Tianjing City.

Hong Tiangui received a joint battle report from the loyal king Li Xiucheng and the servant king Li Shixian. And the entire Tianjing City also fell into a carnival because of this big victory.

Victory! The Kingdom of Heaven defeated the Anglo-French forces and secured the eastern defenses, making the rule of the Kingdom of Heaven much more secure.

Hong Tiangui personally ordered the two kings to be commended for their achievements, and at the same time allocated 500,000 taels of silver as a reward. However, the battle report sent by the two kings for the promotion of generals to the king was not agreed. At the same time, Hong Tiangui sent a second medical team to the eastern front to pick up the wounded and come to Tianjing City.

Hong Tiangui set up a ** hospital in Tianjing City, the seriously wounded on the battlefield can come here for treatment and recuperation, the first batch of 300 wounded soldiers from Wuxi City have been properly placed, most of the injuries have been controlled, and the follow-up wounded soldiers are still being sent one after another.

Seriously wounded soldiers were extremely troublesome for the Taiping army. Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng, Li Shixian, and even Shi Dakai, who was far away in Sichuan, all understood that as long as the wounded returned from injury, they would be the backbone of the battle, and they could become the elite of the elite. However, the medical level of this period was too low, and too few soldiers survived from serious injuries, and they couldn't be ignored, otherwise it would definitely chill the hearts of the soldiers. Therefore, for the wounded soldiers, the generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were quite a headache.

Now that Hong Tiangui is willing to accept it, they naturally can't ask for it. In addition, the shipwreck has now blocked the waterway of the Yangtze River, so that the waters above Jiangyin have basically fallen into the hands of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom naval army. A large number of wounded people can reach Tianjing City through the Yangtze River, and they are all sent to Tianjing Hospital for treatment.

However, in the Heavenly Court, the political situation is extremely turbulent, and the struggle between the cabinet officials and the old officials of the six ministries has reached a white heat, and the two sides have become the biggest scandal in the heavenly kingdom by tearing their faces in the main hall.

Hong Tiangui has been watching coldly, only after the two sides started to fight a mess to pull the two sides apart, the cabinet and the six ministries asked Hong Tiangui to uphold justice, Hong Tiangui as always expressed absolute support for the cabinet.

The officials of the six ministries completely understood that the cabinet was Hong Tiangui's minions, and these old ministers of the Heavenly Kingdom were all raised by their stepmothers, and they were just asking for their own death if they continued to fight.

The Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of War have written letters to resign, and Hong Tiangui agreed, and Hong Tiangui did not appoint three new departments, but split these three departments into the cabinet, and for a time the prestige of the cabinet soared, and the old bureaucratic system of the six ministries completely fell into a desperate situation.

In this case, the officials of the six ministries took a desperate risk, and they chose to assassinate.

Cabinet Minister Chen Lin was killed on his way home from work, along with 30 servants with a palanquin. The car of the godlord Hong Renxuan was attacked, but fortunately, the security army arrived in time, otherwise the godlord would have suffered an accident.

These two major cases shocked the entire Tianjing City.

Hong Tiangui was furious and ordered martial law in Tianjing City. The National Defense Force, the Public Security Army, and the Chengguan Army (formerly the Heavenly Imperial Forest Army) all took action and searched the entire Tianjing City. The focus was on the homes of the officials of the six ministries.

One by one, the officials belonging to the six ministries were arrested, and by the time the next day the Heavenly King's Mansion was deliberating, the Minister of Cultural Relics was reduced by one-third. And the officials of the six ministries who had been fighting with the cabinet before were basically swept away, and those who were still waiting and watching naturally understood that the cabinet had unified the court, and wisely chose to surrender. Hong Tiangui silently revoked the remaining three ministries, and completely became the sole cabinet above the court.

The last six county towns controlled by the officials of the six ministries had no support, and they had to join the cabinet, and for a time the cabinet decree was unimpeded, and the administrative power of the heavenly kingdom was completely controlled.

Soon, representatives of Britain and France landed in Jiangyin and were quickly sent to Tianjing by navy.

Hong Renxuan, as the prime minister of the cabinet, was given full authority by Hong Tiangui to him. But Hong Tiangui put forward three requirements: first, no compromise; 2. Don't be afraid; 3. Don't connive.

Hong Renxuan attached great importance to it, and the cabinet only met for one day, and finally reached the bottom line and requirements of the negotiation of the Kingdom of Heaven. Hong Renxuan was personally in charge of the negotiations.

The British and French representatives arrived in Tianjing City and were received by Hong Renxuan. The etiquette used by the Kingdom of Heaven was quite high, which also gave the British and French envoys full confidence in this trip.

At the beginning of the negotiations, the British envoy Raul first threw out four demands put forward by the British minister: first, the withdrawal of troops; 2. Apologize; 3. Indemnification; Fourth, trade.

Hong Renxuan sneered: "Mr. Special Envoy, are you sure you are not talking in a dream?" ”

Raul's face changed, and he said in a deep voice: "Mr. Prime Minister, this is the attitude of the British Empire, if you don't agree, what awaits you will be the strong ships and guns of my British Empire." ”

The French envoy did not say a word, this kind of thing they are used to everything headed by the British, anyway, the final benefit will not be less than the French, there is no need to rush forward at this time.

Hong Renxuan sneered: "You have come, the Heavenly King attaches great importance to it, and our Heavenly Kingdom has also shown great sincerity, but it is a pity that now it seems that you are not sincere!" As for what you call the British guns? Will they be able to hit Tianjing City? Don't you know, Mr. Special Envoy, that half a month ago, our Heavenly Kingdom had just repelled 30,000 British and French troops, and now there are still 5,000 foreigners serving their sentences in our prisoner of war camps. ”

Raul's face changed, and so did the French envoy. After the defeat, they kept asking how many prisoners the coalition forces had, but they never received any information.

After the Heavenly Cabinet took power, it carried out a major purge of the 5 prefectures and 60 counties currently controlled by the Heavenly Kingdom, and those officials who were in the dead or notorious were purged, and at the same time, the security forces that had already completed the reorganization were stationed in all the county seats, and after a period of severe crackdown on crime, the public security in the Heavenly Kingdom was significantly improved.

"Mr. Prime Minister, do you really want to go to war with our British Empire?" Raul said with an ugly face.

"Go to war, go to war! We, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, have never been afraid of anyone since its inception! After speaking, Hong Renxuan walked away. The British regarded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as a weak Manchu Qing, and Hong Tiangui had said that this negotiation was not easy, but Hong Renxuan did not expect to be in a desperate situation from the beginning.

The British and French envoys were hung here, Hong Renxuan was really angry, Britain and France were obviously the defeated side, but they still looked like they were arrogant, I really don't know what to say.

For three days in a row, the British and French envoys were left aside, and they went to the Ganwang Mansion several times, but they did not get close to Hong Renxuan.

Although negotiations with Britain and France are important, Hong Renxuan's essential job now is to improve the control of the cabinet and fully implement the new chapter of senior management. Now that the land of the Five Prefectures has been fully controlled, the next step is to expand its influence and expand towards the territory controlled by the kings. Hong Renxuan knew that this was not easy, but it was something that had to be done, the territory of the Kingdom of Heaven must be under the rule of the Heavenly King Hong Tiangui, and the will of the Heavenly King Hong Tiangui must be followed.

In the end, the British and French envoys relented, and they gave up the four conditions put forward by the British and French envoys, so that the two sides could return to the negotiating table. The negotiations went on for several days, and there was a lot of bickering between the two sides, even with the extremely urgent exchange of prisoners of war on both sides.