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Chapter 47: Hello in the capital, goodbye in the capital

"Long live, more than two thousand Jiannu prisoners are outside the city. If Long live wants to accept the prisoner, please ask Lord Zhou and Lord Man to take the prisoners of war outside the Ming Gate." Fang Zhenghua did not expect Emperor Chongzhen to be so excited. He experienced this battle in Xianghe personally. Except for being a little nervous at the beginning, he did not feel that it was difficult.

Emperor Chongzhen shouted repeatedly, "Come on, call Wang Chengen quickly, hurry up."

Wang Chengen was in the cabinet and was in the meeting, and Sun Chengzong, Shen Yongmao, Bi Ziyan and the newly appointed Minister of Works Nan Juyi were having a meeting. In the past, the temporary command center held meetings, and at least one auxiliary and auxiliary minister came to the cabinet, but none of them came this time. In the hearts of these auxiliary ministers, the temporary command center was a thing of the past. As long as Jiannu came to the capital, these jesters who were snatching power would fall to the ground and be responsible for the humiliation of the capital.

The little eunuch Wang Zhixin quickly found Wang Chengen and whispered to the grandfather's godfather with some of the content he had just heard. Wang Chengen was very happy and jogged all the way to the imperial study room. "Long live the joy, long live the joy!"

"Yes, I am very happy. My companion, go and ask Zhou Aiqing to pass on my instructions, and ask him to take Jiannu captives to the Ming Gate with his meritorious soldiers. I will personally welcome the Triumphal soldiers. In addition, I will notify the cabinet and the ministers of various ministries and ask them to wait in front of the Ming Gate." During the period of waiting for Wang Chengen to come, Emperor Chongzhen came up with a good idea. He would personally welcome Zhou Shixiong and give the highest standard honor to the soldiers of the Ming army who returned home. Let those who talk all day long and talk to each other, see that the people I value have real materials!

In order to welcome the prisoner offering ceremony, the Forbidden City began to get busy. Zhou Shixiong stood in front of You'an Gate and looked at Zhang Qingzhen on the top of the city, feeling very uncomfortable. When Fang Zhenghua went up to negotiate, he was just a city gate official on duty here. After Fang Zhenghua went there for half an hour, the city gate did not open, but Zhang Qingzhen appeared on the city. Although he couldn't hear what Zhang Qingzhen was saying, seeing him pointing fingers at the city and laughing mixed with it, Zhou Shixiong believed that this guy was absolutely nothing good.

Fang Zhenghua hasn't come back for so long and the city gate is too uneasy. In addition, Zhou Shixiong is in a bad mood, which prompted Zhou Shixiong to make a decision, "Yu Jiaao, tell me to order me to go to Liangxiang." After that, Zhou Shixiong pulled the reins and rode his horse away, not allowing me to leave!

On the city, Zhang Qingzhen saw Zhou Shixiong leaving in shame and sneered, "A mere fake national relative wants to show off in the capital, and he is overestimating his ability!"

Less than ten miles away from You'anmen, Mangui and Heiyunlong, Sun Zushou came towards him with prisoners of war. Zhou Shixiong had a dark face and pretended not to see them. He led the guards to rush past like a gust of wind, which made Mangui and others very embarrassed. Datong soldiers and Changping did not know what the top leaders were doing. When they saw Zhou Shixiong cheering loudly, Lord Zhou was mighty! Lord Zhou won thousands of victories!

Zhou Shixiong wanted to ignore it, but his vanity made him unable to help but pull out his waist and raise it high, and responded loudly, "The Ming Dynasty is a victorious!" In fact, he wanted to say that he had worked hard for the comrades, but unfortunately the scene was wrong.

Zhou Shixiong gave face so much that the soldiers were even more violent. The cheers continued to subside until the two sides were completely disconnected. Man Gui and Hei Yunlong's faces looked very bad. They thought of a problem from their subordinates' respect for Zhou Shixiong. If Zhou Shixiong really wanted to seize their military power, it would seem that it would not be difficult!

Sun Zushou felt very wronged. He knew from Heiyunlong why Zhou Shixiong left without saying goodbye. He always wanted to find an opportunity to say to Zhou Shixiong, 'My Sun Zushou fully supported Lord Zhou's plan and went through fire and water without hesitation!' But Zhou Shixiong did not give him this opportunity. Looking at Zhou Shixiong who was gradually moving away, Sun Zushou called his nephew Sun Xiezhi to his side, "Xiaozhi, go see Lord Zhou, ask where Lord Zhou is going, come back and tell me after asking."

Sun Zushou had thought about it and had to follow Zhou Shixiong no matter what. If he could come up with a plan to cut off the retreat of Jiannu, Zhou Shixiong was definitely worth following.

Man Gui and others came to the city of You'anmen, and Tu Wenfu was already angry on the top of the city. "Uncle Zhang, do you think Fucheng Bo is gone? Why did Lord Zhou leave for no reason? Please help Zhang solve our doubts!" ​​Tu Wenfu came to You'anmen with Emperor Chongzhen's handwritten instructions, and only saw a group of war horses rising up. When asked Zhang Qingzhen, Tu Wenfu was stunned when he learned that Zhou Shixiong had left.

At first, Tu Wenfu thought Zhou Shixiong was too domineering, but did he not have patience for a while? But when he saw the imperial envoy's flag monk Fang Baojian placed on the top of the city, Tu Wenfu felt something was wrong. The imperial envoy's flag monk Fang Baojian was even more serious than losing the official seal. It was a crime of disrespect for despising the dignity of the imperial envoy's power, at least the three clans were punished. Zhou Shixiong could not leave these things alone.

Then, Tu Wenfu heard Zhang Qingzhen teasing Zhou Shixiong to his subordinates, and his words were very similar to mocking him. He climbed Zhou Shixiong to the high position of Fuchengbo with the queen's favor, and used sweet words to please the emperor, making his words vivid and visible. Tu Wenfu immediately equated Zhou Shixiong with Zhang Qingzhen, and grabbed Zhang Qingzhen without hesitation to let him explain it clearly.

There was a quarrel upstairs, where Man Gui and Heiyunlong and Sun Zushou arrived. Tu Wenfu ordered the city gate to be opened, but Zhang Qingzhen refused to allow it. Tu Wenfu took out the city opening handwriting written by Chongzhen, but Zhang Qingzhen refused to implement it because the handwriting did not contain the name or number of people.

Zhang Qingzhen was not afraid of fighting with eunuchs at all. The title of Hui'an Bo of the Zhang family was not based on military merits, but was a title of foreign relatives. It was originally nothing among the many counts, but Hui'an Bo was passed down to Zhang Qingzhen as the eighth generation. Zhang Qingzhen not only served as the governor of the Beijing camp but was also highly respected by civil servants. It was because the first Hui'an Bo Zhang Sheng was the top scholar in the fifth year of Chenghua. Hui'an Bo of the Zhang family was the worst of the Jinshi, and he was a true scholar for generations. He had a high status in the circle of literati in the capital. When Wei Zhongxian was in power, he did not dare to touch Zhang Qingzhen, let alone now.

Tu Wenfu was so angry that he was so angry that he couldn't help but Hui'an Bo. He was thinking about how to sue Longsui. The little eunuch Wang Zhixin came, "Eunuch Tu, let me ask when Lord Zhou and Lord Man will come to the Daming Gate?"

Tu Wenfu didn't know why he wanted to go to the Daming Gate, so he quickly asked, "Long live the handwriting just said that people would open the city and let people go into the city, but didn't say anything about the Daming Gate?"

"Eunuch Tu doesn't know anything. Eunuch Fang reported to Wansui. Lord Zhou and Lord Man defeated a Jiannu in Xianghe and captured thousands of Jiannu's war horses. Wansui was to personally offer prisoners at the Daming Gate and send a slave to inform him." After Wang Zhixin finished speaking, Tu Wenfu and Zhang Qingzhen rushed to the city wall together to watch. The Datong Army led by Man Gui and Hei Yunlong stood in the same place, and Sun Zushou's Changping bravely escorted the prisoners and stood in the same place. It was easy to distinguish the two from above.

The anger on Tu Wenfu's face disappeared without a trace, and he looked at Zhang Qingzhen with a smile like a chrysanthemum, "Brother Zhang, our family has just been rude. There are many things worth discussing about in this handwriting. Our family should take it back and ask Long Live to write another one."

Zhang Qingzhen's pride disappeared, and when he heard Tu Wenfu's words, he hurriedly stopped him, "Eunuch Tu is such a bad word, who dares to question the Long Live Handbook? This is a crime of deceiving the emperor, and Eunuch Tu is probably wrong." He said with great momentum, but his expression was like a dead father, and he was so sad that he almost burst into tears. Seeing that Tu Wenfu left without swaying his hands, Zhang Qingzhen quickly whispered, "Eunuch Tu, Zhang has just built a theater. I want to ask Eunuch Tu to watch it to see if it suits my wishes."

Tu Wenfu narrowed his eyes and stared at Zhang Qingzhen for a while before replying indifferently, "Why do you have to see if our family meets the theater?"

"Eunuch Tu agrees with Zhang and gives it to Eunuch Tu. If you don't agree, how can you be embarrassed to give it to you?" Tu Wenfu forced Zhang Qingzhen to put it bluntly, just to finalize this bribe and be able to grab food from Hui'anbo, which is a happy event worth recording for any eunuch.

Tu Wenfu took the opportunity to knock on Zhang Qingzhen's garden, understood the principle of stopping when he was good, and happily let Zhang Qingzhen go. With the rumbling sound of the winch turning, the tall city gate of Youanmen slowly opened. Zhang Qingzhen and Tu Wenfu walked out together to welcome the triumphal soldiers who lacked the protagonist.

Emperor Chongzhen stood on the tower of the Daming Gate and accepted the prisoner ceremony of Man Gui, Heiyunlong and Sun Zushou, and his smile on his face was a little fake. Before Man Gui and others arrived, Wang Zhixin returned with Zhou Shixiong's imperial envoy Fang Baojian and told Emperor Chongzhen that Zhou Shixiong would no longer be under the city. The specific reason was unclear. Wang Zhixin quietly told Fang Zhenghua that when he arrived at You'anmen to issue the order, Eunuch Tu was quarreling with Lord Zhang of Hui'an. Fang Zhenghua immediately classified Zhang Qingzhen as a suspect who angered Zhou Shixiong. When Tu Wenfu came back and asked, Zhang Qingzhen's crime was further confirmed.

In order to make the prisoner offering ceremony a good start and end, Fang Zhenghua didn't say much, but just advised Emperor Chongzhen to discuss it later. Emperor Chongzhen was almost twenty years old and knew what the overall situation was. He wore a smile to support the prisoner offering ceremony until the end of the prisoner offering ceremony. Then he summoned the third general into the imperial study and asked about the details of the battle in Xianghe City.

"Why is Zhou Aiqing not here?" While waiting for the troops to offer prisoners to enter the city, Fang Zhenghua had already talked about the battle of Xianghe three times. Emperor Chongzhen had no details that he didn't know. He called the third general in. In addition to showing the meaning of treating meritorious ministers, he mainly asked this question!

Man Gui and Hei Yunlong looked at each other with awkward expressions, and knelt on the ground together, "Long live back, I'm guilty." They could have pretended not to know what happened, but the problem was that Zhou Shixiong was so intense that he refused to go to Beijing to draw a line with them, which was unimaginable. So, the two had already discussed it, and unless no one asked, they had to tell the truth.

Emperor Chongzhen said strangely, "How do you say this?" Although Fang Zhenghua was dissatisfied with the performance of Man Gui and Hei Yunlong, it was inconvenient to say what was speculation, so he did not tell Emperor Chongzhen.

Man Gui said Zhou Shixiong's plan to capture Jiannu's retreat and block Jiannu's plan in the capital, "I am greedy for life and afraid of death and dare not follow Lord Zhou to implement this plan. Lord Zhou is tough and unwilling to enter the capital with me, so he left in anger." Man Gui guessed 80%, and the remaining 20% ​​was attributed to Zhou Shixiong's stinginess.
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