Chapter 46: The stubborn donkey was ordered to kill the palace, Yang Qilong fled
Because all the Imperial Guards were replaced by strangers, it took a lot of trouble for Xiao Maozi to convince the garrison of Shanpu Camp and take him to see the officials of the House of Internal Affairs before letting him into the palace. That night he was being chased by a nightmare.
However, until this moment, his heart was not relaxed at all: there were more than 1,000 eunuchs in the palace, and more than 300 people were present at the meeting, and more than 50 eunuchs among them had received "red hats." This alone was called
People are timid!
"Slave Xiao Maozi respectfully greets the Holy Ann!"
Kangxi was reading memorials under the lamp of Yangxin Hall. He heard the self-ringing bell ringing eleven times. It was already the time of Zichu. He was about to get up and stretch his muscles when he saw Xiao Maozi suddenly kneeling in front of him. He was really surprised and happy: "It's you who are back."
! Get up, I'm sitting over there - what happened? Why haven't you come back for so long? What's wrong with you, you look so ugly? "
"It's okay, my slave." Xiao Maozi smiled strangely, "Is this all part of the errands? Long live the master's permission for the slave to take these days off. The slave's mother has been too busy at home. Thanks to the master, she is already in good health.
Already."
Kangxi stared at Xiao Maozi intently, trying to figure out what he meant by what he said. Xiao Maozi was afraid that he would ask again. He stood up and went over to hold a piece of white fox fur over. He said with a smile: "If you don't come back for a few days, it's the rule in the palace."
Everything has been changed. There are no lights at the Qianqing Palace, and Mr. Wei and the others are no longer waiting here. It’s so cold outside, I have to wear this when I go to the Chuxiu Palace." Kangxi thought about it and couldn't help laughing.
: "What are you afraid of! I'm not stupid either! Look here..." After that, he smiled at the person behind the curtain and said, "Xiao Wei Zi! Xiao Mao Zi misses you, come out and meet me."
As soon as he finished speaking, the curtain was opened, and there was a row of wooden poles inside, with five first-class guards sitting side by side, Wei Dongting, Tu Hai, Lang Ding, Mu Zixu, and Jianluzi, all neatly dressed and sitting with their swords hanging. There was also another one.
The elegant Zhou Peigong had dark and deep eyes under his eyebrows, shining with crystal clear eyes. Everyone except Tu Hai and Zhou Peigong were looking at Xiao Maozi and smiling.
"My mother!" Xiao Maozi breathed a sigh of relief, his legs softened, and he slumped to the ground. His chest felt sweet, and he vomited out a mouthful of blood. Kangxi hurriedly helped him up, and asked in surprise: "You
What's going on?" Xiao Maozi said: "The things in the palace are very scary. If my escort generals weren't here, Xiao Maozi would have to dare to go to the empress to speak! As long as something happened over there, everything would be over.
There will be a big fuss in the palace soon!" Then, intermittently and continuously, he weakly explained in detail what he had just experienced and Yang Qilong's arrangements.
"Please make a decision immediately!" Zhou Peigong had just finished listening and hurriedly knelt forward and said, "The matter is extremely urgent!"
Kangxi also felt that the situation was serious. As soon as Xiao Maozi left, Yang Qilong was very likely to start an uprising immediately. The Eight Banners, Green Camp, and Ruijian Camp near the capital had been ordered to go to Taiyuan, Shaanzhou, Luoyang and other places. Only Wei Dongting was in the capital.
He Tuhai's five thousand troops and horses were scattered inside and outside the city. If the twenty thousand red hats really gathered together, it would be really difficult to deal with them.
"Tuhai!" Kangxi suddenly shouted sharply.
"The slave is here!"
"Those who are good at attacking people hide their secrets. The dagger is about to come out with a calm expression!" Kangxi gritted his teeth, with a cold and vicious light in his eyes, "You and Zhou Peigong are the ones sent by Yang Qilong to go to the location of the Thirteenth Incident and the capture of Wu Yingxiong.
manage!"
"twitter!"
"Unleash your methods!"
"Cha!" The two of them responded in unison.
After they left, Kangxi turned to Wei Dongting and told Wei Dongting: "Go to the north of Longzongmen, where Xiong Cilu, Suo'etu, Yi Bilong, Mi Sihan, Mingzhu and others are all on duty there, and they are all unarmed scholars.
Something happened in the palace, one of them was injured, but you are the only one asking!"
"Cha-it's just Banzai here..."
"How can it be true that all palaces are the opposite?" Kangxi said calmly, "I can handle it here. There are only more than 300 people there. What's the big deal?" After that, he said to Lang Ding: "Preach the decree to Chuxiu Palace.
The queen, the noble concubine Niu Hulu, asked Concubine Hui to take the prince and immediately go to Cining Palace to accompany the Empress Dowager Cijia. They detained all the eunuchs in Cining Palace and ordered the eunuchs in charge of the other palaces to seal the palace gates.
No one is allowed to come in or out. It is a credit to you and me for guarding Cining Palace!"
After listening to Kangxi's order, Lang Ling hurriedly kowtowed and agreed: "Yes! - Brother Mu, Brother Jiang (the real name of the donkey is Jiang Lizi), you have to be more patient!" Mu Zixu nodded solemnly. The donkey rubbed his hands.
Shou smiled and said: "Go and do your errands quickly! Don't be like Brother Wei and nag about your mother-in-law and mother-in-law - we can save it!"
"You're tired." Kangxi waited for everything to be arranged, and then came to comfort Xiao Maozi, "Go to the back to rest first, and when you're done, I'll give you half a year's leave to recuperate. Someone, help Xiao Maozi to the back, and then light it again."
Ten candles come!”
"In reply to Lord Long Live," Hou Wen, the deputy steward of Yangxin Hall, came over and knelt down and said, "Since the 15th Long Live of the twelfth lunar month, we have issued an order to strictly control the lights. The candles in each palace are counted and given. We
There is nothing extra. If we add ten more, the Yangxin Hall will be dark in two hours."
"Fart!" Kangxi roared angrily, "The lights are strictly controlled because they are afraid of fires. Why do I have to control them too? Send someone to get them immediately!"
Hou Wen was so panicked that he quickly knelt down and said, "How dare you bully your master! It's just that Liu Peng from the candle oil depot is not in the palace tonight, so it's hard to find him right now."
Kangxi was so angry that he had nothing to say. He waved his hands and said, "Get out! Get all the wax from the eunuchs in each room of Yangxin Palace - get more tomorrow!" After saying that, he sat down again, read a few lines of the memorial, and felt that he was heartbroken.
He was so messed up that he simply leaned on the big pillow and closed his eyes to meditate. Mu Zixu and Donkey guarded Kangxi with their eyes wide open.
At the end of the day, the fire broke out. First, there was an explosion in the northeast of the city, shaking the sleeping city of Beijing in the winter night. Then there was another fireball in the west, with a thunderous sound. Kangxi, who was in a haze, opened his eyes in confusion.
He strode out of the temple and stood under the Danqi to watch the fire - he saw thick smoke rising into the sky in the direction of the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, and the fire was red. Before Kangxi could think about it, the drum tower in the southwest also caught fire, and this time the noise was louder.
The fire was brighter, and the sound of gongs was heard everywhere outside the palace. The drums of Shuntian Mansion, the Yamen of the Ministry of War, the Shanpu Camp, and the Jiumen Admiral's Mansion were beating loudly, and horns sounded one after another. The rapid sound of horse hooves pounded outside the palace.
The hard frozen soil and flagstones of the Imperial Street were mixed with the frightened cries, screams and curses of women and children, and the city of Beijing fell into an extremely terrifying and uneasy chaos.
Kangxi calculated that it was time for both sides to take action. It would be good if Tuhai and the others could maintain six or seven fires. Seeing that there were only three fires, Kangxi couldn't help but nodded and happily said to Mu Zixu: "Tuhai rides on Zhou Peigong to advance."
It’s not small, if you can capture the thief’s head, then—” Before he finished speaking, the candle oil warehouse in the palace also caught fire.
In an instant, there was a commotion in the palace. The palace was full of people, and ghosts were crying and wolves were howling. The courtyard of Yangxin Palace was also like a camp suddenly exploded. The eunuchs were shouting and yelling mindlessly, running around everywhere, and all the lights suddenly
They were destroyed together, and there was darkness and chaos.
"Hou Wen, hold the lamp, hold the lamp!" Mu Zixu shouted, and he and Donkey drew their swords in their hands at the same time, took Kangxi to the glazed screen wall of Yangxin Hall and stood against the wall.
Hou Wen was shaking all over, and brought over twenty candles. He was so panicked that he couldn't even light the fire. Mu Zixu was so anxious that he pushed him on his back, and when he shook the candle and looked at it, he couldn't help but be stunned: It turned out that the candle
The whole core was pulled out. The stubborn donkey was furious, stepped forward and stepped on Hou Wen, and asked with a ferocious smile: "You are probably the one who fucked the third prince Zhu!"
"No no... no..." Hou Wen was so frightened that he couldn't even speak clearly.
"Go to hell with you!" The stubborn donkey cut it out with a sword, "If you're not a traitor, why did you take out the wax core?"
In the midst of the chaos, the hanging flower door was knocked open like thunder. Suddenly, the courtyard of Yangxin Hall became even more chaotic. The eunuchs were howling and scurrying around like headless flies: "Grandpa Tian, grandma grandma - it's the other way around, it's the other side."
Come on!" A eunuch brandished a knife, yelled "Catch the rebels", and rushed towards the screen wall. Mu Zixu protected Kangxi without moving, and the stubborn donkey took the eunuch holding the knife over with a single lunge.
He stabbed Kangxi with his sword at an angle, and blood sprayed all over Kangxi like a fountain. Then there was another crash from the hanging flower door, and a group of people lit five or six torches and rushed in! The stubborn donkey roared: "What a thief!" and rushed towards him.
When he was about to take action, Mu Zixu grabbed him and said hurriedly: "It's Lafayette who's here!"
The person who came was really the Empress Dowager! Kangxi felt excited and burst into tears. When he looked intently, Queen Hesheli and Concubine Niu Hulu were supporting the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, who had white hair like silver. The light of the torch reflected the wolf.
Look, I saw him standing aside with a sword in his hand and a scowl in his eyes.
"Mo Ju, light more torches!" Queen Hesheli ordered loudly. She was nearly nine months pregnant and was a little short of breath, but she seemed calm and powerful. "Where is the stubborn donkey? Come out and answer the question!"
The stubborn donkey was catching a eunuch and slapping him fiercely. When he heard the queen's greeting, he jumped over quickly, bowed in the light of the torch and replied: "Master, the stubborn donkey is here!"
"I am the Lord of the Sixth Palace, the Mother of the World!" Hesheli said sternly, "Change your name to Wu Dan, and you are allowed to kill in the palace today!" As he was speaking, a dark figure jumped out from the darkness, beside him
Mo Ju, who was standing there, waved a torch to resist, but was already stabbed in the calf by the attacker. He fell to the ground with a "dong" sound, and even the queen was hit and staggered.
Wu Dan was furious. He was originally a horse thief in Guandong and had the most cruel temper. Since he followed Kangxi, he has been subject to many restrictions and cannot kill people casually. Seeing that the rebellious eunuchs were so rampant, Wu Dan yelled: "I will obey the emperor's decree."
!" He flew over and grabbed the man's back collar, twisted it, turned him over, and slashed the man's heart from his chest to his navel with his sword. He took out his heart and liver and threw it to the sleeping Mo Ju: "Eat it.
His heart won't hurt anymore!" Seeing how ferocious he was, the Queen was so frightened that she closed her eyes. Even though the Empress Dowager was well-informed, she couldn't help but clasping her hands and chanting Buddha's name.
Seeing that Lang Ding and Mu Zixu had secured their master, Wu Dan screamed and rushed towards the dark ground, killing anyone with a knife - there was a rule in the palace that eunuchs were not allowed to hide weapons secretly, so
None of the people who were killed were unjust - he killed five or six people in a row and disemboweled them all. The eunuchs were so frightened that they didn't dare to run around anymore. There were only about twenty of them left, probably after they had drunk and burned them.
Fu, holding the knife with red eyes, shouted wildly and recited a spell: "Emperor of Heaven, Emperor of Earth, there is no place to hide in the great disaster..." and rushed towards Kangxi.
At this point, the situation became very clear. Lang Ling was a careful and calm person, so he spotted the leader in the middle, and unexpectedly got out of the shadow of the torch with a "whoosh", and dragged the man into the middle of the torch with his chest open, and towards the torch.
He kicked his hind legs violently, and the man fell to his knees with a plop. Lang Ling turned around and shouted at the group of eunuchs: "Look at what he looks like!" As he spoke, he swung his sword like a melon.
He chopped it several times quickly like chopping vegetables - the eunuch's arms and legs were cut off, his waist was also cut into three parts, and then his head was cut off - in the blink of an eye, he was cut into eight pieces.
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The eunuchs were so frightened that they lost their minds one by one. They threw away their knives and fell on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy. It turned out that most of the eunuchs in the palace were left behind by the Qian Ming Dynasty.
"Tell the Criminal Division to imprison him first and then punish him!" Kangxi felt disgusted when he saw the blood on the ground and the corpses in a mess. He was afraid of shocking the palace family members, so he ordered the guards to stop. When he turned around, he saw Wei Dongting walking away dripping with sweat.
He came over and asked, "Are you okay there?"
"It's exactly the same as here. There are only two trouble spots in the palace!" Wei Dongting said, "I have dealt with it, but I am not worried about the emperor, so I came here to have a look."
The Empress Dowager had always admired Wei Dongting. Seeing that his body was not stained with blood or stains, she asked in surprise: "You didn't kill anyone?"
"I don't dare to kill people because I don't follow the holy orders and the decree." Wei Dongting hurriedly knelt down and replied, "I only picked a dozen people with hamstrings. I'm afraid they will inevitably be disabled." The Empress Dowager clasped her hands and said: "Amitabha! I will reward you with gold.
One hundred taels, each person here has five taels!"
Kangxi couldn't help laughing when he heard his grandmother's treatment.
In Tuhai, Zhou Peigong acted quickly. He first sealed off all the important roads in the capital so that the rebels outside the city could not enter. He only sent a small number of sergeants to the ignition site to beat drums and trumpets and shout from a distance, so that the red hat rebels did not dare to act according to the plan. Most of the sergeants
Led by the guards, they captured the night offenders along the way. Tu Hai led a hundred soldiers to station in Chang'an Street, under the command of the general. Zhou Peigong led 300 people to Hongguoyuan to capture the first offender - Yang Qilong must pass here once he enters the city.
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Yang Qilong originally planned to light fires in thirteen places to start an uprising, but nine of them failed to take action, so they hurriedly dispersed, and only four places were set on fire. Later, when they heard the shouts of the Qing soldiers surrounding them, they all hurriedly abandoned their red hats and fled, but were patrolled.
A large team of people seized them one by one and sent them to the Hell Temple for investigation.
"It's so unexpected that things failed like this!" Yang Qilong took only about 200 people with him and huddled in the red orchard. Looking at the dawn, when he counted the number of people, most of them had fled, and even Wu Yingxiong and Lang Tingshu were nowhere to be found.
Huang He. Everyone sat silently in the grass under the tree, sweating and panting, and no one said a word. Yang Qilong felt stuffy and couldn't cry; he wanted to laugh wildly, but was afraid of being heard, so he suppressed the emotions in his heart.
Frustrated, he let out a long sigh: "I'll die here!" Then he drew his sword.
Li Zhu grabbed his shoulders and arms. He was trembling all over and said sadly: "Young Master, it is my incompetence as a military advisor that has harmed... you! But you cannot commit suicide. Without you, the Ming Dynasty will never be restored!"
"When Fang said this, the man who was outside ran in and said: "Young Master, military advisor, a large group of people is coming!"
Everyone immediately stood up nervously, and when they listened carefully, they heard the sound of footsteps in the distance.
"What should we do now?" Jiao Shan asked anxiously, "This place will be besieged!" Zhang Da said from the side: "Since God does not allow us to succeed, what can manpower do?" Zhu Shangxian gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "It seems that
, we can only temporarily disperse the people, and try to make a comeback later!"
Li Zhu couldn't help but became anxious after hearing this: "We can't discuss it any longer! Although Brother Zhu's words are reasonable, the most important thing at the moment is how the third prince can escape! If you are afraid of death, I won't say anything and will kill myself right here! My whole family
He was completely killed by the Qing soldiers, and he must not live with them for a day!"
"Who do you think is afraid of death?" Zhu Shangxian asked angrily, "Am I different from you?"
Indeed, there are hundreds of people here, all in similar situations.
"If no one is afraid of death, I still have a plan to kill him, and I can save the third prince!" Li Zhu wiped his tears and gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go to Tuhai together to show off!"
"You're crazy!" Zhang Da was startled and said, "That doesn't mean not being afraid of death, that means committing suicide!" Li Zhu said: "You are right, we will commit suicide and nominate one person as the false third prince, and the young master will
Can you escape from the capital by taking advantage of the chaos!" At this time, there were no footsteps outside the garden. Apparently Zhou Peizheng had deployed men and horses to surround the garden.
Everyone around jumped up, held Li Zhu's hand and said: "Well... we have to do this, we listen to you!" Seeing Zhang Da's silence, Zhu Shangxian asked gloomily: "Mr. Zhang Ge, what about you?
?”
Zhang Da gritted his teeth and said after a long time: "I think my father and mother will marry each other, and everyone will take care of themselves..." Before he could say the second word "人", the two long swords of Chen Jizhi and Shi Guobin had passed through Zhang Da's heart at the same time.
Straight to the chest!
"Brothers..." Yang Qilong was the fake third prince. Seeing everyone protecting him like this, he was frightened at first, and then burst into tears, "Don't be like this, don't be like this... Zhang Da's words are not wrong..."
"Let's do it like this. We surrendered to Xizhimen. People will come to see the excitement. You escaped in the chaos!" Li Zhu said decisively, "Don't forget to gather people to avenge us!" With that, he pushed Yang Qilong hard.
He staggered, formed a trumpet shape with his hands and shouted outward: "Hey - the people surrounding the garden outside have listened! It's almost dawn, and we have no intention of escaping anymore. Only our third prince is a person with status and wants to meet him.
Only General Tuhai can surrender, otherwise we will all commit suicide here, and you won’t be able to catch a single person alive!” After a while, Fang heard the answer from outside: “In that case, put down your weapons, line up and come out from the west gate!”
People left the red orchard quietly. Yang Qilong crouched in the thick frost-covered grass, clawing at his suffocated chest with both hands, and sobbed softly: "Kang Laosan, as long as I have a chance to survive, no matter what,
I swear I won't take revenge on you!" Hearing that several soldiers were pulling grass and searching for him, he hurriedly lowered his body and waited until the people were quiet before he staggered out of the deserted garden.
It was already dawn, and Xizhi Gate opened. Tu Hai only opened this gate as a precaution and guarded it himself. Lang Tingshu stood beside him, staring intently at the passers-by. From time to time, some people were attacked by soldiers who looked like wolves and tigers.
Capture.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the market. More than a hundred people wearing red hats were escorted by two lines of Zhou Peigong's soldiers and marched slowly. People watching the excitement immediately gathered around and formed two thick human walls. Li Zhu and the others left.
About a stone's throw from the city gate, he stopped and knelt down on the long street one after another, shouting: "Zhu Cijiong led the remaining troops to surrender to the Qing Tujun Gate!" Now there were more people watching, including the gatekeepers.
The soldiers also kept looking up here, not caring about checking the passers-by. Yang Qilong took the opportunity to sneak out quietly.
Seeing Zhou Peigong escorting the prisoners, Tu Hai felt happy. He nodded to Zhou Peigong who was suppressing everyone on his horse and asked: "Who is Zhu Cijiong? Come out!"
No one agreed.
"Everyone raise their heads, Lang Tingshu, come and recognize me!"
No one looked up.
"Fooled!" Zhou Peigong exclaimed and loudly ordered the gatekeepers: "Seal the gate!"
Just at this time, there was a whistle, and more than a hundred people stood up at the same time, roaring and rushing over. Some captured Tu Hai, and some rushed towards Lang Tingshu. Zhou Peigong's mount was frightened and kicked up, almost knocking him off his horse.
When the soldiers saw that something was wrong with their commander, they roared and rushed to the rescue with spears and knives. Tu Hai knocked down four or five people one after another before he was able to escape. Lang Tingshu was a weak scholar who had been strangled to death inside.
"Hahahaha..." Li Zhu was tied up like rice dumplings and laughed loudly, saying: "What's the matter with poplars and green grass, but loess and green mountains? It's not an ancient singing and dancing place, holding the rain and clouds and burying the incense! Farewell Heli
The luan sings a song, stretched out his yawn and leans into his ears - the third prince has already flown far away!"
Tu Hai wiped the blood stains from the corner of his mouth and sneered: "If you leave, the monk can't leave the temple. Don't you hear that 'life is three feet long, and the world is difficult to hide'? Don't be proud, Wu Yingxiong is carrying two arrows and a military survey, but he still didn't escape.
Get out!" He said and waved his hands, and the sergeants escorted Wu Yingxiong out and pushed him into the captive team of "Third Prince Zhu".
Kangxi met with Tu Hai in the Qianqing Palace and listened to his detailed account of the capture of Wu Yingxiong and Yang Qilong. He was speechless for a long time.
"This slave is careless and careless about his duties. He has become the leader of the traitorous people. I beg the emperor to severely punish him!" Tu Hai kowtowed deeply.
"What crime do you and Zhou Peigong have for using these people to end this chaos? What I am unhappy about is that Xiao Maozi was killed in the chaos last night." Kangxi ordered Tu Hai to stand up, and after a long time he asked: "We took a total of 100 people last night.
How much?"
"In response to what Long Live Master said, the night offenders took away 2,400 people. Today, we got 113. They are all good and bad."
"The criminals who committed the night are released on bail pending interrogation!" Kangxi said coldly, "The remaining one hundred or so are all confirmed. Except for Wu Yingxiong who was handed over to the supervisor of Dali Temple, the rest will be cut off in half after being questioned!