Although the affairs of the imperial court are over, the things in front of him can make it difficult for Hu Guozhu, if he is still as evenly matched as before, he is not afraid, now the Manchu Qing has transferred troops, and the troops in Shandong have all been gathered, which is almost twice as much as him, this is not a bandit and a grass coward, it is a world-famous Manchu army, thinking of this, his mouth is full of bitterness.

This battle is not easy to fight, he has already sent the specific situation to the court in writing, but now the court has not yet reinforced the troops, and his tens of thousands of people alone are not opponents.

Xia Guoxiang made an article about this matter in the court: "I know that General Hu is fighting outside, and many people look at him unpleasantly, he does have the habit of being greedy for small and cheap, but how can there be nothing wrong with people who do big things, of course, you may think that he should be punished if he makes a mistake, and now the opportunity has come, you can listen well, don't listen to a few words." ”

"Seven days ago, the Manchu Qing Dynasty mobilized 100,000 troops from Shandong, and General Hu's subordinates are now only in their early 50,000s, which general thinks that he can replace General Hu to go into battle to kill the enemy, and quell this disaster for my Great Zhou, I will never stand in your way, as long as you can quell this offensive, my Xia Guoxiang swore in front of His Majesty today, and in the future, the post of Governor of the Five Armies of the Great Zhou Dynasty will be yours, and I will also abdicate and let Xian."

The ministers in the court looked at each other, with 50,000 troops against the Manchu Qing 100,000 army, this is not an ordinary task, once the 50,000 troops are annihilated, they can't even hold Hangzhou, and then they can only run to Yunnan.

Looking at the silence of the ministers in the court, Xia Guoxiang coughed: "Your Majesty, you see, no one is willing to fight for the country at all, what they fight is just those small calculations of their own family." ”

Wu Shifan felt a little bored, how generous those people wrote on the recital, why they were willing to sacrifice themselves for the Great Zhou, and when it came time to really serve the country, they still blindly spared their lives.

These people are not all boneless, but there are only a few that the Zhou Dynasty can fight, Ma Bao seems to have become a talent for reading since Wu Shifan ascended the throne, he does not fight or grab, Xia Guoxiang will do whatever he arranges, and even if he is asked to guard Hangzhou, he has not the slightest complaint, everyone knows that Hangzhou's troops are in the hands of Xia Guoxiang, in fact, Ma Bao is an empty general.

He didn't come out, some of those people were really frightened, and some of them were self-aware, so they couldn't bury Da Zhou for a momentary battle of will, right? This caused the situation that Wu Shifan saw, and no one dared to come out to fight.

Xia Guoxiang snorted coldly: "Since no one wants to come out, if Hu Guozhu does something wrong in the future, even if he is impeached in the court, if someone hands over the fold to the palace without permission, don't let me miss the rules!" ”

Why do these people want to hand over the folds to the palace, it is not because their emperor does not go to court for ten days and a half months, but they want to be impeached in the court, and they have no chance at all, but now they are said to be unruly by Xia Guoxiang, and they can only pinch their noses and admit it.

As for them want to hand over the fold again, but there is no way, now the eunuchs at the door see them as if they have seen a ghost, turn their heads and leave, they don't want to say a word, they also heard, that day after the Xia Guoxiang came out of the palace, the eunuch Sun Chengyun, the eunuch of the palace, beat seven or eight eunuchs to death with a stick, and also put down the cruel words: "Some silver can be taken, some silver is taken but you have to throw your life into it, next time you take the silver, put your eyes bright, and then lose my face, it's not so simple to kill." ”

In this deep palace, if you are killed, it will be a hundred, and the most afraid is to be disabled, and then sent to a place like the Huanyi Bureau, not enough to eat and wear, and to be bullied every day, and you have to wash your clothes with ice water in winter, which is not a human life at all, basically the people who are assigned here will die in two or three years, but this process is extremely difficult. And the body is crippled, and it is impossible to have a chance to be favored again.

Of course, these eunuchs know what is going on with which ones were killed, so they avoid these adults in the imperial court like snakes and scorpions, in their opinion, you yourself have no ability to fight with the Xia Kingdom, and spend money to kill us hard-working people.

Xia Guoxiang saw that no one spoke in the court, and then announced: "The imperial court has decided to send 30,000 reinforcements to support General Hu, but there is still a shortage of grain and grass, and please have silver to take silver, and have grain to produce food, if our Great Zhou is dead, the Manchu Emperor is destined to cut you with a thousand knives, and it is useless to keep silver." ”

When everyone heard this anger in their hearts, if they had said that there were 30,000 reinforcements, and the two sides were evenly matched, maybe they could give it a try, but he put this reinforcement at the end, and now if anyone stands up, it will inevitably make the emperor muttered in his heart, 50,000 people will shrink back and dare not come out, as soon as he hears that he is evenly matched, he will rush to the battlefield to kill the enemy and serve the country, are you playing this abacus very well?

Thinking of this, he could only swallow this evil breath, and said in his heart that he should not fight with Xia Guo in a short time, this person is too powerful, plus he is the emperor's uncle, he can stir up three points if he ignores it, if he catches the handle, he has to kill himself.

Sure enough, within half a month, all those who handed the folds to the harem were degraded, and some even had their homes raided directly because of their greed for ink and silver, and all their family property was used as military funds.

Fei Yangu rushed from Henan to Shandong to lead the soldiers and horses of Shandong, this time leading 100,000 troops is the most he led the most troops, and if this battle is won, he can recover Nanzhili and even Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Thinking of this, Feiyangu was excited, and he couldn't wait to rush to the city of Nanjing immediately and kill all the rebels in the city.

At this time, Cheng Xiaolian also heard about the incident in Hangzhou in Chengdu Mansion, and laughed: "This Xia State is a good method, but he uses his strength to suppress all the opposition voices of the imperial court by using the Manchu army to suppress the border." ”

"Your Majesty, there is a person from our Chengdu Mansion, who said that he is your old friend, but now you are claiming that you are seriously ill, and it is not good to see him."

"Friends? Let's arrange for him to stay first. ”

Mao Ruoling was feeding a few children at this time, and laughed: "Don't be a woman again, you want to kill Your Majesty with a sword, and when the time comes, you have to watch Yang Youcai, so as not to make any mess." ”

"What nonsense, Miss Miru has now settled near the academy with her master, but there will never be a second woman who comes to the door with a sword."

(End of chapter)