Because Gao Qiqian received twenty lashes last time and his unhealed hip injury affected his legs and feet, he fell behind Lu Jiude, otherwise it would have been impossible for Lu Jiude to get ahead of him.
By the way, Wang Chengen and Han Zanzhou have been sent to Fengyang Mansion by Chongzhen to assist Huang Degong in dealing with Liu Liangzuo. Now only Lu Jiude and Gao Qiqian are following Chongzhen.
There are also several young eunuchs from the Nanjing Garrison Department.
"Stop!" Two Yiding men stopped them with their swords.
"Long live Lord, our family wants to see Long Live Lord." Lu Jiude was so anxious that he almost jumped.
But the two Yiding ignored them and just put their scimitars on the necks of Lu Jiude and Gao Qiqian, preventing them from entering the military camp behind them.
At this moment, a barbarian general came over.
But he was one of the ten most brave Mongolian men named by Chongzhen, Bahanzhen.
"Who is it?" Bahanzhen said coldly, "Dare to disturb the Holy Master?"
"Master Ba, this is our family." Gao Qiqian said first, "Our family has something urgent and we need to see Lord Long Live."
At this moment, Chongzhen's voice came from a tent: "Bahanzhen, let them in."
Bahanzhen groaned and turned around to enter the tent. When Lu Jiude came in, Bahanzhen had already led a group of Yiding soldiers to guard behind Chongzhen.
Chongzhen asked: "What's the matter?"
Lu Jiude and Gao Qiqian said at the same time: "There has been a mutiny at Liu Lingtai. Wang Zuntan, Ma Huabao, Zhang Guozhu and other generals have kidnapped Liu Zeqing and are waiting for him outside the camp gate."
"Oh, really?" Chongzhen was really surprised.
He thought that Liu Zeqing's troops would eventually be divided, but he did not expect that Liu Zeqing would be captured by his subordinates before he took action.
Chongzhen smiled and said: "Call them in."
Gao Qiqian responded to the order and limped away, but Lu Jiude did not move.
When Gao Qiqian walked away, Lu Jiude said flatteringly: "Long live my lord, let me stay in front of the emperor to serve you."
After Gao Qiqian came out outside Yangzhou City, Chongzhen established a rule that only Yiding would stay on guard at night, and no eunuchs would be allowed to stay in front of him, with the exception of Wang Chengen.
Moreover, Chongzhen did not set up a fixed camp for himself.
Only when it's time to take a break will you randomly enter a camp belonging to a hundred Yiding households.
After entering the camp, you can randomly choose one of the dozens of tents to stay in.
For example, last night, Chongzhen stayed in a tent in Zhenbaihu, Bahan.
Chongzhen's move seemed to be just a temporary move, but in fact it contained a deep meaning, and there were two levels of deep meaning.
The first purpose is to imitate Zhu Yuanzhang in winning over people's hearts and completely conquering Wu Ba Tan, Meng Ke Tu and more than a thousand barbarians, making them his most loyal lackeys.
In fact, Chongzhen had been doing this before.
The effect is also quite good, these Qian Yiding have become loyal lackeys!
[Note: After Zhu Yuanzhang forced the surrender of the 50,000-strong army of the Yuan Dynasty general Chen Zhaoxian, he selected 500 elite soldiers from them and led them as his bodyguards. Chen Zhaoxian was grateful to Chen Zhaoxian and became loyal from then on. Later, in the Battle of Poyang Lake, he took the lead in the battle of Poyang Lake.
Died on the spot]
The purpose of the second layer is to prevent assassinations, assassins from Jiannu or the Dashun Army, and also to protect against civil servant groups.
Whether you believe it or not, there were indeed many strange things that happened in the Ming Dynasty, such as the mysterious deaths of Emperor Zhengde and Emperor Tianqi after they fell into the water, the Emperor Jiajing was nearly strangled to death by a palace maid, and the madman Zhang Cha died with just a jujube stick.
He was able to break into the forbidden palace and almost beat Prince Zhu Changluo to death, but he didn't really beat him to death.
Looking at the twenty-four dynasties, only the Ming Dynasty had such strange things.
There are conspiracy theories that the civil servants are behind these strange incidents.
From a criminology perspective, the civil service group did have motives for doing these things, because Emperor Zhengde and Emperor Tianqi had one thing in common: they both collected commercial taxes through eunuchs, or eunuchs, and commercial taxes were the reverse of the civil service group, so the civil service group
He had the motive to kill Emperor Zhengde and Emperor Tianqi.
As for the beating case, some analysts said it was a tactic to get people to suffer.
No one can tell what the truth is.
But it is better to believe that this kind of thing exists than to believe that it does not exist.
Because of one mistake, he lost his life.
Therefore, Chongzhen transferred the eunuch away from the couch without hesitation.
Even though eunuchs were the emperor's domestic slaves, they were not necessarily reliable.
Because eunuchs also have relatives, they may also be manipulated.
Only these Yiding are all from western Liaoning. They are clean and cannot have any interests involved with the civil service group. Moreover, these Yiding stay in the army all year round and have no contact with the outside world.
Therefore, it is difficult for civil servant groups to find opportunities to bribe them.
Finally, there is another point: Chongzhen did not have fixed camps.
He randomly selected a tent and lived with the Yiding.
This basically eliminates the possibility of assassination, because no one can predict where he will live.
There are hundreds of tents for a thousand barbarians. The assassin can't search for each tent one by one.
Some people will say, you can't always live in the military camp, you have to go back to the palace in the future, right? You will definitely have to go back to the palace in the future, and the guards will be there at that time. It is better to do the current things first.
Neither Gao Qiqian nor Lu Jiude knew about these thoughts, only Wang Chengen knew about them.
Lu Jiude glanced at Ba Hanzhen and the Yiding in the tent, and then said: "Master Ba and the others are all warriors. They don't know how to serve people, so they have to be served by us servants."
Chongzhen smiled and suddenly asked: "Lu Banban, I heard that Shi Kefa and others originally wanted to establish King Lu as the supervisor of the country. It was you who found Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and Gao Jie to push King Fu up?"
"Long live the Lord!" Lu Jiude was so frightened that he knelt down with a thud.
Five days later, Lu Jiude originally thought that the matter was over.
But I didn't expect that Long live the Lord would suddenly attack at this moment.
Chongzhen snorted softly and said: "You called me wrong, Lu Banban, I am just the Supreme Emperor."
"Long live my Lord, this old slave is punished by death!" Lu Jiude was so frightened that he kowtowed repeatedly, "This old slave is punished by death!"
At this moment, Gao Qi sneaked into the tent and reported: "Long live my Lord, Wang Zuntan and the others have taken Liu Zeqing into custody."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Chongzhen threw down Lu Jiude, who was kowtowing like garlic, and opened the curtain to go out of the tent. He saw a middle-aged general wearing mountain armor with his hands tied behind his back and kneeling in the camp.
Outside the door, ten generals were kneeling in two rows behind this man.
With the help of memory, Chongzhen quickly recognized that the general in front was Liu Zeqing.
Because Liu Zeqing had kowtowed to the emperor several times, and even stayed in the capital in the ninth year of Chongzhen.
Seeing Chongzhen, Wang Zuntan and others who were kneeling behind him saluted in unison: "I will bow before you, Your Majesty."
Liu Zeqing was also very embarrassed, grabbing the ground with his head and shouting: "Your Majesty, Liu Zeqing, kowtow to you."
"Liu Zeqing, I had a hard time waiting for you in the capital." Chongzhen sighed and said, "It's a pity that until the bandits broke into the capital, I didn't expect you to come."
"Besides, you are a bit too bold."
"He actually gave the military department to trouble Zhong Han Ruyu and also killed him."
"Han Ruyu is an imperial envoy who went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to supervise the payment of taxes."
"You dare to kill even the imperial envoy. Do you, Liu Zeqing, still have me in your eyes?"
"It's not enough to kill the imperial envoy, but you actually dare to burn, kill and loot on the road!"
"You are the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, but you actually harm the people!"
"I am guilty of death," Liu Zeqing exchanged with tears, "I am guilty of death."
Chongzhen said: "Liu Zeqing, listen, I will not kill civil servants and generals for no reason, let alone kill ministers who have made great contributions to the country and the country. However, the crimes committed by you, Liu Liangzuo, and Gao Jie cannot be redeemed by death.
I cannot protect you, and I am not qualified to forgive you on behalf of the people who died in vain."
Chongzhen's words were actually meant for Wang Zuntan and Zhang Guozhu.
Including Gao Jie's wife, children, and children who had been spared before, they were also shown to Li Chengdong and Hu Maozhen.
Chongzhen wanted to use practical actions to tell Li Chengdong and other generals that I will not kill people casually, let alone engage in unlimited plagiarism, implicating Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo. They will die unjustly. As long as you don't learn from them, you will not resist the imperial decree.
If you obey and harm the people, then I will only use you seriously.
As expected, after hearing Chongzhen’s words,
Wang Zuntan, Zhang Guozhu and others looked obviously relaxed.
It seems that the Holy Spirit is still restrained in his actions and will not expand without limit.
After Chongzhen finished speaking, he waved his hand, and Bahanzhen stepped forward and cut off Liu Zeqing's head with just one knife.
Seeing Liu Zeqing's headless corpse lying in front of them, Wang Zuntan and others couldn't help but look stern.
Gao Qiqian reported the names of the people in a low voice, Chongzhen nodded and said: "Wang Zuntan, Zheng Longfang, Yao Wenchang, Ma Huabao, Bai Yongfu, Yu Shaoxun, Zhang Shiyi, Gao Jinzhong, Huang Zhongse, Zhang Guozhu, listen, I now appoint you to assist in the suppression of Xuzhou
Commander-in-Chief, go back and reorganize your troops and horses, and then follow me to Xuzhou."
"I will accept the order!" Wang Zuntan and others all agreed.
It wasn't until this moment that Wang Zuntan and his team's hanging hearts finally settled.
After sending away Wang Zuntan and ten other general soldiers, Chongzhen returned to his tent.
But they found that Lu Jiude was still kneeling in the tent, kowtowing continuously, and his forehead was bruised.
"Okay, stop knocking." Chongzhen said coldly, "If people see me, they will think that I abuse my domestic slaves."
"Long live my Lord, I have realized my mistake. This old slave has really realized my mistake." Lu Jiude cried bitterly, "Please spare my life. Long live my Lord, please spare my life."
Chongzhen said in his heart that it would be absolutely impossible to spare you.
But if you keep this bitch of yours alive, you can still put it to some use.
After all, there is no threat from Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing and the others to these domestic slaves, so keep them for now.
At that moment, Chongzhen said: "I will spare your life for now, but listen carefully, your life belongs to me, and I can take it whenever I want."
"Thank you, Long Live Lord. Thank you, Long Live Lord."
Lu Jiude suddenly burst into tears of joy, saying in his heart that his life was saved.
Gao Qiqian gloated and said, "I'll be more thoughtful in what I say and do in the future."
Chongzhen turned to Ba Hanzhen and said: "Pass on my decree, the whole army will break out of camp immediately, and as soon as Wang Zuntan and other generals from the ten towns arrive, they will immediately go north to Xuzhou along the Yellow River."
