Section IV

When Lin Feng focused on political affairs, the discipline problems of the troops gave him a headache. To be honest, his army is actually a hodgepodge, more bandits than an army, but because it has a regular army as the backbone, its military quality is relatively high. When they first entered Beijing, this army had a serious revenge mentality and was quite crazy, so when he pulled them out to rectify now, Lin Feng found that the war had caused much more trauma to the capital city than he imagined.

According to preliminary statistics, there were originally more than 170,000 residents of the Eight Banners in the five cities of Beijing, but during the period when the army entered the city, it had been sharply reduced to 150,000, and this number was not watery, because militarily speaking, Lin Feng's assault tactics were applied quite successfully, and they had no chance of escaping at all, and in this era, the Eight Banners were not fully integrated into the city of Beijing as in later generations. As the foundation of Manchu rule, in order to maintain racial superiority, the Qing court controlled the daily life of the Eight Banners quite strictly, regardless of the place of residence, living customs or intermarriage, there were very detailed regulations, so when the army controlled the walls of the inner city, they had no place to hide.

Zhou Peigong was a very practical person, and the report he submitted to Lin Feng did not mean to cover up for his own people, so Lin Feng saw some numbers that made him blush. Among the hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners in Beijing, there are about 40,000 to 50,000 young women, and nearly 40 percent during this period of time, that is, 1 to 20,000 Eight Banner women were raped by Lin Feng's subordinates, among which there are many appalling bloody cases, especially representative of several Gege's encounters, for example, Wu Sangui's daughter-in-law Princess Jianning of Qingting was killed by Liu Laosi's subordinates in her mansion, and even several of Kangxi's concubines were sexually assaulted to varying degrees. The damage caused was not so great, but the gangsters in the capital who were reorganized quickly entered the role, and immediately became the main force of smashing and looting, exerting amazing energy in those chaotic days.

After a few days of guilt, Lin Feng slowly calmed down, in the end, it was useless to regret everything after it was done, not to mention that there have been many such things from ancient times to the present, didn't the history books say it? Foreign invasion is originally a fortunate thing for the Chinese nation, because it promotes ethnic integration, makes our motherland family more prosperous, scientifically speaking, adding fresh blood is also beneficial to genetic optimization, and the Qing court deliberately engaged in those Manchu and Han non-intermarriage or something is simply dividing ethnic relations, it is too reactionary, so such a large-scale rape campaign also has a revolutionary side, although the action is a little rough, but in the long run, it is not without benefits, Kangxi advocated the Manchu and Han family, this is not realized?

Although he comforted himself so much, when the army rectification movement began, Lin Feng still pulled these rogue troops to the military camp outside the city for strict training, and replaced them with relatively clean Chinese troops and recruits, and the Eight Banners in the inner city slowly recovered from their dying, but at this time they were desperate to find that the Han army's control over them seemed to be more severe.

Most of the architectural styles of ancient Chinese cities belonged to the fortress type, and practically speaking, if these buildings were to be converted to civilian use, then the most suitable for them were undoubtedly warehouses and prisons, and in the process of this transformation, Lin Feng was surprised to find that Li Guangdi really had Nazi potential, and under his coordination, the inner five cities of Beijing quickly became a standard concentration camp.

Each settlement was divided into several enclosures according to the region or architectural style, and the original state of each banner was divided and relocated according to the household unit. Among a series of control measures, food and drinking water were the most severe, because Li Guangdi ingeniously filled all the wells in the inner city, and all the water had to be brought in from outside, and he established a strict supply system for these hundreds of thousands of people, distributing food and drinking water by head every day, according to his regulations, a family could only keep food and water for one day, if anyone dared to hide food and drinking water without permission, it would be the fate of the whole family, in addition to all kinds of kitchen knives and axes suspected of weapons, they were also looted. These people were left defenseless in both form and substance, and the Qin Dynasty's system of joint sitting was re-introduced, which means that if a person makes a mistake, his neighbors and the administrators in charge of law and order in this area will all be beheaded.

Lin Feng found that the movement here was really a little terrifying, all kinds of small artillery and crossbows were erected on the walls of the inner city, there were soldiers patrolling back and forth day and night, and the women and children of the Eight Banners on various streets in the city were forced to organize patrol groups, those old men and children and many sisters-in-law walked around with gongs, and they had to sound gongs to warn when they found that something was wrong. Somehow, Lin Feng felt very unpleasant when he saw these scenes, because he always remembered the Japanese devils back then, and looked back at Li Guangdi with a smug face, and felt that this guy really had the style of the Gestapo.

Under such measures, the Eight Banners, which were famous for their bravery in the past, have completely become sheep, and they all seem to be close to the eyebrows, but according to the lessons of history, the power of the masses is infinite, and Lin Feng is not sure whether these oppressed people will suddenly fight back, so he still made careful preparations before launching the hair shaving campaign to deal with the most serious consequences.

More than a dozen powerful Hongyi cannons were installed on the city wall, and more than 3,000 soldiers who had received preliminary firearms training were guarding the various exit routes, in order to prevent the counterattack of these people, Zhou Peigong mobilized hundreds of thousands of catties of firewood and grass and thousands of catties of lamp oil, piled up in all corners of the inner city, this measure is to prevent the worst outcome, if these eight banners can not accept the shaving of their hair and easy to wear, and immediately all of them will revolt and counterattack, this side will have to launch a massacre, according to rough calculations, The firewood, grass and lamp oil could ignite the inner city in a quarter of an hour, and the flames burning on all sides could burn these hundreds of thousands of people to ashes in a matter of hours.

Things are easier than imagined, after a catastrophe after the Eight Banners are much more mature psychologically than before, the people who originally felt superior to others finally understood at this time, the fist is the boss This truth is applicable everywhere, so they have no reason not to bow their heads, when they saw the Han army put on such a fierce posture, they consciously chose to retreat, in the end, although the braid is glorious, but the glory cannot be eaten after all, it is far more important than the life of the whole family.

Lin Feng did not make specific requirements for the standard of shaving and easy to wear, and the basic requirements were only a few points, first of all, the pig's tail must be cut, and the forehead was not allowed to be shaved, as for whether you want to wear a shawl and sing rock or a kind of trendy bun, then whatever you want, and easy to wear is even more nothing to say, in short, the clothes that represent the standard identity of the landlord class such as horse coats and melon skin hats must be banned, and whoever dares to wear it will cut off anyone's head, as for what style of clothing to replace Lin Feng with no preparations, You can wear anything except forbidden clothes, as long as you want, Lin Feng has no problem naked.

The more than 1,000 head shavers recruited were busy all day, and finally repaired the heads of tens of thousands of men in the inner five cities, as for the women, Lin Feng expressed a certain amount of respect, and asked them to change their hairstyles on their own, of course, they had to check afterwards, if anyone dared to disobey the order, the consequences would naturally be the whole family's beheading.

When Lin Feng's large army withdrew from the inner city, the people in the inner city finally couldn't hide their inner depression. Lin Feng was riding on a horse, listening to the faint crying behind him, and sighed in his heart, can you blame me for this? If I don't fix you here, how can the millions of people in Beijing be determined to do it with me?

Since hundreds of thousands of eight banners were forced to grow their hair and change clothes, the people of the capital also began to change their hairstyles under the supervision of the regional governor Li Guangdi and Chen Menglei, many people think of it when they think of it today, many people think it is ridiculous many years later, in Chinese history, so many people have haircuts at the same time only twice, one is the Manchu Qing Dynasty forced the Han people to shave their hair, and this time it is Lin Feng who forced the people of all ethnic groups to grow hair, in terms of political sense, both have the same effect, which also reflects the characteristics of our oriental nation, and it is particularly true on the issue of details, so that a large number of troops were dispatchedMartial law in the whole city came to struggle with the hair on the head. Although it was a joke in history, it was carried out very solemnly at the time, no less than a certain war mobilization, and the men cut off the braids one by one to symbolize loyalty to the Qing court, and after the incident, millions of braids were piled up in the center of the city and burned, and the smell of burnt hair was maintained for several days.

At the same time as the large-scale haircut, Li Guangdi and Chen Menglei's long-planned propaganda also operated, almost at the same time as people cut their braids, all kinds of allegro, cross talk, storytelling, and folk arts such as two-person turn and bangzi were fully utilized, preaching to the people of Beijing the old things of decades ago, of course, out of the inertia of artistic behavior, the cruelty of the Qing soldiers in Jiangnan was also greatly exaggerated and distorted, Lin Feng listened to it a few times, and also felt that it seemed a little wrong, although the Qing soldiers were indeed very cruel back then, But the expressions of the artists here seem to be too much, according to the performance of the new Hui opera "The Pavilion Guarding Yangzhou", the Qing army feels very similar to the demon army in the movie "The Lord of the Rings 2", and the actors look quite hideous, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the hundreds of thousands of people have a penchant for cannibalism, right? According to the records of the household department, the Qing army's military rations and baggage were relatively sufficient, and they could not eat hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, but Lin Feng naturally did not come out to clarify the truth for the Qing soldiers, because in terms of the political purpose of making the enemy stink, it was relatively successful here.

Taking this opportunity, Lin Feng also washed away the blood stain of the massacre of the Eight Banners nobles some time ago, according to the seized information, most of these nobles had personally planned and participated in the massacre in that era, it can be said that all of them were full of blood debts, no need to exaggerate, when the Eight Banners entered the customs to strangle the peasant army and destroy the Nanming Dynasty, it was indeed countless killings, even if it was the official household registration record of the Qing court, nearly 15 million Han people were slaughtered in the process, according to this greatly reduced conservative figure, No matter what method is used to convict and sentence, these thousands, tens of thousands of Eight Banner nobles can be said to be innocent, when Lin Feng published these top-secret information in broad daylight, he was originally talked about, and felt that he was comparable to Dong Zhuo and Huang Chao's scholars, and they also consciously closed their mouths, no matter what, even if Confucius was reincarnated, even if he was talking nonsense, the Mandate of Heaven could not be indifferent to tens of millions of lives.

The original Jiading, Yangzhou, Jiangyin, Sichuan, and Liangguang massacres are fragmentary hearsay, after so many years of dilution many people have disagreed, thinking that these are ethereal legends, and this era Qianlong has not had time to compile the "Siku Quanshu", and many original materials have not had time to destroy, so this time Lin Feng concentrated on the secret information completely subverted this concept - the authenticity of this thing has been verified and determined, Because the military exploits at that time were calculated according to the number of massacres, how many people killed and how much glory and wealth they obtained, the comparison of time and people's names and official positions is naturally undoubted.

These numbers, which were originally hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, have been added up to become an extremely terrifying truth, what is the concept of tens of millions of human lives? Arrange the corpses to go around the earth.

The influence of this propaganda far exceeded Lin Feng's expectations, people from indifference to half-belief, from half-belief to surprise, from surprise to extreme anger, many of the materials of this propaganda were carved and rubbed by various bookstores, as the merchants soon spread to all parts of the country, the public opinion of the entire Shilin in the north and south of the river was in an uproar.

Originally, according to Chinese tradition, it was not a big deal to establish a new dynasty and slaughter hundreds of thousands, but this time Lin Feng repeatedly played the banner of nationalism in the propaganda, and executed all the war criminals headed by Kangxi and other suspects involved in the case, in this case, the incident became quite sensational, in addition to the newsworthiness, the "Huayi Dao" in Confucian scholarship also caused controversy, under these ironclad evidence, the Qing court used force and the literary prison to forcibly suppress the academic atmosphere gradually lively, "traitor theory" This tone re-emerged, and Lin Fengxuan's sentence to death of those Eight Banners prince Baylor's inscriptions were copied everywhere, and they were popular all over the country.

It stands to reason that Lin Feng attacked Beijing as a rebel army, and in the Confucian view it is naturally a great rebellion, and the killing of the emperor and courtiers is an unforgivable crime, because since ancient times there is a tradition of not punishing doctors, and the nobles have a way to die for the nobles. In short, the attitude seems to be so tough that it can't be tougher, and it looks like Lao Tzu is doing it like this. Under such circumstances, although some old Confucian people were skeptical, they also unexpectedly won the support of a large number of radical scholars, most of whom were young men of strong blood, who, despite any obstruction, sang "Man Jianghong" and gathered from all over the country to march towards Beijing.

Although this activity was a great success, Lin Feng didn't know anything about it, because since the news of the fall of the Jingshi came out, although the governors of the northern provinces were shocked, they also quickly entered a state of emergency, and the clouds of war immediately enveloped the entire north, so all kinds of news spread relatively late except for the big events at the sensational point, and at this time Lin Feng found that there was a major flaw in his war machine, that is, the intelligence work has not been paid attention to by anyone.

This incident can be said to be a big joke no matter what era it is, Lin Feng suddenly found himself in a very embarrassing situation now, as a supreme commander, he has obtained as much information as Xiao Er of Yuelai Inn at the east gate of Beijing.

Just when Lin Feng was having a headache in the study, Li Ergou, the captain of the pro-soldiers, pushed the door and walked in, with a strange expression on his face.

"Your Excellency!" Li Ergou hesitated slightly, "My lord, you have friends from the rivers and lakes to visit!" ”

Lin Feng was stunned, and looked at Li Ergou with strange eyes, this guy is really uninformed, he will pass on a random guy, although he is not a good day, but he doesn't have much time to meet those inexplicable people.

"My lord, it was ** Sheng, General Yang brought them here......"

"Oh, who are they?" Lin Feng frowned and said helplessly.

"It seems that one is called Chen Jinnan, and the other is called Yang Qilong!" Li Ergou touched his head and smirked.

"Ah——?!h Lin Feng was startled, looked at Li Ergou in a daze for a long time, suddenly reacted, hurriedly stood up, just walked to the door of the study, suddenly froze, turned his head and solemnly admonished, "Dog, haven't we recruited a lot of good players in the capital?" Wait a minute, if you want them to put on a good posture, President Chen is not joking! ”