Little is known about the secret discussion between Zhu Jinglun and Li Xiucheng, and no evidence has been left, but it does not mean that no one knows about this agreement. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, Li Xiucheng himself did not keep the secret, and he reported the matter to Hong Xiuquan.

In fact, at this time, Li Xiucheng himself was shaken, if hundreds of thousands of Taiping soldiers and their families could go to a place where no one could find them, although they might have to take a big risk, it was also possible to let them regain their foothold, as for whether the Ming Dynasty would keep its word, this itself was only part of the risk.

If they don't, they will be greeted with a dead end, which is well known to everyone.

They have already crossed the sea with eight immortals, each showing their magical powers.

Why do so many people intercede for the Ming merchants who are imprisoned in prison, it's not that they talk about old feelings, but that they want to leave a way back for themselves. There are so many people who are reluctant to the wealth of Tianjing, but not the city of Tianjing, they want to leave here with their wealth, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are the way.

The Manchu Qing couldn't tolerate them, but the Ming Dynasty didn't necessarily can't tolerate them, at least those merchants told them that wherever the Ming Dynasty had money, they had everything.

The local magnates have long since left their territory, handed everything over to the Ming army, and went to the Ming Dynasty to enjoy the blessings of the Qing Dynasty.

Li Xiucheng told Hong Xiuquan about this, because Li Xiucheng was contradictory, he didn't want to make his own decisions, how Hong Xiuquan decided, he appointed.

But Hong Xiuquan fell into the mental cage again, he didn't want to leave, he said that he was protected by heavenly soldiers and generals, and the heavenly kingdom turned into safety.

There is a heaven and a cage in Hong Xiuquan's spiritual world, but those princes and nobles don't want to follow the funeral, they soon knew that Daming came here, not to save the kingdom of heaven, but to give a funeral to the kingdom of heaven, so soon they began to look for various ways.

They are connected with all kinds of merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and those who have a way have begun to quietly transfer their property, and quietly leave Tianjing on various ships of the Ming Dynasty, but only those powerful people have this way now, and ordinary people can only wait for death.

Zhu Jinglun didn't wait for Li Xiucheng's reply, he quickly left quietly, as if he had never been here, he saw Li Xiucheng, just hoping to make the other party believe him, as for whether the other party will believe him, or believe in him but is unwilling to go, then it is not a matter of Zhu Jinglun's concern, he gave the other party a way, whether the other party can go or not, it is not up to him to decide.

The road of the magnates of Tianjing is not free and easy, because this road is so expensive, it is really paved with gold, and the people who paved the way for them have just been released from prison, and they are even reluctant to go, and they continue to take it here at risk, thinking of various ways to contact the magnates, large and small ships gather in Tianjing, some are going to Shanghai, some are going to Hong Kong, and more are going to Guangxi, because most of the princes from Guangxi, they still want to return to their roots and return to their hometowns.

The assets of these magnates in Tianjing are so huge that many people need to hire entire ships to transport them away, and of course there are more that cannot be transported, such as mansions, which even the Ming merchants dare not take over, because after the Manchu Qing recovered here, they obviously would not approve of it.

What they can take away is nothing more than some gold, silver, pearls and jade, the largest is only a large piece such as a jade screen, those finely carved all kinds of furniture, few people will take it away, and the super large sedan chair carried by eighty people does not need to think about it, these things, the Ming merchants can take over.

The flight of hundreds of Tianjing magnates, this could not be concealed from Zeng Guofan, he knew, he did not say it. What can he do, fight with Daming, at this time, if he goes to attack Xiaguan, even the British Navy does not support it, and if he can't hit the waterway, he will never be able to cut off the escape of the Tianjing magnates.

It's just money, the Manchu Qing's finances were in tatters, and even the rations of the banner people couldn't be paid, but in Zeng Guofan's eyes, money was still not as good as land.

He is a resolute person, and the reason why resolute people are resolute is because they always have an unswerving goal, or belief, Zeng Guofan's goal is to exterminate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and faith is the way to rebuild Confucius and Mencius, and with the support of this great belief, he doesn't care about anything else.

But if you want to load the three or four hundred thousand Taiping soldiers, plus millions or more soldiers, and the families of more dead soldiers, on ships and send them away, without Zeng Guofan's consent, it is simply impossible, because Zeng Guofan's 200,000 troops on the periphery of Tianjing are not decorations, they are 200,000 troops who have experienced 20 years of tragic fighting.

Now the Ming Dynasty needs to be unified by Zeng Guofan, because under the persuasion of countless people, Hong Xiuquan changed his mind, he thinks that walking is also a road, a road to heaven, he said that no matter where they are, where is the kingdom of heaven.

Li Xiucheng conveyed the situation to Daming, hoping that Daming would fulfill his promise and take all the soldiers of Hecheng away, no matter where they go, as long as they can be kept alive.

Li Xiucheng's attitude was exactly what Zhu Jinglun was looking forward to, he immediately asked people to contact Zeng Guofan, and he even personally wrote a sincere letter to Zeng Guofan, hoping that Zeng Guofan could let these people go, of course, he was also very resolute, and firmly told Zeng Guofan that it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to see hundreds of thousands of people being slaughtered.

But at this time, Zeng Guofan made a request.

Under the persuasion of everyone, Hong Xiuquan decided to take everyone to open up a heavenly kingdom again.

But Hong Xiuquan himself must die.

This was Zeng Guofan's request.

Zhu Jinglun immediately understood that this was almost a dead knot, it was impossible for Hong Xiuquan to be killed, and Li Xiucheng could not let Hong Xiuquan die, so only if he continued to fight, everyone would die.

The magnates lost the last glimmer of hope, so they had to continue to contact the Ming profiteers, pay a higher price than in the past, and transfer their property, even the prince surnamed Hong couldn't care about his face, and in the past he just secretly sent the heirs of the family away, but now almost the family is gone, loaded with the last batch of property, and went south without scruples, went to Daming, and returned to his hometown.

Li Xiucheng did not stop these people who were not strong-willed, not to mention that these people still relied on the Ming Dynasty, they themselves did not come forward, there were businessmen of the Ming Dynasty who came forward to maneuver in all directions, from the soldiers of the Taiping Army to the Ming Army and the Navy, these people were running relations, Li Xiucheng knew that the water inside was very deep, and he didn't want to wade into the muddy waters.

There is no one who can remain soft in the face of despair, just because Li Xiucheng himself also wants to save his son's life, he hopes that his two sons can go to Daming to enjoy peace, and he himself will come to an end in Tianjing with Hong Xiuquan.

Zeng Guofan continued to shrink the encirclement in an orderly manner, and after Yuhuatai, they laid down the Shangshang Gate, Gaoqiao Gate, Shuangqiao Gate, Qiqiao Urn, Moling Pass, Zhonghe Bridge and other important places, and finally laid down the Shence Gate and Taiping Gate, completely blocking Tianjing City.

During this period, the Taiping army became more and more tenacious, or crazy, everyone knew that they were going to die, and it was the kind of madness that broke out after dying without a place to be buried, but to no avail, the more crazy it was, the more there was no order, and the more it could not break through the blockade of the Hunan army.

The Taiping Army Navy even mutinied, they even wanted to sneak attack the Ming Army stationed in Xiaguan, at this time the Ming Army was also in a wartime state, it was impossible to give them a chance, not only defeated the sneak attack of the Taiping Army Sailors, but also directly captured their only three remaining warships, and the Taiping Army Sailors were destroyed.

At this time, there were very few powerful people in Tianjing City who did not run, Yang Fuqing and Wang Haiyang did not leave, but no one expected that even Hong Renji, the most popular guy surnamed Hong, would quietly arrange a retreat and leave without telling him, I heard that he went to Hong Kong.

Hong Xiuquan is not wrong to rely on his relatives, but there is really no one in his relatives, after Hong Renji was arrested by the Qing army, Hong Xiuquan was called the pseudo-king of heaven by the lieutenant general Hong Xiuquan in the confession, but Li Xiucheng, who was considered to have no integrity, called Hong Xiuquan the king of heaven from beginning to end in his self-confession. In history, Wang Haiyang was finally killed in battle, and Yang Fuqing absconded.

These people are not gone now, which can be regarded as Hong Xiuquan's luck, but it is also his misfortune, because he has never believed in these truly trustworthy people from beginning to end, and the people he trusts are not worthy of his trust.

However, Hong Xiuquan did a good thing for these people in the end, he did not drag these people to the funeral together, but committed suicide.

Hong Xiuquan ended his meaningless life with a dose of poison, since the "resurrection", he found that his body no longer has the previous function, he has no reaction at all in the face of countless beauties, and there is no taste in eating any food, he thinks that this is the punishment of the Heavenly Father to him, in addition to making him more devout to the Heavenly Father, it also makes him more superstitious, but on the surface, he still lives a life of fine clothes and food, a beautiful wife, and he still accepts the beauties offered by the princes in those places, but he can't enjoy these beauties anymore, but can torture these beauties, in the last three years of his life, at least a hundred young girls died inexplicably, an average of one every three days.

After Hong Xiuquan committed suicide by poisoning, it is said that Li Xiucheng and they should have a way to live, but they were unwilling to hand over Hong Xiuquan's body, so they still decided to stick to it, and it is difficult to understand what kind of determination they have.

Zhu Jinglun decided to interfere strongly, not because he had any special affection for Li Xiucheng, but because he didn't want to see nearly a million people follow Li Xiucheng and them to be buried.

The Ming army began to move, moving from the already occupied Changzhou capital to Tianjing, putting great pressure on the Qing army.

The purpose was only to deter the Qing army, win the determination to persuade Li Xiucheng to them, and also to make Zeng Guofan give in.

Zeng Guofan relented and no longer asked for Hong Xiuquan's body, but he insisted on verifying his identity, and Li Xiucheng and they also gave in, but they would not hand over the body of the Heavenly King to Zeng Guofan, and decided to transfer it to Daming, because Daming promised to build a temple for Hong Xiuquan and enshrine the body of the Heavenly King in it.

So far, 300,000 Taiping troops have been unarmored and accepted the placement of the Ming army.