"Lao Li, when you get to Cuiyan Lane, you have to take your brothers to choose a good place, you are familiar with Yanjing, and we are all up to you for the first time to come to the capital." Outside the yamen of the Ministry of War, Liu Zeqing put his arm around the shoulders of Li Chongzhen, the chief soldier of Baoding, and said with a smile.

"No problem, I'll take everyone to a good place later, the girls there are also among the most beautiful in the capital, tall, short, fat and thin, I guarantee that everyone will be satisfied." Because he often comes to the capital, Li Chongzhen, who is already familiar with this place, patted his chest loudly.

"Hehehe, then it's all up to you Lao Li later." A group of originally majestic generals were laughing wickedly at the moment.

Suddenly, Ma Rulong pointed to the crowd that poured out in front of him and said strangely: "Huh? What happened to the Yamen of the Ministry of War? Why did so many people come out at once? ”

"Hey, isn't that General Pang? How did he come out with a man? Looking at his clothes, he is still a five-grade civil official, so something must have happened? When the generals saw that it was Pang Gang who came out with a person, their hearts were shocked.

"Brother Pang, what the hell is going on, why did you come out with a person?"

"yes, where are you singing?"

As soon as Pang came out of the gate of the military headquarters, the generals rushed up and asked one after another.

Pang Gang said hatefully: "All the adults don't know, this thief is the member of the military department of the Ministry of War, the last general went to exchange military status with him, and there is no problem with asking himself about the filial piety and official documents that should be given, but because the last general did not kneel down to this guy, he actually took it and roared at me, and did not go through the military registration survey procedures for me, and the last general was angry and brought him out to ask the emperor clearly, I Daming has no Wang Fa who does not kneel and does not give the military registration survey." ”

"Ugh!" When the generals heard this, they were stunned for a moment, saying that this thing is really not uncommon. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the court has been emphasizing literature and suppressing military force more and more, and it is not uncommon for a four-rank guerrilla to kneel to the five-grade grain road guard at the peak of his heyday, because these civil officials firmly control their salaries, and those military generals have to grovel to those civil officials in order to receive their salaries on time. Although at the end of Chongzhen, because the border passes were often in an emergency, the imperial court was more dependent on the army than before, so the status of the army generals has also been greatly improved, but the concept of Wenzun and Wuhumility has not been eliminated from the minds of most officials in the imperial court, not to mention that today Pang Gang was just a five-grade thousand households before he changed his military status, and it was really normal to kneel down to the foreign lang who was also a member of the military selection and clearing department of the Ministry of War.

It is said that this outsider's reaction today is also in the normal ranks, but today he happened to run into a guy who doesn't know anything about this set. To tell the truth, although Pang Gang is not very interested in the etiquette of subordinates to make a gesture or even kneel when the subordinates meet in this period, he does not have much disgust, in Pang Gang's opinion, he thinks that since this set of etiquette can be practiced in China for thousands of years, there must be a reason for its existence, but Pang Gang will never agree with kneeling to an official who is at the same level as him or even a few levels lower, so his abuse of him by the official who is suitable for him will cause him to react so much.

Liu Zeqing has a good appetite with Pang Gang recently, and he couldn't help but persuade him: "Brother Pang, you can't be confused, take advantage of the fact that you don't have a big deal with this outsider now, hurry up to find Inspector Lu outside the city, and ask him to come back and say a few words, and it's fine, but don't make a big fuss, otherwise you won't talk about the new generals, even if your original official functions can't be kept, it's okay!" ”

"Yes, General Pang, this is the Ministry of War, don't talk about you, even our general soldiers must be polite when they get inside, if the matter just now reaches the emperor's ears, you will be in trouble." Li Chongzhen also persuaded on the side.

"This" Hearing the persuasion of all the generals in unison, Pang Gang was also embarrassed, and looked at the outsider in his hand with a hesitant look on his face.

"Hahaha, you Qiu Ba know that you are scared, this official can tell you, you are finished this time, let alone promoted, I must make you worse than dead!" At this time, the foreigner in Pang Gang's hand suddenly laughed, and a trace of hideous color appeared on his face that was originally blue with pain, and he suddenly raised his voice and roared loudly: "This time, this official will see how you die!" Hahaha"

"You" looked at the venomous look in the eyes of this foreigner, who was like a poisonous snake, and Pang Gang knew that this matter was no longer good today.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Pang Gang arched his hand to the generals and said: "Since the feud between the last general and this guy has been settled, there is no reason to bow his head anymore, the last general will still go to the Jinluan Hall with him to see the saints, if the emperor blames it, it is a big deal that the last general will be disarmed and return to the field." After speaking, Pang Gang strode towards the way Shicai came from.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, formulated a regulation after sitting in the world, set up a Dengwen drum outside the imperial gate, and set up a special person to manage it. In the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, an official once played the cancellation of the Dengwen drum, and the Xuande Emperor did not accept it as the ancestor, but it was mostly a formality, because no one has sounded it since the Apocalypse.

On the Taihe Palace, Chongzhen was discussing with the ministers of civil and military affairs for a while when the soldiers and horses of the King of Zhongqin should be allowed to return to each other after the withdrawal of the Qing army, when he suddenly heard a faint sound of drums outside.

"Knock knock!"

"Knock knock!"

"Hey, it seems to be the sound of a drum."

"It's not like, it's clearly the sound of a drum, but hasn't this drum been played for more than ten years? Why is it that the daring guy knocked it again today. ”

Hearing the voices of the ministers discussing, Chongzhen was also a little strange, the Dengwen drum still sounded once during the reign of his dead brother Emperor Tianqi, and it has not been sounded for more than ten years, why is it ringing again today? Could it be that something is wrong? Thinking of this, Chongzhen's heart couldn't help but tighten, and he was about to order someone to go out to check, when suddenly a Han general hurriedly stepped forward and reported loudly: "Your Majesty, Pang Gang, the general of Qingzhou, Laizhou, and Dengzhou in Shandong, is beating the Dengwen drum outside the Huangji Gate, claiming that there are grievances to be reported to the saint. ”

"Pang Gang!" Chongzhen couldn't help but cry out, not only him, but almost everyone in the hall was taken aback.

"Exactly!" The Han general said cautiously: "General Pang said that he was only able to handle the documents in the Ministry of War, when he was troubled by the Ministry of War's military selection and clearance department, not only did he not go through the military registration survey procedures for General Pang, but also said that he would not want to go through the military registration survey procedures in the military department in his life, General Pang was not convinced, so he pulled the member of the foreign man to come over and ask the saint to be the master, but he did not have the qualifications to go to court, so he had no choice."

"That's why he can't call the shots by beating the drum, right?" Hearing this, Chongzhen understood everything, his angry gaze turned to Yang Sichang, who was standing on the left, and shouted angrily: "Yang Sichang, the military department is under your jurisdiction, what is going on?" ”

Yang Sichang is worthy of being an official who has been in the court for half his life, he was not afraid of Chongzhen's angry gaze, but stood up unhurriedly and said: "Your Majesty, we can't be sure of the merits based on one side alone, we need both sides."

"It's going to take a confrontation, right?" The angry Chongzhen interrupted him again, he had just sealed a general in the morning, but after a while, they came to report that the people from the military department did not apply for their military registration and official seals, wasn't this a slap in the face of the emperor? "Preach, call them all up! I don't believe it, my holy decree can't leave the palace! ”

Chongzhen's words are heart-wrenching, the emperor's holy decree can't get out of the palace, what kind of surname is this, isn't this saying that the people below no longer take the emperor in their eyes, and even the emperor has been imprisoned? When the ministers heard this, they quickly fell to their knees and did not dare to speak.

Chongzhen saw that the ministers knelt on the ground and did not speak, but only looked around at these people with sharp eyes, as if he wanted to see through their hearts.

I don't know how long it took, the sharp voice of the eunuch on duty outside the hall sounded outside the hall: "General Pang Gang of Dingyuan, and Zhang Huiquan, a member of the military selection and Qing Officials of the Ministry of War, came to meet him!"

After a while, a tall figure and two Han generals supported a civil official wearing a five-grade white pheasant official mansion and walked quickly to the front of the palace about twenty steps and stood still. The miserable-looking official didn't wait for the official holding his right hand to plop down and cry loudly: "Your Majesty, this Pang Gang ran to the yamen to openly make trouble in the military department, and broke Wei Chen's fingers on the spot, Wei Chen's words are true, all the colleagues present can testify for the minister, Your Majesty, such a thief can defend the country!" You can call the shots for Wechen! ”

"Hmm!" Chongzhen's brows furrowed when he heard this, and he asked majestically at Pang Gang, who was silent on the side: "Pang Gang, what this outsider said is the truth!" ”

Pang Gang sneered: "The emperor must not listen to this villain's nonsense here, the right person Weichen went to the military department to exchange for the military registration survey, but this outsider didn't even look at the military registration survey and official documents handed over by Weichen, so he scolded Weichen, saying that Weichen was arrogant!" Wechen tried to ask if it was the first time I saw this outsider in his life, and I didn't understand what was going on, this outsider was going to drive Wechen out of the military department, what is the reason? ”

"Hmm" As soon as Pang Gang said this, not only Chongzhen, but even the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty stared at the outsider who had been soaked in sweat with his official mansion

(To be continued)