The Shaoqing of Honglu Temple is from the fifth rank.
There was no one in the entire Honglu Temple to welcome the team of envoys who came to pick up the tiger-character flag when they entered the city, but someone had to do it. In the end, the job fell to Zhou Shaoqing, who had a not-so-popular background.
"I'm being rude. Let's go to the city first. After entering the city, if you want to enjoy the beauty of the Qinhuai River, the envoy can go at any time." Zhou Shaoqing concealed the embarrassment on his face and continued to lead the way towards the city gate.
It is close to Nanjing City, and there are already a lot of pedestrians nearby.
This was originally the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but now it has become the only capital and the political and economic center of the Ming Dynasty, welcoming visitors from all over the world.
Such a team of hundreds of people appeared at the gate of Nanjing City, surrounded by officers and soldiers escorting them. Pedestrians on the road gave way one after another and did not dare to compete with them.
This made the team move much faster, but when they arrived near the city gate, they were still blocked by the flow of people entering and exiting the city.
"Someone comes to the front to see the city gate guard. Tell him that the envoy's team has arrived and ask him to lead people to drive away the people near the city gate so as not to delay the envoy's entry into the city." Zhou Shaoqing called to accompany the Ming army. Only one person is sent to do things.
The assigned Ming soldiers ran toward the city gate.
It is more difficult for a convoy of hundreds of people to squeeze through the crowds and reach the city gate, but it is much easier for one or two people.
Soon, the soldier successfully arrived at the city gate and successfully met the guard at the city gate.
The man who defended the city was the commander of a guard post under the Nanjing garrison.
The commander-in-chief's surname is Zhu, and he is a descendant of Baoguo Gong. However, he has already been in the fifth server with the current Duke Baoguo's successor, but it is also because of this relationship that he got the position of commander-in-chief.
"Mr. Zhu, the envoy's team has arrived. Please ask Mr. Zhu to drive away the people at the city gate and let the envoy's team enter the city." Ming Bing said to Mr. Zhu in front of him.
Mr. Zhu, who was in front of him, glanced sideways at him and said, "I have never heard of such an envoy team. If you dare to make up random envoys again, be careful that I will catch you."
With his general official position, he is naturally not qualified to call himself a general, but he likes to be called a general, so he calls himself a general in front of his subordinates.
The people under him did not dare to offend him, so they naturally fawned over him. Others thought that he was a descendant of Baoguo Gong, and they did not look at the monk's face but the Buddha's face, so they did not want to argue with him about such a trivial matter.
When the Ming soldiers heard what Chief Zhu said, they were afraid of being punished by the other party, so they turned around and ran from the city gate to the team waiting outside the city.
"Bah! A low-ranking dog is worthy of being called an envoy." Zhu spat on the back of the Ming soldier who left the general court.
A gate guard on the side said worriedly: "General, if we just keep people out like this, will we offend them?"
"What are you afraid of? If something happens, I will be here to take care of it." Zhu Ba said with disbelief.
Talking about the tiger-character flag in the city, there were shouts and curses everywhere. Now that the envoys of the tiger-character flag had arrived, he felt that if he blocked this team outside the city, he would only be applauded, and he could also curry favor with those who hated the tiger-character flag. A high official in the DPRK.
In his opinion, it was a good thing to kill two birds with one stone, and since the Ming Dynasty was about to cooperate with the Qing Dynasty, no one in the DPRK would stand up for the Tiger Flag.
When the guards on the side saw what their commander said, they stopped trying to persuade him and continued to maintain law and order at the city gate.
The Ming soldier sent out by Zhou Shaoqing squeezed out against the flow of people and quickly came to Zhou Shaoqing.
However, before he could speak, Zhou Shaoqing asked: "What's going on? Why haven't you driven away the people in front of the city gate? Do you know that there are envoys coming to the city?"
"When I got back to the eldest master, I have already spoken to Mr. Zhu at the city gate. He said that he had not received any news of the envoy's arrival. He also said that I was fabricating the envoy to punish him." Ming Ming. Bing explained.
Zhou Shaoqing's face sank when he heard this.
He didn't believe that the other party didn't know that the envoy was coming to Nanjing. Even if he didn't know before, it was impossible for him, the young minister of Honglu Temple, to go out of the city to meet the envoy.
At this time, he pretended not to know about the envoy's affairs. It was no longer purely the envoy's matter, and he did not take him as the young minister of Honglu Temple seriously.
Thinking of this, he said: "You go to the city gate again. This time I will go with you. I want to see what qualifications he has to show off in front of me."
After saying that, he urged his horse to walk towards the city gate.
Just a few steps away, he thought of his errand this time, and hurriedly pulled the reins. He turned to Hong Chengchou with an apologetic expression and said, "I'd like to ask Ambassador Hong to wait here for a while while I handle some matters." .”
Hong Chengchou nodded with a smile on his face.
Naturally, he was dissatisfied that a general here at the city gate dared to ignore him, an envoy from the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, he also felt Ming's malice towards Tiger Flag from another aspect.
Zhou Shaoqing quickly arrived at the city gate with the Ming soldier.
Seeing Commander Zhu at the city gate, Zhou Shaoqing asked with an ugly face: "President Zhu, I asked you to send people to drive away the people near the city gate, why didn't you take action for so long!"
"Ah! Didn't you say that a team of envoys has arrived?" Mr. Zhu pretended to be confused and looked at Zhou Shaoqing in front of him.
Hearing this, Zhou Shaoqing frowned and said, "Since we know that the envoy team is coming, why not close the city gate in advance and let the people enter the city through other gates."
"I didn't receive the order from above, and I didn't hear that there would be a team of envoys coming!" Mr. Zhu said with an innocent look.
Zhou Shaoqing immediately became angry after hearing this. He suppressed the anger in his heart and asked, "Didn't you just say that you knew that the envoy's team would arrive? Why are you pretending that you don't know now? Do you believe that I will take you to Dali?" The temple punishes the crime!"
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding. I don't know what the envoy team is at all. He said before that there was an envoy team coming. I thought he was talking nonsense and didn't take it seriously." Zhu Ba raised his hand and pointed. The Ming soldiers who arrived with Zhou Shaoqing blamed this person for everything.
Zhou Shaoqing naturally knew that he was trying to evade.
But at this time, there was no time to waste time with the opponent here. The envoy's team had already stayed at the city gate for too long.
"Now that we know that the envoy team has arrived, why not hurry up and drive away the people and let the envoy go first into the city." Zhou Shaoqing said while suppressing his anger.
Mr. Zhu immediately smiled and said: "My lord, you have spoken. I will take people to drive away all the people entering the city. I will not delay the envoys from entering the city."
He called over all the guards at the city gate.
Then he ordered the guards: "There are envoys who are going to enter Nanjing City. You short-lived guys, why don't you hurry up and drive away all the people? If the envoys are delayed from entering the city, you dogs won't have enough heads to chop them off." of."
As he spoke, he raised his leg and kicked the nearest guard.
(End of chapter)
