Later generations have done a lot of research on Chen Harizi's bandits and Xu Lie's strong suppression. www.biquge.info There is a view that when Xu Lie strongly suppressed the bandits of Chen Harrier and gave public sacrifices to the people killed in Dengwaer Town, he began a completely different path from the Manchu Qing Dynasty. If Xu Lie and the Qing court are irreconcilable, their differences are also here.

According to the research, the Manchu Qing and all the old dynasties adhered to the doctrine of "unlimited imperial power", which was based on the emperor; The path Xu Lie wants to take is "limited imperial power", people-oriented, and the emperor is a symbol of the people of a country.

Research suggests that it was Xu Lie's people-oriented approach that led to his broader popular base than any previous ruler. Although Xu Lie also suppressed the gentry, he supported a new industrial and commercial class, which was a more powerful and numerous force than the gentry.

Of course, this is a later evaluation. At this time, people only felt Xu Lie's iron fist and iron blood, and showed no mercy to the bandits. In order to cooperate with this shocking move, after cutting off Chen Harrier's head and sacrificing the victims, the Mengshan Army Headquarters issued an ultimatum to all bandits in Mengshan: order to go down the mountain within ten days to disarm and surrender, and their past crimes can be forgiven, if they do not surrender, as soon as the army arrives, they will be exterminated immediately!

Mao, do you want to be so cruel? A small number of bandit leaders who knew that they could not live the life of the Mengshan army took the backbone to flee over the mountains and mountains overnight and fled outside the Mengyin, the strange thing is that these people fled and fled, and the Mengshan army did not pursue it anymore, of course, there were also people who went down the mountain to surrender, and the Mengshan army did not pursue it after surrendering. This strange situation made everyone understand at once: that is, in the territory of Mengyin from now on, except for the Mengshan army, no armed forces will be allowed to appear.

In fact, the result of this is also a last resort. If the bandits just hid in the mountains and didn't run, Xu Lie would definitely be able to exterminate them, but if a small group of elite bandits flowed along the mountains, unless Xu Lie's men were as powerful as Xu Lie, they would not be able to stop them at all. But even if they are all so powerful, can they be stopped? Xu Lie himself may not have that confidence.

Xu Lie's fire in Mengshan made the surrounding counties feel peaceful. Previously, they were in a state of "vigilance" against the drastic changes in Mengyin, if the Mengyin army attacked them, the county magistrates were ready to flee, after all, the two magistrates of Mengyin before and after, now Mengyin is alive and well, and the court has nothing to do about it, do you want to ask me to wait for Xiaozhi County to defend a county seat specifically against people?

However, after the Mengshan army defeated the tens of thousands of troops of the governor Zhang Rumei, the Mengshan army did not attack further, which made them breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that the bandit leader Xu Lie will not attack other places for the time being, and they can also be officials for a few days in peace.

It's just that the Mengshan army did not attack other counties, but attacked bandits in the county, and how could these bandits compete with the Mengshan army, so they only scattered and fled, and this time, the county where they were located suffered. Strictly speaking, it was some villagers and villagers in their county who suffered, and the big families and officials in the county town are still as stable as Mount Tai.

However, they felt scared because of this, because, in a county where there are no bandits in the county, what is this Xu Lie going to do? Reminiscent of the legends of those peasant uprisings in history, Nima and Xu Lie are going to rebel!

So, out of fear, the officials from all over the country also spread the news to the Yizhou Mansion and the governor of Shandong, and the magistrates of the county of course did not forget to send the music directly to Beijing City, the Queen Mother Lafayette, if you don't send a large army, this Mengshan is afraid that it will change color!

Perhaps feeling the call of the local gentry and officials, the city of Beijing is also playing on matters related to the Shandong governor's suppression of bandits and the fall of Mengyin County.

The person in charge of this performance is the Empress Dowager Cixi.

The time is fixed in 1898, in fact, this year is still favorable to Guangxu. At this time, he is in power, and of course, the power of the Queen Mother is not small. In the spring of this year, he activated Kang Youwei and prepared to implement a series of changes. Therefore, the participants in this recital are his teacher Weng Tonghe (龠 + He), and the law-changing cadre Kang Youwei.

In addition, there are a series of officials of the Minister of Military Aircraft: Prince Li Shiduo, Gangyi, Qian Yingpu, Liao Shouheng, Wang Wenshao, Yulu and other six people, in fact, Kang Youwei also belongs to the "Minister of Military Aircraft" at this time. Among them, Prince Li Shiduo is the "Chief Minister of Military Aircraft". In later generations, there was a saying that the Minister of Military Aircraft participated in the military, but in fact, the Military Aircraft Department was only a temporary deliberative body, and the matters discussed were not necessarily military, but "national affairs".

But in any case, these people plus two masters, the weight is 100% sufficient. There is an old minister Li Hongzhang, but this person is the governor of Guangdong at this time and is not in the capital. And Yuan Shikai is not qualified to enter this circle at this time.

The topic was provoked by Cixi, and it was Shiduo who asked: "Prince Li, what kind of evil happened in this Shandong territory, the last time was the Shandong inspection envoy Si Yuxian who fell into the bandit and was beheaded, and this time it was the Shandong governor Zhang Rumei who fell into the bandits, plus the two magistrates of Mengyin and the county also devoted themselves to the bandits, this, you don't have a charter in the Military Aircraft Department?" ”

"Emperor Qibing, Queen Mother: Shandong's affairs are indeed demonic, but last time Yuxian was defeated by the bandits in Mengyin Baoqian Mountain, there was only one briefing on the Shandong side, saying that Yuxian killed the bandits, and there was no detailed information about the giant bandits in Baoqian Mountain, so the ministers had no basis and no corresponding strategy.

At the beginning of April, the bandit Xu Liebu captured Mengyin County, the government and the opposition were shaken, the military aircraft department invited the emperor and the queen mother, and decided to send the Shandong local green battalion to exterminate the army within three months by the governor of Shandong, Zhang Rumei, according to the investigation of the ministers, to the regularity, and did not slack off, and arrived at the north of Mengyin City in mid-June, and the result was lost again to the giant bandit Xu Lie, and the army of 10,000 troops was also annihilated.

Since then, the twists and turns on the Shandong side have been increasing, and the ministers have also found out the clues, it turns out that the bandit Xu Lie came to recruit bandits with silver and two, because the villagers are poor, and there are many people who are willing to follow the bandits; Second, Xu Bandit has many foreign guns and cannons, and they are even more advanced than the equipment of our green battalion, so ......"

"Where did the bandits' silver come from, and where did the foreign guns and cannons come from? Do you know? Cixi's tone was obviously not good. Nima, this thing is a slap in the face, and it was slapped in the face by bandits, it's really fatal.

After the Xu bandits occupied Mengyin City, they sent a secret agent to find out the news, and the Xu bandit had a lot of foreign goods for sale in addition to foreign guns and cannons, but no matter how the secret agent inquired, he couldn't find out the source of his goods.