The palace of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty started construction in the 25th year of Hongwu, and was built on the basis of the palace of the emperor, covering a total area of 285 acres, with a length of 210 zhang from north to south and a width of 78 zhang from east to west.

Among them, there are more than 20 large and small palaces and more than 800 houses. The palace is profound, the corridor is tortuous, the corridor is connected, the houses are scattered, and the royal style is extremely full.

It is such a palace where there are eleven generations of vassals living and dealing with political affairs here, and the luxury is not lost to the palace, and finally with the death of Zhu Chuan, the rule of the vassal king is declared to be over, and the huge palace is captured and occupied by the army that stays in Datong, and it has long been empty.

If there are civil officials, after retaking Datong, they will definitely persuade Chongzhen to move into the palace of the king, so as to send a signal to the people that the imperial power of the Zhu family will be restored.

But Chongzhen himself disagreed with this, this kind of symbol of imperial power was all summarized by him as a vain thing, in contrast to him paid more attention to the actual role of things, so he had the idea of placing tens of thousands of refugees in the palace with a wave of his hand.

Chongzhen ordered, Jiang Hao carried it out, as a military attaché, he naturally would not think about the problem like a civilian official, and after driving all the refugees to the open space between the gates of the palace and arranging soldiers to guard them, he ignored them.

In Jiang Hao's opinion, there are only a group of untouchables left and right, and letting them in is already benevolent and righteous, and His Majesty is simply doing this more.

Although the palace is no longer magnificent, in the eyes of ordinary people, just the surrounding vermilion walls are already unattainable.

There was no shelter in the open space, and tens of thousands of people sat together in the rain. Some people came out with a cart and put bedding and thatch on the cart, so they found a way to tie some farm tools and stand next to the cart, spread the bedding on it, and spread a layer of thatch, so that there was simply a small place to shelter from the rain.

What about people who have nowhere to shelter from the rain? Holding an umbrella, no matter how miserable it is, sitting on the ground without saying a word in the rain, the hardships of the world seem to be accustomed.

There was an old man with crane hair standing under the canopy of his own car, holding a dry tobacco bag in his hand, looking worriedly at the rain-soaked villagers around him, and a baby-faced frozen iron blue shrunk in the arms of adults.

The old man knocked the cigarette pouch on the wheel of the car, and said to his son who was hiding from the rain next to him: "Tie Sheng, go with Dad." ”

Tie Sheng hugged his arms and rubbed them up and down, so that his body could be warmer, "Ah Da, it's still raining, I can't go." ”

"A ball baby, looking for a fight!"

Tie Sheng was kicked by the old man on the thigh, so he reluctantly followed out of the tent, only to feel that the rain was cold on his body, and he didn't know what the old man had to go out for.

The old man led the way, walked in front of the Ming, and muttered: "If you continue to pour like this, you will die." ”

After walking for a long distance, it was not until the clothes on the two of them were soaked that they saw the soldiers guarding at the gate.

"Wait, what are you two going to do?" The soldier tapped the tip of his gun and motioned for the two to stop.

Originally, if they got closer, they couldn't get drenched in the rain when they entered the gate, but looking at the posture of the guards, the two didn't dare to move again.

There is a plaque hanging on the gate, three big characters on the book, the soldiers stand in the shelter from the wind and rain, and the old man leads his son to stand in the rain, only three steps apart.

The old man wiped the water on his face, changed his frowns to a smile, and said, "E, I am the head of Niutou Village, I want to ask the military master if he knows how the adults above plan to settle us next?" ”

"Isn't this settled? Go, go, go back to your own place. ”

"Eh, don't blame the military master, we just want to ask, the rain has been drenching like this, isn't it a thing, the adults let us into the city, don't you care about us."

"Adult's business can also be arranged by you old thing? you. The soldier kicked the old man as he spoke, but it didn't take much force, but the action was the same as the old man's kicking Tiesheng.

The old man staggered and fell backwards, but fortunately Tie Sheng was fast, if he fell to the ground on the back of his head, he was afraid that he would suffer.

Tie Sheng helped the old man and scolded at the soldiers: "Dogs fight human power. ”

"Hey, what did you kid say? Tell me more? Seeing this, several soldiers on the side also gathered around.

Seeing that Tie Sheng was going to say more, the old man slapped him in the face, Tie Sheng was stunned for a moment, and looked at the old man with an aggrieved face.

"I'm sorry, my stupid son is not sensible, don't worry about him, let's go, let's go."

"Don't go, let him speak."

"Tie Sheng, kneel to make amends to the military master, a few military masters, let's kowtow to you."

The old man knelt down and kowtowed together according to Tie Sheng's head, and there was a "knock" on the ground.

When a few soldiers saw the two like this, they wanted to stop and let them go.

The cold rain fell on Tie Sheng's face, and when he slid to the corner of his eyes, he felt hot, he was forced to rain it, he was forced to apologize, and he was forced to kowtow, and Tie Sheng, who was extremely aggrieved, shed tears, regretting why he didn't rebel in the first place.

"I'm going to smash you to death!" Tie Sheng couldn't think about it for a while, shook off the old man's hand, gritted his teeth and got up from the ground, and waved his fist to rush towards the soldiers.

But as if even God looked down on him, Tie Sheng's feet slipped and fell to the ground, and his mouth was full of blood and teeth collapsed all over the ground.

The soldiers were startled by his strange roar, and were about to defend themselves, but when they saw his wretched appearance, they laughed.

The old man crawled to Tie Sheng's side helplessly, slowly helped his son up, and motioned for him to stop talking, and the two snuggled up to each other and walked back.

"Son, we don't deserve to fight with the soldiers, don't be angry, okay?" Tie Sheng's mouth was numb, he couldn't speak, and nodded gloomily in agreement.

"Alas!" The old man seems to have aged a lot in an instant, when is this world a head.

"Eyes and buttocks? Get out of the way! I only heard a scolding from behind him, Chongzhen rode a horse to lead the way, followed by Chen Zhuo and his own soldiers, and the soldiers guarding the door wanted to come forward to ask who was coming, but was scolded by Chen Zhuo.

Before in the barracks, Chongzhen remembered the refugees and asked Chen Zhuo, but Chen Zhuo was speechless. Chongzhen saw his reaction, vaguely guessed the truth, and immediately rode to the palace of the king, he wanted to see it with his own eyes.

When passing by the old man and Tie Sheng, Chongzhen couldn't help but glance back, and saw that Tie Sheng's face was covered with blood, so he immediately turned the horse's head and turned back.

"Old man, what's going on?" Chongzhen pointed to Tie Sheng's face, the old man looked back at the guards of the gate, and the guards also gathered together to look at him, but the old man hesitated and didn't dare to speak.

It wasn't until he remembered Tie Sheng's bloody face and the few good teeth left in his mouth that he gritted his teeth and told what had happened.

"You've done a good job, you've done a good job!" Chongzhen's face was purple, his hands holding the saddle trembled, and he tried his best to clean up the hearts of the people, but he was completely thrown away in a blink of an eye.

Calm down, stay calm, Chongzhen kept persuading himself in his heart, it's not time yet.

"A few of you go and cut down the leader, and the rest of the cold-eyed bystanders will be whipped fifty."

"No."

"Chen Zhuo, summon the city medicine practitioner to come to the palace on behalf of the king, and send an order to Sun Xuanhuai, I need him to prepare a large number of dry clothes, bedding, and food immediately."

"No."