Chapter 44: What He Does
A crush, that's all. Dozens of green battalion soldiers were killed like this, the only difference was that some were knocked away and assassinated by Cai Qiao's cameo cavalry, while others were completely torn apart by the people who turned into violent beasts......
In just one day, the only remaining Qing army in Jinhua Mansion lost forty or fifty people in such a small village due to Ma Jinbao's expedition, and none of them who came here could escape alive. Among them, the only pity is that the Qing army is dead, and the mouth cannons he put to buy time for Cai Qiao and others in the preparation stage have no chance to be widely known by the Qing army, which is not a pity.
Yu Youhan was untied, and the villagers were busy begging for forgiveness. Chen Kai cleaned up the battlefield here, and at the same time told the squire that it was not advisable to stay here for a long time, and the Qing army would come to the door in a few days, so he simply took the people to slip away, and then recruited a few villagers who could repair the wheels, and worked together to repair his donkey cart that was dragging its hind legs.
"The grace of saving lives is remembered in the five."
Forgive, no, Yu Youhan slowed down his strength, put his bags on, straddled the Miao knife on his waist, and came to Chen Kai, bowed down and thanked him.
How is Yu Youhan's martial arts, his person is injured, Chen Kai is not good to let him show it on the spot, but after a dialogue with the squire, Daozong's imagination has basically been confirmed, and for a while, he has a request for Yu Youhan to go to Fujian with him.
"The grace of saving lives should not be denied. But I'm sorry that I'm used to wandering around and can't stand it. In this way, this "Xinyou Knife Method" was written by Qi Shaobao back then, and there are many ancestors, masters and understandings in it, and the right should be a thank you gift and give it to Your Excellency. ”
"Master's Secret Treasure, it's inconvenient, isn't it?"
"There's nothing inconvenient, the ancestor followed Qi Shaobao back then, and later Qi Shaobao was squeezed out by the imperial court, and he turned to the martial arts avenue in frustration...... The master only has one apprentice, and the master is only in the next apprentice, and he has not found a suitable apprentice to inherit this knife technique so far. ”
"Then if you meet a suitable apprentice in the future?"
"Knives, in my mind, don't need them anymore."
The knife score Chen Kai did not take it in vain, let Yu Youhan accompany him for a few days, and after leaving the range of Jinhua Mansion, he could give him a horse to hurry.
After the donkey cart was repaired, the squire was still persuading the villagers to take shelter for a while, Chen Kai was too lazy to say anything, and the group continued on the road and drove away in the direction of the west. On the way, Chen Kai chatted with Yu Youhan about what he saw and heard on the road, compared to his gang in a hurry, Yu Youhan saw a lot along the way, especially in the countryside, and it was not uncommon to see such a plunder as a few days ago, and the entire land of China was completely shrouded in such an atmosphere.
This did not start with the entry of the Qing army, the military generals of the Chongzhen Dynasty began to gradually get rid of the control of the imperial power and the civilian military system, and the corruption of military discipline increased day by day. When the Qing army entered the customs, the Ming court, which originally had to restrain the generals as much as possible and try to reduce the army's damage to the domestic people, was replaced by the Qing court, which used small clans to conquer large countries and military intimidation and slaughter and intimidation as a means to deter people's hearts.
In such a situation, it was not until the large-scale anti-Qing movement was suppressed that the Qing court needed to seek to win over the gentry and the common people to stabilize people's hearts, and there would be a possibility of improvement.
Chen Kai remembered that he had seen such remarks on the Internet before - during the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army's cruelty to the Chinese stemmed from the resistance of the Chinese, and if the Chinese did not resist, the Japanese would not have killed the Chinese people. The same recipe, the same taste, for the slaughter of the Qing army, some people said that the Ming and Qing dynasties were no different, they were all normal dynastic changes, the massacre was inevitable in the process of national integration, and any accusation against the Qing Dynasty was the work of narrow nationalism.
If we follow this logic, the 35 million casualties and $650 billion in direct and indirect economic losses that China paid during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression were all self-inflicted, then what happened to the only non-European and American countries among the five victorious countries in World War II and the five permanent members of the United Nations?
If some people still question why the poor and weak China at that time was able to become the five victorious powers, then, in terms of the killing of Axis military personnel, China is second only to the Soviet Union and the United States, should we question why France, the capitulating country, can mix in and make up for it?
In the same way, the Qing army marched south and destroyed Li Zicheng's Dashun army and the Hongguang court of the Southern Ming Dynasty with lightning speed, and how resolute and brutal their implementation of land enclosure, surrender, and shaving and changing clothes was. But with the intensification of resistance, the large-scale enclosure had stopped in the fourth or fifth year of Shunzhi; There is no room for maneuver if it is easy to shave the hair, but it still makes the Qing court have to increase its efforts to win over the Han scholars and doctors, and reuse the traitors and traitor armies to suppress the anti-Qing movement in various places.
Although the Southern Ming anti-Qing movement was ultimately unsuccessful, the fierceness of the resistance still gave the Manchu rulers a heavy blow and a deep impression, otherwise who could guarantee that they would not "kill the poor ghosts" and "kill the rich" as they did in Liaodong, and put all the Han people in Qizhuang and slave the banner people?
Fighting is never meaningless, the difference is only in success or failure!
A few days later, Yu Youhan thanked him and left, while Chen Kai continued their journey. After entering the territory of Quzhou Prefecture, the government's investigation began to increase, and the more escape time created by Chen Kai's bureau for them did not ensure the whole process of worry-free for them before the Qing court's flying pigeon was written.
Fortunately, after so many days, probably the local government has already felt that they have already fled into the sea, especially when Wang Jiang is still the former minister of King Lu, the increase in the intensity of the investigation is also very limited, and the silver is in place, who will fight against the money.
Especially so, Chen Kai and his entourage also avoided the heavy garrison of the Qing army as much as possible. went all the way according to the established route, and when he stayed outside Xianxia Pass, he soon met with the people sent by Zheng Chenggong to meet him. Xianxia Pass is the most important passage from Zhejiang to Fujian, and it is also one of the most important commercial routes for trade in northern Fujian.
Back in Fujian, Chen Kai turned out the three books written on the way to resist the Qing movement, put Jiangxi aside, and carefully read about Zhejiang and Nanzhili, just like the one in Jiangxi, due to the hurry on the road, the content is limited, and what he saw is nothing more than a peep in the tube.
It's just that he knows his own affairs, and Chen Kai knows very well that he didn't really go all the way south from Datong Mansion in Shanxi Province to Nanao Island to defect to Zheng Chenggong - he appeared in the mountains near the Raoping Water Dividing Pass in Chaozhou, and went directly to Nanao Island.
Now, he has made up for this lesson, and the price may be the loss of power and the decline of status within the Zheng group, but in this world, it is normal to have gains and losses.
Not to mention that his future lies on that big stage, not just in a corner of the Zheng Group. only said that Zheng Jing's identity as the heir, if he was only working hard internally, then he could only hope that Zheng Jing's mistakes and Zheng Chenggong's tolerance would be wiped out by Zheng Jing's foolishness, and such passivity was definitely not in line with Chen Kai's habits. Especially in history, Zheng Jing's situation is different from Shi Lang's fundamental conflict of interest, and God knows if that incident will continue to happen in the future.
Along the way, it seems meaningless, but in fact, there is a lot to see. Originally, Chen Kai thought that if he wanted to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and completely change this era, what China needed to do to make China go to the sea was to strengthen the Zheng Group, and use the original resources of the Zheng Group to become bigger and stronger, so as to achieve the further development of civilization.
But along the way, the cause is not so simple. Not to mention, Zheng Chenggong's strict management of the army is well-known in Chinese history. But his army is still inevitably the bad habits of many armies in this era, such as looting, such as killing, such as cunning and plundering, Chen Kai's efforts over the years are nothing more than to make the financial situation of this army more comfortable, and avoid a lot of oppression of ordinary people caused by financial pressure. However, such as Ou Ting Village, such as a series of forts in Chaozhou against the Ming army by force, Zheng Chenggong's army will still carry out targeted killings, which is inevitable even in such an army with almost the best military discipline in this era.
The slaughter and oppression of the Qing army were even worse, and the end of the Ming Dynasty was a worse era, which is a fact, but it should not be what China and the Chinese people should face. What they need is not a dynasty revival, nor a simple change of dynasty, what they need is a real change, a change that allows them to have a certain degree of resistance to oppression, and a rebirth of Chinese civilization!
Along the way, what I saw and felt was recorded in these three anti-Qing movement investigations. In this regard, Chen Kai already has a cross-era plan, but he still has to continue to work hard and continue to wait for the opportunity. And now, after doing that last thing, you can return to the center. Soon, perhaps, he will have to take on even greater responsibility.