The news that Han Xi defeated Hou Jin in the outer city quickly spread throughout Shuntian Mansion. Slowly, many people living around gathered at the city gate to see if they had a chance to enter the city.
In this regard, Han Xi naturally took all the money into the city.
In Tongzhou, more than ten miles away from the capital, Sun Chengzong also learned about the battle at Guangqumen, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It would have been better if he had been in the capital at that time.
At this time, the rebellion of the frontier army must be wiped out, but before that, the most important thing is to expel Hou Jin.
Chongzhen from Tianjin Sanwei Department.
I was listening to a group of ministers arguing about whether to stay in Shuntian Mansion or take a boat directly to Yingtian Mansion to express their opinions.
That's when.
A eunuch hurriedly walked in and reported, "Your Majesty, there is news from the capital."
When the ministers who were still arguing at first heard this, they immediately became quiet and felt some weird anticipation. That is Hou Jin and the rebels fighting to the death, and then they are being fishermen.
Seeing everyone in the courtyard looking at him, the eunuch couldn't help but shed a cold sweat, and then said: "Hou Jin was defeated by the rebels."
"Nonsense!" Zhou Yanru immediately stood up and said.
Hou Jin had been wreaking havoc in the capital for so long without ever being defeated. A border army that appeared out of nowhere defeated Hou Jin one after another. How could this be possible?
Many people in the venue looked at the eunuch with suspicion. Obviously they don't believe it either. They might still believe it if Hou Jin attacked the city, or if the rebels struggled to defend the city.
Defeat Hou Jin?
What a big joke.
If this is true, doesn't it mean that the troops in Shuntian Mansion are not as good as rebels?
A group of ministers refused to admit this, which was simply a slap in their face.
When the eunuch saw the suspicious looks from all the people, he could only cough lightly and said, "I don't know whether the matter is true or not. The news came from Mr. Sun Ge."
When the ministers heard this, their faces were extremely ugly. This was really a slap in their faces.
"Congratulations to your majesty, congratulations to your majesty. The rebels and Houjin are fighting hard. The casualties must be heavy at this time. It is a good time to retake the capital. Now we should let Mr. Sun Ge immediately organize an army to capture Guangqumen." Zhou Yanru He stood up again and said.
Hearing this, Chongzhen showed joy and felt that Zhou Yanru's words made sense.
However, someone soon retorted: "Absolutely not, the Hou Jin has not refunded, what should I do if Hou Jin takes advantage of me?"
In this way, several cabinet ministers went from arguing southward to arguing whether to attack the capital, and the scene became lively for a while.
Chongzhen looked left and right, not knowing who to listen to. He looked like Yuan Shao from the Three Kingdoms.
Half a month later.
Han Xi was in a palace, his eyes wide open.
There are two mountains in the palace: Jin Mountain and Silver Mountain. The Silver Mountain is dozens of times larger than the Jin Mountain.
Han Xi touched the silver mountain with his hand and was amazed.
The novel will not deceive me. These noble officials in the capital are really rich.
The system collects all the money.
Following Han Xi's thought, all the silver in the palace disappeared.
Looking at the system again, the number of imperial coins in the system has reached 35.6 million.
Han Xi groped with his hands, thinking about how many imperial soldiers he should summon for the first batch.
You definitely can't summon too many at once, because there aren't many usable equipment in the city.
If it were to be summoned, it would definitely cost a lot of silver in stock to arm it.
But Han Xi already planned to use all the money in stock to buy food. He looked at the Shuntian Mansion panel again.
City: Shuntianfu
Population: 1,051,002
Maximum troop strength: 81550/52550
Money: 331,620 taels/silver
Popular support: -10
Grain: 2,166 million stone
After checking the population in half a month, there were tens of thousands more people. These were those temporarily living in Shuntian Mansion and some black households.
There are a lot of such unscrupulous porters at the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.
There are also some private servants of noble nobles who do not have household registration, and the rest, hundreds of thousands of them, ran into the city from the outskirts of Shuntian Mansion.
With a population of more than one million, the city has an additional force of tens of thousands of police officers.
These agents and government officials have collected more than 20,000 taels in taxes from Han Xi in the past half month. Their abilities can be said to be very powerful.
After looking at the amount of silver in the treasury, Han Xi touched his chin and began to think deeply.
At this time, a messenger entered the palace and reported: "Report to your Majesty, Hou Jin launched an attack at the three gates of the outer city at the same time."
Three places?
Did Hou Jin mobilize his troops again?
In the past half month, Hou Jin mobilized most of the troops who entered the pass and launched fierce attacks on the gates outside the capital every day.
And there is no repetition, the city gate is changed almost every day.
In the past half month, the imperial soldiers had lost more than 500 soldiers, and the 5,000 soldiers gathered in the capital had also lost 1,000 people.
Assigned to the five main outer city gates, each gate lost about 300 people.
However, Hou Jin suffered more casualties. Although the corpses were collected, Han Xi estimated that there were four to five thousand.
Plus the two battles half a month ago.
Hou Jin had already lost seven thousand troops at the hands of Han Xi.
Therefore, Han Xi expected that Hou Jin would retreat soon. After all, there was a Ming Dynasty watching him.
During this half month, all the Qinwang armies of the Ming Dynasty gathered at Shuntian Mansion.
The number is said to be at least two hundred thousand.
The combat effectiveness of these soldiers varies, but there are many of them!
It was precisely because of the arrival of King Qin's troops from all directions in the Ming Dynasty that Han Xi did not go out of the city to fight with Huang Taiji. He attacked his, and I guarded mine.
Anyway, there are beauties and food in the city, which is much better than living in the open outside the city.
"Don't worry about him. If any city gate has lost more than a thousand, come and report it to me." Han Xi said nonchalantly.
"Yes, Your Majesty, by the way, Your Majesty, Hou Jin sent an envoy to talk to you. Will you see him or not?" the messenger said again.
Han Xi was a little surprised. He sent troops to attack on one side and envoys on the other. This Huang Taiji really knew how to play!
"Then let's meet. I want to see what Hou Jin's envoy has to say when he comes." With that, Han Xi stood up and walked towards the palace hall.
Not sure what he was thinking of, Han Xi said to the bodyguard beside him: "Go and call some beauties over, as well as all the dancing girls."
"Follow your orders!" Soon, a personal guard went down to report.
After a while.
In the main hall where the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty were held, a group of women danced in it, and a group of musicians played music on both sides.
Han Xi was surrounded by several beauties, and he was lying in the nephrite with a very uncomfortable expression.
At this time, a shaved-headed middle-aged Han man was led in with his head lowered.
As soon as the middle-aged man entered the hall, he felt a burst of heat. Apparently, there were many braziers burning in the hall.
The hot air is mixed with the faint scent of women's body, which makes people intoxicated.
