After waiting for three days, the news finally came back that his army had surrounded Zhaoqing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the sixth day, news came back that the Qing army in Zhaoqing could not withstand the shelling and surrendered en masse.

This result was what Zhu Jinglun had long thought of, the Qing army in Zhaoqing had not been much, and after losing tens of thousands of recruited villagers under the city of Guangzhou, Qi Ling could not organize more troops for a while, and even if he could recruit people, he could not afford to support them.

Guangxi has no need to be counted on, it has always needed the support of Guangdong to maintain its integrity under the attack of the Tiandihui and the Taiping Army, and Guangzhou was controlled by Zhu Jinglun, which means that Zhaoqing has lost contact with the Pearl River Delta area, and it is impossible for the elderly to get greater support, and Gaoleiyang Road west of Zhaoqing has been a relatively poor area in Guangdong until a hundred years later, even if he wants to support him, he is not capable.

Therefore, the strength of the elderly has not increased much, maintaining more than 1,000 Eight Banner soldiers and more than 2,000 green battalion soldiers, it has reached the limit, and he has not transferred troops back from Guangxi during this time.

In other words, Qi Ling didn't expect Zhu Jinglun to dare to take the initiative to attack him, or he was lucky, he never increased his troops, so he let Zhu Jinglun send out tens of thousands of troops to surround Zhaoqing, Qi Ling did not try to escape, but refused to resist the city.

Qi Ling can resist stubbornly, but the Eight Banners and Green Battalion soldiers under his command can't bear it, surrounded on all sides, the main direction is constantly shelled, and the waterway is also blocked, which is completely a Jedi.

After Zhu Jinglun's Eight Banners soldiers persuaded him to surrender, he wrote a lot of persuasion letters and shot them into the city, reversing black and white, falsely accusing the elderly of rebellion, and the letter was stamped with the big seal of Mukdenne, which made the Eight Banners soldiers in the city very confused, who should listen to in the end, one is the General of the Eight Banners, and the other is the governor of Liangguang, it seems that everyone should listen, and whoever has it is not quite right. In the end, when the Eight Banners soldiers in the city saw a letter written by their own family members in the city of Guangzhou, they collapsed, and their parents, wives, and children told them that everything was fine in the city of Guangzhou, and Zhu Jinglun did not hurt any flag people, and let the flag people live in peace, and also recruited flag soldiers to give the flag people a way to live, so that they could quickly recognize the facts, the elderly were the rebels, and it was the elderly who were bent on forcing all the soldiers in the city of Guangzhou, including the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion soldiers.

In the end, the Green Battalion of the Eight Banners mutinied, and the officers of the Eight Banners directly arrested the elderly, and then sacrificed the city.

Zhu Jinglun thought that his army could easily capture Zhaoqing, but he didn't expect it to be so fast, he originally thought that the other party would be persuaded to surrender only when he had to resist to a desperate situation, but he didn't want to be unable to withstand it in just three days.

After receiving the news from Zhaoqing, Zhu Jinglun rushed to see Mukdenne as soon as possible, because along with the news, there was also a trump card, the edict of Emperor Xianfeng, or an obituary, which was sent to various governors to inform the obituary of Xianfeng's death.

Zhu Jinglun's capture of Zhaoqing, coupled with this edict, should be able to completely break Mukdenne's will.

"General, look. The elderly are really anti-hearted! ”

As soon as he saw Mukdenne, he showed him the edict, and Mukdenne immediately looked dumbfounded: The emperor has died!

It is no wonder that for such a long time, the imperial court turned a deaf ear to what happened in Guangdong, and it turned out that such a big thing happened to the imperial court.

"The saint died, and the old age hid and did not report it, but instead sent troops to persecute Guangzhou City, there must be something inside to this!"

Zhu Jinglun immediately concluded.

Mukdenne was already stupid: "What is the inside story? ”

Zhu Jinglun snorted: "The emperor died, the young lord ascended the throne, the eight ministers took care of their lives, the lord was weak and the ministers were strong, maybe something would happen." ”

Mukdenne completely lost the ability to think at this point: "What else can happen? ”

Zhu Jinglun said: "The eight ministers take care of their lives, and there is neither a prince who is highly anticipated by the public, such as King Gong, nor the monk Lingqin who holds a heavy army, and the military squire Lang Shengbao who holds the power of the army, etc., it is not simple here. I heard that Yu Qiling, an envoy from Beijing, had a secret discussion, saying that he would transfer Guangzhou troops to the north to Yunyun, what did he want? ”

Mukedene couldn't help but be frightened, this is involved in the battle for the throne, a major impact, but it calmed him down, he didn't believe Zhu Jinglun's hearsay, and even thought that Zhu Jinglun was talking nonsense, but the problem is the status quo, the eight ministers take care of their lives, but there is no Yixin among them, this is not logical, Monk Greenqin is a military general, it is easy to say, but Shengbao is a soldier in the army, but he can't take care of his life, if you want to say that there is no cat in it, he doesn't believe it.

Thinking of Su Shun and the others who had been with the emperor before the emperor's death, only they were by the emperor's side, the edict when the emperor died must have been drawn up by Su Shun and others, and the edict they drafted made them themselves ministers to exclude all the princes and magnates in the capital, where were they so bold?

The content of the edict is also puzzling, and it was set that the six-year-old Zaichun succeeded to the throne, but as the emperor's only son, Zaichun's qualifications to succeed to the throne are undoubted, but the ancestral system is not like this, after Yongzheng Jiulong seized the throne, the imperial court began to implement the system of secret princes, and placed the emperor's edict in the plaque of Zhengda Guangming, without informing the princes in advance, only after the emperor's death took out the edict, only to know who would inherit the throne.

This used the Ming edict to establish the prince, and there was no one after Kangxi.

In short, everything makes people feel that something is wrong, and when something is wrong, and it involves such a major event as the succession to the throne, then something must happen, at least Mukdena feels that something big must happen, and it will involve a lot of powerful people, and he is a general in Guangzhou, and he can't afford to mess with this kind of big thing.

So what could it be?

Who has the power to take the throne?

He first thought of Yi Xin, Yi Xin is the emperor's younger brother, he almost became the emperor back then, most people were not optimistic about Xianfeng back then, but optimistic about Yi Xin, who could ride and shoot well, and later Xianfeng succeeded to the throne.

The old ministers all remember Yi Xin's ability, this time to negotiate with the foreigners, Yi Xin turned the tide alone, and the emperor has been hiding in Chengde, close to Su Shun and others, and then has been unwilling to return to Beijing, directly died in Chengde.

Mukdenne thought about this series of things, and suddenly had a lot of conspiracy ideas in his mind, he thought that it might be Yixin who wanted to seize power, so Su Shun and others excluded Yixin, but because of the defeat problem, Su Shun and others could offend the monks who led the troops, Gerinqin and Shengbao, so they also excluded these two people, but they didn't have troops in their hands, so they transferred troops from Guangzhou?

But Guangzhou is too far away after all, this is not logical at all, if there is really a conspiracy, Su Shun should not transfer troops from the nearest Shandong, at most from the south of the Yangtze River, Su Shun has always been close to the Han people, discriminating against the Manchus, will he collude with Zeng Guofan and other Han ministers with troops?

Mukdenne also thought about why the emperor refused to return to Beijing before, whether it was that the emperor suspected that Yixin had colluded with Seng Lingqin, Shengbao and others, and did not dare to return to Beijing. So if the emperor died at a young age, could it be murder, and if the murder was done by Yi Xin, or did Su Shun and others do it?

There is also an edict, why do you openly set up a prince, and don't wait for everyone to open the edict behind the Zhengda Guangming plaque, could it be that the edict itself has a ghost? It is difficult to make the edict make Yi Xin and others in Beijing do tricks, causing Su Shun and them not to dare to open the edict of the prince, and they have to forcibly determine the identity of the prince in the edict of the Ming world.

Why did the elder refuse to show this edict again, but instead recruited the army to fight Zhu Jinglun inexplicably? Could it be that the elderly are really involved in this matter, so which side is the elderly? If he really transfers Guangdong troops to Beijing, who will he fight?

Yi Xin has the army of the monk and Shengbao in his hands, and he doesn't need the help of foreign troops at all. But what does this have to do with Zhu Jinglun, he is a Guangdong magistrate, a small county magistrate who was pulled up by Bai Gui, where is he qualified to intervene in such a major event.

Baigui!

Mukedne thought of Bai Gui, and he knew that Bai Gui was pulled into the Prime Minister's International Affairs Yamen by Yi Xin, and the first minister of this Yamen was Yi Xin.

In this way, Bai Gui and Yixin are one party, and Qi Ling and Su Shun are one party, so Qi Ling and Zhu Jinglun fought inexplicably in Guangzhou, one said that the other was a thief.

Thinking of Zhu Jinglun, he never openly raised the banner of rebellion, and all the news that said that he rebelled was spread by the common people, and the root reason was because the elderly were announcing that Zhu Jinglun had rebelled in various parts of Guangdong. But wasn't it because of the salary in the first place, how could it be a rebellion?

This association made Mukdene instantly think that he had understood the truth, thinking that the war between Qi Ling and Zhu Jinglun was not a question of who rebelled at all, but was fighting for the emperor's throne in Beijing City.

Now it seems that Zhu Jinglun won, at least here in Guangzhou, Zhu Jinglun's side won, Beijing City, I'm afraid it will be Yixin who wins, anyway, Mukdenne is definitely not optimistic about Su Shun and others, Su Shun and others have no prestige among the flag people, and the market takes pleasure in satirizing the flag people.

Su Shun's mantra is "We have a lot of bastards, what do we know?" The Han people can't be offended, his pen is very powerful", among the Manchus in Beijing, Su Shun is a well-known pro-Han Manchu minister, and none of the Eight Banners magnates like him.

Just thinking about it, Mu Kedenne suddenly heard Zhu Jinglun say again: "The general should know that Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and others are very close to Su Shun. ”

Zeng Guofan's aide Zuo Zongtang was arrogant and arrogant, and as soon as he came out of the mountain, he offended Fan Xie, the general soldier of Yongzhou, and Guan Wen, the governor of Huguang, and Guan Wen, the official Wen and Wen Ge, the political envoy of Hunan, jointly impeached Zuo Zongtang as an "inferior curtain", and Emperor Xianfeng ordered the official document to be corrected on the spot once it was verified. Su Shun joined forces with Zeng Guofan, Hu Linyi and other officials to write a letter to protect Zuo Zongtang, and invited Pan Zuyin, a talented son of Wu who was deeply trusted by the emperor, to write down the words "You can't live without Hunan for a day, and Hunan can't go without Zuo Zongtang for a day". After that, he strongly recommended Zuo Zongtang in front of Emperor Xianfeng and gave him reuse.

The relationship between Zeng Guofan and Su Shun was already very close long before Zeng Guofan formed the Hunan Army, when he was an official in Beijing. When Zeng Guofan was serving as a squire in the capital, one day Emperor Xianfeng ordered someone to pass on Zeng Guofan's entry into the palace, but he was stacked in a pavilion in the Forbidden City and was not summoned for a day. In the evening, Zeng Guofan returned home full of doubts, and Su Shun was already waiting for him at his house. Asked about the summons, Zeng Guofan answered truthfully, and after listening to it, Su Shun said: "This pavilion is engraved with the poems of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, and long live must summon you the next day to ask you about the poems." Zeng Guofan just woke up from a dream, Su Shun immediately took out all the imperial poems from the cabinet and handed them to Zeng Guofan, as expected, because of Su Shun's secret help, Zeng Guofan also answered like a stream, and got the favor of Emperor Xianfeng.

It can be said that Zeng Guofan was reused, because of Su Shun's strong recommendation, and later Zeng Guofan formed the Hunan army, which slowly became bigger, and it became Su Shun's biggest reliance in the local area.

Hearing Zhu Jinglun's reminder, Mukdenne not only immediately thought of the relationship between Su Shun and Zeng Guofan and others, but also thought that Zhu Jinglun was hinting at him, and couldn't help but sweat in his head, it was really a huge conspiracy.

One was the Manchurian magnate Sushun united with the local Han forces to ensure that the emperor's young son ascended the throne, and the other was the Manchu prince Yixin and some domineering magnates in an attempt to usurp the throne.

To be honest, who is the emperor Mukdenne doesn't care at all, anyway, whoever is the emperor is a general in Guangzhou, and he has nothing to do with half a dime, if he has a tendency in his heart, he is more inclined to Yixin, even if Yixin may want to usurp the throne, but Yixin is also a descendant of Aixin Jueluo, and he usurped his nephew's throne, just like Zhu Di in the Ming Dynasty robbed his nephew Zhu Jianwen, it is all about his love of Xinjueluo's family.

The key is that if Su Shun, a Manchurian minister who has an inexplicable liking to the Han people, controls the court through the little emperor, it will be a disaster for all the children of the Eight Banners.

Su Shun's move is quite a two-hundred-and-five, not something ordinary people can do, it requires both great courage and a desperate spirit, because it will offend everyone, including Mukdenne.

Thinking that Zhu Jinglun was Bai Gui's cronies, and Bai Gui and Yi Xin were in the same party, Mukdenne felt that he was also inclined to Yi Xin, and he himself fell into the hands of Zhu Jinglun, so it seemed that there was nothing to resist.

However, he was reluctant to be forced by Zhu Jinglun to write a chapter and other things before, but now that he is good, he can rest assured and boldly cooperate with Zhu Jinglun, because this is equivalent to cooperating with Baigui, it is equivalent to cooperating with Yixin, and it is equivalent to helping all the flag people.

Thinking of this, Mukdenne stood up and bowed down to worship Zhu Jinglun: "What Lord Zhu said is extremely true, this old man is really a thief, if Lord Zhu is useful, this general should not let him go." ”

Mukdenne thought he was on the same side as Yi Xin.

Zhu Jinglun said with a smile: "The general really understands the righteousness. At present, the situation in Beijing and Central China is complicated, and you and I are far away in Lingnan. The top priority is to stabilize Guangdong for the imperial court, general, do you say this is the reason? ”

Mukedene said: "Lord Zhu is thoughtful. It's all up to Lord Zhu's orders. ”

Zhu Jinglun nodded: "The elderly may not have no henchmen in Guangdong, and the top priority is to wipe out the elders." That's where General Law comes in. ”

When Mukdenne heard it, it was really a dispute between the court, this was to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, fortunately, he stood in line in time, otherwise he would be wiped out by the henchmen who were regarded as elderly, and it would be really a grievance.

Hurriedly expressed his attitude again: "Although Lord Zhu commands, this general is full of liver and brains. ”

Zhu Jinglun couldn't help nodding, revealing an approving look.

I thought that this Mukdena was really a brainless martial artist, and it was really too easy to guide, and then he could use it boldly to eliminate dissidents in Guangdong.

Guangdong, it's mine!

Zhu Jinglun said secretly in his heart. (To be continued.) )