Thinking that fifty percent of the soldiers and horses in the city might have colluded with the people in the palace and had to avoid the investigation of the patrols, Yang Hongzhang took a few people to the palace gate and found that everything seemed to be normal on the street, obviously not many people got the news of the changes in the palace, or even if someone knew about it, they were hiding at home to watch the development of the situation. It took about half an hour for Yang Hongzhang to join Xia Dongwei and others. When I went to the gate of the palace, I saw that the guards were not the glamorous forbidden army on weekdays, and there were not many people, and there seemed to be traces of fighting on the palace wall.

It wasn't until Yang Hongzhang and the others came to a distance of an arrow that they mustered up the courage to shout outside: "Which general is coming, this is the important place of the palace, what do you want?" ”

The voice was not only soft and weak, but even a little trembling, obviously not the arrogant forbidden army on weekdays. Moreover, Yang Hongzhang has been a frequent visitor to the palace recently, and he is the emperor's celebrity, and most of the leaders of the forbidden army know this general who killed more than 1,000 Qing troops in a battle outside Beijing and scared off 60,000 or 70,000 iron cavalry of Dolgon.

Seeing this situation, Yang Hongzhang thought of Xiang Yunfang's letterhead and no longer hesitated, and ordered four hundred flintlock pistols and six hundred archers to be fired together. After two rounds, there were almost no people standing on the palace wall, so everyone began to bang on the door directly.

Originally, there were only more than 100 defenders on the city tower, and most of them were killed and wounded in one round, and the rest were afraid of Yang Hongzhang's prestige either fleeing or kneeling on the ground to beg for mercy.

Time was tight, Yang Hongzhang did not dare to delay, someone had already prepared a hook lock, climbed over the wall to open the palace door from the inside, and then more than a thousand people rushed in.

After entering the door, I found that there were many people tied up in the room behind the palace wall, and those people were the forbidden army, one of the generals seemed to know Yang Hongzhang, and when he saw Yang Hongzhang coming in, he hurriedly shouted: "General Yang, General Yang is Cao Wenliang, the rebels are large and go to the Qianqing Palace, the general will go to the rescue." Yang Hongzhang carefully identified and found that this person was really Mr. Qian, who was often on duty outside the palace gate, so he asked him and his subordinates to loosen the tie and ask about what happened. What Cao Wenliang said was really similar to what the little eunuch said, because of Gao Qiqian's cooperation, when Chen Guogong led people to attack the palace gate, Gao Qiqian led the eunuchs in the palace to come to a combination of inside and outside, so this Cao Wenliang was quickly defeated, but the other party did not seem to be willing to completely offend the forbidden army, and after Cao Wenliang's subordinates surrendered, they tied up the survivors and threw them in the room under the wall.

Yang Sheng looked at Cao Wenliang with disdain, obviously he was very disdainful of the leader of the forbidden army, that Cao Wenliang was also very smart, seeing Yang Hongzhang frowning, he smiled with a flattering smile: "Lord Yang doesn't know, although I have nearly two hundred people here, but ...... But on weekdays, I neglected to practice, and I suddenly got into trouble, and my brothers and I didn't have weapons in hand, so we ......."

"You have to raise your hands and surrender?" Yang Sheng answered.

Cao Wenliang smiled awkwardly, which was a tacit acquiescence.

"How many people are there in total, and who else are there besides Chen Guogong and Gao Qiqian?"

"Gao Qiqian has attracted about three hundred eunuchs, Chen Guogong has brought about five or six hundred people from outside the palace, and it is estimated that some of the forbidden troops on duty tonight have also been controlled by them, and the total number is estimated to be more than two thousand."

Yang Hongzhang also frowned when he heard this, this high dive seems to have a lot of energy, and he actually attracted so many eunuchs under Cao Huachun's nose, plus five or six hundred well-trained troops, if the forbidden army remains neutral, then the remaining eunuchs will definitely not be able to bear it. If the forbidden army supports them, the difficulty is even greater.

Like the people who occupied the palace gate before, Yang Hongzhang also left about a hundred people to guard the palace gate, led by Zhang Bao. The rest of the people went straight to Xiang Yunfang's residence under the leadership of the little eunuch, and in Yang Hongzhang's opinion, if it was really impossible to do anything, Xiang Yunfang had to be rescued no matter what.

It's just that the little eunuch said that if you want to go to the concubine, you must pass through the place where the emperor and the queen live. Before, he was able to come out from the side door, but now this point side door is impossible to open.

Yang Hongzhang had no choice but to save the emperor first, with the addition of Cao Wenliang and the guidance of the previous eunuch, the road was smooth, but there were traces of soybeans along the way, and the corpses of palace maids and eunuchs could be seen everywhere, so it is conceivable that there should be resistance.

In the Qianqing Palace, Chen Guogong looked at the emperor on the dragon chair with a solemn face, this young emperor was his nephew, and Zhu Youzhen, who was twenty-seven years old compared to his elder brother, could be described as a heroic god and worked hard. Of course, all this was only before he pushed for tax reform.

Since Zhu Youzhen was determined to tax the nobles and officials, Chen Guogong had long since stopped seeing it that way, and he thought that it was the moody emperor who was bewitched by the same frivolous Yang Hongzhang's evil words, abandoned his family affection, and was ready to go his own way. So he chose to take a risk and choose the most extreme way. It's just that he didn't expect that tonight's action seemed to be smooth, except for scattered resistance, only Cao Huachun led a team to guard outside the Qianqing Palace, but now that the people he brought have surrounded them, they entered the Qianqing Palace smoothly this time to face the emperor.

"Your Majesty, please ask the emperor to issue an edict to cancel the tax rate that should be implemented, and Zen is located in the prince!" Fan Fucui of Dongge University said loudly to Zhu Youzhen on the dragon chair.

"Hmph, rebel thief! I'm really blind, don't forget that although you have occupied the palace, there are still 450,000 soldiers in Beijing City, and if Sun Ge Lao returns, how can you stop it? Zhu Youzhen sat on the dragon chair and looked very inward, he didn't expect this kind of thing to happen.

"Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about it. It is true that there are forty or fifty thousand soldiers in the Beijing camp, but they only listen to the general soldiers and deputy generals on weekdays. Of course, if the new emperor issued a holy decree to praise them, they would naturally be grateful. Even if Fang Zhenghua got the news, he led troops to help, it was after dawn. During this period, if there is any accident in the emperor, the minister does not guarantee that he will have time to record the edict. ”

"You...... You...... Fan Fucui, if I remember correctly, you were just a small squire in the Ministry of Works at the beginning of my accession to the throne, if I hadn't promoted you in the past few years, you should still be standing still, why are you the leader? Zhu Youzhen tried to maintain the majesty of the emperor and tried to stall for time.

"Your Majesty, I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, and the ministers are just trying to live a better life. Yang Hongzhang is right, the money that the imperial court gives to the ministers every year is not enough to feed the two-third of the population of the ministers' families. In order to support their families and to gain dignity, the ministers had no choice but to run their own industries or accept the affiliation of others. Now the emperor listens to the slander of Yang Hongzhang and others, and insists on letting the ministers and those untouchables pay taxes together, which is forced by you, the emperor. The ministers are only slightly connected with the responders, and there are hundreds of people, which shows how unpopular you are, Your Majesty. The Son of Heaven should be a virtuous person living there, and ask the emperor Su Xia to make a decision, lest you and I have to fight each other in the end. ”

"Hmph, the prince is only nine years old, don't you want to learn from Cao Cao and Sima Zhao? I will not allow such a thing to happen while I am alive. I don't believe that all the tens of thousands of soldiers in the Beijing camp can be sold by you, and how many of the Manchu civil and military can support you, I will see when I arrive. ”

"Your Majesty, those who know the times are Junjie. Becoming a king or defeating a king, Tang Gaozu was not at fault back then, and he didn't want to be a Zen position, what was the result? Compared to him, the emperor, you have offended the nobles and civil and military affairs of Maochao......"

Bang bang, bang bang, the sound of muskets rang out at an inopportune time outside the Qianqing Palace. Chen Guogong and Fan Fucui were both surprised, didn't Fang Zhenghua bring someone here, didn't he say that someone would drag him down after the arrangement?

Zhu Youzhen also looked at Wang Chengen next to him suspiciously, and Wang Chengen shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

But soon someone helped them answer their doubts, and a person who looked like a thousand generals rushed in and said to Fan Fucui: "Chen Guogong, Master Fan, someone came in with people, it seems to be ...... It seems to be ......"

Fan Fucui's heart tightened and scolded loudly: "Who is it?" ”

"It seems to be Yang San."

"Is that him? How many people did you bring? Chen Guogong couldn't sit still when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.

"About a thousand people, and the fire is fierce!" Mr. Qian glanced at Zhu Youzhen on the dragon chair while talking.

Seeing this, Wang Chengen shouted loudly to Ah Ming: "Protect the emperor, Lord Yang Hongzhang has arrived, this group of rebels can't help us!" ”

Hearing this, the three or four eunuchs who were originally compressed in a corner raised their heads and chested in front of Zhu Youzhen.

Fan Fucui broke out in a cold sweat when he saw this, he originally thought that the overall situation had been decided, so there were not many people brought into the Qianqing Palace, just to negotiate the conditions with the emperor Zhu Youzhen, and now he ......

"Master Fan, what are you worried about, he Yang San is only more than a thousand people, and there are more than 1,000 people we brought into the palace plus Gao Gong's people, and there are at least more than 2,000 people in the Praetorian Guards who have taken refuge in us, so I am afraid that he will come." Chen Guogong seemed to be slightly flustered when he saw Fan Fucui and the others, and hurriedly cheered up.

Fan Fucui smiled bitterly in his heart, and said that Yang San was brave and good at fighting, it was definitely not in vain, he was able to lead two hundred people to disperse the six hundred cavalry of Groha, and he was able to rely on six hundred people to hold Gaoyang for three days and attack the Qing army at night, capturing Haoge, and now he has a thousand people, and those thousand people must be the most elite thousand people.

Fan Fucui wanted to try to comfort himself, but he was not very clear about the deployment, because he had heard that the emperor allowed Yang Hongzhang to lead a team of 1,000 people to be stationed in the city. But I didn't expect it to come so quickly.

Different from the worries of the people in the palace before, Gao Qiqian, who led the troops outside, needed to face direct pressure, when the flintlock gun sounded, Gao Qiqian's heart was shocked, he had seen the Qing cavalry powerful, and Yang Hongzhang, who was able to flee the Qing army, and the combat effectiveness of his subordinates was self-evident.