On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Zhu Cijiong sent Huang Jilai to inform Wu Yingxiong to go to Zhou Gongzhi's house on Gulou West Street for a meeting. Zhou Gongzhi, the son of Zhou Quanbin, is a good friend of Wu Yingxiong.

Wu Yingxiong briefly explained a few words to Hu Xinshui, and then hurried to the Zhou Mansion with Huang Ji, it turned out that this was the oath meeting that Zhu Cijiong said last time. The conference was held in the back hall of the second courtyard of the Luhe Station in Zhoufu, and the participants were the hall masters from all over the country and the strategists, generals, commanders, and admirals around Zhu Cijiong, among which the hall master was thirty people, and the rest of the people and other two white people gathered together, the lights were bright, and it was not lively.

When Zhu Cijiong saw Wu Yingxiong coming, he hurriedly got up to greet him and said to everyone: "Everyone, this is His Royal Highness Wu Yingxiong, the prince of Pingxibo. After speaking, the chaotic audience instantly quieted down, many people had only heard of Wu Gongzi's name, but they had never seen it, so they all looked at him with their eyes.

First of all, Zhu Cijiong announced the discipline: "Today, we are the swearing-in meeting of our anti-Qing uprising, and we are going to announce major matters, so no one is allowed to go out without permission unless it is under the instructions of the young master!" ”

"Obey!" Everyone said in unison.

After Zhu Cijiong finished his opening remarks, Wu Yingxiong presented him with two proclamations: one was Wu Sangui's letter to ask for clarity, and the other was Wu Sangui's secret letter to Zhu Cijiong. Zhu Cijiong opened it and read it carefully, and his radiant face glowed with excitement: "Now, I want to announce to you a major good news - Ping Xibo has announced the start of troops in Yunnan on the first day of the lunar month!" Guangdong's letter along the line, Fujian's Geng Jingzhong, Taiwan's Zheng Jing is also about to raise troops in response, and my Ming Dynasty is about to recover! ”

"Anti-Qing and Restoration of Sight!"

The audience instantly erupted in huge cheers.

Then, Zhu Cijiong introduced his cronies to everyone: military advisor Li Zhu, shoulder Wang Jiaoshan, governor Chen Jiwang, admiral Shi Guobin, escort commander Zhu Lixian, cabinet elder Zhang Da, gate official Huang Zhenbang, etc. The people who clicked on it stood up and saluted together.

Subsequently, Zhu Cijiong signaled Wu Yingxiong to tell everyone about the situation on Ping Xibo's side. Wu Yingxiong cleared his throat, walked to the stage, and said loudly: "Pseudo-pure and unreasonable, poisoning China." Destroy my Chinese crown and destroy my Chinese civilization. When his father was obedient, he responded to the will of the people, spread the word to the world, and raised troops to fight for it. The king of Zhou has a territory of thousands of miles, millions of soldiers, good ministers are like rain, and germanium will be like clouds. The text has Liu Xuanchu's clever calculations, Fang Xianting's strategizing, and Wang Shirong's reincarnation; Wu has Wang Ping's world-class talents, Hu Guozhu is a Confucian general, Xia Guoxiang is proficient in Qimen, Ma Bao, Wu Yinglin, and Gao Dejie are all tiger generals who can fight angrily and pull out the mountain. Therefore, we are the teacher of justice and the army of kings, and we will destroy the withering and decaying and go straight to Yanjing! ”

The crowd listened attentively and excitedly, shouting: "Long live! ”

Zhu Cijiong said: "Strategist, you can say a few more words." ”

Li Zhu slowly got up at this time and said, "Today, let's all get together to raise a big event, and we must first support the monarch." Our young master, Zhu Cijiong—"

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Li Zhu with puzzled eyes, and said in their hearts why another Zhu Cijiong appeared. Li Zhu continued: "After the Jiashen Incident, in order to avoid being chased by the Qing army, the young master assumed the pseudonym Yang Qilong, and Taoguang has been obscure to this day. Today, we announced an uprising and jointly elected Zhu Cijiong, the third prince of Emperor Chongzhen, as the king! As he spoke, he draped a yellow robe on Zhu Cijiong's body.

Wu Yingxiong took the lead in kneeling down and saluting: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Only then did everyone understand that their young master was the famous Third Prince Zhu, and they knelt down busily: "Long live my emperor!" Hooray! ”

Zhu Cijiong wore a yellow robe, sat upright, looked solemn, and said: "I didn't want the world to raise swords and soldiers again, and the people suffered, but the Qing court usurped me in the Ming Jiangshan, did all kinds of evil, and the heavens were angry and resentful, so I had to raise troops to fight." Guys, get even. ”

"Long live thanks!"

Zhu Cijiong said: "Now everyone is working hard to get clear, from today onwards, restore the name of 'Daming', Jianyuan Guangde, and the name of Emperor Xian 'Sizong', and return the capital to Beijing." Scheduled to start on New Year's Day, raise fire as the number, in the palace, the Big Buddha Temple, Miaoying Temple, Wentianxiang Temple, Confucius Temple, Jingshan Mountain, Drum Tower, Bell Tower, Li Zhuowu Tomb, Bell Temple, Reclining Buddha Temple, Rotten Face Hutong and Zhengang Tower, a total of 13 locations, in the middle of the night set off artillery and ignited, called Zhongxing officers and soldiers, attacking the palace ban! ”

Long live the crowd.

Someone asked, "What kind of clothes should we wear in trouble?" ”

"We are Zhu Ming's sons, so we should wear red scarves and red clothes." Li Zhu, the military advisor, said that he glanced at Wu Yingxiong and asked, "Shizi, what do you think?" ”

"My father came to a secret letter saying that in order to pay tribute to Emperor Yongli, the three armies are all dressed in scarves, and I think we should do the same, in order to show revenge."

Zhu Cijiong nodded and said: "The prince is reasonable, just do as he said, in addition to the above thirteen locations, there are also more than 100 of our brothers in the palace as internal responses, and when the time comes, wrap your head in a white towel and hold a fire as a sign." You are all Manchurian slaves, in order to inspire everyone to fight bravely to kill the enemy, all the palace positions of the banner masters who kill them will be the palace duties of murderers! ”

There was another cheer in the room. Zhou Gong, who was sitting in the corner, listened directly, shivered, gave Lang Tingshu a look to the man next to him, and pulled him hard.

Lang Tingshu, who was born with a yellow flag, was originally just a good scholar who fell into Beijing, but because of Wu Yingxiong's help, he made a plan in the Internal Affairs Office, as a Qing guest who specialized in clerical work around Wu Yingxiong.

After Lang Tingshu came out, he asked puzzledly: "Brother Zhou, what are you pulling me out for?" ”

Zhou Gong lowered his voice and said, "Shhh Brother Xian, we can't follow them, let's go! "Huh? Why is that? Lang Tingshu was still confused.

"Didn't you listen to Yang Qilong? The official position of the slain banner owner is filled by the official's house slave! What kind of people are they, they are house slaves, and they have a rotten life! And we are all people who have entered the flag! We can't follow these people to death in vain! ”

Lang Tingshu still wanted to say something, but Zhou Gongzhi couldn't help but say, and pulled him to the gate. Lang Tingshu is also a timid and fearful person, thinking that Zhou Gongzhi's life is indeed reasonable, so he quickly followed.

As soon as Zhou and Lang walked to the door, they were stopped by the guards. Zhou Gongzhi said: "Brother, the two of us have something urgent to go out, please open the door." ”

"Is there a young master's edict?"

"I'm Zhou Gongzhi, this is my home! The two of us were instructed by the young lord to urgently handle military affairs, and Hugh had to stop them! With that, he snatched the door out. The guards listened to the young master's instructions, and when they saw that it was Zhou Gongzhi again, they didn't chase after him. The two of them went out and ran towards the house of the flag lord Zu Yonglie like crazy. The two of them entered the ancestral mansion and said hurriedly: "Master Zu, it's not good!" The third prince of Zhu and Wu Yingxiong are going to rebel! ”

Zu Yonglie hurriedly helped the two of them: "What? It can't be. ”

"It's true! They are still holding a meeting in my house, saying that they want to raise fire as a signal to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty! Zhou Chu was so anxious that he screamed.

"Not good! We're going to report to the emperor soon! Zu Yonglie got up according to the case, pulled the two of them and rushed to the palace to report the emergency. Because the Great Internal Forbidden Army was replaced, it took some trouble for the three of them to persuade the Shanpu Battalion to take them to meet the officials of the Internal Affairs Office, and then put them into the palace, when the sun was almost setting, Kangxi was about to go to Miss Lanzi to have fun, but saw Zu, Zhou, and Lang crawling in with a roll, kneeling down and saying: "Master, the big thing is not good!" The third prince of Zhu and Wu Yingxiong are plotting to rebel, and they are holding a meeting at Zhou Gongzhi's house, and they are about to raise fire and attack Da Nei! ”

"What? Is there such a thing? Kangxi was extremely surprised and asked, "This kind of thing is not a joke!" ”

"Really! We guarantee it with our heads! Absolutely true! Now they are still in Zhou Gongzhi's house, and the third prince of Zhu also said that Wu Sangui had raised troops in Yunnan on the first day of the lunar month to oppose the Qing Dynasty! ”

"Nonsense! He's with a lot of momentum! Kangxi saw that the three of them looked nervous and panicked, not like Zaoji, "Then what else did they discuss?" ”

Zhou Gong straightened down and said: "They are ready to raise fire in thirteen locations such as the Big Buddha Temple, Miaoying Temple, Wenci, and Confucius Temple, as well as in the palace, and rebel together!" ”

When Kangxi heard that there were also traitors in the palace, he suddenly felt that the situation was serious, and it was too late to ask the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, so he ordered on the spot: "Suo Etu!" ”

Suo Etu took his robe and knelt down: "The slave is here!" ”

"You lead the forbidden army with 1,000 men and horses, guard the palace, and if there is any detail, you will be killed!"

"Whew!"

Kangxi's eyes emitted a vicious light: "Tuhai, Zu Yonglie, Zhou Gongzhi, Lang Tingshu!" ”

"In! At! At! At! The four replied in turn.

"You lead the Eight Banners and 4,000 military horses, and rush to Zhou Gongzhi's house to wipe out the rebels!"

"Whew!" The four of them spoke in unison.

"Pearl!"

"The minions are here!"

"You lead the Green Battalion and the Ruijian Battalion with a thousand men and horses, scatter them inside and outside the city, inspect the above-mentioned thirteen locations, and if you find someone who sets fire, you will immediately exterminate it!"

"Whew!"

These three sentinels took the order and left. Kangxi breathed a sigh of relief and walked to Xiaozhuang to report.

Zhu Cijiong was preparing to make a blood oath with everyone, and suddenly found that Zhou Gongzhi and Lang Tingshu were gone. "Did any of you see the two of them?" Zhu Cijiong asked sharply.

"Looks like I saw them out."

"What are you doing out there?" Zhu Cijiong was a little anxious.

"I don't know, maybe it's a thatched house!"

"Find it! What are you still doing? ”

At this time, someone panicked and said: "Young master, the doorman said that Zhou and Lang said that they had been ordered by you and were in a hurry to do military affairs!" ”

"Not good!" Zhu Cijiong's brain "buzzed", he almost fell, and hurriedly sat down left and right, "Waste!" The Union has decreed that you must not go out unless you have a handwritten order! ”

The two guards listened, and hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Hey! It's too late to say anything. Now that the matter has been revealed, we can only take risks," Zhu Cijiong sighed, "The decree of the Chuanlian: Start an incident tonight and raise a fire!" ”

The crowd was in a mess and hurried out as ordered, and at the end of the ugly time, a fire broke out. First, an explosion sounded in the northeast of the city, followed by a fireball in the west, and it exploded like thunder. I saw that in the direction of the Reclining Buddha Temple, thick smoke rose into the sky, and the fire light was red. Before long, the southwest drum tower also caught fire, this time louder and brighter. Zhu Cijiong saw that the fire was rising, and he thought that Wu Yingxiong was still here, and hurriedly ordered: "Huang Ji, Chen Yi!" ”

"In! At! ”

"This is the order and the survey to go out of the city, you treasure the earth and protect the son of the world, and go out of the city on a starry night!"

When Wu Yingxiong heard that he was going to let himself go first, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I can't leave my brothers behind and run away by myself!" My father asked me to go back before the first day of the lunar month, and I will leave early, so why ......"

Zhu Cijiong didn't wait for him to finish, and hurriedly interrupted: "Don't delay any longer!" Shizi, we must not bother you, don't twist your tongue any more, go quickly, or it will be too late! ”

Huang Ji and Chen Yi hurriedly set up Wu Yingxiong, and couldn't help but say, Pegasus headed towards the south gate of the city.

Hou Wen, the leader of the palace in the palace, saw that the water had risen; Not surprised. "It's an early incident!" He let out a loud shout, and more than a hundred eunuchs immediately gathered around him. These eunuchs were all working in the palace before the Ming Dynasty, and although they were also lowly at that time, they were at least individuals. Now in this Qing Palace, no one treats them as people, not even minions, they are animals. Their hearts were full of hatred for the Qing people, so they all gathered under the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.

"Now, brethren, the time for vengeance has come!" As soon as Hou Wen gave the order, everyone went to the dark Qianqing Palace. Suddenly, there was a riot in Ouchi, and it turned out that Hou Wen was in control of the candle oil depot in the palace, and first burned a fire there, and removed all the candle wicks. Kangxi was so anxious that he stared: "Kill!" Unleash your means! ”

Suo Etu led the men and horses, and when he encountered a eunuch with a knife, he killed him. The two sides fought in the dark, and the sound of knives and axes, screams, and cries were intertwined, and it was terrifying to hear. Suo Etu's side was a regular army, and there were many people, so it was not long before they completely gained the upper hand. Hou Wen was rushing left and right, but there were fewer and fewer companions around him, and suddenly a cold arrow shot from behind, hitting Hou Wen in the back of the neck. He screamed and staggered. Seeing this, Suo Etu stabbed him in the heart, and Hou Wen pounced and fell to the ground and died.

Every time Suo Etu killed a eunuch, he had to dig out his abdomen and dissect his heart, scaring those palace maids and eunuchs who did not participate in the rebellion into running around, and finally all of them died.

The eunuchs in the palace were all pressed down by bullets.

Of the thirteen places where the fire was raised, only four were lit up, and Tu Hai led a large number of Qing soldiers to surround the Zhou Mansion.

At this time, there were only about a hundred people left around Zhu Cijiong. The Qing soldiers kept firing arrows outside, and the arrows rained down, and some of them penetrated the windows and shot at Zhu Cijiong's feet. The rebels desperately set fire to the surrounding walls to resist, but the Qing soldiers kept pouring in, and they seemed to be unable to support it. Zhu Cijiong looked up to the sky and sighed: "I'm waiting for a big event to start, but there is a traitor who betrays me!" "Then draw your sword and kill yourself.

Li Zhu desperately stopped, crying: "Your Majesty, you can't die!" You are the hope of Daming! After speaking, he turned to the crowd and said, "If everyone is afraid of death, then let's stand here and kill ourselves; If we still want him to make a comeback and take revenge, then we must sacrifice our lives to protect the emperor from escaping and ascending to heaven. ”

"Whoever is fucking afraid of death, who is a bastard! More than ten members of my family were killed after the Qing Dynasty, what do you say, military advisor, we listen to you! Shoulder-to-shoulder Wang Jiaoshan said indignantly. All the people here are in a similar situation.

Pavilion Lao Zhang Da sighed: "I see my father and mother marry, and everyone is ...... by name" Before the words were finished, Chen Jizhi and Shi Guobin's two sharp knives had already been inserted into his chest! "If there is a person who speaks, this is the end!" Li Zhu said, pointing at the dead Zhang Da with his finger.

"Only the order of the military division is obeyed!"

Li Zhu crossed his waist with his left hand and held a sword behind his right, with tears in his eyes, and said to everyone: "So far, we can only pretend to be the first and push a total of one person to pretend to be the third prince to lead away the Qing soldiers, so that the emperor can take advantage of the chaos to escape, in order to make a comeback!" ”

When everyone heard this, they all nodded yes.

"No! If you want to die, everyone will die together......" Zhu Cijiong was halfway through his words, Li Zhu stopped him and said, "Your Majesty, take care, Shaanxi Wang Fuchen can take refuge for the time being, he will remember to gather soldiers and horses to avenge us!" After speaking, Li Zhu shouted at the top of his voice: "Listen to the officers and soldiers outside!" We are willing to surrender, but the third prince is a person with status, and he can only come out if he meets Tuhaimen. If you don't agree, we'll all commit suicide here, and you won't even want to catch a single one alive! After a long time, Fang heard the outside head reply: "In this case, put down your weapons and line up to come out of the west gate!" Turning his head, Li Zhu said to Zhang Zifang beside him: "Zifang, you quickly escort Your Majesty to the red orchard in the back, and come out when the Qing soldiers are gone." After speaking, Zhu Cijiong stumbled violently.

When it was almost over, the military advisor Li Zhu led more than 100 people to line up and slowly came out. By this time, the sky was already dark.

Zhu Cijiong and Zhang Zifang were lying in the cold grass of the red orchard, and when they heard the footsteps of the Qing soldiers searching, they bowed down and cried in a muffled voice: "Kangxi, this revenge will not be avenged, and I will not be a man!" ”

After a long time, the footsteps faded away. Zhu Cijiong and Zhang Zifang cautiously walked out of the deserted garden. The sky was already bright, the Xizhi Gate was opened, and the people who watched the excitement had already surrounded Li Zhu and a group of people on the third floor inside and three layers outside, and the guards at the city gate also stretched their necks to look inside. Zhu Cijiong and Zhang Zifang were ruthless, lowered their heads, walked out of the city gate quickly, and disappeared into the crowd.

Tu Hai rode a high-headed horse, and Lang Tingshu, Zu Yonglie, and Zhou Gongzhi were directly lined up on the left and right. Tu Hai looked at the more than 100 people kneeling on the ground, and asked sharply, "Which of you is the third prince of Zhu?" ”

No one answered.

"Raise your heads, Zhou Gongzhi, you come to recognize!"

Zhou Gong looked around, there was no figure of Zhu Cijiong!

"Not good! Fooled! Tuhai exclaimed in surprise and shouted, "Seal the door!" "More than 100 people who were still kneeling on the ground just now jumped up in an instant." Brothers, kill! Li Zhu gave an order, and all of them went into battle with red fights, and went straight to the Qing soldiers.

Tuhai's horse was so startled that it almost knocked him over. Tuhai hurriedly fixed his mind, grabbed the reins of the horse, and slashed with a sword. Pity Zhou Gongzhi and Lang Tingshu, a weak scholar, where have they ever seen this kind of battle, strangled to death by the angry rebels! "See, this is the fate of traitors! Hahaha! Li Zhu's eyes were red, he laughed wildly, and his hands were still holding Lang Tingshu's neck, "Emperor Guangde has gone away, you stupid people!" ”

Tuhai killed for a while, and the Qing soldiers also stepped forward bravely, but the rebels were bare-handed after all, and soon fell one by one. Tu Hai turned around and saw that Li Zhu still didn't let go, so he swung his knife up, and Li Zhu's two arms fell to the ground in blood! Tu Hai saw him standing there, scolding something, and blew Li Zhu's chin off with a knife: "Look at you still scolding!" On your knees! ”

Li Zhu's bloody face was extremely hideous, but he was still muttering in his mouth: "Who has not died in life since ancient times, and he has left Dan to take care of his sweat!" Tu Hai was already red-eyed at this time: "I'll let you scold!" "Two more knives went down and cut off Li Zhu's two thighs!

At this time, Li Zhu had already become a monster like a human being, but what was amazing was that the flesh and blood blurred body was still standing in place, and it just didn't fall! is still muttering Wen Tianxiang's poems: "Life has been ...... since ancient times"

When the onlookers saw this tragic situation, they were already frightened and cried for the ground. Those Qing soldiers, who usually killed people, were also stunned by the scene in front of them. Although they have killed countless people on the battlefield, but the white knife goes in and the red knife comes out, and it's over, who has ever seen a person's arm, chin, and thigh dismantled in eight pieces! So one by one, they only felt that the river and the sea were turned in their stomachs, and the shallow stomach had avoided them, vomiting nonstop, and the rest lowered their heads and did not dare to look directly.

The veteran Tu Hai's hand holding the big knife at this time also began to tremble. He has been fighting for more than 30 years, and it can be said that he has crawled out of the pile of dead, but it is the first time he has encountered such a hard bone as the one in front of him. He didn't understand what kind of faith and strength could sustain people to this extent. Tu Haiyi gritted his teeth, and the sharp knife was inserted into Li Zhu's chest. "Ahh Li Zhu screamed and fell in a pool of blood.

At this time, the guards also caught Wu Yingxiong, Tu Hai eased his nerves, and said: "You have two sides of the arrow, and you have the military department to investigate, who believes you?" Wu Yingxiong gritted his teeth and did not answer. Tu Hai shouted: "Take away!" Wu Yingxiong was tied up and put in a prisoner's car.

After some fighting, the Pearl side also extinguished the flames of the rebels.

Overnight, Wu Sangui's inscriptions were plastered all over the streets and alleys of Beijing. The next morning, people gathered under the inscriptions, whispering.

An old man looked at it for a long time and asked with a puzzled expression: "What is written on this?" Is the government going to increase the endowment again? ”

"No, it's Wu Sangui who raised troops against the Qing Dynasty!" A Confucian said with a smug face.

"Oops, Wu Sangui is anti-Qing! Wu Sangui is anti-purge! ”

"Great, now I finally don't have to be a slave of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!"

For a while, the crowd boiled, running to tell each other, Mingzhu was about to go back to restore his life, and reported to Kangxi, when he saw many ordinary people gathered in one place, happily saying something, he turned his horse over, and saw a proclamation posted on the wall: "The former chief military officer of the town guarding the mountain customs, the current president of the world's water and land master Xingming to capture the general Wu ......" suddenly understood! Mingzhu ripped off the text and roared angrily: "This is the third prince of the traitor Zhu who is bewitching the crowd, and there are onlookers, behead!" ”

The onlookers slammed to the ground and scattered. Only the old man, who didn't know whether it was the back of his ears or his legs, still stood still, and suddenly became a ghost under the knife. Mingzhu also ordered people to scatter and search, and anyone who watched or secretly hid the text would be killed. When the people and horses gathered back, they found more than 100 copies. Mingzhu didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly went back to resume his life.

Kangxi met with Tuhai and Mingzhu in the Qianqing Palace, and listened to their report on the arrest of Wu Yingxiong and the third prince of Zhu's rebellion, and he didn't speak for a long time before he ordered: "Wu Yingxiong handed over to Dali Temple for trial, and the rest of the party who committed the night will be executed in Lingchi!" ”

Although Yang Qilong's uprising was bloodily suppressed, the name of the third prince of Zhu has since become a nightmare for the Qing government. As *** said, the third prince of Zhu was the "spark of revolution" against the Qing Dynasty. From Kangxi, Yongzheng, to the early years of Qianlong, the third prince of Zhu was like a ghost, born and died, and resurrected from the dead, stirring up the Qing people to never have peace.