On the eighth day of the twelfth month, commonly known as Laba, Emperor Chongzhen's royal drive back to Beijing was escorted by the Tiance Guard, passed through the southern section of the military capital, and came to the south entrance of Juyong Pass.

Although there is also a garrison at the south entrance, it is different from the north gate city of Juyongguan that has become a military city, and the south entrance is lined with shops and many merchants, and it is still a place where business travelers come and go from the south to the north.

The brutal and bloody battle under Juyong Pass, as well as the siege of the city and the horrific massacre of Jianyu in the land of Xuanda, had already spread to Nankou Pass through the mouths of the refugees resettled by the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili and the Changping Camp of Wu Guojun, and were brought to all parts of Beijing through the merchants and people who traveled to and from Nankou, and also spread from all parts of Beijing to North Zhili and to the farther south.

The rumors of the Jurchen Tartars and the Mongol Tatars ravaging Xuanda and the storming of Juyong Pass once made the people of Nankou panic every day.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen's royal drive to Juyong Pass, and personally commanded the Ming officials and troops to fight under Juyong Pass, and defeated the invading enemy, which made the merchants and people in this area even more excited.

At noon on this day, Emperor Chongzhen's car came to the south entrance of Juyong Pass.

The people in the south entrance area are empty, helping the old and the young to carry the cooked laba porridge, kneeling on both sides of the road to return to Beijing from the south exit and shouting long live.

Many of these people were once military households in the Juyongguan area, and now they have not only been allocated the land of the Weisho that originally belonged to them in name but actually belonged to Shangguan, and they have a basic guarantee for their lives, but they no longer need to undertake the hereditary military service of going into battle to fight, and they no longer need to bear all kinds of labor for Shangguan and the powerful families of Jingshi to make cattle and horses.

Even in the war that took place in front of him, the emperor did not send these people to help in the war or to serve.

Although Emperor Chongzhen's measures did not have any effect before, this time the emperor personally sat in Guancheng and led the official army to win the decisive battle under Juyong Pass, and this effect was immediately presented.

These people who belonged to Changping Prefecture in the area south of Juyong Pass naturally remembered this great victory of the official army that had not been seen for decades, as well as the various favorable measures of the imperial court and the Governor's Mansion of Beizhili before, all of which were remembered on the emperor's body.

Now that the emperor has returned to Beijing, the people of ten miles and eight towns inside and outside the city of Nankou Guancheng have come to the side of the avenue with the old and the young, and have bowed down to the emperor's royal car, shouting the voice of long live for several miles.

And Bi Ziyan, the secretary of the household department, Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, who had been sitting in Nankou and constantly transporting grain, grass and ammunition for the imperial army, also had the rare courage to let the people kneel and worship the royal driver, and did not send orders to the officials and troops of Nankou to drive away and clean up these people who came to see them off spontaneously.

Although such a scene was chaotic for a while, it was also something that these old ministers had never seen in decades.

Riding horses and following the emperor's chariot on both sides of the court, the envoy of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court Gongshun Hou Wu Weiying, and the deputy envoy Jiang Yueguang sighed in their hearts.

Gongshun Hou Wu Weiying said: "Long live the lord! The people of Nankou heard that the long-lived lord drove back to Beijing, and helped the old and the young to see him off.

"Long live the victory of the Lord this time, which is comparable to the ancestor of the year! And being able to win the hearts of the people is even more than the ancient Renjun! Long live the saint of the Lord, the ministers admire it! ”

Gongshun Hou Wu Weiying is a completely Sinicized Mongolian, compared with his ancestors who are good at riding and archery, and heirlooms with martial arts, to his generation of Gongshun Hou, he abandoned the martial arts of riding and archery, and learned from the children of other Han noble families, and also began to vassalize himself elegantly and packaged himself into a scholarly family.

It's just that no matter how elegantly he packages himself, the things he makes are still a four-like.

At this time, learning the tone of the Jinshi civil official who usually dealt with him, he patted Emperor Chongzhen's horses, and listened to Emperor Chongzhen and Jiang Yueguang, the deputy envoy of the Lifan Yuan beside him, couldn't help but laugh.

After Gongshun Hou Wu Weiying finished complimenting the emperor, Jiang Yueguang also followed and said to Emperor Chongzhen in the car: "Lord Wu is reasonable! The minister tasted through the twenty-three histories, and looked at the stories of the emperors of the past dynasties, like His Majesty was born to know, wise and decisive, which is rare in history!

"There is a way that if the sky does not give birth to Zhongni, then the eternity is as long as the night! Your Majesty's Ming today can also be solved in the same way! On this day, His Majesty was born to prosper the Ming Dynasty! ”

Niu Juming, Langzhong of the Military Department, Chen Shiqi, Senator of the Military Aircraft Department, and Wu Weiye, who was following nearby, also said yes, and there was a voice of praise.

Usually, courtiers discussed and evaluated the actions of the monarch, and in front of the emperor, even if it was sycophancy, it was a taboo in the past.

However, these two people had more contact with the emperor, knew the temper of the emperor in front of them, and didn't care about such subtleties, and at this time, they were from the heart, so they talked to the emperor in front of the emperor.

Listening to Wu Weiying and Jiang Yueguang, who were riding horses and following the side of the royal carriage, saying this kind of compliment of merit and virtue, Emperor Chongzhen sat in the carriage and said to the two:

"The son said that those who are born to know are also above. Those who learn and know, the second also. Those who are sleepy and learn are secondary. Sleepy and not scholars, the people are the next thing!

"I am not born to know, but I am also a sleepy learner! Zhongxing Huangming is my long-cherished wish since I ascended the throne, the emperor is suffering from internal and external troubles, and the difficulties of military and political affairs are countless. ””

Emperor Chongzhen spoke in a rare manner, and confided in these two courtiers who would be relied on in the future.

The art of ancient emperors was mysterious and unpredictable, and the emperor could not easily confide in his courtiers.

The reason for this is that he is worried that these courtiers will be pervasive and do what he likes.

However, for the current Emperor Chongzhen, he sighed and said this sentence, and still showed a deep worry in addition to the great victory, of course, there was also a purpose.

After returning to Beijing this time, he will soon have to face more difficult military and political reforms than the imperial driver personally coming to Juyong Pass to lure the enemy to attack, at this time, follow the mouths of these people, release some wind in advance, I believe that there will be some smart courtiers, such as Jia Jichun, Niu Juming and other people, will know the emperor's thoughts.

At noon on the same day, Emperor Chongzhen's car drove to the Nankou Guancheng, and the Chongzhen Emperor was on the carriage and met with the Hubu Shangshu Bi Ziyan, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Bi Maokang and others, and after some encouragement, they were left to continue to transport military supplies for the army that had not yet withdrawn from the front line in Nankou, and then walked non-stop through the Nankou Guancheng of Juyong Pass, along the winding Jingxi Ancient Road, and went all the way to Changping.

Along the way, through the window of the royal four-wheeled carriage, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the people on both sides of the road kneeling and kowtowing and cheering, and the smile on his face was fleeting.

As the saying goes, the monarch is also in the boat, and the people are also in the water, and the water can carry the boat and overturn the boat.

Neither the monarch nor the common people are essentially good or bad.

If this time, Emperor Chongzhen returned from defeat at Juyong Pass, then what was waiting for him was probably not the food pot pulp of these merchants and ordinary people shouting long live.

Perhaps at this time, these people who bowed and shouted long live along the way would put on another face, attack him in groups, and capture him to welcome the Jurchen king.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen, of course, will not imagine the people of Gyeonggi and even the whole world as his enemies, but he will never pin the continuation of the Ming Dynasty solely on the cheers and support of these people.

The will of the people is important, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history was not popular with the Han people in the Central Plains, including the Han people in the south, but it still swept the world for a long time.

What did the Manchus rely on?

Relying on naked strength, relying on the general trend of the world formed by this long-term strength.

Now the First World War outside Juyong Pass, as well as the war in the land of Xuanda and Liaodong, for the first time, broke or interrupted the momentum that the Jurchens were accumulating.

And what Emperor Chongzhen has to do next is to reform the various malpractices of the Ming Dynasty and maintain the thriving trend that has gradually risen on the side of the Ming Dynasty since he ascended the throne.

As long as the momentum of Daming's prosperity is maintained, after a few years, it will be able to avoid the crisis of the original history of the country and the world.

Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about all kinds of things while rushing to Changping by car non-stop.

After arriving in Changping for the night, the next morning, with the accompanying courtiers and a large team of guards, went to the Tianshou Mountain Imperial Mausoleum area, worshiped the Changling Tomb of Emperor Chengzu, and the Deling Tomb of the Emperor of the Apocalypse who passed the throne to him, and spent the night in the side hall outside the Deling Mausoleum, and then set off to return to Beijing again.

At noon on December 11, Emperor Chongzhen's imperial car returned to the gate of Desheng in Beijing.

At this moment, Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Zhang Weixian, the minister of military aircraft, led the Manchu ministers of civil and military affairs, and brought many honor guards stored in the end gate of the Forbidden City when the emperor left Beijing, gathered outside the Desheng Gate and knelt to welcome the emperor back to Luan.

Outside the Desheng Gate, which should have been a land of ice and snow, it was also cleaned up in advance by the Wenchen nobles who stayed in Beijing.

And the hundreds of officials who gathered outside Duanmen to petition collectively to stop the emperor's personal expedition, of course, at this time, they also automatically forgot their position at that time, and followed Li Guoyi, Zhang Weixian and other important ministers of the court, knelt on the ground, and cheered together:

"Congratulations to Your Majesty on your victory! God bless the Ming! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen did not hold grudges, and also got out of the carriage, appeared in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and solemnly accepted the big gift of these people kneeling and bowing nine times.

Immediately afterwards, Emperor Chongzhen did not return to the palace, but took the civil and military officials outside the Desheng Gate, went straight to the Taimiao, and once again in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military affairs, the Juyong Pass, the Bauhinia Pass, and the victory over the Jianlu and the Mongol army in Xuanda, Naturalization and other places, reported to the ancestors one by one, that is, to the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty.

In the evening of the same day, under the anticipation of the concubines of the harem, Emperor Chongzhen, who had been in Juyongguan for more than a month, finally returned to the Forbidden City and came to Kunning Palace to meet the concubines who gathered here to wait one by one.