The voice was not loud, but when I heard it, my scalp was numb, my palms were oozing sweat, and I drooped my head, kneeling there and not daring to speak. The eunuchs and palace maids in the palace were also in their hearts, and everyone knew that the emperor was about to lose his temper.

"What, you said something to yourself, don't you remember?" Gao Qiqian's silence made Chongzhen even more annoyed, staring at him motionlessly, his face was terrifyingly cold.

He hesitated again and again, knowing that this pass could not be avoided, so he whispered in a worried voice: "The slave maid said that the Pingkong thief should fight quickly, and must not delay, otherwise, Denglai will be ruined." ”

"You do."

Chongzhen raised the corners of his eyebrows, sneered, got up slowly, and still asked in a cold tone: "Fight quickly, okay, then why did the Confucian thieves even beat the thieves in Linyi, Shanghe, and Xincheng, and the thieves all hit Qingzhou!" I ask you, how is your army imprisoned? Have you ever tried your best to run errands? How was this battle fought? ”

"Slave Maid"

Gao Qi squeaked, unable to answer, and his face was full of shame. The loss of Shanghe, Xincheng and other prefectures and counties was completely caused by his underestimation of the enemy, otherwise, with Kong Youde's little soldiers and horses, how could he be able to crisscross Hebei and Shandong.

Chongzhen snorted, ignoring Gao Qiqian, but took a cup of tea from a palace maid, the faint fragrance of tea was refreshing, he smacked it lightly with his lips, and looked at this azure sè Xuanyao cup thoughtfully, his face was uncertain, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Although Gao Qiqian has not served Chongzhen for a long time, he has thoroughly touched Chongzhen's spleen, and he knows that Chongzhen does not really blame him for delaying the military plane, but is beating himself, but this emperor is a good-looking person, and he never pretends to be a minister on the surface, and always waits for his subordinates to say it themselves.

But Gao Qiqian couldn't kowtow like garlic, and then spoke generously, packing up the ticket, because he underestimated the power of Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng's old Liaodong generals, he would have been scared by those Liaodong old generals, how could he still have some ambitions before leaving Beijing.

Since leading the Beijing battalion out of Beijing, Gao Qiqian meritorious service, eager to pacify the Hebei thief rebellion, he urged Zhu Dadian to supervise the troops to move quickly, meaning to achieve his own departure from Beijing when the time said "quick battle", how did the Beijing camp of the 5,000 soldiers is really embroidered, as soon as the battle, the 5,000 Beijing battalion soldiers actually called 600 thieves to kill the armor and abandon the armor, if it is not for the thieves are all foot soldiers, unable to catch up, I am afraid that he will end up with the end of the whole army annihilation for the first time.

Relying on the defeat of the remnants of the Beijing camp, Gao Qiqian couldn't fight this battle, but he couldn't fight it if he didn't fight, the Kong thief soldiers killed in Qingzhou, and if they didn't enter the crackdown, Denglai would be in the bag of the thieves. This is really unimaginable, Gao Qiqian quickly returned to Beijing overnight, in order to ask Chongzhen for reinforcements. But the reinforcements he asked for, he must not bring it up by himself, he must wait for the emperor to bring it up himself, lest the situation change after ri, and something happens over there, and he can't afford to bear the guilt.

With such a thought, Gao Qiqian naturally didn't dare to speak easily, knelt there, lowered his head, and secretly looked at Chongzhen from time to time to judge when he would speak out.

Zhao Quan and several palace maids who were standing next to him didn't make a sound, and they all looked at Chongzhen's facial expressions and his subtle movements of examining the teacup.

Zhao Quan muttered in his heart, Gonggong Gao suffered a defeat, this is to come back to ask for guilt and soldiers, but the emperor's pretentiousness just now does not seem to be to cure Gonggong Gao's crimes, what is the emperor's mind here?

The palace maids didn't see Chongzhen give them any instructions, so they didn't dare to automatically avoid going out. These palace ladies don't need to wait for Chongzhen to speak, they will act according to the slightest movement of his eyebrows, lips, or beard, and will never misjudge a little and be blamed for making a mistake.

Finally, when Chongzhen's eyes just left the teacup, a palace maid immediately took a step forward, took the teacup with a plate in both hands, and walked out of the palace carefully, and the rest of the palace maids all tiptoed out of the palace within a second or two, without any footsteps, and the huge Wenhua Hall was terrifyingly quiet.

Now there are only three people left in the hall: Chongzhen, Gao Qiqian, and Zhao Quan. Chongzhen was standing, standing tall and kneeling, while Zhao Quan was standing there on tiptoe.

After being silent for a while, Chongzhen turned around, paced back and forth for a while, and then said to Gao Qiqian in a deep voice: "You still know the soldiers, and you also have some experience, so I let you go to supervise the army." I thought that asking you to oversee the soldiers to go to Pingkong Thief would be a small test, but I didn't expect that you would do it like this. Actually, it doesn't matter if you lose the battle, but you shouldn't hide it, you only brought up the military information every three days, if it weren't for my other ears and eyes, I'm afraid that you will be hiding it from you now. You say, I'm so angry! ”

"The emperor forgives the sins! Slaves and maids should be damned! Gao Qiqian hurriedly slammed his head on the ground, knocked it a few times, and his forehead was blood-red. In his heart, he scolded Cao Huachun for being a dog, what else did he have ears and eyes, and it was not a secret secretly told by his people from Dongchang!

"Now that I'm guilty, I didn't know it before." Chongzhen snorted, raised his hand, his expression eased a little, and then said: "I ascended the throne, you are the first person to go out of the inner court, I trust you, put this courage in your hands, not only I am watching, the foreign court is also watching, the people of the world are also watching, your errand is done, my face is bright, and I also have an explanation for the foreign court." If you mess up, it will not only affect the soldiers who died in battle, but also me, do you know the way! ”

"The slave and maid have failed the emperor, and the slave and maid deserve death!" His Royal Highness heard a cry from above, so that people could feel that the slave was truly repentant.

Sure enough, Gao Qiqian's crying voice made Chongzhen very useful, he nodded slightly, and said lightly: "I didn't say that I wanted to punish you, no one is perfect, you used to talk on paper, but this is the first time to do this errand, I can't force you too much." However, after you go back, you have to be careful, and you must speed up the matter of Denglai, and you must not live up to my wishes. ”

Where does Gao Qiqian have the ability to quickly settle the matter of Denglai, he is very bitter in his heart, but when the emperor says this, he has to express it, so he still replied in a generous tone: "The slave is willing to go to the soup and die on the battlefield, and will never live up to the grace of the emperor for many years." ”

Chongzhen nodded again, sat down on the dragon chair, and whispered, "Get up!" ”

Gao Qiqian kowtowed again, then stood up from the ground. On the one hand, Zhao Quan lit the palace lamp, and under the bright light, the tall and burly figure was very eye-catching. If it weren't for the lack of a beard on his face, no matter how you look at it, he would be a brave general. Although he is in his early forties, he looks like he is in his early thirties because of his well-maintained and ruddy skin.

The doors and windows of the hall were closed, and although the wind was howling outside, the lights in the hall did not shake at all, and the shadows reflected on the ground dragged on for a long time.

Seeing that Gao Qiqian was still standing there and not leaving, Chongzhen couldn't help but say, "You still don't thank you?" ”

"The Emperor" hesitated and whispered: "The Confucian thieves are all old generals in Liaodong, brave and abnormal, although the slave is not afraid of death, he is willing to go to the soup for the emperor and die on the battlefield, but it is not a pity for the slave to die, if the emperor's major event is missed because of this, the slave and the maid will die thousands of times, and it is not a pity to die."

"Okay, what the hell are you trying to say?" Chongzhen suddenly interrupted Gao Qiqian's words impatiently, he knew that the slave maid in front of him must have some purpose when he said so many words.

"The slave wants to say that the slave wants to say"

If you don't open your mouth again, I'm afraid that you won't have a chance to speak again. Taking a deep breath, he said loudly: "Your Majesty, the slave thinks that if you want to level the hole thief, you must be able to control the Liao soldiers!" ”