On June 5 of the third year of Xianfeng, the Taiping army captured the outer city of Jinling, and the next day attacked the inner city of Jinling from the Shuixi Gate, announcing the fall of Jinling, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties.

After Hong Xiuquan entered the city, he immediately ordered the whole city to search for the flag people, and execute them on the spot, and those who secretly hid the flag people exterminated the nine clans, and those who killed the flag people could get a reward of five taels of silver, and the Han people in the city responded one after another, so that tens of thousands of flag people in the city had nowhere to hide, and all of them were slaughtered.

Subsequently, Hong Xiuquan, as before, gathered the rich and powerful in the city, confiscated the property, and executed all those who had murders.

However, to Hong Xiuquan's sorrow, whether it was the official warehouse or the cellar of the rich family's house in Jinling City, it was empty, but all the valuable things such as gold, silver, jewelry, money, grain, rice, and noodles were gone, and they had all been looted by Li Jiajun, and they were filled with more than 400 large ships, which showed that almost all the wealth of Jinling fell into the hands of Li Weiguo.

"This Li Weiguo is really hateful!"

Hong Xiuquan gritted his teeth, if it weren't for Li Weiguo's sake of giving him two ships of munitions, I am afraid that he would immediately turn his face and send troops to attack Li Weiguo's hometown in Shanghai and recapture the more than 400 ships of supplies.

Fortunately, the Taiping army killed all the way from Guangxi to Jinling, captured dozens of large and small cities, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of bannermen and powerful landlords, and obtained tens of millions of gold, silver, treasures, money, grain, rice, and noodles, so for the time being, the army was not short of money and food, so it did not care about Li Weiguo.

Of course, this is also because Hong Xiuquan's attention was shifted to Yang Xiuqing, and the lesser of two evils, so he temporarily ignored Li Weiguo's sacking of Jinling.

It turned out that after the Taiping army captured Jinling, Hong Xiuquan advocated continuing the northern expedition of the whole army and fighting to the Forbidden City to destroy the Manchu Empire in one fell swoop. But Yang Xiuqing objected, and the task was that Jinling was the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and it had the spirit of a king, so he built the capital first and then slowly drew it.

Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing had a dispute, but Yang Xiuqing came to "Heavenly Father Descended to Earth" again, reprimanded Hong Xiuquan for being a fool in front of everyone, and forced Hong Xiuquan to build a capital in Jinling, which made Hong Xiuquan hate Yang Xiuqing even more, and secretly ordered Hong Xuanjiao, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Su Sanniang and other military commanders to prepare to kill Yang Xiuqing and his henchmen, so he forgot about Li Weiguo's sacking of Jinling.

Eventually, Hong Xiuquan succumbed and obeyed Yang Xiuqing's suggestion to change Jinling to Tianjing as the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

And Yang Xiuqing also suddenly received a secret report, realizing that Hong Xiuquan's attitude towards him had changed drastically, and at this time, Yang Xiuqing's power was not enough to compete with Hong Xiuquan in an all-round way, and he was not sure to replace Hong Xiuquan, so he chose to show weakness.

In order to appease Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing proposed to expand the Jinling Palace, build a more gorgeous palace for Hong Xiuquan, and selected 3,000 beauties as Hong Xiuquan's concubines for his lewd pleasure.

Hong Xiuquan naturally didn't appreciate it at first, but soon he found that there were really many beauties in Jinling, white, tender and watery than the Hakka women he had before in Guangxi.

However, Hong Xiuquan secretly plotted with Hong Xuanjiao, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Su Sanniang and others to get rid of Yang Xiuqing, and was finally leaked to Yang Xiuqing, which made Yang Xiuqing hold a grudge against these and wanted to get rid of them quickly.

On the other side, the news that the Taiping army had captured Jinling, massacred the banner people and built the capital in Jinling was transmitted back to the Forbidden City one after another.

The next day, Xianfeng convened a meeting of the emperor to discuss countermeasures.

Yi Xin, as the Minister of Military Aircraft, was the first to issue at this time: "Emperor Qi, Lu Jianying, Governor of Liangjiang, and Wu Liang, Governor of Jiangning, did not want to be loyal to the monarch and fled from the battle, they ordered to loot the people of Jinling, and fled from Jinling with a large amount of property, please punish the emperor severely!" ”

Su Shun hurriedly said: "The emperor is angry, although Lu Jianying escaped from the battle, although there is a loss of the emperor's grace, but this is also because Li Weiguo led the army to leave Jinling without authorization, and the defense of Jinling was empty, which gave the rebels a chance, Lu Jianying lost Jinling without soldiers It is understandable, but Li Weiguo led his troops to leave Jinling without authorization, resulting in the fall of Jinling, and asked the emperor to remove him from his post and investigate!" ”

Su Shun's trick to divert the topic was very effective, and Yi Xin next to him saw that Xianfeng's expression was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Li Weiguo did not leave Jinling with his troops privately, but after defeating the main force of the rebels in one fell swoop outside Jinling, he pursued after defeating the main force of the rebels in one fell swoop, and recovered Anqing, Jiujiang and other cities all the way. Besides, Li Weiguo's dispatch of troops was also at the order of the Minister of the Qin Mission and the Governor of Huguang, Lord Qishan. ”

As he spoke, Yi Xin handed over the fold of the old man hidden in his arms to Xianfeng, and Xianfeng saw that it was really so, so his face eased slightly.

It's just that after such an argument, Xianfeng no longer cares about Lu Jianying's affairs, but asks anxiously: "Now that the rebels use Jinling as their capital, it is really hateful to slaughter the children of the Eight Banners. ”

Su Shun saw that Xianfeng didn't mention Lu Jianying, and knew that it was for the sake of his face that he would not be held accountable, so he hurriedly offered a plan: "The emperor doesn't need to worry, with the two ministers of Qishan and Xiang Rong over there, the rebels will soon be exterminated." ”

Xianfeng nodded and said, "Send a message to Qishan and Xiang Rong, ordering them to march quickly and eliminate the Jinling rebels as much as possible, without mistake." ”

Yi Xin said at this time: "Your Majesty, Su Songtai is prepared to say that Li Weiguo has a good way to lead the troops, first to suppress the rebellion of the Little Knife Society, and now he has continuously recovered Anqing, Jiujiang and other important military towns, severely damaged the rebels, and asked the emperor to give a reward to encourage, in addition, the emperor appointed the minister of the three roads, and now the governor of Liangjiang, Lu Jianying, has escaped from the battle, and is no longer worthy of being the minister of the Qincha, the minister thinks that Li Weiguo can take on a big responsibility, and asks the emperor to order Li Weiguo to replace Lu Jianying as the minister of the Qincha. ”

"No!" Su Shun immediately objected: "Li Weiguo is too young, just a few small victories, how can he serve as the minister of the Qincha all the way?" Please also ask the emperor to send another talent! ”

Yi Xin sneered: "Why not? If Li Weiguo exterminated the Little Knife Society, recovered Jiujiang and Anqing, and won a few small victories, then what would it be if the other soldiers and horses had been defeated again and again, and lost the city and land? I think you are a personal vendetta of the communiqué, knowing that Li Weiguo is the son-in-law of the late minister Fu Yang, who deliberately embarrassed him! ”

"Y-don't spew blood!" Su Shun reasoned with it, and he really couldn't find a reason to refute Yi Xin's words, and his face was flushed with anger.

Xianfeng looked at the two of them, he was an understanding person, so he said: "Okay, you two don't fight, one qiē is important for state affairs." Although Li Weiguo is young, he is indeed promising, and now that the imperial court is employing people, it is not a big deal to be promoted exceptionally. ”

"Your Majesty—"

Su Shun was about to object, but saw Xianfeng waving his hand.

I only listened to Xianfeng Dao: "That's good, order Qishan, Xiang Rong and Li Weiguo to send troops to Jinling immediately, Qishan is the minister of Jiangbei Road, Xiang Rong is the minister of Jiangnan Road, and Li Weiguo is the place where Su Songtai is prepared to guard Jiangdong, so he will be appointed as the minister of Jiangdong Road." ”

"The emperor is wise!"

Yi Xinle blossomed, but Su Shun had a black face, and this time the court failed to fight Yi Xin, which made him very unhappy. Especially for the rise speed of Li Weiguo, at this moment, Su Shun is also cool in his heart, for fear that one day Li Weiguo will become big and seek revenge on him.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, the civil and military officials returned to their respective places.

"No, this Li Weiguo must be taken, if he is allowed to grow bigger, the old man will have to go around without eating!" Su Shun was thinking about it as he walked, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, so he said: "Go, send someone to find Lu Jianying, if you want to see people alive and die, you want to see corpses, and also give me an investigation about the fall of Jinling, as well as about Li Weiguo, his news can't miss a single detail, and the old man must know everything." ”

Su Shun sent people south to Jinling to inquire about the news, and Yi Xin also sent people south after returning home, just to report the good news to Li Weiguo, he felt more and more that Li Weiguo was a talent, and he could use it for him, and it would be enough to confront the imperial party in the future, and even eradicate the imperial party in one fell swoop.

Yixin, who originally wanted to lurk for a while, suddenly glowed with a new brilliance, which was all thanks to Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo is famous, and he is worried about the two largest forces in the capital at the same time, and he can't think of being famous. As a result, the entire capital and even the world knew that there was such a number one person as Li Weiguo, and the Shanghai army also appeared on the stage of history.