After receiving the order from Lu Xiangsheng, Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong Town, and Hu Dawei, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town, rushed to Lu Xiangsheng's supervisory camp. Both of them were wearing helmets and armor, and their armor clanged when they dismounted.
"Another three hundred and seventy-seven heads beheaded?"
Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, looked at Zhang Cheng in horror, with an expression of disbelief on his face.
"Have you really caught a Jia La Zhang Jing?"
Shanxi Town Commander-in-Chief Hu Dawei was also very surprised and couldn't help but ask.
Wang Pu and Hu Dawei exchanged glances, and then fixed their gazes on Zhang Cheng.
They secretly thought that Zhang Cheng was young, but he was not afraid of danger, dared to fight with the captives in the field, and gained so much, and even captured Jia La Zhangjing. Such military achievements cannot be concealed!
A bright general star of the Ming Dynasty is rising slowly. This time the news is reported to the imperial court, Zhang Cheng's name will surely stir up the government and the public, and the light is destined to be unblockable.
Shanxi Commander-in-Chief Hu Dawei glanced at Yang Guozhu with deep meaning. Zhang Cheng once again made great achievements this time. Naturally, his old friend would follow the rising tide. He was happy for Yang Guozhu in his heart.
Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong over there, looked at Yang Guozhu with a hint of jealousy. There was such a brave and capable general in Xuanfu Town, and Yang Guozhu took advantage of it.
Governor Lu Xiangsheng stood in front of the leader of the Qing army, the prisoner Jia Lazhang, and the imperial official's official banner. He enthusiastically encouraged Xuanda, the general of the three towns in Shanxi Province, to be loyal to the king from now on, to be brave in front of the battle, and to live up to the diligent king's rescue.
original intention.
Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, first said: "Please be at ease, Governor. We will do our best to serve the king and fight bravely on the battlefield to make the Tartars fearful."
Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei also clasped their fists and accepted orders, saying that they would use their lives in front of the formation and fight against the slaves bravely.
Then, the governor Lu Xiangsheng and the three general soldiers were in the military tent and talked about how to defend against the Qing army's offensive and defensive operations.
Near noon, all the general soldiers resigned to Governor Lu and returned to their base camp.
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It was October 21, the eleventh year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty.
Beijing, Forbidden City, Imperial Palace, Yangde Zhai.
As usual, Emperor Chongzhen got up at dawn, washed himself under the service of a group of palace maids, put on his imperial robes, and then walked to the yard in front of the Qianqing Palace to burn incense and worship the sky.
After performing four obeisances and kowtowing, he silently prayed. Ever since the Qing army invaded, he had been praying like this every day, hoping that the capital would be safe and that the Tartars would retreat as soon as possible.
After the blessings were completed, he returned to Qianqing Palace. Because he was feeling depressed, he asked the young eunuch beside him to send greetings to the queen, prince, concubines and princesses as usual.
Emperor Chongzhen put on a dark dragon yellow satin robe, sat in front of the imperial desk and began to review the memorial.
He has reviewed various memorials related to the military and political affairs of the country for eleven years on this imperial record, and has also personally issued countless edicts. However, every time he looks at this imperial record, he is very confused.
worry.
The imperial desk was piled full of memorials and memorials every day, like a hill, and among these memorials and memorials, there was almost no memorial that could make him happy.
Those memorials reporting famines in various places are full of shocking words such as "the land is thousands of miles away", "the human habitation is cut off" and "eating by exchanging children". There are also memorials about "bandits" and "country bandits", which are all reports.
There are civil unrest and military disasters everywhere.
Recently, with the intrusion of the Tartar bandits, there have been reports of how the Qing soldiers continued to advance after they penetrated into Jifu, and how they destroyed those places, burned them, looted heavily, how many men, cattle, sheep, mules, and horses were plundered, etc.
, as well as a certain official in a certain place fled in the face of the wind, a certain official in a certain place died for the country, and so on.
Various memorials like this were what he had to read every day, but he really didn't want to read them, and even dared not to read them. Many times, he wanted to kick over the imperial papers in front of him. .
Now, Emperor Chongzhen was sitting in front of the imperial desk. He was not in a hurry to review the memorials on the desk. He lowered his head and stared at a bronze incense burner on the imperial desk, and he was lost in thought.
Two extremely beautiful palace maids walked gently into the Nuan Pavilion. One of the palace maids held a peony petal-style silver lacquered red tray with a blue and white tureen and a silver spoon on it, and walked to the palace. Before the case.
Another palace maid hurriedly took down the bowl and silver spoon from the tray, placed it on the imperial desk in front of Emperor Chongzhen, and then opened the lid. Emperor Chongzhen glanced at the palace maid, then picked up the silver spoon, and slowly Drink the ginseng soup in the tureen.
After finishing the ginseng soup, I watched the palace maid carry the tray and leave the Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace.
Emperor Chongzhen picked up a list of requests from the cabinet that had just been handed over from under a peach-colored agate paperweight with two dragons protecting the sun. It listed the names of thirteen people, all of whom were to be promoted or transferred to other posts. For people holding official positions, there is a difference between selection and transfer.
Logically speaking, when the Qing army is raging across the capital, how many urgent military and state affairs are waiting for him to deal with. Similar to ordinary promotion matters, which have been reviewed and approved by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Cabinet, he will probably You can directly approve the application with the word "can", or if you think someone is not suitable, just check that person's name off.
However, Emperor Chongzhen did not do that, because he was afraid in his heart of coming into contact with documents related to famines, rogue bandits, especially the rogue cavalry that ravaged the capital;
The second is that he has always liked to put more thought into small things to highlight his "hands-on" attitude;
Thirdly, he was also very uneasy about the ministers above the court, so he always suspected some subtle things, and would always make some changes to some of the decisions made by the ministers, so as to "show the power of God against unexpected events". " means.
He picked up the list and looked at it carefully. Some of the names on it were familiar to him, and some were unknown to him.
He studied the names he knew, and a series of questions secretly arose in his mind: Isn't this person someone's fellow countryman? Hey, isn't that person his disciple? Also, who gave this person's censorship the title of chief official, was it someone who gave it to him? ?
He thought and suspected, and in his depressed mood, he used a red pen to randomly change the order of the names on the list.
Chongzhen was very proud of his casual change. He thought that this perfectly demonstrated the meaning of "showing the power of God against unexpected events", and a truly wise emperor had to make his subordinates unable to understand his thoughts. .
However, he did not notice that after such a casual change, he was supposed to be promoted, but was instead demoted for no reason. The person who was supposed to be promoted from the seventh rank to Shizhong unexpectedly became the seventh rank censor. Or the leader of the sixth grade.
Later, when the ministers and ministers of the cabinet saw the promotion list that had been changed by the emperor's pen, they were also greatly surprised, but they did not dare to ask Emperor Chongzhen and could only passively comply with it.
What is even more ridiculous is that Emperor Chongzhen not only changed the order, but also randomly pulled out a more pleasing name from the "Jin Shen" booklet, added it to the back of the list, and marked the word "Censor".
Later, the cabinet and officials spent a lot of effort and could not find this person in the entire city of Beijing. After two months, they found out that this person had died of illness a year ago in Fujian.