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Xu Hongji was already old, and he was lucky in history. He happened to die of illness when the Qing Dynasty called.The son ran away with his whole family, went to the south for a few years, and then led countless nobles to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

Liu Kongzhao avoided the war passively, but he did not surrender anyway, and finally left overseas without a trace.

The former was beaten to death by Xiangyong, and the latter served as a leading party for the Qing soldiers. These are all unofficial histories written by the enemy.

Xu Hongji said: "You and I are both nobles. My duty is to guard the city, and your duty is to guard the river. If you flee, you will be punished by the emperor's decree; if you fight, you will be ransacked by the Zhao bandits. Run away, I heard that Zhao thief will not kill, maybe some of the family can survive."

"That would be slaughtered by others!" Liu Kongzhao said depressedly.

Xu Hongji is old and sick, and he can't live for a few years.But he, Liu Kongzhao, is in the prime of life and wants to live a few more years.

It was hard for him to snatch this title!

And the methods are not very honorable, and there are rumors that he killed his own uncle and forced his own grandmother to death in order to win the title.Although it was all rumors spread by Fushe, it was similar to the truth. He did put his grandmother under house arrest, causing her to die in depression.

Seeing that Wei Guogong was just waiting to die, Liu Kongzhao left immediately and went straight to the naval camp.

"Boys, follow me to surrender!"

Liu Kongzhao wants to take all the Yangtze River Navy together before returning to society and dedicating the city.

His dozens of hundreds of broken boats are basically unable to fight, and most of them are refitted tank boats that have been eliminated.As for the shipbuilding money allocated every year, it was all embezzled by Liu Kongzhao.

After Zhao Han became big in Jiangxi, Chongzhen allocated tens of thousands of taels of money to let Liu Kongzhao train the Yangtze River Navy, and now the money is still lying in the cellar of Liu's family.

Seeing nearly a hundred warships of the Nanjing Navy sailing towards the six warships of the Jiangxi Navy, officers and soldiers in Nanjing stepped forward to watch the battle.

"Array!"

Fan Chao immediately gave an order, and with the flag waving, six warships lined up.

Six ships fought nearly a hundred ships, preparing for a bloody battle.

"Raise the white flag!"

Liu Kongzhao also quickly ordered.

In ancient China, in wars, white flags can also be used to represent surrender.

Nearly a hundred warships of the Nanjing Navy raised white flags in unison, which stunned Fan Chao.

Brother, you obviously have too many ships, so what does it mean to surrender to me in a hurry?

Fan Chao did not dare to relax, fearing that the enemy would feign surrender.

But Liu Kongzhao was seen sailing in front of Fan Chao's boat in a small boat, and was pulled up by ropes.

Liu Kongzhao was very single, so he knelt down to Fan Chao directly: "Daming Caojiang Admiral, Chengyi Bo Liu Kongzhao, lead the Daming Yangtze River Navy, begging the general to accept surrender!"

Fan Chao murmured: "Damn you, you are really talented. I just came here to serve as the vanguard and block Nanjing by the way. You actually surrendered when you met."

Liu Kongzhao said without changing his face: "The general led the heavenly soldiers to come, with the power of heaven to help, how can mortals resist?"

A naval missionary officer leaned into Fan Chao's ear and said, "This man calls himself Uncle Chengyi, so he is the descendant of Liu Bowen."

Fan Chao stared wide-eyed and asked, "Has the spell from your ancestors been passed down?"

Liu Kongzhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Maybe it's because the spell has been broken and I haven't learned it."

Fan Chao still couldn't figure it out, Liu Kongzhao was an honorable man, and he had nearly a hundred warships, so why did he surrender so neatly?

It's very simple, because there is nowhere to escape.

The south was occupied by Zhao Han, and he would be questioned if he fled to the north, so he had to surrender before the sworn enemy Donglin Party and Fushe.

But Liu Kongzhao's operation made the Nanjing defenders look stupid.

Zhang Guowei, Shangshu of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, looked ashen at the moment, and he regretted not killing Liu Kongzhao with a single knife.

"Ministry of Zhang Bing, Duke Wei wanted to escape, but was stopped by the guards!" An official rushed over to report.

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"Father, the child is not filial!"

Xu Jiujue took several slaves and knelt down to Xu Hongji.

Xu Hongji stared wide-eyed: "Nizi, what exactly do you want to do?"

Xu Jiujue said: "If our family stays in Nanjing, we will definitely die. Since father doesn't want to leave, the child can only ask you to leave."

The house slaves held Xu Hongji down, first covered his mouth with rags, and then tied him up with ropes.

Xu Jiujue had already prepared, tied up his father and put him in the carriage.All kinds of gold, silver and treasures were also loaded into carts and carts, and then they were ready to go out of the city.

On the way, Duke Bao Zhu Guobi, Uncle Xin Cheng Zhao Zhilong, Marquis Longping Zhang Gongri... and other dignitaries all rushed to meet up with their families. There were so many cars that the street was blocked.

Regardless of whether the court will question the crime or not, anyway, escape from Nanjing first.

Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, has not taken Kou Baimen as his concubine at this time.

In history, this guy is really embarrassing. After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he was placed under house arrest, and his property was also robbed. He planned to sell all his concubines to get away.

Kou Baimen said: "The income from selling a concubine is only a few hundred gold. If you let the concubine go back to the south, you will get ten thousand gold in one month to report to the public."

So Zhu Guobi released Kou Baimen.

Kou Baimen found his former good sister and raised [-] taels of silver to redeem Zhu Guobi.

This guy still wants to get back together with Kou Baimen, Kou Baimen said: "Your father used money to redeem me from the brothel, but now I use money to redeem you, you and I are already in debt."

At this moment, the Xungui team went to the Guanyin Gate in the northeast corner, and they planned to go to Zhenjiang to take a boat north.

"Why did it stop in front?" Zhu Guobi asked.

A house slave went to check, and came back in a hurry: "There are a lot of troublemakers, blocking the car!"

These house slaves didn't dare to surrender to Zhao Han. They usually bullied others and committed many evil deeds, so they could only follow Xungui all the way to the dark.

Zhu Guobi raised his sword angrily and moved forward. I dare not hit Jiangxi Zhao thief, and dare not kill you troublesome people?

But in front of the car, there are more than ten Fushe scholars blocking the way.

One of the scholars scolded angrily: "You are honorable, and you will rest with the country. You have eaten the people's fat and people's anointing for more than two hundred years, and now the catastrophe is imminent, but you only know that you are running for your life!"

"Go away!" Xu Jiujue was furious.

The Fushe scholar pointed to Xu Jiujue: "I know you, you are the son of Wei Guogong. The ancestor of the king, how brave and heroic is he, and the descendants are like this?"

More and more people gathered around, the honorable team was too large, it was difficult not to attract attention.

Zhu Guobi came over with his sword at this moment, just in time to see the bloody scene.

Xu Jiujue rode his horse and held a knife, and rushed towards the scholar of Fushe.One scholar was knocked into the air by a galloping horse, and the other was knocked down by a knife.

The rest of the fushe scholars dodged in fright.

Xu Jiujue sneered: "Hmph, if you don't eat a toast, you'll end up like this for anyone who dares to block the way!"

Seeing Xungui's car, carrying countless treasures, run over the body of the scholar, the onlookers were already extremely angry.

Among the crowd, a scholar from Datong shouted: "They have searched for people's fat and anointment, and have bullied us for more than 200 years. We can't let them take away the money."

At this moment, the car driver was approaching the Guanyin Gate, and another Fushe scholar shouted: "Why do you work so hard to defend the city, but Xungui can escape with his family's belongings?"

The crowd roared louder and louder, but no one dared to stop it.

However, the officers and soldiers stationed at the Guanyin Gate were stuck there and refused to open the city gate.

The two words of the Fushe scholars are enough to incite the defenders: I work hard to defend the city, but you run away with your money?

Why!

Not to mention what Wei Guogong's family did, but Liu Kongzhao, who led the navy to surrender, this earl can show off his might in Nanjing.

Bo Chengyi was in the Wanli Dynasty, because of his many evil deeds, he was directly deposed by Zhang Juzheng.

As soon as Zhang Juzheng died, the courtiers counterattacked, and Bo Chengyi quickly regained his title.

Instead of thinking about repentance, it got worse.

In the 19th year of Wanli, 83 families jointly invested in the reclamation of pond fields, and Cheng Yibo even drove domestic slaves to occupy most of them.When the matter got to the emperor, he was only fined one year's salary.

Almost every two or three years, that Uncle Chengyi would make a major incident, and Emperor Wanli never cared about it.

In the end, he was convicted and sentenced to death because this guy dared to occupy the saltworks and got into a fight with the eunuch because of tax resistance.A series of crimes were listed, such as defrauding officials and the people, killing innocent people without authorization, raping the property, wives and daughters of good people, and so on.

Every earl is like this, think about those dukes!

A businessman who was cheated by Xungui came over with his slaves and shouted: "The car is full of people's fat and people's ointment. It is our property. Come and take it back with me!"

"Grab money!"

Seeing an opportunity to take advantage of, a group of gangsters rushed up with their sticks.

Immediately, the city guards and the onlookers also rushed towards the noble team.

Xu Jiujue, the son of Wei Guogong, wanted to ride his horse to kill, but he was dragged off by his clothes.No one beat him, everyone wanted to steal money, countless feet stepped on him, and he was trampled to death on the street.

Baoguo Gong Zhu Guobi saw that the situation was not going well, he quickly ran back with his sword in hand, and said to his family: "Go, go, it's important to run for your life!"

There was a commotion here, and more and more common people were robbing money. Several noble families had no choice but to hide under the carriage.

When Zhang Guowei, Minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing, arrived, all the property of Xungui's family had been looted.

An officer's pockets were so full of silver that his belt almost snapped.When he saw Zhang Guowei leading the troops, he quickly said to the soldiers and people around him: "Brothers and neighbors, today you killed many nobles, and the court will punish you. If you are dead anyway, you might as well vote for King Zhao. Arrest the officials with me." stand up!"

When everyone thought about it, it was true.

So they rushed towards Zhang Guowei, and the soldiers around him fled in fright, and the Nanjing city guard was tied up like this.

Until now, the internal staff of the Datong Association are still joining forces with the Fushe Scholars to seize the city.

Chapter 310 [Still Party Struggle]

The Minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing was arrested, and the whole city of Nanjing immediately fell into chaos.

Due to insufficient preparation, the internal response of the Datong Association was caught off guard.

Their original plan was to wait for Fei Ruhe to bring his troops over.After capturing the city, the seamless connection, the Datong army can take over the city immediately.

But who would have thought that Fei Ruhe was still on the way, only six naval warships came, and Nanjing City was captured in a daze?

"What? Let me take over Nanjing!"

Fan Chao's mind has been completely confused, Wan Bangyan went to Guangdong to organize the navy, and he was automatically promoted to the third person in the Jiangxi Navy.

The commander and deputy commander of the navy are still fighting in Dongting Lake, and they sent him to lead six boats to block the river.

Lao Tzu came to block the river. First, the Nanjing navy surrendered collectively, and now the entire Nanjing city surrenders together.

How many fucking sailors do I have in total?

The number of surrendered officers and soldiers inside and outside the city is dozens or even hundreds of times that of our troops. How can I control the situation!

Fan Chao didn't dare to neglect, he found Liu Kongzhao, tried to appease him, and then selected 150 sailors to take over Nanjing City with muskets and knives on their shoulders.

At the gate of the city stood two rows of officials, including six ministers.

The Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing was arrested, and Zhen Shu, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, had the greatest power.His foreman stood at the front, fortunately he said that he didn't need to kneel down, otherwise Zhen Shu really didn't want to surrender.

Anyway, he was 71 years old, so he died for his country!

The reason why Zhen Shu was willing to surrender was because his hometown was in Huangzhou, and he might be taken down by Zhao Han someday.

Fan Chao led 150 sailors and watched a group of high officials greet him. He didn't feel complacent, but felt guilty from head to toe.

His soldiers are too few!

The surrendering officials looked at Fan Chao and at the hundreds of soldiers behind him, all of them felt a sense of absurdity.

"Stop him!"

There was a sudden noise in the city tower, followed by exclamations.

An official jumped from the top of the city and died for the country to repay the king's kindness.

The muffled sound of "bang" startled Fan Chao, and subconsciously pulled out his waist knife.

Glancing at the corpse, Fan Chao became more vigilant and led his soldiers into the city cautiously.

"Chong!"

A military officer suddenly drew his sword and rushed towards Fan Chao.

Fan Chao also drew his sword, blocked the opponent's moves, and then easily kicked him down.