Chongzhen stood up suddenly, and didn't know how to speak for a while, just muttered, "Brother Qin......"

Qin Shuhuai's meaning is very clear, I know you are suspicious of me, then I will take my family over now, live outside the Forbidden City, and take you as a hostage, can you rest assured?

The families of many border generals also live in the capital, nominally saying that the emperor rewards the mansion, but in fact they are taking their family members hostage, as long as they rebel or do something rebellious, they will be immediately beheaded.

And the discerning people know that the Hou Mansion that Chongzhen rewarded Qin Shuhuai in the Holy Decree is the same as the mansions of those generals, in fact, they are all hostage mansions.

With Qin Shuhuai's power, he can accept Chongzhen's reward and let his family still live in the Jianghe Gang, but Chongzhen can't do anything about him. Therefore, Chongzhen proposed to reward him with a marquis mansion in the holy decree, but he did not dare to urge Qin Shuhuai to take his family and live in it. Not only did he not dare to urge, but even Sun Chengzong did not dare to urge this matter for him. You must know that the intention of this matter is too clear, unless Qin Shuhuai agrees, no one wants him to take his family over.

Chongzhen's original intention was just to test it, but what he didn't expect was that Qin Shuhuai would really send his family over!

He knew very well how important Chen Qing'er and Qi and the others were to Qin Shuhuai!

Moreover, what surprised him even more was that it was clear that there were such masters in the Jianghe Gang that there was no problem at all in guarding the Hou Mansion, and Qin Shuhuai actually proposed to let him send good men to the Hou Mansion to "guard", and "the more the better".

His good intentions, how can Chongzhen not know?

Chongzhen had mixed feelings in his heart at this time, and said in his heart: I, maybe I'm really suspicious again! At this time, Brother Qin, maybe you're laughing at me in your heart, right?

He couldn't figure out how to answer for a while, which made the atmosphere a little awkward.

At this time, he heard Qin Shuhuai smile again, "Your Majesty, the minister didn't ask you for this house in vain." The minister can spend millions of taels of silver on the three sides, and pay the emperor and reward the army for the emperor. ”

A few words dissolved the embarrassing atmosphere without missing a trace.

Chongzhen borrowed the donkey from the slope and said with a smile, "Brother Qin, if you want to cry poor, you are crying in the wrong place, I am poorer than you! Haha, but you can keep this account in mind, and when I am developed one day, I will definitely reimburse you." ”

"Haha, then I have to keep some notes, why do I have to calculate some interest?"

"Stingy, such a small amount of money still has interest with me!"

"My brother is settling accounts!"

"Haha, Brother Qin, Brother Qin, I can't talk about you! Drink, drink!"

Chongzhen didn't drink well and soon got drunk. Qin Shuhuai has no choice, it seems that he can't talk about business today, so he has to retire first. Chongzhen pulled Qin Shuhuai in a daze, said that he would not let him go, and said that he would go to the dormitory to sleep together, and the face of the eunuch on duty turned white with fright, but fortunately Qin Shuhuai was not drunk and did not really follow Chongzhen to his harem.

After Qin Shuhuai went out, it was already dark. Poor Sun Chengzong was still waiting outside, and when he saw Qin Shuhuai coming out, he hurriedly stepped forward to ask what was the situation. Qin Shuhuai told the truth, saying that the emperor was drunk and was going to sleep peacefully. Sun Chengzong thought that he had heard it wrong, so he hurriedly asked, "Is the emperor drunk in the imperial study?" What is this? Could it be that the emperor is still drinking in the imperial study?

Qin Shuhuai wanted to say, drinking is a fart, and the emperor still eats hot pot with me!

But after all, he didn't make a small report in front of Chongzhen's teacher Sun Chengzong, but hummed and perfunctory.

That night, he stayed at Yanagi Academy. In the evening, he asked Sun Chengzong to write a letter to his family, to the effect that Chen Qing'er, grandmother, Chen Shu, and Chen Li would pack up their things immediately after receiving the letter, and set off for the capital early the next morning. At the same time, he also wrote a letter to Li Dali, asking him to bring more military supplies over while escorting his wife to Beijing, especially fire oil, thunderbolts, green gong oil, etc. After several battles in a row, these supplies have now basically bottomed out.

Sun Chengzong helped Qin Shuhuai write these two letters, and couldn't help but say, "The Hou Ye is loyal to the emperor, and the old man admires it." ”

He naturally knew that Qin Shuhuai was going to take his family members as hostages and put them in the capital.

Qin Shuhuai smiled bitterly and said, "Sun Ge has praised it, as a courtier, it is right for me to be loyal to the emperor." ”

But in his heart, he sighed: I didn't expect that now I would be loyal to Chongzhen in this way. Hehe, any brotherhood is just an accessory in front of the monarchy.

Chongzhen, Chongzhen, in your eyes, the graceful and luxurious Forbidden City is the pinnacle of power, and everyone covets it. But in my opinion, it's just a quadrangular cage. Your emperor's life is not only not as easy as that of a governor, but also not as happy as that of a rich man.

I'm not interested in taking your throne, do you understand?

He stamped his big seal on the letter, handed it over to a good hand, and sent it to the helmsman of the Jianghe Gang overnight.

Before dawn the next day, Sun Chengzong came to knock on Qin Shuhuai's door. Qin Shuhuai thought something was wrong, but when he opened the door and asked, it turned out that Sun Chengzong asked Qin Shuhuai to go to the early dynasty together.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was a very strict early dynasty system, but after a few emperors who did not fall in love with the dynasty, it slowly decreased, and when it came to the Chongzhen Dynasty, the early dynasty was not held every day. However, with the recent entry of the Tatars, the early dynasty will naturally open frequently.

Qin Shuhuai then remembered that he was now a member of the dynasty, a cabinet member, and a dignified prince, but he had never been to the early dynasty once!

Well, this has to go! It's hard to come to the Ming Dynasty, no matter how you say it, you have to see what the early dynasty looked like, right?

I was just about to agree, but suddenly I found one thing, that is, I didn't bring an official uniform!

So he asked, "Elder Sun Ge, I didn't bring an official uniform, do you have a suitable official uniform?"

Sun Chengzong said, "What the Hou Ye said, how can the official uniform be ordinary clothing, how can our academy hide it privately? In addition, the official position and resume of each court official are different, and the court uniform is also different. For example, Master Hou, you are the emperor who appreciates the python robe, so naturally you have to wear the python robe to the court. ”

There was no way, Qin Shuhuai had no choice but to give up the idea of going to the early dynasty, and went back to the house to make up for it.

It wasn't until the third pole of the day that Sun Chengzong's scholar came to call Qin Shuhuai, saying that Teacher Sun asked him to go to Yinfeng Book House immediately.

Qin Shuhuai thought that Chongzhen must have come over, so he immediately washed up, and then ran to the Yinfeng Library.

In the house, Chongzhen and Sun Chengzong were indeed there.

After Qin Shuhuai saluted, Chongzhen said with a smile, "Brother Qin, how did you sleep last night?"

"Very good. ”

"I slept well, too. ”

"The emperor looks very good today, and he must have slept well. ”

Chongzhen pointed to the map on the table and said, "Brother Qin, we have to talk about something serious today! Now that Huang Taiji has led 70,000 elites to besiege Zunhua City for nearly a month, the food, grass and ammunition in the city are in short supply, and Inspector Yuan hopes that you are already looking forward to wearing autumn water!"

Qin Shuhuai nodded and said, "It is indeed not easy for Inspector Yuan to be able to guard for so long. Then let's discuss how to save it. Elder Sun Ge, I still want to trouble you to introduce the current situation. ”

Sun Chengzong stroked his beard and said, "Okay, then the old man will talk about it first." ”