When Wang Yinghua was brought over, he only glanced at Zhou Shixiang and then twisted his head to the side, tilting his head back slightly to make a picture of a loyal minister and a righteous man, only to break Zhou Shixiang's face and salivate.

The blind man Li shouted: "When you see my handsome, don't kneel down!" ”

"The old man kneels to the sky, kneels to the ground, kneels to the king in the middle, and also kneels to his parents' high hall, who is the handsome man in your family, and he also kneels when the old man comes?"

Wang Yinghua looked disdainful, in terms of background, he was a Jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen, what is Zhou Shixiang? It's just a showman.

In this world, there is no reason for Jinshi to kneel and show talent!

What's more, he was a bachelor of the Shaowu Dynasty before he descended to the Qing Dynasty, and after he was the Guanglu Siqing of the Qing Dynasty, how can this kind of identity be compared with a show of talent!

Wang Yinghua was not afraid of death, but asked him to kneel down to a showman, which really killed him.

"He. . . Damn, the old thing has hard bones, right? Go, knock this old thing down on me! ”

The blind man Li had just been compared by Zhou Shixiang to the guard Xiaoqi beside him, and when he saw that Wang Yinghua dared to put on such a dead appearance, he couldn't help but be angry, and ordered Wang Yinghua to hold down and kneel.

Zhou Shixiang didn't say a word, and watched coldly.

"Let go of the old man, the old man will not kneel to show off this thief! Soldiers can be killed, but not humiliated, if you have the ability, you will kill the old man! ”

Wang Yinghua struggled but refused to kneel, and the blind man Li was annoyed, and when he lifted the scabbard, he stepped forward to break the old thing's knee to see how hard the old guy's bones were.

"Wait."

Zhou Shixiang opened his mouth to call the blind man Li, motioned for the guards to retreat, and then said, "Sir's performance." I must have thought about it before I came, but Ben Shuai always felt that something was missing. ”

Wang Yinghua was stunned for a moment, and blurted out: "Almost what?" Immediately remorseful. shouldn't have taken the thief Xiucai's stubble.

Zhou Shixiang chuckled lightly and said: "You should have scolded me after seeing me, and then I was furious and ordered someone to drag you out and cut you down, so as to show the heroism of Mr. for the Qing Dynasty." Well, I guess Mr. had already written a desperate poem yesterday, so that it would be even more perfect to chant before death. ”

"You!"

Wang Yinghua was very aggrieved by Zhou Shixiang's words, and he was indeed ready to be killed. He also carefully prepared two desperate poems, which were to be read aloud before the execution, so that he could do so. He, Wang Yinghua, really became a loyal minister who served the Qing Dynasty to the death, and his reputation spread far and wide, and the Qing court couldn't say that he didn't treat his son well. Now it was pointed out so directly by Zhou Shixiang, it was like a fig leaf suddenly ripped off. It's like a trick for people to pierce it. It made him very depressed.

Getting back to the point, Zhou Shixiang said with a straight face: "Mr. really doesn't want to help Ben Shuai and contribute to my Ming Zhongxing?" ”

"The Ming Room is exhausted." Wang Yinghua said coldly.

"My great son is still in Kunming, the southwest provinces are still under my Ming rule, it is this Guangdong, there are also many of my Ming soldiers and horses, before I defeated the Qing army twice by the king of Jin, and now there is the commander of the Qing army. There are hundreds of thousands of people with lofty ideals in the north and south of the country, and there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses who support the Ming Dynasty. Why does the gentleman say that I have exhausted all my wisdom? ”

Wang Yinghua sneered: "Yongli is only the territory of several southwestern provinces, how can it be compared with the Qing Dynasty, which has most of the world, is now just surviving in Yunnan, and it is a matter of time before it perishes." As for you and the big western thief, hmph, but the arrogant people of the night lang secretly thought that if they defeated the Qing soldiers once or twice, they would be able to have that dream of prosperity in the Ming room? Stupid! Not to mention you, it's the big western thief, what if you defeat my Qing soldiers twice, and you haven't suffered defeats in Guangdong, what does this mean, it shows that Nanming's qi is exhausted, and it is definitely not something that can be saved by manpower. ”

Zhou Shixiang sighed and said, "According to what Mr. said, what we have done is just a flower in the mirror, a moon in the water, in vain?" ”

"Since you know, you still come to ask the old man what he is doing?" Wang Yinghua's beard is cocked on it, and he looks very Confucian.

"Mr. is like this, so that people can see that Mr. Zhenjue is a loyal martyr, and he is very famous in history. Regardless of whether my Ming Dynasty is exhausted, I only ask Mr., Mr. is a Han person, the Manchu people are Hu people, and now the Hu people occupy my country, kill my people, and enslave my Han people, why does Mr. as a Han person want to be a slave of the Manchu people? Zhou Shixiang knew that this Wang Yinghua really refused to submit, but he still wanted to persuade him again.

"The world has been decided, the fortune of the country has been decided, the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment, I am the Qing Dynasty and the Holy Emperor of the ages, respecting Confucius, whether it is the people of the country or the Han people, as long as the world is peaceful, not subject to the scourge of swords, not suffering from displacement, this day is contentment. The sword soldiers rose again, and it was not the people who suffered. What is wrong with me for the sake of the people? Wang Yinghua was iron-hearted after eating the scales, and he was never moved by Zhou Shixiang.

"A sentence of respect for Confucius makes Mr. willing to die for the alien race? A sentence of respect for Confucius can make Mr. ignore the cruelty of the alien race? A sentence of respect for Confucius can make Mr. ignore me, and the people of the Ming Dynasty were killed and injured? ”

Wang Yinghua said righteously: "The deaths and injuries of the people are clearly caused by you!" The sooner the world is settled, the sooner it is settled, and the more stubborn you resist, the more suffering the people will be! When the old man judged the situation and resolutely descended to the Qing Dynasty, he saved hundreds of thousands of people in Guangzhou, if it wasn't for Li Chengdong's betrayal of the Qing Dynasty, why would hundreds of thousands of people accompany him to be buried? The reason in this matter could not be clearer, those who follow can live in peace, if it were not for Li Chengdong's life, how could the people of Guangzhou die? ”

Zhou Shixiang was speechless after hearing this, and after a long time, Fang said: "I only understand today what it means to not speculate for more than half a sentence, Wang Yinghua, you are my Ming bachelor but you wagged your tail to the Manchurians, you have no ignorant ministers, and you have no backbone to read, let's go, Ben Shuai will ask you again, are you willing to return to Ming again?" ”

Wang Yinghua's head was raised, and he said with a righteous face: "There are ups and downs in the world, and the country has been killed in all dynasties. I am loyal to the Qing Dynasty, I only want to die early, you don't have to say more to me, I will not submit to you, if you are really a hero, let me die, in my name. ”

"Are you really not afraid of death?"

"Life is a Qing person, death is a Qing ghost! I die for the festival of all my heart, and my death is worth it, and I am at peace when I die! ”

"Well, in that case, then Ben Shuai won't talk nonsense with you anymore, come on, pull this old puppet out and cut it down!"

Zhou Shixiang was determined to kill.

"Thank you!"

Wang Yinghua glanced at Zhou Shixiang coldly, looked at death as if he were at home, and turned his head calmly.

Zhou Shixiang was angry and ordered Xu Yingyuan: "You go to the prison and behead, call all those officials and scholars, and let them see Wang Yinghua's head fall to the ground." Then Wang Yinghua's head was picked with a bamboo pole, and they were asked one by one, whether they would return or not. ”

Xu Yingyuan asked: "What if they still don't want to return?" ”

Zhou Shixiang raised his eyebrows: "Then cut off their heads, and also use a bamboo pole to provoke and ask the next one, if you still refuse, you will continue to kill, until they are willing to submit!" Let's see if it's their stiff necks or their handsome knives! They were frightened by the Manchurian knife back then, and they can also be frightened by mine today, the difference is that whose knife cuts off more heads! ”

Xu Yingyuan shuddered: "I understand!" ”

After Wang Yinghua was dragged out, Xu Yingyuan led people to bring a group of captured officials, gentry and scholars, and ordered them to watch the execution.

When the executioner set up Wang Yinghua and was about to cut the knife, Xu Yingyuan thought of his surrender that day, walked over with some regret, leaned down and whispered to Wang Yinghua: "Sir, you have to think about it, it's too late to cut this knife." ”

Wang Yinghua said fearlessly: "Death is death, what else is there to say?" After a pause, he asked, "Which side is the north?" ”

Xu Yingyuan stretched out his hand and pointed to the north, not understanding what Wang Yinghua was asking for.

"Thank you!"

Wang Yinghua thanked Xu Yingyuan and pointed to it, straightened his body, faced the north with a solemn expression, looked down at his clothes, touched the braid to straighten out its hair, and suddenly bent down and kowtowed three times to the north.

Seeing that Wang Yinghua was so loyal to the Qing court, Xu Yingyuan pursed his lips, ordered the executioner to be executed, and then turned around and left, no longer looking at the tragic situation of Wang Yinghua's head falling to the ground.

"Execution!"

With a loud shout, the big knife was swung down.

"Poof!"

Blood splattered and heads fell to the ground.

The moment the head hit the ground, the officials and gentry who were watching the execution let out an exclamation, and they were so frightened that they immediately turned their heads and did not dare to look.

There were horrific memories of witnessing Tayinbu being sawed to death, Xu Yingyuan would have no reaction to the simple head falling to the ground, he calmly ordered people to pick Wang Yinghua's head with a bamboo pole in front of those scholars, and then began to ask them one by one whether they wanted to die or live.

Wang Yinghua's head was raised high by a bamboo pole, just hanging above the heads of a group of officials, gentry, and scholars, and the blood kept dripping, which was very scary to look at

After Xu Yingyuan went to be executed, Zhou Shixiang kept thinking, if these officials, gentry, and scholars thought that the general trend of the world had been decided like Wang Yinghua, and would rather die than submit to the Taiping army, would he really want to kill them all?

What Wang Yinghua said is absurd, but it is also true, only the current situation, the Nanming regime is really surviving, the people's hearts can't compare with reality, and the people's hearts can't be harder than the butcher's knife, these gentry who were scared by the Qing army's butcher's knife really don't have much hope for Nanming, they are not only worried about their own lives, but also the family behind them.

Wang Yinghua's performance is not so much to fight for the reputation of a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, but to leave a way back for his family, if he really returns to the Ming again, in case the Southern Ming still perishes, then his family will fall into a place of no return because of his choice.

In this era, the family character of the family and the country is far greater than the national character, not to mention that those officials and gentry who dared to resist the Qing court have been slaughtered, and the rest have no courage to resist, they only know how to obey the strong and protect the interests of the family. Although the two great victories of the Taiping army dealt a heavy blow to the Qing army in Guangzhou, after all, they were only two small-scale battles, and the impact on the overall situation was minimal, so it was difficult for these people to regard the Taiping army as a strong man, so they willingly surrendered.

This is a sad thing, but also the most realistic thing, Zhou Shixiang is very contradictory, on the one hand, he has no way to use any righteousness and general trend to attract scholars, on the other hand, he urgently needs the help of these people.

After thinking about it for a long time, he found that he seemed to be able to solve this problem, and the solution was very simple, that is, to kill people.

The Manchus used butcher's knives to scare the Han Chinese into insensitive minions with ugly and strange braids, and now Zhou Shixiang will use the butcher's knife to turn the minions back into humans

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