This Qing is wrong

Chapter 80
The two options of opening the door to surrender and fleeing the city seem to have the same result. However, in officialdom, the result is often not as important as the political attitude!

Abandoning the city and fleeing can be used to collect evidence and report to the superiors due to reasons such as the strength of the bandit army. This is done only as a last resort, and there is at least room for struggle in the officialdom.

If you open the door to welcome the surrender, that means you have abandoned the Qing Dynasty's iron rice bowl, and the Qing Dynasty will not let your family die in panic?

Otherwise, how to convince the public?

The Qing Dynasty ruled the world, relying on two "magic weapons".

The first magic weapon is that the knife is sharp enough!

The second magic weapon is the flag-raising system, so that the Han people at the bottom can see the hope of rising.

In fact, the bannermen who ruled the Qing Dynasty were not only Manchus, but also a large number of Han Eight Banners. These Han Eight Banners are the mainstay, much more important than the weaker Mongolian Eight Banners.

Even if the social status of the Han Eight Banners is not as good as that of the Mongolian Eight Banners...

The minority rule the majority, not only to use force to deter, but also to win over a small part of the majority to oppress and exploit the other majority together!
In this regard, Daqing has done quite well.

It is much superior to the fourth-class system in the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties.

In the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, the race level can only rely on reincarnation.

The social status of the fourth-ranked southern Han people is not as good as that of an animal. This is why the peasant uprising army in the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties all came from the south.

The greater the oppression, the fiercer the resistance.

After a period of self-reflection, Liu Tianming finally accepted the reality of despair, and said to many expectant eyes: "The demon Dao Li Changqing is in great danger, and the city wall of Chaozhou Prefecture is useless in front of the demon Dao Li Changqing, and it cannot stop the demon Dao at all. Li Changqing.

Therefore, I decided to take everyone strategically forward and join King Pingnan's army! "

Hearing this sentence, many officials present were relieved at the same time. Someone took the biggest scapegoat, and the burden on them was lightened.

However, Liu Tianming's face suddenly turned ferocious, and he said sharply: "The demon Li Changqing messed up the Chaozhou government, Daqing and him are at odds, we must not leave anything useful to Li Changqing.

Before leaving, all the young and strong population and property in Chaozhou City must be taken away, and those who cannot be taken away will be burned! "

Many officials were slightly taken aback. Is this a city that wants to slaughter itself?

In other dynasties, officials who issued such orders would inevitably be sprayed to death, but in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, which has a fine tradition of massacring cities, everyone was just stunned.

After all, since the rise of the Qing army, there have been many precedents for looting and slaughtering your own cities without leaving useful materials and population for the enemy.

Its euphemistic name is - firm walls and clear fields.

The only problem now is that the time is a bit short, and Chaozhou Prefecture is so big that we can't grab it in one night!

Massacres in history are not just about killing people.

For the victor, killing people is meaningless except to vent their anger, not to mention that in a society with underdeveloped productivity, population is an important production resource, and it is better to capture them as slaves than to kill them all.

Then why are there still so many massacres?
The first is to deter the younger generation. This is deterrence by force, and the effect does not need to be mentioned.

Second, the purpose of the massacre is not to kill people, the central idea is to rob!
In the process of looting, the massacre of the population in the city was just a matter of convenience.

After all, even ordinary people at the bottom will not just watch their last rations being taken away, so those soldiers can only hack the masters of the family to death, and then search for supplies.

This is actually a means of preventing retaliation.

Precisely because the purpose of massacring cities is to rob, the time for massacring cities is often not short. After all, ordinary people will not take the initiative to put food and goods in front of them, and need to go door-to-door to search. This is a big project.

Even in many cases, in order to prevent one's own soldiers from being dragged to death by crazy people during the massacre, the process of massacring the city is gradual.

When you go to your house for the first time, you usually don’t enter the door, but ask for it directly, and you will leave after giving enough, which makes most people feel lucky.

The further you go, the more goods and food you ask for, and during the period, you will kill a batch of ordinary people who can't pay, and keep a batch, so that the ordinary people in the city can be divided, so that they will not be forced to a dead end at the same time.

Of course, if the military strength is strong enough, there is no need to be so troublesome, just hard steel.

"Take everyone away as much as possible, I don't need to teach you how to do it."

Liu Tianming's gloomy eyes scanned the entire lobby.

Many officials suddenly realized.

This is going to be a ruthless move.

Soon, one order after another was conveyed. When the green battalion veterans heard that they were going to rob their own city, not only did they not show the collapse of their three views, but their morale was high, and they were eager to try!

This is Qing soldiers, whether they are robbing the enemy or their own people, they will always maintain a positive heart...

During the war, if the green battalion soldiers had such a mentality, would they still lose to the demon Li Changqing?

Oh, it should still be, after all, there is no upper limit for the summoning of the monster Li Changqing...

The Qing army, led by civil and military officials, first recruited troops, regardless of whether it was the third class of yamen servants or the recruits recruited later, all the people who could be pulled over.

After all, there must be many people when robbing, otherwise what should I do if the red-eyed common people push back?

After the soldiers were counted, the city walls of Chaozhou Prefecture were not fortified. The torches in the city were brightly lit, and only checkpoints were set up at the city gate.

The city wall can't stop the quacks with high lightness skills, but it's no problem to stop the common people.

Most people want to run, but they still have to go out through the city gate.

Once the team is organized, execution will naturally begin.

The Qing army didn't break down doors and kill people as soon as they came up. After all, this is their own city, so it needs to be more 'civilized'.

They were divided into several groups, and after knocking on doors from door to door calling for people to come out, they told them to pack their bags and leave the city with the army.

Those who disagree will be dealt with according to military law on the spot!
Those who agreed did not end well, because those Qing soldiers would 'help' the common people clean up their homes.

During the period, if they were slightly unhappy, they would be severely beaten by Qing soldiers, and the elderly and children with handicapped legs would be dealt with first by the Qing soldiers.

Of course, the family members of soldiers in the Qing army would not receive such treatment. The local officials in Chaozhou Prefecture were not so confused. They had gathered the family members of the Qing soldiers together in advance and did not rob them of their private property.

Not only the family members of the Qing army, but also some important craftsmen and well-connected families were spared. As long as they cooperated well, they would not be robbed by soldiers.

The real unlucky ones are those ordinary families who are not military dependents and have no government connections.

In the middle of the night, the city of Chaozhou was full of cries and the fire broke out, waking up Li Changqing who was sleeping in the suburbs.

(End of this chapter)