Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 654 Painful Jiangnan

The Ming Dynasty is over!
Just half a year ago, the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River were full of hope for this small court in the south of the Yangtze River. However, at this time, such despair as never before appeared in the hearts of every scholar in the south of the Yangtze River. The army of 50 million collapsed in an instant, and the "gentlemen" who talked about it on weekdays disappeared. Jiannu had already crossed the river. I am afraid that Yue Wumu is still alive. Faced with such a situation, he will probably be powerless to recover, right?

On May 170th, Danyang was conquered, and the Qing army from Jurong reached the city of Jinling. The remaining [-] officials of the Nanming court, led by Zhao Zhilong, Wang Duo and others, went out of the city to surrender to the Qing army Prince Yu Duoduo.

A bloody reality that is even more unacceptable to the world's scholars, Qian Qianyi, known as the leader of the Donglin, the leader of the literary world, and almost the perfect image of a saint in the eyes of scholars all over the world, Qian Qianyi is also among the people who left the city to surrender Among them, he became a second minister!
Everyone is a Neo-Confucianist, don't you say that starvation to death is a minor issue, but injustice is a major issue?how is this possible?How could Mr. Mu Zhai manage to survive?

Unfortunately, the reality is so bloody, Qian Qianyi not only surrendered, but also accepted the official position of Jiannu. A bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, Zhao Zhilong who surrendered was the Minister of the Household Department, and the three old and important ministers of the Hongguang Dynasty turned into new nobles in the court who built slaves.

In a sense, Yingtian’s fall was not due to Qian Qianyi’s surrender. In the minds of the people at the time, Qian Qianyi’s surrender was as impossible as the founding president of the United States, Washington, was able to surrender to Britain. However, this is impossible It just happened, and this broke the belief that the Jiangnan scholars had always insisted on, the Neo-Confucianism belief that even Song Qingshu could not reverse.

A large number of scholars and officials retreated to their hometowns in despair, and there were even a lot of scum, thinking that Qian Qianyi could surrender, how could we not?Just like the previous dynasty changes in Huaxia, many Jiangnan aristocratic families cast olive branches like new slaves.

However, it is not that China has never been conquered by foreign races in history, and even the Mongolian cavalry destroyed the Chinese regime as a whole. However, the biggest blow to China was Jiannu.

On the eighth day of June, Emperor Hongguang, who fled to Wuhu, was captured by Jiannu cavalry and escorted to the capital. It is ironic that dozens of eunuchs made a lot of money through Zhu Yousong's selection of women. Zhu Yousong surrendered, and they also followed Who knew that the heavy silver carts of these people aroused the greed of the general Yue Le, and under the pretext of eunuchs bringing harm to the country, he beheaded all 62 eunuchs including Tian Cheng in Jiangyou, and dumped their corpses in the river.

In the Forbidden Palace of Yingtian built by Zhu Yousong with poor people's resources, the silver taels that Tian Cheng and others painstakingly collected were made into other people's wedding clothes for nothing.

If this is the end, building slaves and entering the customs is just an ordinary change of dynasty in the history of China. Although there are still some scholars such as Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi calling for resistance to the Qing Dynasty in the local area, the Mongols have all ruled the Central Plains and are still alive. Not to live, such as Sun Zhixie, Liu Zhengzong and other well-known scholars in the south of the Yangtze River have already turned to Yingtian. The emperor has been captured.So what if he changed Jiannu to be the master above his head?

However, at the beginning of July, the second day after Zhu Yousong was escorted to the capital, Dorgon's cruel order once again shocked the entire Jiangnan.

Within ten days, the people of Gyeonggi and other provinces must leave money like the Manchus!Otherwise, keep your head and send it!Keep your hair but not your head!

This caused an uproar in the entire hometown of Ming Dynasty. According to the filial piety scriptures, the body and skin should not be damaged by the parents!Cutting hair was always a severe punishment even in ancient times. Cao Cao once cut hair to replace the head, which shows that it is of great significance. This slavery is equivalent to cutting the hair of the entire Han people!
This is not over yet, on July [-]th, Dorgon's second order was passed down again, Yifu order!The areas conquered by the order to build slaves will all wear long robes and mandarin jackets in accordance with the tradition of building slaves!Abandon the traditional Hanfu!Those are the costumes of the ancestors that have been handed down from the time of the Yellow Emperor, and they have even penetrated into the blood and marrow of the Chinese people and become an inseparable part.

Zuo Chuanyun: China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia!It has the beauty of serving chapters, so it is called Hua!Building a slave is equivalent to abolishing Huaxia directly!
Not only that, Jiannu also started enclosing land in the south of the Yangtze River, the law of escaping people, and the law of surrender. The soldiers of the Eight Banners encircled the land of the Han people in various places, and relied on their privileges to force the Han people to be slaves. They thought that when Zhu Yousong was in power, the tyranny was already as fierce as a tiger, but now they discovered that there is an abyss of hell even more terrifying than this.

"You guys! What are you doing!"

Changshu, guest town.

Qian Qianyi's proud student, Zhou Bingman, who once made great efforts to fight against Song Qingshu Qingzhang's land, is now in a state of distress, full of sorrow and anxiety, and screaming inconceivably. He put on his hair and put on a mandarin jacket, but today, dozens of Eight Banners soldiers and hundreds of Green Battalion soldiers rushed to the door fiercely. Facing these uninvited guests, Zhou Bingman bowed aggrievedly.

"Masters, lords, the villain has shaved his hair and changed his clothes according to the order of the regent king and his old man. Not only the villain, but the whole Hakka village was shaved and changed under the persuasion of the villain. Zhao Mancang who refused to shave his hair , Chen Dayu waited for a few unscrupulous people, the villain was arrested, and he was about to be sent to the government, military lord, why did you break into the villain's village?"

As arrogant as Di Laizi was, the leader of the Eight Banners soldiers arrogantly took out an order and recited it aloud in broken Chinese.

"The regent ordered that the soldiers of the Eight Banners fight for the country, allow the soldiers of the Eight Banners to enclose land, support the whole family, and reward credit for their achievements! Hakka Village has been encircled by the Zhenglan Banner, wait, get out immediately!"

"Here, aren't you bandits? This is the land passed down from my ancestors!"

His eyes were red, and he stopped bowing. Zhou Bingman jumped up to Lao Gao furiously. However, his answer was a bang, the unsheathed steel knife.

The entire Hakka Village was in chaos. Except for Zhou Bingman, a dozen landlords who owned land were all driven out, and even their wives, concubines and daughters, all of them beautiful, were taken away. Only a dozen old men and old women were left. Afterwards, they were thrown out, at the entrance of the village, the women were wailing loudly, a dozen strong men who refused to shave their hair and change clothes, the village elders were directly beheaded on the spot at the entrance of the village, and the villagers and tenants in the village were also registered door to door. The peasants who belong to the free body have changed their status to a certain Ezhen, Jiala's coated slaves, and they have to be slaves for generations, and even their children have to be exchanged, played and sold by these masters like livestock.

In the morning, he was still a landlord, raising people, but in the evening, he didn’t even have a place to stay. A dozen or so landlords and gentry wailed loudly, especially Zhou Bingman, who was sitting under a big tree, beating on the trunk full of regret, Howling and cursing at the sky.

"These Jian slaves are simply uncivilized barbarians, beasts that drink blood! My God! How could you let them rule the Central Plains? If this disaster continues, the world will be in chaos sooner or later!"

"Pooh!"

Before Zhou Bingman finished crying, he spit on his face unexpectedly, and they were kicked out of Zhuangzi together. Li Laotian, one of the few self-cultivated farmers in the village, was full of anger at this time, pointing at Zhou Bingman's The nose yelled.

"Marshal Song is the one who beat the Tartars. It was you miserly selfishness who drove Marshal Song away for the sake of the little money. Otherwise, Marshal Song would be the turn of these slaves to be arrogant!"

"Zhou Xiucai, thanks to the sage books you still read, the sages taught you these things? The Ming Dynasty died in the hands of you bastards, old man, I will beat you to death!"

He still couldn't let go of his hatred by cursing, so he turned to Li Laotian and was about to beat him up, so panicked that his sons had no choice but to grab him.

"Daddy! Daddy! Don't get angry!"

"Father, it's not worth getting angry with this kind of person! Let's go! I heard that these Jian slaves are arresting strong men everywhere, and if they enter their village, they will be slaves. Let's go!"

"Old man, old man beat you bastards to death, subjugated thieves!"

While cursing, dozens of villagers stumbled away again. They were frightened by the old man Li and fell to the ground. They didn't dare to stand up for a long time. Until these people had gone far away, Zhou Juren's face was stunned, and there was a look of regret. Suddenly the thick air filled the air, and he hammered the tree trunk again. He slapped himself hard, and immediately knelt down heavily on the ground, kowtowed and cried loudly.

"Ancestors are above all, Zhou Bingman is unfaithful, unrighteous, and unfilial!"

Hakka village is a microcosm this year. Changshu, Songjiang, Huzhou, Changzhou, and the places where slaves passed by are all crying. Tens of thousands of Han people were driven out of the land and became refugees, and more people became refugees. Almost every village has people who were slaughtered by Jiannu because they shaved their hair to make them easier to obey. Their heads were piled up in a pile at the entrance of the village, and crows surrounded the corpses, screaming desolately.

The entire south of the Yangtze River is trembling with the severe pain caused by the evil deeds brought by the robbers from the north. Those scholar-bureaucrats who made great efforts in plotting to overthrow the Song Dynasty finally tasted the pain. In his selfishness and stubbornness, he was personally promoted.

A wave of regret is also pervasive, regret at the beginning!

(End of this chapter)