The guard who was kicked covered his butt with his hands and ran forward.
After running a few steps, he turned around and stopped, and asked: "General, where did this team of envoys come from? I've never heard of it! The superiors didn't tell them in advance!"
"What a damn nonsense, how could I know this?" General Zhu scolded the subordinate who asked the question.
Zhou Shaoqing on the side said with a dark face: "It's an envoy from the capital."
After hearing this, General Zhu shouted to his subordinates: "Did you hear that? They are envoys from the capital. No, the capital in the north fell into the hands of tiger thieves. Where did the envoys come from? !”
With that said, he looked at Zhou Shaoqing again.
However, Zhou Shaoqing's face was ashen at this time.
He knew clearly in his heart that the other party was pretending to be confused and deliberately pretended not to know anything.
But he had to explain. He suppressed the anger in his heart and said: "What a tiger thief, you want to talk about the tiger-character flag. Now the tiger-character flag has sent an envoy. The court wants to see the envoy. If you don't believe it, just ask Marquis Funing, he will give you an explanation."
The Funing Marquis he spoke of was Zhu Guobi, who was also of the same lineage as Bao Guo Gong, the eighth generation Bao Guo Gong, and the head of the family of Mr. Zhu.
"With Zhou Shaoqing as a guarantee, the subordinates will naturally believe it." Mr. Zhu laughed loudly.
Of course, it is impossible to really find the Hou Ning. He is a clan member eight poles away. His relationship with the contemporary Hou Ning is not even as good as that of the concierge at the Hou Ning Mansion. Even if he is found, he may not be able to enter Funing. Hou's gate.
Zhou Shaoqing scolded: "Since I believe it, why not hurry up and let the envoy team enter the city."
"Don't worry, Zhou Shaoqing. I will personally drive away the people at the city gate for the envoy team." With that, Commander Zhu walked towards the people near the city gate.
Seeing this, Zhou Shaoqing felt a little more comfortable.
"Back off, back off, didn't you see the envoy team arriving? Let me tell you, these are the envoys sent by the Tiger Flag from the north. If you dare to block the city gate and prevent the envoys from entering the city, I will take you all into prison. ." Boss Zhu shouted as he drove away the people at the city gate.
Drive the people away to both sides of the city gate.
Zhou Shaoqing, who was standing here at the city gate, turned darker when he heard these words.
The reputation of the Tiger Flag in Nanjing is not good, or even very bad.
When the other party said this, it was obvious that the team of envoys deliberately touched the black tiger flag, and they were also trying to give him, the young minister of Honglu Temple, eye drops.
He deliberately wanted to block the other party's mouth and prevent the other party from raising the tiger flag, but he thought that the other party might not give him face, otherwise he would not deliberately play this trick at the gate of the city, completely ignoring him as a Honglu. Temple Shaoqing took it seriously.
Zhou Shaoqing glanced at Mr. Zhu who was not far away with a sinister look, then rode on horseback to meet the envoy team and quickly led the envoy team into the city.
But I already had a grudge against Mr. Zhu in my heart.
After such a fuss at the city gate, although it was delayed for some time, the team still entered the city.
This action at the city gate also made the people nearby behind the city gate aware that the envoys sent by the Tiger Character Banner had arrived in Nanjing.
Originally, Hong Chengchou's visit to Nanjing was limited to the imperial court and some powerful or well-informed people. Ordinary people had no idea about this.
Moreover, after the Qing envoys came to Nanjing twice for propaganda, and the enmity between the Ming court and the Tiger Flag, the people in Nanjing hated the Tiger Flag instead of the Qing Dynasty.
The Qing Dynasty fought against the Ming army in Liaodong. The people in Liaodong suffered the most, followed by the people in Beizhili. This allowed Nanjing to be free from threats and harm from the Qing Dynasty from beginning to end.
At most, some scholars chatted in restaurants and teahouses, but as the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were about to form an alliance, the majority of officials under the Ming Dynasty's dislike of the Qing Dynasty turned into acceptance, and all their hatred fell on the tiger-character flag. On the body.
Because the Tiger Flag has threatened the well-being of these people.
The people in Nanjing had even fewer channels for getting information, all of which came from the imperial court. Their attitude toward the Tiger Flag was the same as that of the officials. They believed that the Tiger Flag was a traitor who killed without blinking an eye, so naturally they didn't like it.
However, the people were also curious about the rebels who could defeat the Ming army.
As Hong Chengchou and his party entered the city, many curious people gathered in the open spaces on both sides of the street. Even in the restaurants and tea shops on both sides, there were many scholars observing the team of envoys from the Tiger-Character Banner entering the city. .
Although the people did not like the tiger-character flag, no one threw broken vegetable leaves at the envoys.
Naturally, the food that the people can eat will not be wasted and used to hit people. At the same time, the people do not dare. The Ming army that can fight throws away half of the tiger flags, and the people are also afraid.
"These are the soldiers of the Tiger Thief. They don't look like anything special!"
On the second floor of a restaurant, by the window, several people dressed as scholars looked at the procession of envoys on the street through the window.
"Perhaps I won't be able to call you a tiger thief anymore." Another scholar sitting next to me said.
The scholar who spoke first turned to look at the other person and said with disdain: "Since they are thieves, they will be thieves all their lives. Even the water of the Qinhuai River cannot wash away their thief spirit."
"It's hard to say whether it can remove the evil spirit from their bodies, but it will definitely soften their bones." The scholar who spoke waved his hand and opened the folding fan in his hand, only to see the words "Chao people" on it.
"Haha, Brother Pijiang!" The one who spoke was the eldest Chen Zhenhui. He smiled and nodded the Maoxiang in front of him with his hand.
The three people sitting at the same table are all leaders of the younger generation of scholars.
Among them, Chen Zhenhui is the oldest, and Maoxiang and Fang Yizhi are both several years younger than him.
"Look, are those the firearms used by tiger thieves? It seems to be no different from those in the army." Fang Yizhi suddenly said to the two people, while pointing at the firecrackers carried by the envoy team.
Maoxiang poked his head out and said, "I really can't see any big difference. It would be nice if I could get a closer look. Maybe I can see what's different."
Although the restaurant is located near the street, it is still some distance away from the street. There are many people in the middle blocking the view. It is naturally impossible to see clearly from the restaurant.
Unless the people holding the Tiger Flag raised the blunderbuss with their hands so that they could see it.
"No need to look, there is a difference." Chen Zhenhui said, "The tiger thief's fire cannon can be fired directly without a match rope, because there is flint on it. Although it will be affected by rain and snow, it is not as good as the one used by the Ming army. The match rope is much stronger."
He was older, and he had done some research on the defeat of the Ming army in the north. Especially after knowing that Tiger Character Banner was good at using firearms, he became even more curious about why the Ming army was defeated. After all, when it comes to firearms, the Ming Dynasty also had many weapons. , and there are more varieties.
