Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

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Chongzhen took a deep breath, "Is there anything more hateful than Hong Chengchou's surrender to the Zhao thief? Tell me!"

"Your Majesty, the thing is like this. After I went to Xuanzhen, I not only saw Hong Chengchou, but also met the people sent by the British Duke, Cheng Guogong and other dignitaries." Chen Xinjia did not dare to hide it, and said bluntly.

"What's going on?" Chongzhen half-closed his eyes, his eyes were sharp.

Seeing Chongzhen like this, Chen Xinjia hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to look directly at Chongzhen.

"Your Majesty, the matter is like this..."

Chen Xinjia explained the ins and outs of the matter to Chongzhen in detail.

After Chen Xinjia finished speaking, the imperial study room fell into silence.

Chen Xinjia lowered his head, feeling uneasy.

After a long time, Chongzhen suddenly stood up, flipped the table in front of him to the ground, and all the memorials, pens, inkstones and inkstones on it fell to the ground.

Chen Xinjia was so frightened that he pressed his head to the ground and trembled.

"Is what you said true? If you dare to deceive me, I will not spare you!" Chongzhen asked Chen Xinjia, pointing at him.

Chen Xinjia said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, this matter is absolutely true, I dare not deceive you.

The ones chasing and killing the minister outside the city were the British Duke and his men. If it weren't for their pursuit, the minister would not have ended up in such a mess. "

Upon hearing this, Chongzhen's chest heaved and heaved in anger.

"Do you have any definite evidence that the British princes and the others secretly surrendered to the enemy?" Chongzhen asked.

Chen Xinjia replied: "Your Majesty, the guards who went with me can prove it.

If His Majesty really doesn't believe it, all you need to do is send a troop to capture the pursuers outside the city, and everything will come to light. "

After Chen Xinjia finished speaking, Chongzhen fell into silence again.

He was sitting on a chair, with his right arm resting on the armrest of the chair, his right hand resting on his forehead, rubbing it constantly.

"Go out, this matter is not allowed to spread, or I will punish your nine clans!" Chongzhen said in a deep voice.

Chen Xinjia saluted Chongzhen, and then hurried out of the imperial study.

When he walked out of the palace, he looked at the sun in the sky, his face was full of sighs, "I'm afraid it will be another bloody storm!"

After Chen Xinjia left, Chongzhen called Gao Qiqian in.

Gao Qiqian was standing outside the imperial study room before, and because it was far away, he couldn't hear the detailed conversation between Chen Xinjia and Chongzhen.

But the sound of the table overturning in the royal study can still be heard.

Gao Qiqian walked into the imperial study room, he looked at the extremely messy imperial study room, walked carefully to the side of Chongzhen, and saluted Chongzhen respectfully.

"Your Majesty!" Gao Qiqian said softly.

Chongzhen said: "You take Jinyiwei, Dongchang Yuma Supervisor Tengxiang, the left and right guards to the city wall, and let the British prince come here.

After you bring the Duke of England, you send someone to take over the city gate where the Duke of England is stationed, and at the same time monitor the men and horses led by the Duke of England.

Remember, don't show any strangeness. If the British Duke asks why I sent the horse guards to come out, you can say, I don't worry about it, and I specially asked you to mobilize the horse guards to supplement the city defense forces.

Remember, be cautious and cautious. "

Hearing Chongzhen's voice, Gao Qiqian was terrified.

Let yourself take Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Tengxiang's left and right guards to the city wall. Even if you let the British Duke come to the palace, it won't be such a big battle, let alone the men led by the British Duke. .This is really unbelievable and shocking.

"After monitoring the British men, at the same time send a sentry outside the city to arrest Chen Xinjia's pursuers outside the city.

Once caught, bring me directly to Zhao Prison without delay.If this is not done well, you know the consequences. Chongzhen glanced at Gao Qiqian coldly.

Gao Qiqian looked at Chongzhen looking at him, and his calves kept trembling.

"Follow the order!" Gao Qiqian didn't know why Chongzhen did this, and he didn't know what Chongzhen said about chasing and killing Chen Xinjia's pursuers, but he didn't dare to ask.

"Go quickly." Chongzhen waved his hand at Gao Qiqian.

Gao Qiqian took the order and left. When he walked out of the imperial study, Gao Qiqian told the eunuchs and maids standing outside the imperial study, and after telling them about cleaning up the imperial study, he headed outside the palace.

The Imperial Horse Supervisor was established by Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, mainly for the royal horse breeding institutions.

But with the passage of time, during the reign of Zhu Di, the Imperial Horse Supervisor had evolved into an institution in charge of the soldiers and horses in the palace.

At this time, the duties of the horse supervisor were also expanded from "controlling the horses in the stables" to "controlling the horses and all the tributes and handling the collection of horses and mules in the animal husbandry", and then derived into two major functions of military and finance.

Since the imperial horse supervisor was in charge of the imperial horse, there were naturally horse breeders and horse trainers, and thus a forbidden army led by the imperial horse supervisor-Tengxiang Four Guards, Four Guards, and Warrior Battalion came into being.

In the sixth year of Xuande, these soldiers and horses had reached 100 people, and they had a very formal name called "Three Thousand Households of Habayashi".

Two years later, on this basis, Emperor Xuande organized Tengxiang left and right guards in order to enrich the horse soldiers raised by the imperial horse supervisor and the original Shenwu vanguard army.

The left and right guards of Wu Xiang are collectively referred to as the "Four Guards", also known as the "Four Guards".

According to the establishment at that time, 600 people were one guard, and the Four Guards had a total of more than 2 soldiers.

The soldiers and horses commanded by the Imperial Horse Supervisor are not the same as those in the Beijing Camp. Although the soldiers and horses in the Beijing Camp can be called the Imperial Guards or the Imperial Forest Army, they are generally led by nobles and belong to the five armies. .

But the Imperial Horse Supervisor is different. This is a soldier and horse specially commanded by the emperor, and the military pay does not go to the treasury, but to the emperor's internal funds.

During the Jingtai period, because Emperor Yingzong was captured and the battle of Tumubao destroyed the elite of the Beijing camp, Yu Qian invited the young Emperor Jingtai to reorganize the Beijing camp, and dispatched imperial horse supervisors to supplement the Beijing camp.

Civil servants naturally did not want the emperor to have so many soldiers and horses in his hands, so after the Imperial Horse Supervisor was changed, it has not been changed back.

When they arrived in Chenghua, the three major battalions of the Beijing Army were reorganized into regiment battalions.The soldiers and horses of the Four Guards of Tengxiang were transferred, and the Warrior Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion were formed separately. The battalion officers were selected from the commanders of the Four Guards, and they were directly under the emperor's control.

However, at this time, the number of soldiers and horses in the Yumajian was not as good as before, and the quality of the soldiers was not as good as before.

This situation did not improve until the Zhengde period.

Emperor Zhengde was the most troublesome emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty. After he became emperor, he ordered to transfer Xuanzhen, Datong and other town border troops into guards and horses to enrich the Beijing camp and the imperial horse prison.

Because the Yumajian was directly under the emperor's command, Emperor Zhengde added a large number of frontier troops to the Yumajian.

During the Zhengde Dynasty, there were as many as [-] soldiers and horses in the Yumajian.

After the death of Emperor Zhengde, Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne.The young Emperor Jiajing was fooled by the ministers and kept abolishing the imperial horse supervisor, and the final quota was more than [-] people.

The last time the Yumajian had a good time was in the Tianqi Dynasty. At that time, Wei Zhongxian was in charge of the government, and he wanted to replenish the manpower of Dongchang Jinyiwei and Yumajian.

Among them, the Yumajian has the most supplementary manpower.

Because Wei Zhongxian had the Imperial Horse Supervisor in his hands, even if Wei Zhongxian hadn't been in charge of the Beijing camp at the time, he could stand against the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and suppress the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

After Chongzhen ascended the throne, although the Yumajian was dismissed by civil servants in the early stage, many people were also left behind.

In the previous battles of defending the city and various battles, Chongzhen did not want to pull out the Yumajian staff, after all, this was the only force in Chongzhen's hands.

But this time it was different, the lineage of the British Duke had served as the admiral of the Beijing camp for a long time, and the power of the British Duke was deeply rooted in the Beijing camp, so Chongzhen had to send out the imperial horse supervisor in his hand.

Because he was afraid of the power of the British prince in the Beijing camp, Chongzhen had to send only this few troops.

If there are too many people sent out, they will definitely be suspected by the British public.

Once the British public suspects and pushes the British public into a hurry, no one knows what will happen.

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Chapter 604 What happened, Your Majesty?

A few quarters of an hour later, Gao Qiqian brought soldiers from Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Yumajian to the city wall where the British Duke was.

At this time, the British justice was sitting in the gate of the city, with a table in front of him, and a teapot on the table.

From time to time, the British Duke picked up the teapot on the table and poured himself a cup of hot tea.

"Where are the soldiers and horses of Zhao thief here? Your Majesty is really worrying too much, and he has become like a frightened bird." The British Duke held a teacup, took a sip of tea, and said disapprovingly.

Behind him stood his personal guards. His personal guards were basically the children of the British government and belonged to the private property of the British government.

The armor on these personal guards is much better than that on ordinary soldiers.

At this moment, a messenger ran up from under the city wall and came to the British Duke.

"My lord, Eunuch Gao is here, and he's bringing soldiers and horses from the Imperial Horse Supervisor!" The messenger looked at the British lord.

"Gao Qiqian? What is he doing here at this time? He also brought the soldiers and horses of the Imperial Horse Supervisor? Is His Majesty worried that the old man will not be able to defend the city wall? What's more, there are no soldiers and horses of Bandit Zhao outside the city today."

The British Duke thought that Chongzhen didn't believe that he could keep the soldiers and horses, so he didn't think too deeply.

After a while, Gao Qiqian brought Jinyiwei, Dongchang and the infantry in the Yumajian to the place where the British Duke was.

As for the cavalry in the imperial horse prison, they were arranged by Gao Qiqian under the city wall and near the city wall.

"Eunuch Gao, why did you bring the soldiers and horses from the Horse Supervisor here at this time? Doesn't your Majesty believe in this old man?" The British Duke watched Gao Qiqian approaching, stood up, and greeted him with a smile.

Although the Duke of England has been a nobleman for a hundred years, but now that he is a high-ranking and potential saint, the Duke of England has to give a little bit of respect.

"Haha!" Gao Qiqian laughed twice, "Master Guo, His Majesty may not trust other people, but he must trust you.

When His Majesty ascended the throne, the British government put in a lot of effort. How could His Majesty not believe you?

Our family is here now because His Majesty wants to ask the Duke of the State about some things. As for the specifics, our family doesn't know very well, and it should be similar to the previous things. "

"Hey, what is this? Your Majesty is completely overwhelmed. There are no soldiers and horses of Bandit Zhao outside the city. The old man has stayed here for such a long time, and he has never seen any soldiers and horses of Bandit Zhao. Your Majesty is completely It's overthinking." The British official said disapprovingly.

"Our family also thinks so, but you also know. Now that Zhao bandits have sent 20 troops to attack Henan, this incident is like a thorn in His Majesty's heart, and His Majesty will inevitably be a little worried." Gao Qi He pretended to be calm and said.

"No, His Majesty felt that the number of defenders on the top of the city was a bit small, so he specially asked me to draw the soldiers from the left and right guards of Teng Xiang, the imperial horse supervisor."

Gao Qiqian pointed to the soldiers and horses of the left and right guards standing on the city wall.

"Why did Your Majesty pull out the soldiers from the Imperial Horse Supervisor? Your Majesty should not use the soldiers and horses from the Imperial Horse Supervisor. Besides, there are countless elite soldiers in the Beijing camp. There is no need to mobilize the soldiers and horses from the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

Your Majesty is really a bit startled..." The British Duke felt that what he said was not quite right as he spoke.

Gao Qiqian looked at the British Duke with a smile, as if he didn't hear the British Duke's voice.

"Your Majesty, please hurry up. Don't make His Majesty wait any longer. Leave the important task of city defense to our family for the time being." Gao Qiqian urged.

"In that case, the old man is leaving." The Duke of England cupped his hands at the raised bow, and then walked down the stairs of the city wall with his personal guards.

The British Duke didn't know the facts of the matter, so he didn't think deeply about it.

Although the pursuers outside the city wanted to pass the news to the British Duke very much, they dared not.

Even if they know that the general on the city wall is the British Duke, that won't work.

Once contacted with the British Duke at this time, wouldn't it mean that the British Duke's men were chasing and killing Chen Xinjia?

After the British left, Chen Xinjia was not in a hurry to let his troops open the city gate, but replaced the defenders at the gate and on the wall of Wengcheng with the troops of the horse guard.

The defenders on the city wall and Wengcheng didn't know why Gao Qiqian did this, but they didn't refuse either.

After all, defending the city is a hard job, and these soldiers from the Beijing camp also have nothing to do.

Gao Qiqian stood on the city wall outside the city gate building, looking out of the city.

Although Gao Qiqian didn't see the pursuers outside the city, it hasn't been long since Chen Xinjia entered the city.

Gao Qiqian looked at the sun in the sky, reckoning that the British Duke had already gone far away, and then asked the infantry of the imperial horse supervisor on the top of the city to lower the suspension bridge on the moat outside the city.

"Elder-in-law, why is this?" British Duke's deputy hurriedly walked to Gao Qiqian's side, pointed to the lowered suspension bridge outside the city, and asked hastily.

Gao Qiqian glanced at this person coldly, "Do I need to tell you about our family's work? What kind of person are you?"

Just because he has the potential to greet the British with a smile does not mean that he can face the British lieutenant with a smile.

As the most important eunuch in front of Chongzhen and a small lieutenant, Gao Qiqian didn't pay attention to him, even though the British Duke was behind him.

The lieutenant general was blushed and embarrassed by Gao Qiqian's words.

"Our family is responsible for what happens, you don't have to worry about what our family is doing." Gao Qiqian dropped a sentence, and then looked at the commander of Jinyiwei, Luo Sigong, who was following him.

Although Luo Sigong is the commander of Jin Yiwei, but now that Gao Qiqian is gaining power, he has to rely on Gao Qiqian, and has become Gao Qiqian's echo.

After all, it was Gao Qiqian's credit for releasing Jin Yiwei again, and most of the staff in Jin Yiwei was recruited by Gao Qiqian.

"Take a few people and open the city gate, and let the sons of the Yumajian go out of the city to kill the thieves!

Tell the sons and daughters of the Yumajian that after leaving the city, chase and kill me around the city wall, and if you find the thief's movement, catch me alive. "Gao Qiqian looked at Luo Sigong.

Luo Sigong cupped his hands, then followed Gao Qiqian's order and went down the city wall.

After a while, the cavalry of the Imperial Horse Supervisor rushed out of the city gate.

"Eunuch, why is this?" The deputy general looked at the cavalry cavalry who rushed out of the city gate, and then leaned in front of Gao Qiqian with a look of doubt, "Eunuch, there are no enemy troops outside the city. Why?"