The king's ministers crawled towards the apocalypse.

As soon as he climbed in front of the apocalypse, Wang Zhichen wept and said, "Your Majesty! The minister is wronged, the minister is really wronged! When the minister first went to the book, he was forced by the rebel Chen Hongfan! ”

"He threatened the whole family of the ministers, and asked the ministers to threaten His Majesty, and the ministers threatened that if Your Majesty did not listen to what was said in the book, he would lead 100,000 soldiers and horses to Qingjun's side!"

"Your Majesty! If he hadn't forced the ministers so much, the ministers would never have dared to threaten the king! Whining! ”

After Wang Zhichen continued, he began to cry even more miserably.

Immediately, Wang Zhichen kept kowtowing to the apocalypse: "Your Majesty forgives your sins!" Your Majesty forgives your sins! ”

At the same time, he also glanced at the apocalypse from time to time, and after glancing at it, he continued to howl and perform his performance hard.

Seeing this, Tianqi directly ordered Lu Xiangsheng to take down Wang Zhichen, and ordered the division to return to the court, only to order Xiong Tingbi to serve as the governor of Jiliao first, and lead some soldiers and horses to chase and suppress the remnants of the enemy.

For Apocalypse, his pro-campaign did not feel at all.

The key is the first time to kiss the expedition, and the result is lonely.

He thought that there were really 100,000 rebels, and no matter how he said it, he would have to fight for more than ten days, and he might even die on the battlefield, so he was in a hurry to set up the crown prince and explain the future to Zhang Gui.

But what he didn't expect was that the 100,000 rebels who said they were good actually didn't even have 10,000, and the key was that his spear hadn't seen blood yet, and the rebel commander would run first and kneel first.

Chen Hongfan finally ran back to Jizhou City here, he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and said to himself: "It's so dangerous, I knew this earlier, it's better to go directly to the gate and take refuge in the Tartars." ”

After Chen Hongfan entered Jizhou City, he didn't rest for long, Xiong Tingbi first led a group of soldiers and horses to chase after him, and surrounded Jizhou City.

When Chen Hongfan learned about it, he hurriedly organized people to defend.

But at this time, the meticulous workers of the West Factory in the city have already spread the news among the low-level pawns in Jizhou: "Open the city gate quickly!" Open the city gate to find the emperor to ask for silver! The emperor is here to pay us silver! Why bother to work for the rebel general surnamed Chen! ”

In the border army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many times the upper-level officers were seriously paid empty salaries, while the soldiers at the bottom were seriously short of salaries.

Therefore, at this time, after the fine work of the West Factory was dispersed, the Jizhou soldiers below directly took the initiative to open the city gate and welcomed Xiong Tingbi in.

Chen Hongfan soon learned from his own family that the Jizhou soldiers below surrendered because they thought that the imperial court was coming to pay the salary, and he couldn't help but be furious for a while: "Why are you so anxious to get paid, is it so important to pay two days late?!" ”

After Xiong Tingbi entered the city, he saw that many people wanted to pay silver, so he simply left someone to pay them, and soon, these soldiers received the salary, and they were very happy.

"I finally received the salary, and if I don't get it, I will starve to death."

The border soldiers of Jizhou said with emotion.

And Chen Hongfan was quickly captured alive by Xiong Tingbi here.

……

Zhang Gui also changed into a stomach and began to take the initiative to patrol around the imperial city with a team of family members.

In the entire imperial city, it was quite quiet during the period when the Apocalypse left Beijing to conquer in person.

But outside the imperial city, in the inner and outer cities of Jingshi, rumors are already spreading, and people's hearts are in turmoil.

News is already circulating that 100,000 rebels have arrived in Beijing.

There is also news that the Son of Heaven was defeated and killed by the rebels.

There are also many reports that the Son of Heaven was captured alive like Yingzong back then.

There are even rumors that this time the rebels are also like Li Sancai and other rebels who have been captured into the Kou, so the Beijing division is in danger.

In short, there is everything to say.

The green-skinned hooligans began to run amok against the law.

Many shops in Jingshi have also closed their doors.

The people did not dare to go out.

Even the brocade guards don't patrol the streets much.

Many powerful bureaucrats who were already dissatisfied with the New Deal and with the present day also began to hope for a big change.

On this day, news began to come out of nowhere, saying that there had been rebel sentry horses outside, which made the capital even more panicked for a while.

Xu Xigao, the Duke of Dingguo, who guarded the Xuanwu Gate, asked Xu Jiu, a domestic slave he had sent to inquire outside the city, at this time: "How is it, are there many soldiers and horses outside the city, but the rebels?" ”

Xu Jiu didn't dare to go out of the city to inquire, but hid in other places in the city for a night, and when he saw Xu Xigao asking, he replied: "It's a rebel!" Looting everywhere, crying everywhere, fires everywhere. ”

Li Chunye, the left attendant of the military department, who was also here, hurriedly asked, "How many rebels are there?" ”

Xu Jiu replied: "About 180,000, densely packed, I can't count the specifics." ”

After hearing this, Li Chunye looked at Xu Xigao: "It seems that the Son of Heaven is more auspicious." ”

"Kneel down in Kaejo."

Xu Xigao said suddenly.

Li Chunye nodded: "The prince is planning for the world, leading the righteous teacher to clear the monarch's side, and he is the minister who turns the tide for the society, so he should kneel to greet him!" ”

"Now it seems that the foundation of the tyrant has been broken, and the new deal can be abolished!"

Linhuai Marquis Li Zushu also said with a smile at this time, and asked: "But now the Imperial City and Chongwenmen are still in the hands of the traitor Zhang Gui's people, how can it be good?" ”

"Whatever, as soon as the righteous master on the side of Qingjun arrives, how can he stop the general trend with him."

Li Chunye said a word, and said: "Without further ado, open the city early tomorrow morning and kneel to welcome the righteous teacher!" ”

Xu Xigao and the others all nodded.

Early the next morning.

When the morning light was faint, the thousand-step corridor in the Daming Gate was not as usual, and many officials came to the office.

On the contrary, many officials were hurrying out of the city.

At this time, Xu Xigao, the Duke of Dingguo, and Li Chunye, the left attendant of the Ministry of War, had already opened the Xuanwu Gate.

Linhuai Marquis Li Zushu opened the Yongding Gate.

Yangwu Marquis Xue Lian opened Zuo'an Gate.

These civil and military officials all came to the gate of Yongding and knelt down neatly.

Even the scholar Gu Bingqian, the eunuch Du Xu, the Shuntian Mansion Yin Liu Zhixuan, and the Guanglu Temple Qing Pan Ruzhen also knelt down.

The reason why they knelt to greet them was because they didn't know whether Wang Zhichen, the governor of Jiliao, would lead the army to call himself emperor or continue to support the descendants of the Zhu family as emperors.

Tianqi had just returned to Beijing at this time, and as soon as he rode his horse into the Yongding Gate, he heard the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs kneeling on the ground, facing the ground and shouting: "Welcome to the prince!" ”

"Prince?"

Apocalypse was amazed when he heard this.

"Zhu Youxiao is cruel and unreasonable, kills the concubine without permission, treats the gentry harshly, is lewd and lustful, favors and treacherous, and the world has suffered for a long time. With the presence of the prince, the world is very fortunate, and all the people are very fortunate! ”

Gu Bingqian, a university scholar, even said so at this time.

Li Chunye, the left attendant of the military department, also said: "The tyrant harms the people and the country, and the world looks forward to the prince like a rain in a long drought!" Now that the prince has finally arrived, the prosperity can be expected! ”

Wang Zhichen, who was sitting in the prison car, wanted to die at this time.

He wanted to roar, "Enough of you! I finally transferred all the blame to Chen Hongfan, and you embarrass me like this now! ”

Tianqi didn't laugh angrily at this time, and whispered a few words to Lu Xiangsheng, making Lu Xiangsheng say: "The prince you kneeling to greet has something to ask you." ”

"Princess, excuse me."

The ministers replied.

"Can Zhang Gui and the crown prince be here?"

"Nope! The traitor Zhang Gui and the crown prince are still in the palace, and they are willing to persuade this traitor to surrender as the prince's envoy! Let him sacrifice the crown prince! ”

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Li Chunye said a word first at this time.