The shelling stopped, or the military operations stopped, and Ma Dalei rushed with 3,000 cavalry to seize the Old Summer Palace, but the other infantry in the Shuai battalion also moved out, and they wanted to help defend the Old Summer Palace after Ma Dalei occupied the Old Summer Palace. In addition, after they arrived, they had enough troops to occupy the Summer Palace.

Qianlong's villa is about to be occupied, I am afraid that the Qing army in the city will go crazy and have to have a hard battle, so for the sake of safety, Zhou Lang asked the artillery to also go to support, temporarily stop the senseless shelling, where is it more cost-effective to hit the brick wall of Beijing than to bombard the courtyard wall of the Old Summer Palace, and the average income of each shell is different.

If you want to make a profit from hitting Beijing, you must either capture here, or you can get Heshen's money, otherwise it will be a net loss. But the Old Summer Palace is different, as long as you successfully occupy this garden, every cannonball sent out can bring back real money.

Before the expedition, Zhou Lang specially tortured the prisoners and figured out some of the circumstances, guarding the Old Summer Palace is the Old Summer Palace Eight Banners Guard Battalion, like the firearms battalion, the total strength is less than 8,000, such a troop deployment, Ma Dalei should be able to fight down, and there are artillery to support, if he failed to capture it smoothly before, the artillery can definitely be taken down.

It is said that it is artillery, but in fact the speed is not slow, and the horse-drawn infantry artillery can run faster than the infantry when there are enough captured war horses, and they can arrive in a day at most.

It was probably the wealth of the Old Summer Palace that aroused Zhou Lang's greed, and all he was thinking about these days was silver.

He was mentally challenged by financial pressure.

When he thought of the wealth of the Old Summer Palace, he felt that he probably wouldn't have to think about money within five years.

Once the money thinking mode is turned on, Zhou Lang's brain is still very good, and he always has a way to make money.

So there was a rumor among the flag men in Beijing that the pirates outside the city tied up thousands of flag men and released them if they gave money.

This matter is true, and the families of individual high-ranking flag people have already received letters.

And soon their son really returned to Beijing, not in and out of the city, but by people pulling up with ropes.

The people who went back passed more news, and brought back a list, a total of more than 3,000 people, all of whom were captured by Zhou Lang on the battlefield, and they all confessed to the torture, and they couldn't ask what the situation was, it was a waste of food to raise, and it was a pity to let it go, it was too brutal to kill, so Zhou Lang thought of such a way to make money.

Every name on the list is true, and a false name will be given unless the captives don't want to go back, but such people are almost non-existent. On the contrary, it was a lot of crying and shouting begging for them to write letters home, but it was unrealistic to bring thousands of letters in, and it was still okay to bring a few lists.

Zhou Lang's price is very simple, according to the head, regardless of rich or poor, a person can collect a total of three million taels of silver for a head of 1,000 taels of silver, which can be regarded as giving full play to the residual heat of these garbage, but not everyone can take out 1,000 taels of silver, if you can't borrow it, it will delay Zhou Lang's plan to make a fortune, so Zhou Lang thought of a poisonous trick, he will not release people one by one, but according to the flags of each genus, which flag of the captives have all paid enough silver, the captives of this flag will be released at one time, otherwise you can only wait, if you can't pay enough in the end, Zhou Lang could only leave them as cattle and horses and take them back to the south.

The first one to pay enough money is Zhenghuangqi, in the end, the three flags are rich, Zhou Lang has money, release people, and keep his promises.

After more than 500 people from Zhenghuangqi were released at one time, the people of the other banners sent the money the next day, at this time, even if the emperor knew about it, he couldn't do anything, and even pretended not to know, so many flag people, he couldn't let him die, and even knew that the emperor had to pay the money himself, but fortunately he pretended not to know, as if this didn't happen.

The emperor's headache is the problem of the Old Summer Palace, the Old Summer Palace Eight Banners Guard Barracks left behind in the Old Summer Palace is not vulnerable at all, this is a military camp with more children than other battalion magnates, and it is still stationed outside the city, it is even more lawless, and the military discipline is a mess.

As a result, the Yuanmingyuan guard camp, more than 100 people were killed in the battle, and all ran away, and the Summer Palace was blocked, and 2,000 people were arrested, and they had to pay 2 million for meat tickets.

The Old Summer Palace was occupied, and the two emperors, Jiaqing and Qianlong, were not heartbroken about the lost money, but after losing it, they couldn't get it back, which made people feel heartbroken.

This battle can't be fought, the wild wave battle is not an opponent at all, and the reinforcements that can fight are still far away, and now the banner man Yu Ding in the city has organized and issued weapons, but it is difficult for them to go to the city to defend, let alone let them go out of the city to fight.

You can only hold on and receive reinforcements back.

So the city of Beijing, which had already armed 100,000 recruits of the Eight Banners and a total strength of 180,000, just watched Zhou Lang occupy the Old Summer Palace, but pretended not to see it, the city gate was closed, and not a single soldier appeared in the northwest suburbs.

The financial personnel in the army who are responsible for the distribution of military salaries in peacetime all went to the Old Summer Palace, and their task was to count and register the property in the garden. There are some small pieces such as wrenches, which may be collected by cheap soldiers, but large screens, jade, calligraphy and paintings are priceless treasures and need to be registered.

Then it has to be properly packed and transported back to the camp, after all, the Old Summer Palace is still too far away from the main camp, and it is really unreassuring where those treasures are left.

But the news sent back by the financial officers made Zhou Lang extremely happy. They told Zhou Lang that if they wanted to empty these gardens and use the existing thousands of ox carts, it would take more than three months. Their initial assessment found that there were at least a million treasures worth removing.

They can't say the specific value of these things, but if you look at the exquisiteness, you know that they are good things.

They suggested that the small pieces should be moved first, the large ones could be made first, and the last ones could be moved, and the ones that could not be moved could be destroyed.

Zhou Lang replied and scolded the military officer who led the team, he scolded these people for being very strong, because these people are like his sons, without him would have died a long time ago, most of these are the children of landlords who fled to Fengshan County from Taiwan, Chiayi and other counties, they were teenagers back then, they could eat and not work, but they were literate and literate, Zhou Lang recruited them and trained them to become financial personnel.

These people usually boast of being handsome and handsome, and they talk about repaying their kindness, for fear that no one will know their identities.

The plan to make a fortune was carried out in an orderly manner, and the ox carts walked around the city of Beijing under the protection of about 1,000 guards, and they were never intercepted, which made people rejoice.

The contact with the adults has never been interrupted, and the price of He Shen has reached 40 million taels of silver, plus 60 million taels of pearls and jade and other things, and no matter how much he has, he really can't get it.

The walls of Beijing City are also really thick, and Zhou Lang suspects that he can't blow up the walls even if he runs out of gunpowder. So finally agreed.

But there is a request from the adults, the Old Summer Palace and the Summer Palace have to be returned to him, and Zhou Lang has to cooperate a little.