"Your Majesty, it has been nearly half a month since we left Tumu Fort, and we have been safe with the protection of mercenaries. But after all, outsiders don't know about us, and in order to avoid being chased and killed by the Warats, they have never made contact with the outside world. Now that such a long time has passed, it is really worrying about how the situation in Jingshi has become. The ministers pray to be the vanguard, and return to the capital first, so as to tell the ministers that the emperor is safe, so that they can rest assured and better stabilize the court. After thinking about it again and again, Yang Chendong finally took the first step and was no longer walking with Zhu Qizhen, who was crawling like a snail.

"Yes, someone needs to report back in advance." Although Zhu Qizhen is not feeling well, and he is now suffering from minor problems without enough exercise, his head has not been injured, and he is still very sober at this time. He naturally knew that he had to report back the news that he was okay first, otherwise after a long time, who knew what would happen?

It's just that who you send back is very important. After all, these extremely powerful mercenaries were invited by Yang Chendong, if he is gone, who can overwhelm the scene if something goes wrong? Don't finally escape the clutches of Warat, and become a pawn in the hands of these mercenaries, it is really impossible to find a place to cry.

Zhu Qizhen agreed to send someone back to inform Qi Yue, but he didn't seem to agree with Yang Chendong to go back.

This time, Meng Yang Chendong made a move, and the lives of these two people were saved, which can be called a great grace.

And now, it's time to repay the favor. At that moment, the two knelt on the ground at the same time, and said to Yingzong Zhu Qizhen: "Your Majesty, the ministers seconded Yang Xima's request. Just to be honest and straightforward, I also asked the benefactor to be gracious to Yang Xima's great achievements in this incident, and asked the emperor to divide the seal. ”

"Please divide the seal." The other seven courtiers who reacted later were also awakened by this kneeling and immediately knelt on the ground and pleaded.

This kneeling is to thank Yang Chendong for saving his life, but at the same time, it is also for themselves.

Think about it, if Yang Chendong can get the seal, the nine of them have no merit and hard work. This journey accompanies at least one loyal minister, so that it can be used as a condition for promotion in the future. Of course, there is a premise for all this, that is, Yang Chendong, who has the first merit, will get the benefits first, otherwise, how can they ask for merit?

As soon as the nine ministers knelt, Zhu Qizhen immediately had the feeling of becoming the emperor and being above the court. flutteringly lowered his forehead and said: "Yes, what Zhong Aiqing said is very true, this time Yang Xima is indeed a meritorious escort and deserves a heavy reward." Well... In this way, I named Yang Chendong as a loyal and courageous uncle, Lu 100 stones, and appointed Jinyi to command the affairs and give coupons."

The Ming Dynasty has always had the criterion that "those who are not merit in the society shall not be sealed". This time, Yang Chendong saved the emperor and nine important ministers, which is definitely a proper military achievement, and it is worthy of this title.

"Your Majesty." Yang Chendong was rewarded, and immediately knelt on the ground to thank him.

"Your Majesty." Kuang Ye and Wang Zuo and other important ministers also knelt on the ground one by one, thanking the emperor for his sage. Yang Chendong sealed the position of earl, which is equivalent to receiving a heavy reward, will their reward be far away next?

"All Aiqing, please get up." Zhu Qizhen's face was satisfied, the spring breeze was blowing, he liked this feeling of being bowed three times and nine knocks, which made him feel the majesty of being the emperor. After smiling, he also showed his intention to send Yang Chendong back to Beijing, otherwise, how could he let him be the commander of Jinyiwei? This is the official rank of the middle and high-level of Jinyiwei. After having this layer of identity, it will be much more convenient for him to walk in the Beijing Division.

After sealing the uncle, Yang Chendong is no longer the prince washing the horse, but the loyal uncle. At this time, he also got up and once again put forward a request to return to Beijing to arrange everything first.

"Okay, I'll see which minister you need to work with you?" Zhu Qizhen made a decision immediately and began to consider the issue of candidates for entering Beijing. In his opinion, it's just that Yang Chendong is still a little lighter. This person used to be just a fifth-grade official, this is still a newly sealed loyal uncle, others don't know at all, let him go back, many things are inconvenient.

Zhu Qizhen had his own thoughts, and after saying this, his gaze immediately shifted to look at the other nine courtiers.

Among the nine people, all belong to Wenchen, and one Kuang Ye is the secretary of the military department, but he is already very old, and it is definitely inappropriate to rush away. So when facing the emperor's gaze for a while, everyone was a little afraid to look at it directly.

However, Yang Chendong saw the performance of the courtiers, and he never wanted to take anyone back. After all, after returning to Beijing this time, he may not be able to act according to the rules of the time in many things, so he hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, according to the ministers, I still don't want other ministers to accompany me, they are tired all the way." Next, I will take the least number of people back to Jingshi as quickly as possible, I am afraid that the ministers will not be able to accept it. If something happens on the way, it's hard to be careful. It is better to be a minister, the emperor only needs to write down the edict appointing the minister, so that it can better win the trust of the people, and let everyone know that the emperor is all right, and it is good to rest assured. ”

Seeing that none of the nine ministers took the initiative to stand up, and what Yang Chendong said was also reasonable, Zhu Qizhen said with a slight hesitation: "Okay, that's the case, but there is pen and paper, I will write an edict to reward the loyal and courageous uncle, and order me to write a letter of intensive invitation to the loyal gallant uncle to bring to the Empress Dowager Sun and Queen Qian." ”

"Someone, pen and ink waiting." When Yang Chendong heard this, he gestured to Yang Er.

Yang Er immediately responded, and then took out the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone that had been prepared long ago from the package behind him.

In such an environment, he can still carry these seemingly useless things, I have to say that Yang Chendong really has a heart.

The things should be prepared, and the ink was personally polished by Lord Wang Zuo, the head of the household department, and soon an edict was completed by Zhu Qizhen himself, and a dense letter to the harem was written. Yang Chendong took the letter with the ink and connected the names of more than 30 people, including Qiu Wu and others, the First Guards who had been hidden in Leng Feng, as well as Hu Mang, Yang Er and others, but Xiao Feng was left with more than 70 people plus Yang Wu to protect the emperor.

Before leaving, Yang Chendong deliberately gave Xiao Feng an unknown look.

That is, Xiao Feng is a mercenary and is here for money. That is, anyone who has money can use it.

With Yang Chendong's understanding of Zhu Qizhen, he will definitely contact Xiao Feng if he has such an opportunity. He didn't do this before, because it was for his own face, but now that he has left, some words can naturally be declared. Presumably, this is the main reason why Zhu Qizhen agreed to let Yang Chendong take the first step.

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The night is dark and the wind is high, and it is the time to kill.

It's a nice night today, it's windy, but it's not big! The darkness stretched out his hand and could not see his fingers.

It's the perfect time to do something evil at night. Zhao Xian slowly moved towards Yangjiazhuang with the fifty people who dared to die recruited from the city.

Although Zhao Xian was born as a slave of Jin Ying's family, he is indeed an ambitious person. According to his meaning, he shot alone and won a great success. Once you get the firearm that can be fired and extremely accurate, and then give it to the master Jin Ying, it must be just around the corner.

The reason why he didn't report to the top and didn't mobilize a large number of Jinyi guards to come was naturally because he had his thoughts. First, I am afraid that the credit will be divided, and secondly, I am also worried that the people who appear will make a lot of moves, and eventually the other party will destroy the exquisite firearm, in this case, just to destroy Yangjiazhuang, there is no longer their master Yang Chendong, and it is unnecessary to send out a big battle.

With the idea of making great contributions, Zhao Xian's more than 50 people took advantage of the dark night to move towards Yangjiazhuang.

In the process of moving forward, I did not pay much attention to concealment and formation. After all, there are at least ten miles away from Yangjiazhuang, and the night is so dark, I really can't think of any reason to be discovered, and what danger accompanies it. But they didn't know that at a fork in the road leading to Yangjiazhuang three miles ahead, the ghost sniper team was waiting for them here.

After getting the news that Zhao Xian was going to do it, there was a quarrel in Yangjiazhuang. To the surprise of others, the focus of the debate turned out to be who would lead the troops.

Whether an army is strong or not depends first on morale.

Even a well-trained army can only be defeated when it has no morale. There were many elite divisions of the Ming Dynasty among the 500,000 troops in Tumubao before, and even many of them were left over from the Ming Dynasty Chengzu Zhu Di, but after losing morale, wasn't it vulnerable?

Not to mention how hard the training is, what kind of price it takes to become a qualified cold front. Morale alone at this time is unmatched.

Among them, the most noisy are the captain of the Second Guard, Dao Xiao, and the ghost sniper captain Bai Zuo.

The two of them led a squad of ten and twenty respectively. And they are all the elite of the elite in Yang Chendong's eyes, and they are two sharp punches. At this time, there is a task, and these two fists want to attack, want to make meritorious contributions and want to better express themselves.

But in the end, it was Captain Bai Zuo who won, not for anything else, just because Yang Chendong had said when he left that there was something secret and invisible people to do, and the ghost sniper team was the first to be recommended, because this is a "hidden army" that can hit the enemy from a long distance and is not also discovered.

The so-called hidden army refers to the purpose of being able to achieve a certain degree of invisibility, and it has been eliminated before others can even find it.