"Qingjun's side?"

Apocalypse couldn't help but be shocked when he heard it.

Zhang Gui thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, they are in a hurry to jump over the wall, worried that the imperial court will use this matter to investigate gunpowder smuggling and find out about them." ”

Apocalypse was surprised, but also understood, nodded and sneered: "I don't know who cleaned whom!" If they dare to clear the king's side, I will dare to conquer it in person! ”

"Your Majesty really wants to do it yourself?"

Zhang Gui asked.

Tianqi nodded: "Now that my Ming Dynasty is rotten from the inside out, not only civil officials, but even the founding nobles have begun to collaborate with the enemy and betray the country, not to mention the self-respecting border generals in Liaodong, do you think I will not personally re-establish the emperor's prestige, what other way can I establish my prestige?" Could it be that just a few loyal ministers, relying on you, a relative, can do it? ”

Zhang Guidao: "But the soldier is a murder weapon!" Your Majesty has to think about it. ”

"I've already figured it out."

"Herald Ministry! The emperor's eldest son is the crown prince, and the ceremony will be held on a certain day! He was established as the crown prince, and pushed his uncle Zhang Gui to protect the emperor's eldest son, Jin Taikang Bo Zhang Guoji was the Taikang Marquis, and Zhang Gui, the left governor of the Chinese Military Governor's Mansion, was named Suizhou Bo. ”

Apocalypse suddenly decreed.

Immediately, Tianqi said to Zhang Gui: "Now Xia Yunyi is implementing the new policy pilot in Suizhou, and I am now sealing you Suizhou Bo, which is to ask you to do so in the future, once the Suizhou new policy pilot is implemented well, you will be assisted by the Crown Prince Zuo to continue to implement the law change." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is a relative."

Zhang Gui said with a solemn expression.

Tianqi smiled bitterly: "If I fail to pacify the traitors like the Martial Temple, then the crown prince needs you, a relative, to check and balance the Wenchen nobles, who let me already offend them!" They will not want my son to ascend to the throne, unless you force them to do so. ”

As he spoke, Apocalypse asked, "Do you understand?" ”

Zhang Guidao: "The minister understands! The minister thanked His Majesty for his Grace, but the minister hoped that His Majesty would come back alive! At this point in the Ming Dynasty, what is needed more is a wise and decisive son of heaven, rather than a young master. ”

"I'll do my best."

Apocalypse replied.

After receiving the decree, the Ministry of Rites really began to prepare for the ceremony of the eldest son of the emperor being crowned crown prince.

This is good news for many ministers who are really concerned about the safety of the Daming Society.

They have always regarded the crown prince as the foundation of the country, and believed that if the crown prince is determined, the country will be safe, and the world will be safe.

You must know that in the late Wanli period, for the eldest son of the emperor to be crowned the prince, there was a lot of uproar, and the court disputed for decades.

It's just that the current crown prince's uncle is Zhang Gui, who regards the scholar as a national thief.

Therefore, there are still many ministers who are not happy to talk about this matter.

But they can't oppose it openly, after all, they can't be ignored.

The eldest son of the emperor is now six years old, and he can also participate in the sealing of the main hall.

After the Apocalypse decreed that the Ministry of Rites began to prepare for the ceremony of enshrined the emperor's eldest son as the crown prince, he worshiped the Taimiao according to Zhang Gui's proposal, and explained to the ancestors of his Zhu family that Concubine Liu wanted to break the country's capital and interfere in the government.

Immediately, the apocalypse decreed that Concubine Liu would be hanged.

He did not choose to compromise because the governor of Jiliao, Wang Zhichen, and the general soldier Chen Hongfan thought that if he killed Concubine Liu, he would threaten the side of the Qing monarch with an army of 100,000.

Because the apocalypse is very clear, the Ming Dynasty has reached the time when the country is about to die, and there is no point in compromise, it is nothing more than that one of him and his son or grandson is the king of the country.

Concubine Liu glanced at Tianqi before throwing her tongue and said, "Your Majesty, if it weren't for his Uncle Zhang Guo's plan this time, you wouldn't have won." ”

Apocalypse smiled: "What if I lose?" You don't think I've thought about the consequences? The reason why I still do this is because I would rather let them scold and slander, and I will not let them live a better life when I am still the emperor! I'm not the emperor's grandfather, I won't hide in the deep palace, I can only sulk when I am scolded by one or two officials, I am not my father, I have to spit on myself when I am scolded, I am a person who would rather die than make me uncomfortable, I am such a man! ”

Concubine Liu smiled helplessly: "Sure enough, some people are afraid of a threat with a word or two, and some people are not afraid of holding a knife on their necks, what else can the old man say." The old body only hates, when I chose a concubine for you back then, I shouldn't have selected Empress Zhang into the top fifty, in that case, there would be no Uncle Zhang in my Ming Dynasty. You're definitely dead by now. ”

"Old man, hurry up and get on your way."

Zhu Youxiao said with a bad face.

"The old body obeys!"

Peng!

Not long after, the stool fell to the ground, and Concubine Liu hanged herself.

Soon after Concubine Liu hanged herself, the ceremony of establishing the crown prince began to be held.

The eldest son of the emperor officially became the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty.

During this time, the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies were already preparing for the Apocalypse.

On the day before the Apocalypse, Zhang Gui was summoned to Xiyuan to see His Majesty.

Tianqi asked Zhang Gui and said, "You are the commander of the Beijing camp, how do you plan to guard the Beijing Division, after I leave?" ”

"Your Majesty, please let your Majesty only guard the gate of the palace city and the inner and outer cities!"

Zhang Gui replied.

After hearing this, Tianqi asked Zhang Gui, "Why?" ”

"I want to fish!"

Zhang Gui replied.

"What do you mean?"

Apocalypse asked.

Zhang Guidao: "The minister believes that His Majesty will win!" But some people won't believe it, or don't want to believe it. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Gui informed Tianqi of his thoughts.

Tianqi smiled slightly after hearing this, and then said: "This is also good, it is conducive to you to gather the trustworthy soldiers and horses, and if there is really any accident, it will be easier to take the crown prince to escape from the capital." ”

The next day, Tianqi took his Martial Arts Academy enlisted students corps and the newly formed Guards Guards Battalion and the Second Battalion with the enlisted students of the first phase of the Armed Forces Academy as the backbone, totaling more than 20,000 horse infantry troops out of Beijing and came to Jizhou.

In order to better manage the newly formed soldiers and horses belonging to the Son of Heaven, Zhang Gui called these armies composed of officers and students of the Armed Forces Academy as the backbone of the Guards, and they were all called the first battalion and the second battalion in such sequences, but the battalion with the highest proportion of veterans and the highest loyalty was not called the first battalion, and was specially called the Praetorian Guard Battalion for glory.

On the morning of the day when the Apocalypse left Beijing, Zhang Gui received an order to control the defense of the palace and the inner and outer city gates, and the rest of the inner and outer city gates were handed over to other nobles and civil officials of the military department to guard and other soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp.

In addition to Mangui's Shenshu Battalion, which has now been ordered to continue to defend the inner court, and is only controlled by Zhang Gui, there is also Sun Yingyuan's department of the Xishan battalion that can be directly controlled, and Sun Yingyuan's department has replaced Zhou Yuji's forward battalion in advance to take over the defense of the inner and outer cities of the Beijing Division.

This time, Sun Yingyuan also received the will, and was only controlled by Zhang Gui, and was responsible for the will of the inner and outer city gates.

Sun Yingyuan didn't know what the intention of the apocalypse was arranged, but only thought that it was because of the expansion of the Beijing camp now, so that more troops could be concentrated to defend every part of the city gate.

When Tianqi led his own guards and the enlisted students of the Armed Forces Academy to Jizhou, Wang Zhichen also learned that Tianqi was going to recruit him personally.

After Wang Zhichen learned about this, he called Chen Hongfan over: "You tell this hall honestly, how many soldiers and horses we have. ”

Chen Hongfan replied: "There is always 80,000. ”

"That's good, 80,000 against 20,000, the advantage is mine!"

Wang Zhichen nodded, and said: "The tyrant has personally led his troops to crusade against us, and he refuses to give in, so this hall has decided to immediately lead his troops to clear the king's side. ”

"Yes!"

A few days later, the governor of Jiliao, Wang Zhichen, and the general soldier of Jizhou, Chen Hongfan, led his soldiers and horses to pour out.

Syllable!

It's just that as soon as he left the city, Wang Zhichen gave Chen Hongfan a slap, pointed to the sparse soldiers and horses in front of him, and asked Chen Hongfan:

"Eighty thousand soldiers and horses?!"

"Don't you know how to count?!"

"You tell the whole church the truth, how much money have you eaten?!"