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From the moment Zai Chun stepped onto the Jingshan, he had already ordered for all the officials of the Capital City to gather.
Why did he choose the Jingshan instead of defending it? This was Zai Chun's cleverness!
First of all, the people at the peak of Jingshan could see all the movements in the north, especially since there were no tall buildings blocking their line of sight in this era. The people at the top of the Jingshan could see the outline of the entire Inner City's walls!
People could clearly see which direction the Enemy came from and which Street they attacked. Even if it was late at night, it wouldn't matter because of the fire and chaos.
Actually, the most important thing was that even now, Zai Chun did not dare to be one hundred percent sure that the inside of the Forbidden City was safe!
This Imperial Palace was too old, and the people serving inside had been passed down from generation to generation, and some were old slave servants who had served from the Dao Guang Year for three generations!
As to who those people were loyal to, Zai Chun could not judge. Enemy's attack on Gu Lai might have been secretly opened!
On the other hand, the Beiyuan's side was safer, because the Beiyuan's previous self was a few scattered palaces at the extreme periphery of the Jingshan.
Among them, the Hall of Longevity and Hall of Guan De have always been the place where the empress died and stopped her spirit in the Qing Dynasty! There were also many houses and buildings for the old palace maid's eunuchs to live in before they were chased out of the palace.
No one paid much attention to this place, not to mention that no major power was willing to intervene. Therefore, the number of people here was relatively simple!
In the later stages of the battle, due to the civil war between the empress dowagers s, Empress Dowager of the East was forced to defend against attacks from the Jingshan s.
It was equivalent to painting anew on a piece of white paper, so people were simpler. With Empress Dowager of the East and Fu Qing watching over the place, Zai Chun would be safer!
Zai Chun's original intention was to gather all the third grade Civil and Military Officers s and the Imperial palace s in the Jingshan and let them see his military prowess!
But the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. In just an hour, half of the Official s at the second stage and above had come, and there were more than ten third stage Official s!
As for the Royal Family and the Eight-Flag Duke? But now, not a single one of them showed up!
Zai Chun's heart was already cold as he suddenly realized that he had been abandoned by the entire Manchu!
None of the Official s present dared to reply to Kaiser's scolding. After all, this is a conflict between Ai Xinjueluo's family and the other Manchu s.
”Where is my own Uncle? Where is the Prince Kung? And the Prince of Alcohol? What about our famous Heroic King? All gone? Good, good, good... That's great! ”
Just as Tongzhi was feeling hysterical and furious, a voice came out from the shadows behind the pine trees outside the Spring Pavilion, ”Your highness … Your Majesty... Little … My nephew is here... No... ”Not all of them are gone...”
Hm? Everyone followed the sound of the stuttering and searched back and forth. In the end, they found a man dressed in goose yellow casual clothes in the pine forest behind bodyguard.
”Duke Ting? ”Pu Xi?” No one would have thought that the honest and good-for-nothing Duke Ding of a generation younger than the Kaiser was actually the first Royal Family to come to the Jingshan!
This duke that lived next door to the Prince Li had always been kind and honest, he didn't dare to touch the winds or rain in the court!
After all, he was not the heirloom Wang Jue, this Wang Jue was conferred after the death of dryad's eldest son, Yongan! From generation to generation, there would always be favors in the process, but by this time, Pu Xi was already nothing but a duke!
This good-for-nothing, yet, in the eyes of the Tongzhi Emperor, there was an extra sliver of warmth. ”Pu Xi! ”You're being considerate, you're being considerate …”