Chapter 184: The Officials in the Cage
The Forbidden City, the Palace of Nourishing the Heart.
In the weather of October, it has snowed lightly in Beijing, but the heat in the Xinuan Pavilion is smoky, the Qianlong Emperor is bareheaded, his pure head is shining brightly under the background of the palace lamp, and he does not feel the slightest cold when he is wearing a blue satin single coat.
"Wu Shulai!" The enthusiastic Qianlong Emperor's eyebrows danced, and the good news from the Burmese Mingrui Army was like a bowl of hot warm Qianlong's internal organs in the winter. There is a war in the southwest border, the Central Plains is in turmoil, Qianlong is very stressed, now Mingrui is breaking the Burmese army, after reading the good news sent by Mingrui, Qianlong felt that Myanmar was no longer worried, the pressure on his own shoulders suddenly decreased, and the voice of the eunuchs around him was full of joy that could not be concealed.
This was very good news for the Manchu court. Chen Ming didn't know this news, even if he knew, he didn't know that his crossing had led to changes in the trajectory of a war thousands of miles away. In the historical Qing-Burma War, Mingrui did win a battle in the barbarian knot and won thousands. But that was in December at the end of the year. Only two or three months after the victory was completed, Burma sent a large army from Siam to counterattack, gathering more than 50,000 people to besiege Mingrui.
But now November is not yet, Mingrui has a big victory in the barbarian knot, and the document of the victory says that 7,000 prisoners were killed, and the results are even greater than those in history, which is definitely a 'butterfly'.
A great chaos suddenly broke out in the Central Plains, and those with deep roots as Mingrui must know it. This battle is really like a shot in the heart, which made Emperor Qianlong mighty.
"The minions are here!" The chief eunuch Wu Shulai replied.
"Go and bring all the twists and turns of Huguang, Henan, and Shaanxi." With the foundation of the big victory, Qianlong also had the heart to endure the evil retribution one by one. The Shaanxi Green Battalion led by Wu Dashan has been in Luoyang for more than half a month, but they have not been able to break through Chen Yi's first line of defense in Pengpo Town, which made Qianlong very disappointed.
The governor of Huguang is also a waste wood. Obviously instructed him to absolutely guarantee Yunyang, but what was the result? Chen Wei was not happy to fight in Yunyang, and once the hundreds of thousands of displaced refugees in Yunyang were instigated, the Qing Dynasty would be in great trouble.
Qianlong obviously overestimated his psychological endurance, and after reading a few books, his face turned cloudy, and the clouds became more and more dense.
When Wu Shulai was first transferred to Qianlong's side, he was just an ordinary chamberlain, just like the little eunuchs inside and outside the palace, and the reason why he can stand by Qianlong's side now is because of his cleverness, clever tongue and good at observing faces, and it is these three samples that make him stand out from many low-status little eunuchs and become the personal eunuch of Emperor Qianlong's palace.
Wu Shulai has already explored Qianlong's mind clearly, although this master is not as harsh as the first emperor to the people around him, he is definitely not as tolerant as Kangxi, whom Qianlong yearns for the most. Seeing Qianlong's face change suddenly, everyone was immediately shocked and secretly shouted bad luck.
As the saying goes, "accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger", it is not bad for the eunuch at all, just now there was laughter and joy, and now it is very common to be angry in the blink of an eye. But the master was angry, the slave's legs were trembling, and he couldn't show his fear at all, Wu Shulai and the eunuchs and palace maids in Xinuan Pavilion could only bow their heads and hold on.
Qianlong over there was speechless for a while, and then slapped his palm on the case heavily, shaking the decorations on the case to jump a little.
is used to living a stable life, and it is difficult to make people calm down once they have experienced such a major event of civil unrest.
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In Yunxi County, the Manchu pennant has fallen from the city, replaced by a bright red red flag.
Chen Baoguang, Chen Baosheng, and Huang Shougui, the three shadows planted by Chen Jiajun, worked together to defeat the panicked Yunxi County, which was very easy and relaxed. They first sent people to quietly enter the county seat to lurk, and then took advantage of the skyrocketing food in the city day after day, stirring up the people to make trouble and grab grain, and attracted the only bit of force in Yunxi County to the chaos in the county, and finally the three of them worked together to make up 600 men and take Yunxi County in one fell swoop.
The news of the fall of Yunyang Mansion City has reached Yunxi, and under the general trend, the big gentry in Yunxi County have to acquiesce to the fact that the county seat is occupied by bandits. Moreover, Chen Baoguang and the others did not want to eat it all, but just cleaned up several big businessmen with the most resentment in the county, and then reached a 'peace agreement' with other gentry and big households.
Outside the gate of the county government, this place where ordinary passers-by dare not look at it squarely, at this time there are more than ten station cages, each station cage is imprisoned a Manchu official or official, each with a signboard hanging on the side of the station cage, indicating their original identity: Zhixian Ning Gang, Yuan Ruihuai, Wang Tong, the warden, Zhou Mingyuan, and so on......
There are more than ten standing cages, and the lowest status is the two jailers in the prison, but whether it is the county magistrate, or those who seem to have no status, in the real society, all these people are horns with heads and faces in Yunxi County.
The Huanghuang officials were treated like this, which was really worse than slashing them with a knife. Na Ning Gang, Yuan Ruihuai and others have already regretted it, if you have to know that it is to suffer such humiliation, it is better to learn from Xu Tongfei and understand yourself with one sword.
You must know that just a month ago, everyone in the cage here came to Chen Baoguang's three people's wood factory, and the latter had to serve respectfully, greet each other with a smile, and send each other off with a smile. The reason why Chen Baoguangsan is practicing them like this now is also deeply related to the previous suffocation of hands.
The ordinary people on the three layers outside the cage and the three layers outside the cage looked at them with curiosity, ridicule, and banter, like Ling Chi's blades, cutting them one by one.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty, the prestige of the official court for one hundred and twenty years, was completely destroyed in Yunxi. Even if the Chen Jiajun withdrew from Yunxi County in the future, the Qing army regained Yunxi and established the existing order, the prestige of the county officials would not be re-established in a short period of time in Yunxi County. Even the Qing court was ridiculed.
Forty or fifty boy scouts between the ages of twelve, thirteen, and fourteen and fifteen years old, armed with knives and guns, and their military posture was very unkempt, and they were the children of the displaced refugees brought in by Chen Baoguang and his wife, and some of them were directly orphans. These children know how to be afraid, they know to be afraid, but their fear of the government can't resist the temptation of food and clothing, for these children, having food and clothing is the greatest happiness.
These people stood on the edge of the standing cage with their chests straight. Protect these dozen officials from being bitten off the flesh. The people in the county seat of Yunxi County may not dare to completely tear their faces apart, but as Chen Baoguang and his people beat the county seat, the city gate was opened, and Chen Baoguang and others 'opened warehouses to release grain', and I don't know how many surrounding displaced refugees flocked to them, and many of these people hated the government to the core.
Chen Baoguang wanted to save the lives of these people, because the good show they had set out had not yet been staged, and they had to wait until the influence had completely spread, and when the authentic Chen Jiajun drove into the county seat and held a public trial, he would ask for the lives of these corrupt officials.
In a small courtyard at the other end of Yamen Avenue, a person with an outward appearance looked at the surrounding group of people and made a final command, "I have memorized all the words." It's not that you slander good people, but everyone knows who those who are officials and who wear official skins. These things have not happened to you, but they have happened to others, and they are all facts, absolute facts.
Remember, you must stir up the atmosphere, cry and scold like the real thing, and stir up the fire for me......"