Gualca. Longevity was on December 29, Daoguang 28 (not the Western calendar), on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, with his 13-year-old son Guarjia. Rong Lu left the dangerous place of Beijing's inner city together. The day before, Mu Zhang'a, on behalf of Emperor Daoguang, had reached a peace agreement with Yang Xiuqing, whereby the Manchus ceded the inner city of Beijing, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and other provinces, and the whole army retreated to Guanwai, and in the future, it would not invade each other with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on the Great Wall.

And Gualca. Changshou was sent as Daoguang's envoy to convey the edict of withdrawing troops and retreating to Guanwai to Kong Fanhao, the governor of Shandong, Zeng Guofan, the governor of Henan, and the general Mianyu and others.

Of course, this edict is just a cover to cover people's ears, and the real "edict" is carried by his son Rong Lu, and Rong Lu pretends to be a subordinate and follows Changshou out of the inner city of Beijing, and the Taiping army people don't even look at him as a child. After leaving the city, Changshou and his party did not dare to go to Henan by land, and their soldiers of the Qing Dynasty had just released water to flood millions of people in the three provinces of Zhilu, Henan, and it was the time when the people were extremely angry. If you encounter a large number of victims on the road, who knows what will happen to the road?

Fortunately, the waterways of Tianjin have been opened, and the city has been controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, becoming the only foreign trade port of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. When they arrived at the mouth of Dagu in Tianjin, the port here had already restored its pre-war prosperity, and the sand ships and Guangzhou ships that transported grain from the north and south of the Yangtze River, as well as the Western sailing ships of foreign devils, crowded the port, and there were hundreds of them!

Most of the bags of rice and grain were brought down from these ships, but they were carried away in large boxes wrapped in cloth, some of which were the size of a Western carriage. I don't know what is in the road - he wants to know what the road is about to be protected and crying. Because one of the "big wooden boxes" contained their Qing Dynasty's Holy Zuren Emperor Aixin Jueluo. Xuan Ye's remains. The body with the coffin and the funeral goods was discounted by a total of 20,000 Shijiangnan rice......

Gualca. On Longevity's party was a British warship. I went directly to Yantai by water, and Yantai was still the land of the Qing Dynasty at this time. Changshou changed to a horse-drawn carriage there, and bumped for a day and a night before arriving in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province.

At this time, Jinan was already an out-and-out military town, and the terrain became dangerous - the Yellow River flowed north of Jinan after its diversion, and the military dividing line between the Taiping and Qing armies was the course of the Yellow River, which had just stabilized.

However, at this time, it was no longer Kong Fanhao, the governor of Shandong, who was in charge of Jinan City, but Lin Zexu Lin Muweng, who had just led his troops north to "King Qin". It's not because of how high Lin Zexu's reputation is. It's because of the 50,000 training troops he brought from Jiangnan! These soldiers are all foreign guns and cannons, as well as Western officer training, and they are stationed in the west of Jinan City, along the embankment of the Yellow River.

In the final analysis, the current Qing Dynasty has reached the time when there is a gun and is the king of grass, and it will not take about a year or two, and the Qing Dynasty will really have no place in the Guannei, right?

Regarding the matter of the "edict", Changshou did not hide it from Lin Zexu, and he couldn't hide it at all. Kong Fanhao and Zeng Guofan are now Wei Lin Ze Xu Ma is the first to look forward.

The situation in Beijing. There is also the content of the "Edict of Clothing", Gualjia. Changshou told Lin Zexu, Zeng Guofan and Kong Fanhao all in 1510.

Lin Zexu listened to the words of longevity. But there was no expression of surprise, and after thinking for a long time, he shook his head.

The misfortune to the south is certainly a conspiracy to relieve the Manchus, but the Manchu officers who were ordered to surrender to Ming are very likely to really push the boat down the river to be loyal to Zhu Ming. After all, the city of Beijing could not be defended, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty and China Zhengshuo would have little to do with it at that time.

"In this way, will the Qing Dynasty come back in the future?"

"Come back, as long as we can withdraw all King Hui's troops outside the pass, and then invite Russian soldiers to help, our Qing Dynasty will always fight back one day." Changshou said confidently, "Mu Zhongtang said that it is very likely that Bai Siwen will borrow Russian soldiers, and it is a big deal that we will cut Xinjiang out." ”

"Hmm......" Lin Zexu narrowed his eyes, and his face was slightly sunken.

"Muon, what?" Seeing Lin Zexu's demeanor, Guerjia. Changshou felt that he might be a little speechless, so he hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Mu Weng, who do you want to let be the Feng Ting of our Qing Dynasty?" ”

"It's not a question of who is Feng Ting, it's a question of who the people of the Central Plains belong to." Lin Zexu stroked his beard and looked at Zeng Guofan.

He is already old, Li Hongzhang stayed in the south, and the situation in the north can only be handed over to Zeng Guofan in the future, but Lin Zexu can't understand Zeng Guofan's thoughts, so he took this opportunity to test it.

"After this catastrophe in the Central Plains, without decades of work, I am afraid it will be difficult to recover." Zeng Guofan stroked his beard and shook his head.

"Brother Disheng, this is all the fault of the Cantonese bandits and Zhu Yi, right?" Gualca. Changshou asked tentatively.

"It's the fault of the Yue bandits and Zhu Ming." Zeng Guofan said lightly, "But there is something wrong with the Qing Dynasty, otherwise what would the emperor do if he was guilty of his own edict?" ”

Gualca. Changshou was speechless for a while, and was silent for a while, before he asked Kong Fanhao in a curtled manner: "Brother Bohai, has the emperor's sinful edict aroused the loyalty of Shandong scholars?" ”

"The edict of sin is not as good as the water of the Yellow River." Kong Fanhao glanced at Changshou, "Millions of people in the three provinces of Zhilu and Henan have been affected...... What a sin! ”

If it weren't for the fact that Seng Lingqin dug up the dam of the Yellow River to flood dozens of counties in Luyu and Henan, Emperor Daoguang's edict would probably be somewhat useful. But as soon as the Yellow River flooded, Daoguang would not work even if he issued a hundred sins.

Changshou was silent, and Lin Zexu looked at him coldly and said: "The Battle of Changping is just that Qin and Zhao are fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains, no matter who wins and who loses, weak Korea will inevitably lose the country!" And since the party has given it away, there is no possibility of taking it back. The so-called water is difficult to collect, but it is just right to use it here. ”

"This ...... The emperor knows who is a loyal minister and who is a second minister, and his old man knows it. "Gualca. Changshou was stunned and said in a hurry.

"The emperor has seen everything and let people surround the inner city of Beijing, what should Zhu Jishi and Hong Xiuquan, who took the Qing Dynasty, be wise?" Lin Zexu replied coldly, "If you want to use the trick of blaming Jiangdong, you have to figure out who Zhuge Liang is first!" ”

Gualca. Longevity is speechless.

Lin Zexu snorted: "And Yang Xiuqing, he is not so easy to deceive!" You're using tricks, and he's foolish? If he had been stupid, he wouldn't have hit the outer city of Beijing now! ”

was reminded by Lin Zexu, Guerjia. Changshou couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. It's really hard to say who was deceived this time!

It's not even easy to say who the city of Beijing is in now!

……

Time back to the first day of the first month of Daoguang 29, the Spring Festival.

Beijing City, outside Zhengyang Gate. It's dawn and it's dawn. Yang Xiuqing looked at the big banner with the word "Mu" illuminated by torches on the head of the city, shook his head and sneered.

"Herald! The general offensive begins! ”

He didn't turn his head to Li Kaifang and Zeng Tianyang beside him, and the latter immediately saluted excitedly.

The battle of the outer city of Beijing was fought very hard, because the Qing soldiers defending the city thought that there was no way to survive and resisted desperately. Therefore, after Yang Xiuqing took the outer city of Beijing, he immediately changed his strategy, and used the method of peace talks and the release of some prisoners to tell the banner people of the defenders in the inner city of Beijing that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was tantamount to exterminating them. After nearly half a month of negotiations, Yang Xiuqing also took great pains to meet with Mu Zhang'a at the Temple of Heaven, and also sent the Manchu Qin to go out of the city to deliver instructions to the Qing troops in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and other places.

At the same time that the Taiping Army and the Manchu Qing Dynasty were negotiating peace, Yang Xiuqing also secretly ordered his own soldiers, the Ying Ying, to dig a tunnel that penetrated the left wall of Zhengyangmen, and buried all 1,000 pounds of ammonium oil explosives under the left wall of Zhengyangmen.

The time of the launch of the general offensive has also been repeatedly scrutinized, and the most decisive time was determined on the first day of the first lunar month of the 29th year of Daoguang, the day before which was Chinese New Year's Eve, and this day was the Spring Festival, the most important traditional festival in China. The Taiping Army is now only in the Spring Festival, but the habits that those banner men in old Beijing have developed over the past 200 years cannot be changed overnight, even if they are under siege...... (To be continued......)