Dong Shuheng, who was far away in the capital, finally received detailed information, including the entire process of the Qing army's blowing up of the Yellow River embankment, as well as a preliminary investigation of the damage.
The decision-maker for this breach was Governor Yinggui, and the executive was Admiral Huang Hao.
Dong Shuheng immediately ordered the newspaper to make the two men's crimes public, and ordered the Renaissance Army to capture the two men in the future. Dong Shuheng wanted to hang the two men by the Yellow River.
At this time, Dong Shuheng must focus on disaster relief and post-war work in the capital at the same time.
Now that he has almost all the Manchu royal family in his hands, how to handle them is now also a problem.
All officials in the capital were also controlled.
The speed of the Renaissance Army was so fast this time. It took more than a day to get from Laiyuan to the capital. It only took half a day to conquer the city.
The team that was preparing to escape from the city were all blocked by the cavalry.
The Qing army never expected that the Renaissance Army would suddenly emerge from the Taihang Mountains. Because of this, Dong Shuheng used the Taihang Column as his trump card.
After the Yixin city was defeated, they did not fight desperately to survive. These Eight Banners had lived a good life for too long and had long since lost the courage to fight to the death.
As for Xianfeng, he was a bit bloody. He actually took his concubines and prepared to burn himself in Qianqing Palace. However, as soon as the fire started, he was extinguished by the eunuchs in the palace.
These people did not want to be buried with Xianfeng.
Immediately, Yi Xin led the Renaissance Army to open the gate of the imperial city. With a leading party, the Renaissance Army quickly captured Xianfeng.
"Lao Liu, are you doing this worthy of the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty?" Xianfeng cursed.
"Third brother, do you want everyone to be buried with you? From the time you succeeded to the throne, I knew that the Qing Dynasty was going to be finished. In any case, the Qing Dynasty died in your hands. I should feel sorry for my ancestors.
Is that you?"
Yi Xin has always hated Xianfeng for taking his throne. Now that Xianfeng has fallen, he feels happy. But the Qing Dynasty is gone, and he doesn't know how to feel.
Let's stay alive first. These Han people don't know how to retaliate against the Manchus. At least they handed in the certificate of surrender, so the Renaissance Army shouldn't embarrass themselves.
Xianfeng was so angry that he almost fainted again.
He was immediately controlled by soldiers from the Renaissance Army.
Dong Shuheng ordered that everyone in the Forbidden City be cleared out, and the Forbidden City was temporarily sealed and garrisoned by the army.
He doesn't have many people on hand right now, and he can't handle so many people. Royal family members, eunuchs, maids, and bannermen. Together, there are hundreds of thousands of people.
The first thing to do now is to use the Qing court's help to relieve local resistance.
Yi Xin is now the number one leader. As long as this kind of person chooses to betray his past, he will never be able to look back.
"Yixin, you have to do two things now. One is to use Xianfeng's name to issue an order to make the defenders in various places give up resistance. The other is to ask Xianfeng to issue an edict to abdicate."
"If you take care of these two things, your life can continue. Only when you are alive can you enjoy life, right?" Dong Shuheng looked at him playfully.
This former prince had a very low posture, just like a slave. These people are usually surrounded by slaves, and now they look like slaves.
"Yi Xin, let's do this. Now I am appointing you as the envoy to deal with the aftermath of the capital city, specifically to help deal with the aftermath of the capital incident. This way you can be considered justified."
"Yes, I obey," Yi Xin said with a bow.
"Okay, get up and go about your errands for the Fuxing Army with peace of mind." Dong Shuheng waved his hand, and Yi Xin left the room with understanding.
After seeing Yi Xin off, Dong Shuheng went to the garden for a walk. The place where he lives now is the Summer Palace. Ever since he led the army into the Summer Palace when he came to Beijing last time, he has been attracted by the scenery here.
So he chose this place as his foothold.
Another reason is that this place is located outside the city, and there are still a lot of unstable factors in the capital. It is safer to live here.
Lu Feiyan came out with him during this expedition. She wanted to see the Qing Dynasty destroyed with her own eyes. At this time, Lu Feiyan was walking beside her.
"Shu Heng, I didn't expect that the Qing Dynasty could be destroyed so easily. It's ridiculous that our world will have to struggle for hundreds of years." Lu Feiyan sighed beside him.
"It can't be said to be easy, after all, we have made so many preparations before." Dong Shuheng said.
Lu Feiyan saw Dong Shuheng's brows furrowed, and she didn't feel the joy of extinguishing the Qing Dynasty at all.
"I see you are depressed. Is it because of the Yellow River bursting its banks?"
"Yes, that's not entirely true. The Yellow River floods every year. No one has breached its banks at this time. There may be floods in the summer as well."
"Our Renaissance Army was busy fighting and had no time to repair the embankment of the Yellow River. The Manchus and the Qing Dynasty had not repaired the Yellow River for so many years, and the original embankment was already riddled with holes. This time the embankment burst was just ahead of schedule.
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"Then what else worries you so much?" Lu Feiyan asked with some confusion.
"Now, although we have captured the capital, we have not let the Manchu emperor escape. But in so many places across the country, it will take at least until the end of the year for this war to be completely over."
"This period is when we are at our weakest. If foreigners attack us at this time, some of the stubborn forces that have been suppressed now will inevitably come back."
"So now, I have to be careful every step of the way to stabilize the country as soon as possible."
"Don't work too hard. You haven't slept much in the past two days."
Dong Shuheng has been sorting out things in the capital for the past two days. Such a big city cannot be allowed to cause chaos.
The management team sent by Jiangning is still on the way. In the past two days, Dong Shuheng established a temporary management committee in the capital.
In order to make the construction of this committee more complete, he hired Ji Guowen, the former military commander-in-chief of the Taihang Mountains, to take charge of the work in the capital. He also hired Liu Jinwen from the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce as his deputy to coordinate the material supply in the capital. The other deputy was Yi Xin.
, he wants to help the military government stabilize those bannermen.
With the close cooperation of the three people and the garrison of the 17th Division, Dong Shuheng was able to deal with the Yellow River breach in the Summer Palace with peace of mind.
Due to martial law, the streets of Beijing were unusually quiet.
In a courtyard in the west of the city, a group of hardcore Manchu men secretly gathered here, numbering about three to four hundred people. All of them had weapons in their hands.
The Renaissance Army had just occupied this place and had not yet had time to sort out the city. It was not enough for these people to obtain weapons.
You must know that many Manchus in the city are descendants of the Eight Banners, so it is not surprising that their families have ancestral weapons and armor.
"Ba Ye, what do you think we should do? Brothers, all listen to you. That Jaap Six is the scum of our Manchu people. If he hadn't taken the lead in surrendering, how could this capital be lost so easily?" said a man with a thin face.
The bannerman yelled, "This man's face is yellow and yellow, and you can tell he is a smoker at a glance."
Now that the Renaissance Army has invaded, this means that their Manchu privileges have come to an end, and they may even be liquidated.
It's no wonder that these people, who are usually idle, dare to get together and cause chaos at this time.
"Let's go to Prince Gong's Mansion and destroy the Japanese army first. Then let the capital be in chaos first, and then call on all the bannermen to rise up and resist. I saw that the Renaissance Army only has seven or eight thousand people, but there are ten of us in this city.
There are tens of thousands of bannermen." said the man who called himself Ba Ye.
This man had served in the military before, but he had never been employed as a military officer. In fact, he was just a freeloader.
These people were the biggest victims of the fall of the Qing Dynasty, because they could no longer sit quietly and suck blood from the Han people.
So at this time they jumped over the wall in a hurry.
Late at night, a group of people secretly left the courtyard and headed towards Prince Gong's Mansion.
At this time, these people hated Jaap Six even more than the Fuxing Army.
The door of Prince Gong's Mansion was closed tightly, and the streets were deserted.
Not even the soldiers patrolling at night can see it.
This group of people did not feel surprised and just attacked the gate. Several strong bannermen held a heavy log and crashed into the gate.
"Bang-dang...bang-dang..." The door held on for a while and was finally pushed down.
"Come on, kill Guiziliu and take his mother's life."
A group of rioting bannermen rushed in, but they didn't want to think about why no one came to care about them after they knocked on the Tianmen for a long time.
Suddenly, rows of soldiers appeared in front of these people, with their guns pointing in the direction of the door.
"Bang bang bang..." gunshots rang out, and the leader of Qiding who rushed in front was shot and fell to the ground. The remaining people ran back desperately.
But on both sides of the street at the door, soldiers from the Renaissance Army also appeared at some point.
These people were timid to begin with, and at first they only followed the anger to cause trouble. Now that the matter was exposed, they returned to their original cowardly appearance. Everyone dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground, leaving the soldiers of the Renaissance Army alone.
Take them away.
The next day, Dong Shuheng called Wei Yuxiang. After a night of consideration, he prepared some suggestions.
The first is to relocate all the two million victims in the disaster area and temporarily transfer them to Haizhou for resettlement. This will make it easier for the granary in northern Jiangsu to provide food nearby. Dong Shuheng plans to wait for all these victims to move to the Northeast after Heilongjiang thaws in May.
The second is to send electricity to Mr. Feng and ask if a fixed Yellow River flood discharge area can be established in the western part of Shandong.
Historically, the western part of Shandong was a large swamp. It was actually the flood discharge area of the Yellow River. However, this area has disappeared due to human development. Therefore, there are basically no large lakes to regulate the water volume along the Yellow River.
Why there are less floods in the Yangtze River is, on the one hand, because there is less sediment in the Yangtze River, and on the other hand, it is because the Yangtze River has Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake to regulate the water level.
In the past, there was a lack of cultivated land, so there was no way to accommodate so many people, and it was impossible to turn good cultivated land into a flood discharge area.
But now the Renaissance Army still has a large amount of uncultivated farmland in its hands. It can just take this opportunity to move all these people out.
Third, we should still use the old method of the Fuxing Army to replace towns with work in Shandong. Dong Shuheng is planning to build the railway from Xuzhou to Jinan. At the same time, he will build a military port in Weihaiwei and the largest commercial port in Shandong in Jiaoao. These are
Investment requires a lot of manpower, which can support many families.
These projects will inevitably consume a lot of funds from the Renaissance Army.
But now Dong Shuheng is no longer afraid of spending money.
Because he took the entire capital.
All the money accumulated by the dignitaries, princes and ministers in this city over hundreds of years belongs to the Renaissance Army.
To this end, Dong Shuheng transferred the best team among the special forces to conduct house searches to carry out this task. At the same time, he also transferred Hu Guangyong to be responsible for statistical evaluation.
The search for homes began on the second day, but the Fuxing Army kept a low profile.
The large mansions have been emptied, and all the people in the mansions have been placed together and under the supervision of the army.
Although Yi Xin defected to the Fuxing Army, Dong Shuheng did not let go of his mansion.
He was only allowed to take away his savings worth ten thousand taels of silver and was given a decent house. The money was enough for his family to save money.
In this way, Yi Xin was content, because all the other princes and ministers had their homes confiscated, then demoted to civilians, and it was said that they were even sent to farms for labor reform.
Dong Shuheng was looking forward to seeing how much gold and silver treasures could be dug out of the capital.
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At the headquarters of the Jinan Military Government, Guizhong Bank, which has not slept for two days, is still paying close attention to the situation of the victims.
He is still under observation. If this matter cannot be handled well, then Dong Shuheng will definitely not mind replacing his own.
So he has been working hard these days, but he didn't expect that just after Shandong was stabilized locally, a flood hit Shandong again.
In his heart, he cursed Yinggui's eighteen-fold ancestor. He, a Manchu, defected to the Renaissance Army. Is it easy to achieve this level?
What he can do now is to save people. After the flood reaches the canal, it merges in, and then continues eastward to find new river channels. Therefore, the most serious area is to the west of the canal. This time, the disaster relief mission of Daming Prefecture was also assigned to him for overall management.
, undoubtedly added another burden to him.
On the canal, the first fleet from Jiangning has entered Shandong.
Feng Daoli stood on the deck. Beside him, students were measuring the depth of the canal.
"Teacher, the water depth of the canal has increased by 40 centimeters compared with the same period in previous years, and the sand content has also increased by two points."
His eldest disciple Du Hui came over to report to his teacher.
Du Hui has now taken a temporary position in the Ministry of Water Resources and has become a technical official. The five friends who came to the academy together are all leaders in various fields in the academy, and all five of them are of good conduct.
The students in the academy gave the five of them the nickname "Five Gentlemen of the Academy".
Feng Daoli coughed and nodded.
"Well, it should be the Yellow River bursting into the canal. Let's go to our cabin and look at the map."
Everyone followed the teacher back to the cabin, where there was a huge map.
"This time the Yellow River bursts and spreads to the northeast and enters the canal, then it should enter the sea from the Daqing River. I am afraid it will change its course this time. We must go to the Daqing River to take a look and see this
Can the river withstand the runoff of the Yellow River?"
Feng Daoli said, then looked at Du Hui and ordered: "When the boat stops later, you can get off the boat and ask the Shandong government to pay close attention to the situation along the Daqing River. I'm worried that there will be a second flood there."
If such a large amount of water from the Yellow River were poured into the Daqing River all at once, it would most likely make the Daqing River unable to support itself. It might even cause the Daqing River to burst, which would then bring danger to the people in the lower reaches of the Daqing River.
The fleet continued to move forward. In addition to Feng Daoli and others, this fleet also had a large amount of supplies and medical personnel. In addition, there were 50,000 newly recruited militiamen from Jiangsu heading north from the road to Shandong to help fight the disaster.
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Duanhua's tens of thousands of troops were surrounded in Tianjin City and unable to move. He had been waiting for reinforcements to be transferred from the northeast by the imperial court.
However, the reinforcements did not arrive, but they did receive news that the capital had failed.
At first he didn't believe the news and planned to send someone back to investigate.
But as soon as they were sent out, the imperial envoy came. Rather than saying that this was an envoy from the imperial court, it was better to say that it was a lobbyist for the Renaissance Army.
In the study room, Duan Hua was still holding the imperial edict, sitting there blankly, at a loss.
At this time, Sushun came over: "Third brother, what's going on?"
Duanhua handed him the imperial edict.
"Bang..." Sushun was so excited that he failed to hold the imperial edict firmly and dropped it to the ground.
"This...this, how is this possible? If the imperial court is gone, our Qing Dynasty will be dead?" Sushun said incoherently.
He suddenly felt that what he had been protecting so carefully turned out to be nothing.
"Alas... we have all been plotted by the Renaissance Army. It turns out that the Taihang bandits that we ignored are the hidden targets of the Renaissance Army."
"They started planning more than a year ago. This Dong Shuheng is really wily and scheming!"
Duanhua sighed that he did not lose unfairly this time.
"Sixth brother, let's surrender in accordance with His Majesty's imperial edict and leave some seeds for our Manchu people. We don't want the throne to be lost and the seeds to be exterminated for others."
Sushun didn't say anything. He didn't know what to say. Over the past year, he had tried his best.