Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, the auspicious place, the Qinhuai River, once the gold powder towers, row upon row, and now, the Confucian temples in the city are all destroyed, the shops are sluggish, in the streets and alleys, you can see everywhere the big man with a red turban shouting "Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother", the street dancing god performs invulnerability, and the solemnity and glory of this ancient capital are so incongruous.

The palace of the Heavenly King is majestic and magnificent, the light is dazzling, the palace is vertical and horizontal in the north-south direction, more than ten miles around, the palace wall of several zhang high on all sides winds around, it is divided into two layers inside and outside, it is called the sun city outside, the golden dragon city is said to be inside, outside the palace wall, dig a "royal ditch" that is wide and deep and nearly several zhang, that is, the moat.

The contemporaries commented that compared with the Forbidden City in Yanjing, the Tianwang Palace "seems to be under the ears of the other".

In front of the Heavenly King's Palace, there is a huge square that covers an area of about one mile. At the southernmost end of the square, there stands a column of yellow large walls, more than 90 zhang wide, painted with dragons, tigers and lions on the top, and a number of edicts of the king of heaven are hung. To the north of the wall, the three arches of the character type rise from the ground and tower: the front one, all gold plaque, the four characters of the horizontal book say "Heaven Road", it is called "the archway of the Heavenly Dynasty"; There are two seats on the left and right, a book "Ten Thousand Years of the Son of Heaven", a book "Taiping Unification", and the pillars of Zhu lacquer echo each other from afar. On the side of the archway, there is a "civil and military horse card" again.

After the horse card, the first gate of the outer city is "the true god glory gate", the second gate is the "true sacred heavenly gate", there are pavilions on both sides of the door, each is covered with yellow and green glazed tiles, and it is named "blowing drum pavilion". Stepping into the Holy Heavenly Gate, and then passing through the slender rain road and the "loyalty" archway, you will arrive at the main hall of the Heavenly King's Palace - "Golden Dragon Palace". "Golden Dragon Palace" is also known as "Glory Palace", according to the East King Yang Xiuqing, the construction of this "Gaoguang Several Taihe Hall (Forbidden City)" is "the main hall of my Heavenly King". The throne of the king of heaven is high, and there are four huge red gauze round lamps hanging in front of the palace, which are "treasures of the Yuan Dynasty"; There are many portals, "there are curtains between them, all yellow satin dragons, and scattered beads and broken jade"; In the heart of the hall, there is an agarwood chair, "big more than hugging, carved very fine". The house is furnished with all kinds of treasures, "all of which are priceless".

Behind the Golden Dragon Palace, there are nine halls such as "Christ Temple", "True God Temple", the ninth hall is a three-storey building, "the top floor is surrounded by a long window, the house is covered with yellow tiles, the four corners are hung with eaves bells, and the view can reach dozens of miles".

In fact, this majestic palace group has not yet been completely completed, from the conquest of Tianjing began to be built on the site of the Liangjiang Governor's Office and the famous Xuyuan, but the project is extremely huge, it lasted six years, although countless manpower and material resources were used to demolish the stone bricks and tiles of the Ming Imperial Palace, the southeast skilled craftsmen gathered in Nanjing, but still can not be perfect, it can be seen that this palace group is grand and vast.

There is no man in the whole Tianwang Palace, the king of heaven has also tried to castrate the eunuchs, but there is no way, the castrated people are either dead or disabled, looking for eighty boys, seventy-seven died, three are crippled, it is necessary to give up, the entire Tianwang Palace is managed by the female official system, probably the real harem beauties of the past dynasties are three thousand and only the king of heaven.

The ten kings of the Heavenly Palace, the main wife is the heavenly god wife who meets in the dream of the Heavenly King, the Zhengyue Palace, the earthly wife is the "Zhengyue Palace" Lai's, and then the "most expensive palace" in the palace, "Twenty Palaces" is the "Deputy Moon Palace" and "Vice Moon Palace", under the "Moon Palace", there are "Tongjiao", "Tijiao", "Tongyu", "Zhengguan", "Deputy Look" and so on.

Because there are many mothers, concubines, and palace maids, for the convenience of the memory of the king, they are called by number, and the entire palace of the king of heaven, there are always two or three thousand beauties, and there is a huge bed in the palace of the king, which is more than half a zhang longitudinal, and the gentle township is said to be shengge, which shakes the world, so that Zeng Wenzheng can never guess the opponent who can never guess it, and what he has done is also true that all enemies can't see through it, and they can't figure it out.

At this time, in the temple of the true god, the king of heaven and the king of the east sat opposite each other, both of them were wearing yellow and chengcheng royal robes, and their bearing was extraordinary, especially the king of heaven, "dignified appearance", "many different phases", "there is a king's wind", and the eight characters of the birthday were even more expensive in ninety-five, which was the life of Feng Yunshan back then.

Indeed, the king was in his forties, handsome and martial, and a foreign missionary once described him as "dignified in appearance, somewhat handsome, middle-aged, and mild-mannered, rather gentlemanly." ”

The eyes of the king of the east are not big, and they are always half-open and half-open, which makes people unable to see clearly, perhaps because the Heavenly Father often uses his mortal body to preach the gospel of the kingdom of heaven, and there seems to be a mysterious aura and an unfathomable smell around him.

In the past two months, the Father has not had any "gospel" handed down, and the entire Celestial Empire has fallen into an inexplicable panic.

"The evil dragon in the north has finally become the climate." The king of the east said leisurely, "There is a lot of water in the south, and the more clouds are born in the land, this evil dragon has obtained the Tao in the demon cave of Nanyue!" ”

Yanjing and Guangzhou have long been degraded to demon caves by Heavenly Father, and in the frontispiece of "Degrading Demon Caves as Sins", "The Edict of the Heavenly King" said: "The debasement of Northern Yandi is because the demons are filthy and filthy, and the demons are guilty, and the land is also guilty because of it." There is no other country in the world, and there is no other Beijing, and no one is allowed to claim Beijing. Therefore, the special edict of the Qing compatriots quickly told all the soldiers and generals who defended the city to know that I now degraded Beiyan as a demon cave. After destroying the demon, Fang reverted to its name Beiyan".

Similarly, Guangzhou was also relegated to the status of a demon cave, and after the demon was destroyed, it reverted to its name of Nanyue.

The King was silent.

Dongwang asked again: "Brother Miao, is there any news?" ”

The Miao brothers mentioned by the East King are Miao Peilin, entrenched in the north of the Yangtze River in Anhui, and his Miao army is known as more than 100,000, which is the most powerful armed force in northern Anhui.

And Miao Peilin is famous for being two-faced and three-sworded, sometimes cooperating with the Twist Army and the Taiping Army to attack the state and plunder the government, and sometimes cooperating with the Qing Army in the north to suppress the rebellion. He is also famous in history, three times against the Qing Dynasty, two times apostasy, the first rat at both ends, capricious, by historians called "the most unprincipled warlord".

The king of heaven wrote a secret letter to Miao Peilin a few months ago, naming him the king of music, and even rewarding him with his beloved four princesses, and sending them out credibly, like a stone thrown into the sea, there was no response.

Seeing that the king of heaven shook his head slightly, the king of the east sighed, got up, sang a ballad and strode away, the vicissitudes of singing, but he couldn't hear what he was singing, and faintly heard the words "the evil dragon rises from Nanyue, and the father of heaven comes to punish the evil".

The king of heaven sat still, and it was getting dark, and he didn't realize it............ The back hall of a delicate mansion, through the openwork window lattice, faintly visible the willow trees in the outer courtyard.

Zhou Lichun gently wiped the steel knife in his hand, although the firearm is now dominant, but for this old friend who has accompanied him through the bloody years, he has an inseparable preference.

It's just that it's struggling!

Under Tianjing City, at this time, the demon soldiers of the Pingyuan Army are overwhelming, although the city of Tianjing is high and the walls are solid, but the demon soldiers are so arrogant, and what kind of person is the regent? Tianjing City is broken, only in the evening, even if the city cannot be broken, but under the siege, how long can the grain and grass in the city be supported?

Demon soldiers? Zhou Lichun smiled bitterly and shook his head, his daughters and brothers are all in the Pingyuan Army, where can the demon soldiers start?

And the regent who saved thousands of lives of the Little Knife Society, Zhou Lichun couldn't even see him as a demon king.

Senior Sister Su, why did you surrender the Qing army? Regent, what kind of person is he?

Zhou Lichun was thinking about this question over and over again, but he couldn't figure it out.

The footsteps behind him sounded softly, and Zhou Lichun immediately knew who was coming, so he hurriedly stood up and turned around, supported a beautiful young woman with a big belly and poop who came over, and complained: "I said that you are resting, what are you doing when you come out?" ”

The beautiful young woman in the green cloth dress is his continuation, she is the wife of a rich family in Tianjing City, surnamed Ma, the rich family was killed, just when Ma was about to be humiliated by the red turban, Zhou Lichun saved her, accepted as a continuation, the husband and wife have been in love for the past two years, and now they have more flesh and blood.

Ma Shi looked melancholy, depressed, and saw her husband on her abdomen and listened, she couldn't help but sigh softly, the long-haired bandit killed her first husband, and the official army will now kill her second husband, and as the wife of the rebel leader, she is pregnant again, and the tragic end can be imagined.

Zhou Lichun took his beloved wife to sit down on a sandalwood chair and said: "You don't have to be anxious, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. ”

Ma's two lines of tears finally fell, wiping the corners of his eyes and not speaking.

Zhou Lichun was full of pride, but at this moment, he couldn't help but be deflated, sighed deeply, and sat aside.

Ma wiped his tears and said sadly: "Brother Zhou, I only ask you for one thing, it's not a pity for me to die, but our child, can our child let him have a way to live and live peacefully?" Her heart was full of sorrow, God, how unjust it was, and where was there any heavenly way to show it?

Zhou Lichun looked at her sad appearance, hesitated, and finally, sighed, and said: "Yue'er, don't worry, no matter what, I will keep you safe, you will be fine, the child in your belly, there is a sister, in the Pingyuan Army, and she is a famous female general in the Pingyuan Army, I will write a letter, once you are caught by the official army, show the letterhead, she will definitely protect you." ”

Ma Shi looked at Zhou Lichun in surprise, and in surprise, the tears slowly stopped.

Zhou Lichun smiled bitterly: "I won't hide it from you, my surname was also saved by the regent at the beginning, and this matter is very important, even if the city is broken, you must not tell others." ”

Zhou Lichun also learned from his daughter, Liu Lichuan's correspondence later, that it was the regent of the Southern Dynasty who saved their small knife society thousands of lives, but since the Pingyuan army came to the city, the contact with the outside world was completely cut off, and naturally he didn't know the outside situation.

The last letter of the daughter is to tell him to rebel out of Tianjing, but a person is a life, loyal and righteous, although the King of Heaven, the King of the East and many other practices are extremely absurd, but the surrender of the water is inevitably cold.

"Which regent?" Ma asked blankly.

Zhou Lichun smiled bitterly and said, "Lord Regent, how many are there?" ”

Ma Shi was surprised and couldn't speak, her husband was heroic and heroic, and the word was righteous, which is also the reason why she gradually fell in love with this big man, although there was less interest, and she was not as elegant as her husband, but there was something else that was tempting. The only regret is that the husband doesn't like to be clean, and every time he goes to bed and washes his feet, he has to beg to be spoiled for a long time, but sometimes he finds it funny.

Now the invincible war makes the long-haired people frightened The regent led 100,000 heavenly troops to besiege Nanjing, Ma's heart is extremely conflicted, her husband's family was slaughtered by the long-haired, this revenge is not shared, and now the regent is in the army, killing the long-haired to avenge her, it is really out of the hatred of life.

But his heroic husband is going to die, and he and the children in his womb don't know what kind of tragic experience they have to face, every time Ma thinks about it, he secretly weeps, only feeling that he is a human being, and his fate is miserable, who can compare with himself?

But now I suddenly heard that my husband has a lot of connections with the regent, and I have a "named" daughter outside, and she is a powerful general in the official army. And the husband is heroic, he will never lie, let alone such a big thing.

"Regent, how can he be our family's savior?" Ma asked curiously, although she has been married to Zhou Lichun for more than two years, but since she still has the vanity of the small family in Jiangnan, the regent has become the savior of her family in a blink of an eye.

Zhou Lichun shook his head and said: "This is a long story, but don't worry, I heard that the Pingyuan army has strict discipline and never slaughters the people, not to mention that you have my flesh and blood, Xiuying, Xiuying will take care of you." ”

Ma Shi was happy in his heart, and then sad in a blink of an eye, and said gloomily: "Brother Zhou, Tianjing is not better than other places, the official army broke the city, does Brother Zhou really think that they will behave properly?" I'm afraid, I'm afraid that I haven't seen Xiuying yet, so I'll ......" Speaking of this, I cried again.

Zhou Lichun was silent, knowing that what his beloved wife said was true.

Ma Shi looked at Zhou Lichun in a daze and said, "Besides, if I live by myself, what's the point?" Brother Zhou is dead, the concubine will never live alone, and when the child in the womb is born, and the incense lamp will be extended for Brother Zhou, I, I will follow the eldest brother and the underground ......"

Zhou Lichun was stunned, let him be a hero, but at this moment, he couldn't help but be short of breath.

Outside the hall, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps, and the little colonel knelt outside the hall and said, "Brigade Marshal!" Tan Shuai in front of the palace is promoted! Please go quickly! ”

Zhou Lichun immediately got up, put the steel knife into the sheath, and strode out of the warm hall.

Ma Shi stared at his back blankly, full of sadness, not knowing what to do, let alone what the future holds. If she talks about her, she naturally hopes that her husband can abandon the darkness and surrender to the light, and demote the official army, but she knows her husband's temper, but she doesn't dare to say it.

I heard that countless demon cannons have been erected under the city of Nanjing, and in the Yangtze River, the ironclad giant ship is like a mountain peak floating on the water, and the hedgehog is like a hedgehog, and the dense hull is full of cannon muzzles, looking at it from a distance, it makes people feel chilled.

There was a woman with a red turban who said that the Heavenly Father would send down the divine sword to cut off the demon ship, and the Ma clan only sneered in his heart at that time, even if you really have the blessing of the Heavenly Father, you would have been suppressed by the regent's Taoism, Divine Sword? It's just nonsense.

But having said that, now, how is it a game?

(To be continued)