Seven days later, Li Xin arrived safely in Daming Jingshi under the protection of the guards. But seeing that the left side of the Jingshi is in a depression, the prosperous customs compartment of the past has long disappeared, and there are ruins everywhere in front of him.

"It's finally back again, Beijing!"

Li Xin exhaled heavily and let out a sigh. But a black and thin guard beside him sighed: "What? This is the city of Beijing? This person was the refugee that Li Xin had taken in halfway, his military uniform was very fat and unfit, and his eyes were full of disbelief. That kind of gaze seemed to be making a disdainful voice, is this what the Jingshi of the Ming Empire looks like?

"It's not much like our village!"

The refugee craned his neck and looked left and right, he had never left his hometown in his life, and he was naturally full of curiosity about the capital at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

"Liu Batou, you will see it when you enter the city, and there is something to see outside the city!"

An old soldier next to Li Xin, who spoke, had entered Beijing after the Great War in Western Liaoning, but the Guanxiang outside the city was not as bleak as it was in front of him, and there were still many people. I don't know what has happened in the past few years, but the people at the feet of these children have fled their hometowns where they have lived for generations.

Unlike the guards around him, Li Xin not only noticed the dilapidated and deserted Guanxiang, but also found a more serious problem. When a minister of his level went to Beijing to see that the reception specifications of the imperial court were customized, and so far there was neither a precursor sent by the Ministry of Etiquette, nor a welcome ceremony held outside the city, which was a very bad sign.

Finally, a horse flew in, and the guards sent to the front to explore the way rushed back.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Li Xin raised his eyes and saw in the distance a group of people coming south along the uneven official road. The person who came to receive Li Xin was just a waiter from the Ministry of Rites, and this waiter was none other than Sun Yu, Sun Ji's second son.

As far as Li Xin knows, Sun Yu once served as a waiter in the household department, but he was transferred to the Ministry of Rites again, and it seems that his father and ancestors died one after another, and he lost his strong background and was squeezed out of the household department with a lot of oil and water.

Obviously, Sun Yu inherited various character traits from his father, treated people gently, and spoke without hurry. Looking at the twenty-year-old Sun Jiao in front of him, Li Xin couldn't help but sigh again and again, remembering the days when he fought side by side in the past, it seemed that he was still in front of him, but he could only sigh that this morning the yin and yang were separated.

Sun Yu's face was very embarrassed, but he never mentioned why the court only sent a squire to greet him, and Li Xin no longer let him be troubled, only greeted him for a while, and then followed the extremely shabby greeting team into the city.

According to the rules of the imperial court, Li Xin's entourage naturally could not enter the city, and they had to be stationed outside the city. The guard battalion officer stopped with a look on his face: "The marquis of the town must not be in danger!" ”

Li Xin smiled and comforted everyone: "Don't worry, this is not going to Longtan Tiger's Den?" ”

Sun Yu reminded with an embarrassed expression: "According to the imperial court system, the Marquis of Zhenyu, as a super-grade marquis, can bring hundreds of people into the Beijing Division!" ”

Li Xin didn't know much about this, the first few times he entered Kyoto was an exception, especially after the victory in western Liao, Chongzhen ordered all the three guards to enter the city to be read, so they were naturally not subject to the so-called imperial court system.

Up to now, Li Xin has become the number one warlord feared by the imperial court, even if he only brought a thousand guards, it is impossible to let so many people enter the city together.

Li Xin sighed secretly, this Sun Yu is really a kind person, and it is naturally better to have more than one thing to be an official next to him, so why remind him of such matters!

After entering the city, the reception specifications were still better than expected, Li Xin and his 100 retinue were arranged in a three-entry courtyard in the inner city, and then all they had to do was wait for the emperor's summons.

However, this wait was seven days, and there was no news. Even the kind-hearted Sun Yu was gone.

Li Xin is not in a hurry, he only lives in a shallow way every day, and he looks like a good and wandering person, no matter how he looks at it, he doesn't mean to be in a hurry.

Compared with Li Xin's calmness, several cabinet elders in Beijing are in a different state. The idea of letting Li Xin enter Beijing and marry Princess Xinle came from Zhou Yanru, but now he feels like he has received a hot potato in his hand.

"Elder Zhou Ge said, now that Li Xin's horse thief is here, how should the imperial court deal with it? Did he really let him marry the princess? We didn't promise to King Jin so at the beginning! ”

Fan Fucui has always been in the cabinet, and now he is against Zhou Yanru everywhere, Zhou Yanru wanted to squeeze him out several times, but the emperor did not let go, and Fan Fucui himself was indeed good, and he couldn't catch him a sore foot in the past few years.

At the beginning, the reason why Zhou Yanru proposed this was because he concluded that Li Xin did not dare to go north, and let the emperor order Li Xin to enter Beijing to complete the marriage, but to provide a cover for the Shanxi New Army to crusade against Jiangnan.

And the king of Jin has already made sense of the emperor, promised him not to mention the marriage of Princess Xinle again, and now bring it up again, the king of Jin naturally objected to it repeatedly, and finally Zhou Yanru sent an envoy to Taiyuan with his own handwritten letter, gambling on the reputation of his parents and swearing, only saying that this is a play for the world to see, and will never really marry the princess to Li Xin, and Li Xin does not dare to go north to Beijing.

Besides, the daughter of the King of Jin was promoted from the county lord to the princess, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation!

It was with this guarantee that King Jin lent his precious daughter and asked the envoy to take her to Jingshi. Now that Li Xin is really here, he can't really marry Princess Xinle to this horse thief.

"Why do you have to be so troublesome, Li Xin has been in charge of the army for many years, flying and domineering, and has done a lot of evil deeds, so that the three law divisions will investigate his bad deeds, and then punish him according to law, why bother so much!"

It was Li Shi who spoke, and the personal grudge between him and Li Xin was difficult to settle in this life, as long as he didn't close his eyes for a day, he would pull this horse thief off the horse.

At this time, it was Fan Fucui who stood up to oppose Zhou Yanru who repeatedly questioned Zhou Yanru.

"If this works, why should we beat around the bush?"

Fan Fucui sighed all kinds of sighs, in the final analysis, the emperor's attitude wavered, at the beginning of the year, the Korean state came back to the court, this is of course the credit of the Three Guards, the emperor who has always boasted of his love and righteousness actually remembered Li Xin's good, once said in public that if there is no marquis, I am afraid that the former vassal will never return to China.

Therefore, from beginning to end, the cabinet proposed to let the marquis of Zhenyu go to Beijing to complete the marriage, and several important ministers of the cabinet hid from the emperor about the ulterior motives. And the emperor has always insisted, "Li Xin will enter Beijing!" ”

At that time, several ministers were still unimpressed, but now Li Xin really came, and it turned out that the emperor's guess was not wrong. However, they could not let Li Xin succeed, let alone let Li Xinhu fall into Pingyang.

"The most urgent task is not to cure Li Xin's sin, but to make the Holy One aware of his evil, so that all problems will be solved."

Hong Chengchou, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke, and just before he could finish speaking, Zhou Yanru gently patted the table on his side.

"Well said, let the Son of Heaven know his evil. As long as you know Li Xin's evil, it is not as easy to get rid of him as it is to crush a bed bug to death! ”

That's true, leaving the victorious Three Guards, Li Xin is just an ordinary person, does he still have three heads and six arms, or can he have wings on his back?

Li Shi asked and snorted: "To put it lightly, if you can move the Son of Heaven so easily, why do you and I still bother here?" Li Shiwen has always been unaccustomed to this rising star who is good at acting coquettishly.

Hong Chengchou did not mean to be annoyed, but smiled and told everyone in detail about his views and suggestions, and after a while, he ushered in bursts of speechless voices and praise.

……

"Long live the lord, the marquis of the town is here, here!"

Zhu Youzhen has been counting the days, hoping that Li Xin will live up to his expectations, in his impression, this bold man born as a horse thief is definitely not the kind of villain who forgets his righteousness. He almost believed the words of the important ministers. But the sudden arrival of the Korean state made him suddenly realize that some things may not be true. What's more, it came from the mouths of a group of extremely selfish ministers. Therefore, he wanted to prove to himself and his ministers that Li Xin was not a rebellious minister and thief who everyone could kill.

When he heard the words "The Marquis of Zhenyu is coming", Zhu Youzhen's mood was as calm as an ancient well, which was the same as he expected.

"Where is the Marquis? Spread it quickly, see me! ”

The eunuch who reported the news hesitated and said: "Back to Long Live Lord, the slave only knows that the Marquis of Zhenyu is coming, but I don't know where the Marquis of Zhenju is now?" ”

Zhu Youzhen's face immediately became very ugly.

"What did you say?"

The eunuch immediately knelt down with a thud, "The slave is a capital crime, the slave is a capital crime, the slave and the maid really don't know where the Zhenhou is now!" ”

"You murderer, I don't know where the marquis of Zhenju is, and where did you know that the marquis of Zhenju is here? Donkey's lips are not right for horses, don't be on duty in Wenhua Hall in the future! ”

"Yes, it's what Sun Yu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, said......"

Zhu Youzhen immediately called someone to drag the clumsy eunuch down, and no matter how he cried and begged for mercy, he was indifferent. Then, Zhu Youzhen called Wang Chengen again, taught him face-to-face, and asked him to send spies to investigate whether the Marquis of Zhenyu had arrived in Jingshi and where he had arrived!

After sulking for a while, Zhu Youzhen said angrily to the eunuchs beside him: "Pass the decree, enter the palace with Sun Yu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites!" ”

Since the eunuch said that the news of the arrival of the Marquis of Zhenyu in Beijing was from Sun Yu's mouth, he invited a question. At this time, Zhu Youzhen regretted a little, he should not have banned Jinyiwei and Dongchang at the beginning of last year, so that he felt dazzled in Beijing.

But it was not easy to reactivate these yamen, for the ministers buzzed in their ears like flies all day long, and now it was these scenes that were most disgusting to dream back at midnight.

Half an hour later, the eunuch who delivered the decree returned to the Wenhua Hall with Sun Ji.