Chapter 15: Shocking Changes (7)
Bombed away Jing Zhaoyin, Hong Tiangui looked at the large stack of ministers' recitals in front of him, and felt even more headache. In his previous life, he studied psychology, and he had little knowledge of classical Chinese, and in addition, these officials all raised Xiucai of the Qing Dynasty to polish their pens, and the articles were written one by one, but it was extremely difficult to see the actual content. Often when I saw an article at the end, I realized that this was actually an article about slapping horses, which made Hong Tiangui even more angry, and he couldn't wait to throw all these bastards who slapped horses to the West Market to behead them.
"People, I want people!" Hong Tiangui roared angrily.
Wang Jian and Guo Yuanbao are like two door gods, their eyes and noses are silent, and they have opened their eyes after following the young king for a few days, and the ministers of the heavenly kingdom are all sanctimonious, but they can't say a useful note one by one when they really face things. Especially in the face of the bloody case of the murder of the whole family of the waiter of the Ministry of Works, Shangshu and the waiter shirked each other, and everyone hid far away, otherwise how could such a shocking case be the turn of Jing Zhaoyin of Wupin.
At this moment, a slightly obese figure came from a distance.
"Dao Chief, is Your Highness here?" King Fu asked with a sweat on his head.
"Yes, His Royal Highness has an explanation, you don't need to report when King Fu comes, His Royal Highness King Fu will come with me!" Tianjian nodded and took King Fu into Hong Tiangui's study.
Seeing that there were pieces of music everywhere in the study, King Fu couldn't help but shrink his neck.
"Uncle Fuwang, you're here! What's the good news about this visit? Hong Tiangui squeezed out a smile that was more ugly than crying and said, which made King Fu look even more worried.
"Your Highness, there has been progress in what you asked Weichen to do! Eighteen of the thirty-two people have already been taken away, and there are fourteen remaining to be heard in a few days at most. ”
"How many?" Hong Tiangui's expression changed with great joy, and he asked with some excitement.
King Fu stretched out five fingers, and his face was full of excitement.
"Fifty thousand taels? Missing? Hong Tiangui was a little not very satisfied.
"Your Highness, not 50,000 taels, but 500,000 taels! Moreover, according to His Highness's orders, 300,000 taels of them were converted into grain, and now there are 200,000 stone of grain alone. ”
"Two hundred thousand stones! How long is this enough food for an army of 50,000? Hong Tiangui asked excitedly.
King Fu said without thinking: "An army of 10,000 consumes 5,000 stone of grain a month, and there are 50,000 troops under the command of the British king, and even if the 200,000 grain is transported to the British king by water, there is a loss of 30%, and in fact, only 140,000 stone is sent to the British king, which can almost support the British king's ministry for half a year." ”
"Only half a year? Someone, let the king come to see me immediately! Although half a year could not satisfy Hong Tiangui, he could always stand up to it, and Hong Tiangui knew that the defeat of the British king would allow Zeng Guofan to advance eastward along the Yangtze River, and then the Qing army would besiege Tianjing again, and Hong Tiangui did not have the confidence to pass it safely.
"Your Highness, what about the others?" King Fu asked worriedly.
"Uncle Fuwang, you did a good job, continue to work hard, thank you for the army of this king's westward expedition!" Hong Tiangui waved his hand and didn't say much.
King Fu was a little disappointed, thinking that with this 500,000 income, Hong Tiangui would definitely give him some benefits, although he may not be able to bring the household back, but as long as there is a reward at this time, it will be extremely useful for his position to be stable.
King Gan came in a hurry, and when Hong Tiangui asked him and King Fu to hand over 200,000 taels of silver tickets and 200,000 stone of grain, this result surprised King Gan.
"Your Highness, where did King Fu get such a silver coin?" Unless he copied King Fu's Mansion, Hong Renxuan didn't believe that King Fu would contribute so much money and food.
"It's all contributed by the good ministers of the kingdom of heaven, and this king didn't expect that there would be so many, the treasury of the kingdom of heaven is empty and can run mice, and the princes and nobles are so rich!" Hong Tiangui said with a sneer.
The god king was puzzled.
"Before, this king captured some princes and nobles' sons and asked King Fu to inform their families to ransom people with silver money, and now it seems that King Fu has done a good job!"
"What? Your Highness, you must not! The king was shocked.
Hong Tiangui looked at him puzzled.
The god king's face was full of anxiety, and he said: "Your Highness, the situation is unstable now, Tianjing City is very empty, although most of the princes and princes of the Heavenly Kingdom are in command of the army, but they will definitely leave elite forces in their homes to protect, and these elites are usually the retainers of each family, once they are in a hurry, I am afraid that they will become the chaos of Tianjing City." ”
Hong Tiangui's face also changed, he didn't know that the family members of the Taiping Army generals couldn't move lightly, but now looking at King Gan's face, it was obvious that this situation was much more serious than he imagined.
"Uncle Ganwang, they don't dare to rebel like this, right?"
"Your Highness's words are wrong, for some Heavenly Generals, the wealth and power of the family are not so much given by the King of Heaven, but rather fought with blood and military exploits, Your Highness asked King Fu to force the military commanders and princes to contribute their money, I am afraid it will cause their jealousy, and it is possible for anything to happen at that time." The Ganwang sighed, now he was 100% sure that the squire whose entire family was slaughtered in the Ministry of Industry must have offended which prince and was destroyed by the elite of his retainers overnight, such a clean and undead action was definitely not something ordinary people could do.
Hong Tiangui instantly understood what King Gan meant, and his face became extremely gloomy.
"Your Highness, is this money not to be touched for the time being?" The Dry King whispered.
Hong Tiangui shook his head and said, "Don't worry about this, your main task now is to ensure the logistics of the British King's front, and the affairs of Tianjing City will naturally be handled by the King." "There are always priorities in things, and the crisis that King Gan said does exist, if it weren't for the critical situation on the Western Front of the British King, Hong Tiangui would definitely not act so rashly. Compared with the fact that Tianjing City was captured by the Qing army, everyone was left behind, and the turmoil of some clowns who jumped off the beam was still able to withstand it.
The Ganwang wanted to persuade again, but when he saw Hong Tiangui's firm eyes, he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.
King Gan left helplessly, and Hong Tiangui urgently summoned Hong Renzheng, the king of mercy.
"Uncle Xi, this king gives you the right to arbitrarily in the Imperial Forest Army, the Royal Forest Army is the barrier of heaven, and it can't be just an empty shelf." Hong Tiangui spoke directly, it is better to rely on others than on yourself, he is the young king, and he should control the Imperial Forest Army.
The king did not look happy, but was full of helplessness.
"Your Highness, there are too many noble sons and daughters in the current Imperial Forest Army, even if it is an order from His Highness, he may not be able to deal with it." Hong Renzheng gritted his teeth and said.
"Then if all the noble sons are dismissed, how many people will be available to the Imperial Forest Army?" Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.
Hong Renzheng was silent.
Among all the armies in the Heavenly Kingdom, the Imperial Forest Army directly under the Heavenly King participated in the least battles, even if the Qing army besieged Tianjing City several times, it was mainly the other armies that were on the front line, and the Royal Forest Army would basically not have other combat missions except to protect Hong Xiuquan. This makes the Imperial Forest Army the safest force in the entire Heavenly Kingdom, and coupled with the good salary, everyone naturally flocks to it. Therefore, in addition to the close people of the kings of the Hong family, the brigade commanders, division commanders, army commanders, army supervisors, and commanders who led the troops to fight abroad also sent the descendants of their families to the Yulin Army to mix military merits. The commander of the Imperial Forest Army is nominally the commander of the Heavenly King, and the Heavenly King has never gone out since he entered the Tianjing City, so the Imperial Forest Army is naturally deserted. Among them, most of the people who can fight have been dug into their own armies by the kings, and after so many actions, the rest of the Royal Forest Army said that they were all exalting him.
Hong Tiangui was also extremely helpless after understanding.
"King Xi, don't send back the five hundred people you selected, all the officers among them will be taken away, and the soldiers will be left for me!"
"Yes!" King Xi nodded.
"By the way, you have been in the army for a long time, do you think the king and the loyal king will obey the edict of this king to transfer troops?" Hong Tiangui asked, this is a question he has been thinking about all this time. He didn't have much impression of the king, but King Zhong was a middle-aged man with a resolute personality, and that kind of person would not easily change his mind, especially since the king was still there, and it was really unknown how much he would obey the orders of the young king.
King Xi thought about it, and said with a wry smile: "Weichen is not sure, the king will not disobey if he wants to come, and the loyal king is not sure!" King Zhong has been preparing for a long time to capture Shanghai, and it may not be easy for him to give up at this time! ”
Hong Tiangui nodded, he knew that it was not easy, but the best situation in the several major battlefields of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the Zhongwang Division, and only the troops drawn from the Zhongwang Department would not affect the battle situation.
At this time, the Heavenly Sword Daoist walked in with a solemn expression, and then walked up to Hong Tiangui's ear and whispered a few words.
Hong Tiangui's face changed, and he said in a deep voice: "I know, King Xi, you go to Wang Jian, the deputy captain of this king's guard, and hand over the five hundred people to him!" ”
King Xi nodded, but there was no curious look on his face. King Xi is different from King Fu and King Xin, he is in the army all the year round, and he doesn't like this kind of intrigue, which is a rare doer in the Hong family.
After King Xi left, Hong Tiangui looked at Heavenly Sword with a solemn expression.
"The King of Heaven didn't make trouble?"
"No, the Heavenly King is very quiet, even when the imperial doctor showed him the injury, he didn't say much."
Hong Tiangui nodded and said, "Pay close attention, I don't want to make a mistake in the Heavenly King's Mansion at this time." ”
Heavenly Sword nodded and hurried away.
Hong Tiangui walked out of the study and looked at the inner courtyard of the Heavenly King's Mansion on the back, with a complicated look on his face.
"Go back to the Young Heavenly King's Palace!" Hong Tiangui spoke, Guo Yuanbao came over with the escort team, and left with Hong Tiangui in his arms.
He is still only a Young Heavenly King, and he can't deal with the affairs of the Heavenly Kingdom in the Young Heavenly King's Palace, so he has to go to the front hall study at the front of the Heavenly King's Palace. Hong Tiangui is not uncomfortable with this, after all, he was also a 9-to-5 office worker in his previous life, and his current life is no different from his previous life.
Back at the Young Heavenly King's Palace, Hong Tiangui went directly to a heavily guarded courtyard.
"Yuanbao, you stay here, no one can approach!" Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.
Guo Yuanbao nodded respectfully.
Hong Tiangui opened the courtyard and entered it.
In the courtyard there was a young girl sitting on a stone bench, with tears on her face, apparently having cried before.