Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 456
In the seventeenth century, among the ten cities with a population of more than 50, six were in China, Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Yangzhou, and the other four were in Europe, Paris and Constantinople, and one was Mumbai, India , one is Edo, Japan.

From this point alone, it can be seen that although Quanzhou is not as strong as a big city like Nanjing and Guangzhou in the prosperity of Chinese civilization, it can definitely be regarded as Wangzhou.

As early as the Chunyou period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou's household registration increased to 25, and it was upgraded from Shangzhou to Wangzhou. After the Ming Dynasty, due to the weakening of the sea ban, the population declined, but there were still more than [-] people in the city.

Li Laiheng led the army from the northern city into Quanzhou, feeling a little depressed. He thought he was the first to capture Quanzhou, but he didn't expect Zheng Jun from the southern city to enter the city first. This made him very depressed, and he was really unwilling.

The Ming army entered the city and swept the remaining Qing soldiers along the streets. They saw black and dried blood everywhere in the city, and half of the houses in the city were empty. Li Laiheng held a big gun and opened the door casually. There were several corpses lying in the yard, all of which must have been killed by the looting Qing soldiers. He frowned slightly and asked the soldiers to dig a pit in the yard to bury the family together.

The same situation was encountered by several other Ming armies. Since the Ming army entered the hinterland of Fujian and retreated into Quanzhou, the Qing army was already in a state of chaos. Faced with huge mental pressure, the Qing army began to run amok in the city. Kill innocent people indiscriminately.

Zhao Guozuo and others were not firm in their will to defend Quanzhou, and they themselves hesitated between defending the city and abandoning it, thinking that if they abandoned the city, they would not be able to give up Quanzhou intact to the Ming army. He did not stop the atrocities.

Unexpectedly, the Ming army broke Quanzhou in two days, and the Qing soldiers were beaten and scattered before they even had time to clean up the corpses, and Quanzhou was lost.

Wang Yan, who entered the city from the west gate, was also standing in a courtyard where the whole family was killed. In the courtyard, both old women and old men fell to the ground to die. In the front abdomen, several blood holes stabbed by the spear were shocking. He was still holding the kitchen knife tightly in his right hand, his eyes were wide open, and he was dying.

In the bedroom, a woman died on the bed, bloody and bloody. She had obviously suffered inhuman torture before she died. On the closet beside her, a long gun was inserted through the closet door. The barrel of the gun was already black with blood. The six-year-old girl was nailed to the cabinet with a spear, her eyes filled with horror.

Wang Yan saw this scene when he entered Yangzhou, and he also saw it when he was relieved of the siege of Xiangyang. Jiangyin talents would rather die in the whole city than endure humiliation and steal life, because this is blood feud, it is a great shame and humiliation, as long as there are courageous people, they will not be reconciled, not reconciled to losing like this, not reconciled to living humiliated, not reconciled Willing to have revenge but not to avenge.

More than [-] Quanzhou people were bullied by the Qing soldiers. When the Ming army entered the city, the people in the city began to boil.

Compared with the rule of the Qing soldiers, Quanzhou in the Ming Dynasty and Quanzhou in the Zheng Dynasty, the life of Quanzhou people was rich and stable, but Quanzhou under the rule of the Qing soldiers was full of terror and blackmail.

The Zheng family regards Bamin as their private property, so they manage it with great care. Because of the food problem, the entire north of the Ming Dynasty has been beaten to pieces, and the people are in dire straits. As a province with many mountains and little land, Bamin has a large population. Under governance, there was no famine, but self-sufficiency through trade, and people's livelihood was stable.

After being ruled by the Qing army, the Qing army exploited the people of Bamin, forced them to shave their hair and change clothes, and cut off the sea trade, which caused the price of rice in Fujian to soar and the people could not survive. Therefore, the land of Bamin is actually more nostalgic for the Zheng family era.

At this time, Wang Yan ordered his subordinates to bury the corpses in the city, continue to search for the rout soldiers, behead the looters who took advantage of the chaos, and then went to Zhao Guozuo's mansion.

In the past few years, the treasury of Quanzhou City has been moved once by Wang Yan, once by the Qing army, and once by Zheng Chenggong. It is estimated that the warehouse is full of rats now. With intuition, he went straight to Zhao Guozuo's mansion.

Along the way, the gentry and common people in Quanzhou began to welcome the Ming army into the city spontaneously. They all had a trace of panic on their faces, but some of them shed tears because of joy.

Compared with the Ming army entering the city in the North City and West City, the direction in which the Zheng Army entered the city in the south was undoubtedly much more lively. There were thunderous cheers on the street, but there were also loud cries, which made Wang Yan frequently stop and look south.

At this moment, Wang Yan had already surrounded dozens of elders of the country gentry, crying to him about the suffering they had suffered in the past few days, so Wang Yan had no choice but to comfort these elders and send someone to send them back.

On both sides of the street, from time to time, Qing soldiers were dragged out of the courtyard by the Ming army, and then escorted to the camp outside the city by teams. Everyone was downcast and panicked.

The Zheng army in the south of the city also captured many prisoners, but Zheng Chenggong directly tied up hundreds of Qing soldiers and pressed them to the Jinjiang River. On the river beach, there was a turmoil of people, waiting for the scene of avenging them.

There were more than four to five hundred Qing soldiers kneeling. Their hands and feet were tied behind their backs, their mouths were gagged, and most of them turned pale with fright. Women, all of them have committed many evil deeds, but there are also local Qing soldiers who did not participate in it, but Zheng Chenggong obviously did not intend to distinguish them, and wanted to kill them all to vent public anger.

Wang Yanyuan was planning to go to Zhao Guozuo's mansion, when he heard the news, he ordered Li Guo to continue to search, and then appeared in Nancheng with dozens of generals.

Seeing this posture, he knew that Zheng Chenggong wanted to vent his anger and buy people's hearts, so he asked Liu Shun to take the prisoners captured by the Wuzhong Army to the riverside.

After a while, the number of Qing soldiers who were tied up and kneeled on the riverbank reached two thousand. Seeing this, Zheng Chenggong saw that tens of thousands of people had surrounded him. He nodded slowly and ordered: "Behead!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The heavy drum on the top of the city was beating, and tens of thousands of people erupted, shouting like thunder, and the crowd was excited, "Kill them!"

At this time, Zheng's Wufan soldiers appeared for the first time. Each of these black ghosts held a pair of sharp Japanese knives and chopped them down fiercely. Their heads rolled down and blood spurted out.

The knife was extremely sharp, and when it was cut down, the heads were separated cleanly. The two thousand Qing soldiers were all beheaded on the bank of the Jinjiang River, and the corpses were kicked directly into the river. The tens of thousands of people suddenly burst into cheers, and their voices soared into the sky.

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