Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 672 It's the end of summer in Beijing again

After the prisoner offering ceremony was completed, Qianlong awarded He Lin and a group of officers and soldiers who participated in the escort.He Lin rewarded a piece of python satin court material, a weft hat, a pair of satin boots, a pair of court beads, and a hundred taels of silver.As for ordinary Manchu and Han soldiers, they will reward 20 taels of silver, every four people will reward a sheep, and every two people will reward a bottle of famous wine.

On the next day, Qianlong issued an imperial edict, arguing that the captives would not be forgiven on the grounds that Basha Duerye and others initiated the frontier quarrel without authorization and led troops to plunder the Tashilhunpo Monastery, which broke the stable situation in Tibet for more than 100 years. , When you put it on, you can go to the inch, and the owl will show it to the public.Extraordinary scholar Wang Jie, Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment Su Ling'a, and several servants went to monitor the execution.

As soon as the imperial decree came out, on the day of execution, there were huge crowds of people from Hufang Bridge to Caishikou. When noon came, and the cannon rang, the executioners of the Ministry of Punishment all took out their skills of housekeeping and eating.A group of onlookers shouted "Long live the emperor" with each knife falling.Not long after, more than a dozen human heads were put into wooden cages, and then hung up high for public display.

As the crowd began to disperse, several people who had negotiated the price earlier came to the shed where the executioner was resting, took the "elixir" wrapped in oiled paper from the executioner, and rushed home full of joy. go.

However, the superficial whitewashing of peace cannot conceal the decadent situation in the Manchu and Qing dynasties, and even the conflict between Manchu and Han has become more and more acute.

On July [-]th, a major event occurred in Beijing.The direct consequence of this incident was that many relatives of the Eight Banners even vacated their houses and moved their families to new houses. They also asked the family servants to guard their heads at all times, and their bodyguards never left their bodies when they went out, and they dared not go out alone.Even inside and outside the banner camps are all soldiers.Although the Shuntian Mansion and the Procuratorate tried their best to block the news after the incident, it still spread to the ears of the people in the outer city and became a source of private conversation after dinner.

Two days later, in the afternoon, the "Donghongtai" teahouse on Qianmen Street was no longer noisy in the morning.Don't look at the ghost festival, but because it is late in autumn this year, it is hotter than dog days at noon.A round of flaming daylight in the sky made the ground curl up and people wilt.

At this moment, there is no longer the banner man walking the birds and fighting crickets in the teahouse. The tea customers have almost left, and the waiter is lying on the table listlessly.In the corner, there were only a few guys who looked like businessmen still chatting about the mountains.

"Guess what? Don't the North Sea pirates like to come from the sea? The court should build a big wall on the seaside. In this way, the North Sea soldiers can only stare blankly and cannot go ashore!"

"The cannons of the North Sea Pirates are for display? You haven't heard that their cannons can blow down even a five-foot-thick brick wall. I don't think your idea is very good."

"Have you heard? A few days ago when there was hail and thunder, a big snake was chopped to death in the courtyard of Lao Sun's house outside Xuanwu Gate. People who saw it said it was seven or eight feet long and had horns on its head! "

"Do you know the details of the Dongsi archway two days ago? I heard that an old man from the banner died?"

Seeing that everyone else was shaking their heads, a fat man in his 30s and wearing a big gray shirt on the table smiled slightly and said, "Master Dong, you must be asking the right person about this matter."

"How to say?"

"My third uncle's brother's nephew is working in Shuntian Mansion. Yesterday my aunt was not feeling well, so I said I would go and have a look at it later in the evening. Guess what, I just listened to it."

When the people at the table heard this, they hurriedly said, "Tell me, tell me what's going on!"

"Several, we have been friends for more than ten years. This word came out of my mouth and entered your ears. When it comes out of this door in a while, let's pretend not to know."

"That's that, Shopkeeper Sun, don't worry, it's absolutely rotten!"

Fatty Sun shook his fan, his eyes rolled for a few days, looked around twice, saw that no one was paying attention, then he leaned forward and said softly: "The old man who died belonged to the Shu Mulu family in Zhengbai Banner, but he was not a direct descendant. It's a side branch, and it lives in Dongsiliu. Think about it, Zhengbai Banner is the head of the upper three banners, Shu Mulu is one of the eight old surnames, and his ancestor is the famous martial arts king Yang Guli. There was also a great scholar. When something happened to his family, even the emperor was alarmed."

Then, in his beaming description, he recounted something that stunned everyone present.

It turns out that Manchu children play very different toys from Han children from the time they can crawl.Start with buckwheat husk pillows tied with wide thongs, and change to large pillows with mung bean or soybean pulp when they get bigger.When they are older and can run on the ground, they start to hold the small "leather pocket" containing river sand; after they are ten years old, they can change to a larger "leather pocket", and the contents inside have changed from sand to pebbles.This is the process of practicing "Buku".

Of course, what kind of rope pockets, palm fist pockets, stone monkey stone locks, stirring sticks, etc. will be practiced later.Those trained masters will enter the Shanpu Camp Firearms Camp to fill in the vacancies, so as to find a future.In the past few years, the Manchus and the Beihai Navy fought repeatedly, and due to the huge loss of soldiers, it also caused a great shortage of banner soldiers. As long as they are skilled, they will definitely be able to make up.

Although Bannermen's Buku is considered a good martial skill, but there is a sky beyond the sky, and it is not effective against those Han martial arts masters.This is what is meant by the so-called "martial arts wrestling, high accuracy".

Nowadays, all the banner people with affluent families in Beijing usually use real money to hire martial arts masters from other places to work as martial arts masters at home, which can not only protect the family and the courtyard, but also teach the younger generation to practice martial arts.However, here lies the problem. Some masters invited from the Central Plains had several generations of grudges with the Manchus. Over the years, they either kept their identities incognito or changed their appearances.These people buried their hatred deep in their hearts, and under the guise of guarding the courtyard to pass on martial arts, they waited for an opportunity to kill the aged Manchurian generals.

Basically, from the late Kangxi period, many headless bloody cases that occurred under the flag were closely related to the group of martial artists who took care of the homes and nursing homes.It's just because these people work in secret, and people can't find fault after killing them, so many Manchu families can only suffer from being dumb and have nowhere to appeal.

The same is true of the old man of Shu Mulu's family who was beaten to death a few days ago.He said he was an old man, but he was actually not yet sixty. He used to be a member of the army. Seven years ago, he followed Fukang'an and lost an arm in the battle between Fuerdan City and Beihai Town. However, he managed to save his life. With an empty horse sleeve, he drank when he had nothing to do, and when he drank too much, he scolded Zhao Xin, Beihai Town, and the Han people.

That day, the old man drank a lot for nothing, and when he got drunk, he started to curse again, and then he choked with his own martial artist, and even wanted to grab half of the sheep he was given.The martial artist was not a good person either, saying that it was rewarded by the uncle of the family, so there was no reason for him to take it away.As a result, the two talked more and more anxiously, and finally the old man got really angry and wanted to compete.

There is a rule in this bannerman's martial arts competition. Firstly, the leader of the banner must nod his head in agreement, and secondly, he has to sign a life and death document, stating that no matter whether the death or injury of either party is injured, it will not be reported to the official, and it will be a natural death.

Two generations of Shu Mulu's family participated in the leadership, and of course the subordinate leaders dared not say a word, and then the documents were also drawn.In the morning of the next day, the martial arts competition went on as scheduled, but who knew that the old man had just entered the arena and was not ready yet, when the martial artist came up to act as a chest, he was hit hard by a black tiger, the old man was killed on the spot, and he did not even say a word when he died Down.Although there are many bastards in Manchu, they still keep their word when it comes to martial arts competitions, and they will not blackmail others, and the family members can only resign themselves to their fate.

After the old man fell to the ground, the martial artist used the excuse that he wanted to go back to the backyard to get medicine for treatment, and asked everyone present to take care of him.Afterwards, when the doctor Yi, the middleman, and the guarantor came forward to check the injury, everyone realized that something was wrong.

When a martial arts competition injures someone, the first thing to do is to save the injured person's life. Why did that guy run back to his room?Furthermore, the old man was born in the army, he had experienced many battles all his life, and he was a famous military officer under Zhengbai's banner.He didn't even lose his life on the battlefield, so why did he die so strangely?

So everyone hurried to the backyard to find someone, but there was no one in the house, but they saw a pine wooden ladder collapsed under the high wall, and the martial artist had already jumped over the wall and ran away.Everyone speculated that he was flustered after the murder, so he was in a hurry.

At this moment, everyone recalled that before this, the martial artist had asked the old man's resume everywhere, and asked about all the battles he participated in in which year.The old people in the banner unanimously believed that this person was a martial artist in the mansion who came here to wait for an opportunity to avenge; so they reported to the capital of the banner, and then reported to the Ministry of Punishment to arrest the criminal.The people from the Nine Gates Infantry Patrol Battalion then went to the old man's house to search the residence of the martial artist, and found a letter under the bed.

When the investigators read the contents of the letter, they were sure that the person really came to seek revenge.It said that I originally lived in Chengguan, the old city of Linqing, Shandong, and that the old man was killed because he followed Shu Hede to lead the army to encircle and suppress Wang Lun, and he deserved to kill the common people.

Everyone was surprised. You must know that Shu Hede, whose posthumous title is Wenxiang, is a descendant of the Shu Mulu family. In the 39th year of Qianlong, he was ordered to lead troops to Shandong to suppress Wang Lun of Qingshui Sect. The old man who was beaten to death also attacked the old city of Linqing .

It is said that Wang Lun, the leader of the Qingshui Sect in the mid-Qianlong period, is definitely not a fun thing. This "Master Zhengua Wang" is the same as all the leaders of the White Lotus Sect in history. Slogans unleashed riots.It was also because of this religious turmoil that Linqing, a famous shopping mall that had prospered for more than two hundred years since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, became a hell on earth amidst blood and fire.

The tragic offensive and defensive battle that took place 20 years ago lasted for nearly 20 days. The attackers and defenders wantonly set fires inside and outside the city, leaving the old city of Linqing almost in ruins.After the city was broken, the Qing army and the believers of the Qingshui Sect fought for every street and every house in the city. The tragic street fighting lasted for five days, and a large number of innocent women and children were killed by the Qing army after the city was broken.

That martial artist is the descendant of the innocent people slaughtered by the old man of Shu Mulu's family. This person has been seeking revenge for many years, and has been hiding his name. He has practiced a superb fist.At the beginning, he worked as a martial arts instructor of the Zhengbai Banner Han Army for a few years, but in the end, he was wronged and was invited by Shu Mulu's family, who was also a Zhengbai Banner, to become a martial arts guard in the house.After years of patience, I finally found an opportunity to succeed.

When Fatty Sun finished talking about the ins and outs, everyone in the room was stunned for a long time, and they all shook their heads and sighed. The things in the world can be described as a drink and a peck. The martial artist was killed with a single palm.

"I heard that the imperial court is busy moving the capital. You said that it will all go to Xi'an, so Beijing is still Beijing?"

"Why do you think so much? The Northern Sea Pirates have all reached Shandong now, and I heard that Jilin City outside the customs has been lost. One day is one day!"

"Treasurer Dong, you have traveled far and wide and learned a lot. I heard that the North Sea Pirates are doing something in Shandong to 'divide the local tyrants'. Do you know about this?"

"Oh, don't ask me that. Let's not talk about state affairs!"

Everyone chatted about it for a while, and then they left.Shopkeeper Dong left the tea shop and returned to the shop of "Huang Shengtai" diagonally opposite.Afterwards, he spent more than an hour reading last month's accounts, and seeing that the sun outside was not so harsh, he asked the man to go to the backyard to let the driver harness the car.

After burning incense, shopkeeper Dong gave some instructions to the waiter, and went out to get on the car.The mule cart traveled south along Qianmen Street, went east at Zhushikou, and finally stopped at the entrance of the stone alley at Suanshikou.He got out of the car, stood under the tree at the entrance of the alley for a while, and then walked in Shi Shiran with his hands behind his back. He paused every twenty steps, listening carefully to see if anyone was following behind him.When he reached the gate of a single-family courtyard on the southeast side of the intersection of Shiban Hutong and Biangan Hutong, he looked around, then stepped forward and patted twice, paused for a moment and patted four times.

Not long after, the courtyard door opened, revealing a space for only one person to pass through. Shopkeeper Dong walked in sideways, and whispered to the old man who opened the door: "Where is the person?"

The old man didn't speak, and glanced at the main house, West Room.Shopkeeper Guo went straight into the house without saying a word.He stretched out his hand to lift the blue curtain, and saw a lean man in his 30s jumping off the kang, with his ape arms stretched out, and he clasped his fists at him.

"Brother Dong."

"Brother Yang, you have been arrested in various places inside and outside the city for the past few days. I'm here to tell you that you must be careful in this courtyard on weekdays, so as not to expose yourself to the public."

"I'm really grateful for Brother Dong's care. Now that my younger brother has avenged his revenge, I have nothing to worry about. Don't worry, I will leave tonight, and you will never be involved."

"Hey, what nonsense are you talking about! Just wait for two days, and when there is news from Shandong, no matter whether it is Shuntian Mansion or the patrolling camp, they will ignore your business. Then I will send someone to send you out of the city. "

"According to Brother Dong, my junior brother Chen is also in Jiaodong now? I want to find him."

"Don't worry, stay safe and don't be impatient, you brothers and sisters will definitely be reunited."

No one could have imagined that the martial artist surnamed Yang who killed Shu Mulu's family's old chief was actually hiding in a house under the name of "Huang Shengtai" Dong's shopkeeper.

Shopkeeper Dong didn’t talk big. Five days later, a six-hundred-mile urgent letter from Liu Yong from Jinan arrived in the capital. The North Navy, which had been in Jiaodong for almost a year, suddenly launched a huge force of 8000 people from north to south. , launched a fierce attack on the Qing army on the front lines of the Yellow River, Sun River and Wulong River.In just two days, the three cities of Dengzhou, Qixia, and Laiyang fell one after another. Enthemo, the commander-in-chief of Dengzhou Town, died in battle, and Lan Jiachan, the prefect of Dengzhou, hanged himself after the city was broken.

Surprisingly, however, Qianlong seemed very calm after learning about the military situation in Shandong. He did not transfer troops from the capital and surrounding provinces, but only ordered Liu Yong to strictly guard Zhaoyuan and Jimo, and pay close attention to the movements of the Beihai Navy.

Afterwards, he played alone with He Shen and Yong Yan for more than an hour, and then asked Manchuria Dutong with Xiangbai Banner, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry and Lin to hand over the sign to see him immediately.In the early morning of the next day, a decree made everyone in the government and the public confused. He Lin was appointed as the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, with the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, and he will take office after August [-]th.

However, according to the news from the palace, Qianlong was furious after returning to the palace that day, scolding Zhao Xin, and even smashed a Ru Kiln brush washer.

　It is true that the Han martial arts masters in the nursing home killed the Manchus, and they usually planned carefully for many years before killing them with the last blow.The fate of a martial artist who has avenged his vengeance is nothing more than suicide and escape, and it will not end well if he is caught.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)