When the panicked Yonglang and Mianen were released from their dark cowhide pockets, their minds were in chaos. They thought Heshen had taken them by Qianlong's decree. While they were stunned, the two Heshen's minions fumbled in their arms and soon found a heavy bag.

The leader of the leader took the brocade bag, walked to the table to take out the things, looked at them in the candlelight, and they were two gilded waist cards, with a dragon head on the top and a tail on both sides. The middle was written in Man and Han characters; one of the waist cards was engraved with "Imperial Gift----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The trembling Prince Yi Yonglang had not figured out the whole thing yet. He thought about what he had committed to the point that he had fallen to this point. Could it be that he was doing business with Beihai Town? But now which princes and ministers do not get involved in Anping Port's business? Not to mention the other side, the ginseng and mink fur were transported to the capital and could earn twice as much as they could.

Or maybe the incident of sending someone to contact Beihai Town in the first few days was exposed? Oops, this is a matter of losing your head!

Although this man who was the ninth Iron Hat King of the Qing Dynasty, he had to consider his own family in the face of the shaky state of the Qing Dynasty. Although the ruined Gurkha was whispered by the court, it was actually not a few of the powerful people in the dynasty who were willing to go.

Just as he was thinking about it, Mian En next to him realized that something was wrong, and his neck was covered in cold sweat. The faces of these men wearing armor did not look like Manren or Mongolian at all, and from the soft and silences he heard before, Mian En noticed that they spoke with a Nanyin.

These people are not big guards!

You should know that he is Qianlong's eldest son and second grandson. His father is the dead eldest prince Yonghuang. He was deposed for his brother Miande more than ten years ago, so he was promoted to Prince Ding's title. The year before yesterday was promoted to Prince Ding. Qianlong felt guilty about the eldest prince who died prematurely by his reprimand, and actually regarded him as the eldest grandson. Moreover, after Mianen attacked the prince, he has served as the presidential minister of the Eight Banners Guardians for more than ten years, and is responsible for the important task of defending the capital.

Yesterday morning, when he was facing the Holy Emperor, he was talking and laughing, and it was impossible to take him down without warning in a blink of an eye. Although Qianlong had some inconsistent words during his time, he was obviously old, but everything that happened just now did not conform to Qianlong's style of conduct. What's more, if you want to cure your sins, you don't need to ambush them at all. A decree can knock him down to the mortal world.

Thinking of the way Heshen appeared at the palace gate just now, an answer that made Mianen feel horrified and inexplicably emerged from his heart. Unexpectedly, Heshen, the most beloved white-faced treacherous minister in the world, actually betrayed the emperor and acquainted with Beihai Town to rebel!

He tried his best to slap his body, and used his shoulders to hit Yonglang next to him, constantly whimpering in his mouth, trying to remind the other party. The question is, how could Yonglang understand? His body was slanted and fell to the ground, lamenting in his heart: "Big nephew, we are all like this, can we stop tossing?"

At the same time, in the main room of the courtyard, Heshen put down the strong tea in his hand, took two waist cards from a leader of a dead soldier, looked over and over for a moment, and nodded with satisfaction. This was the military talisman he had been obsessed with. With these two things and the jade seal of the "Emperor's Treasure", he could mobilize all the soldiers and horses guarding the capital and the Old Summer Palace.

In other words, if others don’t have these two waist cards, no soldier can be transferred!

However, in order to make the plan smoothly implement, Heshen knew that this was not enough. Now the sky was bright outside, and the Old Summer Palace was awakened from its sleep again. All he had to do was to at least control the Qingyan of Jiuzhou until the palace gate was locked today, and he would never let anyone go in and out. And his other half of success or failure this time depends on Liu Quan.

Time returned more than an hour ago.

When Liu Quan, who was guarding Gujiatun, his heart shrank suddenly when he saw the mute eunuch, paused a few times, as if he was anxious to jump out of his mouth. He took the waist sign and forged decree handed over by the other party, carefully checked it, and then opened the letter Heshen wrote and read it twice. Then he said to the mute eunuch with a serious look on his face: "Jinxiang, go back and tell your master, I know what to do. Also, your parents, brothers and nephews will follow you, don't worry!"

The mute eunuch looked grateful and knelt down to Liu Quan and kowtowed repeatedly. Seeing this, Liu Yin, who was beside him, hurriedly helped him up.

Liu Quan squeezed out a few tears, held the other party's hand and said, "Jinxiang, we are all a family, why do we need so much politeness! The master will entrust you all, you must protect him carefully!"

After listening to Liu Quan's words, the mute eunuch said a few words excitedly, patted his heart hard, and then said goodbye with his fists.

After the person left, the needle in the house became a whisper. Liu Yin couldn't help but whisper: "Dad, why did you say that the master didn't even call him in advance? If the news leaked, it would be punished..."

"Fuck! Stop your crow's mouth!" Liu Quan glared at his son and said angrily: "Now, everything is useless to say! We can only walk one way! You go prepare the car and go back to Shihuyuan immediately."

Liu Yin responded, walked to the door and turned around and asked, "Are you really planning to take Sun Jinxiang's family with you?"

"What are you talking about?" Liu Quan waved his hand impatiently and signaled him to go and prepare the car quickly.

In Heshen's escape plan, this eunuch named Sun Jinxiang was a very critical figure. Heshen had distributed secrets in the palace and bribed many eunuchs, palace maids and guards. The purpose at the beginning was nothing more than to find out the news to please Qianlong. The reason why he liked Sun Jinxiang was not only because of the mute man who could keep secrets, but also because he was a "skilled eunuch" and often stood guard outside the bedroom.

In the late Kangxi period, the struggle for the throne was fierce, and the princes made friends with Kangxi's intimate guards and eunuchs, which attracted them to their own eyes. After Yongzheng entered Dabao, the first thing he did was to purify the palace ban. In order to prevent changes in his elbows, he ordered the selection of eunuchs to practice martial arts and protect the Da Nei. Since then, "skilled and brave eunuchs" appeared in the Qing Palace. Since Qianlong, there were 70 skilled and brave eunuchs in the Qing Palace, specializing in protecting the Summer Palace and Jizhou Palace.

To put it simply, in another time and space, when the British and French allied forces burned and plundered the Old Summer Palace, all the princes and ministers, including Xianfeng, and the Eight Banners soldiers ran away to the Summer Palace. In the end, the only few dozen skilled eunuchs could fight to the death. The Qing Dynasty really threw the face to grandma's house.

Sun Jinxiang was not born deaf and mute. When he was three years old, a high fever damaged the brain nerves, which made him become deaf and mute. Like other eunuchs, he was poor since childhood and had four older brothers. When he was seven years old, his father accidentally heard from others that he would not be dumb, and he might be able to make a fortune as a eunuch. So he gritted his teeth and borrowed money and took him to Beijing to clean up.

When he first entered the palace, he was just a Sula serving as a mate. After a long time, many people knew that he was a mute and could keep it secret, so many eunuchs in the palace ordered him to run errands. In the 36th year of Qianlong, Prince Zhuang, who was in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was ordered to select personnel from the eunuchs and learn martial arts. Sixteen-year-old Sun Jinxiang was selected because of his strong appearance. After that, he entered the Old Summer Palace and practiced foot shooting, bird guns, gun stabs, waist knives and Buku every day with the instructor of the Shanpu Camp. After four or five years, only ten eunuchs passed the assessment. He was fortunate to be arranged to be on duty in the Old Summer Palace. He either patrols or stayed outside the bedroom every night.

Although Sun Jinxiang's status is higher than that of ordinary eunuchs, he only earned one tael of silver and two and a half hu of rice than people of the same level. He is not like the eunuchs in charge and eunuchs who can't earn extra money and no one bribes him. Besides, his family is poor, and he hopes to eat and drink from him all the time, and his life is very hard.

The reason why Heshen wanted to win over Sun Jinxiang was actually because he was close to Qianlong, and he wanted to bribe all the eunuchs around Qianlong. In order to make friends, he asked Ma Bashisan to use 300 taels of silver to redeem Sun Jinxiang's "baby" from the knife craftsman, return it to him, and send 200 taels to his family.

You should know that the eunuch's greatest wish is to be able to redeem the "treasure" from the knife craftsman. When he gets old, he will go to the coffin with him, otherwise his ancestors will not recognize him. If Sun Jinxiang relies on his own salary, he may not be able to save it in another thirty years. From then on, he regards Heshen as his rebirth and devotes himself to it. In his understanding, no matter how good the emperor is, it is better to be with the adults; it is the eunuch's life to be with Qianlong, and doing things to be with the adults is to repay kindness.

When Heshen began planning to escape half a year ago, the first thing he thought was that he had to firmly control Sun Jinxiang. So he asked his subordinates to take Sun Jinxiang's family from his hometown in Hejian to the capital and moved into his "Shihuyuan" outside the Old Summer Palace.

It was a private garden that Qianlong gave him ten years ago when he was promoted to the co-organizer of the Grand Secretary. It was an affiliated garden of the Old Summer Palace. In the past, it was just a paddy field with few buildings. After Heshen's extensive renovation and construction, it became the most private garden that was the best in the capital. Usually, Heshen would live here if he was not on duty at the military service house, so he would live in case of summoning him at any time.

The more than a dozen people in the Sun family were usually responsible for taking care of the flowers and plants in the garden, and their lives were very comfortable. Hefu did not say that they were servants, but only said that they were relatives of the housekeeper Ma Bashisan. For Sun Jinxiang, Heshen's move made him feel even more incomparable. Every month, under the care of Heshen, he would go to Shihuyuan to reunite with his family for a while in the name of repairing military weapons in the military court and enjoy the joy of family.

After Sun Jinxiang left, he had only one meal. Liu Quan left Gujiatun with more than 20 guards from He Mansion and returned to Shihu Garden not far away. As soon as he entered the garden, he asked Liu Yin to call Ma Bashisan, Hu Shitu, Hu Liu, Fang Cun, Wang Ping and others to the flower hall, and asked him to go to the back house to invite the eldest son's second aunt.

Two quarters of an hour later, except for the second aunt, the unknown people arrived late. As soon as they entered the door, Hushtu yawned and said in the voice of the duck: "Manager Liu, Mr. Liu, where are you going to make trouble at night? What can't you wait until the morning to talk about it?"

This man, also named Liu, from Dacheng County, Zhili, was also a clean eunuch. He is now the inner resident of Hefu, and he is one mile away from Liu Quan. He is Heshen's right-hand man and loyal lackey, and is deeply trusted. In order to distinguish him from Liu Quan, the mansion calls him "Nei Liu". When Heshen built the Jiale Hall, he sent this person to collude with the eunuch in the palace, sneak into the Forbidden City, and brought out the hot samples of the buildings collected in Ningshou Palace, and then the famous Nanmu Hall was found.

Don’t be surprised, there were many eunuchs in the Qianlong era, but most of them worked in the homes of princes and ministers. Some Manchu officials were using them even if they were not royal families. The emperor was afraid of being cuckolded by others, and they were also afraid. The Ministry of Internal Affairs had always lacked effective management of eunuchs outside the palace, which led many eunuchs to join private houses as slaves. In history, this situation was not clear until after Jiaqing took power, what level of people were used.

Hearing the other party complaining, Liu Quan put down the cover bowl in his hand and said sinisterly: "What a big deal has happened, otherwise it wouldn't disturb your good dream."

Hey! Looking at my bad temper, Hushtu's face changed, thinking that he hadn't seen him for a long time, why did he speak sarcastically? He was about to have an attack when Ma Bashisan on the side suddenly asked, "What happened in the Forbidden Garden?"

Liu Quan did not say anything, but nodded with a serious expression. Seeing his appearance, Hushtu felt a little nervous and lost all sleepiness. He hurriedly said, "Where is our master?"

"I am guarding the emperor, and I can't live without it for a while."

Hushtu asked, "Then why are you back?"

Liu Quan was about to explain when he heard the woman's voice coming from outside the house. He and everyone present hurriedly got up, beat Qian'er to the beautiful woman who was walking in and said in unison: "Please to my second grandma."

The visitor was Chang Ergu, the second wife of He Mansion, followed by Liu Yin and a personal maid. The second sister of Chang Ergu was obviously not expecting that there were so many people in the house. She was shocked. When everyone got up, they looked at each other and found that they were all confidants in the mansion. She came to the main seat and sat down and asked, "Qiuer, what happened to such a big disturbance?"

Liu Quan gestured to Chang Ergu to let the maid go. Although Chang Ergu was a little dissatisfied, he still did as he did. When there was no outsider in the courtyard in the house, he took out Heshen's letter to Chang Ergu and others for circulating it, and then told about what happened in the palace ban at night, and everyone was shocked.

After reading the letter, the second aunt of Chang'er turned pale and almost fainted. Although she knew Heshen's escape plan and made a lot of preparations, she didn't expect that things would be so sudden. She bit her lip, forced herself to calm herself down, turned to look at Ma Bashisan, who was sitting on the right, and said, "Master, the master told me that this matter is mainly your plan. I ask you, what should I do next?"

Ma Bashisan carved his goatee and pondered for a moment, saying, "Second grandma, now the situation is already on the string and has to be fired. Since the master has made up his mind, we will have no way out. The most important thing now is to survive today's daytime. As long as the city gate is closed at night and then launched as planned, we can leave the city smoothly and board the ship in Tongzhou."

The second aunt of the eldest son lamented: "What should I do with the big grandma? She may not be able to withstand such troubles."

"Ma said something wrong with the superior, and he had to ban it. Moreover, the big grandma, the princess, the princess, and other aunts must leave the city in batches before the city gate is closed in the afternoon. According to what was set before, disguised and must not be noticed by the outside. You have to go back to the city now, Hushtu, Hu Liu, and Fang Cun will go back with you."

"It's all that." The second aunt sighed, forced her handrail to stand up, and was about to leave, when Liu Quan suddenly said, "Second grandma, don't complain about my nagging. The noise of packing things after going back must not be too loud. Take away those who can be taken away, and don't be reluctant to take them away. Once the wind is revealed, a big disaster will be in front of you!"

"I naturally understand this. I'll ask you all the things outside." After the second aunt of Chang'er said that, she stood up and gave blessings to everyone in the house. Heshen once harshly told her that she would not be willing to let go of this and that one. As long as the plan was successful, she would control the copper mine of the imperial court in her hands, she would have everything!

"Second grandma! You can't take it! This is all the duty of slaves." Liu Quan and others knelt on one knee, looking determined.

The second aunt of Chang left and went back to prepare, and everyone led by Liu Quan, Hushtu and Ma Bashisan discussed urgently for a while. Most of the details of the entire escape plan were drafted by Heshen and Ma Bashisan. In addition to transferring property in advance, secretly buying a temporary yard in Tongzhou and arranging the ship outside the ship, the most important things were two things. Control the guardian camp and the infantry commander's yamen, and the princes and ministers in the city could not leave the city to protect the Old Summer Palace.

The former, Heshen had already done it with his minions, and to achieve the second point, the capital must be put into a warning state, and the seventy-six gates inside and outside are all closed.

Speaking of the city alarms in the Qing Dynasty, it was mainly achieved by firing letter guns. Specifically in the capital, the city was warned through the White Tower on Qiongdao, Beihai and the nine city gates. The regulations were formulated by Longkodo in the early years of Yongzheng and have been used to this day.

One of them stipulates that in case of an emergency, it is either sent by the imperial front or by the commander of the infantry to send a gold medal with the words "Battle of the order" to the White Tower of Qiongdao. After verification by the officials on duty, the fire was accurate. At the same time, the Yellow Dragon Flag was hung on the flagpole during the day and lanterns were hung at night.

Once the cannons on the white tower sounded, all the cannons in the inner city would respond. At the same time, martial law was closed for the four gates of the imperial city and the nine gates of the inner city would be closed, and bannermen from all over the place would enter and mobilize. If the emperor was in the Forbidden City, all the firearms and military guards outside the city would gather outside Fucheng Gate; if it was in the Old Summer Palace, the garden should be protected first. As for the princes, ministers, civil and military officials, there would be no emperor's handwriting, let alone entering the garden, the city gate would not be able to go out.

However, this kind of thing has never happened since the constitution was formulated, so once something happens, the inner city will definitely fall into chaos.
Chapter completed!