji Qingwen entered Beijing this time, but there were two major things to do - one was to be named Fu Lubo; The second is to try to save Yuan Chonghuan's life.

The first thing has to do with me, and it has nothing to do with me. Just because this matter was decided by Emperor Chongzhen's arbitrary dictatorship, it was not Ji Qingwen's turn to intervene. And all the ceremonial affairs are handled by the Ministry of Rites, the Zongren Mansion, the Celebrant and other yamen, and it is not their turn to worry about it. Therefore, in this matter, Ji Qingwen, who was originally the protagonist, has become a supporting role with nothing to do.

But Ji Qingwen was not idle because of this, because he devoted a lot of energy to the trial of Yuan Chonghuan's case.

With this instruction from Emperor Chongzhen that Ji Qingwen could observe the interrogation of Yuan Chonghuan's case, Ji Qingwen rushed to the Criminal Department to report on the second day after leaving the palace, and to fully fulfill the powers and responsibilities given to him by the emperor.

This can mess up the original trial plan of the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple and other departments. Everyone knows that Ji Qingwen and Yuan Chonghuan worship under Sun Chengzong, and the friendship of the same door is a natural political relationship in the Ming officialdom.

So Wen Tiren, the deputy assistant of the cabinet who took the lead in hearing the case—he also served as the secretary of the criminal department—although he was bent on putting Yuan Chonghuan to death, he couldn't help but restrain himself.

Therefore, when the trial began, Wen Tiren passed Yuan Chonghuan up, and without interrogating him, he said that he was dizzy and had to go home to rest. Without the presiding judge, this case naturally could not be tried, and a few people could only return in a huff.

Although he didn't say half a word, Ji Qingwen met Yuan Chonghuan himself.

I saw that Yuan Chonghuan was disheveled, disheveled, and had no handcuffs, leg irons and other torture tools on his body, but his complexion was not bad, he was not particularly thin, and the most important thing was that his life was saved, so there was the most basic basis for saving.

So although it was inconvenient for Ji Qingwen to answer with Yuan Chonghuan, he asked Li Yuanyin to inquire about the origin of the jailer, and he personally ran away, coerced and lured him to do a good job, and threw down a thousand taels of silver, asking him to take good care of Yuan Chonghuan, otherwise let him taste the power of the Ming Wu Army.

The heroic posture of the Ming Wu Army's one-on-one confrontation against the elite of the Manchurian Eight Banners last year was not unknown to the officials and people of Beijing.

After such an "exchange" of beating and kneading, the jailer naturally agreed, promising that as long as there was no explicit decree from Emperor Chongzhen, he could ensure that Yuan Chonghuan's life was absolutely not in danger.

In the next two days, Wen Tiren did not open a court to interrogate Yuan Chonghuan, and of course Ji Qingwen did not go to the lobby of the Criminal Department to observe, and Emperor Chongzhen did not summon him, which made Ji Qingwen idle all of a sudden.

Taking advantage of this free time, Ji Qingwen first spent half a day to visit a few of his few friends in Beijing - including Xu Guangqi, Liu Ruozai and others. After that, he led the seventy-two miners he brought into the capital from Yiwu to play in the capital.

These miners are not very old, they are the age when the lackeys run horses and jump up and down, and it is rare to run from a hard place like Yiwu to the core of the world.

Ji Qingwen was originally a restless master, but he still had something on his mind, even if he couldn't play happily, he gave the money to Duo Jiugong and Xiao Duozi's father and son, and asked them to take these miners to play in the capital, and put down his words - as long as he didn't get into trouble, he could play as much as he wanted.

And Ji Qingwen himself asked Li Yuanyin to go to the east in person to go to Shanhaiguan to inquire about the situation of the old superintendent Sun Chengzong.

Li Yuanyin really met with his boss Luo Yangxing once before.

Luo Yangxing is insidious and mean, but he has shown special interest in Ji Qingwen's recent situation, which makes Li Yuanyin very uncomfortable, if it weren't for Luo Yangxing or the top leader of Jinyiwei, Li Yuanyin really didn't want to say more than half a word to him. Therefore, when he met Luo Yangxing, Li Yuanyin just said things painlessly, and as soon as he mentioned the key points and details, he deduced that Ji Qingwen did not trust him, and many things were not mentioned to him.

Luo Yang's city government is profound, although he heard that Li Yuanyin seemed to deal with him perfunctorily, but he didn't show it in public, and without saying a word, he let Li Yuanyin go back.

However, it was said that Jingshi was about 600 miles away from Shanhaiguan, and Li Yuanyin rode a fast horse back and forth for exactly five days, and when he answered Ji Qingwen's side, Ji Qingwen was wearing the earl's robe and was about to go to Taimiao to participate in the knighthood ceremony.

The knighthood ceremony was personally observed by Emperor Chongzhen, and it could not be delayed for half a moment, but Sun Chengzong's situation was equally important.

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So Ji Qingwen first sat on the sixteen-carried sedan chair sent by the Zongren Mansion, and slowly walked towards the Taimiao under the support of countless clear and indescribable honor guards, and asked Li Yuanyin to ride a horse next to the sedan chair to talk to himself about Sun Chengzong's situation.

It turned out that Li Yuanyin galloped all the way to Shanhaiguan, but he didn't meet Sun Chengzong himself, only Wu Sangui, who was stationed here.

On the eve of the Battle of Beijing last year, Zhao Shujiao, the former commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, rushed to the battle and died under the soldiers of Emperor Taiji of Manchuria. After the end of the war, the imperial court appointed Wu Xiang, the original commander of the Liaodong regiment, as the new Shanhaiguan commander-in-chief, and Wu Xiang's son Wu Sangui naturally followed his father to assist in military affairs at Shanhaiguan.

Although Wu Sangui was a big traitor in history, when he was in Chongzhen's fourth year, he was still an out-and-out loyal minister, a filial son, and a good general, and he had a love affair with Ji Qingwen. With this relationship, he took the initiative to help and sent the heralds in Shanhaiguan to get in touch with Sun Chengzong in Dalinghe outside the pass.

When Sun Chengzong heard that it was someone sent by Ji Qingwen, he was extremely excited, and when he saw that there was no sign of Manchurian activities near the Daling River, he entrusted the military affairs to Lu Xiangsheng to deal with, and he ordered a few cronies to escort him and immediately returned to Shanhaiguan.

However, the Daling River is also more than 500 miles away from Shanhaiguan, and Sun Chengzong will be seventy years old next year. Therefore, Li Yuanyin didn't have time to wait for Sun Chengzong to return, and after receiving the news that he was rushing to Shanhaiguan, he returned to Beijing to report to Ji Qingwen.

After Ji Qingwen heard the news, he fell into a dilemma - on the one hand, he was anxious to go to Shanhaiguan, 600 miles away, to meet his teacher Sun Chengzong and ask him for advice on his next plans and practices; On the other hand, he had to keep an eye on the Jingshi to prevent people with ulterior motives from assassinating Yuan Chonghuan.

Ji Qingwen doesn't know how to do the separation technique, and it is beyond his ability to deal with two things at the same time, so after thinking about it, he can only deal with the knighthood ceremony in front of him first, and then discuss with Li Yan and discuss a complete strategy.

At the knighthood ceremony, Ji Qingwen was a little absent-minded, but Emperor Chongzhen was full of interest. And Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who presided over the ceremony, wanted Ji Qingwen, a good friend, to be in the limelight in the court, so he arranged a whole set of ceremonies to be lively and solemn.

Seeing that the ceremony was arranged so properly, Emperor Chongzhen was naturally happy in his heart, and specially added some drama to himself, and personally took the stage to give a lecture, saying that it was an eventful autumn now, and the court was also employing people.

As soon as these words came out, those miscellaneous officials were naturally happy in their hearts - according to the emperor's intentions, from now on, they no longer need to look at their backgrounds when they are promoted to knighthood, they only rely on real materials; And those serious jinshi are worried-the channel for promotion has been opened, so isn't the fame that they have worked hard and earned for ten years depreciated on the spot?

Faintly, Ji Qingwen was knighted this time, but he offended some officials in the dark.