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The four hundred and fortieth chapters return to the old capital

“All arranged?”

"Go back to the master, everything has been arranged, but..."

"But what?"

Su Peisheng raised his eyes and looked at the Fourth Prince. He saw that the Fourth Prince was holding Buddhist beads in his hand, with a calm expression. Then he said, "I think time is too tight. There are too many things in this mansion that don't have time to clean up. I don't know when I will come back here. It's a pity..."

"What a pity?" The fourth prince said calmly: "Are you planning to move the entire palace away? It's a mess, and it's enough to bring some fine and soft things. As for the rest of the things, let's divide them all. If you can't follow this time, leave some family assets for them. I don't know what to do in the future..."

"Master, benevolence, I don't know what kind of virtue I have accumulated from my master, and I have thanked my master for them." Su Peisheng knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the Fourth Prince with tears in his eyes. The Fourth Prince raised his hand to ask him to get up and told him not to delay. The departure is about to be done, and these things must be taken seriously.

Su Peisheng responded and hurried out to do it. The entire royal palace is no longer as quiet as before. The royal palace can be said to be very noisy now.

After the Holy Will of Xizhao came down, all parts of the capital began to prepare in full swing, and the first batch of pioneers also left the city today. As the second batch, the Fourth Prince will leave the city with Kangxi and the rest of the princes, so there is not much time left for him.

Although the Fourth Prince's palace is not much more people than the rest of the palace, it is not too small to calculate. Moreover, there are so many things to be packed inside and outside the palace, which is not enough in just two days.

But Shengyi understood that this day was decided and could not be changed. The Fourth Prince asked someone to clean up some fine and convenient materials. As for other things, they could only abandon them, or give them generously to the servants in the mansion who could not go with them.

Although these things are big, there is another big thing in the heart of the Fourth Prince, that is, the sudden change in the court. As the chief prince, the Fourth Prince is different from the other princes, and he can go to court. The news of Kangxi being under house arrest cannot be concealed at all, and someone came to the door at the first time.

After learning the news, the fourth prince was shocked, but immediately calmed down. At this time, the eighth prince had already mastered Kangxi and most of the central government. If there were opponents, there would be only one end, just like Zhang Tingyu and others.

Under this situation, the Fourth Prince must bow his head, not to mention that he is not very powerful in the court. If the Thirteenth Prince is still in Beijing, there may be some chance, but if the Thirteenth Prince is by his side, how can he make trouble with him, a bare prince?

In the end, the fourth prince's choice was like the eldest prince, and he lowered his head in the face of the situation. So he is still in the work department and his actions are free, but these are just appearances. How could the eighth prince relax his vigilance against these princes? There are many people sent by the eighth prince inside and outside the palace, which is called "guarding the fourth prince's west hunting, but in fact it is supervision.

Originally, the Fourth Prince had the plan to detour south after leaving the city. After all, the Thirteenth Prince was in the south. If he could meet with the Thirteenth Prince, with the status of the two princes and some of the military power in his hands, he might be able to do something. Unfortunately, the Eighth Prince had been guarding against this move for a long time, so how could the Fourth Prince act so freely? Furthermore, after the West Hunting, the Thirteenth Prince's soldiers were extremely important. As long as the Fourth Prince was in the hands of the Eighth Prince, then he would not be afraid that the Thirteenth Prince would be a monster.

The next morning, before dawn, the guards outside began to urge the Fourth Prince and his party to set off. After going out, they got on the carriage that had been prepared long ago. Looking at the royal mansion that had lived in for many years, the Fourth Prince couldn't help but sigh in his heart. More than a dozen carriages carried the Fourth Prince's family and property, and dozens of guards guarded them and left the palace.

After getting on the road, the vehicles gathered from all directions gradually formed a huge convoy, and in the middle of this convoy was the convoy of Kangxi and his concubines.

When the sky gradually became brighter, the head of the convoy had already left Xizhimen, and behind were the vehicles and crowds that could not be seen at first sight. Especially after the common people in Beijing learned the news, many people also brought their own luggage, drove cattle, horses, carriages, ride donkeys, or pull carriages, and followed them to leave Beijing City in a mighty manner.

Because of the joining of these ordinary people, more and more people traveling west and the teams are getting longer and longer. Coupled with the crying and cry of the women and children, it makes people feel so desolate.

In this team, an ordinary man from the house was following behind with his family and two cars, wiping his tears while walking out of the city. His family has lived in this Beijing city for three generations, and he has never left Beijing city since he was born, and he never expected that there would be today.

Looking at the familiar streets that were getting farther and farther away, and looking at the high city gate, this person suddenly remembered the scene of Dong Zhuo moving westward in the Three Kingdoms. The so-called "Han at the east end and a Han at the west end," and "Han at the west end," and "Han at the deer will enter Chang'an, and it will be no more difficult! Today's farewell, maybe it will never be difficult to go back in this life.

Fortunately on the first day, on the second day, shortly after Kangxi and others officially left Beijing, the entire Beijing city finally became in chaos.

The Qing royal family, the princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty, and the Chinese and Chinese ministers of the Manchus and Han dynasties all of a sudden, and even the troops in the city left most of them. In addition to the elderly, weak, sick, disabled, or unstoppable people, they were just ordinary people all over the city.

Outside was the Ming army, and the emperors in the city rushed west, and basically all the Manchus ran away. Except for some ordinary Han people who were slaves who followed him, most of the rest remained in Beijing.

In the hearts of these people, the emperor had encountered the change of the king's flag on the city, and the emperor took turns to sit. I remember that in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen was hanged in Coal Mountain, Li Zicheng entered Beijing and won the world, and the people lived a different life?

Next, when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the people in Beijing still survived differently. Now the Ming army has fought back. No matter who is in the world, the people are still the people. There are three meals in one roof, and life still has to continue.

But at the same time, all the gangsters who usually act with their tails appeared all of a sudden. The royal palaces, which were originally high in the eyes of ordinary people, became the place for these people to make money. They walked together and gathered in groups. It was a trivial matter to move things from these palaces to their own houses. Some brave guys even colluded with the eunuchs and guards who could not leave and sneaked into the Forbidden City to take whatever they saw and grab whatever they wanted.

At the beginning, they were just sneaking, and soon as these people became bolder, the burning, killing, looting and plundering quickly spread out of the city. Even many soldiers guarding the city participated. When the soldiers joined, the nature became worse. The whole city of Beijing was full of fireworks and robbery disorderly.

At this time, where can I still defend the city of Beijing? The spies of the Jinyiwei who had been lurking for a long time not only incited chaos in the city, but also directly bought the guards in the city. In the end, the first city gate opened was not the Chaoyang Gate where the Ming army had been attacking fiercely, nor the Dongzhi Gate that also attacked, but the Dongbian Gate close to the two gates.

When the Dongbianmen opened and the Ming army took advantage of the situation, Beijing City completely lost its final defense. The generals guarding the city either committed suicide or fled with makeup when they saw that the situation was too far away. Except for the surrendered soldiers, the rest of the soldiers who guarded the city ran around the city, looting wildly, trying to take advantage of the chaos and leave.

The first thing the Ming army did when entering the city was to control the nine gates of Beijing first, then carry out the removal work one by one by one.

Because the Jinyiwei was used as a supporter and leading the way, the clearing was extremely smooth and pushed all the way. The Ming army used a loudspeaker to declare that all ordinary people would stay at home and not go out. Except for the elderly, weak, women and children, all young and strong people who did not kneel down and gave up the resistance were shot and killed.

At this time, we cannot be benevolent and righteous, and the Tao is soft-hearted. The security and pacification of Beijing City must be used to control the entire Beijing City as quickly as possible.

The Ming army advanced layer by layer in combat formation. Anyone who did not kneel would have a roulette of guns, which made the other party feel riddled with holes. As for those who kneel, some elderly, weak, women and children who did not have time to rush home for a while were temporarily looking for a place to shelter, while the rest were tied up and taken to the side.

For a moment, gunfire sounds were everywhere in Beijing, and screams of being shot everywhere. The people were so scared that they hid behind the door panel at home, and looked at the bloody scene on the street through the gaps in the door panel. Some timid people were scared to death on the spot. As for the children, they were even covered by the adults in their families in horror, and cried out in their lives to cause trouble to their families.

"Master, you can enter the city." As gunfire sounds gradually faded in the city, the vanguard troops sent people to repay them, and Beijing was under the control of the Ming army.

"This is my ancient capital of the Ming Dynasty, the city of the emperor, Brother Zhuang, let's go into the city together!" Lin Jianzhang pointed to the Beijing city road in front of him with a smile.

Zhuang Yan looked at the open city gate at the same time, feeling a lot of emotion.

Unlike Lin Jianzhang, Zhuang Yan was originally a Qing court official and only entered the Ming army after captives. But now just a few years have passed, he never expected that the Ming Dynasty could capture the old capital in this way and enter Beijing City.

The two of them rode on horses and entered from Chaoyang Gate. According to the meaning of the Nine Gates in Beijing, they went to Desheng Gate and returned triumphantly to Andingmen. However, since they were just generals who were commanding the army and were not authorized by Zhu Yicheng, and the Ming army camp was close to Chaoyang Gate, it would be inconvenient to take a detour, so in order to consider these factors, they still walked to Chaoyang Gate.

At this time, the city of Beijing was basically stable, and even the Forbidden City was under the control of the Ming army. After entering the city, the two went to the Forbidden City first, but they just inspected it and then explained some requirements to guard the palace and did not enter the palace.
Chapter completed!
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