Chapter 153 The sky is falling apart - the Tartars go down to the south of the Yangtze River

Everyone was tossing, and suddenly several news came from Zunyi Mansion and Chongqing Mansion one after another, which shocked everyone.

It turned out that at the same time as resisting the Great Western Army, the entire Central Plains was turned upside down, and the barbarian Qing Tartars broke through the psychological defense line of the Han Dynasty, broke through the Yangtze River, and went straight to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Southern Ming Dynasty in Nanjing was overthrown again.

The transmission of information in this society is quite slow, especially in troubled times, and some news needs to be transmitted for several years (such as Jin Shenghuan, the governor of Jiangxi in the Manqing Dynasty, anyway, he didn't know that Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang had ascended the throne in Zhaoqing, and initially used the year name of Emperor Longwu).

After a long period of five months, the barbarian Qing occupied Nanjing, and the news of the capture of Hongguang Emperor Zhu Youlang finally came.

As mentioned earlier, after the capture of Tongguan, the barbarian Qing troops were divided into two routes, one was led by Prince Ying Azige, and pursued all the way after Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng became the fate to avoid defeat and attacked Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang.

Zuo Liangyu's troops were defeated by the Dashun army at the mouth of the Jinghe River, and then withdrew from Wuchang under the guise of the Qing monarch's side, and marched all the way south to attack Nanjing.

And after Li Zicheng occupied Wuchang, it was really a praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow sparrows, and the barbarian Qing followed closely behind, captured Wuchang and killed the general Liu Zongmin, while Li Zicheng was killed by the peasants and ended his sinful life.

Why do you have to re-focus on the explanation, the main reason is the harm of Zuo Liangyu's eastward advance, after the occupation of Jiujiang, Zuo Liangyu died of illness, and his subordinates surrendered to the Barbarian Qing under the leadership of his son Zuo Menggeng, and more seriously, the impact on the defense of Jinling.

When the Southern Ming Dynasty was established, the four towns of Jiangbei were established in the Jianghuai region to prevent the barbarian Qing Tartars, if there was no such thing as Zuo Liangyu's rebellion, the four towns of Jiangbei could at least use the advantage of water warfare to resist the barbarian Qing for a while (just like the Liberation War, the Communist Party now defeated the Kuomintang in the Huaihai Campaign, controlled the Jianghuai region, and then crossed the Yangtze River with a million troops), and now there is a civil uprising in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and Ma Shiying in the cabinet university in order to save his life, the main force of Jiangbei was transferred to the upper reaches of Nanjing, resulting in the emptiness of Jiangbei.

To add insult to injury, there was infighting on the Jianghuai front, and Xingping Bo Gaojie was booby-trapped and killed in Suizhou, Henan, by Xu Dingguo, the Henan general soldier who secretly surrendered to the Qing army.

Duoduo led the Qing army to drive straight in, and there was no decent resistance at all along the way, and Shi Kefa, who was touted as a generation of loyalty, was even more of a farce in Yangzhou.

After the barbarian Qing occupied Yangzhou, which was the most prosperous at that time, Duoduo created the tragic Yangzhou Massacre, which is known as the Ten Days of Yangzhou in history.

"Yangzhou Ten Diaries" recorded: "The women are tied with long ropes around their necks, tired like beads, falling step by step, covered in mud; The ground is full of babies, or lined with horses' hooves, or by human feet, the liver and brain are smeared on the ground, and the crying is full of wilderness. ”

“…… Walking through a ditch and a pond, piling up corpses and accumulating them, pillowing hands and feet, blood entering the water and blue ochre, turning into five colors, and the pond is flat. To a house, it is the residence of Yongyan Yao Gong, and he enters directly from the back door, the house is deep, and there are corpses everywhere......"

In the past ten days, 800,000 people in Yangzhou were slaughtered by the Manchurian army, which is 100 times more tragic than the Nanjing Massacre in the previous life, and since then, Yangzhou, the most prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, has not recovered to its former prosperity after 36 years.

The brutal Qing massacre frightened the Southern Ming monarchs and ministers, and seeing that the situation was so decadent, Emperor Hongguang hoped to choose to flee to Hangzhou to preside over the overall situation like Song Gaozong.

On the twenty-second day of May, Emperor Hongguang fled to the military camp of Huang Degong, and Huang Degong's generals Tian Xiong and Ma Degong decided to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and after shooting Huang Degong, they captured Zhu Youxiang of Hongguang Emperor alive and dedicated it to the Barbarian Qing.

A year later, seeing that he had lost any use value, the barbarian Qing Dolgon found an excuse to brutally kill Zhu Yousong, the emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, in Beijing.

And before, that is, on May 15, those ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty, who were full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, under the leadership of Qian Qianyi, Zhao Zhilong, Wang Feng and others, actually surrendered Nanjing to the Qing army;

After the barbarian Qing occupied Nanjing, the vanguard resisted on July 11 of this year, and had just been elected as a prisoner, and the Donglin Party touted Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, as the virtuous king, surrendered, and the Southern Ming court was eliminated for the first time.

As soon as the news spread, the prefect's yamen cried, although everyone in the Ming Dynasty had no privileges, but they were finally ruled by the Han people, and now it is good, a scene in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty is about to be staged, and the Han nation will be ruled by the barbarians again.

In the people, everyone is even more discussed, after the establishment of the Nanming regime in Nanjing, many intellectuals are optimistic, no matter how bad the Ming Dynasty is, it can be completely like the Southern Song Dynasty to defend half of the country, when the time comes, as long as everyone works hard, the political and military of the Ming Dynasty is slightly on the right track, and then carry out the Northern Expedition to restore the homeland of China.

Unexpectedly, in just one year, the Nanming regime was brutally wiped out, and when they heard the news, everyone cried bitterly and couldn't speak for a long time.

Yang Lin is different, there was an emperor in the past, Qian Bangqi, Fan Wenguang and others must be called saints, and they ask themselves how to be loyal and good generals, but now that the emperor is gone, he can also play freely.

But for two days at ease, the news came that Emperor Longwu was proclaimed emperor.

Longwu Emperor Zhu Yujian can be said to be a strange person in the Zhu Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yujian is the eighth generation grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang's 22nd son, and when he was still the grandfather of Tang King Zhu Yujian, he didn't like Tang Wang.

In order to make his youngest son the king of Tang, he imprisoned Zhu Yujian and his father, and Zhu Yujian's father was poisoned by his uncle.

After his uncle inherited the title, Zhu Yujian sued his uncle, so that he could avenge his father and inherit the throne of Tang Wang.

Knowing the bitterness of the world, the Tang King raised 3,000 righteous troops out of his own pocket to fight against the Liukou, although he won, but also violated the Ming ancestral system and was imprisoned in the Fengyang Ancestral Temple by the suspicious Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and was released after the barbarian Qing Dynasty occupied Beijing and the Hongguang Emperor succeeded to the throne before he was released to become the king of Tang again.

When the barbarian Qing Dynasty attacked Nanjing, Zhu Yujian was in Zhejiang, and after hearing that Emperor Hongguang was captured and King Lu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Huang Daozhou, a scholar of the university, Zheng Hongkui, a powerful figure in Fujian, and Zheng Zhilong, a powerful figure in Fujian, supported Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, as the emperor, inherited the unification of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and was known as the Longwu regime.

Because of the sadness of the world in the past, coupled with the experience of recruiting troops to fight, this Zhu Yujian showed himself extraordinary before he took office as the superintendent, and issued an oath when reviewing the army in Quzhou, Zhejiang, and personally mentioned the sixth division "Gong Xingtian to restore the imperial family; Expelled the Qing soldiers to restrain the cause of my ancestors."

Such an emperor who succeeded to the throne quickly stabilized people's hearts, and was recognized by the governors of Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guizhou and other places, and became the recognized ruling regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty after Emperor Hongguang.

After Emperor Longwu inherited the unification, he quickly abandoned the strategy pursued by Emperor Hongguang to unite the Qing Dynasty and suppress the Kou, and jointly crusaded against the political basis of the Barbarian Qing Dynasty.

On the other hand, the barbarian Qing took Jiangnan without resistance, and swept the whole country just around the corner, and the barbarian magnates led by Dolgon successively issued decrees such as shaving orders, in order to enslave China and turn it into their own colony forever.

Later history shows that this measure of the Manchu rulers basically achieved the desired effect. The Han people gradually forgot their national costumes and became accustomed to Manchu hairstyles and clothing.

When the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing Empire and called on the people to cut off their braids, there were many slaves who were baptized by the barbarian Qing ideology and were unwilling to cut them, one of the reasons was that they were afraid of being killed by the government after cutting off their braids.

The notorious history of the Barbarian Qing shaving order can be traced back to the sixth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1621), when Liaoyang was captured, "the imperial historian Zhang Quan was captured, and the rest of the officials and people were shaved and surrendered". Soon, all the large and small cities in Liaodong fell into the hands of the Jinren, and "the officials and the people all shaved their hair and surrendered".

After that, the barbarians only accepted "shaving their hair and surrendering", and the people who surrendered were called "shaving their hair and surrendering to my people".

If the city is captured and the officials and people do not shave their hair, it is not really surrendered, and the barbarian Qing is going to kill a lot. In this way, Liaodong was originally the place where the children of the Han family lived, and from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Yan State established a county here, and it became a barbarian state.

The barbarian Qing entered Beijing, although it was a tough implementation of the shaving order, but it was opposed by most officials, including some officials who defected to the barbarian Qing Dynasty, and these scholars recognized this dead reason, when the situation was critical, Lao Tzu was forced to surrender to you, and it was a very shameful thing to be a traitor.

Now the barbarian Qing army is mighty, all the way to the wind and invincible, in this case, under the traitor Sun Zhiqi and others, Dolgon once again implemented the shaving order. (In the first year of Longwu (1646), this Sun Zhiqi returned to his hometown, and it was at this time that the Xie Qian Uprising occurred in Shandong. )

For the Barbarian Qing invasion of Jiangnan, the first resistance of the Jiangnan Shimin was not very strong, and now I see that I want to shave off the legacy of my ancestors, and I see the crazy shouting of the Manqing and the traitors who have cut off the whip and surrendered: keep your head without hair, and keep your hair without your head.

Under the crazy oppression of the barbarian Qing and traitors, the people of Jiangnan shouted: The slogan that the head can be cut off and the hair cannot be shaved should be used to fight against the atrocities of the barbarian Qing with practical actions, and uprisings broke out one after another in Jiangyin, Jiading, and Zhejiang, among which the Jiangyin 81st led by Yan Yingyuan and others was of the most representative significance.

In the first year of Longwu (A.D. 1645), on the twentieth day of June of the lunar calendar, Fang Heng of the puppet Zhixian County got the order of shaving his hair from the barbarian Qing, which provoked the people to revolt, and the people killed the pseudo-Zhixian County, and elected the two wardens before and after Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu as the leader, with the banner of "Daming Zhongxing", claiming to be the righteous people of Jiangyin to officially oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

Hearing the rebellion of the people of Jiangyin, first Zong Hao, the prefect of Changzhou Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty, sent 300 soldiers to suppress it, then surrendered to Liu Liangzuo to surround Jiangyin City with heavy troops, and then the barbarian Qing Gongshun King Kong Youde led the heavy troops to attack, and finally Duoduo sent Bellebolo and Bellenikan to lead the Manchurian soldiers to carry red-coated cannons to attack the city. (Boluo and Nikan were later made princes by the Barbarian Qing)

But even so, Jiangyin, led by Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu, was unyielding and insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty for 81 days, dealing a heavy blow to the Manqing.