After Zalantai's death, Zamul held a secret funeral for him on behalf of His Excellency the President.
A Manchurian yellow military flag ceremoniously covered the body of First Class Wu Yi Mouyong Gong.
As His Excellency the President has confessed, Ama Zhaohui of Zalantai was a famous minister and good general of the Qing Dynasty, and the portrait of the hero of Ziguang Pavilion ranked second, more than a hundred higher than the ranking of His Excellency the President.
Northern Xinjiang has contributed a lot, so its descendants must be treated politely.
After all, after the hero.
Stand at attention, salute, and receive.
"Master, please rest in peace. You don't want the princess to cry in tears all day long."
Zamul personally buried the body of his wife's ex-husband in the dug pit. After filling the soil, he inserted a wooden sign that read "The Tomb of the Former Dingbian General Zhalantai" and rushed back to Taidong with his people.
Report from the mausoleum.
The officers and soldiers participating in the war, led by generals such as Weiwei, Wan Chaoxing, Yildeng, Ye Qing, Wang Zhen, Turing, and Fobole, successively marched to Tailing in order to support the emperor, shock the unruly elements of the clan, and restore the imperial power.
great.
After learning that Zhalantai and the Eight Banners of Rehe had been completely wiped out, Jia Liu in the Long'en Palace was very happy and asked Lao A and the others to go with him to Tailing to report the good news to the emperor and ask for credit for the soldiers who participated in the battle.
At this time, a large-scale manhunt was quietly going on in Tailing.
Taitung Tomb is only more than three miles away from the Tailing Tomb of Old Master Jia Liuta. It was also night, so the fireworks were so loud that people on the Tailing side could not miss it as long as they were outside.
Qianlong didn't see it. At that time, he was having cordial conversations with Yuan Shoudong, the Minister of Military and Aircraft, Cai Xin, the Minister of War, Zhou Yuanli, the Governor of Zhili, and Yonggui, the Manchu Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, in the imperial account.
The old rich man is not here, but in the tent not far next door, arrangements are being made for the coffin to be opened tomorrow. Sitting in the imperial tent are the imperial minister Santai and the minister in charge of the sticky pole, Xigui.
Due to the existence of Santai and Xigui, Qianlong certainly did not dare to talk nonsense.
In addition to the state funeral of the Queen Mother, what we talked about was the current war in Huguang.
Qianlong was particularly concerned about the latter and asked from time to time. He even asked Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang, and Zheng Dajin, the governor of Hubei, what arrangements had been made these days, what was the eight-hundred-mile rush, and the movements of the reinforcements and suppression troops entering Huguang from Sichuan.
ask clearly.
"When Jingzhou fell, I severely reprimanded Chen and Zheng. After losing Wuchang, I wanted their heads. Why did the two of them hide in Changsha and watch the rebels grow stronger?... I have been tolerant to my subordinates over the years, and I always want to be tolerant.
The monarch and his ministers get along harmoniously, but I have not lost my spirit. I think back then I executed many great bachelors, governors and governors!"
The loss of Wuchang made Qianlong very angry.
Although he is being held hostage by powerful ministers, the Qing Dynasty is still the Qing Dynasty of Aisin Gioro, and the soldiers and civilians outside the capital are still loyal to him as the emperor. Therefore, he can tolerate it when the powerful ministers offend him, because after tonight, the rich and the lustful thieves will surely
Will be executed!
However, corruption in the two provinces of Huguang was the greatest disaster since the Holy Patriarch pacified the Three Feudatories. If he could not suppress it quickly, the chaos would get worse and worse, repeating the disasters of the late Ming Dynasty. How could he be worthy of his ancestors!
For some reason, Qianlong suddenly felt a little empty when he thought of his ancestors.
What Jia Jiashikai asked him that day at the Qianqing Palace also came to mind: "Your Majesty, are you sure?"
Qianlong, who had experienced a series of blows, was actually not sure whether he was the son of the late emperor.
Otherwise, he would not let Jia Jiashikai imitate Sima Yi and stage a Qing version of the "Gaoping Ling Incident".
Use force to resolve disputes.
Instead of clarifying the world with facts.
"emperor,"
Cai Xin talked about the previous military aircraft department's request to appoint General Fengsheng of the West to join the war in Huguang.
The old minister believed that although Feng Sheng'e was young, he was able to conquer and fight well and was one of the top generals of the Eight Banners. The army controlled by General Dingxi was also the most elite military force in the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, as long as Feng Sheng'e led the army into Huguang, what would happen to Hing?
It is difficult to stop the Han bandits.
The Military Aircraft Department issued a note to the Governor of Sichuan, Bo Qingbo, requiring him to immediately restart peace talks with the Jinchuan and Jinchuan parties, and allowed him to make a lot of concessions.
As long as the peace talks succeed, it will relieve the Jinchuan army's worries. Otherwise, the tens of thousands of elite soldiers who have been restrained by the Jinchuan and Jinchuan armies will not be able to escape and enter Huguang to quell the rebellion.
And now that the troops at General Dingxi have been wiped out, where are the troops left?
Qianlong listened carefully and kept nodding. In fact, he didn't know anything about Feng Sheng'e leading troops to Huguang, nor did he know about Bo Qing'e's appointment as governor of Sichuan. They were all fake news issued by the traitor Fulhun in his name.
edict.
But this did not affect Qianlong's concern about the situation at all.
In fact, Qianlong did not object to these two personnel appointments.
Because Feng Sheng'e and Bo Qing'e are both people he trusts.
In particular, Fengsheng'e was a young general of the Eight Banners whom he tried his best to cultivate. In time, he would surely become a brand-new general of the Qing Dynasty like his father Ali Gun.
It's a pity that Mingliang, Fukang'an, and Fu Chang'an all died in Jinchuan. Otherwise, Qianlong would still have a lot of power to rely on.
At present, Feng Sheng'e is far away in Sichuan and does not know that the emperor is suffering. The only one he can count on is Jia Jiashikai.
Will there be a big change tonight?
Qianlong inadvertently raised his head and glanced at Santai and Xigui standing on the side. At that moment, fireworks were blooming brilliantly over the Taitung Tomb in the distance.
"Now we must beware of bandits traveling eastward along the river,"
Minister of Military and Aircraft Yuan Shoudong sent a petition to Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, ordering them to prepare troops early and deploy waterproof land troops and horses in Jiujiang, Anqing and other places to prevent the thieves from abandoning Huguang and heading east along the Yangtze River to Nanjing City under the encirclement and suppression of the army.
The ministers said they were traitors, but in fact they knew full well that those who fled to Huguang were the survivors of the former Ming Dynasty in Jinchuan, and their banner was to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
It’s just that propaganda and public opinion must not admit it like this. Otherwise, how can we explain that a hundred years after the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there are still Han anti-government armed forces.
Is it possible that the Qing Dynasty has never been able to win the hearts of the Han people?
"Your Majesty, I think,"
Santai, the imperial minister and the bastard of the rich and lustful thieves, spoke up and believed that if the bandits really went eastward along the river, in order to avoid earthquakes in the southeast, the flag troops of General Songgui of Jiangning could be transferred to Jiangxi to deploy defenses if necessary.
Qianlong asked Cai Xin for his opinion. Cai Shangshu said that the Eight Banners of Jiangning should not move lightly for the time being, because the city of Jiangning was of great significance. If the Eight Banners garrisoned the city and rushed to Jiangxi, it might cause instability in the Jiangnan boundary.
He also said that in the early days of the Republic of China, the Zheng family invaded the Yangtze River with ships and soldiers from Xiamen. As a result, except for Jiangning, all the prefectures along the river in the south surrendered without a fight. This shows that the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River often wavered when encountering trouble.
Moreover, Jiangnan was the most important place for money and grain in the Qing Dynasty, and water transportation depended on Jiangnan. Therefore, the gentry in Jiangnan must not let the Jiangnan gentry misjudge the current situation and cast doubt on whether the imperial court could control the situation.
Qianlong was deeply convinced, and asked Yuan Shoudong to write to Chen Huizu, who was retreating to Changsha in the name of the Military Aircraft Department, asking him to pay close attention to the movements of the bandits in Wuchang. If he found that the bandits were collecting ships and there were signs of going down the river, he would immediately report it to the court. At the same time,
Organize green camps to interfere.
The monarch and his ministers discussed for a while, and Santai had almost reached the end of the meeting, so he forced the imperial meeting to end on the grounds that the emperor would visit the mausoleum tomorrow and needed to rest early.
Cai Xin was unhappy and stood up with everyone to leave.
When I came outside the tent, the cold wind blew, but I didn't feel cold. Instead, I felt very dry.
Looking at the dark night sky, he took a deep breath, glanced at the military aircraft minister not far away who was guarded by the army, hummed in his heart, and walked towards the tent where he lived with his hands behind his hands.
Halfway through, a group of sergeants stopped Cai Shangshu and his two attendants. This group of sergeants were dressed strangely. Everyone actually had a white armband on their right arm with the words "Detective Team" written on it.
Before Cai Shangshu could ask why the sergeant was stopping him, the captain of the team waved an arrest warrant in front of Lord Shangshu, and then said coldly: "Master Cai, I now suspect you of colluding with rebels, trying to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and endanger the Emperor.
It’s safe, please come with us!”
The arrest warrant is very new.
Due to the hasty production, there are only three words on it - "Arrest Warrant".