Chapter 300: The Decree

Zhu Jiumei is one of the teams of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East in Tianjing, and the king of the east has not defended this little girl in history, and even had a fierce conflict with the king of heaven Hong Xiuquan, she is naturally here to follow the edict of the king of the east.

It's just that she also knows that the origin of this Liu Changliu inspection is unknown, but he has tens of thousands of heavy troops in the six prefectures of Jintai in Ningshaowen, Zhejiang, if you talk about power, it can be said that it is a small Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it is impossible for such a character Heavenly Kingdom to mobilize like an arm.

Therefore, she said: "I didn't bring the edict of the king of the east, but the king of the east missed the two princesses, and specially asked me to come over to ask the marquis!" ”

Liu Chang also knew that this was just a lie, it was true that he came to contact Hongjun, but missing the two princesses was all false, and he didn't expose it: "I don't know what else does Dongwang mean?" ”

Zhu Jiumei said: "I heard that the inspection point has captured Ningbo Mansion, and the Ningbo wharf has opened its door to facilitate the inspection to purchase ordnance?" ”

This is the truth that she personally went to the Ningbo wharf to see, only to see boats and ships of ordnance transported from Shanghai, and then transported to the various units of the Hongjun through the port of Ningbo, which not only have many foreign guns and cannons that the Kingdom of Heaven has been equipped, but even some equipment has never been equipped by the Kingdom of Heaven, but I have heard rumors from the drawings and the foreign brothers.

This time she came to Ningbo, she was bent on getting things done for Yang Xiuqing, so she didn't come directly to see the two princesses, but walked around Ningbo, and finally confirmed one point, that is, this Liu inspection point is not small, and although the quality of the department is inferior to the old brothers of the Taiping Army, it is much stronger than the new brothers, but in terms of equipment, it is above the Taiping Army.

It is not easy to make such an evaluation from the bottom of her heart, after all, the Taiping Army is a force that has a history of several years, and the core of this army is those Guangxi people and Huguang people who are known as "long-haired old thieves".

The 20,000 men of the nine armies who participated in the Northern Expedition, most of them were such old brothers, and as a result, with only 20,000 troops, under the unreasonable remote command of Yang Xiuqing, they fought with the Qing army of the whole of northern China for two years before they failed.

Although the Hunan army fought fiercely with the Taiping army for several years, but the first battle was only to annihilate hundreds of such "long-haired old thieves" at most, and never broke the record of thousands, until the Anqing defense battle, Chen Yucheng unreasonably placed the entire Taiping army can be called the most elite Liu Xuanlin in Chigangling, these old brothers fought with the Hunan army for more than 20 days in the Chigangling Jedi where there was no water and no food, and finally the Qing army was booby-trapped or defeated and died, and finally 4,000 "long-haired old thieves" were annihilated by the Hunan army. Considered by Zeng Guofan to be an unprecedented victory, Chen Yucheng has not been able to recover since then, and half of the luck of the Kingdom of Heaven has gone.

And Zhu Jiumei's judgment is that these Hongjun troops, which have been formed for less than a year, can already be compared with the old brothers of the Taiping Army, at least not too inferior, in this case, she has to decide to seize this Liu Jian point.

At least let this Liu Changliu inspect and assist the Taiping Army in purchasing a batch of foreign guns and cannons, especially Western gunpowder is something that the Taiping Army urgently needs, and Liu Chang immediately replied to her request: "It's all my own family, what I can't meet this requirement, how many guns and how much gunpowder I want, just say it!" ”

Now that he had approached Zhu Jiumei, he smelled the faint aroma of this girl.

However, such a girl can sneak to Ningbo Mansion in Yifu, obviously not a simple role, those Zhu Jiumei said to Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei: "Tinglan, eldest sister, the king of heaven is now praising you for not doing a bad job in Zhejiang!" ”

"Does the King know about us?" Shi Tinglan's voice was very good: "What did you say in the capital that day!" ..., "How could you not know!" Zhu Jiumei said with a smile: "First of all, Zhang Yuliang and Zhang Demon Head have always been a very strong opponent of our Taiping Army, but recently he suddenly disappeared traces, and at first I thought it was a suspicious strategy, and later found that Deng Shaoliang and Deng Demon Tou also came to Zhejiang, and went to these two demon heads, and the pressure on us near Tianjing has been greatly reduced!" ”

Counting Zhang Yuliang and Deng Shaoliang's aid to Zhejiang, there were nearly 10,000 soldiers before and after, which had reached the extent of greatly affecting the combat effectiveness of the Jiangnan battalion, and Tianjing had suffered from the siege of the Jiangnan battalion for a long time, even after breaking the Jiangnan battalion twice, Zhang Guoliang's remaining Feng Zicai still posed a great threat to Tianjing according to Zhenjiang.

Over there, Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei had already jumped off the horse, looked at Zhu Jiumei's makeup, and couldn't help but chuckle again, Yang Changmei said, "Ninth sister, you wear my clothes!" It should be just right, find a horse, and let the ninth sister go up together! ”

Between them, it is not as simple as a simple sister, it is a tribulation together.

This starts with the king Hong Xiuquan, Hong Xiuquan was a private school gentleman before the incident, and his level was very limited, and he still didn't grow after entering Jinling, so he took a fried centipede and treated it as an emperor-level enjoyment.

And he was very accused of accepting eighty-eight princesses, but in fact, although Hong Xiuquan accepted so many princesses, he was not very lustful, and as a man, his energy was limited, and he only gave birth to eight children in the eleven years of Tianjing.

It is precisely this Hong Xiuquan who is a real old man, his harem has always been very discordant, and most of the poems of the Heavenly Father that have survived now are Hong Xiuquan mentioning how he tried to suppress the harem, even to the extent of killing Wang Niang, but he has always failed to the extent of a mess.

The reason why his harem is not harmonious, in the final analysis, is because he is a native old man, for this group of princesses and their palace maids, as coolies to call, the entire harem was mobilized by him to build all the buildings and even fortifications in the palace of the king, Yang Xiuqing said that the king of heaven "in the palace city there are palaces to repair, dig the ground to build the city, or fight the forbidden garden", and Hong Xiuquan, the old man, does not manage the affairs of the country, on the contrary, he has become a supervisor "Yumu Chang Note, supervise its operation".

All the buildings of the Heavenly King's Mansion were built by these originally high-flying princesses barefoot in the water and mud, you know, the entire Tianwang's Mansion is seven miles in circumference, and there are no graves in large and small gardens, city walls, palaces, and moats, until the fall of Heaven and the fall of Tianjing, these poor women still haven't built the entire Tianwang's Mansion.

In this case, these originally supreme princesses have become standard coolies, can they not complain about Hong Xiuquan, how can a harmonious harem be built?

And when the eighty or ninety princesses renovated the Tianwang Mansion had more than enough heart but insufficient strength, Hong Xiuquan decided to recruit a group of reliable women to enter the Tianwang Mansion to assist in the construction of the Tianwang Mansion - this old man knew that the Tianwang Mansion was a forbidden place for men, and he couldn't let women who couldn't trust him come in.

In this case, Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei, the two Wang Gu who are in love with Wang Zong, and Zhu Jiumei, the two female clerks of the Dongwang Mansion who have made great contributions in the Taiping Army, were all picked into the Tianwang Mansion, digging ponds and repairing ponds in the muddy water in the wind, frost, snow and rain, and they had to rest for a moment.

In this case, Yang Xiuqing was so angry that he asked the Heavenly Father to go down to earth in the name of the Heavenly Father, and asked for forty canes from the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, and all the civil and military intercessions were exempted, but he still asked "If the female official does a small mistake, forgive it for the time being, even if it is taught, it must be leisurely, so that he will not panic." For example, digging a pond and digging a pond is not as good as building a city for camping, and if it rains and snows in the weather, it will be ordered to rest for the time being, so as to wait for the next day. Now it's raining, snowing, and freezing, so there's no need to dig tightly", and Yang Shi's two Wang Gu and Zhu Jiu sisters had to go back to Dongwangfu, which was regarded as a bad breath for them. ..., it's just that with such a friend in distress, the relationship between the four girls has always been very good, this time when Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei went out of Tianjing, it was Sister Zhu Jiumei who came to see them off in person.

And now it is the turn of Yang Changmei and Shi Tinglan to be the masters, they are not as majestic as in Tianjing City, but Yang Changmei personally put on Zhu Jiumei's clothes, and Shi Tinglan wiped the dirt off her face, revealing a peerless beauty: "You have to hide the ninth sister, otherwise let your brother-in-law see it, then pay it back?" ”

"Brother-in-law?" Zhu Jiumei was taken aback: "Is it Liu Checkpoint?" ”

"Hmm!" Shi Tinglan nodded: "My eldest sister and I are both her princesses!" We are also a family, by the way, Ninth Sister, how is it in Tianjing City now? ”

"Tianjing City is still the same, what can happen!" Zhu Jiumei sighed and said: "It's just that the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition have suffered setbacks, there are more and more demons, the situation is getting worse and worse, and the Heavenly Father is going down to earth more and more......"

Heavenly Father's descent to earth naturally refers to Yang Xiuqing's use of Heavenly Father to descend to override everyone, Zhu Jiumei's words represent a kind of anxiety: "My sister and I have persuaded the East King, but the East King's temperament is getting more and more anxious, hey...... Fortunately, you have set up such a team in Zhejiang, and the situation near Tianjing is finally better, and Dongwang is planning to relieve the siege of Beijing. ”

"Hmm!" Shi Tinglan immediately said: "We can only help the Kingdom of Heaven here, but what the Kingdom of Heaven needs, whether it is foreign guns, foreign cannons, foreign gunpowder, or rice, grain, and horses, as long as the Kingdom of Heaven needs it, I will find a way to send it to the Kingdom of Heaven." ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Jiumei said: "Dongwang has planned to transport a shipload of gold, silver and jewelry from Tianjing, preparing to take the relationship between foreigners. ”

"That's easy!" Shi Tinglan immediately said: "There are foreigners here every day, let them hang a British flag, and find a way to hire a gunboat to go to Tianjing, rest assured!" Such a transaction will never make Dongwang suffer a loss. ”

Although the East King will not suffer, it is also profitable on the side of the Hongjun, but Yang Changmei quickly asked the core question: "Brother really doesn't have an edict for me?" ”

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