When Zhu Jinghong said the last sentence, the scene suddenly became excited.
Master Thirteen will not fight anymore? Are you planning to take off your armor and return to the fields? Isn't this a fucking joke?
But everyone knows that in such a formal occasion, when Zhu Jinghong said such words, he was definitely not joking.
The generals near the main seat guessed what Zhu Jinghong meant after some smacking.
The person who really wants to hear these words is not at the scene at all.
Indeed, Zhu Jinghong’s words were meant for the old man in the capital.
He believed that on today's occasion, there must be more than one person, or even more than one, who was arranged by the emperor. The purpose was to eliminate the emperor's suspicion, and there was still a tacit understanding between father and son.
Zhu Jinghong wanted the throne, but he didn't want the process to be unpleasant, so he had to handle his relationship with the emperor.
He actually ignored the prince and the sixth son. Now he only faced the emperor.
If their father and son clash head-on, it will be a disaster for the Ming Dynasty, and the current good situation will be ruined, which neither of them wants to see.
Most people present would not understand Zhu Jinghong's considerations. Looking at the people talking about it, he really wanted to shout at this moment.
Who can understand my heart...
After that, the banquet lasted for more than an hour. During this period, people kept coming to persuade Zhu Jinghong and advised him not to retreat and take time off. heart.
Zhu Jinghong responded one by one, saying that there was no big battle ahead, so there was no need to ask him to take action on small matters.
After thinking about these words carefully, everyone thought that this was what happened, so they became more accepting of it.
After the banquet was over and the generals dispersed, Zhu Jinghong followed the original route and returned to the military tent outside the city by car.
It is already September, and it will take at least two months to complete all matters in Junggar.
It was already the middle of winter, and the roads in the mountains were blocked by heavy snow. It would be impossible to return to Beijing until the beginning of next spring.
In the blink of an eye, a month passed, and Yili's report was sent back to the capital.
"The minister's contribution has been extremely great, so what hope is there for him... What a spirit!" Zhu Xianming said with emotion.
In Kunning Palace, Zhu Xianming placed the secret report about the Yili celebration banquet in front of Yang Qingyin.
After reading the report, Yang Qingyin just replied: "I'm afraid he didn't tell you what he said to put your mind at ease!"
"Maybe so!" Zhu Xianming replied road.
"According to what he said, after returning to Beijing, he will be idle again, so don't make things difficult for him again!" As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Qingyin started coughing.
Her health is very poor. Unless the emperor comes, she seldom speaks on weekdays.
After appeasing the queen, Zhu Xianming replied: "Who do you think I am? Why should I embarrass him!"
"Let me tell you clearly, Jinyiwei North and South Division, The left and right dragon guards, the left and right imperial city Yi guards, and the five city soldiers and horses department, this guy can't be installed"There are few people..."
"If I really couldn't tolerate people, I would have cut off his branches long ago!" ”
Zhu Xianming had a clear understanding of Zhu Jinghong’s arrangements.
So he also knew that even if Zhu Jinghong had not received the mission, he still had strong strength in the capital, and these had Zhu Xianming’s tacit approval.
But the premise is that Zhu Jinghong must be sensible and sensible.
In the past few years, all the merits have been attributed to the emperor and the soldiers. After returning to Beijing in triumph, no military honors were seen. Zhu Jinghong's performance impressed the emperor. Very satisfied.
“When will Old Thirteen come back? "
After thinking for a while, Zhu Xianming replied: "Now the mountain is blocked by heavy snow, making it difficult to pass. I'm afraid it won't be until next year!" ”
In fact, it’s not impossible to leave. For example, the soldiers delivering the message are leaving, but they are risking their lives to deliver the message. Of course, it is impossible for Zhu Jinghong, and there is no need to take such a risk.
Of course, If the emperor summons him urgently, he can come back.
"When next year?" ”
“We will leave in February and it will take two months to return to Beijing. I’m afraid we won’t be able to arrive until April or May!” "
"It just so happens that he will stay there longer and sort out the affairs in Junggar. It will not be too late to come back! "
The emperor was talking to himself, while the queen was settling accounts.
It is now the end of October, and even if we arrive in Beijing in April, there is still half a year...< /p>
Can I survive for half a year?
In recent months, coughing up blood has become normal. She has fainted inadvertently during meditation. No one made it public.
There were difficulties both inside and outside the court. She really didn't want to worry her husband and son.
Now that the battle was won, she originally planned to call her younger son back. Beijing, but he was blocked before he could say anything.
It was difficult to travel on the mountain due to heavy snow, and Junggar also needed stability for his younger son... These two reasons made Yang Qingyin suppress her thoughts. /p>
Let’s wait a month or two before we talk... Yang Qingyin thought to herself.
Two months have really gone by in a blink of an eye. It’s the twelfth lunar month and the New Year is coming soon.
It stopped snowing in the palace, and the sky and the earth were white.
Walking inside the palace wall, Baochai looked complicated.
Although the queen had just met. , behaved the same as before, but she still noticed something strange, mainly because it had changed too much.
The last time I met the queen was a month ago.
" The queen mother has lost a lot of weight, which is worrying! "Baochai muttered in a low voice.
The reason why she could find out was because she didn't have many opportunities to see the queen, and the emperor didn't notice when they saw each other every day.
"Princess? "
Hearing someone calling, Baochai subconsciously raised his head and saw that the person coming was Zhuang Concubine, the biological mother of the emperor's eleventh son Huichang King Zhu Jingtao.
"I have met Zhuang Concubine! "Baochai bowed and saluted.
She is a princess and is extremely noble, but Zhuang Concubine is an elder after all, so she must take the initiative when meeting her.present.
Concubine Zhuang was over forty years old and was very kind to everyone, so she asked her: "The princess is frowning, but what's bothering her?"
"It's all about the government. The trivial matters in the house, well... let’s not mention them!”
“There are many things in the house, and they are all managed by the princess. It is inevitable that there will be times when I am troubled. A few days ago, the eleventh daughter-in-law came to pay her respects and said: In her house..."
Concubine Zhuang was talking nonchalantly, and the implicit meaning behind her words was to set up a bridge for the Prince of Huichang's house. Baochai was being hypocritical and submissive throughout the whole process.
She has experienced too many situations like this, and now she is very familiar with handling them.
In the end, the two talked and laughed and said goodbye at the palace gate.
"Empress, you are the emperor's concubine, why are you doing this..."
Behind Zhuang Concubine, an eldest maid could not help but speak.
Of course she is not complaining without thinking, but she feels that her mother-in-law has no big pursuits and just wants to live a stable life. There is no need to wrong herself.
"You don't understand!" Zhuang Bin said calmly.
In the blink of an eye, another half month has passed, and time has entered the seventeenth year of orthodoxy.
It will obviously be colder this year, and the snow in the capital is thicker.
However, the heavy snow did not affect the New Year atmosphere. The princes, nobles, businessmen and servants all celebrated the New Year in their own way.
At this time, at Guangning Gate in the west of the capital, there was a man in ragged clothes who was stopped by soldiers when he wanted to enter the city.
"There is no road guide, no voucher...you still want to enter the city? Get out of here!" the soldier yelled.
It has been more than three hundred years since Zhu Yuanzhang set up the road guide system, and it was almost in name only in the Ming Dynasty.
Even in the capital, there is basically no control, except for some suspicious people who will be specially questioned.
This ragged man would be stopped if he entered the city and was an eyesore.
"I said... my home is in the city. I am the General of the Beijing Camp. My name is Guo Xing!"
"Are you...the General of the Beijing Camp?"
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After looking Guo Xing up and down, all the soldiers present laughed.
"If you are as good as a general in the Beijing Camp, I will be the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army!"
"Get out of here, if you dare to talk nonsense again... I will throw you into jail. Go to jail!"
Seeing the ferocious looks of these people, Guo Xing did not dare to say anything more, so he could only turn back and leave.
But he is telling the truth. His name is indeed Guo Xing, and he was once a general in the Beijing camp and had the title of second-class son.
He was the commander of the guards of Ning Huanxiang, the governor of the northwest region who countered the rebellion back then. He was captured alive during that attack.
Fortunately, he was lucky. Because he was strong enough, he was left as a slave and served in the Junggar army.
Three years have passed since then.
In the past three years, he has always been in a state of anger and resented the attack and death of Ning Huanxiang.
In the same three years, he reviewed the events of the year many times and finally came up with two possibilities.
Either... Junggar was extremely lucky and accidentally bumped into Ning Huanxiang, but this possibility was close to zero in Guo Xing's opinion.
Because it was obvious that those people came well prepared, which meant that their whereabouts had been leaked.
So, there is only another possibility: someone leaked the secret to the Junggar people.
Who would leak the secret...
Guo Xing thought of a person, a person who appeared suddenly, drank with him, and talked a lot with him... Sun Shaozu.
Sun Shaozu was a general of the Ming army. He had a title and a hereditary position in his family, so there was no reason to collaborate with the enemy.
However, after ruling out all possibilities, Sun Shaozu was the most suspect.
Originally, all these things have passed. Now that Guo Xing is back alive, there is no need to settle those old scores.
What's more, on the way back east, Guo Xing also learned that Sun Shaozu had now become a disciple of Zhu Jinghong, and provoking him was completely asking for trouble.
Only when he escaped from the army after the great defeat of Junggar and went to the Urumqi Ming Army for help, he learned some crazy things.
When Ning Huanxiang was attacked that year, the Ministry of War investigated and determined that he had neglected his duties. He had already been stripped of his military rank, and even had to demote his family's title by one more level.
To put it simply, he, Guo Xing, is now a criminal. If he does not clear his name, he will have to live secretly in the future.
Otherwise, once he shows up and is found out, he will be arrested and sent to the Ministry of War for prosecution.
He was very cautious all the way here and did not reveal his identity to the outside world.
So, he no longer wants to delve into the truth of what happened back then, but it is something that must be done to clear himself of his grievances.
Now that I have arrived in the capital, I can go home to discuss it with my family, and then ask my family friends to help me resolve my grievances, but I am blocked by soldiers.
In desperation, Guo Xingcai reported his real name, but he didn't know that he didn't know him at all.
Actually, this is normal. Who can remember what happened a few years ago?
Even the officials responsible for the investigation at the Ministry of War may not be able to remember it after hearing it.
As a result, Guo Xing could only think of another way, but he could no longer force his way in anyway.
Finally, he took aim at a passing grain truck. After seven or eight attempts, he quietly hid under the truck and hung up into the city.
He had been moving grain and grass in the Junggar Army for several years, and his arm strength had been developed to a very good level. It was easy to lift him into the city.
But he never imagined that Sun Shaozu was now serving as the Five Cities Military and Horse Division, and was the commander responsible for the defense of the West City.
Guo Xing's remarks today were heard by the patrolling Sun Shaozu when they were laughed and talked about by the soldiers.
"Guo Xing..."
Sun Shaozu will never forget this name in his life. He was the nobleman from whom he started.
Even to put it more seriously, Guo Xing also played a huge role in Zhu Jinghong's rapid rise.
For Sun Shaozu, not finding the bodies of Guo Xing and some of his guards was the only worry in his life.
Now that several years have passed, he originally thought that the matter had been settled, but he heard the words "Beijing Camp Counselor Guo Xing" again.
He had specifically checked before that there were exactly two generals named Guo Xing among the thousand generals and above in the capital camp, and one of them was almost fifty. He thought he should have removed his armor and returned to his field in the past two years. .
"Come here!" Sun Shaozu looked serious.
The soldiers who were called cautiously came to Sun Shaozu.
"See the Commander!"
"I just heard you say that we met a weirdo today?"
The leader of the flag officer replied: "Reporting to your lord, that's exactly what happened!"
"Let me hear it!" Sun Shaozu asked calmly.
So these soldiers explained the situation again. During this period, Sun Shaozu asked a few more questions and finally understood the matter clearly.
After repelling several soldiers, Sun Shaozu left accompanied by the guards. At this moment, his expression was particularly solemn.
The thing that I have been most worried about in the past few years actually happened...
While feeling deeply unfortunate, Sun Shaozu was a little lucky. Fortunately, he happened to meet the soldiers chatting and learned about it in advance. This situation has arrived.
Back on the city tower, Sun Shaozu immediately issued a military order, asking his soldiers to arrest beggars outside the city on the grounds of maintaining the image of the capital.
Guo Xing is outside the city. As long as he catches the person and kills him directly, he will feel at ease.
It was only half an hour since what happened just now. In Sun Shaozu's opinion, the possibility of catching him was extremely high. After all, he also offered a reward, and there would be a silver reward for those who caught more of the hundred households.
In less than half an hour, his soldiers took away more than thirty people, and after he identified them, Guo Xing was not among them.
This made him feel bad again, but he could only wait quietly!
How would he know that he would have to wait for bad news next.
"Sir, just now Meng Yushi was inspecting and ordered the sergeant to search the vehicles entering the city, and found a thief..."
The speaker was a Qianhu, he was Seeing that Sun Shaozu was worried, he found a way to talk about sex.
"Where do you think this little thief is hiding?"
"On that wooden cart
" Meng Yushi ordered people to re-examine, but it was delayed a lot. After a while, the man couldn't hang himself anymore...he fell to the ground and was arrested! "
"Don't tell me, even beggars now know that it is easier to beg in the city, so they are trying their best to sneak in! "
"The more peculiar thing is yet to come..."
Before Qianhu could finish his words, Sun Shaozu stood up. The word "beggar" really shocked him. .
“Have you seen it with your own eyes? ”
“I followed Meng Yu at that timeShi Xun inspected it, and he saw it with his own eyes! ”
“What kind of attire is that man wearing? What does it look like? "Sun Shaozu asked with a serious expression.
"That man..."
After hearing the stories of these thousands of households, Sun Shaozu could confirm that it was that guy Guo Xing.
< p> "Such a young man must have some evil intentions when he sneaks into the capital. Wherever he is, arrest him quickly!" "Sun Shaozu angrily rebuked, looking like he was loyal to the country."I was taken away by Meng Yushi! "
"Took away by him? "Sun Shaozu was surprised, and then clenched his fists.
"What's going on? "
"The Censor Meng said a few words to your Excellency, and then ordered his subordinates to lock him up, but the beggar said he couldn't go to the Wucheng Army and Horses Division! "
"Then the funnier thing came. The beggar said that he was a general in the Beijing camp and that he had something to report to the Ministry of War..."
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