After all the things were arranged, the north and south of Juyong Pass were already shrouded in night. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Emperor Chongzhen and his entourage had a simple dinner, and stayed overnight in the city tower that night.

Wang Guoxing and his Jinyi guards, as well as the twelve imperial attendants and military attaches personally selected by the emperor, naturally took turns to stand guard and perform their duties.

In this season, the night on the south pass of Juyong Pass is naturally much colder than that in the Forbidden City, but the night stay on top of Juyong Xiongguan, coupled with the warm bed of a beauty like Hai Lanzhu, even the cold night is shorter than the Spring Festival.

That night, Emperor Chongzhen and Hai Lanzhu stayed overnight in Guancheng, and the emperor said to Hai Lanzhu: "I originally wanted to take you to enjoy the autumn colors of Juyong, but I didn't expect that the armament of Juyong Pass was so wasted. What I did didn't scare you, did I? ”

Hai Lanzhu looked at the emperor in front of her, and the emotions in her heart were very tangled and complicated.

The emperor in front of him, sometimes gentle as water, empathetic, sometimes ruthless, cruel, moody, although he has only been married into the palace for more than half a month, he has already appreciated many sides of the emperor.

Hearing the emperor ask herself at this time, Hai Lanzhu paused slightly, and then said: "Your Majesty can take your concubines out of the palace and go to Juyongguan to relax, and the concubines are already grateful." National affairs are important, Your Majesty doesn't have to care about the feelings of your concubines! ”

Seeing Hai Lanzhu say this, Emperor Chongzhen didn't ask any more, and changed his clothes and rested under Hai Lanzhu's waiting.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen, in later generations, of course, has been to the Great Wall of Juyongguan, has long been in mind the importance of the geographical danger and location of Juyongguan, and now has the opportunity to see the original Great Wall nearly four hundred years ago, and his heart is naturally very excited.

Therefore, the second question is the sun rising, after a brief explanation, Emperor Chongzhen left Sun Chengzong and Liu Wenbing to continue to preside over the affairs of the city, and he took Wang Chengen, Hai Lanzhu, Wang Guoxing, as well as Huang Degong, Liu Tingjie and other attendants and military attachés, along the Guancheng all the way to the past, and walked around the Chengguan fortresses on the left and right flanks of Juyong Pass.

This section of the Great Wall near Juyong Pass is located at the junction of the Outer Great Wall and the Inner Great Wall, and is the first Xiongguan at the eastern end of the Inner Great Wall.

The so-called inner Great Wall, in fact, there are two main sections: one refers to the west side of the Beijing Division, along the remaining veins of the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, the Great Wall that is built in a north-south direction for hundreds of miles, mainly including Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass, Baoma Pass, Baiyangkou and other important military passes.

The other section is in the rear of Datong Town, the north of Taiyuan Mansion in Shanxi, from the first line of Bauhinia Pass to the west, around a big circle, until it connects with the Great Wall in the north of Datong Town, and also shows an east-west direction, and the main passes are Pingxing Pass, Yanmen Pass, etc.

These two sections of the Great Wall basically encircle the two towns of Datong and Xuanfu.

This is also the reason why Shanxi Town, where Taiyuan Mansion is located in the Ming Dynasty, is called the nine-sided border town although it does not border southern Mongolia geographically.

Because this thousand-kilometer-long inner Great Wall is the second northwest defense line built by the Ming Dynasty against Mongolia.

It can also be seen from here that the so-called Son of Heaven guarding the country in the Ming Dynasty was by no means just casual talk, in fact, taking Beijing as the capital, judging from the military situation at that time, was indeed a very risky approach.

Resting on the emperor of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, who believed that the best defense was to attack, the capital was placed on the border, which was indeed conducive to organizing a military attack on the foreign races, but it was quite dangerous to rest on the emperor who was inferior to him later.

Because, one carelessness can cause a catastrophe.

In the entire history of the Ming Dynasty, not counting the late Jianyu into the Kou, just say that the Mongolian tribes such as the Tatar Wara entered the Kou Jingshi several times, and the closest one from the Chongzhen period occurred in the Jiajing period, and the soldiers were also under martial law in Beijing.

It was this entry into the Koujing division of Monan Mongolia that forced Emperor Jiajing to make up his mind, and behind Datong Town and Xuanfu Town, he rebuilt an inner Great Wall that stretched for thousands of miles from Juyong Pass to the south and then to the west.

On the morning of the second day of coming to Juyongguan, accompanied by everyone, Emperor Chongzhen revisited the precipitous scenery of the Great Wall of Juyongguan along the east and west wings of Guancheng, and returned to the place where the city tower of Nanguan City stayed until around noon.

As soon as I had eaten the lunch carefully prepared by Liu Wenbing and his people in the wine shop in the city, I heard Li Ruolian, the commander of the palace front division who was responsible for guarding the Nanguan City Tower and its bunkers outside the city, urgently ask for an emergency meeting outside.

After Emperor Chongzhen asked Li Ruolian to come in, he only heard Li Ruolian kneel down and say: "Your Majesty, a message has been sent from the dungeon fort outside Nanguan City, saying that Liu Ce and Liu Zongbing of Jizhen have led more than 300 pro-troops under his command, and they have arrived five miles outside the south gate. Whether they are allowed to enter the city, please let Your Majesty know! ”

Emperor Chongzhen was shocked when he heard this, he came so soon, it seems that as soon as he arrived at Juyong Pass yesterday, someone went out of the city to report the news to Liu Ce!

Fortunately, he is also an anxious person, and yesterday afternoon he dealt with the guards and defenders in the city, and those who should be corrected have been corrected, and those who should be imprisoned have also been detained, leaving no chance for Liu Ce or anyone else to plead or turn around.

For Liu Ce, a mediocre person in history, Emperor Chongzhen did not have to kill him.

At the beginning of the verification of the soldiers of the Nine Sides, the figure of Jizhen Bao was still relatively conservative, about 20,000 people, which won the favor of Emperor Chongzhen.

However, when Shi Bangyao, the superintendent of Jizhen Town, took office, he checked the salary again, and found that even if 20,000 people were reported, there was still a considerable part of the empty salary.

At that time, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to attack because of Shi Bangyao's secret twist, but he was worried that he would move his predecessor, and at the same time, he was worried about causing a mutiny and affecting the stability of the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi, so he endured it.

In this life, Emperor Chongzhen originally wanted to find an opportunity to replace him, but in this situation, it is impossible not to kill him.

First, this person seems to be very politically confused, the emperor has made great efforts to rectify the border reserves, and Juyongguan is so important, but he is still lax like this.

Second, this person guarded the border pass of Jizhen in the original history, and in the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led the army into Kou Gyeonggi, and it was along Jizhen that was broken through because of the emptiness of defense.

After the Jianyu breakthrough, Liu Ce sat on the Jizhen army but was at a loss, only knowing to stick to self-protection and let the Jianyu army enter the Beijing Division westward.

The most hateful thing is that when Zhao Shujiao led the army of Shanhai Town to fight fiercely with the Jianlu army for four days and nights, and the people were sleepy and tired, and they urgently needed to rest, they came to the city of Jizhou, but Liu Ce refused to lead the army into the city.

In the end, Zhao Shujiao had no choice but to lead his tired and troubled soldiers to turn back, just outside Jizhen City, and fought to the death with the Jianyu army that followed after him, and ended up in defeat.

And Liu Ce just stubbornly held out, neither letting Zhao Shujiao enter the city, nor sending troops out of the city to support Zhao Shujiao's headquarters in the battle.

Historically, in the third year of Chongzhen, after the Jianyu army withdrew from the Guanwai, Emperor Chongzhen learned of the death of Zhao Shujiao, and when he couldn't bear it, he still beheaded Liu Ce and another general soldier of the Santun camp under his command and abandoned the city.

At this time, I heard Li Ruolian's report that Liu Ce was about to arrive, and Emperor Chongzhen sent someone to send Sun Chengzong and Liu Wenbing, and asked Wang Chengen to go outside the urn city in Nanguancheng to greet him, and then take him directly to Guancheng to meet.

Not long after, he heard a powerful footstep, Wang Chengen took Liu Ce to the city, and then entered the city tower where the emperor was.

The tower of Nanguan City has two floors, the first floor is now the place where the emperor summons others during the day, and the second floor is where the emperor stays at night.

Later Manchu emperors built a palace in Juyong Pass, but there was no palace in Juyong Pass during the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, although Emperor Chongzhen is very difficult to fool in government and military affairs, he has always been so-so and not picky in food, clothing, housing and transportation.

There are official offices, temples, libraries, and mansions of officials such as Wang Chengyin in Juyong Pass, and the conditions in any place are much better than those on the upper floors of this city, but Emperor Chongzhen insists on resting and staying here, and no one can do anything.

Liu Ce, the chief soldier of Jizhen in his fifties, under the guidance of Wang Chengen, quickly went to the city, entered the city tower directly above the city gate of Nanguan, and saw Emperor Chongzhen sitting in danger waiting for him inside, and immediately knelt down and said: "Liu Ce, the chief soldier of Jizhen Town, greets Your Majesty!" Then he kowtowed and waited for the emperor to speak.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw Liu Ce coming in alone, he knew that his guards had been left in the city, so he said: "I thought that Liu Qing would be able to arrive at sunset, but I never thought that it would arrive at three o'clock in the afternoon, so how quickly did Liu Qing come?" ”

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen said this expressionlessly, and seeing a large group of people standing around the emperor, but Wang Chengyin was not seen among them, Liu Ce's heart was a little apprehensive, and he said thoughtfully: "The minister happened to be patrolling along the western border recently, and met the envoy sent by His Majesty halfway, and he arrived at the same time. ”