South of Tiananmen and north of Zhengyangmen, like later generations, this place was also established as an embassy area, and the embassy of the Truqin Empire was also included.

New arrivals are here. If it were in the past, the city would have had firecrackers and gongs and drums in the sky, and the major temple fairs and altars were lively.

But this time this situation no longer exists.

Dead silence, cold and desolate silence.

This is naturally not the case with the Truqin Embassy. Unlike the embassy in Europe, all the employees of the embassy come from the local area, and even the cleaning work is from Hexian Town.

Bao Zheng, the son of Qitade's uncle Bao Dunge, is nearly fifty years old and is the empire's ambassador to the Qing Dynasty.

Yuan Yingtan, the former intelligence manager of Truqin in the Gyeonggi region and the three eastern provinces, has now become the chief counselor of the embassy, ​​and is actually still the general intelligence manager north of the Yellow River.

Because the Qing Dynasty ambassadors and counselors were all royal families. After the nobles, although the two countries were fighting now, the embassy was not affected at all.

However, with Man Ren's extremely stubborn conceit and his spirit of sacrifice that he had to admire, it is very likely that he would abandon the Bogda Embassy and his group to take measures against Bao Zheng and others.

Nowadays, some novels and paintings of the Qing Dynasty have also been circulated in Truqin. Qing officials like Bao Zheng have become as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people like Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Journey to the West. Since Qitade imitated Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty to promote the Han surname, Bao Dunge also changed his sons to the Han surname.

That's how Bao Zheng came about.

The night is dim, loneliness is still there, and the lights of the embassy are still on.

Bao Zheng was in his room and was talking to Yuan Yingtan.

Speaking of which, since the Truqin army has occupied Chongwen Gate, Zhengyang Gate, and Xuanwu Gate between the inner and outer cities, it can enter the inner city at any time. In fact, the security of the embassy can be guaranteed. Otherwise, if the Truqin army annoys and vents the artillery, it would be a bad idea.

A Gui and others were preparing to burn all the jades and stones for our Qing Dynasty, but they had to wait until the Truqin army was killed to a certain extent. They did this before they reached the level. It was obviously contrary to Emperor Qianlong's strategy.

No matter how weak animals are, they will bite people when they are too impatient, let alone the mankind who is known for his fierceness and tenacity, and has killed all the way from the bitter and cold land of Changbai Mountain?

Although it was a lucky chance that the Qing Dynasty had a country, when they opened their history, they entered the Liaohe Plain from Changbai Mountain, and then entered the pass from the Liaohe Plain. Along the way, whether it was royal relatives or ministers, all of them were able to ride horses and civilians to manage the compound configuration of one party.

Even the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty who defected to them were able to fight with their horses and swords. Fan Wencheng, Ding Wensheng and others were like this. The number of people was small and they could not support many simple literati.

And their officials, regardless of their origin, civil and military, official positions, were countless people killed in battle, and even the death rate of royal relatives was about half. This was rare among the founding royal families, let alone other ministers and nobles.

It is still the middle of the Qing Dynasty. Although Manchus showed signs of corruption and depravity, they obviously have not reached the level of later generations. The conceit and courage in their hearts are still there. Moreover, Manchus lived with the Forbidden City as the center in order to firmly protect the Forbidden City.

If you want to go all the time, unless you can burn it without any ammunition, this is obviously not what Qitad wants.

Therefore, although the Truqin army stabilized the outer city by capturing Yongyan and his nobles, the inner city was still firmly in the hands of the people.

Before Emperor Qianlong left Beijing, he kept his two sons. In addition to Yongyan, another one was his youngest son Yonglin. He was Yongyan's younger brother. Now Yongyan was captured, so he was naturally elected as the new crown prince's supervisor by A Gui and others.

Don't underestimate this arrangement. The Eight Manchurian Banners living around the inner city all exist because of the Aisin Jueluo family in the Forbidden City. If the Aisin Jueluo family is gone, they will lose their goal of guarding. Agui? Although he is an old Manchu noble and still has a high prestige, he is not worthy of their guarding.

Of course, there are many royal relatives living in the inner city, but no one can compare to Yonglin in terms of closeness and alienation. If a prince from Kangxi and Yongzheng period was promoted to the position of governor, it would be unconforming to the state, and then it would obviously not be convinced.

Just as the Mongols were proud of the Borjijin family, the Manchus were only proud of the Aisin Jueluo family, there was nothing we could do about it.

"So someone has something wrong with that?"

Bao Zheng whispered.

Yuan Ying nodded.

"We only arranged two secret spies in the inner city, one in the Shuntian Prefecture yamen. Now he has become the foreman of the three yamen runners, and the other in the largest city god temple in the west of the city serves as a temple blessing."

"The situation is now in danger, and the outer city is occupied by our army. Even if the spies in the outer city rebel, they will not have much impact. These two people have never seen me, but I will use special means to contact them every once in a while and arrange them to do things through handwritten orders."

"The location of contact is naturally changing frequently. Since our army besieged the city, I have increased my contact efforts. After the tests in the past few months, there should be no problem with the person who was placed in the Chenghuang Temple, but most of the person who was placed in the Shuntian Prefecture Order's Office"

"Because the Qing court strictly regulated the non-banners in the inner city, in addition to temples, most of the people in the yamen were held by bannermen. At first, they were all the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia, but later they gradually changed to Han military flags, and most of them were the broken children in the Han military flags."

"The Shuntian Prefecture Order is in charge of the inner city's updates, disaster prevention and other matters, and can wander around the entire inner city. The people living in the inner city's Gulifang Hutong were actually organized by them. If there are emergency matters such as fires, the three yamen runners will let the refueler beat gongs and drums everywhere"

"Let the people included in the Lifang Hutong come out to assist in the rescue. Of course, if there is a large fire, the Nine Gate Admiral needs to come forward. Ordinary small fires are handled by the Shuntian Prefecture Office."

"The people who have been launched to participate in this kind of affairs by Gelifang Hutong will naturally not be the bannermen, but are all the bannermen's coat slaves. Their sources of information are widespread, so it will be better to let spies enter such places with half the effort."

"This person is named Hou Wu. He was originally from Beijing. He followed his father to do business in Guangzhou since he was a child. He was a child of the Han army flag. When our country attacked Guangzhou for the first time, he was captured by our army. After being screened, he was included in the training of intelligence agencies after testing"

"After studying in the Hong Kong Military and Political School for a year, he was sent to Beijing. After using money to the Shuntian Prefecture Office, he successfully entered the third yamen runners"

"The man in the City God Temple is Zhang Wen, who comes from the local area and is proficient in Changchun Buddhism. He first did something in Baiyun Temple outside the city. Later, he took the opportunity to enter the largest City God Temple in Xicheng and successfully became a temple blessing"

"This person is a native Han, and his Majesty is a person who is proficient in Buddhism and Taoism. In the Qing Dynasty, the practitioners of Buddhism and Lamaism were very strict, but they were a little relaxed in the control of Taoist temples. After working in Baiyun Temple outside the city for a while, they had the opportunity to enter the inner city to do things."

"The City God Temple is a place to protect the city. Manchus believe in gods and demons. Later, it became a substitute for the shamanism they had believed in before, and gradually became a mixture of Taoism and shamanism. The Nine Gate Admiral and Shuntian Prefecture Order often donated and prayed here."

"Your Majesty is proficient in shamanism, so he naturally passed this technique to those he thought is credible. It is said that these people also secretly established a Changchun Society. They swear to be loyal to His Majesty and the true heir designated by His Majesty"

"According to the teachings of Changchun Church, Your Majesty is the only incarnation of the highest god of Changchun Church, God Haotian, on earth, and everyone in the Changchun Church believes it without a doubt"

"He is the Changchun Club?"

"Yes, Kang Qingren, who guards Sakhalin Island, is one of them. The units above the regiment in our army have set up two deputy regiment commanders, one of whom is responsible for Changchun education, merit examination, military discipline, supplies, grain and fodder, etc. "

"They are all people from the association. In the future, these people will be promoted to military supervisors in higher positions and will also be able to occupy a high position in municipal institutions, intelligence agencies and foreign affairs agencies after they are discharged from the army and transferred to the hospital."

Speaking of this, the two looked at each other and saw a little loneliness in each other's eyes. Obviously, they were not the ones they should have.

After a while, Bao Zheng asked, "Where is Hou Wu?"

"Although the three yamen runners are minor officials, they finally stayed in this big dye vat of the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, he was a local and a broken bannerman's son, and he was very likely to be attracted by others..."

"Why are you so sure?"

"You know that although there are two radio stations in the outer city, according to the regulations of the Intelligence Bureau, these two can be listened to, but cannot be forwarded casually. The forwarding task can only be completed by the embassy"

"So, whether it was Zhang Wen or Hou Wu, the news they came to support was only here. After the siege, I became more cautious and deliberately staggered the news sent to the two for five days. Obviously, the Qing court got a lot of news from one of them."

"The information I obtained is very close to the time I sent it to Hou Wu"

"But it is also possible that the Qing court did this on purpose. Although our intelligence work has been improving, it is not much different from Hatu and Suha era. Hatu and others have long passed on their essence to them, and the Qing court will do this in order to cover up the real leaker."

"Forget it, those news cannot play a big role, and no matter who it is, it will not play a big role in this destined siege battle"

"You mean the task assigned to us by Your Majesty?"

"Yes, it's not easy to divide the inner city. If an ordinary official does not play any role, the old Manchu who can be left in the capital by Hongli must be absolutely loyal to him, and they are nothing more than those big surnames"

"Oh?"

"It is the Guarja, Marja, Socholuo, Hesheli, Fucha, Nara, Niuhulu, Fei Yingdong, among the five ministers in the early Qing Dynasty, came from the Guarja, and all of them were from the Niuhulu, plus Tongjia's Huerhan, Dong'e's He Heli, and Juelu's Fei Yanggu"

"This is the eight major surnames. These people have been nobles since the Manchu era. They have long been prosperous and both prospered and lost. At present, the key positions in the inner city, both civil and military officials are in the hands of descendants of these eight major surnames."

"Is that true? But Agui is Zhangjia. Among the three generals, except for Eredenbao, who is Guarja, the remaining two, Lebao is Femo and Delentai is even more Mongolian."

"Ambassador, this is a bad word. The Femo family in Lebao is actually the Marga family. They are from the same lineage. Delentai is not a Mongolian, but a Soren people living in Hulunbuir. According to their claim, they are actually Daur people"

"With the Great Xing'an Mountains as the boundary, the Soren people on both sides were greatly influenced by the Jurchens and Mongolians. Therefore, they all understand some of the Mongolian and Jurchens, and the language of their tribe was also deeply influenced by these two languages"

"Specifically, the tribes in Lingdong were more influenced by the Jurchens, while those in Lingxi were more influenced by the Mongols"

"The Soren people in Hulunbuir are mainly Ewenk people and Daur people. The largest tribe among them is Umit. Most of the main Soren officials come from this tribe, and Delentai is one of them"

"Umit? Then, isn't Haci, the deputy commander of Hulunbuir who came to join our country, also from this ministry?"

"Yes, not only that, Haci and Delentai are cousins"

Bao Zheng's eyes lit up and he couldn't help but stand up.

After a while, he said: "I seem to have some ideas when you say this. Delentai is naturally a main attack direction. In addition, the news that Your Majesty successfully defeated the conspiracy between the Mongolians and the Russians and held the Onon River Conference again has just reached here. It is only a matter of time before our country swept the entire Mongolian region."

"In this way, the Mongolian officials and generals in the city are also in the same direction"

Shaking his head and standing up.

"Ambassador, my opinion is different"
Chapter completed!