Chapter 644 The Chinese Emperor, the Bodhisattva!
Xianghe County.
Tens of thousands of Manchurian men, women, young and old captured by two white flags were ordered to sit down on the city wall, and they were not allowed to speak, look up, and move around.
Every time it was time for dinner, Aha, a former Han man who was elected to serve as a husband, carried buckets of food to the city walls to distribute it one by one.
In addition to having no freedom for the time being, these captured Manchus have become one world after another compared to their escape life a few days ago.
At least, they can eat two hot meals a day, and they don’t have to wander around in the wilderness anymore. They can even give a quilt of two or three people at night, so they don’t have to be frozen to death.
A camp order was sent to the capital city, and the captured Manchus must ensure their lives without asking about their men and women. Each tribe must not keep it privately, nor shall it be divided into women's relatives privately, and all seized goods will be confiscated.
After the war, the soldiers were rewarded by the camps. Before that, those who dared to embezzle, privately keep, or privately divide, would be beheaded at the worst, and would be seized at the least.
But at the same time, the camp ordered the captured Manchu soldiers to be identified accordingly.
First, we can identify those who passed the customs before the 17th year of Chongzhen in the previous Ming Dynasty. These Manchu soldiers, whether young or old, would be executed.
Because Beijing believes that these Manchu soldiers committed extremely serious war crimes in China after entering the pass. In addition to the millions of Han people who were plundered and out of the pass by the Manchu soldiers, there were even a much larger number of Han people who were savagely killed by the Qing army after entering the pass five times.
How can such a crime not be punished?
Moreover, if you are captured, you do not surrender voluntarily, but resist being arrested. If you are punished, you will not be considered as unmanned in China!
The camp ordered the state to rebel Wang Mingwen: "In the future, those who dare to take troops to enter China will destroy their clans and their species."
As for those who did not enter the pass before the 17th year of Chongzhen, or who entered the pass after the pass, they would not be held accountable for war crimes, but based on their experience in joining the Eight Banners, they would be punished as hard labor, or as Zhuang slaves, or before joining the army.
The best thing is to interpret it as a free citizen, but this group of Manchus should not be too many. After all, all the people in Manchus except women are soldiers.
In addition, because men over the age of twelve in Manchuria all followed the army to fight, the age limit given by Beijing is also twelve years old.
That is, those over the age of twelve must be identified and punished accordingly, while those under the age of twelve can be pardoned.
In addition to identifying ordinary Manchu generals and sergeants, the captured Aisin Gioro children should also be investigated to ensure that no red or yellow bands will miss the net. Then, according to their experience, they will deal with it according to their experience.
The person responsible for screening the two white flag prisoners in Xianghe was Geng Jimao, son of Geng Zhongming, and Geng Zhongming's general Xu Shaozong.
Geng Jimao attached great importance to the screening work and personally supervised it almost from beginning to end, because his father Geng Zhongming was just scolded by the regent Wang Xingyu the day before yesterday because Geng's troops had hidden more than 100 Manchu soldiers and were reported.
The reason why Geng Zhongming decided to abandon the Qing Dynasty and surrendered was that he gave Dorgon a serious blow to the back of the army was also because he had secretly hidden the Han people in the army who had to be slaves.
But now, even if he uses Geng Zhongming's ten courage, he dare not raise the flag to rebel.
Furthermore, the former Manchu Huaishun King was dissatisfied with Manchu in his bones, and Geng Zhongming was still respectful to Dashun, who was also a Han Chinese.
Therefore, in order to atone for his merits, Geng Zhongming specially asked his son Geng Jimao to identify the two white flags and demanded that he must not make mistakes.
In addition, more than 100 Manchu soldiers who were secretly hidden in his army were also ordered to be killed by him, and his heads were sent to Beijing at a fast horse.
He also wrote a letter to the regent king and said his mistakes and spoke earnestly.
Since the morning, Geng Jimao and Xu Shaozong have been distinguished for nearly two hours.
"Wang Shan, Jueluo, Hushbu, He Li, Lan Zhu, Chang Shou"
As a person's name is pronounced, men in the Manchu crowd under the city wall will instantly change color, and then be dragged out of the crowd by Shunjun in fear.
Most men who are pronounced with names dare not resist because they are punished alone if they do not resist, but if they resist, they will implicate their family.
There were also a few Manchu men screaming in horror. The young man pulled his mother and his wife cried and told him not to be taken out. However, the consequences of doing so were not only the immediate violence of himself, but even the implicated relatives were beaten.
Geng Jimao said that it is very appropriate to describe the scene of these Manchu men with their hands covered with Han blood as a separation.
Xu Shaozong said that it was a thousand miles apart.
"The separation of wives and children is the victim, how can the perpetrator be described in this way? Compared with the sufferings suffered by us Han people, the King of Chuang is too kind to these Manchus. If we say that the King of Chuang is really the living Bodhisattva of these Manchus."
Geng Jimao thought it was good if he, Prince Huaishun, was not also treated by those red bands. Today, Geng Jimao, would have to deal with this matter, and I am afraid that the corpses would pile up like mountains under Xianghe City.
The Manchu crowd under the city walls cried endlessly because everyone knew that once these men were taken away, it was basically impossible for them to come back.
More than one Manchu old woman was chanting scriptures with her eyes closed, not knowing whether she was repenting for her children and grandchildren's retribution or begging God to reincarnate her children and grandchildren to be reincarnated as a Manchu executioner who did many evil things.
Geng Jimao seemed to be very interested in identifying the work. He felt very happy when he saw the Manchus whose hands were stained with blood from Han people, either urinating his pants, or his legs were trembling and unable to walk and being dragged away by the soldiers.
“How many more people?”
Geng Jimao turned his head and asked Xu Shaozong beside him. Because he successfully cooperated with the regent to block Dorgon's army's return to Beijing because he insisted on Liangxiang, he had appointed him as the commander of the Pao Town brigade and ordered him to return to Beijing three days later to report to Pao Town.
It is said that the king of the regent is preparing to establish two artillery towns based on the existing artillery in the army, one will be sent to the Henan battlefield, and the other may be transferred to Shanxi.
Xu Shaozong glanced at the list in his hand and said, "There are two or three hundred people left."
Geng Jimao asked: "All of them have passed the test?"
Xu Shaozong nodded. This list was reported and verified by these Manchu soldiers, and it can be said that it is 100% accurate.
"Then hurry up."
Geng Jimao signaled his men to move faster and end the errand before eating, and then they had to identify the captured Han people, Aha and Han people. Beijing asked that all the captured Han craftsmen be sent to the capital city. The rest of the Han people and Aha would be beaten and sent to various places for military farming.
The remaining two or three hundred Manchus were quickly taken away one by one, and Geng Jimao asked someone to prepare to send the women and children to Beijing in batches.
The first batch of people sent to Beijing were 2,000 people. Except for more than 100 infants and young children, most of the rest were young women. When they were ordered to get up and gather, these women were frightened. They thought Shunjun would treat them the same as men, so almost at the same time these women began to cry.
Geng Jimao was very impressed and was about to tell these women that they didn't have to worry that the Dashun Army would not kill them, dozens of fast horses arrived.
Chapter completed!