Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 24 The Great Ancestor Gives Treasures

Chongzhen had read a lot of written materials passed down by Hao Guangming before, and he was no longer unfamiliar with horizontal articles, and basically knew simple characters, so his reading speed was not slow.

However, after only a few glances, his expression became very strange.

After reading it, he frowned even more, and asked with doubts: "This is really written by Mr. Hao? Why is the whole article written in plain language?"

Seeing Chongzhen's puzzled face, Aimee Zhu couldn't help smiling when she recalled her previous expectations for Hao Guangming's article, and explained: "Mr. Hao said that Father Huang's article has two major mistakes, one of which is that it shouldn't use plain words. "

Afterwards, Auntie Zhu relayed Hao Guangming's words in a tactful manner.

After hearing this, Chongzhen relaxed his brows, and said: "What Mr. Hao said is indeed reasonable, it's because I didn't think carefully."

In fact, Auntie Zhu felt that Hao Guangming's articles were poorly written, so she didn't want to discuss this matter further.

So he changed the subject and said: "If the father has no other arrangements, he can write a letter and ask his daughter to send this stereo to the inner city wall."

"I'll go with you. You take the xenon lamp in case you need it."

After Chongzhen said this in an unquestionable tone, he picked up the speaker and walked out.

Auntie Zhu was slightly stunned, she wanted to persuade her when she came back to her senses, but thinking about the ending of her father in history, she stopped thinking.

'Perhaps the appearance of the father on the city wall can also boost the morale of the soldiers. '

She thought so.

Chongzhen opened the gate of the Hall of Martial Heroes, and said to the eunuch guarding the gate and Jin Yiqinjun, "Show me, I want to go to the tower of Zhengyang Gate. In addition, let people bring all the silver in the Hall of Martial Heroes with me. Reward the soldiers!"

The eunuch guarding the gate and Jinyi Qianhu, the leader, couldn't help but looked at each other and didn't move for a moment.

"Huh?" Chongzhen put down the stereo, and held the hilt of the sword at his waist, "Why, Li Zicheng hasn't attacked yet, so my words won't work?"

The crowd in front of the gate immediately knelt down in fright, shouting in unison: "Your Majesty, forgive me!"

"Forgive me for what crime? Don't rush to recruit people, you don't need too many people, about a hundred people are enough."

"Yes."

Immediately, Jinyi Qianhu went to gather escorts, and the generation of gatekeepers and eunuchs entered the Hall of Martial Arts to organize and carry the silver.

Because compared to jewelry, gold, etc., silver is of the lowest value, so Aimee Zhu did not move the silver in the palace before.

It's just that Chongzhen once asked people to take part of it to pay the guards.

It was also at this time that the eunuchs and the pro-army were able to pay attention to the stereo around Chongzhen and the xenon portable lamp in Zhu Yuxi's hand.

Naturally, they didn't know what the two were, and they just guessed secretly.

'Could it not be a box or box containing some valuable treasure? '

Because of the shape, most people can't help but guess.

When the gatekeeper eunuch sorted out the money in the palace into several boxes and carried it out, the Jinyi Qianhu hurried over with 80 to [-] people.

At the same time, Wang Chengen also came.

"Long Live Lord, the intruders are attacking the inner city. The top of the city is dangerous. You are a man of gold, so you can't go there!" Wang Chengen knelt on the ground and begged Chongzhen as soon as he arrived.

Seeing Wang Chengen like this, Chongzhen originally opened his mouth to scold him, but remembering that this person was the one who died with him in the end, he pulled Wang Chengen up and said: "Wang Daban, I must go to this city today. It can boost morale, and the second is that the treasures brought down by Taizu can help me break down the morale of the trespassers."

While speaking, Chongzhen was afraid of the sound of patting his legs.

Only then did Wang Chengen notice the sound.

It's just that in his opinion, the stereo is a weird black box of unknown material.

So he asked, "Long Live Lord, what kind of treasure is this?"

Chongzhen said: "This is a sound system. You may not understand it if you tell it. You will know its function when I use it on the Zhengyangmen tower."

After finishing speaking, Chongzhen looked at Qianhu who was leading seventy or eighty brocade-clothed troops, and asked with a frown, "Didn't I ask you to call a hundred people?"

Qian Hu said: "Your Majesty, only these people can be vacated in the palace at present."

Chongzhen also knew that some Jinyi soldiers were sent to guard the city, and the palace also needed to be guarded, so there was indeed a shortage of manpower.

He then said: "Send your car over there to the Zhengyangmen Tower!"

A passenger car was also brought.

Chongzhen sat up and said to the brocade-clothed thousand households: "Go and carry the stereo, don't rush it or touch it."

"Yes."

Chito went to pick up the stereo and found it wasn't very heavy.

He looked at it curiously, but still couldn't see any effect.

"Get off!"

Following Wang Chengen's loud shout, the shoulders were lifted up, and a group of brocade-clothed troops protected the shoulders in the middle, and walked out.

Auntie Zhu followed beside her with a xenon lamp.

The city of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was smaller than that in the Qing Dynasty. It consisted of four parts: the Outer City, the Inner City, the Imperial City, and the Forbidden City (Imperial Palace).

The inner city is in the north and the outer city is in the south.

The imperial city is inside the inner city, and the Forbidden City is inside the imperial city.

Zhengyangmen is in the middle of the south wall of the inner city, on the same line as Chengtianmen.

Therefore, it is not very far for Chongzhen and others to go straight south after leaving the Forbidden City.

The Zhengyangmen Tower is a typical military building, tall and solid, surrounded by supporting archery towers and watchtowers.

And the Chuang army didn't have really powerful cannons - if they had, with the strength of the inner city, it might not be able to hold it for half a day.

Therefore, the Zhengyangmen Tower is relatively safe for the time being.

Chongzhen came to the highest floor of the city tower, looked down, and found that all he could see seemed to be intruders.

Most of them are demolishing nearby houses, obviously planning to use the wood and bricks of the houses to build better siege equipment.

Moreover, some dwellings are close to the city wall, which also hinders the intruders from forming troops.

Only in such a wide place as outside Zhengyangmen, there are large groups of trespassers.

These thieves were not densely packed, but they were firing cannons on the inner city wall.

The thieves outside kept clamoring, but they mostly fired cannons and arrows, and did not attack the city directly—at least the section of Zhengyangmen was not seen.

One is that the city wall is too high, and the other is that there are too many archery towers and cannons here. If the ants attack by force, the casualties will be great.

Chuangjun was originally a rogue, and he was not good at fighting tough battles.

Now that they are planning to go to Beijing to sit in the world, it is not easy to use the trick to drive the people, so they can only wait for the large siege equipment.

After looking at the situation outside, Chongzhen didn't use the stereo immediately, but asked, "How much silver did you bring out from the Hall of Martial Heroes?"

"Report to Lord Long Live, there are 107 taels."

Chongzhen pondered for a while, and then said: "It is passed on to me that all city guards with less than 10 households will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, [-] and [-] households will be rewarded with [-] taels of silver, and those with more than [-] households will be rewarded with [-] taels of silver!"

Hearing this, the Jinyi soldiers and city wall defenders immediately shouted happily: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Chongzhen was not happy because of this cheer, but said to Wang Chengen: "Wang Daban, you send someone to spread my oral order to all parts of the city wall, so that the soldiers know how much I have rewarded them. If anyone is greedy for ink, he will be severely punished! "

"According to the order!"

Then, Wang Chengen sent his trusted eunuchs to spread Chongzhen's oral instructions to various parts of the city wall.

Although the soldiers guarding the city also felt that the capital was in danger, most of those on the city wall were still somewhat loyal to Zhu Ming.

Therefore, when they heard Chongzhen's oral order from the eunuch, they immediately shouted happily one by one.

As for 10 taels of silver, even if prices in the capital are soaring now, it is still not a small reward.

Chongzhen seems to have never been so generous before.

The most important thing is that the morale of the soldiers was indeed boosted when they knew that Chongzhen had also climbed the city wall.

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outer city.

In a three-story restaurant somewhere, Li Zicheng and several generals were looking at Zhengyang Gate.

I saw him with long beard and side cheeks, one eye was blind, thick eyebrows and eagle eyes, and the eyeball of the intact eye was yellowish brown, glowing with a seductive brilliance.

Faintly hearing the cheers of the Ming army starting from the tower of Zhengyang Gate and spreading to all parts of the city wall, Li Zicheng couldn't help frowning, and said in a deep voice: "Come here, go and ask what happened on the inner city wall, why there are so many cheers. "

"Yes!"

The little general left at the sound.

Not long after, he ran back, clasped his fists and said, "Report to King Chuang, it is said that Chongzhen issued a reward to the Ming army."

The young general had just finished speaking, when a tall and fat scribe next to him, who looked like a local rich man, shouted: "Li Laiheng, Your Majesty has established Yuan as Emperor, why do you always call him King Chuang?"

(End of this chapter)