Chapter 777: Innocent Sees Punishment But Not Rewarded (Part 2)
As a special envoy who ran several times between the north and south of Chang'an City, Lin Yan, who walked through the streets with the latest reply, he saw the sound of trumpets and shaking flags, the flags belonging to the Taiping Army finally stopped slowly south of the imperial city, separated by a yard.
Then, they turned into a wary defensive defence, and in a terrifying silence, they were waiting for the subsequent orders to come. Therefore, Lin Yan had no doubt that they had already made any preparations and could return to the Da Nei with just a command, just like the official army that had been defeated and expelled from the three Da Nei.
However, when Lin Yan crossed the Taiping Army's front and returned to the front maintained by several Great Qi horses, he saw another situation. His nervousness, confusion, fear, and at a loss were almost unconcealed and mixed with the faces of these Great Qi soldiers. There was even a trace of gratitude.
Obviously, even those great masters and pillars of the Great Qi Dynasty could immediately break up and turn against him in front of Huang Wang, or declared that they would fight to the death to return the account. But it was obvious that most of the soldiers below were not mentally prepared to go to war and hostility with him; or as far as he knew, it was impossible at least in the past period of time.
On the one hand, because the Huang Wang army left most of the baggage and marched quickly when they turned to the battle; after returning to the city, everyone needed to maintain subsequent trading channels with the Everbright Land in the south controlled by the Taiping Army to obtain the corresponding food and grass for rest and recuperation until they regained the situation in the entire Gyeonggi Province.
On the other hand, it was entirely because of the weakness and emptiness caused by this sudden change. Almost half of the military garrisons in the city were empty, and even less than 30% of the battalion were in the battalion. Therefore, these forces and manpower that could be placed openly to maintain confrontation with them were already the power and manpower that could be mobilized except for the Huang Wang Guard.
Therefore, the rear base with a strong lineup was already empty. So the current dilemma is that if you can't fight or win, you may not be able to give in, but you cannot give in on the surface, otherwise the most basic people's hopes and spirits will be dispersed. So I can only suffer as a messenger who runs and mediates on behalf of the upper class.
Therefore, Lin Yan didn't know that he should thank the Taiping Army for its ruthless means of cutting the mess with quick knife, which forced the hearts of the people who were originally dispersed and relaxed after returning to the scene and had to reunite with the Huang King in order to protect himself. He still had to curse with resentment and curse as well as other related people, because of the root cause of the weak and serious crisis that had entered the new dynasty of Daqi.
Since the Taiping Army's great commander had responded to the request of Empress Cao, he finally stopped the final military suppression action in the city. The next thing was how to do his best to stop the loss and recover. At least through the approximate number of escapes received from various departments, in most of the urban areas that the Taiping Army had already controlled, about 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers involved in the rebellion were trapped in it.
If the captured surviving part can be brought back, it will undoubtedly be a large number of potential helps that are grateful. However, Lin Yan, who is responsible for conveying the news on this issue, could not help but encounter setbacks again. The governor was very determined in this regard. All participants must be interrogated and punished accordingly before they can consider the subsequent matters.
Therefore, the other people represented by Lin Yan had to consider taking the second best and asking them to help them get close to familiar people. After all, this matter was too big, so almost all the people in the New Dynasties were involved, and many of their relatives, old friends or nephews were inevitably involved.
If it is placed on anyone in the Great Qi court, it is unimaginable to clarify the right and wrong from it. It will only be the result of being pointed by thousands of people and targeted by the public. However, it is the decision of the Taiping Army Chief General who is stronger than others, which is inevitable that it is unimaginable or helpless.
Lin Yan thought about this, and while riding a horse through the numerous palaces, he saw a figure who had been waiting here under the door of Zuoyintai, bowed to him and said:
"Da Nayan (Shizhong) invites the military envoy to go and talk to him..."
"Then lead the way..."
Lin Yan waved his hand without surprise: After all, in addition to the mission given by King Huang, Lin Yan is also shouldering the requests and oral messages from several parties within the Daqi New Dynasty; in this situation, it is not a shameful thing.
After a while, as the only remaining civil servant in the court where Daqi had become incomplete, Zhao Zhang, the sick-looking servant, watched Lin Yan, who was heading back to the back court, sighed again, and then looked at the screen like a patient, and could only lie on the bed, and the transferee in the Qianguan who could only lie on the bed. Liu Tang, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, said:
"This matter is still irreversible, you can make a decision early."
"Yes, it's just that it's not hard to let go of the matter. After all, it's because of so many years of love..."
Liu Tang also smiled bitterly and said: And it is not unrelated to this when he becomes like this now.
Although after Huang Wang returned to the city, Liu Tang, who had participated in the temporary court, decisively resigned from all his official positions and positions, and then he was enlightened to take the precepts and become a monk in Guangjiao Temple in the city. However, the facts prove that even if he wanted to stay out of the world and become a monk, his past experience would eventually involve him.
On the night when the city changed, accompanied by various sins and tragedies that were vocal in the twilight, a group of "rebellious soldiers" also touched Guangjiao Temple and slashed and set fires everywhere. More than a dozen monks who stayed in the temple to practice were killed, and Liu Tang, who was hiding in the Buddhist niche, was almost smoky to death by fireworks.
Therefore, when he was rescued again, he took the initiative to ask for his orders to come to Zhao Zhang, who was in charge of the situation in the imperial city.
"Although I knew there would be such a day, I always believed in luck, or wanted to be able to bridge it with my own strength, so that this day would not come so quickly... Now I should let it go!"
Zhao Zhang smiled self-deprecatingly again:
"The only thing I am concerned about now is that the emperor wants to use this as a conscience to reunite the hearts of the people from all over the world. However, the matter of human hearts has always been unpredictable. It is better to use a sword to open a double blade. If you can kill the enemy, don't you worry about hurting yourself? It's so difficult to restrain yourself and regain your rituals. Perhaps the one who is doing it in the south of the city is the upright way of benevolent and kind relief."
"Maybe the Lord has no choice."
Liu Tang thought for a while before carefully saying:
"Actually, let me say something irrelevantly, there is a place where the servants are! Why bother...?"
"Of course I know, but my true intention is to become a Feng Madam again..."
Zhao Zhang said indifferently:
"In my early years, I also secretly smiled at Brother Shigu's ignorance. Now it seems that he is the person who understands the wrong, righteousness and interests of this world! On the contrary, I have been trying hard to make progress and lost my original righteousness and original intention. But no matter what, I am still the prime minister whom King Huang believes in and the hero of the Great Qi Dynasty, so please let me be vain and decent and continue to be stubborn."
As for this, he still couldn't help but reveal his intention to entrust his or her orphan to Liu Tang;
"But no matter what, if some of the old friends are spared after this time, I will ask you to take care of you in the future."
After all, since he learned that Shangshu Ling Shangrang, the first person under the Huang King, had gone and returned with the opportunity to attack Shannan West Road; he also understood that in such a differentiated human hearts, he had not been subjected to the consequences of restraint and punishment, the once noisy New Dynasty of Daqi could no longer hide its decline.
Chapter completed!