Chapter 37: Joining Hands in the Trial (I)
The ancestor of Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, is the famous general Zhu Neng, and the ancestor is very capable of fighting, but by the time Zhu Chunchen's generation is already the twelfth generation, he has long lost the heroism of his ancestors, and all that is left is to eat and wait for death to live every day. Why? Because the civil officials of the imperial court have very strong restrictions on military generals, if you are the slightest bit out of line with their preferences, they will impeach you to the death, just like killing your father and enemy, and they will not give up if they do not peel off the skin from you.
The thief entered Beijing, Zhu Chunchen knew about it, the cannon was rumbling outside, and there was a shout of killing everywhere, no family in Beijing did not know about it, so when the thief rushed into his house, he resisted a little and led the general to surrender, no way, the thief is powerful, tens of millions of troops, and his own house servants will only have more than 500 people, how can they resist, surrender naturally, and strive for a leniency is the best policy.
The exclamations of the wives and concubines in the backyard, Zhu Chunchen heard it in his ears, there was no way, no one was strong in the situation, so he had to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and he thought in his heart that when he could resist it, he couldn't ask for any of the women in the back house, and he would change them all. Just when Zhu Chunchen was making this plan, the night sky lit up, and a huge ship came out of the sky, traversing the Beijing Division, I don't know how many miles it is long, but it is surrounded by thunder and light, and the thunderbolt resounded through the sky, deafening, as long as a person is not a blind and deaf person, he knows that something has changed.
Sure enough, the next scene was an eye-opener, the entire Jingshi building became transparent, and then the silver snake fell on the giant ship and flew in the air, each silver snake chased the thief soldiers, and under one touch, all the human bodies turned into powder and annihilated, which was simply a myth. The clothes and robbed treasures of the thieves who were still alive were left on the ground, and the people had been reduced to ashes.
Zhu Chunchen turned over at that time, shouting at the rest of the servants to collect the belongings on the ground, and even went to the street to collect them, with great determination to return to his roots. The giant ship went in the direction of the Forbidden City, could it be that the Son of Heaven really obeyed the will of heaven, and there were immortals to help him in times of national crisis, Zhu Chunchen immediately made a decision, called the servants to prepare the horses, and rushed to the palace, and he had to behave in front of the emperor and make a good impression.
Zhu Chunchen turned over and got on the horse, because he didn't know martial arts and his body became bloated, it was not easy to find a horse that could carry him, and as soon as his feet stepped into the stirrup, he saw that the ground was full of brilliance, and there were several points that were particularly obvious. Zhu Chunchen looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but cry out. It turned out that the place where the brilliance was shining was the place where he buried the treasure in advance.
Zhu Chunchen had already been prepared, and the garrison of the Beijing division could not stop the attack of the thieves at all, and it was only a matter of time before he was defeated. In order to prevent the mansion from being looted by the thieves, Zhu Chunchen had already arranged for people to transfer most of the wealth accumulated by the family to the ground, and even dug a secret passage to several nearby houses in order to transfer property. Of course, the family also left tens of thousands of taels of family property, otherwise the army did not find a tael of silver, and in a fit of anger, wouldn't it have harmed his own life in vain.
Now everywhere in the eye, there are all hidden treasures, and even the private property of thieves and soldiers who have just been collected on the ground and have not had time to sort it out is also glowing. Before Zhu Chunchen could react, all these belongings flew up from the ground and turned into meteors and left. Zhu Chunchen was in a hurry, and when he rode on the horse, he reached out and grabbed the silver that flew in front of him, and he was still shouting, "Children, don't be stunned, stop my father!"
It's a pity that the silver is like a phantom, passing through Zhu Chunchen's chubby palm, and throwing it elsewhere without stopping, and the place where the underground treasure is hidden is even more glorious, and a bright lump of light flies away from the house. Zhu Chunchen's eyes were red, this is his family, more than two hundred years of accumulation, he was in a daze, and he saw that not only his mansion, but also the other duke's mansions, royal mansions, various official offices, and mansions of the lords next door all flew out of countless points of light and threw them into the night sky, and they were all concentrated in one place~ Forbidden City.
Zhu Chunchen couldn't take care of it anymore, called his entourage, and immediately went out to run to the Jinshui Bridge at noon, the remaining wealth at home was less than one hundred, and he had to get it back today.
Zhu Youzhen looked up at the night sky, only to see countless lights rising from the sky, crossing the starry sky from all over the capital, and falling to the square in front of the Imperial Palace into three piles.
Zhu Youzhen and the thousands of people in the palace looked at everything in front of them in amazement, because they knew what these were?
On the left is a pile of countless jewelry, jade, calligraphy, painting and antiques, and in the middle is a pile of gold ingots, these gold ingots of different sizes and specifications are fused in pairs, and finally turned into a large cube, while on the right is even larger, which is a cube made of silver.
Zhu You couldn't take care of much, and immediately arranged all the five hundred guards in front of the Imperial Palace to guard the main positions in the square, and if any foreign ministers came to meet the saint, they would immediately stop them, and no one was allowed to come in, and everything would be said after these things were included in the treasury and the inner treasury.
"Really ~ real person, how much money is this?" Zhu You looked at the huge gold and silver bricks in the square, his mouth was dry, you know, on the tenth day of the first month, he collected silver money from the ministers to pay the soldiers on the front line, in order to resist the Dashun army in front of him, the whole court pieced left and right, but only gathered 200,000 taels, of which the Shandong Yamen only came out of 4,000 taels, and how much is this in front of him?
Lu Xihua said, "I don't know the value of jade antiques, about one hundred and seventy thousand taels of gold, about one hundred and twenty-eight million taels of silver, and you yourself let people calculate it." ”
"One million ~ 100 million ~ " Zhu Youzhen didn't know that he was angry, the imperial treasury and the inner treasury were empty, and he didn't even have a net worth of 10,000 taels, but he couldn't imagine that there was so much money hidden in the entire Jingshi official's family. Loyal to the monarch and patriotic, loyal to the monarch and patriotic, sure enough, all of them are my good ministers!
"Alright, it's all small money. Zhu Youzhen, you arrange tonight's affairs, the real person will take you to two places, and there are more surprises waiting for you. You come back at dawn and have time to take your time to process these. Lu Xihua said.
"The minister obeys the order~" Zhu Youzhen looked at the huge gold and silver bricks that turned into one in the square and knew that this was the opportunity that Lu Zhenren deliberately arranged for him. Separate gold and silver into one, such a volume, I am afraid that it will weigh no less than 10 million catties, who can move, can only rely on people to slowly divide it little by little, it is safe to stay here, the only thing to pay attention to is these jewels and jade, jewelry and antiques, fortunately, there are many empty rooms in the palace, and it is necessary to arrange for the palace maids and eunuchs to transfer to the past.
At that moment, Zhu Youzhen called Queen Zhou, and the couple muttered, and after a while, Zhu Youzhen turned around and bowed to Lu Xihua to apologize. Over there, Queen Zhou immediately ordered to arrange for people to carry the property on the far left, and it was not enough to move it by hand, the big carts and small carts were all in battle, and even the carriages that pulled the goods were driven out, just like ants moving, little by little.
Zhu Youzhen looked at all this, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, the Ming Dynasty finally had some hope.
Seeing that Zhu Youzhen had finished handling the matter, Lu Xihua stopped talking, drove the clear light, returned to the North Pole Boat with a few people, and went all the way to the west.
Zhu Chunchen rode to the Forbidden City, he was too fat, the horse was not running fast, and the servants were in front of him. After a while, Zhu Chunchen saw a lot of small sedan chairs and horses coming out of the streets and alleys, all gathered on the main road, obviously all of them were members of various families. Clothes and weapons were scattered on the main road, and even some horses were wandering, everyone was not moving fast, and when Zhu Chunchen came to the noon gate, he found that several sedan chairs and horses had been parked in front of him, and several figures hurried to the palace.
On the way, the giant ship in the sky was gone, the surrounding buildings began to regain their full appearance, and some small families were bold enough to collect weapons and clothes in the streets. Seeing this scene, Zhu Chunchen rode faster, and his family's treasures flew to the palace.
The end gate in front of the noon gate, the Chengtian Gate (Tiananmen in later generations), and the Daming Gate (the Daqing Gate in later generations) are all opened, and the ground is densely packed with all kinds of weapons, and there are even more than a dozen iron cannons scattered everywhere, the door is mottled, and there are traces of wounds. The corpses of many palace guards appeared here, apparently they were all killed under the siege of the thieves, and everyone stepped cautiously, inevitably stepping on the blood stains on the ground. The generals are nothing, they can't fight, they always hunt, and the civil officials are a little struggling, and some can't stand the smell of blood in the air, so they can't help but hold on to the wall and spit out. Fortunately, there is no one here, otherwise this is a crime of disrespect, dare to vomit in the Forbidden City?!
Across the noon gate, followed by the Jinshui Bridge, and then the Huangji Gate (the Taihe Gate of later generations), there are also many horses in the square in front of the door, these are all money, there are already guards in the palace in the traction, transfer. Zhu Chunchen didn't care about a lot of running through the square in front of the Huangji Gate and was about to break behind the Huangji Gate.
Crossing the Huangji Gate, this is the square in front of the Huangji Palace, which is the largest square in the Forbidden City. As soon as Zhu Chunchen came in, he saw two hundred guards lined up in several rows, standing crossing, separating the square from the Huangji Gate. Countless palace maids and eunuchs in the square were busy shuttling back and forth, carrying all kinds of treasures, and the most dazzling thing was that a large mass of golden and silver squares stood in the center and side of the square, and the mountain-like shiny things were clearly gold and silver.
It turned out that all the gold and silver treasures that he had lost had gone to the palace? That would have to be returned to me, and they were all left by my ancestors! Zhu Chunchen didn't care about his obesity, and he was about to break into the palace when he took a few steps, when he heard an exclamation from in front of him.
I saw a ray of light shoot out from the hand of a guard, and landed on a person, the armor on that person's body was torn, and he was suddenly unclothed, and he looked at that appearance, it was clearly Li Guozhen, the Bo of Xiangcheng! And in the hand of the guard, it was clearly a big bow manifested by thunder, and the big bow twisted a few times, and it turned into a thunder scale spear held in the guard's hand, which was clearly the thing of the immortal family! Zhu Chunchen suddenly stopped his pace, and his life was still important! Take a closer look, but it's amazing, each guard has a thunder scale gun in his hand, and a moonlight knife hanging from his waist, all of which are exactly the same thing, if they can change their form at will like this, wouldn't it be a disaster?!
Li Guozhen's face changed sharply, he was wearing underwear, he was trembling with anger, and he pointed at the guards and said, "You are a soldier under my command, and you dare to stop me at this moment?!"
The guard replied without humility or arrogance, "The Admiral abandoned us a few hours ago, and when he abandoned the palace, he was no longer my superior. Now we are directly under the control of the queen's mother, this is a weapon issued by the immortals, it is very powerful, and I ask the admiral not to make mistakes. ”
"What about the emperor, I ask for a saint!" Li Guozhen was a little angry.
"The emperor was invited by the immortals to go to another place, and he will turn back soon, and he also asked the admiral to withdraw from the palace, and when the emperor returns, he will face the saint again. Obviously, these questions have already been explained by the queen's mother, and the guards can only blurt out when facing Xiangchengbo's questioning.
Li Guozhen stomped his feet angrily, turned around and left, he didn't dare to rush forward, he was wearing armor just now, but he was torn by the guard's arrow, but fortunately, his subordinates showed mercy and did not hurt his body. However, Li Guozhen had palpitations, for fear that his body would be torn apart in the next moment, so he had to leave first, and wait for the emperor to return to the palace and then come to beg for mercy.
Zhu Chunchen saw that Uncle Xiangcheng was deflated, so he immediately changed his attitude, and stepped forward to talk to the guards, "I am the Duke of Chengguo, where did you get this weapon, it was really given by the immortals?"
The guard raised his head and replied, "The immortals cast spells for the plaque of the Imperial Palace, absorbing the thunder and moonlight in the sky, making the swords in the Imperial Palace ineffective, and they can also give us the guards who patrol the Imperial City additional blades." These blades can be transformed at will, and the power is infinite, in order to protect our emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The guard said as he spoke, the thunder scale gun in his hand kept changing, swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, changing back and forth, seeing Zhu Chunchen's face white and red, and muttering a few words in his mouth, no one heard clearly.
"The emperor went with the immortals, when will he come back, are there really immortals in the sky?" Zhu Chunchen was a little unrelenting, looking at this somewhat unfamiliar Forbidden City, and guessing in his heart that this day was probably going to change.
"Cheng Guogong, don't you know if you saw the giant ship in the sky before?"
"I see, I see. Such a big ship, who can not see. Bengong also saw a lot of silver snakes flying down from the ship. The troops of the thieves and rebels are gone all at once, and my government has resisted desperately before, and has sacrificed many generals, so it's really pitiful that they sacrificed in vain. ”
"Breaking into the army and attacking the city, we were all rescued by the immortals, and we also went to the immortal ship for a while, and ate a lot of good things, but they were delicious. The emperor was invited by the immortals to travel, and he will come back soon, so you go back to the house first and wait in peace. ”
"Well, okay~" Zhu Chunchen is out of line, these guards are holding immortal weapons, and they can't fight, so they can only go home first, send people over every day to investigate, and wait for the emperor to come back and greet him. Zhu Chunchen walked out step by step, the huge gold and silver nuggets in the square are too tempting, no, I have to go home quickly, arrange for the generals to go to the street to collect the clothes and weapons of the thief army, and it is best to recover a little loss. Thinking of this, Zhu Chunchen's footsteps became faster and faster, and his fat body became more powerful.
On the Shanhai Pass, Wu Sangui was still asleep, and he was woken up, "My lord, my lord, something happened!"
"What's the matter?!Jianyu has invaded?!What about my night?!Why didn't I get anything in return?!" A military general rolled over, grabbed his helmet from the bed and put it on his head, "Come on, quickly put on armor for me!"
"No, it's not Jianyu who called, it's Tiangong who is angry!" said the soldier.
"Oh my God?" you say it clearly. Wu Sangui was stunned for a moment, and the hand wearing the helmet stopped
"Your Excellency, just come out and take a look!" said the soldier as soon as he pushed open the door and pointed to the sky.
Wu Sangui snatched out the door in a few steps, looked up, and was stunned.
I saw that in the sky above the Shanhaiguan General Military Mansion, a cloud of fire was rolling, as if there was something huge hidden inside. The fire clouds were wrapped in red light, blue light, and green clouds, and the whole thing was like a pot of boiling water, and the steam from the spout of the pot rolled forward, all the way to the northeast, leaving only countless thunder sounds in the air, resounding through the heavens and the earth.
"The Great Sage has descended to earth, the Great Sage has descended to earth~ Hurry up and bow to Grandpa Dasheng, Grandpa Dasheng will expel Jianyu and protect the people of Daming. Some foolish women and foolish people knelt on the ground and kowtowed, the image of Sun Dasheng in "Journey to the West" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the fire clouds in the night sky are as dazzling as Sun Dasheng's somersault clouds, no wonder these people are convinced.
Wu Sangui also looked at the distant fire clouds in the night sky, and was terrified, what the hell is this, it actually came from the west and went straight to the northeast, is there really a god and a monster. Wu Sangui immediately sent someone to investigate near Jingshi overnight, and he silently felt that this incident must be related to Jingshi, could it be that the thieves actually captured Jingshi? !
Wu Sangui's face was like sinking water, and he looked at the northeast for a long time and was silent.