Inside the Forbidden City.

The outside world is the fourth year of the revival of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, it was still the 59th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.

Although the fifteenth elder brother has ascended the throne and become the emperor with the support of the ministers, he has not had time to take any name.

The old fifteen loves the new Jueluo. Yongyan sat on the throne with a somewhat gloomy face, this chair used to be his dream, but now it made it difficult for him to sit still.

The news brought back by some of the soldiers and officers of the Eight Banners who fled from the front line proves one thing: his emperor Ama, the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was really captured alive by the Ming army!!

And in the city of Beijing.

It is almost a certainty that Kong Qingrong and Dong He, who helped the old man to fight in the ring with him, are the sons of the Great Tomorrow - now the so-called Holy Princes have openly played the Sun and Moon Banner, and the thousands of Jinyi Guards of the Ming Dynasty have become temporary middle and high-level officers of an army. The Shandong group training and the Zhili group training are firmly controlled.

In addition, the Han people in the capital, from the gentry to the commoners, knew that the Ming Dynasty was back, and now it is clear that they don't want to follow the declining Qing Dynasty, so they all take refuge in the old seventeen - that is, the Ming Dynasty.

And it's even worse.

It's not just Han Chinese.

Even a lot of flag people have gone to vote for the old seventeen.

The situation is really too bad, although he became the emperor, but no matter how you look at the emperor, the emperor is up to carry the blame, that is, the pot of the king of the Qing Dynasty, it is very likely that he will have to carry it on his head!

Why is this Kong Qingrong so blind, why didn't he look for himself in the first place?

It's so embarrassing now.

"Your Majesty, none of the people we sent out to contact Naturalization City have returned."

Hurrying in was He Shen and his younger brother He Lin.

The two brothers are now the foremen of the Qing Dynasty.

However, the Qing Dynasty is about to break up, so the two brothers don't seem to be excited.

To say love Xin Jueluo. Yongyan has a way out, that is, to go to Naturalization City.

There are still more than 600,000 Eight Banners people there.

In addition, the governor of the Western Regions, Lebao, had 30,000 soldiers, and the banner people and Han people had a total of more than 200,000.

If he can escape, maybe there is a future for the Western Qing Emperor to do.

But now the Forbidden City has become a cage.

And until now, the Great Tomorrow has no intention of sending someone to surrender.

Could it be that this great tomorrow is ready to slaughter the Eight Banners?

It can be said that this thought lingered on the heads of all the Eight Banners in the Forbidden City, like a nightmare.

Yongyan looked at He Shen and said helplessly: "The Ming army blocked the road to the north, what are we going to do now?" How many troops do you have on hand? ”

He Lin took a step forward and said: "Now there are 600,000 bannermen and 30,000 soldiers in the Forbidden City, if all the men who can wield knives and guns are counted, there will be another 70,000 or 80,000 people. It's just that the number of people seems to be quite large, but it is of little use. ”

"Why?" Yongyan raised his head and looked at He Lin, "Back then, Emperor Taizu's thirteen vices raised troops to resist the Ming, and now I still have hundreds of thousands of bannermen."

"The times are different, at that time, there were rogues in the Ming Dynasty, there were border troubles outside, and there were perennial disasters, and they couldn't scrape the silver of the local tyrants in the south of the Yangtze River, how could they not die?" He Lin shook his head and said, "And now the Ming Dynasty has strong soldiers, and can draw great wealth from the sea trade to raise soldiers. Now the war is not an era of skilled archers and horses, it is an era of muskets and artillery, your Majesty, don't look at the fact that we can still mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers in our hands now, but how many rounds of shelling can these tens of thousands of soldiers withstand? ”

Old Fifteen sighed: "Then what is good now, there are many banner people who have gone to Old Seventeen now."

He Shen and He Lin glanced at each other, but did not speak.

Not to mention ordinary flag men.

Even He Shen himself exchanged his wealth for Ming Yuan and deposited it in the Daming Royal Bank.

In the Qing Dynasty, it is coming to an end, and everyone can see it.

If Emperor Qianlong was still there, he could still take everyone to the west to beg for a living.

And now that Qianlong has been arrested, the two princes of the Qing Dynasty are fighting.

So what is the future?

So even if it's all flag people, it's time for everyone to find their own way out.

"Brother Chongru, I think when you were in Donghuamen and were in high school, when I was a scholar. is only a teenager, and watching my brother ride into the palace on horseback, I really don't envy it. ”

In the capital Liu Yong Mansion.

Ji Yun and Ji Xiaolan were obviously a little drunk.

His complexion was a little rosy.

The two old men sat down in their chairs and began to think about the past.

"yes, yes. In the next few grades, you also got into the Jinshi. Liu Yong said with emotion.

"In a flash, more than 70 years have passed."

The two sighed.

"Seeing this prosperous world, it collapsed with a bang," Ji Yun said with emotion.

Liu Yong shook his head: "If it can collapse so easily, how can it be considered a prosperous age." But that's fine. At least there was no corpse mountain and a sea of blood coming out. ”

The two couldn't help but fall silent.

At their point, there aren't many options.

The best way to do this is to retire.

This is also the practice of most of the former ministers of the past dynasties.

It's just that now that the old emperor of the Qing Dynasty has been arrested, and two new emperors have appeared, the situation has become a little chaotic for a while.

"Now it depends on what the future of these million banner people is, and recently, many people have taken refuge in Lao Seventeen." Ji Yun said.

"It's just human nature." Liu Yong shook his head.

This banner person is also a human being, and they are not really everyone is a die-hard slave of the Aixin Jueluo family.

But the minions are for the good.

It's not good, who will die to be a minion.

Ji Xiaolan was silent for a moment and said, "Yes, maybe the future of the banner people will have to fall on the old seventeen." ”

"Although it is a puppet that has been propped up, since the great tomorrow is going to use a puppet, at least it will be explained. He still gave the million banner people a way to live. ”

Where is the way of life of the flag man?

Qianlong's seventeenth son, Yongxuan, is the last hope of many banner people.

Since the Great Tomorrow supports Yongxuan, it means that the Great Tomorrow Son must use the flag people, use the Eight Banners, and the Eight Banners are useful, and there is a way to live!

So in the past few days, a lot of flag people have secretly run to the old seventeen.

But now in Aisin Jueluo. Yongxuan here, it is not the seventeenth prince who has the final say.

It's not even Yan Shenggong Kong Qingrong and Minister of Military Aircraft Dong He.

It was the two commanders of Jinyiwei, Wang Dingjia and Fang Ke.

The two of them can now be said to have made great contributions.

Not only mastered an army of tens of thousands of people, but also helped the Ming Dynasty basically keep the city of Beijing.

Just by virtue of this.

Both of them have a future for Hou Ye.

However, both of them are still young, and they are still very active in seeking progress when they are not lying flat.

Especially the meaning of the Son of Heaven came from above.

The Son of Heaven appreciated their approach, and gave them a new task: to gather the bannermen as much as possible, and not to let them escape.

But what to do with these flag people who have taken refuge?

The Son of Heaven didn't say it explicitly.

"Commander Wang, you let me go and meet the great tomorrow?"

Seventeen elder brother loves Xinjueluo. Yongxuan asked in disbelief.

"This is nature, Seventeenth Master, don't think that going to Tianjin is to surrender, you can't wipe your face, this is your chance!"

"Opportunity?"

"Isn't it? You see that so many flag people are coming to you now, why do you think they are coming to take refuge? ”

Yongxuan's face changed slightly.

He certainly knows why.

Because he's a puppet of the Great Tomorrow!

Now on his side.

Don't say it's him, even Kong Qingrong and Dong He can't speak much.

Because the "Holy Prince's Army" was basically mastered by the thousands and hundreds of households of the Ming Jinyi Guard.

And the leaders and soldiers of the Shandong regimental training and the Zhili regimental training heard that the Ming court came to recruit Zhao'an, and one or two happily cut off their braids.

Especially those Shandong soldiers.

They originally thought that they were following the Qing court to quell the rebellion, and they might not be able to get an official or a half-position from the Qing Dynasty.

As a result, the Qing Dynasty itself became a rebel force.

Fortunately, the peak loop turns.

The Ming Dynasty is here!

So what are you waiting for?

The people of Shandong like Zhao'an the most.

Now this army is loyal to Daming from top to bottom, Yongxuan can't command it at all, he is just a puppet who was carried out to fight with Lao Fifteen.

And those flag men came to take refuge.

It's not because his seventeenth elder brother is more wise and martial than his fifteenth elder brother, but because of his puppet status.

One word.

The current flag people are all afraid, and they are all afraid of being wiped out by the Ming Dynasty.

So they all regard Lao Seventeen as a lifesaver.

Kong Qingrong and Dong He looked at each other and didn't speak, they were sitting in this position, in fact, why didn't they make up their minds to make up their minds?

It's just that he is a courtier of the Qing Dynasty, and he takes the initiative to take refuge and has a bad reputation.

But if the emperor of the Qing Dynasty voted for it himself, and then he voted for it, then he would not be considered a second minister, right?

Yongxuan was silent for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll go to Tianjin and meet the Son of Heaven!" ”

As soon as this statement came out.

Everyone present couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

It seems that this seventeenth master still knows what it means to be a person who knows the times as a handsome man.

(End of chapter)