Chapter 257: Poor Relatives (2nd Watch)
The Old Summer Palace was originally known as the garden of lakes and mountains, but now it has been directly changed to Liangshan Juyi, and there are riotous people who wantonly loot everywhere. Countless people in tattered clothes, holding brocade, porcelain, and silver taels that had not been taken away by Guoxing'a, laughed loudly and uncontrollably, and fled in all directions under the pursuit of the Gu'an army.
The main treasures of the palaces, Guo Xing'a had already arranged for Xishou to be moved. But after all, there were too many things, and the capacity of the baggage battalion was limited, so some large and not very precious things were left in the original place. The eunuch's private silver taels, as well as petty theft, the Gu'an army did not rob them with all his face.
Now these chaotic people who rushed in don't care about this, some of the carved windows of the palace have been removed, not to mention brocade, porcelain, and tea bowls, how clean and clean they are. And Guoxing Allah has no face, and the chaotic people have no scruples, it doesn't matter if you are a eunuch or not, they are robbing whom.
In addition to some martial arts of skilled eunuchs, the physical strength of ordinary eunuchs is still incomparable to that of normal people, and they are naturally not the opponents of these people who work all year round. When the eunuchs were robbed, they resisted hard, but they only got back a violent beating, and they couldn't keep their net worth at all. If it weren't for the fact that the rebels disliked the eunuchs' clothes for being dirty and unclean, and the eunuchs' muslin clothes would not have been kept, they would definitely be stripped naked.
Thanks to the ancestors and ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, the palace ladies did not suffer at first, at most they were robbed of some property. Because the early Qing Dynasty learned the lessons of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the establishment of palace personnel was greatly reduced, from 100,000 eunuchs and 9,000 palace maids in the Ming Dynasty to 3,000 eunuchs and 600 palace maids. In this way, the number of palace maids has become very small, and there are not many palace maids left behind in the Old Summer Palace, and there are even fewer palace maids. Moreover, in the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, the palace people are selected, and the selection of virtue is not good-looking, and even simply wants to be ugly, not good-looking. Because the Manchurians who overcame all obstacles experienced Emperor Shunzhi's obsession with Concubine Dong E, they were worried that the emperor would become a nymphomaniac again. Therefore, the emperor's opportunity to contact beautiful women was cut off from the source, and the name was also beautiful to avoid the fox seducing the Lord and confusing the sacred heart. Although the emperor can still make a southern tour, or a private visit to Weifu, to break through the suppression of the ancestral system and contact beauties, the appearance of the palace maid is still very sorry for the audience.
The rebels are also people with basic aesthetic ability, and the women in this palace are far worse than the ones outside, and they really can't do it. There are officers and soldiers chasing back and forth, and some people who can't control it don't have the time to commit crimes, so they can only be a group of principled robbers who rob money and don't rob sex. However, as more and more people rushed in, the strength of the officers and soldiers was obviously stretched, and the courage of these people became more and more emboldened. Look good or not, put aside, these are all women of the emperor's family, the psychological satisfaction here is different, and some people are unruly to the palace maids who are caught.
The reason why Guoxinga transferred cavalry into the garden and increased the number of troops was that these rebels were now running everywhere and needed more manpower to suppress them, and secondly, these rebels had signs of armed resistance. The rebels who came in at the beginning, although even Guoxing'a dared to rob them, as long as they encountered the officials and soldiers, even if there were only a few people, they would surrender and run around, and they never dared to resist. But as more and more people came in, gradually some people began to resist the Gu'an army's law enforcement, and in some places the resistance was organized, and weapons such as swords, bows and arrows also appeared.
The rebels have an organization and a weapon with lethal capabilities, which makes Goxinga nervous. Although the French army did not have the ability to buy tens of thousands of refugees in one go, it was still able to buy a small number of armed men. Divide and rule and create internal chaos in the enemy country are also the usual tricks of Britain and France. In the current chaotic situation, hundreds of armed men do have the ability to coerce a large number of rioters to rob. They were tossing around in the garden, which upset Goxinga, but Goxinga was more worried that they were creating opportunities for the coalition forces. There is such a large group of chaotic people, tossing around in the garden, if the coalition army is storming from the outside, the battle of Goxinga will not be easy to fight.
"Fuquan, let people go and catch a few rebels who have the most fierce resistance and have a bit of a tactic! We've got to try it first! If you don't figure out where these guys are coming from, something will go wrong. "Guo Xing'a moved to Changchun Xianguan with a group of cronies, although the conditions are far worse than Kyushu Qingyan, but at least it is surrounded by water, and the rioters can't harass here.
Fu Quan went out for a while, and then escorted a rebel whose head was broken in, and did not delay too long. Because Fuquan didn't take people to arrest people himself, he just went to pick people from among the chaotic people who had already been arrested. After all, most of them are the people of their own country, although they hate it, but they don't have too many bad deeds, so the Gu'an Army didn't kill them, as long as they didn't make too much trouble, most of them were captured alive. Fuquan is to pick out those who have the ability to resist, can speak the truth, and are not too dangerous among the chaotic people who are detained like animals.
"Greetings to my lords!" The chaotic people who were brought in were obviously stunned for a moment when they saw Guo Xing'a sitting on the main seat. Then he saluted Guo Xing'a unconventionally, and finally knelt on the ground honestly, not only bowing his head, but also not moving his eyelids.
"What's your name?" Guo Xing'a asked in a hurry, although he felt that this kid was a little abnormal, and he didn't think much about it.
"Back to your lordship, Aha'a-Rin." The rebels still kept their heads down.
"Ah...... Why are there so many Ah ...... Are you a flag man? Guo Xing'a began to wonder why there were so many Ah characters in this bastard's name, and he was stunned for a moment before he reacted, the Han people definitely don't have such a strange name.
Aha is not part of his name, his name is Alin A, and Aha means Manchu minion, which involves a translation problem. Manchu ministers often called themselves slaves in front of the emperor, and lower-level officials also called themselves slaves in front of their superiors because of the problem of subordination. Although there are certain remnants of slavery in the upper echelons of the Qing Dynasty, it is a bit too much for the uncle to call himself a slave in front of his nephew, and the problem lies in the meaning of this slave. Because the meaning of this slave is not the same as that of the Chinese slave, to be precise, it is a Manchu translation problem, and his original word is Aha. Aha is roughly equivalent to the meaning of subordinate personnel, and I don't know why the Chinese word slave was taken as a synonym for him in the early Qing Dynasty. Although Aha also has the meaning of slave, the meaning is also different in the official context of the imperial court.
The question of names and titles is still a trivial matter, and what surprised Guo Xing'a was the identity of Alin'a, he must be a banner man, and it is really unbelievable that a banner man came to rob the royal garden. Even if he was captured by the coalition forces and betrayed in order to save his life, he would not have come to rob the emperor's things! Doesn't the bannerman claim to be absolutely loyal to the emperor? How can there be such a resolute person in addition to his own parallel import.
"Lord Hui, Aha'a Lin'a, under the blue flag!" Alin Ah confessed simply, he also knew that he couldn't get better, and he just wanted to be single. If you commit other crimes, the identity of the flag man may be given preferential treatment, but in today's matter, the flag man will only add one more crime.
"What's your last name?" Guo Xing'a felt that his IQ was a little insufficient, rubbed his temples and stopped talking, and Saishan'a asked about Alin's surname.
"Aha is the Yehnara clan!" Alin Ah was a little embarrassed this time, he felt that he had lost his ancestors.
"Your Excellency, do you see?" Xiande and the others all felt that it was a little difficult to do, this Alin A was a relative of Guoxinga in a sense.
Yehnara is a place name plus a surname, Yeh is a place name or tribal title, and Nala is the real surname. Ye He is the meaning of porcelain, Nala is the meaning of nostalgia, and the literal translation is nostalgia for porcelain, representing Ye Hebu's devotion to sinicization. Nala is a Manchu surname, but because of transliteration, there are many different ways to write it, the most common being Nalan. However, because of the scattered places, the surname Nala is divided into many branches, such as Yehnara, Ulanara, Hadanara, and Huifa Nara, the most famous of which is Yehnara.
The descendants of the Yehenara clan are also flourishing, and there have been many celebrities, such as Kangxi's henchman Mingzhu, Nalan Xingde who "life is only as first seen", Suke Saha who was killed by Aobai, the future Empress Dowager Cixi and his niece Empress Dowager Longyu, etc. Ruilin, who was scolded as a pig by Guoxing'a two days ago, was in Baili, who enjoyed Qingfu in Gu'an, and Jilezhang'a, who was a company commander in Jiying's place, were also from the Yehenara family, and Jilezhang'a was the same brother as a great-grandfather of Guoxing'a.
From the time of Nurhachi to the Xianfeng period, the Yehenara clan was already very populous, and with the spread of branches, it became extremely large, with 10,000 or 20,000 people. Guo Xing'a never knew that he had such a relative as Ruilin, otherwise he would not have scolded Ruilin's ancestors for eight generations in front of his subordinates. It's not just that many people don't know each other, but it's even more obvious that the mix is good and bad. There are inner court concubines like Ruilin who are in the dynasty and Cixi, and there are ordinary people like Guoxing's cheap father Huiyang. However, there are also those who are very miserable, such as the Alin in front of him, a poor bannerman, and his wife and children have a hard time eating.
"Shame on you!" Guo Xing'a has been thinking about the problem of Qiding robbing the emperor's belongings, so he has not spoken, and Saishan'a and Xiande have begun to sigh.
"Huh?" Alin also found that something was wrong, he couldn't understand why these big people who arrested him and why they were ashamed of him.
"My Yunshuai is also from the Yehenara clan, and he is also from the Blue Flag! You've disgraced your ancestors! Xiande relied on the old man and reprimanded Alin A few words.
It is a shame that there are relatives of Gohin A, and although Gohin Ah is not the patriarch of the Yehnara clan, he will also be disgraced. However, the ancient patriarchal concept is extremely heavy, and to a certain extent, this matter can be regarded as Guoxing's family matter, except for the old qualifications of Xiande, it is really difficult for others to say anything.
"You're a flag man! Eighty percent is also right? "Guo Xing'a doesn't care about the problem of this kinship at all, it's been more than ten generations, and it's no problem to get married. He was more concerned about the robbery of the emperor by the bannermen, which was a very philosophical question.
"Aha is the Eight Banners Protector of the Old Summer Palace." Alin also confessed.
"If you don't come to defend the palace, forget it, why did you come to rob it yourself?" Guo Xing'a was even more speechless, these guys can't be considered robbery, they are guarding and stealing.
"It's not just us, the people who came in before were all banner people, and the Han people came later!" Alin Ah said something that shocked everyone even more, the banner people looted the Old Summer Palace earlier than the coalition army.