12-93 Division

Queen Luan drove back to the palace, the Lord of the Prison personally greeted, the guard of honor was complete, the drum music was noisy, there were 1,000 cavalry lined up on the dock alone, all the black horses and silver armor, majestic, all the streets were paved with pure land along the way, the brocade armor soldiers stood on both sides, the merchants and shops were whitewashed, the whole capital seemed to be prosperous and lively, and people had the feeling of the apocalypse again.

The mansions of the clans are still there, but the valuable things in them have been swept away, and the Shuntian Mansion has a lot of opportunities, so naturally no one has the manpower to investigate these small thefts, even if those princes, county kings, princes, Zhenguo generals, and auxiliary generals personally take the case to the Shuntian Mansion to complain, no one cares, you must know that the new Shuntian Mansion Yin Ke is a member of the Red Shirt Army, and the old subordinates of the Lord of the Prison Country are very angry, so they don't care what bullshit title you have, now it's not as good as before, and the prince, put on a python robe and call you a prince, Take off your robe, the birds don't bird you.

It's really a different day, even the most ordinary people have felt this, in the past, the royal relatives were high and domineering, but now it's really over, those who have the throne are a little better, those masters below the general of the town, carry furniture and sell them on the street, what a good Huanghuali chair, sell it if you give money, it can be seen how embarrassed it is, which is inseparable from the policy of the Lord of the Prison to the clan.

In the past, the Zhu Ming royal family was divided into various places, with fields and houses, and even a considerable number of guards, and later after the Battle of Jingyan, the guards were removed, and the vassal king was not even allowed to go out of the fief at will, which reduced the possibility of rebellion, but it is still possible to be a rich man, the change of seizing the palace fifteen years ago, the rebellion of King Ning four years ago, and the activities of Huang Zongxi this year to crack down on the clan, step by step suppressed the treatment of the descendants of the surname Zhu to the bottom.

The Western Xia army entered Nanjing, looted fiercely, and almost bankrupted the clans, and after returning to Beijing, they encountered the harsh government of the prison lords, and cut the clan's support silver by eighty! A prince used to have 100,000 taels of silver a year, but now there are only 20,000, and as for those auxiliary generals who do not enter the stream, they simply do not give it, the reason is very simple, the court is not rich, and it cannot afford to support idlers.

The clans want to make trouble, but they can't make trouble at all, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Zhu family's world is over, and Liu Ziguang is already very kind when he didn't take advantage of the time when he was in Xuzhou to slaughter you who eat idle meals, and he still wants people to spend a lot of money to support you? Dreaming, right? Even the scholars who were familiar with the way of Confucius and Mencius agreed with the new policy of the Prison Lord, and they were full of praise when they talked about it: Prison Lord, benevolence and righteousness.

The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, no matter how poor these clans are, there are furniture houses or something, pawns are sold and rented, and they can always live, those are all later words, first of all, the queen Xu Yuanhuiluan drove back to the Forbidden City, and Liu Ziguang immediately entered the Kunning Palace to meet the driver.

The Forbidden City is still those eunuchs and palace maids, but the Imperial Forest Army and the Ouchi guards have all changed blood, the red-shirted soldiers of Yishui, the eunuchs have completely lost their status, and the whole institution of the ceremonial eunuch has been abolished, and those older eunuchs have been forced to retire, it doesn't matter how much silver they bring out of the palace, as long as they don't stay in the palace anymore and get in the way, the older palace maids are also forced to retire in batches, go home with a home, and help find a mother-in-law without a home, anyway, there are many singles in the red-shirt army.

At the same time, a new system was implemented, the palace maids had a retirement period, all those who did not conceive a dragon at the age of twenty-two, and those who were not promoted to female officials would be retired, and after the implementation of the system, the palace had a lot less people who were depressed, and those who were old and liked to intrigue were invited out of the palace and replaced by a group of newly selected show girls, the number was not much, only a few hundred, all fourteen or fifteen years old, and for a time the palace was full of laughter and harmony.

Listening to the laughter of the new draft girls outside, the queen's face also had laugh lines, she was a twenty-two-year-old girl, it was the age of liveliness and excitement, and she was forced to not smile by court life, which was also a tragedy to think about.

"The emperor is gone, why do you choose these show girls? Even if the new emperor ascends the throne, he is just a doll, and he doesn't need these, so is it possible to say that the Lord of the Prison State can't wait? Xu Yuanhui teased.

This is ironic Liu Ziguang is in a hurry to ascend to the throne, both of them are cheerful people, and there is no need to secretly play dumb riddles, Liu Ziguang smiled: "The queen said that she laughed, the minister promised the queen mother, this world belongs to the Zhu family, it is now, and it will still be in the future, as for the emperor, the queen, you look at this first." As he spoke, he took out a scroll of paper from his bosom and handed it to the queen.

From the eyes of the people are round, this is too unruly, it stands to reason that the Lord of the Prison Country should hand over the things that should be presented to the eunuch, and then the eunuch will hand it over to the palace maid, and the palace maid will give it to the queen, this is good, the two of them just handed things face to face, it was ...... What kind of system, what kind of system!

The queen was very arrogant, so she didn't care about that, took the paper scroll and unfolded it, it turned out to be a telegraph with few numbers on it, and after reading it, Xu Yuanhui lost her face and asked, "Is this ...... It's true? ”

Liu Ziguang nodded and said: "It should be true, the emperor is sitting in Beijing, he is really a little strong, it is really gratifying to the minister, but Beijing is under the control of Yuan's father and son, and the emperor has Wei Zhongxian, a traitorous minister, and the minister is afraid...... One is afraid that Yuan's father and son will coerce the princes of the Son of Heaven, and the other is afraid that Wei Zhongxian will continue to bring disaster to the country and the people, so, alas, please ask the queen to decide. ”

It turned out that Zhu Youxiao actually fled from Shanghai again, I don't know how to arrive in Beijing, and ascended the throne again with the support of Yuan's father and son, and immediately issued a holy decree, calling on the world to work hard for Wang Jing and crusade against the Nanjing prison regime, the telegram has been issued, but the ordinary people in the capital have not received the news.

Xu Yuanhui didn't have an idea about the major military affairs, but just asked Liu Ziguang: "What are you going to do with the prison country?" ”

Liu Ziguang said: "The whole world is the emperor, what can the ministers do?" It is to welcome His Majesty back to Beijing. ”

Xu Yuanhui said: "Will the emperor return to Nanjing?" ”

Liu Ziguang said: "Please don't invite the minister's business, whether he can't go back is his business, no matter what the emperor has done to be sorry for the minister, the minister can forgive, the minister can do everything he can, cover the mouth of the world, and let the north do the rest." ”

It is said that Yuan Chonghuan has ordered to convene the eunuchs of the former Qing Dynasty, and he has recruited a large number of show girls to fill the palace among the people, trying his best to make this palace look like that.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao sat on the brocade cushion chair with a pale face, Wei Zhongxian stood next to him with his waist bowed, and Zhao Xingde, the commander of the guards, stood at the door.

The palace is full of Yuan Chonghuan's personal soldiers as guards, although they are also obedient, but the look in their eyebrows and eyes is not so deferential, and the eunuchs are also in their own faction, no one is Wei Zhongxian, the three of them seem to have become isolated people, and they are like caged birds in this palace.

Several times he summoned Yuan Chonghuan into the palace to discuss matters, but he couldn't refuse, saying that he was busy with military affairs, but in fact, it was true, this time he tore his face with Liu Ziguang and started a frontal fight, can Yuan Chonghuan not go all out, as for Beijing's defense, it was handed over to his son Yuan Chengzhi.

Yuan Chengzhi entered the palace sooner or later to ask for peace, but he was not respectful to the emperor between his words, today Zhu Youxiao proposed to personally develop the flying god wing to help the army, and asked Yuan Chengzhi to allocate 500,000 taels of silver and 100 craftsmen to himself, but he vetoed it on the spot, and also advised the emperor to stay in the palace honestly and not to cause chaos, not to do those things that are sensual and doggy, the silver and craftsmen are limited, and they must be kept to deal with Liu Ziguang, a chaotic minister and thief, how can there be a rich person for the emperor to play, and he walked away after speaking.

Zhu Youxiao was so angry, he dropped three or four big vases in a row, if this was in Nanjing, the people who had already knelt on the ground would have kowtowed desperately to ask for guilt, but no one paid attention to it here, those former Qing eunuchs should not be able to see it at all, and they didn't know where to go to gamble with the dust, only Wei Zhongxian tried hard to persuade the emperor: "Your Majesty must not be angry, you must think about the people." ”

Zhu Youxiao said angrily: "This Yuan Chengzhi is too unlike, I wonder how I trusted him in the first place, did he forget!" Does he want to learn from Liu Ziguang! Want to be Cao Cao too? ”

Wei Zhongxian was so frightened that he hurriedly kowtowed: "Your Majesty, be quiet, be careful that the wall has ears." ”

Zhao Xingde looked quite clever at this time, and he stepped out and looked left and right, and then retracted and said, "Don't worry, those eunuchs are gambling from afar." ”

Zhu Youxiao's eyes closed, two lines of tears came out of his eyes, Beijing in October was already a little cold, there was no brazier in the Qianqing Palace, it was cold and desolate, thinking of his own Jiangshan Sheji, he was even more sad, patted Wei Zhongxian's shoulder and said: "I only have you, a loyal minister." ”

Wei Zhongxian said: "Slaves die to repay the emperor's kindness, Your Majesty must not be sad, with the blessing of the ancestors, everything will be fine." ”

The two monarchs and ministers hugged their heads and cried.

On the front line in Texas, Yuan Chonghuan frowned, looking at the company camp in the distance with a clairglass mirror, more and more enemy troops have come ashore from Qingdao in recent times, the company camp is hundreds of miles, I don't know how many thousands of horses, every day the flag covers the sun, gongs and drums are noisy, the hussars wearing black iron armor come and go like the wind, and their faces do not look like people in Middle-earth, there are white and black, there are tall and strong, wearing horn helmets, showing strong muscles, there are heavy armored knights with full body armor and only showing their eyes, there are Persian swordsmen with white cloth wrapped around their heads and scimitars hanging from their waists, and they are short and athletic, The ninjas of the Wa Kingdom who were bouncing back and forth didn't know where Liu Ziguang's gang had gathered so many soldiers and horses.

Yuan Chonghuan's soldiers and horses are not weak, there is the foundation of the old Xuzhou army, as well as the strength of the Western Army, but in the face of these strange enemy troops, they are also frightened, from Yuan Chonghuan to ordinary pawns, they have no courage to fight, so they can only stick to the city.

Suddenly so many reinforcements came, in fact, even Liu Ziguang himself did not expect it.