Chapter 38 The Thirty-eighth Chapter Killing the Rebel Slave Wu Dan Hiding and Hiding Li Zhu to Defraud the Officers and Soldiers by Order

After receiving the information that Xiao Maozi risked his life to send it back by Pegasus, Emperor Kangxi was overwhelmed.There are a total of 1,000 eunuchs in the palace, and more than 300 people participated in Zhong Sanlang Xiangtang, and 56 of them were issued red hats.Xiao Maozi's escape will definitely arouse Yang Qilong's vigilance, they must act immediately, they will not wait any longer.Kangxi hurriedly summoned Tu Hai and Zhou Peigong, who were patrolling the yamen, to enter the palace quickly.When Tuhai and Zhou Peigong heard the news, they were both surprised and embarrassed.The Eight Banners, Lvying, and Ruijian camps near Beijing have been ordered to go to Taiyuan, Shanzhou, Luoyang and other places.There are only 5,000 troops under Wei Dongting and Tu Hai in the capital, and they are scattered inside and outside the city.If 20,000 red hats really gathered together, it would be really difficult to deal with.Kangxi couldn't help feeling agitated when he heard this, a big change was imminent, how could he hesitate for a moment, he yelled.

"Tuhai!" "The slave is here!" "The thirteen incident locations and the errands to capture Wu Yingxiong and Yang Qilong are up to you and Zhou Peigong to handle!" "tie!" "A group of mobs don't need thousands of troops. You have to act fast, get ahead of them, and use your means to do it!" "Zha!" The two responded in unison again. "Xiao Weizi, go to the north of Longzong Gate. Xiong Cilu, Suo'etu, Ye Bilong, Mi Sihan, and Mingzhu are all on duty there at night, and they are all unarmed scholars. You are the only one of them asking!"

"Zha—it's just Long Live..." "Don't talk about it, there is no reason why all the palaces are against, I can handle it here. They only have more than three hundred people, what's the big deal, Lang Tan, you go, and pass the decree to the Empress Chuxiu Palace and the noble concubine Niu Kulu , asked Concubine Hui to take the gold, and immediately went to the Palace of Compassion to accompany the Empress Dowager, and detained all the eunuchs of the Palace of Compassion. Order the other palace masters and eunuchs to seal the gate of the palace, and no one is allowed to enter or leave. You are my guardian It’s a credit to the Compassionate Ning Palace!”

After hearing Kangxi's will, Lang Tan hurriedly kowtowed and agreed: "Zha!" Then he said to Mu Zixu, the stubborn donkey and the others: "Brother Mu, Brother Jiang, you have to take more care of yourself." Mu Zixu nodded solemnly.The stubborn donkey rubbed his hands together and smiled, "You should do your job quickly! Don't be like Brother Wei, talking about mother-in-law and mother--we understand!" Kangxi made all the arrangements, so he came to comfort Xiao Maozi: "Little Maozi, you go to the back to rest first, and I will let you take half a year off to recuperate after the matter is over - come, help Xiao Maozi to the back, and then light ten candles! "

The eunuch Hou Wen, the deputy manager of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, came over: "Long Live Lord, since the 150,000th birthday of the twelfth lunar month, the lights have been strictly controlled, and the candles in every palace and hall are counted, and we don't have any extra. If we add ten more, after two hours, the Hall of Mental Cultivation will be completely dark." "Bastard! Strictly control the lights because they are afraid of flooding, why even I control them, and send someone to get them immediately!" "How dare a slave deceive the master! It's just that Liu Peng from the candle oil depot is not in the palace tonight, so it's hard to find him now."

Kangxi was so angry that he had nothing to say, he waved his hands and said, "Get out! Bring all the wax from the eunuchs in the Hall of Mental Cultivation." After reading a few lines of memorials, he felt confused again, so he simply leaned on the big welcoming pillow and closed his eyes. Eyes repose.In the middle of the night, explosions were heard successively from the west and northeast corners of the city.Kangxi, who was in a haze, jumped up, walked quickly outside the hall, and stood under the altar to watch. In the direction of the Reclining Buddha Temple, thick smoke rolled up the fire, illuminating the Beijing city in winter night, and suddenly there was another fire on the Drum Tower. There was a huge fire, and there was an explosion like thunder, and the whole city of Beijing was alarmed.The big drums of Shun Dafu, Yamen of the Ministry of War, Shanpuying, and Jiumen Admiral's Mansion were beating loudly, and the horns sounded one after another.The rapid sound of horseshoes knocking on the hard frozen soil and stone pavement of the royal street outside the palace, together with the terrified cries, screams and curses of women and children, plunged the capital into an extremely terrifying and restless chaos.

When Kangxi saw that there were only three fires, he nodded in relief, and happily said to Mu Zixu: "Tu Hai and Zhou Peigong have made a lot of progress. If you can catch the leader of the thief, then..." Before he finished speaking, he continued Hearing a bang nearby, it turned out that the candle oil depot in the palace was also on fire. All of a sudden, there was a commotion in the Ouchi.The palace is full of figures everywhere, ghosts crying and wolves howling.The courtyard of the Hall of Mental Cultivation also seemed to explode suddenly. The eunuchs were yelling and running around without thinking.All the lamps and candles were suddenly extinguished, and there was chaos in the darkness.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Mu Zixu hurriedly pulled the donkey Yu, one by one to protect Kangxi, and stood in front of the glazed wall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, in case someone plotted against the emperor from behind.He shouted again: "Hou Wen, hold the lamp, hold the lamp quickly!" Hou Wen walked over with twenty large candles in his arms, holding a torch, but it couldn't be lit no matter what.Mu Zixu stepped forward and pushed him upside down, snatched the torch to see, it turned out that the wick of the candle had been thrown away, and the stubborn donkey was furious, stepped forward and stepped on Hou Wen: " Dog slave, to be honest, are you from Yang Qilong?"

"No, no, Lord Jiang, spare me, I...I'm not." "Hmph, no, it's not why you took out the candle wick!" He drew out his sword and stabbed Hou Wen's heart: "Fuck you!" At this moment, the hanging flower gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation was knocked open with a bang, and dozens of eunuchs rushed in like headless flies.They were lighting torches and holding big knives, some shouted "Rebellion, rebellion", and some shouted "Catch the traitor." But they turned their eyebrows straight and looked straight at Emperor Kangxi who was standing in front of the screen wall.The stubborn donkey snarled angrily, and went forward with a loud voice, "shua shua" two swords, and cut down the two people running in front, the rest were frightened by his power and hid in the shadows, just shouting but not moving. Dare to step forward.Suddenly, another group of people came in at the door of Chuihua, also with lanterns and torches, but no one shouted.The stubborn donkey was about to break through.But Mu Qixu stopped him: "Back back, Lafayette is here."

The Empress Dowager walked over calmly, and behind her were the empress and concubine.Lang Tan guarded the empress dowager with a sword.Queen Hesheli has been pregnant for nine months, but she is still calm.She glanced at the situation in the courtyard, and called out calmly and forcefully, "Is the stubborn donkey there? Come out and answer!" The stubborn donkey came out, knelt down and replied, "Go back to the master, my servant, the stubborn donkey is here!" "Pingshen. I am the mother of the world and the lord of the six palaces. Today I give you the name Wu Dan and give you permission to kill and punish the traitors in the inner palace!"

"Thank you, Madam, my servant, Wu Dan, for leading the decree." Just as the queen and Wu Dan were asking and answering, a rebellious eunuch suddenly sprang out from the shadows and rushed towards the queen with a big knife.Mo Ju, the maid of honor next to the queen, desperately moved forward to protect the queen, but was slashed in the calf by the thief and fell down.Wu Dan was furious.He was originally from the Kwantung bandit, brave and brutal, since he was selected into the palace and became the emperor's personal bodyguard, he has never killed anyone happily.Today, according to the Queen's order, without any worries, with a loud roar, he grabbed the eunuch, and with a "Kacha" sword, he was cut open from the intestines to the abdomen, and blood and intestines flowed out together.Wu Dan grabbed the eunuch's heart and threw it to Mo Ju: "Eat it quickly, it won't hurt anymore!" "Even though the Empress Dowager has been with the army for many years, she has never seen such a brutal method of killing. She hurriedly put her palms together and recited the Buddha's name. The Empress was so frightened that she closed her eyes, not daring to look again. Wu Dan saw that Mu Zixu and Lang Tan had already protected his master, and he had no more worries, so he roared and charged into the shadows, whenever he saw an eunuch holding a weapon, he would wave a sword with his hand.He knew that there were strict rules in the palace, except for the guards, the eunuchs in the palace were not allowed to carry weapons privately, and if he was sure of this point, there would be no wronged souls under his sword.The rebellious eunuchs were forced to have no way out, and they rushed back with a cry.Wolf Tan looked on coldly, and one of the loudest shouts must be their leader, so he caught him by surprise, jumped forward, grabbed him, and shouted again: "Kneel down with your weapons, or you will die like him!" . " As he said, he swiped a few knives and chopped the eunuch into pieces.All the rebels were so frightened that they threw down their swords and kowtowed on the ground, begging for mercy. Kangxi saw that the yard was full of corpses and bloodstained, and fearing to frighten Lafayette and his family members, he ordered Lang Tan and Wu Dan to stop, and ordered: "Take them to the Punishment Department and keep them under strict supervision for interrogation." After speaking, he turned his face away. , seeing Wei Dongting walking over dripping with sweat, he hurriedly asked, "Xiao Weizi, what's the situation over there?" "Back to the master, it's almost the same as here, it has already been dealt with. There are only two places where there are rebellions in the whole palace." The Empress Dowager always admired Wei Dongting, seeing that he was not stained with blood, she asked in surprise, "You didn't kill someone?" "Going back to Lafayette, the servant did not obey the holy orders and edicts, so he dared not kill people. He only picked a dozen people's hamstrings, and I'm afraid they will be crippled." The Empress Dowager clasped her hands together and said, "Amitabha! You will be rewarded with one hundred taels of gold, five taels for each person here!" Kangxi couldn't help laughing when he heard his grandmother's treatment. Xiao Maozi's sudden escape disrupted Zhong Sanlang Xiangtang's rebellion plan and forced Yang Qilong to rise up hastily.According to their original plan, the fire was to be set off at the thirteen places at the same time, but in a hurry, only the four places received the order, and they were quickly put out by the green battalion soldiers sent by Tuhai.And the brigade led by Zhou Peigong surrounded Luhe Station with lightning speed.Yang Qilong was caught off guard and had no choice but to lead the crowd to resist.Although the congregation in his incense hall drank the talisman water and worshiped the gods, all the officers and soldiers with real swords and guns showed their original shapes when they encountered real swords and guns, and they were disrupted as soon as they fought.They ran away one by one with their heads in their arms, only hating their parents for losing two feet.In the blink of an eye, there were only more than 200 buddies around Yang Qilong, who were compressed in the red orchard by the approaching army. At this time, the dawn was about to break, and Li Zhu, the military strategist, counted the number of people, and half of them fled again.Even Wu Yingxiong, who kept saying that he would depend on Yang Qilong for life and death, didn't know where he fled.The rest of the group sat scattered in the grass under the tree, with hot sweat on their heads and white mist spraying from their mouths.Everyone's eyes are demented, and all of them are downcast.Yang Qilong did not expect that thirty years of painstaking efforts would lead to such an end.I really wanted to cry but had no tears, and had nowhere to escape, so I had to lower my head and sighed unceasingly. Suddenly, he picked up the bright and shining sword, and glanced at the crowd: "Alas, the death of the heavens can only be brought back by manpower. Take care, everyone, I'm going..." After saying that, Hengjian was about to kill himself. Li Zhu jumped up and hugged him: "Young master, you must not commit suicide. Without you in the world, Daming will never be restored." At this moment, a gangster ran over in a panic: "Young master, military adviser, it's not good, another large group of officers and soldiers is coming!" Everyone listened quietly, and sure enough, there was a sound of chaotic footsteps outside. Li Zhu got up suddenly, put his hand on his waist knife, and said to everyone: "Fame, the matter is urgent. There is only one way out now. Anyone who is not afraid of death will follow me." Tuhai surrendered." Old Zhang Ge exclaimed: "Ah! What? Are you going to die?" "Yes, we pushed one person to surrender under the name of the third prince. The officers and soldiers will not be suspicious. In this way, our young master can take advantage of the chaos and escape secretly, gather the congregation of Xiangtang, and make a comeback. The officers and soldiers saw that we lost the commander. Forgive me, it won’t be all decapitated. Even if they die, there will still be the young master to avenge us.” Mr. Zhang Ge smiled: "Forget it, father and mother marry, everyone cares about each other..." Before he could say the last word "ren", he was stabbed to death by Zhu Shangxian from the back. Zhu Shangxian yelled: "Whoever dares not to listen, he is a role model." Yang Qilong stood up, bowed and said: "Brothers, don't do this, let me die alone to protect everyone..." Li Zhu interrupted his words, and said decisively: "Young master, quickly go to the back and hide, and try to escape after the officers and soldiers retreat. Don't forget to avenge us." After finishing speaking, he led everyone to the door Go, and shouted while walking: "Listen, officers and soldiers, I am the third prince Zhu, and I am willing to lead my troops to surrender to Lord Tuhai. If you don't let us out, we will all commit suicide here. Don't even think about living caught." The officers and soldiers outside quickly reported to Zhou Peigong.Zhou Peigong sent an order to let the gangsters throw away their weapons and come out as a whole team.He sent officers and soldiers to escort the hundred or so people to Xizhimen Street, and ordered them to search the red orchard before riding back to the city.But Yang Qilong, who was hiding in the depths of the grass, took advantage of the retreat of the officers and soldiers, climbed out of the back wall and escaped. The bandit suppression operation at night went very smoothly. Tu Hai led a team of personal soldiers to patrol Chang'an Avenue, leading all the troops in the city.As long as you see people who come out at night, whether they have red hats or not.All caught.After daybreak, he opened the Xizhi Gate again and closely inspected the passers-by. When he saw Zhou Peigong escorting the prisoners back, he was overjoyed. He rode over and asked Zhou Peigong about the situation. Come out and answer." But he asked three times, but no one answered.Tu Hai was still surprised when the hundred people in front of him suddenly roared up and rushed over together.It turned out that this group of people were all desperadoes who had been with Yang Qilong for many years, knowing that the plot had been exposed and there was no hope of survival, they all went up to fight for their lives.In a hurry, Tuhai fought the gangsters with his bare hands.Fortunately, his personal troops were well-trained, and he gained the upper hand in an instant, knocking down the bandits to the ground and then re-binding them.Li Zhu, the military adviser who raised his eyebrows, looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "Ha...Tuhai, do you want to catch the third prince Zhu? He will come to settle accounts with you!" Tu Hai was furious, and kicked Li Zhu to the ground: "Don't be a thief, I tell you, Wu Yingxiong stole the emperor's golden arrow and took the license plate of the Ministry of War, but he didn't escape. Your third prince Zhu , I can’t run away! Someone, take them down and wait for interrogation.” After speaking, he and Zhou Peigong entered the palace together, and reported to the emperor how Zhong Sanlang’s rebellion was extinguished.Seeing Kangxi's gloomy face, he kowtowed his head and blamed himself and said, "Long live, this servant is not careful, and has no reason to do his job. He left the traitor and bandit leader. I beg the emperor to severely punish him!" "Hey? You and Zhou Peigong used this few people to quell the chaos. What's your fault? What makes me unhappy is that Xiao Maozi was killed in the chaos last night. Get up, how many people were taken last night?" "Going back to Lord Long Live, 2,400 people were taken as criminals at night, and 113 people were taken today, all of them are evildoers." "Those who committed the night were temporarily released on bail, pending investigation! Since the rest are Yang Qilong's best friends, they will all be killed and abandoned. Wu Yingxiong, temporarily hand them over to the care of Dali Temple." "tie!" The overnight massacre destroyed the Zhong Sanlang Club that Yang Qilong had been running for many years, but it was also inside and outside the capital, and even inside and outside the palace, the ground was splattered with blood.Kangxi ordered Tuhai, the general manager of the capital, to investigate the remnants of the rebels, so that the people in the capital could settle down quickly.In the inner palace, Zhang Wanqiang led a few loyal old eunuchs, from the respect room of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to all the palaces and halls, strictly inspected all the eunuchs, and interrogated them one by one.Because the corpses in the Hall of Mental Cultivation were messy and covered with blood, Kangxi took Zhou Peigong and He Guizhu to the upper study of Qianqingmen to deal with affairs. As soon as he sat down on the dragon chair, Mingzhu ran in panting: "Long live! The party secretary and Samuha are back." "Ah?! Let them in!" Dang Wuzha and Samuha could not walk at all, and they were carried into the upper study room by four small guards without touching their feet.Both of them were dressed in common people's attire, their felt hats were tattered, and their cotton robes were blooming. One of Samuha's shoes had lost its sole, and the heel of his heel was frozen and cracked like a child's mouth, oozing blood. "You have suffered." Kangxi looked at the two beggar-like ministers distressedly, and said, "Don't panic, you are already home, so speak slowly if you have something to say." It turned out that he escaped from Loushan Pass that day.They knew that Wu Sangui's forces were everywhere in Yunnan, Guizhou and even the Central Plains, and they had never dared to reveal their identities, so they didn't dare to take the road blatantly, so they had no choice but to walk at night and meander towards the commander in chief.Unexpectedly, he ran into bandits again at Fenglingdu on the Yellow River, and all his clothes were robbed.The two escaped with their lives, begging along the way, and finally came to the emperor.Hearing Kangxi's gentle and kind comfort at this moment, the two were so excited that they couldn't help crying loudly in front of the emperor. "Long live...Wu Sangui, he, he turned his back... Zheerken, Fu Dali, Zhu Guozhi and Gan Wenbu...all died too." The two of them cried, taking out a roll from their arms and handing it up .When Kangxi saw it, it turned out that it was Wu Sangui's call to the Qing Dynasty and the memorial written by Zhe Erken, Gan Wen (Huo Kun) and others in advance; although Kangxi had long believed in the fact that Wu Sangui would be against Wu Sangui, once he saw the evidence , but still couldn't help but feel a sinking heart: "Well, it really came, okay. Then I will compete with you."