Yang Xiaoshan took dozens of high-ranking officials to bury the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, in order not to affect the military morale of the soldiers in the Tianjing City, Hong Renji was responsible for blocking the external news, and chose an open space in the Heavenly King's Mansion as a mausoleum for burial.

Hong Xiuquan, who was in his fifties, died of illness, he didn't believe in medicine, thought that God could cure him, refused to see a doctor, refused to take medicine, and others didn't dare to force him, so he just left. He studied the teachings all his life and brought himself in, an idealist detached from reality and living only in his own world.

Yang Xiaoshan looked at Hong Xiuquan's last edict to him and cried and laughed, which read, "The public is at ease, I will go to heaven, receive heavenly soldiers from my father and brother, and protect Tianjing." How many people would believe this sentence now? The Cult of God is completely bankrupt, and who would be foolish enough to believe that there will be a heavenly soldier who will save him in the future?

"Nephew, kneel down for your Uncle Dongwang." Hong Renfa and Hong Renda came to Yang Xiaoshan with the Young Heavenly King Hong Tianguifu.

"Salute Uncle Dongwang." Hong Tianguifu is only fifteen years old, he has never left here since he entered Tianjing City, he is still an ignorant teenager, he learned the teachings of his father Hong Xiuquan in elementary school, and he has no understanding of the outside world.

Yang Xiaoshan immediately understood, this was because the Heavenly King died suddenly, and it was too late to entrust the orphan, this Hong Renfa and Hong Renda brothers wanted to entrust the Young Heavenly King to themselves for Hong Xiuquan. In other words, it is necessary to recognize the infant king's status as the young master. These two people are quite self-aware, for fear that Yang Xiaoshan will turn his face and abandon the Hong family, and if they want to live, they have to rely on Yang Xiaoshan.

"Don't dare to be it, the minister Yang Xiaoshan will assist the Young Heavenly King and protect the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom." Yang Xiaoshan and the Young Heavenly King knelt together, they are all at this juncture, what is there to recognize a young master? Yang Xiaoshan asked himself if he couldn't do such a thing as bullying orphans and widows, so he should be the "Zhuge Liang" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The brothers Hong Renda and Hong Renfa, who were still a little nervous, breathed a sigh of relief, and the East King also recognized that the Hong family was the best, they were the brothers of the King of Heaven, and their status in the future would still be there, but if they didn't recognize it, the two brothers would plan to find their own way, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had come to this situation, and the two of them only thought about their own glory and wealth.

Arrangements were made for the burial of the Heavenly King, and several days passed. The food in Tianjing City is getting less and less, in fact, after Jiang Xinzhou's first war, Yang Xiaoshan halved the supply of food. However, the grain problem cannot be solved only if there is only out, not in.

Yang Xiaoshan was anxious but had no choice, and on this day he took Li Xiucheng and Hong Renji to inspect the streets to cheer up the soldiers.

"Ganwang, how long can the food supply in Tianjing be this day?" Yang Xiaoshan asked Hong Renji.

"Now that the supply has been halved, it will take up to fifteen days to be full, and this is because many brothers died in the last battle, so there are only a few more days." Hong Renji replied with his head down.

"My subordinates pleaded guilty to the king of the east, it was all my negligence, Jiang Xinzhou lost more than 10,000 brothers in the first battle." Li Xiucheng said ashamedly.

"I can't blame you, I didn't count that there were foreign devils to help, but it's a pity that these sailor brothers of the King of Hang, they 。。。。。。have just made a great contribution and have not had time to be rewarded." Yang Xiaoshan waved his hand, without the water army, Jiang Xinzhou's grain road would no longer have a chance.

"King Dong, I propose to release the thirty or forty thousand women and children in the city, so that we can hold out for a few more days." Li Xiucheng pondered for a while and proposed.

"I've also thought about this, but I'm afraid that the Hunan army will poison them。。。。。。" Yang Xiaoshan replied, but if a woman is used as a trophy in these years, the ending will be very miserable.

Yang Xiaoshan and his entourage were discussing countermeasures while walking, when a lot of people suddenly poured out in front of them and ran towards a butcher's stall.

"What's going on?" Yang Xiaoshan immediately asked the guards to check, and at this time he was most afraid of an internal riot.

After a while, the guard came back and replied, "King Dong, the butcher in front of you has meat to sell, and many people have gone to buy it." ”

"How is that possible?" Yang Xiaoshan, Li Xiucheng, and Hong Renji said in unison.

The shortage of food is like this, and the rice in the city is almost gone, where is the meat?

"Is it horse meat again?" Yang Xiaoshan was puzzled, and immediately took Li Xiucheng and Hong Renji to check.

As soon as he saw that a big official came to investigate, the butcher was so frightened that he hurriedly said, "It's not for sale, it's not for sale." "I'm going to run when I get out of the stall.

Yang Xiaoshan's guards surrounded him and snatched the meat for Yang Xiaoshan to check.

Yang Xiaoshan grabbed a piece of meat, looked at it carefully, and didn't see anything wrong.

On the contrary, Li Xiucheng discovered the abnormality, and hurriedly whispered in Yang Xiaoshan's ear: "This flesh is white, it feels slippery, and the hairs on the flesh are almost invisible, and the subordinates guess that it is likely to be the flesh on a woman." ”

Yang Xiaoshan was shocked when he heard this, and the bean dregs in his stomach were about to vomit out, which was very disgusting. He shouted at the butcher, "Brute! You dare to sell human flesh, you are still human! ”

The butcher didn't expect the king of the east to see through him all of a sudden, and he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground: "The neighbor Wang's widow starved to death, and the little one scraped a few pieces of meat on her thigh, and the little one didn't dare to eat it, so he wanted to sell it for some money and exchange it for something else to eat." Small sins deserve ten thousand deaths, and sins deserve ten thousand deaths. ”

"Drag it down and cut it!" Li Xiucheng replaced Yang Xiaoshandao.

Yang Xiaoshan fell into deep thought, he didn't expect that the food problem would be so serious, Tianjing began to sell human flesh, and if things continue to develop, I am afraid that it will really be cannibalistic people, and those weak women will become the first victims, so that the tragedy of the loss of humanity must not happen in Tianjing City under his control!

Yang Xiaoshan raised his head and said to Li Xiucheng: "Bring Feng Zicai and let him take the message to Zeng Guofan, this king has a deal to talk to him." ”

Li Xiucheng was puzzled: "King Dong, you?" ”

"This king is going to exchange those captives for the freedom of the women and children in the city, in the last battle, we probably captured more than 1,000 Hunan troops, most of the Hunan troops are soldiers of the same place, Zeng Guofan will not give up on them. As long as he promised to make way for the women and children of Tianjing, we would release all the captives. "Yang Xiaoshan knows that Zeng Guofan is a person, this person cares about his reputation very much, if it was Li Hongzhang, he would never make such a deal with him. But Zeng Guofan is different, he wants to be a great Confucian, and he will not blatantly mutilate women, at least he still has to pretend before the city is broken, and it will be difficult to say after the city is broken.

Seeing that Tianjing was going to be broken by the Hunan army sooner or later, Yang Xiaoshan wanted to find a way out for the women, and his wife Su Qiaomei and Hong Xuanjiao's children also had to try their best to keep it.

Feng Zicai was brought in, and he didn't seem to believe that Yang Xiaoshan would let him go back.

"You're going to let me go?" Feng Zicai said in disbelief.

"Yes. This king is for the women and children of the city. Yang Xiaoshan said what Li Xiucheng said to Feng Zicai again just now.

Feng Zicai's face slowed down, and he couldn't help but glance at Yang Xiaoshan, and then said, "I will speak for the East King." ”