1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 481 Good News ([-])

July 7, Daming, Beijing Normal University, Yongding Gate.

The defense in the temporary camp of Jiannu sent to the capital in Dengzhou, Shandong has been taken over by the three major battalions of the Beijing army.After receiving the decree, Wu Weiying, the governor of the Jingying Rongzheng Gongshun Hou, personally selected [-] brave men from the three major battalions, and selected [-] cavalry from the [-] battalion (one of the three major battalions of the capital) to serve as the leading guard of honor.

At Chenshi (07:09 to [-]:[-] Beijing time), many soldiers of the Beijing camp, carrying banners and guards of honor, escorted hundreds of Jiannu prisoners to leave the temporary station and enter the city through Yongdingmen.

A few days ago, well-informed people in the capital had already learned that hundreds of Jiannu captives had been sent from Shandong. Give it all to me, Daming.

Since Jiannu broke through the customs in November last year, he invaded Gyeonggi, Hebei, Shandong and other places. He raged for seven months, destroyed dozens of cities, and slaughtered countless people in our Ming Dynasty. hate it.

Today, some Jiannu captives are sent to the capital, and they have to perform a prisoner offering ceremony. The whole city parades the streets to show the public. The restaurants and halls were even more crowded with people.

With the sound of the horseshoes of the leading cavalry, a long line of troops passed through Yongding Gate one after another. After the three hundred cavalry, there were two hundred mighty and majestic Jingying soldiers, holding flags, recognition flags, and camp flags. erected.Afterwards, prison carts passed by one after another, in which more than a dozen Jiannu generals with official ranks were locked up. Behind the prison carts were the prisoners of Jiannu's ordinary armored soldiers, Jiannu's family members, and their coats, all with their heads bowed. , driven by the Jingying soldiers on both sides, marched in panic.

"Kill them!"

"Yes, kill them!"

"Cut them to pieces!"

"Chop them up and feed them to the dogs!"

"..."

The angry roars and curses of the people in the capital gradually sounded on both sides of the road, followed by all kinds of rotten vegetables, leaves, dirty debris, stones, soil clods and other foreign objects, which were continuously thrown at the Jiannu in the queue.

The soldiers of the Beijing camp escorted on both sides paid close attention to the movement of Jiannu, while carefully dodging all kinds of debris thrown from both sides, and kept shouting loudly, telling the people on both sides of the road not to throw foreign objects again.

However, the anger of the people in the capital on both sides of the road had been ignited. They ignored the warnings of the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp and threw everything they could pick up on the ground and nearby at the marching Jiannu captives.

The procession of presenting captives entered the city from Yongding Gate, and because the road was blocked by angry people from time to time, the whole procession did not reach Daming Gate of the imperial city until [-]:[-].

Emperor Chongzhen lived on the top of the Daming Gate with all the civil and military officials, watching the prisoner offering team slowly approaching from a distance, his eyes became extremely sharp.He fought against Liaodong Jiannu for decades, but repeatedly lost his teachers and lands, lost troops and lost generals. Jiannu repeatedly broke through and entered, ravaged several provinces in the pass, robbed our Daming wealth, and slaughtered our Daming people.

Chongzhen had imagined countless times that the Ming army could go straight to the Jiannu thief's den in his own hands, wipe out Jiannu, and then clean up the dilapidated situation in the country from the beginning.

More than ten years ago, Yuan Chonghuan, whom he trusted so much, made him full of expectations at first, but in the end he wanted to hook up with Jiannu, have an affair with him, ruin my big business, so he killed him in anger.

Three years ago, he pinned all his hopes on Hong Chengchou, hoping that he could use the military strategy and methods of exterminating the bandits to quickly quell the trouble of building slaves.But I didn't expect that in the battle of Songjin last year, I lost more than [-] elite troops from the Ming Dynasty, and the situation in Liaodong collapsed.

The Poguan Jiannu who had just left once again slaughtered dozens of prefectures and counties in Hebei and Shandong provinces, causing millions of lives to die. What is even more annoying is that the chief assistant Zhou Yanru was ordered to supervise his teachers to prevent Jiannu from returning to the north. Dare to fight with one, shrink back to avoid the enemy, and lie about the military situation.Looking all over the court, up and down, there is no one who can share my worries.

"Your Majesty, the Jiannu captives have arrived at Daming's sect." Bingbi eunuch Wang Chengen bowed to remind Chongzhen.

"Oh." Chongzhen pulled his chaotic thoughts back to reality, and looked down at a row of Jiannu prisoners kneeling under the Daming Gate. Most of them had cyan scalp, which seemed to reflect a little under the sunlight, and ugly money rat tails. With braids hanging around their necks, all Jiannu prisoners looked extremely submissive.

"Your Majesty, Shandong sent them here to build slaves. Among them, there are nine generals, six from the Eight Banners of Han Dynasty, and three from the Eight Banners of Manchuria." The Governor-General of Jingying Rongzheng Gongshun Hou Wu Weiying said softly: "The rest are ordinary Jiannu soldiers,... ...still dominated by the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.”

"What are the identities of the old, weak, women and children among them?" Chongzhen saw that many of the slave-building teams kneeling on the ground were old people, women, and some children.

"The Army of the State of Qi attacked Gaizhou City, killed Jiannu, and captured all the family members of the slaves in the city. Therefore, there were many old, weak, women and children among them." Wu Weiying explained: "In addition, according to what the captives said, the Army of the State of Qi In the two battles with Jiannu at the seaside of Juzhou (Ju County, Zhao City today), nearly a hundred real slaves were killed, all of whom were armored cavalry belonging to the Zhenghuang Banner of Manchuria. However, the army of Qi State did not count their merits by beheading, so there was no head Level of evidence."

"How many soldiers and horses were dispatched by Qi's army to defeat Gaizhou and Juzhou to kill Jiannu?" Chongzhen asked curiously.

"It is said... It is said that Qi State went to attack Jiannu twice, and only dispatched about 500 soldiers." Wu Weiying showed a trace of embarrassment on his face.

I think the Ming army would not have dared to meet Jiannu in the field without the blessing of two or three times the number of troops.Even if there are enough soldiers and horses, they mostly rely on the fortifications to fight Jiannu.However, it was learned from the interrogation of Jiannu that the army of Qi State directly recruited 500 people to invite Jiannu to fight in the wild, and they were able to win the battle.In this way, compared with my Ming army, it is really a bit embarrassing.

"A small vassal state has such good soldiers. Why can't I be like this?"

Wu Weiying dared not speak up.

"Pass down the decree, the captured Jiannu generals will be Zuo Jiabing, and they will be punished in the Ming Dynasty. Five days later, they will be cut; Jiannu's subordinates and rebels will be beheaded." Chongzhen showed a stern look on his face. How pleasant it is to be captured at the gate of Daming and be punished as soon as he is punished.

"Declaration, three days later, Xuan Qi envoys will enter the palace to have an audience."

After finishing speaking, Chongzhen took another look at the Jiannu captives kneeling in a row under the tower, heaved a sigh of relief, then turned and left the tower.

After Chen Yan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, led a group of civil and military officials to send Chongzhen away, he put his hands behind his back and looked at Song Mengning, the minister of Honglu Temple.

"Your Majesty wants to meet the envoy of the Qi Kingdom. In the next few days, you must teach them the etiquette of meeting with them. Also, tomorrow, bring the envoy to the cabinet first. We have something to tell him."

"Yes, Mr. Ge Boss." Song Mengning bowed his hands and promised.
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On July 7th, Qi State envoy Huang Zijia and his deputy Zhai Baoqing walked slowly through the majestic palaces under the guidance of several eunuchs. The huge palace, countless eunuchs and guards, seemed unusually quiet.

Finally, several young eunuchs brought the envoys of the State of Qi to the gate of a huge palace. The roof of the hall with double eaves and double eaves of yellow glazed tiles is located on a single-layer white marble platform. There are bronze turtles and bronze cranes on the left and right in front of the palace. , sundial, Jialiang, and 4 gold-plated incense burners in front, with Danbi in the middle.

A white-faced and beardless man in his forties was waiting outside the gate of the palace, when the young eunuchs who led the way saw him and hurriedly bowed to salute.

"You guys go." After dismissing a few eunuchs, Wang Chengen began to look up and down the two envoys of the Qi State. He saw that there was a hint of panic in the other's expression, but he still tried to maintain a little calm.

"Your envoy, don't be nervous." Wang Chengen smiled, and said in a warm voice: "Your Majesty saw you and other envoys, but I still have some doubts about you, Qi, and I specially call you to ask for encouragement. Po Jiannu, His Majesty is very pleased. But you must be cautious when you ask some questions. I think the cabinet has told you to wait in advance, and you can answer according to the formula. Do you remember?"

Huang Zijia nodded solemnly, looked back at the deputy envoy Zhai Baoqing, and signaled him not to worry, and waited in peace.Because he was meeting the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, only one envoy was allowed to enter the hall, so Zhai Baoqing would be led by the eunuchs to wait in the side hall.

Huang Zi took a deep breath, followed Wang Chengen up the stairs.

Entering the main hall, the inner corridor is 9 rooms wide and 5 rooms deep. It is more than 20 meters high from the platform to the main ridge.In the hall, the Ming room and the East and West are connected.There is a screen between the two gold pillars on the back eaves, and a throne in front of the screen, and on the throne is the Emperor Chongzhen sitting upright.

Seeing Huang Zijia looking up at Chongzhen, Wang Chengen coughed lightly and gestured with his eyes.

"Huang Zijia, envoy of the Qi State, pays homage to the Emperor of Ming!" Huang Zijia suddenly realized that this was inappropriate, and immediately knelt down to pay respects.

Before coming to Daming, Qi Tian and several ministers of the Prime Minister's Office said that when they had an audience with Emperor Chongzhen, they could follow the other party's kneeling etiquette and treat Daming as the kingdom of heaven.As long as Daming can acquiesce to Qi State's establishment of a representative office in the capital of Daming, establish official contacts, and carry out a large number of immigrants in the territory of Daming, some nominal etiquette is a small matter.

Perhaps, the majesty of the Great Ming Dynasty will not last long.

"Your emissary is flattened, come forward to answer." Chongzhen said softly, "Give me a seat."

Although Huang Zijia was the prince of Brunei a few years ago, he learned a lot of astronomy, geography and the situation of various countries in the world with Qi Tian, ​​and broadened his horizons and experience. He thought that after he went to the palace and met Emperor Chongzhen, he could deal with it calmly.

But from the moment he stepped into the palace gate, he was shocked beyond measure by the majestic palace, the solemn and quiet guards, the cautious servants, the unsmiling ministers, and the prestige of the Great Ming Dynasty for many years. Jia couldn't help but feel a little panic deep in his heart.

Huang Zijia carefully sat on a soft bed, with a respectful expression and slightly lowered head, waiting for Emperor Chongzhen's questioning.

Emperor Chongzhen simply asked about where the Qi State was based, the population size, the amount of products, and why they came to the Ming Dynasty for a pilgrimage.

Huang Zijia answered Chongzhen's questions one by one according to the language he had woven long ago. At the same time, he also expressed Qi's reverence and respect for Daming. He hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would allow Qi to continue to introduce more disaster-stricken, hungry and helpless people from Daming. bankrupt people.

After hearing this, Chongzhen felt a trace of sadness in his heart.I am in the Ming Dynasty, and now there are internal and external troubles, and the people are suffering unspeakably. Although I also agree that the emigration of the victims of the disaster, starvation and needy people to the Hanzhou mainland is the best way to survive.But those thousands of immigrants are all my citizens of Ming Dynasty!

The country is in danger, the people are suffering, and my heart is restless!

"You Qi Kingdom, are you willing to help me fight against the slaves of the Ming Dynasty?" Chongzhen asked suddenly.

Huang Zijia was stunned immediately when he heard the words, there is no such problem in the list of the Ming cabinet?

(End of this chapter)