At the beginning of the civil castle, the Ming God of War was a little panicked

Zhu Qizhen immediately issued three imperial edicts:
The first imperial decree was sent to the Three Thousand Battalion, ordering Li Zhen to gather troops and set up an ambush outside the city of Erhun.

Li Zhen left the customs earlier than herself, and the [-]-battalion was broken up into pieces, using the identities of merchants and tourists as a cover, and came to Mobei in batches in advance, waiting for the opportunity to act.

The second imperial decree was sent to Beihaiwei, asking Ha Ming to make preparations and attack when the time was right.

Tuotuobuhua has been planning for a long time, and decided to set up an eyeliner in the capital. At this time, the best choice is Beihaiwei.

The third imperial decree was to send him back to the capital and order the prince to supervise the country.

After all, he escaped secretly, and the elders in the court must be in a hurry. Sending an imperial decree back can be regarded as an explanation.

In addition, there is an urgent task.

take money!

Atulu's family has [-] cows and [-] sheep. To buy them all would cost about ten thousand taels of silver.

Jin Yiwei has a secret stronghold in Erhun City, go get the silver now, and come back after dark.

only……

Yuan Bin asked puzzledly, "Your Majesty, do you want to stay here?"

Zhu Qizhen nodded and said: "The business that has just been negotiated must have a beginning and an end."

"It's nothing more than some cattle and sheep. I just send people to deliver them."

"Hey, that won't work!"

Zhu Qizhen stuffed another piece of lamb leg into his mouth, chewed it, and said: "He is so enthusiastic, come, you eat too!"

Yuan Bin was still in the mood to eat meat, and persuaded: "Your Majesty, I cannot guarantee your safety if you stay here!"

Suddenly I heard the sound of horns and horns outside, people clamoring and horses neighing, it was very lively.

Zhu Qizhen suddenly became interested and said, "Let's go and have a look."

"emperor……"

Yuan Bin wanted to stop him, but he didn't dare, so he had to follow.

When Zhu Qizhen walked outside the tent, he saw many Mongols gathering. Seeing their faces full of righteous indignation, they must have been tricked miserably by those thieves.

Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but feel emotional.

At the beginning, the Mongols often went south to plunder the Han people, which was called "grass valley". Now, fortunately, the cattle and sheep that they have worked so hard to graze are even sometimes being beaten into grass valley.

Apparently, they could not bear such a situation. They mounted their horses one after another, picked up their long knives, and carried their bows and arrows. A group of dozens of people rode their horses towards the north.

Looking at the backs of these people going away, Zhu Qizhen suddenly asked: "How do you think these people are fighting?"

Yuan Bin suddenly became nervous and said, "The emperor is worried..."

He suddenly realized that these people were quite fierce. If they gathered together with evil intentions, they could easily take down the local yamen. For such a serious hidden danger, Jin Yiwei did not warn in advance, which is a serious dereliction of duty!

"Don't be nervous!"

Zhu Qizhen shook his head lightly, and said: "In my opinion, these Wala people have agreed with me, Daming."

Yuan Bin didn't know what to do, so he had to persuade: "Your Majesty, the situation here is unknown and there may be danger, so let's advance to the city!"

"No hurry, just wait a moment."

Zhu Qizhen turned around and went back to the tent, saying: "I want to wait for Atulu to come back, but I don't know if they will be in danger, after all, they have received his hospitality, so they can't leave without saying goodbye."

Seeing that persuasion was useless, Yuan Bin stopped insisting.

He gathered the Jin Yiwei who followed, a total of 20 people.

The emperor cannot be without people, so he left half of these people, and the rest were divided into four groups. Three people went to inform Li Zhen, three people went to Beihaiwei, three people returned to the capital, and the remaining one went back to Erhun City to collect the money. bank note.

Zhu Qizhen was very happy while eating roast leg of lamb and drinking kumiss.

Until sunset, the sound of horseshoes was heard again in the distance.

"It should be back, let's go and have a look!"

Zhu Qizhen called Yuan Bin out of the tent, the sky was already full of sunshine, and the sound of horseshoes approached from far away, and a hundred or so Mongolian men flew back on horseback.

When the people got closer and closer, it could be seen that Atulu was at the forefront of the attack.

It can be seen that more than a dozen people are tied up, and the other end of the rope is pulled by the hand of the knight on horseback. Those prisoners can only run at a fast pace. If they can't run, they can only be dragged like dead dogs. Forward.

It is conceivable that these people are the Wala nobles that Atulu said, but times have changed, and the former nobles have become thieves, while the humblest civilians in their eyes have changed and become the new masters of this grassland.

Atulu had already seen Zhu Qizhen and was even more excited.

He got off his horse and said, "These damned thieves robbed more than a dozen sheep, and we caught up with them after running for more than ten miles. It's unlucky for them!"

Zhu Qizhen secretly laughed in his heart, for the sake of a dozen sheep, he actually risked his life, it seems that these people are really poor and crazy.

Arturu was talking, and pulled a person from behind the horse.

"Brother Huang, do you know who he is?"

Zhu Qizhen shook his head and asked, "Who is it?"

"Ha ha!"

Artulu laughed loudly, and said: "This man is called Chaka, and he was originally a commander under Boyan's command. He used to show off his might and was not good enough, but now he has become a sheep thief!"

Chaka's eyes showed a fierce look, and he muttered something in Mongolian.

Artulu took out the dagger from his body and said with a sneer, "Damn it, you're still stubborn when you're about to die!"

Chaka was dragged all the way, covered in blood, and kept yelling and cursing.

Although Zhu Qizhen didn't understand, he could guess that it was definitely not a good word.

The commander-in-chief is roughly equivalent to the Qianhu of the Ming Dynasty, a high-ranking military officer. He used to be very prosperous in the past, but he did not expect that he would end up like this today.

I don't know how many lives this person has... By the way, I vaguely remember seeing a few arrest warrants at the station outside Jaerhun City. It seems that this person is there, and the reward is not low!

Thinking of this, he asked, "Arturu, did you catch this man?"

"Exactly!"

Artulu nodded, then raised his foot and stepped Chaka on the ground, pulled his hair with his left hand, and the dagger in his right hand swept across, and under the golden light of the setting sun, a ray of silver light was sprinkled.

Zhu Qizhen was stunned, he didn't expect Atulu to do things so neatly.

I thought I would insult him a few words, or beat him up, and then send him to the Yamen to collect the reward, but who would have imagined, there was no nonsense at all, and he just let it go.

Chaka's body twitched, and blood gushed out from the incision on his neck and fell to the ground, staining the snow red.

Seeing this, the other horse thieves knelt down and howled.

"Wait...wait a minute!"

Among the crowd, a guard in a soap suit came to him panting.

"Wait a minute, where's Arturu?"

Judging from his appearance, it seems that he just got the news and rushed over here in a hurry.

Then I saw the scene in front of me.

"Artulu, how many times have I told you that catching thieves is fine, but killing people is not, and you have to hand it over to the Yamen..."

He said this in his mouth, but his face was full of helplessness, as if he had already gotten used to it.

Arturu gave him face very much, and said, "I just killed one, and there are more than a dozen alive. You just take it back and do business."

"It's not good for you to kill, but you want to kill Chaka. This man was issued a wanted warrant by the master. The one who lived was 200 taels, but the one who died was only 50 taels. I said you...why can't you get along with Yinzi?"

Artulu curled his lips disapprovingly, and said: "This person has bullied us a lot before, let alone only 50 taels, even if I ask me to pay 50 taels today, I will kill him!"

After finishing speaking, he ignored it, turned around and said to Zhu Qizhen: "Brother Huang, you were so negligent just now, let's go, let's continue drinking!"

Kazakh and others also gathered together, hugged Zhu Qizhen and walked into the tent.

It can be seen that these people live very simple and pure lives.

When Zeng Ye was there first, let them grab it, and they will grab it.

Because they have no choice.

If they didn't go to grab Daming, they themselves would have to die.

All the cattle and sheep raised by myself are handed over, and the whole family has nothing to eat, so what should I do if I don’t grab them?
Most of the looted things still have to be handed over, leaving only poor rations, and it would be good if they can keep starving.

Now they graze with peace of mind and live a stable life, and the whole family has no worries about food and drink. Under such a situation, if anyone comes to smash their own jobs, without saying a word, they will pick up the guys and arrest those thieves one by one. bloodletting.

The few of them had just gone through a fierce battle, so they naturally had an extra source of conversation while drinking.

Kazakh kept bragging about his brave performance, saying that he chopped down a person with his own hands.

"Since I changed my surname to Ha, I can't lose my name, otherwise, General Ha Ming will definitely not recognize me!"

Zhu Qizhen thought to himself, you changed your name yourself, and you didn't let him be your godfather, so why should people recognize you!

Do you want to compile a family tree of Has family and include you in it?

Kazakh was drunk and murmured: "I used to look down on the Han people. I always thought that the Han people were weak and cunning, until General Harming swept Mobei..."

"that……"

Zhu Qizhen couldn't help interrupting him: "Ha Ming is a Mongolian!"

Kazakh looked puzzled and asked, "What did you say?"

Zhu Qizhen repeated: "Ha Ming is a Mongolian."

"how is this possible?"

Kazakh almost jumped up, and retorted: "He is a general of the Han people, a senior official of the imperial court, how could he be a Mongol?"

"He is a Mongolian."

Zhu Qizhen explained: "Many Mongolians are officials in the imperial court, and..."

While speaking, he glanced at Atulu and asked, "Have you ever heard of the Three Thousand Battalion?"

Atulu nodded and said, "It is said that it is the main force of the emperor's side, and its combat effectiveness is extremely strong!"

Zhu Qizhen also nodded and said, "The Three Thousand Battalion is almost entirely composed of Mongols."

Atulu and others used to be just the lowest-level Wala civilians, and they had no idea about the upper-level things.

They thought that only Han people could be officials in the court, but they didn't expect that there were so many Mongols.

In this way, after fighting for many years, fighting back and forth, it became self-beating?

Kazakh grabbed his hair even more, and murmured: "I am a Mongolian, and I changed my Mongolian surname..."
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The next day, there was only one day left before the agreement with Qiqike, and he had to go to the city no matter what.

Atulu tried to persuade him to stay, but Zhu Qizhen politely said goodbye, leaving behind a few entourages disguised as guards in Jinyi to hand over the cattle and sheep, and then took Yuan Bin into Jaerhun City.

This is the hinterland of Mobei, but there are many Han people in the city.

On the contrary, places like Helin Town are more like places where Mongolians gather.

Yuan Bin had already sent someone to find a place to live. Colleagues organized and summarized the information collected in the recent period.

Zhu Qizhen knew that no matter how this conspiracy was planned, the truth would soon be revealed.

He carefully checked every piece of information, trying to find useful clues from it.

After a while...

"There is something wrong with this woman!"

Zhu Qizhen took a piece of information and said to Yuan Bin: "Come and see!"

Yuan Bin hurriedly took it, but after looking around, he didn't find any problems.

"Your Majesty, how do you see that something is wrong with her?"

Zhu Qizhen picked up a pen and circled a sentence on it.

Yuan Bin watched intently, and wrote: "Purchased [-] catties of wine from Shanxi, the capital and other places."

"Mongolians like to drink, why not buy wine?"

Zhu Qizhen said: "What is there to be thankful for, buying so much at one time?"

"It is estimated that it is used to entertain the emperor."

It is quite normal for the emperor to go on tour, accompanied by thousands of people.

Zhu Qizhen asked, "Did I say there would be so many people here?"

"This……"

Yuan Bin hesitated and was at a loss for words.

Zhu Qizhen snorted softly, and said: "Before I left, I already told her that I would go out of the palace in low clothes, why is she preparing so much wine?"

Yuan Bin thought about it carefully, and it seemed to be the case.

At the beginning, the emperor issued the imperial decree, but it was rejected by the cabinet and returned, and then the matter was like a stone sinking into the ocean, without further details.

"This one thing alone doesn't seem to be enough to prove that there is something wrong with this person."

"Why should I prove it?"

Zhu Qizhen smiled, and asked back: "You think this is a joint trial of the three judicial departments, and you have to produce evidence when you do things, don't you?"

Yuan Bin said with a bitter face, "What I mean is that there is no conclusion on this matter..."

"It will be too late when there is a conclusion. As long as I find something is wrong, or who is abnormal, I don't need any evidence to determine that there is something wrong with this person!"

Hearing these words, Yuan Bin couldn't help but feel ashamed.

Logically speaking, these should be Jin Yiwei's rhetoric.

Jin Yiwei is doing business, and he thinks highly of you when he talks about evidence.

Generally speaking, if you are arrested and beaten in Zhao Prison, you will be kept saying everything you should say and what you should not say.

Is there evidence that matters?
"I understand, let's investigate now!"

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said, "Your people have been searching for a long time, but still haven't found it, which means that this woman is meticulous in her actions and will not easily reveal her flaws."

"Then... where should I start, I implore the emperor to clarify!"

"Well, let me think about it..."

Zhu Qizhen lowered his head and meditated for a long time, then raised his head and said, "Why don't you just check the wine, maybe you can find some clues!"

"I'll make arrangements now!"

Yuan Bin was in a hurry, he was going to meet with Qi Qike tomorrow, and he only discovered the problem today.

And I don't know where the problem is!
However, he had secretly made up his mind.

Regardless of whether it is found out or not, the emperor cannot be allowed to meet this woman tomorrow.

This time, the emperor must not be left alone.

Even if it is tied, you have to tie people back!