Chapter 468: Injustice is not injustice
The Western King appointed Zuo Zongtang as the Heavenly King, the East King and the brothers and sisters who died in the Tianjing Incident prepared a grand funeral ceremony for heaven. Later, it was appointed that the day when the Eastern King and the Heavenly King died was the Heavenly Father's Ascension Festival and the Heavenly King's Ascension Festival respectively. So after the country was established, the people of the country had two more holidays.
Then the King of Western Transit moved to the Northern King's Mansion, which was also a sea of blood. Last night, King of Yan Qin Rigang, and the Marquis of Dingtian Chen Chengying led the elite troops drawn from the King of Heaven's Mansion to raid the Northern King's Mansion. Although there were no soldiers from the King of Western King's Mansion, the tragic level of the battle here was not inferior at all.
The Northern Palace was prepared early in the morning. Wei Changhui originally planned that the soldiers of the Heavenly Palace would shrink back after they hit a nail. However, when the battle was the most intense, the back door of the Northern Palace Mansion guarded by Zhang Chunhou, the Minister of the Northern Palace, suddenly opened. Chen Chengying, who was attacking the back door, took advantage of the situation to lead his troops into the backyard of the Northern Palace Mansion, killed the Northern Palace Wei family, and then broke into the main hall of the Northern Palace Mansion. Wei Changhui was caught off guard and was killed by Chen Chengying and others on the spot. Wei Changhui died, and the morale of the Northern Palace was in chaos. The Western Palace Army also began to fire artillery to attack the city, and his morale plummeted. Then he was the massacre of the Northern Palace soldiers by the Heavenly Palace.
At this moment, God was indeed fair. Most of the soldiers and horses concentrated in the Northern King's Mansion were Wei Changhui's confidant soldiers, and they were also the ones who killed the most during the Tianjing Incident. They were also massacred last night, but they were indeed retribution.
Qin Rigang and Chen Chengying were also furious. Even when the West Palace army broke into the Beiwang Mansion, they fought a battle with the West Palace Army, but they were beaten up by the West Palace Army. Then Qin Rigang and Chen Chengying came to their senses and hurriedly restrained their subordinates and sent people to contact the generals of the West Palace Army.
Later, the West Hall Army brought the order of the Western King, asking them to wait on the spot. So Qin Rigang, Chen Chengying and others took their men to wait in the Northern King's Mansion until the Western King's arrival.
Xiao Yungui's majestic national face was very solemn. When he saw Qin Rigang and Chen Chengrong presented Wei Changhui's head, he turned around and said to Han Baoying: "The enemy of the Wing Palace is dead, I have not broken my promise."
Han Baoying burst into tears in an instant. He covered his face and cried bitterly. Hong Yun'er stepped forward to comfort him. Xiao Yungui waved his hand and said, "After the Northern Tyrant's heads are spreading to various sects, he will send someone to the Wuchang Yiwang! Then he rehabilitated the East King Zhaoxue, forged an edict to rebel Wei Changhui, and slaughtered the Yidong Palace and other matters to the world! Wei Changhui is the biggest sinner in the Kingdom of Heaven!" The words of the West King were to overturn the verdict for the East King and completely find a scapegoat for the Tianjing Incident. Although many people knew that killing the East King was the will of the Heavenly King.
Thought. But many military, civilians and people in the Kingdom of Heaven still do not know the inside story. Of course, the Western King cannot overturn the charges to the Heavenly King. Doing this will also involve the matter of the Eastern King forcing the Enthronement. Therefore, the best official conclusion is that the Northern King Wei Changhui commits rebellion, forgers to kill the Eastern King, and conspires to kill the Wing King. Finally, he attacks the Heavenly King's Mansion and kills the Heavenly King, so that everything has a final say. Although doing this may not necessarily cover up the truth of all facts, at least it has an explanation to the public.
Zuo Zongtang reminded behind him: "His Highness of the Western King, Wei Jun, the Northern Palace Sect, still has 100,000 troops in Luzhou. Shouldn't you be too nervous about the Northern Palace for the time being? I'm afraid that Wei Jun is worried about being implicated by Wei Changhui, so he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in a hurry."
After a moment of silence, Xiao Yungui said slowly: "I will give Wei Jun a letter to persuade him to surrender. In fact, many people in the North Palace are innocent. But if Wei Jun is stubborn, I will send troops to Luzhou without hesitation. A truly loyal man will be loyal and not betray him no matter what he meets. But if you have someone with ill-belief, no matter how much you treat him well, he will still betray you!"
Only Hong Yuner understood the following words. Wei Jun did surrender to the Qing Dynasty in history and was named a general. He was stationed in Chizhou, Anhui, and lived in seclusion in Wuhu, Anhui in his later years. After his death, he was buried in Xuancheng, Anhui. A betrayer had a good end. Although Wei Jun's surrender to the Qing Dynasty was also forced by Tianjing, the king of heaven still had high hopes for Wei Jun. Wei Jun was also one of the famous generals in the late Heavenly Kingdom, and finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. It shows that his will was not firm, so Xiao Yungui decided to give him a chance. If Wei Jun had to hesitate and make the conditions after receiving the handwritten letter, Xiao Yungui would have mobilized troops without hesitation to clean up this hidden danger.
So Wei Changhui was the same as in history. He was a scapegoat and said that he was wronged. After all, the one who wanted to eradicate the Eastern King was still the Heavenly King. If he had no support from the Heavenly King, he would not dare to kill the Eastern King with the courage of Wei Changhui. The initiator of all this was Hong Xiuquan himself. Because of the ridiculous taboo reason of worshiping the teachings of God's religion, Hong Xiuquan believed that the only one who called the emperor was the Heavenly Father God, so he settled for the second best and only called the king. After becoming the king, he created five more kings in Yong'an. This was a bit of a co-governance. However, Hong Xiuquan, a scholar, did not understand that co-governance might be more useful in peacetime, but became a time bomb during wartime.
Rebels have always been mostly speculative. Even talented people like Yang Xiuqing who have some strategic vision will inevitably become corrupt and degenerate quickly after entering Tianjing, and then compete for power and profit with their own people. Among the six kings of the First Rebellion of Heaven, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan could have controlled the power and control the kings, but he lived in seclusion in the deep palace for many years and ignored government affairs, and let the Eastern King serve as the director. After the loss of this power, it would inevitably lead to a conflict between the regime and the church power. In addition, the conflicts between the kings intensified, the Tianjing Incident became an inevitable event.
Wei Changhui said that he was not wronged. He killed too many times during the incident after he received the will of the Heavenly King. After the enlarged killing was too wide, he could not stop even if he wanted to stop. All the reasons were that the princes had too scattered power, and each king was respectful. Wei Changhui killed Yang Xiuqing and was naturally afraid of revenge in the East Palace, so he had to kill more people to eliminate the hidden dangers. Later, he killed the Wing King, so Wei Changhui was like betting on his life.
Looking at the devastated Northern Palace, Xiao Yungui sighed and murmured to himself: "Your tragedy is to make a murderous knife. There is a saying that birds are all in the bow. Even if you don't kill too much in the end, Hong Xiuquan will finally push you out to die in order to appease the people in the East Palace."
Zuo Zongtang stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, the second division Feng Zicai came to report, the last water-west gate has fallen under our control, and the Beidian Army in Tianjing City has been wiped out."
Xiao Yungui nodded. Last night, he was worried that the North Palace soldiers would fight to the death, but in the end he found that the North Palace Army had no intention of fighting at all. Except for the North King's confidant of the North Palace's mansion, the rest of the defenders of each gate surrendered in a glance. More than 20,000 soldiers and horses of the North Palace surrendered. More than ten generals of the North Palace were killed in battle from the North Palace Wei Changhui. dozens of people including the North Palace Secretary Zhang Chunhou and the Staff Liu Naixin surrendered. The North Palace forces in Tianjin no longer exist.
The Heavenly King's Mansion was also seriously injured. The Hong family was almost slaughtered from Hong Xiuquan. In addition to Hong Renfa and the young Heavenly King Hong Tianguifu, even many Hong family relatives were slaughtered. After Zhong Fangli was forced to commit suicide, they were trembling with fear of being settled by others and staying away. Since then, the Heavenly King's power in Tianjing has been in a slump.
In addition to the forces of the East Palace and the Wing Palace that had been slaughtered too much by the North Palace, after a Tianjing Incident, people were surprised to find that a huge power vacuum appeared in the city of Tianjing, and the strong return of the Western King seemed to be to fill this vacuum.
Then the West Palace began an orderly follow-up plan to restore the order in Tianjin, improve the livelihood of the military, civilians, create public opinion, eliminate the impact of the Tianjing Incident, etc. Although everything is not so easy to accomplish, fortunately, Su Fu Province has its own complete administrative system and strong military power as a guarantee, and also has strong funds as a backing, and everything is developing as it should.
On the third day after the Western King entered the city of Tianjing, the Western King led all the civil and military officials of the Kingdom of Heaven and many military and civilians, a total of tens of thousands of people to hold a grand funeral for the Heavenly King and the East King in the square outside the Heavenly King's Mansion. With Hong Xiuquan's burial, the Heavenly Kingdom seemed to have opened a new chapter.
At the foot of the Mufu Mountain in Xiaguan, Tianjing, this Mufu Mountain has witnessed the shame of the Opium War that year. It was here that the British army implemented the landing and then threatened to capture Nanjing, and finally forced the Qing Dynasty to sign the Treaty of Nanjing.
It was getting late. Looking at the Yangtze River from Mufu Mountain, under the afterglow of the sunset, there were endless cargo ships between Zhenjiang and Tianjing. After Tianjing was taken into his arms by the West Hall, it also represented that the West Hall had completely opened up the golden waterway of the Yangtze River. From Shanghai to various inland businesses, freight can be transported through the Shanghai-Wuchang section of the Yangtze River controlled by the Taiping Army. Inland businesses such as He Yuanlun and Zhu Changling and Wei Helin in Wuchang, the merchants such as Shanghai and Wei Helin in Shanghai finally achieved business exchanges, and such a busy scene appeared on the water surface of the Yangtze River.
On the water of the riverside near the foot of Mufu Mountain, a smaller black-sailed boat was parked here. After dark, there were no lights on the boat. The two on the boat were looking at the West Hall armed whistleboat patrolling the river in horror. These two were Hong Renfa and Hong Tianguifu who had taken off the makeup from Tianjing.
"Uncle, can we go to Wuchang to find the Wing King?"
"I don't know, it seems that the Wing King is incredible. Yang Fuqing was also wiped out by the Western King. We seem to have no place to go." Hong Renfa lost his mind. He didn't expect that so many ships from the West Palace would be heading to Wuchang. Could it be that the Wing King had colluded with the Western King long ago? Yang Fuqing's troops had long disappeared. At this time, Hong Renfa realized that the most terrifying thing was actually the Western King, and he blocked the two of them's retreat.
"Then where are we going?"
"We might as well go to Shanghai, switch to Hong Kong, and join your other uncle, Hong Renxuan!"
"Uncle, I saw that the King of the West is sending people to look for us all these days. Maybe we won't do anything to us when we go back."
Hong Renfa's eyes were red and said angrily: "Young King, be awake, there is no two days, no people, no two masters, that Western King will not allow us to go back. Don't look at his hypocritical announcements in the past few days to look for us. As long as we show up, we will be killed!"
"But how did we go to Hong Kong?"
"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. There will always be a solution. We wait until it gets dark and go to Shanghai first. There are many foreign brothers there, and maybe we can get into Hong Kong..."
Chapter completed!