"It was sent by Caoqiao?" Chongzhen suddenly seemed to think of something

"It was delivered yesterday from Caoqiao in a warm car. A total of ten pots of peonies were sent, including Yao Huang, Wei Zi, Indulged Dongfeng, and Yang Jiayi Twist Red...... There are many famous colors, but they are not as precious as this pot of hibiscus three changes, the queen sent people to send this pot of peonies yesterday afternoon, and put it next to this pillar. At that time, he played to the emperor, but because the emperor was always reading documents in the province, he didn't pay attention to it. ”

Chongzhen glanced at Peony again, and said to himself thoughtfully: "Ah, Caoqiao, this place has not been burned by the captive horse?"

According to the news obtained by Chongzhen, when the Qing troops captured Lugou Bridge and Gongji City, which is now Wanping City, in mid-February, and defeated Gao Qiqian who defended Lugou Bridge, he climbed the coal mountain for three consecutive nights to look at the southwestern suburbs, and saw fires burning villages and towns everywhere. The enemy burned all the villages and towns outside the city.

He had no idea that Lu Xiangsheng, the governor who was about to be denounced by him, led less than 10,000 Xuanda people and horses to stand like an impregnable wall from Yongdingmen to You'anmen, and with the cooperation of three or five non-governmental anti-government figures, they defended the area safe and sound.

There were some small victories here, Lu Xiangsheng felt a little lucky, so he didn't play it himself, Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian certainly won't play for their political enemies, and Lu Xiangsheng's Donglin people, one is pretentious, and the other is unwilling to offend the first assistant and the inner servant at the same time for this trivial matter, so Emperor Chongzhen has been kept in the dark, and no one around him can say clearly.

He sighed in his heart and said: "It's still a house slave who is willing to do things, although he knows that he is invincible, he still fights to the death, I hope that after Liu Yuliang replaces Lu Xiangsheng, the governor's army can change the current military situation!"

It's already getting dark. A flock of pigeons were released from Yikun Palace, with a whistle, hovering over the Forbidden City for a while, and flew towards the White Tower in the North Sea. The sun shines on the white jade carved railing, bronze crane and Pojin copper tripod outside the Qianqing Palace.

A palace maid hung a parrot cage on a sunny pine branch and pulled up the blue satin cage. The parrot stretched its feathers in the sun, saw a group of eunuchs coming with musical instruments, and suddenly shouted: "Please dine on the emperor!"

At this moment, a beautiful imperial brand or a close attendant eunuch called the imperial front came to Emperor Chongzhen gently and skillfully and invited him to dinner. Chongzhen stretched his waist and put down the red pen in his hand, let out a slight "oh", stood up and walked out of the warm pavilion.

As usual, every meal was filled with dozens of meat and vegetarian delicacies in front of him, unless he sent a decree to summon the queen or a certain concubine to come to the Qianqing Palace to accompany him, he always ate alone and lonely, and there were many carefully serving eunuchs and palace maids standing next to him, and old-fashioned music was played outside.

The young emperor's heart did not feel a little fun in this rigid way of work and rest, but he could not help but live in such a step-by-step manner, because otherwise it would not be the emperor's behavior, and it would not conform to the palace etiquette passed down from generation to generation.

Eating breakfast boringly, he suddenly remembered what the ministers said in the recital, "the treasury is like washing", and at the same time, thinking of the annoying problems of the current disaster and famine, and the Qing soldiers going deeper, he suddenly lost his appetite, sighed and threw away the chopsticks, and walked back to the pavilion.

In his troubled mind, he tried to concentrate, picked up the list again, looked at it, didn't think about it more, and changed the order casually with a red pen. He was very proud of such a casual change, because he thought that by doing so he would show bad luck to his ministers, and that a wise emperor would often have to make his ministers unclear about his thoughts and tempers.

He didn't pay attention at all, after he casually changed the order, some of the people who should have been promoted were demoted for no reason, and the initial award was unexpectedly changed from the seven-rank imperial history or the six-grade master. Later, the cabinet ministers were surprised to see this list that had been changed by the imperial pen, but they did not dare to ask, so they had to carry it out.

What is even more ridiculous is that in order to "show surprise" to the ministers, he picked up the "Records of the Gentlemen" from the imperial case and flipped through it casually, found a more pleasing name and added it to the back of the list, and marked the word "imperial history"; later, the cabinet and the officials spent a lot of effort to find this person in Beijing, and it took two months to find out that this person had died of illness in his hometown in Fujian a year ago.

Throughout the morning, Chongzhen did not leave the Qianqing Palace. He reviewed all sorts of papers that only added to his annoyance, and thought about things with a writhing brow. When he was sleepy, he asked the eunuch Wang Chengen to read to him the song or the Tang newspaper.

The clerical office sent in a letter of impeachment to Yang Sichang, and when he saw that it was Yang Tinglin, the editor of the Hanlin Academy and the lecturer of the East Palace, he couldn't help frowning, and thought: What is this bearded Yang Hanlin talking about?

"Read Yang Tinglin's sparse son to me!" he whispered impatiently, glancing at Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen picked up Yang Tinglin's recital and read it aloud. Listening to this, Chongzhen's anger came up, and he couldn't help but interrupt Wang Chengen and asked, "What did he say? Re-read this sentence!"

Wang Chengen said: "Your Majesty has the ambition to fight against the enemy, and the minister has no talent for insulting;

"What words!" he said, dissatisfied. "Scholar's view!

Wang Chengen continued: "Yang Sichang and Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao, helped the same inside and outside, conspired to mislead the country, advocated peace negotiations, and forgot about military preparations, so that this ......"

Chongzhen jumped up from his chair and tapped his fingers on the imperial case and said: "What kind of 'internal and external support, friends conspire to mislead the country', it's all nonsense! Do you know, is this Yang Tinglin in collusion with someone and deliberately attacking the minister?"

"The slave really doesn't know. ”

Chongzhen thought about it, but he couldn't think of anyone Yang Tinglin was in trouble with in the court, so he had to say: "Okay, read on!"

"Governor Lu Xiangsheng blamed the cardinal for the country, and it was painful to say. Including Fu Nanzhong, Li Gang was useless, and Zong Ze was angry when he died, and he was guilty of the crime of the righteous one. The generals are afraid of the law and have no two hearts. Sichang Da Yan Xue Tinglin knew that the army was changed to the military department, and Fang was in charge of the painting Xiangsheng Army......"

When Wang Chengen remembered that Li Gang had no merit, including Fu Nanzhong, and that Qianshan Bingcheng had died, and Zong Ze had died, Chongzhen was not only furious, but he had read no fewer books than Yang Dabeard, and naturally knew that Geng Nanzhong and Huang Qianshan were both powerful ministers in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, opposed the war against Jin, and were trusted by Song Gaozong. Li Gang and Zong Ze were the two major leaders who advocated resisting Jin, Li Gang was dismissed from office after only 77 days as prime minister, Zong Ze died of hatred in Kaifeng, and when he was dying, he shouted: "Cross the river! Cross the river!"

(End of chapter)