Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 24 Repel the Rebels
After Zhu Jinsong left with the craftsmen and a large amount of gold and silver, a sharp voice sounded from the open space outside the gate of Quanlin Palace: "Hurry up and help our family get up!"

Liu Cheng, who was lying not far from the chief eunuch, quickly turned over and got up, helped the chief eunuch and smiled flatteringly: "Elder-in-law, are you all right? I will send someone to ask for help, I will definitely catch those The rebels vent their anger on you!"

However, the chief eunuch didn't appreciate it at all. Instead, he was so angry that he was shaking all over, his hands and feet were cold, and a burst of anger in the winter went straight to Tianlinggai.

help?Is this what a member in charge of guarding the palace would say?

The chief eunuch slapped Liu Cheng on the face with his backhand, and cursed: "Aren't you fucking stupid! You sent someone to ask for help, what do you say? Said that more than 2000 of us died, and Zhu rebelled against the bandits. Didn't even shed a single hair?"

"If this is the case, not only the brothers who were killed and wounded in the underground will all die in vain, but the two of us will lose our heads too!"

Being scolded by the chief eunuch, Liu Cheng suddenly came to his senses, looking at the chief eunuch who was so angry that he was trembling all over, Liu Cheng covered his face and asked, "What does the father-in-law mean?"

The chief eunuch snorted coldly, and suddenly shouted loudly to the guards who were dead and wounded all over the place: "The palace was breached by thieves, we are all capital crimes! However, for the sake of you all having parents, wives and children, our family can Think of a way for you, now it's up to you to choose!"

Liu Cheng hurriedly bowed and said: "Of course I want to live, please be merciful to my father-in-law, save me!"

The other guards who were still alive and the eunuchs and maids who had just rushed out also knelt down and shouted together: "I beg your father-in-law to show mercy!"

The chief eunuch coughed a little, looked around at the guards, and said, "It's easy to live—"

"There are so many thieves, and they suddenly attacked when we were not prepared. If we rush to fight, it is inevitable that there will be heavy casualties."

"It's just that all the soldiers are grateful for the great kindness of God Long Live. Everyone died, and under the leadership of our family and General Liu Shen, they desperately fought back against the thieves."

"Fortunately, thanks to the blessing of Long Live Lord Hong Fu, I waited for this to repel the thieves and guard the palace for Long Live Lord."

All the soldiers guarding the army stared at the chief eunuch with dumbfounded eyes, and Liu Cheng even wished to exchange the chief eunuch's brains for himself——

What kind of crime is it to lose the palace?Death penalty!What is the credit for defeating the rebels?Great work!
Have you fought bloody battles?battle.Is the palace lost?Fallen, but not destroyed.Did the rebel retreat?Return!
Just a few words and a few words, turning a serious crime that would have cost you your head into a great achievement that can lead to promotion and fortune, what is this?This is wisdom!

And just when General Liu Shen and the rest of the defenders were secretly admiring, the chief eunuch said sadly: "If anyone is different from what our family said about today's matter, don't blame us when you turn around and lose your head." Family!"

Liu Chengdang even agreed: "Eunuch, don't worry, if anyone dares to talk nonsense, the humble official will never let them go!"

Then the chief eunuch squeezed his throat and hummed, and said: "Okay, let's go, General Liu Shen will come with our house."

After arriving at a place where people could avoid people, the chief eunuch said: "You can find some craftsmen, and you don't need any brilliant master craftsmen, just ordinary craftsmen from the people."

Liu Cheng was taken aback, and asked: "Eunuch, the surrounding area of ​​the palace has been severely damaged. If you don't find some master craftsmen, it will be easy and difficult to restore, right?"

The chief eunuch glared at Liu Cheng, and cursed with hatred: "Why are you so stupid? Not to mention that the craftsmen in the palace have been taken away by the rebels, we can only rely on the craftsmen of the people now, even those craftsmen in the palace People are still there, so should we restore these places to be the same as before?"

"If the repair is exactly the same as the original, how can we prove that we are repelling the rebels after a bloody battle? The original is very creditable, and how much will be left by then?"

Only then did Liu Cheng understand, and he bowed sincerely, "Is it because the villain's thinking is too simple, or is it because you are so clever, the villain admires, admires."

Just speaking of this, Liu Cheng hesitated again.

When the rebels left just now, they not only took away the craftsmen, but also many of the rebels carried some packages on their backs, which should contain gold, silver and jewelry.

And this is precisely the most fatal loophole.

It doesn't matter if the periphery is blown up, or the defenders suffered heavy casualties, the key is how to explain the lost gold, silver and jewels—that the rebels have already entered the palace?Isn't that courting death?

Regarding Liu Cheng's question, the chief eunuch just snorted and said, "When those rebels left just now, our family has already paid attention to them. Those rebels with mud legs just picked some gold and silver and took them away. I don’t even know what is really worth the money.”

"It seems that these yellow and white things are just dead things after all, not to mention the huge Yanzhou Prefecture, even if it is Surabaya, it is enough to make up for these things."

"By the way, when you go to Sishui County, remember to arrange all the gold and silver matters by the way. In any case, it must be done before February [-]. If the Long Live Lord arrives at the palace and has not done it, you should know What consequences."

Speaking of this, Liu Cheng is not sleepy at all-it's just some mud legs, and there are no horses and ox carts, how much gold and silver can be carried on the back of a person alone?
Now there is still more than half a month before February [-], as long as you work hard, not only can you make up for the lost gold and silver, but you may even make more money!
Just thinking about it, Liu Cheng felt a little headache again: "Eunuch, it is said that Zhu Ni would kill the local magistrate and all the officials whenever he went to a place, this Sishui County..."

The chief eunuch really wanted to open Liu Cheng's head to see how much paste was inside.

The chief eunuch said: "The magistrate of Sishui County is not dead. What does it have to do with you, the general who guards the palace? Hmm? Without the magistrate of Sishui County, you wouldn't go to those Baojia chiefs? Without Baojia chiefs, you Don’t know how to go to the local gentry? Even if it’s all gone, don’t you still have soldiers in your hand? You idiot!”

After being scolded so badly by the chief eunuch, Liu Cheng's heart became hot instead.

The father-in-law is right!What does it matter if the magistrate is dead or not?We have soldiers in our hands!

Thinking of this, Liu Chengdang bid farewell to the chief eunuch, planning to clean up the mess outside first, and then take people to Sishui County to make a fortune.

It's just that after Liu Cheng left, the remaining chief eunuch muttered to himself: "This group of rebels is really strange, not only did they not set fire to the palace, nor did they wantonly kill people, but it is the same as usual. The rebels are not the same? Are there really fools who act for the heavens in this world?"

……

The chief eunuch was not the only one who couldn't figure this out, Zhu Erdan, Liu Erniu and others also couldn't figure it out.

After thinking for a long time but still not understanding, Liu Erniu simply went to Zhu Jinsong's side and asked, "Master, it's fine if you don't want to burn down the palace, but those defenders are all the grandsons of the government, why don't you?" Why don't you kill them all?"

Zhu Jinsong glared at Liu Erniu, and asked, "Apart from murder and arson, do you have other things in your mind?"

Zhu Jinsong was also convinced by Liu Erniu. From the very beginning, he wanted to burn down the palace. When he was about to retreat, this guy wanted to kill all the defenders. Or murder and arson, nothing else at all!

Seeing that Liu Erniu had stopped talking, Zhu Jinsong went on to say: "Of course it's not difficult to kill all the defenders of the palace, but sooner or later this matter will get out, and the officers and soldiers will know about our killing of prisoners. How can anyone surrender when they know that surrender is inevitable?"

"Even if you don't know the word cornered beast will fight, at least you should know the word dog jumping over the wall, right? Don't forget, we are fighting against the Qing Dynasty. If we fight against the Qing Dynasty, we have to fight. If we fight against the Qing Dynasty, people will die. The only consequence of driving officers and soldiers to panic is Expand the casualties for ourselves."

"The Qing court had tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers plus one million Green Battalions. If you count the patrol soldiers and the like from all over the country, it would be more than a million? And how many of us are there? It really forced the officers and soldiers to die with us. Change lives, can we afford it?"

Zhu Jinsong didn't just say these words to Liu Erniu alone, but also to Zhu Erdan, Zhu Laosan and others.

Whether it was the last ambush in the Yanzhou military preparation yamen, or the several subsequent breaches of the county yamen, these operations basically resulted in minimal or even zero casualties, and this attack on the Xinggong was another operation with zero casualties. Liu Erniu, Zhu Erdan and the others were inevitably a little bit ecstatic.

It's better to be like Zhu Laosan, knowing that the Qing government is not so easy to deal with, and people like Liu Erniu and Zhu Erdan can't do it. Now these two fools can't wait to go directly to the Forbidden City to kill Qianlong.

This is a very dangerous signal.

Although the battles of the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were as bad as Wang Xiaoer's new year, but the base number of officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty was far from what the current Yuhuangshan rebel group could compare with.

Don't look at Zhu Jinsong who never seems to take Tartars seriously. Whether it's killing evil gentry or county magistrates, ambush Yanzhou military equipment, and attacking Quanlin Palace, it's as easy as chopping melons and vegetables, but who knows what's behind Zhu Jinsong's life? How much effort did you put in?

Calculations over and over again, deduction over and over again, in order to take into account all possible situations, and strive to minimize their own casualties while doing as much damage to the Tartar government and officers and soldiers as possible.

When it's time to do it, you still have to do it.

Zhu Jinsong's current idea is to take the craftsmen captured from the Quanlin Palace to Menglianggu, and then slowly develop firearms based on Menglianggu, and gradually accumulate strength while fighting evil gentry.

But, who once said that the ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny - when Zhu Jinsong wanted to grow up and grow slowly, Emperor Qianlong who was far away in the capital was angry.

A mere hundred rebels actually wiped out a hundred households of virtuous and gentry families?All the officials of the four counties were killed?Yanzhou Bingbei and its [-] soldiers died in battle?Such a group of bandits actually appeared in the peaceful and prosperous age of my Qing Dynasty?

Of course, if it was just this, Emperor Qianlong felt that he could bear it for a while. After all, a little intolerance would lead to chaos and big plans, and it was not worth it to affect his plan to go to the south of the Yangtze River for the sake of a few rebels.

But what Qianlong couldn't bear was that Zhu Jinsong and his group of rebels had the guts to attack Quanlin Palace!
When did my Emperor Qianlong suffer such grievances?
Although this group of thugs have been repelled by the coated servants and guard generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, this kind of behavior is absolutely intolerable!If I endured this, wouldn't everyone dare to slap Daqing twice in the face!

Therefore, Emperor Qianlong, who was furious, directly summoned Fu Kang'an, the admiral of the Nine Gates, into the palace.

Looking at Fukang'an who was kneeling on the ground, Emperor Qianlong ordered with a cold expression: "I want to see Zhu Ni's head in Yanshenggong's mansion. I hope you can do well what that slave Mingxing can't do. "

Fukang'an bowed his head heavily and said, "Hey!"

(End of this chapter)