The rules in the palace are to select a group of potential eunuchs from the eunuchs who have just entered the palace, about ten years old, to study in the inner study hall. The instructor is a Hanlin officer, usually four people. This batch of students has been studying for a long time, and it is time to graduate.

With their experience, not to mention seeing Emperor Chongzhen, even those eunuchs with the palm prints of the twelve eunuchs basically can't see it. It is only when you are about to graduate from the inner study hall and when each supervisor wants to choose someone that you can see one or two.

At this time, no matter whether they had seen Emperor Chongzhen before or not, just looking at Emperor Chongzhen's clothes and the eunuchs and palace maids serving behind him, they understood who the person standing in front of them was!

Suddenly, as if the sky was thundering, everyone was frightened, and they all knelt down together, prostrate there, and did not dare to move. In other words, there are still a few people moving, but they are a little shaking, but this is not controlled, and there is nothing to do.

Obviously, they all knew that Emperor Chongzhen should have been standing outside the house for a long time, at least not like he had just arrived. That is to say, everything that happened in the house just now, the emperor probably knew about it.

Thinking of this, there are more people trembling there.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at these little eunuchs in the inner study hall, knelt in front of him all the way to the house, and did not speak immediately.

I looked down for a while, and it was already dawn, and I could see it clearly. According to what he heard before, Emperor Chongzhen probably distinguished the two factions from the clothes of the kneeling eunuchs.

From what he just heard, he also got some other useful information. It is that some people outside the palace will invest in some potential eggless people in their opinion, help them enter the palace, and climb up in the palace. This kind of person can be punished! After you grasp the situation in the palace, you must investigate it thoroughly!

Thinking like this, after a long while, Emperor Chongzhen asked lightly, "Where is Chen Baoting?" ”

The one who almost bumped into Emperor Chongzhen just now was also the one kneeling in the front, and his body was relatively strong, so he hurriedly replied with a little trepidation: "The slave is here!" ”

These eunuchs, although they have already taught what they should teach, but after all, they have never seen the world, and it is not normal to face their heavens without fear.

Emperor Chongzhen looked down at him and said, "You and that Lan Tianbao, as well as those who have not been selected into the prisons, should all go with me!" ”

After finishing speaking, Emperor Chongzhen turned around and left, very satisfied.

This time, I still have a lot to gain. The key to this is that others don't know about their existence, so they will say things that they can't usually hear, and see things that they can't usually see.

In this respect, your own eavesdropping system can just meet this condition, and you can get more information that you don't know. It can be seen that my golden finger is really good, and it is worth looking forward to bringing enough information to myself in the future.

Thinking so, Emperor Chongzhen had already made a decision in his heart. In the future, I will use these people to serve by my side, and I will train them myself. When they are older, they have more experience, and then let them take on more responsibility!

After all, these eunuchs were picked by various forces in the palace. From a practical point of view, they are the losers of the Intra-palace gang. Therefore, they will be independent of the forces that are currently in place in the palace. I gave them a chance, and under good training, even if it was for their future interests, they could only listen to themselves.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen turned around and left, and at the same time said lightly: "Doing things in a down-to-earth manner and learning with heart is useful at any time!" ”

Hearing these words of the emperor, Chen Baoting and the others were simply surprised, and they were even happier than being hit by a gold ingot falling from the sky. Because from these words, it can be clearly known that the emperor has an appreciative attitude towards them, and it is an absolute good thing to take them away.

So he immediately fell to the ground and replied loudly with joy: "Slave and maid obey!" ”

When he stood up, he saw that among the kneeling fellow disciples, they were either pale like dead people, or they all looked expectant, and they all showed that pitiful and flattering look, expecting Chen Baoting to choose him.

At this time, Chen Baoting didn't dare to fake the public and private, and he hadn't learned to fake the public and private, so he hurriedly ordered the eunuchs together, including himself, a total of eight, and then left majestically.

For the remaining kneeling eunuchs in the inner study hall, Emperor Chongzhen did not deal with them immediately. As a leader, you can't just rush to the front to be a wicked person. On the contrary, leaders are good, and if there is something bad, it must be done by someone under them.

The so-called "the emperor is good, but there are traitors" is not just talking. For if it were not for this understanding, the foundation of the emperor's rule would have been shaken. Therefore, the emperor must be good, and if it is bad, it is because there are traitors who are making trouble.

Therefore, to deal with these little eunuchs, there is no need for the emperor to come forward in person. It won't be long before today's incident will definitely spread throughout the palace soon. The eunuchs in charge of the seals, as long as there are those involved in this internal decision, as long as they still have a little vision, they will definitely take the initiative to make arrangements for this matter, and then come to the emperor's side to ask for guilt.

Thinking of these, Emperor Chongzhen had already made a decision in his heart to take this opportunity to rectify the inner palace, standardize the inner palace as much as possible, and remove the impure people. But what to do needs to be carefully considered.

When he was thinking about how to rectify the inner palace and ensure his safety, far away in Julu, Hebei, in the meeting hall, Lu Xiangsheng, the squire of the Ming Military Department, was a little haggard, but he still fought his spirits, and asked in a loud voice: "Where is Master Yang?" “

"The lower official is here!" When a middle-aged official in his thirties heard this, he immediately stepped out to respond.

He is Yang Tinglin, the head of the Ministry of War, and he is also the main battle faction of the Ming Dynasty, because he wrote to impeach Yang Sichang, he was instead sent by Yang Sichang to Lu Xiangsheng to counsel the military affairs. Although he was promoted by one rank, he left the Beijing division and was thrown into this army, which was destined to be wiped out by the Manchus.

In the original history, he has always been a staunch landlord war faction, with Wen Tianxiang as an example. In this battle, Lu Xiangsheng was killed in battle, and he escaped by luck and did not change his position. After the fall of Beijing, he was appointed by Emperor Longwu as the secretary of the military department, continued to resist the Qing Dynasty, and finally was defeated and martyred.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng looked at him and ordered solemnly: "The army is already short of food, you go to the high director to ask for military rations, and bring the letter of the official to conspire to defeat the Manchu army!" ”

"Yes!" Yang Tinglin was in charge of money and food in Lu Xiang's promotion army, so this was his job. However, in terms of military salary, it was originally provided by the governor Zhang Qiping, but the governor Zhang said that he had no money and could not provide it, so he cut off the money; And the grain and grass were in the director's place, and they had not been allocated for many days, so Lu Xiangsheng had to send him to urge.

After Yang Tinglin received the order, he thought that there were only 5,000 men and horses in the army, and that's it, it was not Lu Xiangsheng's headquarters, that is, the Tianxiong army that had been fighting with him in the south and the north, but under the command of Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei. He felt that Lu Xiangsheng said that it was a bit dangerous to seek a war, so he wanted to speak.

However, Lu Xiangsheng didn't give him a chance, and shouted coldly: "Go quickly!" ”

When Yang Tinglin heard this, he had no choice but to go immediately.

As soon as he left, Lu Xiangsheng looked at his two generals and sighed in his heart. Before, he divided 20,000 soldiers and horses. But then, his headquarters Tianxiong army was transferred by Gao Qiqian, and Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, used the excuse that Yunjin had a Manchu army, so he led the troops away privately.

What the hell is going on, in fact, Lu Xiangsheng understands it very well in his heart. That Wang Pu saw that he Lu Xiangsheng was demoted and was transferred to the army, and felt that fighting with the Manchu army again would be asking for his own death, so he found an excuse to run away regardless of it.

I should think that I can't settle accounts with him afterwards, hehe, it's really a tiger falling in Pingyang and being bullied by dogs! Lu Xiangsheng sneered in his heart, but he was also a little sad, the state affairs are like this, he can only try his best to fight, and serve the country and defend the people with all his loyalty!

Naturally, he would not know that in the original history, Wang Pu was a famous general who escaped, and whenever he encountered a war, he took fleeing first, pitted Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou. However, in the end, it didn't end well, and he was beheaded by Emperor Chongzhen. Of course, the biggest reason is that he doesn't have a backstage like Wu Sangui, otherwise, he can be as immortal as Wu Sangui, who also escaped and pitted Hong Chengchou.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the national crisis is at the head, not the time to take care of it." Lu Xiangsheng looked at the generals below and said, "This official has ordered Director Yang to ask for food, you should appease and deploy, and bear with it a little longer." This official will also work with all the soldiers, and it is not special! ”

He usually leads by example, the governor and squire who are dignified and scholarly, and he eats whatever ordinary big-headed soldiers eat. His approach really touched his subordinates and was willing to die for him! Therefore, after he said it, although he knew that the military situation was not optimistic, the generals still responded with fists and said that there was no problem.

However, things did not develop as Lu Xiangsheng thought, and the situation was getting worse and worse.