At dawn, the entire Rehe Palace was littered with corpses and bloodstains, and even a few lakes were dyed red. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yixun was so bloodshot that he hadn't closed his eyes for a day and a night. Without seeing the bodies of Duanhua and the other five auxiliary ministers and the little emperor, he couldn't sleep.

In the distance, the shouts of killing had stopped, and Yi Xun looked at the palace leisurely, but there was pain in his eyes. These are all his Qing Dynasty countries, those dead soldiers, and his soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately they were bewitched by those five traitors and became victims in vain. There's no way around it.

"Someone, give the order, it's already dark, organize troops to carefully search the palace inside and out." As soon as Yixun finished giving the order, he saw Hua Shantai coming to him covered in blood.

"Your Majesty, the entire palace has been occupied, and a total of more than 3,000 rebels have been eliminated. Seo-rin and Wen-kyung were killed in the scuffle, Jingshou hid in the cellar and was captured, only Duanhua and Sushun were missing, suspecting that they had escaped one step earlier. The baby and the Cao family were in the concubine's palace, and a group of rebels were preparing to coerce the concubine and the baby to escape, but they had been defeated, and now the concubine's bedroom was surrounded. Hua Shantai couldn't wipe the blood off his face and reported loudly.

Yixun was overjoyed when he heard this, although Duanhua and Su Shun escaped, the concubine and the baby were still there, and the three auxiliary ministers failed to escape, and their goals were basically achieved. He breathed a sigh of relief, but he still said solemnly: "Send cavalry to immediately pursue in the direction of Chengde City and Jinzhou Mansion in the north, be sure to find the two traitors Duanhua and Sushun, don't leave them alive, and kill them on the spot!" ”

"Huh! The minions will send someone to do it! ”

For this little baby, whether it is his nephew or not, find a way to let him die young. As for the concubine, she is her own son, so she will naturally do her best to help herself. And his royal brother, even the main concubine is gone, and there is no more wind and waves to set off.

And some other princes, even like that Prince Li, dare to call themselves emperors, it is really delusional, they are not only the direct princes of the previous emperor, but now they are the nominal emperors, occupy the righteousness, and the next edict to crusade against his rebellion can beat him into the abyss.

The biggest headache is Prince Yiyun, who, like him, is a direct blood relative of the former emperor and has the same status. However, he also has a good way to deal with Yiyun. First, he wrote an edict to reward Shengbao as the hereditary Prince of Iron Hat, replacing the fool of Quan Ling, and ordering Sheng Bao to lead his troops to Yongping Mansion City to attack Quan Ling. The second is to reveal the news of Yixun's ascension to the throne in Xian County, Hejian Province, to the Cantonese thieves in the area of Beijing, because Xian County is not far from Beijing City, and he wants to send troops to get rid of Yiyun through the hands of Cantonese thieves.

In the next step, Yi Xun has already thought about it, and his current plan has been to give up the northwest area, but in the name of the Qing Emperor, he sent several Qin messengers to the northwest region to reward them extensively, of course, they are all false names, and they are all in vain to entrap those generals and local officials who are stationed in the garrison. On the one hand, it is also a temptation, if these people still obey the dispatch, they will be transferred to Liaodong. If they don't listen to the command, they can also be appeased, wait for the opportunity to cooperate, and attack the Cantonese thieves together.

And he, led the Qing court and continued to retreat towards Liaodong. On the one hand, he wantonly rewarded the three men and co-opted them, and on the other hand, ordered them to seize the time to exterminate the long-haired bandits who were causing chaos in the Shengjing area.

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At the same time, in the center of Qufu City, Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong, in the Yansheng Public Office next to the Confucian Temple, Kong Fanhao, the seventy-fourth generation of Yansheng Gong, looked lovingly at his son Kong Xiangke, who was holding his shirt, and said with a happy face: "Son, our Kong family is safe!" The newly enthroned emperor of the Chinese Empire has sent a secret edict appointing his father as the new envoy and envoy of the empire to persuade the prefects and counties at all levels in Shandong to surrender. As a father, he sent a letter to Chong'en, the governor of Shandong, to persuade him to surrender to the empire. ”

Although Kong Xiangke was only seven years old, he looked like a little adult, and said, "My father is wise. ”

Kong Fanhao's face was pale, touched Kong Xiangke's head, and said: "Son, remember, if we want to pass it on from generation to generation, we must not only have vision, but also courage. But these are not important, the two most important points, one is that we must remember the identity of the descendants of the saints, as long as we have this identity, no one in this world dares to do anything to us! The second is to take refuge in time, whoever ascends the throne, we will go to congratulate the Holy Father, no matter who it is, we need the name of our Holy Father. ”

Kong Xiangke blinked, not quite intelligible. Kong Fanhao smiled: "In the future, you will understand!" ”

Kong Fanhao was a little proud, so he went to play a chapter to the emperor of the Chinese Empire who occupied the city of Beijing, but he didn't expect to receive the news so quickly. The new emperor attached great importance to him, because he specially explained that in order to prevent the remnants of the Manchu Qing forces from being unfavorable to the Yansheng Mansion, he specially issued a secret edict ordering him to be a messenger and recruit local officials from all over Shandong. It can be seen that the new emperor is thoughtful and deliberately thinks about the safety of the Confucian Mansion. However, for this, Kong Fanhao is quite confident!

Just as he said in his recital to the new emperor, most of the prefects and counties at all levels in Shandong were born as scholars and children of saints, and after he became a saint, the contemporary Yan Shenggong is undoubtedly the object of reverence of scholars in the world. One of his calls can make these local officials have to pay attention to it.

Moreover, Kong Fanhao's worries have also gone for most of it. Originally, the piece he sent to the new emperor had a sense of temptation in it!

If the new emperor, who was born as a Cantonese thief, did not attach importance to his status as a Shenggong of Yan, he would not reply to him, then he would have to think of another way out and persuade the governor of Shandong, Chong'en, and the local officials of various state capitals to resist the Cantonese thieves and defend the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the death.

Even if the new emperor replied on the surface, he had to consider whether to take refuge in the fact that when the long-haired thieves were just emerging, the Yansheng Mansion actively donated money to support the Manchu court.

Now, all his worries are gone. It seems that the legend is correct, this new emperor, who was also born from Changmao, is indeed a scholar and attaches importance to saints, so he also attaches importance to his identity as a saint. Since I'm also a reader, it's easy to do! I have a way to fight for the greater good!

The secret letters to the local officials of the state capitals, stamped with the seal of his Yan Shenggong, were sent out one by one on the day he received the secret edict from the new emperor. Kong Fanhao knew that the three words "Yan Shenggong" were particularly effective for these officials who were born as scholars.

He was patiently waiting for news.

Sure enough, as expected, two hours later, the messenger in the Yansheng Mansion sent back the news.

Because of their proximity to Henan, which had all surrendered to the Chinese Empire, Jining and Caozhou directly expressed their willingness to follow Yan Shenggong to the Chinese Empire. Kong Fanhao suspected that the officials in these two places must have been in contact with the Chinese Empire privately a long time ago, and now they are doing favors, but Kong Fanhao doesn't care.

The Dongchang Mansion in the west, the Zhili Prefecture in Linqing and the Yizhou Mansion in the south, the local prefects and garrison generals were also willing to submit to the empire, and they wrote to reply and were willing to follow him.

Yanzhou Mansion, where the Yansheng Mansion is located, is even more fateful, needless to say. Only Jinan Mansion and Wuding Mansion in the north, and Dengzhou Mansion, Laizhou Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion in the east, have not yet replied. In these places, the influence of his own Shenggong is indeed not as strong as that of other state capitals, and Kong Fanhao couldn't help but be a little anxious. Because he knew that the more local governors who followed him and returned to the empire, the greater his merit would be, and the more abundant the new emperor's reward would be.

However, the most critical person, the letter of Chongen, the governor of Shandong, has not yet arrived. As a close friend of his, Kong Fanhao believed that he would recognize the situation and return to the empire with him.