The next day after discussing with the strategists, the Wing King Shi Da got up early in the morning, and after freshening up, he didn't even have breakfast, so he rode his horse to the East Palace, under the escort of the Wing Palace.

Walking on the street, I suddenly heard a nursery rhyme recited by a few children on the side of the street when they were playing: "Little Heaven, Little Heaven, Jinling is a Little Paradise, Heavenly Father takes care of Little Heaven, and does not worry about eating, drinking, or clothing." "A city in the west, a city in the east, no light in the west, and a great light in the east."

At first, Shi Dakai was still smiling, it seems that the people of Nanjing City still support the Taiping Army, and even the children's nursery rhymes praise the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but after listening carefully, it seems that the children in the city are reciting these nursery rhymes overnight, and suddenly remembered something, and their brows couldn't help but lock deeply.

After a while, when I arrived at the gate of the East Palace, I saw that Zeng Shuiyuan and Chen Chengying of the East Palace were waiting at the door with the East Palace, these two people had just been promoted, Zeng Shuiyuan was promoted to the prime minister of heaven and Zheng, Chen Chengying was promoted to the deputy prime minister of the local official, both of them changed into the official uniform of the new system, and I don't know whether it was because of the official uniform of the new system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the two of them looked very energetic.

Seeing Shi Da get off the horse, Zeng Shuiyuan and Chen Chengying stepped forward to salute, Chen Chengying saw that the Wing King frowned, and asked, "Why is His Royal Highness the Wing King worried?" ”

Shi Dakai sighed lightly and said, "Have you noticed the nursery rhymes that many children read along the way? ”

Chen Chengying was stunned for a moment and didn't answer, but Zeng Shuiyuan, who was beside him, said: "Your Royal Highness the Wing King, these children seem to be reciting the same nursery rhymes. ”

Chen Chengying said: "What's wrong with reciting a few nursery rhymes? ”

Shi Dakai slowly read a few nursery rhymes aside, and after Chen Chengying silently recited them a few times, he seemed to have known the meaning, and his brows were deeply locked. Zeng Shuiyuan's mind was not as bright as Chen Chengying's aura, and he secretly read it a few times. Only then did he suddenly say: "How can there be such a nursery rhyme? sang like this, and the people and soldiers thought that Tianjing City was a small paradise. ”

Shi Dakai snorted and said: "Yes, not only that, but the intentions of this person who made up nursery rhymes are even more sinister, if Tianjing City really becomes a small paradise or a holy city in our teachings, then no matter how the Qing demons surround and attack in the future, we can only grit our teeth and defend it, and there is no room for turnaround." ”

Zeng Shuiyuan smiled slightly and said: "His Royal Highness the Wing King is too worried, this day the capital is really a little heaven. Besides, we are all kinds of heavenly soldiers, how dare the Qing Demon come to attack Tianjing? We're going to go to Beijing. ”

Shi Dakai looked at Zeng Shuiyuan, who didn't care about it, it seemed that he couldn't bear to let go of this flower shijie Tianjing City, not only the Heavenly King, the East King and others? He said no more, and said, "Let's go in quickly, and don't let the East King wait for a long time." Zeng Shuiyuan and Chen Chengying nodded together. Follow Shi Dakai straight into the East Palace.

After a short period of expansion, this Dongwang Mansion has begun to take shape. Xiao Yungui's choice of the site for the Eastern Wangfu was in the Manchu Jiangning General's Office. The building of the general's office is luxurious, and there is a garden with pleasant scenery, when the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty toured Jiangning in the south, he used the general's office as a palace. After Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, followed Li Yiwen to the General's Office, he chose the General's Office at a glance, and Yang Xiuqing was also satisfied with Xiao Yungui's arrangement. Then he ordered the people to expand this place and make it the palace of the king of the east.

The expansion of the Dongwangfu was very huge, and the Dongwang ordered to collect as much space as possible outside the department, and the wall was relaxed. Expand the area of the palace and build a five-storey building inside to look out inside and outside the city. In history, Yang Xiuqing chose to build the palace for the first time in this place, and later because the palace was close to the Qingjiang South Camp of Xiaolingwei, it was constantly attacked by artillery fire, and the king of the east decided to move the palace to another place.

After more than 10 days of overnight work, the gate of the East Wangfu has been preliminarily completed, a high gate tower has been built in front of the gate, about the fifth and sixth façade is wide, and the four pillars are densely nailed with thistles, and the enemy tower in Pukou can be seen far away. There are still several cannons outside the gate, which are fired in the morning and evening, which is very majestic. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has always been honored with yellow and red, so the interior and exterior are mostly decorated with yellow and red. At the gate of the East Prince's Mansion, the yellow paper Zhu book "East Prince's Mansion" plaque, there is a copper ring on the door, and the yellow satin is pasted, and it is decorated with the image of a colorful dragon and a tiger. There is a colorful shed in front of the gate, also covered with yellow and red silk crepe, it looks extraordinarily majestic and magnificent, a big drum is set up outside the gate, which is specially used for the purpose of civil complaints, "there is something big or small, all beat the drum in front of the door, and there are female officials in the middle to ask."

Entering the gate, there is another five-storey watchtower of four or five zhang high in the wide courtyard is being built, and there is a square hall outside the inner room of the east palace of haode haode, which is called "Chengxuan Hall" in the east and "Nursing Hall" in the west, all of which are errand offices of the heralds. There is also a registration office in the east hall. There is also a "Squire Hall" near the palace, which is responsible for armed defense of the East Palace.

When they arrived at the Dongwang Mansion, the guards of the Wing Hall waited in the Nursing Hall, Shi Dakai, Zeng Shuiyuan, and Chen Chengying waited until the Chengxuan Hall, and Zeng and Chen accompanied the Yiwang to serve tea, saying that the East King would come later.

After a while, the guards at the door shouted, "His Royal Highness the East King has arrived!" Shi Dakai hurriedly tidied up and stood up,

I saw that Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, was wearing a golden crown, the golden crown was like an ancient hood style, a dragon on the left and right, one phoenix was standing near the top, a spear was erected on the top of the helmet, and all the jewelry was tied around, and the crown was embroidered with a double dragon and a single phoenix, and the two words of the East King in the middle column, a bright yellow satin robe, eight dragons embroidered on the robe, eight yellow satin boots on the feet, embroidered with a golden dragon, seven embroidered on each boot, very bright, with Yang Xiuqing's eternal and cold appearance, people can't help but be awe-struck.

Yang Xiuqing stepped into the main hall, hahadaxiao got up, and said loudly: "Da Brother, I didn't expect you to come early in the morning, it's really good." Da Brother, have you seen my palace? What do you think? ”

Shi Dakai was slightly stunned, and said cautiously: "The Fourth Brother's Mansion is really extraordinary, and the officials of the East Hall are still working hard, and they have begun to take shape in a short period of time, which is really commendable." ”

Yang Xiuqing waved his hand, his face turned cold again, and said: "Alas, you can't say that you can do things with your heart, if you say something ten times, they can listen to it once." ”

Shi Dakai saw Zeng Shuiyuan and Chen Chengying bowing their heads and saying nothing, it seems that for the expansion of the palace, the two of them were scolded by the East King, and they felt slightly uneasy in their hearts, but they didn't want to mention too much about the internal affairs of the East Palace, so they stepped forward and hugged their fists and said: "Fourth brother, the younger brother came early in the morning to discuss important matters. ”

Yang Xiuqing walked to the main seat and was about to sit down, when he heard Shi Dakai's words, he turned his head and smiled slightly. He sat down slowly and said, "What do you want to say about the Holy Treasury?" ”

Shi Dakai said slightly: "How did the fourth brother know? ”

Yang Xiuqing smiled lightly and said: "In the past few days, you have successively summoned various treasury managers to calculate money and grain, and the money and grain received by the stewards of various places in the East Hall have to be cut off by you personally, I think it is because the holy treasury is tight, isn't it?" ”

Shi Dakai was secretly frightened, it seemed that nothing in the capital could escape the eyes and ears of the East King on this day, and then stepped forward and bowed for a long time and said: "Fourth brother Mingjian, now there are no less than one million soldiers and civilians in the capital today, and the cost of each place is no less than tens of thousands every day, and now all the palaces are being built. The cost is even more ......"

Speaking of this, Yang Xiuqing's face sank, and he raised his hand to interrupt him and said, "Da Brother, what do you mean by this?" You only talk about the cost of the Holy Treasury, why don't you talk about the inclusion? Didn't the king of the west send someone to pay a batch of money and grain a few days ago? After I got Tenkyo. The holy treasury should have more than 12 million taels of silver, and there are countless grains and equipment. It's only been a few days since you've been in Tianjing? Is there no silver left in the holy treasury? ”

Shi Dakai hurriedly said, "There are still six hundred taels of silver left in the holy treasury. However, there are many Dingkou in Tianjing City, and the cost is very huge, and most of the income from the holy treasury in the past is the income from the seizure of the money and grain from the Qing Demon Mansion Treasury after the capture of the city, as well as the income from the confiscation of those Qing Demon Rich households. Now that I have arrived in Tianjing City, there are all kinds of waste to be lifted. All industries are waiting to be prospered, silver has to be spent everywhere, and there has been no team to attack the Qing demon for a long time, so it is far from enough for the holy treasury to enter only by the king of the west. More than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the west hall are now attacking southern Jiangsu, and the king of the west also needs money and food. ”

Yang Xiuqing groaned: "The West Hall has successively captured Jintan, Wuxi, Changzhou and other places, and it is still self-sufficient, Hangzhou and Suzhou are big cities, and there should be a lot of money and grain supply after they are laid." ”

Shi Dakai shook his head and said: "Fourth brother, now my Tianjing brigade is sitting in Tianjing City, what is lacking is not silver taels but grain, just after the recent summer harvest, the Qing Demon cut off the land passages everywhere, prohibiting grain transshipment, the fields near Tianjing City have limited production, not enough to supply the needs of the capital, and the younger brother has to pay a high price to buy smuggled rice and grain supplies, which is really beyond his means." The younger brother thought that when he sent troops to Jiangxi Province or went north to Anhui Province, one was to lay down the grain production land in the south of Hunan, Jiangxi and Anhui, so as to provide food for the capital, and the other could also defend Tianjing, and the Qing demon in Jiangbei was eyeing him, if Guazhou and Zhenjiang were lost, Tianjing would be threatened by the Qing demon soldiers. ”

Yang Xiuqing hadn't answered yet, but only heard a person laughing outside the door of the main hall: "What the sixth brother said is extremely true. I saw that Wei Changhui, the king of the north, was also wearing a yellow robe with a golden crown, and the word "king of the north" was embroidered on the golden crown, and he strode in, and behind him a man in a red hood and red robe with a national character face followed in, but it was Qin Rigang, the prime minister of Tianguanzheng. The two of them and Yang Xiuqing are both brightly dressed, but Shi Dakai is plain and plain, in comparison, it seems that Shi Dakai and Hong Xuanjiao are very shabby.

Shi Dakai saw that the two of them came together, and he was slightly happy in his heart, the recent disagreement between the North King and the East King is already well known, and he must also want to be able to lead the troops out of Tianjing City.

Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang saluted Yang Xiuqing, Yang Xiuqing nodded, and said slowly: "Brother Wei Zheng has something to say. ”

Shi Dakai listened to the four words of Brother Wei Zheng, and it was clear in his heart that Wei Changhui ruthlessly killed his own brother to show loyalty to the King of the East, and he had already won the trust of Yang Xiuqing.

Wei Changhui beckoned Shi Dakai to sit down, and he also sat on the upper right, Qin Rigang added the last seat, and a few people sat down, Wei Changhui slowly said: "Our army enters the city for ten months, the soldiers and the people are spending more and more, and it is not a long-term solution to sit and eat the empty mountain. ”

Yang Xiuqing frowned and said, "Isn't the King of the West attacking southern Sunan?" ”

Qin Rigang's bell-like voice opened his mouth and said: "His Royal Highness the East King Mingjian, the West King against the Qing Demon tens of thousands, the outcome is still unknown, I heard that the Qing Demon has recently mobilized a large number of reinforcements from Fujian and Jiangxi to prepare to aid southern Jiangsu, and the Qing Demon in Jiangbei may also cross south to help." Now the time is right for us to send troops, first, we can disrupt the deployment of the Qing Demon, support the offensive of the King of the West, so that the Qing Demon does not dare to go to the aid calmly, and second, after laying down the grain production land, it can also solve our urgent needs. ”

Yang Xiuqing snorted with a gloomy face and said, "What an urgent need, is Tianjing City out of food?" What is your reason for rushing out of the team? Qing demon went to aid southern Jiangsu? Is there a shortage in southern Jiangsu? Tianjing City is not yet stable, where can the team play? Has the Heavenly King ordered you to leave the team?! Before the words fell, Shi Dakai, Wei Changhui and others looked at each other, not knowing why the East King had such a big temper.

Yang Xiuqing snorted coldly and said: "Brother Da, Brother Wei Zheng, how many rich people in the city who colluded with the Qing Demon have not been cleaned up, you go to check again, as far as this king knows, there are still many Qing Demon officials and rich families who are at large, do you let these people continue to cause trouble for the people?" ”

Shi Dakai and Wei Changhui glanced at each other, it seemed that the East King was still worried that he and the North King would become another West King after leading the troops, so he sighed secretly at the moment, and hurriedly said: "What Brother Dongwang taught is that Brother Wang lost his words. The surviving demons in the city, the younger brother should personally raise the heavenly soldiers to exterminate them. ”

Yang Xiuqing said: "This is very good, in fact, the battle of southern Jiangsu has been completed by the king of the west, don't wait for me to wait for the team to deal with it, if the king of the west can't deal with it, there will be a word of help to bring it, and it will not be too late to go out of the team when the time comes." Now I shouldn't be in a hurry to get out of the team, everything is decided and then the best policy is to move. And now the people of Jinling have also made up songs and ballads saying that Tianjing City is a small paradise, and it seems that it is also the will of God, so we should uphold the will of the Heavenly Father, set the capital of Jinling, change the name of Tianjing, and we should manage Tianjing well, so that Tianjing can become a small paradise and become a holy city in the East, which is the right path of teaching. ”

Shi Dakai was sweating when he heard this, he suddenly understood the meaning of the East King's words at this moment, he didn't blame himself and the North King for proposing to join the team, but he didn't want Tianjing to send a team to contain the Qing Demon, the East King wanted to borrow the hand of the Qing Demon to deal with the West King! From his gloomy tone, it can be heard that he is extremely dissatisfied with the strength of the West King's army, and wants to use the hand of the Qing Demon to weaken, although it will not necessarily cause the West King to die, but it is also necessary for the West King to be cornered by the Qing Demon and send someone to Tianjing for help, and he will send a large team to rescue him. It seems that Yang Xiuqing is not blindly greedy for the pleasure of Tianjing City and is unwilling to join the team, he is trying to reap the benefits of the fishermen, and he will not come forward to clean up the mess when the King of the West and the Qing Demon are both defeated, which is really an old and spicy strategy.

Shi Dakai opened his mouth and wanted to say something for King Xi, but he didn't know what to say, Wei Changhui also didn't dare to say more with a bitter face, Qin Rigang bowed his head and was silent, Chen Chengying looked happy, as if he had expected it a long time ago, but Zeng Shuiyuan's face was anxious, but he didn't dare to speak lightly.

Yang Xiuqing ignored Shi Dakai, stood up and said, "Brother Wei Zheng, Qin Rigang will take a look at this new palace with this king." Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang immediately took the order.

Yang Xiuqing walked past Shi Dakai's side, and suddenly whispered: "Change your clothes, you don't have the majesty of the Heavenly Wing King, you are shabby, and you are not afraid of making people laugh." "I went straight out.

After Yang Xiuqing and the others walked away, Shi Dakai sighed lightly and said, "What is the purpose of the brother Xiao Wall?" The good situation has to be handed over to the Qing Demon? Then he shook his head, stopped talking, walked out of the hall, and only looked at the beautiful pavilions and pavilions on the Dongwang Mansion, and couldn't help but be a little stupid. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )