It turned out that the emperor had already come out when the young eunuch made the report and did not disturb Dai Quan. But after he heard the little eunuch's report, he could no longer hold back and roared angrily.
Dai Quan was kneeling on the ground at this time, kowtowing constantly, asking the emperor to calm down.
The emperor calmed down for a moment, but his face was still red. He immediately ordered: "According to my decree, the eunuch guarding the palace gate will be killed immediately with a stick. If anyone dares to do such a thing again in the future, I will kill his nine clans."
After the emperor said this, he glared at Dai Quan fiercely, "Why are you still standing there? If you don't hurry up and bring me the messenger in, it will delay the important matter. I will even take your head."
Dai Quan then rolled out and crawled out. When the emperor saw Dai Quan going out, he wanted to go back to Dongnuan Pavilion to wait for the news. However, as soon as he turned around, he felt that the world was spinning. The eunuch next to him quickly went over to support him and said anxiously: "
Long Live Lord, what's wrong with you? Do you want to be sent to the imperial doctor?"
The emperor held his hand and calmed down for a moment before recovering. Then he pushed him away and entered Dongnuan Pavilion.
Dai Quan crawled out of Yangxin Hall and ran all the way to the palace gate. He saw that a crowd of people had gathered outside the palace gate.
The little eunuch next to Dai Quan immediately separated from the crowd and let Dai Quan come inside. He saw an eunuch inside crying and howling bitterly. It was the eunuch guarding the door. It seemed that he also knew his fate.
When Dai Quan saw this man, his face became furious, and he directly ordered the little eunuch beside him: "Take this bitch aside and beat him to death in front of everyone. Let everyone
Let’s also take a look and see who will dare to block the emergency military situation in the future.”
The little eunuchs under him all shuddered. But they were not slow in their actions. They stepped forward and tied up the crying eunuch directly and pressed him to the main square of the palace gate. Then the eunuchs of the Shenxing Department who had already come over,
He tied the eunuch to a spring stool, then raised the board and hit him hard in the back. For a while, the square was filled with screams and blood splattered everywhere.
Dai Quan ignored all this and came to the bell tower of Jingyang Bell. He said to the sergeant who was ringing the bell: "Little bastard, why are you still ringing? The emperor already knows about you. If you have anything to say to us in advance."
The messenger who was ringing the bell stopped. He turned around and saw an old eunuch in gorgeous clothes. He looked like someone with status in the palace. At this time, he quickly stepped forward and knelt down and said: "Father, I am the messenger from Miyun.
I have been ordered by my family to guard the capital and send an urgent delivery of 800 miles to the capital. The Tatars are already less than 100 miles away from our Miyun City."
When Dai Quan heard this, he was scared out of his wits. Miyun was only dozens of miles away from the capital. If Miyun sent intelligence, it would mean that the Tatars had already arrived in the capital. This was a big deal.
So Dai Quan said to the messenger: "Follow me now, and we will go to see the emperor together."
After saying this, Dai Quan did not dare to stay, turned around and ran towards the inner palace. The messenger also followed Dai Quan and trotted all the way to the outside of Dongnuan Pavilion.
The emperor didn't wait long in Dongnuan Pavilion when he heard a commotion outside. Then Dai Quan came in alone. As soon as Dai Quan came in, he knelt down and replied anxiously: "Long live Lord, it's an urgent military situation in Miyun."
, it seems that the Tatars have arrived in Miyun.”
When the emperor heard what he said, he felt dizzy again. But he gritted his teeth and held on, and asked the kneeling Dai Quan, "Where are the messengers and the military situation?"
"The messenger is waiting outside, and the military information is also with him. I dare not touch him without permission."
The emperor said angrily: "Why don't you let him in quickly?"
Dai Quan hurried out and led the messenger into Dongnuan Pavilion. As soon as the messenger entered Dongnuan Pavilion, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, there is an urgent military situation in Miyun800 Miles. We will set off at noon today and arrive in Beijing before dusk." After saying this.
After speaking, he took out the letter from his arms and presented it to the emperor with both hands.
The little eunuch next to him quickly took the letter and sent it to the emperor. The emperor took the letter and immediately opened it to read the message.
The general content of the letter is that Gubeikou was captured by a trick by the Tatars. Now the defeated army has arrived in Miyun. It was learned from the defeated army that the Tatars attacked in large numbers, no less than hundreds of thousands, and that Miyun has discovered the Tatar forward.
, Miyun's army was weak and there were few generals, so he requested the court to support him quickly.
When the emperor saw the news, he was somewhat mentally prepared. Although he still felt his head pounding, he was still able to calm down his anger.
At this moment, Dai Quan came in and reported, "To inform the emperor, all the ministers are already waiting outside the palace gate. I wonder if the emperor has summoned me."
When the emperor heard the news, he remembered that the messenger had hit the Jingyang Bell just now. All the ministers must come to the palace to meet him, and he happened to have to discuss the Tatar invasion with them.
So he sent an order: "Set the driver in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and tell all the ministers to meet the driver in the Hall of Supreme Harmony."
After the emperor conveyed his decree, he walked outside the Dongnuan Pavilion, and a group of eunuchs hurriedly followed. When he arrived outside the Dongnuan Pavilion, there was already a bright yellow sedan waiting. The emperor got on the sedan, and four eunuchs carried it, and went to Taihe.
Go to the palace.
When the emperor arrived at the Hall of Supreme Harmony, all the ministers had been waiting in the hall for a long time. When they saw the emperor coming, all the ministers knelt down and shouted "long live the emperor" three times, and bowed three times and kowtowed nine times.
The emperor sat on the throne and did not let the carts stand up. He looked at the ministers below and saw them kneeling there one by one with confused looks on their faces. He felt angry, so he said with a gloomy face: "Just now
Someone hit the Jingyang Bell, do you know what happened?"
The people below looked at me and I looked at you. They didn't know how to answer the emperor, so they all said together: "I will wait for ten thousand deaths."
The emperor angrily said to his subordinates: "The hundreds of thousands of Tatars have arrived in Miyun. You are still here dreaming about the Spring and Autumn Period. You have to lose your head to wake up."
When His Highness's ministers heard what the emperor said, they were all horrified. They had never thought that the capital would be threatened, so they suddenly exploded.
Everyone is talking about it. Even when the Tatars surrounded Xuanfu Town a few years ago, the situation was not as critical as this time. At least there was Jia Ke in Xuanfu who could rescue them nearby. But this time, in addition to the three major camps near the capital, there were
There are no other troops.
And these ministers are all human beings, and they never have much hope for the combat effectiveness of the three major battalions.
Seeing them making a mess, the emperor was even more angry and slapped the imperial desk with his hand, and shouted loudly: "Shut up, everyone. Say what you have to say one by one. What does it look like to be in a quarrel? Three
A great bachelor, you three will speak first."
Li Lu, a bachelor, immediately stood up and said: "The emperor is in an emergency now. He should make a decisive decision and order the troops from the three battalions outside the city to enter the city immediately to participate in the defense of the city."
After hearing what he said, the emperor felt that it made sense, and immediately issued a decree: "Where is Prince Teng, the Jiedushi Commander of the Beijing Camp?"
This is when a middle-aged Confucian general walked out of the martial arts class, came to the center of the hall, immediately knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, Prince Teng, long live my emperor, long live, long live."
The emperor immediately sent an order to Wang Ziteng: "Immediately organize the three major camps outside the city, order them to enter the capital from the three gates, and immediately go to the city to participate in the defense to guard against Tatar sneak attacks."
Prince Teng knelt down and replied: "My lord, Prince Teng respects the decree." After saying that, he stood up and walked out of the palace.
After arranging for Wang Ziteng to defend the capital, the emperor felt a little more confident and said to the ministers who were still kneeling below: "Okay, everyone, get up. I can't blame you for what happened today."
The ministers had been kneeling below for such a long time, and finally waited until the emperor gave them a message to get up. They had to get up from the ground one by one with great difficulty. Some of the old and weak ones still needed help from their colleagues next to them.
The ministers stood up and stood on both sides of the Hall of Supreme Harmony according to the rules of Wen Dong and Wu Xi.
When the emperor saw that everyone was getting up, he continued to ask: "Speak out any other ideas. The Tatars come to the capital this time. I'm afraid they are not evil. We must think of a countermeasure."
At this time, Grand Scholar Yan Mu came out and said: "Your Majesty, although the three major battalions have 150,000 troops, they have never seen a real battle. There is some use in relying on them to defend the city. If you want to repel
I’m afraid it will be even more difficult for the Tatars.”
The emperor frowned and asked unhappily: "Li Aiqing, are my three camps really useless? Don't be alarmist."
In the emperor's impression, the three major battalions were the best in the world. Moreover, every time he traveled, the three major battalions were neatly armored and looked majestic, not like they could not fight.
Before Yan Mu could answer, Academician Pan Yong stood up and replied: "Your Majesty, what Academician Li said is true. The strength of the three major battalions is indeed worrying. Their ancestors were originally the elites of our dynasty.
But after their fathers and ancestors passed away, they gradually became corrupted, and the result of their war against the Tatars may be disastrous."
When the emperor heard this, he almost laughed out of anger. Before there was no war, they told themselves one by one that the elites of the three battalions were rare in the world. Now when they met Zhenzhang, they told themselves that the three battalions had already
It was corrupt and useless. If it hadn't been for the Tatar invasion, I'd probably never have known until my death that the three major battalions that formed the city wall were in a state of decay and could no longer fight.
"Then what do you think we should do? We cannot allow the Tatars to move freely around the capital, or even disturb the tombs of their ancestors." After the emperor said this, he seemed to remember that the tombs of several emperors of this dynasty were outside the city.
If it is destroyed by the Tatars, how can I face the late emperor after my death?
When the emperor thought of this, he couldn't help but feel sad, and tears welled up in his eyes. Looking at these ministers below, what was the use of spending money to support them? At the critical moment, no one could share his worries.
Li Lu, a bachelor, saw the emperor's sad look and knew that he was afraid that the tombs of the previous emperors would be disturbed, so he went out to the class and said: "Your Majesty, we have not reached that point yet. We can send a decree to the Jiedushi envoys of several nearby provinces.
He immediately raised troops to serve the king, and ordered the military envoys in Jiubianzhong, Xuanfu Town and Liaodong to immediately send out cavalry to support them. These two places were closest to the capital and had the most elite soldiers and horses, as well as the largest number of cavalry.
When the cavalry from these two places comes, there will be at least 40,000 to 50,000 horsemen and horses. Even if we cannot win by then, we can still ensure peace in the capital."