From the moment he climbed up Jingshan, Zai Chun had already sent an order to gather all the officials in the capital, and Jingshan became his temporary headquarters!
Why did you choose Jingshan instead of sticking to the Forbidden City? This is Zai Chun's cleverness!
First of all, from the top of Jingshan Mountain, you can overlook the movement in the north. Especially in this era, there are no high-rise buildings to block the view. From the top of Jingshan Mountain, people can see the outline of the entire inner city wall!
From which direction or street the enemy is attacking, people can clearly see it. It doesn't matter even late at night because the firelight and commotion can point out the direction of the turmoil.
In fact, a very important point is that Zai Chun still dare not be 100% sure that the Forbidden City is safe!
This palace is too old, and the people who serve it have been passed down from generation to generation. Some of them are old slaves who have been serving for three generations since the Daoguang period!
Zai Chun was not sure who those people were loyal to. The city gate might have been secretly opened when the enemy attacked Gulai!
But Beiyuan is safer here, because Beiyuan was formerly Jingshan and some scattered palaces around it. It was not lively here during the Qing Dynasty!
Among them, the Shouhuang Hall and the Guande Hall have always been the places where emperors and empresses died and rested in the Qing Dynasty! There are also many houses and buildings that were used as retirement residences for the old palace maids and eunuchs before they were kicked out of the palace!
No one pays attention to this kind of place, and no big force is willing to intervene, so the personnel are relatively simple!
Later, due to the civil war between the two empress dowagers, the Eastern Empress Dowager was forced to stick to Jingshan. From then on, the renovation plan of Beiyuan began!
It's like drawing on a blank sheet of paper, so the staff is simpler. With Empress Dowager Dong and Fu Qing in charge, Zai Chun is safer!
Zai Chun's original intention was to summon civil and military officials of the third rank and above as well as royal nobles in Jingshan to coordinate and direct the rebellion together, and also to show these people the military skills of Emperor Tongzhi!
But the higher the hope, the greater the disappointment. Within an hour, half of the second-rank and above officials from the capital came, and more than ten third-rank officials came!
And what about the royal family and the princes of the Eight Banners? So far, no one has come, no one has shown up!
Zai Chun's heart was so cold that he suddenly found that he had been abandoned by the entire Manchu family!
Faced with the emperor's scolding and scolding, no one of the officials present dared to speak. After all, this is a conflict between your Aisin Gioro family and other big Manchu families. It is a family dispute. Who dares to speak.
"Where is my uncle? Where is Prince Gong? Where is Prince Chun? Where is our famous Xia King? Are they all gone? Well, well...that's great!"
Just when Emperor Tongzhi was hysterically angry, a timid voice came from the shadow behind the pine trees outside Wanchunting: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty... my little... nephew is here... no... not all gone..." "
Um? Everyone searched back and forth following the stuttering sound, and found a man in goose-yellow casual clothes in the pine forest behind the guard.
"Prince Dingjun? Puxi?" No one thought that the honest and useless Prince Dingjun, who was a generation younger than the emperor, would be the first royal family to come to Jingshan!
The prince who lives next door to Prince Lao Li has always been honest and kind, eating fast and chanting Buddha's name. He doesn't dare to get involved in the ups and downs in the court!
After all, he is not a hereditary prince, this prince was granted after the death of Qianlong's eldest son Yonghuang! From generation to generation, there are also favors and titles, and by the time of Puxi's generation, he was just a county king!
He was such a useless person, but in the eyes of Emperor Tongzhi, he felt a little warmer in his heart: "Puxi! You are serious, you are really thoughtful..."
Pu Xi knelt on the ground to greet the emperor, and stammered: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, don't be anxious... When I came... I met Prince Chun on the road. The prince... the prince was leading his family to quell the chaos... …”
Puxi was timid and couldn't understand what he was talking about for a long time. But at this moment, Hunchun accompanied this person to the top of Jingshan Mountain!
"Prince Chen Chun Yi Pei, I'd like to greet your majesty... Your majesty is safe and well!" The fifth master finally arrived, and the people around him finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Yi Pei was full of murderous intent today. A stream of blood went straight to his nose on his black cloak, which was splattered with dark blood. He had two pistols on his waist, and the bodyguard behind him was holding a sword given by the prince!
"Your Majesty, I encountered many bandits who were robbing people along the street from Deshengmen. I had no choice but to kill people... not many. I killed more than 20 people along the way, and I killed five with my own hands..."
"In urgent matters, follow authority. Time has been wasted. Your Majesty, please atone for your sins!"
"Okay... what are you guilty of! These rebellious people must be killed, and they must be killed cleanly! Now that the fifth uncle is here, what should I worry about?"
"I ask you, is Xishan Camp okay?"
Yi Pei wiped the sweat from his head and said loudly, "Your Majesty, I came to the city to attend the big wedding! I brought all the senior officials above the battalion level of Xishan Camp with me. Gordon and the gendarmerie did not enter the city!"
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, there will be no chaos in the Xishan Camp... I estimate that at most it will only be a few hundred people! At the moment, all nine gates are in our hands, and they cannot attack!"
"As long as we wait until dawn, the thugs outside the city will retreat in despair when they see that the city gate is not open at all! This chaos is not that serious and it will subside at dawn!"
"Haha... Uncle Wu means that I should stick to it! Wait until dawn when the commotion subsides? But it's only the middle of the night and it's still early before dawn. What if the situation becomes serious?"
It's really what you're talking about. As soon as Zai Chun finished speaking, he heard a breathless shout from halfway up Jingshan Mountain: "Report... report... urgent report from Andingmen..."
The sentinel kneeling on the ground was soaked with sweat. He took several breaths before he could speak, "Qi... Your Majesty... General Bai Min from the Qinghe construction site... sent someone to report urgent military information..."
"Rumors spread at the Qinghe construction site, and a group of 40,000 factory slaves rioted... They attacked the garrison and snatched weapons... Countless tricks in the crowd were inciting the factory slaves to rebel..."
"Rumors say that Xizhimen and Deshengmen of the capital have been captured... These people are going to enter the capital from Deshengmen... They... they also say..."
"Come on...you're gasping for air!" Yi Pei stamped her feet anxiously.
"Yes... they have already shouted slogans to rebel against His Majesty... These people are here to rebel, and they want to kill the Emperor..."
Boom... Jingshan Mountain was about to explode. The officials couldn't believe their ears. Weng Tonghe, Li Hongzao and other Confucian officials knelt on the ground.
"What a treasonous act! It's a heinous crime... Your Majesty can't let them go, no way!"
Zai Chun had two drops of tears running down his cheeks, "Haha... It's so good! It's so good... Throughout the ages, even if those rebellious ministers and traitors want to rebel, they will always show the banner of a pure monarch!"
"They always start by shouting to kill the traitor Qing Junzi, to create an illusion of justice... and then they finally attack the emperor!"
"But what about now? They are impatient. They are going to rebel against me and kill the emperor... OK, OK, OK!"
"Yi Pei, Hunchun...kneel down to receive the order!"
