Chapter 569
Apocalypse seven years, early December.

A good news came from [-] miles away from Shanhaiguan and rushed straight to the capital overnight. Zhu Youjian, who was diligent in political affairs, just lay down for a long time, and got up with his clothes on, and took the letter from Guo Zhen.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian had been dispatched to Fengyang to guard the mausoleum, and he would hang himself to death on the way.

And Guo Zhen also succeeded in taking over Wei Zhongxian's position and became the leader of the Eunuch Party again. Although this sword has been knocked out by the Donglin Party to break a lot of gaps, it is no longer considered sharp, but it can still kill people.

Seeing that the eunuch party was not eradicated, the new emperor seemed to be going to repeat the same mistakes, and began to favor Guo Zhen, the chief eunuch who was the supervisor of ceremonies.Naturally, the Donglin Party refused to give up, forcing the palace to target everywhere.

But because Zhu Youjian gained great prestige from the Auspicious Heaven Incident, under the suppression of the reputation of the sage Renjun and Huode Xingming, the Donglin Party, which has no suitable excuses, is temporarily unable to completely attack.

So both sides are waiting.

The Donglin Party is waiting for the eunuchs to act recklessly and ruin the reputation of the new emperor, and then they will launch another attack to force the emperor to completely surrender the eunuchs in order to restore the Donglin Party's control over the court.

Zhu Youjian also stood still, waiting for the good news of Zhang Jin from outside the pass.When the time comes, with auspiciousness falling from the sky with one hand and Shengjing burning with fire with the other, and the reputation of the two major events will be added, he will be able to have enough confidence to suppress the Donglin Party and start to implement the improvement of Xing Ming's policy.

This wait is nearly half a month.

"Kung fu pays off! Good! That's great! Zhang Jin did not disappoint me! Killed well, burned well!"

After Zhu Youjian finished reading the letter, he couldn't help getting up and getting out of bed excitedly, walking back and forth in the palace hall, laughing and praising.

Guo Zhen silently picked up the coat that fell on the dragon bed, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, it's cold at night, so don't catch a cold."

Zhu Youjian put on his coat and robe, and immediately said to Guo Zhen: "You immediately send your confidants to notify Lu Wenzhao to enter the palace, and keep it secret, so that the Donglin Party members don't notice it."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will do it now." Guo Zhen didn't ask any further questions, and turned around and retreated.

Two days later, the imperial court's commendation document set off from the capital and headed straight for Shanhaiguan, accompanied by troops from the Jinyiwei Brigade led by Lu Wenzhao.

Two or three days later, the awarding team arrived at Shanhaiguan, and the commander-in-chief Yang Qi led the team to go out to greet them in person.

Although there were eunuchs present, the leader of the team was Lu Wenzhao who spoke straight to the point: "Mr. Yang, Your Majesty attaches great importance to this matter. Let's wait for the greetings. Let's go see Zhang Jinhe first." Those hundred remnants."

Knowing the importance of this matter, Yang Qi nodded and said with a smile, "My lords, this way please."

Led by Yang Qi, Lu Wenzhao and his party soon saw Zhang Jin and the hundred disabled soldiers.

He was taken into the city as a prisoner that day, and Zhang Jin traveled back and forth between Shanhaiguan and Yingzhouwei alone. Only after these people were received from Yingzhouwei to Shanhaiguan, their identities and freedom were restored.

"Zhang Jin, the emperor sent me here." Lu Wenzhao looked at Zhang Jin, "Aren't you injured?"

"Thanks to the emperor's blessing, the major injury is gone, and the minor injury has healed." Zhang Jin replied with a smile, then picked up a wooden box next to it and handed it over, "This is a gift from me to the emperor."

"What's inside here? This head is..." Lu Wenzhao took it curiously, but when he opened it, he was startled. It turned out to be a human head!
"Houjin Dahan, Huang Taiji!" Zhang Jin said lightly.

Except for the hundred remnant soldiers behind him, no one else present knew what was contained in this simple wooden box, and they couldn't help showing shock when they heard this!

Yang Qi took a step forward and looked into the wooden box. He was naturally familiar with the appearance of this human head, and was stunned for a while: "Is it really Huang Taiji? You actually killed Huang Taiji and brought his head with you return!"

"What is this? Shengjing, the capital city of Houjin, was completely burned down by us!" said a remnant soldier behind him.

Originally, Shangguan was talking without him interjecting, but at this time, no one pursued him, and everyone's attention was attracted by his words.

"You still burned Shengjing City?!" Yang Qi suddenly looked at the disabled soldier.

Lu Wenzhao took a deep breath, suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart, and asked, "Is there any evidence?"

Zhang Jin smiled lightly: "Heads are the evidence. If you think it is not enough, you can send people to Liaodong to investigate. I think the news that Huang Taiji was killed and Shengjing was burned will soon spread throughout Liaodong. Huang Taiji continued It has been less than two years since he took office, and he did not appoint a successor to the position of Khan. The three major Baylors are expected to fall out because of this incident. At that time, Jin will be in chaos. Daming can take this opportunity to recuperate and solve internal problems. The world is peaceful and the people live in peace , when the time comes, Yangyang Ming is afraid of Houjin who is in a corner!?"

When Lu Wenzhao heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little excited. He was ambitious and pursued his own status, but he was also looking forward to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty in his heart.

"Mr. Yang, please send someone to Liaodong with my Jin Yiwei to investigate this matter."

"Master Lu, I will definitely cooperate with all my strength in this matter. If Hou Jin really messes up, it can be regarded as temporarily relieving the worries of the frontier soldiers like me."

The eunuch passing the decree, who hadn't said much, said at this moment: "My lords, I have seen you, and the matter is over, so is it my turn to announce the decree to the officers and men?"

"Of course, father-in-law please!" Lu Wenzhao said politely.

The eunuch passing the decree took two steps forward, and took out the imperial decree from the brocade box held by the little eunuch next to him: "The emperor has a decree, Zhang Jin and all the soldiers stepped forward to receive the decree!"

Zhang Jin knelt down reluctantly, while the hundred remnants behind him knelt down excitedly.

The eunuch who passed the decree saw that everyone had knelt down, so he opened the decree and read the words above.The general idea is that Zhang Jin and others have made meritorious deeds, the emperor and the court will reward them according to their merits, and will not treat them badly, and the soldiers who died in battle will also receive generous pensions and the like.

After receiving the imperial decree, the hundred remnants happily returned to the camp, while Zhang Jin and Lu Wenzhao went out to have a chat alone, and learned about everything that happened in the capital during this period.

During the period when he led the troops out of the customs, Zhu Youjian incorporated the eunuch party according to the plan. Guo Zhen has become the new party leader of the eunuch party, and has secretly started recruiting reliable talents, preparing to conduct nationwide field surveys for the future. foundation for tax reform.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian also contacted some reliable generals and civil servants, all of whom were mentioned in Xing Mingce, and planned to use these characters as the basis to build his own team in the court. After the Donglin Party is suppressed in the future, this The batch team will take over from the eunuchs and officials to achieve a smooth transfer of power.

The plan is planned in this way, but it is hard to say how successful it will be in actual implementation, and whether it will go astray because of this.

Zhang Jin can't control so much, he has already helped everything he can, Chongzhen is already the biggest winner so far, if he still can't take this opportunity to save Daming, then it can only be said that fate is hard to break, the Ming Dynasty is doomed to perish!

(End of this chapter)

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