Sun Chengzong, Wang Zaijin, Huang Liji and others, according to Chongzhen's instructions, finally quelled the remnants of the rebels and several fires in the city before it was completely dark. In addition, the people who were injured by the rebels, or the houses that were burned down, were also properly resettled.

After the cabinet finally dealt with the aftermath, Huang Liji suddenly remembered Chongzhen who went to Beijing to inspect the camp, and he immediately called a Zhongshu scholar and asked: "You go and inquire, can Your Majesty return to the palace after inspecting the camp in the northern suburbs?" ”

A moment later, the scholar ran back to report that the emperor had not yet returned to the palace. Shi Fenglai suddenly said nervously: "It's almost 3 o'clock now, and the city gate is about to close, why hasn't Your Majesty returned to the city, it can't be an accident, right?" ”

Zhang Ruitu immediately retorted: "If there is really any accident, someone has already come back to report back, how can it be so quiet." There is no news, which means that His Majesty's patrol is going well, I'm afraid that His Majesty has been delayed by something, right? ”

Wang Zaijin thought about it for a while, and then said: "Left and right, the chaos in the city has subsided, and all that remains is to guard the gate." Why don't you sit here, and I'll go and bring your majesty back. ”

Sun Chengzong immediately objected: "No, as the main hall of the military department, how can you leave the center lightly." If there is an emergency military situation outside, you and Huang Shoufu are still needed to preside over the overall situation. Leave the car to me. ”

Huang Liji stopped Wang Zaijin and said conclusively: "Let Sun Kaiyang and Shi Cunmei go, and the rest of the people will be on duty alternately, after tonight, presumably those traitors will have nothing to hide." ”

Sun Chengzong and Shi Fenglai took the bronze medal of the nine-gate lock key delivered by Wang Zaijin, and when they walked outside the Anding Gate, they were stopped by a team of Jinyi guards who blocked the city gate.

After receiving the report, Luo Yangxing, who hurried over, saw Sun Chengzong and Shi Fenglai, and immediately turned over and dismounted, and saluted the two of them to confess.

Shi Fenglai said to Luo Yangxing with an unswerving face: "You don't have to accuse me of any crimes, you came over to check the authenticity of the bronze medal of the nine door locks and keys, so quickly let people get out of the way and let me wait to get out of the city." ”

Luo Yangxing knelt on the ground on one knee, clasped his fists and saluted: "How dare the lower officials check the bronze medals of the two adults, and the Jinyi guard is not a city gate, so he does not dare and has no right to inspect the bronze medals of the adults." ”

Shi Fenglai immediately put away the bronze medal in his hand and said: "In this case, don't let me retreat, I will rush to see Your Majesty, and Hugh will delay time." ”

Luo Yang replied without raising his head: "Xiaguan is ordered to implement the curfew on the capital tonight, no one is allowed to enter or leave the capital without His Majesty's order, as long as the two adults show their will, Xiaguan will naturally order people to get out of the way." ”

Shi Feng Laiqi said: "Your Majesty is outside the city, we are waiting to welcome Your Majesty back to the palace, and now I will give you the will?" Hugh is fooling around, hurry up and give way. ”

Luo Yangxing maintained a half-kneeling posture and was silent, and the Jinyi guard who blocked the road to the city gate was also motionless. Even the group of Jingying sergeants who assisted Jinyiwei in blocking the road did not dare to make any moves, for fear that Jinyiwei would suspect that he had something in mind.

Seeing that Shi Fenglai was furious, and he couldn't get Luo Yangxing to give way, Sun Chengzong, who had been silent and silent, finally spoke: "Commander Luo, we are just going to welcome Your Majesty back to Beijing, you are so nonsense, if Your Majesty has any loss, can you bear it?" ”

Luo Yang's soft top was neither humble nor arrogant: "There is no bad news from the camp in the northern suburbs, presumably Your Majesty's patrol of the camp is going well." Even if the two adults want to punish the lower officials, they will wait until His Majesty returns to Beijing tomorrow. The order that Xia Guan has now received is that no one should enter or leave the capital after the curfew. ”

In the face of Luo's cultivation of oil and salt, Sun Chengzong and Shi Fenglai were also unthinkable for a while, Sun Chengzong had to take a step back and said: "Since this is the case, then you send a Jinyi guard to the camp in the northern suburbs to inquire about Your Majesty's news, and report to Your Majesty by the way." If I don't even allow this, I will go back and gather my soldiers to storm the city, and I will go out of this gate today. ”

Seeing Sun Chengzong angry, Luo Yangxing hesitated for a moment, and finally agreed to this compromise plan.

A hundred households in brocade clothes left the capital from Andingmen and headed towards the camp in the northern suburbs. At 4 o'clock, the brocade-clothed hundred-hundred-hundred He brought Zhu Youzhen's message, "I am very good, I will stay in the camp in the northern suburbs tonight, you don't have to worry, you must guard the capital." Mr. Sun and the others don't have to go out of the city, and I will return to the city tomorrow. ”

With Chongzhen's message, Sun Chengzong and Shi Fenglai had to dispel the idea of going out of the city to pick up the car and return to the cabinet.

On this night, many people in the capital could not sleep all night. The Marquis of Funing and other nobles did not expect that Chongzhen not only personally came forward to persuade the rebels to return to the camp, but also took the opportunity to inspect the camp in the northern suburbs to appease the army.

At this time, these nobles realized that the seamless mutiny plan they thought they had planned was actually full of loopholes.

Not to mention the two city gate langs who left their posts in Deshengmen and Xizhimen, even a few deputy generals and commanders who presided over the Beijing Mutiny, they could not pass on the news after being isolated from the inside and outside.

And the Jinyi guards patrolled the nine cities and enforced the curfew in the capital, which made these nobles dare not meet in private again.

They are only a little frightened now, they have only been thinking about the anger of the seizure of the fields in Gyeonggi and the damage to the business of the Changlu Salt Factory, and they are bent on teaching Chongzhen, who has no hair to grow up, a lesson, to let him know that even if he is the emperor, he must rely on them to sit on the throne in the Forbidden City.

In the past, they were arrogant and lawless in the capital and places, and they have always been accustomed to doing whatever they want. Therefore, these nobles who have not experienced setbacks seem to have an illusion that their ancestors of the Ming Dynasty fought for the emperor, so they will not be punished no matter what they do, and the emperor will at most single out one or two nobles for punishment, and will definitely not find the entire honorable group.

The anger at the loss of interests, coupled with the legal immunity that comes with their status, finally made these nobles hot-headed and, with the connivance of civilian officials, launched a demonstrative mutiny.

They only thought about what kind of concessions they wanted Chongzhen to make after the mutiny was successful, and they didn't think about how they should face Chongzhen's revenge after the mutiny failed.

What's more, they didn't expect this mutiny to be put down in such a short time, and they didn't even shed much blood.

In this way, the many traces of the family members they sent to incite the soldiers of the Beijing Camp Army to become more clearly exposed.

The only thing that made the Marquis of Funing and the Marquis of Lingbi feel a little more at ease was that when they planned this mutiny, they were quite careful and did not implicate themselves, so as long as those nobles did not bite them out, the two of them might not be exposed.

The two principals could only hope that Chongzhen would not conduct such a detailed investigation because of the large number of nobles involved, so that the two families could escape punishment.

When many nobles in the capital were panicked, Yuan Chonghuan also sighed in his apartment, the mutiny in the capital would actually end like this, so after the officers of the Jizhou battalion received the news from the capital, there would definitely be no trouble.

As a result, he took advantage of the Beijing Mutiny to lure the Guanning army into Beijing, and his plan to take the opportunity to purge the remnants of the eunuch party also failed.

Not only that, but he also prayed that the Guanning army would not be discovered by anyone if it was transferred to Shanhaiguan without permission, otherwise Wang Zaijin and others, who had mastered the central power, would inevitably purge the Guanning army.

Yuan Chonghuan, who already regarded the Guan Ning Army as his own force, naturally did not want to see such an ending.

Since the new emperor ascended the throne, none of the moves he had to take went smoothly. At first, he did not want to be reinstated as a professor of martial arts, but wanted to be reinstated as the governor of Liaodong, who was familiar with Liao affairs.

However, after the new emperor ascended the throne, although Wei Zhongxian fell, the Donglin Party did not get Chongzhen's respect and took sole control of the government.

The cabinet and the ministry are not the self-reserved land of the Donglin Party, and even the former cabinet chief assistant, his teacher Han Yi was recalled to the capital, and he only hung up an idle post.

In this situation, he wanted to replace Wang Zhichen, and it would inevitably become a luxury to return to Liaodong. Therefore, he had to accept the recruitment of his teacher Sun Chengzong and became a professor of martial arts, assisting him in establishing an officer training school and a new army.

In fact, Yuan Chonghuan didn't care much about building a new army or something. He always believed that the border army in the Ming Dynasty was superior to the Weisu army in the interior, and the Liaodong army was superior to the border army.

Rather than building a new army behind closed doors in the capital, it is better to encircle the Liaodong army is the right way.

When he heard that Chongzhen required that the recruits of the new army must be from a peasant family, over 18 years old, under 25 years old, without physical disabilities, and allowed to retire after five years of service.

Yuan Chonghuan felt that Chongzhen had read a few military books, so he put forward such unrealistic conditions.

Not to mention, being a soldier in the Ming Dynasty itself is a despised profession, and the army is already thankful that it can recruit people, and it will care if these people are beggars or rogue teenagers on the street.

Not to mention, after being a soldier for five years, this can be regarded as training a recruit into a veteran who is familiar with the war, but at this time, Chongzhen wants to put them back as civilians, isn't this nonsense.

A veteran is enough to be worth three recruits on the battlefield, and the combat power of the Ming Dynasty is far weaker than that of Jiannu, and now the veterans are constantly restored.

Don't talk about the establishment of the new army, the cabinet system reform plan behind this really makes Yuan Chonghuan a little anxious.

It's not that he thinks this cabinet system reform plan is bad, but that this reform plan should not be completed in the hands of Huang Liji, the remnants of the eunuch party.

For his political comprehension, he can be said to be outstanding in the Donglin Party, so when Wei Zhongxian was in power, he was still in Liaodong to add officials to the knighthood.

After Wei Zhongxian stepped down, the Donglin Party still regarded him as a fellow believer. From this point, it can be seen how shrewd Yuan Chonghuan is in the political struggle.