As Han Xiufeng expected, Su Shun learned the news that Yingfo Eryi was sharpening his sword and Huo Huo was preparing to fight, so he only said that he knew, and then asked him to go back and continue to investigate.

The imperial court didn't take this seriously at all, or didn't want to take it seriously, Han Xiufeng felt that it was useless even if he found out clearly, so he simply planned for the worst wholeheartedly.

Everything else is easy to do, but it is more troublesome to send the people in the hall and the families of relatives and friends back to their hometowns.

Beijing is not a place to stay for a long time, and Yangzhou is not peaceful!

Yang Qinghe, the shopkeeper of the bookstore, was reluctant to let his wife, daughter-in-law and grandchildren return to his hometown in Yangzhou, but fortunately, Qingxian's family had a Zhuangzi in Liangxiang, and Han Xiufeng simply asked him to send his wife and children to Liangxiang; My sister and Yu Tiesuo's daughter-in-law were just as reluctant to go back like this, how could Han Xiufeng let them get into danger, so he asked Zhu and Yu Tiesuo to send them and the baby with a straight face, and returned to Sichuan with the Ao family, who felt that there would be no future in the capital.

Cuihua originally planned to take the two babies to Sichuan with them, but she thought that she had no relatives and friends except Qin'er in Ba County, so she took the baby back to her mother's house in Taizhou with Wang Qianli's family. And the big head not only did not object, but also said that when he would not be an official in the future, he would go to Hai'an to reunite with his mother-in-law and set up his home in Hai'an.

Ji Lu is a Manchurian, and he is on an errand in the "Houyi Hall", and the mother-in-law can't leave the capital for forty miles, Han Xiufeng simply asked Wang Qianli to find one or two houses in Nanyuan, specifically to accommodate female dependents who can't be too far away from Beijing.

When everything is arranged, it has entered the wax moon.

The yamen of all sizes prepared to seal them, the provincial pavilions and the government pavilions began to prepare for the group worship at the end of the year, and the governors, political envoys, envoys and some Taoist and even prefects who wanted to go further began to send people to Beijing one after another to send charcoal respects. Han Xiufeng is still a "small military machine", and his share of charcoal will naturally not be less, while Yu Youfu is as busy as last year, and in the past half a month, he has received more than 20 taels of light door bags.

Han Xiufeng is no longer the poor alternate inspector back then, and he doesn't care about the little money, so he doesn't bother to see the families of those officials, but waits for news in the bookstore every day.

As a result, after waiting for more than ten days, Leng did not wait for the news from Guangdong, but waited for Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, Shanghai and other semicolons to remit the New Year through the Qianzhuang ticket number!

Fugui, a member of the Fujian Customs, remitted 1,000 taels, Erdenbu, a member of the Fujian Navy Division, who raised the standard to garrison Erdenbu, and Gu Jinyan, who had been promoted from Tong'an Dianshi to Tong'an, each remitted 500 taels, and Xu Shuangxi, a deputy member of the Zhejiang Customs Office who was born in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Jiang Zhengxin, a member of the Yinxian County, each remitted 500 taels......

The habit of officialdom spread to the "Houyi Hall" so quickly, Han Xiufeng really didn't know what to say, and when Ji Lu finished reporting the account, he raised his head and said: "Together with the more than 10,000 taels I collected when I inspected Haiphong in Tianjin, all of them will be remitted to the Shanghai branch." Then ask Qingxian to write a letter to Mr. Liu, and ask them to quickly find a way to buy a firebird gun, and buy as many guns as they can! ”

"Fourth master, just send them back, how can you use your own money."

"The errand of inspecting coastal defense was given by the emperor, and I also collected the more than 10,000 taels of silver for the emperor, how can I count it as my own, so decided, hurry up and do it."

Ji Lu didn't know that Han Xiufeng had been giving it for a few months, and the silver he received was far more than 10,000 taels, and he felt that he couldn't pay out of his own pocket to do things for the imperial court, so he couldn't help but say: "Fourth master, if you want to talk about foreign guns, haven't you already asked Mr. Wang to help buy them?" Which of these people in our hall can put guns, and even if they can put guns, they don't need to buy so much! ”

Han Xiufeng thought that his life was almost gone, what was the use of asking for so much silver, so he stared at him and said undoubtedly: "We are not good at using it, someone will use it, don't rub it anymore, hurry up and do it." ”

Ji Lu had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Hey, let's do it." ”

I didn't expect Ji Lu to just walk out of the exhibition hall on the front foot, Prince Gong? Appearing in front of him, Han Xiufeng was startled, and just stood up to meet him. crossed the threshold and walked in and said: "What a good one to collect for the emperor, Han Shaoqing, if all my Qing officials are like you, why worry about the long hair, and why worry about Xiyi!" ”

"Let the prince smile, the prince has arrived, and the lower officials have lost their welcome, please forgive the prince."

"This king is so stuffy that he comes out in a panic, Han Shaoqing doesn't need to be polite."

"Lord Wang, please take a seat, and the lower official will go and make tea."

"Let the people below do the tea and water, and you can also sit down and tell this king about the situation in Guangdong."

Han Xiufeng knew that he was quietly thinking about it, otherwise he would not have come here when he was supposed to study in the south study, and he would not have taken six or seven needles in the past six months. It's a pity that the emperor doesn't seem to plan to use him, and those folds on it are like stones sinking into the sea.

Seeing that he asked about Yiwu again, and just as he didn't know where to start, there was a sudden noise outside, and then a guard ran in and said, "Lord Wang, Lord Han, Mr. Wang is back!" ”

didn't wait for Han Xiufeng to speak, he had seen Wang Naizeng's Yi more than once? subconsciously asked: "Which Mr. Wang, is it Wang Naizeng?" ”

"Lord Yu, it's the lower official." Wang Naizeng squeezed in from behind the guards, dressed in dirty clothes, and bowed.

"You...... Didn't you go to Guangdong, why did you come back so soon? "Yi? felt very strange, and subconsciously looked back at Han Xiufeng.

Han Xiufeng also felt that it was very sudden, and Wang Naizeng, who was helping up the wind and dust, asked: "Brother Yunqing, what is going on, how did you make it like this?" ”

"Lord Yu, Lord Yu, Guangzhou has fallen!" Wang Naizeng wiped his sweat and said with a bitter face: "The ticket number of the money bank that delivered the news to us was looted by foreigners, and the shopkeeper and his buddies all ran out, Yun Qijun, as an official of the imperial court, could not leave his post without permission, I could only ask his students who had some friendship with foreigners, and spent a full four thousand taels to help hire a steamer, and hurried back to report the news of the fall of Guangzhou!" ”

Guangzhou fell, Han Xiufeng is not surprised, not to mention that this is not the first time it has fallen.

Han Xiufeng beckoned him to sit down and asked in a low voice: "When did it happen, how did it fall, Ye Mingchen, Bai Gui, Jiang Guolin and other Guangdong officials are okay?" ”

"Nineteen days ago, on the fourteenth of last month."

Wang Naizeng peeked at Prince Gong and said solemnly: "Actually, we have already received the news that Yingfo Eryi is going to attack Guangzhou, not only reminded Jiang Guolin, the political envoy of Guangdong, but also through Yun Qijun's students, those gentry in Guangzhou went to the governor's yamen to remind Lord Ye, but he was convinced of Zhang Tongyun, the Yingyi translator who didn't even want his ancestors, and only believed Zhang Tongyun's nonsense, and didn't believe that Xiyi would attack Guangzhou. ”

Abundant? Subconsciously asked: "What did that Zhang Tongyun tell him?" ”

"The surname Zhang is a letter to the letter, saying that when the Yi chief Erjin was defeated in Bengal, he fled by land and was chased by Meng Yi to the sea, and there were ships passing by in Shifoyi, and several cannons were fired, and Meng Yi's soldiers began to retreat, and the chief was spared, and he felt that Erjin was just like this, so there was no need to worry."

Wang Naizeng took the teacup from Han Xiufeng's hand, and continued: "What else does the surname Zhang say that the British heroine has a purpose to reach Hong Kong, so that Erjin must not act recklessly, and restore the coastal provinces, and lose the national body!" It's nothing, it's nonsense, but Lord Ye believes him. So much so that Xiyi's cannons bombarded into the city, and he also went to ask Lord Jiang about this, saying, 'All the gentry can make peace, and he can do anything, or give money, Gai Bishi is extremely poor, and it is not allowed to enter the city alone'! ”

"And then?" Han Xiufeng asked eagerly.

Later, Du Tong Laicun, Qianzong Deng Anbang and other generals begged him to transfer troops to fortify, and some gentry followed him to beg him to let the regiment practice self-defense, but he did not allow it, and also ordered that he was not allowed to kill people without permission. also said that he had a dream, and Lu Dongbin told him in the dream that it was only for a while, and he would be fine after fifteen. ”

As a result, before the afternoon, Xiyi attacked the city, and the generals such as Dutong Laicun, Qianzong Deng Anbang and other soldiers hurriedly responded to the battle and died one after another. Guangzhou General Mukdena and Guangdong Governor Bai Gui and other officials were first captured and taken to Guanyin Mountain by Xiyisheng, and then returned to the government office.

Wang Naizeng took a sip of water, and then said: "The current Guangzhou City has become the Guangzhou City of Xiyi, and there are Xiyi soldiers everywhere, and there are them on every street. In order to control Guangzhou, Xiyi also set up a coalition committee. Pashali, Haroway, and Shulai were the committee members, and all the decrees issued by Baigui and others were approved by Pashali, Haroway, and Shulai. ”

The dignified governor of Guangdong and the general of Guangzhou actually became the puppet of Xiyi, Prince Gong? His face turned blue with anger, and he gritted his teeth and asked, "What about Ye Mingchen?" ”

When the city was broken, he hid in the Dutong Yamen, but was captured by the Yi soldiers who chased him to the Dutong Yamen, and then he was kidnapped and sent out of the city and escorted to Xiyi's warship. When Xiyi was waiting for his family to send a change of clothes, Yun Qijun and I were by the river, we saw him, he also saw us, we and the onlookers gentry desperately pointed into the river, but he pretended not to see it, and his mouth was still vibrating, looking like he was chanting. ”

They pointed to the river, which was to remind Ye Mingchen, as a feudal official, that he could not become a prisoner of Xiyi, and since he had the opportunity, he would quickly commit suicide by throwing himself into the river.

As a result, Ye Mingchen didn't die when he should have died, what was the face of the imperial court this time, Han Xiufeng realized the seriousness of the problem, stared at Wang Naizeng and asked, "Where did Xiyi take him?" ”

"Lord Yu, the two students of Naizeng and Yun Qijun chased him all the way to Hong Kong, until they found out that Yingyi planned to escort him to India, and then hired a boat to come back." Wang Naizeng paused, and added: "The steamer hired in Hong Kong only sent me to Shanghai, and I changed ships from Shanghai to Tianjin, and then rushed back by land. ”

"Got it, let's go and rest." Han Xiufeng took a few deep breaths in a row, turned around and arched his hand: "Lord Wang, such a big matter has to be reported to the emperor quickly, and the official can no longer be accompanied." ”