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On June 5, the third year of Xianfeng, the Taiping Army captured the outer city of Jinling, and the next day, the Taiping Army attacked the inner city of Jinling from Shuishimen, announcing that the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, Jinling, had fallen.

After Hong Xiuquan entered the city, he immediately ordered the whole city to search for bannermen and execute them on the spot. Those who secretly hid the bannermen destroyed the nine clans, and those who killed the bannermen could receive a reward of five taels of silver. The Han people in the city responded one after another, leaving tens of thousands of bannermen in the city with nowhere to hide and were all slaughtered.

Then, as before, Hong Xiuquan gathered the powerful and wealthy families in the city and confiscated their property. Anyone with a murder case would be executed.

However, what made Hong Xiuquan sad was that the government warehouses and the cellars of wealthy families in Jinling City were empty, and all valuable things such as gold, silver, jewelry, money, grain, rice, flour, etc. were gone. It turned out that they had been plundered by the Li family army, and more than 400 large ships were filled with them. It can be seen that almost all the wealth of Jinling fell into the hands of Li Weiguo.

"This Li Weiguo is so hateful!"

Hong Xiuquan gritted his teeth. If it weren't for the sake of Li Weiguo giving him two ships of arms, he would probably turn against him immediately and dispatched troops to attack Li Weiguo's old nest, Shanghai, and regain the more than 400 ships of supplies.

Fortunately, the Taiping Army fought from Guangxi to Jinling, captured dozens of cities of all sizes and large, and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of bannermen and powerful landlords. Their income was tens of millions of gold, silver, treasure, money, rice and flour. Therefore, the army was not short of money and food for the time being, so they would not argue with Li Weiguo.

Of course, this is also because Hong Xiuquan's attention was shifted to Yang Xiuqing, and the two harms were of little importance, so he temporarily ignored Li Weiguo's looting of Jinling.

It turned out that after the Taiping Army captured Jinling, Hong Xiuquan advocated continuing the entire army's northern expedition and attacking the Forbidden City to destroy the Qing Empire in one fell swoop. However, Yang Xiuqing opposed it and the mission of Jinling was the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. It had the aura of kings and domineering. He first built the capital and then slowly planned it.

Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing were quarreling, but Yang Xiuqing came to another "Heavenly Father descended to earth" and scolded Hong Xiuquan for being idiots in front of everyone and forced Hong Xiuquan to build a capital in Jinling, which made Hong Xiuquan hate Yang Xiuqing even more. He secretly ordered Hong Xuanjiao, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Su Sanniang and other military commanders to kill Yang Xiuqing and his followers, so he forgot about Li Weiguo's looting of Jinling.

In the end, Hong Xiuquan surrendered and followed Yang Xiuqing's proposal to change Jinling to Tianjing as the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Yang Xiuqing also suddenly received a secret report and realized that Hong Xiuquan's attitude towards him had changed drastically. At this time, Yang Xiuqing's power was not enough to compete with Hong Xiuquan in full. He was not sure to take Hong Xiuquan and replace him, so he chose to show weakness.

In order to appease Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing proposed to expand the Jinling Palace, build a more gorgeous palace for Hong Xiuquan, and select 3,000 beauties as Hong Xiuquan's concubines to provide him with lust.

Hong Xiuquan naturally didn't appreciate it at first, but soon he found that there were many beauties in Jinling, which were white, tender and sophisticated than the Hakka women he had in Guangxi before. After several consecutive "seven times", Hong Xiuquan immediately became obsessed with women. Seeing Yang Xiuqing taking the initiative to give in and please him, he canceled the plan to get rid of Yang Xiuqing.

However, Hong Xiuquan secretly planned to get rid of Yang Xiuqing with Hong Xuanjiao, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Su Sanniang and others, and was eventually leaked to Yang Xiuqing, which made Yang Xiuqing hold a grudge against these things and want to get rid of them quickly.

On the other hand, the Taiping Army captured Jinling, slaughtered bannermen and built a capital in Jinling one after another, and Emperor Xianfeng was immediately furious and vomited half a liter of blood that day.

The next day, Xianfeng held an imperial meeting to discuss countermeasures.

As the military minister, Yi Xin was the first to tell: "Report to the Emperor, the Governor of Liangjiang Lu Jianying and the Governor of Jiangning Wu Liang did not think of loyalty to the emperor and served the country, so they escaped at the last battle. They ordered the people of Jinling to rob them and fled from Jinling with a large amount of property. They asked the emperor to issue a serious punishment!"

Sushun hurriedly said, "The emperor calmed down. Although Lu Jianying was fleeing in the battle, he was also because Li Weiguo led his army to leave Jinling without authorization, which led to the empty defense of Jinling, which gave the rebels an opportunity. It was understandable that Lu Jianying lost Jinling without any soldiers. However, Li Weiguo led his troops away from Jinling without authorization, causing Jinling to fall. He also asked the emperor to dismiss him and investigate!"

Sushun's move to change the topic was very effective. Yi Xin next to him saw that Xianfeng had a wrong expression and hurriedly said: "Emperor, Li Weiguo did not lead his troops away from Jinling, but defeated the main force of the rebels in one fell swoop at Dasheng Pass outside Jinling, and pursued them all the way to recover Anqing, Jiujiang and other cities. He was a hero of the court. How could he be guilty? Besides, Li Weiguo sent troops at the imperial envoy and the governor of Huguang, Lord Qishan."

As he said that, Yixin handed over the memorial of Qishan hidden in his arms to Xianfeng. When Xianfeng saw that this was true, his face calmed down a little.

But after such a debate, Xianfeng no longer cared about Lu Jianying's affairs, but asked in a hurry: "Now the rebels regard Jinling as their capital, it is really hateful to slaughter the children of the Eight Banners. I want to destroy them as soon as possible. You can have a good idea."

Seeing that Xianfeng did not mention Lu Jianying, Sushun knew that it was because of his face that he would not pursue it, so he hurriedly offered advice: "Your Majesty, you don't have to worry. With two imperial envoys, Qishan and Xiang Rong, there, the rebels will be wiped out soon."

Xianfeng nodded and said, "Transfer the order to Qishan and Xiangrong, and order them to advance quickly and eliminate the Jinling rebels as soon as possible, so that there must be no mistakes."

Yi Xin said at this time: "Emperor, Su Song's army is good at leading Li Weiguo. He first wiped out Xiaodaohui's rebellion, and now he has successively recovered Anqing and Jiujiang and other important military cities, which have severely damaged the rebels. He also asked the emperor to give rewards and encouragement. In addition, the emperor appointed three imperial envoys ministers. Now that the governor of Liangjiang Lu Jianying escaped at the fortitude, he is no longer worthy of being an imperial envoy. I think Li Weiguo can be a great task, so I ask the emperor to order Li Weiguo to replace Lu Jianying as an imperial envoy."

"No!" Su Shun immediately opposed: "Li Weiguo is too young, he will win a few games. How can he serve as the imperial envoy all the way? Please send another talent!"

Yi Xin sneered, "What's wrong? If Li Weiguo wiped out the Xiaodao Club and recaptured Jiujiang and An Qing, he called Xiaosheng for several games, then other troops and horses were defeated repeatedly before, what's the point of losing the city and losing the land? I think you are just taking personal revenge and knowing that Li Weiguo is the son-in-law of the late minister Fu Yang, it's just deliberately making things difficult for him!"

"You - don't swear!" Su was in a natural way, and he couldn't find a reason to refute Yi Xin's words, and his face was so angry that he blushed.

Xianfeng looked at the two of them. He was a sensible person, so he said, "Okay, don't fight for you two, put state affairs first. Although Li Weiguo was young, he was indeed promising. Now the court is employed, so it's no big deal to promote it in an extraordinary way."

"emperor--"

Sushun still wanted to object, but saw Xianfeng wave his hand.

Only Xianfeng said: "It's good to do this. I ordered Qishan, Xiang Rong and Li Weiguo to send troops to Jinling immediately. Qishan was the imperial envoy of Jiangbei Road, and Xiang Rong was the imperial envoy of Jiangnan Road. Li Weiguo, as Su Song's army guarding Jiangdong, would he appoint him as the imperial envoy of Jiangdong Road."

"The emperor is wise!"

Yixin was so happy that Sushun had a dark face. This time, the court discussion failed to fight Yixin, which made him very unhappy. Especially for the speed of Li Weiguo's rise, Sushun's heart was also very cold at this moment, for fear that one day Li Weiguo would become bigger and seek revenge on him.

After the court was dispersed, all civil and military officials returned to their respective places.

"No, Li Weiguo must take it down. If he lets him grow bigger, I will not be able to afford it!" Sushun was thinking while walking. The more he thought about it, the more he was getting worse, so he said, "Go, send someone to find Lu Jianying, you must see someone dead and see the body. In addition, investigate the fall of Jinling for me, and there is also the matter about Li Weiguo. He cannot miss a detail about his news. I must know everything."

Sushun sent people south to Jinling to inquire about the news. After Yi Xin returned to the mansion, she also sent people south to report good news to Li Weiguo. He felt more and more that Li Weiguo was a talented person and could be used by him. In the future, it was enough to compete with the Imperial Party, and it was even possible to eradicate the Imperial Party in one fell swoop.

Yi Xin, who had wanted to lurk for a while, suddenly shone with new brilliance, all of which were given by Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo became famous and was remembered by the two largest forces in the capital at the same time. It would be impossible to be famous without thinking. So, the entire capital and even the world knew that there was a person like Li Weiguo, and the Shanghai Army also appeared on the stage of history.
Chapter completed!