Xie Ming

Chapter 407 In front of Wuying Palace
On July 19th, after the defeat in the northern part of Pingyuan, Bahana was escorted back north by the garrison and finally returned to the northern camp of the Jiannu outside Dezhou Pass!
Bahana's elbow was injured and he lost too much blood. In addition, the broken arrow was poured with gold juice, which caused the wound to become infected!
After returning to the camp, the boy fell into a deep coma for two days before he regained consciousness due to weakness.

Afterwards, Shi Tingzhu considered the current situation and decided to withdraw the army and return to the old city and small county for defense in order to prevent the Southern Army from taking advantage of the situation to attack again!

At the same time, he sent three teams of troops, one of which rushed north and went straight back to the capital to report to Prince Derui Dorgon on the situation on the Dezhou line to the south!

As for the other two teams, they also split up and went back to Hejian and Cangzhou, returning to the headquarters camp in the rear in advance, waiting for orders from their superiors to prepare for the transfer of troops to the south!
That's it!
The defense pressure on Texas City was suddenly reduced!
Sun Peizhong brought more than a thousand soldiers from his own army and took advantage of the opportunity to strengthen the defense!

Later on July 22, they temporarily stationed in Xiao Jingchuan, Pingyuan County, and also transferred 2,000 rural soldiers from Zhao Yingyuan's army to the north to garrison in Dezhou City to relieve Peizhong's shortage of military strength!

At the same time, a lot of logistical materials such as food, weapons, etc. were allocated to Dezhou to meet military needs!

Two days passed in a flash, and it was July 24th!
Going south from here, it is more than 1,300 miles away from the small county in Pingyuan!

The good news from the north finally arrived on horseback, reaching Yingtian and the imperial city of Nanjing in the south!
This was the former secondary capital Yingtianfu, the imperial city of Nanjing, and was also called the Forbidden City at that time!

Its construction began in the 1366th year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty (1392), and was basically completed in the th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty ()!
It lasted for more than twenty-six years.

Adopt the principle of "left to the ancestors, right to the community, facing the market".

The two sides from Hongwu Gate to Chengtian Gate are the central government offices, while the two sides from Chengtian Gate to Wumen are the Imperial Ancestral Temple and the Altar of Land and Grain.

The former dynasty is centered around Fengtian Hall, Huagai Hall, and Jinshen Hall, with Wenhua Hall and Wenlou to the east, and Wuying Hall and Wulou to the west.
The rear court is centered around the Qianqing Palace and the Kunning Palace, with the Chunhe Palace to the east, the Rouyi Hall, Fengxian Hall, Dashan Hall, and Jiuwu Feilong Hall to the west, and the six east and west palaces on both sides of the West Palace!
Central-level government offices were basically located on both sides of the Thousand-Step Corridor inside the Hongwu Gate of the Imperial City.

Looking from south to north, to the east of the Qianbu Corridor are the Ministry of Works, Ministry of War, Ministry of Rites, Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Clan Affairs.

To the west of Qianbu Corridor are the Taichang Temple, the Rear Army Governor's Office, the Front Army Governor's Office, the Right Army Governor's Office, the Left Army Governor's Office, and the Central Army Governor's Office.

The overall format is basically based on the structure of civil on the left and military on the right!

Gu said: "The six ministers are on the left, governing with culture; the five ministries are on the west, maintaining order with military force."

This year, on June 22, the first year of Hongguang, Zhu Cilang crossed the river to the south and officially ascended the throne in Nanjing. It has been more than a month since then!

In the past period of time, the various departments in Nanjing have seen changes in their positions, and most of those who have been promoted to high positions have also settled down.

In the reorganized cabinet, the position of Prime Minister was chosen to be the former Nanjing Minister of War, who was also in charge of the Minister of Revenue, Qiu Weizhen, also known as Qiu Yongzu (pen name). He continued to serve as the Minister of Revenue and was given the title of Grand Secretary of Wuying Palace!
The second assistant of the cabinet, Ni Yuanlu, Ni Ruyu (Zi), was appointed as the Minister of Personnel and was granted the title of Grand Secretary of Jinshen Palace!

Shi Kefa, also known as Shi Xianzhi (Zi), served as the Minister of War and was also awarded the title of Grand Secretary of the Dongge!

Ma Shiying, Ma Yaocao (Zi), served as the Minister of Works and was awarded the title of Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion!
Li Shichun, also known as Li Erhe (Zi), served as the Minister of Rites and was granted the title of Grand Secretary of Jianji Palace!
Gao Hongtu, also known as Gao Ziyu (Zi), served as the Minister of Punishment and was also awarded the title of Grand Secretary of the Dongge!

Moreover, since mid-July, it has been raining continuously on both sides of the Yellow River in the northern border!
In Yingtian and Nanjing, located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, there was little daylight, and it was cloudy and gloomy all day long, with heavy rain continuing!
At the beginning of this month, in order to prepare for the transportation of military supplies to the north, a civil uprising broke out in Changzhou County, under the jurisdiction of Zhenjiang Prefecture, 200 miles east of Nanjing!

The mob resisted the imperial court's collection, gathered to cause trouble, and beat the county magistrate and the county magistrate to death. This incident had a bad impact. A few days later, it implicated the nearby Danyang County and caused unrest again!

In order to calm the situation, Zhenjiang Prefecture sent troops to suppress it!

However, public resentment is boiling over for the time being, and unstable public opinion may arise in the southern border!
After several days of overcast and gloomy weather, a proverb began to spread among the people: "Heaven is resentful and people are angry, so they have to eat their own children and sell their daughters to collect military rations!"
The time is pushed back to July 24th!

After noon, Emperor Hongguang Zhu Cilang, despite his cough and illness, ordered the newly promoted eunuch Wang Zhixin, who was in charge of the Imperial Household Department, to summon the six ministries of the Cabinet to the Wuying Palace to discuss matters!
Outside the palace, the east wind was strong and the rain was chaotic, blowing in your face, making it difficult to avoid!
Wang Zhixin sent his eunuch to run quickly to Wenyuan Pavilion beside Wenhua Palace. After delivering the order, he walked out of the palace alone and waited in front of the stone steps, "Come and wait!"

Soon, on the sidewalk beside the palace, Ma Shiying leaned forward, holding an umbrella, supporting the staggering Qiu Weizheng, and appeared in the wind and rain!
The imperial city was now covered with leaden clouds, with howling winds and slanting rain. The raindrops at this moment even hit with greater force, chiseling on the blue bricks in front of the palace, causing a burst of white bubbles!

"Hey, Elder Qiu!"

"Look at how hard it's raining. It's really hard on you!"

"Quick! Quick!"

"We'll give you a hand!"

Wang Zhixin watched Qiu Weizhen slowly and staggeringly walk up half of the stairs, then he pretended to hurry down with his umbrella to greet him.

"How dare I, how dare I trouble the eunuch Wang!"

"Thank you very much, thank you very much!"

In the midst of the official polite words, Qiu Weizheng was also very blunt and grabbed Wang Zhixin's wrist!

"Hey, if you count it, we are not much different in age!"

"The main reason is that my legs are not very agile!"

"Haha, let's go! Let's go!"

"Let's move forward together, this, this will be much more stable, right? Huh?!"

"Hehehe"

It was raining at the moment, so the two elders exchanged some false courtesy and held out their hands to lead each other forward.

As for Ma Shiying, he was a junior official and could not sit idle at this moment. He hurriedly grabbed two umbrellas, held them in front of him, and smiled stiffly without saying a word.

After a few steps, Qiu and Wang climbed to the high point in front of the hall and moved under the eaves.

"Eh!"

"I'm talking to you, father-in-law!"

"Your Majesty, have you recovered from your cough today?!"

"I sent someone to look for the prescription from the immortal doctor. Has the Imperial Hospital ever looked at it?!"

"Your Majesty, has he ever..."

Qiu Weizheng suddenly came to ask about the matter.

Upon hearing this, the king also agreed with the suggestion.

"Hi!"

"I have. I made the medicine according to the recipe last night!"

"The Emperor has also been convinced!"

"Alas" he sighed.

"Your Majesty, although you do have a cough from the past, it has never been this severe!"

"In my opinion, it may be related to the continuous rainy days in the south!"

"Firstly, the humidity is too high. If there is too much moisture, his body will be weak, right?!"

"Besides, you should all smell it with your noses!"

"The palace in Yingtian is too old and has not been renovated. It has been there for so many years that there is a musty smell everywhere inside and outside the palace!"

"I've lived here for so long that the smell is irritating to me, not to mention how uncomfortable His Majesty is!"

(End of this chapter)