At noon on November 24th, outside the Bi Ti Pavilion, on the newly built surrender altar, Huang Taiji sat north and faced south. After several years, he once again accepted the ceremony of kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times from the leader of the Li Dynasty.

The surrender this time was different from the surrender at the Sandadu Camp a few years ago.

That time, although Li Zhu handed over the imperial seal of the Ming Dynasty, his clothes and hairstyle remained unchanged, and he was still wearing the uniforms given by the Ming Dynasty. The whole scene was quite out of place.

This time, the king of the country, Li Zhu, had shaved his hair and changed his clothes. The crown on his head was replaced by the flower feather on his head given by Huang Taiji, and he was wearing an azure court dress and patchwork given by Huang Taiji.

This dress is not much different from that of other princes of the Qing Dynasty, Baylor. In Huang Taiji's eyes, it is particularly pleasing to the eye.

Including the ministers of the Li Dynasty who were kneeling on the ground under the surrender platform, they had also put on the Qing Dynasty imperial uniforms that Hong Ruifeng had ordered to be made according to grade in Hanyang City.

The scarlet red in the past was gone, and as far as I could see, the figure kneeling on the snow was completely green and black.

However, there were too many ministers of the Li Dynasty who were ordered to have their heads shaved this time. They were not allowed to wear flower feathers on their heads for a while, and their original black gauze hats could not be worn, so everyone kowtowed to the ground with their newly shaved heads, and each one looked like a golden rat. The little braid swayed back and forth in the cold wind.

Huang Taiji was originally worried that after the order was issued to shave off hair and change clothes, it would trigger strong resistance among the officials and officials in the court.

But the result was not.

Only two days passed, and all the officials in Hanyang City, big and small, silently shaved their heads and changed their clothes.

Even other local civil and military officials in Gyeonggi Province near Hanyang City, after hearing the news from Wang Jingnai, especially after hearing the news that King Yi Jie and the important ministers of the Uijeong government had shaved their heads and changed their clothes, they all followed suit. Express obedience.

Because the news brought by the northern refugees was too sensational.

For those who disobeyed, the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty slaughtered the city at every turn. Wherever they passed, there were mountains of corpses and seas of blood, leaving no chickens or dogs behind. This really frightened many court people who were watching the situation and bullying the weak and afraid of the strong.

As a result, officials from various places in Gyeonggi Province were afraid that the cities under their rule would be in bad luck, and no one dared to show any disobedience.

What's more, their king Li Zhu has already shaved off his hair and changed his clothes in public, and all the highly respected princes of the Uijeong government have changed their hair and changed their clothes. What else can these sesame and mung bean officials say?

Therefore, in just two days, the civil and military officials in Hanyang City and even in Gyeonggi Province accepted the reality of shaving their hair and changing clothes without any trouble, and no one raised any waves of resistance.

After hearing the news, Huang Taiji was greatly relieved.

Therefore, after accepting Li Zhu's three-kneel-and-nine-kowtow ceremony again on the newly built surrender platform of Bi Ti Pavilion, Huang Taiji drove into Li Zhu with his troops and horses in a mighty manner, with Li Zhu personally leading the way. Hanyang City, the royal capital of the dynasty, and directly occupied Changdeokgung Palace.

Correspondingly, Huang Daeji, who had a thorough understanding of the true and false nature of the court people, officially issued a proclamation on the second day after entering Changdeokgung Palace, ordering all civil and military soldiers and civilians in the Lee Dynasty to shave their heads. If they disobeyed, they would be punished according to military law. .

This proclamation jointly issued by Jierharang, Prince of Dorozheng County, and Hong Ruifeng, the Prime Minister of the People's Government of the People's Republic of China, uses three styles of Chinese and Chinese proverbs to declare to the people of the DPRK:

"The Money Rat's Tail is the elegant governance of the Qing Dynasty's reform; the E-Guan Bo Dai is actually inherited from the bad rules of the Southern Dynasty. If the officials, gentry and subjects everywhere are sincerely loyal to the Qing Dynasty, they should abide by the rules of this dynasty in their clothes, clothes and hair styles."

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"It is difficult to distinguish the good from the bad among the people who have surrendered today, and there are many people with ulterior motives hiding among them. Therefore, an announcement has been issued today, ordering all officials and soldiers at home and abroad to shave their heads to distinguish them from those who are obedient and those who are obedient.

"From the date of this announcement, all men in Hanyang City and Gyeonggi Province are required to shave their hair within a three-day period, and in all other prefectures, prefectures, and counties from the date of the announcement.

"Every official, gentry, and subject who obeys this order is considered a citizen of our Qing Dynasty and will be treated with kindness and care. If anyone hesitates and refuses to obey, he or she will be a bandit who rebels against the order and will be killed without mercy. If anyone avoids it, he will use clever words.

If there is an argument and the haircut is not as good as it should be, he will also be beheaded."

This announcement jointly signed by Jilharang and Hong Ruifeng was copied numerous times and quickly posted to the four gates of Hanyang City, and spread from Hanyang City to other cities in Gyeonggi Province and the southern provinces of the Li Dynasty.

Many of the well-informed gentry and common people in Hanyang City had witnessed their king Li Zhuo shaving his hair and changing clothes, and knew that this matter could not be undone.

Although many people were unwilling to do so, they could only silently accept this fate when the Qing Dynasty army entered the city. They could only follow the pattern described on the notice and tearfully shave into a money rat tail.

Other cities in Gyeonggi Province had already been frightened by the ferocious reputation of the Qing Dynasty army's march south, so as soon as the announcement of the shaving came, under the auspices of the local officials, they all had their heads shaved in accordance with the style.

However, in Seoul, especially in several other places outside Gyeonggi Province, the hair-cutting order jointly signed by Jilhalang and Hong Ruifeng suddenly caused an uproar.

On the morning of November 25th, Yin Quanming of the Zhongzhou Prefecture in Chungcheong Province, Li Zhilong, the defense envoy of Chungju, and others publicly tore up the proclamation they had received ordering them to shave their heads, detained the messenger who sent the order, and went there early the next morning.

A "Book of Ten Thousand People" requesting the revocation of the order to shave heads was delivered to Hanyang City.

"The hair and skin of the body are not dared to be damaged by parents. This is the beginning of filial piety. There is no behavior greater than filial piety. Today's forced hair shaving is forcing people not to observe filial piety! However, where will those who do not observe filial piety come from?

A loyal and obedient heart?

"Furthermore, although the clothes, hats, and hair styles of our Eastern Kingdom were adopted from the Southern Dynasties, they have been inherited by our ancestors for more than two hundred years. If we change them once, how will we see our ancestors buried underground in the future?

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Grain mass

"Under the current order of shaving hair, the people of Chungju are in commotion in the streets, public sentiments are raging, and the public resentment is almost boiling. The ministers are unable to restrain it, but they are favored by the public. Please punish Hong Ruifeng, the leader of the government, to set the record straight and show that the king has withdrawn his order.

Meaning!"

Yin Quanming of Zhongzhou Prefecture and Li Zhilong, the defense envoy of Zhongzhou, were all members of the same party that Li Chaobing Cao Banshu and Shen Qiyuan had a personal relationship with.

As early as when Yang Zhen sent troops to capture Zhenjiang Fort and anti-Qing uprisings broke out in many places in the north of Li Dynasty, the two of them contacted many people in Zhongzhou Prefecture and other places, and conspired to raise troops in Zhongzhou Prefecture to rebel against the Qing Dynasty.

At one point, they even planned to send troops to Hanyang City after raising troops to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, to come to the side of the Qing monarch, and then coerce the leader of the country, Li Zhu, to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway.

However, their somewhat adventurous ideas were stopped by Shen Qiyuan, who acted more cautiously.

Although Shen Qiyuan had long thought of deposing Li Zhu, he knew that the time was not ripe now.

In the many years since Li Zhu came to the throne, he has promoted a considerable number of close confidants.

Although after Bingzi's random attack and the influence of the Qing Dynasty, Li Zhu's prestige among the people was not as good as before. However, while his wings were still intact and his heart was still there, he would suddenly try to sideline the emperor or depose him. Establishment is still difficult.

Especially when the Qing Dynasty army surrounded Zhenjiang Fort, the outcome of the Jinhai Zhen Ming army and the Qing Dynasty army was still unclear, and the situation between ourselves and the enemy was still unclear, it was too risky for him to side with the Qing emperor or to abolish the establishment.

What if there was a fight at Zhenjiang Fort and Yang Zhen's army was defeated in the end?

Once this happened, and they made their position clear in Hanyang City or Chungju Prefecture and raised their flag to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, the consequences could be imagined.

So when things came to a head, Shen Qiyuan took a step back and urgently stopped the actions of Quan Ming, Li Zhilong and others.

Instead, they are told to continue to be patient, continue to lurk, and continue to wait for the best opportunity.

So I waited until now.

Although judging from the current situation, Shen Qiyuan's decision to tell them to continue to be patient and wait for the opportunity was completely correct.

But when Quan Ming and others received the order to shave their heads in Chungju Prefecture, they really couldn't bear it any longer.

As the saying goes, which one is tolerable? If they continue to endure it, they themselves will have to shave their heads and change clothes, becoming Qing captives!

At that time, what face would they have to call on others to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and the rebels?

In this way, when the order of shaving hair was sent to Chungju capital, and the people were furious, they did not stop and raised the banner against shaving their hair and changing clothes.

At the same time, they also knew that Huang Taiji, the puppet emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was in the city of Hanyang, and that the main force of the Qing Dynasty soldiers and horses was near Gyeonggi Road. Therefore, they did not openly raise the banner of anti-Qing Dynasty and resist the Qing Dynasty. Instead, they called for opposition to shaving their hair and changing clothes. Li Zhu took back his life.

However, their wish or request is destined to fail.

Because now Li Jie himself has shaved his hair and changed his clothes, and all the officials of the government, the government leaders, the left councilors, the left counselors, the left counselors, and the six official offices in Hanyang City have also shaved their heads. hair.

In such a situation, how could it be possible to withdraw one's life?

Furthermore, the matter of shaving one's hair and changing clothes was an order personally issued by Huang Taiji, the puppet emperor of the Qing Dynasty. How could Li Jie dare to say no?

Therefore, Quan Ming, Li Zhilong and other officials and people of Chungju Prefecture requested to take back the "Book of All Peoples" that had been approved. After it was delivered to Hanyang City, Li Jian became "furious" and immediately ordered "teaching".

Not only did he remove him from the post of Chungju Prefectural Governor who took the lead in human rights, and removed Li Zhilong from the post of Chungju Defense Envoy, but he also condemned the two of them, as well as the officials and gentry who jointly signed the book of people, as treason. of serious crimes.

Of course this is not the end.

After the news reached Changdeokgung Palace about Huang Taiji's stay, Huang Taiji was also furious. That afternoon, he ordered the king of Dorozheng County, Ji Erhalang, and the obedient king Kong Youde to bring their troops to the court to discuss the affairs of Jin Dynasty. Using the point as a guide, we headed to Chungju Fortress.

After Shen Jiyuan heard the news, he was very anxious. He originally wanted to help Quan Ming and others say a few words of exculpation in front of Li Zhu, hoping to blame the soldiers and people of Zhongzhou Prefecture for resisting shaving their hair.

But when he heard that this incident had alarmed the Qing Dynasty puppet emperor Huang Taiji, he backed down again. In order to avoid suspicion and to protect himself, he finally remained silent.

The only thing he did was to send someone to get out of the city first, rush to Zhongzhou Fucheng, and deliver a message to Quan Yang and others.

General Shen Qiyuan informed Quan Ping, Li Zhilong and others that the king of the country, Li Zhu, and the ministers of the parliamentary government had shaved their heads and changed their clothes, and that the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty were about to go to Zhongzhou to suppress them.

Shen Jiyuan suggested that they pack their bags as soon as possible, lead the troops who refused to shave their heads and surrender to the Qing Dynasty, abandon Chungju City, and evacuate all the way to the south. It would be best to contact the troops stationed in Jinhae Town on Jeju Island, and then cross the sea and retreat to Jeju Island. superior.
Chapter completed!