Chapter 258: The Great Robbery
Alin's words calmed everyone present. Originally, I thought that Alin's situation was just an isolated case, but I didn't expect it to be a common phenomenon. The banner man robbed the emperor's garden, and even ranked in front of the Han and foreign devils, I don't know how Xianfeng, who is far away in Rehe, has to feel at this moment. And if it is really as Alin A said, this is probably the largest rebellion of the banner people since the founding of the Qing Dynasty.
"How many are there?" Goxinga asked cautiously, he was also afraid that Alia would say an answer that he couldn't bear.
"The Eight Banners of the Old Summer Palace, the Guardian Barracks, and the nearby Yu Ding and his family are basically here, and the specific number of Aha can't be said!" Alin Ah counted it on his fingers.
"I'll go!" Guo Xing'a couldn't cry or laugh, around the Old Summer Palace, except for the Eight Banners Forbidden Brigade in Beijing, basically all the flag people came.
"The people from the guard camp are here too?" Xiande and Cezanne immediately heard that something was wrong.
The flag men stationed in the guard camp and the Eight Banners of the Old Summer Palace are not the same, they are the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army that is often mobilized, but they are not ordinary people who are half civilian and half soldiers. The people of the banner may do something irrational on their own, but the military camp will definitely not. Although the combat effectiveness of these people is not good, it also belongs to the battle sequence of the Beijing camp, and now that the enemy is in the present, it is not easy for them to mobilize a single soldier. Their large-scale coming to the Old Summer Palace was certainly not a spontaneous irrational act, but someone assigned it.
"It must be them, Aha knows a lot of people from the military camp, and they are all here! When the Tianyang devils first arrived, they resisted the military camp for a while, and then dispersed, and today they changed into civilian clothes and came back. Alin Ah was not lying.
"These bastards!" Sezanne scolded angrily.
"Why did you come, and who sent you?" The original identity of the rebels was somewhat peculiar, but this was not the focus of Goxinga's attention, and Goxinga was more interested in who sent him.
"Back to my lord, there is no one to appoint it. The Ahabs are all living a hard life, and they can't stand it anymore, so they want to come to the garden to get some money! Alin Ah kowtowed frequently, a little in tears.
"I've seen petty theft, but you're robbing! You know what you're robbing! Is this place you can move? A tea bowl can kill a family, and no one dares you to come here to rob it! Thousands of troops outside are fighting bloodily, this gun is roaring, no one dares to come here to rob! Guo Xing'a felt that Alin's logic didn't make sense, he didn't go to the temple to steal things, he was robbing the palace.
"My lord, Aha is fortunate to be of the same clan as you, and I will also say something from my heart. Who dares to come here to rob in the blue sky and daylight, but whoever has a stutter is willing to come out and rob, we can't help it! Aha waited for the eight banners of the Old Summer Palace, stationed in Beijing is not counted as stationed in Beijing, and garrison is not counted as garrisoned, Daoguang Ye withdrew the errand of looking at the garden, and our rations were cut off. There are hardcore dealers, but the quality is insufficient, and there is always a debt. Whether it is stationed in the Eight Banners in Beijing or the Eight Banners stationed in the garrison, the men are all in the city, and they can still think of a way to eat and make food. We are in this farm, and there is nowhere to go on credit if we want to. People can't starve to death, and now it's so messy, everything has become expensive, and if you don't rob it, you really can't live, where to use people to instruct. "Alina is really at the end of his life, and their village is running out of food.
Of course, the blisters on their feet are also walked by themselves, and this part of the Eight Banners of the countryside can get to this point, and they themselves have to bear a lot of responsibility. Judging from the books, their income is not only less than that of the city's eight banners, but also has a lot more share. One is that they all have errands and can earn some extra money, although they were canceled by Daoguang, at least they have earned some years. Second, in addition to the hardcore dealers, they also have more harvest in a field than ordinary Eight Banners. These Eight Banner soldiers who were sent out were all redistributed to the fertile land and beautiful land. However, the extra money earned was squandered by the ancestors, and the land had already become someone else's industry.
The flag people will not farm by themselves, even if there are a few diligent people, they will not farm by themselves, they can't stand the ridicule of others. The banner people all contract land to the Han people to plant, and they collect some rent every year, which is also regarded as an income. However, the families of small families did not dare to be tenants of this banner man for fear that the banner man would blackmail them, so the land of the banner man was generally rented to the rich man. When the land came into the hands of the rich man, it became the land of other people for a generation or two. Even if the banner man wants to be bored, he can't get others, and the rich and powerful rich man is not something that the poor flag man can afford to provoke. This is how the Eight Banners of the Old Summer Palace lost all their wealth, so they gradually became a poor person who couldn't eat, and also responded to that sentence, poor people must have something to hate.
"Haidian and Liulangzhuang are fighting, and the artillery is full of fire, you dare to come?" Guo Xing'a was a little convinced, because Alin's state was very similar to the Tomina he met in Texas, and he really couldn't survive.
"Back to my lord, Aha and the others have also heard that there is an army in the garden, and if there is no fighting, we will not dare to come. It's just that when I saw that there was a fight, I dared to come over! Alin raised his head a little, Guo Xing'a did not have the habit of yelling like other masters.
"Why is that?" Guo Xing'a was a little puzzled, if he heard such a fierce firefight, he would have been hiding as far away.
"I always heard that foreign devils are powerful, and the gang of people in the guard camp have blown all the foreign devils into the sky, and we thought that the officers and soldiers would lose as soon as the war started, so we thought that we could take advantage of the chaos to go into the garden and get something. Even if the two sides can't tell the difference between victory and defeat for a while, the army will go to the front to fight, and we will be safe in the garden! Alin Ah said a little twisted, he had been looking forward to Guo Xing'a defeating the battle, and now he said it in front of Guo Xing'a, of course, he was a little ashamed.
"It's really rich and dangerous!" Zou Degui suddenly whispered a few words in Guo Xing'a's ear, and Guo Xing'a's hanging heart instantly relaxed.
It turned out that just when Guo Xing'a and Alin A were grinding their teeth, Zou Degui also went out to find a few rebel captives to question, and the confessions they came to were all about the same, these people wanted to come and take advantage of the fire to rob, and they were not instructed by the coalition army. Moreover, the reconnaissance battalion also brought back news that the French army had sent troops to meet the British army, and the main force could be determined to be still outside Beijing and had not moved towards the Old Summer Palace.
"My lord, Aha and the others are also helpless! Now it's time to change the dynasty, we are poor bannermen, and we don't have the ability, we don't have some family funds, how can we survive in this troubled world! Alin Ah felt that Goxinga was a good talker, and wanted to beg him to let him live.
"A change of dynasty? Who do you listen to? Goxinga was taken aback by this statement.
"Long live the master, the master is gone, and this master has been given to foreigners, what else can I do? The foreign devils are in the new dynasty, and we poor bannermen will have no livelihood at all. Even if the Lord retreats outside the gate, I'm afraid he won't take us with him. Alin only felt that the future was bleak.
Although Guo Xing'a always knew that the departure of Emperor Xianfeng would have a great impact on the morale of the people. But I never thought that this influence would be so bad that even a poor banner man was worried about changing the dynasty. But looking back, if it was not a foreign devil but Hong Xiuquan who entered Beijing, Xianfeng's run would be almost no different from what the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Southern Song Dynasty, and Southern Ming Dynasty did. However, everyone is in a different direction, people have a foundation in the south, so they cross to the south, outside the Longxing Pass in the Qing Dynasty, and can only go back to hunting.
A bannerman in a village outside the Old Summer Palace thinks so, but what about the other officials? What about the people in Beijing? Will you also think about changing the dynasty, will you be ready to welcome the new monarch to the throne, so as to be the founding father of the new dynasty? Although Guo Xing'a knew that the Anglo-French alliance would not change the dynasty, the thoughts of these people were even more terrible than their actual actions. The general trend is not the same as the premeditated one, and there are times when people's hearts are more terrible than many things on the battlefield.
"Is there anything else armed besides the flag men? There are more and more people who dare to resist the officers and soldiers, who are they? "There is no need to ask the Alin Ana gang why they have formed an organized resistance, although these bannermen and the people of the guard camp are not helpful, they have also received a certain degree of training, and they also have weapons in their hands, so it is not surprising that they can resist the Gu'an army and maintain order.
"It seems that there are still a few bandits, all of them are nearby, I have seen a few people, and I don't know if there are more!" Alin struggled to recall the people he had met in the garden.
"Hmm!" Guo Xing'a waved his hand and motioned for Fuquan to take Alin Ah down, he had nothing to ask.
Looking at the back of Alin A, a stranger, Guo Xing's heart was quite up and down. The maintenance of a system or a dynasty mainly relies on the support of vested interests. Alin A is a banner man and should definitely be counted as a vested interest in the Qing Empire, but what he has done has actually stood on the opposite side of Emperor Xianfeng. After nearly two hundred years of operation, the Qing Empire has had serious problems in the distribution of its interests, and this problem has forced many people to the opposite side of the emperor.
As the emperor's private property, the Old Summer Palace concentrated a large amount of wealth and treasures. But just outside the palace walls, the emperor's most loyal bannerman lived a life of hunger and cold. Not only in the eyes of the Anglo-French coalition forces, but even in the eyes of an ordinary flag person, the Old Summer Palace is also Emperor Xianfeng's thing, and it does not belong to this country where everyone has a share. The emperor no longer regards the banner as his family, and the banner man only fights for a bite to eat. They also took a risk, they chose to rob the Old Summer Palace instead of fighting the invaders to the end.
Although the troops were increased, Goxinga also received bad news again, and the garden became even more chaotic. The people in the vicinity began a larger-scale onslaught. Not only young and middle-aged people, but also the elderly, children, and women have been involved in robbery, and their targets are also strange, a brick, a piece of wood, may become the target of their robbery.
The fighting has all stopped, but more and more people are pouring into the Old Summer Palace, and looting is everywhere. The Gu'an army barely controlled the people who dared to use force in the garden, and drove most of the people out, but soon more people would pour in, and all efforts seemed to be in vain. The Old Summer Palace is like a house that leaks on all sides, and now it is here that the looting has begun.