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Chapter 374: King Fujin of Jingnan

"You Nanman who kills thousands of swords, let go of my master!... The old woman fights with you!"

After Guan Tianshui brought people to escort E Enzhe and Hong Shiming out, the old lady Su, who had been ignored, rushed up with a crutch. She was too old and had long lost all her teeth. She screamed and rushed towards Guan Tianshui and the others. The sound seemed as irritating and harsh as if it was leaking.

E Enzhe's hands were tied with ropes and his mouth was stuffed with cloth, for fear that she would commit suicide by biting her tongue. Seeing Madam Su rushing over to beat the Taiping Guards, E Enzhe's eyes were full of tears, and he kept whining, but he couldn't speak. Hong Shiming hung his head and didn't move like a dead person, but Uncle Chen looked at the old lady with a look of helplessness.

"Damn old man, get out of here!"

A Taiping soldier stepped forward to stop Aunt Su, snatched her crutch and broke it into two pieces with a "bang". The soldier had no intention of killing the old woman in seventies. He broke her crutch and shouted that she wanted her to retreat aside.

But the old lady who had no crutches refused to give up. While cursing the Taiping Army, she also stretched out her wrinkled hand in Manzhou to grab the soldier's face. The soldier was so angry that he pushed her back, but the old lady couldn't stand steadily, and her head hit the tip of a bench. He was bleeding on the spot, and the person was also slumped there, his legs shook, and he was swallowed in a moment.

"this...."

The soldier was also a little surprised to see that the old woman fell to death.

Guan Tianshui stepped forward and patted him, waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about her. It's not our business to seek death." After that, he looked back at Enzhe, and spat: "This old man in Manzhou is a good slave. Your master will shed a few more tears for her." He thought this old man was a Manzhou native. But he didn't know that this old man was a Han man, but after living with Manzhou natives for a long time, he stopped treating himself as a Han man. His early revenge for killing his husband was thrown away from Jiuxiaoyun, and he only had the kindness of his master in his heart.

E Enzhe was just crying "Woooo" and was pushed by the soldiers by the body of Old Madam Su, his heart almost broke.

Master. Master, where are you? Why haven’t you come to save me yet!...

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The Jingnan Prince's Mansion was located in the former Guangdong Provincial Government Office of the Ming Dynasty. The scale of the royal palace was not as large as that of the Pingnan Prince's Mansion that was rebuilt Shaowu Palace, but compared with the Governor's Mansion, it was a little larger than that of the Governor's Mansion. The servants in the royal palace were all Baoyi slaves brought by the Geng family from Liaodong. In the words of the Han people, they all gave birth to their children. After Geng Jimao, the King of Jingnan, led the army to the expedition, all the affairs of the royal palace were handed over to the legitimate concubine Shi Yuanling.

Shi Yuanling was a member of the Han army's Huangqi. Her family was one of the eight great masters of the Han army. Her father was Gushan Ezhen, the Han army's Hongqi, and Shi Tingzhu, the general of Zhenjiang. One of the two elder brothers was Shi Huashan, the daughter of Prince Yu Duoduo, and the other was Shi Lin, the admiral of Shaanxi.

Shi Yuanling married Geng Jimao as his wife in the eighth year of Chongde. The following year, the first year of Shunzhi, gave birth to Geng Jimao's eldest son Geng Jingzhong. A few years later, he gave birth to another son, and Geng Jimao named him Geng Juzhong.

Before Shi Yuanling got married, his mother died early, and at the age of 11 or 12, he took over the affairs of the family for his father. Therefore, after marrying Geng Jimao, he took over the affairs of the mansion very quickly. After becoming the concubine of King Jingnan, Shi Yuanling even took charge of the affairs of the mansion in an orderly manner. Geng Jimao never had to worry about Geng Jimao, so Geng Jimao was not worried about anything going to happen to his family outside.

When the Taiping Army invaded Guangzhou City, Shi Yuanling was talking to her husband's concubine Wang to relieve her boredom.

Although the Wang family called her the concubine, she was actually just a concubine taken by Geng Jimao and had not been enthroned by the court. Because Wang's brother Wang Shude was killed by the Taiping Army, she was not in good spirits and health these days. Geng Jimao favored Wang family a lot. Although he hated his brother-in-law Wang Shude incompetent to cause him to lose 400 subordinates, he couldn't bear to see his beloved concubine being too sad for his brother's death. Before leaving, he asked Shi Yuanling to talk to Wang more when he had nothing to do to help her.

Shi Yuanling is not a jealous person by nature. He knows that men have three wives and four concubines. Therefore, although he blames Wang for robbing her husband of his favor and keeping her empty room alone, he can still act like a great concubine and generously tolerate her. He comes to look for Wang every few times. After a long time, Wang's spirit is obviously much better than before.

The two sisters were talking when suddenly the guards in front came to report that there were troublemakers in the city and the outside of the palace was in chaos.

After Shi Yuanling followed her husband to settle down in Guangzhou, he experienced several civil unrest. He only thought that this time it was a troublemaker and took the opportunity to rob money. Therefore, he did not take this matter seriously. As long as the guards closed the gate of the royal palace, the troublemakers outside were handed over to the Guangzhou government to deal with it. When he knew that the people who were in trouble were not the troublemakers in the city, but the Taiping Army, Shi Yuanling panicked and did not know where the Taiping gang came out and rushed into the city, and where the husband and General Jingnan were.

It is easy to deal with the unruly people. Although the Manchu and Han soldiers in Guangzhou City all went to Xiangshan to encircle and suppress the Taiping Army, there were also police officers and Ding Zhuang in Guangzhou Prefecture, as well as more than a thousand battalions, and there were also Han troops in Pingnan Prince's Mansion. It was certainly unexpected that the unruly people were disturbed, but as long as the government immediately dispatched troops to suppress the enemy, it would not take long to be suppressed. But now it is not the unruly people, but the Taiping Army under the banner of the Ming army. The guards said that judging from the movements in the city, they were afraid that there were thousands of Taiping Army entering the city. So many Taiping Army were not something that the police officers in Guangzhou Prefecture could deal with!

The Han army on the Green Camp and King Pingnan in the city can have about 2,000 people together. If they stick to the city, the Taiping Army, even if they reach a few thousand people, they may not be able to enter the city even if they reach a few times. However, now the Taiping Army has entered the city and the entire Guangzhou city has started to make trouble. In a hurry, the Green Camp soldiers will definitely not be able to stop them. The Pingnan Prince's Mansion will be afraid that they will not be able to make any moves.

Shi Yuanling was very worried that the Han army under the vassal were taken away by her husband, and there were only more than 200 guards in the royal palace and the male soldiers who could use swords and guns. If the Taiping Army came to attack the Jingnan Prince's Mansion, how could they defend it with such a little manpower?

After all, Shi Yuanling is a woman. Although she was born by everyone, she has been a concubine for several years. She works in a good manner on weekdays and is in order. However, the current situation is something she has never encountered before, and she immediately panicked. There are people running for life everywhere outside the palace, and riots are everywhere. I don’t know if the Taiping Army is coming to the Jingnan Palace.
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