After a while, he saw a prisoner cart being pushed from the end of the long street, Tian Boguang squinted for a while, and there was an old man locked in the prisoner cart, the old man's face was gray, and he looked very embarrassed.

"What's the matter with this old man?" Tian Boguang asked the people around him: "Who is he, and how did he get taken by Jinyiwei?" ”

"Shoufu Zhou Yanru, it is said that the greedy ink was taken, and the court sent someone to raid the house, and I don't know how much silver can be copied out!" The person who was asked sighed twice: "Go to prison, there have been a lot of corrupt officials' heads cut off in recent years, and now even the first assistant has been imprisoned, in our Ming opinion, it is really difficult......

Looking at these brocade guards, Tian Bo shook his head.

Although they were still wearing bright flying fish suits as usual, the spirit of this group of brocade guards was obviously not there. Although the edict of Yanru next week is a major event, there was no need to dispatch so many brocade guards, but the imperial court sent them out, clearly knowing that the hearts of the people in the capital had fluctuated recently, so they came to appease the people.

It's just that it's not serious soldiers who are sent, but these brocade guards, and there are inevitably some bulls who don't have the right mouth. When the people saw Jinyiwei, in addition to being more flustered in their hearts, what would it do!

Zhou Yanru sat in the prisoner car, squinted and looked around, and found that so many people were looking at him numbly, he knew that even the hearts of the people in the capital had been lost.

Before going to court today, he also made a special trip to the city wall, and found that the city wall was guarded by some scoundrels and poor people who had been temporarily recruited, and each person was only paid fifteen yuan a day—this money was barely enough for them to drink porridge in the capital. Zhou Yanru knew that his mission as a pasteur had been completed. If you don't withdraw at this moment, you will lose your old life.

Thinking of his strategy, Zhou Yanru was quite complacent.

But since it is acting, then the play must be enough.

"Holy Lord, Holy Lord, it is not a pity for the old minister to die, but the country is like this. If you are not Nanhai Bo, you can't clean up the mess, and please send an edict to the saint quickly, and invite Nanhai Bole to enter the king of Jingqin! ”

He shouted in a desolate voice in the prison car. It's just that this voice is absolutely impossible to reach the Forbidden City, at most it only reaches the ears of the people. But the people who were originally cursing him in their hearts for being a corrupt official immediately understood after hearing this. Zhou Yanru was sent to prison, not because of greed for ink, but because of the advice to invite Nanhai Bo to enter Beijing to preside over the military strategy!

The people of the capital know politics best, and many people remember the rumor: the imperial court is suspicious of Nanhaibo and is not allowed to go north.

Some people even whispered: "Yes, at this time, if you don't invite Nanhai Bolai, who else can clean up the situation?" ”

"You don't know, Nanhai Bo has already raised troops in the east of the mountain. Because the imperial court did not allow his old man to go north, he could only let the world-famous tiger guard rescue in the east of the mountain, the Yellow River broke the embankment, if it wasn't for Nanhai Bo to save people there, I don't know how many people would die! ”

"How is Shi Kefa. I heard that he has raised troops to Jianghuai and will soon enter King Qin, maybe he can clean up the situation? ”

"He? No, no, even Sun Chuanting can only shrink out, what's the use of Shi Kefa! ”

"Elder Zhou Ge actually went to prison for this matter. Is there no one in the court who complains about the old man of Zhou Ge? ”

"Shhh

In the midst of everyone's discussions, the prisoner car passed in front of Tian Boguang and his party. Tian Boguang touched his chin, his heart was full of puzzlement, the relationship between Zhou Yanru and Xinxiang was not so good that he could brave the anger of the Son of Heaven and even go to prison to speak for Xinxiang, what was his intention in playing this play?

No matter what the intention is, for Tian Boguang, as long as it does not affect his plans in Beijing.

The prisoner cart was pushed away, and the people of the capital who were still in the mood were still talking, but at this moment, there was another rapid sound of horses' hooves, and then a filthy man came on horseback.

"What's going on again?" Someone asked.

"Who knows, I'm not surprised by what's going on lately."

Tian Boguang shook his head, this capital is like the current weather, shrouded in endless haze, which makes people's hearts not collapse at all.

He led everyone to continue forward, the destination was the palace, if he really wanted to rob Chongzhen, it would be impossible not to find out the path around the palace. But they had only advanced more than half a mile before they heard a tsunami-like cry from a mountain.

I don't know where the people poured out, and they were all clamoring for a word: "Defeated!" ”

"What defeated?" Tian Boguang asked in surprise.

"Gao Qi has failed, and Gao Qi has won Li Chuang's plan in Baoding!" The people who were being held back cried out, and the people disappeared.

At this moment, in the Forbidden City, a continuous bell rang, it was Chongzhen recruiting civil and military officials. The people pouring out of the street disappeared almost instantly, Tian Boguang and several of them stood in the middle of the street, watching this scene, and for a while, they couldn't help but sigh.

In addition to the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, there are more than 10,000 elites preserved by Sun Chuanting, a total of more than 50,000 people. The only way is to transfer the general soldier Tang Tong and the eunuch Du Xun of the Xuanda Eunuch Army back from Juyong Pass in the west, hoping that they still have the power to protect the capital in their hands.

Tian Boguang sighed, and the haze in the sky seemed to be closer to the ground.

"It is estimated that the street will be banned soon, so let's go to Grandpa Fan's residence and ask someone to contact him, so that it is convenient for us to act." He didn't feel too much emotion, as a young man from the tiger guard rescued by Yu Guozhen from the hungry people in the east of the mountain, their feelings for Daming were not deep, but they were standing in the tide of history, which made people sigh.

Although Fan Xian has not been very proud in recent years, because he has to rely on him to contact Xinxiang, no one in his mansion dares to harass him. After Tian Boguang and his entourage entered, it wasn't until night was about to fall that Fan Xian appeared in front of him with a sad face.

"General Tian, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Seeing Tian Boguang, he immediately bowed, his attitude was unprecedentedly humble, looking at his appearance, Tian Boguang could judge that the situation was extremely unoptimistic.

"I heard the Jingyang bell ringing, and the Son of Heaven summoned hundreds of officials to discuss matters. What was the result? ”

"What else can there be, Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, met with His Majesty alone before, and implored Xuannan Haibo to enter King Qin, but His Majesty not only did not allow it, but also because Zhou Yanru's words were fierce, he was thrown into prison, and the rest of the hundred officials. Which one dares to speak out? ”

"And then? That's it? ”

His Majesty reiterated the preface, asking all officials and relatives to donate money to recruit soldiers, but Zhou Kui, the national ruler, only donated one hundred taels. The rest of the people waited for you to be ten taels and I was five taels, and they made up a thousand taels of silver, this group of goods who wanted money to die. The imperial court is almost gone, what's the use of them asking for money! ”

Being scolded to death by a eunuch who was greedy for money and afraid of death for money, the conduct of hundreds of officials in the court can be seen from this, and if there is a large court, a total of 1,000 taels of silver has been collected - it is a tiger guard, and it is not too difficult to come up with 1,000 taels of silver!

"Now the emperor is mad, did he drag a few more people out to cut off their heads?" Huwei listened with relish, and they didn't have much sympathy for Chongzhen.

Instead of sympathizing with Chongzhen, it is better to sympathize with the little princess who donated all the jewelry given by the housemother as military funds. I heard that this little princess admires the lord the most. It's a pity that he is a little younger, otherwise the lord would have one more lady, why not!

"What can the emperor do, now the emperor doesn't dare to cut off people's heads, it's not good. Wouldn't it be a bad thing to wait for Li Chuang to come and secretly open the city gate? The emperor asked how to deal with it, and he lost his temper and said that he would not make any effort, nor wealth, nor plan, so what was the use of raising civil and military officials. So the hundred officials offered advice and advice, and some said that they would summon the general soldier Zhou Tong of Juyongguan. It is said that Guan Ningjun is transferred...... The arguments are endless, and the last resort is to ask the emperor to issue an edict to stop the three salaries in the world, and the emperor is so angry that he can't speak, and in the end he can only do so. ”

"This emperor deserves to be a wreck, what kind of people are around him!"

"Indeed, it's no wonder that officials can't trust those Confucian students, although there are many Confucian students over there, but they have never done anything practical in the position of researchers, and they are all paid to support them. These Confucian scholars, apart from corruption, have only one mouth. ”

"Anyway, it wasn't them who died, it was the people who died, it was the emperor, and if there was an emperor, they would still ride on the heads of the people as a prestige."

The Tiger Guards' argument is not a new one, but a point of view that often appears in the Xinxiang Daily. The reason why Confucian scholars, who usually talk about loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, often bow their knees and surrender in front of the rogues and Jianyu, is that these people have never regarded themselves as the people, they think that they are natural rulers, and they should be a head above the people.

This kind of person, no matter how fanciful the words are, under the Xinxiang system, they don't need it.

Fan Xian couldn't help but nod his head when he heard Hu Wei's discussions, he blushed and said with a thick neck: "That's the case, a bunch of Qingliu Confucian students in the outer dynasty scolded us for being castrated on weekdays, but the money donated was not as much as ours, or Nanhai Bo was far-sighted, and he had long seen that these people were not things!" ”

"How much did you donate?" Tian Boguang said curiously.

"I donated, ahem...... That one...... If you want to take the princess away, you have to hurry, if it's too late, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave. ”

Everyone laughed, this eunuch may donate more than the court officials, but they are essentially the same as the court officials, seeing that the Ming Dynasty is falling and scattered, the court officials can also go to the new court to make a name, anyway, whether Li Chuang or Jianyu sit in the world, they have to appoint these Confucian scholars to govern the world, and they still have the power to hold money and make money. As for the eunuchs, I'm afraid that the new dynasty won't want so much, so I have to accumulate enough silver to take care of my next life.

"We are preparing, but now that the streets in the city are banned, many things cannot be done, Grandpa Fan, can you help us get a pass waist card, so that we can act cheaply in the city?"

"This matter is not difficult, you have to wronged General Tian, and first charge a small banner of Jinyi Wei." Fan Xian hesitated at this time: "I just don't know when General Tian will leave, and the villain is so prepared." ”

"It's all rogues outside, we have to arrange a retreat route, don't worry, I'm staying with you these days, as long as I go, you can leave immediately." Soft or something, pack it up, so as not to be too late to clean it up when you get it! ”

These words made Fan Xian feel at ease a little. (To be continued)