"Old Li, when we get to Cuiyan Alley later, you have to take your brothers to choose a good place. You are familiar with the roads in Beijing. We country bumpkins who are coming to the capital for the first time have to rely on you." The Ministry of War Yamen
Outside, Liu Zeqing put his arm around the shoulders of Baoding Commander-in-Chief Li Chongzhen and said with a smile.
"No problem, I will take you to a good place later. The girls there are some of the most beautiful in the capital. They are all tall and short, fat and thin. I guarantee that you will be satisfied." Since I come to the capital often, I am already familiar with this place.
Li Chongzhen slapped his chest loudly.
"Hahaha... Then it will all depend on you, Old Li." A group of generals who were originally majestic were laughing evilly at this moment.
Suddenly Ma Rulong pointed at the crowd pouring out in front and said strangely: "Eh? What happened to the Ministry of War Yamen? Why did so many people come out at once?"
"Hey, isn't that General Pang? Why did he come out carrying someone? Judging from his clothes, he is still a fifth-grade civil servant. Something must have happened?" The generals saw that it was Pang Gang who was carrying the person.
A man came out, and everyone was shocked and shocked.
"Brother Pang, what's going on? Why did you come out with someone in your arms?"
"Yeah, where did your song come from?"
As soon as Pang came out of the gate of the Ministry of War Yamen, the generals rushed up to him and started asking questions.
Pang Gang said bitterly: "My lords, you don't know. This thief is a Yuanwailang from the Military Selection and Cleaning Department of the Ministry of War. I just went to exchange military status with him and asked myself whether there is any problem with the filial piety and official documents that should be paid to him.
But just because the general didn't kneel down to this guy, he actually yelled at me and refused to go through the military registration formalities for me. The general was so angry that he took him out and asked the emperor if I, Ming Dynasty, had done something wrong.
If you kneel down, you will not be given the royal law to process military registration."
"Uh!" The generals were stunned when they heard this. It is not uncommon to say that this thing is really not uncommon. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the trend of emphasizing culture and suppressing military affairs has become more and more serious in the court. At its peak, a fourth-rank official
It is not uncommon for guerrillas to kneel down to the fifth-grade grain road guards, because these civilian officials tightly control their grain and salary, and those military generals have to grovel to those civilian officials in order to receive their salary on time. Although by the end of Chongzhen,
Because the border was often in emergency, the imperial court relied more on the army than before. Therefore, the status of military generals has also been greatly improved. However, the concept of civil superiority and military inferiority has not been eliminated from the minds of most officials in the imperial court, not to mention today's huge
He was only a fifth-grade Qianhu before he changed his military status. It was very normal to kneel down to Yuanwailang, who was also in the Ministry of War's military selection and cleaning department.
Normally, this Yuanwailang's reaction today was normal, but today he happened to meet a guy who knew nothing about this. To be honest, Pang Gang felt that during this period, when superiors and subordinates meet, subordinates have to bow and even kneel down.
Although the etiquette is not very popular, it is not too objectionable. In Pang Gang's view, since this set of etiquette has been practiced in China for thousands of years, it must have a reason for its existence.
Officials at his level or even a few levels below him would never agree to kneel down, which is why the abuse he just received from a foreign minister aroused such a big reaction from him.
In recent days, Liu Zeqing and Pang Gang had quite the same appetite, and he couldn't help but persuade him: "Brother Pang, you can't be confused. Before the matter between you and this Yuanwailang gets too big, hurry up and find Inspector Lu outside the city.
Just ask the old man to come back and say a few words and it will be fine, but don't make a big fuss. Otherwise, you won't be able to talk about the newly promoted generals, and you won't be able to keep your original official position!"
"Yes, General Pang, this is the Ministry of War. Don't talk about you. Even us general soldiers have to be polite when we come in. If what happened just now reaches the ears of the emperor, you will be in trouble." Li Chongzhen said at the side.
Advise.
"This..." Hearing the generals' unanimous advice, Pang Gang also became embarrassed. He looked at the Yuanwailang in his hand with a hesitant look on his face.
"Hahaha... You Qiu Ba must be scared, right? I can tell you that you are finished this time, let alone your promotion, I will make your life worse than death!" At this time, Pang Gang held it in his hands.
The foreigner suddenly burst into laughter, and a ferocious look appeared on his face that was originally blue with pain. He suddenly raised his voice and shouted loudly: "I will see how you die this time! Hahaha...
..."
"You..." Looking at the poisonous snake-like look in the official's eyes, Pang Gang knew that this matter could not be resolved today.
"My lords!" Pang Gang bowed his hands to the generals and said, "Since the enmity between the general and this guy has been forged, there is no reason to bow his head anymore. The general should go to the Golden Palace with him to see the difference.
, if the emperor blames him, at worst the general will be disarmed and return to his field." After saying that, Pang Gang carried the Yuanwailang and strode towards the way he came from just now.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, formulated a rule after he came to power in the world. He set up a Dengwen Drum outside the Huangji Gate, and had a dedicated person to manage it. Once there were complaints from enemies, the emperor would personally accept them, and any officials would stop them.
, all were severely sentenced. During the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, an official once petitioned to cancel the Denwen drum. Emperor Xuande refused because it was set by his ancestors, but it was mostly a formality because no one has beaten it since the Tianqi period.
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In the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Chongzhen was discussing with the civil and military ministers for a while how to let King Qin's troops return to their respective camps after the Qing troops withdrew, when suddenly they heard a faint sound of drums outside.
"Dong dong dong!"
"Dong dong dong!"
"Hey, this sounds like the sound of a Dengwen drum."
"It doesn't seem like it. This is clearly the sound of the Dengwen drum. But hasn't this drum been sounded for more than ten years? Why did some bold guy sound it again today?"
Hearing the discussions among the ministers, Chongzhen was also a little surprised. The Dengwen Drum was rung once when his dead brother, Emperor Tianqi, was in power. It had not been rung for more than ten years. Why was it rung again today?
Could it be that something big happened? Thinking of this, Chongzhen couldn't help but feel nervous. He was about to order someone to go out to check. Suddenly, a Han general hurried forward and loudly reported: "Your Majesty, the general of Shandong is Qingzhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou."
General Pang Gang was beating the drum outside Huangji Gate, claiming that he had grievances that he wanted to report to the Holy One."
"Pang Gang!" Chongzhen couldn't help but shout out. Not only him, but almost everyone in the hall was taken aback.
"Exactly!" the Han general said cautiously: "General Pang said that when he was applying for documents at the Ministry of War, he was made things difficult by the Military Selection and Clearance Department of the Ministry of War. Not only did he not go through the military registration procedures for General Pang, but he also said that he
I will never go through the military registration procedures at the Ministry of War. General Pang refused to accept it, so he brought the Yuanwailang over to ask for the emperor's decision. However, he was not qualified to go to court, so he had no choice but to..."
"That's why he couldn't beat the Dengwen drum and ask me to make the decision, right?" Hearing this, Chongzhen understood everything. He turned his angry eyes to Yang Sichang, who was standing on the left, and shouted angrily: "Yang Sichang, you are the one in the Ministry of War.
Jurisdiction, what on earth is going on?”
Yang Sichang was worthy of being an official who had spent half his life in the court. He was not afraid of Chongzhen's angry gaze, but calmly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, we can only rely on one side of the story to determine the right and wrong."
Unable to determine, it requires both sides..."
"It requires a confrontation between the two sides, right?" The angry Chongzhen interrupted him again. He had just appointed a military general in the morning, but after a while he came to report that people from the Ministry of War would not give him
Handling the military registration and official seal, isn't this a slap in the face of the emperor? "Call them all to me! I don't believe that my imperial edict can't leave the palace!"
Chongzhen's words are heart-breaking. The emperor's imperial edict cannot leave the palace. What is the nature of this? Doesn't this mean that the people below no longer take the emperor seriously, and even the emperor has been imprisoned? Everyone
When the ministers heard this, they immediately fell to their knees and did not dare to speak.
Chongzhen saw all the ministers kneeling on the ground without saying a word. He just looked around these people with sharp eyes, as if he wanted to see through their hearts.
I don’t know how long it took, but the sharp voice of the eunuch on duty outside the palace sounded outside the palace: “General Pang Gang of Dingyuan, and Zhang Huiquan, a member of the Ministry of War’s Military Selections and Clearing Division, have come to pay homage!”
After a while, a tall figure and two Han generals supported a civil servant wearing a fifth-grade white pheasant official palace and walked quickly to the front of the emperor about twenty steps and stood there. The miserable-looking official did not wait for this.
An official holding his right hand knelt down and cried loudly: "Your Majesty, this Pang Gang ran into the Yamen and openly made trouble in the military department, and committed an attack on the spot and broke Wei Chen's fingers. Everything Wei Chen said is true. Everyone present
All my colleagues can testify for me, Your Majesty, how can evil thieves like these be able to guard the country! You must make the decision for me!"
"Well!" Chongzhen frowned upon hearing this, and asked majestically to Pang Gang, who was silent at the side: "Pang Gang, what this Yuanwailang said is the truth!"
Pang Gang sneered and said: "Your Majesty, please don't listen to this villain's nonsense. Just now, I went to the Ministry of War to exchange for my military qualifications, but this foreign minister didn't even read the military qualifications and official documents that I handed over, so I sent him to the Ministry of War.
Wei Chen yelled and scolded him, saying that Wei Chen was arrogant! Wei Chen asked, this was the first time in his life that he had seen this Yuan Wai Lang, and he didn’t understand what was going on. This Yuan Wai Lang was about to kick Wei Chen out of the Ministry of War.
What’s the point?”
"Well..." As soon as Pang Gang said this, not only Chongzhen, but also all the civil and military officials in the dynasty opened their eyes wide and looked at this official who was soaked with sweat.