However, both the acting king Zhu Chuanqi and the governor Wei Jingyu were deceived by Jiang Xuan.

Wei Jingyu, the word Zhongyu, a native of Hancheng County, Shaanxi, was born on September 13, the 14th year of Wanli, a jinshi in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the first governor of Henan, fair and honest, law enforcement is not a, the rod kills the strong, the yaya is innumerable, and the political voice is incredible.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Wei Jingyu served as the superintendent of Shanxi Province, the first to impeach Zhou Yanru for corruption and bribery, and the first to impeach Zeng Chuqing, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, but unfortunately Zhu Youzhen didn't trust anyone at that time, so he trusted Zhou Yanru, and immediately demoted Wei Jingyu to patrol and inspect Zhending Mansion and other places.

Later, Wei Jingyu's father died, and Wei Jing went back without waiting for the imperial court to approve leave, filial piety!

At the end of the three-year period of filial piety, Wei Jingyu returned to the imperial court and served as the imperial historian of Henan Province, responsible for inspecting the granary.

In order to exterminate the peasant rebels, Yang Sichang proposed to increase the salary, Jing Ying resolutely opposed it, and angrily scolded Yang Sichang, "The safety of the world depends on the suffering of the people, and now the people are miserable, but they are levied, and the consequences are unimaginable." Do you understand? ”。

Provincial Taiwan Wang Jican, Wu Zhiyu, and Wu Yanfang were all taken off their black gauze hats because they wrote against Yang Sichang, and Wei Jingyu wrote to Zhu Youzhen to request that these people be recalled back, these people are right, and it is also for the good of the country, the emperor, you can't dismiss people because they oppose Yang Sichang.

In the previous incident, Fu Chaoyou and Li Rucan repeatedly sued the Ministry of Rites and the scholar of Dongge University, Wen Tiren, and was angrily imprisoned by the emperor, Jing Ying sued for him, and when the emperor summoned him, he defended the two, and everyone sweated for Wei Jingyi, but Jing Ying was not afraid of losing his official position, not afraid of killing his head, he still talked eloquently, did not flinch, and directly stated his opinions, annoyed Zhu Youzhen, and directly demoted to the pedestrian Sizheng.

Hehe! offended Zhu Youzhen's fate.

Later, Wei Jingyu was transferred to Shangbao Bureau, and then transferred to Dali Temple, after Wei Jingying was promoted to Shaoqing of Dali Temple, he has successively ordinary more than 20 major unjust cases, and his prestige in the government and the opposition is getting higher and higher, and many people recommend Wei Jingyi.

It is said that Zhu Youzhen should reuse Wei Jingzhen, and it happened that Zhou Yanru was the first assistant at that time, and the deceived Zhu Youzhen could not trust Wei Jingzhen, but instead transferred Wei Jingzhen out of the imperial court and served as the governor of Datong, the right capital.

The main object of defense of the Datong garrison was the Mongols, at this time, the Mongols were not very good, and the object of defense was mainly Li Zicheng on the other side of the Yellow River.

Of course, it is also related to the opening of the border market in the Ming Dynasty, and the daily necessities needed can be bartered in the border market, so why fight?

It's not fun to fight, it's going to die.

After Li Zicheng occupied the whole of Shaanxi, Wang Jimo, the governor of Xuanda, ordered Jiang Liang to guard the river, that is, to guard the Yellow River to prevent Li Zicheng's people from crossing the river to attack.

Jiang Rang originally served as the chief soldier of Yulin, and later surrendered to Li Zicheng, so Jiang Biao pressed the plan to surrender Li Zicheng from that time.

Jiang Xuan's family has been a general for generations, and it can be regarded as a military family, Jiang Rang once served as the chief soldier of Yulin, Shaanxi, and his younger brother Jiang Xuan was the deputy chief soldier of Yanghe, Shanxi. Jiang Hao himself is the chief military officer of the town guard in the northern town of Datong, like this kind of three brothers all hold relatively high-level active military positions at the same time, at present, only the Wu Sangui family guards only Shanhaiguan, they have a characteristic that they use the family relationship to intertwined, communicate with each other, and become a potential warlord who actually divides one side.

In their eyes, as long as they can obtain their own interests without being affected or damaged, they do not need to care where their masters, friends, and even enemies come from, and this prominent characteristic is very obvious in Jiang Jiu's body.

Acting King Zhu Chuanyu was very happy to see Zhou Yuji, "This king still thinks you are heroic?" ”

Zhou Yuji said with a smile: "It's almost heroic, if it weren't for the Queen Mother's righteous son to rescue him, I'm afraid the prince wouldn't have seen his humble position." ”

"The queen mother's adopted son? Why did the Queen Mother accept her adopted son? Zhu Chuanyu was very surprised.

Zhu Chuan's surprise is reasonable, the Empress Dowager Zhang Yan is the widow of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, because she has no son, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen's brother succeeded the class as the emperor, and Zhang Yan accepted his son, which is obviously a very sensitive matter.

"Huh! I don't know about it. Zhou Yuji replied.

Zhu Chuanyu looked at Wang Guoxing, "You are always in the capital, do you know what's going on?" ”

Wang Guoxing smiled, "It's not very clear below, the prince doesn't have to figure it out, you want the queen mother to recognize the son, can the emperor not know?" The emperor also sealed the righteous son Zuo Dudu, doesn't that explain everything? ”

Zhu Chuanyu understood as soon as he heard it, "Guoxing is right, but is the emperor's reward too low, no matter how you say it, it's the queen mother's righteous son, isn't it?" ”

Wang Guoxing then smiled, "I heard that the emperor is going to give the king, but the queen mother's righteous son said that he would not agree to anything." ”

Zhu Chuanyu smiled, "It seems that this person is not simple, and he actually knows how to refuse." ”

Zhu Chuanyu said this, Zhou Yuji and Wang Guoxing stopped talking, this kind of thing is not something they can discuss, Zhu Chuanyu is the prince, it's okay to say something, they don't dare to talk nonsense.

Zhou Yuji took out the secret letter written by Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Chuanyu was taken aback, "Is this true?" ”

"Can the letter written by the emperor himself be fake? After being rescued, he recuperated in the cottage and saw the surrender letter written by Jiang Jiu in person. ”

Zhu Chuanyu was furious, "Jiang Xuan, this bastard who eats inside and out!" This king must kill him and punish him for the nine clans! ”

Jiang Hao secretly prepared to surrender Li Zicheng, which could not help but make Zhu Chuanyu angry.

Not to mention what serious consequences Jiang Xuan's rebellion will bring to the Ming Dynasty, at least he Zhu Chuanyu and the entire dynasty will perish in Jiang Huang's hands.

The situation is obvious, no matter how tall the walls of Datong Mansion are, and how wide the moat is, it can withstand any attack by the Tatars, but it cannot stop the betrayal of the spies.

"Marquis Zhou, how are you going to arrest Jiang Xuan, a shameless traitor?" Zhu Chuanyu looked at Zhou Yuji and asked, now Zhou Yuji is the emperor's envoy, and he is specially here to capture Jiang Xuan, he can't disrespect Zhou Yuji's meaning.

Zhou Yuji smiled, "The prince is angry, this is very easy to do, please ask the prince to give an order and summon the civil and military forces of Datong to come to the palace for dinner." ”

Zhu Chuanyu immediately understood, and immediately called Wang Jingzhou, the king of Changshi, "Take someone to order the civil and military officials of Datong Mansion, and say that the Marquis of Wang Guoxing is ordered to inspect, and this king will set up a banquet in the palace to entertain everyone." ”

This Zhu Chuanyu is also a smart person, Zhou Yuji and Wang Guoxing entered the city with thousands of brocade guards, everyone saw it, and if they said anything else, they would startle the snake.

Actually, Zhu Chuan, the acting king, was a little worried, and Jiang Hao didn't know that he had been exposed.

In the past ten days, Jiang Hao has been preparing for war, Li Zicheng, a turtle egg, actually killed the messenger he sent, and asked him to wash his neck and wait, what are you special, do you think I, Jiang Jiu, am afraid of you? If I hadn't seen that the Ming Dynasty had run out of energy, would I have surrendered to you? Jiang Jiu was furious.

To tell the truth, Jiang Hao looked down on Li Zicheng in his heart, he thought that Li Zicheng was just a turtle in northern Shaanxi, but Li Zicheng had been prosperous in the past two years, and even Sun Chuanting was killed, which also made Jiang Jiu feel that Li Zicheng was very angry.

But there is a strange phenomenon that Jiang Hao has always been puzzled with, why did Li Zicheng knock down Ningwuguan, and then did not go north but withdrew his troops?

Could it be that someone in the imperial court led troops to attack a certain place in Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng had to withdraw his troops? But Jiang Hao couldn't think of who it would be, so he sent out a lot of detailed work to understand the situation.

But these sent out meticulous works came back to report that they hadn't heard any news, which made Jiang Hao feel that the second monk was at a loss.

originally wanted to fight to the death with Li Zicheng under Datong City, but Li Zicheng didn't come, and Jiang Hao felt a little teased.

There are people guarding the city gate to report, there are a lot of brocade guards, horses carrying a lot of things, followed by hundreds of old hats, Jiang Hao felt puzzled again, mother, why is it so evil recently, there is something that people can't figure out?

What did Jinyiwei do, of course Jiang Hao knew, so he was a little worried that he was coming to himself, after all, he was a thief.

But then I thought about it, if my secret contact with Li Zicheng was discovered, then Jinyiwei would definitely not come with such fanfare, and even Jinyiwei would not come with such fanfare, and the emperor would just give a secret decree to the acting king.

But Jiang Hao still found the general Wang Fuchen on duty, "Who is here?" ”

"Report to the general, there are two marquises."

"Do you know who it is?"

"One of them is Zhou Yuji, and the other one doesn't know each other, they went directly to the Acting Palace."

Is Zhou Yuji still alive? Zhou Yuji turned out to be the Hou Ye? Zhou Yuji didn't die, Jiang Hao was already very surprised, how could he become a marquis?

As a general, don't you want to be honored, but you don't have a shocking function? What are Zhou Yuji's achievements? Could it be that it was because the battle of Ningwuguan blocked Li Zicheng?

"You read that right?" , Jiang Hao asked.

Wang Fuchen is a young man, because he is particularly able to fight, because when this guy rushed into the enemy formation to capture the enemy general, the person jumped down from the war horse, like a harrier hunting, and the person gave the nickname Ma Harrier, "Absolutely not mistaken, the little one has been to Ningwu Pass and has seen General Zhou Yuji." ”

Jiang Hao remembered that last winter, the Xuanda Governor's Mansion issued winter clothes, and it was indeed Wang Fuchen who escorted him over, but what did this kid mean by calling General Zhou Yuji? Is it because Zhou Yuji and Li Zicheng have a big fight? Brat! You're a soldier of Lao Tzu, do you know?

Wang Jingzhou rode into the General Military Administration, and when he saw Jiang Jiu, Wang Jingzhou saluted, "General, on behalf of the king's order, please invite the general to the banquet." ”

Jiang Hao pretended not to know that Zhou Yuji and Wang Guoxing were coming, and asked, "What good thing did the prince encounter, so happy that he wanted to have a big feast?" ”

"Huh! The emperor sent Zhou Houye and Wang Hou Ye to patrol the border to reward the prince, and the acting prince was naturally happy. ”

"The prince is really blessed, this general congratulates the prince, who did you invite?"

"I have already notified the governor Wei Jingwei, and then I will notify the superintendent Wang Gonggong."

Jiang Hao had no doubts in his heart, the person he sent to deliver the letter to Li Zicheng was killed by Li Zicheng's people, and the person who came back to report the letter didn't know anything, so there was no need to be so nervous about being suspicious.

But Jiang Hao was still a little nervous, when Li Zicheng defeated Taiyuan Mansion, the last line of defense was Daizhou Ningwu Pass, Wei Jingyu and Dai Wang both confessed that they sent troops to reinforce Zhou Yuji, but they found a reason not to go, Zhou Yuji knew that he would be looking for trouble? Originally, Zhou Yuji was similar to himself, Zhou Yuji was the governor of Zuodu, and he had the rank of general of Zhenshuo, but now, Zhou Yuji has become a waiting master, and his status is much higher than himself.

In addition, that Wei Jingyu also has opinions about himself, will he join forces with Zhou Yuji to deal with him, if that's the case, it will be a bad thing.

Wei Jingyu's mansion is not far from the Acting Palace, and after receiving Wang Jingzhou's notice, he went to the Acting Palace, and was surprised to see Zhou Yuji, "General, are you still alive?" ”

Zhou Yuji returned the salute with a smile, "Of course I am alive, this is not the same as the prince to come to see the prince." ”

Only then did Wei Jingyu notice that Zhou Yuji was wearing a waiting suit, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Master Hou." ”

Then, Wei Jingyu and Wang Guoxing greeted each other, a few years ago, Wei Jingyu was still serving in the capital, Wang Guoxing was on an errand in Jinyiwei, the two knew each other, but they didn't have much dealing.

Wei Jingyu is most concerned about Zhou Yuji's situation, after the battle of Ningwuguan, Wei Jingyu sent people to Ningwuguan to look for news of Zhou Yuji, and the people who came back reported that there were corpses of rogues everywhere, Ningwu Guancheng was slaughtered, only a frozen child was found, and the whereabouts of General Zhou Yuji were unknown, Wei Jingyu felt that it was a good thing that Zhou Yuji was not found, indicating that Zhou Yuji might still be alive, and reason told him that this possibility was very small, and it was possible that Zhou Yuji was captured.

Just as Wei Jingyu was about to talk to Zhou Yuji, Jiang Hao arrived, with more than two dozen personal soldiers behind him.

These more than 20 pro-soldiers were stopped in the first courtyard by the soldiers of the palace that had been arranged a long time ago, Jiang Hao felt a little wrong, but he didn't think about it elsewhere.

As soon as he entered the second courtyard, Zhou Yuji suddenly came out of the second hall, "Jiang Jiu takes the order!" ”

Jiang Hao was stunned, does the emperor still have a will for me? As soon as he knelt down, before the words "Jiang Jiu received the order" were spoken, he was pressed down by the brocade guards standing on both sides.