Chapter 158: The Fall of the Manchu Dynasty [Fourth Update]
Bang Dang!
A sharp dagger slipped from Weng Tongyi's trembling right hand and fell to the ground. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After getting the news that the "short-haired thief" had entered Yanjing City, Weng Tongrong knew that he was powerless to return to the sky, in order to prevent being caught by the "short-haired thief" and suffering humiliation and torture, Weng Tongrong took out a dagger and prepared to commit suicide by cutting his wrists.
However, Weng Tongyi plucked up the courage several times and wanted to use the dagger to slash his left wrist, but the next moment he was deflated, and it was unknown whether he was afraid of pain or death.
In the end, Weng Tongyi became a prisoner of the Han army.
The 18,000 Han army under the command of Zhao Gang, the commander of the Vermilion Bird Legion, attacked Yanjing City, and killed all those who dared to resist.
The Han army attacked from all sides, the inner city and the outer city of Yanjing City were captured at the same time, more than an hour later, a regiment of the Eighth Division took the lead in attacking the imperial city, and in another ten minutes, the regiment successfully attacked the Forbidden City.
In the end, the Han soldiers found the bodies of Guangxu and Cixi in the Qianqing Palace, and the eunuch Li Lianying, who was waiting next to the corpses, confessed that the two died of poisonous wine.
On the evening of June 2, 1888, Yanjing City was captured by the Han army, and two of the most important figures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Guangxu and Cixi, committed suicide by drinking poisoned wine, officially announcing the fall of the Manchu Dynasty.
Although the Han army has occupied Yanjing City, but don't forget that there are hundreds of thousands of banner people in Yanjing City, even if these banner people are extremely cowardly, but accidents can happen at any time, and the Han army needs to be on guard at all times, and kill chickens and monkeys if necessary to suppress these banner people.
For these banner people, Yan Xueyi's order to Zhao Gang was to first confiscate all the wealth of the banner people, and then arrest and kill all the high-ranking officials and nobles in the banner people.
The most important point is that all banner people who belong to the Eight Banners Han Army will be severely punished regardless of men, women and children.
You must know that these bannermen who belonged to the Eight Banners Han Army are all descendants of Hanchen who defected to the Manchu Tartars in the late Ming Dynasty, and they all say that the Manchu Tartars killed countless Han people, what "Ten Days in Yangzhou" and "Three Massacres in Jiading", in fact, the most Han people who killed the Han people were those Han people who took refuge in the Manchu Tartars.
The banner people belonging to the Eight Banners Han Army are all "meritorious" descendants of Han Chen, and their merits are all based on the slaughter of Han people, such people, even their descendants should not be spared, but should be nailed to the pillar of shame in history, this is the fate of traitors.
On 3 June, a garrison brigade marched into Yanjing to replace part of the Han army, and it was obvious that the armed police of the garrison brigade were better than the Han soldiers in maintaining law and order.
Xiao Yao then led a brigade of the Eighth Division and its subordinate units to leave Yanjing City and march towards Tianjin, where his mission was to capture Tianjin.
The garrison brigade is mainly responsible for the security of the outer city of Yanjing, after all, all the people living here are Han people, and the inner city is inhabited by banner people, and the way of treating flag people is different, and the Han army often uses iron-blooded means to deal with flag people.
From the second day after the Han army conquered Yanjing City, the Han army began to raid the homes of the banner people living in the inner city of Yanjing.
Now it is not after the First Sino-Japanese War, the Manchu magnates have deposited their wealth in the banks of foreigners, and now the wealth in the hands of the Manchu magnates is in their own hands, and when the Han army surrounded Yanjing City, the bannermen could only hide their wealth.
The method of hiding wealth is nothing more than burying all this wealth deep in the ground, which is simple and effective, and it is indeed difficult for the Han army to find money buried deep in the ground.
But don't forget, these riches are buried in the ground, and you can find them if you pry open their mouths.
Although the Han soldiers will not do things like threatening the female dependents of the flag people, they still have to be tortured.
Walking on the streets of the inner city of Yanjing, you can hear screams from time to time, one after another, these are all Han soldiers torture the flag people.
As long as the wealth of the banner man reaches a certain amount, it means that the flag man is guilty, and in the end he is either directly sentenced to be shot or forced to pay off his debts.
The fate of the banner people is generally very miserable, but the Han soldiers will not pity them, in the eyes of the Han soldiers, they all deserve it, the Han soldiers from ordinary people, which one has not been squeezed by the Manchu Qing? No matter how much the bannermen who were tortured and tortured howled, the Han soldiers were unmoved, and they would not stop the torture unless the bannermen handed over their wealth.
Wealth is important, but the pain in the body makes the bannermen have to explain the whereabouts of their wealth.
The Han soldiers dug up the wealth of the banner people from the land, transported them away in truckloads, and finally gathered in one place for inventory.
It took three days for the Han soldiers to torture most of the bannermen's wealth and transport it away, but it took more than half a month for the Han soldiers to count the wealth before they could count a specific number.
Zhao Gangcai was not in the mood to guard this amazing wealth in Yanjing, so he led most of the Han army to leave Yanjing early and march to the northeast, Yanjing only had less than 3,000 Han troops left, and there were two garrison brigades and more than 2,000 public security police, who were jointly responsible for the security of Yanjing.
Yanjing's unstable factor, the banner people, was repaired by the Han soldiers before, and a large number of Manchu magnates were shot, and some Manchu magnates were imprisoned.
Even if there is a commotion, they will be quickly suppressed with their bare hands.
Half a month later, the wealth of the Yanjing City Banner people was counted, and the silver alone was enough to have 510 million taels, and the remaining wealth value of antiques and real estate could not be calculated, if it was calculated, it would be an astronomical amount.
Is 510 million taels of silver more?
It's a lot, but think about the fact that Li Lianying, a eunuch alone, has a wealth of nearly 10 million, and a lot of those Manchu magnates and princes, a family has followed the Manchus for more than 200 years, and the wealth looted from the Han people is uncountable, so it is not surprising to get the figure of 510 million in the end.
In a few years, I am afraid that the Manchu elites will deposit all their wealth in the banks of foreigners, and then this wealth will only be cheapened by foreigners.
Yan Xueyi, who was far away in Yuanhe City, Siqi Province, was overjoyed when he learned that the people who raided the family banner had obtained a lot of wealth.
Now Yan Xueyi is most lacking in money, although Yan's money can be allowed to print more banknotes, but the areas outside the province of Siqi still use silver for transactions.
After the unification of the whole country, various projects such as the development of industry and the popularization of basic education required a large amount of money, and the large wealth obtained by the banner people finally solved Yan Xueyi's urgent need. (To be continued.) )