Chapter 161 Out of the City Fee 3/10)
On the night of March 14th, the entire capital was filled with noise.
The court finally decided to move south.
When this news came, it shocked many people's attention. It was obvious that reinforcements had arrived, so why did the court make such a decision again?
Countless rumors spread inside and outside the capital.
Some of the news pointed directly at Zheng Zhilong, but it had nothing to do with it.
At this time, countless families were packing their luggage in Yanjing City nervously.
Which of the officials of all sizes and a large number of nobles in the city is not the most important thing to go home to pack up their luggage? The city of Yanjing was lost. I don’t know if I could still get it back in my lifetime. If the things are pulled here, it would be equivalent to throwing them to Li Zhe.
Is it still necessary to live a life when we go to the south?
Even some people who are unwilling to go to the south in their hearts will not dare to be innovative at this time. Everyone is packing their luggage, but you are still calm and unhappy. Are you going to stay and defend the city and serve the king with death, or are you going to surrender to Li Zhe?
Even if the team left behind the capital has not yet been finalized, the one who stayed is also a man, and the young family can also follow the team of people south.
The emperor has already said that there are thousands of sea ships at Tianjin Port, which can transport court officials and soldiers, so that everyone can feel at ease.
But who can really feel at ease at this time?
Everyone is very embarrassed to go to Tianjin and then go to Jinling.
Among these people, the royal relative Tian Hongyu was the most popular among them. He was from Yangzhou. Even when his daughter Tian Guifei was the most favored, he did not buy land and property around the capital, but instead focused his business in his hometown Yangzhou. Although Emperor Chongzhen favored his daughter, Empress Zhou was not from the cold palace and had three sons, two of whom had grown up. Tian Hongyu dared not think about the position of the crown prince, let alone his daughter had passed away.
When Chen Yuanyuan was brought to the capital, he wanted to offer it to Emperor Chongzhen. However, he was not satisfied and gave it to Wu Sangui to show his friendship.
Therefore, Tian Hongyu would not feel sad about moving south at all. After he went to the south, he would not even go to Jinling, so he would stay in Yangzhou to enjoy his happiness. If the Ming Dynasty could always defend the Lianghuai River.
He is really worried that the court will go south in a large scale, and his troops will be defeated thousands of miles away, and he will be pushed to the Yangtze River by Li's soldiers in one fell swoop. Then he will be in great trouble.
But no matter what, that is a matter of the future. The most delay now is to leave the city quickly and go to Tianjin quickly.
"Quick, fast, all of them are more neat."
He didn't sleep all night and started to act before dawn. Several lanterns illuminated Tian Hongyu, who sat on the horse's back and shouted. He was named guerrilla general by Emperor Chongzhen, commanded by the Jinyiwei, and served as the left governor. However, he was difficult to ride a horse once on weekdays, and there were carriages when he entered and left.
Today, I was wearing a strong outfit, not only riding a warm, tall horse, but also a chariot knife around my waist.
More than two minutes later, the sky changed from black to dust, the moon was still hanging in the west sky, and the stars were still shining. A group of people, more than twenty carriages, maids and servants, guards, and more than two hundred people were out of the mansion.
Carrying the lantern, I walked towards Dongzhimen all the way.
On the way, I met an old acquaintance - Zhou Kui.
The Zhou family's team is much more than the Tian family. There are more than forty flat carriages carrying large boxes. The carriages are crushed, which shows the heavy loads of the carriages. Tian Hongyu could think of them with his butt, that should be all silver.
Sixteen taels per pound, the Ming Dynasty was almost one pound and two taels of later generations. This six thousand taels of silver was one thousand pounds. With the wooden box, there were at least one thousand one hundred pounds, which was enough to load a carriage and horse. In addition, the precious objects in the mansion, some fine and soft, and the carriage and horses carried by the inner servants, and the servants, were twice as much as the Tian family.
"Yeah, isn't this the father-in-law?"
"Ha, it turns out it's Royal Family."
The two of them, who were tired of each other, walked away to meet each other, sneering and talking.
Tian Hongyu didn't know Zhou Kui as much as he knew him. His daughter was dead and Zhou Hou was still alive. He didn't fight with the old guy Zhou Kuina.
"Of course, the father-in-law invites you first!"
But while Tama Hiroyuki spoke, there was a hint of anxiety in his eyes. He thought he could catch up for a while, but now he looked at it, there were still many people who were the same as he thought.
If there were too many people at the city gate - he knew the news that the city gate was blocked yesterday. They were all powerful families, and it would be bad for the people and soldiers to see it. Don’t be angry if the emperor knows it.
Zhou Kui naturally did not let go of the anxiety in Tian Hongyu's eyes, and reached out to touch his arms and smiled proudly.
"Old guy, I'm in a hurry now, that's too early. Let's go and go to the city gate."
With a cold snorted in his heart, Zhou Kui quickly urged his subordinates to go forward. In order to ask for this handover, he had suffered a lot of blood and filled the gaps of Liu Wenbing's old thing, and the emperor was only grateful to him.
Otherwise, based on the emperor's annoyance to him, he would have to take off his skin if he wanted to ask for this handwritten order.
Zhou Kuiren is not a fool either. How could he not know that he offended the emperor in the matter of "donating funds and pays", and his son-in-law had a big objection to him. Even his daughter blamed him. He was really a splash of water from a married daughter.
Not to mention Zhou Kui, Tian Hongyu was thinking what he thought. When the team arrived at Dongzhimen, a layer of cold sweat oozed out of Tian Hongyu's forehead.
Zheng Jun, with knives and guns, set up two rows of roads, and all the teams were queuing, all crowded on the left side of the road, freed up the right road, blocked by a team of soldiers, and the teams on the left side of the road were lined up three or four miles long.
"Go, go here, go right."
Zhou Kui rode a horse and shouted loudly. The Zhou family's team did not line up in the left line, but went directly to the right line. Zhou Kui's old man held a book high in his hand. The leading officer took it and waved his hand to block the army and make way for the passage, and the Zhou family's men passed by.
"How can the Zhou family leave?"
"How can Jiading Hou leave?"
Seeing that the Zhou family could actually pass through the right side of the road, the people queuing on the left exploded.
Everyone is a great minister, and now they are lined up next to each other. Zheng Zhilong sent someone to guard the gate and refused to pass. So why can Zhou Kui be exceptional? Is his daughter the current queen?
Taikangbo Zhang Guoji was the first to be angry. His daughter was still the first queen or the emperor's sister-in-law.
When the emperor persuaded him to donate, he took out 20,000 taels of silver, which was the first of the emperor's relatives. How could Zhou Kui leave and he couldn't leave?
Zheng Zhilong smiled happily at the scene below his head on the top of the city, and said to Zheng Sen beside him, "Did you see it? This is the honorary relative of the Ming Dynasty. He should have been together with the country and was sincere and dedicated, but in fact, the big tree scattered first before it fell."
"There are few of the nobles in the capital." There are not even many people with normal wisdom, so they were really raised into pigs by the Zhu family.
Time returned to yesterday, Emperor Chongzhen was furious again by his ministers and nobles, but he still had to endure it and was about to explode.
Chapter completed!