Wu Sangui took a few people and ran upstairs after hearing the words. He saw Liu Ziguang standing next to a beautifully decorated canopy bed. The bed board was opened to reveal the secret room inside. When he stretched his head, he saw a nanmu box with its mouth open.
Inside, there were some small pearls and golden beans at the bottom of the box. Apparently I was in a hurry and didn't have time to take them away. There were also two sets of clothes thrown aside.
"Brother, you are so clever and clever. You found the secret passage through which the thieves came in all at once." Wu Sangui praised.
"It's a joke, this is the tradition of Lao Zhu's family. They like to install secret passages under the bed. Send a few people to track them down and pay attention to the hidden weapons." Liu Ziguang shrugged his shoulders and said. Back then, the first time he robbed the palace was through the secret passage on the bed.
Liu Maomao, who had escaped and met there, was very impressed, so he ran to the canopy bed as soon as he got up, and sure enough he found a mystery on it.
The soldiers followed the secret path to the grove in the distance and found messy footprints and horse hoof traces. The footprints were very similar to the footprints left in Tengwang Pavilion. They belonged to the same style of boots, and the soles of these boots were
It's very strange. It's not the standard of King Ning's army or the army of Wu Sangui's men. Instead, it has similar patterns to the boots on the feet of Liu Ziguang's strong men.
"I know, this was done by Zuo Mengeng's people." Liu Ziguang suddenly realized that the boots worn by his strong men all came from the Zuo Army's warehouse and had the same texture.
Wu Sangui felt that it was very shameless to let Zuo Mengeng steal the treasure under his nose. Liu Ziguang felt that there was nothing he could not defeat. No matter how much gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings were, it would be difficult to cash them in. Even if they could be cashed out, it would be difficult to recruit soldiers and horses. Now the overall situation
It has been decided that all the remaining hostile forces in Huguang and Jiangxi have surrendered. Only a few small troops that fled from Poyang Lake are left. A team of several thousand people cannot make much waves no matter how powerful their combat power is. They lack war horses.
Weapons, food, fodder, and military pay, plus being dispersed into three or four small teams of more than a thousand people, we might end up being hunted down by bandits in any ravine we go to.
A large number of things that could only be used by the emperor, such as dragon robes and crowns, were seized from the palace of Prince Ning in Nanchang. Prince Ning was so arrogant, which showed that he had long wanted to usurp the throne. Liu Ziguang packed these things and sent them to the capital to present to the emperor. As for the things found in the search,
Cash, weapons, armor and other items were directly deposited into the local official treasury. Of course, I did not forget to do a little trick when entering the account, and wrote the 600,000 taels of silver into 160,000 taels.
The errand in Nanchang came to an end. Liu Ziguang did not wait for the governor of Jiangxi appointed by the imperial court to take office, and then headed back to Wuchang with his subordinates. He left Wu Sangui to do small tasks such as purging the remaining troops of King Ning.
Taking advantage of the pretext of disaster relief, the imperial court solved Zuo Liangyu with lightning speed, and extinguished King Ning's rebellion with overwhelming force. This made the warlords in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou and other places tremble with fear. The imperial court was no longer what it used to be.
Instead of a weak court, it was an aggressive and powerful court under the leadership of the wise emperor. The lessons learned by Zuo Liangyu and King Ning made them begin to reposition their positions. After a short period of consideration, these dominating parties
The princes declared their loyalty to the imperial court one after another, and expressed their willingness to send their sons to the capital to exercise and learn. There is no doubt that this is an act of goodwill and loyalty, but the imperial court did not
Unsatisfied, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about the hostages they sent. He wanted real control, but it was really unwise to use weapons. Subduing the enemy without fighting was the best strategy, so the emperor issued an order,
Wu Sangui was appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Huguang Army, and Jin Shengheng was appointed as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Army. All their troops were reorganized into the Royal Guards. The two of them cooperated with the Governor of Huguang, He Tengjiao, to deal with the matter of the return of native land to locals in Western Hunan first. After the success of this demonstration area in Western Hunan,
, and then slowly start working on Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. As for Liu Ziguang, he can return to Beijing after finishing what he wants to do.
In Guangzhou, at the foot of Baiyun Mountain, a middle-aged man wearing a silk shirt was walking aimlessly. Although his temperament looked like that of a wealthy man, his eyes were hollow, and he seemed to have many things hidden in his heart. This man was
It was Zhu Changhui, the king of Ning who was defeated and in trouble.
Originally, Zuo Mengeng's plan was to break up the troops into parts, spread them out and infiltrate southward, and then gather outside the city of Guangzhou. After gathering the troops, he would buy a ship and go out to sea to create a great event. However, most of the Zuo army was born from farmers after all, and their homeland was in trouble.
In addition, the court posted notices everywhere to pardon these low-level rebels, so a considerable number of them surrendered. There were also some people who were willing to follow Zuo Menggeng south, but were intercepted and killed by thieves on the road. So Zuo Menggeng and Ning
Wang and others waited in Guangzhou for several days, but only waited for hundreds of men led by Li Guo.
For the time being, they live in a carriage shop near Baiyun Mountain. The conditions here are not very good. King Ning, who is used to fine clothes and fine food, is not used to it, but now he is already the bare commander. Zuo Menggeng and his gang ignore him at all.
, I just said you can’t stay in a hotel that’s too good to avoid exposing your whereabouts.
While Zuo Menggeng continued to wait for his subordinates, he contacted Guangzhou about buying a ship and hiring sailors. They were all from the north, and the language barrier was very inconvenient, so there has been no progress these days. Zuo Menggeng, Li Guo, and the others were busy.
There was no one to talk to Prince Ning, so Zhu Changhui took a chance and slipped out for a walk.
Prince Ning has lived in Nanchang for a long time and has never been to the capital once. Guangzhou was the second most prosperous city in the Ming Dynasty after Shanghai. It was home to many businessmen from the West and Southeast Asia. The economy was very developed. As the saying goes, the forest is so big.
There are all kinds of birds, no, Prince Ning has been targeted.
There were a group of lean local gangsters in the corner. Their glaring eyes were fixed on the heavy money bag around Prince Ning's waist. They exchanged glances and both agreed that this old man wearing an outdated silk shirt was his first time.
Foreigners coming to Guangzhou are the most suitable targets to attack.
Prince Ning was walking boredly when he suddenly saw a lot of people watching something by the wall, so he squeezed over and took a look. It turned out to be a notice to arrest him and Zuo Mengeng. There were also figures on it, although the man and the boy were painted on it.
There was a big difference in Prince Ning's appearance, but it still frightened him so much that he quickly shrank his neck and retreated from the crowd.
King Ning struggled to get out of the crowd, but accidentally bumped into someone behind him. King Ning was used to being a prince, so he naturally would not apologize. Instead, he would carelessly wait for people to kowtow to him and apologize. The person who was hit by King Ning was a very
The thin local young man was covering his ears and complaining of pain. A young man he was traveling with pointed at King Ning and said, "My brother was picking out earwax when you hit him. Now he is deaf. What should you do?"
Ning Wang said: "Why are you picking out earwax while walking? You deserve to be deafened. What a stupid thing to do to me."
The young man was furious: "You are a street bastard. You hurt someone and you still dare to act violently. Believe it or not, I will punch you to death." As he spoke, he waved his arms as thick as a hemp pole to intimidate Prince Ning. The two young men were both 1.5 meters tall.
With a height of around 100, he was naturally no deterrent in front of the mighty King Ning. King Ning had been losing battles recently and was in a bad mood. Seeing these two boys bullying him in public, there was no reason to let him go.
He rolled up his sleeves and pressed his two big fists against each other's joints, ready to show off Prince Ning's former glory.
The gangsters didn't expect that this old man was actually a stupid young man. He originally just wanted to blackmail two people, but now he had to jump out and fight in a group to save face. So eight more young people with the same short stature came over and showed off their weapons.
Chains, daggers, wooden sticks and other weapons surrounded Prince Ning. The leader shouted: "Yankee, do you think we, the Ten Tigers of Guangdong, are easy to bully?"
The gangsters thought that they were outnumbered and the Yankee must be scared, but they blackmailed and chose the wrong person. The arrogant Prince Ning is known to be crazy and will eat soft things rather than hard ones.
The more he aroused Prince Ning's interest, and when he saw that he was surrounded, a smile actually appeared on Prince Ning's broad face, and he said disdainfully: "Should you come up one by one, or together."
The Ten Tigers of Guangdong looked at each other guiltily, thinking that this Yankee was still an expert, so he replied: "We brothers will fight together against one person, and we will fight together against a hundred people."
Prince Ning laughed boldly: "That's fine, it saves me time. Come on."
Shi Hu waved his weapon and screamed at him. Although King Ning was not good at martial arts, he was still a bit taller than these skinny thugs. In addition, he was tall and strong, so he didn't suffer any disadvantage in the fight. But the Guangdong bad guy
He was notoriously difficult to deal with, and ten people swarmed him, knocking him down and getting up again, knocking him down again and getting up again. As time went by, King Ning couldn't bear it anymore. His silk shirt had been cut several times with daggers. If he continued like this, he might be afraid.
He was about to die on the spot.
At a critical moment, someone suddenly shouted: "If you hit one out of ten, you are not a hero." Then someone joined the battle group. This man was very tall. He had a black cloak swinging around and looked very majestic. He held a handful in his hand.
The slender sword was even more skillful, and it could cut open the clothes of the rogues without hurting their bodies. After a while, ten rogues were beaten to the ground by the two of them.
The man inserted the long sword back into his waist and scolded: "Next time, don't let me hear you pretending to be the Ten Tigers of Guangdong again, otherwise you will tell Master Huang of Baozhilin to get out!"
The ten thugs scurried away, and the man turned around and said to King Ning: "Dear friend, I admire your courage to fight against ten thugs alone. I wonder if I have the honor of knowing you?"
Prince Ning did not answer, because he was shocked to find that this guy who spoke fluent southern Mandarin was actually a blond and blue-eyed Westerner.