Daming: From the end of Hongwu

316 Chapter 314 - Jinchuan Gate

Outside the capital city, there is a lively scene.

Countless military and civilian merchants are dismantling houses, and then transporting the dismantled wood to the city, trying to clear the outside of the city and not giving the Yan army materials to build siege equipment.

It's summer now.

The border of Jinling is hot, and the busy soldiers and civilians are sweating profusely. Even some common people, who do not have the strength to dismantle the gatehouse and transport the wood, are forced by the imperial court's decree to set their teeth on fire. dwellings.

When Li Jinglong and his group returned to this place all the way, after seeing this scene, they all frowned in unison.

The Minister of the Ministry of War, Ru Yu, who went to Yanying with Li Jinglong, couldn't help but sigh a long time.

He came to Li Jinglong's side and whispered: "Mr. Cao, look at this..."

Li Jinglong snorted coldly, and said: "Don't look at it, I think it must be the emperor who was bewitched by Fang Xiaoru and others. They have damaged the country several times for the sake of their own heads. Is it tolerable or unbearable? Kill these thieves."

Ru Yu nodded. He had always been at odds with Huang Zicheng, not only had he argued with Huang Zicheng many times, but also been suppressed by Huang Zicheng several times. Naturally, he was looking forward to the downfall of Huang Zicheng and others.

But he was a little worried and said: "But the emperor has made such a firm posture, if the emperor wants to punish Huang, it will be difficult for Qi and others."

After speaking, Ru Yuan secretly looked at Li Jinglong's expression.

Thinking of this, Li Jinglong sighed and said, "Do your best and obey the destiny."

"That's the only way to go now."

As Ru Yu said, she seemed to be pointing and said: "It's just for the sake of the world and the people. Ru will definitely advance and retreat with Cao Guogong, and don't think about it. I also hope that Cao Guogong will not dislike Ru's meager power. .”

Li Jinglong's heart skipped a beat when he said this, and he looked at Ru Yuan, only to see that Ru Yuan's expression remained the same as before.

Ru Yuan smiled at Li Jinglong.

There seemed to be some deep meaning in this smile, but it didn't seem like there was any.

Li Jinglong wasn't sure what Ru Yu meant, so he also exchanged hypocritical greetings with Ru Yu.

Afterwards, a group of people quickly entered the city and headed towards the palace.

And Zhu Yunwen in the palace looked like he had gambled all night, and the gambler who lost big was full of negative energy. When he heard Li Jinglong and others came back, he hurriedly announced them in.

Without waiting for them to meet, Zhu Yunqi asked anxiously, "How is the trip? My fourth uncle is willing to retire and go back to Peiping?"

Li Jinglong nodded.

Before Zhu Yunqi was overjoyed, Li Jinglong's next words followed.

"However, the King of Yan is still the previous request. As long as His Majesty can kill the traitors, King Yan will send his army back to Beiping to assist His Majesty and guard the border town."

Zhu Yunwen was taken aback for a moment, and fell silent.

Li Jinglong, Ru Yu and others began to report in detail what they said and did after they entered Yanying.

But when they finished speaking, Zhu Yunqi remained silent.

When Li Jinglong saw this, he understood what Zhu Yunzheng meant, and knew that Zhu Yunzheng would not give up on Fang Xiaoru and the others, but what Li Jinglong and the others did not expect was that after being stunned for a long time, Zhu Yunzheng suddenly raised his head and said a very innocent sentence.

"If you tell Fourth Uncle that the person who raped... the criminal has been ordered to be arrested, but he is still on the run, and he will give it to Fourth Uncle after he is captured. You say, if this is the case, will Fourth Uncle withdraw from the army?"

Li Jinglong opened his mouth, a little speechless: "Does Your Majesty think that King Yan will believe this?"

Zhu Yunwen froze, but after thinking for a while, he still said: "Believe it or not, it's always good to try. Duke Cao, would you like to visit Yanying again?"

Li Jinglong was a little helpless.

This seemed to him completely unnecessary.

He asked Zhu Yunwen: "When I came back, I saw the houses being demolished outside the city. Does your majesty plan to stick to the capital and wait for the king's teacher?"

Zhu Yunqi nodded a little embarrassedly.

Li Jinglong's demeanor suddenly became a little uncomfortable, and even the tone of his next words was full of dissatisfaction.

"Since your majesty intends to listen to Fang Xiaoru and others, why should you let me enter the Yan camp again? If your majesty thinks that my words are trustworthy, then I will kill Fang Xiaoru and others according to my plan, and I will definitely enter Yan again. The army, with the head of the item as a guarantee, will make the king of Yan retreat."

Zhu Yunwen heard the dissatisfaction in Li Jinglong's tone, and instinctively felt a little angry, but the next moment, he thought of the discord between Li Jinglong and Fang Xiaoru, and even the attitude of life and death, and the slight anger in his heart dissipated in an understandable way. .

He looked at Li Jinglong, who was a little disappointed and dissatisfied, and comforted him: "Mr. Cao doesn't have to be like this. It's not that I don't believe what Mr. Cao said. It's just... just that I think that if we really have a disadvantage in defending the city when the Yan army is attacking the city, we will go to the Duke of the country again." It's not too late to say it, if it's direct now...it's always a bit inappropriate."

"In this case, I will go back and wait for His Majesty to call again." Li Jinglong said.

Seeing Li Jinglong's lack of energy, Zhu Yunqi couldn't bear to hurt Li Jinglong. After thinking for a while, he said, "I need to rely a lot on Cao Guogong to defend the city. Cao Guogong can't be so slack."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yunqi paused, and then said: "Maybe Cao Guogong and King Gu go to help defend Jinchuan Gate?"

In his thinking, Li Jinglong should know how much he valued Li Jinglong if Li Jinglong was entrusted with a heavy responsibility. Under such circumstances, Li Jinglong would never have any unpleasant things with him again.

Hearing this, Li Jinglong was taken aback for a moment, then raised his head in disbelief, and even revealed the surprise in his eyes uncontrollably for a moment.

Can there be such a good thing?

Seeing Li Jinglong like this, Zhu Yunwen was very satisfied, thinking that Li Jinglong was happy that he valued Li Jinglong, so he smiled and asked, "What does Cao Guogong think?"

"My minister... my minister leads the decree, and I will live up to your Majesty's entrustment." Li Jinglong nodded in haste, and even stammered a bit.

Zhu Yunqi nodded: "I trust Cao Guogong."

Afterwards, Zhu Yunqi gave Li Jinglong a few more instructions, and then let Li Jinglong go down.

But after Li Jinglong left, Zhu Yunwen thought about it for a while, and still summoned the kings, and wanted them to go to Yanying to talk about it.

It is said that the criminal minister is fleeing, and he will sacrifice it to King Yan after he is caught.

Since Li Jinglong didn't want to say it again, he let the kings say it.

But the kings did not refuse, took orders, and went to the Yan army.

Zhu Yunwen looked at the back of them leaving, and sighed worriedly in his heart. He didn't know whether the king of Yan would believe his words, but as long as it was possible to make the king of Yan retreat, he wanted to try even the most stupid thing. try.

……

On the other side, after the kings left Beijing, they went straight to Longtan where the Yan army was stationed.

After the kings met Yan Wang, they told Zhu Di what Zhu Yunqi had said.

Zhu Di just sneered twice, and then asked the kings: "You are all my own brothers, please tell me whether this statement is true or not, if you say it is true, then I, the elder brother, will believe it." The words of my brothers."

The kings looked at each other when they heard Zhu Di's words, and then smiled wryly: "Brother's eyes are like a torch, and he can see the truth by himself, and I don't want to lie to my brother."

"Since that's the case, let's not talk about those meaningless words. Speaking of which, we brothers haven't seen each other for a long time. Today, the fourth brother is hosting a banquet. Let's have a good drink."

Afterwards, Zhu Di hosted a banquet in honor of the kings, and after a few people talked about their brotherhood, Zhu Di asked the kings to go back to meet their errands.

After the kings told Zhu Yunwen what he had seen and heard in the Yan army, Zhu Yunwen sighed and remained silent in the study for a long time. At dusk, he came out with a lonely face, and then he ordered people to speed up repairs day and night City defense, while continuously sending people to all sides to urge Qin Wang's division.

After finishing all this, Zhu Yunqi looked up at the sky.

He recalled what he had done in the past few years after he ascended the throne, and it suddenly gave him a feeling of a dream. He put his hands in front of his eyes, and looked carefully, as if he could see the country that was originally tightly grasped from between his fingers. Slip away slowly.

In June, all the people and officials in the capital were panic-stricken. They inexplicably remembered a song that had been widely circulated in the capital.

"Don't chase swallows, chase swallows and fly high, fly high with God's ki. '

Many common people and merchants sighed.

That flying swallow did not fly to the capital now.

However, all the soldiers in the Yan army became very excited during this time. They understood that after fighting for so many years, they finally saw the dawn of victory.

On this day, Zhu Di condemned Liu Bao, the vanguard, and Hua Ju went outside the Chaoyang Gate of the capital.

After learning that there was no ambush outside the capital, he swung his army and marched towards the capital. All the generals looked valiant along the way, and even Zhen Wu couldn't contain his excitement.

Three years.

Played for three years.

Now we will finally see Nanjing City again.

But Zhu Yunqi and others in the capital learned that King Yan's army had come towards the capital. Zhu Yunqi and the hardcore ministers who cut down the vassals gathered in the study and quickly discussed countermeasures.

But a group of people in the study room fell into a sad silence without saying a few words.

So far, there is nothing to discuss.

We can only hope that the defenders of the city can defend the capital.

Zhu Yunqi asked, "Is there any news about King Qin's teacher?"

Fang Xiaoru shook his head.

Since the commander of the Yan army drove Yangzhou in May, he has not seen a single person leading the army to serve the king. It is not known whether Zhu Yunqi has lost the hearts of the people, or everyone can see that Zhu Yunqi will definitely lose and dare not come to help.

Zhu Yunwen asked again: "What about Qi Shangshu and Mr. Huang, they both went to recruit soldiers early, and the two of them saw that the capital was besieged, so there must be no movement."

Fang Xiaoru sighed, and shook his head with a bitter face.

Zhu Yunwen was stunned, and after a long time, he hammered the table in a frantic rage, but when he vented his emotions, he collapsed on the chair.

He cried: "It's all because they persuaded me to cut down the vassal. Now it has become like this, but they also abandoned me and left. I regret that I listened to what they said."

Fang Xiaoru sighed, intending to persuade Zhu Yunwen with a few words.

But the disheartened Zhu Yunxuan didn't want to listen to what they had to say, so he waved his hand and told them all to retreat.

Zhu Yunwen closed his eyes and was speechless. At this moment, he inexplicably thought of Zhu Yuanzhang's voice and appearance.

He cried and said: "Grandpa, you are alive in heaven, help your grandson, grandson knows you are wrong, grandson shouldn't listen to you, shouldn't be close to people in the army, shouldn't want to cut down the feudal clan... "

I don't know how long it took.

Someone outside the gate suddenly reported that Yan Jun had arrived outside Jinchuan Gate.

Zhu Yunwen was shocked, and summoned the group of ministers to the pilgrimage again. After the court officials arrived, the bustling people began to discuss the situation of Jinchuanmen's defense.

Some people say that it is impossible to prevent it, so it is better to seek peace again.

Some people say that it is better to leave the city early and come to Zhejiang fortunately.

Some people also say that it is better to be lucky enough to come to Huxiang, or to visit Shu, to collect soldiers and horses, and use them as plans.

In short, almost everyone thought that the capital must be in danger, and it was nothing more than almost no desire to fight bloody. The noise made the whole court seem to be a vegetable market.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Yunqi wanted to open his mouth to speak several times, but when the words reached his mouth, he held back.

The tide is gone.

It seemed like nothing else would help.

Among these people in the hall, one counts as one, how many people are willing to die loyally for him?

Zhu Yunwen looked at the faces of the group of people below. Although each of them showed grief on their faces, and even pretended to say suggestions, but the tone and demeanor of each of them had nothing to do with them, as if the capital could not protect themselves. As far as they are concerned, it has nothing to do with them.

This caused a trace of anger to slowly rise in his heart. He asked himself that he had never treated some people badly, so why should they hang on to it when things come to an end.

At this moment, a Jin Yiwei hurried in, whispered something in Zhu Yunqi's ear, and then handed Zhu Yunqi some letters.

This made Zhu Yunwen, who was already really angry, his eyes were filled with anger instantly, and he put his eyes on Xu Zengshou who had been silent all the time with a sullen face.

slowly.

All the ministers felt something was wrong, and they followed Zhu Yunqi's gaze to Xu Zengshou.

Xu Zengshou's heart sank, as if he had expected something.

He calmly looked up at Zhu Yunqi.

Zhu Yunqi gritted his teeth and asked Xu Zengshou, "How did Gaozu treat your Xu family?"

"Very good." Xu Zengshou said.

Zhu Yunwen asked again: "How do I treat your Xu family?"

"It's also grand."

"Then why do you still secretly inform the Yan thief!" Zhu Yunwen got up angrily and said, "It's all right for others in this world to be sorry for me. How can you, Queen Xu Jiashan, son of Zhonglie, do such low-spirited things? You are so terrible. Are you worthy of your father, Gaozu, and me?"

The ministers were in an uproar.

Xu Zengshou opened his mouth, originally he had secretly thought of many words of defense, but now, in front of all the ministers, he didn't want to say a single word of defense that he had prepared for a long time.

He is the Queen of Zhongshan.

Those who make sophistry will always lose their identity.

No matter what he did, he couldn't tire his father of being underestimated.

Xu Zengshou smiled suddenly, as if he was going to die calmly. He raised his head, looked at Zhu Yunqi with bright eyes, and said: "Although I am ashamed of my ancestors and my father, what I have done to my minister is still not serious. Regret, but I would like to ask His Majesty, since His Majesty ascended the throne, he has been aggressive towards all the kings, even forced them to rebel against King Yan, and even plunged the whole world into war, can Your Majesty be worthy of Gao Zu?"

As soon as the words fell, the officials were even more uproarious.

"Ahhh!"

Zhu Yunxuan roared suddenly, he had no idea that Xu Zengshou would dare to reprimand him without shame, which made Zhu Yunxuan suddenly lose his temper, he got up from the dragon chair, took out the left and right sergeant's knives, and rushed straight to Xu Zengshou.

"You shameless person, I'm sorry for my trust, and you dare to frame me, I will kill you with my own hands."

Xu Zengshou looked at Zhu Yunqi with a smile on his face, neither dodging nor dodging.

This smile hurt Zhu Yunwen even more.

Zhu Yunwen felt ruthless in his heart, without even thinking about it, he stabbed Xu Zengshou's heart straight with a knife.

Blood stained the hall red.

Everyone in the hall was stunned.

No one thought that Zhu Yunqi would kill Xu Zengshou with a single blow in front of everyone.

The next moment, everyone's faces became ugly.

Even Fang Xiaoru is the same.

The army outside is oppressing the country, but the inside is in such a state of chaos.

How dare to look forward to, struggling to survive? !

And at this moment, a sergeant from outside staggered in hastily.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong, Yan Jun... Yan Jun has entered the city."

Zhu Yunqi didn't know whether he was shocked because he killed Xu Zengshou, or because he was surprised that the Yan army had already entered the city.

Anyway, he was devastated, and fell down in the hall without a master.

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