Flowers bloom and wealth are nothing more than peonies, but once spring passes, it is hard to escape withering and drifting, falling into dust. In front of the gate of Sushun Suzhongtang Mansion, which was once full of traffic, there are no more officials from the past gathering. The heads are like ants, and the huge alley is empty and deserted. In it, even if the bright sunshine in spring shines, it makes people feel cool all over.

A dog fur wrapped in a broken hole squatted on the steps. Hu Er, the former Su Mansion's doorman, was holding a rusty gray knife in his hand. He was carefully shoveling the weeds that had just sprouted in the gaps of the steps. His face, which had wrinkled, looked lonely, and there was no longer the pride and arrogantness of the past. He was arrogant when he scolded all officials. Hu Ersong's messy braids were a little white, and the steps under his feet were also a little tattered, but the steps were cleaned clean, and the bluestone was even a little shining, but the gatekeepers took care of it carefully.

The door of Zhuqi suddenly opened a crack. A man dressed in a servant stuck his head out sneakily. Seeing Hu Er squatting on the steps to weed, the man dressed in a servant hurriedly carrying a half-new Grand Master chair and sneaking out of the door carefully. However, unfortunately, the shaking figure caused by the sun made Hu Er immediately discover the existence of the servant. He looked up and looked at him. Hu Er immediately rushed up like crazy, grabbed the servant and beat him, beating and scolding him...

"Chen Laowu, you a bitch who is a heartless dog bastard. When I am not paying attention, I want to steal the things from the master's house to sell them for money?! You give me back to me! Come back to me! This is the things from our master's house, the things left to the master! Come back to me! Come back to me! Come back to me, I will beat you to death!"

After being hit by Hu Er's turtle punch, a blood mark on his face was cut by the gray knife in Hu Er's hand, the servant couldn't help but fight back. He knocked the thin Hu Er to the ground in a few seconds, kicked Hu Er and roared: "Mr. Hu, don't rely on me for my old age! You treat you as a scallion, who takes you to dip your sauce? Master? The master has been dead for more than three years, and his son has not heard of him when he goes to Ningguta. His family's things should be ours! If he owes us wages, he should pay the bill for his family's things!"

He kicked Hu Er's nose out of blood. The servant walked away with the second-hand priest chair, leaving Hu Er to wipe his nose bleeding on the ground, crying and cursing, "Chen Laowu, you unconscience-free beast! You must die well, you must die well! The master has never treated us servants badly before, so you will repay him like this? You will go to the eighteenth level of hell in the future! Your whole family will put oil pan!"

There were already some men and women watching the fun around. After inquiring about the incident, the neighbors and passers-by around couldn't help but sigh, sighing at the once-glorious Suzhongtang Mansion that had fallen to its current state, but someone said to Hu Er: "Hu Er, don't be too stupid. Your Suzhongtang has been dead for so long, and his son has also been sent to Ningguta. There has been no news. Why do you have to keep the door so tight? The housekeepers in your master's house have long been gone. What are the remaining house in this house now? You still have a sick wife to raise, why don't you think about it for yourself?"

"I'm not so conscience!" Hu Er shouted with a cry, "The master used to treat me as much as a mountain. I want to repay his kindness. As long as I have a breath, I will take good care of his family for him and wait for the young master to come back to inherit his family business!"

The neighbor could not persuade Hu Er, who was stubborn, had to shake his head and shut up. Hu Er, who was full of grievance, became more and more sad as he cried. He squatted on the ground, buried his face on his knees and cried loudly, muttering words, all of which were talking about Su Shun's kindness to him back then, cursing other servants of Su Mansion who were ungrateful and ungrateful, and his sadness was unspeakable.

At this time, surrounded by several followers, a thin and ordinary-dressed man walked into the alley. He first looked at the dilapidated and old but cleaned Su Mansion gate in surprise, and then looked up and down strangely for Hu Er who was crying to death. Then he curiously asked the people watching the fun in Mandarin: "What happened to you, brothers, why did he cry like this?"

"I'll be beaten if I'm loyal to the house."

People in the capital like to talk. The neighbors of Su Mansion who had kindly persuaded Hu Er to consider himself rushed to answer. They first explained what had just happened, and then talked about the situation where the Su Mansion family was disbanded after Su Shun's death. Finally, they introduced that Hu Er, the slave in Su Shun, was still hungry and loyal Geng Geng's house guard. When Su Shun was sent to Ningguta's son to come back to inherit the family business. The thin man kept nodding when he heard it, and suddenly asked: "If I remember correctly, this person who cried should be called Hu Er, right?"

"It's called Hu Er." The neighbor nodded and asked curiously: "What? Master, do you know him?"

"I have met twice." The thin man smiled and nodded, then turned to Hu Er, who was still sobbing, and raised his voice and said, "Hu Er, stop crying, raise your head and see who I am? Do you still remember me?"

The thin man said the words twice before Hu Er sobbed and slowly raised his head, but he looked at the thin man with tears and eyes. Hu Er's sob stopped abruptly, and his face, covered with tears and nose bleeding, opened his mouth, full of incredible shock. Then, Hu Er pinched his thighs and wiped his eyes with his sleeves and looked carefully again...

"Prince! Prince Zhennan! The young Hu Er, please pay tribute to Prince Zhennan!!"

Hu Er's sudden shouting scared all the people watching the fun. His actions scared Wu Chaoyue's personal soldiers, who were already gray-haired. He squatted on the ground and jumped several feet high in the air, rushing towards Wu Chaoyue like a big roc spreading his wings. Although Hu Er's last move was to kneel in front of Wu Chaoyue with both knees and yell to pay tribute, Wu Chaoyue's personal soldiers were still so scared that they all pulled out their pistols and pointed them at his head!

Waving his overly nervous personal soldiers put down their pistols, Wu Chaoyue smiled at Hu Er with an excited expression and said, "Hu Er, I really misread you before. I didn't expect that you would be so loyal to Su Zhongtang. Yes, if Su Zhongtang had a spirit in heaven, I knew that there was a loyal servant like you who was guarding his family for him. When his son came back to inherit the family business, he would probably be able to rest in peace."

Hearing Wu Chaoyue's sincere praise, Hu Er couldn't help crying again and kowtowed to Wu Chaoyue repeatedly. Wu Chaoyue personally reached out to stop him and said, "Okay, don't kowtow. There must be a spiritual seat in Suzhongtang in this house? Take me in and put in incense sticks for him. Don't guard this again in the future. Go to my Zhennan Prince's Mansion to work as a service. Suzhongtang owes you the wages, I will make up for you."

"Thank you..., Xie Zhennan King..., Master..."

Hu Er burst into tears. None of the neighbors and passers-by who had already knelt all over the ground looked at him with envious eyes. The neighbors who had advised him to consider him before said sincerely: "Master Hu, good people are rewarded, and you are prosperous again."

The realist Wu Chaoyue did this because he was not only concerned about his old feelings. As Wu Chaoyue expected, after the incident spread, not only did Wu Chaoyue's nostalgia reputation be praised, but the Beijing Banners have a good impression of Wu Chaoyue. The situation has quickly evolved into many versions in the folk oral rumor. For example, the Zhennan King's visit to the capital and the Zhennan King's private visits, etc., which provided many materials for later literary creations, and further beautified Wu Chaoyue's image among the people.

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Wu Chaoyue came to the capital by land on the first day of the fourth year of Qixiang. He did not show off his grand ceremony and did not rush to move into the city. He chose to temporarily move into Fengtai Camp, so the ordinary people in the capital almost didn't know that Wu Chaoyue had arrived in Beijing for the third time. There were two reasons why Wu Chaoyue came to the capital in person. The first was to facilitate the command of the war in the Northeast and Mongolia, and the second was to investigate the situation in Beijing on the spot to see if Beijing was suitable to continue as the capital.

With Wu Chaoyue coming to Beijing, there were only 3,000 people, including Wu Chaoyue's personal barracks. However, before that, more than 40,000 Wu troops had already been transferred to Beijing to gather around them. When the time was right, they would send troops to the Northeast and Mongolia to launch the final attack on the Qing court, which had already been under the puppet Manchukuo. At the Tianjin Wharf, and in the areas of Shanhaiguan and Qinhuangdao, there were already a variety of food and grass supplies, ready to be used for the Northern Expedition.

On the fifth day of the second month, good news came from the battlefield in western Liaoning. After a long period of siege and hard battle, the troops of the Wu army Jiang Zhongji finally broke through Ningyuan City, an important town on the Liaoxi Corridor. The Qing army commander who was renamed the governor of Liaoxi by the puppet Manchukuo State, hanged himself. Nearly half of the Qing army in Ningyuan was annihilated, and all the rest surrendered. The road from the main force of the Wu army to the Jinzhou front was already smooth. Therefore, Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate while he was happy, and immediately decided to hold a military meeting the next day to officially start arranging the Northern Expedition plan.

The Fengtai meeting on the sixth day of the second month was the meeting with the most generals of the Wu army since the revival. In addition to Feng Sanbaohe, who was preparing to advance to Mongolia from Shanxi, Wu army chiefs such as Cao Yanzhong, Huang Yuanhu, Qian Wei, Wang Fu, Zeng Guoquan, Nie Shicheng and Deng Siyuan were all present. Civilian officials such as Zhou Tenghu, Shen Baozhen, Guo Songtao and Zhang Zhidong who were transferred from Shanghai also attended the meeting, and the lineup was unprecedentedly prosperous.

However, the atmosphere of the meeting was very relaxed. Wu Chaoyue took the lead in joking and led the discussion and arrangement of civil and military officials and laughing. He soon decided to launch the Northern Expedition from the three routes at the same time. One route was initiated by Shanxi, and Liu Kunyi led the army northward to attack the Ordos Banners that refused to surrender to the Wu army; one route was led by Zeng Guoquan and Nie Shicheng to be responsible for restoring Chengde and Chifeng; the most important northeast road, the throne of the head coach was handed over by Wu Chaoyue to the Wu army generals who had great military achievements Cao Yanzhong, Jiang Zhongji, Qian Wei and Deng Siyuan each led the troops to obey Cao Yanzhong's command, and Wang Fu and Xu Lai led the navy to protect the grain ships to the north and supply the front line of the Northern Expedition. Wu Chaoyue led the Huang Yuanhu Corps to the capital and served as the strategic reserve team.

After the personnel arrangements were made, Wu Chaoyue announced the Northern Expedition policy this time. For the Mongolian banners, Wu Chaoyue's requirement was that as long as the Mongolian princes who voluntarily surrendered, they would retain their original titles, titles and grasslands, and allow them to continue to retain Mongolia. Those who surrendered after being captured also retain their titles, but they must move to the Central Plains. Those who refuse to surrender resolutely execute them and never show mercy. At the same time, Seng Gelinbi, who still retains the title of Prince of Korbi, was also arranged by Wu Chaoyue to go north with Zeng Guoquan and Nie Shicheng, and was responsible for contacting and recruiting noble princes and princes of Mongolian banners.

The most important thing in the northeast is that Wu Chaoyue’s explanation is the most careful. The first point is to emphasize attacking the heart. For the people of the Puppet Manchukuo who voluntarily surrendered, they will retain their property and land, and give certain rewards depending on the situation. Those who surrendered after being captured can also retain their property and land, but there is no reward. For the generals and soldiers of the Puppet Manchukuo who died in battle, all the property and land will be confiscated, and all the families will be distributed as a side. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue also explained that this policy should be written in a clear text and published on the list, so that all the soldiers and soldiers of the Puppet Manchukuo knew that they would dare to resist the Wu army.

The bureaucratic system of the puppet Manchukuo State is probably the same. Except for the Japanese Six, Cao Yuying, Yi Qiong and Yi Huan, several hard-core separatists who need to pursue the crime, the other puppet Manchukuo State retain their land and property as long as they voluntarily surrender, and return their original land within the pass. Those who surrendered after being captured did not return their original land within the pass. Those who died in the fight against the enemy will confiscate all the land and property. They also targeted the selfish psychology of civil and military officials of the puppet Manchukuo State, weakening their will to resist.

It was Ci'an and Cixi's turn. What surprised everyone was that Wu Chaoyue, who had always been selfless, was rarely biased this time. He actually clearly stated that he would never pursue all the faults of his niece Cixi. Even if he was captured, he would retain the title of the queen mother. At the same time, he issued a strict order, saying that Ci'an's separatist crime would inevitably be pursued and severely punished, including death. As a result, even Cao Yanzhong, the commander of the Northern Expedition of the Wu army, could not help but ask curiously: "King of Zhennan is all splitting my Chinese territory. Why should we treat the two queen mothers of the rebellion so differently?"

"Because I want to publicize to the outside world, it is said that Empress Dowager Cixi was forced by Empress Dowager Ci'an to agree to split the Chinese land." Wu Chaoyue explained with a smile: "Cian has an edict in his hand that can kill Cixi. I want to say that Cixi does not agree to split China. It was because Empress Dowager Cixi used the edict of the empress dowager to force her to sign and seal the edict."

"I understand. King Zhennan wanted to alienate the Queen Mother of the rebellion, so that they could completely split up and could not be united in the outside world."

Cao Yanzhong finally understood what Wu Chaoyue meant. Wu Chaoyue also nodded frankly and said, "I know very well the Empress Dowager Cixi, and I am indeed very capable. If I don't give her some eye drops, let Ci'an and the Pseudo-Concubine beware of her suspicion. With her talents and abilities, it will definitely cause great trouble for our Northern Expedition. So there is no way, I can only put the shit basin on her body first, so that she can't explain it even if she grows a hundred mouth."

Cao Yanzhong and other Wu generals nodded and grinned. After the grin, Cao Yanzhong asked Wu Chaoyue again: "Zhennan King, what should I do if the Rakshasa soldiers on the Northeast battlefield? How to deal with it?"

"Kill! Try to kill!" Wu Chaoyue answered firmly and said, "Even if the prisoners surrendered, they will be locked in the prisoner-of-war camp to do hard labor until the Russians of Rakshasa use the money to redeem them!"

"In addition, the list will be announced. As long as you surrender to us with the head of the Rakshasa soldiers, no matter who it is, a head of the Rakshasa soldiers will be rewarded with ten taels of silver and cashed out immediately!"
Chapter completed!