Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 679 I have never seen such a shameless person

At dawn the next day, outside Chaoyang Gate.

A night of heavy rain washed away the dust floating in the air.

The inside and outside of the capital city looked exceptionally clean, and the air was exceptionally fresh.

Thousands of officials, including Zhang Jinyan and Sun Zhixie, who surrendered first and then surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, had already gathered outside the Chaoyang Gate, standing in a dense crowd.

The servants are busy sweeping the streets.

Sun Zhixie found that there were two small puddles on the official road outside the city gate, so he immediately called the housekeeper of the Sun Mansion, and asked him to bring the servants of the house to find coal cinders to fill up the puddles.

"The Holy Majesty is about to lead the master Wang back to the capital. This is a great joy."

"We, the officials and squires who stayed behind in the capital, must welcome the return of Shengjia with a first-class new look, so as to live up to the 300-year-old grace of the imperial court."

Sun Zhixie's grand theory received a lot of echoes in an instant.

I have to say that these officials and gentry are really shameless.

Surrender first and then surrender to their mouths, they turned into staying behind.

Being ungrateful, treacherous and treasonous came to them, and it became a burden of humiliation to stay in the capital for Daming. This is also comparable to Wang's curve to save the country 300 years later.

"Red silk cloth!" Zhang Jinyan clapped his hands suddenly and said.

"There must be red silk for such a big happy event, the Holy Majesty's return to Beijing."

"Yes, yes, if it wasn't for Zhang Butang's reminder, the event would almost be ruined."

Sun Zhixie immediately turned his head and said to the officials on both sides of the city gate, "Everyone, hurry up and ask your stewards to take people back to the mansion to fetch the red silk, and bring all the red silk from the treasury of each house."

Zhang Jinyan said: "In an extraordinary time, I hope you will give generously."

The officials present, Jinshen, had no choice but to ask the housekeeper to take someone back to the house to pick it up.

Sun Zhixie turned his head and saw the huge gap in the city wall on the left side of the city gate, and said with some regret: "It's a pity that the time is too short, otherwise this gap in the city wall should be repaired as before."

While talking, Meng Xueli came out from Chaoyang Gate on a tall horse.

Behind Meng Xueli, Yao Qisheng, Yu Chenglong and other hundreds of disciples followed.

"Meng Guijian." Zhang Jinyan, Sun Zhixie, and many second ministers who thought they were dignified hurried forward and greeted Meng Xueli with flattering expressions.

Although these second ministers are shameless, they are not stupid.

There are so many officials and gentry here, the only ones who will not be liquidated are Meng Xueli and his Juziying, because he is a secret spy who has been enslaved by the emperor's secret decree.

Meng Xueli is a meritorious minister. If he is willing to speak well for them in front of the Holy One, there is a high probability that they will be spared from liquidation, and they may even be reinstated.

That's right, these second ministers are still dreaming of returning to their posts.

For example, Zhang Jinyan, he was the minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty before he surrendered.

He also found out that the post of Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing is still vacant. Since Lu Daqi, the former Minister of the Ministry of War with Donglin Party background, retired, the post of Minister of the Ministry of War has been vacant.

Therefore, if Meng Xueli could speak well for him, the Holy Majesty would probably reinstate the official as soon as he was happy. After all, he did a good job before the Jiashen national disaster, and the Holy Majesty was basically satisfied with him.

Of course, the heavy gift for Meng Xueli had already been delivered to the Meng Mansion last night.

There are not a few ministers who have the same mind and intelligence as Zhang Jinyan.

Seeing Zhang Jinyan, Sun Zhixie and other former high-ranking officials crouching low in front of their horses, flattering them, Meng Xueli was very proud, this feeling is really good.

However, it was the Caibo woman who made Meng Xueli more happy.

Last night, he received money worth at least one million taels plus a dozen beautiful women, including Gu Hengbo, a famous Qinhuai prostitute, who was a gift from Gong Dingzi, the young minister of Taichang Temple.

After being flattered so much, Meng Xueli got carried away.

I feel that I can really decide the life and death of these ministers.

"Everyone, don't worry." Meng Xueli said proudly with his nostrils upturned, "You and your family servants have done righteousness, assisted the Juzi camp to suppress the capital, and searched the whole city for the achievements of the Manchus in the city. I will report to the admonition committee truthfully. There will definitely be rewards, the current Holy Majesty is a benevolent monarch that is rare in ancient and modern times, and the Donglin Party members are acting against the law, and the Holy Majesty is only punishing the chief villain, so you have nothing to worry about."

"Xu Gejian's words are very true. Today's sage is a benevolent monarch of the world, and he will certainly not have the same knowledge as ordinary people like us." All the second ministers echoed.

This side is complimenting Meng Xueli, and there is a scholar rushing to report.

"Meng remonstrates, the heavenly soldiers will arrive, and the Holy One will lead the heavenly soldiers to arrive!"

"The saint is coming to Chaoyang Gate soon." Meng Xueli straightened his face and said again, "Everyone, please line up according to your official rank, don't mess up the order of etiquette, and you will be disrespectful in front of you."

When Meng Xueli said this, he completely forgot that he was only a member of the seventh rank. If it was true according to the official rank, he might be at the bottom of thousands of second ministers, so how could he be qualified to be at the top?
But Meng Xueli was the first to stand, and he was still riding a tall horse.

After a while, the brigade of cavalry rushed to the gate of Chaoyang like lightning.

The leading scholar was wearing a shirt, and it was Zhang Huangyan who was told by the secret investigation department.

Meng Xueli immediately rode forward, bowed his hands to Zhang Huangyan and said, "Brother Xuan Zhu, are you all right?"

Then Zhang Huangyan just glanced at Meng Xueli coldly, but didn't return the salute, and then rushed into Chaoyang Gate with the cavalry.

"Huh?" Meng Xueli's face turned pale immediately.

Zhang Jinyan, Sun Zhixie, Gong Dingzi and others also looked at each other in blank dismay.

What's the situation?Don't let the grandson Meng Xueli fool you, right?

Besides, Zhang Huangyan, after entering the city with the cavalry, quickly controlled the main roads.

Soon, the streets and the city were filled with soldiers of the Ming army like javelins.

Immediately afterwards, another group of Ming troops searched Zhang Jinyan, Sun Zhixie and other officials. Meng Xueli and hundreds of officials in Juziying were no exception, and they all had to be searched.

After confirming that there would be no danger, Zhang Huangyan sent someone out of the city to report.

Soon another infantry came, and there were even more of them.

A full quarter of an hour later, at least [-] infantry entered the city, and finally another group of cavalry arrived, and the leading cavalry was obviously Chongzhen.

"Minister Zhang Jinyan kowtows to the sage Shang Jin'an."

"The minister and grandson Zhixie kowtow to ask the sage to go to Jin'an."

"Minister Gong Dingzi kowtows to the Holy Spirit, Jin'an."

... The hundred or so ministers standing in front fell to their knees one after another.

Immediately, the thousands of second ministers behind also fell to their knees.

Thousands of second ministers knelt on the ground, and the scene was quite spectacular.

In fact, Chongzhen didn't have much sadness and indignation in his heart. Instead, he felt relaxed after watching the clown performance, because he noticed that these second ministers claimed to be not criminal ministers.

"Your Majesty." Meng Xueli also rode forward to salute.

Chongzhen did not return the salute like facing other scholars.

Instead, he just looked at Meng Xueli with a half-smile and didn't speak.

This Meng Xueli can do it, the credit may not be too great, but the woman who received the money has not been left behind at all, she received millions of taels plus a dozen beautiful maids and concubines in one night, so bold and reckless!

Meng Xueli let go of his hands in embarrassment, and Gu Zi said: "I am fortunate to not disgrace my life. First, I successfully instigated the rebellion against Juziying, and then captured the Forbidden City in time. , a total of more than [-] people."

"Officials, gentry and righteous people?" Chongzhen pointed to the thousands of officials kneeling on both sides of the street, "You mean them?"

From Chongzhen's words, Meng Xueli keenly felt the change of wind direction, and it was obviously not suitable to excuse Zhang Jinyan and the others at this time.

Meng Xueli immediately changed his words: "Although that generation has made atonement for their crimes, it is not enough to atone for their crimes."

Hearing this, Zhang Jinyan, Sun Zhixie, Wang Aoyong and other ministers were furious, and said to themselves, "Meng, are you trying to deny your account after eating it all?"I'm afraid it won't be that easy.

Seeing the angry faces of Zhang Jinyan and other ministers,

Meng Xueli quickly cast a look of peace and restlessness.

Chongzhen didn't seem to see these small movements, and went straight to Zhang Jinyan and stood still.

"Your Majesty." Zhang Jinyan's entire torso above the waist was almost completely attached to the ground, but his head could still be lifted up, and he said with a flattering face, "I am waiting in the capital every day, night and night, looking forward to the return of Master Wang." I really want to wait and see, God is sorry to see, I finally let the minister wait for Master Wang to come back."

Chongzhen was delighted to hear this, he had seen shameless people, but he had never seen such shameless people.

At that moment Chongzhen smiled and said: "In the year of Jiashen when Li Zicheng entered the city, you, Wei Zaode and thousands of Beijing officials knelt outside the Meridian Gate to beg for surrender, right?"

Zhang Jinyan said with a sullen face: "Your Majesty, the surrender is not a real surrender, but a false surrender. The intention is to leave a useful body, and when the Holy Majesty leads the king's division back to the capital, he will serve Daming again."

"Really?" Chongzhen laughed, "So, you are still loyal ministers of Ming Dynasty."

Zhang Jinyan said shamelessly: "The ministers are loyal to Daming and to the Holy One, which can show the sun and the moon."

Chongzhen turned around and walked up to Wang Aoyong: "Wang Aoyong, when Dorgon led the slaves into the city, you knelt here to beg for surrender, didn't you?"

"Your Majesty, I have no choice but to surrender." Wang Aoyong argued without blushing, "At that time, if I stood up and resisted, it would be nothing more than a few more corpses. Give Jiannu a fatal blow from time to time, for example, last night, the ministers decisively led the servants in the mansion to attack in time, and captured all the Jiannu in Beijing."

"Haha, bear the burden of humiliation." Chongzhen laughed.

"Today I really showed my boss, it turns out that enduring humiliation is such an act of enduring humiliation."

Wang Aoyong clearly knew that Chongzhen was mocking him, but there was no shame on his face. Instead, he continued righteously: "Tolerance is a knife in my heart. The most difficult thing in the past and present is not to die righteously, but to be a loyal minister who endures humiliation. I hope the Holy Majesty will see clearly the minister's painstaking efforts."

"Haha, good, very good." Chongzhen laughed when he heard this.

Originally thought that Zhang Jinyan was shameless enough,

But he never expected that Wang Aoyong was even more shameless than Zhang Jinyan.

After laughing twice, Chongzhen walked up to Sun Zhixie and stood still.

(End of this chapter)