Chapter 468: Wronged and Unjust
The king of the west ordered Zuo Zongtang to prepare a grand funeral ceremony for the king, the king of the east and the brothers and sisters who died in the Tianjing Incident, and later it was the day of the death of the king of the east and the king of heaven respectively.
Then the King of the West moved to the North Palace, and the North Palace, which was also a sea of corpses and blood. Last night, Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, and Chen Chengying, the marquis of Dingtian, led the elite guards from the Tianwang Mansion to raid the North Wangfu, although there were no soldiers and horses from the West Wangfu to participate, but the tragic battle here was not inferior at all.
The North Palace's early preparations, Wei Changhui's soldiers and horses in the Heavenly Palace's Mansion would retract after touching the nails, but he didn't expect that when the fight was the most intense, the back door of the North Palace's Mansion guarded by Zhang Chunhou, the Shangshu of the North Palace, suddenly opened wide, and Chen Chengying, who attacked the back door, took advantage of the situation to lead troops to break into the backyard of the North Palace, killed the North King Wei's door cleanly, and then broke into the main hall of the North Palace, Wei Changhui was caught off guard, and was killed on the spot by Chen Chengying and others. Wei Changhui died, the soldiers of the North Hall were in turmoil, and the West Temple Army also began to attack the city with artillery, and the morale fell sharply, followed by the slaughter of the soldiers and horses of the Heavenly Palace.
At this moment, God is really fair, most of the soldiers and horses concentrated in the Beiwang Mansion are Wei Changhui's henchmen, and they are also the most murderous in the Tianjing Incident, they were also slaughtered last night, and they were retribution.
Qin Rigang and Chen Chengying were also red-eyed, and even when the West Palace army broke into the area of the North Palace, they also fought a battle with the West Palace Army, and as a result, they were beaten by the West Palace Army. Then Qin Rigang and Chen Chengying came back to their senses, hurriedly restrained their subordinates, and sent people to contact the generals of the Xidian Army.
After that, the Xidian army brought the order of the king of the west and asked them to wait on the spot, so Qin Rigang, Chen Chengying and others waited in the Beiwang Mansion with their men and horses until the arrival of the king of the west.
Xiao Yungui's majestic face is very solemn. When he saw the head of Wei Changhui offered by Qin Rigang and Chen Chengying, he turned back to Han Baoying and said: "The great enemy of the Wing Hall is dead, and this king has not broken his promise." ”
Han Baoying burst into tears in an instant, hid her face and cried bitterly, Hong Yun'er stepped forward to comfort a few words, Xiao Yungui waved his hand and said: "After passing the head of the northern traitor to each gate, send someone to the Wuchang Yiwang!" Then rehabilitate Zhaoxue for the East King, and tell the world that Wei Changhui was in turmoil and slaughtered the Wing Palace! Wei Changhui is the greatest sinner in heaven! "The words of the king of the west are to overturn the case for the king of the east and completely find a scapegoat for the Tianjing incident, although many people know that killing the king of the east is the meaning of the king of heaven. But many soldiers and civilians in the Kingdom of Heaven still don't know the inside story, of course the king of the west can't put the charge on the king of heaven, and the matter of the king of the east forcing the seal of long live will also be involved, so the best official conclusion is that the king of the north, Wei Changhui, committed a rebellion and killed the king of the east. plotted to kill the Wing King, and finally attacked the Heavenly King's Mansion to kill the Heavenly King. In this way, everything has a coffin. Although doing so does not necessarily obscure the whole truth. But at least there is an explanation for the public.
Zuo Zongtang reminded behind him: "His Royal Highness the King of the West, Wei Jun, the national sect of the North Palace, still has 100,000 troops in Luzhou, is it not too tight to the North Hall for the time being?" I was afraid that Wei Jun was worried that he would be implicated by Wei Changhui, so he voted for the Manchu Qing in a hurry. ”
Xiao Yungui was silent for a moment and then said slowly: "I will give Wei Jun a handwritten letter to persuade him to surrender, in fact, many people in the North Hall are also innocent, but Wei Jun is obsessed. This king will not hesitate to send troops to Luzhou, and the true loyal people will be loyal and not betrayal no matter what they encounter, but if they are ill-intentioned, how can you treat him well. He'll still betray you! ”
Only Hong Yun'er understood the latter words, Wei Jun did descend to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history, was named a general, stationed in Chizhou, Anhui, lived in seclusion in Wuhu, Anhui in his later years, and was buried in Xuancheng, Anhui after his death. Although Wei Jun in history was also persecuted by Tianjing, in general, the king of heaven still had high hopes for Wei Jun, Wei Jun was also one of the famous generals in the late period of the Heavenly Kingdom, and finally surrendered to the Qing, which shows that his will is not firm, it is Xiao Yungui who decided to give him a chance, if Wei Jun still hesitates and talks about conditions after receiving the handwritten letter, Xiao Yungui will not hesitate to mobilize soldiers and horses to clean up this hidden danger.
So Wei Changhui, as in history, made a scapegoat, saying that he was wronged and a little wronged, after all, it was the king of heaven who wanted to eradicate the king of the east, if there was no support of the king of heaven, he would not dare to kill the king of the east with a hundred dares from Wei Changhui, and the initiator of this qiē was Hong Xiuquan himself. Because of the ridiculous avoidance of the doctrine of worshipping God in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan thought that the only one who could be called the emperor was God the Father, so he retreated to the second and only called the king, and after being called the king, he made five more kings in Yong'an, which itself has a bit of a sense of co-governance, but Hong Xiuquan did not understand that co-governance may be useful in peacetime, but it has become a time bomb in wartime.
Rebels have always had a speculative mentality, and talented people like Rao and Yang Xiuqing, who still have some strategic vision, will inevitably become rapidly corrupted and degenerate after entering Tianjing, followed by competing for power and profit with their own people. Among the six kings of the first righteousness of the kingdom of heaven, the king of heaven, Hong Xiuquan, could have controlled the power and controlled the kings, but he lived in seclusion in the deep palace all the year round and ignored political affairs, and let the king of the east act as the director.
Wei Changhui said that he was not wronged, because after he received the will of the Heavenly King, he killed too many people in the process of initiating the incident, and after the expanded killing was too widely implicated, he couldn't stop it later. Wei Changhui killed Yang Xiuqing and was naturally afraid that the East Palace would raise troops to take revenge, so he naturally wanted to kill more people to eliminate the hidden dangers, and later killed the head of the Wing King, so Wei Changhui gambled his life.
Looking at the devastated Beiwang Mansion, Xiao Yungui sighed lightly and muttered to himself: "Your tragedy is that you have made a murderous knife, and there is a way to hide the bow of the bird, even if you don't kill too much in the end, Hong Xiuquan will still push you out to death in order to appease those people in the East Palace." ”
Zuo Zongtang stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, the second division Feng Zicai has come to report that the last Shuixi Gate has also fallen into our control, and the Beidian army in Tianjing City has been completely wiped out." ”
Xiao Yungui snorted, last night was originally worried that the Beidian soldiers would fight desperately, but in the end it was found that the Beidian army did not have the heart to fight at all, except for the fierce resistance of the Beiwang henchmen of the Beiwang Mansion, the rest of the guards of the gates were all looking at the wind and surrendering, more than 20,000 of the more than 30,000 Beidian soldiers and horses surrendered, more than 10 people were killed in the Beidian generals from the Beiwang Wei Changhui below, and dozens of people such as Zhang Chunhou, the secretary of the Beidian Palace, and Liu Naixin, the strategist Liu Naixin, surrendered, and the Beidian forces of Tianjing no longer existed.
And the Tianwang Mansion is also heavy casualties, the Hong family has been almost slaughtered since Hong Xiuquan and below, in addition to Hong Renfa and the young king Hong Tianguifu do not know what happened, even many Hong relatives were also slaughtered, and the remaining Hong relatives such as Zhong Fangli were forced to kill themselves after Zhong Fangli was forced to kill themselves, they were all trembling for fear of being settled by the queen and closed their doors, and since then the power of the Heavenly King in Tianjing City has also collapsed.
Coupled with the forces of the East Hall and the Wing Hall that had been slaughtered too much by the North Hall before, after a Tianjing incident, people were surprised to find that there was a huge power vacuum in the Tianjing City, and the strong return of the West King seemed to be to fill this vacuum.
Subsequently, the West Hall began an orderly follow-up plan to restore order in Tianjing, improve the livelihood of the military and civilians, create a public opinion situation, eliminate the impact of the Tianjing Incident, and so on. Although everything is not so easy to accomplish, the good thing is that Sufu Province has its own complete administrative system and strong military force as a guarantee, and at the same time has a strong financial backing, everything is developing as it should be.
On the third day when the King of the West entered the Tianjing City, the King of the West led the civil and military officials of the Kingdom of Heaven and a large number of soldiers and civilians, a total of tens of thousands of people, to hold a grand funeral ceremony for the King of Heaven and the King of the East on the square outside the palace of the King of Heaven. With the burial of Hong Xiuquan, the Kingdom of Heaven seems to have turned a new page.
At the foot of the Shogunate Mountain, which witnessed the humiliation of the Opium War, it was here that the British landed and then threatened to capture Nanjing, and finally forced the Manchus to sign the Treaty of Nanjing.
It is getting late, overlooking the Yangtze River from the Shogunate Mountain, under the sunset, the cargo ships between Shanghai, Zhenjiang and Tianjing are endless, after Tianjing is included in the arms of the West Temple, it also represents the West Temple to completely open up the golden waterway of the Yangtze River, from Shanghai to the inland places of commerce, freight can be through the Yangtze River Shanghai to Wuchang section controlled by the Taiping Army to achieve shipping. The Baoqing Chamber of Commerce in Wuchang, inland businesses such as He Yuanlun, and Zhu Changling, Wei Helin and other businesses in Shanghai have finally achieved business exchanges, and such a busy scene has appeared on the water surface of the Yangtze River.
On the water of the river at the foot of the Shogunate Mountain, a small canopy boat is parked here, and there are no lights on the boat after dark, and the two people on the boat are looking in horror at the armed sentinel ship of the West Hall cruising back and forth on the river, these two people are Hong Renfa and Hong Tianguifu who have escaped from the city of Tianjing.
"Uncle, can we go to Wuchang to find the Wing King?"
"I don't know, it seems that the Wing King can't go, Yang Fuqing was also exterminated by the King of the West, we don't seem to have anywhere to go." Hong Renfa ran out of ideas, he didn't expect that there would be so many ships from the West Hall heading to Wuchang, could it be that the Wing King had already colluded with the West King? And Yang Fuqing's department had already disappeared, and at this time, Hong Renfa realized that the most terrifying thing was actually King Xi, and he blocked the back roads of the two.
"So where are we going?"
"Why don't we go to Shanghai, transfer to Hong Kong, and go to join your other clan uncle Hong Renxuan!"
"Uncle, I see that the King of the West is sending people everywhere to look for us these days, maybe the King of the West won't do anything to us when we go back."
Hong Renfa said angrily with red eyes: "Young Heavenly King, you are sober, there are no two heavens and no two people, that King of the West will not allow us to go back, don't look at the few days he has issued a fake proclamation to look for us, as long as we show up, we will be killed!" ”
"But how do we get to Hong Kong?"
"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, there will always be a way, we wait until it gets dark and go down the river, first go to Shanghai, there are many foreign brothers there, maybe we can get mixed into Hong Kong ......" (to be continued......