In the hall on the second floor of the Star City "Palace", Zhu Youjian, Queen Zhou, Zhu Ainao, Xia Hua and the yet-to-be-named Queen Zhaoren were having lunch.
Wang Chengen stood behind Zhu Youjian with a blank look on his face.
Originally, he was very unhappy when he saw Xia Hua dining with the emperor on his own initiative.
Later, I saw that there was nothing unusual about Zhu Youjian, so I couldn't say anything else.
He convinced himself that this was the Holy Father's family banquet and there was nothing wrong with his prospective son-in-law attending.
"娖儿, your injury is healed."
Zhu Youjian still felt a little guilty in his words.
"Father, my son is fine.
Don't worry about him."
Ainao replied.
She seemed to have grown up in a few days and was no longer the little girl who often acted coquettishly in front of Zhu Youjian. .
When she woke up completely, everything felt like a dream.
After Queen Zhou told Xia Hua that she wanted to marry her, two red clouds immediately flew onto her cheeks.
Queen Zhou was a woman, and she knew from her daughter's expression that she had no choice but to run away.
After the mother and daughter talked, Queen Zhou found out that her daughter and Xia Hua, who had an unknown origin, had had a relationship before.
Xia Hua was the imperial guard who had made meritorious service in Xiangshan and then suddenly disappeared.
When Zhu Yuyao saw Xia Hua again in the hall, she deliberately sat on his left side to avoid letting him see her left cheek, which was still wrapped in gauze.
In the middle of the meal at the table, Zhu Youjian started the topic and inquired about Xia Hua's specific life experience.
Both he and Queen Zhou believed that Xia Hua must be from a wealthy family, otherwise he would not have the huge amount of money to build such a huge "Wubao" like a city and support so many elite servants.
However, the two of them went through all the wealthy families they knew about, even including non-establishment wealthy families like the Zheng family on the southeast coast, but could not find a family named Xia.
Faced with Zhu Youjian's inquiry, Xia Hua avoided answering and only told Zhu Youjian that they were now near Tianjin Youwei, which is located on the bank of Ji River.
Seeing Xia Hua like this, Zhu Youjian couldn't ask any more questions, so he had to bury his head in his meal.
In the end, it was Queen Zhou who broke the awkward atmosphere.
After swallowing a fish ball, she said: "Hey, Earl Guiyi's chef is very good at cooking.
I have never tasted such delicious dishes in the palace."
She didn't mean to say this, but it was true.
The secret is that the chef of this Star City Palace uses a special seasoning.
An original MSG extracted from kelp soup.
The rest of the people at the table also agreed with Queen Zhou.
Xia Hua pursed his lips and told the truth: "This is not all because of the chef's skills, but because the kitchen has a special seasoning that is extracted from kelp soup."
At this time, a guard came in from outside and whispered a few words in Xia Hua's ear.
Xia Hua stood up and saluted Zhu Youjian and said, "Your Majesty, please be patient.
I have important matters to deal with, so I will leave first."
After that, he raised his feet and walked out.
Wang Chengen's expression changed.
Just when he was about to scold Xia Hua for being so rude, Xia Hua had already left the room.
Chongzhen felt a little unhappy when he saw Xia Hua being so disrespectful.
But when I think about the situation, I am a king in trouble.
How can I ask others to follow the usual etiquette?
Moreover, this is a private family dinner.
He felt relieved.
The remaining people continued to eat.
When they were about to finish, they suddenly heard several gunshots coming from downstairs.
Zhu Youjian's expression changed drastically, and Wang Chengen also trembled.
When Zhu Youjian came downstairs, he found several corpses of soldiers wearing black uniforms lying crookedly on the ground.
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Zhu Youjian was sure that these uniforms were definitely not those of Ming army soldiers.
And Xia Hua was still holding a smoking Colt pistol in his hand.
When Xia Hua saw Zhu Youjian coming down, he cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty was frightened.
These thieves were sent by fake officials from Abacus City in Tianjin to persuade me to surrender, but I killed them immediately."
After Xia Hua planned to seize Tianjin Youwei, the hereditary military officials of Tianjin Youwei immediately reported the incident to the governor of Tianjin.
In peacetime, this would be an earth-shattering event.
But in the current chaotic situation, the Tianjin governor has no energy or interest to pay attention to this matter.
Instead, he sat in Tianjin's Abacus City, strengthened defenses, and watched the changes in the world.
Then, the day after Xia Hua rescued Zhu Youjian, Shunjun's recruiting envoy arrived at Tianjin Wei Abacus City.
The governor of Tianjin there learned that the city of Beijing had been captured, that Li Zicheng had entered the Forbidden City, and that Emperor Chongzhen was likely to die for his country.
He immediately expressed his intention to surrender to the Shun Army, and directly issued a military order to the Three Guards of Tianjin in his own name to surrender to the Shun Army. .
Shortly afterwards, an army of about 10,000 soldiers marched into Abacus City in Tianjin to surrender.
The general leading the army was Li Zicheng's adopted son Li Laiheng.
Tianjin Guard is different from the general Ming Dynasty guard.
Because it is located at an important water transportation hub, it is of great military and economic significance.
Therefore, since the establishment of the Wei in Tianjin during the Yongle period, the Ming court successively set up a large number of civil affairs offices in Tianjin Wei's Abacus City.
Including the household department, the salt transportation department, the governor's salary department, the shipping and water transportation department, etc.
Abacus City has also gradually gathered various large salt merchants who rely on water and various peripheral industries formed around these core industries.
Small merchants, taverns, teahouses, and brothels also fill the city.
Since then, Tianjin Wei has become a city where military and civilians are mixed.
For this reason, the Ming Dynasty specially appointed the governor of Tianjin to take charge of the three guards of Tianjin and the entire Hejian Prefecture.
Of course Li Zicheng also knew the importance of Tianjin.
Not to mention anything else, due to the continuous natural and man-made disasters in the north, more than half of the food in Beijing has to be maintained by water transportation from the south.
In addition, in places like Tianjin, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are all rich and wealthy, and the big businessmen of Yancao are also officials and businessmen with a house full of gold and silver.
If this is to chase stolen goods and provide payment, how much silver will it cost?
Therefore, after being summoned to Tianjin, he surrendered.
Li Zicheng bypassed Li Yan, who was stationed in Baoding Prefecture, and directly transferred his adopted son.
Li Yan's deputy general Li Laiheng went to take over Tianjin.
When Li Laiheng came to the sacred place of Tianjin Wei Abacus City, he hurriedly began to reorganize Tianjin Guard's guards, city garrison, shipping and water transportation garrison and other Ming armies.
For the time being, I don’t have time to deal with the affairs of the two little guards in Tianjin.
It was not until recently that Li Laiheng made arrangements for the reorganization of Abacus City and the surrounding Ming armies, and when he thought everything was safe, he sent his troops to the Tianjin left and right guard barracks to recruit surrender, and ordered them to lead their own troops to Tianjin Guards to accept reorganization.
As a result, in Star City, the three messengers who were seeking surrender were shot and killed by Xia Hua without saying a word.
After listening to Xia Hua's story, Zhu Youjian said with trembling lips, "Kill these bandits and thieves well, kill them well."
"Your Majesty, if we want to stabilize the country now, the first thing we need to do is to control all the three Tianjin guards.
Now the city of Tianjin Right Guard is actually under my control, but the Tianjin Guard Abacus City and Tianjin Zuowei All the officers and soldiers of the three guards have surrendered to the traitors."
When Xia Hua was suggesting to Zhu Youjian, his words were interrupted by the other party
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