Immediately afterwards, Hu Xueyan didn't care about going up to pull business for Qianzhuang, and hurriedly ran a few more street stalls with Liu Chengxiang that he was interested in transferring, and discussed with the shop owner in turn. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After several times, six shops were negotiated in turn, one of which was turned down for three hundred taels, and the other five shops were bought for four hundred taels of silver.

Hu Xueyan didn't have so much money, so he could only return to Rende Qianzhuang and prepare to borrow money from Boss Yu, the owner of Qianzhuang, but unexpectedly, when he returned to Qianzhuang, he found that Qianzhuang had invited two doctors and was treating Boss Yu.

Boss Yu has always been here, and he has taken good care of Hu Xueyan and is as kind as a mountain. As soon as he heard that his boss was sick, Hu Xueyan forgot to borrow money and hurriedly stepped forward to help.

Unexpectedly, Boss Yu was seriously ill and was about to die soon, and he had no heirs, only the only daughter, Hu Xueyan, a buddy in the store. Therefore, on the same day, Boss Yu called his relatives and friends to be a witness, and entrusted the entire Rende Qianzhuang and his daughter to Hu Xueyan.

As a result, Hu Xueyan inexplicably became the young owner of Rende Qianzhuang, and he could become the helmsman of Qianzhuang as soon as the boss died. Although the assets of Rende Qianzhuang are not much, in total, there are probably more than 30,000 taels of silver, but for Hu Xueyan, it is like a huge wealth.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Hu Xueyan decided to suspend the normal business of Qianzhuang and use all the funds of Qianzhuang to buy shops in Hangzhou.

Immediately afterwards, with the help of many other money houses in Hangzhou in the past few years, Hu Xueyan borrowed more than 10,000 taels of silver in the name of Rende Money Village, and added shops in the city.

At this time, Hu Xueyan can be said to be desperate, taking advantage of the fact that the captives are about to attack Hangzhou City, and the shops in the city are sold at low prices, a total of nearly 300 shops have been purchased. Then, they waited for the siege of the captive army.

On this day, Hu Xueyan was thinking about how to deal with the shop in the future, when his partner and friend Liu Chengxiang suddenly came and mysteriously took out a leaflet and handed it to Hu Xueyan.

Hu Xueyan was busy with the ledger in his hand, didn't look at it, and said, "What is it?" ”

"Xueyan, something happened, something happened!" Liu Chengxiang said a little mysteriously: "Hangzhou City has been surrounded by Cantonese thieves. Tens of thousands of Cantonese thieves, with sharp firearms, although they haven't started to attack yet, they are already murderous. No, there are Cantonese thieves in the city who distribute this kind of leaflets everywhere, but the officers and soldiers on patrol turn a blind eye, and it seems that the city of Hangzhou is about to be conquered. ”

"Oh!? Handbill? Hu Xueyan took the leaflet and read it, only to see the book: "According to the decree of the holy king, the holy army cannot bear to attack the city with artillery fire, for fear of hurting people's lives. He swore to seal the sword, and brought food into it, and never broke his word. The righteous king of the Taiping Holy Kingdom, Shi Da, opened his hand! ”

"It turned out to be him!" Hu Xueyan exclaimed, he now knew that the main general who attacked Hangzhou City had become Shi Dakai at some point.

"This was originally one of the thief chieftains of the long-haired thief, the winged king Shi Dakai, I heard that he is loyal and righteous, and his words count, so it should be true. In this way, there is some credibility in the words of this leaflet. Hu Xueyan said to himself, and then turned to Liu Chengxiang and said, "Xiangzi, how do the people and squires in the city react?" ”

"The people were in a mess. Some of the gentry had fled to the countryside outside the city a few days ago, and those who had not fled were also at ease, and I guess that someone must have acted as an internal response, otherwise the officers and men on patrol would not have turned a blind eye to these leaflets. Liu Chengxiang said and asked, "Xueyan, what should we do?" Do you want to report to the king? ”

"Of course not! Not only did I not report to Wang Youling, but I also wanted to help the Cantonese thieves. It is best to say that the officers and soldiers who moved a city gate opened the city gate and offered the city. Hu Xueyan's answer surprised Liu Chengxiang.

He asked in surprise, "Xueyan, why do you think that?" That Lord Wang Youling, haven't you always been good friends with him? ”

Hu Xueyan said with a smile: "At that time, because Hangzhou was in the city of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he was an official of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so I naturally wanted to befriend him." It's just a long-term investment. In this situation, Hangzhou will definitely be broken by the Guangdong army, and Hangzhou will definitely be the territory of the Guangdong army in the future. ”

"Shoko, I've already thought about it. The occupation of Hangzhou by the Cantonese army was inevitable. If it succeeds, it will not only save the lives of those soldiers who sacrifice the city, reduce the flames of war, but also make meritorious contributions, so that the Cantonese army will be impressed by our Rende Qianzhuang, and business will be easier in the future. The most important thing is that the sooner the war ends in Hangzhou City, the sooner my shops can appreciate! "Hu Xueyan has a good calculation.

Liu Chengxiang could only widen his eyes, in order to make a fortune, Hu Xueyan dared to do anything.

Outside the city of Hangzhou, nearly 50,000 captives surrounded the city of Hangzhou. The artillery that was faintly visible outside the city was in place one after another, and they were just waiting for the order to roar and attack the city.

Most of the officers and soldiers on the city tower are already as white as earth.

The officers and soldiers in the city, because they could not see the situation outside the city, could only secretly speculate and pray, and they were even more unbearable, and they lived in worry. After two days of meticulous work on the leaflets of the captured army, many villagers and officers and soldiers were already thinking of retreating.

Liu Chengxiang went out to inquire for a day, and found more than 100 people such as the guards of Wulin Gate who were willing to sacrifice the city, Liu Chengxiang was overjoyed and came back to tell Hu Xueyan. Hu Xueyan immediately asked Liu Chengxiang to take out the only two thousand taels of silver left in the money village and hand it over to the Wulin Gate defenders, and asked them to open the city gate in the middle of the night to dedicate the city.

In the evening of the same day, Hu Xueyan and Liu Chengxiang found two people in the city who had posted leaflets everywhere and asked them to pass on the news, claiming that they had mobilized the guards of Wulin Gate to open the city gate in the middle of the night so that the Cantonese army could prepare for the siege of the city. He was suspicious of the letter and quietly passed the news to Shi Dakai outside the city.

Shi Dakai was overjoyed, just right, in fact, he did not wait for the Qing army in the city to dedicate the city, but ordered the soldiers to ring gongs and gold outside the city, and secretly dug tunnels outside the Qingbo Gate.

In the middle of the night that day, the Wulin Gate really opened the city gate.

The captives outside the city who had been watching were overjoyed. Shi Dakai immediately ordered to immediately blast the city wall at Qingbo Gate and immediately attack the city.

So, the next moment, the captives detonated the gunpowder in the tunnel, and the city wall was blown open a few zhang wide opening, and the Qing army defending the city fled when they heard the sound, and the captives attacked the city from the collapsed city wall and the Wulin Gate that opened the door, and the city of Hangzhou was broken!

Huang Zonghan, the governor of Zhejiang, Chunshou, the political envoy of Zhejiang, and more than 10 officials of all sizes committed suicide, and the rest of the nearly 10,000 Manchu green battalion soldiers and regimental warriors surrendered one after another.

At this time, the Eight Banners of Hangzhou City, from the Yongjinmen area and the capture army engaged in battle, the two sides exchanged fierce fire, but the firepower of the capture army was extremely fierce, and the number was large, the Eight Banners soldiers retreated into the Mancheng Banner Camp after killing and wounding 2,000 people.

Tan Shaoguang and Lin Qirong led the 9th Division and the 3rd Division B to violently bombard the Eight Banners Battalion in the city with artillery, bombarding the city for two days and two nights, and finally blasted a gap in the city's city wall. Seeing that the city was full of broken cities, Hangzhou General Ruichang set himself on fire, and the first fire of the camp started, with the dead, Hangzhou Deputy Governor Guan Fu and more than 4,000 men and women.

Of the Eight Banner soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Hangzhou, there were only less than 300 banner soldiers left, as well as more than 1,000 Manchu family members, all of whom were frightened and surrendered. In the face of these surrendered bannermen, it was difficult for Shi Dakai to decide how to deal with them, so he had to order someone to report to the Holy King Feng Yunshan to make a decision.

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Just when the generals such as the captive army were busy renovating Hangzhou City and quelling the impact of the war in the city, in Rende Qianzhuang, not far from Wulin Gate, the old boss Yu finally failed to survive and passed away. Hu Xueyan wore linen and filial piety, buried his father-in-law, and began his own era.