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In the past two days, I have a sudden eye disease, so let's barely maintain a watch.

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Where Zhu Cihong and the others were, they were looking at Chaoyangmen from afar.

This is close to Zhongcheng, and it is the most densely populated place for noble and wealthy families, so if Duan Baihu does a few moves, the ** of ten is also a target among the squares in Zhongcheng.

In this way, Li Gong stays behind, and he can quickly deal with emergencies, whether it is a few successes or a loss of wind in Lao Duan, he can help solve it as soon as possible.

Then this place is also close to Chaoyangmen, to the top of the city wall, the place is wide and empty, no one is in the way, just can deal with it calmly.

Of course, Zhu Cihong had long planned to come over to take a look at the defense of the capital. He still remembers that before and after Li Zicheng arrived at Juyong Pass, Yanjing was already under martial law, and there were several city gates for Chongzhen to escape, and when the disaster was imminent, Chongzhen was not waiting for death in the palace. Chongzhen and Wang Chengen went to Andingmen again, where they saw soldiers and horses coming from a distance, so they immediately knocked on the bangzi and released arrows, driving Chongzhen and Nei Yingjing away from the army.

Things got to that point, Chongzhen was discouraged and desperate, disbanded the remaining inner monks on Chang'an Street, and returned to the inner court with Wang Chengen, went straight to the coal mountain, wrote a bloody letter, and then hanged himself.

In fact, it was the situation at that time, there was still a chance to escape when going out of the city, Li Zicheng did not have many soldiers and horses, and there were not many cavalry, Chongzhen went out from Chaoyangmen, a "grain gate" that specializes in transporting grain from the north, and went straight to Tianjin, as long as he could get rid of the pursuers, I am afraid that life and death are still between the two.

Of course, such a chance is too slim......

The sky was getting colder and colder, and the north wind kept whistling, making a terrible sound, and everyone's clothes were blown to the ground, and after a while, the slightest bit of heat on their bodies was blown away by the wind.

Following behind a few brocade guards, everyone didn't dare to follow too closely, and most of the people Zhu Cihong didn't dare to bring them, after all, the few in front of them were professionals, and if they moved too much and followed tightly, they might be discovered.

It's just that although it was dark early, the hour was actually early, and the old thief was guarded by a servant, and he walked around in this mid-city square with a lantern, and followed for half an hour, even Zhu Cihong was anxious, and the brocade guard in front of him suddenly stopped...... Obviously, the thieves had already arrived at their destination.

"Where is this, and what big people live here?"

Zhu Cihong is really not familiar with this Yanjing, the name of the fang, the li, the street, some later generations still have names, but the location may not be the same, just take Zhengyangmen as an example, the towering city gate building in the later generations is still another format, it is not the same at all......

However, Wang Yuan, Ren Shang, and Wang Xiao around him are all natives of the capital, and the roads in Fang City can be touched with their eyes closed, so ask them.

"Back to Master, this is the Merit Workshop...... I think there are some big people in the ...... Oh, it seems to be the first assistant Chen Xiangguo, which is near here. ”

"He?"

"My mother, I really can't imagine that Chen Ge Lao actually colluded with the thief!"

"God-damn old horseman, it's really unconscionable."

Several military attachés were talking in a low voice, and Zhu Cihong's eyes were also flashing...... The thieves are really awesome!

I don't know who gave them the idea, and I don't know how to pull the thread and build the head, so I swaggered into the Jingshi, not to mention, I actually mixed into the family of the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty!

The Ming Dynasty has long been a civil politics, and the struggle between the imperial power has been until now, Chongzhen is a much stronger emperor than Wanli and Tianqi, after all, is it "resolute", but even if it is Chongzhen, there is no way to do some conventional things, he can kill people, but he can't break the game.

In the case of the cabinet system, it can only be the product of internal struggles and compromises among civil officials, not an appendage of imperial power. Chongzhen has intervened in the cabinet, such as Qian Qianyi and Huang Daozhou, but more often, he can only pinch his nose and accept it, or be swayed by the cabinet ministers without knowing it.

After all, the emperor is hereditary, and the person who can reach the cabinet and serve as the chief assistant is the first person among the tens of millions of people in this country, and among the hundreds of thousands of scholars and tens of thousands of bureaucrats.

How high IQ does it take, how strong luck it is, and how much body can survive to get to the position of Shousuke......

So at this moment, although the military attaches around him were shocked and didn't know what to say, Zhu Cihong didn't have any anger and surprise, but he really wanted to know in what capacity the old man who broke into the camp entered the Chen Mansion, and what did he say to Chen Yan, a scholar......

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I don't know if the Jinyi guard's kung fu is particularly good, or the news of breaking into the camp is better day by day, and the people in Beijing feel that the change of dynasty is about to happen, and down to the people, up to the civil and military officials, and the relatives and relatives, no one seems to have any strong confidence in the Ming Dynasty.

Under the influence of this emotion, tonight, wearing a cocoon silk cotton robe, wearing a warm hat decorated with high-quality jade, and holding a folding fan in his hand, Lao Wang was in a particularly happy mood, and the biting cold wind tonight did not affect his good mood...... As for coming along the street, there were not a few people at all, coupled with strong self-confidence, except for Huimei, who was disguised as a man, and looked behind her when she was fine, Lao Wang and another man who broke into the camp did not look back at all.

It's a joke, it's this time, who dares to care about them?

Moreover, the family they are visiting now is not a "Shilang Mansion" or a "Shangshu Mansion", but an out-and-out first minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the family of Chen Yanchen, the first assistant of the cabinet...... Such a person, it is said that Shuntianfu or Jingying, or the factory guard, who in the entire Yanjing City dares to stalk and arrest people here?

Moreover, Chen Ge Lao has already seen Luo Yang's surname, and told Jinyiwei that he must not ask about other cases, and all the manpower will be investigated and dealt with in the serious case of pretending to break into the camp and torture the camp, Jinyiwei's original strength is very weak, and then transfer the manpower, Lao Wang and his gang will be as stable as Mount Tai!

"I'll go in later, you two will wait outside, don't talk nonsense!"

After casting a famous assassination post and waiting for the summons, although it was not the first time to come back, Lao Wang still felt a little nervous. After all, this is also "Xiangye", Lao Wang is from the border army of the Qin Army, more than ten years ago, when he saw a nine-grade inspection, he had to kneel down and call the master, these big officials in Yanjing are the same as the people in the sky, and now although he has been a thief for more than ten years, he has eaten the meat of the vassal king, but decades of accumulated habits can not be changed at once, and he still can't help but be nervous when he thinks of meeting Xiangye Ge Lao in person.

"Hmph, it's just a bigger dog, what does it matter."

Huimei is really still these words, she is a native of Xinyang Mansion, Henan, she has suffered natural disasters, and the government has not stopped urging the department, her father and brother were arrested by the county order, and when she was wearing a flail in front of the county yamen during the dog days, she knelt in front of the county yamen, and after a few days, people shed their skin and were sunburned to death. The mother threw herself into the river, the sister-in-law remarried, and the original family was harmonious and healthy, but in the blink of an eye, it was a different path for people and ghosts.

This girl is also a martyr's surname, just when the army arrived, she joined the Red Lady's healthy women's camp, and when she broke the county seat, the first one pierced the chest of the county order with a sword......

This time, Xiao Liuying transferred manpower and borrowed people from the healthy women's camp, Huimei practiced hard for several years, and her kung fu was strong, so she was selected and sent over.

Everything is fine, but the hatred of the official and the government is too strong, and if you are not careful, you will run wild, which will make Lao Wang have a headache.

Originally, I was still thinking of a pretty little girl, but now I know that this master is full of thorns, and he will be pierced if he pays attention, not to mention that he is not careful......

"Okay, don't make trouble anyway, it's important to have a big deal."

Lao Wang pressed with business, and the people in the army paid attention to discipline, so Huimei pursed her lips and kept silent, and followed Lao Wang honestly with another man, waiting to be summoned.

After a while, a housekeeper ran out with his hat in his hand, looked Lao Wang up and down for a while, and then nodded with a smile and said, "Mr. Wang, it's really strange, there are more than a dozen guests waiting outside, and the prime minister called me to take you in, this will see, I don't see anything surprising!" ”

"What's so strange is there, it's just to help people carry letters, I'm afraid that Xiangye is in a hurry to read the letters......"

Lao Wang knew the rules of these eunuchs in Beijing very well, stepped forward and stuffed a silver ingot in this person's sleeve.

"Sir is so polite...... Please, please! The other party weighed the weight, the smile on his face warmed up a little, while greeting, he quickly led, this Chen Mansion is very large, enter from the side door, enter the yard and enter the yard, not this housekeeper to lead the way, I am afraid that I will not be able to touch the place for a while.

It's just that the lights are bright all the way, and it is completely different from the dark scene outside, and when I arrived at Chen Yan's residence, I was really sitting or standing in the big flower hall outside, and more than a dozen officials dressed in green and green were waiting for Chen Yan to be summoned in the flower hall.

"There are few people tonight, and it's too cold." Looking at the situation in the hall, the housekeeper who led the way just smiled and urged Lao Wang: "It's here...... Sir, hurry up. ”

It was the first time that Lao Wang felt the majesty of this kind of power, coupled with the lofty regulation and elegant style, which was not as good as the mansions of relatives and wealthy merchants, the former was like an ancient temple, and the latter was too gorgeous and not a little extravagant.

Only this kind of mansion of the old cabinet of the minister, every grass and tree is extremely thoughtful, that is, the people in the house, and they are also a gentleman, very elegant.

Strange Taoists all say that the scholar is in the prime minister's office, even if the Wenqu star is down to earth, as for the Hanlin and the elder of the pavilion, I'm afraid it's really Xingjun who is alive?

With this kind of uneasy psychology, Lao Wang entered the inner study all the way, and as soon as the door opened, sure enough, an old man with a good bearing sat in the official hat chair in front of the desk, but he saw that his beard and hair were all white, his expression was like that, and he was in a square scarf robe.

"Stand down." The old man in the Taoist robe was the first assistant Chen Yan, looked at his family's subordinates, and commanded casually.

"Yes!"

The housekeeper retreated, and slowly closed the door, knowing the rules very well.

Lao Wang Zheng didn't know how to speak, but he saw Chen Yan slowly stepping forward, his bearing was still very calm, but when he came closer, he suddenly unfolded his robe and knelt down, Lao Wang was like in a dream, but he saw the bearded old man touching his head, and said straight in his mouth: "Your envoy is coming, there is a long way to welcome, the false criminal minister is very frightened, and please ask your envoy to be magnanimous and forgive the criminal minister for his great sins......"