Chapter 110 The emperor returned to Beijing, and all the officials knelt down to greet him, shouting how lucky the world is!
Wang Zhichen crawled towards Tianqi.
As soon as he climbed up to Tianqi, Wang Zhichen burst into tears and said: "Your Majesty! I am wronged, I am really wronged! The book that I wrote at the beginning was all forced by the traitor Chen Hongfan!"
"He threatened his whole family, young and old, and threatened His Majesty, and threatened that if His Majesty didn't listen to what the book said, he would lead a hundred thousand soldiers to Qingjun's side!"
"Your Majesty has learned! If he hadn't been so coercive, I wouldn't have dared to threaten the king! Huh!"
Wang Zhichen continued to cry even more miserably.
Immediately, Wang Zhichen kowtowed to Tianqi non-stop: "Your Majesty, forgive me! Your Majesty forgive me!"
At the same time, he also glanced at Tianqi from time to time, and after he glanced at it, he continued to howl and worked **** his performance.
Seeing this, Tianqi directly ordered Lu Xiangsheng to take down the king's ministers, and ordered the troops to return to the court. He only ordered Xiong Tingbi to concurrently serve as governor of Jiliao first, and lead some troops to chase down the remnants of the enemy.
For Tianqi, his personal conquest didn't feel like personal conquest at all.
The key is still the first time to visit personally, but the kiss turned out to be lonely.
He thought that there were really 100,000 rebels, and no matter what, they would have to fight fiercely for more than ten days, and he might even die in the battle, so he was in a hurry to establish the crown prince and explain the funeral to Zhang Gui.
But what he didn't expect was that the promised 100,000 rebels were actually less than 10,000. The key point was that before his spear saw blood, one of the rebel commanders would run first and the other kneel first.
Chen Hongfan finally ran back to Jizhou City. While wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, he said to himself, "It's dangerous. If I knew this, I might as well go directly outside the pass and seek refuge with the Tartars."
After Chen Hongfan entered Jizhou City, Xiong Tingbi led a group of soldiers and horses to take a shortcut to chase after him, and surrounded Jizhou City.
Chen Hongfan quickly organized people to defend after learning about it.
But at this time, the secret agents of the West Factory in the city had already spread the news among the low-level pawns in Jizhou: "Quickly open the city gate! Open the city gate and ask the emperor for money! The emperor is here to pay us! Why bother for his surname Chen?" The traitor will sell his life!"
In the frontier army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the upper-level officers were often short of pay, while the soldiers at the bottom were seriously short of pay.
So, at this time, after spreading the secret work in Xichang, the soldiers of Jizhou directly opened the city gate and welcomed Xiong Tingbi in.
Chen Hongfan soon learned from his family members that the soldiers in Jizhou surrendered the city because they thought the imperial court would come to pay them, and couldn't help being furious for a while: "Why are they so eager to ask for the payment? Is it important?!"
After entering the city, Xiong Tingbi saw many people asking for money, so he simply kept someone to pay. Soon, these soldiers under the army received their money, and they were all very happy because of it.
"Finally, I have received the salary, and if I don't receive it again, I will starve to death."
A frontier soldier in Jizhou said with emotion.
And Chen Hongfan was quickly captured alive by Xiong Tingbi.
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Zhang Gui also put on armor, and began to take the initiative to lead the guard team to patrol around the imperial city.
In the entire imperial city, it was relatively quiet during the period when Tianqi left Beijing for his own conquest.
But in the inner and outer cities of the capital outside the imperial city, rumors have spread and people are in chaos.
Words have spread that one hundred thousand rebels have arrived in the capital.
There is also news that the emperor was defeated and killed by the rebels.
There are also many reports that the emperor was captured alive just like Yingzong was.
There are even more rumors that the rebel army is also attracting captives like Li Sancai and other rebellious ministers this time, so the capital is in danger.
In short, there is everything to say.
The green-skinned hooligans began to run amok.
Many shops in the capital also closed down one after another.
The people dare not go out.
Even Jin Yiwei didn't patrol the streets very often.
On this day, the news spread out from nowhere that there were rebel sentry horses outside. For a while, the capital was even more panicked.
Dingguo Gong Xu Xigao, who was guarding Xuanwu Gate, asked Xu Jiu, his slave who was sent outside the city to inquire about news: "How about it, are there many soldiers and horses coming outside the city, but they are rebels?"
Xu Jiu actually didn’t dare to go out of the city to inquire. He just hid in other places in the city for the night. Seeing Xu Xigao’s question, he replied casually: “It’s the rebels! They are looting everywhere, crying everywhere, and there are flames everywhere.”
Li Chunye, the left servant of the Ministry of War who was also here, hurriedly asked, "How many rebels are there?"
Xu Jiu replied: "About 100,000 to 80,000, densely packed, and I can't count the exact number."
After hearing this, Li Chunye looked at Xu Xigao: "It seems that the emperor has more bad luck than good luck."
"Kaicheng kneel down to welcome you."
Xu Xigao said suddenly.
Li Chunye nodded: "For the sake of the world, the prince led a righteous teacher to clear the emperor's side. He is a minister who is doing his best to turn the tide for the country. He should kneel down to welcome him!"
"Now it seems that the tyrant's foundation has been broken, and the New Deal can be abolished!"
Linhuai Marquis Li Zushu also said with a smile at this time, and asked: "But now the imperial city and Chongwenmen are still in the hands of the traitor Zhang Gui, what should I do?"
"Don't care about him, once the righteous teacher on the side of the Qing emperor arrives, how can he block the general situation by Zhang Thief."
Li Chunye said something, and then said: "It's not too late, tomorrow morning I will open the city and kneel down to welcome the righteous teacher!"
Xu Xigao and others all nodded.
Early the next morning.
When the dawn was faint, the Qianbu Corridor in Daming Gate was not as usual, and many officials came to the yamen.
Instead, many officials were rushing out of the city.
At this time, Xu Xigao, the Duke of Dingguo, and Li Chunye, the left servant of the Ministry of War, had already opened the Xuanwu Gate.
Linhuaihou Li Zushu opened the Yongding Gate.
Yangwu Hou Xue Lian opened Zuoanmen.
These civil and military officials all came to Yongding Gate and knelt down neatly.
Even the scholar Gu Bingqian, the **** Du Xu, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture Liu Zhixuan, and the minister of Guanglu Temple Pan Ruzhen all knelt down.
The reason why they kneel down is because they don’t know whether Wang Zhichen, the governor of Jiliao, led the army, whether he wants to proclaim himself emperor or continue to help the descendants of the Zhu family to be emperor. If it is the former, it is naturally better to kneel first.
Tian Qi had just returned to Beijing at this time, and as soon as he rode his horse into Yongding Gate, he heard the civil and military minister kneeling on the ground, facing the ground and shouting: "Welcome to the prince!"
"Prince?"
Tianqi was very surprised when he heard this.
"Zhu Youxiao is cruel and innocent. He is good at killing concubines, treating officials and gentry harshly, licentious and lustful, and favoring traitors. The world has suffered for a long time. Fortunately, the prince and other righteous teachers have saved the world's people from fire and water. He has made great contributions! With the prince here, the world is very lucky, How fortunate are the peoples!"
Bachelor Gu Bingqian even said so at this time.
Li Chunye, the left servant of the Ministry of War, also said: "The tyrant harms the people and the country. The world looks forward to the princes like rain after a long drought! Now that the princes finally come, we can expect prosperity!"
Wang Zhichen, who was sitting in the prison car, wanted to die at this moment.
He wanted to roar angrily: "Enough is enough of you! I managed to transfer all the blame to Chen Hongfan, and you are embarrassing me now!"
Tian Qi smiled instead of anger, and whispered something in Lu Xiangsheng's ear, making Lu Xiangsheng say: "You kneeling princes have something to ask you."
"Excuse me, my lord."
These kneeling ministers replied.
"Are Zhang Gui and the crown prince here?"
"No! The traitor Zhang Gui and the crown prince are still in the palace. I am willing to persuade the prince to surrender this traitor! Let him sacrifice the crown prince!"
Li Chunye said something first.
(end of this chapter)