Yuyuan Garden, second floor of Hanbi Building, night.
There are red candles and jade tent hooks, and the bed shakes and creaks...
"You, you, are you really His Highness King Wu?" Zhou Xiuying's slightly surprised voice came from the jade tent.
"Why did I lie to you? Of course I am Luo Yaoguo!" Luo Yaoguo replied triumphantly.
"You are not, I have seen the real Luo Yaoguo!" Zhou Xiuying said with embarrassment and annoyance, "He is not like you!"
"Then I am not it." Luo Yaoguo said with a smile, "If I were not Luo Yaoguo, you would be in misery!"
"Humph, I'm not afraid!" Zhou Xiuying's voice no longer sounded shy, but rather stubborn.
"Are you really not afraid?" Luo Yaoguo threatened, "Assassinating the imperial official will involve Lingchi!" "If you're not afraid, if you're not afraid, then you're not afraid. Lingchi will be Lingchi... Ouch, ouch..."
Zhou Xiuying was tough at first, but soon she started shouting "Ouch, ouch"...
Luo Yaoguo got up from a large mahogany bed, stretched out, and looked very satisfied. Looking around him, Zhou Xiuying was wrapped in a quilt, lying on one side with her hair disheveled, and there was a faint trace of hair on her exposed arms. There were traces of being strangled by the hemp rope, and there were still some tears on his face, but the corners of his mouth were slightly upward, clearly showing a happy smile. A jade hand exposed outside the quilt was holding a "mirror to the sky."
This Zhou Xiuying is really good. At first, she refused to welcome him, but she was a little unwilling and stubborn. During the intermission, Luo Yaoguo took out the "Tiantian Mirror" that could prove his identity and showed her the "precious things" inside. "Historical information", as well as photos of Luo Yaoguo when he was wearing the dragon robe of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Afterwards, Zhou Xiuying burst into tears and laughed, enthusiastically, and cooperated with Luo Yaoguo's actions.
After Luo Yaoguo showed off his power once more, Zhou Xiuying asked Luo Yaoguo to help her untie herself, and then she beat Luo Yaoguo's back and shoulders, waiting for him until he fell asleep, and then slept with him under the blanket.
Hearing Luo Yaoguo getting up, Xu Yuegui came up from downstairs with a yawn, looking sleepy, but she still managed to gather her energy and saluted Luo Yaoguo.
"Sister Yuegui, have you been watching all night?" Luo Yaoguo felt apologetic when he saw her tired look.
This subordinate is really loyal! It seems that he has treated her a little bit, and he has not helped her rescue Hong Daquan until now. If Hong Daquan died in Beijing, she would be a widow, which is really pitiful.
Xu Yuegui smiled and said: "Sir, after all, she had the intention of harming you when she entered the house. Of course, the slave family has to guard it in case she..."
"Thank you so much for your hard work!" Luo Yaoguo nodded apologetically to Xu Yuegui and said with a smile, "I will take her to Prince Wu's Mansion in Yufeng Mountain, Kunshan today, and ask her to visit Sanniang... When we get to Yufeng Mountain In the palace, she understood everything.
What a silly girl! It’s a good thing you met me, otherwise you would really be in trouble.”
"Your Highness King Wu, are you talking about the slave family?"
Zhou Xiuying's charming voice suddenly rang out, and this silly girl didn't know when she had woken up.
Luo Yaoguo also stopped talking to Xu Yuegui, looked back at Zhou Xiuying who was rubbing her eyes, and said with a smile: "Xiuying, have you slept enough? Get up when you have, and let's go to Tianjing together!"
"Tianjin?" Zhou Xiuying was stunned, "Tianjin Wei?"
"No, it's Tianjing, the capital of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was the Nanjing city of the Ming Dynasty!" Luo Yaoguo said with a smile, "But before going to Tianjing, I will take you to Kunshan to meet my eldest princess Su Sanniang. As long as she orders Boss, you are my second princess! Xiuying, are you willing to be my second princess?" Zhou Xiuying was immediately overjoyed: "Yes, Xiuying is willing!"
She originally made up her mind to charm the Great Qing Demon Luo Xueyan with her beauty, and then find a way to assassinate her. Later, Demon Leader Luo discovered her true identity, and she planned to commit herself to the Demon Leader first, and then find a way to escape. Later she learned that Luo Xueyan was actually Luo Yaoguo, so she was not ready to escape. She had already sold herself to Luo Archangel, how could she escape quietly? Zhou Nuxia would not do such a shameless thing, she would be Luo Angel's concubine for the rest of her life.
Unexpectedly, Luo Tiantian actually gave her a "Second Princess"... This happiness came so quickly! Thinking about how she actually wanted to assassinate Luo Tiantian before, she really deserved death!
Thinking of this, she knelt down on the big mahogany bed and bowed to Luo Yaoguo Yingying: "Your Highness King Wu, Xiuying wants to apologize to you. Xiuying didn't know that you were His Highness the Holy Angel King Wu before, so she just wanted to fool around. She entered Yu Garden, seduced His Highness with her beauty, and took the opportunity to assassinate her, almost causing a catastrophe! Please ask Your Highness to punish you... No matter how your Highness is punished, Xiuying will be willing to do so."
"She is a daring heroine." Luo Yaoguo was completely relieved after hearing Zhou Xiuying's confession. "Xiuying, although you didn't know my true identity before, you intended to assassinate me and sneaked into the Governor's Mansion. After all, I'm in a dangerous situation, so I still have to be punished... I'll fine you two hundred lashes, and I'll keep it in my account!"
Another two hundred whips? After Zhou Xiuying heard this, her whole body tightened. She owed two hundred before, but now she owes another two hundred, which is four hundred. But Angel Luo probably won't do anything harsh. of..
"Xiuying thanked His Highness for the punishment. Xiuying had violated military law before in Zhu Junjun's army and was charged two hundred whips. I am willing to accept it together!" Zhou Xiuying was honest and added the previous "debt" together. Said.
"That's okay," Luo Yaoguo nodded with a smile, "put it all in the account and pay it off slowly."
Luo Yaoguo then ordered Xu Yuegui: "Sister Yuegui, go arrange the carriage. Don't make too much noise, just let the pistol company escort you."
"It's an order." Xu Yuegui saw that Luo Yaoguo had completely subdued Zhou Xiuying, and a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. He quickly cheered up, turned around and went down the stairs to arrange things for Luo Yaoguo to go to Kunshan. Luo Yaoguo's pistol battery In fact, it was the original Cavalry Guard. All members were equipped with Colt 1851 revolvers purchased from Qichang Foreign Company. The "mounted infantry" who could not ride and shoot or charge with a gun became "cowboys". A six-shot Colt revolver is not afraid of even Seng Gelinqin himself. It has no opponent on the road from Shanghai to Kunshan.
And at the same time that Luo Yaoguo was heading to Kunshan with his new love beauty, in the Ancestral Temple in the Imperial City of Beijing, a man with a numb face and lame legs was kneeling in front of him holding several memorials he had just received. I cried bitterly in front of a row of ancestor statues!
"Father..." Xianfeng said with tears, "The whole city of Jiangning was conquered by Changmao. All the bannermen in Hecheng were slaughtered, and only a few escaped. Now Wuchang and Jiangning have been captured, and most of the Yangtze River waterways are owned by thieves. , the south of the Yangtze River was horrified, the world was falling apart, and our country, the Qing Dynasty, was in turmoil... I am ashamed of my ancestors, and I am ashamed of my father..."
"Father, although the Qing Dynasty is currently in the midst of a storm, there are still many loyal ministers and righteous men who have stepped forward to serve the country with loyalty! There are Zeng Guofan, Jiang Zhongyuan, and Zuo Zongtang in Hunan. They have climbed up and shouted, gathering tens of thousands of people. They have already practiced Become a hundred camps of Xiangyong!
Luo Xueyan, a returned overseas Chinese from Nanyang, is even more proficient in Western military science. He first trained hundreds of new troops in Hunan using Western methods, then negotiated with foreigners in Shanghai, purchased thousands of foreign guns, and created a 6000-strong Shanghai New Army. He was defeated in Kunshan a few days ago. The 20,000-strong long-haired army defeated the long-haired pseudo-angel Luo Yaoguo in Shanghai, and also took the opportunity to take back the sovereignty of the Shanghai concession from the British barbarians...Father, it seems that I have not exhausted all my courage!"
This time, Xianfeng first reported the worries and then the good news. He first talked about the shocking incident of Jiangning's fall to Jiangnan, and then he brought out the four regiment leaders Zeng, Jiang, Zuo, and Luo to talk about the matter, especially what Luo Xueyan was doing in Shanghai. This matter really made him, the emperor, embarrassed.
It was okay for Su Sanniang to defeat Luo Yaoguo, but taking back sovereignty from foreigners was unprecedented since the Opium War. In the past ten years, foreigners have been bullying the Qing Dynasty all the time, occupying a concession area, teaching lessons, and so on. Asking to "revise the contract" and wanting to suck the blood of the Qing Dynasty all the time.
Although Xianfeng was willing to give the foreigners some benefits to buy peace, the problem was that the foreigners wanted too much. The Opium War cost more than 21 million yuan in one breath... This was just a one-time loss. After the Opium War, In the past ten years, the Qing Dynasty's trade was in deficit year after year, and a large amount of silver was flowing out. And the Qing Dynasty itself did not produce much silver. The outflow of silver naturally made silver expensive and money cheap, and the court's taxes and various expenditures were settled in silver.
The high value of silver and the low value of money not only increased the burden on the people at the bottom, but also weakened the financial resources of the imperial court, leaving the Qing Dynasty almost without money to pay and suppress bandits.
Under this situation, the foreigners want to go even further and extract more money from the Qing Dynasty's pockets. If all the money is given to the foreigners, the green camp and the regiment training will not be able to get the money, and if they rebel together, the Qing Dynasty will really fall.
Because of this, Luo Xueyan's act of taking back the Shanghai concession made Xianfeng very happy. He suddenly felt that the Qing Dynasty had a future again, so he dared to come to the Ancestral Temple to report to his ancestors today!
Chapter completed!