As the evening approaches, the dragon boat is moored on the shore of Zhaoyang Lake.

This area was originally rampant. Since the Huai Army's navy became stronger, the water bandits were suppressed and recruited, and this place was already a safe area for the Huai Army.

Chongzhen, who had been on the boat for more than a month and had not got off the boat, decided to follow the soldiers ashore and stay overnight. After more than a month, he had not stepped on the land and stepped onto the hard ground. Chongzhen felt much more comfortable.

Chongzhen, Zhou Hou, Concubine Yuan, Zhang Yan, Princess Kunxing and Princess Zhaoren all got off the boat and walked on the green grass. The cool breeze made Princess Kunxing and Princess Zhaoren, who had not set foot on the land for a month, ecstatic.

The auxiliary soldiers of the Huai Army arranged a luxuriously decorated Central Army tent for Chongzhen's family, and built a temporary palace with tents and wooden boards. A circle of curtains was used as a wall around the palace. The Central Army tent was a temporary house built with wooden pillars and tent cloth. It was airtight on all sides. Chongzhen sat inside and felt much more comfortable than on the boat. After passing Shandong, the climate was hot at the end of April of the lunar calendar, and it was really uncomfortable to live in the stuffy cabin at night.

The Central Army’s Grand Prix is ​​a place for temporary court meetings. Behind the Central Army’s Grand Prix is ​​a temporary bedroom built with wooden boards, wooden pillars and tent cloth, where both Chongzhen and his family live.

The outer periphery of the temporary palace was the Ming army camp, Wang Chengen's East Factory was protected by his personal body, the Jinyiwei was on the middle floor, and tens of thousands of Huai troops were on the outside. Chongzhen, who was under the third floor, was very safe.

Lu Zhenfei, who was the governor of the canal transportation, had already learned about Chongzhen's arrival and came to Jining to meet the saint.

"Lu Qing, tell me what happened to the four towns in Jiangbei? It wasn't only Liu Liangzuo and Huang Degong?" Chongzhen asked with a stern face.

Lu Zhenfei replied carefully: "Your Majesty, Gao Jie fled from Zezhou, and returned to Ze after being defeated in Tongguan. Later, he saw the thief breaking the capital, so he fled south and robbed along the way. Later, he was ordered by Ma Shiying to station in Xuzhou. Unexpectedly, this guy harmed the people in Xuzhou, robbed him and went straight to Yangzhou. The gentry of Yangzhou did not dare to accept it, and he was reluctant to leave Fu Zhiyang, so Gao Jie's army stationed outside Yangzhou City. As for Liu Zeqing, he heard that he was attacked by Wuweibo and fled back from Shandong."

When Chongzhen heard Liu Zeqing's name, he was furious: "Liu Zeqing was originally stationed in Linqing, and the bandits attacked the capital. I ordered him to go to Beijing to serve the king, but he did not move his troops and sat on the country to hide the dust! So what if Wuwei Bo beat him? This bandit refused to obey the order and should be killed!"

Lu Zhenfei quickly knelt down: "Your Majesty, now that the enemy is in front of us, our Ming officers and soldiers should not be slaughtered, we should unite in the foreign countries."

Li Guodong next to him sneered: "The Lu Governor is such a bad word. If there are too many of these people who hold troops and respect the orders and refuse to obey the imperial edict, should everyone listen to the imperial edict? Your Majesty asked him to go to Beijing to serve the king, so they ran south. If Your Majesty asks them to go to Nanjing to serve the king in the future, wouldn't they turn around and join Jiannu?"

"What does Wu Weibo mean?" Lu Zhenfei asked.

Li Guodong turned to Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, Liu Zeqing not only refused to obey the order, but was respectful but refused to enter the capital to serve the king. Instead, he intercepted the Wei ministers' army on the road to serve the king! If Liu Zeqing had not stopped Wei ministers, his troops would have arrived first before the treacherous arrived in the capital, and the country would have fallen into the hands of the bandits."

"Emperor, Liu Zeqing is extremely guilty, and he should be killed if he is punished!" Wang Chengen also made a comment on the side and advised Chongzhen to kill Liu Zeqing.

Lu Zhenfei was startled: "Your Majesty has thought twice. Although Liu Zeqing was extremely guilty, the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Nanjing. He must guard the river and Huai. The four towns in Jiangbei. If the general of one town is suddenly killed by Your Majesty, will the other three towns be panicked? If a mutiny is triggered, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Can you just let this traitor go like this?" Chongzhen snorted coldly.

Li Guodong said: "Your Majesty, I think that Governor Lu's words are reasonable. Of course, we cannot let Liu Zeqing go, but we just let him go for the time being. Your Majesty, we are still halfway. After Your Majesty arrives in Nanjing, if you let me take action, you will definitely be able to eradicate Liu Zeqing."

Lu Zhenfei said again: "Your Majesty, you should first give Liu Zeqing an imperial edict to come to Xuzhou to welcome the sage. If this thief resists the imperial edict, it is not too late to find a way to get rid of him. If he follows the imperial edict to come to Xuzhou to welcome the sage, it means that this person is still useful, and Your Majesty can show mercy."

Chongzhen nodded: "Then let me follow Lu Qing. I will give Liu Zeqing an edict first and see how he will."

The imperial kitchen in the temporary palace is actually like the Huotou Army, burying a stove in the field to cook, and the imperial kitchen prepared a sumptuous imperial banquet.

At dinner time, Chongzhen invited Li Guodong and Lu Zhenfei to his temporary palace. In the open-air dining room, an Eight Immortals table was placed, and a large plate of cold dishes were placed on the table, which were made of sausage, braised pork, white shrimp, braised duck gizzard, and a plate of roast duck platter next to it, with sliced ​​duck, sweet noodle sauce, lotus leaf cakes, green onions, sugar and cucumber strips. After a while, the young eunuchs brought plates of delicious dishes such as fried dumplings, steamed mandarin fish, stewed chicken soup, braised turtle, secret mutton, steamed crab, etc.

"Why did you cook so many dishes? It's too wasteful, right?" Chongzhen pulled Wang Chengen aside and questioned him very dissatisfiedly.

"Your Majesty, you have been in a hard life for seventeen years. Now we have money, so we should eat more good food. Moreover, these things are provided by Wu Weibo, and they do not spend a piece of copper coins in the emperor." Wang Chengen replied.

The harem of the temporary palace also had a table full of delicious dishes, which made Princess Zhaoren very happy. She had never eaten so many delicious dishes in the capital before. In addition to the reason why Chongzhen had no money, she was just Concubine Yuan's daughter. Chongzhen liked the children of Concubine Hotan the most, one was the legitimate child and the other was his favorite concubine, so Chongzhen devoured Princess Kunxing very much, and Princess like Princess Zhaoren, Chongzhen basically ignored it.

On the fourth day of the fifth month of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen's fleet crossed the Yellow River and arrived in Xuzhou. This was a treasure fleet full of gold, silver and treasures. Even Chongzhen's own dragon boat was filled with boxes of gold, silver and treasures. However, no thief dared to have the idea of ​​this fleet. The more than 40,000 Huai troops around, the more than 3,000 Jinyiwei promoted from refugees, and the more than 500 Dongchang men recruited from refugees, the loyal Wang Chengen and his two hundred armed eunuchs were not vegetarians.

The fleet passed the lock, crossed the Yellow River south, and entered Xuzhou. Chongzhen did not see Liu Zeqing coming to welcome him by orders.

"Liu Zeqing really resisted the order?" Chongzhen sneered.

"Your Majesty, it's normal. The capital was besieged by bandits. The bandit refused to obey the order and refused to send troops to serve the king. Instead, they intercepted the ministers. After being in a bad situation, how could he dare to come? He was afraid that he would come to welcome the horse, so he turned into a roast duck like Yuan Chonghuan." Li Guodong said on the side.

"Hmph! I understand! When I arrive in Nanjing, I will kill this thief!" Chongzhen said gritting his teeth.

"Your Majesty, if you want to kill this thief, should you let me come and guarantee to pay the silver obtained from the family confiscation to Your Majesty. Your Majesty, let me talk too much. I cut Yuan Chonghuan before and only collected 1,000 taels of silver. Don't you think it's too little?"

"It's a little less. Maybe Yuan Chonghuan only has that little money, right?"

"Your Majesty, I don't believe that Yuan Chonghuan only has this little money! The Jinyiwei was still too slow. When he arrived in Guangdong, his family had already transferred the money! Your Majesty, when he arrived in Nanjing, he could ask the Jinyiwei to find Yuan Zhe's family, and perhaps he could still copy a lot of money."

Just as Chongzhen and Li Guodong were discussing how to take Liu Zeqing, bad news came from Nanjing: King Fu became the governor! Bad news came from the north: The Qing Dynasty put all the strength of the whole country into the pass, and Li Zicheng was defeated in a rock.
Chapter completed!