"Your Excellency."

Suddenly, a shout came from not far away.

Jiang Ning turned to look, but saw that it was Zhou Song galloping on a fast horse.

Looking at his appearance, there should be something very important to report.

"Herod!"

Zhou Song grabbed the reins, turned over and dismounted, and saluted Jiang Ning breathlessly:

"My lord, the northern Xinjiang is urgent, Tatar is going south, attacking the important towns of the nine sides."

Jiang Ning suddenly frowned: "Let's go, go back to my house and talk about it in detail." ”

He knew that the matter was urgent, so he didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly returned to the study at home with Zhou Song.

He Yuyao saw that he didn't mean to let himself get involved, and after entering the mansion, he went straight back to his room.

"What the hell is going on?"

Jiang Ning was impatient.

"I just received news from the factory in northern Xinjiang that the little prince of Tatar, together with 80,000 cavalry led by Huo Siaoqin, went south to Koubian and raided Datong Mansion.

Huang Yong, the commander-in-chief of Datong Mansion, was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties, so he had to shrink the defensive line and retreat.

The Tatars had already breached several border forts, and their troops had reached Shuofang.

Jiang Ning paced for a while, and said with a worried face:

"The situation is not optimistic. Huang Yong's department and Datong's army combined, how many people are there? ”

"There are still more than 50,000 people, but they have no choice but to divide their troops to guard the cities, and the troops are still overstretched."

Zhou Song paused, and then said: "And the Tatars changed the strategy of dividing troops to attack and loot in the past, and gathered heavy troops to storm one place.

In addition, tens of thousands of cavalry were also sent to intercept and harass the defenders in various places, so that the support could not arrive for a long time, and the situation was already dangerous. ”

Jiang Ning pondered for a while, and suddenly asked people to take it and said:

"Director Zhou, you will tell me the specific direction of the Tatar soldiers, as well as the current situation in Datong, and talk to me about the map."

"Yes."

The two chatted until dawn the next day.

Even the dinner that day was sent by Li Yuner to the study to eat.

Jiang Ning let out a long sigh of relief, regardless of the fatigue of his body, called more than ten times, and braved the snow to beat the horse to the capital.

Although the beacon fire had probably reached the palace at this time, it was difficult to know that the situation was already critical.

He wanted to explain the situation, so that Zhu Houzhao and his ministers realized the seriousness of the matter and sent reinforcements as soon as possible.

It's just that Jiang Ning didn't expect that when he arrived in the capital, he found that the city gate was still closed.

"Come, stop! The gates are closed today, and no one is allowed to enter or leave! ”

"Blind your dog's eyes, this is Lord Jiang, the commander of the inner factory, quickly open the city gate!"

Without waiting for Jiang Ning to speak, a fan shouted loudly.

When the guards of the city heard this, they were shocked and hurriedly ran down the female wall, and ordered someone to open the city gate and walk out.

"Xiaguan has seen Lord Jiang."

"What's going on? Why lock up the city! ”

Jiang Ning grabbed the reins and said coldly.

"Back to my lord's words, yesterday Liu Jin and Liu Gonggong beat the forty-seven people led by Liu and Xie as traitors, and Li Shoufu immediately led hundreds of officials to gather at the noon gate to protest, hoping to see His Majesty.

Said he had been kneeling all night.

And Gonggong Liu was afraid of disturbing His Majesty, so he ordered the city to be blocked, and asked Dongchang to block hundreds of officials outside the palace. ”

Jiang Ning's brows furrowed suddenly.

This Liu Jin is too nonsense.

I'm afraid that because the reform and new policy he wrote was opposed by the ministers, he began to retaliate.

Among them, it is said that it is a group of people led by Liu Jian and Xie Qian, but there should be a lot of officials who oppose him.

Otherwise, there would never be forty-seven people.

And such a method of connecting will naturally frighten the officials, and it is strange that they do not protest.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ning immediately rushed into the city with people, and came to the palace gate after a while.

But I saw that the snow was drifting in the sky, and the wide square was already covered with a thick layer of snow.

Among them, hundreds of snow-covered figures were kneeling on the ground, silent.

On the periphery, there are hundreds of Dongchang fans surrounding the square, standing with knives.

Jiang Ning immediately turned over and dismounted and walked over, casually pulling a person out of the snowdrift.

Looking at the costumes, he should be a petty official of six or seven grades.

I saw that his face was pale, and even a little bruised from the cold, and his eyes were closed, looking like he had fainted.

Fortunately, my breathing is quite steady.

"Quick, help!"

Jiang Ning beckoned more than a dozen of his subordinates to pull out all the fainting officials and send them to the side to settle down.

"Who dares to make trouble here, if you want to rebel, you can't do it!"

At this time, a Dongchang stall strode over.

"Rebellion?! When the official rescued these pillars of the court and the pillars of the country, was he rebelling?

What kind of thing are you, and you dare to buckle such a big hat with this official?! ”

Noticing the movement, some officials who had not yet fainted turned around with difficulty, looking at Jiang Ning with surprise and consternation in their eyes.

The stall head was about to get angry, but after seeing Jiang Ning's appearance clearly, he hurriedly ran over and knelt on the ground:

"Down, Xiaguan has seen Master Jiang.

Xia Guan didn't know that it was the adult's face, and he said wildly, and asked the adult to bypass this time. ”

"Humph!"

Jiang Ning threw off his robe and shouted, "What are you doing in a daze, tell your people to boil hot water and rescue all the adults." ”

"My lord, this, this is all the order of Father-in-law Gu, and the lower officials dare not disobey it."

"Father-in-law Gu has his own official position over there, and your task now is to rescue the adults."

Hearing this, the stall head nodded again and again, beckoning his subordinates to start saving people.

At this moment, an old figure suddenly shook the snow on his body, and said weakly:

"Lord Jiang, if Liu Jin can't retract his will to beat Liu Gong, Xie Gong and others as traitors, what does it matter if we and other officials kneel here and die?

If he succeeds, my Ming Dynasty will not be able to do things at will in the future? ”

Jiang Ning heard the voice and hurriedly walked over, but saw that it was Wang Wei, who had clashed with him in the past and had a big suspicion.

Although this old man is stubborn and traditional, his character is okay.

At least put it down and take the initiative to talk to Jiang Ning.

And as his words fell, dozens of officials around him echoed in unison.

The look of the clothes that will not give up.

Jiang Ning shook his head, walked to the front, and found Li Dongyang in the crowd, whose hair was covered by white snow.

He was still holding a yellow silk tightly in his hand, which should be the will promulgated by Liu Jin.

"Mr. Li."

Jiang Ning called softly.

"Master Jiang?"

Li Dongyang's eyelids moved, and he stood up with difficulty.

Jiang Ning hurriedly supported him and said, "Why didn't the boss enter the palace to advise, but he would like to take a hundred officials to kneel here for a long time?" ”

Li Dongyang sighed:

"Today, Your Majesty said that he was sick and died in the early dynasty, how can I enter the palace to face the saint?

In desperation, the old man had to resort to this method. Unexpectedly, with such a posture, Liu Jin still couldn't be told to stop. ”

Jiang Ning was annoyed in his heart.

He sat and watched the battle between the outer court and the inner court, originally thinking of taking the opportunity to make profits, but he didn't expect this Liu Jin to be so powerful, even Li Dongyang was helpless.

If the outer court is taken down, how will he carry out the plan.

Thinking so, Jiang Ning said:

"My lord, at this time, the border is in danger, and I can't take care of it anymore.

If the boss can trust Jiang Ning, let me come forward to tell Liu Jin to stop here. ”

Li Dongyang was stunned when he heard this:

"Yesterday a beacon fire arrived, and we waited for the Tatars to attack as usual.

What, is the situation critical? ”

Jiang Ning roughly explained the situation.

Hearing that 80,000 cavalry were heading south, Lian Ke counted the city, where could Li Dongyang still stand, and after shaking his body, he said:

"In this case, please ask Master Jiang to talk to Liu Jin, and I will hand it over to the old man here."

As he spoke, he handed the yellow silk to Jiang Ning and shouted to the ministers:

"Ladies and gentlemen, Lord Jiang has promised to meet His Majesty to report on this matter, and I also ask you to go back quickly, so that you can recuperate your body so that you can be born in the Yamen office.

At this time, the Tatars are heading south, and the situation is as dangerous as eggs, and we must not fall there.

The Ming Dynasty still needs your help! ”

When the officials heard this, they were shocked.

They would not doubt Li Dongyang's words, so they hurriedly helped each other to get up and went home.

Jiang Ning said goodbye to Li Dongyang and hurried to the warm pavilion.

And just as he was about to enter the hall, he heard Miao Kui and Zhang Yong persuading Liu Jin to restrain himself and not make too much trouble about this matter.

Ma Yongcheng objected:

"Yesterday, we just asked Your Majesty for a decree, saying that I want to establish authority over the outer court. But today we have to stop, where do you let our faces go?

Liu Jin also nodded and said:

Ma Gonggong said very right. Look, the group of civil officials who dropped their bookbags can't say that it will be long, at most at noon, they should go back.

As long as no one freezes to death, this matter will not make much trouble. ”

Even as he said this, a trace of worry appeared between his eyebrows.