The crowd of onlookers was so crowded that every time the gongs and drums team approached, the crowd would reluctantly get out of the way, causing the entire team to move very slowly.
Walking half a mile forward, I saw a teahouse in front of me full of people, all crowded onto the road, crowded together with people watching Li Zhi's excitement. A storyteller stood on a stage in the teahouse.
Among more than a hundred people, they were dancing and telling some stories. Those who were listening to the stories were different from ordinary audiences. They were very excited. From time to time they would wave their fists and cheer, filled with indignation.
Li Zhi curiously asked Lu Jiude who was walking next to him: "Eunuch Lu, why are there so many people listening to this story? What story is this about?"
Lu Jiude laughed and said: "The storytellers in the capital only told one story this month, which was the story of the general killing all the Tatars in Jifu. It was either talking about the Battle of Fanjiazhuang, or the great victory at Qingshankou, or
Gaoyang’s great victory, nothing more.”
Li Zhi smiled. He didn't expect that his battle had become the material of storytellers. He didn't know if these storytellers knew the story of the battle, and whether their stories were reliable or not?
After walking a dozen steps forward and about to pass the teahouse, those who were listening to the story noticed that the general had arrived. They abandoned the storyteller and crowded to the door of the teahouse. Seeing Li Zhi riding a tall horse heading to the imperial city, those who were listening to the story
People crowded to the street and shouted:
"The general is mighty!"
"General, thank you for your hard work in killing the Tatars!"
"The general kills slaves with great dignity!"
Li Zhi smiled, bowed his hands to those people, and heard another roar of applause.
After walking for another half mile, Li Zhi saw a rather large Confucius Temple in front of him. There was a stage outside the temple, with more than a dozen people singing operas on it. Four of them held black fire sticks as firecrackers and crackled their mouths.
Shouting. Every time the four people shouted, a dozen or so people dressed as Tatars on the opposite side fell down. Next to the four fire gun soldiers stood a general in golden armor, standing tall and tall beside the fire gun soldiers.
For prestige.
The stage was surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside. When they heard the crackling sound of the musketeers, they waved their fists and cheered loudly, as if they couldn't wait to get on the stage to kill the Tatars on the stage.
Li Zhi secretly thought that he had never seen this play. It was a newly arranged opera, right? Li Zhi asked Lu Jiude: "Eunuch Lu, what kind of play is this? And there are also fire guns?"
Lu Jiude flicked his sleeves and said with a smile: "Oh, General, don't you know? This song is about the great victory of Fanjiazhuang, and the play is about you, General, defeating 30,000 Qing troops in Fanjiazhuang! This play last month
As soon as it was released, there were the most people who wanted to watch it, and the stage was packed with people."
Li Zhi was stunned, but he didn't expect that his battle not only became the material for storytellers, but also was incorporated into the play. He looked up at the stage again and saw a man wearing yellow clothes playing the role of the emperor.
An actor dressed as a eunuch came out from the backstage and gave himself a promotion and reward in golden armor. Seeing this scene, those watching the show became even more excited and cheered louder.
Those people were so focused on watching the show that they didn't notice Li Zhi walking by. The gongs and drums team was about to pass through the crowd watching the show, when someone shouted: "The general is here!"
The theatergoers immediately turned their heads and stared at Li Zhi, who was riding over.
Those people looked at Li Zhi for a while and called out:
"The general is here!"
"The general is mighty!"
"A great general is a great hero."
In the end, I don’t know who took the lead. All the theater fans bent down, bowed to Li Zhi to the ground, and prostrated themselves on both sides of the road. Even the actors on the stage stopped acting, and one by one they bowed to Li Zhishen.
Bow deeply and bow.
Li Zhi returned the salute to these people and walked across the street.
After walking for an hour, Li Zhi and several hundred of his men finally arrived in front of Chengtian Gate. There were more people watching the excitement. After passing the Qianbu Corridor, Chengtian Gate was regarded as the palace gate of the imperial city, and common people were not allowed to enter.
The Qianbu Corridor was crowded with people inside and outside, and everyone wanted to see Li Zhi riding into the palace gate.
When they arrived outside the imperial city, the gongs and drums team did not dare to make any more noise and stopped beating. Lu Jiude led the eunuchs to lead the way, leading Li Zhi on horseback and the military attachés from Fanjiazhuang on foot towards Chengtian Gate.
Li Zhi rode his horse across the Waijinshui Bridge and entered the Chengtian Gate, surrounded by people shouting from the front and the back from the back.
When the people saw this scene, they shouted for joy. The cheers were thunderous for a while, and the shouts of joy could be heard from a long distance away.
These days, the Ming army is cowardly and unable to protect the people. The Tatars are raging in the capital, and only Li Zhi's soldiers and horses can defeat the Tatars and protect the people. The people love Li Zhi from the bottom of their hearts. If it weren't for Li Zhi, I don't know how many thousands more people would be there.
Many people were going to be killed by the Tatars, and tens of thousands of people were going to be plundered and made slaves by the Tatars. The emperor gave Li Zhi honorable treatment, and the people supported him very much.
Li Zhi rode a big horse and led hundreds of officers through Chengtian Gate and Meridian Gate under the watchful eyes of the imperial guards and soldiers. The cheers of the people behind him gradually faded away.
Li Zhi walked forward and stopped in front of the Neijinshui Bridge behind the Meridian Gate.
Two rows of eunuchs were already standing on the square in front of Huangji Hall, facing each other, leaving a road in the middle, as if to welcome Li Zhi.
Li Zhi's officers became a little nervous when they saw the magnificent Huangji Palace, the vast square in front of the palace, and the two rows of eunuchs with royal bearings, and their faces turned red with excitement.
Lu Jiude smiled and said: "Our family brought them here. Please invite the general to the Huangji Palace to attend the court meeting!"
This was the third time Li Zhi came here, and he was familiar with the road. He dismounted in front of the Neijinshui Bridge and led his officers to walk between the two rows of eunuchs. He walked all the way across the square to Danbi in front of the Huangji Palace.
I saw the emperor and civil and military officials waiting in the main hall.
Li Zhi led Li Xing and other officials of the fourth rank and above into the Huangji Hall, fell to the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty, Li Zhi and the generals of Fanjiazhuang have met the Holy One!"
Seeing Li Zhi coming in, all the officials in the palace turned slightly and glanced at Li Zhi. This Li Zhi was appointed as the crown prince and Taibao at such a young age, and even rode a horse into the palace gate. He was so honored and respected that it made people jealous. But there was no such thing.
The solution was that Li Zhi was so good at fighting that ten thousand people chased the Tatars and blocked them at Qingshan Pass, unable to get out.
The frontline scouts finally figured out the situation these days. It was Li Zhi who blocked the Tatars at Qingshan Pass and could not get out, so the slave chief Huang Taiji came to Qingshan Pass to rescue Dorgon. This Li Zhi can be said to have almost killed the Tatars.
I was forced to death.
Zhu Youjian looked at Li Zhi with satisfaction and shouted: "I love you!"
Li Zhi led several officers behind him to stand up. Governor Zhu You smiled and said: "As soon as we leave the platform, Li Qing has made new achievements. The battle at Qingshan Pass has greatly increased the momentum of our Ming Dynasty. It is really fun!"
Li Zhi cupped his hands and said: "Although the great victory at Qingshankou was achieved by the last general, it is really due to the power of the Holy God. Without the emperor's strategizing and proper arrangement, there would be no such victory!"
After listening to Li Zhi's words, Zhu Youjian was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed very happily.
Another great victory was reported at Qingshan Pass, and all the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty were deeply inspired. Li Zhi attributed the credit of strategizing to the emperor, and also wanted to increase the emperor's authority a lot! At this time, the officials standing on both sides saw this atmosphere, and they all
They all held up the tooth plaques and sang: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
Zhu Youjian smiled and looked at the officials congratulating him and waved.
He then said to Li Zhi: "Li Zhi, you have made great contributions. I will also reward you! I will enter you and make you the country of Youzhu. I will give your father Li a posthumous title as a first-class honorary doctor and the governor of the left military governor's palace! I will grant you the title of mother.
The Zheng family is the first-grade concubine, and Feng'er's wife, Cui, is the first-class concubine. Yin'er's son is the imperial guard Qianhu."
This time the emperor's rewards were all awards such as honors and honors.
After hearing the reward from Lady Gaoming, Li Zhi secretly thought that it was good now. Cui He had obtained Lady Gaoming, and there was no need to ask for it from the emperor anymore.
