Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 259 The 18th year of Chongzhen's Manchu Qing rule (third update)
At this time, the city of Beijing is still in chaos, there is no stable law and order, and the whole city is full of bannermen.

After all, these banner people are not oppressed Han people. Because they have hard-core crops, and they can count on their children to make a fortune by fighting, and they also have their own coated slaves, so many banner people stop farming after they get off their horses. And handicraft production, all day long in the city can only do nothing, hang out in teahouses and restaurants.

Fortunately, today's teahouses, restaurants and Qinlou Chuguan have become the property of bannermen, so no one dares not pay.

It is because most of these banner people are still accustomed to making a living by robbing, relying on their own children to follow Duduo and Azig to the south to plunder more property and maintain their family's livelihood.

Therefore, up to now, the [-] iron cavalry brought by Duoduo have all been wiped out, which has to be regarded as a big blow to many bannermen in the city.

All of a sudden, the number of widows in countless banner households increased exponentially.

This is second to none, and more importantly, without looting more means of living from the south, the tens of thousands of bannermen at this time will have to face hunger.

For the first time, these Manchurian bannermen tasted not only the benefits brought by the war, but also the pain of leaving their families and the embarrassment of being helpless.

However, the banner owners, the Manchurian military nobles, could only allow their bannermen to plunder the means of living from the Han people more brazenly, and passed the price of the failure of the Qing court war on to the Han people in the North. The lives of the people are even more difficult.

The Han people after the south crossing may be more fortunate. Although they live in the south and are rejected by the locals, they are all Han people, and there will be no massacres and looting.

And those people in the north who thought that the entry of the Qing Dynasty was just a change of dynasty and did not abandon their homeland to go south, or who were ignorant of the current situation and became the lambs of the Qing army's predation, can only be described as suffering in dire straits.

Although the Manchurian military aristocrats in Beijing were a little depressed because of Duduo's defeat, they were still looking forward to Azig's victory, bringing abundant food and even a population that could be enslaved in the south.

There are still many military nobles in the Qing Dynasty who think that there are not enough coated slaves in their families. Although they do not do production, they occupy production resources, and the Han people in Beizhili are almost robbed by them. They want more population. Be a serf for yourself and have more wealth, and you can only hope that Azig can bring back more people from the south.

Azig has already entered the territory of Shuntian Prefecture at this time, but he is now in a very depressed mood. He doesn't know how to face the officials in the imperial court and the banner people in the capital after entering the capital, and he lives outside the capital with only rags Even though the skinny Han people kept away from him a hundred paces away, they still aroused the mania in his heart.

Although these Han people have become obedient citizens of the Qing court, shaved their hair, and changed their clothes (the common people are at most easy to become beggars), but Azig still drew his bow with the heart of revenge, and sent a man far away. Young children picking up wild vegetables were shot to the ground.

It seemed that this was the only way to reduce the mania in his heart.

An old child ran up crying and picked up the child he had been shot by. Azige wanted to shoot again, but Beizi Xihan stopped Azige: "My lord, if I want to stabilize the Qing Dynasty, I still have to rely on these things." The Han people are the only ones, even though they are all untouchables, but I still ask the prince to give them a way to survive, which is what the regent means now."

"Don't tell me these great truths!" Azig slapped Beizi Xihan's face, and grinned, the severe pain on his shoulder made him even more manic: "If it weren't for these Han people, why would I be so angry?" As for such a big defeat, this king can't wait to kill them all!"

"But, my lord, these people have become obedient citizens of my Qing Dynasty. Does my lord want to ruin the half of the northern country that my Qing Dynasty has finally occupied!"

Beizi Xihan knew that Azig, Prince of England, had always had a bad temper, but at this time he didn't want Azig to be charged with killing civilians after his defeat in the war, so he had to continue loudly to persuade him.

"Forget it, don't worry, this king only kills one, and he won't slaughter the city, just relieve his anger." After Azig said this, Xi Han rode up to the old child: "Thank you soon My lord's grace for not killing me!"

The old child had no choice but to endure the revenge of his grandson being killed, staggered to Azig, knelt down in front of Azig's horse and kowtowed to thank him.

Azig snorted and rode his horse into Beijing.

Mao Weizhang, who was also disguised as a commoner and was already a servant of a certain leader's family, hurriedly put down his hoe and walked over, and supported the old child: "Old man, are you okay?"

"It's okay," the old child said, whimpering and crying: "Our two sons have become slaves in the palace of the Abata County prince, and my family's ten mu of land has also become the land of the palace. They all shaved their hair too, why would they want to kill my grandson, we just picked some wild vegetables, hoot!"

"Old man, don't be sad. I hear your stomach growling. You haven't eaten enough. I still have a little fried rice here. You can eat it first." Mao Weizhang took it out from the bag behind him. A handful of fried rice was handed to the old child.

The old child hurriedly grabbed it, ate it voraciously, and even choked on it because he ate too fast.

Mao Weizhang, a hundred households of Jinyiwei, hurriedly fetched some water from the nearby stream with his bamboo tube: "Drink some water, the fault of your grandson's death is not the picking of wild vegetables, but the bad morals of the world. People are in power, we Han people naturally have no way out, they want to kill us and just kill us."

"Don't they talk about king's law?" Lao Ru asked.

"The king's law is determined by them!" Mao Weizhang replied with a smile, and the old child hurriedly sighed: "Why don't these barbarians go away, why is the world not as good as it was decades ago!"

"Yeah, it's not as good as it was decades ago, when Wei Xie was in power, but it's better than now!"

Mao Weizhang said with emotion.

……

At this time, Azig had arrived in Beijing.

The clatter of horseshoes slapped on the ground without rhythm. Dorgon didn't come out to greet his elder brother. As the regent, he really couldn't afford to lose this man. He only sent college student Gang Lin and Minister of the Ministry of War Hong Chengchou came to meet Azig.

At this time, many banner people had surrounded teahouses and restaurants in the city, and they were all talking about Azig's return to the court: "Prince Ying defeated Li Zicheng, occupied Shanxi and Shaanxi, and now he is fighting in Huguang. , now that the class teacher is returning to the court, it must be very powerful, and he will bring back countless people and food."

Su Na, a banner man who loves to talk big, said while smoking a big cigarette: "Fortunately, my elder brother is with Prince Ying this time, instead of going to the south of the Yangtze River with Prince Yu. Now this time, I am afraid that at least he will be able to return to the south of the Yangtze River." Get a hereditary title of Zhang Jing."

(End of this chapter)