"What, ran away?" When Chen Zhong learned that Cixi had escaped, he couldn't help but exclaimed. At this time, the city of Beijing had been basically captured, and his headquarters had been moved to the Forbidden City. After discovering that Cixi had escaped,
After they and Guiziliu had disappeared, the Zaiyi brothers immediately understood that the uncle and sister-in-law had escaped. As for where they escaped, there was no need to care. What they needed to worry about was what they should do.
Naturally, he ran away quickly.
The two guys ran home as fast as they could, packed up their banknotes, jewelry and other valuables that were easy to carry, took their wives and children directly into the outer city, left Zhengyangmen and ran south to Baoding.
Now the whole city of Beijing is in chaos. There are rebel soldiers and fleeing refugees everywhere. No one pays attention to them. Once they run away, the remaining Qing soldiers who are already on the verge of collapse have no intention of resisting. They all run away and surrender.
In this way, the city of Beijing changed hands in less than a day.
The fact that Cixi ran away was a serious departure from the script. King Zhennan’s design was for Guangxu to perform a matricide drama, and then he could exaggerate his unfilial piety outside. Therefore, Cixi had to be captured, otherwise the actors would not be able to complete the drama.
How to act.
"Send an order to close all the city gates. No one is allowed to leave the city. Everyone on the street should go home. Anyone who stays outside before dark will be killed without mercy. At the same time, a cavalry regiment will be dispatched to Gubeikou as quickly as possible to block the road to Rehe.
, the armies in the city advanced from north to south, collecting all the weapons scattered among the people. Those who surrendered their guns were rewarded with twenty taels of silver per gun. The price of grenades was the same. Silver was placed at every street corner. You can collect the money as you hand it over.
, if someone is found hiding a gun, regardless of whether they have participated in the Qing army or not, they will be killed without mercy, and the residences of all escaped officials and all government offices in the court will be sealed off, waiting for the prince to personally deal with it after his arrival." Chen Zhong then issued a series of orders.
"The prince is coming?" Ye Feng said in surprise. Because of the relatively corrupt living conditions, Prince Yang rarely left his extremely luxurious yacht. It was indeed very rare for him to come to Beijing, which was in chaos at this time.
"Yes. We should be able to arrive before dark." Chen Zhong looked at his watch and said.
Prince Yang led his guards in a six-wheeled sedan and arrived in Peiping just as the sun was setting. They brought a hundred trucks, plus what Chen Zhong had on hand, he planned to use two hundred trucks
Trucks evacuated the city of Beijing as quickly as possible, including the Ministry of Household Affairs, the palace treasury, and even the homes of princes and ministers.
"Don't leave even a hair behind!" After a whole regiment lined up to welcome him, King Zhennan arrived at the Forbidden City, and then sat on the extremely uncomfortable throne and said to Chen Zhong.
"Ordinary soldiers are strictly prohibited from participating. Any robbery or rape will be severely punished. Your guard battalion will be responsible for the action. There is a list here. Follow this list and start one by one. As for the palace, I will be personally responsible for it." Yang Feng
As he spoke, he handed him a list that he had prepared a long time ago. As for his understanding of the properties of the princes and ministers in Beijing, even Cixi probably didn't know as well as him. For example, he definitely didn't know the treasures buried underground in Prince Yu's Mansion.
People know.
"My lord, do you even know this?" Chen Zhong looked at the special reminders marked with hidden treasures at the back of the list and said dumbfounded.
"Of course, these are all collected from us Han people by the Manchu princes of the past dynasties. Naturally, these cannot be left to them. With these things, we can build more warships, form more armies, and build more buildings."
More factories and schools, this can be regarded as their debt repayment, especially those iron hat kings, they must be thoroughly cleaned up, your main job during this period is this." Yang Feng said solemnly.
"I understand, but how to deal with them?" Chen Zhong asked. He meant whether to kill all the Manchu princes. Anyway, at this time, no one could say anything about accusing them of being rebellious.
'No, why kill them? Wouldn't it be better to leave them living in poverty, and then let them hate the emperor by the way? Think about it, we looted all the property of the princes and ministers in Beijing, and then kept their
People are living a difficult life, who will they hate? We in Fujian can't hate them even if they want to, so naturally they have to hate the emperor and the heroes who rescued him, so that we can have a lot of good shows.
Yang Feng said sinisterly.
He did not say that a large number of these princes and ministers will definitely be retained after Guangxu returns. After all, Guangxu is not stupid. The bannermen are the foundation of his country. Enough people have died in this war. If he continues to kill
There will be no one left. After these people have lost all their property, they will definitely continue to be greedy. This will make the people even more alienated from the imperial court. Of course, those reformers cannot just watch them continue to occupy the Qing Dynasty. The conflicts between the two sides will definitely continue.
Intensify, and when the time comes, just watch the excitement from a distance.
Then he used the proceeds from looting in Beijing to continue to win over people's hearts in the south. He planned to cancel all land taxes in the three provinces when he returned. Anyway, he didn't like the agricultural tax. The iron-hat kings in Beijing could just copy one house and it would be enough for three provinces and one province.
After years of land tax, the people in provinces other than Fujian and Zhejiang will naturally yearn for the rule of His Royal Highness Zhennan King. When he kicks Guangxu aside, it can be said that everyone will return. So in
His subordinates in Beijing must act like real kings.
As for chasing Cixi, there is nothing to worry about. Anyway, they have no other place to go except Rehe. If there is a wall of old Buddhas in Gubeikou, they can't climb over the mountains and climb the Great Wall, right? His Royal Highness the King of Zhennan stayed in the palace that night.
, get some little palace maids to serve in bed and enjoy the feeling of being a concubine. It is a pity that Guangxu’s concubines really didn’t like it. They originally wanted to get Concubine Jin to enjoy it, but unfortunately they immediately looked at that big fat face.
I lost my appetite and simply drove her away.
Early the next morning, after sending an airship to search north, the King of Zhennan announced the establishment of the King of Zhennan shogunate in Beijing. Before clearing out the rebels in the city and welcoming the emperor back to the palace, the King of Zhennan would temporarily take over the city.
At the same time as weapons, money was taken from the Ministry of Household Affairs to compensate ordinary people who were damaged in the war, and special hospitals were set up to treat the injured free of charge. The dead were buried by the shogunate at the expense of the shogunate. As for the elderly who lost their children and their parents,
The shogunate also specially set up nursing homes and orphanages to take care of the orphans. For a time, the people of Beijing were in a dreamlike state. In addition, those loyal and brave soldiers did nothing wrong. They paid for everything according to the price and did not molest women at all.
He visited brothels frequently, so it didn't take long for the reputation of the King of Zhennan to love his people like a son spread.
Of course, this is for the common people, and for those princes and ministers, this guy is simply a devil. When Cixi left, in order to show her goodwill to Guangxu, she did not take the jade seal with her, so Yang Feng made a
One imperial edict after another was issued to confiscate the homes of those princes and ministers according to the list. They only ransacked the homes but did not kill anyone. They did not even arrest anyone. They just sent troops to put them under house arrest. As for their families, they were not implicated, but their money and treasures were wiped out. In fact,
When he did this, the princes and ministers did not complain, because normally Yang Feng would have killed them, or even their whole family, which was reasonable.
As for those who ran away, don't be polite. It's just like what King Zhennan said. Not even a hair was left for them. Even the food, clothing, etc. that they couldn't take away and didn't bother to grab were all distributed directly to ordinary people.
, not only the people in Beijing city, but also the people in the surrounding counties can come to the city to get it. However, they cannot be white-collar workers. They need to work together with the people in Beijing to clean up all the ruins destroyed by the war. Although
Those trucks were pulling cart after cart of gold, silver, jewelry and antiques to Qinhuangdao, but the people in Beijing still regarded him as a Buddha among thousands of families.
When Yang Feng passed the emperor's retreat in Beijing, the poor Cixi Buddha was suffering from fear. It was simple that they encountered bandits. Although they had not arrived at Gubeikou at this time, in fact, they had just left Miyun at this time.
Last night, thanks to the vigilance of the guards, they escaped the Zhongyong Army cavalry chasing them in Shunyi. Then they drove in the middle of the night to find a farmer outside Miyun City to make do with it. They hurried on their way early this morning, but who knew they would encounter another enemy?
bandit.
The pampered Lafayette really didn't expect that there would be so many dangers as soon as she left Beijing. Oh my god, no one had ever told her that there were bandits here in Miyun before? She didn't know that life was not easy for these bandits. Ever since Yang Feng occupied Ji
Since the East, there has been no soil for bandits to survive in that area. Everyone knows that operating under the eyes of those loyal and brave soldiers who are like wolves and tigers is tantamount to suicide, so all those who used to operate there have gone to the mountainous areas in the west of Beijing, making this area
The density of bandits in the area increased greatly. When the Zhongyong Army opened the city of Beijing and a large number of princes and ministers fled the city, it was more like pieces of fragrant fat that attracted all the bandits around them.
Poor Lafayette unfortunately encountered one of them.
There were more than a dozen carriages in their group, and they were bodyguards, servants and maids. It was obvious at a glance that they were escaping from Beijing. Who else could they rob if not them? There were more than 200 bandits in this group. Although their weapons and equipment were relatively poor, they were better than others.
Familiar with the terrain, he set up a small ambush on the narrow mountain road. He first knocked down a big tree to block the road, and then took advantage of the inexperienced guards to move the tree. They violently beat the five rocks with their bows and arrows, and killed five people.
More than a dozen Ouchi guards, who were fully equipped with hot weapons, were beaten to a pulp.
Seeing the bandits coming out of the forest like hungry wolves, the entire convoy immediately fell into chaos as if it was the end of the world.