Choosing a location for Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and others to be the palace, Xiao Yungui had some thoughts, in addition to patting on the back, he set aside the most Haode place in Nanjing to show that he Xiao Yungui had no selfish intentions. There is also Hong Yuner's proposal here, the four-eyed sister's idea is very simple, she is completely in accordance with the historical books of the palace ruins suggested that Xiao Yungui choose a few sites for the princes of the kingdom of heaven to choose, she hopes that these princes can choose the site of the palace at one time, and do not want to see several princes in history move the address of the palace several times.

In history, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom captured Nanjing, several princes chose their favorite places to build palaces, but after living for a period of time, they felt dissatisfied, and moved several times. The East Wangfu changed places three times, the Yiwang Mansion was relocated three times, etc., which not only cost the people money, but also disturbed the people, leaving a bad impression to the people that the heavenly kings were busy building the palace when they entered the flowers.

Xiao Yungui was dismissive of the idea of the four-eyed sister, and said that it was ugly, what did Hong Xiuquan and these people rebel for? Isn't it for the word rich? Even if Hong Xiuquan and others did have a heart to save the people from fire and water when they raised the army, but people have desires, and when they enter Nanjing, they will inevitably have arrogant and lascivious thoughts, and they want to curb their swelling personal desires just by choosing the site of the palace, which is tantamount to a fool's dream. The development of things really caught Hong Yun'er by surprise, and even exceeded Xiao Yungui's imagination.

In May, ten days after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Brigade entered the city of Nanjing, the unprecedented lively atmosphere in the sky above the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties gradually began to dissipate, and the sultry sky was still full of sunshine. The summer morning sun warmly soothes this ancient city that has just been devastated by the war, and under the golden sunlight of the morning, her majestic and stretched body seems to be full of vicissitudes.

In front of the Confucius Temple Square in the west of the city, a group of Taiping soldiers with red scarves on their heads lined up solemnly. Behind them were the people of Nanjing, who looked at the demolished Confucian Temple, and many of them were full of resentment and dissatisfaction in their eyes. The official school of the Confucian Temple, which was not demolished after the King of the West entered the city, was ordered to be demolished by Hong Xiuquan, which is just one of the buildings that were destroyed, compared to those destroyed temples, monks and Taoist priests who were persecuted and persecuted, this is still haode.

There were a lot of women in the crowd who used to be out of the door, and they began to appear in the crowd. There are a lot of bigfoot female generals and female soldiers in the Taiping Army, and they are preaching everywhere that Heavenly Father is under him. Everyone is equal, everyone is a brother and sister, and the women in Nanjing City are encouraged to tear off the footcloth and go out of the house. Join them. A small number of big-footed, women whose family education is not very strict have the courage to start walking out of the house. Come to this square. I heard that there is a good show to watch today, but I don't know what it is.

There are more and more onlookers, but they are also used to it, since the fall of the city, after the Taiping army of the West Temple strongly suppressed the ruffians and hooligans who took advantage of the fire in the city, the city has also become peaceful. Then, every three days, the Taiping army would gather the people in various squares in the city to hear the gospel of the Father, and the hours were not long. At first, the people were just curious and came to listen. However, they were not very interested in the poems and teachings of the Heavenly Father recited by the main warden, and they were interested in the fact that after each lecture, the warden of the Taiping Army in the West Temple would also describe a gorgeous scene where everyone was equal and everyone had something to eat. After the Heavenly King entered Nanjing, there were daily meetings to preach doctrine, and there were such gatherings in more than one place in the city.

Under the eaves of the corridor in front of the Confucian Temple, several red scarf guards made a huge Luo Gai, the case was laid out, and the thick cushion seats were put on, as if some big man was coming, and the people had not seen what the princes of the Taiping Army looked like, but in the rumors, they were all three-headed and six-armed figures.

The golden gong sounded, and as usual, the warden began to open his throat and preach, and one by one the poems of the Heavenly Father were recited, and basically the people listened to the next sentence and forgot the last sentence. After chattering for more than an hour, looking at the sun approaching noon, the wardens had also spoken about it.

At this time, the giant gong sounded, and a team of brightly dressed red scarf soldiers outside the Confucian Temple lined up everyone, and a big man with a red scarf shouted: "The fifth son of the Heavenly Father, six thousand years old, His Royal Highness the Northern King has arrived!" All the soldiers present drank together: "Welcome!" ”

Thousands of Taiping soldiers in the square shouted in unison, the momentum was terrifying, the timid among the people had already knelt down, and more people stretched their necks when they heard it, wanting to see what kind of person this northern king was. I saw a man with a short beard and a slightly pale face, dressed in a red robe and a yellow scarf, with a rather cold expression, surrounded by a group of red scarf soldiers, he walked to the case in front of the Confucian Temple and stood still.

The red scarf man beside him shouted loudly: "Fengtian Father's second son, nine thousand years old, His Royal Highness the Eastern King issued an edict, and His Royal Highness the Northern King personally supervised Wei Changguang for violating the Northern Kingdom Sect, and sentenced him to the punishment of dividing the corpse of five horses!" ”

Before the words fell, the people began to talk about it, and the muscles on the face of the Northern King Wei Changhui twitched for a while, his face became even more gloomy, and his face was very ugly.

I saw a person escorted to the center of the square by several red turban sergeants, and after kneeling, the red scarf man began to read out Wei Changguang's guilt. At first, the people didn't know what the official position of the Northern Kingdom Sect was, but after listening carefully, it was only those who were slightly the same as Wenmo who understood, it turned out that Wei Changguang was Wei Changhui's elder brother, and the elder brothers and younger brothers of the princes in the Taiping Army were called Guozong, and this Wei Changguang violated the etiquette of the uncle of Guozong of His Royal Highness the East King after entering the city, violated the rules of heaven, and was sentenced to capital punishment.

Wei Changhui every time he heard the big man say a word, his face twitched, and his heart was full of pain, in fact, the cause of the incident was that his brother took a fancy to a property after entering the city, and he didn't expect that the eldest uncle of the East King also took a fancy to it, and under the quarrel between the two, Yang Xiuqing, the East King, knew. Unexpectedly, he threatened to kill Wei Changguang and let Wei Changhui watch it himself. Thinking that he was respectful to Yang Xiuqing on weekdays, obeyed him in everything, and never had two hearts, he couldn't think of such a trivial matter, and Yang Xiuqing refused to raise his noble hand. Wei Changhui personally went to intercede, but Yang Xiuqing sneered: "Brother Wei Zheng, when I entered the city, someone didn't give me face to the East King, how do you let me serve the public in the future?" After several bitter begging, Yang Xiuqing actually ordered Wei Changguang's five horses to be divided into corpses to set an example, and let himself be personally imprisoned.

Wei Changhui couldn't imagine that he was now the king of the north, the king of the south was dead, the king of the west was leading the troops, and the king of the east was the most powerful under him. For a moment, I couldn't help but tremble, and the seeds of hatred began to be sown.

After the indictment was read out, the time had come, and everyone looked at Wei Changhui, only to see that the beard on his lips was shaking, one hand was supporting the case, and with a weak wave of the other hand, he said weakly and helplessly: "Let's execute." ”

Wei Changguang in the center of the square had already eaten and drunk enough, drunk and at the mercy of the soldiers, five horses arrived, hemp rope wrapped around Wei Changguang's limbs and neck, and the knights on the five horses whipped their horses, and galloped away in five directions, the blood flashed, Wei Changguang was divided into five pieces, blood, minced meat, and internal organs were all over the ground. The timid people and women screamed in fright, and many fainted with fright.

Wei Changhui held his body tightly, watching the entire execution process coldly, holding the case tightly with both hands, looking gloomy, and he didn't know what he was thinking. However, all the people and the Taiping soldiers were awe-inspiring in their hearts, and even the Emperor of the Northern King would be killed if he committed a crime, not to mention the small people? They all became more in awe of the decrees of the Eastern King and the Taiping Army.

Although Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er arranged the location of the palace for several princes, they did not arrange it for those royal relatives, and the two of them couldn't arrange it, and there were many relatives of several princes, so Xiao Yungui didn't have time to take care of these people, and he didn't care.

So when the princes had a place to live, the royal relatives began to compete for other good places, and only then did the brother-in-law of the king of the east and the brother of the king of the north fight for the same place, and the king of the east killed Wei Changhui's brother. This is just a microcosm of the struggle for power and profit in Nanjing, after entering Nanjing, the princes of the heavenly kingdom seem to have begun to be keen on fighting for power and building palaces, leaving the matter of sending troops behind. Although they were very satisfied with the address chosen by Xiao Yungui, they felt that there was no momentum of the palace, and under the leadership of the Heavenly King, everyone broke ground and began to expand their respective palaces.

However, there are exceptions, Yiwang Shi Dakai is not very keen on this, he is very satisfied with the place selected by the West King, the Yiwang Mansion is located in the Shangjiang Examination Shed in the small Wangfu Lane in the west of the city, and the right side of the original Qing Anhui Taoist Mansion and Shangyuan Zhusheng Xingkun's private garden, he originally planned to live in it casually, but the father-in-law Huang Yukun and the strategist Zhang Suimou admonished that now from the king of heaven down, everyone is expanding the palace, if the king of the wings does not follow the general trend, I am afraid that people will be jealous, and now the king of the west is leading the troops outside, If the Wing King also wants to lead the army alone, he must keep his light and go with the flow.

Shi Dakai listened to the advice of the two, and began to expand the palace on a large scale, everything was the same as the kings. Within ten months, the Xidian army reported frequently, Kewuxi, Xiachangzhou, has surrounded Suzhou and Hangzhou, and recently there is news that the West King led the troops to fight Shanghai.

Shi Dakai, who is still young and vigorous, can no longer sit still, he also wants to lead the troops to fight and make meritorious contributions, it is better than wasting his time on these extravagant things, but Shi Dakai has always acted cautiously since his brother was killed by the king of the north, and now he rashly proposes to send troops, and he is also worried about being suspicious.

So Shi Dakai consulted with Huang Yukun, Zhang Suimou and others, and the strategists of the Wing Hall gave Shi Dakai an idea, that is, to use the lack of money and food in the General Holy Treasury to remind the Heavenly King and the Eastern King that it was time to send troops.

Since Jintian raised the army, Shi Dakai has always been in charge of the general treasury of the kingdom of heaven, from Changsha to Nanjing, the west hall handed over a lot of money and grain, plus the original money and grain of the general treasury and the dedication of hundreds of thousands of people, the total treasury has a total of more than 10 million taels of silver, but more than 1 million people in Nanjing can all rely on the general treasury to eat, plus the recent princes have built a lot of buildings, the silver of the total treasury can only not go in, and now there are only more than 6 million taels left, and the food is becoming more and more scarce. Although the West Hall transported some money and grain from Wuxi and other places, plus some money and grain from various places, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied a limited amount of land, and only hundreds of thousands of taels were recorded in the account in ten months, which was tantamount to a drop in the bucket. It was time for the Taiping army in Nanking City to consider sending troops to attack some grain-producing places, and the strategists of the Yidian thought that it was the right time to raise troops at this time. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )