Chapter 393: Chasing the Deer (35)

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The most precious thing for a person is life, because for a person, life can only have one time after all. Therefore, at the juncture of life and death, it is normal for a person to have fear and fear. However, some people's fears and fears are only for a short time and are deeply hidden in their hearts, but there are also people who are both inside and outside. Liu Mingchuan belongs to the former, and he also had the horror of death in his heart, but he didn't show it at all on the surface. Because he felt that if he was at his level, he would not be considered a disciple of Confucius and Mencius anyway, and naturally he would not be able to go up to Kong Meng's sacrificial beauty. Secondly, he has ideals and beliefs, and has a heart of wholehearted retribution for the Qing Dynasty.

However, he really didn't want to live in this prison forever. Therefore, when Liu Yuezhao and others were frequently interrogated, and they were worried all day about whether the boots they took off tonight would not have a chance to wear tomorrow, he thought about escaping from prison, but unfortunately he couldn't get the essentials after pondering for a long time. So, he began to refuse to eat, and hoped that Liu Yuezhao and others could be like him.

Who knew that Liu Yuezhao and others not only did not sponsor his glorious cause, but instead acted for the tiger and actively helped the prisoner of war management authorities of the Taiping Red Army in an attempt to stifle their hunger strike. Under the pathos, Liu Mingchuan sighed more and more at the unpredictability of the world. Finally, taking advantage of the opportunity of being sent to a prisoner of war hospital for rescue after a few days of hunger strike, Liu Mingchuan, who had just woken up from the danger of starvation and coma, actually played obscene methods again in order to die quickly. He suddenly struggled out of the hospital bed and attacked the female medical nurses of the Heavenly Army who took care of him day and night. Although because his physique was too weak, fortunately it did not cause greater consequences, as soon as this matter was disclosed by the major newspapers of the Celestial Empire, it immediately aroused strong indignation among the military and civilians of the Celestial Empire and all sides.

Even under these circumstances, the management authorities of the prisoner of war camps of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire still exercised great restraint and patience, insisting on not giving up or abandoning him.

Maybe it's a conscience discovery, maybe it's for something else, in short, after Liu Mingchuan was discharged from the hospital this time, he seems to be much more honest than before, except for when he went to the education department, he still used his hands to block his ears desperately, and other aspects have improved a lot compared to before. Even a month later, when Brother Liu Yuezhao and others were executed by the Celestial Empire authorities one by one, and he was left alone in the prison, he was still able to keep playing small tunes with his demeanor.

However, no one expected that such a good time would not last long. One day more than a month later, when the whole day was full of jubilation, gongs and drums were noisy inside and outside the prisoner of war camps, firecrackers were ringing out, and the army and the people warmly celebrated the complete collapse of the Manchu government, which had occupied the land of China for more than 200 years, Liu Mingchuan took advantage of the unpreparedness and quietly committed suicide.

In those days, Wei Jun happened to be in the Forbidden City, which had been renamed Beijing. Wei Jun, who was attending the meeting of senior generals of the three armies under the jurisdiction of the Northern Camp, received this urgent report later, and when he reported to Director Lin on the sidelines of the meeting, he seemed to feel a little guilty, after all, he did not complete what Director Lin ordered.

It is said that after Lin Haifeng heard it, he laughed at the time, and he didn't seem surprised at all. He looked at the generals of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire, who were all looking at him at this time, and sighed meaningfully, "Look at how powerful the evil rule of the Manchu Qing is, it can turn a person into a ghost who doesn't even recognize his own mother and son." Don't think that once the Manchu regime collapsed, everything was really all right, because the suffering brought to us by the Manchu Qing Dynasty under more than 200 years of brutal colonial rule may take several generations, if not many generations, to fully recover. The formal elimination of the Manchu colonial regime is only the first step in our long march to reshape the soul of the Chinese nation. ”

On the evening of the same day, Zuo Zongtang, who was about to go to the northwest with Lin Fengxiang, Lai Hanying and others, served as the deputy director of the Northwest Military and Political Committee of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the deputy commander of the Northwest Field Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and said to Director Lin with a smile, "The director left Zeng Guofan in order to win the hearts of the students in the world for the Heavenly Empire." The director allowed Zuo Zongtang because Zuo once hated the dark bureaucracy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although Zuo was not talented, Zuo was a gentleman who would always be unswerving once he thought. For the Manchu Qing Dynasty at that time, the new forces in Hunan and Anhui used to be the mainstay of expectations, and since the director wanted to disintegrate the Anhui traitors at that time, why didn't he pay attention to Li Hongzhang? Senator Zeng Guofan reminded the director many times that Li Hongzhang is greedy for vanity and has no loyalty, as long as we give him a little special treatment in a certain aspect, Li Hongzhang still has the possibility of surrendering. But the director took a stance to attack Li Hongzhang from beginning to end, and only took a fancy to Liu Mingchuan who had no influence in the Huai department, which really puzzled Zuo to this day. For the sake of Liu Mingchuan, the director even did not hesitate to use newspapers to continuously track and publish Liu Mingchuan's every move in the prisoner of war camp, but it was a pity that it was ...... It's a pity ......"

"It's a pity he's still dead, isn't he?" Lin Haifeng laughed, leisurely savoring the burning breath of tobacco rising from the pipe, "That's enough." Looking at Zuo Zongtang's still somewhat puzzled gaze, Lin Haifeng did not explain further. Because even if he explained, Zuo Zongtang couldn't understand it.

Only Lin Haifeng himself knows that if it weren't for his appearance, Liu Mingchuan would naturally continue to do his bloody conquest of the Taiping Tian** team and the Twist Army. As Li Hongzhang's loyal subordinate, like Li Hongzhang, who was famous for his ferocious slaughter of the Taiping army, when he captured Jiangyin City, where the Taiping army was stationed, in the autumn of six years later, he commanded his subordinates to slaughter nearly 100,000 living Taiping soldiers in one go. In the next eight months, when he led his army to capture Changzhou, he would then order Chen Kunshu, the protector of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, to be split into limbs and executed "punishment". Of course, due to coincidence, Liu Mingchuan will also take an entourage of more than 100 people to land on the island of Taiwan and take up the post of the first governor of Taiwan in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Of course, there will still be some people who want to sing praises for Liu Ming, and they can't wait to praise him as "the first governor of the world". This method is not so much to promote Liu Mingchuan, but to tout the colonial ruler Manchu Qing who rode on his head to make a fortune more refreshing.

For Lin Haifeng at the moment, although Liu Mingchuan is not well-known, after all, he still has such an experience of fighting with Westerners, and he is finally a man. As one of the Anhui factions who is determined to act as a Manchu eagle dog, there is only such a person who can still be counted as something, especially the idea that Liu Mingchuan once had when he was a thief and wanted to join the Celestial Empire, which made Lin Haifeng feel that it seemed very convincing to list him as the target of propaganda. Of course, it's just for publicity, as for Liu Mingchuan himself, he can't die in the end. Just like Zuo Zongtang just said, Lin Haifeng tolerated Zeng Guofan, the purpose is to stabilize the hearts of those "students" in the world who are still wavering, so what about the future?

Don't say that Lin Haifeng only cares about the present and doesn't want to be in the future. Lin Haifeng already had an account in his heart, as long as Zeng Guofan dared to reveal half of the words dissatisfied with the Celestial Empire, Lin Haifeng would settle the new account and the old account with him. Lin Haifeng has a famous saying: Don't look at the Celestial Empire with the old Huang calendar, they all say that it is a thief who kills one person, and you are a hero if you kill thousands of people. Not to mention that you are a big official, you have to rely on if you are captured by the Celestial Empire, the Celestial Empire only treats captured soldiers preferentially, in the hostile camp of the Celestial Empire, the bigger your official does, the more unlucky you are.

Zeng Guofan is smart, and finally getting along with Lin Haifeng is a good start and a good end. Liu Mingchuan's best fate is nothing more than this.

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