In late spring, it is rainy in the south of the Yangtze River. The rain for several days in a row has made Nanjing inside and outside, green, fat, red and thin, under the eaves of the trees, among the bird's nests, the birds comb the feathers that are soaked by the rain, and look at the dense rain curtain outside and worry. Everywhere the ditch is full of trenches, the waves are rippling, and there is a scene of slaughter.

The Xuanwu Gate of Nanjing City is a different scene.

From the city to the city gate, along the horse road to the city, everywhere in the battlements, arrow towers, etc., all are neatly arranged sergeants, wearing the new number uniforms that have just been received from the inner treasury, all fresh and neat. On both sides of the city gate and inside the door opening, it was guarded by dozens of officers of the Nanjing Garrison. One by one, they pressed their waist knives, their eyes did not squint, and they stood majestically with their chests folded.

Outside the city, from the city gate, along both sides of the road paved with ashes, every thirty steps away, is a color building built with pine and cypress, colored silk, flowers, and the archway is written with sprinkled gold paper on the archway to greet the general Yangwei, and the prince of Shuoyu and so on. In small letters, write the official titles, resumes, and so on he held in the Ming Dynasty. After arguing for a while about official positions, titles, qualifications, department names, and other factors, it can be regarded as arranging the seats, from far to near. It's just that today is a colorful building that God doesn't open his eyes to, and he has worked hard to build and compete with each other, and he has been dejected by the rain, and he has no spirit at all. On both sides of the color building, three steps and a post, five steps and a sentry. The Qing army officers standing under the Cai Lou stood still with their hands on the hilt of their swords, and the soldiers were also holding swords and guns, guarding in the wind and rain. In order to show off, these Qing troops who surrendered on the ground in Jiangbei and Huaibei deliberately exposed their money rattail braids to show their qualifications to the former Ming officials and nobles who were still round-necked yarn hats. It's just that they are all wearing new Ming army uniforms, combined with money rattail pigtails, which look quite nondescript.

Among the three urns in the city, each of them had a Ming army in the city, and although they were also wearing helmets and armor, their task was not to fight, but to wait for the victors to pass in front of them, to kneel down and beg to surrender. (Don't say why there are three urn cities, you have to ask Gao Zhuzhu to build a wall to the point of perversion, and Zhu Chongba will go!) It's a pity that no matter how high and thick the city wall is, it can't stand the collapse of the people's hearts and the rotten system. At the end of the day, it was the chairman's words, 'A fortress is the easiest to breach from within.' There is another sentence, which is rarely mentioned, and once it is mentioned, it is also the kind that is criticized and criticized. The bourgeoisie is within the party. Ahem, in order to prevent being caught by that, everyone just understands the meaning. ）

At the city gate, along both sides of the road, according to the practice of the last dynasty of Wendong and Wuxi, the civil and military nobles and eunuchs in Nanjing City were lined up on the left and right, holding a brand-new handbook and resume made of red silk as a cover, and stood there in fear. Probably the mood at this time, and when I was waiting for the imperial examination to be released, I heard the newspaper singing in the inn hall when I heard the newspaper singing when the old man was in high school, or when I was married, I was sent to the cave room, and I was about to uncover the bride's hijab, whether the bride was ugly or handsome, virtuous or unruly, and I was uneasy. (Brother Pheasant: I'm a mother!) You just said that like Lao Tzu said, waiting for the lady to come to the door in the small hotel, whether it is a boba or an airport, whether you can do a full set or crooked. I'm sorry, Brother Pheasant, the two of us just said the opposite, you're talking about men, and I said that this group of people happened to come out to sell. Unlike the young lady, the young lady sells her body, and they sell her soul and the country and the nation. Speaking of which, they are a hundred times dirtier than the dirtiest prostitutes. ）

("Bastard thing!") What imperial examination list, what newlywed cave house, and those unspeakable things, damn, what do you want our family to do? "Hundreds of eunuchs used the Sunflower Treasure Book to ward off evil swordsmanship and pounced on the author. ）

"I don't know where the general has gone." Although they all stood solemnly with their eyes, noses, noses, mouths, and expressions, they were constantly scratching their hearts and rolling in their hearts.

At this moment of great anxiety, suddenly, in the distance, a few cannon sounds were faintly heard. Immediately afterwards, three cannons rang out in the city to reconcile with it. Then, the bell and drum tower took the lead in striking the bell and drum, and the temple characters also responded together, singing and harmonizing with each other.

Almost at the same time, at the end of people's field of vision, suddenly the horns were drawn in unison, and the drums thundered.

The sound of hooves sounded like thunder, and the five hundred elite cavalry selected from the two white flags of Manchuria struck like a storm, and the new shoes on the hooves of the two thousand horses splashed countless splashes on the rain-soaked ash road.

The military music played a triumphant song of victory. Five hundred lieutenants stung out with their swords, trembling on the newly paved road made of loess. Then, ten twelve-pounder cannons towed by one hundred and eighty mules rumbled past. These healthy mules are fed well on weekdays, and the generals also know that they have to rely on these mules and horses to work hard for themselves, so as not to be able to save their lives when they get a critical moment, so not only do they dare not deduct the forage and salt, but they also inquire everywhere about what eggs, fried beans, and bone meal are added to them in one go.

The mule pulled the heavy gun cart, and the majesty of the march was a different scene compared with that of the horse, and the rumbling sound hit the eardrums of the people, and also made the streets splash with bursts of water, and the people were stunned.

"The general's guard of honor is here!"

Someone shouted, and when the officials raised their heads and stared intently into the distance, they saw that the general's guard of honor had already walked out. Eighty dragon flags, led by eighty big men in the shape of biao, followed by fifty-four times nine dragon curved covers, one color of beige, only the last two sides of a green and a purple. Officials of the Ministry of Etiquette know that this is called "Cuihua Purple Cover Inheritance". Behind the canopy walked calmly two teams of sergeants. In front of them were eight gate flags: two golden drum flags, two cuihua flags, and four golden pin flags. In the procession, the flag-bearers held high all kinds of flags, most of them were carried from the treasury of the capital, all the way to chase after the horses of Duoduo, the flags were classified, taken from the patterns of auspicious birds, there were Yifeng, Luan, cranes, peacocks, yellow birds, white pheasants, red birds, insects, herons, and chirping kites. The patterns taken from the spirit beasts include Youlin, Caishi, Bai Ze, Red Bear, Yellow Bear, Evil Spirit, Rhinoceros, Tianma, and Tianlu. Four are based on the four gods (green dragon, white tiger, vermilion bird, Xuanwu) pattern, four are based on the four desecration (Yangtze River, Yellow River, Huai River, Jishui) pattern, and five are based on the five mountain patterns. Thirty-three of the five stars and twenty-eight nakshatras. Four from Ganyu (Ganze, Ganshu, Ganji, Ganpei). It is based on the eight winds (the east is called the Ming Shu wind, the southeast is called the Qingming wind, the south is called the Jing wind, the southwest is called the cool wind, the west is called the Lu wind, the northwest is called the Buzhou wind, the north is called the Guangmo wind, and the northeast is called the melting wind). Ten of the five clouds (blue, white, red, black, and yellow) and the five thunder patterns are taken from the five clouds. It is based on the sun and the moon. At the back of the ranks, there was a flag for the police, and one hundred and twenty sergeants carried golden locks, lying melons, standing melons, lock axes, broadswords, red stirrups, and yellow stirrups......

Ten guns, five pairs of bags, ten big knives, four crank yellow umbrellas, eight straight handle yellow umbrellas, two red umbrellas, two blue umbrellas, two white umbrellas, six embroidered dragon yellow fans, four golden thin fans, six embroidered dragon red fans, four colorful phoenix red fans, two pairs of my staff, four leopard tail guns, two pairs of lying melons, two pairs of standing melons.

Qian Qianyi, as a waiter of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, is naturally not a layman for these etiquette regulations, and there are cronies in the yamen behind him who count the deacons of various honor guards for him in a low voice, "It seems that the Qing Dynasty is still the law of the Ming Dynasty!" I hope that the Qing Dynasty will respect Confucianism and scholars as it did in the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Leopard tail gun, lotus halberd, my lord, the honor guard is almost over."

Qian Qianyi couldn't help but be shocked when he heard the sound, and immediately cheered up, this state was just like when he married Liu Ru when he entered the cave room, and he was full of 120,000 points, so as not to slack off a little and be ashamed to laugh. After a while, I had to play something right in front of the general and Prince Yu. Be sure to deal with it!

Just when he remembered the beautiful scenery with Liu Ru back then, and how to deal with it if he was summoned by the general, and his mind was full of cranky thoughts, sixty-four sergeants escorted the chariot over.

The chariot was made of very wide horses, and the flagpole made of fine wood and steel was several feet high, and was drawn by sixteen healthy horses. The four corners of the car are respectively according to the green dragon, white tiger, vermilion bird, Xuanwu, and there are four guards of the generals, with two white flags of Manchuria, and the Jialazhangjing is played. Each of them wore pure white or red-trimmed armor, held the hilt of their swords, and held their heads high, like the four King Kongs in the Great Temple. The flag in the car is more than two zhang high, red tassels, bright yellow borders, the big flag with a blue background, hunting and flying, and the book is seven big yellow characters: "Qin Ming Yang Wei General"!

Behind the banner of the great general, there is the same flag car, on which is hung the royal flag of Duoduo, "Prince Heshuo Yu"!

Although the two-sided flag car is not so brilliant and dazzling under the dense clouds and rain in late spring, it is still majestic. Behind the two flag cars, I saw Duoduo's Chinese army honor guard.

In order to deter the demotion of officials and troops in Nanjing, Duoduo used his white armor soldiers and Bayala soldiers as the Chinese army, and thousands of people surrounded Duoduo, surrounded by the majestic General Yangwei and Prince Heshuoyu.

This ceremony of Nanjing's "King Shi Entering the City" can be said to be the most glorious, proud, and harvested by Duoduo since he was born.

"No wonder Lao Ba repeatedly said when he was alive that he wanted to reuse Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou. Sure enough, there are some means! Good! ”

This entry into the city was agreed upon by Hong Chengchou and a group of surrendered civil and military personnel in Nanjing, and the regulations, processes, and links were carefully scrutinized, in order to highlight the majesty of the Qing Dynasty Heavenly Soldiers and show the extraordinary bearing of the Wang Shi!

At this moment, thousands of riders followed him, surrounded him, and guarded him. And he himself sat down with a purple horse, with yellow reins in his hand, and his spirit was vivid and majestic. The people of Haiti were looking up to him, fragrant flowers and wine, looking at the dust and dancing. Everywhere he went, people were like a lodging wheat field, throwing themselves to the ground, not daring to look up. This scenery, this pomp, this extraordinary glory, since the father Khan raised the army, who has ever had it in the Eight Banners? He looked at the front of his eyes, and the dragon flag covered the sun; Looking around, Jin Ge is brilliant. All because they are famous generals, they are all welcoming themselves into the city, entering the city that started from the Ming Dynasty, and entering the Ming capital built by the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty!!

In order to show his martial arts and show the true colors of the Manchurian man of the Eight Banners, Duoduo refused Hong Chengchou's offer to wear his crown of Prince Heshuo Yu. "That's the robe used by this king in the last court, if you wear that kind of clothes, wouldn't it give that group of southern barbarians a lot of face? I don't wear it! This king will wear my armor with a white flag Manchuria and enter this city of Nanjing! ”

Since crossing the Huai River, Duoduo has also listened to his personal attendants, and in the local language, "enter" also has the meaning of the sun. Therefore, he listened to his subordinates Hong Chengchou and his group of Hanchens all day long. The entrance to the city should be like this, and after entering the city, this should be done first, and then that. And so on and so forth. Every time he heard the word "enter the city", Duoduo couldn't help but laugh wildly in his heart.

"Sure enough, the city of Nanjing, which you are waiting for, has been entered by this king!"

Dordor has the capital of pride and arrogance. When they first set out from Kaifeng, the soldiers and horses were only thousands of light horses, but all the way south, the troops under his command were like snowballs, and they swelled up wildly. In a phrase often used by literati to refer to the peasant army, his army swelled at a rate as quickly as ants attached to it because of the surrender of the Ming army.

Accepting surrender all the way, there were even Ming troops who didn't have time to accept surrender and turned to attack those Ming cities that had not yet surrendered. In just a few dozen days, he, Prince Shuoyu, and the mighty general Duoduo, pushed the territory of the Qing Dynasty from the north bank of the Yellow River to the south bank of the Yangtze River in one go, and it is still expanding.

His army under Duoduo grew rapidly from tens of thousands of horses to nearly a million people. The wealth in his hands is piled up like a mountain, and the houses are full. Among other things, millions of stone of military rations were seized in the treasury on the canal alone. It's enough for his men and horses to eat for half a year. Of course, he has ordered people to escort hundreds of thousands of stones into Beijing for these grains. As for other seizures, they are even more abundant. The generals and leading officers who followed him south, and even the clothed soldiers, were all promoted to make a fortune, and their pockets were bulging. When the soldiers set out from Kaifeng, the most inferior was also mixed with a clothed soldier's Paishku, and when it came to the surrendered Ming army, there were even more generals and deputy generals. Duoduo himself also housed dozens of women in the inner house, most of them were wives and mothers sent by surrendering officials from various places. And it's still growing.

"When Jiangnan is pacified, Lao Tzu will take people back to Beijing. It's not good to let the second brother go to that bullshit regent title, and be the emperor directly!? If any dog thief dares to say a word, Lao Tzu will directly lead his men and horses to wipe out his lair of soldiers and horses! If the second brother is not willing to be the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, then this king will come! Anyway, back then, my father Khan also wanted to pass on the throne to this king! It has also been around for decades, and the throne has been occupied by him Huang Taiji for so long, and finally it has been returned to its original owner! ”

With a blushing face, he tried his best to suppress his excitement, and stared at the city of Nanjing, which was getting closer and closer. In the middle of the car, the wind and rain are like obscurity, and the gray and tall Xuanwu Gate is in front of you. Duoduo glanced there, saw hundreds of civil and military officials in Nanjing, and saw his banner coming near from a distance, so he went from Shangshu to the fame of the unpopular, from the duke to the eunuch, all turned over and knelt down, and the black crows knelt down in a large area, and shouted in unison.

"Congratulations to the general entering the city!!"

Zhao Zhilong, Qian Qianyi and other officials thought that it stands to reason that he should show Corporal Lixian to the people kneeling down at this time. It's good to give everyone a step down, so that everyone can go back and have something to say in various washing words. Even if he doesn't get off the horse, at least he has to bow his hand or something. But they were disappointed. Without even a smile, or even a nod on his head, Dordor rode past the prostrated procession and entered the city.

"This, this, this..."

In the midst of the evil wind and rain, he knelt on the ground to welcome the new master into the city, thinking that he would get some courtesy, and what kind of hand-holding and asking about the world's plans would be staged. It can be said that people have done enough scenes for you, but it is the rain and cement water splashed by horses' hooves.

"My lord! Lord Hong! Someone was bold and looked at Hong Chengchou, who entered the city after Duoduo's guard of honor, and suddenly seemed to see a savior. Hopefully, he will be able to save everyone from this embarrassing situation.

"What should Xiaguan and the others do?" Zhao Zhilong licked his face and knelt in front of Hong Chengchou's horse, asking him for instructions on what to do next.

"Get up!"

This sentence immediately made the civil and military ministers and eunuchs and nobles present look like ashes. The word is a popular routine in the military. Generally speaking, the subordinates met the commander and reported their official rank resume, and then, the official would shout as usual, which means that I know, you stand aside and wait. It's not that they don't understand this kind of etiquette, on the contrary, they are used to shouting at the garrisons inside and outside Nanjing on weekdays. Of course, the Nanyue Army, as the army directly under the grandfather of the country, and the righteous and brave in the city are also villains who do things for the prince, so naturally they will not enjoy this treatment.

However, now Lord Hong actually treats us with the vulgar etiquette of treating his subordinates in the army, which is obviously not taking us seriously!? Where should I find my fame, wealth and glory in the future?

However, Qian Qianyi's face was as usual, and he was not confused. He stood up and bowed to Hong Chengchou to the end, and met Hong Da's envoy with the etiquette of his subordinates.

"Your Excellency, please show me, there are handbooks of officials of the Yamen Department all over Nanjing City, and I hope that your Excellency will reward them."