Just after noon on May 2o, 1854, the landlords of Lu'an took a horse and a carriage to pass the road where the 3,000 Qing prisoners of war were, and they learned how many there were 3,000. On the side of the road for more than a mile, there sat cross-legged in a phalanx of Qing prisoners. The entire roadside of more than a mile was a phalanx formed by these Qing prisoners.

The landlords and gentry were shocked on the one hand, and still quite unhappy on the other. Just before they passed guò, Wei Ze, the king of Qi of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, led people to pass this road, and at that time, the more than 3,000 Qing army captives were kneeling and kowtowing. As soon as Wei Ze passed Guò, the Taiping officers and soldiers guarding the prisoners ordered the Qing prisoners to sit cross-legged on the ground. Whether it was the soldiers of the Taiping Army or the prisoners of war of the Qing Army, they did not care about the landlords and gentry at all.

Seeing the difference in treatment between himself and Wei Ze, the king of Qi, a middle-aged man who looked like a scholar whispered in a sour tone: "In troubled times, the army is in all directions, and if you have a gun, you are the king of grass." Hum! ”

The person next to the middle-aged man immediately lowered his voice and persuaded him: "Brother Hu, you should be quiet." I've heard that Wei Ze, the king of Naqi, is still openly saying in his army that power comes out of the barrel of a gun. ”

After hearing this, the Hu brother snorted again, but stopped talking.

The road where the Qing prisoners of war were located led directly to a relatively flat valley between the two mountains, although the landlords and gentry knew that Wei Ze must have invited them to demonstrate, and after seeing the battlefield where the corpses of the Qing army were lying on the ground, they felt that there was nothing to fear. But when they finally arrived at a new battlefield, they saw nearly 4,000 Qing soldiers killed in battle piled up on the valley. Everyone's face changed.

After all, the two battlefields they originally went to had been fought for several days, and the Taiping army had already sent people to clean up the battlefields. So the bodies of the deceased were "washed" once, and the basic bodies were moved.

Now they saw the "original" battlefield, the smell of blood mixed with the pungent smoke of gunpowder that had not dissipated on the battlefield, some dry branches were burned black, and some once ignited branches were simply green smoke. Prone lying, supine lying, lying on your side. The arms are clenched, the arms are forced forward, and one or both arms are missing.

No one on the battlefield moved, and the qiē seemed to still be frozen in the moment when the war dead died. The gentry could even see that a stream on the battlefield was now crimson and smelled of blood.

The vast majority of the landlords and gentry were silent, their faces were as gray as ashes, and there were also a very small number of landlords and gentry whose eyes were beating with excitement. But no matter which one it is, it is like a dog that has been beaten, honestly holding its tail in front of the Taiping army.

After visiting the battlefield, Wei Ze did not order these landlords and gentry to "help clean" the battlefield again, but took the gang back to Lu'an City.

When we got to the city, it was already night. Weeser immediately took the landlords and gentry to the military field and held a meeting. Wei Zegang discussed with these gentry the issue of paying taxes on grain this year. None of the landlords and gentry dared to shirk it, and they all "willingly" expressed their willingness to "pay taxes on the grain" according to the system set by Wei Ze.

After listening to the words of the landlords and gentry, Wei Ze smiled: "I have heard a saying that it is called three people with one heart, and its profits are gold. There are more than three of us in Lu'an City, more than 330,000. If so many people think in one place and work hard in one place, what are we afraid of? ”

Among the landlords and gentry, there were many who were hostile to Wei Ze, but there were really not many who were fools in terms of intelligence. After listening to Weese's words, they immediately responded:

"Lord Wei is right!"

"We are following closely with Lord Wei!"

"Whatever Lord Wei says, we will listen to it!"

Of course, Wei Ze will not believe this group of people, not to mention Wei Ze's attitude towards the landlords and gentry, even from a realistic point of view, since Wei Ze has not been able to steadily collect taxes in Anhui for three years, and has not been able to keep the Qing army out of Anhui for three consecutive years, then the landlords and gentry in Anhui can basically be regarded as unreliable people. So Wei Ze also prepared some other dramas for this gang.

The shouts of the landlords and gentry stopped for a while, and Wei Ze smiled: "I am a rough person, especially the extremely bad handwriting, so what I have always admired is the person who writes very beautifully." In this battle with the Qing army, I captured a prisoner, who was not a Han Chinese, but a general soldier from the Eight Banners of Mongolia. Come, there is the general soldier Yin Deb. ”

Wei Ze's voice fell, and immediately someone dragged a man tied with rope and rope up. After dragging it up, the two pro-soldiers didn't care so much, and kicked the man on the crook of his left and right legs, and the chief soldier Yin Debuteng knelt on the ground.

Wei Ze waved his hand, and immediately someone put down two cloth flags to and left of Wei Ze. "Guys, read what's written on this?"

Lu'an is very close to Tongcheng, and although the reading atmosphere is not as good as Tongcheng and Anqing, it is by no means a refusal to recognize words. Moreover, the eight characters on the cloth banner are not difficult to recognize, but "expel the Tartars and restore China." ”

Wei Ze stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, expel the Tartars and restore China." This is what this king wants to do in Anhui. What is a Tartar, the bannerman is a Tartar, and the Mongolian Tartar is even more Tartar. According to this, Yin Debu, the chief soldier of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was a Tartar. What is our attitude towards the Tartars, that is, to kill with a knife. ”

"Shhh Although the landlords and gentry also saw the battlefield like Shura, they did not expect Wei Ze to kill people in public. It is even more necessary to kill a big official like the Manchu General Soldier in public.

"However, I am a dignified descendant of China, a real Han Chinese. Confucius once said that if Yi Di enters China, then China will be Chinese, and if China enters Yi Di, then Yi Di will be Yi Di. Do you know what this chief soldier Yin Debu is good at? This chief soldier is good at cursive! He's a master of calligraphy! ”

As soon as these words came out, the landlords and gentry in Anhui were stunned. They never expected that they would go around and around to find a Taiping Heavenly King who wanted to expel the Tartars, and they didn't expect to meet a Mongolian who was a calligrapher.

Wei Ze also felt a little funny in his heart, he originally thought that he only knew Jiang Zhongyuan in this era, but he never expected to meet the chief soldier Yin Debu. Weese's mother's house has a collection of fans, one of which is a gold-plated folding fan with the cursive script of the chief soldier Yin Debu. Wei Ze was forced by his family to practice calligraphy since he was a child, and a large part of the reason was the fan written by the chief soldier Yin Debu.

Although Wei Ze's words were not practiced, he still remembered that there was such a person. After learning that the Manchu general army had captured Yindebu, Wei Ze ordered the general soldier Yindebu to write a few paragraphs in cursive. Since ancient times, it was difficult to die alone, and at this time, the general soldier Yin Debu refused to commit suicide to serve the Manchu Qing Dynasty. He wrote a paragraph. Now Weser was sure that he had found the wrong person. Out of an indescribable affection, Weser decided to bypass the chief soldier Yin Deb.

Of course, it is impossible to bypass it in vain, and Wei Ze is also ready to make full use of this matter to make political propaganda for himself.

He continued: "Although this chief soldier Yin Debu was a Mongol, he learned Chinese characters and calligraphy. This is the knowledge of my Han people. If we kill him on the battlefield, then he deserves to die, but since we have captured him alive, there is a reason to spare him once. ”

Many of the landlords and gentry were also somewhat educated, and when they saw Wei Ze playing so enthusiastically, they also became a little interested. A person who insists on expelling the Tatars and restoring China can spare a Manchu general soldier, who is still a general soldier from the Mongolian Eight Banners.

"What I want to let go now is not the Manchu general soldier Yin Debu, what I want to let go now is not the Mongolian Yin Debu, what I want to let go now is a cursive calligrapher Yin Debu!" After Wei Ze finished speaking to the landlords and gentry, he turned his head and shouted to the chief soldier Yin Debu, "Yin Debu, do you hear me? ”

After the general soldier Yin Debu was arrested, he was already frightened, and what he knew was that the Cantonese bandits had always killed government personnel and would never let them go. It is even more impossible to let go of officials who were born as flag men. After the Taiping army captured Jinling, they killed tens of thousands of Manchus in the city, and the news had already spread all over the world. The chief soldier Yin Deb had heard this many times.

And as a calligrapher, the general soldier Yin Debu's Chinese attainments are not low. What does it mean to "expel the Tatars and restore China", he is only afraid that he knows better than many Han people. Thinking of the extremely rough treatment of Weese's men when he was dragged out, the chief soldier Yin Debu felt that he was dead. He didn't have the heart to resist at this time, he just hoped that Wei Ze could give him a good time, not like the former Hunan governor Zhang Liangji, as the official document said, even after becoming the governor of Shandong, he was still arrested and sent to Tianjing City to be executed.

But after listening to it for a while, the chief soldier Yin Debu was stunned, Wei Ze turned out that because Yin Debu was a cursive calligrapher, he didn't care that Yin Debu was an official of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, let alone that Yin Debu was a Mongolian Eight Banners, so he let Yin Debu have a way out. He wondered if he had heard it wrong. Cursive writing is the favorite of the general soldier Yin Debu in his life, and it is also the pride of his life. But this is also the only reason why the chief soldier Yin Debu never thought that he could be thought of by the Cantonese bandits as not to kill Yin Debu.

But this suspicion did not last long, and Weezer ordered, "Bring me the rest of the Tartars!" ”

At the sound of chains, a group of Qing army officers with wooden flails were dragged out. Wei Ze didn't bother to introduce any of these people, he shouted at the landlords and gentry below: "These people are either Tartars. Either the Han Chinese who took refuge in the Tatars. Since we want to expel the Tartars and restore China. There is only one attitude towards Tartars and traitors, and that is to kill without mercy. Of course, the Manchu soldiers didn't understand this, and most of them were just eating and making a living. When we capture them, we should spare their lives. But for these officials, then they can't be let go. ”

After finishing speaking, Wei Ze shouted: "Drag these people out and cut them down!" ”

The wolf-like soldiers rushed up and dragged the officers away, and the officers screamed and begged to go around, but they could not make Wei Ze have any soft-hearted or sympathy.

Moments later, a string of bloodied heads was brought into the Church Grounds. When the landlords and gentry saw that Wei Ze was going to bypass the general soldier Yin Debu, many people thought that Wei Ze was only afraid that he would also open up to other Manchu army officials, but they didn't expect Wei Ze to kill him if he said it, and he was ruthless.

And Wei Ze didn't care what others thought, he said to Yin Debu, the chief soldier who was kneeling on the ground: "Yin Debu, I will let you go today, but there is something you have to do for me, give the heads of these people to Xianfeng, the leader of the dog Tartars, and help me bring a message to Xianfeng by the way, Lao Tzu will cut off his head sooner or later!" ”

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