Qing Dynasty Secret History

Chapter 106 Xu Xueshi's Words Lost His Family

In the last chapter, the reasons why the Boxers created chaos were briefly explained, but this chapter cannot be written for the time being.Now let's say Yuxian, the governor of Shandong, was transferred to the capital.As soon as I arrived in the capital, I went to visit King Zaiyi of Duan and Zaixun Zhuang, who were strong and resolute in the university, and praised the loyalty and courage of the regiment.Zaiyi said: "The foreigner is really annoying. No matter what, it is not an exaggeration to ask him to interfere and kill them all. But their guns are nothing more than good or bad. That kind of warship, like an iron mountain, is in the In the sea, flying like flying, are these boxers reliable?"

Yu Xian said: "Why is it so unreliable? The Boxers know magical arts. They can call the wind and rain, drive the fog and clouds, and even a single incantation can make guns incendiary. Foreigners only rely on guns. If the guns lose their effectiveness, what else can they do? Boxers Among them, the most powerful one is the red light. At the beginning, this red light was an old widow who set up an altar to teach the Dharma. She gathered dozens of girls to attend and accept the Dharma. It only took 49 days to complete the study. After the study, it was called As Tai Shijie, you can transfer to other women. The red light will take you to the sky, throwing the red light, burning the foreigner's house, blowing the wind to help the fire, and it can be burned in an instant."

Zaiyi said: "Did you see all this with your own eyes?"

Yu Xian said: "That is for all to see. Yu Xian dare not deceive the prince."

Resolutely said: "I can't be wrong. There must be prosperity and decline. The foreigners are already very prosperous today. What's more, their religion has no ancestors. The sky is angry and the people are angry. In this day full of evil, it is natural to give birth. A group of strange people came to deal with him. The prince doesn't have to doubt it!"

Zai Yi remained silent.Yuxian said: "Today, I have lost my virtue, and people's hearts have been separated. Big elder brother returns to heaven and people, but foreigners don't agree. It is said that the Holy Son of Heaven is protected by all gods, and the Bodhisattvas of the heavens specially summoned him to come down to the world to help the Holy Son of Heaven drive away the evil spirits. Monster, maybe."

Zaiyi nodded and said, "These few sentences are still reasonable."

Zai Xun said: "I heard that foreign priests tempt people to eat and teach, and they are used to gouging people's eyeballs to make medicine. This kind of thing is so annoying that the hairs stand on end."

Zai Yi said: "Who has the time to bother him with this kind of thing?

Anyway, it is the eyeballs of the common people, and it does not dig ours.What annoys me the most is the big brother.Lafayette gave him a great grace, and asked them to stop it.If they don't eat their flesh and blood, this resentment will never disappear. "

Resolutely said: "Lafayette is also very annoyed by foreigners. I remember that last month, I had to come back from the south, and submitted to Lafayette the report of the Qing Dynasty written by Liang Ni. Lafayette said angrily: "If it weren't for the protection of foreigners, the two He is a traitor, and he has been under the law for a long time. If foreigners are not eliminated, they will eventually be a great harm to China.' I said that foreigners dare to be so tyrannical, and they all rely on traitors to send news privately. The teaching people are traitors. The most important thing at present is the first. Arresting and governing the people. During the Qianlong period, eating religion was supposed to be executed immediately. Lafayette sighed and said to me: "Those who eat religion are not good people. It's not a pity to kill them all. It's just that the power of the country is not as good as that of our ancestors. It is difficult for the imperial court to protect the foreigners." I replied: "As long as they are aggressive, the foreigners know the interests of the Celestial Dynasty, so naturally they dare not protect them." Just do it." Now that we have such a good opportunity, let's go to see Lafayette together and ask her to make a decree, what does the prince think?"

Zai Yi said: "Very good, tomorrow morning, we will play him hard."

Suddenly a coater came in and reported: "Yu Zhitai reported that the Boxers demolished the Baoding Railway, and the deputy general Yang Futong was ordered to suppress it. He was killed in Yizhou. The imperial court has ordered Nie Shicheng to take care of it."

Resolutely said: "It's amazing, how can this be suppressed? Why is Rong Zhongtang so puzzled? Nie Shicheng is his general!"

Before Zaiyi could answer, another family member came in and said, "The imperial envoys from all over the world have come to the Prime Minister's Office to question. Prince Qing can't deal with it, and they have already given their orders."

Zaiyi said: "The matter is urgent, we can't wait for the court to come early, so let's go to the palace."

So Duan Wang Zaiyi, Zhuang Wang Zaixun and University scholar Gang Yi went to the palace together to ask for an audience.Yu Xian listened for news at the gate of the palace.Seeing them entering, there was enough time for a meal, a eunuch came out in a hurry, Yu Xian went up to ask.The eunuch said: "There is an order to summon Prince Qing."

Not long after, I saw King Qing follow the eunuch into the palace.After waiting all night, King Qing came out, and then Zai Yi and others also came out.Yu Xian greeted him and asked, "How's the matter?"

Zaiyi said: "Let's go and talk."

Zai Xun and Gang Yi got into the car together and arrived at Duan Wang's mansion together.

Everyone sat down, and Zaiyi said: "Lafayette has been moved by what we said. Unexpectedly, Yikuang came. He said that there are many advantages and disadvantages of foreigners, and Lafayette's heart became alive again. We debated with Yikuang for a long time. Lafayette said , Tomorrow morning, let all the ministers discuss it before we can do it.

How do you see this matter handled? "

Resolutely said: "What happened this time is really strange, Xiao Li has such a friendship with us, and he is not willing to help."

Zaiyi said: "Don't blame him, he is not a minister. Is this kind of military and state affairs easy to discuss among us? At most, we can help us secretly!"

Zai Xun said: "Lafayette is also very annoyed by foreigners, but I'm afraid that we won't be able to defeat them in terms of military strength. It is best to find someone whom Lafayette has always respected and trusted, to help us with a word, and this matter will be successful."

Yu Xian said: "Back to the lord, I think of someone."

Zai Yi quickly asked who it was, Yu Xian gave a thumbs up and said, "It's Xu Zhongtang."

Zaiyi said: "Is it the old man Xu Tong?"

Yu Xian said: "Yes. Xu Zhongtang's Neo-Confucianism has been practiced for decades, from an imperial official to a bachelor. Now at such an old age, he still recites "Taishang Induction Chapter" every day to fill in his merits and demerits. This level is beyond the reach of others. This gentleman hates new learning like a hatred. His protégé Li Jiaju, in order to be promoted to a university, asked Yan Xiuwei to open the special department of economics. His name is listed on the door, and he is not allowed to enter. His house is in Dongjiaomin Lane. Because he hates seeing foreign-style buildings, whenever he goes out of the city to visit visitors, he always goes out by Di'an Gate instead of Zhengyang Gate. The Empress Dowager Because he is a senior official, every time he is summoned, he always changes his face and pays respects. When it comes to a big government, you always ask him. If you have a word from him, the Empress Dowager will naturally not hesitate again."

Gang Yi smiled and said: "Thank you for thinking about it, the two princes are inconvenient to go, so you and I will go to pay homage to him."

Zaiyi said: "It's better for you two to work hard. It's not convenient for me to invite him to come home for someone in his 80s."

Gangyi and Yuxian took the car to Xu Tong's house in Dongjiaomin Lane and posted a post.

Seeing Xu Tong's son Xu Chengyu coming out to greet him, he said with a smile that Jia Yan was reciting "Induction".Resolutely said: "It doesn't matter, we are all on our own."

Accompanied by Cheng Yu, they sat down in the study together.Gang Yi explained the purpose of coming, and then said: "Your Majesty's presence depends entirely on the strength of the servant."

Xu Chengyu readily agreed.After a while, Xu Tong came out, and Cheng Yu said: "Gang Zhongtang and Yu Zhongcheng have invited you here, and I want your old man to help you with a word in front of the Queen Mother.

" Xu Tong asked what was the matter, and said resolutely, "This is what Prince Duan meant. "

Then he explained how the foreigners taught the people how to be domineering, how the people complained, how the Boxers were loyal and reliable, how the spells were effective, how Yixin opposed it, and how the Queen Mother hesitated, from beginning to end.Xu Tong said angrily: "Prince Qing is the country's minister of marriage, why does he always favor foreigners? How dare he fail to teach? I will go to see the queen mother and I will fight hard."

Yu Xian said: "It's all about the middle hall."

Xu Tong said: "For the affairs of the country, a minister should try his best."

Gangyi and Yuxian talked a few more words and went to reply to Zaiyi.

In the early morning of the next day, all the ministers gathered.Zaiyi, fortitude, and play again.The Empress Dowager summoned Yuxian, who tried to protect the Yihe Regiment, and said that opportunities are rare and people's hearts are easy to lose.The Empress Dowager said to Gangyi: "Can the country's military power hold foreigners?"

Resolutely said: "As far as I know, Dong Fuyang's army is loyal, brave and capable, and it is more than enough to control foreigners."

The Empress Dowager said: "Send someone to check first, the Boxers are indeed available, and it's not too late to appease them.

If it doesn't help, order to suppress it painfully, so as not to cause trouble. "

Zhao Shuqiao, Minister of Criminal Affairs and Criminal Affairs Department of Shuntian Mansion, was ordered to go to Zhuozhou to disband with He Naiying, governor of the mansion.Resolutely said: "I beg the Empress Dowager to reward you, and it is better for me to go to the matter of disbanding the Boxer Regiment."

The queen mother said: "Zhao Shuqiao is also very careful. If he can't do it, it's not too late for you to go."

Seeing the Queen Mother like this, Gang Yi didn't dare to say anything.The Queen Mother asked Ronglu again: "Do you think the Boxers are reliable?"

Rong Lu replied: "Prince Duan appreciates it, forgive me for not going wrong, please don't be suspicious, Empress Dowager!"

The Empress Dowager said: "Go and pass on Dong Fuxiang, I want to ask him."

Rong Lu was passed on to Dong Fuxiang and taught him some words.Dong Fuyang saw it and said: "I have no other ability, but to kill foreigners for the country out of stupid loyalty."

Gang Yi said: "Dong Fuxiang is loyal and brave, and Xu Tong, a bachelor, admires him very much. Xu Tong once said to the slaves: "In the future, China will be strengthened, and it must be Fuxiang." After hearing this, the queen mother suddenly said: "I almost forgot , Xu Tong is an elderly person, and his knowledge is always superior, so we should discuss this matter with him."

Xu Tongcheng, the eunuch who followed the order, should be engraved into the court.

Because of Xu Tong's old age, the queen mother did not call him a shufu, and she always consulted him on major state affairs.After a while, Xu Tong will see you.The queen mother asked him, and Xu Tong said: "This is a foreigner who is destroyed by heaven. God's will cannot be violated, and people's hearts must not be lost."

The Queen Mother decided to appease the Boxers and sent Gang Yi to inspect it.Zaiyi played Bao Yuxian as the governor of Shanxi, and the queen mother was allowed to play.Yuxian was overjoyed and took office immediately.Recruited dozens of nominal and regiments to serve as guards.As soon as he took office, he said to the two divisions: "There are two leaders of the Boxer Regiment, one is Jianshuai and the other is me."

The two divisions dare not argue, that's all.

At this time, the boxers heard that Yuxian had become a Futai in Shanxi, like ants attached to a mutton, like flies chasing smell, hordes came to Shanxi.Datong, Shuozhou, Wutai, Taiyuan, Xugou, Yuci, Fenzhou, Pingding, spread several times.The church in Pingyang Prefecture was destroyed, and the prefecture and county reported it to the court in detail.Yu Xian was furious, and severely reprimanded him.

Since then, the prefectures and counties have inherited the wind, and no one dares to slander them as "boxers".Yu Xianming made hundreds of steel knives and distributed them to boxing boys.The big brother of the Boxer Regiment, coming in and out of the Fufu Office, is like a distinguished guest.The boxers burn the church, the battalion officials will go to rescue, Yuxian sends out an order: whoever wants to put out the fire, the military law will do it.

Climbing up to watch by himself, he was overjoyed and said, "This is God's will. This is God's will."

It was ordered to appease the soldiers to guard the gates of the four cities and prohibit priests from entering and leaving.He also ordered the priests, young and old, to be escorted to the railway office and sent soldiers to guard them.

Two days later, Yu Xiangao sat down grandly and ordered the soldiers to bring more than [-] British priests, men, women, children, and more than [-] service servants from the railway office to the office. Such as hills and mountains.He also drove more than [-] women from the French Catholic Church to the Sangmian Bureau, forcing them to apostate, but they refused to obey.Sixteen people scrambled to drink it, calling it "the blood of God's salvation, the blood of God's salvation."

Yuxian was furious and ordered sixteen people to be tied up and hung on a high place.Then he forced the rest of the people to apostate, but everyone refused to obey, and they all shouted, "God save me, God save me."

Soldiers selected dozens of beautiful women, and took them as wives, and beheaded all the others.Yu Xian said joyfully: "Today I am very happy!"

In Shanxi, ever since the King of Hades came to touch the platform, the people of the church could not rest in peace.Press it for now.

Let's say that Zhao Shuqiao and He Naiying drove to Zhuozhou on orders. Along the way, they met many strange people.They were all in red clothes and trousers, jumping and shouting, all holding knives in their hands.They all wear small yellow paper portraits on their chests. They have heads without feet and sharp fingers. There are lights around the heads, and the ears and waists are all bent like dogs.Xin followed the words in a line: "The heart of Yunliang Buddha, the heart of Xuanhuo God's back."

And there are altars everywhere, full of flags, and the words "Kanzi Quanzhang" and "Kanziquancao" are written on the flags.There is no one in the common people who does not make offerings. The offerings are a bowl of clear water, five steamed buns, bronze coins with a few words, and a handful of rice straw covered with red paper.Every family in the city smelts iron and casts knives, the fire is soaring into the sky, and the sound of tinkling is endless day and night.

Zhao and He were very puzzled, so they went to visit the local gentlemen to ask.It turns out that this area belongs to the Tianjin government.The Jinjun Boxers started in Duliu Town, which belongs to Jinghai County, known as the "No. [-] altar in the world", led by Zhang Decheng and Cao Futian.Decheng is a native of Baigouhe. He operates boats and travels between Yuhe and Xihe.Futian is a native of Jinghai County. He was originally a loafer, but he became addicted to smoking opium.Boxing Boxing was spread to Duliu Town. There were several children who were practicing boxing. Decheng was amused to see it.Everyone asked him, Decheng said: "I know this is a magical fist, how can it be easily practiced!"

Everyone asked him, would you?Decheng said: "Why not?"

As he spoke, he picked up a straw, threw the yellow paper on the ground, and said, "Can you afford it?"

Everyone was busy trying to grab it, and it was strange to say that this piece of sorghum straw yellow paper weighed less than three taels, and three or five strong men couldn't pick it up.

Everyone was surprised: "We all have strength of one or two hundred catties, how can this idea be so heavy?"

Decheng said: "This is called Shenquan!"

As he spoke, he gently picked it up from the ground, and said to everyone: "Just wave this straw, and the heads of enemies ten miles away will fall in an instant."

Everyone bowed down and said together, "It's really a god teacher, it's a god teacher!"

So he gathered Decheng into a big house to set up an altar, which was called the first altar in the world.Boxers from far and near fought to join in.Decheng's reputation in Duliu Town is very powerful, and there are quite a few boxers everywhere who are under restraint.Cao Futian is a subordinate of Decheng, known as the "Shutu Jingjin Yihe God Group."

Decheng said to the group one day: "When I was sleeping just now, Yuanshen went to Zizhu Forest in Tianjin, and saw foreigners dissecting women, taking filth and smearing upstairs, suppressing the magic of the group."

When everyone heard this, they were all angry.

One day, he also said that Yuanshen went to the enemy and stole the machine barrel of the foreign gun, and the gun did not burn.Then he led the boxers, walked around the town three times, painted the ground with his stick, and said to everyone: "This week is the iron city, this week is the copper area, and this week is the earth city. Even if foreigners come, they can't cross it.

" Decheng cursed the God of closing fire again, and spread it all over the thoroughfare. His speech said: "The door of the northern cave is opened, please come out of the cave, and the iron Buddha sits on the iron platform, with iron helmets and iron walls, and shuts off the artillery fire. can't come. "

It is said that as soon as this mantra is recited, the guns and guns will be useless in an instant.He also ordered the residents to burn incense and kowtow, and during the kowtow time, each of them squeezed the middle finger with their thumbs, men with their left hand and women with their right hand, saying that it was a tactic to avoid fire.So Zhao and He met countless boxers on the way.

At present, I visited the local gentlemen and asked about everything, so I summoned Zhang Decheng and Cao Futian, the first boxers, and told them to disband with the court's virtue.Zhang Decheng said: "We are foolish and ignorant. We only know how to serve our country with all our loyalty. However, Nie Titai helps foreigners and is against us.

We demolished the railway wires because they belonged to foreigners.A while ago when the railway tracks in Langfang were being demolished, Nie Titai actually sent troops to kill many brothers.Now that the imperial court wants us to disband, we dare not disobey the order.It's just that Nie Titai is an official here, and we are still dissatisfied in our hearts.Better beg for grace, get rid of Nieti Taige, and we'll disband immediately.

This paragraph of love, begged the two adults to play the court. "

Zhao Shuqiao repeated his instructions, but Zhang and Cao were determined not to obey.Shu Qiao said to Naiying, "This is really difficult."

Suddenly it was reported that the middle hall had just arrived, and Zhao and He were busy coming out to meet them.Resolutely said: "How is it going?"

Zhao Shuqiao said: "If you tell me again and again, they are determined not to obey, and we have nothing to do."

Gang Yi smiled and said: "This is the reason you didn't handle it well. Just look at me, enlighten me with a few words, and you'll be fine."

Zhao Shuqiao said: "Zhongtang Haicai, how can we achieve it? We have to follow the Zhongtang School!"

Saying this from the mouth, I was very dissatisfied in my heart.If you want to know how fortitude disbanded the Boxers, let's listen to the next chapter to break it down.

(End of this chapter)