Chapter 836: Wanted Li Zicheng
The military aristocracy that surrendered to Jiannu did not suffer a massacre, but their way of life had to change whether they wanted it or not.
Because the law of "Nanming" stipulates that there are no slaves, theoretically, the original slaves of the slave nobles are all emancipated objects.
The Han Chinese slaves were happy to see it happen, and they liberated themselves when the Manchus announced their surrender, and some of the slaves were authentic Jiannu, who still remained in the master's house.
In response to this phenomenon, the "God of War" soldiers adopted coercive measures, and each household could have at most two males, and all the rest were forcibly conscripted as military laborers as surplus soldiers and sent to the Japanese state.
A whole set of measures has shown results, and there are not many Jiannu in Liaodong, only such as Abatai, Gang Atai, and Ge Ernen are left, and there are basically no clothed slaves in their homes, and their acres of land belong to the plundered stolen goods, which are of course confiscated.
The "Nanming" government left them leeway, and did not raid their homes, which meant that their belongings were preserved. These people don't know how to farm, and they also do business in Lushunkou, they know the advantages and disadvantages of fur, and they are quite handy in the leather business.
In order not to be discriminated against in business, Abatai put on Hanfu early with his hair and used stiff Chinese to communicate with the merchants, and when asked where he was from, he said that he was a Han merchant from Zungar.
Many Manchu surrenderers saw that Abatai followed suit, and soon the so-called Manchu language and Manchu language disappeared in Liaodong, and the money rat tail only left a clown-like joke in history, and even the descendants of Jiannu were ashamed and denied that there was Jiannu blood.
When Huang Sheng came to Lushunkou again for field research, there was no money rat tail in sight on the street, not all the slaves had been killed, most of them went to open up colonies, and some of them cut their pigtails, grew their hair, put on Hanfu and learned to do business.
While playing politics, the military has never been delayed, and all the armies on the land of the Central Plains are marching forward.
In May of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Dragon Boat Festival sun was shining, and there were dozens of hot air balloons floating in the southeast wind over the surrounded capital, like a goddess scattering flowers, and the capital was full of leaflets with pictures and texts flying in the wind.
The "Nanming" General Praise Painting Department issued an ultimatum, warning the ordinary soldiers of the Thieves Department to stop all killing from now on, and the "God of War" who surrendered when the city was broken could get a chance to be pardoned, otherwise he would definitely die.
In order to reflect the attitude of the "God of War" soldiers who only punish the worst, the leaflet stated that the shelling of the city of Beijing would begin three days later, clearly informing the thieves that this was not to prepare for the siege, but to destroy the artillery defending the city.
The printing quality of the leaflet is good, which fully proves that the "Nanming" printing process has been improving over the years. The pictures and text on the leaflets were a reminder to stay away from the gun emplacement, otherwise there was a high risk of being blown to pieces.
It is not a level of war, and the "God of War" soldiers, who have completed the construction of the encirclement, told the intruders in an arrogant tone that our army is preparing to shoot artillery at a certain day and at a certain time, and where the shells are about to fall, you had better stay away.
Li Duyan was reading a flyer in the imperial study of the Forbidden City at this time, this leaflet with pictures and texts was also a wanted notice, the content of which was to announce the unforgivable crimes of fifty-four old bandits, and the reward was to capture a thief alive and change his pants and kill a pair of straw sandals.
The first major offender is the former Ming Dynasty soldier Li Hongji, later renamed Li Zicheng, the criminal bandit number "Li Chuang" scourge Ming Dynasty for 15 years, the bad deeds are innumerable, the Ming army and civilians are eager to eat the flesh of this thief and sleep on the skin of this thief.
The No. 1 wanted warrant also features a portrait of Li Zicheng, a lewd man in a felt coat and a one-eyed man who is vividly depicted, and anyone who follows the map can identify him in the crowd.
The wanted warrants distributed were in leaflet mode, a black-and-white version printed with ink, and the "God of War" soldiers were even more delicate in their hands, and they were playing cards printed in color.
Playing cards are not Huang Shengkai's golden finger at all, this thing has been there hundreds of years ago, and the legend first originated from the 12th and 13th centuries during the Southern Song Dynasty and came from China's leaf opera.
Ye Zi opera began to be played by the Han people as early as the Tang Dynasty, and it is divided into four categories according to the four seasons, and the four suits of playing cards are similarly said.
It's just that Huang Sheng saw that the playing cards seized from the Xiyi warships and merchant ships were not uniform, and the gameplay was also very strange, so he simply printed a unified playing card product and explained a few ordinary ways to play, and now the playing cards produced by "Nanming" have been exported to European countries.
There are too many rules of the game of playing cards, many people like this kind of game, of course, it is inevitable to use it for gambling, but the military discipline of "Nanming" clearly stipulates that any gambling behavior is prohibited in the army.
The playing card wanted warrant is really good, and the "warriors" also remembered the fifty-four heinous thieves when they were entertaining, and everyone knew that catching them and changing their pants was just to demoralize the thieves, and it was not a dream to really capture the thieves alive and add officials to the knighthood.
Li Zicheng has long lost the strength he had when he took the capital, and at this time, he wanted to run away for a long time, but he organized several attempts to break through without success.
But Li Zicheng didn't think about surrendering at all this time, he knew in his heart what he did in the capital, knowing that even if the "King of the South" left him alive, he would be torn to pieces by the revenge-seeking Ming eunuchs.
He also had the illusion that the high walls of the Jingshi City were thick, and with the Ming army that had been absorbed, the "Dashun" army had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and if the people of the Beijing Division were forcibly recruited, the number of troops that could defend the city could reach four or five hundred thousand.
The grain stocks of the Beijing division can last for a year, maybe the troops in Shaanxi will come to attack, maybe the Qing army in Liaodong will enter the customs again to create opportunities for themselves.
When the Zanhua Department formulated the propaganda content to disintegrate the enemy's military heart, he forgot to write that the puppet Qing Dynasty had been wiped out, and Li Duyan didn't know that there were no more Tunguska savages to interact with him, and he thought that the entry of the Jiannu outside the gate would give him a chance to breathe again.
Li Zicheng couldn't listen to the song anymore, and it didn't taste like drinking a little wine in his mouth, and his canonized concubine, Dou Meiyi, the former Daming palace maid, suddenly found that the original "Dashun" emperor was not strong.
There is also an undercurrent surging in the capital, and the lurking "Nanming" agents are waiting for an opportunity, they are not on the same level as the thieves and hidden piles, their goal is not to kill people and set fire to create chaos, but to arrange a decapitation operation, and capturing Li Zicheng alive is the first choice.
It was quite easy for the "Nanming" agents to obtain a large number of wanted warrants flying in the capital, and the lifelike portraits of the 54 main arrestees and their job descriptions made the agents feel much more convenient.
After dozens of days of deception and robbery, some agents mixed well, but also because the thieves had money and food to expand their strength frantically, and there were too many opportunities to take advantage of, and some agents directly mixed into the old camp horse team of some of the thieves, and there were many people who became small leaders.