But I saw Emperor Chongzhen turn around and walk into the emperor's bedroom in the Qianqing Palace, and when he came out in a moment, he was already carrying a sword in his hand, and stepped forward and handed it to Ji Qingwen and said: "Look at your dog's skill, I gave you this sword!" ”

Ji Qingwen couldn't guess what Emperor Chongzhen meant, and was a little stunned for a while.

But I heard Xu Guangqi whisper in his ear: "Lord Ji, this is Shang Fang's sword, you still don't kneel to take it?" ”

Wow! This is Shang Fang's sword! Legend has it that Shang Fang's sword can behead the faint king and the traitorous minister, of course, a bit exaggerated!

Ji Qingwen was excited in his heart, and quickly knelt down, holding the sword in both hands.

Chongzhen nodded, and said: "You are my henchman, after leaving the palace, you must use more pen to report the situation of the war outside the capital, the suffering of the people, and the movements of the enemy army from time to time, and let the Jinyi guard surnamed Li next to you send directly to the Qianqing Palace." I can't let this bad-hearted official be blinded. ”

Ji Qingwen listened, hurriedly knocked on the leader's decree, and then withdrew from the palace.

After the civil and military officials left the Qianqing Palace, they all breathed a sigh of relief, but they did not leave immediately, but took a pair of eyes to look up and down at this Ji Qingwen's five-grade weaving.

Ji Qingwen was uncomfortable by them, smiled awkwardly on his face, said hello again, and went to find Li Yuanyin, who came into the palace with him.

Li Yuanyin knelt for a long time, no matter how strong his body was, he couldn't stand it anymore, and he barely stood firm under Ji Qingwen's support, but his feet were still a little numb, and he couldn't walk around immediately, so he only moved his muscles and bones in place.

At this moment, he saw Xu Guangqi striding over, and said softly to Ji Qingwen with a smile: "Lord Ji, at today's meeting of the Qianqing Palace, we were all scolded by the saint for being bloody, but you won the lottery." What a joy! ”

Ji Qingwen stretched out his hand and stroked the sword entwined with golden wire, and said with emotion: "I heard that Shang Fang's sword beheaded the unconscious monarch and beheaded the minister. Naturally, the slashing is just talking, but I don't know how to behead him...... The emperor really gave me a big problem......"

Xu Guangqi also said: "This is not an ordinary Shang Fang sword, didn't Lord Ji see that the emperor took it from his own palace?" This is the sword of the Son of Heaven used by the saint himself, and there is no record in the history books and classics that the rest of the people except the emperor should use it. Alas! This is a special opportunity, adults should be cautious! ”

Ji Qingwen was just about to answer, when a eunuch flashed on the side, and said with a smile on his face: "Have the adults forgotten the way out of the palace?" Do you want to be guided by the miscellaneous family? ”

Ji Qingwen saw that Li Yuanyin was already able to walk, so he nodded, took out a silver ticket of twenty taels from his sleeve, handed it to the eunuch, and asked him to lead the way, leading himself, Xu Guangqi, and Li Yuanyin to the outside of the palace.

The Forbidden City is very big, and it is late at night, if there is no eunuch who is familiar with the roads in the palace to lead the way, it is really easy to lose your way.

After walking a few steps, Xu Guangqi saw that there was no one around, so he said to Ji Qingwen again: "Lord Ji, the emperor's sword of the Son of Heaven is important, but the power of military affairs that the emperor gave you just now is even more powerful. From now on, all important military and political matters outside the city, Lord Ji can be directly sacred, and he no longer has to look at other people's faces. How much trust does the emperor have in Lord Ji? ”

Xu Guangqi said happily, but Ji Qingwen was not excited at all - the trust of feudal emperors, especially the impatient and narrow-minded Chongzhen Emperor, may not necessarily be reliable - the so-called companion is like a tiger.

However, this is the Forbidden City, and these words cannot be said here.

So Ji Qingwen could only say: "I am a lowly and light-handed power, and suddenly I have such a great power, it is hard to guarantee that those elders will not have any ideas...... The emperor did this, although he trusted me, but he also put me on the fire to roast ......"

Xu Guangqi said with a smile: "It is very rare for Lord Ji to have such an idea among the younger generation of officials. Speaking of ideas, let alone other adults, even Xu and I are a little jealous. But it doesn't matter, if it weren't for the adults who came out and said a few words, we would have been dismissed by the emperor now. Anyway, we all owe Lord Ji a great favor, and if there is any dissatisfaction in our hearts, we can only keep it in our stomachs now. ”

As they spoke, several people had already walked out of the Forbidden City.

saw Li Yan and Huang Degong sitting in a wonton stall on the side of the road eating and chatting, and when they saw Ji Qingwen coming up, they immediately got up to greet them, and greeted Xu Guangqi again.

Li Yan was still well-informed, and when he saw Ji Qingwen coming up with a sword, he grinned and said: "Lord Ji entered the palace and left the palace, and there was no less of one thing, but he got the emperor out of the sword of Shangfang." It seems that no one will dare to look down on you anymore. ”

Xu Guangqi reminded on the side: "This is not an ordinary Shang Fang sword, it is the emperor's own sword of the Son of Heaven, which has been given to Lord Ji......"

When Li Yan heard this, he immediately admired the sword of the Son of Heaven in Ji Qingwen's hand.

At this moment, Xu Guangqi gently patted Ji Qingwen's shoulder, and then snorted at the side of the road.

Ji Qingwen looked in the direction of his eyes, but saw that Li Yuanyin had walked to the corner of the street and was whispering to the same person-and looking at the person's official uniform and appearance, it was none other than Li Yuanyin's top boss, the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

Seeing this, Ji Qingwen suddenly felt a dark cloud in his heart - what was Luo Yangxing talking about with Li Yuanyin? Is it to explain the internal affairs of Jinyiwei, or does the emperor have any need to hide his words and convey them to Li Yuanyin alone? Or is it both?

However, the current situation is complicated and ever-changing, and there are more urgent matters, waiting for Ji Qingwen to deal with it, he didn't have time to think about other things, and spent the night in Xu Guangqi's mansion in the capital, and then went out.

As soon as he left the city gate, he saw Xiao Duozi waiting under the city gate, and sent a message to Ji Qingwen, saying that Chen Wenzhao had led the army back from Dagukou, and had taken grain, grass and chariots from Zheng Zhilong, and was stationed outside the city gate.

Ji Qingwen didn't have time to ask more, so he led his cronies, and under the guidance of Xiao Duozi, came to the temporary camp outside the city.

However, although this military camp was temporary, it was built in an orderly and strict manner by Chen Wenzhao's camp.

Ji Qingwen originally wanted to take his subordinate regiments to train into Beijing to rest, which showed that they were in high spirits and high morale, and there was really no need to enter Beijing, so he ordered the whole army to assemble and sent scouts to the east to reconnoiter and visit the movements of Yuan Chonghuan, who was ordered to enter the pass and rush to help.

Not long after, the scouts had already heard information that Yuan Chonghuan himself was leading a large army to Beijing.

Ji Qingwen did not dare to delay, and immediately led his five hundred regiments to practice and chariots and horses, and made peace with Yuan Chonghuan.

Yuan Chonghuan and Ji Qingwen worshiped under the old superintendent Sun Chengzong, and the two naturally knew each other.

However, this Yuan Chonghuan has always been arrogant, and only thought that the Guanning Iron Cavalry under him was the strongest army in the world, and the rest of the Ming army was just a rabble, and he was unwilling to let Ji Qingwen act with him at first.

But Yuan Chonghuan saw that although Ji Qingwen's department only had 500 people, he used Qi Jiguang's soldiers to rule the army, and the military discipline was strict, the military orders were strict, and the military law was strict at all, and he carried horses, vehicles and supplies with the army without taking up his own food and salary, and saw that Ji Qingwen had Shang Fang's sword on him, so he reluctantly agreed to let him act with the army.

Because Yuan Chonghuan was ordered to enter the customs, although he was in military affairs, he also had to enter Beijing to pay the decree to face the saint.

Therefore, he ordered his sergeants to rest outside the city for a while, and he brought a few cronies and military generals, first like the capital, and after saying a few words to the emperor, he went out of the city again.

When he returned, Wang Qia, the secretary of the military department, was already waiting outside the city.

Wang Shangshu also obeyed the holy decree, and selected a total of 10,000 elites from the divisions of King Qin from all over the country overnight, and handed them over to Yuan Chonghuan for command.

Yuan Chonghuan's eyes were long on his forehead, and he looked down on these rabble, but because of the emperor's holy decree, and for the sake of the grain and grass brought by Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, he sent people to select among the ten thousand men and horses, and only selected three thousand soldiers and horses, although they acted with him.

So more than 20,000 people, under the leadership of Yuan Chonghuan, the dignified prince Taibao and the secretary of the Jiliao Governor's Division, bypassed the Beijing Division from the north and marched all the way west to Zunhua City and Xifengkou.