For Yin Quanming of Zhongzhou Prefecture and Li Zhilong, the defense envoy of Zhongzhou, the Qing Dynasty's order to shave their heads and change their clothes made them feel humiliated and angry, and they would rather die than accept it.

However, this order to shave their heads and change their clothes did not fail to give them an opportunity to call on everyone to rise up against the Qing Dynasty.

I recall that when Bingzi was acting recklessly, the Qing Dynasty's army came to the city, and the Ming Dynasty's troops and horses failed to rescue them in time. The people of the Ming Dynasty could not resist at all, and in the end they had no choice but to surrender.

However, after the court surrendered, the Qing captives did not order the court officials to shave their hair and change their clothes, so many lower-level court people did not really feel the humiliation of serving the Qing captives.

Among the officials who were only scholars and scholar-officials, many believed that surrendering to the Huru and serving the Huru was a great shame and humiliation and unacceptable, so they still cherished the Ming Dynasty.

Now that several years have passed, there are fewer and fewer people in the imperial court who cherish the Ming Dynasty, while more and more people advocate that ministers serve the Qing Dynasty.

If this trend continues, maybe in a few years, people will forget about the Ming Dynasty, and their hope of getting rid of the Qing captives and returning to the imperial dynasty will become even slimmer.

And this was precisely when they learned that Lin Qingye, Liu Lin and others cooperated with Yang Zhen to lead the army to capture Zhenjiang Fort, and then anti-Qing uprisings broke out in many places in the north. They hoped to immediately raise troops on Zhongqing Road to respond.

reason.

At that time, they were dissuaded by Shen Qiyuan on the grounds that the time was not yet ripe, and they did not decisively raise the flag of rebellion against the Qing Dynasty.

Afterwards, they also discovered that their leader Shen Qiyuan's judgment was correct and the time was indeed not ripe.

Because the Qing army quickly arrived at Zhenjiang Fort, once Zhenjiang Fort was breached and Yang Zhen was defeated and killed, it would be their turn next.

After realizing this, Quan Ping, Li Zhilong and others resisted the urge to raise troops in Zhongzhou Prefecture to fight against the Qing Dynasty, gave up responding to and rescuing the friendly forces from the north, and buried their heads and chose to continue waiting for what Shen Jiyuan said.

Good time.

They originally thought that this opportunity would come no matter what, until the Qing Dynasty's army marched eastward across the Yangtze River and returned to Zhenjiang Fort...

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However, what they never expected was that Huang Taiji, the puppet emperor of the Qing Dynasty who led an army to Hanyang City this time, would actually order all court officials, gentry, soldiers and civilians, to shave their heads.

Moreover, when the order to shave heads reached Chungju Prefecture, it immediately aroused public resentment.

Quan Ming, the prefect of Chungju, and others, who were originally worried about whether they would gain the support of the people by launching an army to rebel against the Qing emperor, suddenly found out that this was the best opportunity they had been waiting for.

Quan Ming and others, who had finally waited for this "opportunity", firmly believed that the Qing Dynasty's order to shave their heads and change their clothes would surely arouse resistance from the whole country.

They firmly believed that they could take this opportunity to launch a major uprising against the Qing Dynasty in various places in Zhongqing Province, just like the officials and people of the Second Province in the north did.

Similarly, they also firmly believed that as long as they defended the Chungju capital and won the first battle, people in Chungcheong Province, Gangwon Province, Jeolla Province, and Gyeongsang Province, which had already begun to boil with public resentment, would surely rise up.

Respond to their righteous actions against the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, when they faced the suggestion sent by Shen Qi Yuan like a spark, they had no intention of accepting it.

Especially when they heard that the leader they had been following, Shen Qiyuan, had shaved his hair, changed his clothes, and ordered the arrest and execution of the family members of Lin Qingye, Liu Lin and other anti-Qing patriots, they were filled with indignation and rage. , directly regarded him as a traitor among his own gang.

In this way, on the evening of November 26, after receiving an urgent message from Shen Jiyuan, Chungju Prefecture Yin Quanming, Chungju Defense Envoy Li Zhilong and other civil and military officers and generals of Chungju Prefecture not only did not flee, but also immediately arrived in Chungju Prefecture. Notices were posted inside and outside the city, proclamations were issued, and people were dispatched to various places in Chungcheong Province to call for uprisings, officially raising the banner of resistance against the Qing Dynasty.

However, in the early morning of November 27th, King Jierhalang of Doluozheng County and King Kong Youde of Qing Dynasty led the Baya La Camp of Xianglan Banner, the horse soldiers of Aliha Chaoha Camp and two red banner Han troops. Heavy artillery Niulu and a large number of newly formed Korean servants appeared outside Chungju Fortress.

The city wall of Chungjufu Fortress is not high,...

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Is there a decent cannon on top of the city? Not only do they not have a heavy cannon of the same level as General Tianyou, they don't even have a general cannon similar to that of Pyongyang Fucheng.

On top of the city, there are only a dozen squatting cannons that were left here decades ago when the Ming Dynasty troops came to aid Korea to fight against the Japanese.

Although the Qing Dynasty's order to shave their heads did arouse the anger and resistance of the soldiers and civilians inside and outside Chungju Prefecture, the victory or defeat of the war did not depend solely on physical courage.

Except for rolling logs, stone bows, arrows, spears and a few squatting tiger cannons and matchlock guns, the Chungju soldiers and civilians had almost no killer weapons. Although they resisted extremely resolutely, their resistance only lasted for half a day. By noon that day, Chungju The city was broken into pieces.

After entering the city, the Qing soldiers and their servants immediately launched a large-scale robbery and massacre against the resisting soldiers and civilians in the city who refused to shave their heads.

Starting from the afternoon of that day until the end of the morning of the next day, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians gathered in Chungju Prefecture were almost slaughtered.

Only a small group of soldiers and civilians who escaped from the city before the Qing rebels occupied the south gate took advantage of the opportunity when the Qing rebel troops were only focused on slaughtering the city and looting and had no time to pursue them. They escaped from the city and fled all the way to Qingzhou Prefecture.

Dozens of civil and military officials, gentry leaders, including Chungju Prefecture Yin Quanming, Chungju Defense Envoy Li Zhilong, their captains, special generals, etc. were almost all killed.

As for the large number of clan relatives of these civil and military officials, gentry leaders, and their families, almost none of them survived the massive hunts and massacres by Qing soldiers and horses after the city was broken.

In just two or three days, the "Chungju Uprising" caused by the Qing Dynasty's order to shave their hair did not persist until other places in Chungcheong Province rose up to respond to it. .

This uprising and its tragic ending not only failed to inspire more uprisings against the Qing Dynasty and the rebels in other places such as Chungcheong Province, but directly scared off the uprisings that were brewing in various places.

After the Qing Dynasty's order to shave their heads was issued to various places, several states and counties in the south where people were originally raging and resentful, gradually subsided in the following days and fell into...

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fell into a strange calm.

The hair-shaving order was carried out in this way.

On the first day of December in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, which was also the first day of December in the fifth year of Chongde in the Puppet Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji, the puppet emperor of the Qing Dynasty, held a meeting with his ministers in the Renzheng Hall of Changdeok Palace in Hanyang City.

Accompanying Huang Taiji's imperial chariot were those who followed the eastern expedition to the Li Dynasty, including Jierharang, the king of Duolozheng County, Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun, Kong Youde, the respectful king, Gushan Beizi Nikan, and Ganglin, a scholar of the Academy of Neiguo History, among others.

Those bachelors from the Third Academy of Inner Mongolia who came all the way from the rear to serve in front of the army, such as Bao Chengxian, Ning Wanwo, and the three men with black foreheads, also knelt down in the hall to participate in the secrets.

Apart from that, they are the original monarchs and ministers of the Li Dynasty.

This Hall of Renzheng was originally the place where the leader of the Li Dynasty, Li Zhu, held court meetings. At this time, Huang Taiji occupied it for Jiuzhan Magpie Nest.

The luxurious seat that originally belonged to Li Zhu collapsed and now became the throne where Huang Taiji summoned his ministers and servants in Changdeokgung Palace.

And its original owner, Li Zhu, knelt down and sat in the first position under Huang Taiji's left hand.

As for the ministers of Li Chao's parliamentary government, they naturally knelt down not far behind Li Zhu at this time.

And a minister like Shen Qiyuan, who was originally qualified to kneel in the hall as a six-cao judge, now no longer has the qualification to kneel in the hall.

Liu Cao's judges and their assistant officials, Liu Cao's counselors, could only kneel in the cold wind outside the door of Renzheng Palace, listening to Huang Taiji's orders while suffering from the cold.

"I have decided that the name of the country in the past of the Li Dynasty came from the Zhu family of the Southern Dynasty. Now that the whole country has shaved its hair and changed its clothes, it should no longer be used. From now on, the name of the country will be changed to Hening. The lord of the country, Li Zhu, will be named Prince of the Qing Dynasty and He Ning. He will be given the title of the Qing Dynasty and He Ning. The prince's gold seal, gold book, royal crown and court uniform."

"Your Majesty, Li Zhu, accept the order and thank my emperor for his grace!"

Li Zhu had known about Huang Taiji's decision to change the name of Li Chao's country to "Hening" two days ago.

Just two days ago, shortly after the news that the rebellion in Chungju Prefecture was quickly put down came back to Hanyang City, Huang Taiji, accompanied by several Han official advisers, summoned him here.

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Taiji personally told him that to ensure that the Li Dynasty would always be loyal to the Qing Dynasty, it was not enough to kill those officials who were secretly serving the Ming Dynasty. Even shaving their hair and changing clothes was not enough. The Zhu family of the Southern Dynasty must also be completely wiped out. All traces left here.

The first thing to bear the brunt was to change the name of the country, which had a clear connotation of Korea and Japan, and was awarded to Li Zhu’s ancestors by Emperor Zhu’s Hongwu of the Southern Dynasties.

Li Jie was of course extremely resistant to this.

Because the country name of the Li Dynasty has been used for more than two hundred years, and now it is suddenly changed, no matter what it is changed to, it will make people feel less orthodox.

However, the terrible news about the massacre of the city came from Chungju Prefecture, and Li Jie did not dare to show any resistance or resistance at all.

Because after giving up resistance completely, Huang Taiji could kill him with just one sentence, which was easier than killing an ant.

Therefore, when Huang Taiji told Li Jie that he had decided to abolish the current name of the country of Li Dynasty, Li Jie was obedient and did not dare to say anything.

Only when Huang Taiji asked Li Zhu whether it was okay to change the name of Li Dynasty's country to Goryeo, Li Zhu finally couldn't help the resistance surging in his heart and boldly expressed his opposition.

Although he did not dare to object to the fact that Huang Taiji wanted to change the name of the Li Dynasty, he still had to argue with reason for what should be changed in the future.

After all, as a descendant of Li Chenggui, no matter how unworthy he is, he cannot agree to change the name of the country back to Goryeo!

I think back then, his ancestor Li Chenggui was originally a minister of Wang's Korea. It was through launching a mutiny and deposing the king of Wang's Korea that the current Li family's foundation was established.

If the name of the country is changed back to Goryeo now, how will I be able to meet my ancestors in the future?

The most important thing is that if it were changed back to Goryeo, the Li Dynasty, which had been built by our ancestors for more than 200 years, would have completely lost its righteousness, orthodoxy and people's hearts!

So when Huang Taiji finally asked for his opinion, he immediately seized the opportunity and expressed his dissatisfaction...

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same opinion.

Fortunately, Huang Taiji, who rarely asked for Li Jie's opinion, saw that Li Jie did not agree to change the name to Goryeo, so he asked him what would be appropriate to change the name to Goryeo.
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