"What? Since the king dares to take the throne! ”

Zhu Qizhen was furious when he heard this, you must know that he thought that he was not thin on Zhu Qiyu, and if he was another vassal king, he would have already left the capital to become a vassal in the local area, and the king of Yu was still living in the capital when he was weak.

This friendship alone, who can compare to the first emperor?

As a result, it was only a long time since he fell into the hands of the Tartars, and Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, usurped the position of the emperor's unification, which is simply a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs!

And under Zhu Qizhen's excitement, his voice suddenly increased a lot, which scared Yuan Bin, Yang Shan and others in the tent into a cold sweat. If the Mongols found out that someone was lurking in and wanted to take the emperor away, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Not only do they have to die here, but also the hundreds of people who transported money, wine and meat, and even tens of thousands of soldiers in Datong City have to bear the burden of being buried with anger first!

"Your Majesty, please calm your anger, don't arouse the suspicion of the Tartars!"

Yuan Bin knew the anger and resentment in Zhu Qizhen's heart at the moment, but he could only bite the bullet to appease. After all, no one but himself can do this.

"Anger? My throne is gone, how can I calm my anger! ”

Zhu Qizhen was still in a state of rage, then turned his gaze to Yang Shan and shouted, "Tell Guo Deng!" ”

"No, tell King Yu that it is impossible for me to write an edict on the throne, and he will always be a rebellious minister and thief who has not won the right position!"

In all Chinese dynasties, whether it is active Zen or passive seizure of the throne, there is a very important and representative holy decree of the Zen edict in name, which indicates that the legitimacy of the successor is recognized on the surface.

Zhu Qizhen doesn't write, for Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu, there will be endless troubles.

I think that it was difficult for Emperor Zhu Dijing of Yongle to succeed back then, why was he still struggling to find the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen after so many years of sitting firmly in the world?

It is that as long as Emperor Jianwen did not confirm his death and did not issue the edict of Zen throne, there would always be flaws in the process of Zhu Di's legal system, and it was very likely that the other party would use this as an excuse to raise troops again.

Now that Zhu Qizhen is in the hands of the Mongols, who knows if the Taishi will "rebel" in his name in the future?

The legal system is worthless when it is useless, and it is worth a thousand gold when it is useful, and if it is not right, it is an eternal time bomb for the Chinese Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, it was the Queen Mother who decreed that King Yu should be appointed as the new monarch!"

Yang Shan gritted his teeth and told the truth, King Yu did not seek to usurp the throne, but passed the holy decree of the crown prince to inherit the unification.

Although there is still a hidden danger of the legal system without a Zen edict, there is almost no big objection between the hundred officials of the imperial court and the civil and military ministers.

To put it more cruelly, Zhu Qizhen was abolished!

The queen mother has a new king?

Hearing Yang Shan say that it was Empress Dowager Sun who established King Yu as the new monarch, Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen only felt as if the sky had fallen at this moment.

It's just that the brother usurped the throne, and even the biological mother gave up on herself.

Is there really no family affection in the royal family?

"Why did she do this, Queen Mother?"

Zhu Qizhen muttered a question, wanting to know this answer.

"I don't know what I do."

Yang Shan is just a small "night does not collect" general banner, and even asking Zhu Qizhen to write the edict of the Zen throne is to carry out Guo Deng's orders, how can he know the thoughts of the Empress Dowager Sun?

Just in Zhu Qizhen's trance, the night outside the camp tent was not closed, and he reminded Yang Shan again through the door curtain: "Yang Zongqi, the Tartars have finished eating and drinking, and if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave!" ”

"Your Majesty, the country cannot be without a king for a day, please put the foundation of your ancestors first!"

Yang Shan mustered up the courage of his life, and urged Zhu Qizhen again, he had no time to wait.

Realizing that he had been given up and the political situation in the DPRK and China had undergone earth-shaking changes, Zhu Qizhen seemed to be dead at the moment.

What hard work, what to expand the territory, now it seems like a dream!

"Okay, since my good imperial brother needs this edict, then write one to him!"

After that, Zhu Qizhen took the ink pen on the table and wrote eight characters on the bright yellow brocade silk.

"The destiny has returned, no more words!"

The first four words represent that Zhu Qizhen has accepted his fate, and the last four words represent the unwillingness in his heart.

Zhu Qizhen is an emperor who has received a complete imperial education since he was a child, and the emperor's mental skills are definitely the best among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. He knew very well what the consequences would be if he didn't write this edict of Zen status.

No matter how much you resent King Yu in your heart, you can't take the initiative to die when you are in danger.

Lie down and taste the guts, endure the humiliation of King Goujian, and only then will you have the opportunity to turn over in the future!

At the same time, Zhu Qizhen quickly pulled out a blank piece of paper and wrote hard to describe his plight to the Empress Dowager Sun, as well as emphasizing the warmth between mother and son.

In any case, the bloodline between the biological mother and son is constantly cut, Zhu Qizhen believes that anyone in the world can give up on himself, and the queen mother will definitely find a way to save himself and return to Beijing.

As long as the queen mother is always on her side, then there is still hope for everything.

I have to say that Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen has a very high talent for understanding the struggle for power.

It's a pity that as an emperor, his talent should be more focused on cultural and martial arts.

With the Mongolian army full of food and drink, Yang Shan took these two letters and returned to Datong City.

When Guo Deng learned that Zhu Qizhen was afraid of the accident and refused to come back with the people's team, the expression on his face was extremely complicated for a while.

Defeat is one thing, cowardice is another.

Once Taizu, Taizong Jinge Iron Horse, Daming Iron Horse Riding Mobei Thousands of Miles. Now Zhu Qizhen has made a living secretly and let go of the supreme majesty of the Great Tomorrow, which is really a shame for the previous emperors!

Of course, this kind of thought Guo Deng only dared to be indignant in his heart, and determined that Zhu Qizhen was unwilling to break through, and after getting the edict of the Zen throne that Xinjun wanted. He immediately ordered the city gates to be closed, refused all dialogue with the Mongol Tatars, and prepared to live and die with Datong City.

In the face of the sudden "turn of face" of the Datong guard, he was also furious at first, he thought that there was Zhu Qizhen's trump card outside, and there were two inner ghosts, Guangningbo Liu An and the town guard eunuch Guo Jing, and the other party would soon give up resistance.

In particular, Datong City offered money, wine and meat to admit it, which strengthened the idea of Taishi first.

As a result, he went in the other direction, didn't he slap Yexian in the face?

Today's Taishi is also at the peak of his prestige in Mongolia, and he ordered the subordinates not to dare to disobey, and immediately ordered the general Boluo Mao Luohai to lead a large army to attack the city.

At the same time, he secretly contacted Liu An, the Bo of Guangning, through secret agents, and lured him to go to Beijing to report the news with Ming Yingzong's promise to seal him as a marquis.

It is said that the Mongolian army still wants to live in peace with the Ming Dynasty, and is even willing to marry his sister to Zhu Qizhen, and she will still be in the throne after returning to Beijing!

As long as more envoys are sent to send money, everything can be discussed, and it is easy to talk.

With the promise of becoming a marquis, Guangning Bo Liu An did not defend the city, and immediately returned to Beijing, leaving Guo Deng alone to face the 200,000 Mongolian army.

Treating the enemy before the war is magical enough, but there is also a scene where the nominal boss leaves the battle, which is a big joke in the world!

If the general of Datong Mansion is not the battle-hardened Guo Deng, maybe the historical trend of the Ming Dynasty will have another ending.

On August 29, the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, after a whole day of fighting, the corpses of the Mongols lay under the city of Datong.

As the first important town on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, Datong's city is deep and undoubted. The Mongolian army marched from Xuanfu to Datong for several days, and the steppe peoples, who were not good at attacking cities, did not even have the slightest preparation of siege equipment, so they relied on a few ladders to climb hard, and the result was conceivable.

In addition, in the process of defending the city, Guo Deng personally went to the front line to kill the enemy bravely, and shouted the slogan "Don't let the monarch die alone" to the soldiers.

The lord of the hall is willing to live and die with ordinary soldiers, and reciprocate with peach, how can the Datong defenders not be demoralized?

"Taishi, in such a hasty attack on Datong City, the sons and daughters have suffered too heavy casualties!"

Looking at the corpses all over the ground under the Datong city wall, Ah Razhiyuan finally couldn't help but persuade him.

On this day of attack, the Mongol army had already suffered thousands of casualties, and even if the strength of the Tumu Fort was greatly increased, it could not withstand such attrition.

Taishi also had bloodshot eyes at the moment, even if Arazhiyuan didn't say it, he actually knew in his heart that relying on the Mongol warriors to storm Datong City, even if it was finally captured, the heavy casualties would be unacceptable to Mongolia.

After all, a city like Datong is everywhere in the Central Plains, how many Mongolian sons and daughters' lives are needed to fill it?

What's more, his strategic goal is to capture the Jingshi!

"Aren't the Langs who retreat there now die in vain?"

The king of the journal was full of dissatisfaction, now that the Mongolian warriors are unstoppable, how can a group of cowardly barbarians be opponents.

As long as you persist in the offensive any longer, the first to collapse must be the Datong defenders!

"Arazhiyuan is right, the sons and daughters of Mongolia can't fall under the city of Datong."

Taishi also suppressed the anger and arrogance in his heart first, and calmly made the most rational judgment, and the gains of storming Datong City outweighed the losses.

"Big brother, as long as you attack for a few more days, you can take Datong City, and retreating at this time is equivalent to losing all your efforts!"

The king of Saikan is still unwilling, a group of remnants of the Datong defenders were defeated, and killing them in the battle of Yanghe was as simple as slaughtering a lamb, he didn't believe that he couldn't take it!

"King Saikan, our target is the Jingshi, the Central Plains!"

"Datong is just a gate to the Ming Kingdom, and there are many ways to get around it."

He didn't want to spend it in Datong City first, he had a vague premonition in his heart that he pulled Da Mingzi to knock on the door, wasting too much strategic time, but instead gave Ming Guo a chance to breathe.

Now we must hurry up and come to the Beijing Division, otherwise waiting for the arrival of the Qinwang Army from all over the Ming Empire, then the difficulty of capturing the Beijing Division will be far greater than today's Datong City.

"Big brother, which way are we going?"

"Bauhinia Pass!"

This route is actually the Ulzhou-Bauhinia Pass route back to Beijing that was denied by Zhu Qizhen at the beginning.

Since the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom is not leaving, let the Mongol army go!

On the last day of August of the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, when Yang Shan arrived in Beijing with the edict of the Zen throne, the officials of the imperial court were completely relieved. This means that there will be no extreme situation of one country and two kings, and from now on, the generals of the Ming border pass can righteously refuse Zhu Qizhen's request to open and close the city.

In addition to the edict of the Zen throne brought by Yang Shan, Guangning Bo Liu An and the second military intelligence messenger sent by Datong arrived in Beijing almost at the same time.

After entering the palace to face the saint, Liu An couldn't wait to say Zhu Qizhen's promise to make him a marquis, and he also said that he would donate gold and silver to the tile spur, so that he could welcome the emperor back to Beijing and still be on the throne, without realizing that Zhu Qiyu was no longer the former king of the servant.

In the face of this kind of Liwei target sent to the door, Zhu Qiyu refuted Liu Ansu for his lack of resourcefulness and the difficulty of saving the Bang family in front of all the courtiers; Not by the order of the court, the honor of the marquis.

The courtiers of the Beijing division are all human spirits, Zhu Qiyu's words are equivalent to a clear card, and the words of the emperor Zhu Qizhen are basically "fraudulent", and there is no longer any talk of paying a ransom to welcome him back to Beijing.

As a result, several officials of the Department of Science and Technology immediately stood up and impeached Guangningbo Liu An for leaving the town without permission, delaying the country, and being sentenced to death in prison!

Shen Yichen relied on the power of Conglong, from a small five-grade Zuochunfang scholar, to the current cabinet minister. Now that Zhu Qiyu's throne is stable, and he has revealed his control over power, he is still not loyal at this time, when will he wait?

Guangningbo Liu An may never have expected that not only was his dream of becoming a marquis shattered, but also caused a murderous disaster.

When the meeting dispersed, Shen Yichen quickly stopped Yu Qian, who was about to leave, and arched his hand towards him: "Da Sima, please stay, the lower official has something to discuss with you." ”

"Deceived Kangxi"

Although Yu Qian didn't know what Shen Yichen was doing to stop him, he still said politely: "To the north, if there is something to say, just say it." ”

"Xie Da Sima."

Shen Yichen thanked him, and then said: "Da Sima, after the Datong army reported that the Mongol army could not attack, it transferred its troops and horses to the south. Xia Guan thought that if there was no accident, he had no patience to continue knocking, and wanted to go straight to the Jingshi! ”

"You're right, the Taishi of the Tile Spur is not an incompetent person at first, he has been hit by a wall one after another, and the King of Yu has succeeded to the throne, he will definitely not continue to kill time at the border pass, and he will be under the city of Beijing in a few days at the earliest."

In fact, it is not difficult to guess the movements of Taishi Yexian, but how to deal with it is a big problem.

At present, there are already 100,000 Qinwang troops arriving one after another from all parts of the Beijing Division, plus more than 100,000 people who Shen Yichen retreated from Huailai City, in terms of numbers alone, the defenders of the Beijing Division are not too far behind the Tile Thorn army.

In terms of quality, it is far inferior!

This quality does not entirely refer to the quality of the soldiers, but the shortage of grain, grass and equipment is extremely exaggerated.

Needless to say, the army that Shen Yichen's retreat came back, the pro-conquest army lost their armor, and many people didn't even have a pair of pants when they fled for their lives, and they lacked tens of thousands of equipment.

The original defenders of the Beijing division were not much better, less than one-tenth of the soldiers had a complete armor stomach, and several people shared a weapon abounded. The Qinwang Army, which went to Beijing from other places, was more of a local reserve, and it was naturally impossible to get as much equipment as possible.

This kind of quality can barely be defended by relying on the city, and the field battle is probably completely unimaginable, which means that the Mongol army can advance and retreat freely, and there is no worries at all.

In addition, there is the old problem of grain and grass, even if the situation is urgent to the point that the soldiers are approaching the city, the transportation capacity of Cao Yun is not much, and it is still mainly the transfer of Qinwang's army, and a large number of grain and grass materials are stuck in Tongzhou and cannot move.

At today's court meeting, more and more courtiers agreed that a fire should be fired to the Tongzhou warehouse, so as not to fall into the hands of the Tartars.

Shen Yichen dared to speak out about other things, but he couldn't stand up against this matter. Because of his sensitive identity, the more he opposes it in the eyes of outsiders, the more he seems to have a ghost in his heart.

Now that Shen Yichen is in the critical period of gaining Zhu Qiyu's trust, he must show enough loyalty and show enough openness to gradually dispel the other party's suspicions and fears, and he can only hold his troops still.

Yu Qian is another breakthrough for Shen Yichen.

"Da Sima, it is urgent to transfer grain and grass in Tongzhou, otherwise the Mongolian army only needs to besiege for a few months, and the millions of soldiers and civilians in Beijing will be exhausted."

"Xiaguan has a candidate to recommend, which can solve the urgent need of grain and grass in Beijing!"

"Who does Shao Sima want to recommend?"

Yu Qian has always been right about things and not people, as long as Shen Yichen can really recommend talented people, he will definitely support him.

"Xiao Yi was born in a peasant family in the Hanlin Academy, he is modest and cautious, and he acts in an orderly manner, so he can take on this important responsibility!"

"Xiao Yi?"

Hearing this name, Yu Qian was a little unfamiliar.

After all, he was the governor of Shanxi and Henan all the year round, and he was only transferred to the military department of Beijing at the end of the twelfth year of orthodoxy, and he was not too familiar with the Beijing official group, let alone these juniors of the Hanlin Academy.

"Can he do it?"

"The lower officials are willing to vouch."

Shen Yichen didn't talk nonsense, since he wanted to choose to launch Xiao Yi's household department, he had to overcome all difficulties to get this thing done.

Looking at Shen Yichen's firm eyes, coupled with Yu Qian's understanding of him, he knew that he would not recommend incompetent people at will.

"Okay, then the official will be temporarily transferred to the Hanlin Academy to repair Xiao Yi, in charge of the transfer of grain and grass in Tongzhou."

"Xie Da Sima trusts!"

"Loyalty to the country is a matter of duty, and my mother needs to thank you."

Yu Qian didn't have too much politeness, and after agreeing, he waved his hand and left quickly, now the time for the Mongol army to attack the Beijing division is getting more and more urgent, and he still has too many pre-war preparations to plan.

After finalizing Xiao Yi's appointment, Shen Yichen quickly caught up with Qian Xili and expressed to his master that he expected to recommend Shang to participate in the court's promotion into the cabinet.

Compared with Xiao Yi's obscurity, Shang Shi had already enjoyed a high reputation among the literati group before the imperial examination was Chinese. After entering the Shihanlin Academy, his talent, character and style of action won the favor of many high-ranking officials of the imperial court.

In fact, there is no need for Shen Yichen to say more, Ni Qian, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, has already planned to inscribe his name to the imperial court, and participate in the court's promotion of the cabinet with He Pingyan, Yang Hongze and others.

Therefore, the process of recommending the merchant was smoother than recommending Xiao Yi to Yu Qian, and Qian Xili agreed without the slightest hesitation, ready to be jointly elected by the cabinet minister Gao Gu and the household department Shangshu Jin Lian!

After having done these two important things, Shen Yichen walked out of the palace gate with a slightly tired pace, and Bian He had been waiting here early on.

"The proprietor, you ordered your subordinates to investigate Zhu Ji's dealings with people in the palace, and now you have some eyebrows."

"Who?"

"The eunuch Cao Jixiang is the eunuch who has the seal."