Wang Jiayan, Wu Linzheng and Ni Yuanlu asked questions at the same time. They had not left the city at this time, but when they heard the news about the intruders, they couldn't help but ask questions.
"Tell me the details."
Even Zhu Ling was a little confused at this time. They hadn't left the city at all, but there were intruders outside. It was expected that the news of leaving the city was leaked. If he hadn't traveled through time, most of the city gates in the capital would have been occupied by him.
People are open to it, which means that many people's hearts have already been invested in Li Zicheng.
This time, the news of their southward journey must not be concealed.
But what he didn't understand was why they had already appeared before they left the city? Why didn't they set up an ambush midway and then catch them all in one fell swoop?
"The guard at Dongzhimen is a eunuch from the palace. He just suddenly sent someone to tell me that there were traces of intruders outside. I didn't have time to check, so I came to report immediately."
Yang Kuo bowed and said.
"Wang Chengen, do you know who is guarding Dongzhimen?" Zhu Ling turned around and asked Wang Chengen next to him.
At this time, Wang Chengen was still immersed in the incident of the young eunuch's attempted assassination. He had brought this person out and he was responsible for it. If something went wrong, he would be the first to be held accountable.
Therefore, when Zhu Ling asked questions, he was still in panic, and all he could think about was the assassination.
"Wang Cheng'en!"
Seeing that Wang Chengen had not responded, Zhu Ling shouted again and then he realized.
"My slave is here."
Unexpectedly, in just a moment, his forehead was already covered with sweat.
"Who is this person?"
"Back to Your Majesty, this man's name is Wang An. He was once a ceremonial supervisor. Your Majesty took notice of him and came here to work as a guard on the city tower."
"Is his word credible?"
"Slave... I think it's better to send someone to take a look."
That is untrustworthy.
Zhu Ling also understood that most of the eunuchs nowadays, especially those who were sent to the city tower, had already given their hearts to Li Zicheng. There had been cases where Chongzhen personally ordered them to fire cannons, but no one dared to fire.
When asked why, it turned out that he was afraid of being retaliated against if he injured Li Zicheng's army. Such eunuchs should have been cleaned up long ago!
"Yang Kuo, ask someone to go up and take a look. If there is a false report of military information, kill them directly, and then immediately order Guan Ning's army to leave the city and send detective horses to search everywhere." Then Zhu Ling turned to Wang Guoxing, who had just killed the assassin and was covered in blood.
Said: "Send someone to tell Meng Zhaoxiang that he can change all the gate guards in the capital at will, and just put it on record."
"As you command!"
After receiving the order, Wang Guoxing immediately found a flag school and rushed there quickly, and then organized people to throw all the corpses of the murdered assassins aside so as not to affect the passage of the team behind them.
After all, there are the queen and several noble concubines sitting in the back, and the prince is also among them, so we can't be careless.
"The last general takes command!"
After Yang Kuo left, the southbound team continued to move forward. It seemed that what happened just now was just a small incident that was calm and could not cause any trouble.
But Wang Chengen was tortured in his heart by what he had just done. He couldn't help but stepped forward and knelt down to Zhu Ling and said in pain: "Your Majesty, I am guilty. The eunuch who wanted to assassinate me was brought out by my servant, but I really don't know about him.
He was an assassin, if I had known, I would have killed him with a thousand knives."
Hearing Wang Chengen's cry, Zhu Ling also seemed quite helpless. Such a trivial matter made him behave like this. He quickly said: "I'm just a little eunuch, what can he do? What's more, he was caught by Yang Kuo. By the way, people
Where?"
I had been talking about the intruder just now and completely forgot about the eunuch. This time Wang Chengen mentioned it and I remembered it.
"Back to Your Majesty, here."
With that said, Wang Guoxing directly carried this person to Zhu Ling, and then directly pressed him down and knelt down.
"Tell me, who is the mastermind behind this?"
"Your Majesty, this is Mr. Huang, the Censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. I really didn't know that it was Your Majesty who was assassinating me!" Wang An was so frightened that he couldn't even speak. His face turned pale, and his body kept trembling.
Kowtowed one after another.
"Anyone who is not blind knows me, let alone you are a eunuch." Zhu Ling snorted coldly, but did not want to pay attention to this kind of person. He just asked the person behind the scenes, then waved his hand, and Wang Guoxing took him down directly.
Wiped his neck.
"It seems that many of my ministers want me to die. No matter what, who put the Ming Dynasty in such a dilapidated situation?"
At this point, Zhu Ling had no choice but to laugh at himself a few words and then ordered the team to move forward. When Wang Jiayan and the other three heard this, they felt a chill sweep through their bodies, even if Li Banghua and Ling Yiqu who were following behind heard about this.
I can't help but feel chills running down my spine.
They also did not expect that as a high official of the imperial court, Zuo Du Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate would actually want to murder His Majesty! If His Majesty no longer trusts his ministers because of this matter, the situation of civil servants will be difficult in the future.
Although Zhu Ling did not clearly inform Wang Guoxing, his eyes became extremely fierce when he said that. Perhaps he glanced at Gao Wencai deliberately, and then Gao Wencai reported to Wang Guoxing and led dozens of people on horseback.
He galloped towards Huang's hometown.
The sound of horse hoofbeats as Gao Wencai led his men back could be heard in his ears, and Zhu Ling's heart calmed down a little. There was no need to show any mercy to those who wanted to betray him but who had already betrayed him.
All you need to do is kill it. With one blow, most of your troubles can be solved.
When the team arrived at Dongzhimen, Yang Kuo was ordering people to carry several corpses down from the tower, and among them was a man in eunuch uniform.
It must be Wang An without a doubt.
The two hundred Jinyi guards who were opening the way in front immediately lined up on both sides and stood on both sides with their horses to make way for His Majesty and the ministers behind. Then Wang Chengen took the lead and stepped forward to check.
Then he came back and reported: "Your Majesty, this is Wang An's body."
"Yang Kuo, is this really a false report?"
Zhu Ling immediately rode forward, walked up to Yang Kuo and asked sternly.
"Your Majesty, it's true! The general just brought people forward to check. Unexpectedly, Wang An actually sent people to stop us and others, saying that the general was not qualified to go up to the city tower. The general was not angry at that time. He just told him that I
I just wanted to check for signs of the intruder outside. But Wang An said, if you don’t believe what we say, get out!"
As a military general, Yang Kuo was naturally very angry when faced with this kind of thing, but after all, as a deputy general, how could he still have some sense, but he was out of breath as he spoke.
"The general couldn't bear it anymore, so he opened them, and then went up to the city tower to see if there was any sign of the intruder? It was clearly Wang An who wanted to prevent His Majesty from leaving the city! He was trying to ruin my Ming Dynasty's plan to travel south! The general immediately beheaded the guy.
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After saying that, Yang Kuo also looked aggrieved and turned his head to one side, furious.
Seeing this situation, Zhu Ling didn't say anything, he just ordered people to get rid of this place quickly. After all, he had given him the privilege of killing people, and there was no reason to blame him for killing people this time.
On the contrary, he directly dismounted and helped Yang Kuo, who was kneeling on the ground, up, smiled and said to him: "I'm just a slave, why are you angry? It's not worth it, I still need you to make contributions to the Ming Dynasty."
Seeing His Majesty personally helping Yang Kuo up, the adults who dismounted behind him had a completely different feeling in their hearts. When had His Majesty ever cared so much about people? I'm afraid even a man as virtuous and respected as Mr. Fan Ge is nothing more than this, a vice president.
When did a soldier deserve to be treated like this by His Majesty?
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
On the other hand, Mr. Huang, who seemed particularly impatient because he had not received the signal that the assassination was successful, finally couldn't help it anymore.
"What do these people do for food! You can't even deal with one person! A bunch of trash!" Immediately afterwards, a cup was thrown against the wall and shattered into pieces.
"Mr. Huang, why don't you wait a little longer? Maybe they just have a small problem?"
The man on the side spoke cautiously, trying his best to calm his emotions, but in fact, he probably guessed in his heart that those assassins might have really failed.
"It's already this hour and it won't succeed."
Huang Lao stood up almost staggeringly and pushed things aside. His expression was extremely panicked and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"We should go!"
"Let's go quickly, the Jin Yiwei will surely come to arrest us soon!"
Mr. Huang was yelling like crazy, and almost all the objects around him were overturned and smashed to pieces. The man hurriedly avoided, fearing that he would be affected.
"Mr. Huang, what if they don't know?"
The man on the side still wanted to persuade Mr. Huang, but he didn't know that the danger had quietly arrived.
At this moment, the door was suddenly forced open, and the two boys responsible for opening the door were killed on the spot. The rest of the people were frightened and fled in all directions when they saw this scene.
until……
"Boom~"
The door of Huang Lao's house was opened with great force, and then several people wearing royal uniforms came in. They were seen holding knives and slowly stepped in.
The man was so frightened that he fell to the ground and was speechless for a moment.
"Huang Yushi, you are fine."
[Author's digression]: I have also noticed my typo problem these days. I was too anxious and posted it without checking.
Will definitely change it in the future!
Please rest assured that it will not affect your reading experience!