Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Capital.

After the heavy snowfall, the world is covered with snow.

Early in the morning, some people were driven to the streets to clear the snow from the city.

The weather was extremely cold, and these people were not dressed too warmly, and they were shivering from the cold.

But none of the soldiers of the Ming army who supervised them showed any sympathy.Some people even moved slowly and deliberately slacked off, and were pulled out by Ming army soldiers and punished to stand.

It's not a good thing to be punished to stand in this cold weather.If a person does not move for a while, his hands and feet will freeze.

Jin Zhijun shoveled the snow for a while, and found that although he was sweating, his hands were about to freeze.

With a shy face, he walked towards a nearby Ming soldier, and said with a smile: "General, my hands are going to be numb from the cold, can you let me go inside and warm up the coal fire to warm my hands before working? "

The team listened and sneered, "You traitors, you really like to steal and play tricks. In such a cold day, are your hands cold? Their hands are not cold? Our hands are not cold? If you want to warm up, will others do it? Who will shovel the snow?!"

The team was very loud, attracting people around to look at it, and some of them were his acquaintances, such as Li Jiantai, Sun Zhixie and so on.

This made Jin Zhijun couldn't help but blush, he just felt that he was not as humiliated as he was now when he knelt down in front of the city gate a few months ago.

In his opinion, Rong Di's entry into Shenzhou is no different from an ordinary dynasty change. Anyway, with his status and talent, it is almost the same for any emperor to be a courtier.

Even, in his opinion, Dorgon is more wise and generous than Chongzhen, especially in terms of rewards.

The situation is different now. He was a 47-year-old Jinshi in the 52th year of Wanli. He was an official to the right servant of the Ministry of War in the Ming Dynasty.

And the team in front of him is neither the Imperial Guards of the Ming Dynasty nor the Frontier Guards. It's just Qiu Ba in the guards. He doesn't know a few big characters. He actually reprimanded him like he was scolding his grandson, which made him feel ashamed. .

Thinking of all the humiliation he suffered after being caught by the Ming army after fleeing north without success, he wished he could cut his neck with the shovel in his hand and commit suicide.

But just thinking about it—he was not only afraid of death, but terribly afraid.

Otherwise, it will not be surrendered and cleared.

Seeing that the team was staring at them fiercely, as if they were going to make a move, Jin Zhijun shrank his neck and had no choice but to continue to shovel the snow.

But I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: Why am I so unlucky?Surrendering Shun, it turned out that Dashun disappeared in only forty days.

As a result, the Qing Dynasty, which seemed to have the potential to take over the country and change the dynasty, fled out of the customs in a hurry without persisting for a few months.

Originally, he had hoped to escape from the pass, but he was actually stopped by a young general of the Ming army on the way.

Speaking of it, I don’t know whether it’s luck or misfortune, those who were captured and exterminated the most heinous people, the rest of them saved their lives, but were sentenced to imprisonment temporarily, waiting for Queen Zhaowu to have time.

This prison sentence, in the words of the New Army of Ming Dynasty, is reform through labor.

They descended to the Qing Dynasty, aided the evildoers, committed heinous crimes, and must use labor to atone for their crimes.

Therefore, some civil servants and military generals who were captured with him, who were over 45 years old, were organized into several reform-through-labor brigades. …

During this period of time, his team was in charge of repairing the city and cleaning the streets.Originally, it wasn't a particularly tiring job. Although I had to work all day long and was scolded at every turn, I could still resist.

But since the snow fell, they have to be escorted to remove the snow at every turn.

This work is uncomfortable, cold and tiring.

In addition, since he was captured by the Ming army, Jin Zhijun felt that he ate poorly, and he often didn't have enough to eat, and his health became worse and worse. If he cleaned up the snow for a few days like this, he doubted that his hands would not be frozen. People get sick too.

If he gets sick at this time, he will die.

'Hey, why am I so muddy?Back then when Dashun abandoned the capital, how good would it be if I fled to the south like those people?In my capacity, even if I can't resume my post in the Ming Dynasty, at least I won't suffer from such a crime... It's too late to regret. '

Jin Zhijun was feeling emotional when Li Jiantai, who was shoveling snow in front of him, suddenly stopped moving, and then began to shake, and fell to the ground after shaking twice.

His eyelids twitched when he saw it, and he thought: This Li Jiantai is not even a few years older than me, why can't he hold on and collapse?Shouldn't he just die like this?
"Come on! Li Shangshu has fainted!" Sun Zhixie next to Li Jiantai yelled, his tone exaggerated.

The team was running over, took a closer look at Li Jiantai's face, then opened his eyelids, then stood up straight and kicked Li Jiantai's ass, and said coldly: "The old traitor, playing tricks with me Right? These are all leftovers from Lao Tzu's playing on the battlefield.

you want to dieIt just so happens that the higher-ups set a casualty indicator for you—someone, take this old dog to a mass grave and bury it! "

The officers and soldiers of the garrison at the side had dealt with these officials from the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty who had become criminals for more than a month, and they knew that these people would always steal and play tricks.

So, after hearing what the captain said, the two soldiers came up to drag Li Jiantai without hesitation, dragging him to bury him like a corpse.

Li Jiantai, who seemed to have fainted before, turned over immediately, with unbelievable agility.

At the same time, he yelled: "General, please spare me. This old man is only in a coma for a while, and he is definitely not cheating. I will work now, and I will work here."

After finishing speaking, he didn't care about getting rid of the snow and silt on his body, so he picked up the shovel and shoveled up the snow.

The garrison officer next to him, Yuan Daming Officer Army, couldn't help mocking this: "Old man, you work very hard now. When the late emperor asked you to be Minister of the Ministry of War, you must be so smart and work so hard. The capital will not fall into the hands of Li Zicheng."

Li Jiantai felt in his heart that he was not to blame for the fall of the capital—the situation at that time was so corrupted that it could not be restored by manpower. Although he was incompetent, he did not make a big mistake. It's just with the hypocrisy.

But he was not prepared to compete with these Qiuba, instead he said with a smile: "Yes, yes, what the military master said is right, it's all the old man's fault."

At this time, a few women in bulky clothes came over carrying baskets, and happened to see Li Jiantai bowing his knees to the soldiers with a fawning expression on his face.

Seeing this, one of the women whose face was cracked from the cold couldn't help but look complicated.

Although this woman doesn't look good now, if someone removes the scarf on her head and heals the frostbite on her face, they will find that she is a rare beauty and also very talented.

Because her name is Gu Hengbo, she was once one of the eight beauties of Qinhuai!

It's a pity that because her husband Gong Dingzi was sent to the Qing Dynasty to become an official in the Qing Dynasty, and fled north and was arrested, she, as Gong Dingzi's concubine, was also reduced to a criminal prisoner.

Now because Gong Dingzi is young, he has been arranged to build roads elsewhere in Shuntian Prefecture, and he has not seen each other for ten and a half months.

She and Gong Dingzi's other wives and concubines were assigned to the Young Women's Reform-through-Labor Brigade, where they specialized in strenuous work such as cleaning, cooking and cooking.

Like now, he and another woman carried baskets to deliver food and hot water to the criminals who were cleaning the streets.