"Your Majesty, Master Zhou asked for a visit."

A little eunuch ran into the hall from outside and reported.

Chongzhen, who heard this, glanced at him and said, "Take him in!"

The little eunuch retreated.

Not long after, Zhou Yanru was taken to the hall by a little eunuch.

"I, please see Your Majesty." Zhou Yanru bowed to Chongzhen.

Ministers like him do not need to kneel down and bow down to the emperor when receiving orders or meetings in a grand ceremony.

The literati and the emperor ruled the world together, not a simple sentence, but had already penetrated into the hearts of the literati and the officials in the Ming Dynasty.

If a minister in the court kowtows when he sees the emperor, he will be ridiculed by the Shilin and even be alienated by the Shilin people.

"Your Mai-Ching Zhou doesn't have to be too polite, just calm your body!" Chongzhen raised his right hand and signaled Zhou Yanru to get up.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Zhou Yanru slowly stood up straight.

Chongzhen picked up the cover bowl on the table and took it to his mouth and blew it. He asked in his mouth: "Zhou Aiqing comes to my place, but what's wrong?"

Zhou Yanru came on his own initiative, but he didn't think that Zhou Yanru was just going around in front of him, the emperor, to say hello.

"I do have something to tell Your Majesty," said Zhou Yanru.

Chongzhen took the cover bowl at his mouth and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Recently, the cabinet has received a lot of memorials related to slave thieves and tiger thieves, but Your Majesty has never approved it. I have no choice but to ask for your Majesty to meet you. I hope Your Majesty can approve memorials related to slave thieves and tiger thieves as soon as possible." Zhou Yanru mentioned those memorials for Liannu's resistance to the thieves.

The cabinet naturally knew the memorials that even the Lijian knew.

Almost all these memorials were from the hands of officials of the foreign court, and perhaps someone in the cabinet was the driving force behind this matter.

Chongzhen looked at the memorial book that was picked up by the eunuch from the ground and placed on the table. He suddenly moved his heart and asked, "What is the cabinet's attitude towards the content of the memorial book?"

"The chief minister feels that the threat of the tiger thief has exceeded that of the slave thief." Zhou Yanru said.

Chongzhen, who heard this, naturally understood what Zhou Yanru meant.

But he noticed that Zhou Yanru was talking about the attitude of the chief minister, so he asked curiously: "Where is Zhou Aiqing? What is your attitude towards this matter?"

"I think what the Chief Supervisor said makes some sense." Zhou Yanru said carefully.

Chongzhen's heart was moved when he heard this.

I understand that Zhou Yanru may have a different attitude from the chief minister, otherwise I would not have said that.

He immediately asked, "You don't have to worry about Zhou Aiqing on the Prime Minister. Now I think about knowing Zhou Aiqing what your attitude is about this matter."

Zhou Yanru pretended to hesitate for a moment before speaking: "The idea of ​​me and the chief minister are somewhat different. If you say it wrong, please forgive me for your crime."

"I forgive you for not guilty." Chongzhen said, "Zhou Aiqing can say it now!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Zhou Yanru thanked him first, and then said, "I think this matter is not about whether the tiger thief and the slave thief will be both defeated. Just say that the tiger thief sent troops outside the pass to deal with the slave thief, which is very suspicious."

Chongzhen became interested when he heard this and asked quickly: "What do you think is suspicious?"

"The suspicious thing is that it is not beneficial to go outside the pass to deal with slave thieves. Unless the tiger thieves have a bigger conspiracy, they can get greater benefits by sending troops outside the pass to deal with slave thieves." Zhou Yanru said.

Chongzhen frowned.

Zhou Yanru's words made him feel very reasonable. Before, he only wanted the tiger thief to go outside the pass to deal with slave thieves, which was good for the Ming Dynasty, but he did not think about what benefits the tiger thief could get when doing this.

"Zhou Aiqing thinks what is the greater benefit of doing this?" Chongzhen didn't understand for a moment, so he asked Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru, who was prepared, spoke, "Your Majesty also asked you to allow me to take out the map for reference, so that your Majesty can understand the purpose of the tiger thief more clearly."

"Accurate." Chongzhen agreed.

He also wanted to see what bigger conspiracy is there for the tiger flag.

Zhou Yanru took out a map from his body and handed it to the little eunuch beside him.

The little eunuch checked the map and found that there was no danger, so he nodded slightly to Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen said, "Come on two people and spread the map."

A little eunuch came up, but the little eunuch holding the map in his hand stretched out the map together, still grasping one side of the map and erecting the map so that Chongzhen could see it more clearly.

Zhou Yanru walked to the front of the map, pointed his hand at a certain location on the map, and said, "This is the capital, and this is the Dongchang Prefecture in Shandong. The above is Shanhaiguan. Further ahead is the Ming Dynasty's defense line in Ningjin. Has Your Majesty ever seen something?"

Fingers point fingers at several places.

Chongzhen, who was sitting in the seat, stretched his neck and looked curiously at the several places pointed to by Zhou Yanru on the map.

"Except Dongchang Prefecture, there are troops from the Ming Dynasty guarding other places." Chongzhen said.

Zhou Yanru slipped his fingers southeastward, pointed to a position and said, "This is Lushun. The soldiers of the tiger and thieves go ashore from Lushun, and then push northward to fight against the slaves and thieves."

"I know all the things Zhou Aiqing said, and I say something I don't know." Chongzhen became a little impatient.

Zhou Yanru said something he knew and began to feel indifferent.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will talk about a few more places." Zhou Yanru continued, "There is a tiger thief in the Jinan Prefecture, Shandong below the capital, and a tiger thief in the Xuanfu territory was also a tiger thief in the territory of Xuanfu territory. Once the Xuanfu troops go east, the troops in the Jinan Prefecture will send troops north, and they will directly attack the capital."

When he said this, Zhou Yanru paused for a moment and looked at Chongzhen.

After hearing Zhou Yanru's words, Chongzhen's face turned pale instantly.

He had no idea that the tiger flag had actually buried a military force in Xuanfu.

If it really happened to be as Zhou Yanru said, the capital would become in danger.

Seeing Chongzhen's appearance, Zhou Yanru knew that the effect had been achieved, so he said, "Your Majesty should be able to understand the intention of the tiger thief to send troops from Lushun!"

He had already said so clearly, and he believed that Chongzhen must have thought of it.

"Zhou Aiqing said that the tiger thieves sent troops to slave thieves to restrain slave thieves, and their fundamental purpose was to deal with my Ming Dynasty!" Chongzhen's tone was a little stuttering when he said this.

Zhou Yanru nodded and said, "I think that most of the purpose of tiger thieves is to the capital, otherwise it would be impossible to explain the reason why tiger thieves attack slave thieves outside the pass."

"Your dear, I have a way to stop this disaster!" Chongzhen asked Zhou Yanru nervously.

Once it is true as Zhou Yanru said, then the Ming Dynasty is really unable to resist the army of tiger-shaped flags in these two directions.
Chapter completed!