evil slave

"How could Taiwan fall?"

The thick bearded man was stunned as if struck by lightning, looked at the sick man in disbelief, and shouted tremblingly: "This is not true, this is not true, this is not true!..."

Seeing that the thick bearded man was agitated and nearly lost control, the sickly man hugged him and advised him, "Third brother, calm down, Taiwan has really fallen, and the prince has already shaved his hair and made it easier to take on clothes!"

"The prince has already shaved his hair and changed his clothes...?"

The thick-bearded man fell backwards when he heard the words, but fortunately the sick-looking man stopped him in time to prevent him from falling. 【】

"Third Brother, since this is the case, don't be overly sad. Back then when Big Brother heard the news, he felt the same grief as you, but what can we do?"

The sick-looking man tried his best to comfort the bearded man, hoping that he would not be overly sad about this matter.After the thick bearded man heard this, he didn't speak for a long time. Seeing this, the people outside the tent didn't dare to enter and disturb them, and they all stood guard outside.For a while, there was silence inside and outside the tent, except for the chirping of birds, not a single human voice could be heard in the whole valley.

After about half the time of touching the incense stick, the sky became dark, and the thick-bearded man broke the silence and asked in pain, "When did it happen?"

The sick-looking man closed his eyes slightly, and replied, "It happened in early August."

The thick-bearded man didn't speak after hearing this, but walked to the altar, lit three sticks of incense and put it in the censer, kowtowed three times before getting up and looking at the sickly man: "How did elder brother know about this?"

The man with a sick face said: "Your second brother heard what the Qing army said when he sent food to Aiyuan."

The thick bearded man nodded, and suddenly asked again: "Where is the prince now?"

The man with a sick face was startled when he heard the words, and hesitantly said: "I'm not too sure about this, the prince is not sure outside the pass, but according to my estimation, the prince has already been sent to the capital together with Feng Xifan, Liu Guoxuan and others. "

Hearing the names of Feng Xifan and Liu Guoxuan, the thick-bearded man suddenly roared: "Didn't Liu Guoxuan claim to be a famous general? Didn't he say that the Penghu navy was an enemy in the sea? Couldn't the navy of the Qing court do anything to Taiwan? Why now? Taiwan has fallen again! The former king was really blind, and he handed over the military power of Taiwan to him. Pooh, it was he who made Taiwan and the princes fall into the hands of the Qing court!"

Although the sick-looking man who had a general understanding of the Battle of Penghu was also dissatisfied with Liu Guoxuan, but he saw that the thick-bearded man attributed all the responsibility for the defeat of Penghu to Liu Guoxuan, but he had to say a few words for him: "The Penghu navy fought with Liu Guoxuan in June. In the battle between the Qing army and the navy, our army won a great victory in the first battle, but the wind direction changed suddenly. Our navy warships capsized several times in a row, and we were at a disadvantage. He just lost, it’s not that he’s too capable, alas!” After speaking, he sighed heavily, with a look of pain on his face, as if he felt sorry for the tragic scene of the naval battle.

Hearing what the elder brother said, the thick-bearded man curled his lips and wanted to refute, but in the end he didn't refute the elder brother. He paused and asked, "Brother, do you know who the general of the Qing army who attacked Taiwan is?"

Hearing the third brother's question, the sick-looking man became so angry that he slammed his fist on the wooden table beside him, and said viciously, "Shi Lang!"

"This dog is a traitor!"

The thick bearded man also had an angry expression on his face, his facial features were distorted with hatred, which was quite frightening.After a while, the two regained their composure, and the thick-bearded man looked at the god's tablet as if he had lost something, and said softly, "Is there any news about the chief helmsman?"

The sickly man shook his head: "No, before we left Shandong, the brothers of Jiangsu Qingmutang wrote to say that the chief rudder was active in Zhejiang. May the chief rudder return to Taiwan, so the chief rudder can only be active in the coastal provinces these years. His whereabouts are unpredictable, and the general congregation does not know his whereabouts. The only person who can contact the chief rudder is Xiang Lord, other people don't even know that when we were in Hongshuntang, our brothers were not allowed to enter Xiangtang to discuss matters. After going north, we were given a pot by the Qing court and sent outside this pass to deal with the Raksha people for them. The chief rudder knows that we are outside the customs, so he can't send someone to contact us, not to mention that we don't care about the chief rudder right now. Alas, Taiwan is dead, and my last incense of Ming Dynasty is over. To be honest, I really don't feel good about being a brother, but that's okay, we finally have no such thing as uneasy conscience."

There are ten rooms in the Tiandihui, five rooms in the front and five rooms in the back.The first five rooms are Lotus Hall, Hongshun Hall, Jiahou Hall, Cantai Hall, and Honghua Hall.The last five rooms are Qingmu Hall, Chihuo Hall, Xijin Hall, Xuanshui Hall and Huangtu Hall.Of the first five houses, the long house Lianhuatang should be in charge of Fujian, the second house Hongshun hall should be in charge of Guangdong, the third house’s back hall should be in charge of Guangxi, the fourth house Cantai hall should be in charge of Hunan and Hubei, and the fifth house Honghua hall should be in charge of Zhejiang.The last five houses, the long house Qingmu hall is in charge of Jiangsu, the second house is in charge of Guizhou, the third house is in charge of Sichuan, the fourth house is in charge of Yunnan, and the fifth house is in charge of Henan Province.Tiandihui was formed by Zheng Chenggong's old department, and its main force is in Fujian. Therefore, Lianhuatang is the head house with the strongest strength, followed by Guangdong, Guangxi and Lianghu, followed by Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

The man with a sick face is Feng Laojiu, the old thief leader who once had a relationship with Zhao Qiang in Songshan Fort, and the thick-bearded man is his third sworn brother Peng Hu. , all three of them are congregants of Wufang Huangtutang after the Tiandihui.After Wu Sangui raised troops in the 13th year of Kangxi, under the instruction of the chief rudder Chen Yonghua, Huangtutang asked the brothers to pull up green forest troops in Shandong and Zhili. At that time, they took the opportunity to start an incident, but they didn't want Wu Sangui to stop when he reached the Yangtze River. This northern land was not affected by the war in the slightest.The three Feng Laojiu brothers struggled for two years, and finally the local government sent troops to destroy the stockade, and then they were imprisoned together with their families without seeing the light of day.

I thought I would never see the sun again in this life, but I didn't know that the year before last, a group of Qing soldiers suddenly came and lifted them out of the prison, escorted them all the way to the outside of the pass, and then took them and the family members of the other minions together. They were assigned to Ninggu Tower, and then they were told that if they wanted to survive, they had to obey orders, otherwise their family members would be killed together with them.In this way, in order to keep his subordinates and his family, Feng Laojiu was forced to agree to work for the Qing army, and then he led his men to Songshan Fort, and then to Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places, specially sneaking into Rakshasa They wreak havoc behind the people and steal their food.

Originally, he still had his loyalty to Taiwan, the Tiandihui, and the chief rudder, but since he heard that Taiwan had fallen, Feng Laojiu completely gave up the idea of ​​returning to Ming Dynasty. He had discussed with his second son Lin Shengji, It is the right way to do things for the Qing court honestly, and don't mention the word Tiandihui in the future.As soon as Peng Hu mentioned the chief rudder Chen Yonghua, Feng Laojiu subconsciously expressed his thoughts.