Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 117

Jiaxing.

Fucheng Xiushui.

The weather in June is still hot, like a furnace roasting the earth.

Tu Xiangmei wore a red scarf on her head and limped along the outskirts with a steel knife in her hand. Looking at the defeated volunteer soldiers in front of her, everyone's eyes were slackened, and they were sitting or lying in a mess. At a loss.

Just a few days ago, when they decided to wrap their red scarves and raise the flag of righteousness, the soldiers and people were enthusiastic, how magnificent and passionate it was, but no one succeeded or failed so quickly.

He still remembers the scene when he led people into the yamen and dragged out the fake county magistrate Hu Zhichen, who was only selling medicine in front of the temple, and beheaded him in the yamen.

Pulling off the red scarf, combing up her hair.

This Jinshi in the four years of Chongzhen, served as a reviewer of the Imperial Academy, lectured in the East Palace, was also summoned by King Lu, and was a local gentry in Jiaxing who was given a job by the left of the Bingke.

Yuan Bingke had just bandaged the wound on his left arm during the incident, and Li Yuxin walked over, "You can cut off your head, but you can't shave your hair."

When they decided to revolt, Li Yuxin persuaded the gentry and officials in Jiaxing to revolt together on the grounds that shaving your head was a trivial matter and that after shaving your wives, you would not be able to protect them.

So Li Yuxin and Tu Xiangmei made an oath with blood to cut the tree and uncover the pole.

They jointly visited Xu Shiqi, the former Minister of the Ministry of Officials in Jiaxing, and asked him to be the leader of the alliance. Xu Shiqi refused to be the leader of the alliance because he was old and did not understand military affairs, but he also personally drafted the Qing Dynasty, and donated his family money to help pay.Qian Ping, a former doctor of the Ministry of Officials, devoted all his family's support and salary, and called on his children and clansmen to join the army to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Tu Xiangmei forged the imperial edict of King Yiyang to supervise the country, ordering each household in 24 squares inside and outside the city to send a soldier to join the war. In a few days, more than [-] people gathered to persuade the big gentry to raise money and received a lot of money and food. The magistrate is a false county magistrate.

For a time, all parties responded.

In Pinghu County, Ni Qingxu, Lu Qingyuan and others killed the fake Pinghu County magistrates and responded with troops, while Qian Fen's uncle and nephew divided their troops to attack Jiashan County, joined Jiashan squires Sun Zhang, Ni Fu and others to attack Jiashan County, and executed Wu Pei and others.

After going down three cities in a row, the rebel army was strong.

Even the giant thief king Youqian led more than [-] people to respond, and then someone who claimed to be the commander-in-chief Chen Wu led a thousand people to come. Tu Xiangmei and Li Yuxin, who did not know the soldiers, handed over the command of the rebel army to Chen Wu. Ask him to lead the volunteers.

It's just that Tu Xiangmei and the others didn't expect that this commander-in-chief Chen Wu was not the commander-in-chief Chen Wu they had heard of. They had heard the name of the former Jiaxing deputy general Chen Wu, but Chen Wu hadn't been in Jiaxing for a long time, and these local gentry didn't know him at all. I have met myself.

They didn't know that the real Chen Wu went south to Ningbo and was beheaded by Lu Jianguo, but this Chen Wu was actually a monk. The strong man joined the army and later became Chen Wu's personal soldier.

When Chen Wu went south to the east of Zhejiang, this scoundrel was with a group of soldiers from the Chen Department who were ordered to escort Chen Wu's concubine. Later, when he heard that Chen Wu was killed in Ningbo, he simply conspired with a group of companions and boldly pretended to be Chen Wu, the chief soldier. Wu, also occupied Chen Wu's concubine.

I heard that there was an uprising in Jiaxing, so I rushed there with thousands of people recruited along the way.

Unbeknownst to Tu Xiangmei and others, they also gave him the command of the army and regarded him as the leader of the alliance.

This fake Chen Wu was born as a scoundrel, and at this time, taking advantage of the chaos to pretend to be Chen Wu, he just wanted to fish in troubled waters. Tu Xiangmei and the others wanted to protect their hair and fight against the Qing Dynasty, while the fake Chen Wu just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make money, and in the name of the fake rebels, they asked for wages and sent donations everywhere. .

It's a black smoke.

Some gentry were unwilling to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and now they were forced to donate again and again, so they secretly informed the Tartars and sent their sons and servants to lead the way to lead the Qing army into the city.

The false commander-in-chief, Chen Wu, slept with his concubine in his arms around the real Chen Wu in the middle of the night. In the city, after a lot of massacres, tens of thousands of rebels were defeated like an avalanche.

They ran away in a panic, and in the dark night, I don't know how many people were trampled to death.

Tu Xiangmei and other defeated troops reluctantly gathered at Maquedun on the outskirts of the city, gathering thousands of remnants, tens of thousands of soldiers at the time of the uprising, and now only a few thousand left in a blink of an eye.

At this time, Chen Wu was searched everywhere, but he found a few of his subordinates. After questioning, he finally found out that this Chen Zongbing was actually a fake. He had already fled without a trace with gold and silver coins during the war, and there was no resistance at all. .

Tu and Li looked at each other in dismay, unable to believe it.

"Go to Jiashan to vote for Mr. Qian, they still have an army."

Tu Xiangmei sighed again and again, "Who actually betrayed us?"

"I will always know, and we will settle the case together!" Li Yuxin said, at this time he also regretted it, the two of them raised their blood with blood before, but they were not convinced by each other, so they finally went to ask Xu Shiqi to be the leader of the alliance, but Xu declined, Finally, the fake Chen Wu was given a chance.

If the two of them hadn't had an affair in secret, it might be better to let anyone be the leader than it is now.

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Jiaxing Fucheng, Xiushui.

After a night of chaotic fighting, Li Yuchun rode a horse to inspect the city triumphantly, remembering that before Yan Wogong was called to Hangzhou, he had been telling him to be careful and not to underestimate the enemy, so he had better not enter Jiaxing in a hurry, let alone take the risk of attacking the city , it is best to wait for him to come back and surrender.

Originally, he also planned to wait for Yan Wogong to come back before planning to take Jiaxing, but who knew that the squires Liu Lu, Ding Yishan, Chen Hongfan, Wang Risheng and others in the city rushed to vote and were willing to lead the way and open the door. Li Yuchun couldn't hold back such an opportunity after all. .

He led troops here in doubt, who knew that Jiaxing City was unprepared, and the city gate was really opened. He first sent a team of soldiers to carefully test it, and when he sent back a signal, he took the city gate, and then led the troops with confidence. Killed into the city.

After a rampage and slashing, the victory is at hand.

"The order will go on, all the men in the city will shave their hair, keep their heads but not their hair, keep their hair but not their heads!"

"Whoever dares to resist the order not to shave will be killed without mercy!"

Li Yuchun touched his bare forehead and looked at those Ming people in Jiaxing City who still had hair on their heads, feeling uncomfortable.

I have no hair, why do you still have hair?
Looking at these hairs, he felt that they were mocking him as a traitor.

If you want to shave your head, you can shave it together. If I shave it, what right do you have to keep it?

When everyone has shaved their hair, it will be the same.

With a hair-shaving order, the whole city was in commotion.

Liu Lu and a few squires who had secretly surrendered to the captives stepped forward actively at this time and openly took the lead in shaving their heads. After shaving their hair, they walked on the street with their pigtails.

Ye Shuzan, a county student, was a student of Xu Shiqi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and also participated in the Jiaxing Uprising. He fought chaotically last night and was unable to leave.

Facing the crazy attitude of the puppet army, Ye Shuzan publicly shouted the slogan that he would never shave his hair. As a result, he was knocked to the ground by several puppet soldiers just after he shouted a few slogans, and was imprisoned. execute.

Ye Shiyan, Ye Shuzan's uncle, went to Li Yuchun to plead guilty, and finally offered [-] stones of food to redeem him, and promised to shave his nephew's hair, so Li Yuchun released him.

It was because there were too many people who refused to shave their hair, so many were arrested at once, and the prisons were full. Li Yuchun was happy to see someone who was willing to pay for ransom.Although he captured Fucheng, he did not forget the agreement with Zhu Wu that the redemption fee for Fucheng would be 2 taels of silver.

This sum of money had to be collected first, not to mention that he himself had to earn more.

Killing people is just to establish prestige, and making money is the real purpose.

After Ye Shuzan was brought home by his uncle, he still refused to shave his hair, and would rather die than shave his hair.

Uncle asked his family to cook a table of food and wine to drink with this nephew. Originally, Ye Shuzan was able to worship under Xu Shiqi's family because he was very smart. Various resource tilts.

Who knows that in today's troubled times, he has to find a way to save his nephew's life, so that he will have the opportunity to take the imperial examination for the new dynasty in the future, and then become an official to win glory for the Ye family.

Ye Shuzan, who was defeated in the army, drank his sorrows with wine and got drunk.

"Nephew, you lost your hair after waking up. Don't blame uncle. Uncle is also for our Ye family. The change of dynasty is unstoppable. We are just a small family of farming and studying, so how can we stop it?" In this general trend, it is better to follow the trend.”

Ye Shiyan asked the housekeeper to call for someone to shave his hair.

Starting from him, all the men in the Ye family, regardless of age, have their hair shaved.

Strands of hair fell off, and Ye Shiyan couldn't help crying while sitting there, but as a parent, he felt that his choice was not wrong, and he had to consider the whole family.

People like Tu Xiangmei and Li Yuxin want to have fun for a while, and even keep the name of loyalty and filial piety for a while. Have you ever thought about the family?

Ye Shuzan's hair was shaved while drunk.

the next morning.

Heart-piercing shouts came from the Ye family's east courtyard.

"Hair, my hair, give it back!"

"Return it to me!"

After waking up, Ye Shuzan could hardly believe it when she saw her ugly bare head.

He touched his head, only touched a small money mouse tail, he was angry, he was at a loss, he was helpless, he felt that he had lost the most precious thing.

This is not just a head of hair, but also the loyalty in the hearts of scholars of the Ming Dynasty, and the righteous insistence of scholars, which have been shaved off now.

He became a descendant.

"Return it to me!"

Ye Shuzan roared in pain, but the door was locked and no one paid any attention.

Angry, he finally grabbed the braid, gritted his teeth, and cut it off without hesitation, and finally shaved off that small piece of hair.

So he completely became a bald head.

The servant who came to deliver the meal at noon opened the door but saw no one, only a letter on the table.

After Ye Shiyan read the letter, his face was ashamed.

The nephew couldn't accept the family's shaving of his hair, so he smashed the window, jumped over the wall and left. He went to find Tu Li and the others, returned to the rebel army, and vowed to resist the captives to the end.

Even if there is no hair, the ambition to resist captives remains unchanged.

He also said that he would fight back sooner or later, and even if the Jiaxing rebels couldn't beat the Tartars, they could go south to eastern Zhejiang and join Lu Jianguo.

"Hey, you idiot."

Ye Shiyan sighed a few times, then took the strand of hair and told his family, "Prepare the coffin and set up the mourning hall, and tell the public that Shu Zan hanged himself after I shaved his hair yesterday."

The butler comes in.

"My lord, Mr. Li sent someone to persuade you to donate money."

"How much do they want?"

"For 1000 taels of silver, add one hundred shi of grain."

Ye Shiyan gritted his teeth, "Here."

(End of this chapter)