As the saying goes, a husband and wife are better than newlyweds.

Emperor Chongzhen met with the concubines in the Kunning Palace, had dinner together, and simply told the concubines living in the deep palace about the situation outside the Yong Pass, and then asked the imperial concubines to go back to their own palaces, and of course they wanted to stay in the Kunning Palace.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen came to Juyong Pass in person, although he was very sure that he could hold Juyong Pass, but after all, he was going to supervise the war, and there were so many civil and military ministers who opposed him to drive the expedition in person, so it was impossible to bring the concubines of the harem or the attendants to accompany him.

In addition to the eunuchs who have always been a little repulsed and disgusted, the daily diet and daily life in Juyong Pass are those imperial attendants and military attachés who were born in martial arts.

Compared to the days in the Forbidden City, it is naturally not comfortable.

Now that he has returned from Juyong Pass, Emperor Chongzhen, who has not been close to women for more than a month, is naturally moved when he sees the plump and mellow Queen Zhou.

After dinner, I talked to the concubines for a while, and the concubines also retired, leaving the emperor and the queen alone in the Kunning Palace.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen said to Empress Zhou: "I have been away from the palace for more than a month, and I have handed over the affairs of the palace and the court to the queen to take care of, and the queen has worked hard!" ”

Hearing this, Queen Zhou's eyes were red, and finally she said slowly: "The emperor is in the cold and the earth, and it is really hard to come to Juyong Pass to defend against the enemy!"

"The concubine is just sitting in the palace, with the head of the court sitting outside, and Wang Chengen inside, compared with the emperor, the hard work is not much.

"Fortunately, these days, there has been nothing wrong in the palace, and today the emperor has returned safely, even if the concubine is laborious and time-consuming, it is all worth it!"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he nodded, looked around, and then said with a smile: "It's not early at this time, I will stay here today and do my duty as a husband!" ”

After the emperor said this, the palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting in the main hall of Kunning Palace naturally hurried to arrange the queen's bedroom.

Emperor Chongzhen said so, how could Empress Zhou not know what he meant.

However, it was also at this time that Empress Zhou looked at Emperor Chongzhen with a smile on the corner of her mouth and said, "There is still good news here in the concubine, and I haven't had time to tell the emperor yet!" ”

Recently, I have heard a lot of good news, and now that I have returned to the palace and heard the queen say this, Emperor Chongzhen opened his eyes wide and looked at the queen: "Oh! That's good! Why don't you tell the queen to hear about it? ”

At this time, I saw a rare brilliance in the eyes of the queen Zhou, and said: "Before the emperor left Beijing, the concubine believed that the water should have arrived but did not arrive. The concubine was afraid of disturbing the emperor's personal expedition, and did not make it clear to the emperor. The concubine sent the medical officer of the Tai Hospital to ask-"

Hearing Empress Zhou say this, Emperor Chongzhen already knew what was going on, and immediately raised his eyebrows, stroked his palms and said, "Good thing!" Meddlesome! Sure enough, it's good news! ”

When Empress Zhou heard the emperor say this, she immediately smiled and said, "The concubine body hasn't finished speaking, how can the emperor know that it is good news?" ”

Having said that, the queen's eyebrows and eyes were full of spring, and her expression and posture showed that the emperor's statement was not wrong at all.

However, in the end, Queen Zhou still said: "The imperial doctor really said that it was a happy pulse!" ”

Immediately afterwards, Empress Zhou smiled meaningfully and said to the emperor: "Count the days, it is not yet three months, just in case, the concubine is in this Kunning Palace, but there will be a period of time when I can't serve the emperor and sleep peacefully!" ”

After saying this, Empress Zhou looked at the emperor with wide-eyed eyes and smiled silently.

Emperor Chongzhen came back to his senses from the good news that the queen said, and still said happily: "The queen has this good news, which should be the first important thing in the harem. And if I have a good wife by my side, how can I not sleep peacefully? ”

That night, Emperor Chongzhen stayed in the Kunning Palace, and Empress Zhou intended to let the emperor go to sleep with the other concubines, but the emperor refused.

By the time Empress Zhou summoned several of the attendants in the Kunning Palace and selected one of them to bring to bed, Emperor Chongzhen had already fallen asleep.

Emperor Chongzhen was already exhausted because of his daily travel, and the conditions in Kunning Palace were naturally better than those in Juyongguan Yongsheng Building.

It was cold outside, but the room was warm like spring, and at this time, family affairs, state affairs, and world affairs were on the right track, so he also put half of his heart at ease, and quickly fell asleep on the comfortable big bed.

In the next few days, Emperor Chongzhen Empress Zhou stayed overnight with Concubine Li, Concubine Jing, and Concubine Lan, showing the feeling of Xiao Biesheng's newlywed to the fullest.

Concubine Li, Concubine Jing, and Concubine Lan learned that the queen was pregnant, and after congratulating the queen together, they all expressed their wishes to the emperor, that is, to be pregnant.

So in this cold winter day, Emperor Chongzhen's harem was full of spring.

At the same time, congratulatory notes from the court of Beijing and the temples and supervisors of various ministries and temples in Nanjing, as well as congratulatory congratulations from the governors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty, were sent one after another from all over the country to the General Political Envoys, and from the General Political Envoys to the Cabinet or the Military Aircraft Department, and then to the emperor's study in the Qianqing Palace.

And the ministers and local governors of the two capitals who wrote to oppose the emperor's personal expedition now seem to have no memory of how they swore to oppose it at the beginning, but only congratulated His Majesty the emperor on the great victory of the expedition.

Among the many congratulatory letters, there was also a letter that was classified and distributed by the General Political Envoy to the Military Aircraft Department.

This is a letter from Guangzhou, jointly presented by Wang Zhichen, the governor of Guangzhou, and Wang Yehao, the governor of Guangdong.

In the recital, the two reported the news of Chen Wanfufa, the leader of the civil rebellion in northern Guangdong, reported the process, and asked the imperial court for advice on the next issue of suppression.

The indigo rebellion that had occurred in northern Guangdong since the end of May reached its peak in early August, and it was not only in northern Guangdong, but also spread to eastern Guangdong, western Fujian, and southern Jiangxi.

In addition to Chen Wan, the big leader who first started an incident in northern Guangdong, one after another leaders of civil rebellion appeared in eastern Guangxi, western Fujian, southern Jiangnan, and even eastern Guangdong.

Zeng Yanluo, Ye Xianpo, Zhang Coarse Scale, and other crooked and heretical figures, three religions and nine streams, also took the opportunity to pull up a team to occupy the mountain as the king, causing a great chaos in the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong, western Fujian, and southern Jiangxi.

Among these people, there was an accomplice Zhong Lingxiu who followed Chen Wan to cause trouble, and he was ordered to pull a group of people to develop in eastern Guangdong, and soon made a lot of moves in the Chaoshan area of eastern Guangdong.

However, Zhong Lingxiu, who went to the Chaoshan area to develop, did not expect that his stirring up trouble in the mountainous areas around Chaoshan in eastern Guangdong would seriously threaten the interests of the Zheng family in Zhangzhou.

In this era, although more than half of the imperial guard armies in northern and eastern Guangdong have been abolished, the Zheng Zhilong brothers are located under the command of the General Military Office of Nanao, Zhangzhou, and have a group of Zheng family troops like wolves.

Moreover, this Zheng family army also has a sea fleet with strong mobility.

So, at the end of August, more than 2,000 people under Zhong Lingxiu's department, who were entrenched in the Raoping area north of Chaozhou Prefecture, were raided by Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhibao when they were besieging Raoping County.

Some of Zhong Lingxiu's rabble were killed, most of them fled, and Zhong Lingxiu himself was captured alive by Zheng Zhibao.

If it weren't for this Zhong Lingxiu's flexible mind and quick surrender, it was very likely that he would be cut down on the spot by Zheng Zhibao, who was thirsty for murder.

In the end, Zheng Zhibao listened to the advice of the military advisers and asked people to write a good report, dedicating Zhong Lingxiu and some of the thief troops who surrendered with Zhong Lingxiu to Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.

Wen Tiren, who was worried that there was no army capable of fighting under his command and had no military exploits, immediately praised Zheng Zhibao in a letter, and ordered him to hand over Zhong Lingxiu and others to the Guangdong army, and at the same time ordered him to suppress the Chen Wan Rebellion in northern Guangdong in the name of the Fujian and Zhejiang armies, together with the Liangguang army.

This is the will that Emperor Chongzhen once issued to the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang and the Governor's Office of Liangguang after the Rebellion in Northern Guangdong.

Now, Wen Tiren has done this to kill two birds with one stone, on the one hand, driving the Zheng family to fight for the imperial court, and on the other hand, it can be regarded as carrying out the emperor's will.

In this way, at the end of September, as the governor of Guangxi, Li Fengjie, led his army from Guiyang back to Guidong, the armies of Liangguang and Fujian formed a situation of encirclement of the rebellious people in northern Guangdong.

And Zhong Lingxiu, who was captured by Zheng Zhibao before, immediately played a unique role after being handed over to Hong Yunsteam, who participated in politics in Guangdong.

Hong Yunsteam, who was in charge of the politics of Guangdong in northern Guangdong, adopted the strategy of "hypothetical pacification and real suppression", and promised Zhong Lingxiu a garrison official and asked him to go to meet Chen Wan, saying that Wang Zhichen, the governor of Liangguang, was willing to recruit Chen Wan and his subordinates, and agreed with Chen Wan to meet in Yangshan in Lianzhou for detailed talks.

Chen Wan himself was originally the head of the guild of Lianzhou to make indigo, and was also a well-known local wealthy family, after the incident, he was unwilling to be a thief, and saw that his former companion Zhong Lingxiu had become a court official, and his heart was shaken, so he agreed to lead the army to Yangshan for a banquet.

On the sixth day of October, Chen Wan came down from the entrenched cottage, took a few leaders, and led more than 1,000 people and horses to Yangshan according to the agreement, and met with Hong Yunzheng to discuss Zhao'an matters.

However, the first Chen Wan entered the temple with several leaders and personal guards, and met with Hong Yunsteam under the introduction of Zhong Lingxiu, who had no idea, and Hong Yunsteam immediately turned his face.

Although there were only more than 300 guards around Hong Yunsteam, all of them were from Zhu Kezhen, a martial artist from Shunde, Guangdong, who recruited and trained the elite after returning to Guangdong after graduating from the lecture hall.

These new troops were all well-equipped, not only were they equipped with standard plate armor forged by the Foshan Iron Smelting Factory according to the specifications of the Armament Institute, but they were also equipped with Chongzhen's flintlock muskets.

The flintlock pistol does not require the obviously suspicious action of igniting the arquebus, only the trigger is pulled.

This first-mover advantage is naturally not something that Chen Wan, who is only equipped with a spear waist knife, can resist.

The result can be imagined, Chen Wan and other Miao Yao bandit leaders were shot and killed on the spot.

Including Zhong Lingxiu, who was high-spirited because he successfully persuaded Chen Wan and other leaders to go down the mountain, he was also shot by Hong Yunxuan and Zhu Kezhen.