"These thieves are really lawless", Hu Wang scolded bitterly, walked over and took the gold ingot into his arms, and scratched his fingers on it, knowing that the gold ingot was in good condition.

The eunuch Hu Wang quickly made a decision, he wanted to understand one thing, his own family was an important errand to guard the city gate, how could there be no factory guards around him, if he didn't say it, and when Wei Zhongxian asked, it would be a big disaster, although it may not change in the future, but now Wei Zhongxian is still in power.

Hu Wang instructed his subordinates to strictly guard the errand, close the city gate, and then ride to the palace side, as soon as it is dark, the imperial city will be closed and locked, but there are also side doors in and out, in case of anything sudden and important, after checking the waist card, Hu Wang was led to the duty room where Wei Zhongxian was.

Now that the situation is urgent, Wei Zhongxian is no longer resident in the duty room of the celebrant supervisor, but is with the Emperor of the Apocalypse, so this duty room is outside the Qianqing Palace, guarded by the eunuchs inside, which can be called heavily guarded.

"Ancestor, the child hurried over after receiving the letter, and he didn't dare to open the letter to read it." Hu Wang said a word, and sent the letter respectfully, but when he sent the letter, he looked at it, and there were more than a dozen letters on the bookcase in front of Wei Zhongxian, all of which were similar to the one he sent.

Over there, Wei Zhongxian took the letter, opened it and glanced at it casually, put it on the table, and said: "You are the seventeenth letter, today there are letters from all sides of the capital sent to our house, some people say they picked it up, some people say they sleep next to the pillow, some people say that they give it to their faces in a black mask in person, how did you get here?" ”

Wei Zhongxian's voice was a little hoarse, he could hear it because of exhaustion and anxiety, Hu Wang was already stunned at this time, he thought that what he was doing was a first-class confidential matter, this was a major event related to the country's luck, only he brought it, he never thought that there would be more than a dozen, thinking of this, Hu Wang felt lost, and felt shuddering, how big a situation this gang of Xuzhou thieves has achieved, and there are so many lines buried in the Beijing Division.

Thinking about it, Hu Wang didn't dare to hide anything from Wei Zhongxian, he told what happened today, and he didn't even dare to omit the trick of making money in and out of the capital, hearing his story, Wei Zhongxian's face was indifferent, he put the letter paper in his hand on the table, and said: "I already knew about the matter over there, and the reason why I didn't investigate it was because I wanted to leave a hole there, otherwise the news inside and outside the city would not come in and out, adding a lot of entanglements." ”

Hearing this, Hu Wang just kowtowed heavily, and Wei Zhongxian sneered self-deprecatingly: "Our family didn't expect that this Xuzhou thief had already been arranged in the city, and he actually sent so many letters at once, you go back on an errand!" We won't stop us from getting rich, but don't delay the business, you know? ”

Hu Wang, who was already trembling, got up to leave, but Wei Zhongxian raised his hand to greet a middle-aged eunuch, and said in a muffled voice: "Read this letter and see what is the difference between it and the previous dozen or so, our eyes are not very good at night." ”

"My father-in-law works hard for the country, and he must also take care of his health." The middle-aged eunuch said politely, took the letter and looked at it carefully, and it didn't take long to confirm that the handwriting of these letters was different, but the content was exactly the same, Wei Zhongxian nodded, then sighed, and walked towards the bedroom of the Emperor of the Apocalypse with the letter.

Wei Zhongxian went out, but the middle-aged eunuch pondered, if in the past, Hu Wang was so derelict in his duties, and he might not be able to escape the capital crime by taking advantage of the chaos to make a fortune, but now he can still get a saying of "don't delay getting rich, don't miss the right thing", it seems that Wei Dajue's power is far less than back then, and he can only rely on favor to envelop the following.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse sat paralyzed in the study, and several little eunuchs on the side were afraid to take a breath, just now a favored one stepped forward to comfort, but was directly dragged down and beaten to death, no one has ever seen the Emperor of the Apocalypse like this, he is usually very kind and even close to the little eunuchs never put on any shelf, I never thought that I would be so irritable today.

"Companion, what should I do?" Seeing Wei Zhongxian come in, the Emperor of the Apocalypse seemed to have grasped a straw and hurriedly asked, his voice was much hoarser than Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian sighed secretly in his heart, waved his hand to signal other unrelated people to retreat, and took the letter to him and said earnestly: "Long live Lord, the only way to do this now is to negotiate peace with the Xuzhou thieves, let them go first, and then seek follow-up." ”

Seeing that the Emperor of the Apocalypse was silent, Wei Zhongxian raised the letter paper and said with a wry smile: "Long live the master, the hand of the Xuzhou thief has already reached into the city, and today he sent more than a dozen letters to urge, and they are very anxious about this peace talk." ”

"Companions, they are in such a hurry to negotiate peace, there must be some unavoidable reason, we have so many soldiers and horses in Beijing, and the food is enough, so we are so strict and defensive, forcing them to withdraw their own troops, how about this?" The Emperor of the Apocalypse suddenly became excited, stared at Wei Zhongxian and said.

"Long live the city, if the thief army can't break through the defense of the Jingshi city, then we can naturally hold on, but according to the news that came back from the front, the cannon in the hands of the thief army is really sharp and mighty, and the city of the Beijing division can't stop the cannon bombardment at all, as soon as the city opens, the situation will be completely impossible to clean up, long live the lord, we can't afford to take this risk, this Jiangshan Sheji can't afford to take this risk!" Wei Zhongxian said earnestly.

Hearing Wei Zhongxian say this, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was depressed again, Wei Zhongxian looked left and right, lowered his voice and said: "Long live the lord, the most important thing at the moment is to let that gang of Xuzhou thieves go first, as long as they go, we will have a chance, if they don't go, the risk and trouble will become bigger and bigger, long live the lord knows?" I don't know how many people in the city went out to sue for peace today, and in the mouths of these killers, I am afraid of how many times they have sold the Long Live Lord. ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse's eyes widened, his expression changed from dejected to awe-inspiring, at first his face was full of incredulous expressions, and then it turned into discouragement and despair, these things are unbelievable at first glance, but according to the usual behavior of those nobles and civil and military officials, it is really not uncommon to do this.

"Keke I didn't do anything wrong, why should I cede the land and sue for peace, lose power and humiliate the country, accompany us and wait, maybe there will be a turnaround!" The Emperor of the Apocalypse finally gritted his teeth and said, but there was already a cry in his voice.

This really doesn't matter, pretending to be invisible to the facts in front of him, gritting his teeth and waiting for a turnaround, Wei Zhongxian looked at the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and sighed at the end, it is still the Son of Heaven who is really in charge, the Ming generation, no matter how dictatorial the eunuch is, he is only the dictatorship that the Son of Heaven allows to support, without the support of the emperor, everything is vain, only the ministers have their own will.

"Long live the lord to wait, the old slave will wait with the long live lord, please rest assured, if anyone is unfavorable to the long live lord, you have to step on the old slave's corpse first!" Wei Zhongxian knelt down and said solemnly.

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After the Zhao family's army showed its combat strength in the more than 3,000 horse teams outside the capital, the soldiers and horses in the capital did not dare to engage in the battle again, but the scale of these more than 3,000 horsemen was too small after all, and the capital was too big.

The military camps outside the city are transferred, and there is also rotation between the defenders in the city and the garrison outside the city, which is generally the elite backbone soldiers and horses mastered by the eunuchs to enter the city, and those who are not in this system are out of the city, and the soldiers and horses out of the city gather in the north and south of the capital, the so-called two large camps in the south of Beijing and north of Beijing.

According to what the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion said, these two large battalions are iron pincers, forming a momentum of flanking the thief army, and when the time comes, the two sides will attack together, and the thief army will definitely be crushed, but everyone understands that now they dare not expect the officers and troops to move again, and it is good to maintain a balance of power without fighting or discord, if there is a mistake, then there will be no soldiers and horses available.

But after the panic in the first two days, all parties in Beijing generally understood the attitude of the soldiers and horses in Xuzhou outside the city, and the three thousand horsemen came here to force the court to negotiate peace, which was similar to urging them to come to the door, rather than what to do with these three thousand soldiers and horses, this discovery made everyone somewhat relaxed.

The soldiers and horses in the capital were not as cautious as they were at the beginning, and began to send scouts outside the city, and the city gate away from the Xuzhou cavalry camp remained ajar, and they had time to react and close the gate anyway.

According to the report of the exploration horse out of the city, there are a lot of people who come in and out of the anti-thief station, maybe it is the treacherous intention to contact the surrounding Jingshi, but this is for the Venerable, a little closer study knows that this is sent out by various characters in the capital, and everyone knows what to contact with the anti-thief, the situation is like this, this Ming day does not know how long it will be on the head, everyone is better to turn a blind eye.

This situation did not last long, in the afternoon, Tanma returned to the city to report urgently, saying that there was another Xuzhou soldier and horse along the direction of the canal, the scale is not large, about more than 2,000 people, but the carriage and horse used are like the regulation of 5,000 soldiers and horses, although there are many carriages and horses, but it is surrounded by foot soldiers, and Tanma also brought back the news, Tongzhou garrison officers and soldiers saw the thief army foot soldiers coming, and wanted to pick up cheap, but more than 3,000 people went out of the city, and they were killed and dispersed as soon as they saw each other, and they were not opponents at all.

The atmosphere in the capital is suddenly tense, and there is also a depressed mood of the people, there are more lice and they are not afraid of biting, it is already this situation, and there are two more thieves outside, it is nothing, but the battle in Tongzhou proves the rumors that the thieves are strong, which makes everyone disheartened, and the more than 3,000 horsemen outside the city are not unexpected, and the Tartar cavalry is also like this, but the strength of this foot soldier is really terrifying, probably a calculation, Daming has almost no chance of winning.

"These people have really big mouths, saying that as long as we are interested, they can seize the city gate from inside and outside, let us enter the city, and what do they say about arresting the emperor for us, aren't they all quite big officials? It's shameless! Speaking of those who came to negotiate, Ji Xiang's face was full of disdain, and the expressions on Shi Manqiang and Xu Yong's faces were similar.

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