Chongzhen had read a lot of written materials sent by Hao Guangming before. He was no longer unfamiliar with horizontal articles and basically knew simple characters, so his reading speed was not slow.

However, after just a few glances, his expression became very strange.

After reading it, he frowned even more and asked with confusion: "Is this really written by Mr. Hao? Why is the whole article written in vernacular?"

Seeing that Chongzhen's face was full of doubts, Zhu Ya'ao couldn't help but smile as she recalled her previous expectations for Hao Guangming's article and explained: "Mr. Hao said that there were two major mistakes in his father's article. One was that he should not use plain language.

"

Afterwards, Zhu Yulao relayed Hao Guangming's words euphemistically.

After hearing this, Chongzhen relaxed his brows and said, "What Mr. Hao said is indeed reasonable. It's just that I didn't think carefully."

In fact, Zhu Yulao felt that Hao Guangming's article was poorly written, so she did not want to discuss this matter further.

So he changed the subject and said: "If my father has no other arrangements, I will write a handwriting and ask my daughter to send this speaker to the wall of the inner city."

"I'll go with you. You can hold the xenon lamp in case you need it."

Chongzhen said this in a tone that left no room for doubt, then picked up the speaker and walked out.

Zhu Yasuo was slightly stunned. When she came to her senses, she wanted to persuade him, but when she thought of her father's ending in history, she stopped thinking.

'Maybe my father's presence on the city wall can boost the morale of the soldiers.'

She thought so in her heart.

Chongzhen opened the gate of Wuying Palace and said to the eunuch and Jinyi Qinjun who were guarding the outside: "Come on, I am going to the Zhengyang Gate Tower. In addition, I will ask someone to bring all the money in Wuying Palace with me.

Reward the soldiers!"

The eunuch at the gate and the leading Qianhu in Jinyi couldn't help but look at each other in shock and did not move for a moment.

"Huh?" Chongzhen put down the stereo and held the hilt of the sword on his waist. "Why, Li Zicheng hasn't attacked yet, so what I said will have no effect?"

The crowd in front of the gate immediately knelt down in fear and shouted: "Your Majesty, forgive me!"

"Excuse me? Why don't you hurry up and gather people? You don't need too many people, just about a hundred people."

"yes."

Immediately, thousands of households in Jinyi went to summon escorts, and the generation of gatekeepers and eunuchs entered Wuying Hall to organize and carry money.

Because compared to jewelry, gold, etc., silver has the lowest value, so Zhu Yurao did not touch the silver in the palace before.

It's just that Chongzhen had people take some of it away to pay the soldiers who defended the city.

It was also at this time that the eunuchs and soldiers paid attention to the stereo beside Chongzhen and the xenon portable lamp in Zhu Aona's hand.

Naturally, they don't know what the two are, they just make wild guesses secretly.

'Could it be a box or box containing some valuable treasure?'

Because of its appearance, most people can't help but guess this.

When the eunuch guarding the palace sorted the money in the palace into several boxes and carried it out, Qianhu, a man in fine clothes, also hurried over with seventy or eighty people.

Also coming at the same time was Wang Chengen.

"Long live my lord, the intruders are attacking the inner city. The top of the city is in danger. You are rich in gold and cannot pass through!" Wang Chengen knelt on the ground and begged Chongzhen as soon as he arrived.

Seeing Wang Chengen like this, Chongzhen opened his mouth and wanted to scold him, but remembering that this person was the one who accompanied him to die for his country in the end, he pulled Wang Chengen up and said: "Wang Daban, I have to go to this city today."

Then it can boost morale, and secondly, the treasures dropped by Taizu can help me break down the morale of the intruders."

As he spoke, Chongzhen was afraid of the sound coming from his leg.

Only then did Wang Chengen notice the sound.

But in his opinion, the speaker is just a weird black box of unknown material.

So he asked: "Long live Lord, what kind of treasure is this?"

Chongzhen said: "This is a sound system. You may not understand it even if I tell you about it. You will know its function when I use it on the Zhengyang Gate Tower."

After saying that, Chongzhen looked at Qianhu, who was leading seventy or eighty Jinyi soldiers, frowned and asked, "Didn't I ask you to summon a hundred people?"

Qianhu said: "Your Majesty, we can only free up these people in the palace at present."

Chongzhen also knew that some of the Jinyi soldiers had been sent to defend the city. In addition, the palace also needed to be guarded, so there was indeed a shortage of manpower.

He then said: "Over there, drive to the Zhengyang Gate Tower!"

A shoulder carriage was also brought.

Chongzhen sat up and said to the brocade-clad Qianhu: "Go and pick up the stereo. Don't rush into it or touch it."

"yes."

Qianhu went to pick up the stereo and found that it was not very heavy.

He looked at it curiously, but still couldn't see any effect.

"Let's drive!"

Following Wang Chengen's loud shout, the shoulder cart was lifted up, and a group of soldiers in brocade clothes guarded the shoulder cart in the middle and walked out.

Zhu Aelao followed beside Jianyu with a xenon lamp.

The city of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was smaller than that in the Qing Dynasty. It was composed of four parts: the outer city, the inner city, the imperial city, and the Forbidden City (imperial palace).

The inner city is in the north and the outer city is in the south.

The Imperial City is within the Inner City, and the Forbidden City is within the Imperial City.

Zhengyang Gate is in the middle of the south wall of the inner city, on the same line as Chengtian Gate.

Therefore, Chongzhen and others just left the Forbidden City and walked straight south, which was not very far.

Zhengyangmen Gate Tower is a typical military building, tall and solid, surrounded by supporting archery towers, watchtowers, etc.

And the invading army did not have really powerful cannons - if they had, with the strength of the inner city's troops, they probably wouldn't be able to defend it for half a day.

Therefore, Zhengyangmen Tower is relatively safe for the time being.

Chongzhen went to the highest floor of the city tower and looked down, and found that everything he saw seemed to be intruders.

Most of them are demolishing nearby residential buildings, obviously preparing to use the wood, bricks and stones from the residential buildings to build better siege equipment.

Moreover, some residential buildings are close to the city wall, which also hinders the formation of troops by intruders.

Only in such a wide place as outside Zhengyang Gate can there be large numbers of thieves.

These intruders were not densely packed, but they were firing cannons on the inner city wall.

The intruders outside kept making noises, but they mostly fired cannons and arrows, and did not directly attack the city - at least they did not see this section of Zhengyang Gate.

Firstly, the city wall is too high, and secondly, there are too many archery towers and cannons. If the ants attack by force, the casualties will be huge.

The Chuang army was originally a bandit and was not good at fighting tough battles.

Now that he is preparing to enter the capital and take over the world, it is not easy to use the method of driving the people, so he can only wait for the large-scale siege equipment.

After looking at the situation outside, Chongzhen did not use the speaker immediately, but asked: "How much silver was brought out from Wuying Palace?"

"Long live the Lord, there are 1,075,583 taels."

Chongzhen pondered for a while and then said: "I have told you that all the soldiers guarding the city with a household of less than 100 will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver, with 100 households, 50 taels of silver will be rewarded with 1,000 households, and with 1,000 households or more, 100 taels of silver will be rewarded!"

Upon hearing this, the surrounding Jinyi soldiers and city wall defenders immediately shouted happily: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

However, Chongzhen was not happy with this cheer. Instead, he said to Wang Chengen: "Wang Daban, please send people to spread my oral instructions to all parts of the city wall, so that the soldiers know how much I have rewarded them. If anyone is greedy, he will be severely punished!"

"

"According to the order!"

Then, Wang Chengen sent his trusted eunuchs to spread Chongzhen's oral instructions throughout the city walls.

Although the soldiers guarding the city also feel that the capital is in danger, most of those on the city wall are still somewhat loyal to Zhu Ming.

Therefore, after hearing Chongzhen's oral instructions from the eunuchs, everyone immediately shouted with joy.

10 taels of silver, even if prices in the capital are so high these days, it is still a considerable reward.

Chongzhen seemed to have never been so generous before.

The most important thing is that the soldiers knew that Chongzhen had also climbed the city wall, and their morale was indeed boosted.

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Outer city.

In a three-story restaurant somewhere, Li Zicheng was looking at Zhengyang Gate with several generals.

I saw that he had long beards, was blind in one eye, had thick eyebrows and hawk-like eyes, and the eyeball of the intact eye was yellow-brown, glowing with a fascinating light.

Faintly hearing the Ming army's cheers starting from the tower of Zhengyang Gate and spreading to all parts of the city wall, Li Zicheng couldn't help frowning and said solemnly: "Come here, ask what happened on the inner city wall and why there are so many cheers.

"

"yes!"

The young general left in response.

Not long after, he ran back, clasped his fists and said, "Report to King Chuang. It is said that Chongzhen distributed the silver reward to the Ming army."
Chapter completed!