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Chapter 559: The Building is About to Collapse, the Forbidden City is in a Variety of Forms

At first, everyone thought it was just an ordinary peasant uprising.

Just like the countless peasant uprisings in the north in history, it was ultimately just a temporary disaster.

But slowly, both major camps gradually realized that something was wrong - the North seemed to be out of control.

Inside the Forbidden City,

Yongyan looked at the ministers below.

Although he realized his dream of becoming an emperor, he was not happy at all.

It's all bad news every day.

"My dear ministers, how could it have collapsed to this extent in just a few months? How many pieces of pure land are there in the north?"

There was dead silence in the hall.

Some people are sad, while others are thinking about how to escape.

……

Yu Minzhong, his body is in Qing, but his heart is in Wu.

He closed his eyes slightly and wondered if the current pledge of allegiance was sufficient. If not, what else could he add?

He raised his drooping eyelids slightly and glanced at the guy on the dragon throne.

Heshen was in the palace but his heart was in Sichuan.

He was concerned about how his brothers and Lin were doing in Sichuan, and he was also concerned about whether his concubine was having a hard time in the harem.

The person sent to preside over the negotiations with Wu has not received any response yet.

He Shen, once the most powerful minister of the Qing Dynasty, is now only one step away from being imprisoned, but he is powerless to resist. His trusted butler Liu Qian suggests that he abandon his property and escape to Sichuan alone.

……

Qianlong?

The man has a hunched back and leans on the railing to watch the sea every day, with his white hair swaying in the wind.

The guards inside and outside Yingtai are all rebellious people.

At this point, he was basically in despair, and was certain that the Qing Dynasty was doomed. How could he expect his descendants to support a country that he himself could not even support?
Qianlong thought about it,

Chongzhen was a complete waste, his blind command led to the destruction of the country.

As a result, he committed suicide to sacrifice his life for his country, which led to a sharp rise in his reputation after his death, and made the entire Ming Dynasty appear to be strong and iron-willed.

If the Qing Dynasty is destined to perish, I should follow the example of Chongzhen.

If you don't hang yourself on a crooked tree, you either die in battle or burn to death. If the emperor martyrs for his country, his crime will be reduced by 8 points.

in the future,

In the history books, it can at least get a 50-50 evaluation.

……

"Your Majesty, it's time for you to take your medicine."

"Don't drink."

Qianlong, with snow-white hair, asked the young eunuch who came to deliver the medicine.

"Where did the Wu bandits attack? Did they cross the Yellow River?"

The young eunuch shook his head.

Qianlong added:
"Tell Yongyan that it's time to deploy the fleet in Lushun. At this point, it's meaningless to be cautious. Go all out and launch a daring sea raid."

"If he doesn't dare to gamble, he should withdraw to the border areas earlier. Even if the Qing Dynasty becomes the Later Jin Dynasty and pays compensation and cedes territory, he may still survive."

The young eunuch was like a deaf person, and quietly left Yingtai. He would write down everything he heard today and give it to the new emperor.

……

Fushou rode his horse humming a little tune as he returned to his newly renovated mansion.

The Qing Dynasty was doomed, but his personal luck was on the rise.

涨~
The butler came running over:
"Master, several guests want to visit you. They have been waiting in the hall for an hour."

"Who is it?"

"do not know."

Fushou walked into the flower hall unsteadily and was startled to find that these people were all housekeepers of famous mansions in the capital.

"Greetings, Lord Fu."

"No, gentlemen, I don't deserve your blessing and longevity."

One of them, a short and fat man wearing a black silk melon-shaped hat, took out a roll of silver bills from his sleeve and handed it forward in a flattering manner.

Fu Shou waved his hands:
"Oh, I dare not."

"To be honest, my master has something to ask of you."

"I am only the commander of the right wing of the First Army, and your master is a famous family in the capital, the ancestor of the famous Han Army Banner. Isn't this against Tiangang?"

……

Everyone looked at each other, and the short fat man lowered his voice and said:
"Well, Lord Fu, could you please introduce me to the person over there?"

Fushou instantly got angry and tried to remain calm:
"Which side is that?"

"Oh, that's it."

Humpty Dumpty pointed south.

Fu Shou's brain exploded with a thunderbolt, and he trembled and retorted:

"Big, bold."

After saying that, I wanted to run.

Everyone quickly grabbed him.

"Master Fu, please don't panic. Everyone knows that you have already made contact with them. Please help me introduce them to someone. This little bit of silver is just a small token of your appreciation. You will be rewarded handsomely in the future."

……

Fushou calmed down and looked around at everyone:
“Who knows?”

Everyone laughed:

"There are at least 100 people in this city who know your identity, if not 50."

"Oh my God." Fushou screamed and sat down on the ground, unable to get up for a long time.

It turns out that he always thought he had hidden it well, but it turns out that everyone knew about it.

Sweat drops from the temples~
Fushou couldn't help but ask:
"How did you know?"

……

Everyone squatted down to wipe his sweat.

whispered:
"You are usually too eccentric, too eye-catching, and too outrageous. Later, the Ministry of Justice followed you for a few days and knew everything. Your superior is that Boss Jiang, right?"

"Since you've figured it out, why don't you report it to me?"

"I'll report you? What will happen next? When the Wu army from the south invades, won't I redress your injustice and punish the nine clans of the informer?"

Fushou suddenly realized, that's what it was.

If the Qing army was triumphantly winning at the front and the situation was looking good at this moment, he would have been taken to Caishikou and tortured to death with 1000 knives.

He took the banknotes and counted them one by one.

laughed:

"Okay. Everyone, please be patient. I have to consult the new master."

"okay."

……

After everyone leaves.

Fushou slumped into the chair and closed his eyes slightly, feeling that the world was so humorous and exciting.

but,

He decided not to tell Jiang Tianmu, the intelligence agency's station chief in Beijing, who was still kept in the dark.

I was afraid that he would get furious and run away from Gaobeidian overnight.

Pretending nothing happened, he embezzled the banknotes received today.

The dynasty will be changed soon.

In the new dynasty, there are no more flags.
Only silver!

He had to find a way to get in touch with Fucheng, the senior whom he had only heard of but never met, the strange man in the Imperial Household Department of the Qing Dynasty, and the sworn brother of the legendary Emperor Wu.

I heard from Jiang Tianmu that Master Fucheng was doing very well in the Wu court and had become a high-ranking official.

They were all bannermen and all had the surname Fu.

He offered a large sum of money and clung to this big tree. In the future, he could at least start as a prefect. It might not be impossible for him to become a minister of the six ministries or nine departments.

……

Forbidden City, Hall of Nourishing Heart.

For the first time, Yongyan examined everything here as the master, including the Sanxi Hall. He was inexplicably annoyed when he saw that the blank spaces of the calligraphy were covered with his father's red seal.

"Someone is coming."

"The slave is here."

"Take out all these pens, ink, paper and inkstone and burn them."

"Whoo."

After a while, he saw his two concubines coming together. One was the principal wife Xitala, and the other was the concubine Xiao Xiaoqi.

The two of them held hands like sisters.

"I, my concubine, pay my respects to the Emperor."

……

Xiao Xiaoqi couldn't wait to take notice of the affairs of state.

"Your Majesty, about the Western Hunt?"

"I am working on it. I have mobilized 1 cavalrymen to escort the gold, silver, grain, craftsmen and firearms along the way. I am afraid it will take a year or so."

Xiao Xiaoqi bowed slightly:
"I, your humble servant, am also willing to serve the Emperor."

"You? What can a woman like you do? You can't lead troops to fight, right?" "National affairs are difficult. Although I am a woman, I know that we all prosper together and we all suffer together. Only when the emperor is well, I will be well."

Xitala was more honest and knelt down and sobbed:

"Sister Xiao is also very loyal. Your Majesty, please give her a chance."

"The Qing dynasty has nurtured scholars for more than a hundred years, but at this difficult time, I wonder how many people in the city are thinking about flirting with the south."

"On the contrary, the rootless eunuchs and women like us don't have any bad intentions."

……

Yongyan closed his eyes in pain and clenched his fists.

He also recalled the past of Chongzhen. In the end, only one eunuch, Wang Chengen, was left.

For a long time,

He opened his eyes and stared at the two women in front of him.

One is his first wife, a member of the Bordered White Banner, with a simple and honest character. She gave birth to the prince Minning and was a typical good wife and mother.

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One is a middle-aged couple, beautiful and intelligent, quite resourceful and scheming.

"That's what the Queen said."

"From now on, Concubine Xiao will be appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to assist me in preparing for the Western Hunt."

"I accept my orders."

Xiao Xiaoqi stood up and knelt down to express his gratitude.

After walking out of the Yangxin Palace, the corners of her mouth raised slightly and her eyebrows looked quite heroic.

She and Xitala were quite compatible. Without the help of this honest queen, she could not realize her ideal.

From Wuchang to Beijing
Her life was like floating duckweed, drifting between one man after another. Her fate was tragic and ridiculous.

finally,
Xiao Xiaoqi realized a truth:
Live like a man~
If you can't be Wu Zetian, at least be a powerful concubine and control your own destiny.

……

The city of Sijiu is like a big colander, leaking air from all sides.

From princes and military officials to street vendors, everyone knew that the court was preparing for migration.

However, hunting in the west is still hunting in the east.

The mountains are shrouded in fog.

Yongyan listened to Xiao Xiaoqi's advice and deliberately threw a smoke bomb.

On the one hand, he sent some of the side branches of the royal family, members of the imperial family, and great Confucian scholars and old ministers to Shengjing, and on the other hand, he sent his newly promoted young confidants and the Eight Banners of the New Han Army to the northwest.

There is a constant flow of people in both directions.

He also ordered the generals of Shengjing and the royal family to prepare for war and famine.

Chen Zuluo, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, was caught off guard and suddenly captured by the guards who came to announce the imperial edict. With General Xi'an in charge, Chen, a Han official, could only surrender without any resistance.

3000 trusted commanders silently laid down their weapons.

He suddenly changed his attitude and continued to be loyal to the new governor.

The Qing court's techniques of containment and control reached their peak, and even though the situation had deteriorated to this extent, no local warlords in the true sense had emerged.

……

The first thing Xiao Xiaoqi did after taking office as the Minister of Fengchenyuan was to order the cancellation of the renovation funds for the Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden, Wanshou Hill, Yuquan Hill, Xiangshan Hill, and Rehe Palace.

Use this money to set up a garden guard team.

Using both soft and hard tactics, he demanded 1000 flintlock rifles and 10 gun and artillery instructors from the Minister of War He Guozong.

He also ordered people to copy down the military training strategies of the foreign officer Emerson, and copied them in their entirety without changing a single word.

The training location is in the Old Summer Palace~
The members were craftsmen and servants from the royal gardens. Their original monthly salary was doubled and they were forced to become combat soldiers.

Xiao Xiaoqi is quite cautious in doing things.

The Fengchenyuan Qing was originally in charge of the royal gardens and palaces. What he was doing now was also within his duties.

And he informed the Queen of everything.

……

Across the Central Plains, various rebel armies came and went in a roar.

Local officials occupied the big cities, while the gentry either occupied the forts or hid in the city walls.

There were starving people and refugees everywhere, and their corpses were left in the wild.

It can be said to be a paradise for ambitious people and a hell for hungry common people.

Such chaos had a direct impact on the capital: all taxes and levies were reduced to zero.
Not a grain of food can be transported into the capital~
Not a single ingot of silver was brought into the capital.
Similarly, the negotiation for silver for the crime also fell through.

Discuss crime?

Only when order exists can crimes be discussed.

The world is in chaos, official roads are blocked, whose crime are you going to blame?
……

If Henan Governor Liu Yong had not worked so hard to collect grain and transport it to Beijing some time ago, the men and women in the old city would have been so hungry that they would have gone out to cause trouble by now.

Begging is impossible~
Begging is a local privilege, and Jing Ye would never beg for food even if he dies.

By now,

The Eight Banners General Office also opened its bloody mouth and told the ordinary bannermen.

"~There is a natural disaster in the north, and food and wages are in short supply. I suggest that everyone prepare early and quickly leave the border and return to Shengjing, our Manchu hometown. There is plenty of land there, and you can work hard and have enough food and clothing."

If it had happened on normal days, the Dutong Yamen would have been smashed eight times by the Beijing Bannermen.

At this point, everyone has accepted their fate.

Many bannermen chose to accept their fate, packed up their belongings, carried the elderly and children, and followed the material convoys out of the border, bidding farewell to the capital and the prosperity. This was like a beautiful dream of a hundred years.

Some of the Beijing Bannermen were indignant and refused to leave. No matter what happened, they would not move. We live together and die together.

If the emperor runs away, everyone will run with him.

If the emperor doesn't run away, no one else will run away either.

……

The reactions of the Han officials and gentry in the capital and the Eight Banners nobles were completely different.

There are roughly two types.

One way was to quickly deposit the money into Sihai Bank through an intermediary in exchange for a thin voucher. The other way was to ship it back home.

The former is prepared to surrender at any time.

The latter are die-hards.

A big hole was opened in the willow branches, and countless gold and silver and countless people flowed back to Shengjing.

The rental price of houses in Shengjing has tripled, and the price of rice, flour and salt has increased fivefold.

No way~
Everyone was rushing to buy things with money in their hands, buying whatever they saw. In the end, a great panic broke out, and the more expensive the item, the more they would buy, as long as they could spend the money they had.

Shengjing General Hong Xiang had a terrible headache.

He wanted to divert some people to other small towns and the countryside.

How could the Beijing Banner gentlemen listen to him? They were all poor and arrogant, and they cursed at their mothers as soon as they opened their mouths. How could the gentlemen who were used to the big world of Beijing be controlled by the officials of Shengjing?

……

In the Wu Palace, the atmosphere is solemn.

120 civil and military officers and more than 20 representatives from various industry chambers of commerce were waiting quietly in the hall.

The ministers sat and the rest stood.

Until I saw that familiar figure sitting on the dragon throne.

Everyone knelt down and shouted "Long live the emperor".

Li Yu looked down and raised his hand:
"My dears, please stand up."

Inside the hall, every face was filled with enthusiasm, excitement and excitement.

"Everyone, do you know about the military situation in the north?"

"The minister will know."

Before the court meeting, everyone present read the northern military intelligence briefing.

Li Yu raised his hand modestly:
"Then let's discuss it. Everyone can express their opinions. Don't hide them. Wu is mine, and it belongs to you as well."

……

I don't know who blurted out:

"Northern Expedition!"

Everyone shouted excitedly.

The fanatical voices overflowed from the hall and could be heard inside and outside the palace.

In a corner of the palace, Rong Mama, who was busy training the imperial troupe, listened for a while.

She twisted her feet happily and gathered dancers and musicians.

"Starting today, we will rehearse a new song, Wu Huang Po Zhen Yue."

"Practice well, and you will be able to use this song soon. Don't blame me for being cruel. If you little hooves want to be serious queens, you will have to sweat more."

……

Simultaneously,

The hall was quiet again.

"I can tell you a good news. Two days ago, the vanguard fleet has set out, and the target is Lushun. After destroying Lushun, we will establish an outpost base, cruise the Bohai Sea, and block the possibility of the Qing court's exile by sea. The Northern Expedition will be a land and sea expedition, and the victory will be achieved in one battle."

"Long live."

"Long live."

The atmosphere in the hall was so fanatical that it was indescribable.

Everyone has seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and everyone’s investment will soon be rewarded 1000 times, 10000 times.

A golden sun is about to jump out of the horizon, and a new empire is about to be established.

They are all loyal ministers and founding heroes, and they enjoy the most fruitful results.

Good days are about to begin.

(End of this chapter)