Not to mention the fierce battle in Miyun, we will only talk about the emergency military situation of 800 miles sent by Gu Xu to the capital.
The messenger knew that the matter was of great importance, so he rode at full speed and did not eat or drink. When he encountered a post station, he changed horses and started without any temporary delay.
He set off at noon and arrived at the capital at dusk. People were coming and going at the gate of the capital, and there was a constant flow. This was the busiest time under the city walls. The flow of people almost blocked the gate.
Seeing this, the messenger jumped up and down in a hurry, but he couldn't get into the city. After hesitating for a moment, he raised his whip and whipped the people around him, and shouted: "Eight Hundred Miles is an urgent military situation, but there are people blocking the way."
Behead and decide."
The people around him were staggering around because of his whipping. At this time, the soldiers watching the city gate had noticed the chaos here and immediately came over to check the situation. The messenger couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the officers and soldiers approaching, and immediately shouted to the officers and soldiers: "I have an urgent military intelligence report.
Your Majesty, please drive these people away quickly."
The officers and soldiers guarding the city had seen many urgent military situations in the past few years, so they naturally knew what to do. They immediately raised their wooden sticks and drove the people to both sides to make way for the messenger.
When the messenger saw that the road was clear, he immediately urged his horse into the city. When he came to the city, he urged his horse to rush forward while shouting: "Eight Hundred Miles is an urgent military situation. People should get out of the way, otherwise they will be trampled to death."
In this way, the messenger came to the palace. Originally, the eight hundred miles of military information should be reported to the Ministry of War first, and then reported to the Cabinet by the Ministry of War, and finally reported to the Emperor by the Cabinet. But this time the messenger could not take care of this, because he
He clearly knew that the Tatars had arrived at Miyun City. If he did not report to the emperor as soon as possible, it would be in danger if he delayed the capital. So he did not go to the Ministry of War, but went directly to the palace.
When he arrived at the entrance of the palace, the imperial guards guarding the palace gate immediately stopped him. When the messenger saw that he was stopped, the messenger hurriedly shouted to the imperial guards: "There is an urgent military situation in eight hundred miles. It is too late to report to the Ministry of War. Report it directly to the emperor. You hurry in."
Report."
Seeing that he didn't look like he was joking, the imperial guards hurriedly reported to the gate officer guarding the city. After hearing the report, the gate officer guarding the palace gate immediately came out to check the situation.
As soon as the city gate official came out of the palace gate, he saw a man who looked like an officer and a soldier with an order flag on his back. His body was dusty and dusty, and there were sweat marks on his face. He hurried forward and asked him: "Where are you reporting from?"
, why don’t you report it to the Ministry of War first according to the rules?”
At this time, the messenger quickly explained: "The urgent military situation cannot be reported to the Ministry of War in time. It must be reported directly to the emperor. Please report it to the Ministry of War as soon as possible."
The city gate officer looked very anxious when he saw him, but as a city gate officer he had to follow the rules, so he quickly informed the eunuch inside, who would deliver the message to the palace. After all, an officer like him couldn't enter.
Inner palace.
As it happened today, the eunuch guarding the palace gate got angry and was scolded by their supervisor for a trivial matter. At this time, he was angry and heard someone coming to report that there was an urgent military situation at the gate and he wanted to report it directly to the emperor.
Report and ask him to go and deliver a message to the inner palace.
But the eunuch didn't care about this at all. After all, according to the rules, this has never happened. The only time was also the last time that Jia Ke sent people to deliver jade seals to the whole country.
Therefore, he did not take such things seriously. The 800 miles of urgent military information had not been sent several times in the past few years. If it were handed directly to the emperor every time, would there be any rules? And he would do it now.
Thinking about how to retaliate for all the anger he had suffered, he tried to think of a way to make his immediate boss miserable.
So now he said impatiently: "You go back and tell him that no matter how big his job is, he must follow the rules and let him report to the Ministry of War first. If there is any specific matter, it will be handled by the Ministry of War. It has nothing to do with him.
"
The soldier who reported the news had no choice but to come out and report the matter to the city gate official.
When the city gate officer heard this reply, he felt very helpless. He could only turn back to the messenger and said: "It's not that I won't help you, brother, but there is really no other way. You should report it to the Ministry of War as soon as possible."
When the messenger saw this situation, he was so angry that he came to report the news. He didn't eat or drink along the way. He almost died and was blocked at the gate of the palace. If this delayed the important event, the capital
Everyone is in danger. Not to mention the people around the capital, even the emperor will be deeply involved.
This messenger was also very arrogant. Seeing that no one came inside to inform him, he thought of finding a way to deliver the message to the palace. The messenger often heard people say that there was a Jingyang Bell and a Jingjia Drum outside the palace.
Used to communicate with the emperor in emergencies.
So the messenger looked around and saw a small bell tower next to it, with a big iron bell hanging on it. He guessed that this was the famous Jingyang Bell, so he walked to the bell tower regardless of others and took two steps at a time.
The soldiers at the bell tower came to stop someone when they saw someone trying to break through.
As soon as the city gate officer saw the messenger's movements, he knew what he was going to do. He was also afraid of delaying the urgent military situation, so he hurriedly waved to the blocking soldiers. The soldiers saw his gesture and then stepped aside.
Seeing that there was no one to stop him, the messenger went up to the bell tower smoothly, came to the big bell, shook the wooden block next to it, and hit the big bell with all his strength. Dang, Dang, Dang, as the bell kept ringing, the whole capital was shaken in an instant.
Already.
This Jingyang Bell was erected by Emperor Taizu in accordance with the rules of the previous dynasty. It was specially designed to allow the people to complain to the emperor. It was to give the people a chance to directly face the emperor at the last moment, and it was too
The ancestor emperor stipulated that once the Jingyang bell rings, no matter what the emperor does, he must immediately go to court. Civil and military officials will be executed within three quarters after the Jingyang bell rings.
And this was the young eunuch who was angry just now at the palace gate. When he heard the Jingyang bell ringing, he immediately became alert. He thought that this was the messenger who wanted to report just now. If it was really this person,
Then this time, I didn't even have my life. So I didn't care about anything else and ran out of the palace gate like crazy and came to the Jingyang Bell.
He saw a ragged and unkempt sergeant above, who was ringing the Jingyang Bell.
As soon as the little eunuch saw this situation, he sat down on the ground and had no strength to stand up anymore. He knew that he was dead this time. Since the sergeant dared to ring the Jingyang Bell, there must be something urgent to do.
Reporting to the emperor. But he refused to report it to the inner court. This was a grave sin, and the emperor would never forgive him.
At this time, the officers and soldiers around saw the little eunuch paralyzed on the ground, and they couldn't help showing expressions of gloating on their faces. These eunuchs in the inner court are usually arrogant and domineering towards the imperial guards, and everyone felt special when they saw him looking like this now.
Relieve anger.
At this time, the emperor was reviewing memorials in the Dongnuan Pavilion. He was fascinated by what he was watching. There was another drought in some places in Shaanxi this year. It was necessary to provide disaster relief as soon as possible, otherwise there would be consequences.
There was a drought in Shaanxi every year, but the severity of the drought varied, so the emperor didn't pay much attention to it. He just approved some grain for them according to the severity of the drought as stated in the memorial, which was regarded as this year's disaster relief.
He was about to write Zhu's comments on the memorial when suddenly a loud bell rang outside. This frightened him so much that he dropped his pen on the table and his heart was pounding. The emperor calmed down and listened carefully.
Listening. I found out that it was the Jingyang Bell that was ringing, so I calmed down. At this time, someone was ringing the Jingyang Bell. I am afraid that they had some serious grievances and wanted to face the emperor directly, and they wanted to complain to themselves.
Although he was very angry in his heart, his ancestors had established rules that when the Jingyang bell rang, the emperor must receive him. This was because the founding emperor knew that people sometimes had grievances and had no place to complain, so in order to leave the last way for the people to survive, he made special regulations
After ringing the Jingyang bell and urging the drums to be arranged, as long as one of the two places rang, the civil and military officials and the emperor had to go to the palace. Although the bells and drums were rung, and they had to be exiled for three thousand miles in the end, it still left a message for the people.
A road of desperate struggle.
However, since the Jingyang Bell was erected outside the palace gate, it has been nearly a hundred years since the founding of the country, and it has never been rung by ordinary people. Today is the first time.
The Jingyang Bell is usually rung when the emperor dies and the new emperor ascends the throne. It is never rung at other times. Now that someone is ringing the Jingyang Bell, I have to meet this person no matter what.
The emperor looked at Dai Quan next to him angrily and said, "Why are you still standing there? Why don't you go and see what's going on?"
Dai Quan was also shocked by what just happened. He had never thought that someone would be so bold and dare to ring the Jingyang Bell. He always thought that the Jingyang Bell was just a decoration and was fooled by Emperor Taizu.
Those fools never thought that some people would be so brave.
Now when I heard the emperor's scolding, I hurried out of Dongnuang Pavilion and even called a young eunuch outside to ask him to go see what happened.
After waiting for a cup of tea, the little eunuch ran back panting and disheveled, shouting: "Get out of the way, get out of the way."
When Dai Quan saw the young eunuch being so rude, he didn't blame him, because he knew how difficult the etiquette training in the palace was. If a young eunuch who had received strict training became like this, something terrible would probably happen. Now.
He felt that his heart was about to burst out of his chest, and he couldn't help praying to the gods and Buddhas in the sky that nothing big would happen. But now he wished that the person ringing the Jingyang Bell was the one who went to Beijing to complain.
The little eunuch ran to Dai Quan and gasped: "Grandpa Dai, something bad has happened. The person who was ringing the Jingyang bell outside was a messenger reporting eight hundred miles of military intelligence. He was helpless because he could not enter the palace gate.
, just then the Jingyang Bell rang."
When Dai Quan heard this, his face turned black, he kicked him over, and yelled: "That's nonsense. The palace has its own rules. If there are urgent matters that need to be reported, the eunuch guarding the palace gate should have reported them long ago."
He's gone. No one has come up to report it now. He rang the Jingyang Bell privately, even if there is military intelligence, he should be beheaded."
The eunuchs crawled on the ground and said with mournful faces: "The imperial army guarding the palace gate has already reported to the eunuch guarding the gate, but he was blocked by the man. The messenger had no choice but to ring the Jingyang Bell."
When Dai Quan heard this, he was so frightened that he was sweating all over his body. He scolded the eunuch who was watching the door like crazy. He said in his heart that you are sick. You can't hit the knife edge like this even if you want to die. It doesn't matter if you die.
Don't let your grandpa Dai get involved too.
Dai Quan was furious now and immediately ordered the young eunuch, "Go and take that guy who doesn't know the king's law and put him in the punishment department and wait for the emperor to deal with him later."
Just as Dai Quan was about to turn around and enter the Dongnuan Pavilion to report to the emperor, he heard a roar from the Dongnuan Pavilion: "Why do you keep such a slave? Beat him to death and feed me the dogs."
Dai Quan turned around and took a look, and was so frightened that he quickly fell to his knees. It turned out that the emperor had been standing in front of the door of Dongnuan Pavilion at some time. He had heard what he had just said, and now his face was red with anger.