When Qianlong in the Forbidden City wronged a red heart to steal his wife and daughter from Jia Baimin of the Qing Dynasty, thousands of miles away at the Daxinkou Wharf in Taiping Mansion, Anhui Province, a Eight Banners Army was disembarking one after another under the leadership of officers, preparing to rest and recuperate in Daxinkou before setting off for Anqing upstream.

This is also the third unit to go to Anqing from downstream to reinforce after the year.

The first two troops were the water battalion troops from Wusongkou, and the other was the battalion soldiers who came from Xuzhou on the order of Gao Jin, the governor of Liangjiang.

The people on the shore and the fishermen on the river didn't know the difference between the Eight Banners, and they all thought that these Eight Banners soldiers also came from Nanjing City downstream, but they didn't know that these Eight Banners soldiers actually came from Zhenjiang.

The land of Zhenjiang has been a place for soldiers to fight for since ancient times, and at the beginning of the country, it was to defend the eight banners of Jiangning and strengthen the coastal defense of the southeast region, and the imperial court set up a garrison eight banner battalion at the Jingkou of Zhenjiang.

However, at the beginning, the Eight Banners of the Jingkou Army were mainly based on the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the main soldiers were Shi Tingzhu who entered the pass from the dragon and the original Ming Dynasty led by Liu Zhiyuan.

There were not many soldiers, only more than 3,000 people.

Over the past 100 years, the population of the Eight Banners of the Han Army in Zhenjiang has expanded to tens of thousands, and they all enjoy all the benefits of the Eight Banners like the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

I thought that the good life could last forever, but I didn't want the current emperor Qianlong Ye to take the throne, so he ordered the Eight Banners to be cleared.

There are many ways to clear the soldiers, some of them buy out the military seniority at one time, some are introduced to other units, and some are negotiated with the local government to transfer soldiers to civilian personnel.

In short, Emperor Qianlong was determined to abolish the Eight Banners.

However, we could not treat everyone equally, and came up with the two principles of "worshipping Manchuria first" and "first clearing out Beijing"; according to these two principles, the Eight Banners of the Han Army bore the brunt.

The garrisons of the Eight Banners of the Han Army were the first wave to be impacted, and the Han troops outside were all dismantled on the spot, regardless of whether they were "Liao" or not.

As a result, the Eight Banners of Zhenjiang Jingkou were disbanded on the spot and all returned to the Han people.

In order to prevent the Han army in Jingkou from making trouble, the governor of Liangjiang, who was in charge of the dismissal at that time, also mobilized the Green Battalion and the Jiangning Manchu army to maintain order.

When necessary, it may even be secretly ordered to use force to arrest the initiators.

Fortunately, the Han army was timid, and seeing that the imperial court's policy could not be changed, they could only obediently go out of the camp to become Han Chinese.

However, the officials in the Liangjiang area thought that the establishment of the Eight Banners in Jingkou would also be abolished, and that only one unit of the Eight Banners stationed in Jiangning would be set up in the Liangjiang region from then on, but they did not expect that the officials of Liangjiang had to make great efforts to "drive away" the tens of thousands of Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the imperial court transferred 3,000 Mongolian soldiers from Beijing and more than 10,000 family members to settle in Jingkou and become the new officers and men of the Eight Banners stationed in Zhenjiang.

At this point, the officials in the Liangjiang region knew what kind of small calculations the emperor was playing.

Many officials from the Han army were also chilled by this, and they had all kinds of complaints, nothing more than cunning rabbits and dead lackeys, and birds with good bows and so on.

Dare to be angry but dare not speak.

Most of the Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers who came to Zhenjiang from Beijing came from the Mongolian descendants of the Eight Banners originally established at the beginning of the country, and they were mainly returned from the five departments of Chahar, Karaqin, and Inner Khalkha, but the generals and officers were mainly from Manchuria.

The current deputy commander of the Eight Banners of Jingkou is Fuqing, the former deputy general of the Jiangxi Green Battalion.

This person was from a prominent background, his ancestor was one of the five founding ministers of the country, his great-grandfather was the Kangxi Dynasty's powerful minister Ji Bilong, his grandfather was also Yin De, who served as the minister of the guard, and his aunt and grandmother were the second empress of the Kangxi Emperor, Empress Xiao Zhaoren!

His father was the governor of many places, his uncle was a relative who had led the army to conquer Jinchuan, and his uncle was Aligon, who was called a fierce general of the Qing Dynasty by the emperor.

Feng Sheng, the general of Dingxi who sacrificed his life for the country in Huguang before, is Fuqing's cousin!

In addition to these illustrious family backgrounds, Fuqing is the brother-in-law of the current emperor, because his sister is a noble person in the palace.

Those who are familiar with the inside of the palace know that the noble Shun from a famous family almost became the third queen of Lord Qianlong!

After Nala was deposed and died, the queen mother wanted to set up a daughter of the clan as the queen, and only the nobles with prominent families met this condition in the palace.

However, the emperor wanted to make the concubine the queen, but the result was different from the queen mother, and the mother and son failed to reach an agreement, resulting in the middle palace being empty for many years.

This also made Shun noble miss the opportunity to become the queen, and now he is still just a nobleman.

The concubines in the palace are divided into eight classes, and the nobles are only the fifth class, and the following are always present and promised.

However, no matter how low the status is, the nobleman is also the emperor's woman.

Therefore, Fuqing, the emperor's brother-in-law, has been taken care of by the Liangjiang officialdom, coupled with his illustrious background, his official fortune has been prosperous over the years.

As a result, his crime of abandoning Nanchang with Governor Haicheng was not only not investigated, but was promoted by Gao Jinbao, the governor of Liangjiang, as the deputy capital of the Eight Banners of Beijing.

The deputy capital commander is a member of the second rank and a flag member, and he is much more noble and majestic than the deputy general of the green battalion from the second grade.

Zhenjiang is also a rich place, with much more oil and water than Nanchang, and it is a place to raise people.

It's just that Fuqing never expected that he had just escaped from Jiangxi's "tiger's mouth", and less than half a month after taking office, he received an urgent letter from the Ministry of War, ordering him to lead his troops to Anqing to resist thieves.

This can make Fuqing so anxious that he stomped his feet, but the military order was like a mountain, and he didn't dare to disobey.

I had to take 1,600 officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners of Mongolia to Anqing by boat, and walked for a few days before arriving at Taiping Mansion.

At this rate, it will take at least seven or eight days to reach Anqing.

The subordinate officers feared that if they marched like this, they would be blamed from above.

Fuqing was not worried about this, the reason was already thought of at the time of departure, probably because the northern soldiers did not learn boats, so there were many seasick sergeants, which delayed the speed of the march.

After going ashore, he handed over the work of settling the troops to his subordinates, and went to the town to find an inn to live in.

After the same group of henchmen were full of wine and food, Fuqing wiped his mouth and went upstairs, and when he left, he gave Barda, the assistant in charge of logistics, a look, who understood and called the shopkeeper to whisper a few words.

The shopkeeper agreed, and then called the man to whisper a few words, and after a while the man went to bring the woman Ma Shi, who was doing a half-closed business in the town.

But when Ma was about to go upstairs to do business, someone rushed to see Fu Vice Dutong.

"You are?"

Looking at the flag man who claimed to be the forward school brought by the guards, Fuqing was a little puzzled, because he had never seen this person before, and he was very surprised to see it.

The flag man "horn" stepped forward to beat thousands, and after saluting according to the rules, he said softly: "Back to the capital, it doesn't matter who the slave is, the important thing is this." ”

"What?"

Fuqing looked at the flag man's hand curiously, and immediately his eyes tightened, because this person was actually his sister Yunying's personal jade pendant.

Yun Ying is the Shun noble person in the palace.

There are two pieces of the same jade pendant, which were made by Fuqing Ama Aibida for his two daughters with a lot of money, one engraved with English characters, and one engraved with light characters.

"Why is this jade pendant here with you?"

Fuqing's face was solemn, since the chaos in Beijing, his sister Yunying and his younger siblings in Beijing disappeared mysteriously.

He asked someone to look for the whereabouts of his younger brothers and sisters for a long time, and the relevant units such as the Internal Affairs Office, the Zongren Mansion, and the Shuntian Mansion also searched for it, but he never found out the clues of the disappearance of the Fuqing family.

Later, for unknown reasons, various departments suddenly stopped looking for Shun Guiren and his family, and the case was sealed and became an unsolved case in the 41st year of Qianlong.

As an elder brother, Fuqing didn't know about this, and still spent a lot of money to hire people to run around, just to find the whereabouts of his relatives.

It's really the kind of life to see people, and death to see corpses.

Only deep in his heart, Fuqing also has the mental preparation that most of his younger siblings were killed in the palace chaos, and now the search is just to do his best and obey the destiny of heaven, but he didn't think that after more than a year, his sister's personal belongings actually appeared again.

This made Fuqing's heart tense and worried.

The person who came seemed to see the thoughts of this Fu Deputy Dutong, so he said: "So that Lord Dutong knows that everything is fine with Sister Ling and Brother Ling, and my master specially asked someone to take care of them, especially the noble people, and my master is even more favored."

This made Fuqing's brows furrow, because the signal released by these words was too much and too strong.

The person who came ignored the reaction of Fu Vice Dutong, saying that he was ordered by the master to give a message to Fu Dutong.

"What?"

Fuqing didn't show it on his face, his heart was already beating wildly, and he even had killing intent.

"The master of my family said that Uncle Gulang is a family."

The person who came said this simply.

There is no following.

Fuqing deduced some information from these simple words, forcibly suppressed the waves in his heart, and pretended to be calm and asked the person: "Who is the owner of your family?" ”

The person who came did not hide it, and said calmly: "Prince Heshuorui, General Fuyuan is the master of my family. ”

"What?!"

Fuqing stood on the spot.

In the city of Anqing, Jiangning general Songchun also received a letter from home.

There was only one line in the letter - "Old watch, can you help me?" ”