"The fallen petals cover the moonlight all over the sky. May I borrow a cup to offer to the Phoenix Terrace? ~~!" A Cantonese opera lyric from "The Flower of the Imperial Concubine" sounded.

This place is Panyu Shawan, which is the source of the Pearl River Delta. It is divided into two parts, the north is Nanhai County and the south is Panyu County. Guangzhou is one city and two counties, and the two cities in the north and south have remained unchanged from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty.

If you want to attack Guangzhou, you have to take over both Nanhai County and Panyu County.

Attacking the city is inferior to conquering the hearts of the people. If you want to attack Guangzhou, you must first win the hearts and minds of the local people. Not to mention asking them to help with the siege, at least you must prevent them from taking the initiative to defend the city.

Now the main force of Guangzhou City has been transferred to the west by Rong An, and there are not many troops left in Guangzhou. If there were no civilians to help defend the city, it would not be difficult to capture Guangzhou.

The Cantonese opera "The Flower of the Imperial Concubine" tells the story of Princess Taiping of the Ming Dynasty and her husband Zhou Shixian. After being captured, they both committed suicide in the face of the Qing Dynasty's persuasion to surrender, leaving the anti-Qing patriots in the world with no worries.

There once was a person in Chen Gu's company who was from Guangdong. He loved listening to the Cantonese opera "The Flower of the Imperial Concubine" very much. Not only did he like to hum a few lines from it in his daily life, but even his cell phone ringtone and alarm clock were all the music from this Cantonese opera.

Chen Gu had been annoyed by this before, but he never expected to use it now.

When Chen Gu gave Feng Yuanni the lyrics of the Cantonese opera The Flower of the Imperial Concubine and sang a few passages to her, Feng Yuanni felt like she had found a treasure. For a sect like the White Lotus that was good at bewitching people, this Cantonese opera would definitely be of great use.

So after Chen Gu handed the Cantonese opera to Feng Yuanni, the White Lotus Sect's mission became to perform The Flower of the Imperial Concubine in various places in Guangzhou, to stir up the dissatisfaction of the people of Guangzhou towards the Qing court and thus win the hearts of the people.

"The princess offers incense with tears in her eyes, wishing to thank her parents with her body."

On the stage, the performance was still going on. Some of the audience members below the stage had sad expressions on their faces, and it seemed that the performance was having some effect.

"I sincerely hope that we can be buried together, as a pair of mandarin ducks, snuggling together, and build a new room on the tomb platform, and find the Pingyangmen Lane in the underworld again. ~"

"The country is grieved by the disaster. I feel grateful to the late emperor. My wife and I come here to ask about the emperor's well-being. Alas, I hope to have a happy marriage with my old age, but who wants to see a bloody wedding? ~"

The actress who plays Princess Changping is Feng Yuanni herself, while the actress who plays Zhou Shixian is Yang Yunfeng. This play is being performed for the first time today, but there are more than a hundred performance venues throughout Guangzhou.

These things were all arranged by the White Lotus Sect, as if today was some kind of temple fair of the gods.

Looking at the affectionate look of Feng Yuanni and Yang Yunfeng on the stage, Chen Gu couldn't help but laugh. These two guys might end up doing something good.

Of course, Chen Gu would not interfere too much in such matters.

As the performance continued, the audience became more excited.

Some officials at the imperial court also sensed something was wrong and sent in more runners and even mobilized the city defense forces to maintain order.

Chen Gu in the distance couldn't help but laugh. The city defense troops walking down the city wall gave the Tiandihui an opportunity.

In frontal combat, the Tiandihui is certainly not as good as the regular army, but when it comes to ruthless means such as assassinations, the people of the Tiandihui are not bad at all.

At this time, Cai Qian led the Cai family army to confront the imperial army at Humen. If they could first kill a group of yamen runners and city defense troops, the Tiandihui and the White Lotus would not be without a chance to capture Guangzhou City.

Although the market was a bit depressed due to the war and many people had lost interest in having fun, there were still quite a few people on the streets today.

With the arrival of the yamen runners and the city defense forces, the number of people decreased again and became a little sparse, but they still allowed the people of the Tiandihui to use their cover to get close to the city defense forces.

"Pass the golden cup, taste it slowly, drop the arsenic with tears on the grapes. I am with you, in a drunken dreamland. Clink glasses together until midnight, replace the flower crown with clothes, collect the horseback tomb, hug each other, lean on each other, the tree has two branches, revealing the fragrance of the emperor's daughter, the emperor's daughter flower, always accompany the beloved man, the husband and wife die, the tree also looks the same."

The last part is the chorus. As the singing and the gongs and drums stop together, there is a moment of silence on the scene.

Feng Yuanni and Yang Yunfeng immediately seized the opportunity and shouted at the top of their lungs: "Overthrow the Qing Dynasty and establish a new dynasty!"

"Overthrow the Qing Dynasty and establish a new dynasty!"

The slogan "Anti-Qing and Restoration of Ming" was originally wrong. At most, it could only gain some support from the old and young people of the Ming Dynasty, but it could not win the hearts of the people.

After all, the common people did not live a very good life during the Ming Dynasty, and their lives were even worse than those during the Qing Dynasty.

The main reason is that there were many more powerful people in the Ming Dynasty than there are today. Not to mention anything else, there were more than one million descendants of the Zhu family alone at the end of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention other local powerful people.

This is also the reason why the Qing Dynasty’s rule remained stable despite committing such evil deeds as the Ten Days of Yangzhou and the Three Massacres of Jiading.

In addition to its strong military power, the main reason was that the Ming Dynasty was unpopular.

Rather than living in the dire straits of the late Ming Dynasty, the people would rather live under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, except that they had sweet potatoes and potatoes to eat.

Although the backbone force under feudal rule is important, the hearts of the people at the bottom are equally important. When all the people hope for your destruction, then there is really no need for you to exist.

Although it is impossible for ordinary people to succeed in a rebellion, they can become the main force of the rebellion.

Originally, Feng Yuanni and Yang Yunfeng wanted to use the slogan of "Anti-Qing and Restoration of Ming", but Chen Gu firmly disagreed. Firstly, ordinary people did not have much good feelings towards the Ming Dynasty.

Even though a hundred years have passed, the tradition has not been broken, and the old man will definitely tell his descendants about the difficult situation he faced in the late Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the slogan of "Anti-Qing and Restoration of Ming" would not have much significance and would be far less attractive than establishing a new dynasty.

It just so happened that the Qing Dynasty had reached the same point as the end of the Ming Dynasty, with corrupt officials rampant. Ordinary people once again began to hope that someone could lead them to overthrow the court and thus break the original pattern.

As soon as Feng Yuanni and Yang Yunfeng shouted, the people from the Tiandihui and the White Lotus Sect who had been ambushed in the audience had already started to take action.

Caught off guard, the yamen runners and the joint defense team suffered heavy losses.

Seeing the murder, the people nearby fled in all directions immediately, and in an instant, only two parties were left fighting on the street.

Chen Gu took off the special sniper rifle on his back and began to selectively shoot at people in the field.

The main targets were the powerful people in the Qing court, and the good people Tiandihui and the White Lotus Society continued to expand their advantages.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Zhe first instructed the two guards to pay attention to the movements around them, then he took off the rifle on his back and helped Chen Gu shoot.

The more skilled they were, the more priority they received. Soon, the Tiandihui and the White Lotus Society gained the upper hand.

(End of this chapter)