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"Alas!"

A long sigh came from the city wall of Jingzhou. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the flag man who stood on the head of the city with a bird gun, looked out of the city with his eyes, and saw that outside the city of Jingzhou, a few miles away, several camps were scattered.

"I can't live this day!"

Originally, when the festival was approaching, it was the most lively time in the city, but now, the whole city was pulled to this city wall. But how can this city wall stop the cannons of the Han rebellion!

Looking at the dilapidated city wall overgrown with wild grass, and even the bricks that have been blown by the wind have a rammed earth core, no one has a score in their hearts, but no one dares to slack off. For the Han people, it doesn't matter if the Han rebels break the city or not, but they are different, they are banner people, after Jiangning broke the city, all the banner people were killed, and even in the end, even the thousands of women and children who were alive were thrown into the fire and burned alive.

Who can live without a wife and children?

Even if you have a normal exercise, you feel that you are either sunburning, or the flag "gentlemen" who are frozen will all carry the knife and gun, staring at the outside of the city, if the Han army kills you, you must kill them to the death.

There's no way, no one wants to die, but now they want to save their lives, so they have to fight to the death!

The bannermen on the city wall stared at the city without blinking, for fear that if they were not careful, they would let the Han army enter the city and cause themselves and their families to lose their lives. The men went to the city, and the women looked at the city nervously, not to say that the men picked up the knives and guns, even the women would pick up the knives and bows that had been hung on the walls of the house for decades, and the reason why the women were like this was for their own lives.

If they had a choice, they would naturally not be so willing to fight for their lives, but for them, there is no choice.

As an official in Jingzhou, he also has no choice. The outside of the city was surrounded by the Han rebel army, and there were few soldiers and food in the city.

Guard?

How to defend the city?

War?

How to fight?

But if you don't defend and don't fight, the lives of more than 20,000 banner people in the city! In fact, he doesn't care about other people's lives, he cares about his own lives! He was afraid that he would be beheaded by the Han army or stuffed into a cage and stand alive, no matter what kind of death he was willing to bear.

The seemingly silent official document was still full of sadness, although he was holding a book in his hand, his eyes were not on the book, just a daze. His eyes were looking into the distance, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"Wang Jia's family, the Han army with a white flag, was given the surname Wang Jia after the flag was carried by the Wang family of the Ministry of Internal Affairs......"

Thinking about the origin of this Wang Jia clan in his heart, Guan Wen muttered in his heart.

"I'm also Han ......"

But no one listened to him when he said this, he believed that those Han rebels, no, it was the Han army, and naturally they would not listen to him.

If it had been a month ago, even if the Han Dynasty had besieged the city, he would not have been as fluctuating as he is now, and one of the most fundamental reasons why he was so confused was probably the current situation.

The Great Qing Kingdom is coming to an end!

The capital is now surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Cantonese bandits from the Northern Expedition. Although the emperor has now hunted Rehe in the north, everyone can see the form of the Qing Kingdom, which can be said to be a precarious situation.

In case the capital is conquered by the Cantonese bandits, what will happen then? Isn't this world just a Cantonese bandit, and when the time comes, how can the Cantonese bandit let himself go?

Just when his mind was in turmoil, the master over there hurriedly ran in.

"My lord, my lord, that Han handed over a letter of persuasion!"

Persuasion book!

Hearing these three words, Guan Wen's brows jumped suddenly, could it be that Han Cheng still wanted to surrender? He hurriedly stood up and shouted at his master.

"Where is the letter of surrender?"

After taking the letter of persuasion, he only needed to look at the handwriting, and the official document recognized who wrote it - it was Luo Bingzhang, an old acquaintance!

Although this Luo Bingzhang has now surrendered to a thief, but as far as the official text is concerned, this will be a little calmer when he sees a letter from an acquaintance, at least this acquaintance is better than a stranger.

And at this time, there was a glimmer of hope in his heart - that Luo Bingzhang was not only safe and sound, but also became the right soldier of the military palace, if he surrendered...... Tear open the letter.

The content of the letter is very simple, at the beginning, just reminiscing, the letter was written like this, and then it was written into the main topic, and the main topic was naturally my army besieging the city, and it would soon be in the siege of a thousand cannons, Jingzhou would be broken overnight and other topics, and in the end, the words suddenly turned around, but it was the benevolence of Han Du.

“…… Those who are willing to be subjects are no different from those who are raised by the people of Zhongxia. All the officials in the city will protect their lives and never kill a single person! ”

Thinking of this, Guan Wen couldn't believe his eyes, so Han Du really didn't kill them?

"Don't kill!"

Again, Zhu Yifeng, who was in the council hall, solemnly looked at the people in the military palace and said.

"As long as the banner people are willing to surrender to our Han army, no one will be killed!"

When he said this, the entire council hall suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, looking at everyone Zhu Yifeng felt helpless in his heart, if it was said that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in charge of a group of "rebels", then his military mansion was not a group of "courtiers of the former Qing Dynasty" in charge.

As for the six directors of the six ministries of officials, households, rites, criminals, soldiers, and workers, except for Xi Zhimo, Lin Zhiping, and Li Ziyuan, the other three are all old officials, even if they are Xi Zhimo, Lin Zhiping, and Li Ziyuan, in addition to Xi Zhimo, Lin and Li are also scholars.

Now when they heard that they would not kill anyone, the expression of relief revealed their hearts.

The revolution is not complete! The revolutionary ranks are not pure!

sighed in his heart, and Zhu Yifeng said solemnly.

"The reason why I didn't kill him was because the governor had no intention of investigating the sins of his ancestors, but how could the Manchu Qing Dynasty not be held accountable for the harm they had done to our China for two hundred years? How can I not remember the things of my people? Although he escaped from the death penalty, he could never avoid the living crime! ”

"The Governor ......"

Without waiting for Zhang Liangji to speak, Zhu Yifeng said coldly.

"Those who are bannermen promise to be soldiers, and after surrendering, they should be prisoners of our army, and they should serve hard labor to atone for their sins, and there is no need to discuss this matter anymore."

Seeing that Han Du had made up his mind, everyone had to nod their heads and say yes, for them, saving the lives of those people was worthy of them, and as for the next matter, it was not up to them to ask. However, just when they were thinking about it in their hearts, the next words of the Metropolitan Governor made them all put away the sigh in their hearts.

“…… After this use of troops in Guangdong, Guangdong and I passed by two lakes and mountains, but only thousands of miles, so the governor planned to recover Guangdong, both in Guangzhou and Wuchang at the same time to start the construction of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway! ”

Almost at the moment when Zhu Yifeng's words fell, everyone all said "ah", and looked at the governor in surprise, they are no strangers to the railway, in fact, there is a "railway" in the governor's mansion, to be precise, it is a model railway, that is a set of extremely exquisite railways and train models that the governor spent 1500 taels of silver to buy, a train the size of a bamboo tube, just ignite the alcohol, it will produce steam, push the steam engine to work, and drive the train forward. With the help of the model that crosses mountains and mountains on the sand table model, they understand what a train is, and of course what a thousand miles a day is.

Although I know what a "train" is.

But for them, China's construction of railways is still a long way off. It's one thing to know about railways and understand the benefits of them, but it's another thing to actually build them. For a while, everyone was silent, but the changing face still seemed to be in shock.

In this somewhat strange silence, I heard Lin Zhiping say.

"The Metropolitan Governor, not to mention anything else, is more than 2,000 miles from Guangzhou to Wuchang, if the rails required for the railway are repaired, how can it be tens of thousands of tons. Paved with railroad tracks! ”

Thanks to the literacy of the model, Lin Zhiping knew that the railway was a steam car walking on an iron-built track, and the railway and the railway naturally needed iron.

"There has been a letter from the UK, and the equipment ordered from the UK will be shipped next month, and if all goes well, the equipment will arrive in four to five months! And the relevant engineers will also return to China! In addition to the construction and metallurgical engineers, there were also several railway engineers who were responsible for the construction of the railway from the mine to the iron factory, but also participated in the line survey and road construction of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway! ”

The reason why he mentioned engineers was because Zhu Yifeng knew that there would definitely be people who would argue against the construction of the Guangdong-Hankou Railway on the grounds of "technology", but fortunately, the iron factory hired a number of railway engineers because of the construction of the railway. And the reason why Zhu Yifeng mentioned road construction is one of the most fundamental reasons - flag people!

On the issue of how to deal with the flag people, although Zhu Yifeng made concessions, it does not mean the end. There are more than 30,000 people stationed in Guangzhou and more than 20,000 people stationed in Jingzhou, with a total of more than 50,000 people.

If the whole country is reunified, there will naturally be places to relocate, Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Mongolia, it is a big deal to encircle a reserve in those places with bad environments, but now it is not possible, whether it is the two lakes or Guangdong, there is no place to resettle these people, and even if there is, Zhu Yifeng will not place them in such a "land of fish and rice".

Building roads is undoubtedly the best option, using flags to build roads, only need to provide them with food, do not need to pay extra salaries, and under military control, they must work hard, only in this way, can the construction of the railway be completed as quickly as possible.

"But the Governor, the cost of building this road is quite large, and it is really beyond the burden of today's Governor's Office!"

As the head of the household department, he reminded him at the right time, but his reminder was exchanged for Zhu Yifeng's rhetorical question.

"Do you know why the Governor is building a railroad today?" (To be continued.) )