The empress Luan drove back to the palace, and was greeted personally by the governor. There were complete guards of ceremony and loud drumming. There were a thousand cavalry lined up at the pier alone, all with black horses and silver armor. They were majestic. The streets were paved with pure soil along the way, and soldiers in brocade uniforms stood solemnly.
On both sides, the merchants and shops have been renovated, and the entire capital seems bustling and lively, giving people the feeling of the Apocalypse ZTE again.
The mansions of the clans are still there, but all the valuable things inside have been taken away. Shuntian Mansion is busy with everything, so naturally no one is there to investigate these small theft cases, even the princes, princes, princes, generals, and assistants.
The general of the country personally took the petition to Shuntian Mansion to complain, but no one paid attention to it. You must know that the new Shuntian Mansion Yin is a red shirt soldier. The old subordinate of the Lord Supervisor is very arrogant and doesn't care about your bullshit title. It is no better than now.
Once upon a time, as a prince, I put on my python robe and called you "Prince", but when you took off your robe, no one would look down on you.
It is indeed a different day, and even the most ordinary people have felt this. In the past, the emperor's relatives were high and tyrannical, but now it is really over. Those who have the throne are better off, and those who are below the generals who govern the country are better.
Son, there are people selling furniture on the street, such as huanghuali chairs, which are very good, and they are sold for money, which shows how embarrassed they are. This is inseparable from the Lord Supervisor's policy towards the clan.
In the past, the Zhu Ming royal family divided various areas into vassals, with land and houses, and even a considerable number of guards. Later, after the Battle of Jingnan, the guards were disbanded, and the vassal king was not even allowed to leave the fiefdom at will, which reduced the possibility of rebellion.
, but it is still possible to be a rich man. The palace seizure fifteen years ago, Prince Ning's rebellion four years ago, and Huang Zongxi's activities against the clan this year have gradually suppressed the treatment of the descendants of Zhu.
Bottom.
The Xixia army entered Nanjing and looted it fiercely, almost bankrupting the clan. After returning to Beijing, they encountered the harsh government of the supervisor, who cut the clan's support money by 80%! A prince could earn ten yuan a year.
The salary of ten thousand taels of silver is now only twenty thousand. As for the low-ranking auxiliary generals, they simply refuse to pay it. The reason is very simple. The court is not rich and cannot afford to support idle people.
The clan members want to make trouble, but they can't make it happen. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Zhu family is over. Liu Ziguang would have been very kind if he didn't kill you freeloaders while he was in Xuzhou. He also wanted to make people spend a huge amount of money.
Support you? Are you dreaming? Even academics who are familiar with the teachings of Confucius and Mencius agree very much with the new policies of Lord Supervisor, and they are full of praise when talking about it: Lord Supervisor, you are benevolent and righteous.
A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. No matter how poor these clans are, they still have furniture and houses. They can always survive by pawning, selling, and renting them. Those are all things for later. First, Queen Xu Yuan Huiluan drove back to the Forbidden City. Liu Ziguang immediately
Enter Kunning Palace to meet with the driver to discuss matters.
There are still those eunuchs and maids in the Forbidden City, but the imperial guards and imperial guards have all been replaced with red-shirted sergeants. The eunuchs have completely lost their status. The entire institution of the ceremonial supervisor has been abolished, and the older eunuchs have been forced to retire.
, it doesn’t matter how much money you bring out of the palace, as long as you don’t stay in the palace anymore and get in the way. The older palace maids are also forced to retire in batches. Those who have a family go home, and those who don’t have a family help find their husband’s family. Anyway, there are many bachelors in the red shirt army.
Yes.
At the same time, a new system was implemented. The palace maids have a retirement period. Anyone who has not conceived a dragon seed by the age of twenty-two and has not been promoted to a female official will be dismissed. After the implementation of the system, the palace has lost many sluggish people. Those who are older and like The scheming nuns were all invited out of the palace, and a group of newly-selected beauties came in instead. There were only a few hundred people, all fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls. For a time, the palace was full of laughter and harmony. .
Listening to the laughter of the newly drafted girls outside, the queen also had smile lines on her face. She was originally a twenty-two-year-old girl, at the age where she was lively and loved to be lively. She was forced to be stern and unsmiling by the palace life. It was a tragedy to think about it.
"The emperor is gone, so why choose these beautiful girls? Even if the new emperor ascends the throne, he is just a baby. If he doesn't need these, can it be said that the supervisor can't wait any longer?" Xu Yuanhui teased.
This is a mockery of Liu Ziguang's eagerness to become a big treasure. Both of them are straightforward people, and there is no need to secretly play riddles. Liu Ziguang smiled and said: "The queen is joking. I promised the empress dowager that this world belongs to the Zhu family. Now it is, It will still be the case in the future. As for the Emperor, please look at this first, Queen." He took out a roll of paper from his arms and handed it directly to the Queen.
People's eyes were wide open. This was so unruly. It was supposed that the master of the prison should hand over the things that should be presented to the eunuch, and then the eunuch should hand it to the maid, and the maid should give it to the queen. This is good. The two of them were passing things face to face like this. It was so... so unbecoming, so unbecoming!
The queen was so carefree that she didn't care about that. She took the paper roll and unfolded it. It turned out to be a telegraph newspaper with a few numbers on it. After reading it, Xu Yuanhui's face turned pale and she asked: "Is this... is it true?"
Liu Ziguang nodded and said: "It should be true. The emperor has taken over the throne in Beijing. He really belongs to Xiaoqiang, which makes me happy. However, Beijing is under the control of the Yuan family and his son, and the emperor has Wei Zhongxian, a treacherous minister, beside him. I'm afraid... Firstly, I'm afraid that the Yuan family and his son will use the emperor to order the princes, and secondly, they're afraid that Wei Zhongxian will continue to harm the country and the people, so, alas, I'll ask the queen to make a decision."
It turned out that Zhu Youxiao actually escaped from Shanghai again, arrived in Beijing through some unknown means, and ascended the throne again with the support of the Yuan family and his son. He immediately issued an imperial edict calling on the Qin King Jingnan to crusade against the Nanjing supervisory regime. Telegrams and telegrams have been sent. It was sent out, but ordinary people in the capital have not yet received the news.
Xu Yuanhui had no idea about major military affairs, so she just asked Liu Ziguang: "What do you plan to do to supervise the country?"
Liu Ziguang said: "The whole world belongs to the Emperor, what can I do? I just welcome His Majesty back to the capital."
Xu Yuanhui said: "Will the emperor return to Nanjing?"
Liu Ziguang said: "It is my business to invite you or not, and it is his business to reply or not. No matter what the emperor has done to disgrace me, I can forgive you. I have done everything I can to cover up the world." Then let the north do the rest."
In the Forbidden City in Beijing, the palaces here are much more grand than those in Nanjing, but they lack some of the imperial atmosphere and are deserted. It is said that Yuan Chonghuan has ordered the eunuchs from the former Qing Dynasty to be summoned, and he has also recruited beautiful women from the private sector to fill the palace. , try your best to make this palace look like that.
In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao was sitting on a brocade-padded armchair with a pale face. Wei Zhongxian stood beside him with his waist bent. Standing at the door was the guard commander Zhao Xingde. The three of them fled to Tianjin in a submarine from Shanghai and experienced nine deaths before arriving. I went to Beijing and became the emperor again, but I always felt that something was wrong with my role as emperor.
The palace was full of Yuan Chonghuan's personal soldiers as guards. Although they obeyed his words, the expressions in their eyebrows were not so submissive. The eunuchs also had their own faction. There was no one like Wei Zhongxian. The three of them seemed to be isolated people.
It's like a caged bird in this palace.
Several times he summoned Yuan Chonghuan to the palace to discuss matters, but he refused to come. He said he was busy with military affairs, which was true. This time, he and Liu Ziguang had a face-to-face fight. Could Yuan Chonghuan not go all out? As for the defense of Beijing, he left it to his son.
Yuan Chengzhi.
Yuan Chengzhi went to the palace sooner or later to pay his respects, but he was not respectful to the emperor in his words. Today, Zhu Youxiao proposed to personally develop the Flying Divine Wing to boost the military power, and asked Yuan Chengzhi to allocate 500,000 taels of silver and 100 craftsmen to him.
But he rejected it on the spot, and even advised the emperor to stay in the palace and not to cause trouble, and not to do those sensual things. The money and craftsmen were limited, so they had to be reserved to deal with Liu Ziguang, a rebellious minister and traitor. How could anyone be rich enough for the emperor to have fun?
, and walked away after saying that.
Zhu Youxiao was so angry that he smashed three or four large vases in a row. If he had been in Nanjing, people would have knelt on the ground and kowtow to plead guilty, but no one paid attention here. Those former Qing eunuchs simply didn't care.
He disappeared and ran off to gamble somewhere with his fly whisk in his arms. Only Wei Zhongxian tried hard to persuade the emperor: "Your Majesty, please don't get so angry that you have to think about all the people."
Zhu Youxiao said angrily: "This Yuan Chengzhi is so outrageous. Thinking about how I trusted him in the first place, has he forgotten? Does he want to imitate Liu Ziguang? Also wants to be Cao Cao?"
Wei Zhongxian was so frightened that he quickly kowtowed: "Your Majesty, please keep your voice down. Be careful that the walls have ears."
Zhao Xingde seemed very smart at this moment. He rushed out and looked around, then retracted and said: "It doesn't matter, those eunuchs are gambling in the distance."
Zhu Youxiao closed his eyes, and tears came out of his eyes. It was already a bit cold in Beijing in October, and there was no brazier in the Qianqing Palace. It was so deserted and deserted. Thinking of his country, he became even more sad, and took pictures
He put his hand on Wei Zhongxian's shoulder and said, "I have only you as my loyal minister."
Wei Zhongxian said: "This slave will die ten thousand times to repay the emperor's favor. Your Majesty must not be sad. With the blessing of our ancestors, everything will be fine."
The monarch and his ministers hugged each other and cried.
On the Texas front line, Yuan Chonghuan frowned and looked at the company camp in the distance with a telescope. Recently, more and more enemy troops have landed from Qingdao. The company camp is hundreds of miles away. There are countless tens of thousands of troops. Every day, the flags cover the sun.
, the gongs and drums are noisy, and the hussars wearing dark iron armor come and go like the wind. Their faces do not look like the people of the Middle Kingdom, some are white and some are black, some are tall and strong, wearing horn helmets, showing off their strong muscles, yellow-haired barbarians.
There are heavily armored knights with only their eyes exposed, a Persian swordsman with a white cloth wrapped around his head and a scimitar hanging from his waist, and a short and muscular Japanese ninja jumping back and forth. I don’t know where Liu Ziguang came from.
So many soldiers and horses.
Yuan Chonghuan's soldiers and horses are not weak either. They have the foundation of the old Xuzhou Army and the strength of the Western Army. However, they are frightened in the face of these grotesque enemy troops. From Yuan Chonghuan to ordinary soldiers, no one has the courage to fight.
We can only hold on to the city.
So many reinforcements suddenly arrived, which even Liu Ziguang himself did not expect.