It was already the Si card hour in the morning, but Emperor Chongzhen was still sleeping soundly in the deep curtain of the Ganqing Palace. The palace eunuchs who served in the bedroom were all calm and did not dare to make any noise, for fear of bringing down the emperor's rare deep sleep.

A sound of footsteps sounded outside, so obvious in the quiet bedroom.

Wang Chengen, the eunuch of Silijian, frowned and thought to himself, who didn't understand the rules, which would disturb the emperor's sleep. He walked out of the hall and came to the door of the hall. However, he saw that the person coming was not someone else, but Cao Huachun, the eunuch in charge of the seal, the admiral of the East Factory, and the governor of the Governor of the Beijing camp.

"Where is the emperor?" Cao Huachun was a little anxious.

Wang Chengen quickly whispered, "Eunuch Cao whispers, the emperor is still sleeping."

Cao Huachun was very surprised. As far as he knew, the emperor had poor sleep since he ascended the throne, especially since Jianlu entered the pass again last year and went straight to Shandong. After seeing the bandits who were about to be pacified, the emperor became more and more sleepy, and he often couldn't sleep all night.

And now it is already the time for Si card, and it is midday. Why is the emperor still sleeping? This is a very rare thing.

Although Wang Chengen has been promoted to the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor and holds the power to criticize the heroes that all the auxiliary ministers of the Central Cabinet are afraid of and envious, his status in the palace is still under Cao Huachun. This is not because Cao Cao's admiral Dongchang, nor because Wang Chengen was under Cao Huachun's name in his early years.

All of this is because according to the court system, memorials from various departments and localities in the capital were submitted to the emperor for approval. Before submitting them to the emperor for approval, the cabinet scholars must first review them. Use small ink books to write the review suggestions on paper and paste them on the opposite side of the memorial to submit them. This kind of memorial review prompt can save the emperor a lot of energy.

However, even if there are cabinet bills, there are many bachelors in the cabinet, but there are only one emperor. The cumbersome court memorials often make the emperor unable to bear it. In addition, many emperors of the Ming Dynasty once abolished the government affairs, and finally formed a system of eunuchs on behalf of the emperor to criticize the emperor. That is, after the official documents of various departments were submitted to the ritual supervisors for classification, they were selected to submit them to the emperor. The emperor may personally comment on the main points and the emperor declared the main points. Bingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbingbing

It is precisely because of this great power to criticize the famous people, the eunuchs who have been in the rituals and pens are extremely powerful.

However, Wang Chengen, the eunuch who wrote a pen, had to go through a key link. That is, the eunuch who made a pen must be reviewed and stamped by the eunuch who was in charge of the seal. Therefore, Cao Huachun was in charge of Wang Chengen, both in official positions and in real power. What's more, Cao Huachun was the emperor or the old man who believed in the king.

Wang Chengen whispered, "Yesterday, the emperor received an urgent military report from Sichuan. After Prime Minister Mei Zhihuan led the guerrilla Liu Jun into Sichuan, he won the flag, annihilated more than 5,000 bandits, and also killed the bandit leader, the King of Sweeping the Floor and the King of Ten Anti-Kings. After receiving this good news, the emperor was very happy and drank some wine with a rare chance. Then, for the first time in more than half a year, he slept so sweetly."

Cao Huachun was the admiral of the East Factory and the eunuch in charge of the seal of the Sili Supervisor. He was actually the first to know about these news.

"It is indeed rare good news. Since last year, the Eastern Barbarians have invaded a large number of people, and the Central Plains bandits have resurrected. Even Zuo Liangyu, who is known as a famous general, has suffered a great loss before, and the General's Pass has lost the seal of defense. Now, the emperor has activated Mei Zhihuan and others, and the results will be immediately."

Wang Chengen nodded, "Yes, yesterday the emperor praised Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng, Yuan Jixian and others very much, especially the guerrilla Liu Jun. The emperor praised him dozens of times in a row, and even picked up a pen and wrote Liu Jun's name on the screen."

"Liu Jun is already a general now." Cao Huachun reminded, "Maybe, he will be promoted to deputy general again soon."

"Oh. Why?"

"Another great victory was reported. Liu Jun led his troops to annihilate more than 5,000 bandits in eastern Sichuan, and killed the two thieves, King Shuntian and King Hunshi. As soon as I got the news, I immediately came to report to the emperor. You said, with these two great achievements, wouldn't Liu Jun be promoted again?"

"I won another battle. Could it be wrong?" Wang Chengen asked in surprise, "I just returned to the urgent report yesterday, saying that Liu Jun defeated the bandits, annihilated five thousand enemies, and killed the thief head 2. Why did he report to kill the enemy two again today and killed the thief head 2? Could it be that he made some mistakes, or was this actually a piece of news?"

"How is it possible? Liu Juntian is so brave that he dares not falsely report his achievements. What's more, the previous victory was to kill the King of Sweeping the Floor and the King of Ten Antis. This time, the victory was to kill the King of Shuntian and King of Mianshi." Cao Huachun did not believe that Liu Jun had such a courage to report his military achievements in this way. Even if the generals from all over the country have the tradition of false reports, it would be exaggerated at most, but they would never dare to make a name out of nothing.

Moreover, the four thief leaders killed before and after were all very famous, such as the King of Shun and the King of Ten Anti-Kings, were once one of the Thirteen families.

Wang Chengen thought Cao Huachun’s words were reasonable. Although Liu Jun was the nephew of Liu Qiao, Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng’s student, even if he was a famous minister, he would not dare to deceive the emperor like this.

"Oh my God, if it weren't for falsely reporting military merits, wouldn't it mean that Liu Jun won two consecutive victories in just a few days, annihilated more than 10,000 enemies and killed four giant thieves?" Speaking of this, Wang Chengen was a little confused about what to say. This Liu Jun was shocking.

In the bedroom, Emperor Chongzhen finally woke up slowly.

It took a long time since he slept so peacefully. After waking up, he felt much more relaxed. The imperial physician had always politely warned the emperor that the emperor should focus on the dragon body and avoid excessive labor. Even because of his body being too tired and weak, he had not favored the concubines in the palace for a long time. Even Concubine Tian, ​​whom he has always loved the most, has not favored him once every three months.

It was not that he suddenly wanted to stop desire, but that his legs were as heavy as lead all day long, and his body felt like they were stuffed with cotton flowers, and his whole body felt like they were hollowed out.

But after taking a lot of various tonics, he was useless at all. He still couldn't eat it every day and couldn't sleep at night.

The situation was so bad that he was really troubled. Yesterday, when he received the good news from Sichuan, he suddenly felt much more excited and even wanted to drink. He immediately sent a pot of good wine and drank it all. Then he pulled Wang Chengen and said a lot, and then fell asleep until this time.

He looked up at the light outside, it was almost noon.

After washing under the service of the eunuch, Chongzhen took off his apricot yellow nightgown, changed into a bright yellow dragon robe, and tied a jade belt, then walked out of the bedroom.

As soon as I came out, I saw Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun catching up with joy.

"I congratulate the emperor and congratulate the emperor."

Chongzhen smiled, "But a small victory is not worth mentioning."

"Long live the Lord. What I congratulate today is not yesterday's victory, but today's victory!"

"Today's victory?" Chongzhen was stunned for a moment.

Wang Chengen added on the side, "Your Majesty, the official army has won another battle, annihilated more than 5,000 enemies. He also killed the two rebel leaders of King Shuntian and King Hunshi. Among them, King Shuntian He Guoxing was one of the thirteen thieves in the previous thirteen thief leaders."

"Win again?" Chongzhen laughed, "Let me tell me, this time, which of my powerful generals has won this battle, is it Zuo Liangyu or He Renlong, or is it as fierce as a tiger and powerful as a tiger, or is it Qin Liangyu, the general of Zhendong? It is a good fight, and I will reward them heavily."

"Your Majesty is the command of the general Liu Jun, the general in charge of the Prime Minister Mei Zhihuan, led the troops of Huguang to lure the enemy into Wushan again and seized the second great victory after entering Sichuan. In addition, Mei Zhihuan's guerrilla Duke of Hu also led his troops to annihilate more than one thousand bandits."

"It's Mei Zhihuan and Liu Jun again!" Chongzhen's laughter stopped, a little unbelievable.

"Just reported Liu Jun's victory yesterday, and today's victory is here again?"

"When I returned to Master Long Sui, I was very surprised when I first heard this. Later, I asked the person who reported the victory carefully and knew that Mei Zhihuan had asked 100,000 yuan to send the victory report. The battle after that was only a few days apart, so the quick horse rushed, so I was only one day late to deliver the victory report to Beijing."

Cao Huachun added another sentence, "Just like yesterday's good news. This time, the heads of the two thief heads were also delivered with the good news."

"Take all the heads, and even the two yesterday, I will check them out myself." Chongzhen said suddenly.

"Your Majesty, the head of the bandits will be inspected by the Ministry of War. Why do you need to personally inspect it? Don't be shocked by the dragon's body."

"Don't say much, send it all."

Soon, the heads of the four thief leaders were presented to the palace, including the king of sweeping the floor, Cao Wei, the king of ten rebels, Yang Youxian, the king of Shuntian He Guo appeared, and the king of the world, Wu Ziqiang.

Among the four thieves, the tenth rebel king Yang Youxian and Shuntian king He Guo were all leaders of the bandits meeting in Xingyang in the eighth year of Chongzhen. At that time, they were known as the 72nd battalion of the Thirteen families, with Gao Yingxiang as the leader, Cao Cao Luo Rucai, Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying and other thirteen strongest bandits were named Thirteen families.

These thirteen families were also the thief leaders that Chongzhen hated the most. By now, Gao Yingxiang had been captured alive by Sun Chuanting and sent to the capital to Lingchi. Later, his general, Li Zicheng, inherited the title of King of Chuang, but was wiped out by the entire army last year and disappeared.

Then Shot the sky was recruited, and several others were wiped out one after another.

The eight kings who are still thorns in Chongzhen's eyes are the Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong, Cao Cao Luo Runancai, Zhu Tianxing Hui ascended the prime minister, Ge Li's eyes are He Yilong, Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying, Zuo Jin King He Jin, renamed King Liu Xiyao, Shuntian King He Guoxian and others.

It turned out that last year, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others surrendered, and the thirteen families were the only ones left in the Fifth Camp of the Left. Zhang Xianzhong rebelled again, and Shun Tianwang, the Ten-Rebellion King, and Guo Tianxing and others rebelled again.

Now, two of the capricious thiefs were placed in front of him.

Chongzhen ignored his hideous face and stinky smell and looked at several heads seriously. He even asked the eunuch to carefully compare the wanted portraits of the thief leaders who had been archived by the imperial court.

After watching for a long time, Chongzhen felt that these heads should be those rebels. The heads were cut off for not long, and they were finely controlled and still preserved well.

After breathing a long sigh, Chongzhen laughed loudly again.

"Hahahahahahahaha!"

After laughing for a while, Chongzhen walked to the basin of the water brought by the palace servants, washed his hands, and returned to the imperial throne.

Wang Chengen quickly waved his hand and asked someone to remove his head.

"It turns out that they are the heads of several thieves. Liu Jun did not lie to me. OK, very good, very good."

After laughing, Chongzhen felt very happy. It took a long time since he felt so comfortable. "I must reward such a loyal and brave minister. Well, Liu Jun is brave in fighting and should be rewarded. Well, Liu Jun is appointed as the general of the defensive bandits and the seal of the defensive bandits!" (To be continued.)

ps: The weather suddenly became cold, I caught a cold, and I had a headache! ~
Chapter completed!