The thick-bearded man was as stunned as if he had been struck by lightning. He looked at the sick-looking man in disbelief and shouted in a trembling voice: "This is not true, this is not true, this is not true!..."
Seeing that the thick-bearded man was so excited that he almost lost control, the sickly-looking man hugged him and advised him: "Third brother, please calm down, Taiwan has really fallen, and the prince has already shaved off his hair and become more docile!"
"The prince has already trimmed his hair and changed his clothes...?"
The thick-bearded man fell backwards after hearing this. Fortunately, the sickly-looking man caught him in time and prevented him from falling.【】
"Third brother, things are already like this, so don't be too sad anymore. When my eldest brother heard the news, he was just as sad as you, but what can we do?"
The sick-looking man tried his best to comfort the big man with thick beard, hoping that he would not be too sad about this matter. After hearing this, the big man with thick beard did not speak for a long time. When everyone outside the tent saw this, they did not dare to come in and disturb, and they all stayed outside for a while.
, there was silence inside and outside the tent. Apart from the chirping of birds, not a single human voice could be heard in the entire valley.
After about half a stick of incense was touched, the sky turned dark, and the man with thick beard finally broke the silence and asked painfully: "When did it happen?"
The sick-looking man closed his eyes slightly and replied: "It happened in early August."
The thick-bearded man did not speak after hearing this. Instead, he walked to the altar, lit three incense sticks and inserted them into the incense burner. After kowtowing three times, he stood up and glanced at the sickly man: "How did eldest brother know about this?"
The sickly-looking man said: "Your second brother heard this from the Qing army when he sent food to Aiai."
The thick-bearded man nodded and suddenly asked: "Where is the prince now?"
The sick-looking man was startled when he heard the words, and said with some hesitation: "I don't know much about this. The prince is not convinced yet outside the customs, but according to my estimation, I am afraid that the prince has been sent to the capital together with Feng Xifan, Liu Guoxuan and others.
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Hearing the names of Feng Xifan and Liu Guoxuan, the thick-bearded man suddenly roared: "Didn't Liu Guoxuan claim to be a famous general? Didn't he say that the Penghu navy conquered all enemies in the sea? Couldn't the navy of the Qing court be able to do anything to Taiwan? Why now?
Taiwan has been lost again! The late king was really blind. He handed over the military power of Taiwan to him. Damn it, it was only him who allowed Taiwan and the prince to fall into the hands of the Qing court!"
Although the sickly-looking man who had roughly understood the Battle of Penghu had always been dissatisfied with Liu Guoxuan, seeing that the thick-bearded man attributed all the blame for the defeat of Penghu to Liu Guoxuan, he had to say a few words for him: "The Penghu Navy fought with Liu Guoxuan in June.
In the naval battle of the Qing Dynasty, our army was victorious in the first battle, but the wind direction changed suddenly, and several of our navy's warships capsized and were at a disadvantage again. It was God who destroyed our Ming Dynasty, and no human power could save it. Liu Guoxuan really couldn't withstand this.
It’s not that he was too talented that he was defeated, alas!” After saying that, he sighed heavily, a look of pain appeared on his face, as if he was regretting the tragic scene of the naval battle.
When the thick-bearded man heard what his elder brother said, he curled his lips and wanted to refute, but in the end he did not refute his elder brother. He paused and asked: "Brother, do you know who the Qing general who attacked Taiwan is?"
When the third brother asked this question, the sick-looking man became so angry that he punched the wooden table next to him and said viciously: "Shi Lang!"
"This bitch is a traitor!"
The big man with a thick beard also had an angry look on his face, and his facial features were distorted with hatred, which was really scary. After a while, the two men regained their composure. The big man with a thick beard held the God's tablet as if he had lost it, and said softly: "Is there a chief helmsman?"
information?"
The sickly man shook his head: "No, before we left Shandong, brothers from Qingmu Hall in Jiangsu wrote a letter saying that the chief rudder was active in Zhejiang. You know, the chief rudder and Feng Liu have never been on good terms, and neither did Feng Liu.
I hope that the chief rudder will return to Taiwan, so the chief rudder can only move around in the coastal provinces in these years. His whereabouts are unpredictable, and ordinary members of the congregation have no idea of his whereabouts. Anyone who can contact the chief rudder except the incense in Wutang Neiwutang
Lord, no one else knows that when we were in Hongshun Hall, we brothers were not allowed to enter the Xiangtang Hall to discuss affairs. After the Northern Song Dynasty, we were even given the blame by the Qing court and sent to the outside of the pass to deal with the Rakshasa people for them. Even though we are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, even if
The chief rudder knows that we are outside the customs, and he can't send anyone to contact us. What's more, we don't care about the chief rudder at the moment. Alas, Taiwan has died, and my last incense in the Ming Dynasty is over. To be honest,
Brother, I feel really bad about this, but it’s good, we finally have no conscience.”
Tiandihui has ten rooms in total, namely the front five rooms and the back five rooms. The front five rooms are Lotus Hall, Hongshun Hall, Jiahou Hall, Shentai Hall, and Honghua Hall. The back five rooms are Qingmu Hall, Chihuo Hall, Xijin Hall, and Xuan Hall.
Shuitang, Huangtu Hall. The first five rooms, the Changfang Lotus Hall should be in charge of Fujian, the second room Hongshun Hall should be in charge of Guangdong, the third room Fangjia Hall should be in charge of Guangxi, the fourth room Shen Taitang should be in charge of Hunan and Hubei, and the fifth room Honghua
The hall of the last five rooms should be in charge of Zhejiang. The Qingmu Hall of the first room should be in charge of Jiangsu, the Chihuo Hall of the second room should be in charge of Guizhou, the Xijin Hall of the third room should be in charge of Sichuan, the Xuanshui Hall of the fourth room should be in charge of Yunnan, and the Huangtu Hall of the fifth room should be in charge of Henan.
The Tiandihui was formed by Zheng Chenggong's old ministry, and its main force was in Fujian. Therefore, the Lotus Hall was the eldest and the strongest, followed by Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hunan, followed by Zhejiang and Jiangsu.
The sickly-looking man was Feng Laojiu, the leader of the Laogua thieves who had an acquaintance with Zhao Qiang in Songshan Fort. The thick-bearded man was his third sworn brother Peng Hu. The two also had a sworn brother named Lin Shengji.
, all three of them were members of the five-room Huangtu Hall after the Tiandihui. After Wu Sangui launched his army in the 13th year of Kangxi, the Huangtu Hall, under the instructions of the chief rudder Chen Yonghua, asked the brothers to recruit green forest troops in the Zhili area of Shandong, and on the surface
The business of robbing the rich and giving to the poor was secretly preparing to take advantage of the situation when the San Francisco army moved northward. Wu Sangui did not want to stop when he reached the Yangtze River. This northern land was not affected by the war in the slightest. The three Feng Laojiu brothers struggled to hold on.
After two years of waiting, the local government finally sent troops to break down the stronghold, and then he and his family were imprisoned without seeing the light of day.
They thought they would never see the sun again in this life, but the year before last, a group of Qing soldiers suddenly came and took them out of prison, escorted them all the way to the outside of the pass, and then took them and the family members of all the minions.
After being sent to Ninggu Pagoda, he told them that if they wanted to survive, they must obey orders, otherwise their families would be killed together with them. In this way, in order to save his subordinates and his own family, Feng Laojiu
He was forced to agree to work for the Qing army, and then led his men to Songshan Fort, and then to Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places, specifically sneaking behind the Rakshasa people to cause damage and steal their food.
Originally, he still remained loyal to Taiwan, to the Heaven and Earth Society, and to the Chief Commander, but once he heard that Taiwan had been lost, Feng Laojiu completely gave up the idea of restoring the Ming Dynasty. He had discussed it with his second brother, Lin Shengji,
The right way is to work honestly for the Qing government. From now on, the word "Heaven and Earth Society" should not be mentioned again. As soon as Peng Hu mentioned the chief helmsman Chen Yonghua, Feng Laojiu subconsciously expressed his thoughts.