scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 409

Fatty Lu moved into the Forbidden City on the ninth day of the seventh lunar month. Although the palaces in the Forbidden City have not been completely cleared of dangers, Fatty Lu can only live in the square in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony—that is, Fatty Lu and Fatty Lu. The square where Xie Dong had a bad relationship, but Fatty Lu still took the time to go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, which is the Golden Luan Hall representing the highest imperial power, to vent his joy and excitement of regaining the treasure of China, the Forbidden City, for his compatriots.

It was also said that it was the first time for Fatty Lu to enter the Golden Luan Palace. In the 21st century, he had no time to study. In this era, the last time Fatty Lu entered the Forbidden City was a seventh-rank sesame official. Kneeling in the square outside the door, he is not qualified to step into the Golden Luan Hall - but only Kang Mazi's absolute confidantes and confidants are eligible to enter the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Fatty Lu has entered it several times by accident.This time, Fatty Lu revisited his old place as a victor, naturally he wanted to take a good look at what kind of virtue the Golden Luan Hall is, and he even wanted to stand in front of that chair and think carefully about whether he should sit on it?
It's not all joy, at least as soon as he walked to the gate of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Fatty Lu was extremely upset by a sight, as disgusting as eating flies-on the plaque at the main gate of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, there was a crooked line like a dog crawling to death The snake-like mite characters are still ranked before the square Chinese characters!Fatty Lu also immediately ordered, pointing to the plaque and shouting: "Come on, go up for me, and smash the words full of dogs! This is the place for us Chinese, and we can't let the disgusting words of dogs get dirty!" "

"Decree!" Brothers Liu Zhen and Liu Xu clasped their fists in agreement, jumped up to the eaves together, pulled out the waist knife and turned the handle of the knife, and slammed the disgusting mites on the plaque. The text was smashed to pieces.Fatty Lu was still not relieved, and turned to the civil and military behind him and shouted: "The order is passed on, there is no one word "mite" left in the Forbidden City, all smashed and dug up!"

"I would like to obey the order of the prince!" Fatty's army, civil and military, agreed in unison, and quickly arranged for the sergeants to send orders to all the troops to destroy all the disgusting mite inscriptions in the Forbidden City.The fatty Cao Yuanwai (equivalent to the Minister of Rites) Huang Yanbo who accompanied the army saluted again and said: "My lord, I believe that the traces of the barbarians in the Forbidden City should be completely removed, and the books and documents of the barbarians should also be removed. Destroy together, abolish the court etiquette, customs, clothing and accessories left by the Qing barbarians, and re-establish a set of our own court rules."

"That's right, all of these should be abolished." Fatty Lu nodded with satisfaction, and ordered: "Father-in-law, you are a member of the Li Cao, so I will leave these to you. Organize the Han officials of the Ministry of Rites who surrendered, and reorganize them." Formulate a set of etiquette and rules for our Great Zhou. As for the books and documents left by Mangou, they are translated into Chinese characters and archived and then destroyed. The same is true for Mangou books in private collections. Whoever hides and spreads books full of dog characters will be punished for treason!"

"Follow the order of the prince." Huang Yanbo respectfully agreed, and happily took over the task of eradicating the mite poisonous culture completely.

"One more thing." Fatty Lu remembered something again, and shouted: "Whether it is in the government or in the folks, it is not allowed to call Man Han according to Man dog customs, such as Man Han Banquet, Man Han Harmony, Man Han Conflict, etc., that is. Man Gou deliberately humiliates us Han people, put Man Gou in front, and let people stand behind the dog! The word Han must be placed at the front, and anyone who dares to put Man in front of the Chinese character will be punished severely according to the severity of the case If the circumstances are particularly bad, they can be sentenced to death! On this point, Master Zhu, you and the people who lead the criminal Cao will cooperate with Huang Yuanwai to formulate a detailed criminal law as soon as possible and issue it to the world."

"Follow Jun's decree." Huang Yanbo and Zhu Fangdan agreed together, secretly admiring Fatty Lu's hatred for the Qing court—he really hated it to the bone.However, Fatty Lu was not satisfied, and he specifically gave an order to change the word "Man" related to the Qing Dynasty into the word "mite" in the official documents of Dazhou, in order to retaliate against the destruction of Chinese culture by the Qing court. Huang Yanbo After agreeing again with Zhu Fangdan and the others, Fatty Lu nodded with satisfaction, and led a large group of civil and military lackeys into the hall swaggeringly.

The Golden Luan Palace, which was built with the blood and sweat of countless Chinese, is naturally extremely splendid. It really opened the eyes of Fatty Lu and the bumpkins of the Fatty Army. The voices of admiration also came one after another in the Golden Palace, deliberately flattering Fatty Lu. The scolding here continued to echo, but when Fatty Lu walked to the dragon chair in the middle of the Golden Luan Hall, the Golden Luan Hall suddenly fell silent again, and every running dog of the Fatty Army held their breath and waited patiently for Fatty Lu's next step. With one move, I just want to see if Fatty Lu will sit on this dragon chair?

"My lord, we can't sit on it yet. We still have the biggest and strongest enemy, the Honghua court. If we sit on it at this time, the advantage of holding a will to order the princes will be lost." Some fat military officials with clear minds quietly thought in their hearts shouted, but these people did not dare to speak out to dissuade him, because the only person who can prevent Fatty Lu from sitting on this chair at this time is Fatty Lu himself. If others speak to dissuade him, they will never even think about messing around in the new court.

"My lord, sit on it, you will be the emperor after you sit on it, and you don't need to help the Honghua court fight the world to make wedding dresses." There are also some fat soldiers who are ready to kneel and kowtow three times, just waiting for Fatty Lu to make up his mind Sit on that chair, and then you can kowtow to persuade you to come in, completely throwing off the Honghua court and doing it alone.

"Master, sit down, sit up, I will be the head of the imperial guards." Xiao Erlang said more directly in his heart.

After waiting for a long time with each other's thoughts, Fatty Lu finally turned around and pointed his butt at the dragon chair. The hearts of the fat man's civil and military officials also started beating violently, but Fatty Lu suddenly pointed to the dragon chair again and asked: "Tell me, is this dragon chair made of pure gold or covered with gold?"

There was a sound of human body falling in the Golden Luan Hall, and Yao Qisheng, the soldier of the Fatty Army, replied dumbfoundedly: "My lord, if the historical records are correct, the dragon chair in the Golden Luan Hall should be a gold-plated copper chair, that is, mixed with gold powder and mercury. Paint it on the copper chair together, and then dry the mercury, and the gold powder will be firmly gilded on the dragon chair."

"It turned out to be a gold-plated copper chair. I thought it was a pure gold dragon chair." Fatty Lu looked a little disappointed, and waved his fat hand and said, "But it's not surprising. , how could it be left to this king?"

After finishing speaking, Fatty Lu ordered again: "Let's do the matter of the Forbidden City in this way. After cleaning out all the palaces, big and small, they will be sealed up except for the Hall of Martial Heroes. Clean up the Hall of Martial Heroes and serve as my king's temporary residence in Beijing. We will deal with government and military affairs there, and how to deal with other palaces will be discussed later.”

"I would like to abide by the order of the prince and Jun." Fatty Junwen and Wu agreed together, and they also breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Fatty Lu still has the ambition to usurp the throne after all, but he feels that the timing and immaturity are hidden—otherwise, if Lu Fatty really has no intention of usurping the throne, so he should find a palace in the capital to live in. Now Fatty Lu seals up most of the Forbidden City palaces and lives in the Wuying Palace, which not only blocks the mouths of the world, but also implies that the civil and military officials of the Fatty Army , Fatty Lu can move into Qianqing Palace to settle down at any time.

Of course, some speculators knelt down on the spot and begged Fatty Lu to become the emperor with tears. Naturally, Fatty Lu was taken aback, and quickly scolded these speculators bloody, saying that he was responsible for the old man Wu. Seriously, how can you have those outrageous thoughts?I also asked these snobs to keep their mouths shut, and never mention a single word about this kind of thing from now on, otherwise, they must be severely punished!
In a word, being an emperor is much harder than being a farmer picking dung and farming. Since ancient times, emperors have had to sit in this position for the sake of the common people. Our Lord Lu does not have the great mind to worry about the world's worries, Afraid of hard work, the hard work of the emperor should be left to Emperor Honghua.As for whether Emperor Honghua can persist in this position, it depends on whether he is lucky enough to come to the Forbidden City alive to sit in this position.

In the next few days, the fat man's army mainly did three things. One was to wipe out the remnants of the inner city of Beijing, and the other was to appease the Han people in the outer city of Beijing and search for and kill the mites who fled into the outer city to hide. , The third is to clean up the corpses on the battlefield in Beijing to prevent these corpses from causing plague.

Of course, the Fatty Army wiped out the remnants of the enemy and massacred the bannermen in the inner city. It took seven days to disband the army, but in less than four days, there was no one in the inner city of Beijing except for a few bannermen who were looted as prostitutes. The living bannerman died, forcing the Fatty Army to seal their swords and stop killing on the fifth day.It is also very smooth to appease the Han people in the outer city. Although the people in the outer city who have suffered from ethnic discrimination may not all support the liberators of the Fat Army from the bottom of their hearts, they will not go to the mantis to fight with the Fat Army with a knife. As soon as the Fatty Army patrols to maintain law and order in the outer city took to the streets again, the market in the outer city of Beijing quickly settled down, and the Mite Qing Banners who were hiding in the outer city were also taken out one by one and dedicated to the Fatty Army. before them, and accept the punishment they deserve.

There are also countless literati, Qing and Han officials, who gathered in Beijing to wait for the imperial examinations. For example, the famous Wang Zhihe also flocked to the Fat Army and asked to serve for the Fat Army. This is an opportunity to become a dignitary in the new dynasty.But it was also their luck that the Fat Army, which was in urgent need of talents to form a new team, basically did not refuse them, and many of them got their wish and became low-level civilian officials of the Fat Army.

The only more troublesome thing is to clean up the battlefield in the inner city and clean up the dead bodies. Because it coincides with summer, many dead bodies started to rot and stink the day after the city of Beijing was broken, forcing the Fatty Army to start cleaning the next day The dead bodies on the battlefield were transported to the Zuojiazhuang Huaren Field in the eastern suburbs of the city and burned. However, as the revenge against the Mite Qing Banners escalated, the auxiliary army of the Fatty Army began to be short of manpower.Fortunately, the populous capital of Zhili has nothing but manpower. With a wage of three catties of rice and twenty renminbi a day, tens of thousands of people immediately joined the corpse collection team of the Fat Man Army The dead bodies in the city were cleaned up and pulled outside the city to be burned or buried deep.

During the five days from the eighth day of July to the thirteenth of July, how many bannermen the Fatty Army killed in the inner city of Beijing has always been the top secret of the Fatty Army. The data is kept secret, and after these people have passed away, only Fatty Lu's direct descendants are eligible to know, and they have never been declassified.This is something to do later, so I won’t mention it here.

In the next few days, before the main force of the Fatty Army was dispatched again, the prefectures and counties around the capital, which had received the news that the Fatty Army had captured the capital, had already sent surrender forms one after another, voluntarily cutting off the tails of the rats and surrendering to the Fatty Army.Fatty Lu did not refuse anyone who came, and accepted them all. He also spread a message to the cities of Zhili, saying that as long as anyone who voluntarily surrendered, including mite officials and generals, as long as they were not evil slaves of the four surnames, they could spare their lives and not kill them. , the bannerman in the inner city of Beijing is their fate!

The call to action was circulated, and the letter of surrender flew into Beijing like a snowflake, and flew into the temporary residence of Fatty Lu in the Wuying Hall. In addition to Bo Guoduo, the prince of Qingzhuang who was stationed in Shanhaiguan, Juyongguan, Zhangjiakou and Gubeikou were also included. The Qing generals and officials in these throat areas all took the initiative to cut their braids and send letters, surrendering to the fat army - but this is not surprising. In order to defend the capital, Jie Shu had already completely evacuated the Qing army in these places. Gubeikou was only guarded by a few dozen Qing troops. If the Qing generals in these places did not surrender voluntarily, would they really wait for the fat army to chop off their heads and ride on their wives and daughters?
In this way, the Fatty Army's recovery of the old land in China was naturally faster. In less than a month after taking the capital, all the land west of Zhangjiakou on the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty was back in the hands of the Fatty Army. They all fell into the clutches of the Fat Man Army.At the same time, the Mongolian tribes to the north of the Great Wall once again showed their true nature, and sent envoys to meet Lu Fatty to test Lu Fatty's sincerity in accepting him. The Mongolian edict announced that all Mongolian tribes, except the Horqin tribe who was born in the old hag of Xiaozhuang, would accept the surrender, allowing these Mongolian tribes to pay tribute and receive titles, trade and trade, and also conferred the seal of the Burni brothers who died fighting against the Qing dynasty. , Set up these two dead men as an example to Huairou to the Mongolian tribes.

There is also an interesting result of Huairou from the Mongolian tribes, that is, Fatty Lu was forced to marry two Mongolian wives from the Mongolian royal family while pinching his nose, and booked a few Mongolian girls for his two sons to be his future wives. The important civil servants and generals of the Fat Army also sacrificed their lives to be soft, bit the bullet and married the daughters of some Mongolian princes Taiji, and then when they got married, all kinds of jokes about the husband forcing the unconsummated wife to take a bath, also happened in Beijing. Not uncommon.

Of course, during this period, the Fat Army, who had learned from Li Zicheng's past, has never let down its vigilance against Shanhaiguan. On July [-]th, when the knife was sealed, and on July [-]th, General Gao Qi of the Fat Army led an army of [-]. Marching eastward, rushed to Shanhaiguan to monitor the movement of the Qing army.And when the news of Boguoduo's refusal to surrender and beheading the fat man's envoy was sent back to Beijing, the tactical choice of whether to attack Shanhaiguan was also placed in front of the decision-makers of the fat man's army.

The benefits of capturing Shanhaiguan are obvious. After capturing Shanhaiguan, the Fatty Army will have the initiative on the Gyeonggi battlefield. If they advance, they can attack Shengjing in Liaodong, drive the Qing court back to the hometown of Tunguska, and if they retreat, they can stick to the safety of Gyeonggi. If you want to harass Gyeonggi, you can only borrow from Mongolia to facilitate the defense of the fat army.However, some people have different opinions. They suggest that the attack on Shanhaiguan should be postponed and that they should concentrate their efforts to gain a firm foothold in Zhili Gyeonggi.

Those who oppose the immediate attack on Shanhaiguan are not all short-sighted, and their reasons are very good. The main force of the Fatty Army fought all the way from Jiangnan to Beijing. The ammunition was huge, the soldiers were very tired, and the logistics were stretched. If you have great confidence, it is easy to frustrate your spirit and shake the morale of the army.What's even more frightening is that once the main force of the Fatty Army fell into a quagmire of bitter fighting under Shanhaiguan, where the Qing army was fully defending, once the southern battlefield changed, it would be very difficult for the main force of the Fatty Army to withdraw and go south.

The two opinions are completely opposite, and each has its own reasons. Fatty Lu also hesitated for a while, but fortunately, at this moment, Xie Dong and Wang Shaobo who stayed in Nanjing sent a fleet to send a batch of ammunition supplies to the main force of Fatty's army , also brought the latest battle situation in the southern battlefield by the way.

On the Fujian-Vietnam battlefield, Geng Jingzhong's army has taken back the most important granary in Yanping Mansion, Shaowu Mansion and Guihua City, and Shang Zhixin's team has also taken back Huizhou and Jiaying. Soldier Liu Jinzhong took the opportunity to display the banner of the Fat Man Army, joined forces with Shang Zhixin's army to expel Zheng Jing's troops, and declared Chaozhou Prefecture an enclave of the Fat Man Army. On the front line battlefield, they were retreating steadily, showing signs of defeat, but because of the shrinkage of troops, they should be able to hold on for a while. The Fat Army on the southern line, which is in a favorable position to watch the fire from the other side, should be as stable as Mount Tai in a short time.

On the southwest battlefield, the Pianyuan Wu clan whose Jiqishan firearms battalion was destroyed was already somewhat unable to withstand the two sides of the brother-in-law Xia Guoxiang and Guo Zhuangtu. The Zhuangtu army went out of Chenlong Pass and joined forces with Xia Guoxiang's army.But fortunately, the Wu clan still has a certain advantage in the border battlefield between Sichuan and Yunnan, so the Wu clan and the Honghua army are basically still in a stalemate, and no one can do anything to the other in a short time.At the same time, Wu Guogui sent envoys to ask for help from the Fatty Army. Wang Shaobo only expressed some verbal support to Wu Guogui on the pretext that the Fatty Army was mainly engaged in the Northern Expedition and that the Yangtze River channel was blocked by Xia Guoxiang's Lin Xingzhu Navy.

The situation of the other main Wu armies is as follows. Without Wu Shicong, the Guangdong and Guangxi Wu armies have fallen into civil strife. Some of the Wu armies fell to Guo Zhuangtu under the leadership of Dong Zhongmin, and some of them rose up under the leadership of Wu's traitorous cousin Zu Zeqing. Responding to the Wu clan, the two factions fought upside down, and were tightly restrained by each other.On the Shaanxi-Gansu battlefield, Wang Fuchen and Wang Pingfan seem to have reached a secret agreement. Wang Fuchen tried his best to kill the two remnants of the Qing army, Zhang Yong and Zhao Liangdong, while Wang Pingfan went all out to attack Tongguan, and at the same time used the Hanzhong granary to support the Wu clan. The two families did not invade each other, and they assumed a righteous attitude of suspending internal strife and destroying the Qing army first.

The only thing that alerted Fatty Lu was the attitude of Generalissimo Ma and Baobai. Although he accepted the position of Generalissimo Ma of the World Army conferred by the Honghua court, General Ma refused to send troops to help Xia Guoxiang kill the Wu clan, and he did not help The Wu family's attack on Xia Guoxiang will not be offended. All they want to do is to develop into Jiangxi, Henan and Anhui and other blank areas. Taking advantage of the opportunity of each faction being restrained by each other, they are desperately expanding their territory and strengthening the army. At the same time, they try not to restrain themselves Provoking the fat army seems to be planning to separate one side, or to use the territory and the army as bargaining chips, waiting for a price. ——Of course, if the time is right, the possibility of General Ma stabbing Fatty Jun from behind cannot be ruled out.

Having basically understood the situation in the major battlefields in the south, Fatty Lu also made up his mind and quickly decided to send troops to attack Shanhaiguan. plot the whole world.

At this point in his calculations, Fatty Lu slapped the table, pointed at Gao Dejie and said, "Brother Dajie, Shanhaiguan is counting on you. Bring [-] troops to reinforce Gao Qi, and personally command the attack on Shanhaiguan. Ammunition, you must take Shanhaiguan down for me, and take the strategic initiative in the Northeast battlefield before riding full of dogs. Don’t be afraid of getting tired. After taking down Shanhaiguan, our main force can take a breather.”

"Why are you tired?" Gao Dejie smiled and said, "My lord underestimated the last general. The last general's team fought all the way from Jiangnan to Beijing, and only fought three tough battles in Guide, Baoding and the capital. What are you tired of? Please don’t worry, my lord, within a month, Mo will keep the Shanhai Pass back for you.”

"Then please." Fatty Lu nodded, then turned to Yao Qisheng and ordered: "Junior Yao, draw up an order for Han Daren, ordering his main force to divide into two groups, capture Luoyang along the way, and then station in Luoyang and Huaiqing. He personally led the other route, went north to capture Taiyuan City, and joined forces with the main force led by the king at Taihang Mountain. Also, tell him that we can expand the army and try to take the whole of Shanxi, but food and grass can only be relied on. He feeds war with war, recruiting on the spot."

"According to Jun's decree, the grain production in Shanxi is better than that of Shandong in Zhili. General Han Daren uses war to support war, so it shouldn't be a big problem." Yao Qisheng nodded, and suggested: "My lord, should we also be in Zhili and Shandong? Expand the army? The famine in these two provinces is serious and it is easy to recruit troops, and the soldiers are stronger than those in the south. The officer suggested that we should recruit [-] recruits in Shandong Zhili for training, so that the future national war will not be overstretched.”

"Where is 15 enough?" Fatty Lu rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "At least [-] recruits are needed. It's already August, and the autumn harvest in Jiangnan has already started this year. Are we afraid that we will have no money or food to support recruits? Also, the recruits recruited in Shandong can be immediately sent to the western front battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River, where the supply of food and grass is easier, they can be trained in actual combat, and it can also prevent General Ma from having bad intentions."

(End of this chapter)