Chapter 175: The King of Zhennan arrives
"What, ran away?" When Chen Zhong learned the news that Cixi had fled, he couldn't help but exclaim, at this time, Beijing City had basically been taken, and his headquarters had been moved to the Forbidden City.
Naturally, he ran away.
These two guys ran home as fast as possible, packed up the silver tickets, jewelry and other valuable things that are easy to carry, took their wives and children directly into the outer city, out of Zhengyangmen and ran south to Baoding, now the whole city of Beijing is in chaos, full of rebels and fleeing refugees, no one paid attention to them, they ran away and left those Qing soldiers who were already on the verge of collapse how could they still have the heart to resist, all ran and ran down, so it took less than a day for Beijing City to change hands.
Cixi ran away, but Yan zhòng broke away from the script, and the design of King Zhennan was for Guangxu to play a mother-killing drama, and then he was good to render unfilial piety outside, so he had to arrest Cixi back, otherwise how could the actors play the play if they didn't fit together.
"Order, close all the gates, no one is allowed to go out of the city, all the people in the streets go home, before dark, if anyone stays outside to kill, and at the same time send a cavalry regiment to Gubeikou as fast as possible, block the road to Rehe, and the armies in the city advance from north to south, and collect all the weapons scattered among the people, and those who hand over their guns will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver per gun, and the price of grenades will be the same, and silver will be placed at all street entrances, and money will be received as they go, and if anyone is found to be hiding guns, whether they have participated in the Qing army or not, Kill all of them, seal off the mansions of all the fleeing officials and all the official offices of the imperial court, and wait for the prince to deal with them in person after he arrives. Chen Zhong then issued a series of orders.
"The prince is coming?" Ye Feng said in surprise. Because of the relatively corrupt living conditions of Yang Wangye, all the yachts that rarely leave his luxury to the extreme, it can indeed be said that it is very rare for him to come to Beijing at this time.
"yes, it should be there before dark." Chen Zhong looked at his watch and said.
Yang Wangye took his guards, riding in a six-wheeled car, and arrived in Beiping just when the sun was setting, and this cargo brought a full hundred trucks, plus Chen Zhong's hand, he was ready to use two hundred trucks to empty Beijing City as quickly as possible. Including the household department, the palace treasury, and even the homes of those princes and ministers.
"Don't leave a single hair behind!" After the procession ceremony of the entire regiment, the king of Zhennan drove to the Forbidden City, and then sat on the extremely uncomfortable throne and said to Chen Zhong.
"Ordinary soldiers are strictly forbidden to participate, and any robbery and forcible behavior will not be punished, and your guard battalion will be responsible for the operation, here is a list. Follow this list one by one, and as for the palace side, I am personally responsible. Yang Feng said and handed him a list that had been prepared a long time ago, if he wanted to say that he knew about the property of those princes and ministers in Beijing, I am afraid that even Cixi was not as clear as him. For example, like the treasure buried in the ground of Yuwangfu, no one will know about this.
"Lord Wang, do you even know this?" Chen Zhong looked at the special hints marked with hidden treasures at the back of the list, and said dumbfounded.
"Of course. These are all scavenged from our Han people by successive Manchu princes, and these naturally cannot be left for them, with these things. We can build more warships, build more armies, build more factories and schools, which can be regarded as paying off their debts, especially those iron hat kings, and they must be completely cleaned up, and your main job during this time is this. Yang Feng said awe-inspiringly.
"Understood, but what do they do?" Chen Zhong asked, what he meant was to kill all those Manchu princes, anyway, no one had anything to say about the crime of betraying them at this time.
'No, why kill them?' Wouldn't it be better to keep them living in poverty, and then let them hate the emperor by the way, you think about it, if we loot all the property of those princes and ministers in Beijing, and then leave their people to live hard, who will they hate? If they want to hate it in Fujian, they can't hate it, so naturally we want to hate the emperor and the heroes who brought the emperor back, so that we can have a lot of good shows to watch. Yang Feng said sinisterly.
He didn't say anything, these princes and ministers must have a large number of retained after Guangxu returned, after all, Guangxu is not stupid, the banner people are the foundation of his country, he has died enough in this war, and there will be no one to kill again, these people will definitely become more greedy after the family property is exhausted, which will make the people more detached from the court, and those reformers of course can't watch them continue to hollow out the Qing Dynasty, and the contradictions between the two sides will definitely continue to intensify, and then they can just watch the excitement from afar.
Then use the income from the looting in Beijing, continue to buy the hearts of the people in the south, he is ready to go back and cancel all the fields in the three provinces, anyway, he doesn't look down on that bit of agricultural tax, the iron hat kings in Beijing, just copy a family is enough for a year of land in the three provinces, so that after a long time, the people of those provinces other than Fujian and Zhejiang will naturally be full of yearning for the rule of His Royal Highness the King of Zhennan, and when he kicks Guangxu aside, it can be said that all the people have returned to their hearts, so his subordinates in Beijing should be like a real king.
As for the pursuit of Cixi, there is nothing to care about, anyway, they have nowhere else to go except Rehe, and a Lafayette at the entrance of Gubeikou can't climb the Great Wall over the mountains, right? His Royal Highness the King of Zhennan lived in the palace that night, and he got a few small palace maids to sleep and enjoy the feeling of being beautiful in the future, but it was a pity that the concubines of Guangxu really didn't look at it, and they originally wanted to get Concubine Jin to enjoy it, but unfortunately they immediately lost their appetite when they looked at the big fat face, and they simply drove her away.
The next morning, after sending airships to search north, the king of Zhennan announced the establishment of the shogunate of the king of Zhennan in the city of Beijing, and before the anti-party party welcomed the saints back to the palace in the city, the shogunate of the king of Zhennan temporarily took over the city, and at the same time collected weapons, the silver from the household department was taken out to compensate the ordinary people who were damaged in the war, and a special hospital was set up to treat the wounded free of charge, and the dead were buried at the shogunate's expense. For a while, the common people of Beijing were like dreams, and those loyal soldiers did not commit any crimes, they paid according to the price when they bought things, and they did not molest women, and they visited brothels more frequently, so it didn't take long for the reputation of Zhennan Wang Aimin Ruzi to spread.
Of course, this is for the common people, for those princes and ministers, this guy is simply a demon, when Cixi left, in order to show goodwill to Guangxu, he did not take away the jade seal, so Yang Feng in the name of the emperor, issued one holy decree after another, and those princes and ministers raided their homes according to the list, only raided their homes but did not kill people, and did not even arrest people, but sent troops to house arrest at home, as for their families, they were not implicated, but the money and treasures were swept away, in fact, he did so Those princes and ministers did not complain, Because according to normal, Yang Feng just killed them, and even killed their entire family.
As for those who ran away, then don't be polite, that's really like what the king of Zhennan said, not a single hair is left for them, and even the food and clothing that can't be taken away and other disdainful of grabbing are directly distributed to the ordinary people, and even not only to the people of Beijing, but also to the people of the surrounding counties can also enter the city to receive, but they can't be white-collar, they need to work with the people of Beijing, and clean up all the ruins damaged by the war. Although the trucks were carrying truckloads of gold, silver, jewelry, and antiques to Qinhuangdao, the people of Beijing still regarded him as if he were a Buddha in all families.
When Yang Feng passed the emperor's hiding in Beijing, poor Cixi Lafayette was suffering in fear, very simple, they met bandits, although they had not yet arrived at Gubeikou at this time, in fact, they had just come out of Miyun at this time, last night fortunately the guards were vigilant, so that they evaded the loyal cavalry that pursued them in Shunyi, and then rushed to Miyun City in the middle of the night to find a farmer to make do, and this morning they hurriedly continued to hurry, who knew that they encountered bandits again.
The pampered Lafayette really didn't expect that there would be so many dangers once he left Beijing City, God is pitiful, no one has ever told her before, there are bandits here in Miyun? She didn't know that the life of these bandits was not easy, since Yang Feng occupied the east of Hebei, there was no soil for the bandits to survive in that area, everyone knew that operating under the noses of those loyal soldiers who were like wolves and tigers was tantamount to suicide, so all the activities there ran to the mountains of western Beijing, which greatly increased the density of bandits in this area.
Poor Lafayette had the misfortune to meet one of them.
They were a group of more than a dozen carriages, both bodyguards and servants and maids, and at a glance they understood that they had escaped from the city of Beijing, and if they did not rob them, they robbed anyone, and this gang of more than 200 bandits, although the weapons and equipment were relatively poor, but they were familiar with the terrain, and they made a small ambush on the narrow mountain road, first knocking down the big trees to block the road, and taking advantage of the opportunity of those inexperienced guards to move the trees, they even beat the stones with bows and arrows, and beat the more than 50 Ouchi guards with a full set of hot weapons.
Looking at the bandits who came out of the mountains and forests like hungry wolves, the entire convoy immediately became chaotic like the end of the world. (To be continued......)