After Zhu Xiaosong left with the craftsmen and a large amount of gold and silver, a sharp voice sounded in the open space outside the gate of Quanlin Palace: "Hurry up and help our family!"

Liu Cheng, the peripheral guard general who was lying not far away from the chief eunuch, quickly stood up, helped the chief eunuch up, and said with a flattering smile: "Father, are you okay? I will send someone for help right now. I must have caught those people.

The traitor is taking it out on you!"

However, the chief eunuch didn't appreciate it at all. Instead, he was so angry that he was shaking all over, his hands and feet were cold, and the anger of winter rushed straight to Tianling Gai.

Asking for help? Is this what a general in charge of guarding the palace should say?

The eunuch in charge slapped Liu Cheng on the face with his backhand, and cursed: "Are you fucking stupid! What do you say when you send someone to ask for help? It's said that more than 2,000 of us were killed and wounded. Zhu Tingtei

The gangster didn’t even lose a hair?”

"If this is the case, not only will the brothers who were killed and injured underground die in vain, but the two of us will also lose our heads!"

Being scolded by the chief eunuch, Liu Cheng suddenly came to his senses. Looking at the chief eunuch who was trembling with anger, Liu Cheng covered his face and asked, "What do you mean, father-in-law?"

The chief eunuch snorted coldly, and suddenly shouted to the guards who were dead and injured: "The palace was broken into by thieves, and we are all guilty of death! However, considering that you all have parents, wives and children, our family can do it.

Think of a way for you, now it’s up to you to choose!”

Liu Chengyue hurriedly bowed and said: "Of course I want to live. I beg you, father-in-law, to be merciful and save us!"

The other guards who were still alive, as well as the eunuchs and maids who had just rushed out, knelt down and shouted: "Please, father-in-law, have mercy!"

The chief eunuch coughed a little, looked around at the guards, and said, "It's easy to live if you want to--"

"The thieves are so numerous that they suddenly attacked us when we were not prepared. If we rush to fight, we will inevitably suffer heavy casualties."

"It's just that all the soldiers are grateful for the great kindness of Lord Long Live, and everyone died in service. Under the leadership of our family and General Liu, they fought back against the thieves with all their might."

"Thanks to Long Live Lord's blessing, I can only wait until now to repel the thieves and defend the palace for Long Live Lord."

All the garrison soldiers looked at the chief eunuch with dumbfounded eyes, and Liu Cheng wished he could have the chief eunuch's brain replaced by his own——

What kind of crime is it to lose the palace? What a capital crime! What kind of merit is it to defeat the rebels? What a great merit!

Did they fight bloody battles? Did they fight? Did the palace fall? It fell, but it was not destroyed. Did the rebels retreat? They retreated!

With just a few words, a serious crime that was originally going to cost you your head has been turned into a great achievement that can lead to promotion and wealth. What is this? This is wisdom!

And just when General Liu Shen and all the defenders were secretly admiring him, the eunuch in charge said sullenly: "If anyone tells us something different about today's matter, don't blame us if you turn around and change your mind.

Home!"

Liu Chengdang even agreed: "Don't worry, father-in-law, if anyone dares to talk nonsense, I will never let them go despite my humble position!"

The eunuch in charge then pinched his throat and said, "Okay, let's all disperse. General Liu Shen will come with our family."

After arriving at a sheltered place, the eunuch in charge said, "Look for some craftsmen. You don't want any skilled craftsmen, just ordinary craftsmen among the people."

Liu Cheng was stunned and asked: "Eunuch, the outer perimeter of the palace was severely damaged. If we don't find some master craftsmen, I'm afraid it will be difficult to restore it, right?"

The chief eunuch glared at Liu Cheng and cursed: "Why are you so stupid? Not to mention that the palace craftsmen have been kidnapped by the rebels, we can only rely on private craftsmen now, even those palace craftsmen

People are still there, so do we need to repair these places to be the same as before?"

"If the repairs are exactly the same as the original ones, how can we prove that we were the rebels who were defeated after a bloody battle? How much of the original credit will be left by then?"

Only then did Liu Cheng understand, and he bowed sincerely: "Is it because I think it's too simple, or because you are so smart, I admire you. I admire you."

But when it came to this, Liu Cheng hesitated a little.

When the rebels left just now, they not only took away the craftsmen, but there were also many rebels carrying large and small bags on their backs. They probably contained gold, silver and jewelry.

And this is precisely the most fatal flaw.

It doesn’t matter that the outer perimeter was blown up, or that the defenders suffered heavy casualties. The key lies in how to explain these lost gold and silver jewels—saying that the rebels have invaded the palace? That’s not asking for death!

In response to Liu Cheng's question, the chief eunuch just snorted and said: "When the rebels left just now, our family had already paid attention to them. Those rebels with mud-legged backgrounds just picked some gold and silver and took them away.

I simply don’t know what is truly valuable.”

"It seems that these yellow and white things are just dead things after all. Not to mention the huge Yanzhou Prefecture, even Surabaya is enough to recover these things."

"By the way, when you go to Surabaya County, remember to arrange all the gold and silver matters. In any case, it must be done before February 2. If Long live the Lord arrives at the palace and hasn't done it yet, you should know that it is

What are the consequences?"

When it comes to this, Liu Cheng is not sleepy at all - it's just some muddy legs, and there are no carriages or oxcarts. How much gold and silver can be carried on the back of a person alone?

There is still more than half a month left before February 2nd. As long as you work hard, you will not only be able to recover the lost gold and silver, but you may also be able to make another fortune!

Just thinking about it again, Liu Cheng felt a little headache again: "Father, it is said that Zhu Ni would kill the local magistrate and many officials whenever he went to a place. This Sishui County..."

The eunuch in charge now wanted to pry open Liu Cheng's head to see how much paste was inside.

The chief eunuch said: "What does the death of the magistrate of Sishui County have to do with you, the general guarding the palace? Huh? Without the magistrate of Sishui County, you will not go to those Baojia chiefs? Without the Baojia chiefs, you

You don’t know how to go to the local gentry? Even if they are all gone, don’t you still have soldiers in your hands? Idiot!”

Being scolded by the chief eunuch, Liu Cheng felt hot inside.

My father-in-law is right! What does it matter whether the county magistrate dies or not? We have soldiers in our hands!

Thinking of this, Liu Cheng immediately said goodbye to the eunuch in charge, preparing to clean up the mess outside first, and then take people to Sishui County to make a fortune.

But after Liu Cheng left, the remaining eunuch in charge muttered to himself: "This group of rebels is really strange. Not only did they not set fire to the palace, nor did they kill people wantonly, but they did what they usually heard.

The rebels are not all the same? Are there really fools in this world who want to do justice for God?"

…

The eunuch in charge was not the only one who couldn't figure this out, Zhu Erdan, Liu Erniu and others also couldn't figure it out.

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Erniu simply came to Zhu Xiaosong and asked: "Master, if you are reluctant to burn down the palace, forget it, but those defenders are all working for the Tatars, why don't you let it go?"

Kill them all?"

Zhu Xiaosong glared at Liu Erniu and asked, "Besides murder and arson, is there anything else in your mind?"

Zhu Xiaosong was also convinced by Liu Erniu. From the beginning, he wanted to burn down the palace. When he was about to retreat, he wanted to kill all the defenders. Besides killing and arson, Zhu Xiaosong could only think about killing and arson.

Murder and arson, nothing else at all!

Seeing that Liu Erniu stopped talking, Zhu Xiaosong continued: "Of course it is not difficult to kill all the defenders of the palace, but sooner or later this matter will be spread out. In the future, the Qing soldiers will know about our killing of prisoners.

How would anyone surrender when they know that surrender will lead to death?"

"Even if you don't know the term "a trapped beast is still fighting", at least you must know the term "dogs are anxious to jump over the wall", right? Don't forget, we are fighting against the Qing Dynasty. To fight against the Qing Dynasty, we have to fight, and people will die when fighting. The only consequence of driving the officers and soldiers to panic is

Expand our casualties to ourselves."

"The Tatar court has tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers plus a million green battalions. If you include the patrolling soldiers and the like in various places, it will be more than a million. And how many of us are there? We really force the officers and soldiers to live with us.

Can we afford to trade our lives?"

Zhu Xiaosong said these words not only to Liu Erniu, but also to Zhu Erdan, Zhu Laosan and others.

Whether it was the last time I ambushed the Yanzhou Military Preparation Yamen or the subsequent attacks on the county government, these operations basically resulted in minimal or even zero casualties. In addition, the attack on the imperial palace this time was another operation with zero casualties.

It was inevitable that Liu Erniu, Zhu Erdan and others would feel a little carried away.

People like Zhu Laosan are better off, knowing that the Tatar government is not that easy to deal with, but the same cannot be said for people like Liu Erniu and Zhu Erdan. Now these two fools want to go directly to the Forbidden City and kill Qian Deaf.

This is a very dangerous signal.

Although the fighting of the Tatar court officers and soldiers is just like Wang Xiaoer's New Year, the battles are getting worse year by year, but the base number of the Tatar officers and soldiers is far beyond what the current Yuhuang Mountain anti-thief group can compare with.

Although Zhu Xiaosong never seemed to take the Tatars seriously, whether it was killing evil gentry, killing county magistrates or even ambushing Yanzhou troops, attacking Quanlin Palace was as easy as chopping melons and vegetables, but who knew what Zhu Xiaosong had done behind the scenes?

How much effort?

Calculations and deductions were made over and over again in order to take into account all possible scenarios and strive to inflict heavy damage on the Tatar government and officers and soldiers while also minimizing their own casualties.

When it's time to be stubborn, you still have to be stubborn.

Zhu Xiaosong's current idea is to take the craftsmen kidnapped from the Quanlin Palace to Meng Lianggu, and then slowly develop firearms based on Meng Lianggu, and slowly accumulate strength while fighting against the evil gentry.

But, who once said that ideals are full but reality is skinny - when Zhu Xiaosong wanted to get up and grow slowly, the deaf old dog Qian who was far away in the capital was angry.

A mere hundred rebel bandits actually wiped out hundreds of rural gentry households? All the officials in four counties were killed? The Yanzhou army and its five hundred soldiers were killed in battle? Such a thing happened in the peaceful and prosperous age of the Qing Dynasty.

What a gangster?

Of course, if it was just like this, Qian Deafangou felt that he could bear it for a while. After all, a small impatience would ruin a big plan, and it was not worth having his plan to go to Jiangnan affected by a few rebels.

But what Qian Deaf couldn't bear was that Zhu Xiaosong and his gang of rebels had the courage to attack Quanlin Palace!

When did I, the Qian Deaf Emperor, suffer such grievances?

Although this group of gangsters has been repelled by the coated minions and guard generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, this kind of behavior is absolutely intolerable! If we endure this, wouldn't everyone dare to come and attack me in the Qing Dynasty?

Two slaps!

Therefore, in a rage, Qian Deafou immediately summoned Fu Kang'an, the admiral of the Nine Sects, into the palace.

Looking at Fukang'an who was kneeling on the ground, Qian deaf old dog said with a cold expression: "I want to see Zhu Ni's head in Yan Shenggong's mansion. I hope you can do what that slave Mingxing can't handle."

good."
Chapter completed!