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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 156: Discussion of establishing the capital

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    In the East Prince's Mansion in Changsha, the lights in the East Prince's study flickered on and off, with Yang Xiuqing's thin and dark face looming. He looked at the memorial document in his hand and was speechless for a long time.  Chen Chengrong, who was already the deputy prime minister of the local government, stood up and offered a bowl of tea soup.

    Yang Xiuqing rubbed her temples, hummed, put down the document, took the bowl, but held it to her lips for a long time without drinking. Suddenly she raised her head and asked, "Chen Chengrong, is there any new memorial coming from the West Hall?"

    Chen Chengrong bowed and said: "Reporting to the Nine Thousand Years Old King of the East, after the documents commemorating the victory of the capture of Nanjing the day before yesterday, no new documents have arrived."

    Yang Xiuqing asked with a gloomy face: "Recently there have been rumors about the motto of "Tui Bei Tu". What do you think?"

    Chen Chengrong lowered his hands and said: "This is a helpless move by the Qing demon and Guizhou donkey to maliciously slander the Kingdom of Heaven. As long as the Kingdom of Heaven wins one battle after another, this rumor will be broken." At this point, Chen Chengrong narrowed his eyes and looked at Yang Xiuqing for a moment, and said hesitantly: "  But, but"

    Yang Xiuqing said impatiently: "But what? There are only you and me here. If you have anything to say, it doesn't matter."

    Chen Chengrong lowered his head and said, "But the rumors about the king killing the king in the Qing Yao rumors must be guarded against."

    Yang Xiuqing snorted and said, "Go on."

    Seeing that the Eastern King was not angry, Chen Chengrong continued boldly: "The West Palace's Eastern Campaign has conquered important towns such as Wuchang, Jiujiang, and Anqing, and now it has conquered Nanjing with more than 100,000 men in armor. The momentum is growing  ¡­It has become so big that it cannot be lost¡­¡±

    Yang Xiuqing snorted coldly, raised her hand to interrupt him, and said coldly: "Why do you say this?"

    Chen Chengrong was startled, and knelt on the ground with a thud, but still gritted his teeth and clasped his fists and said: "Dong Wang, my subordinates are speaking from the bottom of their hearts. Once the Xi Wang has full wings, he may not have any dissent. Now that Nanjing has been conquered, this is  In the land of Longxing, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, we need to prevent the King of the West from imitating the Mingzu and carrying the Red Scarf Army."

    Yang Xiuqing scolded angrily with a straight face: "That's nonsense! The Red Scarf Army was the leader of the weak ministers back then, and was replaced by Ming Taizu. How can it be compared with our heavenly kingdom? Has the King of the West done anything against him now?"

    Chen Chengrong was speechless, and Yang Xiuqing snorted and said, "We, the Six Righteous Kings, are brothers, so how could we commit brotherly murder?" Here Yang Xiuqing paused, and sighed softly: "The most important thing right now is not  How to guard against the King of the West, but how to stabilize the King of the West? First, discuss the rewards for those who have made meritorious services reported by the King of the West, and then issue an edict to all armies. Rumors spread everywhere must not be spread, but those who are found to be talking nonsense will be punished.  !¡±

    Chen Chengrong bowed and clasped his fists to accept the order, but a sneer rose from the corner of his mouth, and he thought to himself, you Yang Xiuqing also know that the power of the Western King is very difficult to control, so you can only comfort him, not move lightly, but you just refuse to say it out loud.

    At this time, the voice of Zeng Shuiyuan from the East Hall outside the house came: "Report to the King of the East, there is a memorial coming from the West Hall."

    Yang Xiuqing stood up from his seat and said, "Send it in quickly!"

    Zeng Shuiyuan handed over the memorial, and Yang Xiuqing hurriedly opened it to read it. The more he looked at it, the more he frowned. After reading it, he let out a sigh of relief.

    Neither Chen Chengrong nor Zeng Shuiyuan knew what was going on. They looked at Yang Xiuqing together. The King of the East handed over the document and said: "The King of the West asked the King of Heaven and me to move to Nanjing to take over. He hoped to make Nanjing the capital and at the same time be willing to deliver Wuchang and Wuchang along the river.  Jiujiang, Anqing and other cities, and said that I will never die to destroy the demons. The rumors spread in the market are all nonsense. He, the King of the West, is still a loyal minister of the Kingdom of Heaven and will never have any second thoughts. "

    Chen Chengrong and Zeng Shuiyuan hurriedly took over the reading. After reading only a few sentences, Chen Chengrong said happily: "East King, it seems that the West King must have heard those rumors and took the initiative to express his loyalty to the Heavenly King and the East King. Since  The West Palace is willing to hand over the cities along the river, and even persuades the Heavenly King and the East King to move to Nanjing and make their capital, then we can move to Nanjing."

    Yang Xiuqing shook his head and walked a few steps with his hands behind his back: "Now we have 100,000 troops including new recruits, but Changsha and other places also need to be guarded by separate troops. After taking over the city along the river, how many troops will we have when we arrive in Nanjing?  How many West Palace soldiers are there in Nanjing?"

    As soon as these words came out, Chen Chengrong and Zeng Shuiyuan were stunned. Yes, once the troops are thinned, the troops in the West Palace must be extremely dominant when they arrive at the gate of Nanjing. It would be fine if the King of the West does not have the second intention.  When they get angry, the Heavenly King and the East King will be extremely passive.

    Yang Xiuqing waved his hands in annoyance and said: "Send these memorials to the King of Heaven for review, and summon King Bei and King Yi back to Changsha for discussion. You should also think about how to decide. The decision to make Nanjing the capital is related to the fate of the Kingdom of Heaven. It is better to discuss it in the long term.  You go down first." After saying that, he turned around and looked at the map hanging in the room.

    Chen Chengrong and Zeng Shuiyuan walked out of the house. Before going out, Chen Chengrong looked back., I saw Yang Xiuqing looking at the map blankly, muttering to himself: "What do you mean by this? What do you mean by this?"

    Chen Chengrong also understood what Yang Xiuqing was worried about. Now that the King of the West was actively showing weakness, it made Yang Xiuqing worried. He was afraid that there was some conspiracy involved. If he wanted to blame him, he could only blame the King of the West for expanding his power too fast. He could almost compete with the Changsha Brigade.  No wonder Dong Wang would do this.

    Three days later, King Bei and King Yi returned to Changsha one after another to gather together. Yang Xiuqing convened the generals at the East Palace to discuss matters. For the first time, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan also came out of his Heavenly Palace and went to the East Palace to participate in the discussion.  Since entering Changsha, the Heavenly King has rarely dealt with government affairs and concentrated on studying doctrines in the Heavenly King's Mansion. However, this time it was a major event related to the establishment of the capital of the Heavenly Kingdom, and the Heavenly King still came to listen to the government.  Why not go to the Heavenly King's Mansion to discuss matters?  Because there were dozens of queens in Tianwang Palace, it was inconvenient, so Hong Xiuquan had no choice but to come to Dongwang Palace.

    In the palace of the East King, all the important ministers and generals of the Kingdom of Heaven gathered together. Yang Xiuqing sat under the head of the King of Heaven Hong Xiuquan. He did not want to talk nonsense and said slowly: "Now the King of the West has come to write a letter. The city of Jinling has been conquered. The King of the West has destroyed the demons that the Qing demons have taken."  The name was changed from Jinling to Nanjing, and the old name of the Ming Dynasty was restored. At the same time, the King of Heaven and I were asked to move to Nanjing, and he proposed to make Nanjing the capital as the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven. Setting the capital is the most important thing for our Kingdom of Heaven at the moment, so we called all the brothers back to discuss it.  , can Nanjing be the capital?"

    All the ministers and generals in heaven started talking after hearing the words. There was no other reason. People in Changsha had heard some rumors, and the generals outside also received the news after they returned to Changsha. Everyone actually understood that the King of the West was telling him that  The King of Heaven and the King of East declared their loyalty, handed over all the cities they had worked hard to conquer, and proposed to make Nanjing the capital, in order to eliminate the doubts of the King of Heaven and King of East, and to calm the hearts of the people of Heaven and Earth.  What Yang Xiuqing discussed did not talk about the achievements of the Western King. He only discussed whether the proposal made by the Western King to make Nanjing the capital was feasible. It seemed that the Eastern King still had concerns about making Nanjing the capital, but no one could guess what the Eastern King wanted.  Thoughts, you must know that the King of the West was the die-hard brother of the King of the East in the past, so there were many people whispering about it at the same time, but few people actually spoke out.

    Wei Changhui, the king of the north, stood up first. The king of the west went on an expedition, and he had the highest official position under the king of the east. Seeing that everyone did not dare to speak, he could only stand up and raise his head.  At that moment, Wei Changhui coughed and said: "When we first arrived in Changsha, our heavenly kingdom had a strategy to stabilize the country, which was to pacify the nine southern provinces. Then the three armies went north to hunt the Yan capital, expel the Hunu, and restore China. Now. Now  The sister-in-law of the King of the West captured Nanjing, which was the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and the place where dragons flourished in the Ming Dynasty. I think that among all the cities in the nine southern provinces, only Nanjing can be the capital of the Kingdom of Heaven."

    Yi Wang Shi Dakai nodded and said: "The city of Nanjing is located on the dragon's plate. It is the ancient capital of the six dynasties and has the natural danger of the Yangtze River. Our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wants to establish the nine southern provinces, and Nanjing must be the capital. Now the King of the West has conquered Nanjing, along the Yangtze River, Hunan, Jiangxi, Suzhou and Hubei.  Most of the provincial cities and towns have been included in the territory of the Kingdom of Heaven. The Heavenly King and the Eastern King are sitting in Nanjing and commanding from the center. Our Heavenly Kingdom troops attack in separate directions and attack Jiangxi, Hunan and Fujian. The territory of Guangdong and Guangxi can be determined by sending a message. Then westward to Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, half of the south of the Yangtze River can be  It¡¯s settled.¡±

    Qin Rigang, Hu Yihuang and others also echoed the words of King Bei and King Yi. In fact, King Bei wanted to continue to operate in northern Hunan. Xu Tu went north to Jingxiang, while King Yi made a breakthrough in the direction of Liling, and Jiang Zhongyuan retreated.  After Nanchang, the Yidian soldiers and horses also began to prepare to march into Jiangxi. The two kings actually had their own Xiao Jiujiu. It didn't matter where they decided to set their capital. The important thing was that the king of heaven and the king of east went to Nanjing. For the two kings,  I'm most happy to see it.

    Due to the emergence of Xiao Yungui, history has changed. The Taiping Army is much stronger than in history, but it also quickly exposed the shortcomings of having too many kings.  Historically, each king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had his own troops. That was why during the Tianjing Incident, the North Palace soldiers killed the East Palace soldiers. Later, King Yi led troops to Qin Wang's troubles. Each king had his own trusted soldiers.  horse.  After Beidian occupied western Hunan, it had expanded to 50,000 troops. Wing Palace also had more than 40,000 troops in eastern Hunan and western Jiangxi. The disadvantages of each king's self-respecting troops had begun to appear.

    Yang Xiuqing had already noticed this, as can be seen from the words of King Bei and King Yi, but he remained calm, looked back at King Tian and said: "Second brother, now that the brothers want to make Nanjing their capital, should we move to Nanjing and change the name to Nanjing?"  Tianjing, do you think it is the capital of the Kingdom of Heaven?"

    Hong Xiuquan put his palms in his hands and said with a smile: "The capital should be Nanjing and renamed Tianjing. That's how it should be. As long as the tiger occupies Tianjing, I can own half of the south of the Yangtze River. Haha, the King of the West is still a loyal minister of the Kingdom of Heaven. Brothers, please don't treat the King of the West anymore.  If you are interested, please take it to heart." Yang Xiuqing had issued a ban early in the morning, not to spread the news about the King of the West. Otherwise, only Hong Xiuquan dared to mention the lighting of sky lanterns, and leader Hong had planned to make Kaifeng, Henan, the capital early in the morning, but Changsha  When deciding on the strategy, the generals had already decided on the strategy of setting up the nine southern provinces and then heading north. It was naturally better to make Nanjing the capital than stay in Changsha. You must know that Nanjing has always been the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and it was the emperor's choice.

    Yang Xiuqing nodded and said calmly: "In that case, let's go east to Tianjing."?Everyone has a career.  "All the generals cheered together when they heard this.

    When the cheers of the generals stopped, Yang Xiuqing said again: "Since Tianjing is the capital, then the North King and the Yi King will naturally go together. The North King will lead the North Palace soldiers with 20,000 soldiers, and the Yi King will lead the Wing Palace soldiers with 10,000 soldiers."  , General Qin Rigang led 50,000 soldiers from Changsha, as well as the generals, officers, ministers and their families to Tianjing. Let¡¯s enter Tianjing City and enjoy the blessings together.¡±

    Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai were slightly shocked. They were also going to Tianjing. What about the war in Hunan and Jiangxi?  Before the two of them came to their senses, Yang Xiuqing continued: "Lai Hanying led the 20,000 soldiers in Changsha and the 30,000 soldiers and horses in Beidian in northern Hunan. He continued the war in northern Hunan and prepared to take over important places such as Wuchang. Hu Yihuang led Changsha.  20,000 soldiers, together with the troops of Yidian in Hunan and Jiangxi, continue to attack Qingyao in Jiangxi Province. The rest of the civil and military forces, large and small, have all gone to Tianjing. Now that we have the capital, we can go to Little Paradise to enjoy the blessings together."

    Everyone was shocked. Yang Xiuqing cut off most of the military power of the North King and the Yi King with a few words. The North King Wei Changhui never dared to disobey Yang Xiuqing's orders. Seeing the smiling look of the King of Heaven, he knew that he had no choice but to obey.  King Yi was not able to refuse due to his virtuous reputation, so the two kings had no choice but to stand up and accept the order.

    Yang Xiuqing played this skill beautifully. Not only did he eliminate the hidden dangers of Beiwang and Yiwang, but the Changsha brigade heading east had more than 80,000 people. They were recruiting new soldiers along the way. It would not be difficult to expand to more than 100,000 people when they arrived in Nanjing. Yang Xiuqing planned to rely on these troops.  Deal with the King of the West.  With this arrangement, Yang Xiuqing not only eliminated the threat of the North King and the Yi King, but also had the capital to compete with the West King for supremacy, which shows his ability to play power. But will the West King wait for him in Nanjing?
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