On the night when Liang Pengfei led his troops to capture the city of Tianjin, several fast horses rushed into the peaceful and quiet Beijing Division. The news that Liang Jiajun bombarded the Dagukou Fort and then besieged Tianjin City was sent to Qianlong's desk less than half an hour after the Kuaima messenger entered Yanjing City.

Hurriedly got up, wearing only a shirt, wrapped in a silk shawl Qianlong stared blankly at the emergency military situation, there was a pillar of incense without words, and Fu Longan, the minister on duty at the military aircraft department who knelt in front of the case, knelt in front of the case, his head hung almost next to the floor, although his legs were sore, but he didn't dare to move at all.

Just now, a eunuch brought hot tea, splashed two drops of tea on the imperial case, and Qianlong, who had been in a daze for the emergency military situation, directly ordered the eunuch to be killed. Although the terrible cry for mercy and the miserable howl just now had stopped, Fu Longan felt that the tragic howl of the eunuch was still echoing in his mind.

The haggard He Shen was in the sedan chair with his eyes closed, listening to the extremely anxious urging of the guards outside the sedan chair, and the sedan chair man had to grit his teeth to make the sedan chair go faster.

What happened to him, he even rushed to the palace, put his hand on his forehead, and frowned and thought hard. These words, because of the death of He Lin, and He Shen in order to deal with He Lin's future generations, can be said to be heartbroken, and Qianlong is very considerate of the feelings between Brother He Shen, so he specially granted his leave, but he never thought that the eunuch Mao Yan in the palace actually came to deliver the decree in the middle of the night, and Qianlong wanted to see him immediately, not to discuss, but to completely order.

That Mao Yan didn't even bother to take a sip of tea, leaving only a few guards, so he hurriedly said goodbye and rushed to the Jiumen Admiral's Mansion, and Shen asked Mao Yan, but the problem was that Mao Yan didn't know what was going on at all, only knew that an emergency military report came from the direction of Tianjin, and after that, Qianlong sat still, and then killed a eunuch with a cane, and ordered them to immediately go out of the palace to pass the decree and summon the minister.

The sedan chair became more and more bumpy, and He Shen put down his hand a little helplessly, lifted the corner of the sedan curtain, and wanted to see where he had arrived, but he only felt a cold wind blowing through his bones, which made him feel agitated and shivered.

When He Shen arrived in front of the Heart Cultivation Palace, he couldn't help but pause, because he saw many acquaintances, in addition to a few ministers of the Military Aircraft Department, as well as six Shangshu, almost all the ministers who had military power in Beijing also came, which made He Shen's heart suddenly raise his throat. What the hell is going on?

And when he took a few steps forward, he saw the eunuch who was outside the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, and the corpse was on the bench, and his heart couldn't help but jump wildly, Qianlong's temper he knew very well, and he usually seemed to be very benevolent, but in fact, the viciousness and cruelty in his bones were even worse than Yongzheng, who was called the tyrannical king by the world's scholars.

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Fu Longan's legs were almost no longer numerous, and his body was completely supported by his hands to keep him from falling to the ground, and after a long time of dizziness, the chief eunuch Wang Jinbao walked into the room with some trepidation and hurriedly knelt on the ground to report: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived, and the Military Aircraft Department and the Lord and the Minister of the Guard, the Admiral of the Nine Gates, the Commander of the Left and Right Wing Forward Battalions, and the Commander of the Eight Banners Guard...... and they waited outside the temple for summons. ”

"Biography!" Qianlong seemed to have finally regained a little vitality at this time, moved his eyes, raised his head, and his hoarse voice sounded like a rusty saw sawing wood.

"The retainer knocks on the emperor Amma."

"The slave (minister) knocks on the emperor." A vote of Manchu Qing ministers all brushed with the prince Yongyan, kneeling neatly in front of the throne.

"Okay, okay, it's all here. Come, Prince, give this military report to everyone to read. Qianlong raised his hand and threw the military report that had been held tightly in his hand on the throne, and the eunuch next to him quickly reached out to pick it up and respectfully handed it to the prince Yongyan, who was still kneeling on the ground.

“…… This, this, Huang Ama, how is this possible?! Prince Yongyan's face changed greatly at the first glance when he saw this military report, and after that, he couldn't care anymore that Qianlong was still sitting in front of him, and his exclamation almost pierced the roof of the Heart Cultivation Palace.

The shock, like a great earthquake, surrounded all the officials present, and the expressions of those important officials of the court who were usually commanding the dignity were like seeing the private vendors of the chengguan patrol officers, and the faces of those who were trying to make themselves look dignified were all distorted to the extreme.

"This news should not be fake, those messengers are all wounded, and one of them has several wounds, the imperial doctor treated him, and took out a warhead from his armor, which is the same as the fire gun projectile used by those Shanhaiguan Liang thieves." Fu Longan replied abruptly.

"Tianjin City has been besieged by an anti-thief cavalry, and on the water, there are countless high warships, the sound of artillery fire is so loud, resounding for dozens of miles, if they didn't find the cavalry surrounded outside Tianjin City in time, they fled along the path, I'm afraid that they can't even send people with letters to Beijing."

"Your Majesty, the servants think that the general troops of all towns in Zhili should be mobilized as soon as possible to enter King Qin, and let the forbidden brigade and eight banners besieging Shanhaiguan immediately return to the south to defend against the enemy."

"It's not proper, in this way, the world will inevitably shake, and the slaves think that they should first send troops from the Beijing division camp to Tianjin, take advantage of the enemy to besiege Tianjin, and join forces with the soldiers and horses of Tianjin Town, and annihilate them in one fell swoop."

"Master Fu, how many soldiers and horses do you think you should send to cooperate with the soldiers and horses of Tianjin Town to encircle and annihilate those bold anti-thieves?"

"The anti-thieves came from afar, the tired division is also the water division, the southerners are good at water and not good at riding and fighting, if the court sends a fine horse as a pioneer, it can be ......"

Seeing this group of ministers kneeling in front of the throne, there was a lot of arguing there, and the words would always contain such and such a distribution of interests, while some were secretly communicating there with a belly of ghosts, while some had an expression that they didn't care about it.

"Are these the important ministers of my Great Qing Kingdom? ......" Qianlong felt that he was unprecedentedly tired, and he couldn't wait to close his eyes and do nothing now, but when his eyes fell on the face of the helpless prince Yongyan, and felt his helpless and anxious mood, can such a successor really take on the heavy responsibility of turning the tide for the Qing Dynasty at such a time? Obviously, this can't be.

Syllable! A piercing crisp sound, as if it was a switch, instantly snuffed out all the noise in the hall, and the important ministers who were still noisy subconsciously looked up in amazement and saw the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, which was originally placed on the imperial case, and Qianlong's favorite "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" ivory carving pen holder has become a fragment scattered on the ground at this moment.

And Qianlong stood behind the imperial case, a pair of cold and vicious faint old eyes looked so bright at the moment, like a long knife that had just been quenched with blood, with murderous intent.

Qianlong took a deep breath, and his voice made the temperature in the Heart Cultivation Hall drop sharply by a few points. "The thief army enters Kou Zhili, you are the pillar of the country, the humerus of me, do not think of a good strategy to break the enemy, worry about me, and give advice for my Qing country. But you're still fighting for power here, are you really deaf or blind?! ”

"Servants (ministers) are guilty of capital crimes......" The ministers bowed to the ground in horror, and one or two of them were so panicked. But whether that's what I think in my heart has to be said, those Hanchen are all rolling their eyes vigorously, since the appearance of rebels in Manchuria, it is confirmed that those who killed General Jilin and his subordinates are a group of Han rebels. These Han ministers, including Liu Yong, were isolated, or rather, deliberately alienated by the bannermen and the Mongolian ministers.

Although it is not very obvious, and Qianlong is still very kind to them, but like Liu Yong, who has been up and down in the sea for decades, and who has been fighting with Shen for many years but still can't stand, which of the Han old ministers is not an old and cunning man, he can always feel it from the traces of spiders and worms.

And when Liang Pengfei rebelled against the Qing Dynasty in Liangguang and raised the banner of restoring China, the feeling of being distrusted was even more serious, first of all, more than 6,000 Han soldiers in the five-city patrol camp originally subordinate to the commander of Jiumen, that is, the green battalion soldiers, were placed in the towns outside the capital to guard.

The defenders of the inner city, only the banner and the Mongolian, and the green battalion soldiers were forbidden to enter and leave the inner city, although Liu Yong and other Hanchen strongly opposed, but that Qianlong was always sloppy, and those Mengman ministers tried their best to stop it.

And Liu Yong once secretly went to the prince Yongyan's mansion to visit, wanting to save the matter, but the next day the prince was reprimanded by Qianlong and was punished for studying behind closed doors for ten days, and Liu Yong was also found by Qianlong and fined for half a year. Therefore, Liu Yong was still extremely disappointed to watch as all those green battalion soldiers left the inner city of the Beijing Division.

This is an extremely dangerous signal, which means that Qianlong has made it clear that he no longer trusts the Han people, so most of the Han ministers such as Liu Yong have been doing things honestly and doing their duty, and no one dares or wants to talk about the key things anymore.

And today, they don't dare, nor are they willing to talk too much in the past two years, Qianlong, who has become more and more temperamental.

Qianlong looked at these ministers who had buried their heads, and a depression in his heart made him feel that he could hardly suppress the madness in his heart.

"Hengrui!" After being cold for a long time, Qianlong sat back on the throne.

"The minions are here!" In front of the imperial case, a Manchurian military general replied loudly with his head raised.

"I ordered you to transfer 500 cavalry battalions, rush to Tianjin, detect the enemy's situation, if there is something to do, you can attack the Liang thieves with the soldiers and horses of Tianjin Town, if the thieves are strong, find out the number of Liang thieves and return immediately......"

The Fengtai battalion entered the city, and some of the forbidden brigades and eight banners that were originally stationed outside the city all entered the inner city of the Beijing Division that night, cooperating with the soldiers and horses of the infantry battalion under the command of the Admiral of Jiumen and Shen to guard the Beijing Division, and on the same day, all the guards were canceled in turn, and all the soldiers and horses were dispatched to implement the ban.

In order to prevent the news leakage from causing panic, all the ministers who arrived at the palace tonight were left in the palace, this is a night that makes the emperor and courtiers of the Qing Dynasty panic and uneasy, and a night that makes the soldiers and armor in the entire Yanjing City ring, but the night has an end after all, and the dawn of dawn gradually polishes the east......

(To be continued)