Chapter 16: Into the City
"Uncle Six!"
When Su Shun came to the Miyun military camp, Ye Zhao personally greeted him in front of the camp gate, looking at the splendid horse coat and his energetic nephew, Su Shun felt comforted in his heart.
Su Shun is a person with great ambitions, but unfortunately the elder brother of the lord Zheng Prince Duanhua is mediocre and cannot be his help in the court.
Su Shun was depressed for this, but if he wanted to say that he was going to meet the six princes, Su Shun was very unwilling, not to say that he didn't look down on him, just the six princes, blindly hoping to be in harmony with Yangyi, soft and spineless, and the ghosts called brothers and sisters, what six princes, calling him the devil six is almost the same.
And now in his own vein, he finally came out with a talent, the material of a national soldier, and beat the Rakshasa people outside the gate, washing away the decadent national situation for decades, which is really blessed by the ancestors, so that he has an extra arm for no reason.
And the nephew Tun Bing Miyun, pointing at the Beijing Division, is even more miraculous. I heard from the prince that the sixth prince led the military plane and ordered all the troops outside the border to go to Jiangnan to exterminate the bandits, Su Shun couldn't sit still at that time, and was about to drive the horse straight to Miyun to discuss with his nephew, who knew that the pro-army sent the letter by the nephew arrived first, and asked him to go to the military camp to talk.
Su Shun's relief, this nephew, is much more powerful than he imagined.
Su Shun and Ye Zhao joined hands in the big tent of the Chinese army, and watched along the way, but saw the banner waving, the style was solemn, a team of armor soldiers stood solemnly, rows of firearms, columns of long knives, the cold air was chilling, and in the military camp, there was an indescribable coercion, which was overwhelming.
Su Shun didn't know how to lead the troops, but he could also feel that the Eight Banners in the capital did not have this momentum.
After entering the tent, Ye Zhao and Su Shun sat down, and the flag guards respectfully served tea and retreated.
Ye Zhao sipped the tea and asked, "Sixth Uncle, what is the current situation in Beijing?" ”
Seeing Ye Zhaoping's calm appearance, Su Shun nodded secretly, I really didn't expect that Brother Wang could have such an outstanding son to take over.
Su Shun put down the teacup and sighed: "Yi is very strict with the news, if it weren't for my friendship with Zaiyuan, I'm afraid that I still don't know that Emperor Daxing has died." He also said: "Now I only know that there are thirteen ministers of funeral rites, and all of them are approved." ”
The Minister of Funeral Rites is equivalent to the funeral committee of Xianfeng, and the Zaiyuan that Su Shun said is Prince Yi, but it is on the list of ministers of funeral rites, which leaks the opportunity and makes Su Shun, who was already vigilant, hear the clues.
Ye Zhao also sighed, "This is inevitably out of character, the sixth prince seems to be very domineering, but I am afraid that the emperor may not be taken into account." ”
Su Shun smiled bitterly: "What does the emperor understand now?" ”
Even if the sixth prince is loyal to the little emperor, the uncle and nephew will pour dirty water on him when they chat, but they will not blatantly discuss taking the opportunity to usurp power. What's more, the six princes now really have the heart to bully the emperor's orphans and widows.
"What does Uncle Sixth have to worry about?" Ye Zhao asked.
Su Shun stared at Ye Zhao and said with a smile: "I'm afraid you're already confident, right?" ”
Ye Zhao also smiled and said, "The sixth uncle and nephew also learned the elegance of the ancients, how about writing it on the palm of their hands?" ”
Su Shun smiled and nodded.
The wide handsome case was already full of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and the two took the brush at the moment, each wrote a few small words in the palm of their hand, and at the same time stretched out their palms, they both laughed, and the palms of the two were the words "The Queen Mother listens to the government", but Su Shun's handwriting is vigorous and powerful, but Ye Zhao's words are crooked.
Su Shun felt more and more that his nephew was amazing, he was scheming at a young age, but he had never seen a few who were better than him.
Su Shun took a sip of tea from the teacup, and sighed again: "It's a pity that the queen's surname is weak, I'm afraid that she may not be willing to listen to the government, even if she listens to the government, I'm afraid she is not the opponent of the sixth child." "Indeed, it is a last resort to ask the queen mother, that is, the queen mother after the funeral of Lord Xianfeng, to listen to the government, only in this way, can there be people in the court to contend with Yi, but to say that Niu Hulu's family has excellent virtue, and is a woman who has no desire for power, I am afraid that even if the curtain is lowered to listen to the government, it will be controlled by Yi Ying in the palm of his hand, but for today's plan, I can only reluctantly try, otherwise this Zheng Prince Mansion and the Six Princes' Mansion will lose very badly.
Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Sixth Uncle, you forgot someone. ”
"Who?" Su Shun was puzzled.
Ye Zhao said: "The emperor's biological mother, Concubine Yi. ”
"Yehnara?" Su Shun was stunned and said, "What's wrong with her?" ”
Ye Zhao said: "Concubine Yi's surname is strong, and she is quite insightful in military affairs. ”
Su Shun didn't want Ye Zhao to have a high evaluation of Concubine Yi, but he had heard that in the past two years, especially after Concubine Yi had a dragon seed, the saint was extremely long, and sometimes there was a matter of making Concubine Yi Niangniang approve the chapter, and with the ability of his nephew, he would not boast about it for the sake of Concubine Yi and his relatives, after all, it was very important, and the nephew naturally knew it.
Su Shun nodded silently.
But I heard Ye Zhao say again: "My nephew is going to ask Ama to invite Concubine Jin Yi to the Queen Mother after the funeral of Emperor Daxing, and the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces will hang the curtain to stabilize the dynasty." But before that, the nephew was going to go to Beijing for a walk, pay a visit to the military planes, and then kowtow to the queen mother and Concubine Yi. ”
Su Shun smiled: "Are you going to keep me in the barracks?" He saw the opportunity quickly, and immediately knew Ye Zhao's thoughts.
Ye Zhao nodded slightly: "The sixth uncle and I, Amma, will sit in Miyun, and we will talk in detail when I come back from the capital." "I entered Yanjing City by myself, although I felt that the sixth prince would not take the risk of cutting off his own head directly, after all, there was no legitimate reason. But it's not easy to fabricate charges? In this era, who is not ruthless when standing in a high position? Just look at the methods used by Cixi and the Six Princes to deal with the eight ministers in the previous life, how can they make the two iron hat kings commit suicide, to what extent is they unscrupulous? In fact, what is the great crime of rebellion?
It is because he can't be unguarded, he enters the capital by himself, and he must have the sixth uncle and the prince to lead the three armies to deter the six princes from coming nonsense, although the prince is his elder in this world, but he also has to give him the word "confused" comment, if he really has an accident in the capital, I am afraid that he will not know how to deal with it, and with the sixth uncle Su Shun, he will be much more at ease.
Su Shun took a sip of tea, and suddenly asked, "Among the Rakshasa women you took outside the gate, is there a girl named Valentina?" It's just been eight years old. ”
Ye Zhao said casually: "I don't know what their names are, but I want to ask." "Immediately stunned, Valentina? Isn't that Sarah?
"Why did the sixth uncle ask about the Rakshasas?" Ye Zhao asked vaguely, Sava is now in the barracks, but she is going to be sent to Shanghai for resettlement, and when she finds out the origin, she will figure out what to do with her.
Su Shun didn't rub the sand in his eyes, and said with a smile: "It seems that you have an impression of her, in Liushentun Zhuangzi, right?" This girl is a treasure, and she has to be put away. The sixth child negotiated peace with the Rakshasa people, and the Rakshasa people specially proposed this article, asking us to find out her whereabouts and ask for a reply within three months. ”
Ye Zhao was slightly stunned, the two countries negotiated peace, and most of the Rakshasa prisoners of war who were sent to Beijing were indeed released, but the Rakshasa people did not study the captured women and children deeply, and they were afraid that most of these people had been killed; Second, Rakshasa doesn't care much about human life, especially since these people are poor people in the country.
In the peace talks, it was specifically proposed that the little girl Shaw should return to China, but it was unusual, and Shawa really had some origins.
In this case, it is even more difficult to hand over people.
Ye Zhao pondered in his heart, and said, "Sixth uncle, I'm going to prepare for entering Beijing, so someone will take you around the camp." ”
Su Shun stood up and said with a smile: "Okay! I want to see the three thousand tigers outside your Megatron Pass. "Lord Xianfeng left in a hurry, and he didn't leave the technique to resist the six princes, otherwise, with Lord Xianfeng's jealousy of the six princes, if he knew that he died early, how could he lead the affairs of the army? Now this departure will make the six princes sit in the capital. But on the other hand, when Xianfeng Ye is gone, no one will dare to move his nephew's military power for a while, otherwise I am afraid that within half a year, the military affairs of the new army will be transferred to others.
For the thousands of armor soldiers under his nephew, Su Shun was also very curious, and he wanted to see the style.
…… Ye Zhao only brought twenty pro-soldiers to the city, all of whom were white horses, carrying swords at their waists, and carbines diagonally inserted next to the stirrups, all of them were strong and strong, and they were all selected elites in the army.
In front of the Guangqu Gate in Dongcheng, Da Chun, who received the letter, was waiting for it, crying in Zhang Wa, but I don't know if he was addicted to smoking. The sound of galloping horses' hooves lifted Dachun's spirits and looked north.
"Woohoo!" In the blink of an eye, more than two dozen horses arrived, and the reins were pulled in front of the city gate, and they all neighed and spun in place.
"Brother!" Seeing Ye Zhao, Da Chun quickly pounced.
Ye Zhao dismounted and hugged Da Chun firmly, at this time, Da Chun was probably a little bit heroic with the wild surname of the Manchurian children in the past.
Holding Ye Zhao's shoulders hard, Da Chun choked up and burst into tears: "Brother, I miss you to death!" ”
Seeing his true feelings, Ye Zhao's heart warmed, and he hugged him hard with a smile, "What are you crying about, are you still a man?" ”
Da Chun smirked a few times, wiped away the tears, and said, "I don't know why, I just on the horse." ”
Ye Zhao laughed, let go of him, and pulled him into the city hand in hand.
It seems that the officers and soldiers of the Chengmen Cave did not receive any ban on the Lord of the Metropolitan Territory, and when they heard that it was the commander of the third battalion of the Deputy Commander of the Red Banner and the Divine Artillery who returned to Beijing to discuss the matter, they saluted one after another.
It's January 1856, and it's almost the New Year, but the weather is dry and cold, and the north wind is howling, blowing on the face with a knife. The soldiers guarding the city were originally holding their hands in their sleeves, and they were stomping their feet one by one to curse the ghost weather, but they were all a little stunned when they suddenly saw the twenty or so samurai who were riding horizontal spears behind Lord Tutong and immediately looked arrogant.
When they were far away, a soldier who looked like a tuberculosis ghost exhaled and said, "This is called being a soldier, look at us, what the hell do we all look like?" ”
Another person with a scorched yellow triangular eye spat out: "With your body, you also want to be an errand under Jing Shuai?" Do you want to dream about spring and autumn? ”
The tuberculosis ghost was furious and scolded back.
The two of them didn't agree with each other, and soon a scuffle began. The other soldiers all shouted loudly and cheered, which could be regarded as having fun.
Ye Zhao didn't know about the farce in front of Guangqu, and he didn't know that his fame was getting bigger and bigger, and some soldiers had begun to call themselves "Jing Shuai".
He has no bottom in his heart now, although he should have entered the outer city, but where is this? But the inner city does not know whether to enter or not.
If you can't get in, it's fine. Ye Zhao pondered in his heart.
"Dachun, is there any news from Jingli?" Asking, Ye Zhao actually knew that although Da Chun was on an errand in the infantry yamen, even if there was anything unfavorable to him, he was not qualified to participate.
Sure enough, Da Chun shook his head blankly and said, "No." ”
He went to the east gate in a carriage, but now he was carried by a guard and sat on a horse, but fortunately he had no meat on his body, and his crotch did not show any difficulty in getting off the horse.
Ye Zhao nodded slightly, clamped the horse's belly, and more than 20 horsemen galloped towards the north gate of the inner city, Desheng Gate, the inner city has a total of nine gates, and is the commander of the infantry commander who is in charge of the safety of Gyeonggi, and the commander of the five battalions of the Nine Gate Infantry Army, also known as the Nine Gate Admiral.
And now the commander of the Nine Gates, Fengsheng, has a close relationship with the six princes, and is the most important support for the six princes to control the situation in the capital.
Entering the inner city, but he didn't encounter any obstacles, Ye Zhao sighed in his heart, if the six princes really blocked themselves from entering the capital in various cities, then their horizons would be small, but now they look at it, but it is more and more difficult to deal with.
Where do you start? How should the Niu Hulu clan and the Yehnara clan be convinced? In fact, if the prince sees and understands, it would be better for him to convince these two, but unfortunately he is only afraid of being self-defeating.
His own weight is far from enough, but he can only beat the side drum first, but he has to rely on the prince and the second uncle to invite the powerful and important ministers, and take turns to persuade them, and then the prince will go to the fold again.
When he entered the city, the first thing was to visit a few military planes, in order to relieve his suspicions about the dense clouds of troops, and he could not let people gossip.
The sixth prince, I'm afraid I'm just waiting to button my hat.
"Brother, are you going to the Prince's Mansion?" Da Chun was hurt by Ma Dian's body, but he wanted to get off the horse quickly to catch his breath.
It stands to reason, but I haven't seen Fujin for more than a year, and I should go back to the palace to ask for peace, not to mention that I also remember her in my heart, and Rong'er's little girl also misses her. It's just that time is pressing, but I can't enter the house.
"Go to your house." Ye Zhao said quietly.
"Huh?" Da Chun said with a sad face: "This, these two rooms are dry, I haven't been there for a few days." "But he thought that Ye Zhao was going to his golden house.
Ye Zhao couldn't cry or laugh, and said, "Go to the Guogong Mansion, I will kowtow to the old man." "Dachun's grandfather Fuguo Gong Chunsong is walking on a military plane, and his seniority is high, so his words have a lot of weight.
Da Chun made a bitter face, "This, then you can go, don't catch me." "He is most afraid of the old ancestor at home.
Ye Zhao smiled slightly: "I have to bring you." ”
Da Chun complained bitterly, but if it was said that it was difficult for him in this world, the first one was Ye Zhao.
(To be continued)