"Chuan Yongping guards Gao Pingren to the palace!"

One after another, the eunuchs sang outside the ceremony, outside the Wenhua Gate. Gao Pingren, who had long been in Wenhuamen, entered the palace gate tremblingly under the guidance of the eunuchs, feeling both apprehension and excitement. What is worried is that he neglected his duty and let someone burn the Yongping City Tower, but this matter has the promise of the important ministers of the court, and he can also go to the palace to face the king with peace of mind. After that, all that was left was the excitement of meeting the emperor soon, thinking that he was a small general, who had no chance to face the king, but he didn't want to be a blessing in disguise, which made the situation of being able to meet the emperor today.

Gao Pingren realized that after seeing the emperor today, the ancestral tomb of the family was about to smoke, and he was thinking in his heart that he would repair the ancestral tomb of the family another day, so as to live up to this opportunity.

"You're Gao Pingren?"

Gao Pingren trembled and knelt outside the door of the main hall, and the emperor's voice echoed in the hall and reached his ears, but it was like a heavenly sound. Characters like Gao Pingren, just like Li Xin at the beginning, were not qualified to enter the palace to face the king, and it was already extremely gracious to let him kneel three times and bow nine times outside this Wenhua Palace.

It is precisely because of this that Gao Pingren is so excited. Hearing the emperor ask for his name, Gao Pingren trembled with excitement, and his intuition surged into his head, and even his thinking seemed to freeze. It wasn't until the eunuch next to him couldn't help but kick his ass that he reacted, and he was so anxious that he sweated like rain.

Gao Pingren puffed up his chest and roared loudly. "Return, long live, yes, yes!"

"Tell me, who are you going to sue?"

Who is being sued? Gao Pingren was immersed in boundless excitement and excitement, and suddenly heard the emperor ask again, but he couldn't react, yes, who are you going to sue? The little eunuch behind him couldn't stand it anymore, and reminded in a low voice: "General Gao, General Gao, what about the emperor asking you, is it tired of being so silent and not answering?" ”

Gao Pingren was startled, and immediately remembered who the person he was accusing was, by the way, it was Li Xin, the former general of Shanxi Town, the chief military officer of Shanxi Town, so he immediately kowtowed again and again, and roared with a crying voice: "Long live, the minister is wronged!" Long live the ministers! ”

I don't know which minister in the Wenhua Hall really couldn't stand it, and couldn't help but ask: "Idiot, the Holy Lord asked you, who did you accuse, didn't ask if you were wronged!" ”

Gao Pingren was shocked into a cold sweat by the roar of this flat ground, and hurriedly replied honestly: "The minister sued Li Xin, the former general of the expedition to the west, Li Xin, the chief military officer of Shanxi Town!" ”

"Say, what is the crime of accusing General Li?"

The Wenhua Hall sounded the official's drinking just now, and this question was also a question that the emperor dared to ask on his behalf, in fact, the emperor was also about to ask this question.

"Hui, Hui Majesty, minister, minister sued Li Xin for conniving at his own soldiers to harm the place, looting property, burning, burning Yongping City, Yongping City North Gate, North Gate"

"Who robbed someone's goods, and how did they burn the Yongping City Gate?"

Gao Pingren's nervous face was covered with sweat like beans, and he stammered: "Rob, rob the private property of the minister, and burn the gate of Yongping with fraud." ”

"Then Li Xin's personal soldiers are geometric, and they have broken the city of Yongping?"

Gao Pingren said in his heart, he was afraid of something, but he didn't dare not answer, but he didn't dare to answer a lie, otherwise it would be a crime of bullying once it was verified.

"Return, return to your majesty, foot, there are more than ten people!"

This remark immediately caused laughter in the Wenhua Palace.

The civil servants in the palace seemed to have become emboldened, and they all asked, "How, how?" There are more than a dozen people? Ha ha...... Hahaha......"

"Tell me, how did more than ten of them break Yongping City, if it is not bad, there are also 3,000 defenders in Yongping City, right?"

Three thousand defenders can't beat a dozen people, isn't it a big joke in the world, if that's the case, this Gao Pingren can be regarded as an outstanding fool.

Of course, Gao Pingren can't tell the truth about this matter, there is no way to verify such things, so he naturally can say whatever he wants.

"No, it's not that they broke the city, it's that the last general heard that they were the personal soldiers under General Li, and they sincerely invited each other, so they got the opportunity to take advantage of the situation!"

It's understandable to say this, but there are still ministers who don't give up on it.

"Even so, how did those dozen people burn your north gate in front of the three thousand defenders, and how did they brazenly rob your furniture in front of the three thousand defenders?"

"This, this, this, it is the bull egg who is despicable, who hijacked the last general, and the last general was controlled by others, so that his evil deeds succeeded......"

The ministers reluctantly accepted Gao Pingren's far-fetched explanation, but an impression of incompetence had fallen on everyone's heart. After all, no matter how despicable and cunning the other party is, he has 3,000 troops in his hands, and he doesn't even have the ability to protect himself? I really don't know how the Ministry of War chose such incompetent people to guard the important town of Yongping?

Zhu Youzhen, the son of the Great Tomorrow, was already very ugly, and it seemed that he could drip water. Such an incompetent general is really unheard of, and today he has gained a lot of knowledge. For a while, the anger of Li Xin's personal soldiers for looting and burning the city shifted a little. He was eager to go up and kick him a few times, and ask him what if the other party was a Tartar spy and attacked the city in disguise.

Such a fool Zhu Youzhen didn't bother to ask more, and just wanted to order someone to send it to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to ask about the crime, but he heard Gao Pingren continue to say: "The last general was taken, it was captured by Li Xin's pro-army officer Niu Dan to the Beijing Division, they reverted to their old ways last night, and they were robbed by the troops in the Guanxiang, but fortunately they were captured by the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, otherwise it will be the people of my Ming Jingshi who will suffer from the misery!" ”

After speaking, Gao Pingren fell to the ground and cried. This sentence made Zhu Youzhen's heart jump suddenly. Looting the people outside the gate, could it be the people who were reported by the eunuch last night?

"Teacher, do you know how many people looted the north of the city last night?"

This sentence was asked by Zhu Youzhen to Zhang Sizhi, Zhang Sizhi didn't expect the emperor to suddenly ask him a question, he only vaguely got a report on this matter, and the details were not very clear, after all, this kind of bandit matter is not small, and it is impossible for him to calculate such small things every day as a cabinet scholar. However, such a trivial matter is by no means a trivial matter as long as it comes out of the emperor's mouth, because as long as one sentence is wrong, it is a dereliction of duty.

Zhang Sizhi calmed down, "Back to the saint, there is only a group of people in Guanxiang in the north of the city!" ”

I don't know the exact number, but he knows that there is only this group of people, and there is no doubt that they are Li Xin's personal soldiers. Zhang Sizhi was a little remorseful, if he knew that the gang of bandits who attacked Guanxiang last night was Li Xin's personal soldiers, he would definitely do a good job, and he would definitely not move so hastily as today to make him embarrassed by the palace face, fortunately, the person he told was Li Xin, no matter what the outcome of this fool named Gao Pingren was, Li Xin was in big trouble.

Now there is no need for Zhang Sizhi to go out in person, naturally there is a royal historian to come forward to impeach Li Xin, if arson and looting is a petty crime, then burning the city gate is a felony to kill the head! Some of the courtiers were peeking at Li Xin's jokes, but Zhang Sizhi wanted to go further. If he can take this opportunity to completely pull Li Xin into the water, even if the emperor favors him again, it is inconvenient for him to cover up and condone such blatant evil deeds in front of such public eyes.

Zhang Sizhi was not bad, Zhu Youzhen was already difficult to ride a tiger at the moment. In his heart, he absolutely did not believe that Li Xin would do such a vicious deed, and it must have been the people under his command who impersonated him. Therefore, his original intention was to turn a big incident into a small matter, but under the intentional or unintentional provocation of the ministers, if Li Xin is not held accountable for this matter, I am afraid that he will not be able to explain it to the hundred officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

Ping Suri Zhu was able to oppose public opinion towards Li Xin, that was because Li Xin occupied a rational character and had meritorious contributions, and those annoying officials could only make a few futile noises. As for the fact that he did not mention Li Xin in the holy decree before, he just wanted to wait for Li Xin's news to be confirmed before rewarding him, because he also did not believe that Li Xin would do nothing in the entire battle of Jinzhou.

"Report! Shanhaiguan 800 miles of express delivery! ”

Hearing this, the hearts of the hundreds of officials in the Wenhua Hall were all terrified, and their hearts were not repeated? This can scare the officials a little distracted, and they are really afraid of something. Including Zhu Youzhen, they were all nervous, and even made an exception to announce that the messenger went to the palace.

actually allowed the person who sent the news to cross Gao Pingren, who was kneeling outside the Wenhua Palace, and after entering the hall a few steps, he was stopped under the guidance of the eunuch.

"You don't have to salute, you just said that Shanhaiguan has any urgent report? But the military situation is repeated? ”

When Zhu Youzhen said this, he leaned forward, although his voice was extremely calm and steady, he could still see the impatience in his heart.

"Back to His Majesty, I don't know how to write the last general in the urgent delivery, but it is related to Li Xin of the Jinzhou Three Guards!"

Baiguan's heart moved again, Fan Fucui's heart was also beating wildly, since his heart was related to Li Xin, and it was an eight-hundred-mile express delivery, I am afraid that it would not be good news, it seems that today's plan is only afraid that it will fall short, and I can't help but sigh in my chest!

"What is Li Xin doing?"

The general of the herald army hurriedly handed over his body to the eunuch and forwarded it to the emperor, and replied: "I am surprised to hear that Li Xin and the Three Guards hurriedly evacuated Jinzhou, and now their whereabouts are unknown!" ”

The first half of the sentence just said that Li Xin had withdrawn his troops, or it didn't hurt, but the general followed by another sentence whose whereabouts were unknown was too directive. Zhu Youzhen's face on the throne changed drastically, and even the ministers under Danqi could see it clearly.

Several cabinet ministers also figured out the joints in an instant, and the focus was not on Li Xin leading the troops to withdraw at all, but on the assumption of common sense, if they really made great contributions, they would be on standby and waiting for the court's summons and reward. But what is it that he left in such a mysterious and hasty manner? Weak heart? Combined with the current charges against Li Xin's personal soldiers by Gao Pingren, coupled with the evil act of robbing the Jingshi last night, no one can help but think about the worst.

"Last night, the robbers ......" Zhu Youzhen's voice paused in a low voice, and then said: "Did Li Xin's personal soldiers be killed last night?" If it has not been beheaded, the three legal divisions will strictly interrogate, no matter who is involved in the crime, once it is verified, it will not be tolerated! ”