Forbidden City, the Imperial Study.

Chongzhen, who had just descended from the court, dragged his tired body and almost moved to the seat. There was silence all around, and the eunuchs and palace maids all knew that he was in a bad mood, and they held their breath one by one, for fear of angering the Son of Heaven.

Compared with those emperors who are known for their cruelty, Chongzhen is lenient towards these "house slaves", but this does not mean that he will not kill fools who can't open their eyes.

Chongzhen's ears were still the buzzing of the ministers in the court when they were foaming at the mouth. He sighed and whispered, "Water." ”

There was a palace maid who served him hot water, and the fragrance of the fine tribute tea could not make him more conscious. He was in a trance, as if he had seen thousands of troops rushing in, which made him feel extremely frightened.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

When he was awakened by the sound of a call, he saw his queen Zhou in front of him.

"Concubine......" he sighed.

"Your Majesty, eat something." Empress Zhou placed a food box in front of him with both hands.

This Queen of Zhou was born in poverty, and her father Zhou Shan used to watch her face at the front door for a living. After she married Chongzhen, whether it was when she believed in the princess or the queen, she never changed her civilian nature. Not only is he not yet luxurious and frugal, but he even works with his own hands: washing and cooking for Chongzhen, and teaching the palace ladies to spin and weave.

Chongzhen also respects her by love, the two are harmonious, and even rarely gave birth to a prince from the queen.

"I'm not hungry." Eyes moved to the food box, thinking that when he first entered the palace as the emperor, because of Wei Zhongxian, the first emperor and queen warned him not to eat the food in the palace, so Zhou, who had been canonized as the queen, personally cooked and cleaned up the food for Chongzhen.

And last year, when I learned that the ancestral tomb of Feng 'Yang was burned by the Liukou, Chongzhen refused to eat meat in anger, in order to show that he shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers of the world, and said that under the gradual thinning, Queen Zhou still took this food box to offer meat, and let Queen Zhou's mother persuade Chongzhen to eat meat by dreaming of the Empress Dowager Xiaochun (Chongzhen's biological mother).

The meaning of this food box is not just a food box.

"Your Majesty is not hungry, but you must eat some for the people of the world." Empress Zhou said: "If Your Majesty doesn't eat, how can you have the energy to govern the country?" ”

"Governing the country, governing the country, the captives have already arrived outside the capital, what country can I govern?"

Perhaps only in front of Empress Zhou could Chongzhen let go of his restraints and complain loudly. Seeing that he was angry, Empress Zhou was silent for a while, and then said slowly: "There is still a family in Wunan. ”

Chongzhen didn't react at first, thinking that it was good how could Queen Zhou say this, so she asked twice, but Queen Zhou didn't answer, and Chongzhen suddenly realized.

This is clearly to persuade him, if the Beijing master can't do anything, he can still move the capital south!

But since the Emperor Yongle of Chengzu, the Son of Heaven guarding the country is the iron law of the Ming Dynasty, and the capital of the Ming Dynasty has been going through 200 years, so he wants to leave the Beijing Division and go south...... Wouldn't he become Song Gaozong?

He became Song Gaozong, and the Yuan Chonghuan who was killed by him was not Yue Fei?

Thinking of Yuan Chonghuan, who had spoken loudly about the five years of Pingliao, Chongzhen thought of Liang Tingdong, the governor of Xuanda, who tried his best to advocate killing Yuan Chonghuan after Houjin entered the customs.

"Your Majesty, let's eat first." Empress Zhou persuaded again.

Chongzhen couldn't resist her, but when he opened the food box, he saw the figure outside shaking, and after a closer look, it was Cao Huachun's slightly obese body. He immediately closed the food box and smiled apologetically at Empress Zhou: "Queen, let it go first, I have something to say to Cao Companion." ”

Cao Huachun came in, first saluted the emperor and queen, and then replied: "The emperor only cares about eating, and the slave and maid are talking about it here." ”

Queen Zhou pushed the food box in front of Chongzhen again, Chongzhen thought that Gao Yingxiang, the thief he was most troubled before, was captured by Yu Guozhen, maybe this time, he could still bring good news to himself, so he no longer refused, took the silver chip, and began to eat.

Cao Huachun told Chongzhen about Yu Guozhen's response one by one, and sure enough, when Chongzhen heard Yu Guozhen's strategy of "closing the door and beating the dog", he shook his head again and again, and said with a wry smile: "This Yu Guozhen, really like a brocade guard, is arrogant and arrogant, if the soldiers and generals of the DPRK and China are not afraid of death or things like him, I don't need him." ”

When he heard Yu Guozhen discussing the firearms of the National Dynasty, Chongzhen remembered the urgent report he had just received, and Dongyu used artillery to bombard the Changping City Tower, and he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart: "Kong Rebellion, Geng Rebellion, Shang Rebellion, these three thieves, these three thieves ......."

Seeing that he was so angry, Cao Huachun hurriedly went down, and when it came to Yu Guozhen's going to be a middleman to sell firearms, Chongzhen couldn't help but turn his anger into laughter: "This Yu Jimin, I really only know how to ask Tian Wenshe to drill money......

He didn't have too much blame in his words, but felt a little relieved, if Yu Guozhen was completely desireless, he didn't know how to deal with it. As for wanting to make some money...... Although the treasury of the Ming Dynasty is tight, the money for the purchase of firearms always has to be allocated every year, according to Yu Guozhen's meaning, the purchase of the firearms he sells is cheaper than the Ming Dynasty's own manufacturing, and it may save a sum of money for the treasury!

Listening to Cao Huachun's analysis, Chongzhen couldn't help but eat a few more bites of food, and Queen Zhou next to her also smiled when she saw it. Cao Huachun also said that Yu Guozhen had received the order and was ready to go out of the city to fight with the Dongyu guerrillas, Chongzhen nodded again and again: "I know that when he was in Chu'zhou, he used this tactic to capture Gao Yingxiang, but when he was in Chu'zhou, in addition to his own hundreds of Ding, he still had Fang Qing's hundreds of Ding's families to help, as well as two or three thousand war horses from Nan'jing Taifu Temple...... Now he only has more than 100 people with him, how can it be enough? ”

"If Yu Jimin knows that His Majesty cares so much, he will be grateful to Dai De for His Majesty's Zhao Zilong!" Cao Huachun slapped a sycophant, and then began to show his merits: "The slave maid thought about it, so he ordered Jinyi Wei to help him, allowed him to act cheaply, and the following officers and soldiers and generals could be ordered by him, and he allocated 2,000 war horses from the Beijing camp to ...... Oh, the slave was bold, and allowed him two hundred sets of armor and blades. ”

"That's right, he has the heart to serve the country, I can't let him fight with the most vicious captives with his bare hands, Cao Banban, you do well, do well, or you take care of me!"

Speaking of this, Chongzhen put down the silver chips, got up and turned: "If the subjects are like Cao Banban and Yu Jimin, why not worry about the peace in the world...... Alas! ”

He sighed like this because he remembered the princes of the court and the central government, who spoke better than anything else, but they were completely incompetent when they started to do things.

This cannot but be said to be his sorrow, because he simply cannot get rid of the restraint of these court ministers.

However, the news brought by Cao Huachun finally reassured him, and since Yu Guozhen said that it was unlikely that the eastern captives would attack the city, at least the safety of the capital should not be too worried.

But what happened next made Chongzhen begin to doubt whether Yu Guozhen's judgment was correct.

On the 10th day of July in the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Beijing division was at the Xizhi Gate, and the Beijing camp sergeant at the head of the city looked nervously to the west.

At this time, the news of the front has been coaxed to spread, the East is extremely arrogant, send the first surrendered Ming army 2,000 feigned defeat into Changping City, Ming patrol pass Yushi Wang Zhaokun in the plan to put in, July 7, Azig combined 20 solid mountains 60,000 eight banner soldiers to besiege Changping, but also used the artillery carried, the 2,000 surrendered troops to take the opportunity to respond, the general army Chao Pichang led the people to surrender, Changping was lost.

As soon as Changping was lost, the entrance of the Jingshi was opened, and the Dongyu could already reach directly under the city wall!

Even the soldiers who were slack in peacetime did not dare to be careless at this time, and their eyes widened one by one. Therefore, as soon as the flag appeared in the distance, they sounded the alarm.

With the sound of this alarm bell, there was chaos in the Jingshi, although various plans had been made before, but when the real military situation came, nearly half of the people were still confused in their minds.

Suddenly there was a cry in the city, and although it was quickly stopped, it also made countless people panic.

Can this city, which has been operated by the Ming Dynasty for 200 years, be able to hold it?

In the Forbidden City, Chongzhen also wore a rare armor on his body, his face was gloomy, and he stood up: "I want to go up to the enemy tower to watch the strength of the captives, who in the Qingqing is willing to go with me?" ”

"No, never......"

There was a commotion, and Chongzhen sneered.

"I am not afraid of death, so why should I be afraid?" He glanced at everyone with both eyes, and then strode out of the Golden Palace: "If you don't even have the courage to stand at the head of the city and watch, how can I still expect Qing and the others to defeat the enemy for me?" ”

In a corner of the city, Yu Guozhen also heard the alarm bell, he looked at the city wall of the capital, turned around and smiled at his guards: "Let's see today, how much skill the Jurchens have." ”

Most of the guards behind him didn't care, even if there were one or two with more serious expressions, they were not afraid, but only nervous before the big battle. They looked at Yu Guozhen, their eyes full of admiration and trust.

Since the birth of the new Xianghuwei, Yu Guozhen has been leading them, participating in battle after battle, and winning victory after victory. Their opponents, whether they were lake bandits and water thieves or rogue thieves, all knelt down in front of them one by one, and gave their first achievements and surnames to their lives, achieving the invincible prestige and temperament of the new Xianghuwei.

For them, Jurchen Manchuria was just one of many enemies kneeling at their feet.

"The news I got yesterday, I expected that Dongyu would appear from the West Gate, and now it seems that I was right, but the news from Jinyiwei just now came not from the headquarters of the Eight Banners of Dongyu, but Chao Pichang and his army who took refuge in Changping...... As a soldier, I can't sacrifice my life for the country, and I shouldn't be a tiger, so my goal today is to hurt this Han annihilation army. ”

Yu Guozhen's words were not loud, but they carried undoubted strength, and the one hundred and seventy horsemen responded in unison, and the voice of "yes" rang out.

"Now distribute the weapons, and equip them!"

Although Cao Huachun said that he provided Yu Guozhen with armor soldiers, in fact, Yu Guozhen did not look down on the Ming army's armament at all, and he used self-made armor soldiers. Although the Tiger Guard standard cuirass cannot be used in the territory of the Ming Dynasty for the time being, the inlay armor and the Tiger Guard B musket are hidden on the Pillow Xia. After the martial law of Beijing was announced on July 3, Yu Guozhen sent people to smuggle it out of the city with the brocade clothes and guard letter given by Cao Huachun.

"Ready--Attack!"

(To be continued)