Regardless of whether it is the so-called forced palace petition or not, now the Chongzhen Emperor has made up his mind, that is, you do yours, I will do mine.

After silently thinking for a while, Emperor Chongzhen sent Gong Yonggu, the commander of Jinyiwei, and Gao Wencai, the commander of Tiancewei.

On the way here, the two of them had already received the news that hundreds of officials had gathered to petition at Duanmen, and they were both nervous and flustered at this time.

In contrast, Emperor Chongzhen, who had never experienced such a thing, was much calmer.

Emperor Chongzhen ordered the Jinyi Guard, Tiance Guard and Yulin Guards to cooperate with each other, close the end door and the noon gate, and the emperor must not let one person enter the palace from the end gate and the noon gate.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen also told Gong Yonggu, Li Ruolian, and Gao Wencai, and the officials gathered outside the gate that if there were any books and chapters that could be collected and sent in, as long as they did not go out of line or deviate from the norms, they could ignore them.

The three guards on duty were not allowed to make intimidation, nor were they allowed to drive away the officials who gathered at Duanmen by force.

Now the Chongzhen Emperor knows very well that those who applaud and applaud the arrogance when they hear that the emperor is going to drive the imperial expedition are not necessarily well-intentioned, and those who speak out against it and try their best to stop it are not all pedantic scholars.

The operation of the government of the Ming Dynasty naturally has a set of rules of the Ming Dynasty.

If in the face of such a major event as the emperor's imperial conquest, there was not a single civil official who spoke out against it, then it was not the style of the civil official of the Ming Dynasty today.

It's just that now this Emperor Chongzhen has his own ideals, revenge and plans, and these ideals, ambitions and plans are not all acceptable to the current civil officials who petition them, so he has to turn a deaf ear to them.

At midnight, in the ministries, courtyards, six departments, prefectures, temples and other large and small yamen in the Jingshi City, the officials of all sizes who had not been able to participate in the special court meeting of the Jianji Hall before, except for the participants of the court meeting of the Jianji Hall in the first day, almost all of the rest came to the square outside the Duanmen to gather willingly.

They had only one demand, that is, to ask the emperor to re-issue an order to retract the order, and select another merit to go to Juyong Pass to defend against the enemy.

To put it simply, it is to tell the emperor not to drive the expedition in person.

These officials who participated in the Duanmen were unwilling to speak, but just knelt in rows outside the Duanmen according to the size of their official positions.

In front of everyone, there is a piece of their own letter asking for resignation.

Because there was no participation of the officials of their respective departments or higher-level officials, and because of the lack of the voices of the backbone of the Donglin Party who were good at organizing and agitating in the past, the officials who gathered and petitioned clearly belonged to a rabble.

Under the dense muzzles and bayonets around the end gate, no one dared to ram the closed end gate, nor did they dare to make a loud noise, disturbing the silence in the Forbidden City.

In this way, six or seven hundred Beijing officials who had been qualified to participate in the New Year's Day court meeting in the Imperial Palace of the Forbidden City knelt in a daze on the square outside the Duanmen and blew the cold wind from morning to night.

During this period, Jin Yiwei commanded Gong Yonggu to take away the music in front of everyone, and then there was no follow-up.

Emperor Chongzhen never showed up.

There was neither a decree nor a single message, as if these hundreds of people outside the gate did not exist.

And the queen Zhou, who was in the deep palace and far away from Duanmen, was even more ignorant of everything that was happening outside Duanmen at this moment.

At the same time when most of the officials in the Beijing Division gathered outside Duanmen to ask for a resignation, Emperor Chongzhen did not delay the important matter that should be done at all.

Emperor Chongzhen summoned Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, Zhang Weixian, the British minister of military aircraft, Gong Yonggu, the commander of Jinyiwei, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Liu Wenbing, the commander of the Shenji Battalion and the commander of the soldiers and horses of the five cities, and several governors of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, summoned the Qianqing Palace from the side gate of the Forbidden City, and invited the queen to be present in person.

Emperor Chongzhen asked the cabinet chief assistant Li Guowei and the British public Zhang Weixian to lead the crowd to pay homage to the Empress Zhou with a big gift, and explained the affairs of staying in Beijing, and he himself left the Forbidden City from Donghua Gate in the afternoon of the same day, lightly and quietly, with the cabinet minister Xu Guangqi, the eunuch Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, and Wang Guoxing, the envoy of Jinyi Weibei Town, and other entourage.

In addition to these senior officials, there were many people who accompanied the emperor this time, such as Bi Ziyan, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Sun Yuanhua, the right attendant of the Ministry of War and the director of the Military Arsenal, as well as the military aircraft department, the military attache of the imperial attendant, and the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town.

As for the willing officials gathered outside the gate, Emperor Chongzhen's method of answering them was the same as that of Emperor Zhengde back then, that is, you can have many people, but it's a big deal for me to leave.

After all, the emperor's will to drive the imperial expedition was agreed upon at the great court meeting of the Jianji Palace, and it has been issued, so there is no need to change it.

Speaking of the actions of those officials who gathered in Duanmen, Yu Gong was of course for the good of the emperor and the Ming Dynasty, and he was morally impeccable.

But for selfishness, that's hard to say.

Some people are brushing up on their prestige, some people want to rely on the law not to blame the people to control the situation, and some are using the so-called morality to kidnap the laws of the Ming Dynasty and even the will of the emperor.

It may be a bit too big to say that the civilian clique is in close contact with the imperial power.

After all, the source of the power of these civil bureaucratic groups, in such an era, actually also comes from the imperial power.

But if you don't care at all, laugh it off completely, and let it go, it's impossible.

In an imperial era when the emperor was constitutional, it was intolerable to express demands in the form of officials gathering and pressuring the palace to petition for the overturning of a resolution that had already been made through due process, no matter how sympathetic and understandable the reasons behind it.

Once such an opening is opened, I really don't know where the future situation will go.

But if this opening is completely blocked, this is not what Emperor Chongzhen is happy to see now.

Now that the East has not been settled, the thieves have not been destroyed, and there are still many important things to do, he naturally wants to concentrate all the autocratic imperial power in his own hands, and the more concentrated the better.

But when everything is done in the future, it will be gradually released.

At that time, the matter in front of you, if you make good use of it, it may be the germ of future progress.

Therefore, he did not want to beat these people to death with a stick.

In the evening of the same day, Emperor Chongzhen, who quietly left the Forbidden City, took a group of escorts, and arrived smoothly at the first town camp of the Guards in Luhewan, Tongzhou, under the escort of the Tiance Guards.

Although Emperor Chongzhen had left the palace and left Beijing, the courtiers and local officials in and near the capital still wrote to the imperial court one after another, writing to the emperor, begging the emperor not to leave Beijing easily to conquer in person.

And gave various examples, again and again with the defeat of Emperor Yingzong's Tumu Fort, and the example of Emperor Zhengde's personal expedition to the rebellion of Zhu Chenhao, the king of Qianning, who fell into the water and finally died, in order to persuade Emperor Chongzhen to give up the terrible idea of personally conquering the enemy.

But at this moment, Emperor Chongzhen never cared about their attitudes and opinions, but the views of the vast number of soldiers in the first town of the Guards where he was at this time.

The soldiers of the Guards, who had never unsheathed their swords but never tried their blades, could not contain their excitement about following the emperor on his own expedition!

And those officials of the Jingshi Dynasty who gathered outside Duanmen for a day of cold wind, therefore, when they gathered outside Duanmen again the next day to continue to petition, they got the accurate news released by the cabinet that Emperor Chongzhen had gone to the army in person!

Those young imperial historians, six branch officials, and Hanlin who had not been qualified and had the opportunity to participate in the decision-making of the Jianji Palace Dynasty before, after hearing the news that the emperor insisted on going his own way despite criticism, they quickly put the exuberance and even excess energy that had been held in their chests for a long time into the cause of criticizing and educating the emperor on how to be a prince of Yao Shun.

Some people not only wrote against the emperor's personal conquest, but also pointed the finger at the cabinet ministers and the bigwigs of the DPRK and China who had done nothing on this matter, criticizing and educating these cabinet ministers and senior officials of the six ministries on how to be good cabinet ministers and scholars.

However, after these objections from various ministries, temples and local officials in the Jingshi court were sent to the emperor in turn, Emperor Chongzhen completely copied the response of Emperor Zhengde back then, that is, he ignored them all.

What you say yours, I am my own.

On the first day of the first day of November, that is, on the first day of the first winter month of the second year of Chongzhen, in the criticism of the courtiers of Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen braved the cold wind and once again reviewed the whole army in the first town camp of the Luhewan Guards in Tongzhou.

After the school review, he immediately swore to go out, temporarily leaving all the troubles above the Beijing Dynasty behind.