Liu Qinglian rushed to Cining Palace, and Zhang Guoji had already left.

It stands to reason that Zhang Guoji doesn't need to participate in the court meeting, he is so old, he can't do anything for the country, and the main thing is that Zhang Guoji is the father of the Queen Mother, and this status is noble.

Similarly, Zhou Kui never participates in court meetings, Guozhang? No one will say anything if they do not participate. However, what makes Zhang Guoji a little opinion, Zhou Kui is just that, but Zhou Kui's two sons and one nephew have received unprecedented rewards, either the governor, or the governor Tongzhi, who is young, why don't he go to court? Are you doing something for someone else? Your sister is the queen, do you know? Brothers in battle, fathers and sons in battle.

Since the beginning of February, Li Zicheng led his troops across the Yellow River and fought all the way to the north, Zhang Guoji, who had not been to the court for a long time, began to participate in the early dynasty again, he wanted to know the situation, what could he do to help the imperial court?

The most important thing is that he is worried about Zhang Yan, after all, Zhang Yan is the queen mother of the dynasty, what should he do if the situation is not secondary?

He pitied his daughter, he was widowed at a young age, he was only in his early twenties at that time, if this is still a common man, he has to find a home for his daughter, you see what kind of life this girl lives all day long.

People are not afraid of the difficulties of the present, but they are afraid that there is no hope for the future, isn't this the case with their daughters? What hope do you have for those who have no children and no daughters? Thinking of his daughter's situation, Zhang Guoji and his wife burst into tears.

However, where is the status of the daughter, you can't do whatever you want like ordinary people, so more often, the old couple can only enter the palace to see the girl.

However, Zhang Guoji is so happy today, not to mention that the old Zhang family has such a promising child, and he also recognized his daughter as a mother, he obviously watched Zhang Yan's mental state change.

This is the girl's heart that feels hopeful.

Zhang Guoji felt that he had to thank the emperor for this, this emperor is good, not only respectful of his daughter as an elder, but also take care of the two of them in life, and his daughter can recognize Zhu Cixuan, the child, it seems that the emperor meant.

No matter what, today's saints care for our Zhang family, and the emperor's grace is mighty! So, Zhang Guoji also came to the spirit, went home to change horses, and today he wants to escort the Son of Heaven.

Liu Qinglian knelt down and kowtowed to Zhang Yan when she came in, and Zhang Yan pulled Liu Qinglian up with a smile.

"Do you like the son of the mourning family very much?"

That's too straightforward, isn't it? How do you answer? made Liu Qinglian very embarrassed.

replied that he liked it, and the two of them had just spent a night, in addition to saying a long thing, they did something else, does it still mean that when they say they like it?

What a shame! Liu Qinglian could only lower her head and not speak.

Zhang Yan also knew that Liu Qinglian was shy, "Sit down, let's talk for a while, and then we will add up what we will do, and do what you need." ”

Liu Qinglian was stunned, could it be that Xianggong had come to Cining Palace? What did you say to the Queen Mother?

But Liu Qinglian's heart was too happy, what did the Queen Mother say? Say they're mothers? Did the Queen Mother admit me as a daughter-in-law? Am I the Queen Mother's daughter-in-law now? Didn't the Queen Mother mean yesterday that I should be a roommate? That's it, and you have to wait for the prime minister to marry the eldest lady before you can give the name.

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After the dispersal of the dynasty, Li Guozhen and Zhu Chunchen came together, and both of them had a feeling of impending disaster.

Why did the emperor suddenly want to inspect the troops? Did someone report something? Both of them had suspicious faces on their faces.

The point is what to do today? If you really pull the troops outside the Chaoyang Gate, the emperor will be generous and thunderous when he sees it, and what will happen next? You can figure it out with your feet.

The current situation of the three armies in Gyeonggi knows better than anyone else, because there was a plague in the capital in the spring and summer of last year, and half of the common people died, and half of the three armies of Gyeonggi died.

This is nothing, the emperor has already been reported, who has a way when the plague arises? The key is that the rest of the people are old and weak, not to mention, there are too many hypocrisy, accounting for nearly a quarter, this count, doesn't the emperor know everything? It's too late to find someone to replace you! It's a head-off thing.

Besides, there is no shortage of anything in the current capital, but there is a shortage of people, alas, all of them are plague-ridden.

In addition, if something goes wrong, that is, the emperor wants to spare them, and the ministers will not do it, this is not an ordinary crime of dereliction of duty, there are still many people in the court who are not afraid of heaven and earth, these people are arching the fire, the emperor will never let them go, soldiers, but the emperor's heart.

What's even more terrifying is that even if the emperor doesn't name and check, the emperor can't spare those soldiers in terms of their mental state?

Those bastard things, since they are soldiers, they have to do a good job in their bodies, and they know how to support their wives and children when they earn two dollars, mother, and I don't want to think about it, if you hang up, can you continue to earn money? Sooner or later, the wife and children will starve to death, how simple is this? Why don't you understand one by one?

Speechless! Speechless! It's so speechless!

Zhu Chunchen explained: "Guozhen, in this way, you immediately notify all the troops to select strong people to gather together, and then say that there are too many soldiers and horses in the three armies of Gyeonggi, and it is very time-consuming to assemble them. ”

Li Guozhen said: "Brother, I think the same way, this is the only way to do it." ”

"Hmmm! You first determine with the Ministry of War what project to perform, and then quickly assemble the troops, I will find a few people to ventilate, in case the emperor says anything, everyone will help, and no one can run away if something happens. ”

"Good! Don't let the British guy know, this guy keeps an eye on us and wants to get into trouble?"

"I know this, isn't he just not convinced of me? Didn't he just want to come out and take care of the big things? Don't look at his virtue! ”

The British duke that the two of them are talking about is called Zhang Shize, and the original British duke was awarded to Zhang Shize's ancestor Zhang Fu, and he is the ninth generation of Yin Xing.

Zhang Fu, whose ancestral home is Kaifeng, Henan, was originally the son of Zhang Yu, a general under Zhu Di of Chengzu in the Ming Dynasty, and a general when Chengzu was the king of Yan.

Yongle Chuxing, the first four dukes, namely Qi Guogong Qiu Fu, Chengguo Gong Zhu Neng, Rongguo Gong Zhang Yu, Jing Guogong Chen Heng, of which Zhang Yu Chen Heng was posthumously sealed after the war, at that time, the most noble were Qiu Fu and Zhu Neng.

Zhu Neng, Zhu Chunchen's ancestor.

Zhu Di experienced numerous setbacks in the Battle of Jingyan, and was initially chased and beaten by Zhu Yunwen's soldiers, Qiu Fu's soldiers were defeated in the Yuqu River and died in fame; Zhu Neng died of illness on the journey.

If you think about it, you can also know, how can the strength of a king compete with a country? Fighting big with small, Zhu Di wanted to surrender at that time, he lost his head early and lost his head late, and finally lost his head.

At this time, Zhang Fu, the son of Zhang Yu's family, was born and helped Zhu Di seize power, and then, Zhang Fu also fought Annan and conquered Mobei, and became the first general of the Yongle Dynasty in one fell swoop.

Objectively speaking, Zhang Fu's duke deserves his name, after all, there are very few famous generals who have the merit of destroying the country, but in any case, the illustrious British family of the Ming Dynasty was born, and Zhang Fu naturally became the leader of the Jing Nan Honor.

But Zhang Fu is different from others, in addition to being able to lead troops to fight, there are two strengths, one is to love reading and studying, polite, shameless to ask, is simply a role model for people, the other is to live a long life, Li Shi Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, orthodox four dynasties, the prestige is very high, but not arrogant, still dedicated to the auxiliary government, since then, Zhang Fu British family, became the highest duke of the Ming Dynasty, passed the ninth to Zhang Shize.

Wang Zhen, the great eunuch of Yingzong, is powerful, right? The emperor is the first and he is the second, and Zhang Fu dares to compete with Wang Zhen in the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty. Even the later nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian did not dare to touch the seventh British Duke Zhang Weixian, who was related to the three major cases, and the strength of the old Zhang family was really not boasted.

Later, after the death of Emperor Tianqi, Zhang Shize's father Zhang Weixian entered the palace at the behest of Empress Zhang Yan to accept the edict of Emperor Tianqi, thus exposing Wei Zhongxian's conspiracy to keep it secret and not mourning, maintaining the Ming Dynasty that was in danger, and creating conditions for Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen to ascend the throne!

But the British Duke Zhang Shize, who later took over, did not do Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and gradually stepped aside, do you say that Zhang Shize can convince Zhu Chunchen? Naturally, you have to stare at Zhu Chunchen's ass, it's okay, if there's something wrong, we'll take the opportunity to fuck you.

"I know this, his son stuffed a lot of people into it, nearly two hundred, I don't think he dares to do anything."

What's going on with the Cypriots? It turns out that the main idea of many nobles is to make money, and in addition to doing business, the most convenient way is to make money from the state's projects. The three armies of Gyeonggi have not fought for a long time, so the nobles stuffed their relatives and friends into the three armies to mix a salary, some of them are seventy or eighty, and they are still stuffed, once they are inspected, they will spend money to hire people from the street to replace them, and some simply pull a group of unrelated people into the three armies, and the military salary earned is half of you and half of me, and Zhang Shize's son stuffed nearly 200 people into this way.

To say that the most stuffed are still in charge of Li Guozhen and Zhu Chunchen, sometimes the two people don't even have to stuff people, just make a roster and get it at will, this is a secret that is not open, everyone is a lord, you stuff me and I stuff, the most important thing is that the money is not their own, the country's money is not earned in vain, earned is not earned in vain, and everyone has to earn.

"That's easy to do, he doesn't dare to do anything, the emperor wants to investigate, and he can't run, I don't believe he can spare his son?"

The emperor went out of the palace, earth-shattering, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

Under normal circumstances, the emperor pays attention to two aspects when leaving the palace, one is the honor guard, and the other is the guard.

The guard of honor is an important means to show imperial power, and the guard is the core of the core.

Previously, Zhu Youzhen had been out of the palace several times, and although the honor guard was simple, it was also very large.

In the second year of being the emperor, Zhu Youzhen went to Nanhaizi to shoot and hunt, and the honor guard plus the accompanying officials, internal attendants, car drivers, directly subordinate guards, and scattered guards, the team was more than two miles long, the front arrived at the place, and the back just left.

However, now there is no such style as it was at that time, the country is poor Zhu Youzhen is reluctant to spend money not to say, the key is that there is no such mood, this time Zhu Youzhen out of the palace is to review the basic situation of the Gyeonggi garrison, the place is not far away, just outside Chaoyang Gate, so Zhu Youzhen said, everything is simple, but tens of thousands of people will also be dispatched.

First of all, all the Jinyi guards were dispatched, with more than 5,000 people, and secondly, Wang Chengen's inner servants who were in charge of serving were roughly 2,000 people, don't underestimate these two thousand people, in addition to the honor guard, the car driver, and other people were also armed with weapons to protect the emperor, and protecting the emperor was not only the duty of the Jinyi guard, but also the responsibility of the inner servant, again, the accompanying officials reached 2,000 people, basically all the officials of the six departments, the second courtyard, and the five temples had to follow.

Zhu Youzhen sat on the royal belt carried by 32 people, in front of him were 300 Jinyi guards who were responsible for opening the way, surrounded by important ministers who followed on foot, armed eunuch guards lined up outside, and 5,000 Jinyi guards in charge of guarding were divided into 5,000 teams and followed closely behind.

Zhang Ping rode a horse to guard Zhu Youzhen's right side, and behind him were Li Xiaoshan and other twenty guards, he didn't care about that set of rules, protecting the emperor was the most important thing.

Of course, what Zhang Ping is most worried about is that someone shoots Zhu Youzhen with an arrow, no one dares to hurt Zhu Youzhen, and it is possible that Zhu Youzhen will not be able to go.

On the other side, the seventy-year-old man Li Banghua also changed into a war horse, carrying a sword at his waist, and Zhu Chunchen was even more in a battle armor and walked in the forefront with Li Banghua.

Dozens of nobles in armor followed closely behind Zhu Youzhen's sedan chair.

On both sides of the street, there were already officials and servants of the Shuncheon Prefecture on guard in advance.

Outside the Chaoyang Gate, in the distance, the banner hunting, the inspected officers and soldiers were overwhelming, lined up into ten square teams, one of which was a horse team, nine infantry teams, all the officers and soldiers were in high spirits, swords and guns were numerous, occasionally there were war horses neighing horses in the horse team, and the other nine infantry teams were silent.

Li Guozhen, who was wearing armor, rode over on horseback, dismounted and knelt on one leg, "Your Majesty, please review!" ”

Zhu Youzhen got off the sedan chair and changed into a royal horse, there were five hundred brocade guards in front of him, and five hundred brocade guards in the back, Li Guozhen on the left, and Zhu Chunchen on the right followed tightly.

After inspecting the circle, Zhu Youjian returned with a satisfied smile on his face, and his mouth kept praising him: "Not bad!" Not bad! ”

Because he knew that last year's plague in Gyeongshi, nearly 500,000 people died in the city, and the men and horses of the 3rd Battalion of Gyeonggi were also sharply reduced from 350,000 to 176,000.

Sitting back on the royal court, Zhu Youzhen asked with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think of the momentum of these three armies?" What do you want to see? Archery? Or equestrian stabs? ”

Zhang Ping secretly sneered, and walked to Zhu Youzhen's royal court, "Your Majesty, you have been deceived!" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen was taken aback, why did he suddenly say such a thing at this moment, "Xuan'er, why did you say this?" ”

"Your Majesty, don't you look at how many people participated in the reading?"

Zhu Youzhen smiled when he heard it, "Xuan'er, don't you know, it is indeed difficult for the hundreds of thousands of men and horses of the three armies of Gyeonggi to gather in an hour, and Chengguo Gong and Xiangcheng Bo also talked about it just now." ”

Zhang Ping laughed, "Your Majesty, it was these two bastards who teamed up to deceive the emperor, they transferred three battalions of soldiers to one and pretended to be a battalion, if you don't believe it, the quasi-ministers will go and ask." ”

Li Guozhen, who had already dismounted and stood aside, changed his face slightly, and then returned to his normal color, and arched his hand to Zhu Youzhen, "Your Majesty, today is the 3,000 battalions, and tomorrow the day after tomorrow, you can review the 5,000 battalions and the Shenji battalion. ”

Zhu Youzhen felt that people in the world could deceive him, but Zhang Ping would never deceive him, but Zhang Ping said that he had been deceived, and he might have discovered something, he felt that it was unlikely that the soldiers of the three battalions would be combined, Li Guozhen did not have such courage, it was likely that someone else pretended to be this kind of thing, this kind of thing was reported in the past, and in the end, Zi Chouyin Mao was not found, so he said: "Xuan'er, go and ask." ”

Is Li Guozhen afraid? Li Guozhen is not afraid? This matter has been done a lot in the past, and the officers and men of the third battalion have all done impostors, and everyone has experience, even if they take the roster roll call, the insurance will not go wrong.

Zhang Ping hit his horse and ran to the front of the team and shouted, "Everyone listen, I am the righteous son of the Queen Mother, the left governor of the Chinese army, the emperor ordered the governor of the capital to be in charge of the three armies, someone reported, most of you are impersonating, the whistleblower is among you, now all listen to the order, the three thousand battalions will not move, and the other departments will be brought back, and they will be reviewed one by one later, and the impostor officials will all be punished on the spot, and the soldiers will be beaten with 30 military sticks and fined 100 taels of silver." ”

After Zhang Ping finished speaking, the team was a little chaotic, but then returned to its original state.

Zhu Chunchen and Li Guozhen laughed, what the hell, who are you? Is the queen mother's righteous son awesome? He also said that the emperor ordered you to command the three armies, and wait for the participation! Maybe for the sake of the Queen Mother's face, the emperor left you a small life, and wanted to make waves again.

"He Zhen, the commander of the Beijing battalion, Jiang Yingkui of the 5,000 battalion of the Chinese army, the second brother of Feng Yang, and Xu Wenchang, the general manager of the Qian, are out of the ranks!"

After Zhang Ping finished speaking, four people immediately walked out of the queue.

The Metropolitan Governor named them, they couldn't help but come out, didn't they see? This is the queen mother's righteous son, people are wearing five-catch python robes, who is qualified, royal people, doesn't this mean that the emperor recognizes people as royal people? No matter how awesome Zhu Chunchen and Li Guozhen are, can they still beat the royal people?

"What? Don't you believe that Pontus has an accurate grasp of the situation? Now, the governor of Pontus has declared that those who return immediately are not guilty, and continue to kill the impostors! The guards are ready for execution! ”

When Li Xiaoshan and Zhao Shi heard Zhang Ping's shout, they immediately rushed over with their brothers on horseback, and everyone drew out embroidered spring knives in their hands.

In their opinion, whether it is an emperor or a general, no one is as good as their second master.

The officers and soldiers standing in the queue immediately panicked, they were the righteous sons of the Queen Mother, the governor of the Chinese army, and they all named several people, it seems that they really know everything, now they are not guilty, and they will wait for the knife after a while, the firing squad has come up, and it is still Jinyiwei.

Suddenly, an officer issued an order and began to bring back the men and horses of the headquarters.