Maybe his career has not been smooth in recent years, or it may be because of his advanced age, Wu Tingdong has changed a lot, and he is not as old-fashioned and stubborn as before. Seeing that Han Xiufeng really went to the excerpt and asked Nanyuan Langzhong Wang Qianli to help with the grain station, he simply no longer asked about money and grain, but wholeheartedly supervised the government affairs of Huairou, Miyun and other places.

Even if there are only two or three counties, it seems that it is not as good as the prefect, but there are a lot of things to do.

First of all, it is necessary to ensure that the postal route is unblocked, and every day the palace has to send hundreds of edicts or official documents to the capital and the courts of Liangguang, Liangjiang, Yunnan, Guichuan, Shanxi and other places, and there are hundreds of boxes of recitals and inscriptions on the capital and Liangguang, Liangjiang, Yunnan-Guichuan, Shanxi and other places every day. Although there was a post shop on the road from the capital to the Rehe Palace, there were few official documents at that time, and there were few shopkeepers.

He first summoned local officials and gentry to raise money to repair post shops and even post roads, and at the same time recruited honest and reliable people to serve as shop soldiers, and even asked Han Xiufeng for more than 100 horses and more than 30 mules, which were sent to each post shop for the purpose of transmitting official documents.

As the tax and silver that should be released to the capital in the provinces was changed to Rehe, and the gap in food and salary in Xinggong and Gubeikou became bigger and bigger, he had to supervise the local officials to recruit young and strong people to escort the tax and silver that the provinces were sent to the palace along the way and the salt and grain procured by the imperial court in Zhili, so as to prevent them from being robbed by the bandits, horse bandits, and even soldiers who became more and more rampant because of the invasion of the capital by foreigners.

There are also a lot of things on the side of the Internal Affairs Office, and yesterday it was said that the emperor wanted to listen to the play, so that the eunuchs of the Shengping Department who had not accompanied him before hurriedly went to Rehe to listen to it. Today, I said that there are not many deer in the palace...... Anyway, it's either a lack of this or that, and whether it's a person or something else, as long as it goes to Rehe, it has to pass through Miyun, and he has to help arrange it and transfer it well.

It was precisely because of him that everything became orderly, and Han Xiufeng was able to take time out to inspect the Eight Banners Horse Team and Green Battalion soldiers from Shanxi and even Shaanxi.

It was not appropriate to drive them all away, so they inspected a circle under the escort of Wang Hedong and others, leaving more than 2,300 soldiers behind, and ordered them to garrison more than a dozen traffic passes, such as Lin Gou, Tangshan, Nanshi Groove, Yuanyuan Temple, Yaji Mountain, Hechao, Liujiazhuang, Huairou, Niulanshan and Sanjiadian.

At the same time, the registered officials and local gentry of Huairou, Miyun and Shunyi were asked to assist in the camp affairs and serve as the grain officers of each battalion, and at the same time ordered those registered officials and local gentry to lead regiments to bravely inspect military discipline, so as not to harm the newly arrived Qiu Ba.

The minister of the Qin mission has the power of life and death, not to mention that the firearms of the river camp are so sharp, those Qiu Ba, especially the battalion officers who led the troops, did not dare to joke with their lives, seeing that the food and salary were settled, although it was not much, it was not starving to death, but it was also quite honest, at least no one dared to make trouble in front of him.

Han Xiufeng made a round, arranged everything, and returned to Miyun.

I never thought that not only Wang Qianli and Yu Tie were locked, but even Yu'er came from the Rehe Palace.

Although he had passed a letter before, many things were not clear in the letter, and as soon as Han Xiufeng sat down, he asked eagerly: "What is the situation in Beijing?" ”

Wang Qianli hurriedly said: "The fourth master can rest assured, the families of Peng Zhongtang, Master Wen, Chongshi, Chonghou and others are not only fine, but they have even returned to the city one after another before the officials came. The guild hall was fine, although those foreign soldiers looted everywhere in the first few days when they first entered the city, most of them were from high-ranking families, and they did not embarrass the people much. ”

"What's going on with the Old Summer Palace?"

According to Baul, this was in retaliation for the imperial court's seizure of the embassy and even the torture of most of the envoys to death. One of them was a reporter from The Times, who had been dismantled by the time he found it. Ergin and Grant were completely enraged, claiming that 'they can ask for a huge amount of money to punish the Qing government, but their crimes are so great that they can be redeemed by just money', saying that the Old Summer Palace is the emperor's favorite palace", and the only way to do this is to burn the Old Summer Palace. ”

Looking at Han Xiufeng's solemn appearance, Wang Qianli continued: "It is said that they were ordered to set fire to the Zhengda Guangming Palace in the garden, and more than 3,000 British troops began to burn and loot from the south, and some French troops began to burn and loot from the north. They killed people when they saw them, and the eunuchs who stayed behind did not dare to run or escape, so they hid in those remote palaces, and were burned to death in hundreds.

Calligraphy and paintings, porcelain vases, wall clocks inlaid with pearls and jade, treasures, gold bars, gold leaves, gold melon seeds, brocade and satin, ruby sapphires, pearls, crystals, jadeite...... It is said that those foreign soldiers even fought to grab more, and after the robbery, they set fire everywhere, and the fire was not extinguished, and it burned for three days.

Not only was the Old Summer Palace burned to ruins, but also the three mountains and five gardens such as Wanshou Mountain, Yuquan Mountain, Changchun Garden, Jingming Garden, and Qingyi Garden were also burned down a lot. The most hateful thing is that those thieves took advantage of the situation and followed the robbery.

After the robbers finished robbing, the poor flag people in the vicinity also followed and robbed, and even those eunuchs who escaped the robbery of the garden followed the fire to rob, it is said that many people did not have to rob, but just picked up the bits and pieces they fell on the road and made a fortune! The foreigners didn't embarrass Wenfeng much, he saw that the Old Summer Palace was burned like that, and he knew that he couldn't explain to the emperor, so he was afraid of the crime and threw himself into the lake. ”

"So many soldiers didn't resist the foreigners, and he can keep the garden as the head of the Old Summer Palace?" The more Han Xiufeng thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Later, those bandits and poor banner people robbed, why didn't Prince Gong and Bo Chuan care?" Especially Bochuan, he is the commander of the infantry army. ”

"They want to take care of it, but there is no one to use, and there are no soldiers to send!"

"Aren't there so many soldiers under Seng Lingqin and Shengbao?"

"Fourth master, you must not believe it, Bei Zi Mianxun was ordered to transfer troops to the Old Summer Palace to suppress it, but only less than two hundred of the two or three thousand soldiers were willing to go. Thinking of the thousands of bandits and rebels on the side of the Old Summer Palace, Mianxun took more than a hundred soldiers to take a look from afar and then retracted. ”

Referring to the Old Summer Palace, Ren Yu'er couldn't help but raise her head and said: "Listening to the big head, the emperor almost fainted when he learned that the Old Summer Palace was burned down by foreigners, and he couldn't eat for several days. ”

"How can you do it without eating!"

"It's much better now, I can finally have some food, but ...... But ......"

"But what?" Han Xiufeng asked.

Ren Yu'er took a deep breath and said helplessly: "It may be that I am depressed and hesitant, and I need to solve it, the emperor not only loves wine these days, but also seems to have smoked a big cigarette, and even calls himself 'and Ledao', anyway, there is wine today and drunk today, and it is rare to review an excerpt once in three or five days." ”

"In this way, most of the decrees these days are from the hands of Duanhua and Su Shun?"

"It's not all, the queen mother and the concubine mother have persuaded a few times, the emperor can still listen to a few words at first, and then he thinks they are annoying, and it is not good to blame the queen mother and the concubine mother for interfering in politics, and even let the literate concubine Niangniang help read the excerpt, and then make a mark on the excerpt, Prince Zheng, Prince Yi and Lord Sushun They guessed."

Referring to the emperor, Wang Qianli couldn't help but ask: "Yu'er, Prince Nagong and Lord Wen have been rejected for many times in their request to return to Beijing, is it the emperor's decision or Prince Zheng's idea?" ”

"As far as I know, the emperor is reluctant to return to Beijing, after all, the foreign soldiers only withdrew from the capital, not from Gyeonggi, it is said that there are many soldiers stationed in Tianjin, and the emperor is worried that the foreigners will go and return."

"What about the relocation of the capital?"

"According to the concubine Niangniang, the emperor intends to move the capital, but how can he make such a big determination for a while, and Prince Zheng and Lord Su Shun seem to think that it is not appropriate to move rashly."

After the emperor "patrolled Mulan", the previous newspaper was gone.

However, as a minister with the rank of squire of the military department, Han Xiufeng is also a member of the "Four Hundred Miles of Secret Instructions to Know" or even "Six Hundred Miles of Secret Instructions to Know", and has seen dozens of secret orders these days, and knows that Prince Gong, Wenxiang, Gui Liang and Baojun and other princes and ministers, seeing that the emperor is unwilling to return to Beijing, he asked to move the capital.

Prince Zheng, Prince Yi, and Su Shun all felt that it was a good way to move the capital, but they may see Prince Gong, Wenxiang, Guiliang and Baojun and other princes and ministers who stayed in the capital "relying on foreign self-respect", and gradually became a faction, and they did not dare to easily agree to move the capital.

After all, there are not many officials who can accompany the driver, and these princes and ministers who follow the emperor to "patrol Mulan" at the juncture, and those civil and military officials in the capital seem to be all greedy for life and afraid of death.

It is worth mentioning that even if you move the capital, you have to think about where to move.

Prince Gong, Wenxiang, Gui Liang, Shengbao, Baojun and other princes and ministers asked the emperor to visit Xi'an, and some civil officials headed by Jiang Qiling asked the emperor to visit Taiyuan. It is said that Taiyuan was called Jinyang in ancient times, it is the foundation of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the five dynasties of the royal industry, the mountains and rivers in the surface, the danger is strong and the victory is strong, it is suitable for patrolling, in order to lift again, and it is close to the Beijing Division.

Anyway, to put it in a big way, because the emperor visited Mulan, the civil and military officials were divided into two factions: Jingshi and Rehe. Due to the proposal to move the capital, it was divided into two factions: Xi'an and Taiyuan. The situation in the DPRK is not just turbulent, but has changed dramatically.

Han Xiufeng really didn't want to get involved, and he didn't know what to say, Wang Qianli smiled bitterly again: "Fourth master, the emperor has already given permission to Prince Gong and Lord Wen to play, Prince Gong and Lord Wen are busy preparing for the establishment of the Prime Minister's National Trade Affairs Yamen, but there is no one in the yamen alone, and there are not many officials in Beijing who can negotiate with foreigners, so they actually found all those old people in Houyitang to be Zhang Jing, and even urgently summoned Wang Naizeng, Yun Qijun, Temulun and others back to Beijing to be the general office Zhang Jing and the assistant Zhang Jing. ”

"That's good news." Han Xiufeng muttered.

"Fourth master, this is a yamen that everything is modeled after the Military Aircraft Department, with the Prime Minister, the Minister Walking and the Minister Learning to Walk, and the General Office Zhang Jing, the Assistant Zhang Jing, and Zhang Jing, it is said that it even plans to set up the Tongwen Museum like the Military Aircraft Department's Strategy Museum!"

"That's a good thing!"

"In terms of love, who can be more familiar with the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty than you? What's more, you are now the secretary of the court with the title of second-rank and the rank of squire of the military department, but the emperor rejected the performance of Prince Gong and Lord Wen, and did not let you go back to Beijing to learn to walk in the ministers of this newly established prime minister's yamen. ”

Without waiting for Han Xiufeng to speak, Ren Yu'er raised her head and said: "Fourth brother, I have heard some about this, it seems that the emperor originally planned to let you return to Beijing, but Prince Zheng and Lord Su Shun felt that it was inappropriate, and they didn't know what they had said to the emperor, anyway, the emperor didn't approve it later." ”

"The foreigners have all been evacuated to Tianjin, Miyun's side is not as tight as before, why are Prince Zheng and Lord Sushun inappropriate?" Wang Qianli asked puzzled.

Han Xiufeng pondered for a moment and said with a wry smile: "What else can they do, they know my friendship with Bochuan, and they know that most of the prime minister's yamen that Prince Gong and Bochuan are preparing are old people from Houyitang, and they are worried that after I return to Beijing, I will be embarrassed and will fall to Prince Gong in a daze." And now they are already alone, how dare they let Prince Gong and Bochuan 'draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle'! ”

"Fourth Master, according to what you say, Prince Gong and Lord Wen have long expected that Prince Zheng and Lord Su Shun will not agree?"

"It's nature."

"Lord Kewen knows that he can't do anything, why do he still ask you to be transferred back to Beijing?"

"I don't know this," Han Xiufeng took a deep breath, got up and said, "It's their business how they make trouble, I don't want to get involved anymore." As for Wang Naizeng, Yun Qijun, Temulun, Lin Qingyuan, and Zhang Deyu, it is a good thing that they can be included in the newly established Prime Minister's Yamen, and that they can be Zhang Jing, the general office and deputy Zhang Jing of the Prime Minister's Yamen, and I, Han Xiufeng, am happy to see them come to fruition. ”

"But ......"

"Not so much, but if you want to get an assistant Zhang Jing to do it, I will help you send a letter to Bochuan, he will definitely not be able to ask for it."

Wang Qianli hurriedly said: "Fourth master, what are you talking about, I will go wherever you go, Wang Qianli will go, I won't think about him!" ”