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Chongzhen looked at these people here at Daming Gate with disgust.
The anger in my heart was mixed with sadness.
These ministers of the Ming Dynasty had all behaved loyally and uprightly in the court before, and they were also loyal and upright in front of him, the emperor.
Seeing this scene in front of him, he just felt that he was blind before and actually trusted these ungrateful and shameless people.
Chongzhen left in a sedan chair.
None of the Ming officials saw him off outside the Ming Gate, not even one person accompanying Chongzhen in his sedan chair.
Everyone seemed to be blind, pretending not to see Chongzhen leave.
"Brother Yusheng, something is wrong! Why is our emperor still there at the Tiger Flag?" Wen Tiren whispered beside Zhou Yanru.
Zhou Yanru raised his head and looked at the two sedan chairs in the distance. He said: "Being alive now does not mean that he will be alive in the future. I didn't see so many soldiers following him around. He must have been imprisoned somewhere. Hearing the word "tiger" Every time Qi captures a place, there is always some kind of public trial, maybe our emperor is the target of the public trial."
The Central Committee of the Ming Dynasty had long known about the Tiger-Character Banner's way of governing local areas through some means. The Ming Cabinet was no stranger to the public trials of the Tiger-Character Banner.
"It would be terrible if there was a public trial." Wen Tiren looked sympathetically at Chongzhen's sedan chair as he departed.
In his opinion, the public trial of Tiger Character Banner was a murderous act, which was worse than cutting off the city in half.
Zhou Yanru withdrew his gaze, looked at Wen Tiren, and said: "Winning kings and losing bandits have been like this since ancient times. Brother Changqing, instead of pitying him here, why not think about how to enter the officialdom of Tiger Character Banner, otherwise you and I can only Go back to the mountains and become a teacher."
"Who doesn't want to join the Tiger Character Banner? Look at the people behind us. Not all of them are here to please Mr. Liu, just to enter the officialdom of the Tiger Character Banner." Wen Tiren turned around and glanced at his colleagues behind him.
Anyone who doesn't want to serve in the Tiger Flag will never appear outside the Ming Dynasty.
Zhou Yanru also glanced behind him and said, "These are all smart people!"
"What's the use of smart people? We've been waiting here for several hours, and the people in the Tiger Flag didn't even pay attention to us. I'm afraid it's useless for us to stay here for half a day." Wen Tiren said worriedly.
Still no one with the tiger character flag came to arrange for them, which made him feel uneasy.
Zhou Yanru said: "Let's wait and see. The Tiger Character Banner has a lot of things to do to take over the capital. If they want to take over the capital smoothly, we, the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty, are indispensable for our help."
"Then just wait."
He said this, but Wen Tiren knew that they had no choice. If they wanted to be officials in the new dynasty, they could only wait here.
The people who were guarding Daming Gate became more and more worried as they waited. They never saw anyone from the Tiger-Character Flag coming to comfort them, which made them worry that the Tiger-Character Flag would not pay attention to them.
But even so, no one left the Daming Gate, for fear that if they couldn't bear it and left, the people from the Tiger Flag would come looking for them at this time, thus causing them to lose the opportunity to serve the new dynasty.
A dozen soldiers wearing tiger-character flag uniforms and armor walked out of the Daming Gate.
The old ministers of the Ming Dynasty who were guarding the Daming Gate just glanced at it, but no one paid attention.
They have seen a lot of people with the Tiger Character Flag coming in and out of the Daming Gate one after another, and every time they have hope, hoping that the people coming out of the Daming Gate are here to see them, but in the end they are all disappointed. Return.
After many times, many people here in Daming Gate no longer pay attention to these tiger-character flag soldiers coming out of Daming Gate. Unless they are the kind of people who ride horses or have bright clothes and their identities are unusual at first glance, they will let them Pay more attention and expect more.
"No, these people seem to be coming for us."
Sharp-eyed old ministers of the Ming Dynasty noticed that more than a dozen people with tiger-shaped flags coming out of the Ming Dynasty Gate were walking in their direction.
Seeing this, many of the other old officials of the Ming Dynasty became nervous, and their eyes became more hopeful.
A dozen people from the Tiger Flag stopped three to five steps away from Zhou Yanru, an old minister of the Ming Dynasty.
This made these old officials of the Ming Dynasty excited.
Zhou Yanru couldn't help but ask: "I dare to ask, but Dongzhu Liu summoned us?"
The visitor ignored him, but took out a notebook from his body, took a look at it, and said: "Do you have any of the six ministers, Yuanwailang, and chiefs here?"
After speaking, he looked at the old officials of the Ming Dynasty in front of him.
Soon, a dozen or so people stood out.
A dozen people have one thing in common, that is, they are happy.
Zhou Yanru hurriedly stepped forward and said: "I am the current chief minister of the Ming Dynasty's cabinet, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and the former minister of the Ministry of War. Liu Dong mainly wants to understand the situation. No one is more familiar with it than me."
"I am the Second Assistant to the Cabinet and the Minister of Rites." Wen Tiren hurriedly revealed his identity.
The person who came with the tiger-character flag glanced at the two people and said: "You are still two high-ranking officials. I didn't call you from above. By the way, officials from the Ministry of Rites don't need to follow me. Only the officials from the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry , and people from the Ministry of Punishment.”
As his words fell, six or seven of the dozen or so people who had stood up suddenly turned gloomy.
The rest, however, were even happier.
The people from the Tiger-Character Banner obviously had something to do when they took them away, and they would have a great chance to stay in the new government of the Tiger-Character Banner and continue to serve as officials in the future.
"When everyone is here, come with me!"
The man with the tiger character flag closed the book in his hand, turned around and walked towards the Daming Gate.
The remaining dozen or so old officials of the Ming Dynasty hurriedly followed.
They finally had the opportunity to stay and work in Tiger Flag, and they didn't want the hard-won opportunity to slip away from them.
"I am the chief minister of the cabinet, and I know all the affairs of the court, big and small. Could you please inform Dongzhu Liu." Zhou Yanru did not dare to follow him, so he could only emphasize his identity behind him, hoping to gain attention.
A dozen old officials of the Ming Dynasty quickly entered the Ming Dynasty Gate and walked away little by little under the envious eyes of others.
"Brother Yusheng, what are the people of the Tiger Flag trying to do? We are not looking for people from the two cabinets, but are looking for a few minor officials from the Sixth Department." Wen Tiren said with a frown.
If Tiger-Character Banner didn't look for anyone, he could barely accept it, but now he was looking for a bunch of petty officials to enter the palace, leaving them, the important officials of the former dynasty, behind, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
"I don't understand." Zhou Yanru shook his head slightly, but his eyes flickered.
After a group of old officials from the Ming Dynasty were taken away, the remaining old officials from the Ming Dynasty gained a little more confidence to persevere.
I felt that since someone was taken away, they would naturally have a chance.
Most of them were larger than those taken away.
Only the few household doctors and Yuanwailang who were left behind began to hesitate whether to leave.
