Chapter 2721: Summoned by the British Minister
"Emperor, Eunuch Cao is back." Wang Chengen quickly walked towards Chongzhen.
Chongzhen, who was sitting behind the imperial case, heard Wang Chengen's words and immediately put down the memorial in his hand and said, "Hurry, bring people here."
Soon, Cao Huachun and the Uncle Zhang were taken to Chongzhen.
"I wish you a blessing to the emperor."
"See Your Majesty."
One of Cao Huachun and Zhang Boye knelt down and bowed, while the other bowed to say hello.
"Hurry up and flatten your body." Chongzhen raised his right hand and asked anxiously, "Cao Daban, tell me quickly, what will happen if you go to Yuquan Mountain this time?"
The three armies of Tiger Flag were rushing toward Northern Zhili, and the capital was already full of dangers. In addition, the grain prices in the capital were cut off, and the price of grain in the capital was higher than one day, and even the emperor, he, could only eat two meals a day.
Not only that, the Guanning Army in Liaodong did not enter the capital, and the border troops in Jizhen did not enter the capital to serve the king. The entire capital has become an isolated city without anyone to rescue. Compared to the previous capital being surrounded, this time it is the most dangerous.
In order to gain a glimmer of vitality, he followed the plan of the chief minister Zhou Yanru and used high officials and generous salaries to win over the generals of the tiger-like flag. Cao Huachun was the person he sent to implement this plan.
Cao Huachun got up, noticed the memorials piled up on the imperial desk, and sighed softly in his heart.
The capital is already in the midst of survival, and Your Majesty is still so diligent in reviewing the memorials. I am afraid that no Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is so diligent except Taizu.
Unfortunately, Your Majesty was born at the wrong time. Even if he ascended the throne twenty years ahead of schedule, the Ming Dynasty would not end up in the current situation.
"Why didn't Cao's wife say anything? Can't even the prince win over those traitors?" Chongzhen looked worried when he saw Cao Huachun didn't say anything.
Cao Huachun lowered his hands in front of him and bowed and said, "I am incompetent and failed to complete what you have taught me. Please punish me."
"Really, isn't it true?" Chongzhen's eyes were lost, his body shook for a moment, and his face became darker.
Cao Huachun lowered his head.
As for Mr. Zhang who came to Qianqing Palace together, he didn't say a word from beginning to end, and treated himself as a wooden stake and stood motionless.
"What's wrong with you, Emperor! Imperial Doctor, call me the Imperial Doctor."
Wang Chengen, who was guarding next to him, saw that Chongzhen's expression was wrong, and hurriedly asked, but at the same time, he did not forget to ask someone to call the imperial physician.
Wang Chengen of Chongzhen shook his hand gently and said with a dim expression: "I'm fine, don't call the imperial doctor, accompany you to make a cup of hot tea for me."
"I will make arrangements now." Wang Chengen took two steps back and called a palace maid to make tea.
Chongzhen looked at Cao Huachun again and said, "Cao Daban, you should go back too. Jingying still needs you to keep an eye on it, go down!"
He waved weakly.
"I'll leave."
"I'm leaving."
Cao Huachun and Zhang Boye retreated and retreated from the Qianqing Palace.
The two walked outside the Qianqing Palace. Cao Huachun looked at Uncle Zhang beside him and said, "Will Uncle be with our family to go to Beijing camp, or go back to the mansion first?"
"I have been out for so long, so my family must be worried, so I'd better go home to comfort my family first." Uncle Zhang refused to accompany Cao Huachun to the Beijing Camp.
As a member of the nobles, he would not go to Beijing camp with a eunuch.
Jingying has always been the private place for their nobles. If someone misunderstood something, how can he deal with it among the nobles?
"Okay, we won't be with Mr. Zhang anymore." Cao Huachun greeted and separated from Mr. Zhang.
The imperial palace is the basic foundation of him, the eunuch. He will not go alone when he goes to the Jingying camp. He needs to bring some people from the East Factory to go there.
Under the leadership of the guards, Uncle Zhang left the palace city.
However, before he could get into his sedan chair, he saw a man quickly approaching and blocking the sedan chair.
"I'll pay my respects to Uncle Zhang."
Uncle Zhang, who was blocked from his way, wanted to get angry, but when he saw the person coming, he knew that it was from the Duke of England's mansion, his tone immediately changed and said, "Why did Butler Zhang stop my sedan chair?"
"Master, my master is invited!" said the visitor.
Uncle Zhang hesitated for a moment and then said, "Lead ahead."
Butler Zhang turned around and gave up his seat, came to a two-person sedan chair in the distance and sat in.
The sedan chairman in the two of them lifted the sedan chair and walked in front. Uncle Zhang's sedan chair followed behind and left in front of the palace gate.
I came all the way outside the Duke of England's mansion.
Butler Zhang in the sedan chair took the lead in getting off the sedan chair, quickly walked to the sedan chair Zhang's sedan chair behind, and said, "Brother Zhang, please get off the sedan chair and follow the youngest to the mansion."
"Okay." Uncle Zhang agreed, asked the sedan chairman to press the sedan chair and walked out of the sedan chair.
Mr. Zhang led the way for Uncle Zhang, walked to the steps of the mansion gate, and said to a servant of the Zhang family behind the steps: "When you go in, you will report to the master and say that Uncle Anxiang has arrived."
The servant of the Duke's mansion in front of the door turned around and ran into the mansion to report.
"Please, Mr. Zhang, please guide you." Butler Zhang made a gesture of inviting him and spread his legs across both sides of the high threshold.
Uncle Zhang lifted the hem of his clothes, raised his legs and stepped over the threshold, and walked in.
Butler Zhang took this Uncle Zhang all the way to the door of a room in the Duke's Mansion for guests, and then stopped.
"Uncle Zhang, please come in!" Butler Zhang did not enter the house, but invited Uncle Zhang to go in by himself outside the door.
Although Mr. Zhang didn't come to the Duke of England's mansion many times, he had been there a few times, so he reached out and pushed open the door, raised his legs and walked in.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw several people on the seat at a glance.
The British Duke Zhang Weixian, Duke Cheng Guo Zhu Chunchen, Duke Ding Guo Xu Yunzhen, and the three Duke Jingnan were all there.
In addition, there is Dingyuan Hou Deng Wenming.
Zhang Boye has the lowest rank and said hello to several people in the seat in the house.
British Duke Zhang Weixian is the oldest, and he said, "You don't have to be too polite, just find someone to sit down!"
Uncle Zhang walked to an empty seat opposite Dingyuanhou and sat down.
After all, among the people present in the house, he had the lowest title. In addition to him, he had the lowest title in Dingyuan Marquis, so his seat was naturally the lowest.
"Just just came back from the palace?" British Duke Zhang Weixian asked.
Uncle Zhang hurriedly stood up and replied respectfully: "I just saw Your Majesty back in the palace."
"Your family doesn't have to be so nervous, sit, sit." British Duke Zhang Weixian raised his hand and pressed down, signaling him to sit down.
Uncle Zhang sat back in his seat carefully.
"This time you went to Yuquan Mountain with Eunuch Cao to meet the tiger thief?" asked the British Duke Zhang Weixian. Seeing that Uncle Zhang was about to stand up again, he said, "Don't get up, sit down and say."
Chapter completed!