The city of Beijing was completely panicked, and the banner people in the inner city packed up their belongings and prepared to run, and the Han people in the outer city had begun to flee, but they were blocked in the city, and the city gate was closed to prevent careful work.

The two families in the city have been the same for a while, and in the past month, they have tripled, and this is because the government has cut off the heads of more than a dozen profiteers, and the emperor has been forced to open the official treasury.

But what about nearly a million people, when will it be a head if it eats like this?

The documents for the transfer of troops have already been sent to Hubei and Zhejiang, and the reinforcements will not arrive in two or three months.

Beijing doesn't have that much time.

The nominal strength of the Qing Dynasty was not as large as that of the Ming Dynasty, and the livelihood of the Ming Dynasty's guards in the later period was not even as good as that of the peasants, and the malnutrition was more serious than that of ordinary people. The Qing Dynasty did not have guards, mainly the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion, of which the Eight Banners were about 200,000 and the Green Battalion was 660,000, totaling less than one million.

Unlike other places where the Green Battalion is the majority, Beijing, as the capital and the hometown of the Banner People, has a majority of the Eight Banner soldiers here, as high as 100,000 people, while the Green Battalion is less than 100,000, adding up to less than 200,000 horses.

However, among these 200,000 people, 100,000 were transferred to the front line, and only 100,000 were left behind.

With the existing 80,000 people, letting them go out of the city to fight the Haikou is simply going to die, and everyone can't fight.

So on the night of the shelling, the messenger of the Lord came again.

He said that 200 million taels was too much, and he hoped to reduce it. He said that the masters were willing to give as much silver as Canton.

Zhou Lang didn't let it, it was 20,000 taels, and if he didn't give it now, Zhou Lang would go into the city to take it for himself.

The shelling continued, there was no outcropping of the Qing army on the city wall, and the bricks on the vicissitudes of Beijing city wall were cracked one by one, but it was still early before the overall collapse, and the artillery of the Qing army was also firing back, but it had no effect, there was no accuracy, and the army had already repaired the camp, it was very thick, and it was rammed with Beijing's loess, with logs inserted in the middle, and it was possible to resist a few shells at the end of the strong crossbow.

He and the envoys of the adults came every day, and they all became regular customers, and they were even able to drink the hospitality tea of Zhou Lang's army.

The price of He Shen is also getting higher and higher, from 20 million to 40 million, but he said that it can't be higher, no matter how high it is, it can't hide from outsiders, and adults can't get out.

Zhou Lang also felt that the other party's attitude was sincere, in Guangzhou, the emperor was far away, they could hide it from the top and loot it wantonly, but in Beijing, under the noses of a lot of powerful people, He Shen couldn't let the officials of the entire court hide it together.

If you use a small circle to loot and let Zhou Lang operate it, I am afraid that you will not be able to take out 10 million, but He Shen, the God of Wealth who has been in the household department and the internal affairs government for more than ten years, has the ability to raise it, and it is also a kind of itself. I am afraid that He Shen is relying on fake accounts, plus various other methods to raise money, I am afraid that he will have to pay a sum of money himself, but it is not so easy to settle the accounts of 40 million.

But Zhou Lang still didn't agree, he told the messenger that it was possible to only 40 million cash, but the rest could be offset with any treasures, gold and silver jewelry, agate pearls and jade, coral calligraphy and paintings, and even antiques.

He Shen's cash must not have 200 million taels, and he can't take it out if he is killed, but there must be a lot of other treasures.

Zhou Lang thought of a sentence, "Farmers are like sesame seeds, the more they squeeze the more oil comes out", this is what the Russian tsar said, and now it seems to be applicable to Lord He, and blackmailing the little fat man of He Shen, Zhou Lang inexplicably has a special pleasure.

Thinking about the treasures that He Shen would send, many of them were probably rewarded by the emperor, after all, is He Shen the emperor's family, thinking of this, Zhou Lang suddenly slapped his thigh-

"Oh no, I picked up the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon, and Heshen is the richest? Wrong, the emperor is the richest! ”

Zhou Lang suddenly felt that he had made a great mistake.

His soldiers don't know the situation in Beijing, and they can see that the city of Beijing is shocked, but he shouldn't, he has run all over this city in his later life, except for regret that he didn't see the city wall, he saw everything he should have.

Where is the emperor's baby, of course, it is in the emperor's house, but in addition to the Forbidden City, the emperor's house is in other places, the emperor's villa, isn't the Old Summer Palace home?

In the Old Summer Palace, are there no treasures?

Zhou Lang remembers a news, it is to introduce the archaeological excavation of the Old Summer Palace site, the Old Summer Palace after the burning of the British and French forces, the looting of nearby residents, the destruction of the Republic of China, to the 1990s, has carried out three archaeological excavations, and then to the fourth excavation in 2013, to Zhou Lang came to this world, has not excavated 10,000, but the news said that more than 60,000 cultural relics have been excavated.

Destroyed so many times, there are three systematic archaeology, and then Liu Wan's cultural relics can be dug up, and now when he has not been destroyed, how many good things are hidden in it, and how many treasures Qianlong has looted all his life are in the Old Summer Palace, it is really hard to say.

In addition to the Old Summer Palace and the nearby Summer Palace, oh, now called Qingyi Garden, it was built by Qianlong in order to honor his mother, and he used five million taels of silver, and there must be more treasures hidden in it.

The two royal gardens, four to be exact, the Old Summer Palace is a collective name, in fact, it is the general name of the three gardens of the Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden and Wanchun Garden, the scale is almost the same, and the treasures in it will not be less than the Heshen family.

Zhou Lang thought about it, and suddenly felt that it was very useless to squeeze the oil and water on He Shen's body, and rob the emperor's treasure, this is fighting local tyrants.

The more I think about it, the happiest I feel, and the happiest thing is that these royal gardens are not in the city walls of Beijing, ten kilometers away from Beijing.

It's just that the royal garden must have strong guards, but no matter how strong it is, it can't be stronger than Beijing City. Even Zhou Lang, the city of Beijing, wants to break in, just a garden, no problem.

But the location of the Old Summer Palace is a headache, he is located in the northwest of Beijing City, just separated from himself by a Beijing City, with the size of Beijing City, it really takes a long time to get around, if the other party thinks of it, move the baby, or destroy it, it will be a pity.

So he called Mardare.

"This is a very important task, as important as fighting Beijing City, no, it is more important than fighting Beijing. I want you to take all the cavalry, day and night, and give me the Old Summer Palace before sunset! ”

After that, I gave a good explanation, to restrain the soldiers, after the laydown, put away the four gates, if there are too many garden gates, then block a few, and leave one or two to facilitate entry and exit.

Wherever something can be destroyed, it is better to leave it as it is.

Ma Dalei is the deputy general of his own handsome battalion, and the handsome battalion is Zhou Lang's personal soldier, with the thickest military salary and the strictest military discipline requirements, maybe some people can't help but steal treasures, but at most take some small pieces, under the premise that Zhou Lang has an order, they will never dare to blatantly take those large items, let alone destroy.