Chapter 695 Zhang Yan was confronted by a weak woman

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In the Bohai Bay, the north wind kept whistling by, blew waves on the sea surface. The big ship that had bulged the sails rushed through the waves and rushed towards Dengzhou City. Because the speed was very fast, there were long white ripples behind the stern, which could not dissipate for a long time.

This is a fleet departing from Tianjin Wei. The ship was carried by Queen Yi'an Zhang Yan and others. Around the ship, there were Jinyiwei with knives standing around the big ship, which looked solemn and solemn. Because it was smooth sailing and the northwest wind was very strong, the fleet set off from Tianjin Wei in the morning and arrived near Dengzhou City in the afternoon.

Ji Yuqing came to Zhang Yan's room gently, looked inside casually, and said with a smile: "Senior sister, Dengzhou City is coming."

"I know."

Zhang Yan's voice came from the inside.

Ji Yuqing has always called Zhang Yan with a private relationship, but Zhang Yan insisted on responding in an official manner, which showed the attitude of both parties. On the Hu Benjun side, he did not recognize Zhang Yan's identity as the queen, but only recognized that she was Ji Yuqing's senior sister. Her arrival was a private identity, not the identity of Queen Yi'an of the Ming Empire. On the other hand, Zhang Yan, of course, insisted on her identity as Queen Yi'an and asked Zhang Zhun to maintain respect for herself. Her respect for herself is her respect for the court.

A moment later, Zhang Yan came out of the cabin accompanied by the palace maid. She wore a long white and blue dress with blue patterns, and the blue patterns were woven into ivy, which was green and green. The sleeves were woven from several layers of light gauze and embroidered with bird pictures, exquisite and gorgeous, and a bit of leisure and comfort. She just simply tied a bun on her head, which was neat and simple and generous. In this way, it could also cover up a bit of weakness and show the majesty of the imperial concubine.

Zhang Yan is actually very young. If Emperor Tianqi lived to this day, she would be only 31 years old. She would be two years younger than Emperor Tianqi. However, at a young age, she had been a widow for several years. Many years Chongzhen ascended the throne, she had been a widow for many years. Fortunately, it is almost common to become a widow in the royal family. Almost every woman who marrys into the royal family must be mentally prepared to become a widow.

"Senior sister, where is the junior sister?"

Ji Yuqing asked with a smile.

"She was not feeling well and she couldn't come out."

Zhang Yan's expressionless answer.

"So my junior sister is sick! There is a female doctor next to Zhang Zhun. She has a very good medical skills. Please ask her to show her to the junior sister."

Ji Yuqing said with concern.

"If you are interested, the imperial doctor will handle it."

Zhang Yan said lukewarmly.

"Then, senior sister, I'll leave first!"

Ji Yuqing smiled slightly and turned around and left.

Zhang Yan looked at her back and her beautiful eyebrows quietly frowned.

It was really troublesome to turn the arm out. I really didn't expect that my junior sister would get into trouble with Zhang Zhun. The conflict between the two junior sisters was, she, the senior sister, could not reconcile. Alas, look at the situation, it was so chaotic that she couldn't even control her own people, and she still wanted to control others?

"Zhang Zhun..."

Zhang Yan suddenly thought of this name.

This name made Zhang Yan very uncomfortable. No matter how kind she is to the people around her, no matter how patriotic and the people she is, she has her own position. What she wants to maintain is of course the rule of the court. Zhang Zhun’s purpose is to overthrow the rule of the court, that is, to overthrow the rule of their Zhu family. In terms of nature, he is the same as Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others. In other words, Zhang Zhun is her mortal enemy, not her own family.

However, the people in the capital had different views on Zhang Zhun. This made Zhang Yan feel very entangled and a little scared. Why? Because Zhang Zhun was able to kill the Tartars. Now the people in the capital know that the Hu Ben Army was very powerful in killing the Tartars, but the imperial army was beaten to pieces by the Tartars. Compared with the two, one was the sky and the other was the earth, and the people's hearts were almost on Zhang Zhun's side.

At the beginning, Shi Kefa volunteered to go to Huangxian to bring the heads of the Tatars back and exhibited in the capital to calm the panic of the people in the capital and relieve the pressure from the court. At that time, Zhang Yan did not agree very much. It was obvious that doing so would only allow more people to know Zhang Zhun's power and the incompetence of the court. When Zhang Zhun's light completely concealed the court, dangerous things would continue to happen.

Unfortunately, she is a woman and must never interfere in political affairs. Chongzhen is actually a very stubborn person. He respects himself because he never interferes in government affairs, never forms party members with ministers in the court, and has fought with Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party for so many years. If he interferes in political affairs, Chongzhen would definitely be disgusted with him. Therefore, even though he knew that the matter was inappropriate, Zhang Yan dared not say it publicly.

Sure enough, when Shi Kefa escorted thousands of Tartar heads into the capital, the capital immediately became excited. The names of Zhang Zhun and the Hu Ben Army began to be known by everyone in the capital, and even the whole world. Such a big thing would be completely impossible even if the court wanted to transfer flowers and trees and steal dragons and phoenixes. In the end, this incident led to the reputation of Zhang Zhun and the Hu Ben Army.

Having said that, the imperial army was indeed too incompetent. As the imperial sister-in-law, sometimes even Zhang Yan couldn't help but ask, how did Chongzhen manage the army? Why was the imperial army in front of the Tartars a pile of shit, losing in a row, while the Tiger Army in front of the Tartars was a dragon and tiger-like leaping, winning in a row.

Thinking back then, the eunuch party was in power and the battle against the Tartars did not fail so badly. Logically speaking, after Chongzhen killed the eunuch party, the situation in the court should have been completely renewed and full of vitality. Why is it not as good as the eunuch party before? The Tartars invaded three times in a row, which was simply too horrifying. What problems happened here?

Because the combat effectiveness gap between the Hu Ben Army and the imperial court official army was too big, even Zhang Yan was very surprised. Last time Shi Kefa escorted the Tartars' head to ***, she also personally checked it and was sure that it was the Tartars' head. She had to believe that Zhang Zhun was indeed very capable of killing the Tartars. But why did Zhang Zhun have such skills?

Putting aside the hostile position, Zhang Yan was still very interested in Zhang Zhun. She also specially collected Zhang Zhun's relevant information for this, and then conducted careful analysis and research. As a result, the more she analyzed and studied, the more she felt that Zhang Zhun was simply a weird person. Apart from himself, others could not infer any valuable information from his information.

According to the information collected by the Dongchang and Jinyiwei, before the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Zhun was a foolish military household. She was not hungry after eating alone. She was also a fool in her daily behavior and her mind was obviously not very good. Sometimes she couldn't even remember her own name. However, after the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Zhun began to become more powerful.

After the Lantern Festival in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Zhun almost provoked all the troubles in Fushan Institute with his own strength. He killed all those who opposed him. Based on Fushan City, Zhang Zhun continued to expand his power around. Finally, he achieved today's achievements. It can be said that Zhang Zhun started from scratch and pulled him up alone.

Zhang Yan really wanted to know who Zhang Zhun met and what happened at the beginning of the seventh year of Chongzhen, how could he suddenly become enlightened? He became so capable? Could it be that it really seemed like in the novel of the gods and monsters, and that he had met the gods? If Zhang Zhun really met the gods, would it mean that he had gained the attachment of God and became the new emperor?

"Don't think about it anymore..."

Zhang Yan shook her head quickly and tried to stop her terrible thoughts.

If the court is really abandoned by God, it will definitely be a fatal matter.

"Empress!"

The palace maid next to Zhang Yan suddenly whispered.

The palace maid is named Chu Bingyan, she is her junior sister's disciple, or she can also be said to be her junior nephew.

"Um?"

Zhang Yan came to her senses and looked in the direction Chu Bingyan pointed.

It turned out that twelve huge white warships came from the southeast. After these white warships came up, they quickly turned around and then guarded them on both sides of the ship, heading towards Dengzhou City.

These white warships were hung with the military flags of the Hu Ben Army, which were obviously under Zhang Zhun. Even if Zhang Yan didn't understand military affairs, she could see that these warships were much stronger than the warships of the imperial navy's own. Twelve white warships appeared beside her, which immediately brought heavy pressure to herself.

By the way, does the imperial court still have a naval commander at present? It seems that there are. The imperial court has not yet cancelled the Dengzhou Navy and Tianjin Naval commander. It may have forgotten it, or it may be that someone wants to continue to eat the vacancies and does not want to cancel the naval commander. However, do these two naval commanders still have warships? Zhang Yan believes that there should be no more.

In other words, the current court does not have its own warships at all. Well, it seems that it is wrong. Zheng Zhilong from Jiangnan seems to have been urged by the court... However, even if Zheng Zhilong's nature is a little different from Zhang Zhun, it will not be too different.

When Zhang Yan saw Ji Yuqing coming, she frowned and asked, "What is this?"

Ji Yuqing said intentionally or unintentionally: "This is the latest sword-tooth ship served by the Hu Ben Navy, equipped with thirty-two cannons, with a range of more than five miles."

Zhang Yan had no idea about the specific data, but she had the problem of being picky. She said coldly when she heard this: "Why don't they appear in Tianjin Wei?"

Ji Yuqing said casually: "It is said that he just returned from Ganghwa Island, Korea. Maybe he heard that the Empress arrived, so he came to greet him. As for the specific arrangements, I am not very clear. We have been in Tianjin Wei for too long, and many of the plans have changed."

Hearing the word North Korea, Zhang Yan felt that her heart was gently stabbed. Zhang Zhun was actually mixed with the Koreans? He was just a small general, and what power did he have to deal with the Koreans? The damn Koreans actually gave up the court and mingled with Zhang Zhun, obviously preparing to join Zhang Zhun. Are their expectations for Zhang Zhun still above the Ming court?

The next few words from Ji Yuqing just now made Zhang Yan feel very uncomfortable. Ji Yuqing was clearly mocking her that she had stayed in Tianjin Wei for too long, which made many things change. The secret meaning was obviously to warn her that Zhang Yan should not continue to play with any tricks. Otherwise, the one that would not be worth the money in the end would be you. Zhang Yan was naturally very unhappy when she was warned like this, so she didn't say anything.

Ji Yuqing ignored Zhang Yan's feelings and continued to say intentionally or unintentionally: "The matter of the Dabai Fleet seems to be arranged by Zhang Zhun. He has agreed with the North Korean side that after a while, Empress Yi'an of Ming Kingdom will visit North Korea and ask them to prepare for the welcome."

Zhang Yan frowned gently.

Visit North Korea?

Zhang Zhun’s arrangement?

She subconsciously wanted to refuse, feeling that there must be Zhang Zhun's conspiracy. However, after a while, she changed her mind. She believed that she represented the Ming court. Since she had gone to North Korea, she represented the Ming court, not Zhang Zhun herself. Perhaps, she could also bring North Korea back to the embrace of the Ming court. At the worst, she would also warn the Koreans not to continue mingling with Zhang Zhun.

"I will consider it!"

Zhang Yan answered quietly.

Ji Yuqing smiled slightly and said nothing.

After a while, the fleet began to slow down, and a large number of sails were landed in an orderly manner. The Dabai fleet on both sides also said goodbye and left, and quickly disappeared to the southeast. The Dabai fleet's home port, after completing the demonstration mission at Weihaiwei Port, naturally left quickly. After a while, the fleet carrying Zhang Yan slowly sailed into the port of Dengzhou City.

Unlike the crowded welcome scene that Zhang Yan hoped to see, there were only twenty or thirty sparse figures on the dock of Dengzhou City. At first glance, it felt a bit desolate. In a vague way, Zhang Yan could recognize that the leader was Zhang Shenyan. Zhang Yan recognized Zhang Shenyan. When the eunuch party was rampant, Zhang Shenyan was one of the targets of the eunuch party's attack. Fortunately, Zhang Shenyan finally avoided the disaster, but was deprived of his official position and his life was not dangerous.

There is no doubt that in Zhang Yan's opinion, Zhang Shenyan is upright and has a strong ability to handle government affairs. If he can be reused, he will definitely play a great role. Unfortunately, Zhang Shenyan has defected to the Hu Ben Army now. In other words, Zhang Shenyan is now strangers to the court.

Zhang Yan couldn't help but sigh, what kind of ability does Zhang Zhun have to make people like Zhang Shenyan surrender? There is no doubt that in Zhang Yan's heart, he felt that Zhang Shenyan was a minister who should be valued, but he didn't know why Chongzhen deposed Zhang Shenyan. In the end, Zhang Shenyan defected to the Hu Ben Army.

The big ship slowly leaned on the pier, and the Jinyiwei on the boat lined up to get off the boat to guard the ship. Then, the people who welcomed Zhang Yan came on board. Strangely, it was not Zhang Shenyan who came first, but two young women. Their clothes, in Zhang Yan's eyes, looked a bit rustic, but they were naturally beautiful, pretty and slim, which was a bit eye-catching. Ji Yuqing directly introduced them to Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan quietly estimated in her heart that these two young women had a close relationship with Zhang Zhun. Zhang Zhun, a thief, is quite lucky! Ji Yuqing was obtained by him. If the two women in front of her changed into a gorgeous dress, they would be much more attractive than they are now. Since the other party was Zhang Zhun's person, Zhang Yan would be put on airs. She deliberately raised her face and asked a little unhappy: "Who are you?"

A woman wearing a green lake came to Zhang Yan, bowed properly, then straightened her waist, raised her head and said, "Little woman Yang Yinghan..."

Zhang Yan frowned slightly and said slowly: "You are Yang Yinghan?"

Ning Lingwei interrupted and said, "Yes, she is Yang Yinghan, Zhang Zhun's wife who has not passed away. My name is Ning Lingwei, she is her good friend. We are here to pick you up on behalf of Zhang Zhun."

Zhang Yan's face began to pull down involuntarily.

She was very dissatisfied with Zhang Zhun not appearing, only Zhang Shenyan appeared. Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhun actually asked two innocent women to come to greet her. Yang Yinghan's salute was not the etiquette of a common woman to the empress, and a blessing was fine. What is this? Do you think of yourself as an ordinary woman?

Zhang Yan tried hard to control her emotions and said with a stern expression: "Why didn't Zhang Zhun come to pick him up? Could it be that no one told him about the arrival of this palace?"

Yang Yinghan said respectfully: "I'm sorry, sister Zhang Yan and brother Yulin are busy with military affairs and cannot get out of here for the time being. If he has time, he will come here soon."

These words were taught by Ning Lingwei. On the surface, they really couldn't find any fault. However, Zhang Yan was already angry and annoyed. Not only did she not bow according to the rules of paying homage to the Queen, she also called Sister Zhang Yan himself! Who is your sister? The Queen is your sister?

However, Zhang Yan had no choice but to worry about it, because Yang Yinghan didn't seem to be very out of line, just a little girl! Even if she really said the wrong thing, as the queen, she would let her go generously. Could it be that you ordered the Jinyiwei to give her out immediately and then punish her? I'm afraid that even if Zhang Yan dared to order, the Jinyiwei around her would not dare to act.

Are you trying to seek death by using force on Zhang Zhun's land? The Hu Ben Army killed Tartars like killing chickens. Isn't it easy to kill a few Jinyiwei, or killing a few ants? Maybe, the Hu Ben Army is waiting for Zhang Yan to turn against him first and then kill people. Idiots know that Zhang Yan's arrival is not very welcome.

Zhang Yan said coldly: "From my opinion, Zhang Zhun doesn't want to see me, right?"

Yang Yinghan raised her eyebrows and said sharply: "According to the Queen's wishes, even the Tartars will not be cared about for the Queen's arrival? For the Queen's arrival, all military affairs must be put aside? No wonder Wu Sangui didn't dare to set out from Tianjin Wei to save Sun Chengzong. It turned out that it was all for the Queen!"

Zhang Yan was immediately suffocated, her face turned blue and white, and she was very embarrassed.

She had never expected that the weak woman in front of her would dare to contradict her directly!
Chapter completed!