Chapter 636: The Current Situation in Tianjing City
Isn't that how? The King of the West was killed in battle when he attacked Changsha City, and needless to say, even the King of the East, the pillar of the Heavenly Kingdom, and the King of the North, also died in the civil strife in Tianjing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Qin Rigang, the king of Yan who was later sealed, also led a group of Northern Expeditionary Army in Liaodong to hide from the Manqi soldiers.
And the old brothers under the account of the East King and the North King, who accounted for more than eighty percent of the power of the Heavenly Kingdom, were also worried about being questioned after the Tianjing Incident, and the power of the Heavenly Kingdom was greatly damaged, so they defected to the original Southern King Feng Yunshan.
First of all, Anqing's former ministers of the East Temple, Zeng Shuiyuan and Fu Xuexian, announced that they would lead the East Temple soldiers in the Anqing area to break away from the Kingdom of Heaven, and then the Wing King Shi Dakai also announced his separation from the Kingdom of Heaven in Chaoxian County and his allegiance to the King of the South; and Jiujiang Mansion East Palace, the fifth Chengxuan Hu Dingwen, also led 5,000 East Hall soldiers to defect to the King of the South; The elder brother of the East King, Yang Fuqing, and others led most of the old brothers in the East Hall to serve the King of the South.
Later, those who were in Tianjing fled even more, and all those who were outside also defected to the king of the south, such as Wei Jun, Zhang Zipeng, Tang Zhengcai, Li Zhenhui and others, who surrendered to the king of the south one after another. Even a group of old brothers who participated in the uprising from Guangxi, and even some Taiping troops in Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi, because these places are now occupied by the Southern King's captive army, also fled one after another, joined the captive army or returned to their hometowns.
Later, Meng Deen and Li Xiucheng had to order the gate of Tianjing City to be firmly guarded, and they could only enter but not exit. But even so, there are still many old brothers who come out of the city wall. And the guards of the city gates also turned a blind eye, and let them be. In this way, tens of thousands of people fled in Tianjing City in the past two months, including thousands of old brothers from Guangxi, Hunan and other places.
Hong Xiuquan was also stunned when he heard Meng Deen's words, he still didn't know the situation in Tianjing City.
Even after Yang Xiuqing died, he said that he was personally in charge of the government, but in fact, he handed over the government affairs to his two brothers, Chang'an Wang Hong Renfa and Fu Wang Hong Renda, so Tianjing City was a mess, but Hong Xiuquan himself didn't know at all, because, since he stayed in the Tianwang Mansion, he had never been out of the Tianwang Mansion for a day.
"What do you say? There are thousands of Guangxi brothers in Tianjing City, how can there be no old brothers? Hong Xiuquan's eyes widened: "Deen, you have made it clear to me!" ā
Meng Deen couldn't help it, although he was always bent on currying favor with Hong Xiuquan, but he also knew that once the kingdom of heaven collapsed, not only Hong Xiuquan would be finished, but he would also be unlucky.
Another one, even he really can't stand the two of Anwang Hong Renfa and Fuwang Hong Renda.
Now he has been blessed as the garrison of the troops in charge of Tianjing City, and Li Xiucheng, as his deputy, has been reporting to him recently that there is a shortage of food in the army, the holy treasury is empty, and even the mixed sand and moldy rice and noodles can not be sufficient.
He went to ask the holy treasury, and as a result, Zhang Chaowen and Yan Yuheng, who came out of the holy grain, both cried and told him with sad faces that since the chaos in Tianjing, in the entire Tianjing, only the Taiping Mansion sent grain once every half a month, and the rest was not recorded, but the people and Taiping soldiers in the entire Tianjing City consumed nearly 2,000 stone of grain every day, and after two or three months, the grain stored in the holy grain warehouse that was originally stored was almost consumed, and there was only half a month's worth of grain left.
Meng Deen was shocked, there was no food, and this Tianjing was all over.
Originally, the grain of Tianjing was collected and looted by the Taiping soldiers in the Jiangbei area, as well as the various Taiping soldiers who fought in Anman, Mubei and Xixi, and then transported to Tianjing through the Yangtze River waterway, but now, the Taiping troops who fought abroad have surrendered to the king of the south, except for the uncle Lai Hanying, who also occupied the Taiping Mansion, and barely supplied some grain to Tianjing, and the rest had no place to offer food to Tianjing, so that Tianjing City was empty.
Now there are only two ways, one is to send troops out to collect food, but if the soldiers in the capital are still afraid of escaping today, they are only allowed to enter the city and not go out of the city. This is not feasible, and the rest is to send Duan Keyuan, the deputy chief comprador, to the surrounding villages occupied by the captive army in Zhenjiang Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion or Jiangning Mansion to purchase grain.
So he went to ask the chief treasurer. He remembered that the original General Sacred Treasury had more than 21 million taels of silver, and although it took 17,800 taels to build the Heavenly King's Mansion and the Eastern King's Mansion, plus the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition, there were still 3,000,000,000 taels of silver left. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the General Sacred Treasury, Hou Shuqian of the General Sacred Treasury told him that now there were only 880,000 taels of silver left in the General Sacred Treasury, and the rest were built in the Heavenly King's Mansion, as well as the Anwang Mansion and the Fuwang Mansion. Moreover, the remaining 880,000 taels were also specially explained by King An, and they could not be used, and they were still prepared to be used for the longevity ceremony of the Heavenly King's birthday.
Grace is on fire! In this way, these millions of taels of silver were used up silently by these two kings of An and Fu.
Therefore, he couldn't hold it back anymore at the moment, and said angrily to Hong Xiuquan: "Long live, if even the food in the capital is running out today, the silver in the holy treasury has also been used up by King An and King Fu." The old brothers in the city are all complaining, and if they continue like this, they are afraid that even the holy soldiers stationed on the wall of Tianjing City will escape! ā
"What!? There is such a thing!? Hong Xiuquan was taken aback, as if he had finally woken up from his sleep, he opened his bloodshot eyes, stared at Meng Deen deadly, and said, "Bastard, why don't you report me early?" ā
"Damn it!" Meng Deen had to kneel on the ground and kowtow again and again to beg for mercy, but his heart was sad: Heavenly King, Heavenly King, you handed over the power of Heaven to your two good brothers, and even an old brother like Hu Yixuan only offended the two of them a little, so he said that he would kill them, I dare to say that they are not good? If Li Xiucheng hadn't told me that there was a shortage of food in the army, we would have no way to survive at that time, and I wouldn't be willing to say it.
"You get those two brutes for me! I'm going to ask them face to face! Hong Xiuquan shouted, "Invite Chen Chengying, Xu Zongyang, Li Xiucheng, and Lin Shaozhang together." ā
After Meng Deen left, Hong Xiuquan drove out the female officials in the entire Heavenly Father's Hall and the Heavenly King's Mansion swordsman, leaving him alone, kneeling down in front of the Heavenly Father's icon again.
All of this is caused by that damn traitor Feng Yunshan! Without him, it wouldn't be like this!
His eyes were red, and he muttered, "O all-powerful Heavenly Father, Emperor God! The king of the West pretended to be a heavenly brother, and you brought him back to teach him; The king of the east pretended to be you a deceit, and you took the king of the east away; The king of the north is cruel, and you let the king of the north ascend to heaven. Now that King Nan is obsessed and does not listen to his son's persuasion, he must be possessed by that evil demon, and he does not respect the Holy Sect, but instead sympathizes with and condones all kinds of evil cults. ā
Hong Xiuquan respectfully knelt down three times and bowed nine times, and made a big salute.
At the moment, he is so religious. In his memory, it seems that there really is a Heavenly Father Emperor God in the whole world, and he is really the second son of the Heavenly Father.
He had really completely forgotten that this Heavenly Father was just a myth he had created when he had a high fever due to illness after failing in a government test.