readx; In the afternoon, the weather in Nanjing suddenly changed from sunny to cloudy, indicating that a heavy snowstorm was coming. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And the atmosphere in the city is also sad and solemn, the thirteen gates of the capital are all locked, and the officers and soldiers of the guards and the Guanning Iron Cavalry are urgently dispatched to search for the murderer who assassinated Chang Yinxu but injured Yuan Keli street by street.

But finding the killer is easier said than done. The murder weapon has been discarded outside the walls of the Hou Mansion, and it is a flintlock bird gun that has been simply modified. The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Guard Station did not have such advanced weapons, so there was only one possibility left: it was the latent White Lotus Sect who committed the crime. Moreover, this person and the White Lotus Cultist who smuggled the grenade were not on the same line, otherwise they would have been bitten out long ago under severe interrogation.

But there is another clue. According to Chang Yinxu, he set up the "Hongmen Banquet" because of the idea of Hu Yingtai, the former secretary of the Nanjing Military Department and counselor of the aircraft who was also about to enter Beijing. But for some reason, Hu Yingtai did not show up from beginning to end today, which is very suspicious.

Wang Zaijin immediately ordered a search of Hu Yingtai's mansion, but he was in vain, and Hu Yingtai was nowhere to be found. There were a few servants left who didn't know the inside story, saying that Hu Yingtai had changed into civilian clothes and went out early this morning, and he never came back.

But the monk couldn't run away from the temple, so Jinyiwei turned Hu Yingtai's mansion upside down, and finally found clues. Probably in a hurry and unable to carry too many things, many of Hu Yingtai's personal belongings were left in the room, among which was a small statue of Maitreya Buddha, which was almost identical to the one seized from the White Lotus sect a few days ago; He also took out a middle coat from Hu Yingtai's clothes, which was decorated with a small white lotus. Unexpectedly, this Zhengerpin, who once served as the governor of Liangguang and the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, turned out to be a White Lotus cultist!

Wang said in the back of the Jin Wen newspaper: "Most of this thief has fled from the city among the people. Since Brother Jiehuan and I arrived in Nanjing, he has been hiding behind the scenes, pushing Chang Yinxu in front as a shield. and deceived Chang Yinxu to set up a Hongmen banquet, if he really succeeded, there will be a scuffle between the officers and soldiers of the guard, and Nanjing will inevitably be devastated! Fortunately, Brother Jiehuan..."

Speaking of this, this old minister, who has experienced the ups and downs of the Huan Sea, but has always been iron-clad, finally couldn't help but burst into tears.

Heavy snowfall was very rare that night in the city of Nanjing. In the snowfall, due to his injuries, Yuan Keli died in the Nanjing Garrison Mansion at the age of 66, and his last words were the sentence "Everything is important to the overall situation". In fact, Yuan Keli in history died of illness during the Chongzhen period, but due to Zhu Youzhen's crossing, history changed again, and some things that should have happened did not happen, but things that should not have happened happened.

Due to the bad weather, it was not until three days later that Zhu Youzhen, who was already on the way back to Luan, learned the bad news, and immediately fainted. Not to mention that Yuan Keli is one of the few important ministers he can rely on, and when the official group is constrained, he always stands firmly on Zhu Youzhen's side; Not to mention personal affairs, Yuan Keli is the mentor of his brother Lu Xiangsheng, and he helped Zhu Youzhen a lot in Dengzhou, so that Zhu Youzhen and Qi Meifeng can finally become married; Let's just say that this trip to Nanjing, Zhu Youzhen didn't want Wang Zaijin and Yuan Keli, the two old ministers, to take risks, but the stakes were very high, and there was really no suitable candidate, so he gritted his teeth and sent the two, and he found an excuse to demote the officials of the two, so that the family was wronged to Nanjing. I didn't expect something to happen, he and Yuan Keli only met in Kaifeng more than ten days ago, and it turned out to be a permanent secret!

After crying bitterly, Zhu Youzhen wiped away his tears and issued several holy decrees:

First, posthumously enshrined Yuan Keli as the Taishi, presented Kuang Guogong, and said "Zhiyi", in Beijing, Dengzhou, Nanjing and his hometown of Suizhou, Henan Province, funded by the government to set up the Zhiyi Gong Ancestral Hall, four o'clock to enjoy. Yuan Keli's coffin was first supported by Nanjing to Beijing, when Zhu Youzhen will drop out of the dynasty for a day, specially led the civil and military officials to participate in the mourning ceremony, and then Yuan Keli's son, Yuan Shu, who is now the head of Qingdu County, Baoding Prefecture, Beizhili, returned to his hometown for burial.

Zhu Youzhen wanted to write a memorial essay in person to commemorate Yuan Keli's outstanding exploits and high wind and bright festivals, but his attainments were too poor to be abrupt, so he ordered the courtiers to write one for each of the famous poems, and selected the best of them to recite at the mourning ceremony, and engraved it into a monument for eternity. Led by the "Beijing Times", Yuan Keli's poetry and literary works were engraved into a book and promulgated all over the world.

Second, in accordance with Yuan Keli's will of "everything is important for the overall situation", except for Chang Yinxu, who still entered Beijing, the officers of the Nanjing Guards will not be adjusted for the time being, so as to reassure everyone. All military and political power in Nanjing was temporarily handed over to Wang Zaijin to deal with, and in view of the extreme cowardice of the Weisuo army, not only could not kill the enemy on the battlefield, but would also play a counterproductive role, Zhu Youzhen no longer planned to mobilize them. To be honest, in Nanjing's current situation, it is good to be able to keep the city from losing.

Third, Jin Yiwei immediately escorted Zhixin and other White Lotus Sectists into Beijing, handed them over to the Fusi of Beizhen for strict interrogation, and was sure to ask for important information such as the organization and movements of the White Lotus Sect, and then make every effort to arrest them. Originally, because of Li Zhenyan's death, Zhu Youzhen already had a deep hatred for the White Lotus Sect; Now the old hatred has not been eliminated, and a new hatred has been added, if the White Lotus Sect Leader "Zhu Yunwen" appears in front of him, Zhu Youzhen will have to bite him to death.

Fourth, he ordered Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, to completely pacify the Hanzhong region as soon as possible, and then led the Shaanxi official army to send a letter to Guguan, advance south from Luoyang, and attack Xiangyang, Hubei, the rebel nest. Lu Xiangsheng led the officers and troops of the headquarters and the guards along the way, first relieved the siege of Pengcheng, and then looked for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the rebels on the East Road, that is, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other "thirteen families", and strive to eliminate all the rebels north of the Yangtze River within three months.

Fifth, he ordered Gao Di, the governor of Liaodong, and Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Xuanda, to continue to closely monitor the movements of the Jianyu, and to be ready for battle at any time.

After several decrees, the holy car continued north. Because Mei Jian was pregnant, he couldn't stand the long-distance bumps, most of the chariots went slowly, and Zhu Youzhen rode a jujube red horse on the vast snowfield under the protection of the Imperial City Guard Regiment. Only three days later, I saw the imposing city wall of the outer city of Jingshi in the distance.

This time it has been nearly two months since I left Beijing, and the New Year is approaching, and there is already a faint sound of artillery in the city, which is that the anxious children can't wait to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. Zhu Youzhen was also full of emotion, in addition to feeling a great responsibility for the fate of this huge empire, he also missed Rui'er, Bao Yulian, Qi Meifeng, Zhu Cunqi, Chen Yuanyuan, and his daughter Mijiao and son Cizhao. And the closer to home, the stronger this longing becomes, and I can't help muttering: "I don't know what they're doing, are they also missing me?" ”