The main direction of the team's breakthrough is the area from the Nanxun Hall to the Xihe Gate on the west side of the noon gate, and the elite cavalry led by Pang Tianshou and others directly broke through to the square of the front hall of the noon gate after opening the breakthrough to lay the victory, mobilizing more people to carry out the palace cleaning and creating momentum. Xiao Xuan and Tian Xiuying joined forces and cautiously launched a cautious advance from the direction of Yingwumen to Longzongmen.

According to the pre-battle deduction, if you are the enemy and the opponent's firepower advantage during the day is too strong, then it is of course the best choice to feign a rout and launch an ambush in a place where the space in the front hall of the harem is not too large. If the situation is unfavorable, because the troops they carry are too small, it is actually impossible to launch a safe outflanking siege in the huge court.

However, this time, Xiao Xuan greatly overestimated the cohesion of Wei Zhongxian and his subordinates' core forces of the Inner Court Army. After showing the strength of the new battalion guard leader in the daytime frontal attack and the strength to win head-on, even some of the core forces in the inner court army also rebelled at this time, bringing chaos.

Because the battle situation changed too quickly under the blasting attack, Wei Zhongxian and his henchmen did not have time to flee too far before they were surrounded by an officer under Pang Tianshou under the leadership of the eunuch of the Inner Court Army who defected to Cheng, and surrounded the Baohe Hall not far from the Qianqing Palace. At this time, Wei Zhongxian did not have the courage to fight to the death after all, and was about to hang himself like the Dragon Gate Inn, when Xiao Xuan, who arrived after hearing the news, arrived with some backbones of the Young Army, and used firearms to break the rope of hanging at a very close distance, capturing Wei Zhongxian and several relatives around him.

"The old slave should die and not distinguish the truth of His Majesty, thinking that someone rebelled and committed rebellion in the name of His Majesty, so he summoned people... Seeing that he was not shot to death in the first place, Wei Zhongxian, who was not stupid, felt a glimmer of hope, and took the opportunity to say.

"Since you don't distinguish between truth and falsehood, then I will simply not change the truth and falsehood: Fake Li Jinzhong: I don't think you need other crimes, you are training troops privately in the palace and fighting the emperor by force, at least the capital crime is completely enough, and Ling Chi should not be exaggerated. However, I hope that you are not too old to do something for me and for the Ming Dynasty in the true sense. If you do well, and you're lucky, it's not without the possibility of regaining fame. I think that for those of you, if you can be famous through the ages, which has never been seen before or since, then it should be the greatest desire, right? ”

Hearing such words, Wei Zhongxian knew even more that he was likely to have walked through most of the ghost gate: "Your Majesty's grace not to kill, old slave... ”

"Okay, no more nonsense. There should be no outsiders here at this time, so I'll tell you the truth: since ancient times, except for the Han Dynasty, three hundred years is often the limit of a great unified dynasty, such as the Han or Song Dynasty. Now that we have been founding the country for 260 years, all kinds of shortcomings have accumulated under internal and external troubles to the point where it is impossible to solve them by ordinary means. Only by fighting the world again like that Liu Xiu and cleaning up the grassroots cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods can we truly return peace to the world. If you want to open the foundation of eternity, you must be more thorough than that Liu Xiu, and it is possible to really rely on your own strength rather than the power of the big families... ”

"Your Majesty, a true saint, too..." When he heard this, Wei Zhongxian was half pretentious and half deeply touched. is different from people like themselves who have been mixed up at the bottom for a long time, those ordinary powerful families, few people can know a little about where the problem lies today, but they didn't expect that today's son of heaven, who has some talent in military training, can realize the truth that many emperors often need ten years or more to understand at this age...

"I won't let you go out alone like the Light Pole General. I'll test how many of your henchmen are reliable, and I know that you've been out there all these years. However, just in case, if you can provide enough money in the capital, I will select some of these funds that are easy to carry and give them to you. The gold is yours, and the silver is mine. Note: This money is for you to run errands, not for you to settle down... ”

"Although Your Majesty commanded, even if these old slaves are really like men, they are now past the age of settling down, and they will die for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. Wei Zhongxian was also wondering in his heart at this time, what did the new emperor plan to do for himself? Seven or eight times out of ten, or rebuild a new factory outside the palace or even abroad? Thinking of this, I am even more glad, as the saying goes, it is indeed true: if you don't die in a catastrophe, you will have a blessing.

But after that, Xiao Xuan's words almost didn't make Wei Zhongxian's jaw drop: "After leaving the palace, you want to try to go to Yan'an Mansion or other counties in northern Shaanxi to see if there are any disasters under the drought." If there is one of them who can defeat the officers and soldiers and rank a decent team in general, you should help them with three thousand taels of gold. And send you a book on the art of war and important military affairs, and I will prepare it before you leave the city. You have to make the situation there, and as long as you don't touch on inciting the army to rebel, then you may have a chance not only to get away with the crime, but also to make a meritorious service. I need enough time to perfect and exercise my strength, and I believe that with your wisdom you should be able to understand the purpose of this ... ”

"This... Minister... This is a rebellion by the emperor's will, something unheard of... ”

"What? What about rebellion by order? If it were someone else, it might be normal for you not to understand what I did, but if you were born in the lower class, you shouldn't be unaware ... ”

In this way, at the cost of promising a way to live, Wei Zhongxian was first asked to hand over a part of the silver taels in his private collection, and in just one afternoon, the team led by Xiao Xuan personally harvested a full twenty carts of two or three hundred thousand taels of silver and several thousand taels of gold in the palace.

Of course, Xiao Xuan believes that even if this number is doubled, plus the 300,000 taels of wealth from the secret letter sent by Wei Zhongxian after he left the city according to the agreement, it is only a drop in the bucket that the eunuch party has accumulated over the years.

But if you think about it carefully, if there is too much money, the scale of more than one million taels or hundreds of cars. That would actually be largely out of your control. Because of the manpower that can be secured under the promise of the majesty of the imperial power and the greater interests around him, he has no way to properly control the wealth of more than one million taels without big greed and deficit. This is also a rather helpless thing in this era of "Fira".

However, even if it is hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, at least in a few years, it should be enough to establish the core of your new camp. In ancient times, force was everything, and the basic force under personal control was consolidated, and there was no worry about copying or collecting money.