Li Xiucheng has been paying attention to the army outside the city, which claims to be the Ming army, and at this time they have landed more than 5,000 people one after another, firmly controlling two strongholds, one is the Yanziji on the periphery, and the other is the Xiaguan in the near front. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Xiucheng naturally knows what the so-called Ming Kingdom is about, if you listen to it for the first time, I am afraid that you will not think of Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty, but think that it is the rebel army of the Heaven and Earth Society, Li Xiucheng knows very well that this is not a peasant army, but the army of warlords who have always had their own strong territory, and the army of Zhu Jinglun, who usurped power in Guangdong.

Because he sent someone to Guangzhou to contact before, he tried to send a superstitious letter to Shanghai and handed it over to a missionary who sympathized with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but then he didn't know the situation, he only knew that this Ming Dynasty sent a letter and created a rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, just with a try-and-see attitude to contact them, I didn't expect that there really was an army appearing, claiming to be a Ming reinforcement, which made him feel unsure.

He didn't say that he would let the other party come to the rescue of Tianjing, he only said that they would unite with each other to oppose the Qing Dynasty and divide China equally, but he didn't expect the other party to be so enthusiastic that he would come to the rescue of Tianjing, if the other party attacked Fujian and Jiangxi from Guangdong, or even attacked Hunan, he would not be surprised, because the other party has its own interests in expansion, but why did they come to Tianjing?

If it was when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was strong before, Li Xiucheng would definitely not hesitate to open the city gate, they had welcomed countless friends from the Heaven and Earth Society, and welcomed friends from the Twist Army, but now, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in danger, Nanjing was already doomed to be unable to hold on, the other party came at this time, but he didn't dare to open the city gate, who knows if the other party entered the city to occupy the city, or to save the city?

So he didn't dare to open the city gate, but asked the other party for support for grain and grass, at this time he couldn't show his timidity, the city has run out of food, this is something that he once shaved his head knows, and he can't hide it, but the other party asked to enter the city one by one, and never mentioned the matter of grain and grass, which made him even more suspicious.

Just when Li Xiucheng was suspicious, suddenly the other party's people came to announce, saying that their emperor was coming and asked them to open the city gate to welcome him!

Li Zicheng's first reaction was to deceive, but could the other party be guilty of deceiving himself like this?

Soon I heard from my own people that the other party's emperor had arrived at the city gate, and he wanted people to open the city gate, and he only brought a dozen soldiers.

Zhu Jinglun was very depressed, he just decided to put on a big show, worried that if he didn't make a big show, it would make the mud legs in the city look down on him, and that group of people would build the palace with great fanfare when they entered the city, and engage in car driving, I am afraid that the world view is whoever has the big pomp and circumstance, and whose strength is great, so Zhu Jinglun has to show his strength, and the most convenient thing is to make a big pomp.

It's a pity that he didn't prepare, he didn't even have a carriage, and he didn't want the soldiers to carry a sedan chair for him, and he didn't have a sedan chair, so he made a temporary sliding rod, he refused, and finally chose to ride a horse, but there was not even a good horse in the army, only dozens of horses ready to be used to pull the cart.

In the end, I tried my best to choose a seemingly majestic horse, and let people lead it slowly and leisurely to the city wall, not to mention Zhu Jinglun, even the guards who protected him felt that they couldn't raise their heads.

"Are you officials here?"

Zhu Jinglun rode on a horse, although he was a horse, he still had to be arrogant, since he couldn't put on a big shelf, fortunately, he pretended to be a rough man, a rebel, of course he was a rough man, and it was good to lower the other party's vigilance.

So as soon as he arrived at the city gate, he shouted for the other party's official to come out and speak, and the soldiers in the city said that they were going to pass the word, and Zhu Jinglun kept urging.

"Who are you?"

A voice is full of energy, this is the spectrum, and the position seems to be the same.

Zhu Jinglun said with a big grin: "Lao Tzu is the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, and if you come to see your king and say something big, don't you open the city gate and let Lao Tzu in." ”

The people in the city have handsome faces and look like scholars, and Zhu Jinglun is not sure if it is Li Xiucheng, who has real power in Tianjing City at this time.

The other party looked at Zhu Jinglun, frowned and observed, and did not answer for a long time.

Zhu Jinglun looked impatient: "Little family." I'm still afraid that I will take your city, Lao Tzu is here to share the world with the king of heaven, how can he look at this small Jinling? That's it, don't you dare to open the city gate, throw a rope down, and pull Lao Tzu up! ”

Li Xiucheng still didn't speak, looked at the other party's barracks, he was still by the river and didn't move, and there were more than a dozen guards around him, and he felt that there was no big problem, so he waved his hand:

"Open the city gate and welcome the Emperor Ming!"

The gate finally opened, Zhu Jinglun asked his subordinates to lead the horse, and walked towards the city gate with a big grin, the scholar had not yet walked out of the city gate, Zhu Jinglun had already entered.

He stood in front of the horse and bowed slightly: "Foreign Minister Li Xiucheng, see His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Zhu Jinglun rode on his horse and waved his hand: "Excuse me, excuse me, you kings, take me to meet." ”

Li Xiucheng frowned again, can such a good thing save the kingdom of heaven?

But it was not easy to attack, and said patiently: "Please come to the pavilion for a while, the king of heaven is sick, and he can't see guests." ”

Zhu Jinglun pretended to be angry and said: "What, it was your king who asked Lao Tzu to divide the world, why is he still sick, this is not to give Lao Tzu face." ”

After speaking, he saw many soldiers around him showing fierce lights, Zhu Jinglun immediately tried to come out, it seems that Hong Xiuquan, a magic stick, has a high status in the hearts of these soldiers, brainwashed to this extent, no wonder they are all out of food and grass, these people are still insisting, this spiritual will is not lost to the Hunan army, no wonder they can defeat the foreign gun team.

Li Xiucheng insisted: "Please go to the post house for a while." ”

Zhu Jinglun snorted: "Okay, okay, we have all entered the city, and Lao Tzu can only do whatever he wants." But tomorrow I must see the King. ”

After that, he entered the post house arranged by Li Xiucheng, and the conditions of the post house were not bad.

Nanjing City is a big city, the area within the city wall is not smaller than Beijing City, this is the capital established by Zhu Yuanzhang that year, as much as possible to expand the area, even the Lion Rock and other places are surrounded in, the city wall is more than 35 kilometers long, this is only the inner city, the city wall of the outer Guocheng is more than 60 kilometers long, but it is a pity that Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, in the later addition of the war and chaos, now the population in Nanjing is sparsely populated, Zhu Jinglun saw a large area of farmland after entering the city, they actually planted land in the city, no wonder they can hold on for several years.

The reason why Nanjing has such a large vacant land, in addition to not being developed because it is not the capital, the most important reason is that after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom entered the city, all the princes have built a large number of houses, demolished a large number of houses, and the common people have fled a lot, so a considerable amount of land has been vacated, Hong Xiuquan in order to build the Tianwang Mansion, and even Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty palace has been demolished, fortunately, he has not gone crazy to the point that even Zhu Yuanzhang's city wall has been demolished, otherwise he should have been fooled in the sky as the king of heaven.

"Your Majesty rests here, and the ministers retire."

Li Xiucheng said politely, he hadn't figured out Zhu Jinglun's strength yet, so he didn't dare to draw conclusions lightly.

Zhu Jinglun waved his hand: "You are His Royal Highness King Zhong." Lao Tzu has brought 100,000 loads of military rations, and I want to talk to the king of heaven to understand, and I will understand that these grains are yours. ”

As soon as he heard that there was grain and grass, Li Xiucheng didn't dare to slack off, to be honest, many people in the city had starved to death because of the lack of food, and there were only about 10,000 soldiers left, but there were only 3,000 people who could really move, but at this time the Hunan army was also very tired, otherwise, they would have attacked the city a long time ago.

"I'm going to ask the King of Heaven."

After saying that, he retired and left.

Li Xiucheng quickly hurried back, his face gloomy: "Please also ask Your Majesty to quickly allocate military rations." The king of my family is in poor health, and he really can't see guests. ”

Zhu Jinglun snorted coldly: "How can this be true, Lao Tzu came all the way from Guangdong to your Tianjing, you first blocked me from entering the city, and then I didn't see it because of my illness, and I conspired with others, how can it be so insincere." ”

Li Xiucheng knew that he was at a loss: "Don't dare to hide it, the king of heaven is seriously ill." ”

There is no need to hide this, Hong Xiuquan took the lead in eating grass, and all the people in Tianjing City starved to death, and there was no shortage of Hong Xiuquan's mouthful to eat, even if he ate people, it was impossible to starve Sect Master Hong to death, but Hong Xiuquan was already sick in April, and his brain seemed to be a little bad, so he insisted on eating grass, not to say that it was a mana sent down by the Heavenly Father.

What is a mana? The legend in the Bible says that Moses led the Jews to escape from Egypt and return to the land of Canaan, but the people were sleepy and lacked food, so God appeared and sent down mana for them to eat, and the Jews escaped.

Zhu Jinglun sighed: "Is this really the case? ”

Li Xiucheng nodded, he was already desperate, and the person in front of him was their only hope.

Zhu Jinglun said: "Then I want to meet the King of Heaven even more, I can't hide my rough medical skills, maybe I can help." ”

Li Xiucheng shook his head: "There are also many famous doctors in my Tianjing City, but the Heavenly King refuses to take medicine." ”

Zhu Jinglun insisted: "Then let me meet too, I'll come here, you can't help but let me see the Heavenly King." is so insincere, spread it out and make the heroes of the world laugh. ”

Li Xiucheng also felt that it was inappropriate, and sighed if the other party insisted.

"That's fine. Since Your Majesty will see the Heavenly King for the last time, then please move your Majesty. ”

didn't take a few steps, Li Xiucheng prepared a large sedan chair carried by eighteen people, this is the posstry.

Poured the Tianwang Mansion, what made Zhu Jinglun marvel was that he walked Zhengzheng for more than half an hour, and the pavilions and pavilions along the way were dizzying, I don't know how many skilled craftsmen's minds were wasted, no place was not exquisite, no place was not gorgeous, and later experts said that the Tianwang Mansion was twice the size of the entire Forbidden City, which was true.

got off the sedan chair, entered the deep palace, and walked for another half an hour, only then did he arrive at a palace, and Hong Xiuquan was inside.

The room is full of beauties, as if entering heaven, there are many beauties in Jiangnan, and when they enter Jiangnan, they will wear out their heroism and fight for the world.

A group of beautiful women surrounded a person, who was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, lying on the bed and dancing, talking nonsense, listening carefully, what kind of words were heavenly fathers, heavenly brothers, heavenly soldiers and generals.

Li Xiucheng's face was embarrassed, their heavenly king was already demented, and it was really embarrassing to see people at this time.

Zhu Jinglun didn't care, an arrow stepped forward, startling others, especially Li Xiucheng, who was about to draw his sword, and saw that Zhu Jinglun had no unfavorable moves, so he let go of the big hand pressed on the hilt of the sword.

I saw Zhu Jinglun squatting in front of the window, holding Hong Xiuquan's hand tightly, and calling softly: "Heavenly King!" ”

Li Xiucheng gave a group of women a look, and the beauties pinched their handkerchiefs, wiped the corners of their eyes without a single tear, and went out with small steps.

Zhu Jinglun held a fat hand, looked at the fat guy in front of him, and hesitated in his heart.

"Do you want to save this thing?" (To be continued.) )