Chapter Fifty-One: The Claimed Amount of Blackmail
Since a large number of troops were needed to exterminate the rebel bandits in various places, the Manchu and Qing army could only gather 200,000 troops to annihilate Yunnan. Not to mention the heavy troops mobilized here, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and Emperor Shunzhi also ordered ministers to be sent to Yunnan.
Suo'etu contacted the Chinese Revolutionary Army in Jiangnan and asked them to fulfill their promise and surrender to the imperial court after Yunnan surrendered.
Suo'etu hurried on with the imperial edict and 500 cavalrymen. As soon as the group passed Jiangning Prefecture (Nanjing) and reached the territory of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, they were attacked by thousands of Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers armed with strange muskets and bright triangular bayonets.
Soldiers surrounded him.
Seeing the black muzzles and pointed bayonets pointing at his group, Suo'etu sweatdropped on his head, "You are brothers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army!" Why are these words so convoluted? In his heart
Thinking, "We are sent by the imperial court to announce the decree. Why don't you take us to see you, Mr. Huang! Otherwise, you will not be able to bear the delay in important affairs of the imperial court." After that, Suo'etu came out of the Chinese Revolutionary Army.
warrior, suo
Looking at the picture, he estimated that this was the boss. He nodded with a smile and said, "Take us to Hangzhou Mansion to see you, Mr. Huang." When we arrived at the other person's territory, he could only speak in a low voice. This job is dangerous, so be smart.
For example, Suo'etu would not arrogantly seek death in front of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. Now this Chinese Revolutionary Army is different from other Han resistance armies. Their strength is extraordinary and their form is different.
Hearing that the other party's tone was quite mild, the Chinese Revolutionary Army soldier who came out shook his head and said: "We are just big soldiers, and the writer doesn't know the characters (he really doesn't know the traditional Chinese characters, but the simplified characters are just...
I know a lot now. After all, I have to learn the commonly used simplified Chinese characters after practicing every day.
I know at least hundreds of them) I don’t know what is a great person or not, what is an imperial decree or not. Since you want to come to our place, you have to be armed, otherwise you are not an envoy of peace, and we will treat you as an intruder.
"My lord, please quickly hand over the weapons of your men to us."
"What?" Suo'etu and the five hundred Manchu Eight Banners disciples behind him were furious after hearing this. Even though they had good words, they still used our weapons. Isn't this insulting? The five hundred Manchu Eight Banner disciples all held hands tightly.
Holding his own weapon, he waited for Suo'etu's order to take action.
Suo'etu looked at the big-headed soldier in front of him, and his heart was churning. He must not fight. He didn't say whether the five hundred people he brought with him were the opponents of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, which had a large number of new weapons.
The next mission will be completed
No, the emperor wants to attack Yunnan. He must not offend the Chinese Revolutionary Army because of his anger. If there is a conflict between the two sides and the Chinese Revolutionary Army takes the opportunity to openly join forces with the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in Yunnan, it will be in trouble. I am afraid that I will not be able to recover.
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Suo'etu immediately turned back to discuss with the generals behind him and asked them to return to Jiangning Mansion first. He only brought ten people into Hangzhou. The ten selected Manchu elites were all Niu Lu Zhangjing who had just changed his name to Zuoling. They all relied on their military merits.
The promoted leaders have all experienced countless battles and are extremely tough.
They were all Manchu masters who could equal one to ten. They let their companions take their swords, bows and arrows. The eleven unarmed edict-proclaiming team followed dozens of Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers to Hangzhou, while the remaining Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers "escorted"
"Four hundred and ninety Manchu warriors returned to Jiangning territory.
Walking on the road, Suo'etu observed that the area near the boundary of Jiangning Prefecture was full of people in their prime, with very few elderly people, women and children. All cities, regardless of size, were heavily guarded, including those in the villages carrying muskets and red-tasseled spears.
People patrolled. It was not until the next day that I entered the hinterland of Jiangnan that I felt something was different. The road had turned into a smooth hard road (cement road). The people here were also wearing bright clothes, and their faces were full of
The common people with glowing faces look like they are living a good life with enough food and clothing. In some places, they have built tall and strange buildings with expensive white glazed (glass) windows, and there are many shops.
, there are many businesses, and there is a prosperous scene everywhere. The scene here is simply unimaginable to him. He has never seen such a place. Even the paradise written by the ancients cannot compare with this place.
Seeing all this, unlike the ten strange looking sergeants, Suo'etu felt heavy in his heart. He felt a kind of power here, a terrifying power. What kind of power? Civilization? Yes, it is a kind of civilization.
He felt in his heart that compared with the Qing Dynasty, a civilized man wearing brocade clothes was like a barbarian who had just come out of the mountains.
Shaking his head, Suo'etu shook out the strange thoughts in his mind. As long as we occupy this place, everything here will become ours, no matter how good it is, it will be ours, Suo'etu thought.
As soon as they entered Hangzhou City, the eleven people were stunned by this prosperous city. There were countless tall buildings, countless vendors and cart drivers, numerous businesses, and countless kinds of strange and not-so-unusual items that they had never seen before.
Yes, the eleven people were dumbfounded when they saw that fragrant perfume.
The strange and beautiful clothes, the various transparent glass ornaments and glass bottles, and the countless commodities made the ten Manchu leaders regret that they did not bring much money. The eleven people felt like they were in a heavenly palace. Is this still the human world? This
The prosperous scene they had never seen in the world made them a little stupid.
The eleven people were arranged into a courtyard with a sign with the simplified Chinese character "Guest House". Suo'etu was a man who read poetry and books. His heart sank when he saw the half-written word, thinking that he had encountered many such characters on the road.
A sign with Chinese character "These Chinese Revolutionary Army"
What do you want to do? Why do you have to change the ligature? I feel that the word revolution is unlucky. What are these people going to do? What kind of revolution? The word for messenger is still me, the Qing Dynasty?" Suo'etu thought for a long time, feeling very depressed.
I feel like this errand is not easy to handle.
"Hahaha, fellow envoys, you are resting here now. Our commander-in-chief is very busy. You are staying here for a few days. The security here is not very good these days. Since you are VIPs, if you go out, you are afraid of encountering bad guys.
It’s not appropriate anymore, so you don’t need to go out.” The Chinese Revolutionary Army official who accompanied the eleven was named Liu Hecai. He smiled and asked them to come in.
"What? You want to put us under house arrest?" Suo'etu said in a voiceless voice. The eleven of them were "protected" by dozens of Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers holding new muskets. No matter how angry they were, they would not dare to risk their own lives.
He behaved violently and just shouted: "Master Huang, Commander Huang must first receive the imperial edict. I am the one who issued the imperial edict. You actually despise us and put us under house arrest. How can this be done? It is simply too barbaric."
said.
"The barbarians are no more barbaric than the Tatars who came out of the mountains. We are all civilized people." The first half of what Liu Hecai said almost drove Suo'etu and the ten Manchu warriors crazy. Two Manchu warriors were about to rush over.
Beat Liu Hecai.
"Don't move, what are you going to do? We're shooting." All the guns were pointed at them. Soo'etu was so frightened that he quickly stopped the two irritable men, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding."
"I've already explained it to you. If someone kills you, I can't bear the responsibility. You have to be considerate of me. I hold a small official position. I will do whatever Commander Huang orders me to do." Liu Hecai smiled.
He said that he was not angry at all because the two Manchu soldiers tried to compete with him, a civil servant, in martial arts. He waved his hands to ask the Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers to put down their guns.
"Okay, guests are welcome. Let's just wait here and wait for Commander Huang to come and receive the order when he is not busy." Suo'etu emphasized the word "receive the order" to remind him of the importance of the imperial order.
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Liu Hecai brought the eleven people into a room with a smile, "Come in, gentlemen, this is the room you live in." Suo'etu was dumbfounded when he saw it. A big kang can sleep eleven people.
There was no separate room for him as an official. What was even more exaggerated was that the kang and seats had not been wiped for a long time and were covered with a thick layer of dirt.
Liu Hecai smiled and pointed to all the Manchu superiors: "You're welcome, please sit down." "Can we still do this? Why is there such thick soil and no one is cleaning it?" How could Suo'etu do it at home?
When doing housework, I blew on the chair and wanted to blow away the dirt. "Cough, cough, cough." Suddenly the whole room was filled with dust. Twelve people hurriedly ran out of the room, waiting for the dust inside to fall down.
"Ahem, cough, cough, Mr. Liu, cough, can you clean up this chair and kang for us? Ahem, there is too much dirt, cough, cough, cough." Suo'etu, whose face was covered with dust, coughed.
Liu Hecai said.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my people are too lazy, I asked them to clean it up!" Liu Hecai said, without the slightest look of embarrassment, and hurriedly asked two people to clean up the dust inside.
After cleaning up, Liu Hecai led eleven people into the room, "Everyone, please have a seat, please have a seat." Suo'etu also had a hard journey. Unlike the ten assistant leaders, he had never suffered a serious crime after all, so he felt a little tired.
Tired, I just faced the chair as soon as I fell
Zishi sat on it, "Wow." "Ping Dong." "Ouch." The chair fell apart. Suo'etu sat down on the ground and squatted down, causing him to cry out in pain.
The leaders hurriedly helped him up.
Suo'etu was rubbing his butt, feeling aggrieved and angry, when he heard Liu Hecai patting his thigh exaggeratedly like a shrew and yelling, "Oh, this is a pear wood chair from the Song Dynasty.
, at this time, the Song Dynasty pearwood chair specially prepared for the upper class, if it breaks, I can’t afford to pay for it, oh, what can I do?”
When Suo'etu saw an old miscellaneous wooden chair with peeling paint, he said it was a pearwood chair from the Song Dynasty. Aren't you blackmailing me? But the other party's exaggerated shouting made the Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers and handymen outside...
He looked out the window to see what was going on inside and was laughing. He was really embarrassed to see people.
He didn't know how thick-skinned the other party was, and he didn't know what face meant. "Okay, okay, I'll pay, and I'll accompany you on the chair." The difference is that announcing the decree is making money, which is great. Now that I'm here, I'll pay for it.
Instead, he had to pay out of his own pocket. Suo'etu resented why the emperor sent himself to announce this decree instead of sending someone else.
As soon as Liu Hecai heard that Suo'etu said he was losing money, he immediately stopped shouting, and his sad expression immediately turned into a smile, faster than anything else. "The pear wood chair from the Song Dynasty cost five thousand taels of silver. The price is fair."
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"What? Five thousand taels of silver?" Suo'etu didn't know the price of the pear wood chair, but it definitely couldn't be worth so much. But if it was from the Song Dynasty, it would be hard to say. He gritted his teeth and took it out of his arms.
A few ingots of gold ingots were not enough, so he took out all the silver he had on him, "I just brought this money. It's not enough, but it's not much, don't you think so?" Suo'etu said angrily.
"It's done, it's done." Liu Hecai asked his men to take down all the gold and silver, and sent servants to deliver tea. "Remember, serve the best tea to the distinguished guests," Liu Hecai shouted.
A trap chair frightened Suo'etu, and he sat directly on the kang. The kang would definitely not collapse. The ten subordinates were even more afraid that they would be blackmailed. They were not as rich as Suo'etu, so they all sat down immediately.
On the kang.
The tea was brought up, and Suo'etu, who was already thirsty, picked up the teacup and took a sip, "Pfft, what kind of tea is this? Oh, why is there sand? Bahhh." Suo'etu looked into the teacup and said,
Not to mention the powdered tea leaves, there was still unclean soil foam inside, and he actually felt like vomiting because he saw a small white worm in the powdered tea leaves! Suo'etu wanted to cry but had no tears.
After Suo'etu and others were treated coldly for a few days, he really couldn't wait any longer. He still wanted to answer the order. He would suffer from the anger of the abominable Liu Hecai here every day. This abominable Liu Hecai became a torturer every day.
Either I stepped on dog poop, or my rice bowl was full of flies. One day, there was a thatched cricket in the water I drank (larvae produced by flies in the cesspit of thatched house).
Suo'etu angrily wanted to see Commander Huang, but in the end Secretary Huang Ziya came over and gave them a sentence: "The one who promised you was the Hu**. Now the Hu** has been disbanded. We are the Chinese Revolutionary Army and have no agreement with you."
Being pushed back, Suo'etu, who was full of anger, was very angry, but he still endured it and went back first.
The Chinese Protectorate did not embarrass them and sent troops to escort them out of the country to the border of Jiangning Mansion. Suo'etu walked towards Jiangning City with ten tortured and emaciated subordinates (the war horses were all kidnapped by Liu Hecai).
He looked back in the direction of Hangzhou and waved his fist, "Chinese Revolutionary Army, Huang Ziya, Liu Hecai, you are waiting for me. I will definitely repay you for the insult I suffered."
Suo'etu and the other eleven people who returned to Jiangning Mansion faced the meal prepared by the officials of Jiangning Mansion. They pounced on it like hungry wolves and ate it with their hands and feet. No, they used both hands at the same time. "Wow, wow, wow"
When they got up, the officials were stunned by the appearance of the starving ghost reincarnated.
Suo'etu returned to the capital and briefly explained the insult he had received and the fact that the other party was being arrogant and did not accept the order. He was afraid that going into too much detail would offend the saints. After hearing this, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and the Emperor Shunzhi were both confused.
Emperor Shunzhi was furious. Emperor Shunzhi, who was already ill, became even more angry after hearing Suo'etu. The eunuchs outside the palace heard Shunzhi's roar and the sound of throwing things.
The Manchu and Qing court wanted to deal with Yunnan first. As for the Chinese Revolutionary Army in Jiangnan, they could only overthrow and solve Yunnan's problem. After all, the 200,000 troops prepared could not conquer Jiangnan at all. They could only deal with the relatively weak Yunnan Ming Army first.
With Ye Bilong as the commander-in-chief and Leng Sengji as the deputy, they led a powerful Manchu and Qing army consisting of 200,000 musketeers and eight banners of Manchu, Han and Mongolian troops into Yunnan.
In the Manchu Army Commander's tent, Ye Bilong and Leng Sengji looked at the map and studied the attack route. "Report, report to the commander, our army's food and grass have been stolen by bandits again." A soldier came back to report.
"What? What should we do?" After hearing the news, Leng Sengji frowned, but Yi Bilong laughed "haha", and he took out a letter despite Leng Sengji's doubtful eyes.
, "When I set out, Hong Cheng
Mr. Chou gave me a clever plan. Take a look and follow the plan. I'm afraid these idiots will suffer a big loss, and Yunnan will be defeated soon." Ji Erhado quickly opened the letter and looked at it, his brows widening.
, the two looked at each other and smiled.
Under the leadership of Chen Mingming, the Chinese Revolutionary Army robbed several supplies of the main force of the Manchu and Qing troops attacking Yunnan. However, they found that the supplies were very small, and the total amount of supplies was only enough for two hundred thousand people for two days. Later, they
After receiving the news, several supplies were secretly and successfully delivered to the 200,000 Manchu Qing main force.
In a tall forest, 10,000 Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers were ambushed. Chen Tomorrow personally led the soldiers to intercept the Manchu and Qing army's food transport team. According to intelligence, the Manchu and Qing army was escorting enough to feed 200,000 people this time.
With many months of food and supplies, there were about 5,000 Manchu Qing troops escorting and escorting them, and most of them were green battalion troops without combat effectiveness.
On the path between the jungles in front, more than 10,000 people were escorting hundreds of carts, with 5,000 strong men escorting the carts, about a thousand cavalry, and behind them were 4,000 Green Battalion infantry.
"Kill!" Chen Mingming shouted, and countless soldiers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army rushed forward shouting, and the musketeers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army fired a volley, killing hundreds of knights on horseback.
At this time, Chen Mingming discovered that the five thousand strong men of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had taken out their muskets from the carts and shot at the rushing Chinese Revolutionary Army. He felt something was wrong. These strong men came well prepared, and the skilled men
I'm afraid they all have veteran-level bravery in shooting.
Chen Mingming led his elite troops to rush to a large cart. He slashed open the sack on the cart, and sand flowed out from the gap in the sack.
"It's broken, we've fallen into a trap!" As soon as Chen Mingming said this, there was a sudden shout of killing from the outside. Countless Manchu and Qing musketeers appeared around him, and thousands of Manchu and Qing cavalry rushed up to kill them.
"Retreat, retreat quickly." Chen Mingming saw thousands of Manchu and Qing cavalry slashing down his own soldiers head-on. His eyes flashed with sparks, his liver and gallbladder burst into tears. He picked up a big sword and rushed forward to fight for his life.
Several personal guards held Chen Mingming tightly, "Sir, please leave the green hills without fear of running out of firewood. You must not get into trouble. You must shoulder the heavy burden that Chief Zhang has given you." The name training belt on the side said.
Hundreds of people came running over, "Drag the division commander away with me, I will be responsible for breaking up the rear." Peiming said, leading hundreds of soldiers to rush forward to resist the countless Manchu troops and cover everyone's retreat.
"For the common world, for the working people, for our brothers and sisters, for our fathers and mothers, kill, kill!" Peimin shouted, and thousands of Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers behind him shouted and rushed forward without fear of life and death.
Come up.
Looking at the battle scene, Ye Bilong and Leng Sengji looked at each other in surprise. The more than a thousand Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers at the back fought desperately. Their right arms were chopped off and they remained unmoved. They continued to pick up weapons with their left arms.
During the battle, his left arm was cut off and bitten with his teeth. Some Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers had their intestines spilled out. He stuffed them in with his hands and continued fighting. Many Chinese Revolutionary Army soldiers did not try to dodge the opponent's weapons and cut them with all their strength.
Kill the enemy and fight hard even before death.
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