The wind rises at the end of Qingping, and the waves form between gentle waves.
Just like political struggles, the most dangerous times are often the calmest times.
Because both sides want to reassure their opponents.
Tell the other person that I have put down the knife. Don’t worry, good brother, we have been together through life and death for so long, how could I possibly attack you?
What matters now is acting.
Whoever is good at acting is likely to make the other person put down the knife first.
Then you can stab the opponent to death with a cold knife.
Regarding such tricks, Zhu Yuanzhang considered himself an expert.
So now that he was in Nanjing, he could tell at a glance that compared to Yang Xiuqing, who looked tough and arbitrary, Hong Xiuquan, who had become more and more indifferent in the past two years, but had always firmly occupied the position of the supreme leader, had better acting skills.
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During this period, he seemed to have been giving in to Yang Xiuqing, but in fact he wanted to make Yang Xiuqing lower his guard, and then suddenly attack one day and deliver a fatal blow.
If Zhu Biao were here, he would definitely sigh.
Hong Xiuquan is an old bastard.
Time passes day by day.
Just one month after Shi Dakai returned to Beijing, Northern King Wei Changhui received a secret edict from Hong Xiuquan, quietly led troops into Nanjing at night, and suddenly launched a surprise attack on Yang Xiuqing's mansion at two o'clock in the morning.
Suddenly, shouts of killing broke out, and countless people throughout Nanjing were alarmed.
"Your Majesty, what should we do?" Feng Sheng was following Zhu Yuanzhang and watching this scene from a distance.
"Since some people have forgotten their original intentions, let them die completely!"
"We will bring new life to the Taiping Army!"
A coldness flashed in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes: "Mao Xiang, take our brothers who are stationed in the North King's army, go to the Tianwang Mansion, and massacre the Tianwang Mansion under Wei Changhui's order."
"Yes!" Mao Xiang respectfully agreed, turned around and left.
"Feng Sheng, just follow the original plan. When the King of Heaven and the King of the East are both dead, you will mobilize your elite soldiers into the city and surround and kill the North King Wei Changhui in the name of rebellion. Don't let his men escape.
one person."
"Yes!" Feng Sheng agreed and hurriedly disappeared into the night.
The city of Nanjing tonight is destined to be unstable.
Shi Dakai brought not many guards into Nanjing City, only more than a hundred people. He led the people to kill all night. He first went to the Dongwang Mansion, and then found that there was a river of blood here. Then he took the people to the Tianwang Mansion and found the same thing.
Rivers of blood flowed.
This made Shi Dakai completely dumbfounded.
Even if the Heavenly King and the Eastern King fight, one person will always win!
What kind of trick did these two people die together?
"King Yi...!" Just when Shi Dakai was confused and at a loss, Feng Sheng ran over with an angry look on his face.
"The King of Wings, King of the North Wei Changhui led troops to the capital last night, launched a rebellion, and wanted to kill the King of Heaven and the King of the East. Now he has been captured by us. Please deal with it, King of Wings."
"Huh?" Shi Dakai was even more confused. Last night was a chaos. He didn't accomplish anything in a hurry, so he ran around with his people. In the end, the King of Heaven, King of the East, King of the North, and his immediate superiors died.
He died, was captured, and overnight he became the boss of the Taiping Army?
This is incredible!
"Take me there!" Although he was becoming more and more frightened and uncertain, things still had to be done.
When he arrived with Feng Sheng and saw the scene, even though he had fought all the way from the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, he still couldn't help but feel his heart beating.
The Eastern King Yang Xiuqing died with his eyes closed, his face full of anger, and he was stabbed eighteen times in a row, all of which were bloody.
Hong Xiuquan, the king of heaven, also refused to close his eyes, with a look of shock on his face. He was only hit with one knife in his body, but it was a cruel and precise blow, aimed at the heart, and killed him with one blow.
"King Yi, I was wronged!"
"I received a secret edict from the King of Heaven to enter Nanjing City to eliminate traitors. I just led the troops to kill Yang Xiuqing and never touched a finger of the King of Heaven. You have to believe me!" Northern King Wei Changhui looked horrified.
"I trust you!"
"But even so, you have already committed an unforgivable crime!" Shi Dakai said in a deep voice.
"Pfft!" Feng Sheng beside him suddenly drew his sword, and with a flash of light, Wei Changhui's head fell to the ground instantly.
"The King of Wings is mighty, he has killed evil spirits for our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and avenged the Heavenly King and King of the East. Long live King of Wings!" Feng Sheng took the lead in shouting.
The surrounding Taiping generals who had also been killed all night also started shouting.
Everyone can see that Shi Dakai is the biggest winner when things have developed into the current situation. If he doesn't support him now, how long will it take to support him?
Shi Dakai: "????."
"Did I say I was going to kill him directly?" There was a moment of shock on his face.
Then he reacted and stared at Feng Sheng with his eyes: "How did you catch Wei Changhui? As far as I know, he brought 10,000 elite soldiers into the city!"
"Of course I was ordered by King Yi to mobilize the elite from outside the South Gate into the town to suppress the rebellion!" Feng Sheng lied in front of Shi Dakai without changing his expression.
Shi Dakai naturally knew that Feng Sheng was lying.
When he entered Nanjing, all the elites were left twenty miles away. They had to travel forty miles to and from Nanjing. By the time those people were transferred to Nanjing, the day lily would be cold.
And since Wei Changhui dared to do such a thing, how could he not control the city gate and let Feng Sheng move troops into the city so easily?
There are too many doubts here to withstand careful scrutiny.
But now is obviously not the time to talk about this.
Overnight, the three top leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, including the King of Heaven, the King of the East, and the King of the North, died. Such a thing was enough to cause shock to the entire Taiping Army. If not handled properly as soon as possible, the great situation that the Taiping Army had just created might be ruined in an instant.
Lose.
This is something he doesn't want to see anyway.
"Chen Yucheng!"
"You quickly send a message to all the Taiping Army generals, telling them not to pursue for the time being, and to stabilize military matters as soon as possible, and come back to Tianjing to discuss important matters."
"Li Xiucheng, take my order and mobilize 30,000 elite soldiers from 20 miles away into Nanjing City to guard the city gates without making any mistakes!"
"Yes!" They both agreed and left in a hurry.
"Feng Sheng, I'll leave this to you!"
"Properly arrange the remains of the Heavenly King and the Eastern King, and let them be laid to rest as soon as possible. After everything is done, come to see me at Prince Yi's Mansion!" Shi Dakai said in a deep voice.
His series of operations were equivalent to directly removing all military power from Feng Sheng.
Feng Sheng could feel this, but since he was Shi Dakai's subordinate, there was nothing he could do about Shi Dakai's behavior.
And he doesn't need to do anything else.
His mission has been accomplished.
Next is Zhu Yuanzhang's performance moment.
An hour later, Feng Sheng, who had finished handling the corpses of the three heavenly kings, entered Prince Yi's Mansion with ease.
"Feng Sheng, do you want to give me a reasonable explanation?" Shi Dakai said solemnly.
"I'm from Guangdong."
"To be precise, I am from the Ming Dynasty." Shi Dakai was completely stunned by Feng Sheng's first words.
"My lord was in the city last night. Wei Changhui sent troops into the city last night to kill the King of the East. My lord took advantage of the situation and led to this great situation."
"This situation is probably the best for both the Taiping Army and our Lord."
"To be honest, if it hadn't been for my lord, no matter whether Yang Xiuqing or Hong Xiuquan won this political struggle in the end, I'm afraid you, King Yi, would not be able to protect your head." Feng Sheng said.
Shi Dakai fell silent immediately after hearing this.
He is not a fool, how could he not see through the stakes involved?
He was very popular among the Taiping Army.
In the future, whether Yang Xiuqing or Hong Xiuquan takes the lead, they will lose their support greatly after this rebellion. At that time, I am afraid that they will be afraid that they have usurped their positions, and they will definitely be suspected.
Thinking of this, Shi Dakai couldn't help but laugh at himself.
"Then I also want to thank your lord for saving his life?"
"That's not necessary, everyone just needs what they need!"
Feng Sheng smiled and said: "If it is convenient for King Yi, you can go to Yuhua Pavilion outside Nanjing at noon tomorrow. My Lord wants to meet you."
"Wait!"
Seeing that Feng Sheng was about to leave, Shi Dakai hesitated but stopped him.
"Is your lord really the Hongwu Emperor?" he asked.
"Haha, you will know when we see you tomorrow!" Feng Sheng smiled and left.
The expression on Shi Dakai's face behind him was a bit complicated. He had noticed Feng Sheng's excellence, otherwise he wouldn't have been promoted to the position of his confidant, but he was not one of his own at all.
Thinking of this, Shi Dakai couldn't help but sigh.
"Feng Sheng...Feng Sheng...!"
Shi Dakai muttered twice, and suddenly his eyes widened. In recent years, because the Ming Dynasty in the south has become more and more powerful, he had spent a lot of effort to find a few historical materials about the Ming Dynasty.
If he remembered correctly, one of the six founding Dukes in the early Ming Dynasty was named Feng Sheng.
"He...can't really be the Feng Sheng recorded in the history books!" Shi Dakai's face was full of shock.
At noon the next day, Shi Dakai quietly went to the appointment alone.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that he would come alone.
"You are brave enough!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed.
"I'm quite brave!" Shi Dakai grinned. He was born with supernatural powers and acquired martial arts skills. To be honest, ten or twenty ordinary people are really no match for him.
Hearing what he said, Mao Xiang, who was standing behind Zhu Yuanzhang, smiled and said nothing.
A mere Huajin Grandmaster dares to be so arrogant. There are only seven of them in this area. If he wants to kill Shi Dakai, Mao Xiang can only do it with a finger.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not dwell on these matters, and went straight to the point: "Now that the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom has fallen into the hands of King Yi, what are your plans?"
Shi Dakai fell silent immediately after hearing this.
"Continue to fight against the Qing government until the Tatars are destroyed and our Han family is restored!" Shi Dakai said firmly.
"But after this incident, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the Taiping Army to be as pure as before!"
"Not to mention anything else, the simultaneous deaths of Hong Xiuquan, the second son of God, and Yang Xiuqing, the third son who could make Heavenly Father descend to earth, would have a greater impact on believers than you imagine!"
Seeing that Shi Dakai was silent, Zhu Yuanzhang changed the subject and said: "Do you know why the Taiping Army can defeat the Hunan Army many times, but they can make a comeback every time?"
"The Hunan Army's base is in Hunan. If we remember correctly, after the Taiping Army left Guangxi, Hunan was the first place it entered. As a result, your biggest opponent now comes from Hunan. Isn't this interesting?"
"What exactly do you want to say?" Shi Dakai said a little irritably.
"You are too lenient towards those gentry!"
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "We killed 70% of the gentry in Guangdong. For this reason, we put out hundreds of civil strife, large and small."
"But after this battle, Guangdong was settled."
"You can go and see Guangdong today. It is completely different from a few years ago."
"Although you claim to occupy half of the Qing Dynasty, you are actually just a few cities. Most of the areas outside the cities are still in the hands of the gentry, and they are the masters of the world."
"As long as they have their hearts set on the Manchus, you will find that chaos occurs frequently in the areas occupied by the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom and they will be exhausted to deal with. Am I right?"
Shi Dakai was a little irritable.
Does he know anything about these things? He only knows how to fight.
"It is easy to conquer the world, but it is difficult to govern the world!"
Zhu Yuanzhang sighed with deep sympathy and continued: "If our prediction is good, the Taiping Army's food and grass have begun to be stretched, right?"
"Tax evasion is very easy for those gentry."
"And if you don't have sufficient supplies of food and grass, how can you conquer the world?"
"Also, do you have an independent supervisory agency for those Taiping Army generals?"
"As far as I know, the most powerful method used by the gentry is to subtly corrupt and win over the generals!"
"You have occupied a sacred place like Nanjing for several years. It is inevitable that such people will appear. If at a critical moment, such people suddenly turn back, how will you deal with it?"
Shi Dakai felt a little numb on his scalp.
Originally, he thought that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's political power was now stable. Even if it could not occupy the whole of China, half of the country south of the Yangtze River was already secure.
But now after what Zhu Yuanzhang said, this is not a stable situation, it is simply in danger, and there is a possibility of overturning at any time!
"If it is true as Mr. said, how can we solve it?" Shi Dakai humbly asked for advice.
"There is no good solution!"
"Either like the Manchus, delegate power to the gentry. However, according to our observation, as long as the Manchus can secure the throne, there is almost no bottom line. Now that even the gentry group training has been relaxed, you may not be able to do what they did."
"And it is unlikely that those gentry who work, study and take care of their families and think they are noble will look down on a weak-legged regime like yours."
"Either let go and kill all the gentry who dare to resist. Then the world will naturally be at peace."
In comparison, Shi Dakai naturally preferred the second method.
But this kind of thing is too dangerous and too difficult to handle.
Moreover, if they kill all the gentry, it will be equivalent to exterminating themselves from the scholars. Then who will help them govern the place?
"We have a better way!" Seeing Shi Dakai's troubled face, Zhu Yuanzhang said again.
"What?" Shi Dakai's face showed hope.
"Bring the Taiping Army to join us!"
"Let's help you kill people!" Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and said.
The surging confidence in his words made Shi Dakai instantly moved.
To be honest, he really had some thoughts in his heart at this moment.