Chongzhen was wearing an ordinary green robe and sat in the carriage. Without the crown of dragon robes, ordinary clothes, and a thin face, he is not like an emperor at this moment, but more like an ordinary scholar. It's just that where his eyes are open, the cold light flashing in his eyes still carries endless majesty, showing his identity as an emperor.

Wu Mengming knelt in the carriage, kowtowed respectfully, and then stood up and stood solemnly with his hands down.

"Tell me, what do you think?" Chongzhen stared at Wu Mengming for a while, and suddenly asked.

There was no beginning or end to the question, but Wu Mengming knew what Chongzhen wanted to ask.

"Back to Your Majesty, Lord Chen is young and promising, and he is the mainstay of my Ming Dynasty." Wu Mengming said respectfully.

"But that's my only daughter!" Chongzhen snorted coldly.

"The princess always has to get married, and it is a good thing that she and Lord Chen are in love." Wu Mengming said softly.

Chongzhen was silent with a cold face. He didn't know in his heart that it was a good thing, Chen Yue was the hero of the rescue, and he would have to rely on him more in the future. However, he just wants to marry his daughter to a gentle scholar, not a martial artist who only knows how to fight and kill. And according to the convention, the princess can only marry an ordinary family, and she must prevent the tyranny of the nobles, although the matter has not come to that point, it cannot be ignored.

"The queen is newly mourned, the princess needs to keep filial piety for three years, and things are not in a hurry." Wu Mengming knew what Chongzhen was thinking, and gently persuaded.

Yes, there is no hurry, Chongzhen's face also eased.

Princess Kunxing leaned on the car window, lifted half of the curtains, and talked to Chen Yue excitedly, talking non-stop. She has never been out of Beijing, and now she sees everything fresh.

"This is the Grand Canal, it doesn't seem to be that wide, why are there so few boats in the river, shouldn't it be a thousand sails?" Kun Xing pointed to the canal not far away and said to Chen Yue in disappointment.

"In the past, this canal was full of boats, and there was an endless stream of boats, merchant ships, and official ships. However, at present, the thieves occupy Henan and Shandong, cut off the canal, and the grain in the south cannot pass, and the canal is much deserted. Chen Yue patiently explained.

"Then why don't we take a boat, it's much less labor-intensive to take a boat than to walk." Kun Xing asked puzzled. She's never been on a boat yet, oh, she's been on a boat, just in the Liquid Pool.

"This section of the canal is seriously blocked, and the boats are walking too slowly, besides, where can we find so many boats?" Chen Yue said with a smile.

"Will you take me on a boat from then on?" Kun Xing looked at Chen Yue with anticipation.

"Of course, in the future, I will take you on a big boat, riding the wind and waves in the vast and boundless sea, which is much more refreshing than in this narrow canal." Chen Yue promised with a smile.

"Okay, you can't lie to me!" Princess Kunxing exclaimed excitedly. Chen Yue smiled and nodded.

"My lord, someone is here in Tianjin!" Chen Yan walked up to Chen Yue and said softly.

Chen Yue nodded, said a word to Princess Kunxing, and rode forward to greet her.

On the side of the road, several knights were standing on the side of the road panting, and one of them turned out to be Yuan Kewang!

"Brother Yuan, why are you here? What happened? Chen Yue jumped off the war horse and asked in a deep voice.

"My lord, something has happened in Tianjin!" Yuan Kewang's words made Chen Yue's heart sink.

"What the hell is going on? You speak slowly. Chen Yue asked calmly.

However, in Yuan Kewang's story, Chen Yue's eyes widened wider and wider, and he could no longer stay calm.

A total of 2,000 people remained in Tianjin, including Yang Zhengping's left battalion and the heavy battalion of the Ordnance Division, and Wang Yin, Yuan Kewang and other staff members also stayed in Tianjin, responsible for holding a retreat.

During these days, Yang Zhengping was in charge of the army and also in charge of the coastal defense battalion in Dagu, and Wang Yin came into contact with the merchants of Tianjin Wei, and got a few big ships. Originally, everything was going well, but soon, the news of the thieves' capture of Beijing came over, and at the same time, Chen Yue also sent someone to send back the news, telling Wang Yin that Chongzhen had been rescued, but he was forced to have no choice but to surrender by fraud, and could only wait for the opportunity to escape back.

After getting the news of Chen Yue, Wang Yin and Yang Zhengping's hearts settled down, since Chongzhen had been rescued, it was estimated that they would soon retreat to the south, so everyone began to prepare for evacuation.

A few days later, an envoy from the Dashun court came from Beijing, bringing an edict from the Dashun court, ordering the Ming army in Tianjin to surrender. In addition to Yang Zhengping's Xishan Army Left Battalion, the Ming army in Tianjin also had the Ming army of the local guard, in this case, although the generals of the Ming army of the guard, Cao Youyi and Lou Guangxian, were very moved, but Yang Zhengping did not speak and they did not dare to surrender.

Yang Zhengping and the envoy of Dashun were false and wronged, saying that they only obeyed the orders of Chen Yue, the governor of Tianjin, and Chen Yue asked him to surrender, which led to the fact that Li Zicheng later asked Chen Yue to write a personal letter to persuade him to surrender.

A second group of envoys soon came and brought Chen Yue's handwritten letter, so Yang Zhengping agreed to surrender, but ignored the order of the Dashun court to lead his troops out of Tianjin.

Soon the envoy became impatient, and the original Tianjin soldier Daoyuan Yuzong colluded with the envoy to persuade the Wei commander Cao Youyi, Lou Guangxian and other generals of the guard, and suddenly attacked early this morning, and thousands of guards attacked the Tianjin Acropolis.

There were 2,000 Xishan troops left in Tianjin, but half of them controlled the coastal defense battalion at Dagukou, and the army in the acropolis was less than 1,000 people. As a last resort, he sent several envoys all the way to Dagukou to transfer the coastal defense battalion to quell the rebellion, and all the way to Beijing to report to Chen Yue.

"Right now, General Yang is leading hundreds of people to guard the governor's yamen, and the situation is precarious, so please go to the rescue quickly." Yuan Kewang quickly told Chen Yue what had happened.

Tianjin is the only way to flee south, if it is captured by the guards, it will inevitably bring great trouble to the retreat, plus Yang Zhengping and Wang Yin are trapped in the city and are under siege by the rebels, Chen Yue knows that the situation is already very critical.

"Yu Feng and Liu Neng can break through, you all lead the cavalry of your headquarters to follow me to Tianjin." After thinking about it carefully, Chen Yue decisively ordered that he personally lead 600 cavalry to Tianjin, and the brigade was led by his father Chen Jianghe to continue to advance.

At present, there is still a distance of fifty miles from Tianjin, and the cavalry can reach it in an hour by advancing quickly, so it should be too late.

After instructing his father a few words, Chen Yue took the lead and galloped away with six hundred cavalry.

"What's wrong?" Wu Mengming looked at the back of the cavalry in the distance in horror and asked Chen Jianghe.

Chen Jianghe sighed and told what had happened.

"We're going to have to speed up our march, too." Wu Mengming's expression became serious.

Just fifty or sixty miles away from the rear of the army, a cavalry of three thousand men was galloping rapidly.

ps: Normal update in the future, this month's goal is full attendance!