1692 Flames soar into the sky outside the gates
As soon as April passed, the mountains and rivers of the Great Qing Kingdom completely entered the warm embrace, and the last trace of ice and snow in the three provinces outside the Guanhai and Northern Mongolia was also completely melted, and all the mountains, rivers and seas seemed to come alive overnight. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The Heilongjiang River was completely opened, and countless tributaries gathered the snow water in the dense forests of the mountains and rolled in, and the whole river roared eastward like a dragon.
According to the custom, the ferries on the Heilongjiang River will be busy at this time of year, and the boatmen who have been idle for a winter are about to start work, and doing business with Tsarist Russian merchants is inseparable from them, these ferries send people and goods across the river.
But this year everything has changed, all the river to the mouth of the Amur River, all the ferries are heavily armed, the Qing army blocked all the customs ports in Jilin Province and Heilongjiang Province, and the Far East is full of volunteers.
Two of the three provinces outside the Guanguan were completely out of control, and the army began to move without any orders from the military headquarters, and Hunchun, like all warlords, began to carry out internal purges.
All the generals were examined one by one, and all the officials who were close to the Queen Mother and the Wang Ye faction were purged, while the poor officers who used to be cold benches were reused because of their loyalty to the emperor.
Prisons are full of die-hards and corrupt officials, and the camps everywhere are full of screams and curses of urgent interrogation every night.
In troubled times, it is necessary to use heavy canons, this is the truth of the Han Church, Hunchun thinks so, and he now has to guard these two provinces for His Majesty for at least four years.
During this time, he not only had to solve the problem of food and pay for the army, but also saved some military expenses for His Majesty and provided an elite army of more than 100,000 people. This is not an easy task, and he will have to act from now on.
Of course, the fastest way is naturally to confiscate the family property, and the person who can start a mutiny with a ruthless heart is naturally not a good man and a woman, and Hunchun is also a ruthless character after making up his mind.
First trial, two strikes, three threats...... Holding the sword of Shang Fang of Emperor Tongzhi, the entire Jilin Heilongjiang was regarded as setting off a bloody storm, and countless majestic officials were pulled off the horse, not only the family property on the surface was copied, but even the gold and silver hidden in the private house were also copied cleanly.
For a while, the officialdom of the two provinces shook, and the cries were endless, but fortunately, Hunchun was not a murderous person, and the officials of these hostile factions all spared their lives after they stole their family property.
The civil and military officials who had escaped could no longer stay here, and for a while, a large number of officials who fled south began to appear on the main post road from Liaoning Province to Jilin and Heilongjiang.
Huaide, Yitong, Hailong, Tonghua...... These cities on the border of the two provinces immediately became a sensation, and those officials who were like mourning and examination and approval fled south with their families and thin carriages, scolding and crying all the way, spreading the name of Hunchun's brutality throughout the Guanwai.
Liaoning is the birthplace of Aixin Jueluo's family, here is the political, economic, and cultural center outside the Guan, and it is also the location of Shengjing, and it is impossible for them not to know the news of the Hunchun mutiny in Heilongjiang, in fact, on the fourth day after Vice General Lin captured Qiqihar, Shengjing had already received this shocking news.
Not only that, the main post roads leading from Liaoning to Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces have also all spontaneously set up cards, and the local garrisons are in strict formation, for fear that Hunchun will rush out of the mountains with a large army.
"It's been more than 200 years since the dynasty of the country, and I've heard of the Manchu generals rebelling there......? Why don't you open your eyes!"
Countless veterans trembled and guarded the checkpoint, praying that Hunchun would not go crazy and attack them, and that their own army should not be sent to the north to quell the rebellion.
The veteran really thought too much, he overestimated the administrative efficiency of the Manchus, and underestimated the Manchus' control over the army. After the news of the Hunchun mutiny was transmitted to Shengjing, in addition to the local garrison spontaneously taking action to increase the border defense, the rest was that the officials of the whole province began to act to allocate materials.
The Manchus started as a military group, and they naturally had a desire to control the army, and the Manchus were also willing to learn the history of the Han people and the cycle of rise and fall of the Central Plains Dynasty.
Of course, the Manchus knew what a terrible situation it would be if the army was controlled by private individuals, not only to control the Han people's military power, but also to control the Manchu people's own military power.
The Eight Banners were originally a military alliance, and Aixin Jueluo was just the most powerful of them, but in fact, there was no mythical aura of destiny.
In the early Qing Dynasty, the pattern of the eight kings of the Qing Dynasty lasted for a long time, and in the end, it was actually the descendants of Nurhachi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, who violated the ancestral system and engaged in the centralization of power of the Han people, which led to the political structure of the late Qing Empire.
Throughout the history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there have always been people within the Eight Banners who want to restore the ancestral system and break the pattern of a dictatorship, which has almost become a ghost in the Manchu court, as long as the imperial power is weak, this ghost will jump out and make waves.
As a result, the more ghostly and fascinating, the stricter the imperial court's control over the army, and the local military and political officials who moved the army without the order of the imperial court was a capital offense.
This group of hot pot ants in Shengjing City has no right to move the provincial army to quickly go north to quell the rebellion, not only do they have no power, but they also don't have the courage, if it is to grab credit, they are naturally enthusiastic, but the things that take responsibility are all shrunk.
"Anyway, Shengjing and Beijing have also communicated with the telegraph, thanks to Qing Sanye's great ability, I now understand that the telegraph is a good thing, and when this kind of thing happens, it will be directly pushed to Sijiu City, let them go to the wax......"
This is the voice of all Shengjing officials, doing more and making more mistakes is the life creed they believe in, and leading troops to fight is a fool who can do such taboo things.
However, the mobilization of supplies to prepare for war is within their authority. All the armories, granaries, horse yards, and post stations in Liaoning...... All sorts of agencies are starting to get busy.
Inventory counting, transferring accounts, closing deficits, and falsely reporting losses...... Then the grain and grass from the east were transported to the west, and then the wood from the west was transported to the north, and it didn't matter if it was meaningful work, at least the work was there.
As long as they get busy, these people can benefit from it, and the deficit of years of corruption can finally be closed while the accounts are in chaos, and even some granaries are inexplicably on fire, and hundreds of thousands of loads of grain and grass are all turned into ashes along with the account books.
The frightened official directly put the basin on Hunchun's body, "It's Hunchun's rangers!" Hunchun sent the elite to kill us, and a small group of troops rushed in while we were unprepared, and they would prevent fire, this is to start a war with the country!"
The mouth grows on his body, he can say whatever he wants, in fact, the old army who watched the treasury has already understood everything, the burning granary is actually empty, and the grain has already been sold by those officials.
They lit the fire themselves, and it was all straw!
Later generations of historians all sighed when they saw this moment, the corruption of the late Qing Dynasty was really rotten to the roots, and it was really amazing that such a major event that shocked the world as the Hunchun Mutiny could become a great opportunity for officials to be corrupt.