Emperor Chongzhen's sudden violent outburst shocked Yang Zhen and all the civil and military officials present. When he and the other officials came to their senses, they saw a short, fat, middle-aged eunuch following the emperor emerging from the crowd.

He walked out and said to the Jin Yiwei guarding the perimeter:

"The Holy One has decreed that all these barbarians, barbarians and barbarians should be taken away and immediately taken to the outside of Xuanwu Gate to be executed in public! Jin Yiwei, why don't you accept the decree?!"

This short, fat, middle-aged eunuch was not tall, but his voice was very loud, and he had an extraordinary aura in his words and deeds in public.

As soon as he finished speaking, a tall, mighty-looking middle-aged official, also wearing a red python robe, emerged from the crowd, quickly came to Emperor Chongzhen, lifted his robe, knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said:

"My lord, Commander Luo Yangxing of the Jinyi Guards has received the order!"

It turned out that this person was Luo Yangxing, the commander of Jinyiwei. When Yang Zhen heard what he said, he couldn't help but take a few more glances.

After Luo Yangxing knelt down in front of Emperor Chongzhen to receive the order, he immediately stood up again, turned around and shouted at the Han generals standing in line under the Meridian Gate:

"The Holy One has decreed that all these barbarians, barbarians, and barbarians should be taken away, taken immediately outside Xuanwu Gate, and executed in public in public!"

Luo Yangxing was full of energy and his voice was as loud as a bell. When he said this, the entire imperial guards at the Meridian Gate immediately took action.

The guards in uniform under the Meridian Gate swarmed up and put prepared cloth bags on the heads of the prisoners kneeling on the ground. They happened to be escorting one of them to the front gate.

Duduo, the Tenth Prince of the Tartars, was of course one of the first. He was slapped in the mouth more than a dozen times by the Jin Yiwei, and then was dragged away, and he was still swearing in his mouth.

All the way, scold all the way.

It's just that after Duduo was slapped by Jin Yiwei, his voice became hoarse. At the same time, he may have felt that scolding him in Chinese was not enough, so he changed it to Jurchen dialect.

Emperor Chongzhen and the civil and military officials did not know what he was cursing, and no one paid any attention to him.

At the same time, the Han generals standing in line on the Meridian Gate shouted loudly together: "Scarred to the outside of Xuanwu Gate and executed in public! Taken to the outside of Xuanwu Gate and executed in public!"

For a time, this shouting sound spread all over the Meridian Gate, all the way to Duanmen and Chengtianmen.

Amidst this burst of loud shouts, Emperor Chongzhen's chariot, under the command of the middle-aged short and fat eunuch just now, returned to the Meridian Gate.

The accompanying ministers who had followed Emperor Chongzhen down from the Meridian Gate Tower earlier also turned around and followed him into the Meridian Gate.

Including Zhang Ruolin, a doctor at the Ministry of War who had been accompanying Yang Zhen, there was no trace. He did not know when he entered the Meridian Gate with the ministers around the emperor.

On the other hand, Wu Jing, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, still stayed outside the Meridian Gate, waiting for the next arrangement with Yang Zhen and his party.

Of course, the civil and military officials who were originally waiting outside the Meridian Gate did not leave either. Everyone was eagerly looking forward to the official end of this prisoner presentation ceremony.

However, Emperor Chongzhen's good mood seemed to be ruined by what Duduo said. The emperor's chariot did not appear on the Meridian Gate Tower again.

Only the ceremonial minister who had previously presided over the prisoner presentation ceremony on the Meridian Gate Tower still performed the ceremony properly. It was not until the last Manchu Tatar prisoner was taken away from the open space under the Meridian Gate that the ceremonial minister read out an elegant edict in a eloquent manner.

It is announced that the ceremony is completed and all officials can retire.

In the edict, apart from enumerating Donglu's sins, there was not much else. In particular, the imperial court's reward for Yang Zhen's great achievements was not mentioned at all.

Yang Zhen stood in the open space outside the Meridian Gate, facing the biting cold wind, and listened carefully to the end, feeling sad in his heart.

The Meridian Gate Prisoner Presentation Ceremony, which was originally full of ceremony, was somewhat anticlimactic because of Emperor Chongzhen's sudden questioning of Duduo.

Emperor Chongzhen, who came in great excitement, was so angry at Duduo's words that he returned in a rage. This made Yang Zhen feel a little uneasy and confused for a moment.

He only had a very brief contact with Emperor Chongzhen, but he had already fully understood the emperor's moodiness.

Of course he knew that things wouldn't end like this.

However, Emperor Chongzhen's performance made him no longer dare to have high expectations for what was to come.

But it was said that after the minister who presided over the ceremony on the Meridian Gate Tower announced that the ceremony was over, all the civil and military officials above and below the Meridian Gate dispersed one after another. Wu Jing, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, saw Yang Zhen looking around, so he came to Yang Zhen and said to him:

"Captain Yang, please wait patiently. It won't be long before the Holy Spirit will definitely come out with a decree."

When Yang Zhen heard this, he knew that his demeanor had fallen into the eyes of the doctor from the Ministry of Etiquette. He immediately took a deep breath, adjusted his mentality, adjusted his expression, bowed and said to Wu Jing:

"Mr. Wu is here to accompany me, and I'm very grateful to Mr. Yang!"

"Don't dare to take it, don't take it, this is Wu's responsibility!"

After the two people chatted like this, they gradually became closer to each other. Wu Jing asked Yang Zhen about Liaodong, and Yang Zhen told him frankly.

And Yang Zhen also took the opportunity to ask Wu Jing, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, about the duties of the minister in the court, and Wu Jing also had something to say.

The two stood outside the Meridian Gate and were talking when they suddenly saw a group of people trotting towards the Meridian Gate. As soon as they left the Meridian Gate, they shouted towards where Yang Zhen and others were:

"Captain Yang, Governor Yang, Long live the Lord orally announced that the Governor's platform is right! The other servants of the Governor, including Wu Jing, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, will send the head of Jiannu to the Ancestral Temple for sacrifice!"

Yang Zhen heard the sound and took a closer look at the person, only to see that the leader was none other than Wang Dehua's eunuch Lu Zhide.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Zhide came to him and repeated the same words again.

Yang Zhen immediately accepted the order, then turned to Zu Keyong, Zhang Chen and others nodded, then left Wu Jing and followed Lu Zhide to the Meridian Gate.

It turned out that Emperor Chongzhen was so angry at Duduo's words that he lost interest and turned back to the palace. [Biquge www.biqugetv.xyz] When he arrived outside the Qianqing Gate, he woke up and realized that he was still alive.

There are a lot of things to do.

If it was something else, that would be fine, but he couldn't delay such a matter as summoning Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen almost restored southern Liaoning with the power of his troops. It should be said that he created a new situation and ushered in a glimmer of hope for the restoration of Liaoning, which had been declining.

This situation was completely beyond Emperor Chongzhen's expectation, which made him ecstatic about it.

And the high-ranking Donglu officials and dignitaries such as Duduo brought to him by Yang Zhen were equivalent to restoring the face he had lost when the Donglu invaded and kidnapped the vassal king. This made him even more happy.

As for the offense Duduo had made towards him just now, when he thought that this person who once made his heart tremble when he heard his name, he was already escorted to the execution ground by Ling Chi by the Jinyi Guards, all that unhappiness and discomfort disappeared.

So, Emperor Chongzhen pointed to the high cloud platform where he had summoned Yuan Chonghuan outside the Qianqing Gate, and told Wang Dehua, one of the great eunuchs who was following him, that he would summon Yang Zhen there.

This is what is called calling the platform right.

In the late Ming Dynasty, being able to be summoned by the emperor's platform was considered an honor for most officials.

The Ming Dynasty had a strict etiquette system, and there was a strict distinction between the outer dynasty and the inner court. This Yuntai was located at the connection between the outer dynasty and the inner court.

It is located behind Jianji Hall and in front of Qianqing Gate, that is, to the north of Jianji Hall and to the south of Qianqing Gate.

When Emperor Yongle built the Forbidden City, in order to isolate the inner court from the outer court, there was a gate in front of the Qianqing Gate called Yuntai Gate.

This Yuntai Gate, as well as the Yuntai as its foundation, were destroyed when Li Zicheng invaded the capital and occupied the Forbidden City.

After the Manchu Tatars took over the capital and the Forbidden City, the Yuntai Gate was not restored and later disappeared from the architectural layout of the Forbidden City.

But its position was quite important during the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty summoned ministers here, which also has a rich meaning.

On the one hand, this makes the emperor seem more friendly and casual, unlike in the palace, where he is so formal, step-by-step, and official.

On the other hand, it also showed that the emperor did not regard the summoned minister as an outsider, but as his confidant.

In contrast, summoning ministers to discuss matters in various palaces of the outer dynasty is a bit like talking to subordinates in a conference room or office; while summoning ministers on a platform feels like calling subordinates to your home or making an appointment with someone. It’s like chatting in a park or a teahouse.

Of course, no matter where the emperor summons you, it cannot be a real private chat.

Yang Zhen followed Lu Zhide and his party through the Meridian Gate. He didn't have time to admire the majestic Huangji Hall, so he hurried forward.

First, we passed through Hongzheng Gate on the east side of Huangji Gate, then walked all the way through the middle left gate on the east side of Huangji Hall, and finally passed through the back left gate on the east side of Jianji Hall. Then we saw a tower on the left that was as tall as a person above the ground. On the white marble steps, a canopy stands in full bloom, and heads of people gather.

Yang Zhen knew in his heart that the platform had arrived.

Sure enough, when Lu Zhide and his party led Yang Zheng in through the back left door, they heard a eunuch not far away shouting at the voice of a drake:

"Your Majesty, the right commander of the left army governor's office and Yang Zhen, the chief military officer guarding Songshan and other places, are here to bring them!"

This is the eunuch on duty below the platform. Let’s think about Emperor Chongzhen’s report from the canopy above the platform.

Yang Zhen followed the voice of the report and looked towards the canopy on the platform, and vaguely heard someone above say: "Xuan!"

Yang Zhen was still judging whether the voice that said this was the emperor's own, when he heard eunuchs shouting one after another from the platform to the bottom:

"According to the decree, Xuan Yangzhen platform is here to meet you!"

At this time, Lu Zhide, who was walking in front, turned around and saw Yang Zhen still looking up to the platform. He immediately pulled Yang Zhen's sleeve and said hurriedly:

"Captain Yang, why don't you come with me to the platform to kowtow to the Holy One!"

When Yang Zhen heard this, he was shocked. He immediately bowed and stepped forward, followed closely behind Lu Zhide, first walked forward, then turned left, then climbed up the steps, and then knelt on the ground the moment he saw Emperor Chongzhen.

"My lord, Yang Zhen, is here to pay my respects. Long live my emperor!"

"Get up and come closer to talk!"

Emperor Chongzhen was sitting on a couch, with a large basin of red charcoal burning in a brass basin in front of the tower. When he saw Yang Zhen arriving, he looked very casual. He stepped forward to light the fire and said to Yang Zhen.
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