Beijing, June 26th.
On the second day after Fan Wencheng arrived in Shenyang City and brought great news to Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji of the Kingdom of Jin, the cavalry of the brigade escorted several dignitaries with imperial orders and flew straight into the Deshengmen Urn City in the north of Beijing. . These cavalrymen are all dressed as Jin Yiwei, all wearing flying fish uniforms. Because they had driven hundreds of miles in a row, they were all covered in stinky sweat, and the horses under their crotches were all thin and hairy. In the past, these Jin Yiwei who were qualified to wear Feiyu uniforms were all distinguished masters. When had you ever seen them in such a miserable state?
The imperial army of the Emperor of Heaven is not only a formidable secret service agency, but also a "kindergarten" for generations of officials and honorary officials. Many officials who have saved some merit will give their sons who are still nursing an official position in the Jinyiwei Hundred Households... It really feels like treating Jinyiwei as a kindergarten. You can only imagine how much fighting power the Jinyiwei who has become an official kindergarten can have.
Today, those who escorted the dignitaries back to Beijing were a group of N-generation people from the "Jinyiwei Kindergarten". Previously, they were coaxed and tricked by Zhang Weixian, an old guy, into leaving Beijing and walking more than 600 miles to Datong Town, which was invaded by Mongolian Tatars... Don't stay in Beijing, go to such a dangerous place. Datong, if you think about it, you are seeking death!
But luckily, the little emperor [Liancheng fo], who had just ascended the throne for less than a year, used some method to send away the Tatars at the entrance. So you guys are pretty safe in this business!
But the little emperor's troubles are not over yet! He has no intention of returning the favor and wants to continue toiling in Datong Town. Not only do we need to torment the imperial commander to conquer personally, we are also prepared to go straight to the Tumote River. Moreover, they are still tossing around the matters of clearing fields, inspecting land, and reorganizing the army, which is a hornet's nest.
What is even more troublesome for these N-generations who came from "Jinyiwei Kindergarten" is that the little emperor actually brought up the matter of conquest of Tumotechuan and threatened Duke Yingying, Duke Chengguo, and Hou Ning to bring the educated people in the Beijing camp. The officers who can handle things with hyphenation help us check the fields and people!
This thing is going to ruin people's jobs and money... There will be retribution!
And how much oil and water can Datong Town have? It's the territory of a government, and it's cold and dry. The maximum farmland under the Eight Guards Sixty-fourth Fort is 27.8 million acres. How much can be harvested if you take it all back? How can it compare with the military and military camps around Beijing? There are dozens of military guards around Beijing alone, seven to eight times as many as the Eight Guards in Datong. At least 10 million acres of land have been hacked...
In addition, the vacancies in Datong Town cannot be compared with those in Jingying. Not only are the vacancies in Jingying very good, but the pay for the soldiers in Beijing is even greater. They earn one, two, seven, or eight taels of silver a month. The vacancies are so comfortable. .
Now the emperor is asking the officers of the Beijing Camp to check the military camps and vacancies in Datong Town. He will not let the officers of Datong Town check the Jingying Camp later, right?
It’s terrible just thinking about it!
But knowing that things were going to be bad, the generals in the Beijing camp in Datong did not dare to confront the little emperor who had just selected the first warrior in Mongolia!
The Beijing camp soldiers Zhang Weixian brought to Datong, including the noble servants of various families and the N-generation men who were dawdling in the Jinyi Guards, plus the temporary soldiers worth one tael of silver a month, totaled more than 20,000 people. Who do you dare to fight with in Datong?
There are tens of thousands of servants of the emperor!
Moreover, after the little emperor took over the estates of several princes, he also opened a subcolon in Datong as the "Emperor's Servant" and offered a high price of 500 acres of land and a house in Datong City. Recruit 1,500 warriors from Fort Wei 64 (the Zhuangzi collected from several princes is enough to divide 2,000 families, but Zhu Youjian also plans to move a group of backbones from Beijing to Datong, so he only recruits 1,500 families in Datong). .....How many warriors are there in Datong Town? If the local generals like Ma Jiajiang and Ma Jiajiang are divided, and then 1,500 households are taken away by the little emperor, why bother?
If the little emperor could live in Datong for the first half of the year, I am afraid that the Datong military town would be completely controlled by him, and he could regard Datong as the Xijing of the Ming Dynasty in the future...
Zhang Weixian, Zhu Chunchen, Zhu Guobi, Luo Sigong, Luo Yangxing and others also realized that something was wrong. The little emperor did not want to go home and wanted to stay in Datong all the time!
This is using the old trick of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty who made Xuanfu his home and set up a "Zhenguofu" in Datong, which is farther away from Beijing (Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty once established a Zhenguofu in Xuanfu and used it as his home to order the border troops) , so that you can get rid of the ministers in the court and do it yourself!
Zhang Weixian and others, who noticed something was wrong, also knew that they had nothing to do with Zhu Youjian in Datong Town. So just a few days ago, we jointly proposed to the young emperor and sent Ningyuan Bo Li Zunzu and Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong, who had arrived in Datong with the Beijing camp, back to Beijing to take charge of the Beijing camp and organize Beijing's defense.
Zhu Youjian had a good impression of Zhao Zhilong and Li Zunzu - Zhao Zhilong was a "loyal and good man" who raised troops to resist the traitor in Nanjing!
Li Zunzu disappeared during the battle to break out of Beijing in the Jiashen year and was never found again. He was probably a loyal martyr.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian readily agreed to the suggestions of Zhang Weixian and others, and asked Zhao Zhilong and Li Zunzu to act as the commander-in-chief and admiral of the Beijing camp. With Zhu Youjian's instructions, he was escorted by a group of cavalry in uniforms. , returned to Beijing.
After more than twenty days, Zhao Zhilong and Li Zunzu, who returned to Beijing, felt as if they were in another world when they looked at the capital of the Ming Dynasty, which was on guard.
The originally relaxed and relaxed city of Beijing now actually looks a little more heavily guarded! There were actually a large group of Beijing soldiers on duty inside and outside Deshengmen Urn City!
When the officer guarding the gate saw a brigade of Jinyi guards about to enter the city, he actually dared to intercept them... He asked the brigade to stay in Wengcheng and only allowed Zhao Zhilong and Li Zunzu to enter the city to do business.
This level of alertness is almost as high as that of Datong Town. Something must have happened!
The experienced Zhao Zhilong asked an acquaintance in Deshengmen Wengcheng, and then he realized that Beijing was not very stable these days!
Because the news coming from Datong Town was repeated and strange. It caused quite a stir in the city of Beijing. First, memorials from several unlucky princes arrived - the emperor was defeated and surrounded, and his life or death was uncertain! But everyone in Beijing was shocked.
The emperor doesn’t have a son yet! If this really disappears, who will the Ming Emperor do it for?
The two queens in the palace, the six cabinet ministers in the court, and the nobles all over Beijing were all dumbfounded and began to think... and they automatically divided into two parties, one party supported King Fu; There is another group of people who want to take a child from the home of King Gui Zhu Changhui to be a young king.
Those who want to establish King Fu are the so-called eunuchs, that is, those who have not had trouble with King Fu in the country's fundamental disputes. According to the procedures, he should indeed be the emperor.
The ones who want to have a son from Prince Gui's family are the Donglin Party and the great eunuchs in the palace... This combination is a bit strange. There are no eunuchs on the eunuch side, but the Donglin gentlemen are with the eunuchs this time. stood together.
The reason why this happened was because it was Empress Zhang who proposed adopting the son of the Gui family - she also hoped that Empress Zhou would give birth to a son for her to adopt, so that she could become the Queen Mother! Of course, Prince Fu cannot be allowed to come to Beijing. Prince Fu was granted a title in Luoyang and would be arriving in Beijing soon. He would not be able to wait until the next week to give birth.
And the King of Gui was granted a title in Hengzhou, so he had to go back and forth for a long time. If he could delay it a little longer, he would probably be able to delay the delivery until a few weeks later. When the time comes when Queen Zhou gives birth to a son, then let the son of Prince Gui's family go back. If a girl is born, there is nothing you can do.
This idea was of course supported by the Donglin Party members headed by Sun Chengzong, and also by several eunuchs who came from the Xinwang vassal, such as Xu Yingyuan, Zhou Shizhi, and Shang Fuming.
Because Zhu Youjian contracted the salt tax to Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan before leaving Beijing to conduct his own expedition, which hurt the interests of the nobles in Beijing. Therefore, the nobles in Beijing sided with the eunuchs in this "national dispute" caused by misunderstandings... But before the two sides really started to fight, the second wave of people sent by Zhang Weixian came. It arrived, bringing the good news of Baishan Mountain’s victory.
