Yu Ren naturally understood the meaning of Zhao Nanxing's last few words. He must have been born as a military general. At present, the situation in the capital is critical, and when he is using force, he, who is praised by the Chinese people as the first general of the new dynasty, is of course impossible to be idle.

So he can stay at home for a while, but because no one knows that he has returned to Beijing yet. If those bigwigs in the DPRK and China knew that he had returned to Beijing, Yu Ren estimated that they would have called someone to invite him a long time ago, and where would he be idle. Although he is unofficial and light, he must be here with a horse on his back! At such an important juncture related to the society of the country, he naturally did not want to hide anymore.

Thinking of this, Yu Ren hurriedly said goodbye to Zhao Peng and went home. He now cherishes the time he spends with his family. Now that Zhao Nanxing has gone out, and there is nothing urgent to do for the time being, he plans to go home and stay. Watching his wife and coaxing his children is a rare happiness for him.

As soon as he left Zhao's mansion, Yu Ren heard someone shouting behind him. "Is it Yu Juma in front?"

Yu Ren was a little surprised, there were not many people who knew him in Beijing, and it was very unfamiliar to hear this voice.

Yu Ren turned around and saw a small sedan chair stop a few steps behind him, and an old man in his sixties walked out of the sedan chair at this time. Outside the sedan door, a eunuch in his forties was reaching out to help the old man out of the sedan chair. Judging from the clothes, this eunuch should be the eunuch on duty in the palace, and his status is not low.

Seeing this, Yu Ren was very confused.

You must know that although the status of the eunuchs in the Forbidden City is very low, no matter how low they are, they are also people around the emperor, and the people who can enjoy their services must at least be the princes, even if they are these people, they can only enjoy them once or twice occasionally when they are special.

Even Zhao Nanxing, although he is now the secretary of the Ministry of Officials and the head of the Donglin Party, he has never enjoyed this kind of treatment. And the old man in front of him was able to enjoy such treatment, and judging by his natural movements, it was obviously not the first time he had enjoyed this kind of treatment.

If it weren't for Yu Ren knowing that the current emperor was a young man under twenty, he would really suspect that the one in front of him was a private visit by the emperor.

However, if it is not the emperor, who is this old man? A big question mark appeared in Yu Ren's mind for a while.

The old man walked out of the sedan chair with the support of the eunuch, let go of the eunuch's hand, and bowed to Yu Ren, "The young rope has just arrived at the Zhao Mansion, and I heard that Yu Yuma has just left, so I hurried here." At present, the national situation is dangerous, and if you are presumptuous, you can still hope that the horses are not strange. ”

When Yu Ren heard the other party's name, he couldn't help but be even more confused. "Childish rope?" This should be the old man's words. The old man does not call himself by his own name, which is intended to be close to himself, and this way of registering for a self-proclaimed name is generally called this among peers. It can be seen that this old man is quite polite to Yu Ren, although he has a high status and is old, he does not look like an elder at all. This made Yu Ren's first impression of him very good.

However, although the impression is good, Yu Ren still doesn't know who it is at this time.

When Yu Ren was confused, Zhao Peng trotted all the way over. He first saluted the old man, calling himself a little nephew, and then hurriedly walked up to Yu Ren and whispered to him, "This is the teacher of the Holy Lord today, Master Sun." ”

Yu Ren understood it all at once.

It turned out that the old man in front of him was Sun Chengzong, a scholar and emperor, who had just asked someone to call Zhao Nanxing. No wonder he was able to enjoy this kind of service that even the princes could not easily enjoy!

With the identity of this old man, he came to the door to invite him in person, and there must be something important to ask for. You must know that with his identity, even if he asks Zhao Nanxing, he can just send someone to pass on a message. But when Yu Ren was invited, he came to the door in person. This can only show that he has something to ask Yu Ren, and it is definitely not an ordinary thing.

Therefore, after listening to Zhao Peng's words, Yu Ren was not complacent, but frowned. And Zhao Peng's eyes when he looked at Yu Ren were obviously a little admired. How could Zhao Peng not worship the person who could let Scholar Sun come to invite him personally, not to mention that Yu Ren was still so young.

Sun Chengzong saw Yu Ren frowning, but he did not hesitate, but stepped forward and took Yu Ren's hand and boarded a carriage with him immediately behind the sedan chair, as if he was afraid that Yu Ren would run away.

"Let's go, the Holy One asked the young rope to invite the horses to discuss the plan."

Yu Ren heard that the emperor invited him, but of course he didn't dare to push the commission. Although he didn't really want to go.

Sun Chengzong took Yu Ren to the palace. I met the Emperor of the Apocalypse in the side hall.

This is the second time Yu Ren has seen the new emperor Zhu Youxiao. The first time I saw the emperor was after Yu Ren got married, and accompanied Princess Mochizuki Zhu Yueyue to Beijing to thank him.

At that time, the emperor was high and looked like a saint worshiped by thousands of people. At this time, he was constantly walking around the room, looking anxious, revealing his impetuous youthful nature.

Sun Chengzong walked to the door of the side hall and saw the emperor Zhu Youzheng with his hands behind his back, anxiously pacing back and forth in the room, so he couldn't help coughing. Although the emperor is respected by hundreds of millions of people, in the eyes of Sun Chengzong, he is also his own student.

Seeing that his students were so breathless, of course he wanted to give a reminder. It's just that in front of outsiders, this can't be said, otherwise it will damage the emperor's prestige. However, when Zhu Youxiao heard the teacher's cough and saw his eyes again, he immediately understood what the teacher meant.

Seeing the teacher's eyes, Zhu Jianxiao returned to the middle of the room and sat back on the big chair that belonged to him.

Only then did Yu Ren hurriedly step forward and prepare to bow to Zhu Jianxiao. Although he is not used to this kind of etiquette, he can't help but follow the customs of the locals. What's more, the person sitting on it at this time is the emperor.

As soon as Zhu Youxiao saw that Yu Ren was about to bow down, he quickly pulled him up.

"Why do you have to see the horse, you and my brother don't have to make this big gift." After speaking, Zhu Youxiao helped Yu Ren to a chair next to him and sat down.

When Yu Ren saw that Zhu Youxiao was suddenly so polite to him, his heart was even tighter. You must know that the last time he saw Zhu Youxiao, he accepted his kneeling unceremoniously at all. And this time, he only bent down and was helped up. It seems that this time it must be very spicy!

Yu Ren thought like this, but did not take the initiative to ask, but looked around. At this time, there were about ten ministers sitting in the side hall, and his father-in-law Zhao Nanxing was also among them, and Zhao Nanxing was also sitting with Ye Xianggao, the head of the cabinet, and at this time Sun Chengzong also sat down.

"I heard that the Jurchens sent troops south again. What is the best way to defend against the enemy? Zhu Youxiao didn't speak after seeing Yu Ren sit down, and finally couldn't hold his breath and took the initiative.

Yu Ren was slightly surprised when he heard this. He really didn't expect the Jurchens to be so bold. They have made such a big move behind them, and they dare to divide their troops to the south.

"How many soldiers and horses are there?"

"About five thousand." Sun Chengzong said.

Yu Ren's nervous mood was suddenly relaxed. It turned out that there were only 5,000 people, and he thought that Nurhachi had poured out of the nest again! With the natural male pass of Shanhaiguan, it is naturally impossible to resist the 5,000 cavalry of the Jurchens. But looking at the expressions of Zhu Youxiao and everyone around them, they were obviously frightened.

However, this is not surprising, after all, none of them have really fought with the Jurchens, but they have seen that the Jurchens and the Ming army have won more with less than several encounters, and they are all easy to win, especially in the recent battle, the Jurchens defeated Wang Huazhen almost bloodlessly. And after Wang Huazhen was defeated and returned to Guannei, in order to shirk the responsibility for the defeat, those defeated soldiers and generals naturally inevitably deliberately deified the Jurchens, saying that they were as terrible and invincible as demons.

In this way, those who had not really fought the Jurchens on the battlefield were influenced by this kind of rhetoric and thought that the Jurchens were so terrifying that they were invincible. This is also the fundamental reason why the entire capital has been shrouded in an atmosphere of panic for the past two months.

And under the influence of this overall atmosphere, the young emperor will inevitably be affected by it. And those civil servants who don't know about military affairs have long lost the courage to fight.

However, Yu Ren had fought against the Jurchens many times, and he knew very well how strong the Jurchens were. I heard that there were only 5,000 Jurchen cavalry, and the garrison within 100 miles of the capital was at least 200,000 at the moment in Daming Pass, so he was not worried at all.

"It's only 5,000 people, so it shouldn't be a problem. How many garrisons do we have in Shanhaiguan at the moment? Yu Ren asked.