To say that Chongzhen's resentment towards Pang Gang is really deep, your kid was originally just a small hundred households, Lao Tzu promoted you all the way to the champion Hou, you are not satisfied, you actually set yourself up as the king, you don't look at it, can the prince be a person like you?

Our Ming Dynasty has never had a king with a different surname, and the credit of the founding general Xu Da is big enough, right? It's just a national prince, Mu Ying's credit is big enough, and she can only go to Yunnan to eat bamboo tube rice for her obediently, and listen to those Miao girls sing mountain songs, you just beat the Tartar for two days and cocked your tail to the sky, are you like words!

Although I can't wait to cut Pang Gang into eighteen sections, Chongzhen has to face the reality after all, in the past two years, Pang Gang has still been very face-saving to the Ming court, and Cao Yun has always been a green light all the way, never made it difficult, and even formed a tacit understanding with the imperial court.

But for this point, Chongzhen never thought that he had inherited Pang Gang's favor, he always thought that the reason why Pang Gang was unimpeded was because Pang Gang did not dare to force the court to be anxious, and at the same time, he was also worried, and now Yang Sichang put forward the idea of transferring Jiangnan soldiers and horses to Yanjing Qinwang, although Chongzhen's reaction was also very afraid that Pang Gang would cut off the passage of Caoyun and prevent King Qin's army from passing, but Chongzhen immediately thought that what good would it do him to intercept the soldiers and horses in Jingnan, Isn't he afraid that he will retaliate madly against him when he recovers?

Thinking of this, Chongzhen's heart settled, he waved his hand and said: "Don't worry about this, I don't dare to intercept the Jiangnan soldiers and horses of King Qin in the north, if he Pang Gang knows each other, it will be fine, if he doesn't know each other, he will order Hong Chengchou to recover Shandong immediately!" That's it, Yang Aiqing, immediately drafted an order, and ordered Hong Chengchou to lead his troops into King Qin, Beijing! ”

"Yes!"

Seeing that the boss had made up his mind, Yang Sichang, who was a working boy, had nothing to say, so he had to step forward immediately, and the little eunuch on the side had already begun to grind, and after the little eunuch had finished researching the ink, Yang Sichang took out a piece of fine rice paper and began to write it

The yamen hall of the Nanjing garrison mansion "Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and says, the thieves and the country are ruined, ten years are in the city, and the surnames are ruined, and Gyeonggi is shocked." Whoever is my courtier, who does not cut his teeth! Wandering around is disgusted, and there is a turnaround. The culprit is huge, and he carries two of them, or the head is awarded in Guanzhong, or he is successively in Hanbin. Ge, Zuo and other wait-and-see wanderers in Huaidian, and Lao Hui Hui and other Yu Yu are cramped in southern Henan, which are all prisoners to be killed, which is not a big trouble for the imperial court. However, the thief Li Zicheng, although he has been defeated repeatedly, the fierce flame has not been defeated; Running alone, still thinking about it. There is a skill in enveloping, and the dead party is consolidated but not dispersed; Small favors confuse people, and foolish people are willing to be their eyes and ears. If it is not flattened, the disaster in the heart of the country will be stopped! Today, the thief Li Zicheng led hundreds of thousands of rogues from Shaanxi into Gyeonggi, wanting to slaughter the people of my Ming Dynasty, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiangnan, immediately led all the soldiers and horses in Jiangnan into King Qin, and captured the thieves under the city, in order to comfort the heavens and my ancestors and ancestors of the Ming Dynasty. ”

A white-faced and beardless eunuch stood in front of an incense case, reading out the holy decree in a frustrated manner, and beside him stood two expressionless brocade guards, kneeling at Hong Chengchou behind the incense case, and kneeling behind Hong Chengchou was full of civil and military officials.

This white-faced father-in-law is not simple, he is the eunuch Cao Huachun, the head of the ceremonial eunuchs, and Chongzhen sent this second-in-command among the thousands of eunuchs in the palace to come out, which shows how much he attaches importance to this matter.

After Cao Huachun read out the will, he rolled up the holy decree, came to Hong Chengchou's front and helped him up, and said with a smile: "Lord Hong, our family is going to congratulate you, the emperor has finally summoned you back to Beijing, and it is not a problem to add an official to the knight, you have to put the holy decree away first." ”

After speaking, Ma Gonggong handed the bright yellow holy decree to Hong Chengchou.

After Hong Chengchou received the holy decree, he only smiled faintly, "Gonggong Cao has won the award, and the emperor has put a heavy burden on Hong's shoulders, which really makes Hong panic." ”

Cao Huachun smiled all over his face, and his eyes were about to narrow into a slit: "Lord Hong is polite, now the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty who doesn't know that you are the pillar of my Ming Dynasty, the emperor and the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty are all looking forward to you!" ”

"Father-in-law Cao, don't say that, someone Hong can't afford it." Hong Chengchou hurriedly waved his hand, although he was a little conceited, but he was not conceited to the point where he thought he was qualified to pose in front of the Manchu Dynasty and the emperor.

Cao Huachun smiled slyly, "Lord Hong, don't shirk it." Before our family came, the emperor personally explained that our family would enter Beijing with you, and I don't know when you will be able to order the army to enter Beijing with our family. ”

Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly and said: "Gonggong Cao, don't worry, this will came so suddenly, you have to give this official some time to mobilize a large army to raise food and grass, you can't let me have tens of thousands of troops and the northwest wind!" ”

"How long will it take, you have to give our family an accurate word." The more Hong Chengchou shirked, the more Cao Huachun pressed forward step by step.

Hong Chengchou thought for a while before he said: "Half a month, let's set off in half a month!" ”

When Cao Huachun heard this, his face slowly changed, his originally smiling face slowly darkened, and a sharp light shot out of his eyes that narrowed into a slit, and he said resolutely: "No, eight days, our family can only give you eight days, and after eight days, we must go, otherwise"

Cao Huachun didn't go on, but everyone understood the threat contained in it.

Hong Chengchou's face suddenly changed a few times, and finally he reluctantly smiled: "Okay, let's leave in eight days." ”

"That's right, Lord Hong deserves to be a loyal minister of my Ming Dynasty." Hearing that Hong Chengchou promised to leave in eight days, Cao Huachun was like a chameleon, his face was full of smiles, and he smiled and said to Hong Chengchou: "Lord Hong, why don't you introduce the generals behind you for our family?" ”

"Oh, this is a dereliction of duty on the part of Hong, Gonggong Cao, this is the "Ping Thief General" Zuo Liangyu, this is the Jiangsu General Soldier Cao Zhenhua, this is the Zhejiang General Soldier Ma Jin, this is"

As Hong Chengchou introduced them one by one, Cao Huachun also greeted them one by one with a smile, but when his gaze swept over one of them, a trace of imperceptible look flashed in his eyes.

In the evening of the same day, Hong Chengchou held a feast in the garrison mansion, in addition to his personal accompaniment, there were many nobles in the city of Nanjing, including Li Jinzhong, the loyal and brave uncle, Pingyang Hou Cao Shi, and Zhao Abo, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, a large group of people came.

The biggest difference between the political system of the Ming Dynasty and the previous dynasties is that it has two sets of teams, one in Yanjing and one in Nanjing, of course, Nanjing's set belongs to the spare tire, which is basically synonymous with nursing homes, and has been the case for hundreds of years.

"Gonggong Cao, it is rare for you to come to Nanjing, but you must stay here for a few more days, so that this official and all your colleagues and generals can enjoy the friendship of landlords." After toasting Cao Huachun with another glass of wine, Zhao Abel said to Cao Huachun with a smile, but this smile has a flattering taste in everyone's eyes.

Cao Huachun said reservedly: "Lord Zhao said that he laughed, our family is just a slave by the emperor's side, I don't dare to drink your lordships so much effort, our family is now just thinking about leading the army north to relieve the siege of the capital." ”

"That's that, Gonggong Cao is loyal to the country, that's everyone knows." Zhao Yabo's fart slapped the horse's leg, but his face did not seem to have changed at all, and he still kept persuading him to drink with a smiling face.

Zhao Abo's appearance fell into the eyes of everyone, and many people showed contempt in their eyes, but Hong Chengchou was sitting next to Cao Huachun, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, so he found that during the banquet, Cao Gonggong's eyes always swept to the side, intentionally or unintentionally.

After the banquet was dispersed, Hong Chengyi personally sent Cao Huachun back to the garrison mansion to rest, and then came to the study in the northwest corner of the garrison mansion.

This is a very small study, there are not many books in it, but there is a lot of white manuscript paper on the bookcase, which is densely written with upright small letters, a middle-aged man about forty years old, with a big black mole on the corner of his mouth, facing a somewhat gloomy staff is sitting behind the bookcase and burying his head in writing, he is Ding Qun, a staff member who came to Nanjing with Hong Chengchou.

After hearing the sound of the door opening, Ding Qun raised his head and asked with a smile, "My lord, how is the situation today?" ”

Entering the study, Hong Chengchou showed a tired look, and he said lightly: "What else, this Gonggong Cao desperately urged the official to send troops, and he couldn't wait to set off immediately, hum, how can the army travel be child's play, the official has been in Jiangnan for more than a year, and it was not easy to rectify a team of soldiers and horses, and he can't take them all to Yanjing with his words, is it really a fool to be an official?" ”

Ding Qun's brows furrowed, and he asked, "My lord, did you say that you want to leave some troops in Jiangnan?" ”

"Of course!" Hong Chengchou said proudly: "Although the thieves invaded the important land of Gyeonggi this time, although it is claimed to be 300,000, the official estimates that 200,000 can already be the top of the sky, and it is enough for us to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses into Beijing." First, we don't have many ships, and we have to requisition at least hundreds of civilian ships to transport grain, grass, soldiers and horses to Beijing this time, otherwise we will have to wait for 20 years if we want to send us to Beijing with the waste of the Nanjing Navy Division. ”

Ding Qun said with some worry: "My lord, is it a little less for you to bring 20,000 soldiers and horses into Beijing?" You must know that those thieves are not fuel-efficient lamps. ”

Hong Chengyu shook his head: "It can't be more, if there are fewer people, Zuo Liangyu's tail will be cocked again." ”

(To be continued)